Blue Pine Consulting

Client: Securian Financial Group

* Retirement Site Project
- Rebrand AngularJS UI
- Create RESTful services to upload tax documents via batch jobs
- Create Spring Batch apps to upload annual financial statements to the customer site
- Helped create new online distributions functionality on customer site


* Trident project - Canadian data residency and app modernization
- Create and update JSF pages
- Create new RESTful services with Spring Framework
- Create and update queries with SQL and JPA Framework

Engineering Consultant

Consult with financial service organizations on technology roadmaps, greenfield applications, and app modernization.

Senior Consultant

Client: Target Corporation

* Worked to implement new functionality on their custom Warehouse Management System

Development Engineer Senior

Client: brightpeak financial

* Term 4 Insurance Sales Project
- Use Angular to create Beneficiaries, Payment, and Product pages for insurance applications
- Use Spring Boot to create service endpoints that read and write application submissions from the UI to RabbitMQ and call internal services

* Term 3 Insurance Sales Project
- Create AWS Lambda functions to take insurance applications from UI and utilize DynamoDB records, SQS Queues, S3 files, and external endpoint calls.

* GIAS Upgrade Project
- Helped plan and execute an upgrade of a heavily customized GIAS installation
- Upgrade included new Java syntax, Spring annotations, REST endpoints, AWS Parameter Store

Senior App Engineer

Client: Securian Financial Group

* Participant Project
- Designed and implemented a green field UI rewrite in Angular and Bootstrap with other UI FTE's to transform the current retirement plan participant site into a responsive site with new functionality
- Created directives to use as templates for common page components
- Built transactional and static pages
- Mentored junior developers

* Sponsor Project
- Utilized components our team built on the Participant Project to re-skin the retirement plan sponsor site
- Reconfigured build tools to improve developer efficiency and add consistency to the build process

Senior UI Developer

Solution Design Group

Implemented validation to prevent spreadsheet formula injection exploits.
Rewrote server side services with Spring / Alfresco webscripts to facilitate document uploads.

Consultant - Legal and financial services client

Consultant

I worked as part of a two man development team to create a Spring and Angular based web application to connect with a third party call center application. 
We used Spring Data with JPA to connect with an Oracle database. 
Spring Security to connect with CAS, and Angular with Bootstrap for the UI.

Consultant - Medical services client

Mobile photo sharing app project
I worked as part of a two man team to create RESTful services for iOS and Android apps. 
Utilized open source solutions to implement a ZIP Code and GPS coordinate location determination functionality. 
Coordinated with European development team to hook mobile app to our services.
Worked with Spring, Jackson, and MySql for server side code. 
Upon successful implementation of two versions of the mobile photo sharing services, I was asked to move onto another internal project. 


Mainframe rewrite project							
Developed server and front end solutions as part of a twenty person development team tasked with replacing mainframe functionality by the end of 2013. 
Worked with Spring, Oracle, JQuery, Handlebars, and IBatis to create the replacement web app under tight deadlines.

Consultant - Marketing and publishing services client

Designed and implemented new functionality for their custom reporting system.  
Coded UI updates with JavaScript and FreeMarker templates.

Consultant - Medical supplies client

- Server side development with Alfresco Node Browser, API’s, and data structure. 
-  Created new REST based web scripts to plug into Alfresco framework.
- Designed and estimated new development efforts in conjunction with development team members and BA’s.

Consultant - Collaboration and Information Management Company

•	Worked as part of a three person development team to create a new product line demo web application for our client.
•	Provided business analysis on entity relationships.
•	Setup Spring MVC environment with JPA, Maven, Subversion, Tomcat, Java 6, and MySQL. 
•	Designed and implemented MySQL database.
•	Created services and DAO layer, along with some controller / JSP work.
•	Setup Subversion repository and synchronized changes with the main Git repository.
•	Coordinated with business resources to manage scope and implementation.
•	Discussed system and architecture analysis on integration with existing systems.
•	Documented estimation of effort for full scale implementation.

Consultant - E-Commerce Company

Parametric Technology Corporation

Senior Software Development Engineer

Fidelity National Information Services

Systems Architect

System Architect

IT Designer

eFunds

Deluxe Corporation

Developer

Specialties: Full stack consulting, certified ScrumMaster

Currently open for Corp-to-Corp consulting opportunities. Remote preferred, or in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul area.

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