High Performance Computing “HPC” – Software Engineering – Systems Engineering – Algorithm – Parallel Computation – OOP – C++ - Linux – JAVA - Mac - Windows

Profile An analytical and forward-thinking senior technologist with 20+ years of experience in solution architecture, software development, database design, object modeling and quality control. Experienced in leading local and distributed teams. Passionate about Big Data capabilities for re-use across the company. A results-oriented team player who has delivered products from initial architecture through to launch using Agile software development practices.

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

Java, Python, C/C++, Perl, Objective C, JavaScript, PHP, Bash, Ksh, Csh, MapReduce, SQL

Software

Pentaho Data integration, MS Office, MS Visual Studio, Xcode, MS Project, Photoshop, Perforce, Mercurial, MagicDraw, ArgoUML, CMS (Joomla!, Drupal)

Operating Systems

Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux, RedHat, Suse, Oralce Linux, UNIX, AIX

Databases

MySQL, Oracle, SQL developer, Workbench, DB2

Web

Apache, Tomcat, HTML/CSS, XML, Procmail, AJAX, REST, Web services, XML-RPC, SOAP

Big Data

Kafka, Hbase, Hive, Elastic Search, Kibana, Horton Works, HDFS, Flume,

Cloudera, Hadoop, HUE, ORC, Parquet, Spark, Flink

SDLC

Agile, Scrum, Waterfall.

Change Management

Git, Mercurial, CVS, SVN, Jira, Perforce

Technologies

DOM, SAX, JSON, TCP/IP, XML

Experience Big Data Engineer, Comcast Corporation, Philadelphia, PA – 2015-Present

Worked on contract with Turnberry Solutions Inc at Comcast on a large scale big data project to improve customer experience by giving the agent a historic view of the customers’ interactions over time. Tasked to improve the ingestion and data representation. The Hadoop cluster was set up with CentOS Linux. The project leveraged several big data technologies on the back end; worked with Kafka, Hbase, Hive, Elastic Search, Kibana.

Software Department Manager, Thomson Reuters Inc, Philadelphia, PA – 2003-2015

Worked the last 4 years in the Big Data area. Cluster was Cloudera distribution running on Suse Linux and was later migrated to Oracle Linux. Evangelized the utilization of Big Data to upper management in order to solve our business needs. Designed and architected production system provided the source data for the InCites analytic product as well as JCR, ESI, Web of science and custom data. Built the production system with on site and a large off site group. Architected access control to separate users and data.

•Code repository set up and use of Mercurial.

•Architected our Map Reduce solution in Java 1.6

•Used: Java, Maven, Jenkins, Cloudera Hadoop distribution, Tomcat

•Utilizing internal Hadoop cluster and POC on Amazon Web Services.

http://researchanalytics.thomsonreuters.com/incites/

Managed for 8 years a lean group of developers in California, Pennsylvania and Spain behind the EndNote product. Lead research and recommendation of embedded storage system to use. Built UI for search system on Windows and Macintosh (MacOS X). Developed library to dynamically build queries for search system from the search definition coming from the UI.

•Code repository used was Perforce.

•Developed in C, Objective-C

•Used IDE: Visual Studio and Xcode.

•Utilizing COM, .Net, MFC and Apple events.

http://endnote.com

Technical Lead, Thomson Reuters, Philadelphia, PA – 1996-2003

Hired to do web development on Sun’s UNIX, Solaris. Worked on many different web projects from data delivery to the then unreleased Web of Science project. Introduced the Philadelphia office to MySQL during this time.

•Projects were documented and designed with UML diagrams.

•Code repository for projects varied CVS or SVN was typical.

•Built an automated FTP delivery system using MySQL, ProFTPd, ProcMail delivered electronic files to customers on a weekly basis.

•E-commerce site built on with IBM’s Net.Commerce application on IBM AIX.

•Credit card transactions cleared through custom CyberCash module in C and Java

•Serving web pages from Netscape Enterprise Server.

•Architected the company’s Multi Product Login system. This was a precursor to our company portal. Built with Solaris, Apache, Mysql and Perl.

•Architected a system around XML-RPC to more formalize our 3 tier system on RedHat Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl and Java.

•Headed development the product named WriteNote this later become known as EndNote Web. Built with Solaris, Apache, MySQL and Perl.

•Integrated with access control system to allow for only authorized access.

http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com

UNIX Developer support and Administration, Sanad / Nyma Inc, Greenbelt, MD – 1992-1996

Worked as an on site contractor at GSFC/NASA. Supported software and hardware needs for a variety of UNIX operating systems.

•Code was managed in Solaris Forte developer.

•Built C utility libraries for the Advanced Robotics lab

•Web development using C, Perl, WAIS and Netscape server.

•Government Patent for marshaling raw data from the Institute for Scientific Information into a searchable web interface for internal use.

http://library.gsfc.nasa.gov/

System Administrator, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD – 1990-1992

Solaris System Administrator, AIX administrator

Volunteer Garden State Council BSA Marketing committee - 2014-Present

Conferences Strata Conference + Hadoop World, Fall 2013

VS Live Visual Studio’s developer conference, 2007

OO Dev conference Open Office developers, 2003

Education IBM technical training Net.Commerce integration course, 1999

University of Maryland at College Park Continuing Education, 1999

Anne Arundel Community College AA, Programming Certificate, 1992

References Available on request.

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