Heather Tovey
Charlotte,NC
Summary
Avid student of people and lover of technology looking to be part of an organization that values passion, innovation and empathy. Curiosity-driven problem solver who likes to inspire that same curiosity in other developers.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Manager
Betterworks
Remote
03.2021 - Current
- Responsible for 5 direct reports including 3 Full Stack Engineers and 2 QA Engineers
- Involved in redesign of current platform, which is moving from monolith to distributed architecture
- At day-to-day level responsible for ensuring that deadlines are being met and that team members have what is needed to execute without impediments
- Contributing to building processes and improving communications across all teams in organization
- Betterworks is in a growth phase between post-startup and enterprise level software production.
Lead Java Engineer
Empowered Benefits
Remote
05.2020 - 03.2021
- Responsible for managing Empowered Java team of 8 direct reports.
- Day-to-day contributions included mentoring team members, participating in design, and helping implement process improvement for organization that was growing and changing rapidly
- Primary application was spring-boot app with Angular front end and MySQL database
- Other parts of architecture included RabbitMQ for event handling and set of third-party API endpoints
Software Engineer
Benefitfocus
Charleston, SC
04.2013 - 05.2020
- Mastered complex code base was part of very large enterprise Java stack driven by Oracle 11g database
- Worked with primary application running on proprietary Action/Form framework, loosely built on Struts
- Also worked on ancillary applications which ran on java, some of which used spring implementations including spring-batch and spring-boot
- Projects worked on include: Corporate research initiative to update Maven dependency structure and standardize build/deployment strategy
- Helped create new spring-boot component, from ground up. This included server builds, source control, data modeling and deployment
- Plan Comparison application running on Spring MVC which provided endpoints for core application to pass in plan attributes for algorithm processing, using internal algorithms and National Averages health data to present Medical plan cost comparisons.
Senior Software Engineer
CommIT
Charleston,SC
10.2012 - 03.2013
- Provided web design and development for the SPAWAR (Space & Naval Warfare) Acquisitions & Visibility SOA application suite
- Part of front-end/UI reconstruction effort using JBoss Application Server and Liferay Portal to serve Primefaces JSF2 Portlets
- Supported legacy application environment, including Tomcat, Oracle SQL and LDAP
- This project was discontinued due to Government fund restructuring.
Lead Developer
Modulant
Charleston, SC
04.2012 - 10.2012
- Initially hired to work on Business Process Engine application for US Air Force, I was soon offered opportunity for advancement as Lead Developer for P2MC application at the Space and Naval Warfare Command (SPAWAR)
- Contributions included: Orchestrating development efforts of team consisting of 3 developers and one QA specialist
- Oversaw and executed implementation of JEE/CRUD application which ran on Oracle stack from front end to back end - ADF, OC4J and Oracle 10g database.
Software Engineer III
Geocent, LLC
Charleston, SC
04.2011 - 04.2012
- Responsible for designing, building and supporting web-based Java EE application with multiple technologies and data sources including: Oracle 10g SQL database, IBM FileNet server, Spring MVC, jQuery, Java Persistence API.
Web Developer/ System Expert
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
06.2007 - 04.2011
- Worked on both desktop and web applications
- Started as Systems Analyst, then moved to development area in 2007 as Web Developer 1. Progressed to Web Developer II, and finally to System Expert role (Senior Developer)
- Projects/responsibilities included: Desktop Proof of Concept - participated in effort to conver desktop application family to Portal platform
- This conversion included Telephony and Mainframe emulation functionality, which were personal areas of expertise
- Wrote Technical Direction Documents, and collaborated with other departments to gather business requirements. Also provided oversight and assistance as top-level escalation point for critical issues across organization.
- Bureau of Prisons claim imaging software – main engineer supporting BOP's file-based claim processing functionality.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
01.1998
Skills
Management:
- Cross Team Collaboration
- Process Writing
- Mentoring
- Resource planning
- Stakeholder Communication
Technical:
- Java
- Spring
- React
- Vue
- Angular
- SQL - Oracle, MySQL, Postgres
Professional Areas of Focus
- Process Implementation
- Test Driven Development
- Agile/Scrum Methodologies
- Monolith Distribution
- Personal Mentoring
- Team Building
Frameworks
- Spring MVC
- JSF
- Jakarta Struts
- Hibernate
- Junit
- Mockito
Scripting Languages
- Ant
- Python
- VBScript
Target Environments
- Oracle WebLogic
- IBM WebSphere
- JBoss AS
- Apache Tomcat
- Glassfish
Databases
- Oracle 10g & 11g
- IBM DB2
- MySQL
- HSQL
Personal Development Interests
Currently building a React/MUI project with a Spring Boot back end. I spend most of my spare time working on it.
Timeline
Engineering Manager - Betterworks
03.2021 - Current
Lead Java Engineer - Empowered Benefits
05.2020 - 03.2021
Software Engineer - Benefitfocus
04.2013 - 05.2020
Senior Software Engineer - CommIT
10.2012 - 03.2013
Lead Developer - Modulant
04.2012 - 10.2012
Software Engineer III - Geocent, LLC
04.2011 - 04.2012
Web Developer/ System Expert - Blue Cross & Blue Shield of South Carolina
06.2007 - 04.2011
Winthrop University - Bachelor of Arts, Political Science