1. Chemical Abstracts Services – Columbus, OH: 2000-January, 21st 2016
Senior Systems Engineer (Promoted 2007), Systems Engineer (Promoted 2002),Programmer Analyst
2014-2015:PCO Methods and Protocols – development, data analysis, XML schema design/creation, MarkLogic
administration
 Supported CAS customer facingdata enrichment and new product building,through the acquisition and
addition of vendor procured Analytical Chemistry Methods and Experimental Protocols data
 Implemented software to validate,transformand enrich vendor XML into CAS target schema (XQuery)
 Responsiblefor all MarkLogic Server Administration requirements: application server
creation/configuration,databasecreation/indexing/configuration/design
 Responsiblefor XML schema creation to supportworkflow activities
 Modified authority target schema to be more modular,allowingitto be extended to support Inwork data
processing
2014: CHEMATS Data WarehouseReplacement, Proof-of-concept – development, MarkLogic administration
 Worked directly with Architect to implement a prototype (Xquery, HTML) of his vision of usingMarkLogic
Server platformto replacethe existingOraclebased relational data warehouse
2014: PCO Platform, Infrastructure Updates – Scrum Master (5 person team)
 Multipleinitiatives to advance legacy software projects Weblogic to JBoss migration
 Integrating legacy services into ESB architecture
2012-2014:CHEMCATS, Reengineering Project – project leadership, business analysis, Scrum Master,
development
 Responsiblefor authoringthe original projectplan and presentingit to IT and business sideSenior
Management (up to and includingCIO)
 Lead requirements gathering effort and iterativeUI design (usingpaper prototyping and UI widget
demos) workingdirectly with CHEMCATS management and staff (7 member team)
 Through initial phaseof project, I lead a remote team of 3 developers in England, communicatingproject
vision and requirements, and 3 local QA staff members
 As the project progressed it transitioned into AgileScrum, and I transitioned into the roleof Scrum Master
(leading a team of 7 – 10 members)
 As a developer, I worked on the ETL (Extraction Transform& Load) of the CHEMCATS Data Warehouse.
This work involved pullingdata fromthe MarkLogic/XML based production persistencedatabase,and
usingitto populatethe CHEMCATS Data Warehouse, which at that time was an Oraclerelational database
(Java, XQuery)
2012: MUSE and REPO DB Unification/Replacement, Proof-of-concept – development, MarkLogic administration
 Worked directly with Architect to implement a prototype of his vision of integratingInwork and Authority
Publication relational databases,and replacingthem with a singleNoSQL Database(MarkLogic)
 Implemented transformation (XQuery) to integrate Inwork and Authority Publication data sets
2009-2014:Patents, Software Suite Maintenance and Growth – project leadership (teams ranging in size 3 - 8
members), facilitation, work decomposition, liaison between business leadership and development teams,
limited development
 Responsiblefor leadingmultiple externally and internally driven projects within thePatents domain
 Highlights include:Migration of Patents software from WebLogic to JBoss,Migration of software from
Solaris to LINUX, Updating software suite to use DB VIPs,Extraction/Refactoringof Patents functionality
to be integrated into SOA, Multipleprojects respondingto Vendor data sourcechanges
2008-2010:Electronic Chemical ReactantArchive, Solvents/Catalysts Addition – technical lead, development
 Responsiblefor functionality,schedule,scopeand content of deliverables

2.  Enhanced Archive Software (Java) to support the addition of Solvent and Catalyst data
 Migrated software project building fromANT to Maven
 Implemented automated loading of Solvent/Catalystof data from legacy tools into ECRA (Java, Perl)
2007-2009:Prophetic Substance Loading – development
 Supported enrichment of CAS customer facingcontent through the implementation and support of
software (Java, Perl, Korn Shell) to support production frontfiledelivery of Prophetic substancedata
 Implemented software to add Prophetic substancereferences to CAS customer facingcontent backfile
2006-2007:Prophetics & Formulations, Proof of Concept Project– development, MarkLogic administration
 Project initiated for the dual purposeof evaluatingprospectivenew data sources to enrich CAS customer
facingcontent, as well as evaluateMarkLogic Server as a development platform
 Implemented transformation & enrichment (XQuery) of vendor data into CAS target schema
 Implemented front-end software (HTML, XQuery) to providereporting and data exploration
 Integrated transformand front-end software with existingSOA (Java, ML Jam, Jetty Application Server)
 Responsiblefor all MarkLogic Server Administration requirements: application server
creation/configuration,databasecreation/indexing/configuration/design,user roles/permissions
2005-2006:Patents, DocDB/ECLA BackfileReload – development, relational database design
 Supported effort to enrich CAS Patent backfiledata through the addition of DocDB KindCode data,and
updatingPatent backfiledata to use new ECLA (European Patent Classification Code) standards (Perl)
 Implemented data exploration tool, providingPatent staff the ability to exploreDocDB (the European
Patent Office’s master documentation database) datasetfor potential new content sources (Perl)
2005-2011:Patent Acquisitions,Vendor Report Automation - development, requirements gathering, production
support
 Project was initiated based on my analysisof Patent Acquisition staff workflow,when I determined that a
largely manual reportingprocess could beautomated
 Workingindependently, I implemented software (Perl) to automate report buildingagainstseveral Patent
Vendor content sources,resultingin immediate productivity improvements for the group
 Completed all aspects of the software development lifecycle,working directly with Patent Acquisitions
staff to complete requirements gathering and QA/UAT
 Supported and enhanced reporting software to meet the groups growing needs
2004-2015:Biosequences,Sequence-Linking Support – development, production support
 Supported the enrichment of CAS customer facingcontent by executing a quarterly process to create
cross-linkingof chemical substance/conceptdata to biosquencedata
 Inherited software suite(Perl, Korn Shell) as a non-productionized,highly manual process
 Enhanced software to be an automated, production schedule-driven process
2003-2005:Biosequences,Reengineering Project – development, UI requirements lead
 Participated in the implementation of SET (Sequence Editing Tool)
 Lead the iterativedesign and implementation of User Interface (JavaSwing)
 Developed supportingmiddletier objects (Java)
2001-2015:Biosequences,Keyboarder Production Support – development, production support, requirements
gathering, QA/UAT coordination
 Maintained and enhanced existingtool set, as well as provided direct supportof daily activities
 Workingindependently, I implemented several new tools (Perl, TCL, Java) to supportautomated retrieval
and persistence of biological sequencedata from electronic documents, resultingin substantial
productivity gains for Keyboardingstaff

3.  Completed all aspects of the development lifecycle,working directly with Keyboarder management for
requirements gatheringand utilizingKeyboardingstaff members to complete QA and UAT.
2001-2003:Biosequences,GenBank Backfileand Daily Processing –development
 Implemented software supportinginitiativeto reload existingGenBank biosequence library,and support
daily frontfileupdates (C, Perl, TCL)
2000-2004:Biosequences – development
 Supported, maintained,and enhanced existingBiosequences environment (C, C++, Perl, Korn Shell)