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David is a results-focused Polyglot having 23+ years experience with a proven history of being the go-to guy for solving the hardest programming and troubleshooting problems along with mentoring junior programmers. He is looking for an opportunity to work with a great company in a leadership position with the ability to positively impact the entire business as well as his staff.  He is highly accomplished in JavaScript, NodeJS, Spring MVC, Java, PostgreSQL, Jenkins Intellij, Git, React, AWS, and Ansible. David is a patent holder for four US Patents in GIS algorithms and Online Testing.  He has developed and Implemented Restful APIs, led SaaS software efforts creating cloud-enabled software, engineered a file serving solution to save a failed product launch which generated $10 million in annual revenues.  He also engineered and installed corporate security and application security procedures and became a Certified Scrum Master in 2006.

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Greenway PrimeSuite
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Internet Chess Club, Virtual

Director of Software Engineering

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Work Experience : 2002 - present

The biggest online chess club in the world.

David is primarily responsible for the oversight of a “technology refresh” program, replacing their thirty year old flagship legacy C system with a new Node/Meteor/Mongo (browser based) system.

  • Making all technological decisions (database, language, framework, etc.)
  • Managing all offshore and onshore employees
  • In general, working to ensure the replacement project is a success.

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Hometown Quotes

Director of Software Engineering

Work Experience : 2018-2021

A $10 million lead generation company.

Recruited by Chief Operating Officer to bring software development back in-house from an outside consulting company. The primary technologies are Java, Spring, Hibernate, Tomcat, JSP, MariaDB and AWS. Some of his accomplishments are:

  • Bringing software development back in-house and eliminating the consulting company.
  • Vast software improvements, including cutting down error rate by an unmeasurable amount
  • Finding and adjusting software “business rules” that doubled their revenue
  • Implementing a company security policy, and driving software development changes to support the policy.
  • Upgrading their versions (Java 1.7 to 1.8, and all dependencies.)
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Escoffier School of Culinary Arts - Externship - Line Cook

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Work Experience : 2017-2018

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Advanced Technology Group (atg)

Senior Consultant

Work Experience : 2015-2016

Working on various projects, from C#/MySQL coding to assisting in technical assessments as a Senior Architect.
Project technical details to date:

  • C#/SQL Server/IIS – Improved and maintained customer web application.
  • Meteor/node/Javascript/mocha/jasmine/mongo – Wrote several apps now in Meteor and/or node, including the use of automated testing with mocha and jasmine
  • perl/Aria (billing system) – Simple perl scripts to massage billing data and communicate with Aria
  • python/django/MySQL/Aria (billing system) – Helped resolve bugs in an ongoing conversion project converting from one billing system to another in a relatively sophisticated web application.
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Compassion International

IT Process Manager/IDTE Integration Manager

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Work Experience : 2013

He helped Compassion International to progress to the next level of Information Development maturity by helping them to redefine their IT foundation and software solutions.

Initially, he concentrated on ensuring the IT and business units have a cohesive view regarding their Enterprise Architecture, which enabled them to rebuild their infrastructure, data models, and business process to more efficiently support their six core business processes.

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The North Highland Company

Consultant

Work Experience : 2013

Helped a local healthcare company move the vast majority of their systems from one vendor to another–including product replacement, network realignment, data center moves, and 3rd party product reintegration.

Researched or worked with a variety of software solutions, including:

  • ESB’s (BizTalk, MuleSoft, TIBCO).
  • Greenway PrimeSuite EHR
  • Cognify PTS
  • Net.Orange c/OS
  • Plexis Claims Management
  • Microsoft Dynamics

Performed project management duties, Enterprise Architecture duties, Business Analyst duties, and others as needed.

Supplied a (hopefully temporary) homegrown web-based application to support some of their business functionality. As it was a temporary solution, I wrote it in Java, Spring, Hibernate and ran it under Jetty, although it has a solid structure for future development if desired.

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Amadeus Consulting

Consultant

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Work Experience : 2013

Acted as a Technical Project Manager for a large company, helping them manage software development projects from inception to completion. Advised them in ways to improve their software development process, particularly around production deployment.

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The TriZetto Group

Consultant

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Work Experience : 2012

Brought in to help resolve some performance issues. Discovered and resolved issues resulting in an almost 2.5x decrease in runtime for one of their custom apps written in VB.Net and Oracle.

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Kryterion Inc.

Director of Software Engineering

Work Experience : 2010-2012

$10 million manufacturers of online testing software.

Recruited by Chief Operating Officer to spearhead a turnaround of the company’s faltering technology organization. Oversight for global IT operations, including strategic planning, software development and hardware infrastructure. Administer $5 million budget. Supervised a staff of 25, including engineers and QA personnel.

  • Improved efficiency, completed overdue internal and external projects, and enabled the company to build a state-of-the-art product by re-organizing the entire engineering program and creating new product teams.
  • Stabilized at-risk product development initiatives. Brought delivery schedules up to date for critical projects. Resolved software functionality issues for software promised to one of the company’s largest clients.
  • Formulated and implemented standardized software development process, new workflows and source control, resulting in greater quality and improved trust from other departments.
  • “Hands-on” experience, performing architect duties, project management duties, and programming duties as necessary on .Net and Java technologies.
  • Dramatically increased infrastructure and web-based application stability and reliability by leading major infrastructure upgrade. Introduced enterprise password management and disaster recovery.
  • Cut costs and improved reliability/scalability by implementing cloud computing for all web-based products.

Responsible for all aspects of technology, from software development and QA to IT and infrastructure. Worked with senior management to determine strategic direction and implement. Worked with senior management to improve customer service and customer care, reduce operating costs, improve our SaaS offering availability, implement software development processes, corporate and application security and more.

 

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Pitney Bowes Business Insight

Software Development Manager

Work Experience : 199-2010

Provider of location intelligence software for commercial and government sectors

Directed software development for six critical products, including a flagship location intelligence application that produced millions of dollars in annual revenues. Supervised eight engineers and two QA specialists. Actively involved in business development efforts, including solution design, sales support, contract negotiations, and customer relations. Managed offshore development group.

  • Facilitated $10M sale by serving as the technical bridge between the sales team and the national insurance company. The architected solution participated in negotiations and led build, test, and delivery efforts.
  • Planned and managed complex integration of technologies following the acquisition of a competitor. Oversaw an 18-month project to combine application structures and integrate products into a single unit.
  • Continued to be intimately involved in the software, continuing duties as a senior software engineer and other roles (such as professional services) as necessary.
  • Continued to be “Hands-on”, performing architect duties, project management duties, and programming duties as necessary on a variety of technologies, primarily C++, but also .Net and Java.
  • Ported C++ software to MVS, VM, VSE, iSeries, Unix boxes. Performed all of the systems administration on the big iron boxes as well. Performed various other duties as well, including professional services, technical support, and sales/presales support. Supervised and/or led other software engineers in projects and designs. Also worked in other languages, including Java, C#, .NET frameworks, VB, COBOL, assemblers, Perl, and more.
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Group 1 Software

Product Development Manager

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Work Experience : 1999-2010

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Public Service company of Colorado

Senior Software Engineer

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Work Experience : 1998-1999

Brought in to help re-engineer the 20+ year old systems in Ideal, PL/I, MarkIV, and COBOL in preparation for rewriting (for Y2K compliance). The rewrite was canceled in favor of purchasing a large third-party replacement package to replace their purchasing, stores, and online systems. He is now responsible for installation, customization, and troubleshooting of a product named Passport—the replacement product for four of their internally-written systems. It utilizes Cobol, CICS, DB/2, TCP/IP, and Visual Basic (as a client-server application).

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CSG Systems

Senior Software Engineer

Work Experience : 1998

Responsible for a cable subsystem written on an MVS machine in BAL (Assembler). He was the only programmer involved in their Y2K application conversion for his subsystem.

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Lucent Technologies

Senior Systems Programmer

Work Experience : 1997-1998

Brought in for a production control project, but became primarily responsible for MVS and JES2. In addition to my support role in MVS and JES2, He also worked on printer support projects, RACF database cleanup and management, performance tuning, user support, and another data center migration.

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NeoData / Wiland Services

Manager of Technical Support

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Work Experience : 1990-1997

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