Executive Summary

Michael Griffith is an accomplished technical professional with a proven background of designing and implementing successful solutions. With over twenty years experience producing enterprise client-server and web applications as a developer, technical team leader, and system architect he is an exceptional communicator, with a capability for translating user requirements into streamlined functional specifications and efficient designs. Michael has experience in all phases of the software development life cycle, and offers a broad and in-depth understanding of complex technical issues and concepts.

Companies Orginization Experience

• Zappos Family of Companies
• AT T
• DELL Consulting
• Harvard Pilgrim
• US Food and Drug Administration FDA
• National Institutes of Health NICHD, NIMH
• Department of Health and Human Services PSC/HHS
• WellPoint
• SpringSource/VMWare
• Donaldson Corporation
• Pearson VUE
• Room and Board
• Primarily Self Employed for the past 14 years, subcontractor under OpenPrinciple Consulting.

Technical Expertise

Platforms:

Amazon Cloud Computing, Interactive Intelligence ININ , UNIX Sun OS , Linux SUSE, Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu , Windows, Mac OS, VMWare ESXi/Fusion/Player, iOS

Methodologies:

Agile, Rational Unified Process RUP , OO Analysis and Design

Development Frameworks and OpenSource Experience:

Spring Framework 1.x-3.x, Java J2EE/J2SE, Struts, Struts2, Hibernate 3, JPA 1.x-2.x, EJB 3.0, Ajax, Web 2.0 Applications DWR and JQuery , JDBC, Swing, ANT, Apache Ivy, Maven2, Many Open Source Projects, Jasper Reports, iText, JFreeChart, XML/XSL, UML, JUnit and Mock Objects, JMS/RMI, Tiles, Tiles2, Sitemesh, Velocity, Freemarker, Acegi and Spring Security, Dreamweaver, BBEdit, Textmate, Eclipse IDE and plug-in development, xBML BPM, Appian BPM, Alfresco Activiti BPM, Java Web Services Axis Apache CXF , Apache Camel, Shell Scripting, RabbitMQ, iOS Enthusiast

Databases:

Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, Relational database design, NOSQL Apache Cassandra

Practical Experience

Employment History

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Develop new enhancements from a backlog of new features for Zappos.com, 6pm.com Zappos mobile and Couture web properties. Responsible for changes to Site Search and Product Detail page stacks.

Confidential

Senior Developer/Solution Architect

Converted and Refactored and existing Oracle Database used for AT T customer profile information to a multi-node Apache Cassandra Implementation. Working in Common Services System Architecture team CSSA Responsible for analysis, design and refactoring of Java based code that used JPA backed by Hibernate to redesign the application to Apache Cassandra.

Confidential

Senior Developer/Solution Architect

Implemented a series of Spring Batch jobs related to the Accumulator Management System AMS . AMS is an exchange system, which tracks data associated with member deductibles, out-of-pocket expense or other member limits associated with expenses -- to create a source of information for claim adjudication. Responsible for the complete implementation of a series of Spring Batch jobs related to a set of products or providers from design to implementation, through deployment of the product.

Confidential

Solution Architect, Multichannel Contact Center

Responsible for working with multiple teams on the project to provide solutions for WellPoint's Model Office and Multichannel Contact Center. The application involves integrating cloud-based services with custom WellPoint applications for inbound and outbound call functions. Primary duties include technical leadership managing infrastructure and leading team activities around application architecture and security related project implementation tasks. Day to day duties include participating on large-scale implementation of a private cloud based contact center. Accountable for building out and documenting technical architectures as well as working within the different IT groups within WellPoint and a large scale cloud computing company to deliver a Contact Center As a Service CaaS application.

Confidential

Principal Consultant

Principal Consultant for Digital DataVoice: Responsible for working with clients on assigned projects to identify solutions to business problems and improve processes. As part of the Vision Team at DDV, duties include providing subject matter expertise and technical leadership for managed services teams. Day to day duties include managing and mentoring teams of consultants on managed services projects executing and completing projects within scope and budget agreed upon with the client evaluating existing systems and procedures to make recommendations for improvements providing thought leadership, prototypes and proof of concepts that benefits the clients needs and identifying business and technical landscape and improvements that strengthen customer relationships and expose new strategic business opportunities.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Systems Engineer for vFabric Cloud Application Platform: Responsible for providing Pre-Sales Engineer activities for the VMWare vFabric Cloud Application Platform. Duties included providing VMWare customers and prospects with solutions to business problems using the vFabric suite. This position required intimate architect level knowledge and experience with building Java EE and Spring based applications that can scale horizontally, the ability to uncover business challenges as well as the ability to design and develop custom solutions to solve those challenges. Solutions often involved NOSQL or NewSQL type of Internet-based application designs, re-architecting web based applications for scaling out in a cloud-based environment.

Confidential

Application Architect, Sr. Technical Lead/Consultant

Orchestrated, designed and lead all technical aspects of an Amazon Cloud Computing based COTS integration plus Custom Application Development effort. The web application is an e-Commerce engine that allows PSC broaden their reach into the federal marketplace by providing an easy-to-use e-Commerce portal that provides a high-quality, consistent and visible customer experience. The e-Commerce system is integrated with an Open Source BPMN 2.0 Workflow/Processing Engine to perform order fulfillment and quote to order services. The e-Commerce system integrates with HHS's Single Sign On SSO solution via SAML 2.0. Integration between backend systems such as HHS's Unified Financial Management System UFMS have been designed and implemented using Enterprise Integration Patterns in Apache Camel.

Technologies Used: Amazon EC2 Cloud Compute Services including EC2, IAM, S3, ELB, RDS, SES, AWS Security Groups and Elastic IPs, Spring Framework 3.0, Alfresco Activiti 5.x BPMN 2.0 , Apache Camel, JPA 2.0, Hibernate 3.0, MySQL AWS RDB, Apache Tomcat, PHP5, Magento Enterprise 1.9, Eclipse IDE