Ameritas

Life Insurance

Accomplishments

• Provided technical leadership for team of 4 on J2EE Spring microservices app that handles $15M/week in agent compensation, based on data from multiple sources including SFTP, REST, SOAP, and SQL
• Created new project architecture (Spring Boot + RabbitMQ) allowing rapid development of new data services
• Developed build pipeline (BitBucket, Gradle, Jenkins, JUnit, SonarQube, NexusIQ, Docker, and Kubernetes) for getting JIRA requirements to QA on schedule
• Devised and enforced code standards, Git procedures, and test coverage requirements for my team

Percussion Software

Content Management Software

Accomplishments

• Primary engineer on $80M federal contract to migrate two SSA subdomains to Azure Cloud, plus 4 legacy J2EE apps; re-engineered site search functionality using JSP and search.gov
• Built custom integration to synchronize customer's LDAP with CMS directory, using Java REST client; wrote extensive unit and integration tests plus deployment
• Provided daily expert support for 30+ institutional and government CMS customers
• Created and executed QA scripts for product features and upgrades

Live Online Video Learning

Start-up creating a platform for live video tutoring

Accomplishments

• Created TypeScript-based React components for start-up's video tutoring platform
• Developed independent component tests in Storybook for assessing performance outside deployed application

Asperger/Autism Network

National non-profit that provides resources to families and individuals on the autism spectrum

Responsibilities

• Provided operational support for technical needs including network management, system integration, training, and database and website development
• Researched diverse technologies to advise executive director on implementation strategies, as needed, including cloud migration, password management, and technological risk assessment
• Maintain and administered organization website, including all WordPress maintenance, features, and plugins
• Oversee G-Suite and web-based security applications

Accomplishments

• Provided operational support for technical needs of smallish non-profit, including network management, system integration, and database and website development and maintenance
• Implemented migration of records systems from local database to Salesforce NonProfit
• Developed and maintained extensive databases in FileMaker, MS Access, and MySQL
• Designed and implemented needed improvements to existing website, including SEO optimization, visual enhancements, and construction of numerous dynamic forms
• Made decision to migrate from local file server to cloud-based resources, saving over $20K in annual fees
• Dramatically improved security by acquring role-based password management application

We Can Test!

Accomplishments

• Upon completion of training, participated on QA engineering contracts from local clients
• Created Selenium-based automated testing suites to maintain a commercial, cloud-based HR web application for PrismHR
• Developed Appium tests using Page Object Factory model for a production app used by first responders in critical situations

Costedio Design

Accomplishments

• Responsible for website development for a variety of small business clients
• Designed and constructed roughly 20 sites for small business and non-profit customers
• Worked closely with customers to analyze goals and discuss options based on a range of budgets
• Directed and oversaw duties of additional web programmers and sub-contractors
• Participated in creative design process as well as planning best technical approach

Open Service

(Now called LogMatrix)

Accomplishments

• Principal UE developer for an enterprise network security and threat detection suite
• Designed front end for two major releases of web-based security product used (at the time) by nearly every major telecom or financial services company
• Developed complex components based on XML specifications using JAXB
• Created entirely new interface using Java Server Faces
• Advocated and successfully achieved migration of product away from applet-based interfaces towards Ajax, resulting in significant improvement in customer satisfaction

MediaSurface

(Now a subsidiary of Alterian)

Responsibilities

As a consultant for MediaSurface, I joined a 5-person team that rebuilt the public-facing website of Thomson, a media conglomerate that became Thomson Reuters in 2008 when it acquired the Reuters Group.

Accomplishments

• Quickly mastered API for proprietary CMS platform
• Integrated into team of consultants and client employees to build brand new public website for multinational media giant within narrow timeframe
• Built numerous JSP-based components to plug into framework
• Documented and thoroughly tested hundreds of individual components within framework
• Solely responsible for successful creation of Java-based email broadcaster to notify hundreds of thousands of customers about important updates
• Developed intranet solution for management and statistical analysis of email broadcaster

Coface Services

"A modern and agile company with the most finely meshed international network, Coface is a reference in credit insurance and risk management."

Accomplishments

• Developed wide range of business applications based on Oracle back-end with JSP or VB interfaces
• Projects ranged from tiny VB or MS Access apps that served only to allow protected interface, to enterprise-wide web-based reporting solutions
• Also responsible for naming applications and creating unique icons

United States Air Force

Responsibilities

• Trained on ground-based radar modules, using early precursor to touch-screen technology
• Monitored No-Fly Zone between Iraq and Kuwait following Operation Desert Storm
• Helped keep world safe for democracy, etc

Languages

Java

JavaScript

TypeScript

Bash

Markup

HTML5

JSX

Haml

XML

MD

JSON

Styling

CSS3

Sass

Bootstrap

Materialize

Material-UI

JavaScript

ES6

ReactJS

jQuery

Redux

Back-end

NodeJS

Express

Mongoose

Spring Boot

Hibernate

Database

Oracle

MySQL

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Testing

Storybook

Selenium

Jest

TestNG

JUnit

Services

AWS

S3

Lambda

Cloudinary

Heroku

GitHub

IDEs

VS Code

Eclipse

IntelliJ

GitHub Desktop

Tools

Maven

Grunt

Webpack

NPM

Tomcat

Apache

General Assembly

Boston, MA

• April 2019
• Web Development Immersive

Charter Oak State College

New Britain, CT

• May 2017
• B.S. in Information Systems
• Magna Cum Laude

Quinsigamond Community College

Worcester, MA

• December 2002
• A.S. in Information Systems
• Cum Laude