SUMMARY:

• High - energy visionary with excellent analytic, communications and leadership skills, and international programming s. Designed and developed numerous high-volume intelligent systems for clients in waterfall and agile methodologies. Acquired, managed and developed products under government research contracts. Mentored numerous junior colleagues and hae interacted with 'C' level executives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology and Tools: Computer Languages (years experience in parentheses): Over fifty, including Ab Initio (1), Access (15), Ada (4), Ajax (2), ASP (6), Amazon Web Services AWS (3), BASIC (25), Blaze (6), C (15), C# (5), C++ (10), Camel (2), COBOL (3), Corticon (1), DB2 (3), DROOLS (8), FORTRAN (5), Gradle (2), Groovy (2), Informix (2), IBM Decision Manager (9), J2EE (7), Java (25), Javascript (10), JESS (8), JRules (9), JSX (1), LINUX (3), LISP (2), Maven (5), .NET (8), ODM(9), Oracle (7), PHP (2), Prolog (2), Rails (1), React (1), Ruby (2), SQL (13), SQL/PL (3), SQL-Server (5), UNIX (10), VBScript (7)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Rules Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed business rules development, architecture specification, artificial intelligence consulting, and mentoring of junior rule developers for Fortune 500 clients including the following.

Confidential, Horsham PA

Business Rules Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed infrastructure for Accenture and United Healthcare to execute large numbers of DROOLS rules and JBPM process flows using Spring Boot in Docker containers on OSE and Optum cloud computing resources as part of massive claims COBOL modernization effort.

Confidential

Business Rules Architect

Responsibilities:

• Wrote 100,000+ rule transportation scheduling application on Amazon Web Services in DROOLS 6.5 and 7.5. Integration with Java, Camel, and Groovy to leverage Spring Boot (J2EE) via JMS. Updated continual integration environment using using Gradle and Maven. Coded JUnits and Spock for unit tests and ReadyAPI for integration tests. Used SCRUM and Agile methods via JIRA for project tracking. Mentored junior developers on rule practices.

Confidential

Business Rules Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Wrote network security analysis system for Confidential using DROOLS, JBPM and Java. System embedded significant documentation generation capability by combining decision tables and Xquery.

Confidential, Smithfield RI

Business Rules Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed enterprise-wide rule governance model to address numerous IBM’s Operational Decision Manager (ODM) applications. Presented methodology to executives for adoption across enterprise.

Confidential, Columbus OH

Business Rules Developer

Responsibilities:

• Re-engineered multi-billion dollar investment portfolio’s risk model in IBM’s Operational Decision Manager (ODM) and Java/J2EE. Coded unit tests in JUnits. Mentored Confidential staff on rule coding.

Confidential, Washington DC

Business Rules Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed prototype of pricing system in ODM for comparison to DROOLS solution. Rewrote pricing system rules from mainframe COBOL to workstation using DROOLS with Java. Coded JUnits for testing and SQL / Hibernate for data access. Mentored junior staff members.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Business Rules Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed architecture and business process management (BPM) / business rules (BR) using DROOLS/JBPM/Java trading system to handle millions of transactions and billions of dollars per minute.

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Business Rules Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated rule engines, prototypes systems in Blaze, JRules (IBM ODM) and Corticon in an Oracle 10g, WebSphere, JBOSS, Documentum BPM and Java/J2EE environment using EJB’s and web services. Work recognized by the Business Rules Forum and other conferences.

Confidential

Business Rules Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed innovative mechanisms for real-time assignment of numerous resources to complex problems. Solution employed Blaze RMA’s for domain-expert driven interface for dynamically authoring rules for warfare systems. Helped acquire several classified Navy projects. Extended other Navy Blaze/.NET /VB and Blaze/.NET/C# systems.

Confidential, Ogden UT

Business Rules Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Helped redesign the U.S. tax collections system to port COBOM/mainframe system to Java/Blaze/J2EE/Solaris. Built Blaze RMA for business-user-driven rule coding that reduced software release time by two orders of magnitude.

Confidential

Business Rules Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed architecture for company-wide incentive program and coded it in Java and DROOLS to process 18,000+ agents using real-time web services and in a batch environment.

Confidential, San Antonio TX

Business Rules Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Re-engineered portions of life insurance application from FORTRAN into ODM. Coded Java to integrate ODM into FORTRAN system.

Confidential, Walnut Creek, California

Business Rules Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected, designed and coded international mortgage underwriting application in ODM. Coding as hierarchical rules and rule flows fostered validating mortgages accounting for state, national and international laws as well as valuing properties and profitability of mortgages.

Confidential, Hunt Valley, MD

Rules Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed prototypes and business processes for insurance policy origination in ILOG JRules (IBM ODM). Project used IBM RAD, MKS and WebSphere for infrastructure. Effort spawned several projects at the local office and caused the national office to use our work as a basis for corporate-wide standard applications.

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Business Rules Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed turn-key mortgage origination solution in ILOG JRules (IBM ODM) to offer as replacement solution for Confidential and Confidential . Sytem included not only thousands of business rules but also complex scoring system that consumed credit bureau data streams to compute of credit scores (i.e., mimicking FICO scores).

Confidential, McLean, VA

Business Rules Developer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented mortgage domain language rule for lawyers and business analysts as part of a $600 million system involving thousands of rules. Designed and implemented product selection and validation algorithms using Java, J2EE, ILOG, SQL and DB2 Created interfaces using Java, Struts, Javascript executing on a WebLogic server. Worked on Protégé, RDF, Owl prototypes.

CapitalOne, Richmond, VA

Business Rules Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led redesign of call management portion of $50 million dollar, 12,000-rule collections application that saves the company billions of dollars per year. Helped write call management software as hundreds of Ab Initio graphs, thousands of Blaze rules, hundreds of Oracle queries, and hundreds of Java modules.

Confidential, Washington DC

Business Rules Developer

Responsibilities:

• Created JESS/Java system for validating and dynamically expanding survey requirements for large agricultural occupational analysis system. Included complex ORENGE case-based reasoner for standardizing open-ended human input.

Confidential, Greensboro, NC

Chief Executive Officer

Responsibilities:

• Acquired millions of dollars of government funding for software research on computer security, network security, machine learning, natural language understanding, and visualization. Managed twenty employees for software. Marketed software products nationally and abroad. Supervised DoD clearances and DCAA audits on accounting methods. Has inactive Top Secret clearance.

Confidential, Greensboro, NC

State University, Assistant Professor

Responsibilities:

• Taught graduate and undergraduate classes of up to 350 students. Managed hundreds of thousands of dollars of DoD research contracts on sensor fusion, simulation, artificial intelligence