Steve Wamsley

Current

• Independent Contractor at Serafini Studios

Past

• Software Engineer at Vibe Solutions Group
• Java Developer/Architect at Aurora Systems Group
• Web Engineer at Mastercard

• Senior Systems Architect at Citigroup

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Education

• University of Southern California

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website

Steve Wamsley’s Summary

Application Developer and Architect in a wide variety of business applications. Particularly interested in web-based server-side development using Java or PHP. Full life-cycle project experience including design, development, and implementation. Experience in both large and small teams as well as large corporate environments and small business.

Steve Wamsley’s Specialties:

Java, web application architecture, performance tuning, relational database design, security architecture, web application security.

Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP - 2001)

Steve Wamsley’s Experience

• Independent Contractor

  Serafini Studios

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  Custom development of customer web sites which included developed of credit card payment integration with Authorize.Net. Developed custom WordPress plugins and libraries to maximize reuse-ability. Other work included architectural evaluation, performance tuning server-side PHP code, and MySQL query optimization of web sites to increase return on investment.
  
  Technologies included PHP, Apache, WordPress, and MySQL.

• Software Engineer

  Vibe Solutions Group

  (Computer Software industry)

  November 2004 — March 2008 (3 years 5 months)

  Designed, developed, and implemented client/server and web-based products for the organization on Win32 and Linux platforms.
  
  Products included: http://pyro.tv, http://vibejournal.com, VideoMail, and VibePhone.
  
  Technologies included Java, JavaScript, C++, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL.

• Java Developer/Architect

  Aurora Systems Group

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2002 — October 2004 (2 years 5 months)

  As a contractor, was place at companies such as MasterCard International and Connectria to design and develop Java web applications and design and document software and infrastructure architecture solutions. Technologies included WebSphere, Weblogic, Tomcat, Oracle, SQLServer, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, SOAP, XML, XSL, JCE, PKI, LDAP, and more.

• Web Engineer

  Mastercard

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years )

• Senior Systems Architect

  Citigroup

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; C; Financial Services industry)

  January 1999 — May 2002 (3 years 5 months)

  Designed and implemented server-side Java web applications on the Sun NetDynamics and IBM WebSphere platforms. Designed and implemented common components for secure authentication and authorization for use by Java server-side web applications. Designed and implemented common components to integrate server-side Java web applications to the CyberSource credit card gateway. Designed application server infrastructure solutions for Sun NetDynamics and IBM WebSphere on the IBM AIX platform.

Steve Wamsley’s Education

• University of Southern California

  Bachelor of Music , Viola Performance , 1992 — 1994

Additional Information

Steve Wamsley’s Websites:

• My Website

Steve Wamsley’s Groups:

•    The Official USC Alumni Association Group
•    LinkedWorking St. Louis
•    St. Louis Java Group

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