Todd Lewis

Experience

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  United States Army Reserve

  Jan 1990 - Jan 1998

  Commissioned Officer

  Company commander, executive officer, and platoon leader of various USAR units. Honorably discharged at the rank of Captain.

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  Electronic Data Systems

  Jan 1991 - Apr 1994

  Systems Engineer

  Responsible for creating conversion applications for large scale system transitions, conducted training across the state of Florida to hundreds of state government employees, and database design and management.• Data Base Administrator's Assistant - Administered data modeling case tool and insured standardization and consistency of database design • Conversion Team Member - Developed and tested conversion procedure for new environment, including designing, coding, and maintaining. Scheduled, coordinated, and monitored the production conversion runs to meet a tight timeline of production cut-over.• Claims/Reference Team Member - Interviewed the customer to collect requirements, designed basic process models based upon customer requirements, and designed and entered data model for the Reference Function.• Training Development - From systems specifications and other resources, developed five courses for Child Support Enforcement department managers and above.• Training Delivery - Presented the five management courses for approval by the state department heads. • Network Operations Level 1 Help Desk - Tracked network outages and response time problems.• United Kingdom ITSA Child Support Proposal Team - Researched and wrote a significant number of the requirements in the Request for Proposal for the ITSA Child Support system proposal. Show less

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  Circuit City Stores, Inc.

  Jan 1994 - Jan 2004

  Systems Programmer

  As a member of the Open Systems team, provided technical leadership to other programming groups, architectural guidance, and developed and supported real-time, high-volume systems for the electronics retailer.• Designed, developed, and deployed a WebLogic J2EE application which utilized SOAP, XML, SSL, session and entity beans to service requests from 600+ stores nation-wide in real-time.• Developed and deployed a J2SE application for multiplexed transaction processing capable of 142.9 transactions per second while running on the retail store’s Windows 2000 server.• Designed, developed, and deployed a high-reliability, high-speed gateway to support thousands of queries per day from a third-party telephony system into existing legacy systems. • Created an Application Programmer’s Interface and middleware infrastructure for high-volume synchronous transactions between UNIX and AS/400 with IBM’s MQ Series.• Designed, developed, and deployed an Application Programmer's Interface to connect with highly secure Hardware Security Modules (HSM's) used for debit PIN number encryption.• Designed, developed, and deployed a system to handle tax computation requests, translating legacy request formats into XML to provide a seamless conversion to existing in-store systems.• Maintained, documented, and improved proprietary sockets-based middleware. Drastically improved stability and developer execution by creating “quick-start” training.• Maintained and extended the functions of a complex, single-threaded state engine responsible for store customer communication to multiple vendors.• Developed benchmarking software to ensure vendors could successfully process transactions at certain contractual levels. Worked with vendors to improve performance. • Responsible for immediate resolution of critical system issues affecting over 600 store locations in both a primary and secondary on-call support roll. Show less

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  Walt Disney World

  Jun 2004 - now

  Lead Software Engineer

  • Responsible for real time systems supporting commerce transactions for thousands of clients both in the United States and abroad.