garth schneider

On Assignment at Thrivent Financial

On assignment at Thrivent Financial.

Was assigned to Sentry Insurance and Wonder USA

Worked as architect to create an Enterprise Service Bus using Apache Camel, to connect disparate systems.

IBM Business Partner, Architect and Developer, Websphere Application Server, Websphere Portal Server, Websphere MQ, AS400.

Websphere Application Server 6.0

Worked on designing LDAP structure

Java Integration between Lotus Notes and LDAP.

Websphere MQ, Websphere Application Server.

Spring MVC, Groovy/Grails, Spring Batch, Mule ESB, jQuery, jQuery UI, Hibernate, Hibernate Search, JBoss Rules (Drools), WebSphere Application Server v7.0, Struts.

* Worked as a contractor and was hired on as a full-time employee in April 2007. * Served as an Integration Architect developing system integration between plants across US and headquarters in Colorado. Used Mule ESB from Mulesoft, ActiveMQ for JMS. * Provided and responsible for developing a Sales data warehouse using SQL Server 2008. * Started prototype of data warehouse based off of open source Pentaho.

* Architected and helped build a web application on JBoss Application Server. * Built this application using JSF, JBoss Seam, EJBs, Java Persistence API (JPA), and AJAX on a Windows Server.

* Developed numerous web services to integrate with SalesForce (salesforce.com) CRM software. * Used AXIS 1.3 as the web service api.

* Architected, designed and built portal application on WebSphere Portal Server for customer technical service representatives. * Designed LDAP to accommodate several different security levels as there were many different employee roles. * Used JPA and EJBs for backend going against iSeries DB2.

Worked to develop a system that could track containers, trailers and more across the United States and Canada over multiple railroad companies to account for when trailers were going on and off the rail. Worked with Websphere MQ and MDB's

Served as the architect for creation of a portal server (Websphere Portal Server) to serve a 3000 member worldwide sales force. Portlets accessed SAP, Lotus Notes and DB2. Helped to construct portlets and built EJB middleware to access the SAP BAPI, Lotus Notes, and DB2.

* Helped design application that used Struts framework for front end and Enterprise Javabean’s for middleware. * Needed to access data in another state to facilitate the processing requirements. * Worked with two members of IT staff to bring them up to speed on using WebSphere Studio Application Developer to develop in house applications.

Served as an architect planning for creation of a portal server, called MMSIservices.com, to service members of the MMSI insurance. This is one of the first production sites in the world using IBM's newest portal product, WebSphere Portal V5.0. Served as an implementer, building portlets and EJB middleware to access RPG stored procedures.

Worked as a programmer analyst participating in an Internet IRS filing system that handled the filing of 1099’s, 941’s, and W2’s over the Internet. Worked with Java technologies, XML, JDOM, JSPs and PDF.

* Researched, evaluated, and responsible for product recommendation and implementation of a Software Control Management system. System requirements included web accessibility and ease of communicating with various operating systems such as UNIX and VMS. * Evaluated PVCS, Microsoft Visual Source Safe and MKS. * Selected MKS which met all of the system’s defined requirements. * Installed MKS and tested all scenarios from check out to promotion for all system platforms. * Designed the MKS workflow, designed the promotion schema for development, production and QA. * Defined the security administration for groups. * Designed and implemented the web based server.

* Participated in Y2K conversion project. * Participated in the construction and implementation of a Project Time Management Tool. Wrote the full mainframe side of the project using VS COBOL II and JCL. The database used was a DB2 database. * Participated in the design, construction, testing, conversion, implementation and maintenance of an Invoice System. The program was used by sales force throughout Kimberly Clark.

* Designed and developed an integrated micro feed plant controller package for agri-businesses. * Designed and built a FoxPro application that commercially labeled animal feed under FDA regulations. * Designed and programmed a Dairy Dynamics System which balanced and analyzed rations for all types of cattle. * Analyzed and designed a Feed Mill Point of Sale system, which tracked grain banks and custom, feed mixing as well as AR. * Designed and programmed a Dairy Reporter system which took multiple farm files and created a history by farm of herd milk production records. It printed out reports, bar charts and line diagrams to show herd statistics. * Designed a linear programming package that formulated feeds.

Developer on Cybermed 170 medical billing system. Serviced clients in the greater Los Angeles, CA area.

* Worked with architects to develop best practices for new web initiative. * Worked as front end developer with Struts 2, jQuery, CSS, HTML, EL, JSTL.

Working with Spring Micro services on AWS. Building out front end with ReactJS.

Responsible for maintaining and building of Groovy/Grails application called GEMS. Worked with Postgresql, RabbitMQ, Intellij IDE, Excel, SQL, GORM...

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