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Work Experience

• Chief Architect and Distinguished Engineer, 

  Sep, 2023 - May, 20248 months

  • Completed all requirements related to the healthcare industry. Understanding of PHI, PII, and GDPR.

  • Code review of the existing application to create a technical debt document and a plan to address these deficiencies.

  • Introduced LLMs to developers to help write unit tests as well as code recommendations (Codepilot, ChatGPT, and Gemini).

  • Analyzed and refactored the entire application infrastructure using Terraform.

  • Introduced Localstack to reduce costs, simplify developer testing, and decrease TTL to production.

  • Leveraged LLMs to rapidly build architecture diagrams where appropriate.

• Architect, 

  Jun, 2023 - Sep, 20233 months

  • Designed a system capable of streaming the location of every vessel in the world in near real-time.

  • Demonstrated use of KSQL to stream events of interest such as threats and compliancy violations.

  • Data used to create violation documents to the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

  • Created prototypes of main system components.

• Principal Architect, 

  Jan, 2020 - Oct, 20222 years 8 months

  • Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, AOP, Microservices (RESTful), gRPC, JPA/Hibernate, JUnit, SQL (PostgreSQL), NoSQL, Confluent Kafka, Docker, Agile, Jenkins CI/CD, Spinnaker, Bitbucket, JIRA, Confluence, Design Patterns, Domain Driven Design, Apex.

  • Influenced Architecture and Kafka Streaming Guilds evangelizing new architecture to teams, improving productivity by reducing commonly used and redundant code.

  • Embedded with Agile Teams as Principal Architect to support developers, increase efficiency, decreasing time to delivery by over 10%.

  • Implemented highly scalable Event Driven and streaming based solution using the CQRS Design Pattern allowing scalability to over 1,000,000 shipments per day.

  • Architected and developed common, reusable, service framework using Spring Boot, decreasing time to ramp up new microservices by at least 25% and increasing productivity across all teams.

• Principal Architect & Developer, 

  Aug, 2013 - Jan, 20206 years 5 months

  • Senior Technical Salesforce Architect and Lead Developer of the Kuebix Application Suite.

  • Led team of developers updating Kuebix Application Suite reducing time to go-live, increasing unit test code coverage to nearly 100%.

  • Created Java/Spring Boot REST API exposing Salesforce-based Suite as a Web Application expanding customer base by over 20,000 customers.

  • Introduced key tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Jenkins increasing company visibility through every phase of product lifecycle to nearly 100% of the company.

  • Gathered and groomed requirements from stakeholders creating user stories as part of the Agile Process giving 100% traceability from conception to production.

  • Installed/managed Mattermost for company-wide messaging, facilitating increased communication across entire company, decreasing resolution time of customer reported issues by over 15%.

  • Directed offshore team developing Java based Web Services providing rate quotes from carriers. This reduced development cost by over 30%, rapidly integrating new carriers.

  • Awarded prestigious Gartner Group's 'Magic Quadrant' increasing visibility to tens of thousands of new customers.

  • Mentored junior interns that became integral in development of the application facilitating faster time to go-live for new functionality.

• Principal Architect & Developer, 

  Jun, 2003 - Aug, 201310 years 2 months

  • Pay.gov: J2EE application built for the Treasury Department - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (FRBC). Pair programmed credit card and ACH payment system with full auditing and traceability.

  • Global Management System: Developed custom J2EE application integrating PWC's internal systems with SAP.

  • RMS Desktop: Developed J2EE application for Verizon to manage customer accounts and billing.

  • Grandslam: Redesigned Comcast internal applications, web services, and web-based front ends for customer facing interfaces to automate repair truck dispatch, improving efficiency.

  • Case Knowledge Management: Teamed with developers creating Salesforce based Case Knowledge Management System at Fidelity drastically decreasing the time for employees to research information across the entire company.

  • Salesforce Practice: Led developers expanding Dante's presence into the Salesforce ecosystem as a new line of business. This increased revenue by approximately 10%.

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