
Senior Software Engineer
Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Senior Software Engineer
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
Rubens Gomes is a senior IT professional having over 12 years of professional experience working with computer networking, UNIX systems administration, telecommunications, and software development engineering.
Mr. Gomes has worked in software development positions at Sprint (Overland Park, KS, USA), Fujitsu (Raleigh, NC, USA) and EDS (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). He also held a systems manager position at Diveo Broadband Networks (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Mr. Gomes currently works as a senior software developer at Handango, Inc in Hurst, TX. Prior to Handango, he worked as a Senior Consultant in the "AA.com" project at American Airlines in Dallas/Fort Worth, TX.
Mr. Gomes holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering (1993) and a MS degree in Electrical Engineering (1996) from the University of Kansas, USA.
IT/Telecom Project management
UNIX/Linux systems administration
Software development (C/C++, J2EE/Java, Perl, PHP, shell scripting)
Web application development (JSP, Servlets, Struts, AJAX)
Database development (Oracle PL/SQL, MySQL, Hibernate)
Telecommmunication network management systems
Computer networking infra-structure (structured cabling, routers, switches)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2007 — Present (8 months)
Participating in the development of Handango Internet content web application. Application platform: ATG/J2EE.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 4 months)
Software engineer on the "AA.com" American Airlines Internet booking ticket application. Developed new features in AA.com making use of JSP/JSTL, Java, Struts, Ajax technologies.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2005 — July 2006 (9 months)
Worked as software developer in off-shore development of telephone order entry system for telecommunications company in the United States. Added new features to web application making use of Java/JSP, Struts, and Ajax technologies.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Oil & Energy industry)
May 2005 — August 2005 (4 months)
Created processes for desktop customer service support. Prioritized activities for IT desktop support. Routed trouble tickets in the Peregrine GSS system. Helped in the resolution of security issues related virus and spyware software. Led the initial implementation of ITIL incident management processes.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2003 — July 2004 (9 months)
Played technical lead and project management role in the implementation of new payroll system. Coordinated the implementation of technical tasks, such as Oracle database, and intergration with SAP.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)
January 2001 — August 2003 (2 years 8 months)
Played technical lead role in the administration of NMS/EMS systems and UNIX servers. Developed UNIX shell scripts, web based application based in PHP/Perl. Implemented CiscoWorks, HP OpenView, IBM/Micromuse Netcool. Implemented UNIX services, such as DNS, NTP, and NFS.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
April 1998 — July 2000 (2 years 4 months)
Participated in the development of Fujitsu FETEX 150 ATM switch EMS (element management system) system. Developed transactional components based on Java/EJB on Weblogic application server running on Sun Solaris. Played lead role in the implementation of Oracle tables, transactions, UNIX shell scripts, builds and the administration of CVS source control configuration.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)
June 1996 — April 1998 (1 year 11 months)
Participated in the development of frame relay SNMP agent and ATM NMS provisioning system. Application developed making use of C++ and Versant/C++ OODBMS on HP-UX UNIX server. Developed GUI screens for ATM circuit connection provisioning application in Visual Basic and Java/Swing.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1995 — June 1996 (1 year 1 month)
Developed medical device interface software. Software developed in "C" to run on DEC VAX/VMS platform. Visited customer to install and test beta version of device interfaces.
MS, Electrical Engineering, 1994 — 1996
GPA: 3.7/4.0
BS, Computer Engineering, 1988 — 1993
GPA: 3.0/4.0
American Airlines Certificate of Excellence, February 2007.
Fujitsu Engineering Yearly Excellence Award, May 2000.
University of Kansas Foreign Student Scholarship Award Recipient, August 1988 - December 1993