Software Developer Project

Brad Weston

**W Adams Street

Saratoga Springs, Utah 84045

EMAIL: **********.****@*****.***

PHONE: 801-***-****

SUMMARY

Brad has many years experience as an enterprise software developer, team

lead, Java developer, web developer and AEM/CQ software developer. Brad has

performed well in organizations as a heads down developer, software

architect and development management resource. Brad's diverse experience

has been a great addition to development teams. Brad has many years

experience leading teams, analyzing requirements, developing high quality

software and writing test cases to ensure quality.

Brad has spent most of career as a contractor for a diverse range of

clients, but open to long term permanent employment as well.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Clients I've worked with as a long term

contractor)

Adobe AEM6: Team Lead / Developer

Best Western Hotels ( AEM6 Migration - 3 month contract )

- Develop sightly / java aem components from business requirements

- General architecture responsibilities to migrate existing sites to AEM6

- Build services from existing services for AEM6 platform

Instrumental in redesigning and developing basic structure and priority

services of beta property websites on AEM6 platform. Team lead and

development responsibilities in designing and developing user driven

components and back end services.

Westfield Labs, San Francisco, Ca

Jan 2014 - Aug 2014 ( 6 month contract )

Working on creating Java CQ5 Blog application - Jan 2014 - Current Project

- Develop new Java / CQ5 components from business requirements

- General CQ5 development responsibilities to get new sites for retailers

up and running

- Develop backend functionality ( java objects ) for usage by CQ5

Components

- Develop CQ5 components in an Agile Project Management approach

Time Warner Cable - developed CQ5 components and lead architecture for

forms processing September 2013 - Jan 2014

Adobe Solution Partner - McCann Erickson

Contract Software Developer / Solution Development Lead - September 2012

- 2013

As a contractor, Brad worked on many client projects using a variety of

software technologies. This role required Brad to integrate 3rd party

applications with AEM with general clients.

Sears Corporation - Adobe CQ5 Pilot Project

. Lead solution engineer for Content and Personalization for Sears

Homepage CQ5 Pilot

. Worked with Adobe Team to develop site and business requirements

. Lead Developer for the homepage pilot

. Integrate 3rd party applications to be used with CQ5

Verizon Wireless - CQ5 Architect / Developer Role

. Solution consultant and lead for an Adobe CQ prototype for CQ5

personalization of small business site. Build custom solutions to

drive web users to specific products by region.

China Offshore Team Lead / Lead Developer

Client: Shop.com ( sub-contractor for Freeborders )

Worked remotely as technical project manager / tech lead with shop.com's

offshore team based in Shenzhen China for a severely behind software

project that needed immediate turn around and recovery.

. Determined root cause issues and developed / implemented a 30 day

turnaround recovery plan

. Help create a better relationship with client team

. Trained incoming new technical project lead with proven strategy

I successfully delivered phrase 1 of the project within a month and

significantly improved software quality by implementing new code delivery

processes, improved meeting strategy, pre and post code reviews and

improved communication with onsite executive management and onsite

development teams. I documented new processes that established a strategy

for the incoming permanent tech lead that continued to keep the project on

track.

Technology Stack: Java/ proprietary ORM, SQL Server, Project management

tools

BidSync (contract)

J2EE6/ Java Developer - October 2011 to Aug 2012

. Responsible for design of new business components in a fast paced

agile development environment and developing client side web pages in

JSF technology.

. Responsible for refactoring, developing, unit test, designing and

communicating requirements with business to add new functionality and

replace existing functionality in an aging underperforming

application.

. Front and backend developer for a state federal government software

product.

Technology Stack: Java/JEE6, JSF, Oracle, REST, Web Services, Glassfish,

GIT, TestNG

Department of Veteran Affairs (short term contract ended due to funding)

Active Federal Security Clearance with Department of Veterans Affairs

Software Developer / Team Lead- September to October 2011

. Developed back end security services within an adobe flex / spring /

hibernate / web services technology stack that connected to remote

databases that delivered specific medical record details for research

and annotation.

. Developed and demonstrated a prototype web service approach that

incorporated web services security using Spring, private keys and

hash.

. Medical Records - Health University of Utah/ VA Software Research

Software Development.

Technology Stack: Java, Spring, Hibernate, Flex, REST, Web Services

Deloitte Consulting

Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (contract)

Active Federal Security Clearance with Homeland Security/ US Treasury -

2015

Deloitte Software Developer / Team Lead / June 2010 to September 2011

Technical Project responsibilities

. Designed and developed a financial enterprise software solution to

replace a legacy batch application with a java spring hibernate and

ETL solution.

. Develop and Maintain Architecture for batch applications including;

High Level, Low Level Design and other associated OO Design Artifacts.

. Team leader responsible for assigning development tasks, project

scope, development plan generation, development processes, code

review, etc.

. Responsible for communicating project status to executive process

owners and delivering and maintaining documentation to process owners

for federal reviews.

. Frequently utilized for technical direction in writing RFIs and RFPs

bids. Reliable and effective presenter for technical presentations to

CXO level executives for technical strategies.

. Technology Stack: Rational, Web sphere, Clear case, Java, Spring,

Hibernate, Spring Security, Spring Batch.

Avocent/ Emerson Electric Corporation

Commercial Software Developer - March 2008 to June 2010

. Design and development innovative software solutions and heads down

development applications implemented in a commercial software product

built on open source Apache ESB / SOA technology (adhering to industry

standard design patterns and strict commercial software development

standards in a fast paced AGILE project management environment).

Designed systems and wrote java software code that provided end to end

functionality for custom single sign on authentication services. Used

Spring LDAP; Apache open source and other core java APIs to extend

authentication services for the client. Deployed many projects to

production in a fast paced agile environment.

. Responsible for writing common business rules (SOA architecture -

using a service bus and SOAP) that delivered configuration data to

various clients. On the bug fix team, fixed many bugs by digging into

code and quickly implement fixes with JUNIT tests.

. Technology Stack: Java, Servlet, ESB, SOAP web services Eclipse,

Axis, MSSQL, Oracle, JUNIT,

Utah Ski Team (short-term contract)

Software Developer / Java / Client Team Lead - December 2007 to March 2008

. Designed a spring hibernate framework to build backend for website

. Was tasked with enterprise and application architecture and leading a

team to develop a java based site

Technology Stack: Java, Spring, Hibernate, Eclipse

Costco (contract)

Software Developer/ Enterprise Consultant Specialist - July to November

2007

. Developed business service software for database connectivity.

. Produced an executive level report outlining improvement and left a

software prototype featuring connection pooling that was used to

baseline a new development effort.

Technology: AS400 DB2 knowledge, Enterprise Java, JDBC, SQL

ModusLink Corporation (Supply/ Logistics)

Enterprise Software Developer / Manager for onsite and offshore Singapore

Team Lead/ Java J2EE/ C# Engineer - January 2004 to June 2007

Most notable project: Singapore /Microsoft Vista Rollout:

Responsible for delivering work from offshore teams

. Various Management responsibilities for onsite development team

of 6 onsite + 5 offshore

. Managed software projects with an iterative life cycle approach and

delivered high profile software projects in stages. Worked offsite in

our Singapore development center and was directly responsible for

bringing on new customers to a proprietary supply chain B2B system

implementing SAP and MS BIZTALK. Developed custom java solutions that

would receive secure xml messages containing customer orders for

fortune 500 companies.

. Assigned to help design and implement a major software upgrade that

involved upgrading java and C# components running on tomcat and MS

BizTalk to be exported into SAP objects that would do the same work.

Gained some SAP training for this project and helped to design and

implement a working system.

Technology Stack: BizTalk( Business Rules Framework, B2B integration,

Business Activity Monitoring, Custom Adapters development, Java, JSP,

Oracle, Microsoft ASP, Microsoft C#, SAP, EDI

IBM

State of Utah/ IBM ( Contractor )

Java Software Developer/ CURAM Software Developer - 2005 to 2007

. Developed backend CURAM software implementations at Utah Workforce

Services

. Designed and developed a notification system using xml / pdf

conversion and developed on the CURAM CIARA PRODUCT to create backend

business services. Took requirements from business units and was

responsible for coding various software solutions within the

framework.

Technology Stack: IBM Rational tools, clear case, JAVA, Curam, XML,

Tapestry

Motor Cargo (UPS, Transportation, Supply/Logistics) (contract)

Software Developer - 2004 to 2005

. Designed and developed several new applications that replaced AS400

legacy applications running on an AS400.

. Lead the RGP team on refactoring RPG to Java and my responsibility

included reverse engineering an RPG AS400 applications and developing

specific programs in a java based system. Also technical project lead

for several legacy developers moving RPG applications to a java

platform.

. Designed java applications that called Service program Procedures and

provide back end java services.

Tex-Systems (contract)

Software Developer - 2000 to 2003

Baptist St Vincent, Jacksonville Florida - Web Developer 2002 - 2003

CSX Corporation, Jacksonville Florida - Web Developer 2000 - 2002

EDUCATION

Western Governors University

B.S. in Information Technology Management

Jacksonville University, Jacksonville Florida

General Studies

CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAINING

Deloitte Project Management Training

Federal Security Clearances

Adobe CQ5 Training

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