SUMMARY:

• Over 27 years of comprehensive and diverse experience as a software engineer in both salaried and contract positions.
• Eight - year tenure Confidential Confidential ., working as an architect/developer for Southern Bell Telephone.
• Extensive interaction with client community in gathering requirements, systems analysis, and applications development.
• Two years working as a senior architect/developer Confidential CNN and Turner Entertainment. Played a major role in developing the GameTap.com Internet subscription service for video gaming enthusiasts.
• Three years working as a senior developer Confidential.
• Performed much of the design and development of the News-Tracker digital media delivery system for the Confidential network.
• Over one and a half years working in a lead technical role Confidential CheckFree Services. The exclusive work encompassed design, development, and support of The Confidential ’s online bill payment system.
• Diverse range of experience working in many environments and using varying business models. Roles have included application development in telecom services, broadcast news, digital media and delivery, financial services, and logistics.
• Current and lengthy career emphasis on Java based application development.
• Expert knowledge base in most areas of the Java language, including use of open source API’s, web based enterprise applications, and rich client GUI applications.
• Strong background in relational DB design and development. Excellent understanding of relational databases - DDL//DML.
• Comprehensive background in object oriented design and development using the open source Java programming model, as well as, the Microsoft Visual C++ platform.
• Excellent Interpersonal skills. Very strong language and communication abilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MS Visual C++
• C++ and C languages. Windows SDK
• GDI Development versions 3.1
• 3.0
• 2.0
• Win386. SQL
• Sybase Transact SQL. Sybase system 10
• Sharebase RDBMS
• Britton Lee RDBMS. Windows Socket API (TCP/IP). Novell s DOS Netware Socket API (IPX/SPX
• UDP). UNIX
• UNIX OS Tools
• Shellscript. DOS
• 3Com and Novell networks. Intel s Communicating Applications Specification (CAS) API.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Java Architect/Developer

• Design and Development of Clearplay platform components and services.
• The platform provided a subscription based video streaming service.
• Focus on backend services, which included user authentication, digital rights management, account and subscription management, personalization. API services were implemented using a RESTful framework.
• Worked on development of new Micro Services architecture and custom database persistence layer.
• Responsibilities included planning complex release schedules, deployment of applications in AWS environment, and support. Agile methodologies were closely followed in all phases of design, development, and release cycles.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Java Architect/Developer

• Design and Development on the Media Data Intelligence suite of applications.
• These applications utilized real time and batch collected data that represented the viewing audience consumption of various media products, such as cable TV, Video on Demand (VOD), and CDN (online TV and on demand).
• Through the use of various real time dash boards and reports, customers were provided with a rich analysis of this data.
• Concurrents MDI business was purchased by Verimatrix in late 2015.
• This acquisition included the core team members as experts in the MDI software development.
• The team was transitioned to work on the Verimatrix, “Verspective” product line, which also includes a rich suite of media data analysis tools.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Contract Senior Java Designer/Developer

• Java application designer and developer. Assumed a senior team lead role working on the Achieve Leader web based application and server side supporting processes.
• This application utilized real time data from onboard locomotive monitoring systems in order to track safety systems alerts and fuel consumption data.
• The application was used to gauge the effectiveness of onboard safety systems and fuel burn efficiency of all of the Leader equipped trains in operation.
• It also provided an overall grading system used to evaluate locomotive engineer performance.
• Worked on client facing UI (used mostly for reporting and analysis), and back end processes used to load real time binary data into a client database model.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Contract Java Developer

• Worked independently to develop a suite of internal utilities for use in the provisioning, configuration, testing, and fault detection for various product systems.
• These systems included telephony, digital media (uVerse), and broadband DSL.
• Designed several automated processes for routine testing, tracking, and reporting on usage data, and network fault conditions. Implemented JUnit tests on legacy systems codebase (retrofit).

Confidential, Alpharetta, Georgia

Contract Java Developer

• Worked on the Confidential (CBS) application development team.
• Duties included design and development on the next generation version of their web based telecom services administration application.
• Application was designed for business administrators to manage their corporate telecom voice devices and business accounts.
• Work included UI component development, message processing (JMS) iimplementations, and Data Access Object DAO development. Also, developed web services for cross application functionality.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Senior Java Developer

• Principal Engineer for the newly developed Inter-Activate product. This product is a Client/Server based telecom service activation tool. The application user interface was a rich client written using the Java Swing API.
• The activation server was a collection of distributed server components written in C++.
• The inter-process communications were implemented using CORBA.
• The client could issue requests to the server routing component, which in turn sent the request to the appropriate component.
• A multi-channel status queue was used to allow the client to receive status updates from any of the server processes.
• The client used multi-threaded processes to send user initiated queries to appropriate server processes.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Contract Java Developer

• Design and Development of Web based applications for use in the business operations and asset management functions within the Railroad industry.
• Also was the principal engineer involved in the development of a logistical support application.
• Implemented a web based application used as a railroad car sales tracking system.
• A standard MVC design pattern was used, incorporating JSPs, Struts, and Servlets.

Confidential, Roswell, Georgia

Senior Java Developer

• Worked with development team to prototype, integrate, test, and deploy the Confidential Tracker System.
• This system was a digital media conversion and delivery system that utilized satellite IP multicast technology.
• Performed design and development of java applications, web based applications, and standalone server side processes which formed the control elements of the system.
• A java client UI was used to control digital media conversion devices.
• Server processes were written to control the scheduling and transmission of this digital media using IP multicast technology.
• The development team also supported the user community, responded to ongoing requirements, and fixed technical glitches.