Greater St. Louis Area
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- Product Manager at Appistry
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- Senior Software Engineer at Appistry
- Chief Architect, Team Lead, and Consultant at World Wide Technology
- Senior Technical Specialist at Tapestry Computing
- Information Systems Analyst at Contract Data Services
- Assistant Director over Information Technology at Duke University Talent Identification Program
- Staff Evening Instructor at Durham Technical Institute
- Independent Consultant (Self-employed)
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Guerry Semones’s Summary
Focused on software product management lifecycle, analysis, design, development, and mentoring in a agile, team-oriented environment.
Guerry Semones’s Experience
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Product Manager
Appistry
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2008 — Present (2 years )
A founding member of the company, I am one of the three original core developers on Appistry's revolutionary Enterprise Application Fabric, a self-healing, self-organizing, self-managing environment for developing, deploying and managing service-oriented and transactional applications. Working as lead product manager with a dynamic team in our continuous-integration, test-first-driven, agile development environment. Responsibilities include product release planning and management, helping steer product direction and vision, evangelism, blogging, technical writing, and heading up our online Peer2Peer Developer Community.
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Senior Software Engineer
Appistry
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2001 — January 2008 (6 years 5 months)
A founding member of the company, I am one of the three original core developers on Appistry's revolutionary Enterprise Application Fabric, a self-healing, self-organizing, self-managing environment for developing, deploying and managing service-oriented and transactional applications. Working as a lead designer / developer / mentor in a dynamic team of twelve-plus. Development is done in a continuous-integration, test-first-driven, Extreme Programming-based environment.
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Chief Architect, Team Lead, and Consultant
World Wide Technology
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1996 — August 2001 (5 years )
Focused on the infrastructure integration necessary to support e-business initiatives, both within an organization and between itself, its customers, and partners, used message-oriented and distributed object technologies. Acted as technical project lead and mentor; worked on projects from the analysis and design stages through implementation and rollout. One example was a web-based provisioning system for a major DSL service provider and its partners using XML, J2EE, and a CORBA-based message-oriented middleware (MOM) technology. Leader of in-house Java SIG and Design Patterns Study Group. Member of Discover-e Methodology development team. Worked with team to model front office processes. Led effort to implement the Extreme Programming (XP) agile software development methodology in our team, and acted as the XP Coach.
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Senior Technical Specialist
Tapestry Computing
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1995 — August 1996 (1 year 1 month)
Worked in a project-driven, team-oriented environment, led numerous projects focused primarily on Oracle Corporation technologies (client/server and Internet development; database design, implementation and management). Integrated Oracle with other technologies such as computer telephony, real-time credit card processing, 'C'-based TCP/IP socket-based API, C++ ODBC-based class package, etc. Mentored and trained other team members, researched new technologies and markets (such as the e-commerce, OOAD/OOP, Internet, Intranet and Java), participated on Tapestry's Internet team, and helped in PaylinX product development in Visual C++. Member of team that created in-house software development methodology and templates.
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Information Systems Analyst
Contract Data Services
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1994 — July 1995 (1 year 7 months)
As a developer, created a Document Control and Tracking System for Quality Assurance to maintain SOPs and other FDA-required documents. Implemented the application with Oracle7 under HP/UX with Windows-based Forms 4.0 client, increasing throughput, time-on-task efficiency and usability. As a database administrator, installed Oracle7 to implement multiple development, test and production database servers in a 7-day by 24-hour support environment. Implemented "hot" on-line database backup systems, performed database tuning and created monitoring and support utilities. As a designer / mentor, assisted development for numerous projects with expertise in client/server application design and analysis (tools, middleware, object-oriented technologies, techniques and concepts).
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Assistant Director over Information Technology
Duke University Talent Identification Program
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry)
July 1985 — December 1994 (9 years 6 months)
Led team of full-time staff and work-study students. Acted as Systems Analyst and provided managerial status reports and annual budget proposals. Downsized from legacy systems, designed and implemented TIP's applications and databases on multiple Sun servers running Oracle7 and SAS. Linking the Sun servers to Apple Macintoshes and Dell PCs on a Novell NetWare and AppleTalk-based network, provided thirty-five full-time staff with direct information-access and reporting. Established an Internet-based Bulletin Board system for TIP's 420,000+ students and alumni. Acted as systems consultant to Duke departments.
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Staff Evening Instructor
Durham Technical Institute
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
1988 — 1993 (5 years )
Taught Oracle, Unix, MS-DOS, Advanced MS-DOS, Programming Logic, Pascal, and SAS.
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Independent Consultant
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; Information Technology and Services industry)
1987 — 1993 (6 years )
Provided Unix computer security expertise against internal and external system threats. Designed, recommended, implemented and supported PC-based networks and software. Provided programming expertise in diverse system environments
Additional Information
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Guerry Semones’s Interests:
agile methodologies, distributed computing, astronomy, cryptography, fiction writing, fossils, gardening, history, outdoors, python programming language
Guerry Semones’s Groups:
Liberty Hall Writers
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CloudCamp St. Louis
Guerry Semones’s Honors:
Patents
No.: US 7,379,959 B2 -- May 27, 2008 -- Hinni, Semones, Groner, Lozano
Processing Information Using a Hive of Computing Engines Including Request Handlers and Process Handlers
Publications
Building cloud-ready, multicore-friendly applications, Part 1: Design principles (http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2009/jw-03-multicore-and-cloud-ready-1.html) March 3, 2009
Building cloud-ready, multicore-friendly applications, Part 2: Mechanics of the cloud (http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2009/jw-04-multicore-and-cloud-ready-2.html) April 30, 2009
Awards
Nominated for the 1991 Computerworld Smithsonian Award for innovative use of information technology in Education and Academia.
Led team recognized and awarded $10,000 for World Wide Technology's "Most Innovative and Business-changing Idea" in 1997. Team designed and implemented business-to-business and business-to-government e-commerce web-sites integrated into company ERP systems.
