Tony Sweets
Java Software & DevOps Engineer
Education
B.S in Computer Science
University of Wyoming May 1996
A.S. in Computer Science
Casper CollegeDecember 1993
Awards/Accomplishments
Red Hat Certified System Administrator
ID: 120-063-771
Patent: Modular Home/Office Multimedia Distribution System
US6888850
Patent: Secure Internet Documents (Pending)
WO2003105397A1
Published
Virtual Hudson Build Environments Part 1
Sticky Minds
Virtual Hudson Build Environments Part 2
Sticky Minds
Miscellaneous
Spring, Spring Data, Spring MVC WebFlow, Spring Security, Twitter Bootstrap, Showcase App
MrPickles on GitHub (Open Source)
Arch Linux Package Maintainer (AUR)
Glassfish version 4
Employment
IT/Software Architect
Performance Benefits, Inc. 06/12 - Present
Manage and Maintain the Ready Funds Platform, a Java/Spring Enterprise Application
Paychex
Sr. Software Engineer/IT Architect 07/00 - 06/12
Software development on the ePlan Services 401(k) Platform, a Java/Spring Enterprise Application
Member of Techincal Staff
US West Advanced Technology Center 11/98 - 7/00
R&D on "connected" homes. Represented US West in the OSGi organization. Software development on the My USWest Portal.
Systems/Software Engineer
Rockwell Collins7/96 - 7/98
R&D on Modular Electronics (F-22/JSF) aka Software Defined Radios. R&D on Rockwell's Java CPU (GEM)
Programming Skills
Java
Javascript
HTML/CSS
SQL
Test Driven Development (TDD)
Frameworks
Spring Framework
Spring Integration
Spring Batch
Hibernate/JPA
SOA/Rest/SOAP
DevOps
Linux
Maven
Continuous Build Systems (Jenkins)
Atlassian Tool Suite (i.e. Jira)
Puppet
Repositories (i.e. Git/SVN)
Application Servers
Virtualization/Cloud (AWS/VMWare)
Containers Docker/CoreOS
Technology Overhaul
Migrated system from older outdated servers hosted in a local co-location facility to a cloud based architecture using Amazon AWS with redundancy via two geographically dispersed regions. Resulting montly bill was less expensive than hosting in a physical location
Agile
Introduced Agile and Scrum to the company replacing their existing waterfall methodology.
Mobile App
Wrote a Mobile version of the “Cardholder” site with Spring & JQuery Mobile.
Spring
Re-architected pieces of the existing Java/Struts/Flex application using the Spring Framework v3.2. Also replaced the homegrown batch processing system with Spring Integration and Spring Batch.
Continuous Delivery
Setup an environment for continuous delivery of applications into production. This was built with Git, Jenkins, Maven, Cargo
Atlassian Tool Suite
Introduced the Atlassian Suite of tools for a new new development project. Including
- Jira
- Greenhopper
- Confluence
- Stash
Enterprise Integration
Using Spring Integration which implements the Enterprise Integration Patters was able to connect my company's system with our vender's platform over SOAP WS
Test Driven Development
Currently maintaining an 81.3% test coverage. Includes Junit and Selenium 2 Tests
MySQL Database Architecture
Setup virtual MySQL instance and reporting environment to handle processing of millions of card transactions per day
Open Source Projects
I have opensourced a "showcase" application that I use to start new projects. I take what I need and bootstrap new development. This is a Spring based Web Application using modern frameworks like JPA, Twitter Bootstrap, JQuery, and most Spring Frameworks.