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Brian Allison 

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Resume Headline: Brian Allison - Senior Software Engineer

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Brian A. Allison

2827 Thornbriar Rd. Atlanta, GA 30340.

Mobile telephone – 678 230 9259

E-mail – brially@gmail.com

 

            SUMMARY

A creative and lateral problem solver with proven strong leadership traits. Ability to refine already defined problem solutions. A vast practical understanding of full stack development through all phases of the life cycle.  Wide understanding of development platforms and OS’s including Win XP, NT, MS .NET, C, Java, Swing, Struts, JSP, JDBC, TCL, SQL, MS SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, Linux/Unix, AS400. Thorough knowledge of web development tools such as AJAX, HTML5, Javascript, CSS3, XML, XSL, SOAP and PHP.  Extensive knowledge of JavaScript libraries including jQuery, jQuery Mobile, EXT.js, backbone, mustache & Dojo.  Utilized these skills to implement a variety of applications including content management, workflow, intranet, B to B or B to C web Applications. A vast experience of development and synchronization with RDBMS and integration with OLE applications. Exceptional knowledge of the Lotus Notes development environment with all versions from 3 to 8.5; including all built in development tools such as Lotus Script and formula language. Graduated with honors in Software Engineering from University of Teesside in the United Kingdom; the University holds the Computing School of Excellence awarded by the British Government.

 

            PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

            Solution Architect, Cyanna Education Service                                          October 2014 – December 2014

Atlanta, Georgia

 

Responsible for evaluating development environment and procedures, supporting legacy application enhancements.  Researching software tools for future integration into solutions.  Cyanna Education Services provides services and software to the private for profit education market space and the associated regulatory agencies.

 

Reviewed all aspects of the software development department including methodology, team structure, working practices and knowledge transfer.  Reviewed and refined roll out practices for stack upgrades including implementing dry runs. 

 

Supported a legacy codeigniter based LAMP stack application including developing enhancements.  Designed and developed modifications to a legacy Moodle LMS. application.  Design solutions for Canvas LMS on the Ruby on Rails technology stack.

 

Researched future video integration solutions from Kaltura, Wista, Limelite.  Compare their feature sets and build test applications to evaluate the available API’s.  Research open source identity management solutions from WSO2 and Open IDM.  Performed cost analysis on current Amazon Web Services technology stacks.

 

            Solution Architect/Developer, C2 Fitness, LLC                                          December 2013 – August 2014

Atlanta, Georgia

 

Architect and developer of a fitness program management system.  Designed, developed and implemented a full LAMP stack application to manage the day to day running of the crossfit kids and fit for life child fitness programs.  Provided a public facing online registration and class sign up system.  Additionally, provided a mobile web based management suite of tools including client management, class management, punch card system and expense and revenue tracking.

 

The database design was implemented using mySQL,  All data access, business logic and workflow was implemented utilizing PHP 5.5 and RESTfull web services.  The UI was implemented utilizing HTML5, CSS3, Json and jQuery mobile 1.4.4.

             

            Software Engineer, Commercium Technology, Inc                                          February 2013 – September 2014

Rumson, New Jersey

 

Software Engineer for Atos Dirx customizations.   CTI is a consultancy company implementing network security, application security and Identity Management solutions based on ‘best of breed’ technologies.

 

British Broadcasting CorporationFebruary 2013 – August 2014

Part of a project team responsible for delivering customizations to the British Broadcasting  Corporations (BBC) Dirx installation.  The project produced customizations to Dirx core workflows, structure and webCenter UI to meet the BBC’s business processes for new hires, internal moves and separation.  These customizations managed remotes system accounts including AD, Exchange and Lync.

 

Responsible for code changes, test team support, release deployment, product updates and post deployment support.  Responsible for developing and coordinating complex implementation strategies involving many technology teams within predefined time windows. Changes were made to Dirx components utilizing java, JavaScript, Struts, JSP and TCL.

 

             


            Senior Solutions Architect, The Coca Cola Company                            February 2010 – February 2013

Atlanta, Georgia

             

Senior Solutions Architect for  Notes/Domino/Web/Java Development, The Coca Cola Company, with more than 92,000 employees, is one of the worlds largest beverage manufacturers.

 

Responsible for the technical aspects of the design, development, testing and implementation of a client facing marketing approval web application.  Also an approval and workflow front end for the national reimbursement program system residing on the mainframe.  The latter will save over $600,000 annually in direct material costs alone.  Lead the design and development of web based versions of the corporate sales force management suite of applications.

 

The marketing system provided a web interface and workflow for clients partners to interact on marketing initiatives.  This was a domino web application with a UI based solely on JavaScript toolkits.  Dojo and JQuery were used for this utilizing the strengths from each and included customized widgets.  Json was also used heavily for defining objects within the JavaScript and for communicating complex objects to and from the server.

 

The reimbursement system was an internal Lotus Notes based system that relied heavily on DB2 data and mainframe files.  This was implemented using java/JDBC agents built in eclipse that utilized complex DB2 SQL views that enabled single runs of over  100,000 documents with up to 10 queries per document.  This was a multi team project requiring coordination with onshore and off shore resources.  I was responsible for building the Notes application, Data Transfer elements and designing the SQL for the DB2 views.

 

The sales force management tool was a suite of Lotus Notes applications that needed to be replicated on the web.  This was implemented using Dojo and jQuery JavaScript ui components including custom built widgets.  Heavy use was made of  JSON for data communication.  The  iText java API was used for dynamic PDF document and spreadsheet generation for all output from the application suite.

             

            Lead  Developer, The Florida Bar                                                        December 2008 – November 2009

Tallahassee, Florida

             

Lead  Notes/Domino/Java Developer, The Florida Bar, with more than 86,000 members, is the statewide professional and regulatory organization for lawyers.

 

Responsible for the technical aspects of the design, development, testing and implementation of a project and time tracking system.  The system integrates live with the backend accounting and budgeting software on the DB2 iSeries infrastructure.

 

The project involved the development of 2 Lotus Notes applications based around the Notes/Domino 8.5 release integrated with iSeries based accounting systems.  Forms within the applications contained swing based java applets to provide functionality not possible in notes alone and merge that functionality with DB2 data accessed via JDBC.  The project also involved intensive data migration between Notes and DB2 on a scheduled and live basis also using JDBC.  Many changes to the DB2 design were also specified and their implementation coordinated with the DB2 development department. 

             

            Senior Developer, Acergy                                                                                    June 2008 – December 2008

Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

             

Notes/Domino/Web Application Developer, Acergy is a global market leader for seabed to surface construction within the petro-chemical industry.

 

Responsible for the maintenance and customization of many global distributed multi lingual applications.  All applications developed were distributed to 40+ servers over many distant locations and are tightly integrated with each other.  A major technical issue involved with development was managing system integration between servers with limited communications either on ships or remote locations in the world.  The primary solution provided for this issue was a custom web service consumer within Notes R7.  This consumed Web Methods web services to integrate with IBM MAXIMO and MS SQL Server in centralized locations.  This involved building custom Soap envelope generators and web service communication functions in lotus script.

 

Responsible for the development of a Domino web based action tracking portal.  This system provided management with an overview of all their team’s actions from the many action generating systems within the organization.  The data was then able to be grouped, sorted and filtered within the web page to provide multiple views of the data.  This was implemented using Ajax, XML, XSL, XLT, Json, DHTML, CSS and Javascript.

 

Senior Developer, Emerald Data SolutionsSeptember 2006 – April 2008

Park City, UT

             

Notes/Domino/Web Application Developer, Emerald Data solutions are the market leader in e-governance solutions for the educational market place.

 

Responsible for the maintenance and customization of the premium product boarddocs.  In addition I was the sole technical resource involved in development of the greatly expanded version 4 of this product.  This included the introduction of web 2.0 techniques into the application including the dojo toolkit.  I was also instrumental in integrating the coexedit product into the application to provide seamless integration of notes rich text editing and wisiwig editors on the web for version 4.1.

 

Additionally, I was responsible for the design, development and implimentation of the new boarddocs LT product.   This included ensuring that this web based application was fully compatible with the premium product to provide seamless upgrade potential.  All the products were browser independent and multi platform including a large MAC based user community.

 

Other duties included providing support for pre-sales, Technical trainers and help desk in attaining their goals.

 

            Project Lead, Angel Flight of Georgia                                                        September 2005 – September 2006

Atlanta, GA

             

Angel Flight of Georgia is a non for profit organization that provides free air transportation for people with a medical need.

 

The engagement was initiated after the current paper based system collapsed under the pressure of the hurricane Katrina disaster.  I was the technical and project lead on this full life cycle project involving requirements gathering analysis, development, testing and implementation.  The applications main focus was to manage the process from flight request to post flight documentation.

 

This was taken on as a free charitable donation of time with support from IBM and Lotus 911.  This project has since won the 2008 Lotus Beacon Award for Best Philanthropy.

 

Senior Consultant, Lotus911                                                                      January 2005 – September 2006

Atlanta, GA

             

Notes/Domino/Web Application Developer.  Lotus 911 provides full service needs for the Lotus/Domino environment including custom application development and environment hosting.  The company is an IBM premium partner and a Blackberry partner.

 

Responsible for the development of custom notes and domino web applications throughout their life cycle.  Many web UI tools were utilized including DOJO, AJAX, DHTML, XML, Json, JavaScript and CSS.  Other responsibilities included training and mentoring junior consultants in domino web UI development.

 

Managed many client relationships providing a friendly and accessible contact for the organization.  These clients ranged from blue chips such as American Express, Coca Cola and Vodaphone to not for profit organizations such as the Potash & Phosphate Institute and the Salvation Army.  Numerous projects were completed for small limited companies as well as major enhancements to commercial products such as Emerald Data Solutions board docs product.

 

Most of the roles in these projects were as a senior developer or project lead but they also included integrating into a clients development team to provide specific technical needs.

 

Applications have included HR & CRM, telephone marketing, risk management, change control management, B to C or B to B web applications and compliance management.

 

Senior Consultant, Eagle Technology Consultants, LLC.December 1999 – January 2005

Atlanta, GA

 

Notes/Domino Application developer.  Eagle Technology provides custom built applications based on IBM and Microsoft platforms and development environments.  The company is an IBM premium Partner and Microsoft Gold Partner. 

 

Responsible for the complete project life cycle of many projects from pre-sales requirements gathering through development to testing, deployment and user training.  Conversely, worked solely on specific phases of projects or providing fixes for specific issues and support for client's internal development efforts.

 

Managed client relationships, expanding them beyond the life of initial projects and providing them with a familiar and friendly contact for any support issues.  These clients ranged in size from large corporations such as ING, NAPA, Yamaha, Deutz and Yale Locks to small 5 person limited companies.  These companies have covered a large variety of markets including manufacturing, recruiting, sales, service, financial and software vendors.

 

Worked in many roles on projects, depending on the size and technical requirements.  These included as a highly motivated individual developer, project lead and team member internally or integrating into a client’s development team. 

 

A vast amount of projects have been based within the Lotus Domino environment utilizing all client and web interface tools including DHTML, XML, JavaScript and CSS.  Most of the web based applications involved working closely with graphic designers to provide a rich user experience.  Many of these Domino based applications have integrated with third party application or custom internal applications.  Additionally, projects have been completed in other technologies including ASP .NET, VB 6/.NET, MS SQL server, Crystal Reports and MS Access.

 

Applications have included commission, multi-department CRM, process control, sales force automation, software compliance and hardware management, production management and quality control.

 

             

Client Server Development Analyst, Total System Services, Inc.                            July 1997 – September 1998

Columbus, GA

 

Lotus Notes developer. Total System Services is one of the world’s largest processors of third party credit and debit cards for banks and the commercial sector.

 

HAT Contracting1991 - 1994

Protective Coating specialist

 

H.M. Forces Army (Infantry)1986 - 1991

Infantry

 

EDUCATION

 

B.Sc. (Hon) Software Engineering, University of Teesside, UK. 1999

Access to Higher Education Certificate, Cleveland Tertiary College, UK. 1995

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Experience

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Job Title

Company

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Commercium Technology, Inc

- Present

 

Additional Info

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Current Career Level:

Experienced (Non-Manager)

Date of Availability:

Negotiable

Work Status:

US - I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

Active Security Clearance:

None

US Military Service:

Yes

Citizenship:

Permanent resident

 

 

Target Job:

Target Job Title:

Senior Software Engineer

 

Target Company:

Company Size:

Occupation:

IT/Software Development

·         Enterprise Software Implementation & Consulting

·         General/Other: IT/Software Development

 

Target Locations:

Selected Locations:

US-GA-Atlanta

Relocate:

No

Willingness to travel:

Up to 25% travel

 

Languages:

Languages

Proficiency Level

English

Fluent