Philip Cootey

22 Phillips Drive

Newburyport MA, 01950

pcootey@hotmail.com
 

I am an accomplished software architect with experience in IoT, Cloud, and SaaS systems with over 15+ years of software development experience. My core competencies are in IoT infrastructure, Cloud Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, Event Driven Architecture, Middleware and the decomposition of business problems into solutions. 

EXPERIENCE  

Aug 2015 – Present FORAGER NETWORKS Inc, Newburyport MA

Founder and CxO of a mobile communications company.  Forager Networks Inc. technology is based on distributed control plane architecture for the intelligent offload of data from cellular for mobile and IoT devices, which includes API definition and access to geospatial storage and analysis of wireless signal data to target MVNO market. 

Tech: Azure, AWS Java, JSON, JEE, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, Git, Google API, Geocoding, Geofencing, Android, Tomcat, Mint, Web Services, REST, SSL, OpenVPN, Jenkins

Aug 2015 – January 2016 ELEMENTAL MACHINES, Cambridge MA

Consulting Distributed Systems Architect to 'stealth mode'​ bio-tech IoT startup in life sciences. Cloud based infrastructure on AWS.  Identify and implement IoT reference architecture. Advise founders on Build vs Buy decisions. Define API. Development of build-components. Security configuration. Performance optimization. API with machine learning consumer targets.

Tech: JEE, Git, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, PubNub, EC2, Ruby, Javascript, Java, Drools (Rules Engine), Google API, REST, JSON.  Technical leadership towards practice, training, and handoff.

2010 – 2015 EBSCO PUBLISHING, Ipswich MA

2014 - 2015 Enterprise Systems Architect – Infrastructure: Hands on architectural role.  Lead efforts of strategic importance across the organization, build strategy and processes related to organization wide initiatives. Roadmap alignment of technical and business organizations while operating across organizational groups to drive standardization of common approaches and best practices.

Prototyped gateway architecture,using JBoss Fuse to tackle “service sprawl”.  Cross-departmental requirements from stakeholders including integration of dev ops and network engineering requirements. DevOps and Performance Engineering Consulting.

Tech: JBoss Fuse, OpenStack, Camel DSL, ActiveMQ, OSGI, Java, Git, ELK, Microservices (Docker), Jenkins, AWS

2013 – 2014 Principal Software Engineer - Infrastructure: Delivered solutions that improve host responsiveness through distributed system strategies. Established patterns and practices for Sr. to Jr. Software Engineers as principal code contributor.

Distributed System Architecture: Architected and delivered distributed systems with support of Directors and Enterprise Architects to solve enterprise level infrastructure problems. Planning, implementing and documenting infrastructure proposals and interoperable implementations, consulting with directors and architects across departments, and scoping and timing releases.

Technical team leadership: Internal customer relationship building and interest maintenance. Mentoring. Collaborate with management on team goals.  Advise management on team members for their performance reviews.  Consult performance engineers on testing strategies, test plans and reports, refining and prioritizing requirements.

Tech: Java, .Net, SOAP, REST, Fast Infoset encoding, Couchbase Memcached, Glassfish, IIS, OpenStack, VMware

 

2012 – 2013 Sr. Software Engineer - Services Engineering: Built and deployed interoperable .Net/JEE multi core web services.  Specialized in high throughput, high transaction distributed caching systems. Designed and implemented API front-end for Couchbase-Memcached distributed cache back-end; including, evaluation of binary encoding formats, performance validation and reporting, agile project participation, unit tests, integration testing, technical leadership, distributed system architecture.

Technical team leadership: Affective collaboration for solutions to complex systems problems. High-touch technical communication to QA systems for testing of highly abstract distributed system.  Demonstrated and validated performance enhancements to management in ways that could be seen.

Distributed System Architecture: Articulated gateway architecture in architectural review process to directors, enterprise architects, and VPs.  Advocated infrastructure requirements to executives and proved necessity of additional architecture in their distributed service infrastructure.

2010 – 2012 Software Engineer – Services Engineering:  Advocate and partner to quality, a champion of continuous integration and experienced in development/deployment from VM environments. I played a key role in writing next generation distributed clients and services and was a primary contributor in bringing change with greater velocity to production. This included improved performance that could be seen. I continued development of my expertise in agile programming and became known for my effectiveness at creative problem solving.

2007 – 2010 ITG Inc, Boston MA
Sr. Software Engineer: MVC .NET OMS/EMS End to End Trading platform development. Primarily responsible for integration of Market Data service streams within a proprietary data partitioned threading model and handling broadcasts of Market Data updates on ESB.  Contoller mechanisms to bind UI attributes into MVC Windows desktop application.  XP Agile Methodologies shop. CI, TDD, APM, Spring.Net IOC, WCF, .Net 3.5, VS2008, NHibernate ORM, Tibco ESB, Innovated View and Controller testing on Fitnesse testing platform.  SOA EDA ESB. Agile workshop

2005 – 2007 GREENFIELD ONLINE, N. Andover, MA
Sr. Software Engineer: .Net Enterprise Application development in established framework for online survey platform. Member of core engineering team.  Responsible implementation of end to end features, vertical development through MVC tiers with a heavy reliance on Java Script client side code using custom Ajax framework.  Major contributor in the development of concurrent survey matching algorithms in technical layer:  MSMQ messaging.  Asynchronous programming. SOAP.  Agile workshop.

2004 – 2005 BINGHAM MCCUTCHEN Boston, MA
Application Developer: Full stack .Net Application development.

2003 – 2004 MICROSEARCH CORPORATION, Saugus, MA
Sr. Application Developer: Full stack .Net Application development with SOAP services

1999 – 2003 IONA TECHNOLOGIES, Waltham, MA
Software Engineer: J2EE Application Development.  Submitted first patent: Customer service support paradigm.  SOAP consuming client side development. VB application development. QA. Agile workshop.

1998 – 1999 JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN, Boston, MA
IT Director/ Webmaster: CGI Web Forms programmed in C, JavaScript, VB Desktop Apps, HTML, Typical WWW .com bubble web dev work  Maintained network, FTP repos/access, Computer and network support in offices across the east coast, RI, NY, Conn, Boston.

1997 – 1998 ROWNTREE 3D, Boston, MA 3D Animator shop
Webmaster: CGI Web Forms programmed in C, JavaScript, VB Desktop Apps, HTML, Typical WWW .com bubble web dev work.  Maintained IRIX network, FTP repos/access, Research for new technologies

EDUCATION

MS in Computer Science Worcester Polytechnic Institute GPA 3.4, On leave
BA in Computer Science University of Massachusetts Boston GPA 3.75 May 2010
BA, Music, minor in Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Lowell GPA 3.4, , 1997