Michael Anthony Rivera
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SUMMARY
Experienced Software Engineer within depth knowledge in information technology that has keys strengths in:
● Software Development ● Training and Mentorship
● API Architecture and Design ● Business Acumen
● Microservice and
Orchestration Design
● Leadership
● Integrations Development ● Reporting and Analytics
● Software Administration,
Configuration and
Maintenance
● DevOps
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Cloud Technologies:
● Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Identity Access Management (IAM), Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Simple Queue Services (SQS)
● Google Cloud Provider (GCP) - Identity Access Management (IAM), GKE, APPEngine, Functions, Cloud Storage
● Microsoft Azure - App Services, Functions, Azure Container Registry Compiled and Interpretive
Coding Languages:
● Javascript
● C#
● Structured Query Language
● HTML
Tools, Suites, Run-Times and
Frameworks:
● NodeJS
● NestJS
● Angular
● git, github, gitlab, bitbucket
● Jira,
● Mongodb Atlas,
● Confluence,
Platforms:
● OSX
● Windows
● Linux(Ubuntu)
● Google Cloud Platform
● Azure
● AWS
Scripting Languages:
● Bash
● powershell
● ASP
● VB Script
● Microsoft SQL Server Management
Studio
● Visual Studio Code
● ASP.net Core 8.0
Database Technologies:
● Mongodb
● MSSQL
● Postgresql
● SQL-Lite
Deployment:
● Terraform
● TeamCity
● Semaphore
● GitHub Actions
Other Skills:
● Conductor/Orkes
● Docker / Docker Compose
● Networking Basics
● Security Basics
● Kubernetes
● Chef
● LDAP
● AMQP / Event Based Systems
EXPERIENCE
Answers in Genesis
Ministry that supports young Earth creationism on the basis of its literal, historical-grammatical interpretation of the Book of Genesis and the Bible as a whole. Lead Developer
April 2024 - Current
● Developed a series (7) of NestJS RESTful APIs and Angular Web UI to administrate the product for the Gospel Distribution Project.
● Supported and Applied Updates to our in-house Angular and ASP.net core KPI Application - AIGNow
● Led and managed a series of developer contractors from a Third Party to help with the development of tasks for the Gospel Distribution Project and Business Operations Support System (CRM)
● Managed a series of Microsoft Power App, Canvas, Power Flows called Engagements to notify C-Level employees when donors were on site
● Developed SSIS Application to migrate a Customer Accounts to a Loading System for integration into our CRM application
● Supported an managed the Business Operations Support System (CRM)
● Managed Changes and Updates for the Digistar Created Cosmos Pigeon Forge Show Florence Healthcare
Clinical Trial Document and Workflow Management Software development API Architect / Technical Lead / Staff Engineer / Software Solutions Developer November 2021 - March 2024
● Developed a series of RESTFul Based API and Integrations for various application domains
● Developed and Document standards for building out future RESTful API’s
● Lead a team for exposing private API’s to public api using the AWS API Gateway and Open API Specification
● Developed a Angular Based developer portal which used Open API specs to show how to use the various API we offer to our customers
● Improved Customer Service and Support process by Formalizing /Templatizing the request process
● Created Reporting Process to Reconcile Cloud Based Assets
● Mentor developers to accomplish their personal and team goals.
● Design solutions and fixes for new services and features based on customer demands.
● Work with Product Owner / Product Manager to deliver services for customers. • Help manage sprint team stories/tasks/release/timelines of our solutions for our customers.
● Manage and work with devops our team’s specific infrastructure.
● Deploy our solutions to various environments using semaphore and github actions.
● Development leveraging NodeJS, HAPI with MongoDB for clinical trial document management software for eBinders
● Helped Deliver new Deployments for a Public RESTful API offering to allow companies to integrate with our systems.
● Helped Deliver new Deployments for Amazon SQS Private Queues to allow companies to integrate with our systems.
● Help with the Technical Sales process.
● Deliver Documentation to assist customers in their technical efforts. Gravity Diagnostics LLC.
Medical Diagnostics Lab that provides specimen result testing for different heterogeneous agencies
Senior Software Developer
December 2020 - November 2021
● Developed an application integration using .Net framework for the ISDH project.
● Developed a RESTful API leveraging NodeJS / Express and SQL Server for the 1Health project.
● Developed an application integration using .Net Framework for the 1Health project.
● Developed a series of architecture-based diagrams that help communicate to the business in a series of workflows, data flows and ERD leveraging lucidchart. • Provide software evaluations on products the company wishes to invest in. • Provide training for some of the junior development team.
TXMQ. inc.
Application Development Boutique Consultant shop that provides specialized customizations and services for its client
Consultant / Application Developer / Contract
November 2020 - December 2020
● Developed Angular new features for a pharmaceutical application using Angular 8.
● Developed on a NodeJS RESTful API for Pharmaceutical Drug Management System
● Developed a set of mobile screens for Management of Mental Therapeutic Assistance using the Angular / IONIC framework.
● Developed a series of SQL scripts to help manage the structure of a SQL Server Database.
● Assisted and documented with the evaluation of a SQL Server 2017 to SQL Server 2019 Upgrade
Ultimate Software
Develops HRMS/Payroll Software and provides Hosted solutions for small to large based companies.
Global Security & Research Architect / Technical Lead / Senior Software Engineer Feb 2012 - October 2020
● Review and identify potential issues with Software Development Application Architecture that comes from our internal development teams.
● Technical Review analysis for third party products
● Built a series of small terraform configurations to help with GCP IAM setup.
● Maintained TeamCity Build pipelines for internal application deployments.
● Developed and deployed an internal Angular SPA to help with the security review process.
● Developed and deployed an internal NodeJS microservices to help with the security review process.
● Code Reviews of developed software from our internal development teams
● Develop documentation to help teams understand best practices.
● Document known vulnerabilities that have been identified with an internal product.
● Research security products based on requirements that are good fit for our organization.
● Developed deployment tooling to support security products.
● Work with peers to help identify issues and help correct them.
● Establish a process to properly document and catalog problems with known products using industry standards such as OWASP and ASVS.
● Provide Technical guidance and leadership based on product requirements, issues, and gaps.
● Setup CI/CD build and deploy pipelines using TeamCity.
● Lead a small team in development of an internal application to simplify common manual tasks.
● Design and develop small proof of concepts using technologies such as NodeJS, Angular, C#, ASP.net
● Fill in development gaps when software engineers are shorthanded.
● Create technical documentation based on the audience and need.
● Provide technical analysis, interpreting requirements from the business.
● Provide technical mentorship for software engineers.
● Create and provide presentations to business stakeholders.
● Designed, developed, and maintained tenant and systems-based data warehouse system using SQL Server and .net technologies.
● Evaluate and analyze potential third party products.
● Fill in the gaps when leadership and development staff is unavailable.
● Work on and assist with corporate wide solutions. Ista North America
Provides Software and Hardware based solutions for Utility Billing and Expense Management. Consultant / Senior Software Developer / Data Architect May 2007 – Jan 2012
● Received Service Leadership Award Second Quarter of 2008 and First Quarter of 2009 for doing an ad-hoc customization for high profile client and peer recognition.
● Designed, developed, and implemented Data Mart for Utility Expense Management System in our current Data warehouse bus architecture which created a forty percent improvement in report development times.
● Developed and implemented an SSAS OLAP Cube against Utility Expense Management Data Mart for operational ad-hoc reporting which allowed for a twenty five percent improvement of operation support request.
● Implemented and developed an SSIS ETL solution to synchronize data for disparate systems for multiple systems within the organization.
● Developed an Http Handler Service to provide bill images to our multiple systems.
● Provided error reporting system to warn of possible data related problems utilizing SSRS and T-SQL.
● Implemented a Meter issue report that provided a seventy percent decrease in error reduction.
● Successfully converted the ‘Navitas’ Meter Reads product screen with two-way sorting functionality.
● Migrated one hundred percent of the Stored Procedures to use four-part table names which resulted in a successful initial deployment of the ‘istaReports’ project.
● Modified existing SSIS ETL and DW structure and reporting needs for the
“istareports” project.
● Migrated thirty reports from the Crystal Reporting System to Microsoft Reporting Services.
● Successfully created two Export and Data Migration SSIS Packages which resulted in 40% improvement of data migration.
RSM McGladrey Employer Services
Provides web based and client based Hosted Payroll and Human Resources solutions for small to medium sized companies.
Senior Database Development Engineer
May 2005 – Apr 2007
● Migrated Large Hosted Multi Node, Multi-Tier database system from Ceridian Employer Services to RMS Employer Services by formulating and implementing a translation plan which resulted in a 100% migration.
● Served as architectural and analytical lead in diagnosing solutions and troubleshooting problems for the Clear Solutions Enterprise product.
● Served as architectural lead in small projects that improved integrations, quality, performance, and services for the internal organization using the Software Development Life cycle along with Proof of concepts, unit and regression tests and industry best practices, following the project within Application, Systems and Data Center Tiers.
● Developed and maintained 30 custom web site applications using ASP.Net, C# and php running on Apache and IIS Web Servers using technologies such as Active Directory, ADO and WMI to improve internal customer satisfaction.
● Developed an interactive administration by leveraging the .Net framework with ASP.Net by creating a web site which decreased the amount of time to deploy database moves by 75%.
● Developed an ADP data conversion export process by implementing a combination of custom ASP.Net web page and Data Transformation Packages which resulted in a 90% automated process.
● Automated and documented common administrative tasks alongside maintenance schedules by developing back end processes and services in conjunction with designing and implementing an administration database which resulted in a 50% decrease in internal administrative tasks along with the tracking of 75% of administration activity.
● Developed 40 custom ETL based reports and custom C# data extensions using Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server Reporting Services which decreased reporting requests by 50%.
● Improved common task deployment (indexing, CHECKDB, backups…) by implementing SQL Server’s Multi-Server Administration which resulted in a 75% improvement in task deployment.
● Developed over 300 Transact-SQL scripts and Data Transformation Packages for Data Conversion, indexing, reporting, stored procedures, functions, triggers, and administration of SQL Server databases.
● Maintained 100%+ bonus performance metric 5 out of 6 quarters for goals established for the fiscal year.
● Team metric was maintained with a monthly average of 96.14% with our team technology scorecard.
Ceridian Employer Services
Provides web based Hosted Payroll and Human Resources solutions for small to large sized companies.
Senior Database Administrator / DBA Team Lead
May 2002 – May 2005
● Served as Team lead for four Database Administrators managing monthly and weekly, schedules, workloads and releases providing 25% improvement in managerial reporting.
● Developed 12 custom web applications using php, ASP.Net and C#.
● Developed and implemented 200 Data Transformation Packages, Transact-SQL scripts, stored procedures and functions.
● Served as team lead in a Six Sigma Project and exceeded the Six Sigma metric. • Automated common tasks along with creating maintenance schedules for 1600 databases by using back-end processes in conjunction with designing and implementing an administration database which resulted in a 50% decrease in internal customer requests and along with tracking 75% of user activity.
● Maintained and simplified 200 security accounts and deployment by setting up automated account replication which resulted in 50% decrease in security requests.
● Managed and applied 80% of security, performance, and compliance corporate standards for SourceWeb product suite for over 100 hosted clients.
● Automated a Disaster and Recovery Plan by creating T-SQL backup, copy and restore processes resulting in 95% implementation of the Plan.
● Improved common task deployment (indexing, CHECKDB, backups…) by implementing SQL Server’s Multi-Server Administration which resulted in a 75% improvement in task deployment.
PROFILES
● Linked in - https://www.linkedin.com/in/thxmike/
● HackerRank - https://www.hackerrank.com/profile/thxmike COMMUNITY
● GitHub - NodeJS / Angular Sample Application - https://github.com/thxmike
● Stack Overflow - https://stackoverflow.com/users/10603751/thxmike EDUCATION
● Southern Polytechnic State University – Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering. GPA - 4.0
Achieved school excellence by being noted on the Dean’s Merit List Spring 02, Spring 03, Summer 03, and Fall 03.
Accomplished over 60 credit hours in programming languages, which include C, C#, C++, Java, Transact SQL, .Net Components and Web Services programming, VBA, PHP, FORTRAN, and Basic.
YAMACRAW Certificate Holder – Georgia State funded program to improve the high-tech industry in the state.
CERTIFICATIONS
● AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - 12/2022