SharpChrisResume_May_2016

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Chris Sharp 5006 Nelson Rd., Morrisville, NC 27560 Telephone: (423)557-3820 Email: [email protected] Immediate Career Objective Application (Web or Desktop) or Systems software engineer/developer Technical Summary Operating Systems Linux RHEL 6.8 RHEL 7.2 Ubuntu Microsoft Windows XP Windows 7 Windows 8 Mac OSX Leopard Snow Leopard Lion Mountain Lion Mavericks Methodologies Object-Oriented Programming Unified Process Design Patterns IOS Development MVC Agile/Scrum Languages JavaScript Java AJAX C/C++ Assembly Unix Go Rust Objective-C COBOL ABAP HTML CSS SQL ASP.NET Technology Eclipse IDE IBM RAD IBM RTC Xcode Microsoft Office Libre Office Visual Studio GitHub Bit Bucket Education Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Minor in Japanese, May 2014 East Tennessee State University GPA: 3.88 Dean’s list 5 semesters; ETSU Student of the week, Spring 2014 Top 1% of all competitors in the 2013 IBM Master the Mainframe contest (parts 1, 2, and 3) SAP University Alliances Certificate Employment (IBM PBC rating: 2+) IBM Commserver CA and zCloud Level 3 Service lead; January, 2016 to present Worked closely with Level 2 service to provide solutions to customers for service issues After taking over Level 3; quickly eliminated a large backlog of customer problems Increased effeciency of the Level 3 service for my products by 70% Quickly turn around all problems to keep the backlog of work items at zero IBM Commserver CA and zCloud UI Developer; 2014 to Present Work closely with teams in the US and China to develop the Configuration Assistant GUI Lead UI developer on the zCloud team from the start of the project As the sole UI developer, built the first, and still existing, UI for the product in JavaScript Exceeded time constraints and had deliverables tested and ready 4 months ahead of schedule Mentored several team members in development for both teams Performance/Recording Artist/Owner/Manager, Studio 607; 1998 to present. Performed and recorded with many top tier artists, (e.g., Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss, Earl Scruggs, John Hartford, and Gillian Welch) Won a Grammy in 2001 for Record of the Year (Oh Brother, Where Art Thou) Produced the Grammy nominated “Memories of John” recording in 2010 Managed all aspects of the business; engineered recording, editing, mixing, and client negotiations Recorded six personal projects and feature on over 20. Six nominations and one Grammy Special Projects Design and implement serialization of all AJAX requests between the CA's client and server Designed a common solution that utilized mostly existing functionality to serialize all AJAX calls CA has over 400 panels. Most have at least three AJAX requests – approx 1200 total requests Designed the solution in 3 days, worked with developers and testers to deliver fix within 3 months Estimated 40% drop in customer problems caused by async requests and more control over AJAX Recording Project – The Ozaki Brothers Leveraged the internet and modern technologies to organize and lead a group of ten musicians to produce a CD that is considered the seminal work of Hall of Fame members The Ozaki Brothers Worked with musicians remotely, via the internet, to organize and produce their performances Second Language Conversationally fluent in Japanese

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Chris Sharp5006 Nelson Rd., Morrisville, NC 27560

Telephone: (423)557-3820 Email: [email protected]

Immediate Career ObjectiveApplication (Web or Desktop) or Systems software engineer/developer

Technical SummaryOperating Systems

LinuxRHEL 6.8RHEL 7.2Ubuntu

Microsoft Windows XPWindows 7Windows 8

Mac OSXLeopard Snow Leopard Lion Mountain LionMavericks

MethodologiesObject-Oriented

ProgrammingUnified ProcessDesign PatternsIOS DevelopmentMVCAgile/Scrum

LanguagesJavaScript JavaAJAXC/C++AssemblyUnixGoRustObjective-CCOBOLABAPHTMLCSSSQLASP.NET

TechnologyEclipse IDEIBM RADIBM RTCXcodeMicrosoft OfficeLibre OfficeVisual StudioGitHubBit Bucket

EducationBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Minor in Japanese, May 2014East Tennessee State University GPA: 3.88

Dean’s list 5 semesters; ETSU Student of the week, Spring 2014

Top 1% of all competitors in the 2013 IBM Master the Mainframe contest (parts 1, 2, and 3)

SAP University Alliances Certificate

Employment (IBM PBC rating: 2+)

IBM Commserver CA and zCloud Level 3 Service lead; January, 2016 to present

Worked closely with Level 2 service to provide solutions to customers for service issues

After taking over Level 3; quickly eliminated a large backlog of customer problems

Increased effeciency of the Level 3 service for my products by 70%

Quickly turn around all problems to keep the backlog of work items at zero

IBM Commserver CA and zCloud UI Developer; 2014 to Present

Work closely with teams in the US and China to develop the Configuration Assistant GUI

Lead UI developer on the zCloud team from the start of the project

As the sole UI developer, built the first, and still existing, UI for the product in JavaScript

Exceeded time constraints and had deliverables tested and ready 4 months ahead of schedule

Mentored several team members in development for both teams

Performance/Recording Artist/Owner/Manager, Studio 607; 1998 to present.

Performed and recorded with many top tier artists, (e.g., Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss, Earl Scruggs,

John Hartford, and Gillian Welch)

Won a Grammy in 2001 for Record of the Year (Oh Brother, Where Art Thou)

Produced the Grammy nominated “Memories of John” recording in 2010

Managed all aspects of the business; engineered recording, editing, mixing, and client negotiations

Recorded six personal projects and feature on over 20. Six nominations and one Grammy

Special ProjectsDesign and implement serialization of all AJAX requests between the CA's client and server

Designed a common solution that utilized mostly existing functionality to serialize all AJAX calls

CA has over 400 panels. Most have at least three AJAX requests – approx 1200 total requests

Designed the solution in 3 days, worked with developers and testers to deliver fix within 3 months

Estimated 40% drop in customer problems caused by async requests and more control over AJAX

Recording Project – The Ozaki Brothers

Leveraged the internet and modern technologies to organize and lead a group of ten musicians to

produce a CD that is considered the seminal work of Hall of Fame members The Ozaki Brothers

Worked with musicians remotely, via the internet, to organize and produce their performances

Second LanguageConversationally fluent in Japanese