Janet Grace Application and Integration Architect ~ Developer ~ Technical Lead Annandale, VA 571.243.3007 JanetGrace01@gmail.com Introduction I began my technical career after graduating with a degree in electrical engineering and have loved learning new technologies, methodologies, programming languages, systems, and applications as science and technology has continued to grow and change and as new capabilities were required for projects. I obtained my wide variety of skills and experience from projects including custom applications, web applications, and hardware, system, and application integration in industries such as airline communications, telecommunications, government and finance I am expert in all aspects of technical projects including engineering, analysis, design, full lifecycle development, architecture, and leadership. I am adaptive, highly motivated, creative, and productive, learn quickly, work independently, have a strong attention to detail, and have excellent problem solving and communication skills. Technical Summary Methodologies: OOD, SOA, Agile Languages: JAVA, JAVAScript, Objective-C, C, C++, SQL, JSP Technologies: Servlet, Portal, Web Service, JDBC, XML, HTML, J2EE, AJAX, CORBA, RMI, RPC, TCPIP Development Tools: Rational Software Architect, Rational Application Developer, WebSphere Integration Developer, JDeveloper, JBuilder, Eclipse, SVN, CVS, ClearCase/ClearQuest, RTC Applications: IBM Business Process Modeler, WebSphere Business Integration, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal, ORACLE, DB2 MetaSolv, Oracle Portal, Domino, Crystal Reports Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows, MS-DOS, MAC Employment History IBM Corporation, Enterprise, Integration, Application Architect/Developer/Technical Lead, Fairfax, VA JR Consulting, Inc., Integration, and Application Architect/Developer Consultant, Annandale, VA WilTel/Williams, Application Architect/Developer, Tulsa, OK Memorex Telex Corporation, Application Architect/Developer, Tulsa, OK Professional Experience IBM Corporation, 2004-Present IBM Delivery Excellence Team Award Member IBM Academy Technical Leader Program IBM Service Excellence Award Member IBM Technical Leadership Resources Gold Industry Badge for Telecomunications IBM Technical Excellence Program for WebSphere IBM Software Group IBM Product Security Incidence Response (PSIRT) Department, Application Architect/Developer/PSIRT Operations Annandale, VA Involved in defining and implementing processes and procedures to reduce risk to IBM and customers through timely identification, analysis, resolution and reporting of security vulnerabilities in all IBM offerings. Design and develop web and JAVA applications to simplify identification and analysis of problem areas for product teams to comply with PSIRT compliance and policy, and simplify and automate processes, procedures, and manual. Migrated the IBM PSIRT Blog and PSIRT internal web applications to the IBM Northstar standards. Responsible for WebSphere Application Server administration and server maintenance, support, and security compliance, the IBM PSIRT blog, Janet Grace Application and Integration Architect ~ Developer ~ Technical Lead Annandale, VA 571.243.3007 JanetGrace01@gmail.com and all PSIRT reporting that includes a variety of data access including web applications, JSON data feeds, REST APIs, automated email notifications, and various file formats. Responsible for design and development of a reporting solution that provides ad hoc reporting and predictive analytics. Worked with the team to develop a proposal for utilizing Watson for diagnosis and prediction analysis of vulneribilities. Developed solutions for company wide improvements in Anti Piracy processes and procedures. Key Accomplishments: Over $2.5 million in savings with streamlined and automated processes and procedures and providing. Continued reduction in out of compliance product vulnerabilities and time to analyze and resolve vulnerabilities. Improved IBM Technical Environment: JAVA, J2EE, DB2, RAD, WebSphere Application Server, BPM, JSP, JSON, HTML, JQuery, Web Services, Windows, UNIX, RTC, WordPress, IBM Northstar web standards. IBM Global Business Consulting Services IRS, Technical Lead/J2EE and JAVA Developer Oxon Hill, MD Technical and team leader, developed requirements and design, implemented solutions, and developed assessments and estimates for project change requests for a complex integrated procurement system with a web interface, integration with eight systems, data management, and reporting and a user base of approximately 15,000. The change requests represent medium to complex design and development efforts to add or change functionality in the web application, reports, or interfaces. Key Accomplishments: additional IBM revenue from client acceptance and funding for the assessments and estimates, successfully meeting all goals and deadlines for three major releases that included a total of over fifty change requests, high quality work products, high IBM project management reviews and client satisfaction ratings. Technical Environment: JAVA, J2EE, JDBC, XML, RAD, WPS, WebSphere Portal, JSP, Web Services, Oracle, Windows, UNIX, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Crystal Reports. New Jersey Tax, Custom Application Architect/JAVA Developer Annandale, VA Designed and developed custom JAVA applications to shred XML tax return data into a repository as well as a custom JAVA application to parse XML files containing multiple returns types and create a transaction file with the parsed data. The purpose of the project was to detect audit issues at the time a tax return is processed. Key Accomplishments: meeting or exceeding deadlines for an extremely aggressive schedule, high IBM project management reviews and client satisfaction ratings, very few issues resulting from the system testing phase. Technical Environment: JAVA, JDBC, XML, Shredding, Hibernate, Digester, RAD, Oracle, Windows, UNIX. Environment Protection Agency, Integration Architect/WBI & WPS Developer/Technical Lead Annandale, VA Developed analysis’, strategies, implementation plans, business cases, requirements, and designs for a complex enterprise architecture to improve financial management, implement industry best practices for integration and data warehousing. Provided technical oversight for operations and maintenance, implementing performance improvements, developed and implemented O&M and development processes and procedures. Developed integration and reporting solutions. Key Accomplishments: high quality work products, high IBM project management reviews and client satisfaction ratings, meeting or exceeding SLA’s, implemented performance and procedure improvements, and automation. Technical Environment: IBM WBI, WPS, WSAD, WID, and RAD, JDeveloper, J2EE, JSP, AJAX, SQL, PLSQL, JAVA, JDBC, Oracle, Oracle Portal, Domino, PeopleSoft, PRISM, Lotus Notes, XML, HTML, SOAP, Windows, UNIX. Verizon, Integration Application Architect/WBI & JAVA Developer Arlington, VA Provided technical expertise for a complex telecommunications integration solution involving order entry, provisioning, billing, and servicing. Provided expertise and assistance in solving network, database, and software installation and configuration related issues. Designed and developed the more complex elements of the project and developed JAVA utilities and collaborations in order to enhance team productivity. SME for the MetaSolv application Janet Grace Application and Integration Architect ~ Developer ~ Technical Lead Annandale, VA 571.243.3007 JanetGrace01@gmail.com and its CORBA API providing training, installation, administrative, and troubleshooting, and developing enhancements to the MetaSolv Adapter and gateway event servers to solve the unique requirements and issues. Key Accomplishments: eliminated the at ‘risk status’ of the project, MetaSolv Adapter enhancements were incorporated into an IBM product release, the project was successfully implemented according to the updated baseline schedule, the client continued to request consulting. Technical Environment: IBM WBI, JAVA, JDBC, CORBA, Siebel, MetaSolv, Oracle, Web Services, XML, Windows, UNIX. JR Consulting, Inc. MCI, Integration Application Architect/WBI & JAVA Developer Colorado Springs, CO WBI SME, architect, and lead developer for seven telecommunications integration projects.. Technical Environment: WBI, JAVA, CORBA, MQ, Web Services, Oracle, TCP, XML, Windows, UNIX. U.S. Department of Defense, Integration Application Architect/WBI & JAVA Developer Fairfax, VA Designed and developed business objects, maps, collaborations, and custom data handlers to implement and demonstrate two WBI integration proofs-of-concept. Technical Environment: WBI (JText Adapter, JDBC Adapter), JAVA, FTP, Oracle, Windows. Nextel, Web Application Developer Herndon, VA Developed a web application and prototyped a JAVA application to provide a user interface to view circuit information and update equipment and circuit inventory with data retrieved through the MetaSolv CORBA interface. Technical Environment: JAVA, Oracle, CORBA, J2EE, JAVAScript, MetaSolv, DreamWeaver, Windows. Comunitel, Integration Application Architect/JAVA Developer Madrid, Spain Designed and developed an integration solution that integrated seven legacy systems, allowing synchronization of customers, service orders, telephone numbers, network inventory, services, and billing. Developed a framework based on the design and several of the interfaces. Provided mentoring and training to the development team. Technical Environment: JAVA, CORBA, J2EE, MetaSolv, Oracle. Completel, Integration Application Architect/JAVA Developer Paris, France Designed and developed an integration solution that allowed synchronization of customers, services, and billing items between source and destination interfaces using an integration product that I designed and developed. Technical Environment: JAVA, CORBA, C++, MetaSolv, Oracle, Arbor, Windows, UNIX. Radianz, Integration Application Architect /JAVA Developer Nutley, NJ Designed and developed an integration solution that allowed synchronization of customers, orders, and circuits between source and destination interfaces using an integration product that I designed and developed. Technical Environment: JAVA, CORBA, MetaSolv, Clarify, Oracle, Windows, UNIX. JR Consulting, Inc. Product Development, Application Architect/JAVA & J2EE Developer Annandale, VA Designed and developed an integration product to provide communication between applications or hardware. The design was based on platform independence, multi-threading, distributed architecture, configurable communications transports, data storage, and data mapping, auto-reconfiguration, fail over and recovery. Developed adapters for communications transports and application-specific adapters and a graphical user interface for configuration, monitoring and control of all product components. Technical Environment: JAVA, CORBA, RMI, TCP, MetaSolv, Clarify, Oracle, Access, J2EE, Arbor, Windows, UNIX. Janet Grace Application and Integration Architect ~ Developer ~ Technical Lead Annandale, VA Network Access Solutions, Integration Application Architect/JAVA Developer 571.243.3007 JanetGrace01@gmail.com Herndon, VA Designed and implemented a Clarify to MetaSolv integration solution using CrossWorlds for processing customer, billing, product, order, and circuit information. Technical Environment: CrossWorlds, JAVA, CORBA, MetaSolv, Clarify, Oracle, Windows, UNIX. CrossWorlds, Application Architect/JAVA Developer San Francisco, CA Designed and developed a MetaSolv API adapter for CrossWorlds integration. Worked with the CrossWorlds sales team to develop proofs-of-concept and demonstrate a variety of potential customers. Technical Environment: CrossWorlds, JAVA, CORBA, MetaSolv, Oracle, Windows. PaeTech, MetaSolv Application Implementation Rochester, NY Implemented Metasolv’s Telecom Business Solution (TBS) application. Managed and developed the implementations as well as provided training and guidance for implementation decision-making of key users of the system. Technical Environment: MetaSolv, Oracle, Windows. MCI, Application Architect/Objective-C & JAVA Developer McLean, VA Analyzed, designed, and developed MCI’s local telephone service order entry application. Developed the graphical user interface (GUI) for the initial implementation. Lead developer in porting the GUI from Objective-C to JAVA. Technical Environment: Objective-C, JAVA, C++, CORBA, NeXTStep, Windows, UNIX. Fannie Mae, Application Architect/Objective-C Developer Washington, DC Developed client/server distributed objects classes and multi-threaded applications. Developed documentation and example programs for tutorials and was technical mentor for a NeXTStep based financial system, providing training and guidance in design and development using the NeXTStep tools and objective-C. Technical Environment: Objective-C, C++, NeXTStep, Oracle. WilTel/Williams Coompany Application Architect/Objective-C Developer/Team Lead Tulsa, OK Lead architect and developer for a real time Network Management System using client/server, open systems, and distributed object technologies. Managed the project schedule and task assignments; worked with users to define detailed specifications; coordinated user acceptance and QA testing and deployments and, managed the test teams. Technical Environment: Objective-C, NeXTStep, RS6000. Application Architect/C Developer/Team Lead Tulsa, OK Designed and developed from equipment specifications control processes for telephony switching. Developed real time communications software to monitor and control video conferencing equipment. From equipment specifications designed a communications model for video equipment. Managed the project schedule and task assignments. Technical Environment: C, Digital VAX/VMS, AIX. Memorex Telex Corporation C Application Architect/Developer Tulsa, OK Designed and developed a multi-threaded terminal emulator product and a printer server with interface functions for process communication. The server was an integral part of an airport control system implemented internationally. Technical Environment: C, OS/2, NETBIOS.
