Richard P. Christianson

Saint Louis, MO

rickchristianson@gmail.com

Professional & Technical Expertise

· · 18+ years of experience in architecting and developing applications on multiple platforms.

· · Daily hands-on experience in full software development lifecycle across multiple successful projects.

Knowledge and expertise in object-oriented analysis and design as well as software development

methodologies such as Agile and RUP.

· Excellent communication skills and experience working remotely with geographically distributed clients

and teams.

Team leadership skills with demonstrated proficiency in leading small to mid-sized teams to maximize

productivity and achieve committed delivery dates.

Languages & Standards: Java,

JEE, XML, XSL, XSLT,

JavaScript, JSON, HTML, CSS,

SQL, Objective-C, Swift,

Node.js, Python/Django, PHP,

C++, C

Platforms/Operating Systems:

Linux, Windows, AIX, UNIX,

Mac OS, iOS, Amazon Web

Services, Heroku.

Development Environments/

Tools: Rational Software

Architect IDE, Eclipse, CVS,

Rational Requisite Pro, Rational

Team Concert (Jazz), Rational

Policy Tester, Apple Xcode.

Professional Experience

Performance Architect

Middleware/Software:

WebSphere Application Server,

WebSphere Portal Server,

WebSphere MQ, Apache HTTP

Server, IBM HTTP Server (IHS),

DB2 Universal Database, Oracle

RDBMS, MySQL, Postgres,

MongoDB, IBM Cognos

Business Analytics, Apache

Lucene, Apache Xalan, Apache

Xerces, Apache FOP, Lotus

Domino/Notes, Log4J, Java

Mail, JDBC, Dojo, jQuery,

Prototype, JAX-RS, JAXB,

Castor, JUnit.

Methodologies: Agile (SCRUM)

Development, Rational Unified

Process (RUP)

Concepts: Design Patterns,

Multi-tiered Architectures,

Services Oriented Architectures

(SOA); Search (term-based,

faceted-based, indexing,

analysis, sorting and weighting,

hit highlighting); Web

Performance Monitoring and

Optimization; Content

Management; Content Analytics,

Business Analytics: Business

Process Management: Web 2.0,

HTTP; SSL; AJAX; REST;

OAUTH; Mapping and

Geocoding; Mobile platforms.

Independent Contractor - IBM

March 2015 - December 2015

· Analyzed ibm.com PartnerWorld website performance and provided recommendations and

education to the development team and web architect for improvements. In some cases, web

pages in remote locations were taking over a minute to display. Worked with the IBM team to

establish and gather data from remote probes using Dynatrace and perform root cause analysis.

Educated web developers on common performance roadblocks and how to correct them (coding

improvements, caching schemes, minification, compression, CDN usage). Educated managers

and executives on how to measure performance and track improvements (User Perceived

Performance vs. Total Network Response Time). Worked with the IBM web architects to

implement Akamai edge instances. Results reduced page load time in China from over 1

minute to under 3 seconds on average.

Founder & CTO

Hopily, LLC

March 2014 - Present

· Developed Presently, an iOS application for securely sharing status and location information.

Presently was among the first 3000 applications to launch in Apple Watch app store in April

2015. The mobile application was written in Objective-C and Swift using xCode. Backend

services were developed in Node.js, MySQL, and deployed on Amazon Web Services.

Richard P. Christianson

· Developed Hopily, an end-to-end proof-of-concept that aggregates data from popular social

networking sites and performs analytics to determine social hot-spots tied to known locations or

events to allow users to easily discover what events are happening around them at any time.

Backend services are accessed by front-end clients via a secure REST API utilizing OAUTH2

authentication protocols. Backend components were written in Python, Node.js, MySQL, and

MongoDB deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Heroku Cloud Application Platform.

Front-end web client were written using Express.js, Bootstrap and jQuery. iOS mobile clients

were developed using Objective-C, Swift and xCode.

Architect and Lead Developer

IBM CIO’s Office, Business Transformation

Recent Projects:

2011 - March 2014

IBM Partner Central

· Conceptualized, architected and developed Partner Central as an IBM-internal extension of

IBM Business Partner Locator (detailed below) to allow IBM planners and sales personnel to

easily locate business partners, solutions, IBM experts, and related resources (whitepapers,

sizing guides, sales kits) by aggregating and analyzing data contained in multiple repositories

across IBM.

IBM Business Partner Locator http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/bplocator

· Developed proof-of-concepts and prototypes to vet early conceptual ideas for data aggregation

(both back-end and on-the-glass) using data from multiple distributed sources such as DB2,

Lotus Domino, MQ publish/subscribe, SOAP and REST web services, and Excel spreadsheets.

· Collaborated with subject matter experts in different business units to develop and refine

diverse requirements into actionable user stories using Agile development methodologies.

· Architected and developed a scaleable, extendible and highly-available, multi-tiered JEE

solution using WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ message queue, and DB2

RDMS. System had over 1 million users in 2013 and experienced zero unscheduled outages in

2012 and 2013.

· Designed and developed an easy-to-use user interface focused on minimizing search complexity

and maximizing search result relevance using Apache Lucene, Java, JSPs, JSP Tag Libraries,

publicly-available Google and MapQuest services.

and Dojo with AJAX and RESTful services to implement complex search and search result

weighting algorithms.

· Led a small development team of 2-3 geographically-distributed developers to successfully

meet aggressive schedules.

· Developed a solution to efficiently geocode hundreds of thousands of partner addresses

worldwide to allow partners to be searched by proximity to a user’s location and mapped using

· Developed a solution that currently supports over 20 different languages (SBCS and DBCS)

and is easily extendible to new languages using standard Java resource bundles.

· Ensured final products complied with all IBM web standards, legal standards and accessibility

guidelines.

· Technologies utilized: Java EE 5 (Entity EJBs, Message-driven EJBs, Timer EJBs, JPA, JMS,

JSP, Servlet), MQ, DB2, web services (SOAP and REST), JavaScript (Dojo, D3, jQuery),

Apache Lucene, JAX-RS, JAXB.

Architect , Software Engineer

ISV Enablement Services, IBM Systems & Technology Group

Projects:

1997 - 2011

IBM PartnerWorld ISV Enablement Web http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld

· Analyzed and sized stakeholder requirements. Collaborated with project manager to plan

development iterations and release schedules in compliance with Rational Unified Process

(RUP) methodology.

Richard P. Christianson

· Architected solutions that allowed IBM to provide low-touch enablement support to hundreds

of Independent Software Vendors and System Integrators using web-based applications.

· · Led a team of 12 – 20 developers located in multiple locations in the United States and India.

Technologies utilized: IBM ECM (content management system); XML with XSL

transformations (XSLT); Apache Lucene for content search and faceted browse; SOA using

entity and session EJBs and web services; Java Servlets, Java Server Pages and WebSphere

Portal Server for content rendering; content syndication using RSS/ATOM feeds; DB2 database

persistence using EJBs.

PartnerWorld Techline On-Demand Remote Technical Support

http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld (Live Chat link in right column)

· Integrated third-party chat solution into IBM’s server environment using existing IBM

authentication LDAPs and APIs to authenticate IBM employees and business partners.

the partner’s requested language and product.

IBM Solution Connection

· Architected and developed a solution that allows business partners to receive pre-sales support

using a text-based chat which connects the business partner to a qualified IBM agent based on

· Technologies utilized: Jive Openfire and Fastpath (an open source XMPP-based chat system);

IBM employee LDAP, IBM business partner profiling APIs.

· Architected and developed a solution that allowed IBM business partners to connect with

customers by publishing their solutions in a centralized software catalog, associating their

solutions with appropriate IBM hardware and linking to resellers and systems integrators who

could deliver the solution.

· · Worked as lead developer on project with minimal oversight, leading a team of 3-5 developers.

Technologies utilized: WebSphere Application Server; Apache HTTP Server; Java classes using

a MVC design pattern; Java Server Pages using custom tag libraries for reusable content

rendering; Apache FOP for transforming XML-based content for PDF export; DB2 database

persistence using JDBC.

Education

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Honors), Minor in Mathematics

1994 - 1997