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Education:

• Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Ph.D. program. Left after completion of 5 terms.
• B.S. with High Honors and Highest Distinction from University of Maine in Zoology

Highlights of Recent Experience:

• Publisher – Sr. Manager of Development in Technology
  • Built from specification a brand new site in the portfolio of sites
  • Composite of technologies to create a Web 2.0 style social networking site
  • UI in JSP with JSON, DWR, and Custom AJAX interactions with a bulk of the user interaction in
    in Flex 2.0
  • Back end technology in primarily Spring and Hibernate with Oracle database
  • Media processing in PERL handing off to a JMS & Java based workflow engine that used various SOA techniques to convert video, audio and images to site standards
  • Built out several key clusters for the media processing subsystem in Solaris, Linux & Windows OSes
• Private Bank – Vice President – Enterprise Architect
  • Architected and implemented a redesign of the asset management account opening process –
    the first in 20 years. Highlights included: first portal type system, first IMS updated
    from J2EE, and first project to use RUP.
  • Received 2 (personal and team) Excellence in Service awards for my work with account
    opening.
• Airline B2B – Team Lead Portal & Web Development
  • Migrated and implemented existing website into a content management system based upon ColdFusion, and JSP’s and EJB’s in WebLogic
  • Developed application architecture to facilitate rapid implementation of business processes and
    for integration with airline’s and supplier’s existing systems using
    • Web services – XML, WSDL, Axis, ColdFusion MX, WebLogic
    • EJB’s – entity beans (CMP and BMP) data model, session beans with business logic on WebLogic and JBoss
    • ColdFusion MX and Struts based MVC system for page flow and front end rendering
• Online Retailer – Senior Application Developer
  • Programmed in-memory structure for product information, which is very fast and efficient, added
    in appropriate caching algorithms. System handles tens of thousands of products and over 400
    servers
    • Hierarchical catalogue item retrieval – no acceptable point of failure
    • Preload of high demand items into cache on server startup
    • Meet the demands of 10’s of thousands of transactions a minute
  • Continually tested and reviewed new code as well as existing code to create the robustness and
    scalability requires to handle over 60,000 orders and multi-million product information requests
    daily

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