Joffre Armand Ratcliffe

USA - San Diego, California ● adya1r@r.postjobfree.com ● +1 973.9808.973

*/** – now Clear Blue Sea, Lead Software Engineer, San Diego, CA

● In charge of debugging and improving the sensors, data acquisition systems, and overall capabilities of debris-eliminating, autonomous, aquatic robots

● Mentoring a young team of 8 engineers, mostly students or recent graduates

● Redesigned outermost photoelectric sensors to reposition themselves in the event of extreme conditions such as high winds and rough surface texture

● Improved 360-degree continuous visual coverage from 87% to over 95%

Objective C, Python, ROS, Ubuntu Linux, Git Flow, LIDAR 6/20 – 1/23 Guild Mortgage Company, Engineering Team Lead, San Diego, CA

● Responsible for all production deployments and rollbacks for Capital Markets, Secondary Marketing, and Finance, in collaboration with IT Governance

● Led a team of 3 developers on 3 different product teams, organizing, merging, maintaining related stacks amidst concurrent development

● Coordinated design sessions and constructed technical specifications to provide guidance on development and keep our infrastructure scalable

● Performed hiring, onboarding, budgeting, assessments, code reviews

● Modernized legacy applications to include responsive web design, mobile capabilities, evolving security protocols, advanced logging, and analytics

● Finalized listing on NYSE (GHLD) by working with auditors to prove SOX compliance, including access controls, documentation, versioning, and 24/7 monitoring of web services, tech stacks, and development environments

Confluence, Atlassian, Kanban, Figma, Samanage, Apigee, Azure 2/14 – 6/20 Guild Mortgage Company, Senior Software Engineer, San Diego, CA

● Investigated PHP frameworks and completed modernization of new stacks in Laravel, allowing for rapid, standardized, enterprise-grade development

● Empowered Loan Accounting with the ability to manage their own user and administrator access + build custom spreadsheets with embedded comments

● Shaped new web applications for both Production and Servicing, such as Loan Payoffs and Repurchases, Credit Reporting and Corrections, Daily Rate Sheets, HARP, Correspondent Subsidies, FIS Expansion, Investor Reporting

● Designed and maintained APIs with FHA, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, Salesforce, Google, IBM, Solidifi, BlitzDocs, Roostify, CoreLogic

Laravel, Bootstrap, React, JSON, GitLab, Jira, AWS, Agile, Scrum 4/12 – 2/14 Guild Mortgage Company, PHP Developer, San Diego, CA

● Reduced dependencies on external tech and cut costs by migrating and rebuilding systems in-house, including MyAccount for guildmortgage.com

● Coordinated the design, implementation, testing and proactive maintenance of Sherlock – a proprietary, point-of-sale system to improve loan origination

● Created a one-of-its-kind, comprehensive, robust, self-updating, internal script and triage for Loss Mitigation to standardize borrower support

● Organized collaboration with former IBM colleagues, facilitating the creation of the highly customized IBMi PHP Toolkit, an indispensable core library

● Compiled statistics, generated custom email blasts, migrated domains after corporate acquisitions, developed insights regularly for our executive teams

PHP, Zend, jQuery, Ajax, MySQL, CSS, XHTML, XML, AS/400, Apache 7/10 – 3/12 Questys Solutions, IT Administrator, Mission Viejo, CA

● Accountable for customer relationship management, workflow efficiency, developer support, system availability, software deployment & integration

● Transformed operational infrastructure by introducing virtualization platforms

● Assembled continuous data protection, disaster prevention, recovery plans

● Constructed technical documentation with custom reports for leadership

Perl, Windows Server, MS Access, VMware vCenter, VMware vMotion 6/08 – 7/10 IBM, Senior Engineer, Research Triangle Park, NC

● Maintained an internal online repository for drivers, firmware, code snippets

● Installed a new bulk CD/DVD burning machine and utilized the Rimage SDK and Java API so users could remotely initiate their builds

● Introduced a new internal web application for intramural sports allowing users to book their own reservations, practices, game times with co-workers

J2EE, JSP, Struts, UML, Eclipse, WebSphere, AIX, DB2, Shell Scripting 6/06 – 5/08 IBM, Software Developer, Rochester, MN

● Supported system management products for System x and BladeCenter

● Expedited product functionality with newly available hardware components

● Formulated detailed scenarios, sizings and schedules for various test teams

● Solved client issues such as replication, troubleshooting, debugging

Windows PE, MS Excel, Bash Scripting, Rational, C++, RedHat Linux 5/04 – 6/06 IBM, Electrical Engineer, Austin, TX

● Designed an on-demand, autonomous license manager for third-party tools

● Innovated techniques for robust, fault-tolerant, and self-healing processing

● Automated test case creation for DDR2 subsystem electrical simulations

● US Patent Application: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20070178289

Matlab, VHDL, PowerSpice, Visual Basic, Perl, Neural Networks Education: United States of America

Regis High School, New York, New York

Morris Hills High School, Rockaway, New Jersey

Penn State – University Park, The College of Engineering, State College, Pennsylvania Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, emphasis on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision Minors in Business Administration, Psychology

US Citizen – California

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