Lou Miranda

Lou Miranda

Java consultant & owner, MirandaCorp.com, Inc.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Current
  • Consultant at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
Past
  • Java consultant at UnitedHealth Group
  • Java consultant at Starkey Labs
  • Consultant at Blue Cross
  • Consultant at KPMG Consulting
  • Java designer/lead/architect at Life Time Fitness
  • Java developer & team lead at PwC Consulting
  • Lead Developer at EW Blanch
  • C++ designer/developer at Medtronic
Education
  • The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
  • University of California, Irvine - College of Medicine
  • State University of New York at Albany
Connections
23 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Lou Miranda’s Summary

By day, I'm an IT consultant with a web site at http://www.mirandacorp.com

By night, I learn and teach the Irish language (Gaeilge) locally and I host http://forums.greann.com

I'm also a photographer and Apple Aperture user and have given seminars on Aperture and had photographs published

Lou Miranda’s Specialties:

IBM WebSphere, IBM WebSphere Process Server, IBM WebSphere Integration Developer, IBM Rational Tools (ClearCase, ClearQuest), BEA WebLogic, Java, J2EE, Web Services


Lou Miranda’s Experience

  • Consultant

    Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota

    (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    June 2006Present (2 years 2 months)

    IBM WebSphere server and WebSphere Process Server (WPS) development using IBM WebSphere Integration Developer. Design & coded web services for company-wide integration into a database application.

  • Java consultant

    UnitedHealth Group

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UNH; Insurance industry)

    October 2005June 2006 (9 months)

    (Worked at Definity Health subdivision). Designed & developed Java enterprise bus application for routing messages between existing applications. Used BEA WebLogic.

  • Java consultant

    Starkey Labs

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Medical Devices industry)

    20022003 (1 year)

    Helped re-engineer & rewrite Java application for routing hearing aids on assembly line.

  • Consultant

    Blue Cross

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    20012002 (1 year)

  • Consultant

    KPMG Consulting

    (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; BE; Management Consulting industry)

    July 2000January 2001 (7 months)

    Developed application in Java using WebLogic Commerce Server.

  • Java designer/lead/architect

    Life Time Fitness

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LTM; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

    October 1999June 2000 (9 months)

    Convinced company to move from Microsoft Visual Basic to BEA WebLogic and Java development; lead team of developers in WebLogic development pre-J2EE for Member Management System.

  • Java developer & team lead

    PwC Consulting

    (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; PwC; Management Consulting industry)

    September 1998September 1999 (1 year 1 month)

    Worked at Hutchinson Technology implementing WindChill Java application.

  • Lead Developer

    EW Blanch

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Insurance industry)

    19971998 (1 year)

    Lead developer for Visual Basic application. Trained junior developers in object-oriented design & development.

  • C++ designer/developer

    Medtronic

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MDT; Medical Devices industry)

    19941997 (3 years)

    Designed, modeled, and developed C++ modules for user interface for device that controlled medical devices (defibrillators).


Lou Miranda’s Education

  • The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

    M.S., Molecular Developmental Biology, 19861993

    Activities and Societies:
    Editor, "GSBS", student newspaper for Graduate School of Biological Sciences
  • University of California, Irvine - College of Medicine

    Molecular Genetics 19851986

    Transferred to UT Southwestern after 1 year

  • State University of New York at Albany

    19811985


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