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Spencer Gibb

PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER, Pivotal, Palo Alto CA (Remote), Jul 2014 – Present

PRINCIPAL ENGINEER, Domo, American Fork UT, May 2013 – Jun 2014

PRINCIPAL ENGINEER, FamilySearch, Salt Lake City UT, Feb 2013 – May 2013

ARCHITECT/PRINCIPAL ENGINEER, LDS Church, Salt Lake City UT
Nov 2010 – Jan 2013

Developer on Leader Portal (nodejs, Javascript, Riak), Nov/2012 – Jan/2013
Team lead on digital catalog application (Java, Spring, MarkLogic), Sep/2011 – Aug/2012
Enterprise Software Architect for a portfolio of applications, Nov/2010 – Sep/2011
- Responsible for architectural cohesion across all projects in the portfolio
- Continued, part time, as lead software engineer for preservation system

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, LDS Church, Salt Lake City UT
Jul 2007 – Jul 2008, Jul 2009 – Nov 2010

Developed Digital Preservation submission application (GWT, Java, Scala, Spring)
Developed Personal Video Conferencing account creation application (JSF, Spring)
Senior team member on entrance security project for the 130+ temples (see www.lds.org/temples for explanation)
Developed web services, web-applications and Swing clients
Developed using Java Server Faces, Facelets, Java Persistence API (Hibernate provider), Web Services (XFire)
Developed swing interface for bar-coding application to inventory between 2-4 million archive items

SOFTWARE CONTRACTOR, Salt Lake City UT
Jul 2007 – Present

(Company: STG Inc., Client: Northrop Grumman) Senior Engineer on a large government research application. Implemented code using Spring, iBatis, SQL, Apache Digester, JavaCC and Oracle 10g. Database contained over 750 tables.
(Company: Alta Consulting LLC, Client: RX America) Designed, architected and implemented a web service to gather and send data to a 3rd party printing company using JEE 5, Web Services, JPA, Session EJB’s, Oracle and XML
(Company: Self, Client: Broadweave) Developed RESTful shopping cart API using Maven, Spring, Hibernate and CXF
(Company: Self, Client: Broadweave) Created administration application using Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP)

SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, Collabraspace Inc., Annapolis MD
Aug 2004 – Jul 2007

Team Leader on a complex government application
Tasked, mentored and reviewed deliverables for each team member
Lead developer for 1st Air Force Collaborative Decision Aid, a Weblogic Portal application that integrates various third party applications and a custom J2EE/Swing Applet
Developer for CollobraSuite, a set of graphical collaboration modules using Swing, J2EE, and BEA Weblogic Portal
Built multiple N-Tier clusters using J2EE, Web Services, Weblogic, Oracle and Apache

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST, Dept. of Defense, Ft. Meade MD
Apr 2003 – Aug 2004

SENIOR DEVELOPER, BuildersNet, Inc., Orem UT
Jan 2002 – Sep 2002

Designed and developed web-based applications in: e-commerce, web hosting and groupware applications
Built systems, installed and configured Linux, Apache, BIND, and MySQL
Designed and created database schemas for applications

PARTNER/SENIOR ENGINEER, NetBing LLC, Orem UT
Mar 2001 – Jan 2002

Designed and implemented E-Commerce systems in a J2EE/Linux environment
Collaborated in decisions regarding purchase of hardware, software and Internet connectivity
Designed and implemented a scalable and flexible e-commerce system using JSP, EJB 2.0 (Entity and Session beans), PHP, payment gateway and 3rd party loan software integration

USER INTERFACE ENGINEER, Excite@Home (Formerly iMall Inc), Orem UT
Jan 1998 – Dec 2001

Team member on large-scale web applications for AT&T Small Business Hosting and IBM Homepage Creator
Created co-branded web based interfaces using Java, JSP/Servlets, and Netscape Server Side JavaScript)
Developed EJBs BEA Weblogic Application Server in a cooperative environment
Gained expertise in JSP/Servlets, JavaScript, and HTML and performed limited graphic design in Adobe Photoshop.

Battleschool: https://github.com/spencergibb/battleschool
Development environment provisioning using ansible, ala boxen -> puppet, kitchenplan -> chef
Halfpipe: https://github.com/spencergibb/halfpipe
A Dropwizard clone using Spring & Tomcat (superseded by Spring Cloud)

Java (1.4, 5, 6, 7, 8), Groovy, Scala, Spring, Hibernate (JPA), iBatis, Java Server Faces (JSF), Facelets, JEE (JSP, EJB, JMS, Servlets), Swing, JDBC, Maven, Ant, Eclipse, Eclipse RCP, JAX-RS, Velocity, JUnit, TestNG, DBUnit
App Servers: Tomcat, Jetty, Weblogic, Websphere, JBoss, Glassfish
JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Web Services, Apache, PHP
Platforms – Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora, Debian), Solaris, Mac, Windows
Database – SQL, Oracle, MySQL, Riak, Mongodb
Misc. – git, C++, C, Python, Ruby, Perl, Shell Scripts, Photoshop, Subversion, CVS

Provo UT, December 2002

Senior courses in: Software Engineering, Distributed System Design, Database Modeling Concepts, Computer Communication and Networking and Machine Learning.
Sun Certified Java Programmer, October 2004

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Recife, Brazil, Dec 1994 – Dec 1996

Learned Portuguese almost fluently
Developed and taught weekly training meetings for 20 – 30 representatives
Traveled and helped individual representatives learn problem solving, effective teaching and leadership skills