Bradley (James) Gude   390 W. 8th Street, Unit 401 San Pedro, CA 90731 E-Mail: bradleygude@gmail.com

Objective   Seeking a position as a Sr. Software Engineer

 

Development Skill Set:

Backend       UI/UX       Content Mgmt	Java, Data Warehousing for Big Data, Concurrency, Memory Management, Queueing, NoSQL, REST/RESTful Web Services/APIs, SOAP, Spring, Hibernate, JSP/Servlets, Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, SSO, SAML   Responsive/Adaptive HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, ExtJS, CSS/CSS3, OOCSS, AJAX, SEO, Usability Expert, Photoshop, Socket Efficiency, Web Standards, Mobile/Tablet Web App Development, Browser Compatibility, i18n   Alfresco, Adobe CQ/AEM, Akamai
Database	SOLR, Cassandra, MongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache Derby
Tools/Other	Design Patterns, Scrum, Agile/XP, JSON, Rally, Windows, UNIX, Tomcat, Maven, Eclipse, Ant, Subversion, Jira, MS Project, Visio, UML

 

Professional Summary

 

●        15 years of experience in designing and developing n-tier Java-based Web Applications.

 

●        Complete knowledge with design patterns and programming paradigms, e.g. REST, MVC, SOA, OOP, ect.

 

●        Expert knowledge in data warehouse design for big data capable of processing terabytes of data, efficiently in a multi-threaded architecture.

 

●        Total knowledge in Java, Multi-threading, Web Services, Database Design, JavaScript, SSO, jQuery, HTML5.

 

●        10 years as Lead Developer in a Scrum, Agile/XP environment leading and mentoring development teams. Acts as Business Analyst at times.

 

●        Expert Usability and Aesthetics knowledge having won awards for usability.

 

●        Self-Starter and total project champion having been called “Favorite person in I.T.” – Director of Marketing.  Also, having developed solutions that were said to give the company “A competitive advantage over our competition” – VP Marketing.

 

 

 

 

 

Professional Experience

 

March 2013 – Present.  JD Power & Associates

Title: Sr Software Engineer

Technologies: Java, Alfresco, JavaScript, HTML5, SOLR, Cassandra, ExtJS, CSS3

 

Highlights:

●        Implemented Single Sign-On functionality using SAML2.

●        Developed REST APIs against Cassandra & SOLR.

●        Automated a number of deployment processes which significantly cut down dev time.

●        Mentors a number of developers and supports them with their assignments.

●        Assists in on-boarding new hires.

●        Resolved a number of infrastructure issues in all areas (Apache, SSL, performance).

●        Helped develop Cassandra infrastructure and move data from SOLR to Cassandra.

 

 

June 2012 – March 2013.  NBC Universal - Style Network

Title: Sr Software Engineer

Technologies: Java, MongoDB, REST Web Services/APIs, JavaScript, HTML5, jQuery, CSS3, Responsive Web Design, Memcached

 

Highlights:

●        Developed Data Warehouse and APIs to centralize and deliver data to other systems.

●        Produced REST APIs and worked with Microsoft on a Surface app they were developing on behalf of the network.

●        Developed REST APIs to query several social media sites for article counts so that the web ui only has to make a single call.

●        Reengineered website from the ground up to be Responsive/Adaptive.

●        Lead an effort to have an outside web design firm produce many areas of the website.

●        Engineered a process to automatically scale and optimize images by 60%+ cutting initial homepage payload from 16MBs to 1.5MBs.

●        Website relaunch won the CableFAX award for “Best newly designed site”, finalist for the MediaPost award for "Web Site Excellence" and a CableFAX honorable mention for "Best Overall Website by a Large Cable Network".

 

 

May 2011 – June 2012.  BusinessHaps Software

Title: Sr Software Engineer/Cofounder

Technologies: Java, MS SQL Server, MongoDB, Web Services (SOAP/REST), JavaScript, HTML5, jQuery, CSS3

 

Highlights:

●        Developed a data warehouse/analytics platform for big data geared towards the telecom industry.

●        Invited to the white house for developing an application which won 2nd place nationally in the EPA’s “Apps for Energy” for best application use of their web services.

●        Built a mobile application for Museum of Sex by enriching their experience by automatically highlighting artifacts as they walk through their tour.

●        Developed several Web Applications for AppTivo.com.

●        Developed APIs/backend for minta.com.

●        Developed APIs/backend for lifeunchained.org.

 

 

April 1999 – May 2011.  U.S. TelePacific Communications

Title: Sr Software Engineer

Technologies: Java, Spring, MS SQL Server, JavaScript, CSS, JSON, jQuery, WebLogic

 

Highlights:

 

●        Developed data warehouse/analytics system that lead to the organization save over 60 million dollars in its first 2 years. The system is said to give the company a “competitive advantage” in the industry by the VP of Strategic Initiatives.

●        Data warehouse processed over 30 million records per day while enriching the data and making it available for alerting, real-time analytics and data mining.

●        Data warehouse stored over 75 billion records that are quickly accessible via web ui for data mining and adhoc analytics.

●        Referred to as “favorite person in IT” from Director of Marketing.

●        Produced an access mgmt system that was adopted as the enterprise access mgmt system for the organization.

●        Developed corporate website, customer extranet and employee intranet in 1999-2000 with the base still in use today.

●        Agile Coach, helped the development team move towards agile development.

References

Available upon request.