Michael Watts

Software Developer

Howell, New Jersey

career@michaelrwatts.net

732.580.2637


Languages

Java

90%

.NET

90%

Javascript

70%

SQL

70%

Skills

Software Design

100%

Agile

70%

Database Design

70%


Work Experience

Software Consultant / Bank of America Merrill Lynch
September 2017 - January 2018

Served as scrum master and developer within an agile team developing a replacement for an existing securities trading settlement and clearing system. This software was written in Scala using the Akka library and was designed to handle transaction volumes in the tens of millions per day. The team placed a heavy emphasis on continuous integration and automated build & testing using Jenkins and Ansible. Besides coding my responsibilities included conducting Scrum ceremonies such as backlog grooming, sprint retrospectives & planning and user demos.


Senior Cloud Developer / Forefront Corp
January 2016 - August 2017

As a senior cloud application developer my primary role was to work with Forefronts clients to customize and extend their Salesforce.com implementations. Working within the Salesforce environment I used Apex, Javascript, JQuery and SOQL to construct complex capabilities such as dynamic graphing, news feeds, webhooks and web callouts. As well as the more normal triggers, batch processes, Lightning components and workflows. Forefront uses an Agile approach to development with incremental development, rapid turn-around and frequent (daily) deployments.


Lead Systems Engineer / AIG American General
1994 - 2015

I led numerous software development projects. Starting with desktop applications written in C++ we moved to building web-based applications in Java and finally migrated to a Microsoft stack with .NET. Besides software development I also worked on a wide variety of infrastructure projects including disaster recovery planning & testing, upgrades and selection & implementation of commercial software.


Education

University of Birmingham, England
1980 - 1983

BSc in Physics and Astrophysics