­­benjamin g. Baxter

491 C Mapleport Way ● Cincinnati, OH 45255 ● 513.604.9688 ● benjamin.g.baxter@gmail.com

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  Led a team to develop the first hybrid mobile application for the Commercial Line of Business.
  
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  Introduced agile concepts to the project team, thus changing the project’s dependency structure allowing the project to deliver by the initial target date.
  
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  Created a mobile banking RESTful API, using Spring-MVC, which helped in persuading upper management to embrace a Software as a Service (SaaS) approach to their product offerings.
  
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  Evaluated various vendors and open source hybrid mobile application technologies by building prototypes to demonstrate the difference in learning curves, flexibility, and end user experience.
  
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  Established node.js, Cordova, and AngularJS as standards for hybrid mobile application development.
  

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  Teacher of 5 different evening computer science courses ranging from introduction to computing to graduate level courses.
  

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  Partner in a startup that offers web, video, photography, social media integration, and mobile solutions.
  
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  Developed a custom calculator for fork lift operators in warehouses so they can calculate if a sheet of metal will put too much stress on a fork lift. This app is available on android, ios, and the company’s web site.
  
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  Created an android sound board application to compliment a viral YouTube video.
  
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  Prototyped a small business customer survey during Startup Weekend. The survey was contextually aware based on location controlled with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology.
  

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  Worked on several projects using a Scrum based agile methodology.
  
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  Developed an external web service for strategic partners to be able to obtain a quote within our system. This service is expected to generate around $1.5 million additional profit over a 5 year period.
  
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  Assisted and mentored other developers and architects in the design and implementation of new and existing applications.
  
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  Upgraded WebSphere to version 8.0 and replaced the IDE with an open source solution, which saved the company $130,000 per year in licensing and support costs.
  
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  Developed a JEE application using both Struts and Spring to integrate two web services into one interface to streamline data entry for the commercial insurance division.
  
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  Partnered with company headquarters in New Jersey for rapid prototyping to demonstrate solutions for business problems and planning the remaining 7 iterations of an agile project.
  
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  Developed an external web service for a third party consumer portal to reduce billing related calls by 30%.
  

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  Worked on a team that managed the deployment and configuration of Java applications for 23 environments.
  
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  Enhanced environment monitoring system to detect hung threads, core dumps, and high CPU utilization, alerting production support in real-time, thus increasing response times.
  
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  Developed an encryption application with Swing and incorporated a command line interface enabling a secure way to store passwords in environment configuration files.
  
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  Developed reporting application for release management that aggregated data from an HP Quality Center database and manual entry to automatically update a dashboard that provided a graphical real-time view of release statuses.
  
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  Facilitated branching and merging activities in Subversion (SVN) allowing developers to continue development with minimal conflicts and downtime due to code freezes.
  

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  Updated all enterprise applications to be cross-browser compliant by validating html and resolving JavaScript errors in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome.
  
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  Created HP Quick Test scripts for each application that ran TIDY to verify valid HTML.
  
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  Created functional proof of concept prototypes to explicate complexity for projects.
  

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  Assisted 12 underwriters in servicing customers’ policies valued up to $30,000.
  

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  Programmed in a language called Mathematica to simulate mathematical results.
  
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  Received a grant of $3,500 to mathematically explore the properties and behaviors of star formation for 8 weeks with faculty mentor
  
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  Became knowledgeable on the astrophysics behind star formation.
  
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  At conclusion of research wrote The Gravitational Collapse of Molecular Cloud Cores Prior to Star Formation: A Numerical Approach, a comprehensive analysis of research.
  
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  Presented results at the annual Mathematics Honor Society conference in Miami, OH, and at the national Mathematical Association of America conference in Washington, D. C.
  

Master’s in Computer Science, December 2013

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science, May 2011

Minor in Computer Information Technology
Languages Java/JEE Database Web Build / Collaboration

and JSP / Spring / JUnit MySql / SQLite / Oracle HTML5 / CSS Maven / Ant / Gradle

Technologies Spring JDBC / Hibernate JavaScript / jQuery Jenkins / Hudson

Mobile AngularJS / Backbone.js Git / Subversion

Android Web Services Twitter Bootstrap Artifactory