Experience

Candor Solutions.

• United States
• Human Resources
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Software Engineer

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  United States Oversee complex project portfolio(s) from initiation and planning to production. Supporting Foreign programs team out of WDC, currently involved with the conversion of the APLUS system from COBOL 6 to JAVA. ICAgile Certified Professional thru International Consortium of Agile (ICAgile). Designs, develops, enhances, tests, debugs and implements software by performing requirements analysis, software design, development, installation, testing, and maintenance for all applications system components… Show more Oversee complex project portfolio(s) from initiation and planning to production. Supporting Foreign programs team out of WDC, currently involved with the conversion of the APLUS system from COBOL 6 to JAVA. ICAgile Certified Professional thru International Consortium of Agile (ICAgile). Designs, develops, enhances, tests, debugs and implements software by performing requirements analysis, software design, development, installation, testing, and maintenance for all applications system components prior to any development, which includes a walkthrough with peers associated with the project as well as the end user, automated integration tests, peer reviews with peers, and migrator peer reviews provide assurance that the applications adhere to the FSA Software Quality Standards. Considers performance, scalability, usability, and security provisions such as developing code in CUIS database to provide added functionality by constructing procedures to have a security entry in place so users could not get access to the code and also create an audit trail for all users. Identifies performances issues and recommends solutions by developing 1 dialog to automate all online dialogs that execute jobs in APLUS to run on TSO to automatically produce these jobs to run across all partitions. Show less



HP/Perspecta for U.S.D.A.

• Sr. Software Engineer

  • Jun 2018 - Sep 2021

  Kansas City, Missouri, United States Oversee complex project portfolio(s) from initiation and planning to production. Example being a technical lead on a month end accounting issue to balance month end to CORE and balancing to the amount owed on the agreement. Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning. Participated in support/ creation of OMB Circular A-123 documentation, testing, and remediation. Was involved in developing a method of tracking events and correspondence for each COR/PAR/System support project… Show more Oversee complex project portfolio(s) from initiation and planning to production. Example being a technical lead on a month end accounting issue to balance month end to CORE and balancing to the amount owed on the agreement. Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning. Participated in support/ creation of OMB Circular A-123 documentation, testing, and remediation. Was involved in developing a method of tracking events and correspondence for each COR/PAR/System support project to demonstrate compliance with A-123 audit requirements now JIRA. Provided yearly support/creation of Certification & Accreditation documentation and provide testing (i.e. Security & Disaster Recovery processes). Show less



DXC Technology / USDA

• Sr. Software Engineer

  • Apr 2017 - Jun 2018

  United States Provided senior level business support developing and maintaining software for AFAO/AGG’S APLUS, CASH, CAS, CUIS, OEOFAADS systems, Managed and coordinated all activity relating to APLUS projects and problem issues for the users in WDC, Ensured team members had access to me 24/7 providing technical leadership, in partnership with Group Supervisor, to install OMB and OCIO mandates into routine software development practices and process. Made sure all work assignments are performed & completed in… Show more Provided senior level business support developing and maintaining software for AFAO/AGG’S APLUS, CASH, CAS, CUIS, OEOFAADS systems, Managed and coordinated all activity relating to APLUS projects and problem issues for the users in WDC, Ensured team members had access to me 24/7 providing technical leadership, in partnership with Group Supervisor, to install OMB and OCIO mandates into routine software development practices and process. Made sure all work assignments are performed & completed in a timely manner, assuring a quality of work that meets the needs of the organization. Provides advice that is timely, responsive and accurate. Performs Mentoring to Government Personnel of the application(s) and system(s) the contractors develop and/or modify in sufficient detail to enable Government personnel to maintain the systems I support, performance ensures that the systems I am working on or updating shall enforce security to meet and comply with FSA’s implementation of the Federal Information Security Act (FISMA) standards. Security, when added by user requirements will not compromise the security of external interfacing Systems and will adhere to Section 508 Guidelines and pass accessibility tests. Deployment plans, schedules, and deployment tasks for all tasks assigned. This also includes documentation including but not limited to User Manuals, Operations Manuals, Flow Charts, Data Dictionary, and Logical and Physical Data Models. For all work detail assigned, ensured that the database and data elements are compatible with the FSA standards for the database being utilized, ensured that all coding follows approved FSA and AFAO coding standards, all naming conventions for jobs, programs, maps, dialogs, subroutines, files, databases, and data elements are consistent with FSA standards, and engineered the application to ensure adequate performance. Show less



Hewlitt Packard / USDA

• Sr. Software Engineer

  • Aug 2008 - Apr 2017

  United States Provided senior level business support developing and maintaining software for AFAO/AGG’S APLUS, CASH, CAS, CUIS, OEOFAADS systems, Managed and coordinated all activity relating to APLUS projects and problem issues for the users in WDC, Ensured team members had access to me 24/7 should problems arise, lead weekly APLUS status meetings, & provided technical leadership, in partnership with Group Supervisor, to install OMB and OCIO mandates into routine software development practices and process… Show more Provided senior level business support developing and maintaining software for AFAO/AGG’S APLUS, CASH, CAS, CUIS, OEOFAADS systems, Managed and coordinated all activity relating to APLUS projects and problem issues for the users in WDC, Ensured team members had access to me 24/7 should problems arise, lead weekly APLUS status meetings, & provided technical leadership, in partnership with Group Supervisor, to install OMB and OCIO mandates into routine software development practices and process. Made sure all work assignments are performed & completed in a timely manner, assuring a quality of work that meets the needs of the organization. These included officially closing out the multi-year Email project in APLUS, finished enhancing/converting FOCUS jobs to COBOL jobs, and currently ahead of schedule with the multi-year Y2K Project. Routinely displays courteous and tactful behavior. Projects a positive and professional image of USDA. Provides advice that is timely, responsive and accurate. Maintains appropriate rapport with other APLUS support people in AFAO, WDC, TCO/IPUSO and DBMO improving our products to the customer and ensuring an efficient process. Show less



Advantage Tech / contracting for USDA

• St Software Engineer

  • Apr 2008 - Aug 2008

  United States Temporary contracting before being pulled in to EDS fulltime. Here I provided senior level business support developing and maintaining software for AFAO/AGG’S APLUS, CASH, CAS, CUIS, OEOFAADS systems, Managed and coordinated all activity relating to APLUS projects and problem issues for the users in WDC, Ensured team members had access to me 24/7 should problems arise, lead weekly APLUS status meetings, & provided technical leadership, in partnership with Group Supervisor, to install OMB and… Show more Temporary contracting before being pulled in to EDS fulltime. Here I provided senior level business support developing and maintaining software for AFAO/AGG’S APLUS, CASH, CAS, CUIS, OEOFAADS systems, Managed and coordinated all activity relating to APLUS projects and problem issues for the users in WDC, Ensured team members had access to me 24/7 should problems arise, lead weekly APLUS status meetings, & provided technical leadership, in partnership with Group Supervisor, to install OMB and OCIO mandates into routine software development practices and process. Made sure all work assignments are performed & completed in a timely manner, assuring a quality of work that meets the needs of the organization. These included officially closing out the multi-year Email project in APLUS, finished enhancing/converting FOCUS jobs to COBOL jobs, and currently ahead of schedule with the multi-year Y2K Project. Routinely displays courteous and tactful behavior. Projects a positive and professional image of USDA. Provides advice that is timely, responsive and accurate. Maintains appropriate rapport with other APLUS support people in AFAO, WDC, TCO/IPUSO and DBMO improving our products to the customer and ensuring an efficient process. Show less



Commerce Bank

• United States
• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr Software Engineer

  • Jan 1999 - Feb 2000

  Kansas City, Missouri, United States Provide COBOLII/CICS, MS Access & VBA program on maintenance and development efforts, system designs, coding, and unit tests, and provide completed system development. Created MS Access department database to interact with programmers both as reference and documentation, as well as research & development for upgrades. Worked with the Home Banking System, also worked with Debit Card Management, ATM, and ASAP. Also conducted Year 2000 compliance testing.