Senior Software Engineer, Senior Manager

A. Scott Hopson

+1-801-***-**** ********@*****.***

Professional Summary

Seasoned Senior Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience in full lifecycle software development, including planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support. Adept at leading cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers, and delivering scalable, secure, and high-quality enterprise solutions. Proven success with cloud-native architectures on AWS and IBM Cloud, backend and frontend development in Java, C#, and C++, and robust system integration across Windows, UNIX/Linux, and z/OS environments. Strong communicator and collaborator with a deep understanding of software engineering principles, risk management, and agile methodologies.

Professional Experience

Senior Software Engineer

JAVA C/C++ C# .NET SQL SalesForce DB2 Oracle PostgreSQL Node.js DOJO

JavaScript Spring Boot REST API GIT Bitbucket AWS AZURE GCP IBM Cloud

Experienced on a variety of platforms and languages with significant experience in HealthCare, Finance, and Insurance industries. Experience leading teams as large as twenty, mentoring, and training developers as well as users. Built a claims and application processing system in Java for Kaiser Permanente dramatically increasing throughput. Helped setup an offshore claims processing center for United HealthCare in Manila Philippines, this involved installing hardware and software, training local users, and building software components to support the claims workflow. Provided support for Change Healthcare and their document management system, stabilizing their existing environment and then helping them move the entire operation to AWS Cloud services, Built projects on GCP and AWS as well as IBM Cloud, and Azure. Worked with several banks (USBANK, HSBC, Greenpoint) and Insurance companies (Chub, AXA, Golden Rule, and others) Hands on experience building backend as well as thin (web) and thick client applications with both REST and SOAP APIs using C# .NET, Java, and C/C++. Significant experience in complex backend environments and building applications to connect to multiple services running on Microsoft IIS, Apache, and IBM WebSphere as well as supporting applications in WINDOWS, UNIX (AIX, HP-UX, SOLARIS), LINUX, and z/OS. Significant experience migrating data between various database systems, created and implemented ETLs to move and modify data from various data sources into Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2 as well as cloud migrations for AWS and IBM Cloud. Experience integrating AIX with z/OS using MQ and CICS Gateway as well as creating custom COBOL applications to process records retrieved from AIX. Built interfaces between UNIX, Windows, and z/OS using C/C++.

Work Experience

Origina – Fully Remote 8/2019 – 1/2025

Global IBM Expert

Worked with various IBM customers to update ECM installations and solve production issues with CMOD, FILENET, and CM services. Updated Content Navigator, performed software installations on UNIX and LINUX servers

Reviewed and updated server installations, updated client software

Built an interface for moving legacy content from FileNet IS to P8

Debugged server issues for a CMOD installation on Windows

Helped migrate CMOD from onsite to AWS

NTTData – Fully Remote 9/2023 – 8/2024

Production Application Engineering Lead

My primary responsibilities were to develop modules in C to support an application known as UNIKIX which is a Windows and Linux replacement for IBM CICS running on z/OS

Created and/or Debugged and Repaired modules supporting the UNIKIX application

Replicated various QUEUE based procedures in the IBM CICS application

Created Java based Test routines that ran in a NetBeans based test harness

Capgemini – Fully Remote 2/2021 – 9/2023

Senior Manager

Lead a team to create proposals, interview clients, implement and build ECM solutions generally based on IBM FileNet and OnBase Alfresco

Developed a proposal for ManuLife, Canada to implement a FileNet based ECM solution. This involved interviewing stakeholders, employees, designing software to implement specific requirements and finally implementing the agreed upon solution

Built ECM solutions in Java running WebSphere and stand-alone

Developed C# .NET based connectors to link hardware and software to FileNet ECM

Mentored and trained employees

Designed, built and implemented a high-speed secure data streaming mechanism to securely transmit and ingest document images into the repository using Java

Scirocco Inc – Remote & Onsite 6/2000 – 2/2021

Senior Software Engineer / Consultant

Provided consulting and implementation services for various customers specializing in ECM (Enterprise Content Management) deployments as well as custom development in C/C++, Java J2E, and C# .NET

Developed an application processing system in Java & Spring Boot for Kaiser Permanente dramatically improving application throughput and processing.

Setup an offshore claims processing system in Manila Philippines, installed hardware, software, trained local employees and built supporting applications in Java

Provided support for Change Healthcare moving their document management system to AWS and providing support when the Managed RDS DB2 database failed.

Created SalesForce applications for Contango Financial Advisors / Zions Bank

Created a mechanism for US Bank to link mortgage documents on AIX to the z/OS MVS based database allowing agents to review document images when updating client data

Created a C# .NET Web application allowing Halliburton to consolidate control of their ECM solutions through a single web interface. This also allowed them to secure document access through the web site.

Additional work history available upon request

Education

LBCC – Long Beach, CA UCLA – Los Angeles, CA

Studied Computer Science including Operating Systems, languages, and algorithms

Technical Skills

Languages: Java, C/C++, C#, JavaScript, SQL

Frameworks/Technologies: Spring Boot, REST, SOAP, Node.js, Dojo

Platforms: Windows, Linux, UNIX (AIX, HP-UX, SOLARIS), z/OS

Cloud: AWS, IBM Cloud, GCP, Azure

Databases: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, PostgreSQL

Tools: Git, Bitbucket, IntelliJ, Eclipse, VS Code, JIRA, Docker, Kubernetes

Others: ETL, API Integration, WebSphere, IIS, Apache

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