801 South Charles Street Baltimore, MD  21230 410-900-7989 (cell)jfinlay66@verizon.net

Experienced Solutions Architect/SOA Architect/Technical Team Lead/.NET Developer seeking a new challenge in the Baltimore area.

Skills

·   .NET 3.5 – 4.5, C#, Java, Visual Basic, C++, C, Lisp, LOOPS,

·   ASP.NET, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, MVC, Windows Forms

·   SDLCs – Agile, CMMI Level IV, Waterfall, Spiral

·   TFS, GIT, SourceTree, Stash, Bamboo, CruiseControl, TeamCity, Sharepoint, TortoiseSVN

·   OnTime, Jira

·   nUnit, VS Testing Suite, StructureMap, RhinoMocks

·   SQL Server, Oracle, Couchbase, DataWarehousing, Stored Procedures, Triggers, User Functions

·   LINQ, nHibernate, Entity Framework, ADO.NET

·   SaaS, SOA, nTier, Visio, DB Design and Analysis, Sequence Diagrams, Flow Charts

·   XML, JSON, Google Protobuf

·   WCF, Web Services (REST), SOAP, MSMQ

Professional Experience

2015 – 2016Agora Publishing Services, SOA/Solutions Architect

-          Environment: Agile, Visio, SOA, nTier Design, .NET 4.5, C#, VS Testing Suite, MVC, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, Web Services, JSON, XML, LINQ, nHibernate, SQL Server, DataWarehousing, Stored Procedures, Castle, Git/SourceTree/Stash/Bamboo

-          Analyzed and documented DB and C# code for IRIS Product. 

-          Reverse engineered the IRIS product and wrote system documentation.

-          Created Data Dictionaries and Database Standards document.

-          Wrote Development Standards document.

-          Analyzed Project Workflow and modified to add controls and remove some bottlenecks.

-          Managed remote development team in Minsk through Agile SDLC

-          Assisted with development as time allowed.

-          Performed a product comparison between sales tax software providers

-          Researched and prototyped a product comparison between WYSIWYG HTML editor controls

-          Designed a contingency plan for the IRIS product if both data centers were down.

-          Gathered requirements and designed Generic Event Tracker and Performance Marketing

-          Began Company research to implement a SOA backbone

-          Began a Refactoring Plan for IRIS, which was 5 years old

 

2013 – 2014Benelogic, Software Architect

-          Environment: Agile, SaaS, SOA, Visio, .NET, C#, Visual Basic, C++, JavaScript, jQuery, nUnit, Windows Forms, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, WCF, Entity Framework, SQL Server, LINQ, Stored Procedures, XML, TFS, Vault

-          Gathered user stories from management, wrote requirements, built screen mockups, wrote detailed design documents for new Manage™ product

-          Defined SaaS architecture

-          Defined WCF Services for use as the Business Layer with the intent to use some services as API

-          Led Manage™ development team through Agile sprints and aided in development where time permitted or mentoring was needed

-          Led Control™ development team

-          Performed first extensive inventory and identification of Control™ components in over 5 years

-          Analyzed current processes and made recommendations including adding horizontal prototypes as the first step for GUI intensive or reporting enhancements.

-          Planned transition from Windows Forms, ASP.NET, COM, and mingled 3-tier architecture to MVC-based interface with SOA

2011 – 2013 Videology, .NET Developer

-          Environment: Agile, SOA, C#, ASP.NET, WCF, SQL Server, Couchbase, LINQ, nHibernate, Stored Procedures, XML, JSON, Google Protobuf, nUnit, StructureMap, RhinoMocks, TortoiseSVN, CruiseControl, Team City

-          Performed assigned enhancement and defects on the AdServer Platform

o     CacheBuilder built protobuf cachefiles from the database every 15 minutes and pushed those files to each of the current active Amazon instances in the Cloud. 

o     AdServer ingested the new cachefiles without requiring an application recycle, and served ads upon requests from sites within a 15 ms SLA. 

o     Logger tracked all events triggered by the video player when an impression was served. 

-          Integrated with non-standard sites, such as Google using their APIs and specifications.

-          Designed and developed Generic User Sync to allow data providers to synchronize their ids with our ids, either storing the mapping on their side or our side.

-          Stored mappings through a combination of cookies and an Offline Cookie Store

-          Performed a market study of competing technologies for Publisher Private Marketplace product

 

20112020 Company, LLC , Senior Developer/Systems Analyst

-          Environment: CMMI, Agile, Oracle SOA Suite, Visio, Java, TortoiseSVN, Oracle, Sharepoint

-          Represented the cross-contractor development team at CMS dataflow analysis and requirements meetings

-          Produced Preliminary Design and Detailed Design documents based on Requirements Document from the primary contractor and CMS.

-          Designed a preliminary data model based for a system prototype, which was also used as the basis for the full logical and physical models developed by the Database Architect.

 

2007 – 2011Blue Sky Factory, Senior Developer

-          Environment: Waterfall, SaaS, .NET, C#, nUnit, MSMQ, LLBL, SQL Server, Stored Procedures, Tortoise SVN

-          Updated and designed a fully normalized SaaS database architecture.

-          Responsible for development and support of the Scheduler, Load Balancer, and the backend Email Engines

-          Increased the processing of emails by a factor of 10x over the previous major production release by using better mail merge libraries and a more scalable and reliable architecture.

 

2005 – 2007American Institutes for Research, Lead Engineer

-          Environment: Waterfall, .NET, C#, nUnit, SOAP Web Services, ADO.NET, SQL Server, TortoiseSVN

-          Owned the Roster Tracking System SOAP Web Service product

o     Performed requirements analysis with Project Manager and internal client

o     Developed API client documentation, including sample application

-          Assigned Ad Hoc projects

o     Developed detailed design documents

o     Managed assigned developers and UI designers

o     Provide coding assistance

o     Reviewed and tested code

 

2002 – 2004Boeing, Project Manager/Lead Developer

-          Environment: DoD Secret Clearance worksites, CMMI, Java, Microstation Development Language (MDL), XML, ODBC, Oracle, SVN

-          Developed funding proposal to rewrite the existing geolocation collection module

o     Introduced improvements and new technologies from current COTS software

o     Gathered customer requests and created technical requirements

o     Performed a market survey to bring in-line with competing software packages

-          Manage the 8-month Java development schedule and team of 3 engineers

o     Wrote and maintained all CMMI documentation

o     Prioritized and assigned tasks

o     Developed with and mentored the engineers located in Maine through code reviews

o     Performed acceptance testing and deployed to internal and external production sites

-          Development of solutions in support of Federal Contract task orders

-          Full support of production lab, including installs and setup, custom software and enhancements

-          Performed on-site systems integration for sub-contractors/customers and general phone support.

 

1999 – 2001IMAKE(24/7 Media), Lead Developer

-          Environment: Waterfall, C++, Java, SOAP Web Services, XML, Oracle

-          Conversion of prototype Billing Engine application to production with multi-platform support.

-          Increased the Billing Engine performance by a factor of 4 to support a real-time purchasing environment through re-design of objects and parallelization of the engine 

-          Maintenance and enhancement of the XML Server application in Java. 

-          Database Design and development of stored procedures and triggers in Oracle.

 

1998 – 1999GIS Wizards, President/Project Manager/Lead Developer

-          Environment: Waterfall, Microstation, GeoGraphics, GeoMedia, Microstation Development Language (MDL), XML, ODBC, Oracle, Access

-          Gathered requirements for work on contract  to Boeing DoD support team

-          Designed and development of batch and interactive QA/QC mapping for Boeing 

-          Conception, analysis, design and development of a Proof-of-Concept Temporal GIS system that adds the ability to query, display, maintain, and track GIS feature changes  across time. 

-          Conception, analysis, design and development of Touch-screen GIS Kiosk Demo allowing a state DOT to easily provide real-time traffic, accident, construction, and facility location information

1995 – 1997MD State Highway Administration, GIS Coordinator

-          Environment: Waterfall, Visual C++, Microstation, VistaMap, ArcGIS, ODBC, Oracle, DataWarehousing

-          Supported the CADD and GIS activities with a team of 2 developers

-          Mentored, gathered requirements, assigned and reviewed tool development

-          Interviewed and gathered GIS requirements from all departments that housed geolocation data

-          Development of SQL applications for data-import and cleansing

-          Integrated strategic legacy databases into the first statewide GIS datawarehouse

-          Designed and developed the customized UI for the statewide GIS

-          Procured $1M RFP budget and approval from Governor and Comptroller

-          Wrote RFP to contract out implementation and maintenance of the statewide GIS

-          Headed the RFP award committee to interview and assess contractor proposals

-          Managed contractor and budget through periodic reviews and documentation

-          Delivery of Management and User training classes for statewide GIS deployment.

-          Appointed by DOT Secretary to be MDOT’s representative to the Maryland State Geographic Information Coordinating Committee (MSGICC).

 

1993–1995	Greenhorne & O’Mara, Inc., GIS Applications Analyst/Project Manager
-          Environment: Waterfall, Microstation, VistaMap, ARC, C++, MDL, ODBC,  Oracle, DataWarehousing -          Attended customer-facing trips to provide technical input and gather requirements -          Worked with MD GIS Coordinator building prototype to sell statewide GIS -          Built Oracle Forms system for input of index card based library of geographic data -          Gathered requirements, designed and built noise wall abatement application -          Supported Satellite Linework Collection team
1991–1993	M.J.Harden Associates, Inc., Programming Supervisor
-          Environment: Waterfall, Microstation, VistaMap, ARC, Fortran, C, C++, MDL, ODBC, Informix, Oracle -          Led development team in multiple projects for KCMO and Gas Pipeline companies o     Estimated and monitored progress to stay within budgets o     Created prototypes for new projects o     Wrote a white paper for moving solutions (one-time use tools and rapid development) to permanent applications (quality-tested and scalable) o     Attended classes for new technologies o     Mentored and taught formal classes for the team o     Started company-wide developer meetings for education and information sharing o     Developed standards and guidelines -          Attended customer-facing trips to provide technical input and gather requirements -          Developed street labeling tool that automated labeling of small line sections merged into complete length and placing labels according to a list of rules.

Education

M.S.1991, University of Missouri - Rolla, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

B.S.1989, Rockhurst College, Computer Science and Mathematics