Rodney J. Lucas

SUMMARY

A Project Leader and Software Engineer with more than 12 years of full life cycle development in engineering and IT with a demonstrated ability to deliver in a fast paced technology driven, team environment.

 

SKILLS

Languages

Experience: J2EE/JSP/Servlets, HTML, xHTML, JavaScript , CSS, Progress WebSpeed/4gl, KornShell, JDBC/SQL, Jakarta-Struts, JavaMail, MVC, DHTML

Familiar with: C/C++, Perl, PHP, Jakarta-Velocity, XML, XSLT, UML, SAML, JMS, various J2EE design patterns

Software and Environments

Database /JDBC: Progress, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server

Web & J2EE Servers: Apache, IIS, Netscape/IPlanet, Jakarta-Tomcat/Catalina, Macromedia JRun, New Atlanta ServletExec

Tools & Services: Netegrity Siteminder, Jakarta-ANT, Akamai, Keynote, RealNetworks, IPlanet Directory Server(LDAP), PoolMan, SSH, HTTP Protocol, CVS, WebTrends

 

EXPERIENCE

Toolix, Inc.���������������������������������������������� ����������������������� September 2002 Present

Web Application / Infrastructure Consultant

Architect and consultant for web development, infrastructure solutions and business analysis.Responsibilities also include web based intranet product set and strategy.

 

Progress Software Corporation����������������� September 1993 � August 2002

Lead Web Application Engineer / Project Leader�����������������������

Architect and lead developer of internet projects, applications and infrastructure across all of Progress� business units. Project Leader for major enterprise integration efforts of internal and third party systems and processes.

         Configured and maintained J2EE servers throughout the enterprise.These included Jakarta-Tomcat, ServletExec and JRun.Focused on management of Data Sources and integration connection pooling solutions in support of a Progress based JDBC/SQL web applications

         Developed critical user tracking component of Fast Forward campaign tracking system.

         Developed Change Management System.A J2EE web application used to track infrastructure changes throughout our enterprise.

         Designed and co-developed J2EE based web event tracking system.This system is capable of tracking / reporting on user activity through out our sites.It is used extensively to support email campaigns; This feature alone replaced the need for a third party service and saved the company over 100k.

         Architect and lead developer of customer Identity/ Secure Access Management strategy using Netegrity Siteminder.Coordinated cross functional effort in order to present our web community the benefits of a single sign on environment.Integration included design of new data flow framework between legacy and web systems.Efforts cumulated in deployment of Progress PSDN secure subscription web site.

         Developed strategy for federated identity authentication, enforcement of client privacy and intrusion detection.

         Enhanced and QA�ed HTML/CSS design templates.

 

Manager, Web Technology Team��������������������������������������

Lead a team focused on infrastructure and application development of multiple internet corporate websites. Provided hands on development and cross functional project leadership to web based strategic initiatives, coordinating and architecting cross site initiatives.These efforts included content management, site performance, failure notification, access management, user tracking systems and hands on site support/development.

         Implemented strategy for Y2k testing of corporate websites.Created documented inventory of our applications and infrastructure

         Provided expert consulting, advice, project leadership to company officers around new business initiatives and strategic corporate projects.Played a major role in shapping ASP corporate strategy.

         Co-Developed and research fault tolerant and defect tracking tools.

         Mentored and taught HTML, HTTP and web concepts to other groups within IT.

         Developed and prototyped applications and technology as proof of concept for future business solutions.Designed numerous systems using various technologies such as XML, LDAP and WAP.

         Developed solutions for site performance issues.Using problem analysis skills I worked with multiple groups, in house tools and third party services to track down problems among our international web sites.

         Developed and enhanced navigation and information architecture for corporate sites.

         Project leader in numerous project which involved a heavy amount of customer interaction and business analysis.Lead implementer on many of these solutions.

 

Lead Developer / Intranet Project Leader��������������

Responsible for site development, design, enhancement and support of corporate intranet.Worked with business units to provide a web presence enabling them to service employees at more efficient levels.

         Developed numerous applications using JavaScript, CSS, Java/Applets and Perl/CGI.

         Configured and maintained numerous servers in support of the sites including (RealNetworks, Verity, Apache, LDAP, IPlanet/Netscape)

         Successful in bringing disparate internal websites together under one website using a cohesive strategy.

         Brought several new technologies into production on our intranet and then repeated our success on the corporate customer websites.

         Developed several versions of the intranet navigation system and general site design templates.

         Mentored and trained other IT engineers in new technology.

 

Process Engineer �������������������������������������������������������

Responsible for enhancement, maintenance and reporting of product build and test process.

         Technical architect for Source Code Management Project.Developed and utilized extensive knowledge of SCM principles and tools.

         Project Leader for Heterogeneous Development and 32bit build/test environment.

         Created and Maintained Engineering Web Site.This site was used to communicate product build and test results as well as white papers, presentations and internal documentation.

 

Digital Equipment Corporation��������������������� July 1988 � December 1992

Software Engineer

Primarily responsible for maintenance of command line interface to CDD/Repository.

         Developed and maintained Motif/X Windows based Case demonstrations tools.

 

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn Alabama1988