07 January 2022

Headline

Software developer who is not afraid to tackle any challenge. My current focus
is on building and supporting robust, scalable stream processing applications that
run on the JVM, evangelism of technology and mentoring. I am always open to expanding
my knowledge of new technologies, techniques and tricks. I believe in writing unit
tests, running performance tests and finding creative ways to make sure that that
reliability is front of mind when performing architecture refactors. I enjoy
contributing to open source projects and collaborating with others.

Skills

Current

Java

Docker

Kafka

Spring Boot

Spring

Gradle

Git

Memcached

Groovy

Spock

Thrift

AWS

PostgreSQL

JUnit 4 / 5

Rest

Jetty

Spring Reactor

WireMock

Jenkins

HTML

CSS

ReactJS

Python

Agile / SCRUM

IntelliJ IDEA


Previous

Eclipse

Maven

MySQL

Apache ZooKeeper

Grails

RabbitMQ

Apache Tomcat

MongoDB

C

C++

JSP

Java Servlets

Hibernate

OpenLDAP

Ant

Glassfish

IBM WebSphere

Subversion

CVS

StarTeam

JMS

Microsoft SQL Server

VisualBasic

EJB 2 / 3

JCA

ASP

AS / 400

Experience

New Relic - Portland, OR / Remote (Massachusetts)

Principal Software Engineer

June 2014 - Present

  • Design, implement and maintain multiple versions of a near-real time
    streaming evaluation pipeline.

  • Improve developer productivity and quality through various initiatives,
    such as common tooling, dependency management and project templates.

  • Built and maintain numerous Gradle plugins to reduce code / configuration
    duplication and provide consistent static analysis.

  • Analyze and quantify impact of external changes in order to provide team
    members with an outline of required work to implement.

  • Provide code reviews, analysis and consultation for members of product
    development teams with engineering, including mentoring of junior staff.

  • Work across teams to design and implement cross-cutting features and
    identify / implement architectural changes.

  • Perform multiple environment migrations to move code execution from static
    services to an internal cloud and the public cloud.

Dealer.com - Burlington, VT

Technical Lead - Frameworks

July 2011 – June 2014

  • Responsible for design and implementation of cross-cutting, framework level
    software for use in Dealer.com’s architecture. Projects include metrics
    reporting and gathering framework, centralized configuration system utilizing
    Apache ZooKeeper and upgrades and upkeep of Grails-based software suite.

  • Provide code reviews, analysis and consultation for members of product
    development teams with engineering, including mentoring of junior staff.

  • Evangelize technologies within engineering, such as the adoption of Grails,
    Groovy, Maven, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Spring and other technologies.

  • Contribute internal blog posts and presentations on topics relevant to engineering.

Sparta, Inc. - Centreville, VA

Technical Director – Visualization and Analysis Division

March 2006 – July 2011

  • Responsible for division-wide technical direction, including system design,
    prototyping, requirement gathering, tracking development, and setting and
    enforcing development policies and procedures.

  • Acted as technical lead / lead developer for various next generation data
    analysis applications using technologies such as Grails, Groovy,
    Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition / Web 2.0 technologies including
    AJAX, JSP / Servlets and JMS, OpenLDAP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript,
    MySQL 5.1 and Hibernate.

  • Managed team of developers, including facilitating daily SCRUM meetings.

  • Instrumental in adoption and integration of new technologies / tools within
    the division, such as Hudson, Maven, Grails, Groovy, and Spring.

  • Responsible for facilitating design and code reviews with peers.

  • Mentored junior developers to improve their design and programming skills.

Staples, Inc. - Framingham, MA

Senior Programmer Analyst - Retail Systems

July 2003 – March 2006

  • Developed and maintained backend Java 2 Platform Enterprise
    Edition application leveraging JMS, CMP, Castor XML
    Marshalling Framework and web services hosted in
    WebSphere Application Server 5.1 that is responsible
    for processing point of sale transactions in XML from all US
    retail stores (1300+) and forwarding them to DB2 and an
    AS / 400 system for further processing.

  • Translated complex business logic that is applied to point
    of sale transactions from Visual Basic into Java for inclusion
    in the point of sale transaction processing Java 2 Platform
    Enterprise Edition application.

  • Reconstructed the XML schema used to define all point of sale
    transactions.

  • Worked closely with AS / 400 developers to integrate middle-tier
    Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition applications and backend
    RPG / CL applications.

  • Developed internal Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition web
    applications to view point of sale data, transactions and
    render receipts using OpenLDAP, CMP, Hibernate 3, Quartz
    scheduler and Apache Struts.

  • Collaborated closely with business partners to define system requirements
    and technical specifications for new applications.

  • Developed Apache Ant scripts to check out, build and deploy Enterprise
    Application Archive files to WebSphere Application Server 5.1.

  • Extensive experience configuring resources in WebSphere Application
    Server 5.1 including JDBC data sources, JMS resources, JCA adapters,
    LDAP configuration and mail providers.

  • Supported Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition applications hosted
    in WebSphere Application Server 5.1 on RedHat Linux Enterprise
    3.0 and DB2 8.2 on AIX and legacy applications written in Visual
    Basic, Visual C++ and ASP.

  • Executed performance testing of new applications using Apache JMeter,
    Mercury SiteScope and IBM Tivoli Performance Analyzer and other
    monitoring software.

The Boston Red Sox - Boston, MA

Information Technology Intern

May 2002 – September 2002

  • Developed an intranet site using ASP, VB, and MS SQL technology.

  • Aided in administration and maintenance of corporate network.

  • Provided technical support for employees by solving various computer issues.

Education

Boston College - Chestnut Hill, MA

Degree: Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, 2003
GPA: 3.87 / 4.0
Major: Computer Science
Minor: History
Distinctions: Dean’s List 8 Semesters, Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, National
Society of Collegiate Scholars, Sophomore Scholar of the College