David Crouch

  • ATG Architect II
  • Memphis, TN
  • Member Since Mar 20, 2023

Candidates About

 

 

David Crouch

 

Objective             Experienced IT Professional seeks Architect/Management position at an established/growing IT presence.

 

Education            Bachelor of Science – Math, Physics – Oberlin College, Belmont College

 

Summary  

 

Web-Development Fourteen years experience developing web-based enterprise systems using various tools, frameworks, and methodologies including ATG, Endeca, WebCenter, Java, J2EE, Web Services, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, WebSphere, UML, Perl, SOA, RUP, AJAX, JavaScript, HTML, Unix, RDBMS, WSED, RAD, Eclipse and XML.  Eighteen years experience developing DB2/Oracle components.

 

Leadership            Twenty years experience in Management, Project Management, ATG Architect, Conversion Manager, Release Manager and Data Architect leading development teams as large as two-hundred people in multiple environments using various SDLC processes including Agile XP,  iterative development strategies, Service Oriented Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing Stages.

 

Data Architect      Six years experience as Application DBA responsible for establishing Data Models, Cross-platform (including JDBC) Development Standards, Application Procedures and SQL Optimization techniques.

 

Instruction            Two years experience developing J2EE training curricula.  Four years experience developing DB2 training curricula and four years experience delivering J2EE and DB2 instructional sessions.  Fifteen years developing system-based technical documentation.

 

 

 

Experience

 

Oct 2014 – Present         ATG Architect II

                                      ServiceMaster Inc. Memphis, TN

 

Currently I serve as IT ATG Architect for several ServiceMaster Brands.  This activity includes management of off-shore teams as well as responsibility for all aspects of several web sites.

 

q     Organize and Coordinate all Development Efforts

q     Oracle Web Commerce (ATG) Framework

q     Site Launch On-Demand Environment

q     Endeca Experience Manager Development

q     WebCenter Sites Development

 

Skill Set:        ATG, Endeca Experience Manager, WebCenter Sites, WebLogic, JDBC, JBOSS, Content Administration, Web Services, SVN, GIT, Java, J2EE, Eclipse,  Ajax, JSTL, XML, HTML, JavaScript, Oracle DB, Oracle On-Demand

 

May 2012 – Sept 2014   Architect, Manager, Release Manager

                                      Express Inc. Columbus, OH

 

This opportunity included management of the Production Availability Team and serving as Architect for all Production Releases.  I also established the Express in-house ATG e-Commerce site.  Responsible for Commerce Activity Setup and Data Migration along with Management of CodeBase Releases and Environment Setup immersed me in both e-Commerce and ATG.

 

q     Manage Code Releases and Develop Environmental Roadmap

q     ATG Commerce Framework

q     New Site Launch – Data Migration

q     Conversion of ATG Scheduled Jobs to CNTL-M Format

q     Site Map Integration

 

Skill Set:        ATG, JDBC, JBOSS, Content Administration, Web Services, SVN, GIT, Java, J2EE, Eclipse,  Ajax, JSTL, XML, HTML, JavaScript, Oracle

 

 

 

June 2008 – April 2012 ATG Project Lead and Project Manager

                                      AutoZone Inc.       Memphis, TN

 

Project Management, Architect, Technical Lead and e-Commerce Developer kept me involved in all aspects of ATG and e-Commerce on a daily basis.

 

q     Agile Development

q     ATG Commerce Framework

q     Project Lead/Architect

q     Project Manager

 

Skill Set:        ATG, Java, J2EE, Eclipse,  Ajax, JSTL, XML, HTML, JavaScript, Oracle

 

 

Dec 2007 – May 2008    J2EE Software Engineer - Contract

                                      Lifeway Christian Resources    Nashville, TN

 

Test Driven Development with paired-programming in a true Agile XP environment was the highlight of this opportunity.

 

q     Agile XP Development

q     J2EE Spring Hibernate Application

q     Test Driven Development

q     JUnit with JMock

q     Selenium Functional Testing

 

Skill Set:        Java, J2EE, Eclipse, Spring,  Hibernate, Ajax, JUnit, JSTL, XML, HTML, JavaScript, MySQL,

 

 

 

2001 – 2007         J2EE Technical Lead, Data Architect and Project Manager

                             Auto-Owners Insurance                     Lansing, MI

 

Project Management, Data Architect, Technical Lead and Sr. Developer were all aspects of my six years at Auto Owners Insurance.  Some of the activities included:

 

q     Project Lead on multiple J2EE Web Rating Applications responsible for coordination of all resources including assignment of component tasks and project management timelines

q     J2EE Technical Lead responsible for architecture design and implementation using Struts framework, Service Oriented Architecture, and Rational Unified Process

q     Research, analysis and recommendation of solution sets – Struts, Hibernate,  Web Services, SOA, JAXB, DB2 Extender

q     Application Assembler/Deployment tasks including common resource components, server classpath decisions, and configuration of the J2EE applications on the server

q     J2EE Component development including all aspects – DAOs, JSPs, Action Classes, Business Services, and Application Services

q     Responsible for development of technical specifications including Customer Use Cases, UML Diagrams, and Testing Plans

q     Shop Coordinator for J2EE/Java training regimen including development of  in-house classes, on-line training tutorials, training workbooks, and Information Systems web-based documentation

q     Delivery of System Technical Documentation upon completion of applications

q     Data Architect responsible for all logical and physical models and SQL Optimization for this Fortune 500 company

q     Implementation of DB2 in the shop including all application related tasks:  standards, guidelines, training, pilot project, and modeling

q     Project Lead – Establishment of shop XML Standards

 

Skill Set:        Java, J2EE, WebSphere, WSED, UML, RUP, SOA, Struts, AJAX, Swing, JAXB, XML, HTML, JavaScript, DB2, JDBC, Data Modeling, Customer Interface (Use Cases and RAD Sessions), JUnit

 

 

 

2000 - 2001                   Bank Holding Conversion Project Lead

                              Michigan National Corporation                 Lansing, MI

 

As manager and project lead of the conversion effort this opportunity gave me experience leading large teams on corporate initiatives.

 

q     Project Lead – conversion of bank holdings from National Australian Bank to ABN/AMRO of the Netherlands.

q     DB2 Component development

 

Skill Set:        DB2, CICS, Java, JavaScript, Project Manager

 

 

 

1998 – 2000                  WebSphere CWI Project Lead

                             Lear Corporation                              Dearborn, MI

 

The consulting opportunities at United Automotive Technologies/LEAR Corporation allowed me to serve and develop in the following capacities:

 

q     Webmaster and implementer of CICS Web Interface

q     Unix and Perl script development

q     DB2 Web implementation

 

Skill Set:        DB2, CICS, Perl, WebSphere, JavaScript, HTML

 

 

1997 – 1998                   DB2 & Visual Basic Developer

                             Frontier Corporation                        Southfield, MI

 

As a contractor at Frontier Corporation I was involved in:

 

q     DB2 Design and Development

q     Visual Basic Application Development

 

Skill Set:        DB2, CICS, Visual Basic

 

 

 

1996 – 1997                  Warehouse Conversion Technical Lead

                             FNC, Inc                                           Detroit, MI

 

This consulting position afforded the opportunity to lead a team of developers on a large Warehouse conversion project.  The application included:

 

q     Full conversion of warehouse information

q     Extensive system documentation prepared

q     DB2 Application Development

 

            Skill Set:        DB2, CICS, Project Manager

         

 

 

1992 – 1996                   Project Manager

                             Consultec, Inc       Tallahassee, FL;  Lansing, MI

 

These medical insurance service based contracts allowed a variety of technical and customer interface experiences.

 

q     Project Manager on a case tool development of a public tracking system

q     Fast Sessions

q     Logical Data Modeling

q     Visual Basic project tracking system

q     Formal Technical  documentation development

 

Skill Set:        Excelerator II, Erwin, DB2, CICS, Visual Basic, Project Manager

 

 

 

 

1990 – 1992                   Technical Lead/Developer

                             Humana Corporation                        Louisville, KY

                            

The opportunity to work with one of the largest single providers of medical insurance in North America offered:

 

q     Large scaled development using DB2 and Microsoft WorkBench 

q     Project Lead opportunities included travel to conversion sites around the country.

 

Skill Set:  DB2, CICS, Project WorkBench

 

 

1988 – 1990                   Application Developer

                             Nashville Metropolitan Government  Nashville, TN

 

Application areas handled during this time include: 

 

q     Hospital, Public Works, and Water & Sewer accounts

q     A full on-line help desk tracking (DB2)

q     Conversion from DOS to MVS 

 

Skill Set:  IMS, DB2, CICS, DBASE III

 

 

 

1984 – 1986                   Instructor

                             NIT Tech                                           Nashville, TN

 

This time period allowed service as a computer and math instructor at a Private School. Courses included:

 

q     Algebra

q     Microprocessor Design

q     COBOL

q     BASIC

q     FORTRAN

q     Accounting.