James Sewell
Roswell,GA
Summary
Highly skilled software development professional in all phases of full-life cycle development with over 30 years of experience. Core strength is bringing people and technology together to deliver complex and scalable solutions that meet requirements on time.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Chief Architect
HRBTec
07.2021 - Current
- Solution Design and Development, Cloud Development
- Collaborated with Stakeholders to gather requirements, analyze user needs and propose technical solutions to meet business objectives
- Architected and developed Restful APIs using Spring Boot, implemented via Elastic Container Service, API Gateway and Lambda
- Leverage OpenAI to generate Test Assessment questions on the fly
- Mentored junior developers, conducted code reviews, and provided technical guidance to ensure adherence to best practices and coding standards
- Design and implement Event Driven Architecture (Microservices) via AWS Event Bridge, Kinesis and API Gateway
- Software Maintenance, Testing, Cloud Support
- Develop upgrade / release plans for SAAS projects for ongoing modifications
- Work with QA manager to ensure modifications are thoroughly tested
- Implemented using Test Driven Development and CI/CD
- Infrastructure, Customer / Developer Education
- AWS Cloud infrastructure
- Setup, Development, QA and Production environments for all projects, including continuous build, containerization, serverless deployment, source management, code review, conflict resolution ticketing and wiki sites for developer/customer continuing education / knowledge.
Chief Architect
Ignition Commerce
11.2007 - 06.2021
- Solution Design and Development, Cloud Development, Software Security Audit
- Review all projects to ensure the correct solutions are being designed and implemented to meet our customer needs and are designed with the idea of maintenance and reusability in mind
- Designed and built SAAS (AWS) based Transformation project using Graalvm, Java, MongoDB and Spring to support integration for all new customers
- Multi-tenant model for separation of data
- Designed and built SAAS (AWS) based product configuration builder using Java and Spring to integrate with Salesforce Commerce Cloud
- Multi-tenant model for separation of data
- Designed and built several mobile solutions for clients, leveraging, Objective C, Swift and Titanium
- Designed and built Empower Reference Application on Oracle ATG platform
- Designed and built Empower Reference Application on Salesforce Commerce Cloud platform
- Code review
- Lead the development and implementation of over 40 eCommerce websites on the ATG and Salesforce Commerce Cloud platforms
- Move several client services from Monolithic applications to Microservices
- Extensive experience with many clients in high transaction, high volume implementations
- Project Management
- Worked with development manager, business analysts and project managers on requirements and scheduling for developers
- Sales Engineer
- Worked with potential clients on their requirements and what was capable with respect to the platforms
- Software Maintenance, Testing, Cloud Support
- Developed upgrade and release plans for all projects for ongoing modifications
- Work with QA manager to ensure modifications are thoroughly tested
- Infrastructure, Customer / Developer Education
- Setup development, QA and Production environments for all projects, including continuous build, source management, code review, conflict resolution ticketing and wiki sites for developer/customer continuing education.
Senior Systems Architect
Rollins Inc
Atlanta, GA
03.2003 - 11.2007
- Designed a distributed system consisting of several vendors and platforms including JBoss on AIX, iSeries RPG Application, ESRI ArcServer and WebMethods
- Assisted in planning of Backup and Recovery and the implementation of the environments
- This project required a fair amount of troubleshooting skills in several different languages / platforms including Java, .NET, DB2 and Unix
- Designed, built and implemented a service management system for Orkin field technicians
- The system consists of a handheld application running on Symbol PPT 2800/8800 devices (Windows CE) with a SQL Server CE database, communicating with a J2EE application running on AIX and Oracle
- The communication medium is XML via a zipped stream
- This system currently services the 200+ branches of Orkin and is expected to ultimately be in use by their 4000+ technicians
- Integration with other systems is leveraged through WebMethods middleware and various Oracle Pipes
- Designed and implemented a custom reporting solution for Orkin customers
- Heavy use of integration tools including WebMethods, Symbiator and MQSeries
- Extensive procedure, trigger and view work with OS400 DB2, AIX DB2, SQL Server and Oracle
- Actuate Reporting server and portal used for presentation
- Designed and built a component for use in legacy RPG III applications to enable them to call webservices directly
- This is used as a means for componentizing Orkin’s service management applications to other platforms.
Education
Electronics Technician - Electronic Engineering
Massey Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA05-1992
Some College (No Degree) -
University of West Georgia
Carrollton, GASkills
- Problem-Solving and Debugging
- Solution Design and Development
- Software Maintenance
- Agile Methodologies
- Continuous Delivery
- Cloud Support
- Cloud Development
- Customer Service
- Network Solutions
- Software Security Audit
- Development
- Infrastructure
- Customer / Developer Education
- Ability to communicate effectively with Technical and non-Technical Personnel
- Languages: Java, Python, Rust, VBNET, C#, C, C, VB, HTML, XML, JavaScript, TSQL, SQL, PL/SQL, Objective C, Ruby, Groovy, SCSS, CSS, Kotlin, SwiftUI, SalesForce Commerce Cloud
- API’s Methodologies: OpenAI, J2EE, Spring, Graalvm, AWS, Quarkus, Google Cloud, Azure, HTML, UML, JDBC, ODBC, Ruby on Rails, Grails, Microservices, Kinesis, Agile Methodologies, Gradle, Junit, jQuery, React, VueJS, Thymeleaf, TDD, CI/CD, Extreme Programming (XP)
- Middleware, Databases: Oracle, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Exchange, DB2, Biztalk, Apache, IIS, NGINX, WebSphere, JBoss, Mulesoft, webMethods, Kinesis, Spark, MongoDB, DataDog
- Tools: VS Code, IntelliJ, GIT, SourceSafe, Selenium, YourKit, Bitbucket, Jenkins, CVS, VMWare, UML, Erwin, PL/SQL Developer, SQL Navigator, Office, Project, OpenAPI, Swagger, InstallShield, Eclipse, NetBeans, OmniGraffle, Jira Suite, XCode, Android Studio, Docker, Postman, Kubernetes
References
References Made Available Upon Request
Certification
- Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer
- Salesforce B2C Commerce Architect
Timeline
Chief Architect
HRBTec
07.2021 - Current
Chief Architect
Ignition Commerce
11.2007 - 06.2021
Senior Systems Architect
Rollins Inc
03.2003 - 11.2007
Electronics Technician - Electronic Engineering
Massey Institute of Technology
Some College (No Degree) -
University of West Georgia
- Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer
- Salesforce B2C Commerce Architect
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