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Senior Software Engineer/DevOps @ Frontier Communications Frontier Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: FTR) is an S&P 500 company and a leader in providing communications services to urban, suburban, and rural customers in 29 states. Responsibilities include:• Assisting in the selection of the ESB middleware solution.• Assisting with the Verizon FIOS Migration effort converting existing BPM services to TIBCO services•...

Senior Software Engineer/DevOps @ Frontier Communications Frontier Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: FTR) is an S&P 500 company and a leader in providing communications services to urban, suburban, and rural customers in 29 states. Responsibilities include:• Assisting in the selection of the ESB middleware solution.• Assisting with the Verizon FIOS Migration effort converting existing BPM services to TIBCO services• Designed and developed automated build system to support TIBCO builds and deployments leveraging CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, Maven, SVN, Bash scripting and Nexus artifact repository.• Established blueprint for utilizing CI/CD for build automation within the organization. Other departments adopted a similar approach.• Participating in new project design sessions, requirements gathering and developing design artifacts.• TIBCO service/adapter design, development and testing. • Leveraging Contivo Analyst tooling for mapping needs.• Resolving critical defects with consumers and providers.• Developing a growing tools portal to support ESB Development department needs.• Initiated POC to replace existing IBM WSRR with a more robust open source alternative, WS02 Governance Center. Senior Software Engineer @ Prodea As a market leader in the IOT space, Prodea provides a single, intuitive platform providing unprecedented connectivity between people, data and devices.• Helped develop and define service delivery platform and provisioning interfaces that manages and configures our residential gateway consumer device.• Successfully completed large scaled integration initiatives with top tier Internet service providers such as Du Telecom in UAE, SmartVillage in South Africa, Makook Smart Living in UAE and Mediadom in Russia. • Designed and developed a workflow management subsystem that utilizes a store-and-forward mechanism to route provisioning service requests and manage jeopardized requests via automated and manual mediation. This subsystem serves as an integral part of our operations as it is the entry point into our service management and delivery platform.• Designed and developed a content management system to store video-on-demand metadata and related artifacts to support our video-on-demand consumer service offering. This system interfaces with regional content providers and content delivery networks such as CinemaNow, IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, SPUUL, MeGoGo, MyTV and Akamai.• Helped maintain iOS companion apps.• JBoss configuration and cluster management.• Heavy web services development.• AWS (Amazon Web Services) migration From December 2007 to July 2015 (7 years 8 months) Integration Architect @ Blackhawk Network Brought on to help jump start new coalition loyalty fuel rewards initiative. The coalition loyalty program integrates BHN affiliated non-fuel retailers to affiliated fuel retailers through a full-service system providing reward issuance, reward redemption, balance management and settlement services. Responsibilities included:• Helping organize a Proof-Of-Concept demonstrating how the customer loyalty fuel reward program will function.• Writing the reward issuance, redemption, settlement proposal and balance management requirements to support the Proof-Of-Concept.• Defining the hardware, software and OS requirements for the new infrastructure.• Developing the project plan employing agile methodologies.• Designing database and schema repositories.• Writing test plans to exercise and support the Proof-Of-Concept.• Framework development.• Developing custom J2EE/Java components to support a high volume, transaction based environment.• Developing DB2 stored procedures to encapsulate the balance management business processes.• Assist in hiring contractors/developers to help implement the proposed system. From May 2007 to November 2007 (7 months) Senior Integration Consultant @ Metastorm As the first breakaway BPM vendor, Metastorm is a leader in business process management (BPM) software and best practice methodologies for modeling, automating, integrating, and improving both human and system-based processes. Responsibilities include • Setting up client’s infrastructure to use WebSphere MQ as the transport mechanism. • Deploying PM4Data integration software and retrofitting that software to meet the customer’s needs and environment.• Setting up business processes for execution by PM4Data engine.• Integration Lead on large scale implementations including Lowes, Department of Defense and Exel logistics.• Created monitoring framework for Lowes Corp. to monitor PM4Data file transfers between 1300+ stores and corporate. Software utilizes the Webwork framework and pushlet technology running on JBoss application server. From December 2005 to March 2007 (1 year 4 months) Software Architect/Lead @ Aviall, A Boeing Company Implemented industry standard EAI solutions utilizing WebSphere Application Server and a host of Java/J2EE technologies including EJB’s, JSP’s and Servlets, Web Services, etc. Responsibilities include:• Designing and developing document and RPC based web services for B2B integration. • Designing and developing JMS based services for internal EAI infrastructure.• Enforcing XML and Schema standards within the EAI infrastructure and with external customers.• Completed integration effort for internal e-Commerce site, Siebel (CRM) and Lawson (ERP) systems utilizing WebSphere MQ and J2EE technology. • Completed B2B web service Integration for major airline outfits, Executive Jet Airlines providing real time ordering, change order, cancellations, shipments and invoicing.• Provided dynamic PDF document generation, archiving and retrieval capabilities for pick and packing lists using Java technology.• Developing JSP, Servlets, EJB’s, XML builders/parsers and custom Java bean components to support the Enterprise. • Initiated the effort to use Oracle’s Embedded VM within Oracle DB to facilitate the movement of real-time data streams to WebSphere MQ connected backoffice systems. • Designed and developed all Oracle PL/SQL, packages, procedures, triggers, and other Oracle objects.• Assisted in writing custom MFC applications targeting Pocket PC OS allowing customers to maintain their bench stock inventory levels, order, receive and request labels. • Provided service to customers to generate and print bar code labels on demand as a PDF document. From July 2000 to December 2005 (5 years 6 months)