Senior Software Consultant Robert W. Herrmann43 Fawn Ter, Groton, MA 01450bob@jadn.com 978-512-0495

Technologies

Languages	Clojure, Java, JavaScript, React, CSS
Operating System	Linux/Ubuntu/Solaris/Unix, MacOS, Windows
Databases	MySQL, Oracle, Redis, LDAP

Experience

Patient Ping, Boston, MA

Consulting Software Engineer

Feb 2018 - MAR 2019

Updated patient records based on requests from external systems Changed data access paths to use a MySQL partitioned index to speed up production Implemented a mechanism for tracing dataflow through Kafka based messaging system Designed/Implemented comparison process to enable vetting of system changes Created tool for generating millions of patients for testing

Vecna, Cambridge, MA

Consulting Software Engineer

JUN 2017 - FEB 2018

Created system for managing warehouse inventory using SpringBoot Designed/Implemented a distributed system for evaluating robotics planning algorithms Did performance analysis on production Java/Tomcat/Postgres system

Optum Analytics, Boston, MA

Consulting Software Engineer

OCT 2013 - JUN 2017

Designed/Delivered a custom sql query engine for accessing patient data in Java/Spring Developed team standards for developing/using Javascript/ES6 with React/Redux Crafted SQL ETL to place new patient data in warehouse Added features to an analytics application - Java/Spring/Oracle/Flex Leverage and promote Clojure/ClojureScript

HubAnalytics, Cambridge, MA

Principal Software Engineer

SEP 2012 - OCT 2013

Created a loan application processor in Bootstrap/JQuery/Rails/Clojure Develop, QA, Deploy, Iterate, Support on a collection of Rails Applications DevOps. Responsible for architecture and implementation of our cloud operating system

InnoCentive, Waltham, MA

Senior Grails Developer

JUN 2011 - AUG 2012

Evangelized automated functional testing (http://gebish.org) Helped add major new feature (Brainstorm Challenges) to grails site Investigated, recommended, and implemented a payment system (stripe.com)

Isobar / Putnam Investments, Boston, MA

Consulting Engineer

NOV 2010 - JUL 2011

Selected Spring/Hibernate/Freemarker to realize a system marketing could update, but engineering could own

NYC Hospitals/Data Vision Group, NJ

Senior Consulting Engineer

AUG 2010 - Present

The web application marries LDAP, command line tools, and a relational database to choreograph a work-flow involving 40 participants involved in the management of a hospital's 40,000 users The application used Wicket/Hibernate/Spring/JQuery/Java/SqlServer

QUICKHIT, MA

Senior Java/Grails Engineer

JUN 2010 - SEP 2010

Refactored a database of 300 columns by turning columns into rows. Resulted in a 50% reduction in storage reduction. Utilized Java/Hibernate/Spring/Grails

InnoCentive, Waltham, MA

Grails Consultant

JUN 2008 - MAY 2010

Help development of site for matching problem solvers and solution seekers Guided transition from old Java Framework (Enhydra) to Grails Helped define best practices for development using Grails Rapidly delivered production system for viewing and searching content Developed system for letting users tag content

Robert Herrmann Associates, Groton, MA

Android Development

DEC 2008 - Present

Created 'Car Cast Podcast Player' an in car podcast player for Android Application has over 7000 active users Entered into Android Development Contest II Application forwards stats, downloads, and errors to central site for analysis

ITA Software (now Google), Cambridge, MA

Senior Consulting Engineer

JUL 2006 - JUN 2009

Participated in design and development of an airline reservations system Specialized load balancer for handling HTTP requests and pulling from Oracle queues Wrote test reporting application using Grails Developed solution for sending rich HTML receipts to customers

P&H Solutions (ph.com), Waltham, MA

Senior Consulting Engineer

MAY 2004 - JUN 2006

Migrated mature banking web application from the Microsoft platform (C++/COM/MTS/ASP/ADO/VB) to the J2EE (Java/JDBC/JSP/JUnit) platform Provide just in time architecture and design Team resource for Java/J2EE and IDE expertise Utilize agile methods: refactoring, unit tests, continuous integration

Sun Microsystems, Marlboro, MA

Senior Consulting Engineer

JAN 2003 - MAY 2004

Part of a team that developed an application for monitoring storage systems The application was implemented using Java, XML, Javascript, tag libraries, Oracle, eclipse, Ant, Tomcat, Linux, Solaris Designed and developed application features; Searching, Filtering, and Custom Reporting Worked to drive application's automatic switching to Chinese, Japanese or French based on client's language

Cell Exchange / Boeing, Cambridge, MA

Consulting Architect/Developer

DEC 2002

Rapidly architected and developed an aircraft inventory/status web application for USAF bases

Sun Microsystems, Burlington, MA

Consulting Engineer

MAY 2002 - NOV 2002

Contributor to the open source Apache Tomcat project. Tomcat is the reference JSP/Servlet implementation. Tomcat is core technology in many J2EE application servers Implemented new Servlet 2.4 functionality for Tomcat 4 and Tomcat 5 Track/fix/eliminated problems with SSL, session handling, and logging Participated in Tomcat development community (discussions, votes, bug fixes)

Network Engines, Canton, MA

Senior Consulting Engineer

DEC 2001 - MAR 2002

Helped complete SDK for Rack mount computer control panel

Lucent Technologies, Marlboro, MA

Senior Consulting Java Engineer

APR 2001 - JUL 2001

Improved web based HR system allowing managers to award bonuses Implemented new features using J2EE, JSP, Java, JDBC, HTML, JavaScript, Oracle 9i AS/8i DB Refactored JSP reports to include new features and improved speed, quality plus maintainability Created a place for managers to post questions and answers to communicate with employees

Voice of the Web, Reading, MA

Chief Architect/Co-Founder

NOV 2000 - MAR 2001

Co-Founded a Startup Company creating software to scan news sites and create spoken audio content from the site's content. Finalist in both the Lycos Labs and Boston.com business plan competitions Rapidly developed and deployed system in 2 months using J2EE, XML, VoiceXML, Java, JSP, Apache's Tomcat, tellme.com, Bell Labs Text-to-speech engine

Lumapath, Inc. Maynard, MA

Senior Engineer, Team Leader

JAN 2000 - NOV 2000

Venture funded early stage startup that created an innovative search and user interface technology Designed and created a knowledge engineering tool for editors to process daily flow of search terms. Tool allowed editors to create/edit/test/execute a set of rules for improving search hit quality Lead creation of automated deployment system for server farm (JSP/Java, F5's load balancer, Akamai's cache, offsite hosting, NT, IIS, Netscape/iPlanet, JavaScript, XML, Oracle)

Radnet, Wakefield, MA

Senior Consulting Engineer

MAY 1999 - DEC 1999

Developed portions of portal architecture (User, Preferences, Content Database) using Java/COM, IIS, ASP, MTS, Oracle Developed modular web UI controls included throughout the portal (JavaScript, Java) Critiqued existing architecture and suggested and implemented changes Mentored team members with Java/COM, JavaScript, XSLT, ASP, MTS, IIS

General DataComm/Ericsson, Marlboro, MA

Senior Consultant

MAR 1998 - FEB 1999

Brought an carrier-grade ATM networking product to production by fixing problems in C on embedded 68k PSOS system Devised and created distributed Java based testing tool which executed test plans

Sun Microsystems, Chelmsford, MA

Senior Engineer, Team Leader

MAR 1996 - MAR 1998

Lead team creating Java printing service for network computers Researched and developed next generation email system leveraging Java technology

Bridge Information Systems, NYC, NY

Software Engineer

APR 1994 - MAR 1996

Part of team that created a robust electronic order routing and trading system Created C++ networking library that handle millions of daily transactions between Windows, Unix and Databases (Oracle, Sybase)

Knight Ridder Financial, NYC, NY

Software Engineer

JUL 1990 - MAR 1994

Developed networked stock price and financial news processing engine in C/C++

CAE-Link Flight Simulation, Binghamton, NY

Software Developer

MAY 1989 - JUN 1990

Developed simulator initialization system for a B2 Bomber simulator in ADA Revised a library used for doing highspeed interpolation from small dataset in Unix/C

Education

Binghamton University, NY, MAY 1989

BS, Electrical Engineering

CodeSchool.com, July 2013

Ruby/CSS/Git/Electives 17 courses completed. See http://www.codeschool.com/users/bherrmann7