Bio

President and Chief Software Engineer at Lucas Software Engineering, Inc., duties include managing client relations, product development and marketing, providing training, mentoring, and direct development for multiple industry clients to include major financial, insurance and utility firms. Working in partnership with other consulting firms providing services to Fortune 500 companies. Presented lectures and training to local and national groups. Current focus is on large scale JVM backend systems leveraging Oracle/DB2/PostgreSQL developing APIs using web services (REST / GraphQL) and event messaging (MQ, Kafka). Prefer to leverage backend Kotlin microservices and assist companies in their migration to a more efficient software lifecycle. Prior to starting LSE: Senior Infrastructure Architect at Longaberger Company focused on implementing enterprise services for manufacturing information services. Staff Software Engineer at Checkfree Corporation working with Intuit and Microsoft to implement the first OFX gateway for financial processing. Programmer/Analyst at Nationwide Insurance working with financial funds, payments and processing. Senior Developer at SAIC working with the Army In Transit Visibility (TAV) implementing a RFID system to track shipments of supplies through the military procurement chain and providing location of critical parts as they move between staging areas. Software Engineer at National Systems and Research work with IBM/Loral on the Global Positioning System (GPS) command and control infrastructure providing critical real-time development, maintenance, and support for multiple satellite ground systems. Programmer in the US Air Force providing support to NAVSTAR GPS command and control systems. Programmer / Satellite Operations for Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) providing weather image download, command and control, and site database maintenance. Specialties: Over 25 years of IT experience including distributed computing with Java, Kotlin, Web Services, C++, and JEE. Provide development, performance optimization, training, consulting and mentoring to software development teams.