DEAN KOOIMAN
Aurora, CO, 80016 | C: 573-586-6460 | dean.d.kooiman@gmail.com | http://www.linkedin.com/in/deankooiman
Professional Profile
A top performing technical lead, combat veteran of two foreign wars, and battle tested leader.
Enthusiastic and driven, with diverse experience across a project’s life cycle; including R&D, design,
appliance architecture, and project leadership. Skilled at decomposing epics and user stories into
functional components enabling the team to execute with precision. A strong conceptual thinker,
and gifted problem solver, with the ability to align teams to achieve strategic business objectives. An
in-depth understanding of the latest web technologies and trends, ensures the team can pick the right
framework to deliver innovative business solutions, with a delightful user experience.
Applied Skills
Worked with management to introduce Design Thinking and Design Sprints to the organization.
Leveraged NLP and Fuzzy Search OSS to provide a natural text API for management appliances.
Deployed a private cloud UX framework on top a Micro-services architecture of Docker containers,
built with Golang, Cassandra, & Nginx, utilizing NodeJS server-side rendering with ReactJS.
Developed rapid prototyping techniques enabling POC demos to VPs for product development.
Lead or Architect for numerous software solutions at scale using Java, JavaScript, and Groovy.
Selected Hibernate as ORM between application logic and Oracle, Postgres, and MySQL.
Certifications
SAFe Agilist
Scaled Agile Framework – http://www.scaledagile.com/leading-safe/
Comprehensive Applications Threat Analysis, Apprentice
Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Fort Collins, CO
Experience
UX Product Owner, Expert
Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Aurora, CO
2015 – PRESENT
Reversed an organizational perception that the UX team was a major blocker to engineering
Accelerated team deliverables by modifying and eliminating process overhead and training designers
Networked and built influence to steer the product roadmap with rapid prototyping and POC demos
Responsibilities
Lead designer and coach
Software architect
Decompose features and requirements
Maintain the backlog and roadmap
Achievements
Transitioned from waterfall to SAFe
Deployed a private cloud UX framework
Fostered innovation in the lab
Transform process to user centered design
UX Designer, Specialist
Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Aurora, CO
Responsibilities
Create wire frames and work flows
Build concepts for key stakeholders
Facilitate cross lab discussions
Brief concepts for detail designers
Achievements
Arbiter between engineering and UX
Formalized a design workshop process
Delivered 4 high profile designs
Designer productivity tool suite
Skills
SAFe, Design Thinking, Design Sprints
Globally distributed team leadership
Golang, NodeJS, ReactJS, Java, Axure
Micro services, Docker, vCenter, Rally
2014 – 2015
Worked with a mentor to define an internal process for guerilla testing, saving the company money.
Identified repeatable time consuming designer tasks, created automation suite and trained the team.
Skills
Agile, Scrum service team, Balsamiq
Linux system administration, GIT
Python, Groovy, Scala, AngularJS,
vCenter, NodeJS, Java, JavaScript
2016
2015
Dean Kooiman
Software Engineer, Specialist
Hewlett Packard – Fort Collins, CO
C: 573-586-6460 | dean.d.kooiman@gmail.com
2012 – 2014
Launched a rapid GUI prototype and development team, eliminating a waterfall handoff.
Architected an automated open source software tracking and audit web service for the product build.
Worked with dev ops to architect and deploy a branch management web service for git cherry-picks.
Responsibilities
Technical lead for storage automation
Automated API documentation
Code quality improvement champion
Led SWAT integration teams
Achievements
Fixed multiple JavaScript memory leaks
Major performance enhancements at scale
Designed product API versioning strategy
Integrated with products in SW portfolio
Software Engineer, Intermediate
Hewlett Packard – Fort Collins, CO
Skills
JavaScript, NodeJS, AngularJS
jQuery, Spring, Jetty, REST, JSON
HTML5, CSS3, Jenkins, GIT, Gradle
RabbitMQ, Gerrit, Agile, Scrum
2011 – 2012
Architect for a dead simple bulk configuration format that saved a number of large accounts.
Designed a XML/XPath library, resulting in a 7,500% increase in performance over javax.xml.xpath.
Reduced the recovery time for the product’s worst case event, a major outage, by 2,400%.
Responsibilities
Architected a SNMP Trap Daemon
Technical lead for bulk configuration
Causal logic for network analysis
Achievements
0% data loss on HA failover
Seamless trap logging to multiple formats
Upgrade without losing raw data stream
Software Engineer, Intern
Hewlett Packard – Fort Collins, CO
Skills
ORM, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Oracle
SVN, Maven, Hudson, EJB, MBean
JMS, HornetQ, ProtoBuffers, JBoss
2008 – 2011
Implemented a command line interface password obfuscation library for Perl scripts.
Implemented a common properties API used by Perl, C/C++, and Java.
Used performance profiling techniques to enhance critical code paths in our team’s services.
Responsibilities
Configure build environments
Maintain install and migration service
Maintain Perl CLI suite of scripts
Achievements
Added support for Oracle11G
100% test coverage for causal analysis
Fixed backup and restore logic
Squad Leader, E-5 SGT
U.S. Army Reserve – Fort Collins, CO
Skills
Java, Perl, C, C++, Hibernate
SOAP, XML, Java Properties API
JBoss, EJB, MBean, Service Beans
2003 – 2012
Secret Clearance, Inactive (2013)
Team installed and maintained $4M in HVAC and power distribution equipment for 150 soldiers.
Planned and executed the security detail for numerous missions as the convoy NCOIC.
Organized training to bring electricians in the platoon up to speed with the latest wiring codes.
Helped plan missions and prepare briefs for ranking officers.
Responsibilities
Construction Foreman
Quality Assurance/Control
Organization of training for soldiers
Military planning process
Education
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Minor in Combinatorics
Colorado State University – Fort Collins, CO
Warrior Leadership Course, Class 004-11
U.S. Army, NCO Academy - Fort McCoy, WI
Distinguished Honor Graduate
Commandant’s Honor List
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
Colorado State University – Fort Collins, CO
2012
2011
Awards Include
Army Commendation Medal
Naval Commendation Medal
Army Achievement Medal
Naval Achievement Medal
Army Good Conduct Medal
Skills
Team Leadership
Team Management
Team Organization and Prioritization
Team Mentorship and Coaching
Security
2010
Dean Kooiman
C: 573-586-6460 | dean.d.kooiman@gmail.com
Experience before Professional Engineering
Started programming as a 10 year old writing iterative algebraic optimizations on a TI-80. Helped
run a private Ultima Online shard, were we used a scripting language to customize every aspect of
the world; from creating weapons, and unique skill trees, to defining world co-op events. After a
game change to Total Annihilation, contributed to a community run match making service in C++
modeled after the defunct Bone Yards.
Languages: Java, Java Script, Groovy, Pyt hon, Go, Golang, Scala, Clojure, C#, C++, C, Pe rl, Bash, Functio nal Prog rammi ng, Object Orient ed Prog ramming
Design: Design Sprin t, Design Thinki ng, Info rmati on Archi tectu re, User center ed design, UCD, Guer rilla Testing, Usability Testing, Design Facilitat or, Co ntextual I nquiry
Frameworks : Hiberna te, NHibernate , Spring, J etty, J Boss , EJB, J MS, MBea n, Rabbi tMQ, AQ MP, jQuery, Angular JS, ReactJS, Gr omme t, Pr otocol Bu ffe rs , Robo Galaxy, No-SQL, SQL, Cassandra, Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, Mongo DB, JSON, XML, SOAP, REST, RestAPI
Leadership: Softwa re A rchitect, Design, Prod uct Owner, Technical Lead, UX Design Lead, UX A rchitect
Tools : Balsamic, Axure, Sketch, Invis ion, Eclipse, At om, Maven, Gradle, GIT, SVN, Jenkins , Hudson, Gerri t, Analys is
A Maker at Heart
I have been imbued with an innate desire to tinker, and a strong believe in lifelong learning. The
following are some of my personal interests outside of work.
o Fatherhood
o Home brewing
o Home automation; Raspberry PI and Nest
o Home media center; Raspberry PI
o GO middleware between FFMPEG, OTA-TV, and OTA-Radio broadcast so I can watch
the Broncos beat up on folks while listening to favorable announcers
o GO data structures, code generation, and memory mapped ring buffers for IPC
o Lean UX, Information Architecture
o Compiler Theory, ZF Functions, Pipelining, Lazy Collections, and Intermediate Languages