DS Consulting is Philip Cheshire

Experience
Application Developer III
Kemper, A Unitrin Business                    Jacksonville, FL                            February 2011 - Curent
∙ Portal and portlet applications developer developing JSR 286 portlets for new agent facing portal.
∙ SME for portal development accross all subsidiaries.

Application Developer III
Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc                              Jacksonville, FL                           August 2008 – February 2011
∙ Technical lead over new development for Marketing and Pricing IT Solutions Team
∙ Developed JSR 168/286 portlets, portlet services, utility applications and web services for the  Enterprise Portal.
∙ Created and implemented development and deployment standards, guidelines and applications for portlet and web service developers.
∙ Formed and led the Java Developer's Group meetings, mentored junior java developers, and performed code reviews.
∙ Conceived, designed and developed a customer facing portal for reward card holders and led the technical integration with 3rd party vendors.
∙ SME and key resource for the enterprise portal upgrade, Vendor Portal implementation, and IBM Lombardi Business Process Modeling projects.
∙ Utilized IBM Websphere v6/6.1/7, IBM Websphere Portal v6/6.1.5, JAX-RPC/JAX-WS, WS-Security, EJB 3.0, Ant, XMLAccess, shell scripts and IBM Rational Application Developer 7 & 7.5.

Systems Analyst
State Farm Insurance                                Bloomington, IL                           July 2007 – June 2008
∙Developed B2C internet applications utilizing State Farm architecture and frameworks to State Farm standards
∙Aided in the design, development of State Farm’s tactical “My Accounts”, agent microsite, and auto rate quote using Websphere Portal 6, WAS 6.1, EJBs, servlets, spring, struts, DB2

Software Engineer
AFNI, Inc.                                              Bloomington, IL                           April 2005 – July 2007
∙Designed, developed, and supported web based applications, web services, and portal services using IBM Rational Application Developer, IBM Websphere 6, IBM Websphere Portal 5.1, J2SE, JSP, JSF, SQL 2000, CSS, Apache Tomcat 4, JTDS JDBC driver, Linux, and ASP
∙Key developer in the migration of 50+ web applications and web services from Apache Tomcat 4 to IBM Websphere 6 and IBM Websphere Portal 5.1
∙ Designed and developed modular automation application to automate the new hire and termination activites.

Application Developer
American Military Supply, Inc.                   Macon, GA                     October 2004 – February 2005
∙Constructed a back office system named the “iPrips” System according to business rules
∙iPrips System managed Inventory, Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Invoices, Contracts, and Shipping/Receiving.

General IT Contractor, Intranet Applications Specialist 
Clean Control Corporation                         Warner Robins, GA            February 2004 – October 2004
∙Built in-house web applications to streamline daily activities including a corporate intranet, a human resources attendance tracking system, and integrated an online marketing campaign utilizing, J2SE, MySQL, MS SQL Server 2000, Apache-Tomcat 5, Flash Professional MX 2004, Actionscript, and Red Hat Fedora Core 1.
∙Single handedly managed all aspects of the Information Technology Department for two months.

Project Leader, Programmer
The Book Trading Network                                    Macon, GA                     September 2002 – January 2004
∙Designed and developed BookTrading.NET using J2SE, Project 2000, Rational Rose, Visio, developed and designed MySQL database, web site interface, SQL, scheduled java server tasks, and obtained online advertisers.

Web Programmer
Atlantic Works IT & Multimedia                  Macon, GA                             August 2002 – March 2003
∙Created, managed, and designed client websites utilizing J2SE, JavaScript, ASP, Perl, Visual Basic, VB.net, Adobe Premier and After Effects, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX with Actionscript 1.0, Photoshop 6/7, Visio, MySQL, Red Hat Linux 9.0, Tomcat, and Apache 2.0.

Photoshop Expert 
ExchangeBlvd.com                                                Duluth, GA                                                 August 2002
∙Manipulated and prepared over 15,000 images for web publication using Photoshop 6.

Web Site Manager      
Outdoor Adventures                                  Macon, GA                                     Aug. 1999 – Dec. 1999
∙Created and maintained entire website (divers-supply.com) using hand coded HTML and Photoshop 5.

Education
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
Macon State College

Software/Programming Skills
IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD) 6/7/7.5, Eclipse 3.5, MS SQL Server, MySQL, IBM JRE, JSR-168 & JSR-286 portlet specifications, J2EE, UML 2, JDBC, JTDS SQL driver, Java Server Faces (JSF), Jakarta Struts, Spring, Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture, IBM Websphere 6/6.1/7, IBM Websphere Portal 5.1/6.0/6.1.5, IBM WebSphere Lombardi Edition v7.1, Apache Tomcat 5, MS Office, Open Office, AJAX, JSON, JavaScript, HTML, Cascading Style Sheets

Certifications
IBM Certified Application Developer for Rational Software

Other
∙ Developed online event registration PHP application for Champaign County Sports Car Club and the Buccaneer Region SCCA
∙ Mathematics and logic tutor for Graduate Record Exam (GRE) – 2002-2003
∙ Eagle Scout