SUMMARY:

• Accomplished, highly organized and efficient leader for broad range of technical projects. Successfully provide direction through all software development lifecycle phases in fast paced, demanding environment.
• Proven record of building strong, sustainable relationships with diverse internal and external partners at all levels.
• Skilled and through negotiator in achieving buy - in from initially reluctant and resistant parties for key initiatives.
• A motivational leader with strong analytical, organizational and problem solving skills, committed to the highest levels pf ethical, professional and personal excellence.
• Highly experienced establishing best practices and guidelines for selecting, developing and implementing information technology systems within the organization.

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS:

Tools: Guidewire Policy Center \ Billing Center v7, MyEclipse 10, Workbench; WSAD, RAD, CapeClear Studio, SoapUI Pro, CA ITKO Lisa, Sparx EA, Rally ; Microsoft Visio

Application Servers: JBoss 6, Jetty, Websphere (5.x, 6.x), JBoss

Databases: H2, Derby, Oracle (9i, 10g), DB2 (8.x) MySQLDevelopment

Frameworks and Technologies: Web Services, MQ components, Spring, Hibernate, Apache CXF, XML, HTML 5, CSS3, Javascript, AJAX, YUI, JQuery, Drools, JMail, Jakarta Commons, Quartz, ehCache, DisplayTag, JSTL,, HTML, Javascript, MDB, EJB, CeWolf, SSO, JMail, Jakarta Commons, POI, Jasper Reports, Struts, iText, CapeClear ESB, Android, iOS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Madison, WI

DevOps -Lead Application Integration Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of Application Integration Coordinators (AIC) and Configuration Engineers (CE) to provide stable integration environments between Personal Lines, Commercial/Farm Ranch and Claims programs.
• Conduct interviews and make hiring decisions for the AIC, CE and the Release Coordinator positions.
• Define and improve DevOps pre-production environment management procedures including environment stability policy and deployment policy.
• Lead the branch governance team to create roadmaps for application deployment and scheduling to integrated environments.
• Work with DevOps release automation team to improve our deployment pipeline with automated build, deploy, and release processes across pre-production and production environments.
• Collaborate and maintain a multiple-product release calendar and insure dates align with stakeholder needs or requirements.
• Automate the environment stability and application deployment communication by streamlining the process and providing an end to end solution.
• Improve communication process as the department point of contact with cross-functional teams, including product owners, quality engineering and operations.
• Coordinate with environment coordinators, application tech leads, and infrastructure coordinators to create new application development environments.
• Work with the program tech leads and determine the root cause of the issues and work with the appropriate areas to reduce the reoccurring outages - change the architecture if necessary.
• Initiate a dashboard project that will provide application stability and healthy check metrics for all AmFam applications.
• Create, maintain and present metrics to measure the overall outages and continual improvements and share that information with the executive team.

Confidential

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and mentored a team of testing individuals to complete testing tasks according to executive management’s direction for numerous projects concurrently.
• Created and coordinated test strategy and timelines for assessing the quality of newly developed application software and systems.
• Participated in the development of consistent testing strategies and stable environments.
• Defined early release definition and scope negotiation.
• Scheduled, tracked and controlled testing task completion process.
• Created best practices and lessons learned documents of web development and work closely with the product and business development teams to suggest ways and means of improving user experience.

Confidential, Madison, WI

Director of Systems Integration

Responsibilities:

• Managed a group of information technology (IT) based staff during implementation.
• Liaised between the business and IT department to support the departments technology needs, represent clients in all system enhancements and design activities.
• Actively engaged potential clients as a member of the leadership team to understand their business needs, objectives and challenges, then communicated them within IT and to vendors in pursuit of cost-effective and innovative solutions.
• Introduced Continues Integration (CI) architecture rapid build and deployment process.
• Provided strategic program integration leadership for the Jack Henry Associates - Bridge Community Bank project, and served as an SME for Navajo Nation REAL ID compliance project.
• Architected and implemented the Mobile Activator Application to be able to use fingerprints biometrics on Android and iOS platforms.
• Created candidate architecture documents (CAD) to evaluate the potential solutions that is introduced to the company.
• Provided information and assistance to resolve client problems regarding department systems and managed the overall configuration of the systems, lead the continuous improvement to the internal and external business practices as well as processes.
• Provided constructive feedback to individual team members and their respective managers regarding performance on projects and support work.

Confidential, Madison, WI

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated IBM Websphere platform to Open Source JBoss migration project ($8.8M Budget) as an SME to oversee 450 developers and 150 testers and help them with technical challenges throughout the migration efforts.
• Created the code factory concept to help divisions meet their project deadlines within the organization.
• Worked as a Tech Lead on Web Services security project which applied to 178 web services that run on IBM, JBoss and Mainframe platforms.
• Lead various projects to evaluate and select development tools and framework. As a Center of Excellence member, gathered business requirements and analyzed the needs of the company and lead the POC for identified technologies.
• Created a web services testing infrastructure that enabled test leads and testers to simulate virtual users and distribution of the load while performance testing applications.
• Experienced complete development life cycle starting from analysis of Design, Programming, Test cases, Implementation and Production support of the application.
• Designed the internal web services security project, worked with developers to understand the system and provide them design and architecture diagrams.
• Member of the Architecture Design and Programming (ADP) committee that set standards around IT infrastructure to build and leverage in house built applications.
• Supported, coached, and mentored both developers and testers within technical environment and troubleshooting problems that arose from integrating them in their applications.
• Worked with vendor applications to integrate their solutions to our existing systems.
• Participated in the architecture and code review process and quality check of the applications and suggested solutions for the performance of the application as part of the performance tuning of the application.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Business Analyst / Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Participated and involved in the study of User Requirement Specification which helped clearing ambiguity in requirements of the document.
• Used Swing technology to create elements such as text boxes, buttons, split-panes, and tables.
• Developed the action servlet as part of the Front Controller to handle user requests, and applied Singleton and Abstract factory design patterns in designing the architecture.
• Created web services to share information between different servers in the XML format.
• Designed and developed user interface using CSS, HTML, JSP, JSTL tags and JavaScript, used JSTL core tags, format tags and EL for scripting in JSP.
• Used XSL and XSLT for XML style, DOM parser to parse XML files, and FOP to generate PDF report.