Chris Kujawa

Chris Kujawa

$45/hr
Full Stack Web Developer
Reply rate:
-
Availability:
Hourly ($/hour)
Age:
56 years old
Location:
Rochester, New Hampshire, United States
Experience:
11 years
Christopher M. Kujawa 17 Logan Street, Rochester New Hampshire 03867 Cell -E-mail:-Skills Summary: Java --SE 4,5,6  Ant, Maven, Gradle  Hibernate/JPA, iBatis  Java Server Faces (JSF), Struts  J2EE, EJB, JMS/MQ  JUNit, TestNG  HTML/JavaScript/AJAX (Dojo and JQuery)         XML and XSD SQL development for Oracle and MySql Eclipse/Jenkins/proprietary build systems Familiarity with Windows, Unix, and Linux Apache Tomcat, Jboss, Weblogic, and TomEE Excellent written and oral communication skills Strong troubleshooting skills Professional History: Vantiv (now WorldPay) Principal Software Engineer- July 2014 through present. Working in a highly agile, complex production environment Designing and building solutions that connect our platform to our home office platform Developing new features and tests for them in a paired programming environment Moving our software system from an outdated version of jBoss to TomEE. Planning and initiating implementation of a move from Java 7 to Java 8. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company      Senior Software Developer- April 2012 through July 2014. Acted as the lead developer for our migration to Websphere Application Server 8.0, which involved modifying and migrating 24 applications and web services to multiple new environments.  Worked with Websphere Integration Developer to design and build a new service integration to connect the sales application suite to a third party automated underwriting service. Technologies used include SOAP, iBatis and MQ.  Mentored more junior developers, particularly new hires.  Lead small teams of developers to accomplish complex tasks as part of larger projects.  I consistently proposed and worked to build support of many process improvements in relation to development methodologies and project management. Bottomline Technologies  Software Developer-November 2010 to April 2012. Working in a professional services group customizing our J2EE based Webseries banking product for a major customer.  Trouble shooting and fixing defects as our client logs them.  Writing and maintaining technical design documents for a new product revision.  Implemented new features using Java, JavaScript, Dojo, and SQL as requested by our customer and coordinating with our offshore team to ensure timely delivery of product. FairPoint Communications  Application Developer-February 2008 to March, 2010. Developing a natural language query web application using JSF and Hibernate for use in our marketing department. This was developed for and deployed on Weblogic 9.2 with an Oracle back-end.  Designing and maintaining several applications which will be developed using JSF and Hibernate to provide services to our wholesale customers.  Writing and maintaining PL/SQL scripts to pull data from Kenan billing system and ksh/Perl scripts to integrate the SQL with Control-M automation tool.  Creating and maintaining sites, libraries, lists, and applications in Microsoft SharePoint  Designing and developing C# .Net based web applications Loftware, Inc.  Software Engineer-December, 2006 to February 2008.  Promoted from Technical Support Specialist Page 1 of 2 Christopher M. Kujawa 17 Logan Street, Rochester New Hampshire 03867 Cell -E-mail:-Worked in an Agile setting to design implements and test a new Java based service/daemon. Testing was performed with JUnit and proprietary frameworks that I designed and implemented. All tests and builds were automated by me using Ant.  Designed and coded a client/server (using TCP sockets) for use with SAP's BC-XOM integration method  Worked independently to code a maintenance release for our Oracle Connector product, written in Java  Acted as an escalation point for technical support as needed, researching customer problems and proposing solutions.  Worked with five others to maintain our Loftware Print Server product, written in C/C++ Technical Support Specialist–May 9, 2005 to December, 2006. Provided customer support for all Loftware products  Was the main point of escalation for issues involving the Loftware Java Connector API  Assisted QA department in testing—including major releases in several Loftware products Lucent Technologies, Inc. Network Support Engineer –June 2000 to April 2005.  Provided technical support for ATM and Frame Relay core network switching products as well as the Lucent Managed Firewall, Access Point router, and Juniper routers  Was designated point of contact for several major customers  Redesigned, supported and maintained TAC group intranet page on an Apache server (on Solaris)  Assisted our sustaining engineers in the analysis of memory dumps  Assisted in advanced troubleshooting using code taps, protocol analyzers, and traffic generators Cabletron Systems, Inc. Network Systems Administrator I – July 1999 to June 2000. Promoted from Help Desk Analyst position  Administered ISDN and analog modem access to corporate network  Installed and maintained an improved dial-up remote access system  Installed and maintained site-to-site and remote access VPN services  Developed automated reporting tools on bandwidth and remote access utilization  Assisted users by troubleshooting client set up and compatibility issues  Researched and proposed appropriate new technologies/network topologies as needed  Help Desk Analyst: – April 1998 to June 1999.  Level I Internal Tech Support Analyst  Moved to Level II support and began training Level I analysts  Wrote new-hire training manual before moving to new position internal Hager-Richter Geoscience, Inc. Geologist –July 10, 1995 to April 1998.  Managed Phase I of lab investigation for a sensitive litigation issue  Collected and analyzed geological and geophysical field data  Developed and maintained the company web page using HTML and C  Education and Academic Achievements: New Hampshire College: Graduated May, 2005 BS: Information Technology Delta Mu Delta National Honors Society Lifetime Member Grand Canyon University: Graduated August 2011 MA: Christian Studies/Pastoral Ministry  Cumulative GPA: 3.82 Page 2 of 2
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