Corner of Seven

Vision

Find and enhance a solid team of developers to release great software. Only those with the proper motivation can become great. If I can take my energy and ingenuity, and pair that with a team which will help me develop my skills, as a group we will go far.

Skills and Projects

• Programming Languages:
  • Java – Reporting, Data Load, Servlet to JSP conversion, JNDI interface with LDAP Server for user administration
  • Python – Data Transfer scripts, RBEQ (Rhythmbox Equalizer)
  • Ruby – Interlibrary Loan prototype, DerbyTrak (Pinewood Derby Tracking and Managing Site [in progress])
  • Android – Random Walk Live Wallpaper, Castroid (a podcast Aggregator and player)
• Operating Systems:
  • Linux – Distributions used: Arch, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuSE, RedHat, Debian
  • Windows – Service management, Registry knowledge, PowerShell
  • Mac – OSX 10.6, Used for Ruby on Rails development
• Libraries/Packages used:
  • Ant, Maven, JasperReports, Ruby on Rails, Oracle DB, Git, Subversion, Hudson, DotNetNuke, iOS SDK, CakePHP, MySQL

Career-related Work Experience

March 2010 – Present

• Software Engineer
  RelayHealth, Dubuque, IA
  RelayHealth is a branch of McKesson, one of the largest healthcare services corporations in the US. RelayHealth specifically deals with the data and communications aspect of the healthcare field, like handling the routing of medical claim transactions between the health provider and the insurance payer.
  • Implemented and customized the Payor Connectivity Services medical claims processing SAAS platform
  • Developed custom applications in Java, Python, and .NET, to enhance the claims processing workflow for customer’s releases
  • Organized and educated coworkers on an agile approach to implementing new customers’ installations
  • Installed and maintained a Hudson build server for automated build and deployment tasks.
  • Created a analytics reporting system using JasperReports for a daily claim count balancing procedure, incorporating advanced claim aging and routing logic

December 2009 – February 2010

• Mobile Applications Developer
  365Advantage, Dubuque, IA
  
  365Advantage is a social media company based in Dubuque, IA, which provides the upper Midwest with community-centric websites and social media outlets, to provide those communities with a way to keep current easily.
  • Wrote custom mobile applications, using the Android and iPhone SDKs
  • Created websites using ASP.NET and DotNetNuke

July 2009 – December 2009

• Software Developer
  Sysorex Federal, Inc., Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, IL
  
  Sysorex is a global consulting, technical services, defense and outsourcing company with over $5 billion of total contract value delivered over the past 30 years.
  • Supported and increased usability for the Munitions Transport Management System (MTMS), a tracking utility built in Java to verify the shipment and delivery of munitions to and from their designated locations.
    • Performed usability and performance upgrades to the existing system; redesigned a major portion of the UI in the desktop client, and converted Servlets which wrote html to the ResponseOutputStream directly to data-fed JSP pages.
    • Refactored old legacy code to bring the source tree up to date with Java 5 constructs, like Generics

June 2008 – August 2008

• Software Development Intern
  RelayHealth, Alpharetta, GA
  
  RelayHealth is a branch of McKesson, one of the largest healthcare services corporations in the US. RelayHealth specifically deals with the data and communications aspect of the healthcare field, like handling the routing of medical claim transactions between the health provider and the insurance payer.
  • Helped build 4 separate proof-of-concept projects for the research & development team. Two of these projects, Payer Hosting and Payer Connectivity Services, are now actual products.
  • Learned web service programming via Axis and Metro on JBoss
  • Created User Interfaces for projects via Adobe Flex

Education

May 2009

Activities and Accomplishments

Clarke Computer Club (President, Secretary), Upsilon Pi Epsilon – CS Honor Society Member, ACM Programming Contest Participant (3 years), National Honor Society, Japanese Conversation Partner/Tutor, Clarke Collegiate Choir, Vocal/Instrumental performances, John Philip Sousa Band Award Recipient, Clarke College Campus Ministry