• Professional Software Engineer with solid technical experience working with numerous languages in a variety of industries with my strongest languages being Java, C , and C . Excellent written communication skills and outstanding oral communication abilities. My technical skills include all aspects of the software development lifecycle from initial design and requirements gathering through to final testing and deployment.
• In addition to my software writing skills I possess a great deal of experience in the roles of DBA working with Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server and in the area of System Administration working with various version of Windows, Unix, Linux, Solaris, and OS X.
• My greatest strengths in the technical arena are my ability to learn and become productive with new technologies in a minimum amount of time and to troubleshoot and repair errors in just about anything.

• 8 years of experience developing websites using both Java and .NET.
• Solid experience developing websites using the Struts frameworks 1.3 and 2.0.
• Solid experience designing and building IVR applications using Java and C using various telecom platforms.

• 10 years of experience developing with C C
• Good experience building websites using Spring.
• Good experience building websites using the .NET MVC framework
• Good experience building websites and applications using EJBs.
• 10 years of experience with Oracle doing both development and DBA work.

Confidential

• Worked on the project to convert the retail IVR application from the current Aspect IVR platform to the new Avaya IVR platform.
• Assisted with troubleshooting problems with the new application and the previously converted IVR application used for activating credit cards and changing their pins.

Confidential

• Performed maintenance and new development to the Digi-SFT application. This was a Java Swing application used for controlling and monitoring HVAC equipment that improved the efficiency of the heating and cooling system in a building. The application was very old and needed to be brought up to current Java standards for Swing and thread handling.
• Worked on embedded C C for our proprietary hardware. This included not only writing the software but then having to flash the software into the hardware and test.
• Participated in other projects as needed.

Confidential

• Worked on the team that moved the functionality of the company's flagship product to the web. The new application used jQuery as its primary framework and was deployed on the Glassfish application server.
• Assisted in maintenance, feature additions, and testing of the company's application for tracking organ and tissue transplant patients. This was a standalone application written in Objective-C.
• Participated in a special project to productize an application to be used in hospital NICUs. This application was written in Python.

Consultant

Confidential

• Designed and wrote web application used for tracking garbage, recycling, and yard waste pickup for the City of Omaha.
• The application was written in Java using the Spring and Tiles framework.
• Configured application security using Spring Security.
• Configured JBoss application server for the new application and deployed.
• Assisted DBA in the design and creation of the application database IBM DB2.

Consultant

Confidential

• Designed and wrote .NET application to convert mainframe flat files to XML format for transmission to a third-party application. The application could be set to run at a predefined interval.

Consultant

Confidential

• Developed IVR application to run QuickPay and Send Money functionality for Western Union using the Audium VXML speech server platform and Java/J2EE.
• Assisted in the conversion of various Audium IVR applications to raw VXML format using a PHP wrapper.

Consultant

Confidential

• Designed and implemented Reports Module for the company's ElectionWare product. This product is a rich-client application using Java Swing and the NetBeans application platform.
• Designed and constructed reports for the new Report Module using JasperReports.
• Wrote stored procedures to supply data to the new reports and deployed them to the Postgres databases used by the application.

Sr Software Engineer

Aug 2009 to Apr 2010

Sage Assurity Financial 3209 Ingersoll Ave Suite 205, Des Moines, IA 50312

• Maintained and enhanced the company's ECLoanPro product. ECLoanPro is a distributed Java application used for mortgage loan origination. The application consisted of a number of distributed pieces. The primary client was a rich-client application written in Java Swing. This client interfaced with several server-side services running on Tomcat in addition to a couple of third-party services. There was also a Java Struts-based client that performed a subset of the functions performed by the main Swing client.
• Designed and implemented the DocMagic service interface for the ECLoanPro product. This added functionality to the Struts client that constructed XML documents containing the mortgage information and streamed them to DocMagic's online interface. The service would notify the user when the XML stream sent to DocMagic had been successfully converted into the appropriate mortgage documentation.
• Designed and coded the ECLoanPro interface to QuestSoft's geo-coding product. The service sent property information to QuestSoft and then process the returned spatial coordinates and store them in the ECLoanPro MySQL database.

Sr Systems Analyst

Confidential

• Designed, developed, and maintained various web applications for internal corporate customers. These applications were either developed using Java and deployed on the Tomcat platform or in ASP.NET C and deployed on IIS. The Java applications used Oracle as the database platform and the ASP.NET applications used Microsoft SQL Server as the database platform.
• Maintained and updated the Product Supply Dashboard Java web application used by the manufacturing plants to track various weekly and monthly performance metrics. This application used a custom-built MVC framework similar to Struts.
• Maintained and updated the Shop Floor Data Collection Java web application used by the manufacturing plants to entire hourly performance and downtime variables. This application was written using Struts.
• Provided on-call support for all internal web applications.

Consultant

Confidential

• Maintained and updated the Product Supply Dashboard Java web application used by the manufacturing plants to track various weekly and monthly performance metrics. This application used a custom-built MVC framework similar to Struts.

Consultant

Confidential

• Assisted in the development of a large IVR application for a national healthcare provider using the Audium VXML speech server platform and Java/J2EE.
• Developed the XML interfaces for querying patient information from the healthcare provider's internal application servers and providing it to the IVR application.
• Developed the FAX interface for the IVR application that allowed callers to have their patient information FAXed to them.

Consultant

Confidential

• Developed customer service IVR application for American Express using the Microsoft Speech Server platform with ASP.NET C .
• Assisted in converting an existing IVR application from the Nuance platform to Microsoft Speech Server platform as a joint effort with First Data and Microsoft.
• Competed on the First Data Team at the annual SpeechTek Challenge. This is an IVR development competition where teams are given a set of requirements and then have 6-hours to develop a complete IVR application.

Project Engineer

Confidential

• Assisted with the design and implementation of a custom C API to allow developers to construct applications using a proprietary smartcard solution.
• Designed and implemented an online banking application using Java Struts. The application used a smartcard reader for authentication that communicated with the client using binary smartlets embedded in an XML document. This was a best-practices example application to show off capabilities of the smartcard.

Sr Software Engineer

Confidential

• Software engineer for the company's OptiTrac GPS-enabled application. This application was a distributed Java application used for real-time tracking of mobile assets. This application was designed using statefull and stateless session beans, entity beans, and message-driven EJBs to implement an MVC design pattern.
• Implemented and administered Weblogic as the standard web application server for the company. This included deploying applications, setting up data stores, queues, and topics.
• Provided engineering support for customer care to solve production problems.
• Assisted the Software Development Manager in developing new products.

Consultant

Confidential

• Converted the company's OptiTrac client/server Java solution to a J2EE application running on the Weblogic platform.
• Provided engineering support to customer care to solve production problems.

Confidential

• Developed a Java E-Commerce infrastructure for a national produce distributer running on Linux.
• Developed the interface between the Java server application and the company's Gentran EDI solution.
• Assisted the State of Nebraska with their effort to convert stored procedures written in COBOL to Java.

Consultant

Confidential

• Developed numerous DCOM modules in Visual Basic to be used as database middleware.

Sr Programmer Analyst

Confidential

• Migrated existing production EDI system to a new Sun Solaris server and upgraded the Harbinger EDI translator software to the latest version.
• Designed and wrote EDI translation maps using the Harbinger EDI translator.
• Wrote UNIX shell scripts for processing EDI transactions.
• Designed a system using UNIX shell scripts to automate the storage, retrieval, encryption/decryption of cell phone authentication keys.

Sr Systems Engineer/Assistant Site Manager

Confidential

• Converted existing UNIX network to a Windows NT based network.
• Developed and managed the Compliance Facility's website and Columbia Services Group's corporate website.
• Developed and implemented a workflow management system written in Delphi and using an Oracle 8 database. The system scanned incoming EDI documents, verified that they were from a valid trading partner, and then transferred then to the appropriate analyst.

Developer/Systems Administrator

Confidential

• Installed and administered a 50-user network.
• Wrote and deployed a shop floor data collection system in dBase. The application was used to collect production status as well as machine uptime status.