PAUL GLENN

Houston, TX

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SENIOR SOFTWARE ARCHITECT / DEVELOPER

Accomplished Software Developer respected for 33+ years of experience developing top-tier software products for high-profile clients like Shell. Known as a motivational, influential leader and collaborator who can provide innovative solutions from ideation to post-delivery support. Builds and maintains lasting relationships, leveraging communication skills to understand needs and maintain clear technical documentation. Out-of-the-box thinker who excels in applying new technologies to set the architectural vision, performing risk analyses, and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines to exceed all expectations. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Provided best-in-class solutions throughout software consulting and product development environments, handling critical development initiatives and supporting organizations with $82 billion revenue annually.

Selected as Lead Software Architect and customer interface in the development of a new Java- and Linux-based appliance product, improving the utilization of a $520K+ budget despite challenges.

Promoted to Senior Architect at SunGard after architecting best-in-class solutions that are now used as templates across the organization. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Contract Consulting 2012 – Present

Freelancer: Houston, TX

Deliver a wide array of software architecture, enterprise application enhancements, business intelligence, and other engagements, acting as a decisive project leader and overseeing up to 30 cross-functional staff.

Sought for ability to provide strong technical management in both software consulting and product development environments.

Provide subject matter expertise across enterprise application architecture and development, including team management, mentoring, requirements gathering, and building development environments.

Drive continuous improvement across functions and seek new ways to reduce costs.

Act as a trusted resource with emerging technologies and platforms. Projects

ABS Nautical Systems

Role: Integration Architect Sector: Shipping/Logistics Custom development of multiple applications participating as components of a marine ERP solution.

Designated as Lead Software Architect, manager, and direct customer interface in the development of a new Java / Linux appliance product designed to extract, record, and analyze real-time data and publish it to a cloud-based ERP system. Appliance is fully automated with installation costs >$30K per instance.

Led buildout of a marine electronic logbook application to replace paper logbooks. Application achieved acceptance from governing bodies of international shipping. SKILLS & EXPERTISE

Software Development

Stakeholder Engagement

Team Leadership

Communication

Relationship Building

New Technologies

Performance Development

Technical Documentation

Infrastructure-as-Code

Continuous Delivery

Process Improvement

Enterprise Architectures

Design Patterns

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Achieved smooth development of a business intelligence and reporting solution designed for the maritime industry providing industry standard key performance indicators for managing marine shipping.

Introduced new practices for the product development life cycle covering requirements gathering, high level and detailed design, and more, improving budget utilization despite multiple challenges. Technology Utilized:

Java 8, Atlassian Jira, Spring Boot, SpringFramework, Embedded Jetty, JSON REST API, JavaScript, jQuery, IgniteUI, MySQL, MSSQL, Eclipse, Microsoft SQLServer Management Studio, SQLyog, NodeJS, Visual Studio Code, Maven, Ant, SVN, Ubuntu Linux, Raspbian, Windows 10, Azure Noah Consulting

Role: Enterprise Integration Architect Sector: Oil & Gas Provided strategy and oversite for the migration of all data center custom applications into vendor-supported cloud-based solutions. The goal of the migration was the decommission of company data center and its related costs for an oil & gas company with $7B annual revenue.

Coordinated with data center application teams to analyze functionality and integration requirements.

Authored enterprise architecture design strategy and documentation and presented to teams.

Oversaw evaluation and selection of an API Gateway solution for securing all cloud-based APIs.

Consulted with individual teams to assisted in migration of application functionality to the cloud. Technology Utilized: MS Visio, Word, PowerPoint, UML. Shell Trading

Role: Senior Java Developer Sector: Oil & Gas Product: ETRM Trade Capture Joined small development team to help with significant performance improvements to an existing 12-year-old thick-client trade capture application that is the center of Shell Trading’s business. Application’s availability is responsible for millions of $ per day in transactions. Existing application was bloated and slow performing.

Designed and implemented a plan to eliminate unused code and reorganize jar files allowing application’s loading time to be reduced by 60%.

Constructed a heavily-researched build management process to guide release management and minimize the possibility of future code structure performance issues.

Migrated application to new build and deployment structure without impacting trade capture operations. Technology Utilized: Java 1.5, Swing, Java Web Start, ActiveMQ, Oracle DB, Maven, Ant, Continuum, Eclipse OpenLink

Role: Technical Consultant Sector: Software/Technology Product: Endur Supported customers with customization of an off the rack ETRM software solution. Endur is the market leading ETRM solution and provides proprietary development tools for customers to enhance base application modules and integrate with customer systems. Joined an existing team of technical consultants offering customer’s ETRM enhancements services.

Quickly came up to speed on Endur development tools and processes.

Utilized previous ETRM work experience to quickly become a productive consultant in a short period of time in support of multiple energy trading clients. Technology Utilized: Java 1.5, Oracle DB, Endur Development tools. InHandGames

Role: Principle Sector: Gaming/App Platform: iOS Created a turn-based game platform that tracked user engagement on >40 turn-based games available on IOS AppStore, focusing on efficiency and end-user satisfaction. Application retired in 2017.

Showcased skills in iOS development and created the solution leveraging Java REST web services. Paul Glenn, Resume – Page 3 936-***-**** adg08z@r.postjobfree.com

Launched first game (“Gammon”) for iPhone/iPod Touch in early 2010 with 3000+ registered players.

Embraced transient game play style inherent on mobile devices, focusing on a kinetic user experience. Technology Utilized: Xcode, Objective-C, C, Java 1.8, RESTful Web Services, Server Push Notifications, 2D Animation, AppStore deployment, Subscription InApp purchases, Beta testing via AdHoc deployment. Senior Architect 2011 – 2012

R1Soft: Houston, Texas

Software architect and developer participating in the design and development of a product to centrally monitor and manage a large number of R1Soft CDP server backup product installations. The new product was designed to attract and support customers with larger server installations.

Worked with existing CDP product team to expose a new remote management API layer in the existing CDP application.

Designed and implemented single-page web UI for central console with similar look and feel to existing CDP product.

Built a specialized, secure, and proprietary TCP/IP protocol layer to support guaranteed asynchronous communication between central console application and managed CDP product installations. Technology Utilized: Java 1.7, SpringFramework, Hibernate, Tomcat, ActiveMQ, MySQL, Eclipse, TCP Sockets Senior Architect 2006 – 2011

SunGard Energy Systems: Houston, Texas

Managed 15 technical architects and developers up to an international level to design, develop, and deliver new custom EAI product as the integration backbone of SunGard Energy System’s “Aligne” ETRM solution.

Generated custom architecture and training documentation and provided technical oversight of product delivery, including creating new standard operating procedures to achieve consistent quality outcomes.

Led technical consulting efforts of product integration with several large Energy Trading and Utility clients.

Recommended various changes to overall development practices, demonstrating enterprise and solution architecture, development, and training/mentoring skills, leading to superb performance reviews. Technology Utilized: Java 1.5, EJB, SpringFramework, Oracle, ServiceMix, IBatis, Jetty, ActiveMQ. Senior Manager 2004 – 2006

SunGard Consulting Services: Houston, Texas

Provided technical consulting services to financial and energy customers. Contributed in sales team engagements when not billable on client projects. Mentored and provided evaluations for junior consultants. Projects

Cross Commodities Report for Shell Trading

Role: Architect / Developer Sector: Trading

Oversaw development for an “End-of-Day” energy trading compliance application.

Completed time-sensitive production deployment of the C++ version and then ported the application to Java 1.5 to cut down processing time from 30 to 4 minutes,

Prioritized strict compliance with relevant company policies and procedures in verifying the “Market-to- Market” position of all portfolios tracked by the client’s Nucleus-Trading Software System.

Exceeded performance goals in producing application capable of reading, processing, and writing 100K+ records from complex Oracle data structures.

Technology Utilized: Java 1.5, Visual C++ 6.0, Swing, Windows, Citrix, Excel, VB Paul Glenn, Resume – Page 4 936-***-**** adg08z@r.postjobfree.com

“Order To Cash 2” for Temple-Inland

Role: Co-Architect Sector: Manufacturing

Facilitated replacement of an existing mainframe-based application based on Windows VB.Net and Oracle DB interfacing with backend ERP via WebMethods

Delivered formal VB.Net classroom training, co-authored an application architecture document

Originated a tailored, Web Service-based application architecture and developed initial working example to team developers.

Excelled as a project DBA, designing and maintaining the application’s database model and physical database and maintained database environment across multiple development sites.

Designed and developed authentication and authorization security framework support Technology Utilized: VB.Net, C#.Net, RESTful XML Web Services, Oracle, WebMethods, erwin Data Modeler ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Software Architect Waste Management, Inc. Houston, Texas 2000 – 2003 Lead Developer BMC Software Inc. Houston, Texas 1998 – 2000 Senior Associate Derek Consulting Group Houston, Texas 1998 Senior Technical Architect MCI Systemhouse Corp. Houston, Texas 1993 – 1998 Software Engineer WilTel ATG Houston, Texas 1991 – 1993 Software Engineer Geoquest Systems Houston, Texas 1990 – 1991 Software Engineer Nustar International Inc. Houston, Texas 1989 – 1990 Software Consultant Business Systems Group, Inc. Houston, Texas 1988 – 1989 Software Developer U.S. Videotel Houston, Texas 1987 – 1988 EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Business Administration, Computer Information Systems Texas State University

TECHNOLOGY & TOOLS

Development Technologies & Software Tools

Atlassian Jira, iOS Development / Objective-C (Registered iOS Developer since 2/2009), Spring Boot, Java SpringFramework, Jetty Web Server, IgniteUI, Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL, Eclipse, Microsoft SQLServer Management Studio, NodeJS, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio.Net (C#, VB), WebSphere 8.5 Application Server, WSCP & XMLConfig, Maven, Ant, SVN, Unix shell scripting, Wily Introscope, Apache Web Server, Erwin Modeler, Internet Explorer Client-Side Scripting, I.E. DOM, Java Applet Development (AWT & Swing), RMI, JMS, Network Technologies

TCP/IP, UDP, NFS, FTP, SSH, SMTP / POP3, MODBUS, DNS, NIS / YP, SAMBA, NAT, WireShark Operating Systems

Mac OSX, Win 7/10, Linux Ubuntu/Debian, Raspbian, iOS, Solaris, AIX, NEXTSTEP 3.3, HPUX 10 INTERESTS

Music, Motorcycles, and Travel

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