Thomas Carlisle
Pottsville,PA
Summary
Dynamic Senior Software Engineer with a proven track record, excelling in full-stack development and AI-driven solutions. Expert in Java and Spring Framework, I deliver impactful backend services while fostering team collaboration and mentoring junior developers. Passionate about leveraging technology to enhance user experiences and streamline operations.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Insight Global
, United States
04.2022 - Current
- Full-Stack developer within the Emerging Customer Technology & Marketing Technology group, responsible for design, development, and support of critical customer facing applications
- Leverages Google DIalogFlow CX for NLP and Google Gemini AI to bring advanced interactive chatbots to life, which receive customer satisfaction metrics in the upper 95th percentile across the industry.
- Hand picked as the most senior backend developer to head up the development of backend services and APIs to support eCommerce in the mobile app.Delivered MVE in 8 months from inception.
- Volunteered to take on development of services in a sibling organization, which required API exposing which that team did not have resources to commit
- Performed on boarding to that team, and successfully delivered dozens of endpoints, and earning the trust and respect of both teams
- Follows Agile/SAFE processes, delivers in a continuous integration/delivery environment with advanced devops processes
- Develops backend services in Java/Kotlin/Spring, and front end and mobile in React Native
- Performs code reviews, mentors junior developers
- Performs code QA and production support, and feature implementation
- Leverages decades of experience in project and risk management to navigate unchartered territories
Sole Proprietor & Principle Software Engineer
Carlisle Technology Solutions
Monmouth County, United States
02.2018 - 04.2022
- Designs, develops, and supports end-to-end software solutions including backend APIs and web services, modern front end user interfaces, and following best-practices for secure software design
- Designed and implemented a custom web CRM application which agents in a call center use to service customers
- Designed & developed a web application for resume building, online viewing and exporting to PDF. Builds a gorgeous, modern resume and exports to PDF with metadata and keywords embedded for maximum ATS friendliness.
- Developed a landing page for a marketing campaign with a call to action (CTA) which collected customer information to send email to the sales team
Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure Services
Nomura Securities
New York, NY
02.2014 - 02.2018
- Responsible for design, implementation, and support of enterprise-grade software to empower executive decision-making, identify and eliminate risks, and improve operational efficiencies
- Designs, develops, and supports solutions in Java and leveraging the Spring ecosystem following SDLC and Agile/Scrum processes
- Designed, developed, and supported a Java Server Faces (JSF) web application for network attached storage usage & identifying files no longer used.
- Designs REST APIs which are OpenAPI compliant and other web services
- Develops data interfaces between disparate systems to extract, transform and load (ETL) data
- Develops front end code using Angular/TypeScript, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
Project Manager
Sapphire Technologies
01.2010 - 01.2014
- Assigned as a project management consultant to a global industry-leading investment bank to manage the project to drastically improve the disaster recoverability capabilities by implementing a best-in-class DR solution to a business critical application and its associated infrastructure
Project Manager
NCS Technologies
01.2008 - 01.2009
- Assigned as a project management consultant to a global industry-leading pharmaceutical to manage technology infrastructure projects
Project Manager
McGraw-Hill
01.2007 - 01.2008
- Assigned as project manager to a Fortune 500 global financial services organization to manage a global, large-scale, highly complex project to achieve the following:
- Migrate from Microsoft Exchange 2000 to 2003
- Consolidate into a single Active Directory domain and forest and Exchange organization
- Consolidate all e-mail servers into three global data centers
Manager, Project Management Office
Dimension Data
01.2002 - 01.2006
- Laid the foundation and implemented the overall strategy for best-in-class planning and execution of IT projects
- Created, managed, governed, and reported on standards, policies, and methodologies that were to be followed by all IT project managers and solution delivery teams
- The ultimate goal of the PMO is to ensure greater project success for all IT projects, specifically on-time, on-budget, and exceeding customer expectations
- Developed the strategy and served as an agent of change for project management policies and procedures at all levels in the organization
- Provided direct oversight and mentored project managers in their communication with major stakeholders for individual projects
- Reported and assessed the overall health of the organization's project portfolio
Senior Project Manager
Dimension Data
01.2000 - 01.2002
- Responsible for the successful delivery of systems integration projects for medium and enterprise business clients
- Effectively plan and manage project execution resulting in projects being on-time, within budget, and to the satisfaction of the business customer
- Projects included: network infrastructure, server and storage, e-mail and database, advanced security, and IP telephony & call center
Director, Information Systems
Bank of America
01.1998 - 01.2000
- Reporting to the Chief Finance Officer, provide leadership to assure the integrity, reliability, and security of computerized information
- Oversee the development, maintenance, operation and support of the hardware and software application systems used in support of business services
- Lead the planning, development, acquisition, implementation, and operation of information systems and data administration
- Provide direction to improve information technology delivery and efficiency
- Direct capacity planning, systems failure analysis, and implement resolution
- Develop and coordinate long and short-range plans for systems development, maintenance, security, production activities, and support services
- Define business requirements and apply appropriate hardware and software technologies to meet requirements
- Provide technical advice and guidance to business leadership
- Develop specifications for business solutions components
- Direct the operations of the service desk, data center, and systems administration support
- Direct and supervise the activities and services of the Information Systems staff
- Oversee and evaluate staff workloads and projects
- Manage the budget
Information Systems Manager
United States Air Force
01.1994 - 01.1998
- Overall management of the capabilities, security, robustness, stability and policies governing information systems
- Responsible for task/issue prioritization, project management, budgeting, implementation and supervision of employees impacting information systems, their integrity and operations
Education
Bachelor of Science - BS - Computer Science & Mathematics
Minot State University
Skills
- Kotlin & Java Development
- Design and development
- Microservices architecture
- Spring Framework
- Spring Security
- Spring Data
- Spring Web
- Data integration & Database Design
- REST & GraphQL API design
- Google AI
- DevOps practices & CI/CD
- Infrastructure as Code
- Cloud technologies
- Technical analysis
- Agile methodologies
- Project leadership
- Team collaboration
- Problem solving
- Technical mentorship
Certification
- Java and Spring Framework
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Project Management
- SQL
- Software Engineering
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Insight Global
04.2022 - Current
Sole Proprietor & Principle Software Engineer
Carlisle Technology Solutions
02.2018 - 04.2022
Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure Services
Nomura Securities
02.2014 - 02.2018
Project Manager
Sapphire Technologies
01.2010 - 01.2014
Project Manager
NCS Technologies
01.2008 - 01.2009
Project Manager
McGraw-Hill
01.2007 - 01.2008
Manager, Project Management Office
Dimension Data
01.2002 - 01.2006
Senior Project Manager
Dimension Data
01.2000 - 01.2002
Director, Information Systems
Bank of America
01.1998 - 01.2000
Information Systems Manager
United States Air Force
01.1994 - 01.1998
Bachelor of Science - BS - Computer Science & Mathematics
Minot State University
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