J Steven Perry

Current

• Principal Consultant at Makoto Consulting Group, Inc

Past

• Senior Architect at Fidelity Information Services
• Systems Architect at Acxiom
• Consultant at Daugherty Business Solutions

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Education

• University of Arkansas at Little Rock

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

J Steven Perry’s Summary

To apply my experience in Object-Oriented Analysis, Design and Programming, while mentoring other developers. An ideal engagement would allow me to interface with customers and/or end users, build architectures, develop prototypes and work with other developers to apply new and emerging technologies to solve business problems. The application of information technology to support business activity is, in my opinion, IT's only prudent use.

J Steven Perry’s Specialties:

Mentoring, Writing, Verbal presentation, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (Unified Process, Booch), Design Patterns, UML, J2EE, C/C++, Client/Server, XML and DTD/Schema, Rational Rose, Class Libraries, Spring Framework, Hibernate, Jasper Reports, HTTP/SOAP, Wicket, MS Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, Oracle, Tuxedo. JCP Expert Group Member – JSRs 160, 222.

J Steven Perry’s Experience

• Principal Consultant

  Makoto Consulting Group, Inc

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)

  In general, work with end users to construct software solutions – writing new software as needed – to support customers' business lines.
  Insurance: Helped (as a sub-contractor) to build and maintain an online reporting system, which allows users to better adjudicate insurance claims, resulting in a multi-million dollar savings to date. The system also produces member insurance cards (beginning 3Q 2007), saving the customer over 2 million each year dollars by bringing that function in-house.
  Sporting Goods Wholesale: Designed and implemented a framework to perform Extract/Transform/Load processing from multiple data sources into a single integrated view of wholesale data that can be mined. Web services interfaces are used to pull data from the single repository to be viewed. Worked with the customer to design and then build a GUI to display search results and administer the application. This application supports the customer's sole line of business.
  Builder Supply: Designed a website for a builder supply wholesaler/retailer to showcase on-hand door and cabinet hardware, and lighting fixtures. The customer can now direct builders and homeowners to their website, saving time that would have been spent walking the customer through the showroom to pick out hardware and lighting fixtures.

• Senior Architect

  Fidelity Information Services

  (Public Company; FIS; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2001 — January 2006 (4 years 10 months)

  Lead architect for a customer-funded Web Services initiative. Heavy use of offshore resources requires precise design documents and clear communication.
  Provide technical leadership in the following areas: corporate standards, technology evangelism, technical strategy, Enterprise Application Integration. Contribute to dissemination of standards and strategies by writing white papers and creating and giving presentations to all levels of the organization, and contributing to industry publications.
  Serve as Java Community Process (JCP) expert group member: JSR 160 (Java Management Extensions JMX Remoting 1.5), JSR 222 (Java API for XML binding JAXB 2.0).
  Responsible for scheduling and conducting formal code reviews of software developed in-house, and offshore.

• Systems Architect

  Acxiom

  (Public Company; ACXM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1999 — March 2001 (2 years 3 months)

  UML Evangelist for the Acxiom Enterprise. This involved meeting with Executive Management to becoming involved in projects across the enterprise to writing articles for industry technical press.
  Provided technical consulting to groups across the enterprise in Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. Developed materials for, and taught classes on, OOA&D using the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
  Made a number of performance improvements to a Java application to extract large (2 Tbytes) quantities of data from an Oracle 8i database to build custom data products based on Java business rule definitions. Completed a distributed prototype of the framework using sockets, with plans to move to RMI and eventually EJB with the idea of supporting massive parallelism.
  Developed a language-independent abstract framework, defined in OMG IDL, for building plug-and-play distributed object architectures. Implemented the framework in C++ and then in Java.

• Consultant

  Daugherty Business Solutions

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1998 — 1998 (less than a year)

J Steven Perry’s Education

• University of Arkansas at Little Rock

  Physics , Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry , 1985 — 1990

  Activities and Societies:

  Society of Physics Students

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J Steven Perry’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

J Steven Perry’s Groups:

•    InformationWeek

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