Java Developer

Allen B. Davis Java Developer (919) 390-8155 [email protected] SUMMARY An industry professional with experience in a wide range of technologies. Exceptional skills in large scale distributed architectures, frameworks, compilers, virtual machines and design methodologies. Technical Expertise Development Methodologies . Iterative, XP, Agile Operating Systems . Windows, Unix Languages . Java, C, C++, JavaScript, Development Tools . Eclipse, WSAD, JDeveloper, Application Servers . WebSphere . JBoss Communications . JMS, Web Services, TCP/IP, Databases . Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Other . Java Virtual Machine (JVM)

ActionScript, Smalltalk, PHP DreamWeaver, Flash, Flex Builder etc

MQ Series etc DB2, SQL Server etc.

Job Experience 2010 - Consultant Cincom Systems/Kaiser Aluminum Upgraded VisualWorks Smalltalk clients from 2.5 to 7.7, Upgraded GemStone/S from 5.1.3 to 64 bit 2.3.1, Converted from Solaris to Ubuntu Server and developed XML client gateway 2010 - SCG Labs Designed and developed PayPal payment gateway in PHP 2009 - PhonePay Implemented communications and message processing for SMS modem and POS order fulfillment 2008 Consultant Cincom Systems/Qwest Modernization of large Client/Server application written in VisualWorks 2006-2007 Consultant State Farm Insurance Conversion of large multi-tiered application from Smalltalk to Java 2005-2006 Consultant RailInc Web Developer for large system used by railway companies. various languages and technologies

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1/99 - Designed and developed compiler which compiles Smalltalk programming language to Java class files and bytecodes. Required extensive low level knowledge of Java and the Java Virtual Machine.

11/98 - 5/99 Performance tuning and development consulting for Florida Power and Light Trouble Call II application. 1993 - 1997 Mission SoftwarE INC. President 3/96 - 3/98 Directed Mission Software's services and product development programs. Consultant to major corporations on architecture, frameworks and design methodologies. 3/96 - Designed and Implemented "Business Internet/Intranet distributed applications.

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2/95 - 2/96 Chief Architect - Info '96 (1996 Olympic Games client/server system) Responsible for the overall design and technical development of Info '96 - VisualAge Smalltalk. 1995. Object Oriented Methodology Consultant - IBM OO Charlotte, NC Training and mentoring in OO design methodology.

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1994 Consultant - GE Financial - Cary, NC - VisualAge architecture and design. Design Consultant - "The Developer Connection" for OS/2 Development - IBM Boca Raton - Smalltalk browser, search engine and packaging using Application Master. Development of 'Application Master', a Smalltalk code stripper and packager technology. 1980 - 1993

IBM Corporation

1993 Chief Design Consultant - Software Product Development - Santa Theresa, CA Smalltalk based product design and development. Developed 'ReDiscovery' - a powerful (Internet enabled) Smalltalk based search engine for finding and cataloging product source code. 1992

Technical Lead - RSS Internal Tool Development - Cary, NC Successful deployment using Smalltalk Corporate Reuse Council Representative for IBM - Cary, NC Defined process to facilitate creation and deployment of large scale class libraries 1989 - 1992 Internal Tool Development / Technical Support - Software Tech. Center - Cary Design implementation of development tools for IBM internal use 1987 - 1988 Enhanced Connectivity Facility, Software product development Cary, NC Design / implementation of file and database services in client/server environment. 1986

Software Product Development (Graphics Editor) - Cary, NC

1986 Level 3 Support (Change Team Support) - Personal Decision Series - Cary, NC

1982 - 1986 Production Control - Electronic Card Assemblies (ECA) Charlotte, NC 1980 - 1982 Senior Materials Attendant (ECA) - Charlotte, NC 1977 - 1979

Duke Power Company Facility Maintenance

Published Works 2 Invention Disclosures on ECF (1988) 1 Invention Disclosure on RSS (1992) 5 IBM Cary Technical Vitality Newsletter Articles (1989 - 1990) Object World Award Application (published in Objects in Action - Addison-Wesley Publishing 1993)