Avril Douglas
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY AND ROLE
Seeking to leverage my technical skills and abilities in a dynamic professional environment with a growing organization and achieve professional growth while being resourceful, innovative, and flexible. Outstanding organizational skills, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities. EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GLOBAL CAMPUS, College Park, MD Fall 2021
Master of Science in Cloud Computing Architecture
Relevant Coursework:
• Cloud Services and Technologies
• Networking and Engineering
• Cloud Infrastructure Planning, Design and Configuration
• Cloud Computing Implementations and Migrations
• Capstone Cloud Computing Orchestration
• Decisive Thinking, Communicating and Leading
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GLOBAL CAMPUS, College Park, MD Spring 2000
Bachelor of Science in Information Systems and Operations Management MONTGOMERY COLLEGE, Rockville, MD
Spring 1996
Associate of Science in Information Systems
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Strativia, LLC, Largo, MD
Software Developer – (Federal Contractor –
National Institute of Standard and Technology [NIST]) 2020 - PRESENT
• Provide support to the Open Security Controls Assessment Language Development (OSCAL).
• Responsible for the technical execution of assigned tasks under each sprint of the OSCAL project.
Gaithersburg, MD 20886
adrn9a@r.postjobfree.com
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
(CONT’D)
• Environment: Servlets, Java,
JavaScript, Hypertext Markup Language
(HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS),
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC),
Spring, Hibernate, DevOps, Jenkins,
Git, Angular, Representational State
Transfer (REST), Relational Database
Service (RDS), Agile-Scrum, Tomcat,
PostgreSQL, Maven, JUnit, Test-driven
Development (TDD), Microservices,
Continuous Integration
Jorge Scientific Corporation, Arlington,
VA
Senior Analyst (Contractor – United State
Department of Justice [USDOJ])
2008 – 2010
• Used Crystal Reports Enterprise Server
and Crystal Reports to integrate data
into a single, integrated Crystal Reports
Reporting System.
• Produced and distributed case-related
reports for USDOJ personnel.
• Analyzed business requirements,
implemented code modifications,
created reporting modules, generated
application documentation, tested EMS,
and maintained the reporting
environment.
• Maintained Excel reports that integrate
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
templates and macros.
BAE Systems, Silver Spring, MD
Software Engineer (Department of Defense
[DoD] Contract)
1998 – 2008
• Participated in the full lifecycle systems
development to include system design,
integration, software development
engineering and maintenance.
• Collaborate with the NIST technical team in the design, development, testing, and maintenance of XML-based schemas developed as components of the OSCAL.
• Design, develop OSCAL Command Line Interface (CLI) Node JS tool for (i) managing OSCAL resources (ii) to automate creation and maintenance of all OSCAL (XML, JSON and YAML) artifacts.
• Collaborate with the NIST technical team in the development of all documentation related to the XML-based schemas that are components of the OSCAL.
• Maintain accurate records of activities related to the OSCAL project
• Participate in weekly sprint planning meetings to: (i) identify and discuss the merits and shortcomings of the development process conducted in previous sprints (ii) identify opportunities to improve development, testing, and systems administration processes and (iii) put improvements in place for the upcoming sprint.
• Generate user stories to describe a problem to be solved and identify new requirements and/or enhancements for development.
• Determine level of effort (LoE) for each user story to efficiently assess and prioritize sprint effort.
• Maintain a list of work items associated with each user story on GitHub service/website
• Utilize GitHub repository to achieve continuous integration
• Ensured existing continuous integration continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline is maintained and used to test all schemas, formats, and other artifacts.
• Demonstrate that all efforts pass CI/CD pipeline testing, address any errors and demonstrate a final pass status.
• Provide monthly status reports on key activities for the current month and planned activities for the next month.
Revature, Reston, VA
Software Developer (Entry Level Java Full Stack Developer) 2019 – 2020
• Practiced Agile and Scrum methodologies to achieve weekly sprints.
• Utilized GitHub Repository to achieve continuous integration.
• Created interactive web pages using the Angular framework.
• Hosted backend on a Tomcat server and accesses the backend using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests
• Created the backend logic to add and receive user and reimbursement data from a database
• Developed custom Servlets to process HTTP requests
• Utilized an Angular material design scheme for a sleek and modern appearance
• Created data tables to allow users to easily view and search data
• Used PostgreSQL for data persistence
• Performed Strategic Weapon System
(SWS) maintenance in support of the
US military submarines
• Engaged in development projects to
deliver secure, robust, and scalable
database management system (DBMS)
solutions that helped improve efficiency,
information security, data integrity, and
customer satisfaction.
• Maintained a server monitoring
application used aboard the US military
submarines.
• Conducted user acceptance testing to
ensure that developed systems satisfied
the needs of business clients as specified
in the functional requirements.
• Coordinated efforts to address
application defects, identified business
impacts, and helped draft related
communications for end users.
• Developed and reviewed requirements,
specifications, user documentation, help
files, operational procedures, and other
project documentation to assure quality
of the products and tests developed.
• Performed all work in accordance with
Capability Maturity Model Integration
(CMMI) policies, procedures, and
documentation.
TECHNICAL TRAINING / SKILLS
Frameworks: MicroServices, Hibernate,
Material UI, Angular, Bootstrap, Spring
Core
Databases: Hibernate, JDBC, Spring
Framework, Structured Query Language
(SQL), DevOps, Git, PostgreSQL, Spring
Object Relational Mapping (ORM), Spring
Data
Client-side Technologies: TypeScript,
JavaScript ES6, HTML, CSS, Single Page
Applications
Design Methodologies: Single Page
Applications, Agile Scrum, Aspect-oriented
Programming (AOP), UI / UX, TypeScript
• Implemented the data access object (DAO) layer.
• Created the service layer and utilizes data encryption Server-side Technologies: Spring Model-
View-Controller (MVC), Java 2 Platform,
Enterprise Edition (J2EE), JavaServer Pages
(JSP), Java, Node.js, JavaScript Object
Notation (JSON) Web Tokens
DevOps: Jenkins, GitHub, Git Bash,
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2),
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3),
Maven