Principal Engineer Resume

SUMMARY:

Enterprise and Solutions Architect, Senior software Architect, Software developer, Development team lead and Entrepreneur - CTO.
I am particularly interested in Architecture / Design of multi-tiered / Distributed Systems and pre/post sales account support.
As an entrepreneur I have been involved with two startups since inception, My experience spreads the gap from dev to sales and customer support.

EXPERTISE AREA:

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Principal Engineer

Responsibilities:

My role involved managing teams primarily in application development and Enterprise Architecture with a focus on Confidential technology.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Manager

Responsibilities:

Act as the North American lead for Confidential Open source projects.
Multiple fortune 500 clients - DEVOPS, mobile, Confidential Enterprise development; back to front

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Middleware Solutions Architect/Sales Engineer-Red Hat

Responsibilities:

Lead middleware technical representative for between four and seven account teams across hundreds of accounts.
I met or exceeded my quarterly quota in 14 of the last 15 quarters with the highest goal of 186% and the lowest being 85% for an overall average of 128% achievement.
As a Middleware SA I was the subject matter expert representing Red Hat in the following enterprise middleware product areas:
Confidential application server - arguably the worlds most popular JEE app server.
Confidential Data Grid - In memory elastic key-value store.
Business Rules Management System - Rules authoring/execution platform based on the Drools expert rule engine.
Business Process Management System - BPM authoring/execution platform based on the jBPM5 process engine.
Confidential Data Services platform - A physical data virtualization/mediation platform.
Confidential A-MQ and Camel - A message broker based on the Apache Active MQ project.
Confidential Fuse - A light-weight ESB based on the Apache Camel project.
Confidential SOA - A full stateful SOA suite adding rules, bpm, a repository and a standards based Confidential registry to the Fuse ESB.
Confidential Portal Platform - Portal server based on the JSR 168 and 286 portlet spec
Confidential Operations Network - Red Hats management/monitoring platform based on the opensource R HQ project.

Confidential, Glenwood, MD

Lead Architect and Co-Founder

Responsibilities:

Primary Front end, J2EE, DB and 3rd party integration developer-in-chief.
I expanded my role to Lead Systems and Agile Architect overseeing daily operations of three agile teams.
As Architect I designed and prototyped multiple virtualization management features, integrating with VMware, Hyper-V and Xen virtualization technologies as well as 3rd party SAN vendors. Integration points included:
SOAP Web Service queries in C, C# and Java
Windows Power shell
Windows SCVMM, VMware VMDK, XEN Management API
Solaris Sun Ops Center and SSH for Solaris Containers
C#/.Net API calls using WRM and WMI
NetApp Core API, Data ONTAP API
EMC Storage Viewer, FAIS API
Direct remote mount and scan of VM instances

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Network Forensics Agent Team Lead-Principal Engineer

Responsibilities:

Led the Agent integration team responsible for integrating the Confidential Network Forensics Agent with the CA Unicenter product.
Ported the Confidential Agent from a Microsoft based product to Red Hat Linux.
Managed a distributed team of Engineers some in offshore locations.

Confidential, Linthicum, MD

Principal Engineer

Responsibilities:

As the fifth member of the Confidential team, I helped build it up from a proof of concept project at Confidential to a multi-million dollar subsidiary company.
Led the development of all Confidential Agent / Ethernet protocol analyzer technology through all phases of the product lifecycle; Architecture, GA, deployment and customer support (Primarily C++)