ELWYNTHOMPSON
Compelling individual leading an enterprise in business and technology alignment of solar solutions.
SUMMARYOF QUALIFICATIONS
Project Management Institute (PMI)-Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) managed scope, schedule, budget, requirements, risk and conflict resolution on Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 3 Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Agile projects.
Sun Certified Java Programmer, Sun Web Component Developer and Object Management Group (OMB)Certified Unified Modeling Language (UML) Professional with astute understanding of manyprogramming languages and paradigms.
Accuraterealization of clientvisionfrom design to implementationthrough unambiguous communication, formal classification, innovative leadership, and unrelenting persistence!
EXPERTISE
Process / CMMI, RUP, Agile, ScrumTechnology / Dedicated web and cloud applications hosted on Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft and IBM products. C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, SQL languages.
PROFFESIONALEXPERIENCE
Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Private Sector November2016 – Present
Key Achievements
Championed and implemented adoption of a cloud productivity suite resulting in eliminated cost to hiring in-house IT administrator staff.
Led development of financial evaluation system that reduced project feasibility analysis from one month to a few days.
Solutions & Applications Architectfor Public Sector December 2009 – Present
Key Achievements
Manager, Scrum Master, and Development Leadover3-year, multi-vendor program to reduce processing time for fiscally failing large institutions to resolve within a weekend timeframe.
Team Lead architected and implemented the first Web 2.0 modernization of a mission essential system in collaboration with 10 agile teammates sprinting every 2 weeks throughout a 2 year release to replace a Pegasystems implementation.
Data Scientist in collaboration with 3 teammatescreated the first visualization applicationsupporting Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) and visualization of arbitrary datacapable of scaling to indefinite volume for the security organization. Leveraging Big Data techniques with the WebLogic Coherence Cache and the D3.js library for creating visualizations such as Circle Packing, Directional Force, and Hierarchical Edge Bundling.
Led Java development team of six through semiannual development lifecycles to support historical federal statutes signed into law.
PROFESSIONALEXPERIENCE (cont.)
Led team of three in architectural analysis and prototyping that reduced ETL processing times from 2 hours to 3 minutes leveraging the MapReduce model within a custom in-house distributed parallel architecture. Formal RUP Architectural Proof-of-Concept delivered to the organization’s CIO Council.
Interpreted and refined hundreds of Enterprise Architecture requirements for the development organization by facilitating requirements gathering sessions among Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, and Project Managers.
Delivered Reference Architecture (realization ofEnterprise Architecture) through multiple iterations of review, discussion, and implementation with key stakeholders and a team of three. Leveraged JavaScript and Java programming languages to serve a mobile-first user interface backed by a suite of RESTful web services while adhering to all standards, frameworks, and tools set forth by the enterprise.
Scrum Master facilitated a development team of seven to refine the Reference Architecture and its framework API to production standards and quality over four iterations. The application is the in-house framework and standard for other teams developing Web 2.0 style RESTful web applicationswithin the organization.
Minimized time to productivity of new hires. Led training sessions for all Java developers on-boarding with the project. Developers were introduced to the organization, taught how to apply the Enterprise Architecture to the system, briefed on peer review procedure, testing methodology, and source control policy.
Managed implementation of the first WebSphere Gold Topology clustered environment completed in four months with a team of four developers. The environment was horizontally and vertically scaled across two nodes with six application servers to support a 400% increase in load.
Release Manager for the first Continuous Integration (CI) solution using Ant, AntHill Pro, and Team Foundation Server for Java applications. The solution was leveraged as the model for all other Java applications incorporating CI within the enterprise.
Fostered static analysis adoption (Parasoft and Fortify) by embedding their use within the development team’s daily programming practices to build quality and security in before delivery. Progress formally monitored and improvement quantified each release.
Performed root cause analysis, implemented and coordinated formal automated stress tests on multiple systems. All performance bottlenecks were successfully identified using SilkPerformer, DynaTrace, Oracle Grid, and other instrumentation tools.
Recommendations submitted for processes improvements in Integrated Project Management, Configuration Management, Technical Solution, and Verification CMMI process areas adopted within the organization.
SOA Developer forPrivate SectorJuly 2008 – November 2009
Key Achievements:
Implemented new system demonstrating the capabilities and benefits of an SOA architecture on Oracle SOA Suite 10g.
PROFESSIONALEXPERIENCE (cont.)
Orchestrated web services with BPEL and secured their messages using SSL, SAML and other OASIS standards with Oracle SOA Suite products.
Developed Java Servlets and EJBs exposed as JAX-RPC and JAX-WS web services.
Built automated testing framework using JUnit that tested server-side modules. Tests acted as users interacting with the system throughout complete business process scenarios.
Incorporated the testing framework with JMeter to load test server modules and provide quantified results used in reports.
IT Specialist for Public Sector June 2006 –July 2008
Key Achievements:
Solely integrated enormous J2EE system leveraging JSPs, Servlets, Struts, in-house ORM, and BPEL into a localized developer environment with standard setup and configuration instructions that minimized developer time to productivity and standardized developer machine configuration.
Designed, developed and deployed web services, workflows, EJBs and servlets.
Lead programmer responsible for successful implementation of first IBM HATS application, a web GUI for mainframe green screens deployed on WebSphere.
Analyzed and improved the Learning Management System (LMS) employee training system of record as part of a corporate-wide data cleansing initiative of the database's 1.5 million records serving over 5,000 usersusing Oracle PL/SQL.
Consistent on time and on budget management of multiple and simultaneous projects ranging in cost from $30,000 to $200,000.
Documented client testimonial for great work ethic, attitude and RUP milestone presentations.
Delivery Excellence award for first quarter of 2008.
Intern for Private Sector January 2006 - May 2006
Modernized an insurance web application from Classic ASP to VB.NET.
EDUCATION AND HONORS
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Sigma Pi, Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, National Society of Collegiate Scholars
CERTIFICATION
Project Management Institute - Agile Certified Practitioner
Sun Certified Web Component Developer
Sun Certified Java Programmer
IBM Certified Rational Object Oriented Analyst
Object Management GroupCertified UML Professional
Sun Certified Java Associate
Elwyn Thompson
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