Objective

Seeking a challenging, dynamic lead position where I can use both my technical, design and leadership skills to increase the efficiency and profitability of a growing organization.

Abilities

• Developed automated systems to virtually eliminate human interaction with regard to vendor errors and failures in a 24/7 uptime environment.
• Created a standalone rules based engine that was easily modified and updated using a simple to use, yet effective web based interface.
• Helped design and develop a completely new web based mortgage application which revolutionized the speed at which customers were able to be approved and loans processed to closing.
• Managed team of developers who supported internal intranet sites for 100,000 employees.
• Integrated varying websites using custom SSO technology to enable seamless transitions between organizations.
• Overhauled hardware infrastructure to enable a true high availability application.
• Extensive experience in the medical benefits business arenas.
• Administered and developed for a number of Portal platforms including Liferay and Vignette
• Extremely proficient in Portal Systems, Java, HTML, and JavaScript. Has ability to be given a problem and come up with a number of efficient, detailed orientated solutions to that given problem. Has skills and imagination to be able to think outside the box. Has capacity to work in a very fast paced, high stress environment in order to get the job done right the first time. Self motivated and highly organized, able to complete tasks in very short amount of time accurately which eliminates excessive rework.

Languages and Software

J2EE, ANT, JSP, Servlet, JSR286 Portlets, Applets, Vignette Portal, Oracle BEA WebLogic Application Server, Oracle Toplink, StarTeam, Sybase, Dreamweaver, Weblogic Workshop, Sybase, DB Artisan, Eclipse, Photoshop, HTML, Javascipt, AJAX, XML, CSS, Linux, SQL, Windows, UNIX, UNIX Scripting, SQL Server, SSIS, Struts, Spring Framework, Rational Application Developer, Apache Tiles, Spring Web Flow, Liferay Portal, Apache Web Server, Tomcat, JBoss, SVN, My Eclipse, Toad, CAS

Employment History

Confidential

Senior Liferay Engineer Contract Position

• Brought into the organization to upgrade or replace their existing environment which was Liferay 5.1 to version 6.1.3 and go from the community edition to the Enterprise version.
• Faced and overcame a number of challenges upgrading their 5 plus year old system to current software standards
• Redesigned look and feel of their new site to more align with their public facing website by creating Liferay themes
• Added Liferay customizations to accomplish organization's vision for their intranet including complex permissions and unique roles
• Mentored team in administration and management of the portal environment
• Installed, administered and configured a new clustered Liferay 6.1.3 EE edition on a Linux platform connected to a SQL Server 2008 and authenticated through LDAP
• Created a true clustered high availability system using Liferay's best practice architecture standards

Confidential

Managing Architect of Portal and Infrastructure

• Manage a team of Senior Engineers both local and remote who develop and design Portal Solutions using Liferay Portal with a SQL Server backend while also maintaining and updating the company's infrastructure which supports a large multi-user online benefit enrollment application written completely in house in java using Spring Security, Apache Tiles, and Spring Web Flow.
• Completed complicated upgrade process of an out of date version Liferay Portal to its latest Enterprise addition in a multitude of environments.
• Designed and developed complex portal solutions for a variety of different clients to support their HR effort using Liferay portlets and hooks.
• Standardized and streamlined release process for the entire organization.
• Integrated CAS SSO solution into Liferay Portal and standalone Spring Security applications
• Performance tuned Liferay Portal into a true High Availability application.
• Architected Liferay Portal environment into Amazon AWS Cloud from an existing in-house setup.
• Implemented and designed multi language support for company's flagship application.
• Completed entire overall of hardware infrastructure to bring environment up to existing security and availability standards.
• Designed, coded, and implemented integration effort to allow seamless integration with outside organizations.
• Managed real time web service information sharing across different websites and technology.
• Managed resources and costs for an office move including contractors, telecom, and infrastructure.
• Architected solutions to run on a variety of browsers from IE 8 all the way to all the modern browsers on the market
• Designed, developed and tested both externally and internally facing web sites using Liferay Portal as a back end.

Confidential

Senior Systems Analyst/Team Lead

• Manage a group of 6 developers who support, update and maintain Publix's complex array of internal and external websites. The systems use a combination of java technology, OpenText Portal, Servlets, JSR286 Portlets, JSP Pages, Siteminder LDAPP, TIM/TAM, Weblogic Application servers, and a SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2 databases.
• Integrate .net applications by calling web services in the java code space to better facilitate inter department projects.
• Leveraged JQuery within sites to give more interactive elements to the end users.
• Maintain and develop coding and architecture standards.
• Scheduled and planned releases which included meeting with testers, developing test cases, and full code reviews of every application being released.
• Used Agile development to quickly and efficiently deliver solutions to business clients.
• Create project plans and monitor complex multi team implementations using Clarity while keeping projects on time and on budget.
• Work with the business in determining optimal solutions for the future of the organization.
• Developed both logical and physical diagrams of complex solutions to distribution among the organization.
• Documented requirements and detailed design in following the SDLC
• Authored Sharepoint governance plan for the organization.
• Developed generic solutions to cut delivery time by 80 for generic form requests.

Confidential

1 month contract

Performed detailed analysis to determine performance limitations in a java application which moved millions of rows of data between various SYBASE databases. Successfully, re-engineered code to cut run time by more than half while also eliminating various bugs within the code.

Confidential

Senior Systems Analyst/Team Lead

• In 2004 PHH Mortgage decided to abandon the legacy UI layer and create a new Java web based mortgage application called LoanSpan. I was one of the team members tasked with creating a prototype that would impress the Senior Leadership team enough to abandon the old application which was extremely stable by this point. I helped design an application which used JSP's and Servlets as the presentation layer and a separate layer using EJB's for business logic.
• Participated in the full life cycle of the application from initial idea to designing a JUnit testing suite for the application.
• Designed, coded, and tested a complex MVC application with a user community of 4000 individuals. This application used a JSP view layer, with a JPF layer as the controller running on a Weblogic Portal Server.
• Used Oracle Toplink to map relational database elements to Java container objects.
• Supervised 4 developers in their coding practices and general work duties.
• Designed and built screens for Creating a Lead , Lead Overview , Customer Liabilities , Customer Assets , Customer Income , Lead Comments These pages were a combination of JSP, HTML and extensive Javascript.
• In 2007 moved to a Weblogic Portal architecture to improve performance and reliability.
• Ran stress tests on the system to eliminate bottlenecks and also tune the Java code to discover inefficiencies.
• Worked as a liaison between the business community and the IT team to come up with realistic time lines and accurate business requirements.
• Took part in Architecture review sessions to better decide on the use of new technology rather than just switching for the sake of switching because something is new.
• Created JUnit tests to facilitate the help desk in solving problems related to data issues entered by users.
• Worked closely with end users to find out their opinions on the system and what could be changed to make their jobs more efficient, this lead to a series of screen updates and general flow of the application.
• Used advanced data modeling techniques to create tables and stored procedures in SYBASE.

Confidential

• In 2000, PHH Mortgage, then known as Cendant Mortgage entered an agreement with Fannie Mae to create an autonomous pricing and scoring engine known as Landscape. This project would allow our systems to make a single call to Fannie Mae to return all the mortgage programs and pricing a customer was eligible for in a very short time frame. This also lead the company to go from a basic client server architecture with Powerbuilder and C, C executables to a Middle Tier based architecture using BEA's Weblogic application server and Java code. The project was very successful and transformed the way all major mortgage companies would do business for a great deal of time.
• Translated the existing credit reporting system into a Java based architecture eliminated the queuing in the Unix layer for a more traditional MQ setup.
• Further tuned the system to return credit reports in around thirty seconds down from one minute.
• Created a new Closing Cost system using data from both an Oracle and Sybase database to drive logic and fees returned to the end user.
• Developed new routing framework to switch between different outside vendors when an outage or general slowness occurred.
• Worked closely with team from Fannie Mae to hash out requirements, come up with an approach, and finally created detailed design documents which were used to develop the applications and also come up with test plans.
• Designed an in-house rules based engine using simple English rules written and stored in a Sybase database, then translated into Java objects in the middle tier to return conditional based rules and messages to the UI.
• Created a JSP front end for business users to update and insert new rules into the database for use by the rules based engine.

Confidential

• My initial assignment was the company's credit reporting system which was based on C,C executables run on a Unix platform with numerous Unix scripts managing the software. The system was flawed because of lack of speed and reliability and I was tasked with upgrading the system and have it available 24/7.
• Rewrote C executables to pull data from a Sybase database once a flag was set in the database using the existing Powerbuilder UI.
• New executables were faster with better error checking and less reliance on human interaction.
• Modified database tables to a more object orientated approach which allows faster inserts on the return of the credit report and also less redundancy of data.
• Created automated failover systems using Unix scripting which prevented down time within the system.
• Designed a complex queuing and failover system if one of the credit vendors slowed down or shut off completely to eliminate impact to end users.
• Tuned the system to return a credit report in less than a minute from its original two to two and half minute range.

Confidential

IT Technician

• Performed detailed analysis on every PC workstation within the confines of the FAA while updating software and hardware to eliminate any potential failures as a result of Y2K.
• Created complete tutorial on checking and upgrading workstations for Y2K compatibility.