John Gagon

Senior Software Engineer at MicroPact Engineering

Houston, Texas Area

Current
Past
  • Software Consultant at HP-Houston
  • Software Consultant at CapitalSoft
  • Software Consultant at Fuelquest
  • Chief Software Architect at ATSER
  • Web Developer at AIB
  • Web Developer at Realxchange
  • Web Developer at Verticore

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Education
  • University of Utah
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Industry
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John Gagon’s Summary

Specialties include Object-Oriented Design and Programming, Relational Modelling, Transaction Systems, Statistical Data Analysis, OLAP and Reporting Services, SOA architectures, Measured Continuous Improvement approach to Software Development Life Cycle, Requirements Engineering, UML, Dataflow Modelling, Workflow Modelling.

Detailed Technologies include: J2EE(Servlets, JSP, JAAS, EJB), Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP), Model Driven Architecture (MDA), Spring Framework, Microcontainers, Event Driven Programming, ORDBMS, Asynchronous Job Handling, Multithreaded and Multiprocessor Programming, Grid Programming, Cloud Programming, P2P, Network Protocols, Handheld Synchronization, Handheld Device Programming, Cell Phone Programming, Embedded Software, Telemetry, BPEL, SOAP, EAI, EDI, Large/Legacy Systems (PRIME OS mainframe, IBM-AIX/HP-UX, Cray XT5 series, ARM), SQL (Sybase ASE, Oracle (8i-11i), MS (2000/2005/2008), mysql 3.0-4.0, postgres 8.0). Linux (Redhat/Slackware/Mandrake), Ant build, CVS/MKS/PVCS/Subversion/VSS, Security Analysis

Programming Languages: C, Perl, C++, Java, C#, COBOL, Ruby, Scheme, Groovy, LISP

Languages: English, Chinese,
Aquiring: Spanish, French, Hindi, Russian

Environments: Eclipse 3.4, Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition

John Gagon’s Specialties:

server architecture, finance, banking, loans, accounting, legal, construction, energy, fuel, oil and gas, coal power, university, medical lab, translation (Mandarin), military, intelligence, medic and EMT, real estate, escrow, NOAA, power plant, supply chain, vertical markets, logistics

John Gagon’s Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer

    MicroPact Engineering

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    April 2009 — Present (8 months)

    Composing state-of-the-art JEE(J2EE) enterprise applications for government and private sector users requiring rapid development of general purpose case and information management systems with entellitrak, human resource diversity compliance systems with eversity and EEOC filing systems with icomplaints and efile. (http://www.micropact.com).

    Using JDBC compliant relational RDBMS databases including Oracle, SQL Server and application servers including JBoss, Tomcat, Weblogic and other JEE compliant application servers, our solutions are extremely agile and flexible to client needs.

    Have worked closely with business analysts to architect email notification workflows for the CIA, developed enhancements, and advised on architectural innovations for efile, icomplaints and managed a leading role on maintaining our eversity product as diversity requirements change in the public sector.

    Our extensive and highly professional corporate setting and client base has provided me with an opportunity to deepen my intuition for requirements, excel in innovation, and heighten my anticipation of client expectations with a drive to exceed them as is our culture at MicroPact.

  • Software Engineer

    JP Morgan

    (Financial Services industry)

    2008 — Present (1 year )

    Retained as needed to support other software engineers on an hour by hour basis.

  • Software Engineer II

    Stanford Financial Group

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)

    June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

    Financial software consisting of web intranet and middleware software engineering.

    C#.NET (1 year) - Designed and Implemented pouch log entry system. R&D of ASP.NET MVC, Biztalk, Infopath integrations.

    Java J2EE (currently). - Design and implementation on client information and account management project with Odyssey-Group. Model Aspect Driven Rapid Application Development.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    MicroPact Engineering

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    2009 — 2009 (less than a year)

  • Independant Webmaster

    John Gagon Private Consultant

    (Financial Services industry)

    1994 — 2008 (14 years )

    I wrote several websites for friends, neighbors and family on the side using Go Daddy, hosting, DNS server setup, registration, home pages and installation of server side technologies (JSP, PHP) and setting up and configuration. Use shell script and various security programs and enabled systems like phpBB and Joomla, JSP, Tomcat etc.

  • Software Consultant

    Eagle Global Logistics

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EAGL; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

    October 2006 — June 2007 (9 months)

    Create a logical parts ordering system from a legacy parts ordering system using Java J2EE and Oracle technologies. Consultancy through RFG-IT

  • Software Consultant

    HP-Houston

    (Computer Hardware industry)

    October 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 1 month)

    Updated a database backend and content management generation for driver download pages. Refactored and repaired existing software using automated dependency checking and code metrics. Consultancy through Ardec LLC.

  • Software Consultant

    CapitalSoft

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    May 2004 — October 2004 (6 months)

    Wrote an Ant build script for an application deployment to BEA Web Logic. Consulted to provided assistance architecting new document management platform.

  • Software Consultant

    Fuelquest

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    March 2004 — May 2004 (3 months)

    Consulted to write a single order tracking module for a fuel purchasing service on JBoss and iPlanet platform using EJBs, AOP and Struts with Tiles.

  • Chief Software Architect

    ATSER

    (Construction industry)

    October 2001 — March 2004 (2 years 6 months)

    Architected entirely new platform providing AASHTO/ASTM software including an industry leading application that I architected using J2EE technologies that was featured in various trade journals that allowed field engineers and quality assurance personnel to enter sample materials testing data and automated lab data using embedded software and middleware processes (asynchronous queues) in real time (pre-emptive threading).

    Assisted in the creation of the company website and content management system.

    http://www.atser.com

  • Web Developer

    AIB

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AIB; Banking industry)

    May 2001 — October 2001 (6 months)

    Created XML forms for Lending Tree and an application for parsing lending information using both perl and J2EE XML/XSLT. Used Capeclear Studio to map between CSV posts and other incoming XML formats from various lenders to a unified format that would accomodate lenders who were seeking loan servicing from the bank. Brokered data between several Oracle databases and legacy systems.

  • Web Developer

    Realxchange

    (Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

    September 2000 — May 2001 (9 months)

    Architected an end to end software product that would tie Real Estate, Lending, Underwriting, Servicing, Escrow and titles at the county level. Wrote the lending module using J2EE web technologies that integrated digital signatures, the automating of HUD forms online and an XML web service that utilized the real estate XML standard RETS (http://www.service-architecture.com/xml/articles/real_estate_xml.html).

  • Web Developer

    Verticore

    (Oil & Energy industry)

    April 2000 — September 2000 (6 months)

    Assisted software engineering efforts by testing and developing a dynamic look and feel for the web UI of a portal using J2EE, JSP and Servlet technologies that was being used to cohesively arrange the various web software applications used in the vertical markets of large oil companies (e.g.: Shell Oil).

John Gagon’s Education

  • University of Utah

    BA/BS , Chinese, Computer Science , 1989 — 1999

    Activities and Societies:
    Rotated studies between Chinese, Accounting, Pathology and Computer Science, Minor in Military Science, ROTC Commissioned 2LT, Tae Kwon Do - Brown Belt

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John Gagon’s Interests:

swimming, boating, volleyball, raquetball, martial arts, game design, cultural studies, developmental neuropsychology, pharmacology, chemistry, pathology, languages

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