Nov 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Lead the data integration team which was responsible for moving data between internal systems and external clients in real time.
• Consulted with other parts of the enterprise on best practices, designs and architectures on how to efficiently integrate with other parts of the business at the data level in real time.
• Supported systems that enabled real time streaming and processing of all managed data.

Mar 2014 – Sep 2017 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Played several roles including technical leadership, system designer and developer. Worked with many people to help build out a scalable, highly available, distributed platform with continuous delivery. Primarily focused on the data ingestion and delivery parts of the system.

Jul 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater San Diego Area

• Worked on the company's main product adding new functionality and improving the code base. The system is essentially a telematics data aggregation application with many analytical functions.
• Added new features to the message processing side using, apache active MQ, apache camel, spring, and oracle. Performance is critical in this part of their system and was given much consideration during implementation.
• Implemented many REST based web services to replace existing legacy ones. Technologies used in the process included Jersey, Spring, XML and JSON. Adding these web services required refactoring of the existing code base for reuse.

Nov 2011 – Jul 2012 · 8 mos · Eden Prairie, MN

• Was on a project that needed refactoring and additional enhancements for a subsequent release. The next release included work with a web application based on BackboneJS, Spring, Spring MVC, maven and other minor technologies.
• The refactoring included extensive changes to how communications where done with their CICS mainframe. I developed a binding framework to simplify serialization/deserialization between the CICS interface and the application.
• Added several performance improvements using asynchronous communications with the DB and mainframe via multi-threading.

Aug 2009 – Dec 2009 · 4 mos · Minnetonka, MN

• Worked on implementing custom protocols for telematic devices. Technologies included apache camel, apache mina, spring, and Terracotta.
• The project was performance focused where we needed to consume 1000's of messages a seconds from devices placed in vehicles. Data integrity was paramount, we insured all incoming date from the unit was saved while implementing the communication protocol used by the devices.

Jan 2009 – Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Minnetonka, MN

• Worked on several projects here. Was technical lead and gave guidance to architecture and technologies to be used in the projects. Led a group of several engineers in the process.
• One project was a networked based management of print jobs for credit cards. This included technologies such as spring, hibernate, tomcat/jetty and maven.
• Other projects included a distributed ID management system with biometric scanning and verification. Technologies used in the project included gradle, apache camel, spring, hibernate, vaadin, and SQL server.

Nov 2008 – Jul 2009 · 8 mos

• Agile/RUP hybrid project built with JSF, EJB3, JPA (Hibernate), Oracle.

Feb 2008 – Nov 2017 · 9 yrs 9 mos · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Consultant at one of the best places to work in the Twin Cities.
• I play the role of Chief Technologist. Responsible for making technology direction choices, recommendations and mentoring other consultants in specific technical areas. Providing support to clients when they require input on selecting technologies to employ in their solutions.
• Finally implementing solutions at clients to meet their needs.

Feb 2008 – Nov 2008 · 9 mos

• Agile project using Spring, JSP, JPA, Hibernate, Oracle.

Aug 2007 – Feb 2008 · 6 mos

• Application enhancements with JSP, MVC, EJB2, MDB, PL/SQL, Oracle.

Jan 2007 – Aug 2007 · 7 mos

• Production support and application enhancements using AXIS 1.1, WebSphere, EJB2, MDB, SOAP, DB2.

Sep 2005 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Agile project lead using Spring, JSF, Facelets, Hibernate, Oracle.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2005 · 3 yrs

• Full time developer for various systems. Technologies include JSP, custom MVC, Oracle, WebSphere, PL/SQL, Plum Tree Portal, SOAP, Vitria, SOA.