History with Java

Got started at 18 years old writing a data conversion script in Perl for my mother’s client in the manufacturing industry.

Clients have included small businesses, universities, staffing agencies (e.g. Robert Half Technology, ALTRES, & TekSystems) and large organizations (e.g. University of New Mexico Hospitals, Central New Mexico Community College, The Department of Veterans Affairs, Time Warner & Master Card) across industries (e.g. retail, marketing, health care, education, research, non-profit) in Connecticut, Hawaii and New Mexico. Have come to specialize in systems integration, business process management, and data-oriented programming.

• With minimal JavaScript experience at the time built JavaScript heavy dashboards and backend Java / JSP code for a multi-tier system that read sensors in heavy equipment, boats, yachts, and recreational vehicles.

• Without any Flash or ActionScript experience converted a Flash animation from the website of an aerospace company into a trade show display adding a ticker tape display whose message (which could be edited by a user) would transition between the ticker tape and the original Flash animation/video.

• Worked on a Java based VoIP heads up display system for a telecommunications company that they had implemented for their help desk staff. It was intermittently crashing without reporting errors. Adding logging, a test suite and cleaning up the code greatly reduced the crashing with errors being reported when it did.

• Implemented a health insurance integration for a college which involved creating complex SQL queries, creating a custom EDI 834 generator (had to quickly learn the EDI 834 standard over a weekend), and a scheduled upload to the insurance company.

• Helped an IT Services company move a stalled project forward by creating an integration for Microsoft Exchange, moving their code into source control, and getting them into a bi-weekly sprint cycle.

• Developed a logging system for a small software company that could handle thousands of requests per second and run on a hosted VPS taking inspiration from Kafka for the logging and using MySQL for permanent storage and querying based on Datalog and the EAV pattern.

Mentored university students studying computer science & software engineering, entrepreneurs and working programmers in various technologies. Did so with the help of the HackHands platform, Zoom, GitHub and email.

Performed duties as a member of a research team for a NIH diabetes study (GRADE) including meeting with patients, processing lab specimens, etc. Also, served as IT liaison for the team, and developed custom software to improve day-to-day operations as well as many small scripts and programs for impromptu reporting and data analysis.

• Developed a workflow and case management system with built-in reporting, scheduling and EHR features while handling other responsibilities as part of the research team.

• Developed an application that interfaced with a legacy console application (VistA), parsed text reports and generated PDF reports performing tasks in seconds that previously took hours.

• Coached researchers on creating complex SQL queries to query data-warehouse