Experience

Ultramain Systems, Inc.

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Director of Onboard Systems

  • Oct 2011 - Present

  Albuquerque, New Mexico Area Project and integration lead for the deployment of Ultramain’s mobile ELB (Electronic Logbook) for ANZ (Air New Zealand). Successfully transitioned project from POC (Proof of Concept) to MVP (Minimum Viable Product) and finally a full-featured production application deployed across the A320 regional and domestic fleet with full operational approval from the CAA (Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand). Introduced business analysis department to the Onboard Systems division to improve… Show more Project and integration lead for the deployment of Ultramain’s mobile ELB (Electronic Logbook) for ANZ (Air New Zealand). Successfully transitioned project from POC (Proof of Concept) to MVP (Minimum Viable Product) and finally a full-featured production application deployed across the A320 regional and domestic fleet with full operational approval from the CAA (Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand). Introduced business analysis department to the Onboard Systems division to improve the communication and documentation of business processes between airline user groups and development/testing teams utilizing BPMN (Business Process Mapping Notation). Integral part of the merge of the Boeing Logbook functionality into efbTechLogs solution. Created department structure to support rapid growth after selection as official Boeing solution. Project and technical lead for industry first deployment of 3rd party electronic technical log with a hybrid Class 3 / Mobile infrastructure onboard an Airbus A350-XWB for CPA (Cathay Pacific Airways). Created, reviewed and approved RFP (Request for Proposal) responses and various SOWs (Statement of Work). Introduced PMO (Project Management Office) to formalize project management structure including project planning and resource allocation at SOW creation phase to more accurately evaluate project cost and pricing.

• Development Manager Onboard Systems

  • Oct 2009 - Present

  Albuquerque, New Mexico Area Managed development team of 20 consisting of business analysts, project managers, software architects, software engineers and quality control analysts. Lead architect and developer of transition from a JEE (Java Enterprise Edition) monolithic ground-based system to a modern, cloud-based, highly available and scalable solution through containerized Docker microservices connected via Kafka streams, coordinated by ZooKeeper, secured by Keycloak, and orchestrated with Kubernetes… Show more Managed development team of 20 consisting of business analysts, project managers, software architects, software engineers and quality control analysts. Lead architect and developer of transition from a JEE (Java Enterprise Edition) monolithic ground-based system to a modern, cloud-based, highly available and scalable solution through containerized Docker microservices connected via Kafka streams, coordinated by ZooKeeper, secured by Keycloak, and orchestrated with Kubernetes. Initiated and developed port from JBoss 5.1 to WildFly while exploring the possibility of deploying WildFly directly within our onboard application framework utilizing clustering for data replication, second-level cache for improved response times and web services to support mobile clients. Deployed Atlassian tools (Jira, Jira-Agile, Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence) to streamline development and implement automated builds / testing with agile (Scrum / Kanban) methodologies. Implemented automated build solution (cruisecontrol) to introduce rapid development methodology. Oversaw complete software life-cycle including customer requirement gathering, design documentation, solutioning, development, testing and deployment.

• Lead Architect / Project Manager

  • Oct 2007 - Oct 2009

  Albuquerque, New Mexico Area efbTechLogs™ Project management for KLM’s full implementation of efbTechLogs. Interfaced directly with the customer regarding business process needs, project budget and production roll-out. Project management and Lead Architect for Cathay Pacific’s efbTechLogs trial. Purpose of trial was to evaluate connectivity between aircraft and ground with integration into existing Maintenance and Engineering system. Trial deemed a success and implemented under budget. Implemented… Show more efbTechLogs™ Project management for KLM’s full implementation of efbTechLogs. Interfaced directly with the customer regarding business process needs, project budget and production roll-out. Project management and Lead Architect for Cathay Pacific’s efbTechLogs trial. Purpose of trial was to evaluate connectivity between aircraft and ground with integration into existing Maintenance and Engineering system. Trial deemed a success and implemented under budget. Implemented custom message encoding, compression, sequencing solution to guarantee message delivery and processing order between airborne and ground systems. JEE Architect of ground system component to receive, process and respond to messages from the airborne application. Provided improved solution for tracking issues and communication between Ultramain and customers via Atlassin JIRA product. Customized JIRA workflows, permissions and notifications schemes. Prototyped iPhone application for efbTechLogs. efbContentManager™ Demonstrated solution utilizing BitTorrent protocol to distribute large data sets world-wide via configured swarms. Solution supported bi-directional communications of LSAP (Loadable Software Aircraft Parts) and staged / loading metric statistics. Presented efbContentManager during Ultramain Software forum to aviation industry leading to various potential launch customers.



Capgemini Invent

• France
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Jan 2007 - Oct 2007

  Greater Chicago Area Aligned with financial services focusing on JEE delivery. Technical workstream lead integrating Guidewire PolicyCenter JEE solution with service architecture for various systems of record. Manage integration team of 20+ consisting of client and consultants with 50% of consultant resources offshore providing estimation, enterprise design, implementation, and testing solutions.



New Mexico Mutual

• United States
• Insurance
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager

  • Aug 2005 - Dec 2006

  Albuquerque, New Mexico Area Replaced legacy claim system with Guidewire ClaimCenter JEE solution authoring eight separate points of integration using EJB, JDBC, and SOAP. Reporting directly to IT Director, manage a team of seven developers keeping simultaneous projects on schedule and 17% under budget to meet stated business goals.

• Software Engineer

  • Sep 2000 - Aug 2005

  Albuquerque, New Mexico Area Lead Java developer for replacement of legacy policy management system with JEE solution providing real time quoting for our agents. Automated document generation using XSLT and FOP, reduced maintenance, licensing, and administrative costs by 10% annually.