Justin Anthony

Program: Navy Software Factory (Navy Forge) - Washington DC

Enabler Team:

• Tech Lead for inception and development of Navy Forge's Design System. Integrating new technologies into innovative paradigm while leveraging assets from Air Force and Space Force to create a design system that is modern, flexible, and maintainable with emphasis on developer experience (dx).
• Used Bit and WebComponents alongside Space Force design system to automate design system components across any front-end language/framework.
• Developed isolated development environment scaffolding for each component and it's needs/dependencies for self-sufficient disposable workspaces.
• For non-web technologies I started integrating similar design system principles for JavaFX using Protobuf (by Google) and Mobius (by Spotify).
• Delivered successful prototypes of using the modular design system principles to extract portions of old code from a complex codebase, developing a modernized version of it, then re-injecting it into the older code. I succeeded in getting Java 21 isolated components to work inside a Java 11 legacy codebase.

Integrated Combat System Team:

Embedded on a Northrop Grumman team collaborating with Lockheed Martin teams.

Designed, implemented, maintained, created documentation for, and trained other developers and teams on the following:

• Docker Devcontainers for VS Code for each microservice (VS Code, Docker, Gradle, Spring Boot)
• Strategies for running and testing microservices locally (Docker, GoTask, Postman, REST test triggers)
• Automated testing methods/technologies (Spring Boot, Testcontainers, JUnit, JUpiter, Gradle)
• Gradle integrations to include multi-project strategies. (Gradle, Kotlin)
• GitLab CI pipelines for each microservice which included automated testing, security scanning, SBOM production, SonarQube scans, containerized delivery to Artifactory with semantic versioning.
• Protobuf implementation and integration strategies for communication between microservices via ActiveMQ Artemis.
• SonarQube setup, rules, and CI/CD pipeline integrations.

• Performed role of Tech Lead for SCRUM team on React/Java project stack.
• Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in debugging, testing, and architectural design to improve overall team performance.
• Worked with project managers, developers across 9 teams, and customers to resolve technical issues.
• Promoted technical leadership and autonomy to entry-level and junior engineers in complex enterprise system environment.
• Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
• Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality.

Project: A React and Java application using agile methodologies, CI/CD, microservices, and cutting-edge technologies to aggregate strategic-level near-real-time data sources across multiple security enclaves and classifications into a common intuitive visualization display accessible from multiple locations and platforms.

• Shortly after starting, was featured in ISYS Technologies company newsletter after receiving recognition from Northrop Grumman.
• Trained and mentored junior and senior developers and engineers from multiple teams, teaching skills in React, Jest, and Cypress, while working to improve overall team performance.
• Prototyped procedures for system monitoring and recovery using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Stabilized integration and unit level tests resulting in massive improvements to CI/CD pipeline performance and reliability.
• Application and testing/development performance and procedure improvements made were significant enough to draw attention from other programs resulting in highly beneficial cross-project collaboration.
• Was specially selected to participate in contract bidding projects for Navy Software Factory on behalf of Northrop Grumman on country-wide remote collaborative team. Praise and positive feedback were continuously received.
• Strongly advocated for high standards on application performance, consistency, reliability, and maintainability while balancing "move fast" rapid prototyping principles.
• Engineered solutions that made application development in local environments easier, while improving developer experience when writing unit/integration tests resulting in quicker troubleshooting turnaround times.
• Worked closely with other developers to determine application architecture and technologies during entire prototyping phase. This process formalized into the Software Architecture Guild.
• Became the go-to for Software Architecture Guild matters, automated testing concerns, and anything related to UI/UX.

• Very quickly learned new sets of technologies and unique company-specific development methods.
• Collaborated on websites for Textron Systems using innovative designer/developer paradigms. Designers were trained in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript resulting in uniquely efficient design-to-implementation processes.
• Completed projects from ground up for multiple clients, on time, on budget, and with praises.
• Successfully worked projects solo, and collaboratively, using flexible technology stacks resulting in rapid high quality project completion that met or exceeded client standards.
• Helped improve development technologies and processes to keep up with latest trends and best practices.

Project: 5 tier application that would be used to replace every other application used company wide. Tech stack included Umbraco CMS, React, .NET Core 3.1, and MySQL 2017. Project included private and publicly available restful API's, server-side rendering, code splitting, progressive webapp, micro-service architecture, and multi-tenant features at the domain level. Single codebase with re-usable components and configuration-over-code architecture that was scalable.

• Successfully prototyped theoretical project rapidly and efficiently, saving over $100,000 of planned expenses.
• As sole developer leveraged expertise from all available resources to ensure quality design and architectural choices were made as quickly as possible.
• Converted vague requirements into drafted proposals and practical prototypes using agile methods in non-agile environment, resulting in efficient and on-target deliveries.
• Carefully planned and implemented project development pipeline, version control, coding standards, testing concepts, and automating deployments.
• Created pilot website for new products using modern design patterns, frameworks, while establishing improved development pipelines.
• Balanced and set priorities supporting multiple legacy applications alongside new project development.
• Greatly improved user experience while developing new features for customer-facing websites by refactoring unstable portions of code to support future work.
• Succeeded in converting team to Kanban, allowing developers to work towards becoming Agile since requirements came in as Waterfall.
• Took on extra responsibilities for maintaining legacy applications so that other developers could work on more important projects.
• Met all deadlines on legacy applications resulting in support for release of new major products.
• Successfully balanced working between myriad projects, while training new developers, keeping thorough documentation, creating pitches for relevant emerging technologies, and assisting with project management.

• Successfully converted development team from waterfall to agile in less than 6 months.
• Initialized first set of front-end and back-end test suites.
• Quickly and continuously learned large series of new languages, frameworks, and dev practices, including PHP, Laravel, MySQL, Angular 2+, React, SCSS, Backbone, and Handlebars.
• Was critical in meeting client demands during complete application rewrite.
• Worked on several projects simultaneously, including new enterprise application, small robotics projects, and instantiation of new innovation department within Archrival.

• Greatly increased expertise in unit testing, automated testing, and UI/UX development.
• Became “go-to” developer for Jasmine (Karma) testing, as well as anything related to UI/UX, be it code, design, or customer proposals.
• Improved techniques used to troubleshoot issues within complex infrastructure comprised large varieties of software and systems that continuously changed.
• Presented at Agile for Defense about Angular 2 when it first released.
• Continuous professional product demonstrations of work to customer every 2 weeks.
• Custom created dynamic style guide used for development of new major enterprise application.
• Established and enforced policies on how to handle third party libraries and application dependencies.
• Gained experience in creating “vertical slices” of new features and components, reaching from UI to database using myriad of languages while learning them.
• Continuously endeavored to improve automated test quality while increasing test coverage resulting in increased stability, and decreased maintenance costs.
• Regularly sought out and fixed poor coding standards throughout by centralizing and modularizing duplicated code while removing dead code, greatly reducing technical debt and debugging complexity.

• Experience with JavaScript, Angular, HTML5, CSS3, Selenium, Protractor, Jasmine, JUnit, and more advanced Java in 6 months’ time.
• Work within Test Guild and Portal Replacement Guild.
• Assisted in improving onboarding processes for new hires by updating and improving existing documentation, volunteered for Training Guild, and sponsored new hires.
• Helped to establish improved standards for programming, testing, and UI/UX design and development, resulting in actionable items fostered team wide.

• Planned and implemented 4 phase plan to completely overhaul databases and incorporate major system upgrade. This resulted in increased operational efficiency, ease of use, and integrity of over 32,000 records.
• Simultaneously managed and maintained original database during development process of new databases.
• Improved work performance office-wide by automating several important tasks performed regularly while improving overall functionality across all databases, which generates over 33,000 pieces of mail annually.
• Significantly reduced complexity of existing database assets while increasing overall functionality and performance, represented in newly developed databases.
• Resolved issues in servers and software using range of tools and technologies to troubleshoot problems and identify solutions.

• Managed and maintained private databases containing records of all Engineers, Architects, and Geologists licensed to operate in Nebraska.
• Improved work performance office-wide by automating several important tasks performed regularly.
• Efficiently solved multiple software and hardware issues daily.
• Continuously provided solutions to complex problems in time critical situations while working with multiple offices.
• Configured hardware, devices and software to set up work-stations for employees.

• GCCS-M 3.X and 4.X operator aboard USS Port Royal CG-73 (Ticonderoga class Aegis Missile Cruiser).
• Supported and qualified the USS Port Royal to use TLAM during multiple deployments.
• Achieved ESWS (Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist) pin aboard the USS Port Royal.
• Supported the NGFS (Naval Gun Fire Support) team aboard the USS Port Royal.
• Qualified for and performed actual SAR (Search And Rescue) operations aboard the USS Port Royal.
• Tracked thousands of contacts using radar aboard the USS Port Royal.
• Operated radar and used nautical charts for Sea and Anchor details, general course navigation, and other operations aboard the USS Port Royal.
• Used SPY radar to assist in multiple operations to include automated contact tracking assistance on our radar systems aboard the USS Port Royal.
• Trained to operate Harpoon weapon system aboard USS Port Royal.
• Qualified to operate Link-16 aboard USS Port Royal.
• Qualified to operate CADRT aboard USS Port Royal.
• Qualified to operate the Mk 38 weapon system aboard the USS Port Royal.
• Qualified to use and maintain IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) systems aboard USS Port Royal.
• Supported BMD (Ballistic Missile Defense) aboard the USS Port Royal.
• Operated C-RAM Phalanx system as part of C-RAM 7, JIB 1, Individual Augmentee program in Baghdad, Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
• Watch Floor Supervisor at CNE-CNA-C6F command center, Naples, Italy. Primarily operated GCCS-J, a new merchant vessel tracking system, and supported many operations in the entire AoR.
• Operated a similar system to GCCS at a NATO command center located in Naples, Italy.
• Operated the Army version of GCCS as it was being developed at an Army station in Vicenza, Italy.