Developer Quality Assurance

William H. Jackson, Jr.

***** ****** ******* **** #****

Cypress, TX 77429

C: 832-***-**** E: ********@************.***

Objective: Primarily seeking Senior Level position as JAVA/J2EE Developer

on WebSphere or other Application Server. Secondarily seeking Entry or

Junior Level Developer position as a WebSphere Portal Developer.

Qualifications Summary as Software Developer / Engineer

. Offers Software design and development experience encompassing JAVA

and J2EE technologies

. Offers innate abilities and in-depth experience in high-level problem

analysis and resolution

. Offers skilled communication skills enabling team participation and

interaction with technical / non-technical users and business units

. Offers solid technical abilities as evidenced by early career

reputation as a highly skilled mainframe assembly language programmer

Critical Skills

OPERATING SYSTEMS J2EE / Web Development Other Development Tools

UNIX, Windows, JAVA, J2EE, WebSphere MS SQL Server, DB2, Informix,

MVS, OS2, Stratus Application Server, Tomcat Stored Procedures, XMLSpy, C

VOS 6 and 7, Rational Language, OS/2, Mainframe

Application Developer (All Assembler (ALC or BAL),

Versions), Eclipse, Adelphi, Microsoft Access,

MyEclipse, JDBC, Sun JDK Subversion,

1.5, 1.6, 1.7, JSPs, Apache Ant

Servlets, Java Beans, CSS,

Stylesheets, Session EJBs,

Struts 1.2 and 1.3

Experience Highlights

Adecco Technical, (US Postal Service) ( Memphis, TN 02/2013- 04/2013

Updated an application that used LDAP Authentication to use each User's

Active Directory credentials instead of a generic username/password pair

read from a properties table.

Apex Systems, Inc (Capital One) ( Glen Allen, 10/2012 - 11/2012

Task was to mitigate the effects of XSS and SQL Injection in a Capital

One Payments application.

. Upgraded the application to use JAVA Struts 1.3

. Wrote and tested code using Eclipse IDE

. Setup and configured Tomcat 7 Web Container for the Web Runtime

environment

. Migrated the application from Tomcat 5 to Tomcat 7

. Cleaned up the code as it did not conform to the Eclipse JAVA format

. Project was not funded, so remediation against the application was not

completed

SRA, International ( Fairfax, VA

09/2011- 04/2012

J2EE Developer on contract with Veterans Administration. Assisted with the

development and deployment of web services in support of Veteran

Administration programs. Created Interface Control Documents to provide

the technical specifications for Web Services being developed. Used

Eclipse IDE, SoapUI, JUnit, Oracle Database and Oracle Application Server

to validate the Web Service code provided by other web developers.

. Assisted the functional specification team in developing User Stories

for Web Services by extracting appropriate information from Web

Services Description Language files.

. Used LogBack Logging API as the basis for developing a logging

framework for Web Services in the development, quality assurance and

production environments.

. Used SoapUI to identify specific test data in VA Test databases for

the Quality Assurance Team

. Created System documentation for several web services, including one

for the creation of an electronic

DD-214

. Worked with Apache Ant on various Build Scripts.

OpSoft, LLC ( (US Customs and Border Protection) Springfield, VA

12/2008 - 08/2011

J2EE Developer on contract with US Customs and Border Protection. Enhanced

the Enterprise Online Center Portal (EOC Online) that allowed Customs and

Border Protection Security Engineers to efficiently perform cyber-security

tasks. Utilized J2EE, JAVA and Java-based software APIs. Other technologies

included Tomcat 6.0, MyEclipse 8.6, Java Server Pages, JDBC, and KONA.

. Created KONA-based Controller Servlets that included JAVA and JSP

fragments to build web based applications for EOC Online

. Accessed MS SQL Server 2000 based data using SQL, Stored Procedures

and JDBC; Created Excel-based Reports using JXL (a JAVA-based Excel

API); Generated more than 50 SQL Queries each for two separate JXL

Reports

. Updated the EOC ONLINE Portal documentation to accommodate changes to

the application

. Developed various reports detailing daily, weekly and monthly

activities of Security Operations Analyst and Network Operations

Analyst who supported Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and all

their Component Computer environments using the SOLR Search API

. Maintained User Accounts for EOC Online users

QinetiQ, Inc. ( (US Customs and Border Protection) - Alexandria, VA

05/2007 - 07/2008

As a WebSphere Developer on contract with US Customs and Border Protection,

migrated strategic software applications from Microsoft client/server

architecture to web based architecture. These applications allowed Customs

and Border Patrol agents to perform their duties of securing and defending

US Borders. Developed J2EE applications using JAVA, J2EE and latest Java-

based software APIs. Other technologies included Rational Application

Developer 6.1, XSLT, XML, JDBC, Oracle and Crystal Reports.

. Created test data using Microsoft Access and used it to populated

Oracle-based test databases

. Accessed data in Oracle database using Data Access Objects and JDBC

. Integrated application reporting using Java and Crystal Reports

Mapped application data between Java Beans and XML written in Java

. Developed web pages using XSLT

. Developed a JAVA Applet to Encrypt/Decrypt cache files on agent

workstations containing entries for creating List of Values.

Comdata Corporation ( Brentwood, TN 12/2003 -- 10/2006

WebSphere Developer on a web development team. Migrated and continued

development of a trucking industry payment processing Web Application using

JAVA and J2EE technologies. The migration including rewriting applications

to move from a WebSphere Application Server 3.0 environment to a 5.1

environment.

. Migrated JAVA Applications from VisualAge for JAVA to WebSphere

Application Server 5/1

. Stored and retrieved customer information from mainframe data-stores

via DB2 using JDBC and

MQ Series

. Used cascading style sheets to "brand" Comdata's customer web pages to

give the appearance that they were hosted on their own web site

. Wrote J2EE application to provide real-time access to credit card

transactions. The main part of the application was a hyper-linked

summary that provided detail of each transaction, including

Authorized, Posted and Declined Status

. Co-developed an application that associated a customer's General

Ledger Profile information with employee credit card transactions to

make it easier for them to maintain their General Ledger.

. Used J2SE Technologies and the Java Software Development Kit (JSDK 1.3

and 1.4) to create a batch JAVA application to remove/permanently

disable Users who had not accessed their subscribed applications in

more than six months, per Sarbanes Oxley.

. Contributed to the application development framework that was utilized

to maintain consistency across developed applications

. Assisted new developers in installing and configuring their

Java/WebSphere development environments

. Used Ant to build EAR Files for deployment.

Sears Austin Technology Center ( Round Rock, Texas

05/1998 -- 12/2002

Programmer/Analyst IV with a diverse development team. Developed

applications using OS/2, C Language and JAVA /J2EE for Sears Austin

Technology Center. Provided support for a diverse set of customer-related

technologies in an often unstable environment. Contributed to two-year

project to develop and enhance capabilities of PartsDirect call floor

client/server application. Maintained configuration files for PartsDirect

capabilities and added code to retrieve and manipulate new configuration

parameters.

< ENSURED Y2K READINESS FOR VARIOUS OS/2 APPLICATIONS, INCLUDING THE

PARTSDIRECT APPLICATION WHICH ALLOWED CUSTOMERS TO ORDER PARTS FOR

VARIOUS APPLIANCES, ELECTRONICS, LAWN AND GARDEN EQUIPMENT, ETC.

< Provided enhancement and new development of PartsDirect components

< Created Enterprise Java Beans (Session EJBs) to provide business logic

for accessing service orders, allowing Sears third-party service

partners to access service requests on products sold by sears

< Designed and developed Related Parts feature to provide up-sale

functionality to the PartsDirect Application that resulted in

increased sales of other related items at time of initial parts

purchase

< Used J2SE Technologies and the Java Software Development Kit (JSDK 1.3

and 1.4) to develop batch applications that updated parts inventory

databases with parts information and parts diagrams from a variety of

appliance and electronics manufacturers to be used in Sears e-business

applications.

Education and Training

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics / Economics

Prairie View A & M University, Prairie View, Texas

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