ANDREW J. VOMASTEK CV/Resume andrew@vomastek.net http://www.vomastek.net PROFILE Versatile, well-rounded, security conscious, and successful software engineer who is educated and grounded firmly in formal computer science and software engineering fundamentals, with 10+ years of enterprise level software development experience using a multitude of technologies in many different environments, public and private. Direct quotes about me from recent performance review(s) Andrew accomplishes a great deal and produces high quality work. He consistently meets or beats deadlines. Andrew organizes his work very well, even though he is responsible for a number of different products and projects. Andrew conducts himself in a very professional manner. He is respectful of others opinions and styles. He has an impressive ability to work with all people. Andrew s communication skills are excellent, in writing, speaking, and listening. He is able to adapt his message to his audience. Andrew works very well with both technical and business staff and easily bridges requirements from business to technical. Andrew works very well in a team environment and also works well on his own. He was recently commended by the Archive Service project manager for taking the lead in providing the necessary deliverables for the project Andrew provides excellent customer service to both internal and external customers. Andrew consistently looks for ways to improve the products he works on. EDUCATION University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business Master of Science in Software Engineering Awarded: 05/2007 Formal Concentration: Computer Security University of Minnesota Institute of Technology Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Awarded: 05/2003 M PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Office of Enterprise Technology, Department of Public Safety, 11/2009:Present St. Paul, MN Software Developer, ITS4 Role - Develop new products and fix and enhance existing products using Java, C#, C++, SQL and various web technologies in a DevOps-Agile (SCRUM) development environment. Currently lead developer of 8 mission critical application, in addition to doing new development (primarily agile/scrum based sprints) on large (10+ million dollar) and small enterprise level projects. - Lead developer for NEIS, an enterprise level java ejb project. - Lead developer for court file conversion process (vb.net) - Lead developer for suspense stats website (vb, asp.net, jquery) - Primary developer and maintainer for CHEM web services, a java based SOAP webservice - Lead and primary developer for CHRMS, a C# asp.net web application Embedded software engineer with Boeing on the Criminal history system (CHS) replacement project, a MarkLogic (NoSQL), Java, multi-year project Developed major asynch batch process enhancement to Lucene archive product to improve performance over very large indices. Successfully fixed and deployed 100 s of bug fixes and enhancements to a variety of.net, Java, and web applications (including web services). Utilized Groovy script to run soap UI load tests. Authored python script to do complex text file substitutions. Web Development Modernized site using Jquery and Bootstrap, converted web application to be ADA compliant. Developed a new SOAP based JDBC Java webservice which interfaced with legacy code (JNI). Provided critical trouble shooting of the apache tomcat instance. (c++/java). Experience converting legacy application code to Java, C++, and C# Developed SQL stored procedures, modified triggers, results sets, JDBC connection pooling, cursors. Successfully led implementation of JDBC driver for oracle legacy DB Reversed engineered.net artifacts, restoring lost code and reconciling with source control. Build integration tasks using RTC, ANT, anthillpro.
Experience using xslt transforms, XSD, and MQ s. Wrote C++ test harness, nunit tests, and junit tests. Completed code reviews. (C++/CLI, C#, VB.NET, Java, Javascript, CSS, HTML) (JQuery, Bootstrap, RTC, anthillpro, SVN) Digital River, 04/2008:10/2009 Eden Prairie, MN Senior User Interface Engineer - Product Management 04/2008::10/2009 Role - Senior UI software developer primarily working in Java, JavaScript (including using JQuery), custom CSS and HTML, UI performance and UCD design (with a good eye for UI heuristic best practices). Greatly involved with the build process (sprites, compression, etc.) in addition to any custom JavaScript, CSS and Java development (Agile sprint based environment) that was requested for fixes, enhancements, and new development. Led implementation of a JavaScript/CSS/Java charting library, providing a new way for clients to view historical and other related data. Engaged heavily with another group at Digital River to transform a legacy UI to the new custom standard. Led heuristic UI evaluations and the ant and maven integration of the UI layer, maturing the UI framework to be enterprise level. Provided clients a good user experience by focusing on advanced web caching and compression techniques. (Maven, SQL, JavaScript, JQuery, CSS, HTML, Java, JSP, Spring, ANT, Websphere) Lawson Software 04/2004::04/2008 St. Paul, MN Software Engineer, Systems - Research and Development (Contractor status ICon Professional Services: 04/19/2004-01/2005) Role Software Engineer primarily focused helping to deliver business solutions using web technology (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Tomcat/Apache), Java, and C#. Developed, enhanced, and maintained 1+ million dollar ERP/EPM* projects (RSS, EMSS, Smart Recon, etc.) using current client/server technologies (proven through deliverables).
Responsible for development and ownership of client security solutions for engineering team. Created (under stringent time deadlines), enhanced, and maintained software products that were included in the top 5 most profitable for the company. Led engineering teams in developing cross-browser functionality and ADA 508 accessibility for Enterprise web application products. Designed, implemented and delivered usable and innovative user interfaces from the ground up, using iterative heuristic evaluation, UCD, and business-facing knowledge. Successfully interacted with diverse teams located locally and abroad, providing mentorship and knowledge transfers. (Java, JavaScript, CSS, HTML) OTHER EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN) - Leadership skills series Interpersonal Communication (12/2007) Intertech courses (Eagan, MN) - Complete HTML5 (11/26-11/27/2012) - Complete Java Web Services (12/10-12/13/2012) - Complete C# 2010 (11/19/2010) - Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications (6/24-6/28/2013) - ASP.NET MVC 3 using VS 2010 (10/1-10/2/2012) - Complete VB using VS 2010 (10/7/2011) Oracle - Oracle Service Bus 11g: Design & Integrate Services Ed 1 LVC (7/31/2013-08/02/2013) Other training - Agile/Scrum Essentials For Practitioners Simulation Powered Workshop (4/24/2014-4/25/2014) Professional Associations ACM Member