Edmonds,
WA
email: ltierney@lontierney.com
Professional Overview:
· 11+ years
of professional software design and integration experience focusing on Web- and
Mobile-based systems involving current Java technologies. Heavy focus in mobile
and search products.
· Adept at
customer interaction, oral and written communication, requirements analysis,
object-oriented design, and software implementation.
Experience:
2/2008 –
Present Manager
of customer-facing engineering team that is responsible for all customization,
integration and deployment of Medio’s device-focused
content, search and analytics products. Technical ownership of all solutions developed
and delivered to customers. Direct interaction with customers and partners to
gather requirements, define architecture and design and deliver high quality
carrier-grade solutions in multi-vendor integrated ecosystems. Regularly
involved in sales cycles, SOW and LOE generation. Internally act as interface
between product engineering, product management, quality assurance and operations.
Continuous internal work at improving processes to increase quality,
reliability and reduce time to market.
5/2007 –
2/2008 Led
teams to deliver innovative mobile search and portal products for T-Mobile and Amp’d mobile operators. Successfully worked with team to
improve processes around production deployments including security and access
control, improved uptime, and reduced time for deployment of new features.
Worked internally to improve software engineering process to reduce time in
development spent on infrastructure tasks as well as reduce dependences between
customer codebase (limiting change impacts to increase stability).
5/2006 –
5/2007 Owner
of Java-based server-side mobile content delivery and DRM system.
Responsibilities include definition and implementation of new features within
the Mobilcast mobile media streaming product, carrier
deployments (including integration with carrier billing and user verification
systems), and software provisioning systems. Worked closely with client
developers to define changes to application protocols and bring to production
features such as streaming and download of High Fidelity Audio, Video, and
development of multiple patent-pending content delivery systems and methods.
Involved in full product lifecycle from definition through deployment and
maintenance of production systems.
6/2005 –
5/2006 Responsible
for architecture and implementation of branded mobile-based commerce Web and
WAP (WML, XHTML-MP) sites utilizing core J2EE technologies, Spring-MVC and
XMLC. Projects implemented in short sprints with close teams to provide
extremely high throughput. Extensive work with handset- and carrier-specific
integration, including messaging and carrier billing systems.
8/2003 –
6/2005 Responsible
for architecture and implementation of features for mobile provisioning and
content management platform, including carrier and business partner
integration. Work predominantly in pure Java, including JSP, XMLC (of XHTML), Hibernate and EJB development utilizing common J2EE
patterns. Regular interface with business partners and
customers in all stages of software lifecycle.
6/2000 – 6/2004 Application
and vendor integration projects surrounding SSL VPN service and products. Lead
responsibilities for suite of User Management components including end user and
administrative web portals.
Responsibilities included Internationalization, XML RPC-based web services,
Standalone multi-threaded Java application design and development, Java
integration with relational database (Oracle) and LDAPs
(iPlanet, OpenLDAP, DirX), High-availability and monitoring for Java
applications and services, Java security, encryption (PK and PKI) and SSL,
Directory solutions engineering for Meta-Directory service between relational
database and LDAP target directories, Struts-based XML/XSL and ASP web
development.
8/1999 - 6/2000 e-Business
application integration, small to medium businesses. Primarily
focused on integrating products for e-Business web sites, B2B, and dot.com
websites. Projects involved software including WebSphere, WebSphere Commerce
Suite, Lotus Domino, DB2 and integration with legacy systems including object
databases and mainframes.
Responsible for full project lifecycle activities including requirements
gathering with customers, use case development,
application design and architecture, development and deployment of solution.
All work done on customer premises.
Education:
University of Washington Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer
Engineering
Seattle, WA 6/1999
UW Extension Object-Oriented Development and Design
Fundamentals
Bellevue, WA 3/2003
Patents:
Pending: Improved Data Delivery via
Adaptive Methods – Melodeo