JOHN M. FLINCHBAUGH

john@hjsoft.com 315 N Donnerville Rd Mountville PA 17554 717.808.0917



EXPERIENCE


-   CONTRACT SOFTWARE ENGINEER, November 2014–January 2019. e&e
    Consulting Services / PennState Hershey Medical Center. Hershey, PA.

    -   Served as scrum master to lead 2 development teams to an
        Agile/Scrum development process using JIRA.

    -   Introduced automated testing using Spock, Geb, Webdriver,
        Gradle, and Jenkins for building and testing web applications
        and command-line tools.

    -   Mentored team members on best practices in test-driven
        development (TDD) and functional programming in Groovy through
        pair programming and code review.

    -   Built and evolved a new identity management backend system based
        on Groovy, Java, Spring Boot, GORM, Hibernate, LDAP, and Oracle
        SQL running on Windows, Solaris, and Linux.

    -   Updated, maintained, and replaced legacy Java web applications
        for identity management with a modern application using Grails,
        Groovy, and Javascript.

-   SOFTWARE ENGINEER, May 2012–October 2014. Learning Sciences
    International, Mount Joy, PA.

    -   Introduced automated tests for web application based on Grails,
        Spock, Geb, Webdriver, Bamboo, and Jenkins.

    -   Mentored and led a scrum team in Groovy, Grails, test-driven
        development (TDD), and executable documentation.

    -   Developed new features and fixed issues in Groovy/Grails and
        Spring web applications backed by MongoDB and PostgreSQL.

    -   Assisted automating management and deployment of applications to
        Linux/AWS.

    -   Built load tests for web applications with JMeter and custom
        Geb/Webdriver scripts.

    -   Built a data warehouse on PostgreSQL with ETL from MongoDB for
        reporting with Pentaho and custom solutions.

-   QA AUTOMATION ENGINEER, July 2010–May 2012. eBay Enterprise / GSI
    Commerce, King of Prussia, PA.

    -   Built functional tests for browser automation in Java, TestNG,
        Selenium WebDriver, Groovy, and Geb to test mobile e-commerce
        web applications (for smart phone, feature phone, and keitai).

    -   Refactored and enhanced existing functional test frameworks for
        streamlining test development and to support testing desktop and
        mobile web applications.

    -   Supported an agile team doing mobile web development as a
        full-time integrated team member.

-   SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, July 2007–May 2010. AOL MapQuest,
    Lancaster, PA.

    -   Introduced and supported continuous integration, unit testing
        (JUnit), test coverage (Cobertura), performance metrics
        (JMeter), code review, and pairing to support quicker and more
        reliable agile development practices.

    -   Worked closely with QA team members to build powerful automated
        test tools based on Fitnesse, Groovy, Grails, and HttpClient to
        test middle-tier search software.

    -   Implemented corridor search and refined other spatial searches
        in SOLR and Lucene full-text search engines.

    -   Extended and redesigned the XML middle tier to integrate search
        engines, mapping components, and other data sources to provide a
        complete set of search capabilities on MapQuest.com website and
        mobile products built on Tomcat, XStream, Java, and Linux.

    -   Developed an ETL system for merging and loading data into search
        engines using Bash, Java, Ruby, Groovy, JPA, Hibernate, and
        MySQL.

    -   Managed source control (branching and merging) across multiple
        projects and code releases with Subversion.

-   JAVA PROGRAMMER, February 2003–July 2007. Administrative Offices of
    Pennsylvania Courts, Mechanicsburg, PA.

    -   Redesigned and extended the Java middle tier of the Pennsylvania
        Court of Common Pleas court management system based on XML,
        JDBC, T-SQL, and stateless and message-driven EJB on Sybase
        EAServer and Solaris.

    -   Increased long-term maintainability through refactoring into
        frameworks and introducing a common build system based on Ant.

    -   Trained and mentored team members on new frameworks, unit
        testing, and test-driven development (TDD).

    -   Analyzed logging and alerts using Solaris shell scripting, Perl,
        and HP OpenView.

-   SENIOR PROGRAMMER/ANALYST, May 2000–February 2003. Educators Mutual
    Life & IBSi, Lancaster, PA.

    -   Designed and built a CRM portal for insurance brokers based on
        J2EE.

    -   Built a desktop application to manage insurance claims using
        Java, Swing, and DB2 (on AS/400).

    -   Trained team members in J2EE, object-oriented design, and CVS
        source control.

-   STUDENT UNIX ADMINISTRATOR AND NETWORK ANALYST, March 1997–May 2000.
    Millersville University, Millersville, PA.

    -   Maintained Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux workstations and servers
        for the Computer Science and Networking/Computer Services
        Departments of Millersville University.

    -   Installed network hardware and built monitoring tools.



EDUCATION


-   MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY. Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
    May 2000.

-   PUBLICATIONS

    -   Ross, Paul, R. Webster, T. Bailey, S. Conrad, M. Fiorill, J.
        Flinchbaugh, E. Velkly, “Controlling a Pepsi Vending Machine
        over the World Wide Web Using Java,” _Proceedings of the
        International AACE WebNet98 Conference_, Orlando, Florida,
        November 7–12, 1998.

    -   Webster, Roger, P. Ross, T. Bailey, S. Conrad, M. Fiorill, J.
        Flinchbaugh, E. Velkly, “Controlling a Java Enabled Pepsi
        Vending Machine over the World Wide Web”, _Proceedings of the
        25th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics
        Society IECON ’99 Conference_, San Jose, California, November
        30–Dec. 4, 1999, Vol. 1, pps. 86–90.