Software Engineer

Overview

Mr. Anthony W. Schwartz (Tony) has 16 years of information systems and computer science and engineering experience. His background is diverse and includes software development, analysis, infrastructure and application design, and architecture as well as system administration, application deployment, and production troubleshooting with a deep understanding of networking systems, computers, and computer operating systems. His experience ranges from years of early PC tech work to many more years of all aspects of software development and separately to all levels of ISP related system administration. Tony is an excellent analyst having developed very strong problem solving skills over his years in the software industry.

Professional Experience

2006 - Present : Software Engineer / Owner - Iteration Software, LLC

Contracting at TIAA-CREF

TIAA-CREF : February 2012 - Present
Enterprise Java development in a fluid agile environment.

Internet Service Provider for Many Local Businesses as an affiliate of Northen Kentucky Online (NKOL)

Tony is leader of a team responsible for ISP services providing web, email, spam filtering, DNS, FTP, and many custom internet related services including backup and database systems.

City of Independence, KY Police Department Records System

Implemented a record keeping and collaboration system for the Police Department of the City of Independence, KY

Hardware (AVR)

Developed code (C) to control the lighting system for a motorcycle lighting controller for LUX Lighting Systems using the ATtiny2313 microcontroller.

Mobile Development

Android : 2011 - 2012
Built 2 Android applications that have been deployed to the market.

2002 - 2012 : Strategic Data Systems

Contracted at Cincinnati Bell

Cincinnati Bell : December 2010 - February 2012
Software Engineer in the provisioning group. Built a complete provisioning system. .NET, Spring, mybatis, SNMP, TL1/CLI, SQL Server, xhtml/jquery

Contracted at FTJ FundChoice, LLC

FTJ FundChoice, LLC : July 2008 - December 2010
Software Architect/Engineer at mid-sized mutual fund company. Architected and led effort to build a fee billing system responsible for calculating all fees for the company and a report engine application responsible for generating and transmitting daily/monthly transactional data and account status in various industry standard formats. Led effort to upgrade HP-UX systems. .NET, xhtml/jquery, Java, Spring, iBatis, SQL Server

Contracted at Raytheon

Raytheon : March 2008 - July 2008
Application design and development on a disaster response system. Java.

Contracted at Fidelity Investments

Fidelity eBusiness Channel Quality : 2004 - 2008
• Rich, streamlined application performance monitoring system. Java, Spring, iBatis, Freemarker, xhmtl/query
• Designed and built an application logs search engine enabling instant searching of billions of application logs. Java, Spring, iBatis, Freemarker, xhmtl/query

Fidelity eBusiness Systems Development : 2002 - 2004
Worked with team responsible for both infrastructure and business development of Fidelity's Flagship retirement services administration product called PSW (Plan Sponsor Workstation) which services millions of users all over the world. Java, Spring

2000 - 2002 : Triple-I

Contracted at Lexis Nexis

Science Direct
Software Engineer for ScienceDirect. ScienceDirect provides access by subscription to scientific content to a worldwide user base. It is one of the most profitable products Lexis-Nexis has ever produced (www.sciencedirect.com). Java

1998 - 2000 : Tactix Consulting Group, Inc.

Contracted at Ohio Casualty Group

Involved in the planning, design and development of a national, web-enabled insurance agency system. Java

1997 - 1998 : Vision Data Systems

Contracted at Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority

Lead PC Technician

1996 - 1997 : Personal Computer Rentals - Later became Temporary Technology

Lead PC Technician

Technologies

Operating Systems Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX
Programming/Software Tools Ant, Tomcat, Eclipse, RAD, Clearcase, Subversion, Photoshop, Visual Studio, Also a strong proponent of the Apache Software Foundation
Database Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, BerkeleyDB, JDBM, Apache Derby, Apache Lucene
Services, Applications, Servers Postfix, Apache, Tomcat, WebSphere, JBoss, Jetty, IIS, Spamassassin, DNSBL, some Exchange
Computer Languages & Technologies Expert: Java, C#(.NET), Spring Framework, jquery, Struts, Quartz, Php, Ajax, Jsp, iBatis, Freemarker, XML, Apache Lucene
Strong: C/C++, xhtml/css, Bash, Perl, Oracle PL/SQL, RSS, Atom, iptables, traffic shaping, limiting, filtering, NAT, SSL, SSH, PGP, AVR
Some: Common Lisp, Win32, Assembler

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY

Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance

Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY

Minors in Math and in Philosophy

Other Interests

Guitar Classical, Jazz, also play guitar at my church.
Sound Engineer for Grace Fellowship Church and for Rooftop Recording Studios.
Golf
Billiards
Motorcycling

References

Upon Request

Contact

tony at simpleobjects.com
LinkedIn Profile