Security Clearance Project Management

Raymond J. Sodora

** ******* ******, ********* ******, NY 11570

Cell: 201-***-**** ******@*****.***

IT Professional

Results driven IT professional with TS Security clearance and proven record of success in architectural and system design, project oversight and completion. Adept and well versed in various programming languages as well as network security and upkeep. Experienced in a broad range of IT initiatives covering all phases of project management/software development lifecycle from initial conception to planning, setting budgets, designing, development and implementation.

HIPAA Compliance

ASC X12 5010 Standard Formats

HIPAA compliant EDI software development

OpenShift Deployments

Areas of Experience:

System Architectural/Platform Design

Database design

Project Management

Micro Services Architecture

Object oriented design

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Biology

New York University, New York, New York

Technical Proficiencies

Platforms: Azure, AWS, DCOS Windows (7.0, 8.0,10, Server 2012)

Networking: LAN/WAN Administration, TCP/IP, VPN

Languages: Java 17+(Core, JMS, J2EE), Angular .js, Angular 15+ Typescript version 16, C# Core, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Perl, Python, HTML, jQuery

Tools: OpenShift, AWS, Docker, Confluence, JIRA, Eclipse, IntelliJ, MS Visual Studio, NetBeans, MS SQL Management Studio, MS O365, GitHub, MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Certifications

Department of Defense Top Secret Security Clearance Secure Compartmentalized Information (TS-SCI)

Department of Homeland Security Enter on Duty Security Clearance(EOD)

Oracle Java SE 7 Programmer (Oracle ID: OC1287519)

Certified Professional in Healthcare Information Management Systems

(HIMSS ID: 700272349)

Technical Skills

Well versed in algorithmic programming and implementation if design various patterns

Experience in building SPA apps using Angular

Angular experience includes use of AGrid for grid data and charting displays

Experienced with design and use of HighCharts Core and HighCharts Maps libraries

Exposure to OLAP Tools for evaluation of very large datasets(Apache Pinot)

Experienced with development in Micro Service architecture\

Experienced in backend testing of authored services

Well versed in the importance of software testing from unit to integration to regression testing

Technical Skills(continued)

High understating of the value of writing easily testable code

Expert level understanding of outlier and exception testing

Familiar with automation of proper error reporting thru log reporting systems (Splunk)

Expert level understanding of API troubleshooting and testing and incorporating tests into CICD patterns

Experienced in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery(CI/CD) environment

Experience in AWS deployments(CloudFormation, Ansible)

Experienced in using OpenShift orchestration tool, services, routes and deployment configurations

Proven aptitude for algorithmic data evaluation specifically using attribute dependent runtime decision making for determining user presented data(LTA)

Proven expertise in distributed application development including extensive work in Object Oriented Analysis, Design, Development and Implementation of projects in the areas of Client Server Architecture and Database Systems.

Expert knowledge of Object Oriented Programming Concepts

Exposure to Angular and Node.js

Experience with Postgres, Mongo and Redis nosql databases

Experience with Kubernetes deployments

Experienced with Hibernate and JPA ORM

Experience with RESTful web services

Strong experience in identifying actors, use cases and representing UML diagrams.

Exposure to Neo4J graph data base

Exposure to GraphQl

Proven experience in development of client server applications, web services and service-oriented architecture

Experienced in middleware development using J2EE framework

Experienced with concurrency(Multithreading), Collections, Exception Handling

Exposure to Python, Kafka Java development,

Strong experience in RDBMS (MySQL Stored Procedures, Triggers, Functions as well as MS SQL)

Experienced in ASP.NET MVC 5, Entity Framework

Strong experience in server-side development

Proven Aptitude in test driven development environment as team leader

Client-side experience in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery, Angular.js, Angular version 16/typescript, Ajax as well as XML

Experienced in MS Office Add In development

Experienced with Terraform infrastructure generation

Experienced with Docker, Dockerfiles and docker-compose

ETL experienc with Kafka streaming, Nifi processing, Airflow

Experience with Spring Boot Microservices Framework

Well versed in IAC (Infrastructure As Code) methods via Ansible and Terraform

Experienced with Hashicorp Vault

Professional Experience

Advanced Technical Applications (ATA) Great Falls, VA Mar 2017-Present

Senior Lead Engineer

Currently working as senior tech lead and mentor for core analytics development team consisting of data scientists and software developers. Role requires architecture/design decision making for the analytic and the various interfaces that the analytic has with the larger project. Currently implementing a micro services architecture via J2EE web services/components. Also serving on team specifically created to influence global architectural design of the larger project.

Working on design of service bus for integration of various commercial and open-source tools to facilitate the generation, transfer and storage of metadata of the platform.

Designed and implemented various web services with Spring Boot using Actuator for production environment application monitoring and management. Used Spring Security for securing services while handling DAO’s with Spring Data and Hibernate. For transaction processing to back end used Spring Transactions.

Incorporated use of JSF front end with backend Spring Microservices for various

Analytics and utility applications in secured environment.

Implemented components using Spring MVC and Spring IOC on analytic used for evaluating existing services in production environment such that a graph store could be used to build relationships.

Extensive use of Java API for Web Sockets in client server pattern for interactive web applications

Exposure to Java AMPS libraries for advanced messaging systems

Automated EC2 configuration and deployment via Terraform

Automated ECS container configuration/deployments via Terraform in both Fargate and EC2 backed scenarios

Configured ECS start via Eventbridge rules as well as lambda triggers depending on need for short running applications

Automated configuration of ECS task such that it has read and write access to EFS

Automated EC2 configuration via user data scripts in Terraform

Configured Auto Scaling groups for backing EC2 cluster to support EC2 backed ECS containers

Automated scripts and various services to support S3 Event Notification upon dataset delivery via custom python services as well as Lambda Functions

Parsed S3 metadata for processing of S3 delivered datasets

Triggered DataSync transaction initiation on EventBridge rules

Maintained Vue.js application using custom component creation for reusability

Coded Glue Jobs for data transfer automation from S3 to RDS

Automated initiation of Glue Jobs using Step Functions and Eventbridge Rules

OpenShift Platform Plus Install and Configure with a particular emphasis on ODF Storage & ACM. Compliance Operator,

OC-Mirror

Advanced OCP Networking (Eg: Multus & Mixed Modal CNS)

Experienced in Ansible Automation Platform

Experienced yaml format parsing and creation

Extensive use of PLSQL in Oracle DB

Advanced Technical Applications (Continued)

Exposure to Angular versions 15+ as well as Angular.js

Experienced in Angular component-based development

Created custom Angular directives, decorators and services for use with RESTful services

Implemented Angular Routers for navigation from one view to the next

Used above custom components etc for front display of Bayesian Inferencing analytic

Skilled in using helm charts for wide range of Kubernetes

Experienced in CRD creation across wide range of Kubernetes deployments

Experienced with EDI tools and X12 file formats

Versed in automated AWS deployments via Ansible

Experienced in AWS services and automating configuration for them(Lambda, S3 event notification, SNS, SQS)

Implemented various data construct translations from JSON to Java(POJO) objects.

Implemented an acyclic, directed probability network (Bayesian) analytic.

Designed and implemented constraint node processing along above network for Any, One and All constraints upon the application of evidence.

Designed and implemented the application of node evidence and evidence decay.

Developed front end of analytic using Angular

Developed front end using Angular Data Grid for UI components and functionality such as sorting, pagination, filtering etc.

Used npm for package/dependency management for node.js code

Implemented back-end systems using Postgres with Hibernate, Mongo and Redis databases

Implemented REST Services with Spring Boot and Jersey Frameworks

Designed and implemented REST Services

Experienced with AWS deployments and service configuration

Designed and implemented various analytics in a microservices architecture

Responsible for design and integration of both open source and commercial applications using an event driven architecture in conjunction with a microservices architecture

Principal designer of analytics platform consisting of multi-tiered functionality (ingestion, storage, visual, metadata catalog, service registry)

Automated deployments to AWS via CloudFormation Templates and Ansible scripts

Implemented above service bus in Python

Automate deployments via OpenShift

Automated IAC using Terraform modules into AWS creating following resources: IAM,Glue, Datasync, Lambda,SNS,SQS,Step Fxns,ECS,ECR,S3 Event Notifications and others

Implemented use of various messaging and streaming brokers and java clients to integrate with them in Pub/Sub patter

Procertas LLC. Charleston, SC 2014-2017

Software Architect/Partner

Serving as technical lead and architect on the Legal Tech Assessment (LTA), a solution designed to test a user’s technical acumen in various legal/office software platforms. Responsible for client solution delivery as well as customization and relationship management. Providing demos and presentations to clients and decision makers as well as technical direction during client meetings

Responsible for oversight and development of all enterprise applications

Oversight includes budgeting, resource allocation, deadline management team creation (both on and offshore) etc.

Component design decision making

Framework selection front and back end design

Led the conversion of the flagship product, the LTA, from desktop client/server application to standalone web version

Oversaw the translation of the LTA to French, Dutch and Spanish

MCS Claim Services, Inc., Westbury, NY 2001 – 2017

Director of Information Systems

Designing and implementing enterprise systems using Java, .Net and MySQL solutions. Serving as point person for all IT projects including network design, resource allocation and remote site access. Responsible for drafting client connectivity and file transfer procedures between MCS ftp site and various client sites. Oversight of all custom programming projects for patient accounting software as well ensuring all data in organization meets HIPAA compliance guidelines.

Achievements:

Led ICD-10 compatibility software conversion - gathering requirements and developing functional specifications for both patient accounting system and patient billing system

Team lead on Patient Account Management System development

Team Lead on Webpage Scrubbing application development and support

Coordinated the development of an automated Medicaid eligibility request/response application using MySQL database

Designed proprietary SSL/TLS FTP client automation application allowing for client specific job scheduling and file transfers based on varying parameters (date, name/partial name, timing) and in doing so increased the monthly receivable management by 15%.

Bridged above application with JDBC database updates and JavaMail client email notification of success/failure resulting in a drastically improved workflow thus reducing operating costs and ensuring delivery of business critical data

Team lead supporting/troubleshooting application development

Implemented Physician Billing Application allowing for account level and charge level aggregation as well as payment posting

Automated monthly, weekly and daily customized client report creation in MS Excel and MS Word for automated emailing using Perl OLE and Java

MCS Claim Services, Inc. (Continued)

Oversaw all proprietary custom software production including automated

parsing and creation of the following 5010 compliant file formats:

-270 Eligibility Request - 835 Remittance

-271 Eligibility Response - 276 Claim Status Request

-837I Institutional Claim - 277 Claim Status Response

-837P Professional Claim

Authored, implemented and maintained the MCS Internet and Data Security Policy

Raymond J. Sodora

53 William Street, Rockville Centre, NY 11570

Cell: 201-***-**** ******@*****.***

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