Jan 2017 – Aug 2017 · 7 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Worked as a Big Data Engineer on a team porting a number of medical analytics applications to Spark as part of the migration of Truven Health (an IBM acquisition) to IBM Watson Health Care. Wrote Java code for Spark to read and process data, integrate with legacy systems, perform analytic calculations, and store output for subsequent processing.

Jun 2016 – Oct 2016 · 4 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Developed and maintained infrastructure and processes for processing big data datasets from the Distil network. Developed ETL processes, support tools, and applications based on Cloudera Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Java, Groovy, Grails, bash, and related tools. Collaborated with the Data Science team to support the development of data science applications within the Data Platform environment. Migrated applications off of AWS to the internal processing environment, resulting in the saving of thousands of dollars per month in AWS spend. Migrated Impala environment to integrate with corporate LDAP in order to enforce accountability with regards to resource usage by various departments.

Feb 2012 – May 2016 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Deliver value to clients by helping them utilize Open Source "big data" and Business Intellignece software solutions to maximum benefit within their organizations. Specialize in Java based technologies including Hadoop, Hive, Impala, Couchbase, Lucene, Neo4J, JBoss, Tomcat, JPA/Hibernate, and Spring, as well as Cloud based platforms including Amazon AWS, EMR, S3, Kinesis and related products. Use BI tools like BIRT, JasperReports and Tableau to expose key insights to business users. Activities include leading teams performing greenfield development, performance tuning, troubleshooting and debugging, architectural consulting, platform migrations, and delivering training.

Jul 2009 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Developed Java code to add advanced functionality to Redwood's Document Management System offering, Report2Web. Fixed bugs, assisted Customer Support with diagnostics and troubleshooting as required. Worked with Product Management to help define requirements for upcoming releases. Helped develop the first incarnation of the Redwood agile software process.

May 2009 – Present · 17 yrs 1 mo · Chapel Hill, NC

• Founded Fogbeam Labs - provide product vision, specify and build (code) product(s), recruit co-founders, manage and conduct Customer Development process. Manage product development, develop and implement marketing strategy. Prospect and identify leads, guide customers through sales decision process. Manage partner relationships and business development. Write press releases and sales & marketing collateral.
• Develop new software products, and develop management methodologies, to unite technology and business strategy. Utilize techniques including Capability Cases, Balanced Scorecard, Applied Information Economics, SWOT analysis, and Porter's Five Forces (P5F) analysis.
• Write code in Groovy, Java and Javascript along with libraries and platforms like Hadoop, Spark, Storm, Hive, Neo4J, Couchbase, Apache Jena, Lucene, Solr, Apache Stanbol, Grails, JBoss, Fuseki, Marmotta, PostgreSQL, Apache Camel and Activiti. Research and analyze latest industry news and research related to Knowledge Management, Machine Learning, AI, Semantic Web, and Open Source Software.

Apr 2008 – Apr 2009 · 1 yr

• Developed services, in Python, to support the Lulu.com Marketplace as we migrated to a SOA infrastructure. Hacked PHP code related to Marketplace, including integration with 3rd party services, including Google Shopping and Amazon.

Mar 2007 – Feb 2008 · 11 mos

• Development of Java based access control, auditing and single-sign-on product focused on the telecom industry.

Jun 2005 – Dec 2005 · 6 mos

• Developed interpreter for XML based state-machine language used for managing handshaking / connection to remote systems using telnet, ssh and other protocols. Research and development related to multi-factor authentication and authorization using complex role-based permissioning.

Dec 2005 – Mar 2007 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Development of middleware, SOA, ESB for Enterprise Application Integration, using Java, Web Services, BPEL, Spring, Hibernate, XML, XSLT, PL/SQL, JMS and SOAP.

Nov 2004 – May 2005 · 6 mos

• Developed portions of the Administrative Console for IBM WebSphere RFID Premises Server using Struts, Servlets, EJBs, JSP, HTML, JAAS, WebSphere Application Server and DB/2. Use of JACL, batch language, and various command line tools to enhance and maintain sophisticated installer component, to install Premises Server into an environment consisting of WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ and DB/2.
• Developed systems management components, in Java, to integrate Premises Server with Tivoli Monitoring and Tivoli Enterprise Console. Developed custom Tivoli Monitoring resource models, Java ILT providers and logfile adapters for monitoring of the Premises Server using Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Monitoring for DB/2, Tivoli Monitoring for WebSphere MQ and Tivoli Monitoring for WebSphere Application Server. Assembled Software Package Blocks for remote installation of the application using Tivoli Configuration Manager.

Apr 2000 – Nov 2004 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• Developed mission-critical J2EE e-commerce applications to process millions of dollars of transactions per day, using Servlets, EJBs (session beans, CMP entity beans), JMS, and Struts.
• Developed a sophisticated application monitoring / trouble alerting system for hosted applications, using JMS, JBossMQ, EJB, and a rules-based engine
• spearheaded an initiative to develop a more formal development process at VDS, to replace the ad-hoc methodology in use. Took initiative in promoting the development and use of re-usable components and frameworks developed using Object-Oriented techniques in Java and C++.
• Focused on the development of flexible, loosely-coupled architectures to enable rapid modification and extension of our applications, as well as the ability to quickly adapt the application to a specific customer's requirements with the least required changes to existing code.

May 1998 – Jan 2000 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Served as Assistant Fire Chief for approximately one and a half years, after having previously held positions as Training Officer, Captain, Lieutenant and Chief Engineer. Administrative duties included assisting in formulating the department budget, interfacing with the County Board of Commissioners and Emergency Management Director on various issues, maintaining records required by local, state and federal agencies and training firefighters.
• Operational duties included managing operations at the scene of emergencies in the absence of the Fire Chief. Employed the Incident Command System to coordinate teams to provide appropriate mitigation of various emergency situations. Coordinated with mutual aid departments and outside agencies to ensure efficient activities to prevent loss of life, or property, or damage to the environment.

Jan 1997 – Jan 1998 · 1 yr

• AS/400 operations and administration, Novell Netware 3.x operations and administration. Desktop PC support and general network support.