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Kevin McGuire

Summary

Senior Manager with extensive experience at Accenture, specializing in cloud computing solutions and microservices architecture. Demonstrated success in delivering high-performance web applications and leading cross-functional teams. Expertise in Java EE technologies and project management drives innovation and achieves strategic objectives.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Manager

Accenture
10.2013 - 12.2023
  • Managed architecture, development, and delivery of large-scale web solutions for Fortune 100 and 500 clients.
  • Designed technical architecture for high-volume commercial websites on cloud platforms and on-premises.
  • Developed and delivered applications using AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform prototypes.
  • Built highly available commercial websites in Amazon EC2 with EBS, EFS, and ELB support.
  • Conducted security analysis on banking web applications, performing risk assessments and threat analyses.
  • Utilized Atlassian JIRA and Azure DevOps for project management to ensure timely delivery.
  • Investigated emerging technologies to drive innovation and establish thought leadership.
  • Led system integration efforts employing Java EE stack, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript frameworks.

Consultant (Manager)

Acquity Group
08.2009 - 09.2013
  • Software Architect, Technical Lead, and manager, developing large commercial web sites for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 clients
  • Same role and technologies as used at Accenture (above)

Chief Architect

Webster Capital
09.2008 - 04.2009
  • Designed infrastructure architecture (network, data center, collocation), configured networking, and built out in data centers in New York and London to trade currencies and energy futures
  • Built CentOS 5 servers and deployed them to Equinix data centers in Chicago, Jersey City/Secaucus, and London
  • Designed and implemented a retrofit of a FIX FAST price feed using C# and .NET

Architect/Developer

Allston Trading
10.2006 - 08.2008
  • Designed, developed, and maintained high-performance multithreaded algorithmic trading systems in core Java (J2SE) for trading stocks, agricultural and energy futures
  • Trades implemented in core Java: market-making scalper which performs arbitrage using dual instruments, market-making arbitrage across outright instruments and spreads
  • Integration using CME, CBOT, NYMEX, COMEX, ICE, and ARCA

Senior Software Architect

DBS Communications, Inc.
06.2004 - 09.2006
  • Designed and developed J2EE (JEE) components and applications with UML, JBoss, Hibernate, Oracle, servlets, Struts, JSP, EJB, and XML
  • Designed and implemented development processes and workflows for full software development lifecycle (SDLC) to SEI CMM Level 3
  • Defined and documented development standards and training the development, build, and deployment staff in implementing them

Associate Director

UBS Investment Bank
09.2002 - 05.2004
  • Architect for global monitoring solutions for equities trading systems
  • Designed, architected, and developed J2EE-based web applications running on Solaris, WebSphere, Oracle, and Sybase using Java/J2EE, XML, Perl, expect, Bourne shell UML, Together/J, Rational Rose, Java, servlets, Struts, and EJB

Education

Associate of Science - Pre-engineering

Waubonsee Community College
Sugar Grove, IL
05-1989

Some College (No Degree) - Electrical Engineering

Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL

Skills

  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • API development
  • Microservices architecture
  • Cloud computing solutions
  • Networking and security
  • Java EE technologies
  • Web services integration
  • Infrastructure design and development
  • Full-stack development expertise
  • Project management skills
  • Team leadership
  • Cloud platform proficiency
  • Big data analytics
  • Programming languages proficiency
  • Software architecture and design
  • Modeling techniques
  • Networking protocols expertise
  • Agile Software methodology and tools
  • Interprocess communication strategies
  • Concurrency management
  • Real-time software development

Summary Of Expertise

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, https://www.credly.com/badges/6d05d63a-4b07-4dbf-8ece-87916411d965/public_url, Software, microservices, and system architecture, cloud computing, networking, security, JEE (J2EE), web services (RESTful, SOAP, XML), infrastructure and full-stack development: operating systems, kernels, compilers, and development tools, project management, managing people, mentoring, and coaching, Cloud platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, Azure, IBM Bluemix, Salesforce, Big data: Hadoop, HDFS, Programming Languages: Java, SQL, Python, Perl, C++, C, JavaScript, Bourne shell, Haskell, Ruby, Java Technologies: Full-stack Java API (SDK), EJB, J2EE (JEE), JNDI, JBDC, servlets, JSP, JSTL, JMS, Java Beans, JNI, Hibernate, EJB, Spring, Architecture, design, and modeling: UML and design patterns, Operating Systems: Linux, UNIX, BSD/FreeBSD, Solaris, System V, Windows, Component technologies: Spring, Hibernate, OSGi, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), Networking: TCP/IP, sockets, RPC, XDR, CGI, NDR, ssh, HTTP, ftp, Software: Docker, JBoss, Eclipse, NetBeans, WebSphere, Apache, Tomcat, Maven, git, EC2, EBS, Subversion (svn), Ant, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Endeca, MQ Series, Oracle, Sybase, PostgreSQL (Postgres), MySQL, Project Management: Atlassian JIRA, Azure DevOps, Multi-processing, interprocess communication, and concurrency using mutexes, locks, semaphores, and global shared memory, Wrote real-time software for trading systems with hard real-time requirements using Java, C#, C, C++, and various assembly languages, Equities, currencies, futures in agriculturals, metals, and energy, Developed a personal trend-following trading system for trading futures, indexes, currencies, written in Scala, using the Interactive Brokers Trader Workstation (TWS) API

Certification

Certified AWS Solution Architect

Timeline

Senior Manager

Accenture
10.2013 - 12.2023

Consultant (Manager)

Acquity Group
08.2009 - 09.2013

Chief Architect

Webster Capital
09.2008 - 04.2009

Architect/Developer

Allston Trading
10.2006 - 08.2008

Senior Software Architect

DBS Communications, Inc.
06.2004 - 09.2006

Associate Director

UBS Investment Bank
09.2002 - 05.2004

Associate of Science - Pre-engineering

Waubonsee Community College

Some College (No Degree) - Electrical Engineering

Northern Illinois University

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