Eric Clarke

Experience

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  Wallace Computer Services

  Dec 1997 - Mar 2000

  Senior Programmer Analyst

  Projects:Served as the Senior Programmer for the QWEST account. Developed and managed the application to read QWEST client data and convert it into client billing and mailing data. The newly formatted data was converted into a bar code and sent to custom printers that printed billing and custom client mail. Wrote various intranet and client server applications using Java SE, HTML, Active Server Pages, Java Script, and Visual C++.Technologies used: J2SE, Visual C++, Microsoft Visual Studio, Active Server Pages. Show less

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  College of Lake County

  Sept 1999 - May 2003

  Adjunct Professor

  CIS 278 - Server-side programming (Instructor and Course Developer) - Topics: Building a full functional e-commerce website using Active Server Pages, email component, file upload component, and Web Services. The course also shows students how to set up a Secure Socket Layer on a web server.CIS 171 - JavaScript/Jscript (Instructor) - Topics: Using JavaScript Objects, Writing JavaScript functions, how to use events, setting and reading cookies, the use cascading style sheets, Creating dynamic sites.using DHTML, Expanding a dynamic site using Active Server Pages, Using XML with JavaScript and Active Server Pages, and using advanced HTML tags.CIS 215 - Java (Instructor) - Topics: Object-Oriented Development, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Encapsulation, Exception Handling, Threads Programming, Logging, XML, and JDBC Database Connectivity.CIS 113 - Java (Instructor) - Topics: Foundations of Java 2 Standard Edition, Using files and streams, Creating threads, Introduction to object-oriented programming. Show less

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  Caremark

  Mar 2000 - Feb 2002

  Senior Java Programmer

  Served as the Java Lead on the RxRequest.com e-commerce web site for phases 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0. The site allows Caremark customers order drug refills, view prescription history, and access health information online. The site was developed in using Java, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, DB2, and WebSphere Studio 4.0, and Visual Age 4.0. Some of the enhancements include: redesigning the RxRequest.com site to run on the reusable thin client framework, designing and developing and advanced test claim program, and designing and developing a system messaging program for Caremark staff to interface with RxRequest.Designed, developed, and implemented the web site for www.tryfaith.com. The site allows users to search for and add new recipes. A content management tool was developed to allow the website administrators to easily add, edit, or delete web site content. The site was developed using ASP and MySQL.Technologies used: J2EE, Servlets, JSP, XML, Websphere Studio Application Developer, Visual Age for Java, Rational Rose for Java, PVCS, JDBC, DB2, CICS, Active Server Pages, MySQL. Show less

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  Catalyst Consulting Inc

  Jan 2002 - Jun 2005

  Senior Java Developer

  Lead, Managed, Developed, Architect, and created the Chicago Property Finder Website, an external website used to market city owned industrial sites and promote industrial sites for sale over suburban sites. The site contains a GIS mapping service for users to search sites by using the map or entering certain criteria, (Tax Incentive Sites). The site allows outside realtors and business owners to enter their site for sale on the site free of charge. The site will use the department of planning and development's data to display to user addition information about their site. The site was unit, and function tested using JUnit, and load tested using JMeter.Lead, Architect, Developed, and Wrote the West Nile Virus Application for the City of Chicago that retrieves data from 4 different data sources, cleanses the address data received. Writes the good addresses into a centralized database and writes any bad addresses to a log that is mail to the Dept. of Public Health to be corrected. The good addresses are mapped each day and each map creates an .avi movie that runs and shows the direction and movement of the West Nile Virus in the City of Chicago. From this data the virus can be contained and eliminated. The application was featured in an article in Time magazine's 2004 fall issue.Lead, Architect, Developed, and Wrote the EMS Application for the Chicago Fire Department that reads a fix-width text file from a Paramedic's handheld device. Uses the file's information to calculate the exact coordinates of a location of incident and responding hospital. The coordinates are used to calculate the ambulances exact mileage on an emergency run. This data is used to bill insurance companies and individuals for the ambulance services. This application, the first year, increased the city's revenue by $3,000,000. The application was unit, and function tested using JUnit.Technologies Used: Java, J2EE, XML, JMS, JSP, Web Services, GIS, ESRI APIs, Oracle DB Show less

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  Kemper Insurance

  Jun 2005 - Aug 2010

  Developed and Created the Inquiry Services for Claims, Policy, Endorsements, and Billing. The services allow agents to log-in and submit a policy number and/or claim number to our system and see a clients billing, claim, policy, and/or endorsement information. The web services were created using Rational Application Developer 6.0 and run on a Websphere 6.0 server. The services interact with other SOA services running on a Sonic ESB.Architect, Developed, and Created the On-Demand Document Web Service for retrieving Kemper's documents for end-users. The service is used for business users to review customer documents and customers can retrieve policies, ID cards, and addendums on the web.Refactored the AMI business service for compatibility to the Right Price Web 6.0 service. The service was written to accept the latest ACORD standard XML. XMLBeans were used to convert the XML to objects and apply custom translation and transformation to conform to Right Price Web.Created EJBs for static documents calls to the Moore Document Service across the Enterprises Service Bus using Service Oriented Architecture. Two Session Beans were created and facades for each bean to be used be the clients.Technologies Used: Java, J2EE, XML, JMS, JSP, IceFaces, JDBC Show less

  • Software Engineer

    Jun 2005 - Aug 2010

  • Application Developer III

    Jun 2005 - Aug 2010
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  Carlisle and Gallagher Technology

  Aug 2010 - Apr 2011

  Consultant

  Projects:Contract for Bank of America on the Debit Pricing Strategies Engine Project as a Technical Delivery Lead, (Project Manager). The project is a series of decoupled applications that calculates if to assess or not assess one for four fees, (Replacement fee, Rush Order fee, Ownership Fee, Usage Fee) to a primary DDA account against a customer's debit card.Contract for the Bank of America on the CACS, Collection Application as a Technical Analyst. The project entailed designing and coding the APIs to interface between the UI and backend applications.Technologies used: J2EE, XML, Web Services, JDBC, SVN,Ant Show less

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  First Coast Service Options Jacksonville

  Apr 2011 - Jun 2013

  Consultant

  Project:Contracted to create the Internet Portal project as a lead designer and developer. The project was aimed at Medicare providers to look up claims, eligibility, financial information, and provider data. The site was designed using the Spring Framework, MQ Series, and web services. Claims, Eligibility, and Financial information were wrapped as web services for re usability and extensibility. IBM's HAT product was incorporated to screen scrape mainframe screens to access government Medicare data.Technologies used: J2EE, XML, Web Services, MQ Series, HATS, SVN and Clear case, Jenkins for Continuous Integration, JUnit, Cobertura, and Websphere Application Services on AIX servers. Show less

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  Astadia

  Jun 2013 - Feb 2018

  Senior Consultant

  Project: PSR Applications to support the F-18 jet fighter and Blue Angels. Middleware consultant creating listeners and broker routing schemes for applications.

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  LogistiCare

  Mar 2018 - Apr 2020

  Software Engineer III
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  BigRio

  Apr 2020 - Jan 2021

  Software Engineer

  ReactJS Frontend Developer and Tester

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  Full Sail University

  Jan 2021 - Jan 2023

  Full time Instructor

  Taught and Wrote NodeJS Courses for Backend Services and Frontend development including heavy testing course using Jest, Selenium

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  BridgWater Connsulting

  Jan 2023 - now

  Chief Engineer Bridgwater Consulting

  Blockchain Smart Contract Development for the Ethereum Blockchain using SolidityNodeJS Backend Development with MongoDB and Mongoose Backend