Profile of Chris Degiere Java, Spring, Hibernate

Chris Degiere ( Available )

Portland, Oregon - 97202 USA

Expertise :	Java, Spring, Hibernate
Status :	Citizen
Job Type :	All -
Position :

Experienced software developer and consultant seeks advanced Java, web, and database projects in need of application architecture, team leadership, and agile methodologies.

Resume

About Me

Objective
Experienced software developer and consultant seeks advanced Java, web and database projects in need of application architecture, team leadership and agile methodologies.

Skills

Open source Java web application frameworks and architecture Spring, Hibernate, Struts, Grails, EJB3.

Web Services Axis, XFire, SOAP, XML.

Servers/Containers Tomcat, JBoss, Apache HTTP.

Relational database design and performance optimization PosgreSQL, MySQL.

JavaScript/Ajax frameworks DWR, Prototype, jQuery.

Build, release and revision control management ant, maven, subversion, trac.

Automated testing JUnit, Selenium.

Outsourcing, team leadership, agile development methodologies.

Enterprise, startup and consulting experience.

Employment

October, 2004 - Present
Principal Consultant

Chris Degiere and Associate , Inc Portland , OR

Consultant, software architect and lead developer specializing in internet industry startups and Java web applications.

Current and past clients : Ojingo Labs, Drop In Media, IRIS Distribution, XLR8R, Crystal Ball Corporation, Polo's Blue Cube, Sandbox Studios and Attack Marketing.

June, 2007 - Present
Technical Lead

Consultant Chris Degiere and Associate , Inc Portland , OR

Consulted and lead development efforts for blipback.com and associated co-branded mobile, video and social networking applications.

Key contributions : Lead architecture, scalability, internationalization and agile development efforts for EJB3, Struts2, JavaScript, JBoss, Red5, Hibernate, PostgreSQL and Amazon S3/EC2 based online video application.
Lead build and revision control efforts with Ant and Subversion
Lead unit and integration testing efforts with jUnit and Selenium
Lead CDN and YSlow based performance optimization efforts

May, 2006 - May, 2008
Software Developer

Consultant Lead Chris Degiere and Associate , Inc Portland , OR

Consulted and acted as lead architect and developer. Developed digital media distribution and content management platforms for independent content producers distributing to online retailers, mobile services and video on demand networks.

Key contributions : Developed Java based content management and real-time reporting web application using Spring, Hibernate, Struts, Acegi and JavaScript frameworks DWR, jQuery, Prototype
Performance optimization and design for high transaction volume PostgreSQL database system
Staffed and managed in house development and testing teams, worked with outsourced teams, implemented agile methodologies, implemented development infrastructure Linux, Subversion, Trac
Designed 20+TB capacity digital content data store and distribution system using Java, Spring, Quartz, Apache VFS and Apache FTP server.

April, 2005 - April, 2006
Software Engineer

Lead Chris Degiere and Associate , Inc Portland , OR

Lead the applications development team responsible for the flagship web application of this growing international financial industry startup.

Key contributions : Designed and developed SOAP Web Services API and MVC Web Application for financial transaction processing and bank integration using : Java, Spring Framework, Acegi Security, Hibernate, Tomcat, MySQL, Spring MVC, JSTL, JavaScript, XHTML and CSS.
Developed global address verification client or server system using : Java, Python, Lucene, XML-RPC, n-grams.
Championed automated unit and regression testing procedures using Java, jUnit and HTMLUnit.

November, 2003 - November, 2004
Senior Sofware Consultant

Visa USA San Francisco , CA

Lead full life cycle through design, development, testing, deployment and end user support of Java client reporting application interfacing with Visa Resole Online : first real-time web application for credit card dispute management and resolution.

Key contributions : Coordinated with several major banks, : Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo for feature development, testing and production support.
Developed reporting and web service client applications using Apache's open source Java software API's : HTTPClient, AXIS SOAP and Ant.
Developed system interface testing and sample applications using Axis C, SOAP, XML, C++, C# and. NET

March, 2000 - March, 2003
Senior Web Applications Engineer

Topica , Inc San Francisco , CA

Designed and developed web applications for this rapidly growing startup. Assumed increasing responsibility and lead projects to scale from 1 email community website into 3 acclaimed publishing, advertising and user administration applications delivering 2 billion emails per month.

Key contributions : Designed object oriented business and display logic layers in PERL using mod_perl and XS wrappers for C.
Designed Oracle schemas and wrote SQL scripts for schema creation and data loading.
Developed automated testing framework and test suites in Java using HTTPUnit and jUnit.
Developed high volume XML file processing and database import applications in PERL and Java.
Administered Apache, Qmail, Tomcat and Tuxedo servers on Solaris and Linux for Java, PERL and C development.

June, 1998 - June, 2000
Web Developer

Sun Microsystems , Inc Menlo Park , CA

Designed and developed web applications for Sun's Asia Pacific Java technology sales engineer force and data migration teams.

Key contributions : Developed J2EE and DHTML applications using Java, PERL, JavaScript, HTML, JSPs, Servlets, JDBC, Apache, Tomcat, Oracle and Solaris.
Installed and administered Ultra5 to E450 Solaris servers and performed shell scripting and operations tasks covering : Oracle, Tomcat, Sendmail, NIS, NFS and data migration.

August, 1995 - August, 1998
Web Developer

Consultant

Designed, administered and developed web applications for Instructional Computing : an information and administrative resource for 16000 students and faculty.

Key contributions : PERL, JavaScript and HTML programming on HP-UX and FreeBSD UNIX machines.
Supported numerous software applications and networking operations in PC, Mac and NEXT instructional computer labs.

Designed software training courses for Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop and Introductory UNIX.

1994 - 1998

University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara , CA

2003 - 2003

San Francisco State University San Francisco , CA

Education

University of California , Santa Barbara , Santa Barbara , CA , 1994 - 1998
BA in Philosophy , Media Arts Technology

San Francisco State University , San Francisco , CA , 2003 - 2003

Miscellaneous
MS Coursework in Computer Science