IT is my passion and excelling at it is my ambition. 10+ years of experience and a proven track record of accomplishments, compounded with a strong and constantly improving technical expertise, make me a competitive candidate for a growth position at a company.
I firmly believe that the word "impossible" should not be in any IT professional's vocabulary. Finding modern solutions to business challenges peeks my interest, keeps me engaged, and fuels my creativity.
"The only constant is change" is an idiom I firmly believe in. This is especially true in modern web technologies. Ongoing research and analysis of frameworks, patterns, and best practices are an absolute must. Without this, skills, decision making abilities, and relevancy will deteriorate rapidly.
In both of my development and leadership styles, staying agile and responsive are of utmost importance. I prefer iterative development cycles which allow me to focus on ensuring the product is of the highest quality and continuously improving on what is already existing.
Introduced and implemented several web technologies (Backbone, Bootstrap, Google Analytics, etc.) to bring new applications into the modern age of web development, enabling user experience previously unavailable at ASCAP's Online Membership Application and others.
Well-versed in web tier infrastructure administration, monitoring, configuration, and performance tuning of IBM HTTP Server (IHS), WebSphere Application Server ND, and IBM WebSeal that support ASCAP's member traffic, internal applications, and web services.
Key player in introducing Apache's Solr to replace the aging and difficult in maintenance search/matching system. Not only did this increase performance, but the quality of the results were also increased.
Migrated ASCAP's online applications to newer Java versions (Java 1.4 to 1.5 to 1.6) enabling them to run on the IBM supported application server.
Extensive development experience in J2EE server-side code.
Developed a strong ability to debug and reverse-engineer million+ lines of legacy code, recognized as a valuable skill in a fast-paced and fluid organizational environment at ASCAP.
Moderate PL/SQL programming including query optimization, stored procedures, and database triggers on tables containing hundreds of millions of records.
Supported a significant part of ASCAP's online systems.
Accepted into ASCAP's Emerging Leader Program reserved for high performing employees that displayed great potential in management and leadership skills.
Company Description
ASCAP, an organization owned and run by its members, is the leading U.S. Performing Rights Organization representing over 500,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers.
