Garry Halstead
Richland, Washington *****
ac83hk@r.postjobfree.com
Software Engineer, Sr. Coldfusion Programmer / Analyst
Functional Skills and Experience:
Coldfusion Development versions 2-2016
Railo, Lucee
Php
Javascript
JQuery
Bootstrap
AJAX
CSS
HTML
SQL
MVC, design patterns
XML / SOAP
SoapUI
SOA
Jira, Remedy,
MURA content management system
GitHub, Docker, SVN, CVS, MKS, other Version Control
Frameworks, FW/1, fusebox, custom
Wordpress
Sharepoint / Web Part Development
Webservices / API services
Code Security, Application Security, Web infrastructure Security
Gap Analysis, business translation to design
International team lead Project Life Cycle Management / SDLC
UML / Sequence Diagramming /Swim Lanes / Design for Developers to follow
Coding Standards / Design Standards / Systems Design Documentation
Web Systems Design
Release Management, Tier Administration
Team Lead / Technical Lead
Enterprise Unit Testing
Forensic Analysis
Seeking an Analyst \ Programmer \ Developer opportunity which will capitalize on my experience in the IT field as a developer, administrator, test lead, tech lead and project management skills,
Offering extensive 21 years application development, and experienced leadership in agile, waterfall or sprint application development environments. Experienced in Project life cycle, design, work plan, technical requirements documentation; presentations.
Most importantly offering an ability to work well with people in all situations; to lead and mentor, bringing a positive attitude and a can-do approach, coupled with a serious work ethic.
Work Experience
Coldfusion Developer
Administrative Office of the Courts, State of Washington
Sr Coldfusion Developer
01/2018 – Present
Maintain over 275 applications developed in various versions of coldfusion ranging from ver 4 (allaire) through 2016 (adobe) in support of every court in the State of Washington, from the lowest municipal courts through the Supreme Court.
Developed and implemented Inmate E-filing, allowing Inmates to file appeals from behind bars and receive court stamped copies.
Educate colleagues in using coldfusion, coldfusionbuilder, and associated tools.
Providing Application services using Coldfusion 10-2016, DB2, MSSQL, javascript, Jquery, AJAX, MVC, .cfc, stored procedures, coding standards, security compliance.
Coldfusion Developer
Hitachi Consulting for Raytheon Space and AeroSpace,
Sr Coldfusion Developer
06/2016 – 11/2017
Work responsively with government clients to provide new development, and maintenance and feature enhancement on over 200 coldfusion applications.
Participate as a team member in meeting the application support needs of the Space and Areospace industry needs
Meet with clients, gather requirements, propose, code, test, promote and deliver solutions
Providing Application services using Coldfusion 10-12, Oracle 12, MSSQL, javascript, Jquery, AJAX, MVC, .cfc, TOAD, Eclipse as core tools.
Secured legacy applications to 100% compliance with government security standards
Coldfusion Developer
San Diego Convention Center, Sr Coldfusion Developer
04/2016 – 6/2016
Special purpose project for the city of San Diego.
Coldfusion Developer
La Jolla Institute of Immunology and Allergy, Sr Coldfusion Developer
01/2016 – 3/2016
Created cXML/coldfusion punchout APIs for internal users to facilitate procurements.
Coldfusion Developer
Infomercial.tv, Sr Coldfusion Developer
12/2015 – 01/2016
Using Coldfusion 10, MSSQL server, and Bootstrap
Constructed administrative/intranet interfaces for internal company use.
Coldfusion Developer
Lockheed Martin, Sr Coldfusion Developer, Richland Washington
09/2015 – 01/2016
Work responsively with government clients to provide new development, and maintenance and feature enhancement on over 200 coldfusion applications.
Participate as a team member in meeting the application support needs of the US Department of Energy
Meet with clients, gather requirements, propose, code, test, promote and deliver solutions
Providing Application services using Coldfusion 10-12, Oracle 12, javascript, Jquery, AJAX, MVC, .cfc, TOAD, Eclipse as core tools.
Judicial Council of California, California Supreme Court, Lead Developer, Project Architect and Developer
06/2014 – 10/2014
Architectural Design of Complete system
Selected hardware, software, platforms, framework
Presented plans, stories, sequence diagrams in UML.
Met expected deadlines and passed all phase gate reviews
Developed Proof of Concept using OO Coldfusion 11 F/W1, MVC design pattern, Oracle 12
Daily knowledge transfer of issues, coordination and problem resolution.
Coldfusion, PHP Developer / Programmer Analyst
IBM Enterprise Unit Tester, Onshore-offshore Technical Lead,
08/2013 – 03/2014
Coldfusion and PhP unit testing, forensic analysis
Daily remote knowledge transfer of issues, coordinated developer’s efforts
Splunk, Cfbuilder, Zend Studios, SOAPUI, SOATest
Release management SVN, CVS
Extensive Unit and System testing to resolve issues not resolved between developers and QA
Dimont and Associates Coldfusion Developer / Programmer Analyst
04/2012 – 07/2013
Coldfusion SQL Development of company’s core proprietary software, CF 8 - 10
Refactoring legacy core application to meet FISC OWASPI security standards
Developed Webservices for secure transactions with FannieMAE/FreddieMAC
Vinesse LLC/ Sysazzle Coldfusion Developer / Programmer Analyst
12/2011 – 04/2012
Coldfusion SQL development to create revenue increasing ecommerce sites and site features
Designing and coding OO CF8 components and architechture
Installed and evaluated MURA CMS
Project Planning, requirements gathering, scoping, and estimating
NaturalNetworks Coldfusion Developer / Programmer Analyst
09/2011 – 01/2012
Upgrading existing e-commerce Coldfusion Applications to Coldfusion 9, in commercial hosting enterprise.
Creating solutions to migrate existing CF applications from legacy servers and prior versions to Coldfusion 9, Win 2008 64 architecture, SOAP, XML, CC APIs,
Remediating existing CF/Javascript/SOAP/XML artifacts
SEMPRA Utilities Coldfusion Developer / Programmer Analyst
08/2010 – 08/2011
Developed and Maintained Coldfusion Applications ranging from CF 4.5- CF 9,
Drove processes for migrations, release management, and code promotion. Implemented various technologies related to developing Object Oriented Coldfusion Applications, including SQL, DB2, JQuery, SiteMinder, LDAP authentication, converted and tested IBM Lotus Notes, Powerbuilder, and Java applications into Coldfusion.
Wellpoint, Blue Cross Blue Shield Cold Fusion Developer / Programmer Analyst
12/2009 – 8/2010
Developed object oriented design based websites using coldfusion 9, orm data persistence, and Jquery to produce corporate Knowledge Learning Systems. Gained valuable additional experience in flex, flash by contributing to a second large project as the coldfusion developer. Worked as part of a virtual team. Created DAO and Service objects in support of flex flash application. Built test harnesses. Utilized Cfbuilder, flexbuilder, and built on a ColdSpring framework. Incorporated server side and client side validation, from scratch using validateThis .
Cricket Mobile Communications Team Lead, Senior Programmer Analyst, Manager of offshore resources.
12/2009 –3/2010
Contract position, leading an offshore team from Macedonia in the development of an integrated solution for Point of Sale and Billing across all modes of customer interfaces. Using Coldfusion,8, heavy WebServices, AJAX, MVC, DAO, Tibco, JIRA, and Fusebox. The current project is being reviewed and considered as an exemplar by Adobe, to showcase on the website in the future.
Guitar Center, Internet Development Team, Senior Programmer Analyst
2/2008 –5/2009
Designed, developed, tested and deployed enterprise level web applications, principally on Coldfusion 7 and 8 servers and their associated MS or MY SQL database servers. In addition to the application development I served as server and network administrator over these servers.
MOSS 2007 SharePoint Administrator and Architect, designed and implemented 3 tier server farm and served as lead administrator. Created working interfaces between coldfusion servers, data layer, and sharepoint servers.
Created, tested and deployed end to end custom E-commerce solutions with Online sales and real-time Credit Card processing,
Created and conceptualized custom internet applications and code using several multi-tiered development frameworks,
Provided break-fix expertise on production systems, database administration, server administration, user administration, PCI Compliance at 100%.
Created dashboards, extensive reporting for management, driven by direct data from various and disparate retail systems,
Created and modified Coldfusion 8 Components and Coldfusion Custom Tags.
Provided comprehensive knowledge transfer to offshore team for coldfusion development
Contributed as member of cross functional core business teams, to determine most effective applications of technology resources to meet the changing needs of a fast paced internationally scoped retail enterprise. Created/contributed efficiency and understanding, utilizing both business acumen and technology expertise to effect responsive solutions, under budget and on time.
Coldfusion, PHP Developer / Programmer Analyst
IBM Enterprise Unit Tester, Onshore-offshore Technical Lead,
08/2013 – 03/2014
Coldfusion and PhP unit testing, forensic analysis
Daily remote knowledge transfer of issues, coordinated developer’s efforts
Splunk, Cfbuilder, Zend Studios, SOAPUI, SOATest
Release management SVN, CVS
Extensive Unit and System testing to resolve issues not resolved between developers and QA
Dimont and Associates Coldfusion Developer / Programmer Analyst
04/2012 – 07/2013
Coldfusion SQL Development of company’s core proprietary software, CF 8 - 10
Refactoring legacy core application to meet FISC OWASPI security standards
Developed Webservices for secure transactions with FannieMAE/FreddieMAC
Vinesse LLC/ Sysazzle Coldfusion Developer / Programmer Analyst
12/2011 – 04/2012
Coldfusion SQL development to create revenue increasing ecommerce sites and site features
Designing and coding OO CF8 components and architechture
Project Planning, requirements gathering, scoping, and estimating
Graduate School, United States Department of Agriculture:
Web Master
9/2007 – 2/2008 Grad School, USDA, San Francisco, Contract via ALTA, Inc.
Maintained and Developed and optimized Ecommerce and Marketing Websites for Graduate School using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), Cold Fusion, various web to database architectures. Maintained and recommended web architectures, Search Engine Optimization, facilitated implementation of Learning Management Systems, Completed SABA. Learning Systems Administration course.
Served as part of core Business Development Team with the Grad School, USDA to formulate strategies and policies for maximizing bottom line results from internet communications
U.S. Navy, Naval District Washington,
Regional Portal Master
11/2006 – 4/30/2007 DoD under contract with 3Eti, Dahlgren, Va
Cold Fusion Programmer, SQL developer
Portal Administrator for the United States Navy, Naval District Washington, NSA Dahlgren,
Classified Software Engineering and Windows SharePoint Portal Management, Portal Administrator,
Project Planning, Standup and rollout of new systems, part of cross-functional team providing hands-on technical support on a wide variety of unique systems.
TRIM Context manager, which is the document management system used by the Navy.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Applications Analyst/ Programmer/ Sr. Network Admin
12/2004 – 01/2007 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina -- UNC Hospitals General Clinical Research Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Built and maintained windows based servers, coldfusion (versions 2.x - MX) programming, web development, SQL 7, SQL 2000, Win 2000,2003, NT. Maintain and monitor security over all clinical research, develop security policies. CF development of all outpatient/inpatient scheduling, and other administrative applications, as well as research registry development.
United States Small Business Administration
Project Manager, Lead Developer
11/2005 - 11/2006 US SBA under contract with Ashcourt, Inc., Washington, District of Columbia
ColdFusion, XML, Sybase project management and development of Classified U.S. Federal Government application software, database being done to satisfy congressional mandate and public law. Creating information resources for secure information center for analysis by US Congress, government agency officials, and others with need to know with appropriate security clearances.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Webmaster/Net Admin/Application Programmer
3/1997 - 1/2004 Chapel Hill, North Carolina – Behavioral Sciences, FPG Child Development Institute
* Designed, built and implemented Internet and Intranet Services for academic research department with over 120 projects and 400 users and more than 1,500,000 hits a month. Developed www.fpg.unc.edu as well as numerous research project web sites. * Provided team leadership, mentoring in creating and deploying online applications.* Wrote web-based university and corporate calendaring systems. http://www.fpg.unc.edu/calendar* Functioned as a Senior Network Administrator as part of a team that provides comprehensive computer and network support and services. Co-won Network Team Award.
Technical Computer Support Specialist Contractor
10/1996 - 3/1997 Eliassen Group, Inc @ Raychem, Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina
* Assisted in management and maintenance of Novell, NT Fileservers. * Managed end user accounts. * Responsible for resolving a variety of help desk calls. * Managed Netware and UNIX print queues. * Configured machines for global end users.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Computer and Network Systems Administrator
6/1996 - 10/1996, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
* Maintained Novell 3.1x network with 250 users, performed system maintenance of all departmental servers and workstations, tech support, configured and maintained email systems and accounts, built and configured machines for network uses, hardware and software upgrades, acted as staff/faculty liaison for all information services related issues, wrote and managed all departmental web pages. Awarded certificates of completion for five courses involving UNIX and HTML.
Duke University OIT/Systems Administration
Assistant to the Director of Duke University Campus Computing
12/1995 - 5/1996 Durham, North Carolina
Assisted in project management related to major campus-wide computing architecture, including developing scalable email systems, registering users for campus computing accounts. Installed Duke Accounting and Financial Tools and instructed support staff in the use thereof. Handled all purchase/ RMA of systems hardware. Configured network devices with multiple operating systems. Gained working knowledge of Internet applications and application development.
Responsible for communications between stakeholders and translation of business requirements into working applications.
Owner/Proprietor
5/1989 - 9/1995 Halstead Private Ledger, Atascadero, California
Performed financial analyses for six figure clients. Represented clients before state taxation boards and before Internal Revenue Service.*Returned $1.67 million to clients. Never lost a case.
Financial Planning, Estate Planning, growth analysis, debt analysis, tax planning and preparation
Education
5/1989 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Bachelor's Degree
05/89 --- Cornell University BS Applied Economics and Business Management Dean's List and President’s List Junior and Senior Year, both semesters. Included 16 hours of graduate work in business law at Cornell.