Edward Giardina

Current

Senior Software Development Engineer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island

Past

Software Development Engineer II at Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA
Software Development Engineer I at Progeny Systems Corporation

Education

University of Rhode Island - College of Business Administration
University of Rhode Island - College of Engineering

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Industry

Computer Software

Edward Giardina’s Summary

Senior Software Engineer, M.B.A. seeking to create innovative solutions in a wide variety of business applications. Particularly interested in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

Edward Giardina’s Specialties:

Highly motivated and accomplished Java EE Engineer with strong technical skills including Object-Oriented Design, Graphical User Interface (GUI) Development, Distributed Client/Server Systems and Multi-Threaded Programming.

Edward Giardina’s Experience

Senior Software Development Engineer

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island

(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)

October 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Contribute, implement and maintain existing .COM applications that include technologies such as EJB, Struts, JSP, JAXB, etc.

* Comprehensive application server management and migration from Websphere (WAS) 5.1 to Websphere (WAS) 6.1. Significant contributions include the resolution of highly visible issues.
* Implement and maintain automated nightly build/deploys using Ant and WSadmin. As well as introduced new frameworks such as CruiseControl.
* Collaborate with application users, developers and analysts to determine the scope and root cause of reported software defects. Provide production application support.
Software Development Engineer II

Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 2 months)

Maintained, developed and executed all SIMULIA software release utilities, installation programs and development environments.

* Provided administration and technical support of the development source code queue, from checkout/checkin (ClearCase) to object builds on Windows, UNIX, and Linux platforms.
* Sustained first-tier technical support for the SIMULIA software development team.
* Maintained configuration and process management of the SIMULIA Development Environment.
Software Development Engineer I

Progeny Systems Corporation

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2002 — August 2006 (4 years 8 months)

Developed and maintained Java-based framework for the digital data collection system onboard US naval submarines. Responsible for core technology development, including design, analysis, coding, testing and system support.

* Participated in a software development team to build and maintain a Java-based digital data recorder system. Implemented maintainable module Java source code to allow for easy integration of all newly requested functionality.
* Designed swing based graphical user interface (GUI). Design included content, layout, and navigation and interaction flow.
* Managed and created a Java-based tool collection to test, evaluate and analyze digital data.
* Created customer delivered user manual/guide documentation, software specification and power point presentations. Demonstrated solid briefing ability through software overview and demonstrations.

Edward Giardina’s Education

University of Rhode Island - College of Business Administration

Masters, Business Administration, 2006 — 2008

Motivated to build a technical oriented business career.
University of Rhode Island - College of Engineering

Bachelors, Computer Engineering, 1997 — 2001