Summary

Senior Backend Developer with 20+ years of experience designing and maintaining high-availability database systems and data pipelines across healthcare and pharmaceutical domains.

Proven track record in reducing system latency, improving data integration reliability, and leading modernization initiatives in Oracle/Linux environments and Agile SDLC.

Passionate about mentorship, process automation, and driving long-term technical strategy. Practitioner of AI-assisted development — applying LLM tooling as a force multiplier for rapid prototyping, toolchain quality, and documentation at scale.

Skills

Database/Back-End

• Highly skilled with Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL
• Executed multiple platform migrations
• Implemented ad hoc data mapping tool entirely in static PL/SQL

Scripting and Automation

• Automation of routine administrative work
• AZDO build pipeline customization
• PXE boot automation

Dev Tools

• Architected branching schemes and build systems across multiple platform migrations
• CI/CD pipeline integration with proprietary desktop tooling

Integration / Data

• High degree of comfort with EDI transaction sets
• Multiple deployments of off-the-shelf and custom EDI solutions

AI-Assisted Development

• Pragmatic use of LLM-based coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, etc.) for prototyping and code generation
• AI-accelerated documentation and runbook authoring
• Toolchain hardening via AI-assisted script review and test generation
• Operational troubleshooting augmentation using AI for log analysis and hypothesis generation

Web / Front-End

• Rapid prototyping in ColdFusion
• Internal toolchain development in JS

Experience

Multiple positions held over the past 25 years, resulting in a wide range of skillsets and know-how.

www.excellusbcbs.com

Sr. Developer for regional health insurance carrier.

• Leverages AI-assisted development as a force multiplier: rapid prototyping of solutions, hardening of CI/CD toolchains, generating comprehensive documentation, and accelerating root-cause analysis on operational incidents
• Customization for medical claims (EDI) clearinghouse
• Buildout of AZDO pipeline integration with proprietary desktop tools
• Mentoring and evangelizing of full life cycle SDLC and Agile methodologies

www.valuecentric.com

Lead Software Engineer with pharmaceutical data management company.

• Designed release branching system to support full SDLC across multiple concurrent releases
• Conversion of MySQL-based BI system to Oracle RDBMS, improving query performance and scalability
• Built many-to-one data mapping system in pure PL/SQL, eliminating manual transformation work

www.fusedsolutions.com

Sr Engineer with software services company.

• Administration of high availability VOIP call center
• Created staging system for call center’s supporting applications
• Deployed PXE boot server for desktop imaging system.

slic.com

Tech support with regional ISP

• Fielding of dialup support calls
• Troubleshooting of small office firewall appliance as 3rd party tech support provider

Early Career (1996–2001)

Senior Programmer at Thor Technologies (NYC) · Web Developer III at Production 451 (NYC) · Technical Staff at Raytheon (Tewksbury, MA) · Programmer/Analyst at Azerty (Buffalo, NY)

• Reduced build time from 7 hours to 3 minutes via build system modernization (Thor Technologies)
• Built web-based search engine and CAD file management application (Raytheon)
• Oracle/Linux environment administration and PL/SQL library development (Production 451)
• EDI 850 integration and custom pricing module for wholesale inventory system (Azerty)

Education

Potsdam HS

• Graduated salutatorian

SUNY Buffalo

• BS Mechanical Engineering
• Graduated Cum Laude