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Alphonso Turner
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Costa Mesa, California, United States
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Staff Software EngineerThe New York TimesSep 2022 - Current (4 years 2 months)• Provided mentorship to senior and junior engineers with strong code reviews, team talks, and strategic pairing sessions that maximized team skill across the board with software design, JVM internals and code optimization.- SSolution ArchitectSphereCommerceJan 2020 - Sep 2022 (2 years 9 months)• Lead the software design effort from scratch on the next version of the company's payment software. • Lead the technical migration efforts with DevOps and 3rd party vendors on migrating our applications from AWS to Azure. • Provided technical direction to both QA and Engineering on all software architecture to improve overall processing speed from 15 seconds down to 2 seconds. • Leveraged the .NET Standard 2. 1 and .NET Core 3. 1 frameworks as part of the design effort along with Python for device test harnesses. • Provided system architecture for speaking to a variety of devices including Verifone using Microsoft's System.Composition library for lazy loading of device drivers. • Overseeing all application enhancements and maintenan
- SSenior Software EngineerSphereCommerceAug 2018 - Jan 2020 (1 year 6 months)• Helped maintain an existing customer facing application, providing critical bug fixes and enhancements. • Created a variety of in-house tools and also facilitated the migration from TFS to Git. • Developed certificate management system that was responsible for creating and rotating existing security certificates for our production clients. • Lead an entire re-work effort on 2 existing client facing applications to make the services fully async and capable of processing much higher volumes of transactions.
- Senior Software EngineerAUTOMOBILE CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIASep 2015 - Aug 2018 (3 years)• Full stack work on the AAA Mobile application for iOS using XCode and Objective-C. • Pair programming on a daily basis using agile methodologies and test driven design principles. • Full stack work on the AAA Mobile application for Android using Android Studio. • Did work to create animations using the CALayer, CoreGraphics and CoreAnimation frameworks. This includes making rounded corners on table view cells, transparent backgrounds and more. • Did training at Adobe in SF to learn from CQ5 developer how to setup, configure and all of the best practices for AEM. • Wrote handy utility called "AceJavaCertInstaller" which leverages open-source code from former Oracle employee. I fixed some bugs and used it to install the necessary SSL
- Senior Software EngineerAUTOMOBILE CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAJan 2014 - Sep 2015 (1 year 9 months)• Primary duties of this position include maintaining existing enterprise applications, as well as leading the design and implementation of new companywide initiatives with a team of 9 developers. • Developed the official enterprise framework for a new big data initiative that allows the company to data mine and analyze member behavior, interaction and events on our site using Apache HBase, Apache Hadoop and Red Hat Linux. The technologies used by me and 2 of my team members are Java, C# (WCF Service) and ASP.NET MVC primarily. • Leading the initiative for designing our new Android and iPhone platform to improve member satisfaction, integration with s
- Senior Web DeveloperAUTOMOBILE CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAMar 2013 - Jan 2014 (11 months)• Primary duties for this position include maintaining everything related to the "my-account" section for all AAA members at aaa.com. • Responsible for helping with the transition of old SharePoint sites over to Adobe AEM (known prior as CQ5) which runs on Java and Linux. • Helping to maintain complex 90 project architecture that serves as the foundation for the entire site along with backend communication systems. Technologies utilized include C#, Java, WCF Services, ASP.NET MVC, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery / JavaScript and some Adobe Action Script. • Developed the new a
- SSenior Software EngineerShultz Steel CompanySep 2010 - Mar 2013 (2 years 7 months)• Primary duties of this position were to get data collection systems in place for all factory machines and to upgrade our old internal company software, as well as managing research and development initiatives. • Developed devices such as a vibration sensor that took harmonic readings of a machine tool to determine if cuts were being made smoothly with little vibration fluctuation. • Created the Shultz Pro internal company website that supports all internal operations. It provides data entry, reporting and internal searching of documents, files, and querying of any related objects. • Designed and developed an internal lab import process that permits the receiving of digital copies of paper certifications that reflect on the tests done
- TSenior Web DeveloperTopLingo Development Inc.Nov 2008 - Sep 2010 (1 year 11 months)• Designed and developed a major public facing Money Management Application for the Credit Exchange utilizing C#, ASP.NET, JQuery and Ext JS on the .NET 3.5 Framework. • Worked as part of a team on the Chase Marketing Zone manager and other internal Chase bank products. • Helped develop a public facing company website for Quality Logic Inc using C#, ASP.NET, JQuery, and CSS2. • Created a .NET Patch to help maintain session states for extended periods of time without losing state information between browser changes using C#. • Involved with the research and develo
- ALead DeveloperAmerican Marine Management SyndicateSep 2007 - Jun 2008 (10 months)• Primary role of this position was to create a new internal operation management system and help them digitize their operations, make them efficient and LEAN. • Fixed existing applications developed in VB6 that had many bugs and the associated Crystal Reports. • Converted the VB6 Application to VB.NET using Win Forms technology. • Worked closely on SQL Views, Stored Procedures and Triggers. • Core technologies utilized were C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, XML,
- FFreelance ProgrammerJan 2004 - Jan 2007 (3 years 1 month)• Developed Dental Appointment Management Software for a client in Connecticut and helped convert existing documents to a digitized format. Project was done using VB.NET and Win Form Technology; SQL was the back end store. • Designed Anti-Cheat Gaming Software that prevented cheating in War Craft, Unreal Tournament, Rainbox Six: Rogue Spear and various other online titles. Technologies used primarily were C++ and Assembly on the Windows Platform. • Designed and developed Server / Client applications for massively multiplayer gaming applications. • Developed Instant Messenger Software using C# and Win Form technology for a client looking to add chat fu
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- Bachelor of Science - Computer ScienceUniversity of the PeopleJun 2018 - Dec 2023 (5 years 7 months)