SUMMARY

Accomplished architect with over 15 years of experience in the field, mentoring fellow architects and coders, and developing scalable, distributed applications.

Experience

Principal Engineer

Confidential

• Served as part of the communications team in the Open Source and Standards group at Red Hat, responsible for helping to define and measure success for business units and projects of interest such as Fedora, JBoss, and the Big Data business unit. Also supported open source projects outside of Red Hat as part of the business' core operative statement.
• Increased adoption of Fedora on embedded platforms such as the Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone by 13.2 over eighteen months, including building embedded hardware projects with distributed processing capabilities and demonstrations at conferences.
• Contributed to sentiment analysis tools to help quantitatively measure external opinion of projects, using Twitter and email as sample streams. Use of this data provided the ability to tune external messaging with an increase of 5 in approval based on publicly-stated sentiment.
• Established a ten-blade server lab, designed to provide a testing platform for virtualization software and host projects in need of short-term server resources including OpenStack and CentOS.
• Documented and researched Hadoop's ecosystem, with the result that Red Hat participated strongly in the release of Apache Spark as a Big Data business investment.

Technology Evangelist

Confidential

• Wrote multiple applications used for sales and support demonstrating core product features like mirroring, failover, split-brain handling, and data access using languages such as Java, C , C , and Groovy, and APIs such as JMS, JavaSpaces, JDBC, and others. This provided reference data architectures to help both sales and support operate more effectively.
• Designed applications to exercise and test distributed performance, demonstrating impacts of lag times introduced by various settings and environments on the Java virtual machine in a cross-platform environment.
• Contributed to press releases and developer documentation for Gigaspaces XAP versions 8 and 9.

Senior Developer

Confidential

• Created and implemented a distributed architecture for a medical splitter robot, with a 3ms end-to-end message delivery and response time and failover for emergency recovery.
• Designed and implemented a hardware access layer in Java for Wago, B R, and Festo interconnect solutions.
• Migrated the development efforts to a repeatable, sustainable build model and a reliable release cycle.

Editor in Chief

Confidential

• Published an average of three relevant news articles for Java enterprise developers daily, covering topics such as methodologies, architectures, platforms, libraries, and tutorials, selected from over 1600 regular feed sources as well as unique contributions.
• Edited and contributed to an average of one unique article a week, soliciting content from industry leaders and new talent, covering topics like architecture, specific products and libraries, methodologies, and general programming interest.
• Organized and conducted multimedia interviews with leaders in the Java community including Rod Johnson of Spring, Henrik Stahl of JRockit, Holly Cummins of IBM, and others , increasing viewership by 17 and positive feedback by 72 .
• Organized and hosted TheServerSide Symposium in Las Vegas, NV in 2006, 2007, and 2008 hosted and organized Java in Action in Orlando, FL, in 2005, making the Symposium one of TechTarget's most profitable conferences and TheServerSide one of TechTarget's most effective and visible community properties.

IT Consultant

Confidential

• Designed single-sign-on mechanism for Carrier Corporation, for use in a portal to provide remote login for external sites.
• Designed a reference data system for Liberty Mutual to correct performance from 91 seconds down to 7 seconds for tens of thousands of data queries.
• Designed a flexible XML-based message bus for in-house and customer use, with custom front-ends for service or presentation uses, able to support over 18,000 messages per second.
• Served as in-house mentor for other consultants, for architecture and performance purposes.
• Designed multiple data transfer programs, including load management for METEOR and RAMCAR.

Editor in Chief, Java Developer Journal

Confidential

• Published monthly editorials covering issues relevant to Java developers.
• Curated multiple articles monthly based on a publishing schedule, including acquisition and editing.
• Increased subscription rates by 7 over one year of serving as editor.

Technical Architect

Confidential

• Designed and implemented a multiple listing service application, including data transfer between the the public Home.com site and the MLS, based on regional participation.
• Designed and implemented a term-neutral searching and classification engine for the MLS.
• Designed and implemented a multi-level security mechanism, providing fine-grained control over visibility and presentation on a user, group, and board level.

Programmer/Analyst

Confidential

• Participated in Y2K conversion of mission-critical sales tax processing applications.
• Designed and implemented an ad hoc image retrieval system, including awareness of user bandwidth issues.

Consultant

Confidential

• Designed and implemented middleware applications alongside Sun's Professional Services group, largely based around one of the first servlet containers.
• Served as system administrator for the in-house Sun E10000 Sunfire server, including implementing a build process to reduce build time from four hours to 13 minutes.

Consultant

Confidential

• Customized the ProductManager application based on specific user requirements.
• Designed and implemented a custom internal language for ProductManager.

Programmer/Analyst

Confidential

• Designed and implemented a multiuser return entry system, including custom printer drivers and data conversion and upload to a mainframe.
• Designed and implemented a legislature-mandated tax data distribution application, including multiple report formats.
• Implemented multiple distribution applications to manage distribution of tax monies for Florida counties, including auditable results.

TECHnical skills

• Languages: Java, C/C , Perl, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Pascal, xBase, COBOL, Scala, Groovy, LOUIS II
• Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris, Windows, MacOS
• Technologies and Standards: XML, JSON, SQL, JMS, EJB 2/3, JSF 1/2, Servlets/JSP, Java Connector Architecture, JNDI, JMS, RabbitMQ, HornetQ, MQSeries, Glassfish, WebLogic, WebSphere, Wildfly, JBoss AS, Geronimo, Tomcat, Jetty, Spring, Guice, Hibernate, EclipseLink, Rails, JavaSpaces, JINI, Java Content Repository, JMX, CODASYL, SOAP, VBA