Engineer Software

Michael Ericson

Albuquerque, NM

tel: 917-***-****

*******@*****.***

Objective

A position as Consulting Engineer where 10 years of professional experience and superb communication skills will achieve high-performance computational goals in an agile environment.

Professional ProfileThorough systems analyst and computer programmer with proven ability to translate business requirements into effective, reliable, scalable, and high-performance computer applications.Adept systems integrator with keen ability for rapid prototyping and automation.Intuitive understanding of human interface design and usability concepts.Self-motivated, perpetual learner who enjoys solving diverse and challenging problems.Polished, persuasive communicator, comfortable interacting with a range of professionals.

Work Experience

April – November 2008 Fortis Bank – Brussels, Belgium

Consulting Engineer Authored custom Java/Swing UI extensions (using MVC and ORM) to a large Java app.Authored Ant scripts to perform official builds and releases of a distributed trading system. Simplified ~900 lines of Bash to ~90 lines of Perl, controlling several dev app instances.Coordinated technical resources between software engineers and business analysts.

September 2006 – February 2008 Bear Stearns – New York, NY

Senior Systems Engineer Senior Developer for Asset Management division High Grade Structured Credit Hedge Funds. Authored a Ruby on Rails trade capture system for complex financial products; oversaw iterative product lifecycle including user stories, implementation, testing, and deployment. Optimized a C++ capital model resulting in 5x serial speed improvement and linear scalability on Condor and GridServer, resulting in a net 1,000x speed improvement in production.Integrated custom systems with an off-the-shelf trading system via RESTful web services.Demonstrated systems to ratings agencies, earning Triple-A ratings for a startup company.

August 2004 – September 2006 DataSynapse Inc. – New York, NY

Consulting Engineer Top Gun award for outstanding contribution to North American Professional Services .Consulted with Chief and Director-level executives on architecting distributed computing infra-structures at top-ten international banks, investment firms, and insurance companies such as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, HSBC, and Nationwide – most resulting in production systems.Directly involved in selling and serving accounts worth millions of dollars in revenue.Trained clients and employees on developing grid applications and administering grid systems.Optimized custom software written in Java, C++, and Excel for execution on grid systems.Authored Ruby language bindings for GridServer APIs to facilitate automated testing.

January – July 2004 New York City Consulting Group – New York, NY

Partner / Chief Information OfficerArchitected, authored, and administered a multiple listings system as an MVC web-application.Designed and implemented a financial accounting module and market analysis software.Developed modules to automate image processing and generate graphical charts.Organized and led training sessions to familiarize real-estate salespersons with the system.

August 1997 – November 2003 Sandia National Laboratories – Albuquerque, NM

Programmer Analyst / Student InternModified network stack libraries with cryptography algorithms for use in security assessment.Authored proof-of-concept analysis software to successfully attain large-scale project funding.Traveled to government offices to perform network security analysis and penetration testing.Held a United States Federal Government Security Clearance.

Computer Programming Languages

Java (JDBC, Servlets, JSP, Swing, JNI)C/C++ (UNIX, win32), Objective-C, C#/.NET Perl (CGI, OOP, DBI, regular expressions)Ruby, JavaScript, SQL, Shell scripting, VBA

Technology and Process

Software Architecture and Engineering:

Object Oriented Design (OOD)Model View Controller (MVC)Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) Open Source Software (OSS)Grid (GridServer, Symphony, Condor)Design Patterns, Agile Methods, UML

Web Application Development:

Ruby on Rails, Perl/CGI, mod_perlJava Servlets, JSP, J2EE, GrailsHTTP/S, X/HTML, CSS, XML Web Services (REST / SOAP / WSDL)Apache Web Server, Resin administrationMySQL and PostgreSQL DB administration

Systems and Security Analysis:

UNIX systems (Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris)Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP Threat modeling and PKI cryptographyUS Dept. of Energy Red Team Certified

Formal Education

University of New Mexico – Albuquerque, NMBachelor of Science in Computer Science – July 2003Master of Business Administration – Partially Completed

Fluent in Spanish.

Pretty good at Soccer.

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