Diego Neira
WEB SERVICES DEVELOPER /
WEB APPLICATION SECURITY
DEVELOPER / FULL STACK
DEVELOPER
541 Odonohue Ave, South Plainfield,
NJ
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Professional Summary
Bilingual Computer Science professional with quantified record of
achievements in managing multiple complex projects simultaneously from
inception through deployment. Productive in team environments as both
member and team leader with strong problem-solving skills. Areas of
expertise include: Database Migration / Software Development / WebServices
Development System Analysis & Design / Project Planning & Management
Critical Problem Solving / Test Planning / Product Support / Programming
Work Experience
CGI Federal Inc.
Fairfax, VI • 08/2022 - Present
Senior Consultant
- Full stack developer actively contributed to the code-development and
maintenance of large-scale, enterprise-level web applications supporting
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
- One of the Senior Leads on the NeT Applications scalable solution in
charge of all US permit processing and management.
- Spearheaded the development of a comprehensive test management
strategy, resulting in a 30% reduction in production issues and improved
deployment efficiency within 4 months.
- Spearheaded the design of reusable software components, achieving a
40% increase in deployment efficiency within 4 months through Agile
methodologies.
- Worked in a collaborative and cross-functional environment conducting
peer code reviews and mentoring junior developers, fostering best
practices and knowledge sharing within the team.
- Utilized technologies including Knockout, HTML, Javascript, Java, NoSQL
Postgres, Jira, Confluence and Spring Boot among others
- Developed a new Angular interface for the Virgin Island Net Application,
improving user engagement by 90% within 3 months through usercentered design.
- Optimized microservices APIs for 4 Net Applications, achieving user
response and enhancing overall system efficiency within 8 months
through targeted code enhancements.
Fiserv Inc.
Parsippany, NJ • 08/2017 - 07/2022
Software Engineer
- Java Developer actively working in the Banking Clearing Settlement
Mechanism System team for the Enterprise Payments Solutions
department to enable financial institutions simplify their payments
infrastructure and deliver an effective payments processing.
- Revamped back-end processes for the Clearing Settlement System,
leading to a 65% increase in transaction accuracy through Agile
development practices within 4 months using microservices.
- Key participant in various Work Orders for enhancing/changing the
functionality related to Clearing Channels payment processing as Fedwire,
SWIFT, ISO and more, by using technologies such MQ’s and Webservices
and creating new API for each.
- In charge of supporting a variety of unit test cases through the inhouse
developed Test-Driven Development (TDD) framework using different
approaches for Functional testing and covering also End to End scenarios.
- Learned and understood the multiple systems intervening on the
Enterprise Payments Platform.
- Team player working on the upgrade of the SWIFT Payments module to
ISO20022
- Streamlined client requirements management using Oracle database and
optimized stored procedures, improving response time by 20% and
enhancing user interface usability within 6 months.
Column Technologies
New York, NY • 05/2016 - 07/2017
Application Consultant
- Crucial security developer consultant in charge of various clients’ project
related to identity management and similar development tools
- Key element in charge of the new creation of IIQ plugin add-on to render
web analytics chart fed from the identity management tool data using
Angular, Core Java and IPF framework.
- Developed a new IIQ Plugin to connect to various social network feeds to
render them in the IIQ dashboard using IPF, Angular and Javascript.
- Led the end-to-end development and deployment of identity
management reports, enhancing client satisfaction and operational
efficiency within 6 months.
- Worked with multiple clients for creating different custom IAM artifacts to
be deployed in their IIQ environment.
Highmark Inc
Pittsburgh, PA • 12/2012 - 04/2016
Senior Application Developer
- Crucial web developer in charge of various upgrades and creation of new
features for company’s portal strategy in an Agile environment
- Key element in charge of the new creation and display of the member’s
portal new features such as claims and spending account module. Also
the modules in charge of creating online id cards, customer service
desktop interaction management and member health statements using
various technologies such as spring, Messaging MQueues, JAXB with
extensive usage of RESTfull Webservices with JSON format and SOAP
Webservices with XML format integrated in a J2EE development
environment.
- Collaborating in the top projects of the year. Health Care Reform changes,
Members health Statement upgrade and Public Exchange in which data
and functionality were crucial for company revenue and which also
interact on other vendor systems using similar technologies such as
Spring Framework, Struts, Oracle among others.
Mindetck Inc
Pittsburgh, PA • 05/2012 - 11/2012
Senior Java Developer
- Important java developer resource for one of the company’s more
important health company client (Highmark)
- Enthusiastic developer for team up with client’s e-marketing team
responsible for keeping updated and continuously improving his portal
services through technologies such as Struts, JQuery, javascript, pl-sql,
REST webservices, multithreading among others.
- Fully devoted java resource available to improve client’s portal services by
implementing new features and upgrading previous to make members
experience excellent and satisfactory.
- Managed software life cycle development (CI/CD) aligned with client’s
standards and time frame of quarterly releases using various tools such
as Harvest, TeamSite, BVMC an RAD.
NCS Technologies
Piscataway, NJ • 04/2011 - 02/2012
Java Developer
- Key developer in charge of managing the reports generation of leading
web application project.
- Responsible for managing the application reports generation by using
system designing and integration by adding them to the business logic
processing and delivery by giving accurate usage of Jasper Reports tool for
Vonage client.
- Adding reporting features on web application through Spring MVC and
various other technologies such as JSP, Jquery, javascript, JavaBeans, CSS,
HTML and optimized Java Data Structures.
- Performed code construction for various security and business new
features for previously developed web application that manages the order
taking process using REST Webservices. The frameworks used for this task
were Struts, J2EE, JBoss and Hibernate. Weblogic was the application
server for AT&T client.
- Responsible for adding features using REST Webservices and a proprietary
framework called Voltage.
Avantica Technologies
San Jose, Costa Rica • 07/2008 - 02/2009
Senior Software Developer
- Key participant charged with managing process verification on database
migration project.
- Tester and quality assurance role in CRM type of application developed on
J2EE technology.
- Led migration of SQL Server system to Oracle 11g platform from project
evaluation and planning through database administration support.
- Performed extensive research to identify appropriate tools to successfully
execute migration project with minimal object migrated error risk.
Integrated a portfolio of migration tools, including SQL developer, J
Developer and Artisan to support migration process.
- Manage and test most of the database migration store procedures and
functionalities on Unix/Linux environment.
- Partnered with QA to architect database object comparison tool to ensure
accuracy of sql migrated objects.
ITAC
Bogotá, Colombia • 02/2008 - 06/2008
Junior Engineer Programmer
- Charged with planning and designing web interface for company’s most
prominent customer
- Experience design of commercial project to synchronize and consolidate
information from five individual processing applications to two databases
using Enterprise Architect.
- Key participant in web interface creation for health application design
using expertise in Java, Java Server Faces (JSF), EJBs, REST Webservices,
HTML, Java patterns and RUP methodology.
- Improving interface design methodology by researching and applying JSF
and Javascript features unknown for the developing team.
- Instrumental in evaluating requirements to support critical management
and standardization information elements for two high-profile financial
projects proposed to be developed with Genexus.
Synapsis
Bogotá, Colombia • 09/2006 - 01/2008
Software Programmer Analyst
- Introduced and managed Junior Software Developer team responsible for
development and deployment of commercial project.
- Partnered with superior to develop an OLAP type tool to manage statistical
charts and worksheets for requirements comparison of the five modules
completed in Colombia Software Factory branch.
- Develop an implementation similar to an OLAP type tool by using my
expertise in Javascript skills.
- Managed core module requirements for a 130-module project with phases
being developed in both Colombia and Argentina.
- Developed Web interface design with J2EE proprietary framework based
on Struts and Oracle database core for data storage of the application.
Also work with Java in the core part of the project.
Ibiscom
Bogotá, Colombia • 04/2005 - 09/2005
Software Programmer Analyst
- Design and development of customized multi-service framework for a
portfolio of clients.
- Consulted with clients to determine requirements for development of
security framework type using Java algorithms and features to use as
plug-in for all software development and to enhance functionality of each
application.
- Designed Security Management functionality and provided support for
software developed on the framework.
- Created a systemized web interface program using J2EE technology, SOAP
Services, Javascript, CSS and HTML to enable customer to organize and
reference critical documents.
- Provided support for all software products within framework.
Education
MS IT Administration and Security
NJIT • 09/2009 - 05/2011
English as a Second Language (ESL)
ELS Language Center Manhattan • Manhattan • 05/2006
BS Electrical & Computer Engineering
Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria Colombia • Colombia •
01/2000 - 05/2005
EAC /ABET Accredited Program to U.S. credit standards by NCEES
Projects
Graduate Thesis - Automated Testing Framework
- Developed testing automation application based on testing tools plug-in
already created in the market such us Clover.
- Combined potential tools like Swing, AJAX, JAXB, MySQL, Multithreading,
Web Protocols and Java Core to combine testing tools as a centralized
automated testing tool.
- Achieved project oriented GUI such us Eclipse to run all test tools on
different projects.
Skills
Operating Systems: 2000, Linux Slackware, Mac OS X 10, Red Hat, Suse,
Ubuntu, Windows Vista, XP
Languages: C++, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Objective C, SQL
Databases: 2003 Server, MySQL, Oracle
WebServices: REST, SOAP
Other: Angular, Ant, Application Servers:Apache Tomcat, Clover, EJB .30,
Glashfish, Identity Management Software:IIQ, IDES –Eclipse Intellij, Iphone
Development, Iphone SDK, J2EE, JBoss, JCoverage, JDeveloper, JSF,
MyEclipse, Neatbeans, OpenOffice and Office, Spring, Springboot, Spring MVC,
Struts, Sun Application Server, Testing Applications:JUnit, UML, Weblogic, Web
Services, XML