SUMMARY

• Systems Architect with 11+ years’ experience in multi - tiered distributed environments.
• Helped IT workshops move towards SOA keeping business functionality as the driving factor
• Integrated various systems and established interfaces within the enterprise and external partners
• Mentored team members (onsite and offsite) with best coding practices and worked in a team based Scrum (an Agile) process to achieve project goals.
• All projects I have lead have been successfully implemented on time.
• Lauded in Idaho Dept. of Health & Welfare’s newsletter for successfully completing the Food Stamps eligibility project bringing down food stamp error rates in Idaho. The project won awards from the federal government and the Governor of Idaho.
• Master of Science, Electrical Engineering.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Proficiency: SOA, J2EE, Web Services, TOGAF, Infrastructure, Security, Agile(Scrum)

J2EE / Java Frameworks: Java 1.4-1.8, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, Servlets, EJB, JMS, JPA

Servers: JBoss 5.0/4.0, Weblogic 9.2/8.1, Apache Tomcat 4.0-7.0, Apache HTTP server

Web Services: JAX-WS, JAX-RS, Apache CXF, JBossWS, Jersey, Apache Axis, SOAP, REST

Language / Scripting: JavaScript, Shell scripting (BASH), HTML, DOM, CSS, XML, JSON

RDBMS: Oracle 11g/10g/9i, Informix 11.x, SQL Server 2000/2005, MySQL 5.0, PL/SQL

Building / Logging: Maven, Ant, Log4J, Bugzilla, JIRA, MantisTesting JMock, Junit, Watij, Webload, Selenium, ApTest Manager

Continuous Integration/Tools: Jenkins, Hudson, Adobe LiveCycle, Jasper Reports, Pentaho Spoon, Wiki, Oracle Policy Automation Rules Engine, Neon Shadow

IDE/Code analysis/Versioning: IntelliJ, MyEclipse, PMD, Checkstyle, SVN, CVS

Operating Systems: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/NT Server4.0, Solaris 10

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Lead/Architect

Confidential

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Evaluated the existing infrastructure and worked towards a SOA compliant architecture.
• Developed the framework for various applications and interfaced with partners such as the Federal Hub, SSA, IRS, Dept. of Labor State Marketplace, Child Support, Foster Care etc.
• Mentored developers with daily development, best coding practices, test coverage, documentation and compliance with standards.
• Played a major role in customizing the infrastructure for High Availability and identified potential points of failure and bottlenecks that could impact applications.
• Demonstrated POC’s by building prototypes and integrating complex systems
• Standardized migration plan to move code between environments and configured continuous integration for building and deploying projects.
• Reviewed Project Status regularly with business stakeholders, IT stakeholders and dev teams.
• Identified the need for regression testing and helped build a common framework that was used by various applications across the enterprise as an automated solution. Oversaw load, performance, stress testing to mimic user load during open enrollment.
• Documented design decisions and use cases in the form of a wiki as part of knowledge transfer.

Project Lead

Confidential, Bellevue WA

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinated development teams situated onsite and offsite.
• Mentored team members with best coding practices including test-driven development, code standardization, unit testing.
• Developed the framework of the application.
• Estimated development timelines and reported project status and updates to stakeholders.
• The infrastructure was planned and SDLC was standardized along with system administrators.

Solutions Architect

Confidential, Juneau AK

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Worked with the infrastructure team and configured development, quality assurance and production environments for all projects.
• Studied the infrastructure of other partners such as Dept. of Public Safety, performed gap analysis and built suitable interfaces so various departments could share data.
• Actively participated in application development and coordinated with developers telecommuting in various states.
• Key Technologies Used: J2EE, Web Services, Struts, JAX-WS, Informix database
• The legacy SOSKB system was studied and the entire database including all tables and columns were documented for the client.
• Gaps were analyzed and data mapping between the old and new database was performed.
• Played a major role in building the database schema for the new CBPL application.
• Performed Mock data conversions and successfully converted data from MSSQL server to the Oracle database. Pentaho Spoon was used.

Sr. Java Developer

Confidential, Boise ID

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Implemented a Continuous Integration Build system, Hudson, which automatically ran code coverage and displayed various analysis metrics.
• Build files were written in Ant and tasks were included to deploy in server
• Pre and post-commit hooks were written in shell script to perform various activities.
• Tools required for developers and testers such as version control, bug tracking was installed on Solaris 10 servers and maintenance training was given to the permanent staff.
• Plugins were installed to show test coverage through JUnit and JMock.
• Checkstyle and PMD’s were used to ensure code quality.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully replaced a 23-year-old mainframe system after 5 previous attempts.
• The Food Stamps program project which was the first step to replacing the mainframe system won awards from the federal government and the Governor of Idaho for making Idaho the top state in the nation with reduced error rates.
• The eBudgeting website helped SRS to complete their work faster reducing man hours spent on this process by 25 percent. SRS all over the state loved the application so much that they printed the name of the project on T-shirts and wore them to work.
• Designed, developed and demonstrated the first proof of concept that successfully proved to the steering committee that the 23-year-old mainframe system can be replaced.
• Interface with partners such as JPMorgan / Electronic Payment System (EPS), Family Oriented Community User System (FOCUS), Idaho Child Support Enforcement System (ICSES)
• Introduced JBoss and ported existed applications from WebLogic 8.1 to JBoss 4.0.5.
• Key Technologies used: J2EE, Hibernate, Grounds framework (Proprietary MVC), Struts, JBossWS, Neon Shadow, Oracle 9i, SQL, JMock, Ant, Bash scripts

Confidential, Kalamazoo, MI

Roles Responsibilities:

• Administered and maintained a cluster of over 400 Novell clients. Constantly reviewed IP security policies and created base images of the OS for installation on new clients.
• Key Technologies used: Servlets, JavaScript, JSP, HTML, Oracle, Apache Tomcat 4.1