John O’Conner
Ventura, CA ***03
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Experience Sr. Manager, Cloud Services, Cognizant, Thousand Oaks, CA Dec 2018 — present
• Define and manage projects that help clients migrate to the AWS cloud.
• Lead and manage local and offshore staff to produce their best work in highly productive, results-oriented teams.
• Most recent work: Defined and architected a new Oauth solution for handling authentication and authorization for a major healthcare insurance client. Defined strategy for migrating internal data center and services to the cloud. Sr. Solutions Architect and Team Lead, Cast & Crew, Burbank, CA Aug 2017 — Aug 2018
• Created a data collection and analysis tool using logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana. Provided key system performance metrics and graphs used by C-level leadership and engineering managers.
• Defined and implemented micro-services as RESTful APIs with Swagger docu- mentation.
• Defined and implemented enterprise solutions that were load-balanced, durable, scalable, and secure in the AWS cloud.
Globalization Manager, Intuit, Mountain View, CA
Oct 2014 — Aug 2017
• Created an automated system that allowed product teams to submit and inte- grate localized UI content in minutes instead of weeks.
• Led the design and development of the company’s translation and localization platform, which allowed product groups to produce application UI, documenta- tion, and legal materials in a dozen languages.
Software Architect, Adobe, San Jose, CA
Oct 2011 — Feb 2014
• Specified requirements and design for a text analytics web service for customer sentiment analysis.
• Defined internationalization and localization standards for the Creative Cloud product suite.
• Reviewed product plans and engineering documents for world-readiness and localization needs across all product groups.
Software Architect, Yahoo, Sunnyvale, CA
May 2010 — Oct 2011
• Designed and implemented product requirements for front-page news, sports, finance, and entertainment properties on both desktop and mobile platforms across 46 languages in 74 markets.
• Collaborated with product teams to define and inform compliance with corpo- rate standards for internationalization and localization plans. Senior Software Engineer, TouchCommerce, Agoura Hills, CA Nov 2007 — May 2010
• Created a JavaScript business rules engine from start to finish. This product al- lowed business analysts to write and test rules to optimize online customer in- teractions and purchases.
• Planned, designed, and developed online sales conversion tools using a variety of technologies including Java, JS, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, XML, JAXB, and Hadoop.
Java Platform Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, CA 1997 — Nov 2007
• Implemented platform APIs for creating internationalized applications to pro- duce fully localized messages, dates, numbers, currency formats, strings, sort orders.
• Implemented and maintained the platform’s Unicode character database and generation tools.
• Reviewed, authored, and published internationalization standards and educa- tional materials as a member of the W3C I18n working group.
• Created prototypes and technical articles to demonstrate developer best prac- tices.
• Coordinated and planned feature development with partners and licensees.
• Represented Sun as a voting member of the Unicode Technical Committee. Skills Technologies
• Java, JavaScript, C++, Ruby.
• Spring, Spring Boot
• Tomcat, Resin, Jetty app servers.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• SQL - Oracle, MySQL
• NoSQL - MongoDB
• XML, JSON, JAXB
* JUnit, Mockito
International
• Thorough knowledge of internationalization and localization best practices.
• Extensive knowledge of translation and localization systems, World Server, APIs, and frameworks.
• Extensive and practical experience with localization workflows, vendor and con- tract management.
• Extensive technical knowledge of Unicode standards and implementation de- tails, character conversions, and encodings.
Language
• English with native proficiency.
• Japanese with business-level casual and formal speaking fluency. Technical Writing and Instruction
• Over 50 published articles on Java technologies and related topics.
• Web Application Development. Created course content and taught a 10-week course at UCSB.
• Java Programming. Created course content and taught a 10-week UCSB course.
Education Bachelor of Science, Brigham Young University
• Computer Science
• Japanese