SUMMARY:

Senior information technology professional with 18+ years of experience conceptualizing and implementing software solutions across multiple industries. Adept at leading teams and working independently with little to no supervision to execute projects on time and within budget. Known for providing the long - term vision essential to developing and deploying effective internal and global solutions. Highly analytical, and adaptable, with the proven ability to quickly learn new technologies. Strengths in partnering across an organization. Best practice technical leadership for DevOps Selenium Automated testing with Jenkins and Chef, using Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS instances.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

• IT Needs Assessment Cloud Migration Solution Development
• Data-Driven Decision Making Database Administration Business Process Analysis
• Information System Management Project Management Process Improvement Rapid MVP Product Launch

SKILLS:

• Systems Design Product Architecture Evaluation Application Development/Enhancement Debugging complex applications Jenkins CI/CD automated test pipelines Object Oriented Programming
• Centralized Secure File Vault Storage Enterprise Quality Assurance Software Application Development, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems Modeling
• Machinery Control Interfacing Hardware Design Data Extraction/Migration

SELECTED TECHNICAL SKILLS/PROFICIENCY:

Languages : Java (High), JavaScript (Medium), C (High), c++ (medium), Groovy (Medium), PL/SQL(High),C# (medium), VB.net (medium), SQL (High), Assembly Language DSP (medium), Pascal, ChefPython, Ruby, Javascript, AngularJS, Ionic, Perl

Web J2EE Techstack: AJAX, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, RMI, EJB, JMS, Webservices, Struts, Hibernate, XML, ANT, Maven, Quartz Scheduler, Lucene

Reporting / Business Intelligence: Oracle Apex Reports,Mondrian Cubes (OLAP), XML, Jasper Reports, jFreecharts

Web / Application Servers: JBoss AS v4.2.3/EAP 4.3, Oracle Application Server 9iAS,Tomcat Server v6.0,Apache HTTP server, iPlanet 7, Weblogic

Database Servers: MySQL v5.5, PostgreSQL, Oracle 9i/10g/11g, 12c, Derby/H2HSQLDB,IBM UDB v7.2,SQLserver

Integrated Development Environments: Oracle forms developer, Netbeans, Eclipse, jDeveloper, Microsoft Visual Studio Developer 2008, Delphi

Source Control/Other: Subversion SVN, CVS, PVCS, Selenium, Jenkins, Github, Mercurial

Project Management: MS Project, Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Menlo Park, California

Senior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Utilize Agile/Scrum Project methodology and tools (Jira) to facilitate migration of customer production applications to Google and AWS Amazon Cloud platforms. Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Puppet to maintain applications and infrastructure builds.
• Network firewall access troubleshooting in alpha release XPN network concept
• Mesos/Openshift/Docker/Kubernetes Containerization of cloud based applications.
• Cassandra/OpsCenter configuration. Terraform mixed cloud build environments.
• Consul service registration for dynamic scaling of applications

Confidential, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

Lead System Analyst GAMS

Responsibilities:

• Best practice lead for DevOps Selenium automation utilizing Jenkins / Chef / TestNG /Github to build virtual cloud infrastructure and automated grid clusters for application validation tests.
• Management of Peoplesoft ERP and support team of 27 people and report out to stakeholders Business/CIO.
• Development of high performance Multithreaded multiple tier version control application in Java J2EE /APEX.
• XML publisher experience
• Data Analytics / Business Intelligence/ Cloud Foundry / ETL Dashboards / Exadata Platform migration, Oracle Configurator module extensions, workflow engines
• Review Architecture of solutions to assist in root cause assessment of issues.
• Sitescope utilized for application monitoring

Confidential, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

Database Analyst & Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead the global rollout of a high-speed file transfer utility that accelerated transfer time from 29 minutes to only 5 minutes for a 650 MB file. Developed long-term vision for future integration points to facilitate global collaboration. Proof of concepts included alternative network topologies/ kernel bypass concepts for benchmarking faster IO performance across data centers
• RHEL based infrastructure for production applications.
• Conceptualized the vision and framework to migrate from MS Access to a smaller, more portable Object oriented Java-based solution.
• Developed a fully electronic shop floor control metrics/Quality Assurance capture system that monitored product quality, both increasing efficiency and improving usability of data in Oracle Forms.
• Full cycle Oracle EBS implementation experience
• BOM/Routing/WIP/INV/Configurator/EAM/Configurator/EAM/MRP/ASCP,Purchasing/Shipping and costing.
• Honored with the Clear Thinking Award.

Confidential, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Associate

Responsibilities:

• Reduced annual licensing and maintenance costs by more than $200,000 by transitioning legacy databases to a single Oracle platform.
• Streamlined from 3 PLM systems to a single custom J2EE centralized secure file vault storage application, saving $108,000/year.
• Developed a parallel go-live strategy for new systems to avoid downtime and personally led the synchronized launch process.

Confidential, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Senior Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed a high-volume check processing module that increased from 500 to more than 6,000 checks per batch.
• Designed and developed a streamlined custom system for invoice vouchering that enabled real-time invoice processing.
• Migrated a key application from character mode to a web-based hosted architecture (software as a service / SaaS).
• Automated a version control system for source code bases.
• Develop internal Testing/debugging tools for application troubleshooting.
• Review code/architecture for Delphi developed in house application.
• Developed a complete contract manufacturing business system as well as a retail / service facility system using Oracle Server and Developer 2000.

Confidential, Waukesha, Wisconsin

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Personally designed and developed a complete ERP system, from order entry and BOM to automated machinery interfaces and accounts payable / receivable, in 6 months.
• Created a direct interface between automated assembly machines BOM.
• Reduced development costs by $43,000 for a new pick-and-place verification software tool. Used an Oracle relational database to improve BOM accuracy and processing and reduce order entry delay from weeks to hours.