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Paul Williams

Verified Expert in Engineering

Software Developer

Location

Slidell, LA, United States

Toptal Member Since

July 1, 2014

Paul is an extremely talented technologist with a knack for interacting with customers. He loves to write code and also enjoys people in general. He has dealt with problems ranging from a room full of angry Navy Captains to technical problems such as increasing the speed of a search by 1000%.

Java Agile Software Development Spring AngularJS Oracle PL/SQL Windows PHP Oracle MySQL Red Hat Linux NetBeans MacOS Spring MVC Python jQuery

Portfolio

Geocent

OpenAM, WebLogic, JBoss, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ruby on Rails (RoR), Java

United Defense

C++, C, Java

Experience

Java - 14 years JavaScript - 12 years Agile Software Development - 6 years Spring - 5 years AngularJS - 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA, Windows, MacOS

The most amazing...

...thing I have built is a Cloud-based infrastructure management tool capable of supporting a n-tier production-ready environment in 10 minutes.

Work Experience

Chief Engineer

2004 - 2014

Geocent

Organized teams to solve technical problems for clients.
Developed attribute-based access control for a VA client.
Created a reusable infrastructure management app enabling a quick development environment as well as optimized production management.
Trained and certified 20 service oriented architecture professionals.
Developed an enterprise portal for oceanography and meteorology for the Navy.
Led the development of a tool for automation of chapter 33 GI bill claims.

Technologies: OpenAM, WebLogic, JBoss, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ruby on Rails (RoR), Java

Senior Developer

2001 - 2004

United Defense

Developed product development tools based on Windchill and Metaphase.
Performed Oracle 8 migrations for development upgrades.
Designed and implemented architecture upgrades.
Created automated tests for validating software.
Designed automation tools to validate the bill of materials using C and C++.

Technologies: C++, C, Java

Experience

Chapter 33 GI Bill

Automated the claims processing for Chapter 33 GI Bill recipients. It was a large project with over 250 developers. The architecture consisted of Oracle 11i, WebLogic, Apache, Whitestein (BPM), JRules, Jasper Reports, OpenAM and Spring.

Skills

Languages

Java, PHP, JavaScript, Python, C++, C

Paradigms

Agile Software Development, Kanban

Frameworks

AngularJS, Spring, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Bootstrap, Spring MVC, Django, Ruby on Rails (RoR)

Libraries/APIs

jQuery

Tools

IntelliJ IDEA, Jenkins, Chef, AWS OpsWorks, WebStorm

Platforms

JBoss, OpenAM, NetBeans, MacOS, Oracle, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Red Hat Linux, Windows

Storage

Oracle PL/SQL, PostGIS, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Other

WebLogic

Education

2003 - 2005

Master's Degree in Computer Information Systems

American Intercontinental - Hoffman Estates, Illinois, USA

2002 - 2003

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems

American Intercontinental - Hoffman Estates, Illinois, USA

2000 - 2002

Associate's Degree in Computer Science

North Hennepin Technical College - Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, USA

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