at Northrop Grumman Corporation
Washington D.C. Metro Area
at Northrop Grumman Corporation
Washington D.C. Metro Area
IT professional with twenty years of experience delivering n-tiered desktop and web-based OLTP applications to a variety of business environments.
Current specialities: client and server-side Java, including EJB 2.0 CMP/CMR, stateless session beans, servlets, JavaMail, JSPs with Struts and Tiles, Swing, and SWT; RIA development with Flash ActionScript and OpenLaszlo; relational database design and implementation with MySQL, Oracle, and Informix; REST XML interfaces defined with XML Schema.
(Public Company; NOC; Aviation & Aerospace industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
Developing a distributed hash table (DHT) peer-to-peer architecture in Java, and the infrastructure to deploy and support it, including a JSP-based administrative interface.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 7 months)
Delivered professional services to clients of Laszlo Systems by providing expertise in the customization and deployment of Laszlo's Webtop product, and in the creation of custom-designed applications written in the OpenLaszlo platform.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2005 — April 2006 (10 months)
Information technology consulting, specializing in Application Architecture solutions for OLTP platforms using client-side Java technologies (JSP with Struts and Tiles), Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies (including Adobe Flex and OpenLaszlo) and middle-tier platforms using J2EE. Also provided relational database expertise.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; GHCI; Hospital & Health Care industry)
August 2001 — July 2005 (4 years )
Developed two full-scale Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using Macromedias Flash product for the client, J2EE EJBs for the business tier, and Flash Remoting for the connectivity. Most recently, managed a team of five full-time developers and four contractors in completion of this second RIA.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; ORCC; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2000 — July 2001 (9 months)
Developed a strategy for using J2EE technology as the next-generation platform for web-delivered applications, and developed pieces of a reusable architecture in Java.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
May 2000 — November 2000 (7 months)
As a consultant through the Alegis Group, provided mentoring on J2EE technologies and assisted in giving direction to an n-tier application during its design stage.
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)
July 1998 — May 2000 (1 year 11 months)
As a consultant through BTG (now part of the L-3 Titan Group), developed an n-tiered purchasing application in Java using applets, servlets, and JDBC for this civilian federal government agency. Also provided to that agency extensive in-house consulting and mentoring across projects on best practices in use of Java and RDBMS.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Banking industry)
October 1991 — July 1998 (6 years 10 months)
Developed numerous two- and n-tier applications, both individually and as part of a team, including serving as a technical lead of a team of five, developing an electronic forms application in C++ and PowerBuilder. Last served as a member of the in-house architectural team, developing reusable components and setting best-practices standards, as well as providing mentoring across IT teams. MBNA is now part of Bank of America.
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1991 — October 1991 (10 months)
Specified a point-of-sale inventory system for a small wholesale business.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)
July 1990 — December 1990 (6 months)
Staffed a hotline providing tier-two support to Unix system administrators.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)
June 1989 — July 1990 (1 year 2 months)
Performed numerous entry-level responsibilities, including coproprate training on Unix system administration; unit testing; report writing; and database design and review.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Mining & Metals industry)
January 1989 — January 1989 (1 month)
Developed an application to compare the results of various formulae used in a lab testing method.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)
February 1988 — June 1988 (5 months)
Developed a round-robin file-based database system used by various embedded applications.
BS , Computer Science , 1985 — 1989
Minored in mathematics; studied physics, religion, and German language.