SUMMARY

• Trusted Leader in Technology with significant industry experience in the fields of computer science, information technology, with deep technical, management, team building, communication, and leadership skills
• Software Development Lead and Project Manager for Electronic Provider Access (EPA) which allowed Out of Area (OOA) Blues providers secure access to Excellus pre - authorizations saving Excellus $600,000 per month
• Developed new Automated Test suite for Software Quality Assurance that reduced monthly testing cycle for release acceptance, regression, and functional testing from 40 hours to 1 hour. Responsible for establishing partnerships with software product development teams to improve defect resolution time from 2 weeks or more to 1-2 days or less
• Earned President’s Cup at Harris RF Communications for Development of operating environment and waveform application software resulting in $6.9 M contract with U. S. Army - featured in Newsweek July 5, 2006
• Developed High Performance File System to allow parallel computation of scientific visualization data using large data cluster earning Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Development: Object Oriented Design, C++, Java, web services, design patterns, cloud

Advanced Technology: Java, Eclipse, Maven, Mercurial, Selenium, TestNG, TeamCity, html, css, xml

Software Test: AutomationSelenium IDE, Web Driver, Remote Control, Selenium Grid, Junit, TestNG

Distributed Systems: Java Remote Method Invocation / CORBA, High Performance File Systems

Networking Protocols: HTTP, TSP/IP, UDP, REST, Java RMI, Multi-Threaded-Server Technology

Database Management: Oracle, SQL, RDBMS, E-R Diagrams, Database design and implementation

Operating Systems: Windows 7, Windows XP, NT, Unix, Solaris, QNX, Linux, Apache, Tomcat, IIS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

Administration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Help clubs in Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, and Southern Tier to develop Communication and Leadership skills
• Excellus - Managed Electronic Provider Access (EPA) project saving Excellus $600,000.00 per month
• Responsible for Software Deployment, Release Management, and Development Milestones
• Worked with several Vice Presidents, Directors, Portfolio Managers, Developers, and Subject Matter Experts
• Coordinated Software Development with several outside Vendors, to help meet Project Deadlines
• Champion for Software Quality Assurance (SQA), Blues Partner Testing, and creation of SQA Blessed data
• Responsible for IT Security Assessment, IT Architecture Infrastructure, and Project Documentation
• Recognized by BCBS Association Portfolio Manager for Successful Deployment October 30, 2014

Confidential, Fairport, NY

Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Software Development of new SQA Test Automation suite, release acceptance and regression
• Technologies include Java, Eclipse, Maven, Mercurial, Selenium and TeamCity for Continuous Integration
• Helped software product development teams to improve defect resolution time from 2 weeks to 1-2 days or less
• Replaced manually intensive test process for monthly Regression from 40 hours down to 1 hour or less
• Responsible infrastructure testing of Profit Assistant Online RevChain, WINForce, World Class Applications
• Key Role in Software Development and Mentored full time employees in Web technologies html, xml, css, jQuery
• System Administrator of cluster of servers: test runs, data storage, accessibility, reliability, scalability, and security
• Recognized by Senior Management for Outstanding Work Effort - Earned both Individual and Team Bonuses
• High Performance Leadership project to plan, advertise, and execute career fair at Monroe Community College

Confidential, Webster, NY

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Device Compliance and Systems Engineering support for Confidential
• Helped teams meet industry standards for network devices and deliver new products to over 50 countries worldwide.
• Network Communications technologies include SNMP, SMTP, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, XML, HTML, IPX, and TCP/IP
• Researched Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards, Request for Comment (RFC) proposals
• Advised on Xerox Network Communication standards to build trust and establish reputation as Subject Matter Expert

Confidential, NY

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Earned Chairman’s Award and Engineering Inspiration Award at RIT regionals
• First place Regional Champions at RIT, went on to National Competition in 2006 and 2013
• Key role in New Product Introduction (NPI) and new manufacturing facility Falcon III - President’s Cup at Harris RF
• Recognized by Senior Management for software development and testing resulting in $6.9 M contract with U.S. Army
• Software Development of Analog Hardware Management Device for Falcon III - featured in Newsweek July 5, 2006