jim stafford

Senior Technical Advisor at SRA International

Severna Park, Maryland, United States

About

Full lifecycle system/service development to include: * UML domain modeling, system/service architecture * story/task/release definition and management using Scrum * development environment tooling with Maven and Jenkins * hands-on development of JAX-RS backend services using Java, JavaEE, and Spring * iterative deliveries into production Formal instructor for topics in: * Enterprise Development with Java/JavaEE * Developing RESTful Services with Java/JAX-RS * Developing Data Tiers with JPA/Hibernate * Developing Service Tiers with EJB and JBoss/Wildfly * SOA (concepts, architecture, and specification) Specialties: UML Modeling, SOA, REST (RMM level 2 and 3), SOAP/WSDL, Java, JavaEE 6 (JBoss AS 5, 6, 7, and 8), EJB (3.x), Spring (3.x), JPA (2.x)/Hibernate, JDBC, RDBMS (Oracle), JAX-RS (RESTEasy & Jersey), JAXB, JMS (HornetQ and TIBCO EMS), Complex Event Processing (TIBCO Business Events), Maven, Git & Subversion, Jenkins & Hudson

Experience

  • SRA International (19 yrs 10 mos)
    • Senior Technical Advisor
      Apr 2013 - Present · 13 yrs 4 mos

      Mixing hands-on software development with consulting and mentoring.

    • Principal
      Oct 2006 - Present · 19 yrs 10 mos

      (SRA buys RABA Technologies) Lead research and consulting initiatives centered around middleware; including SOA-based technologies.

  • Adjunct Instructor at Johns Hopkins University
    Sep 1998 - Present · 27 yrs 11 mos

    605.784 Enterprise Development in Java - Fall 2000 to present (https://jcs.ep.jhu.edu/ejava-springboot/, https://jcs.ep.jhu.edu/), 605.404 OOP/C++ Fall 1998 to Summer 2000

  • Chief Scientist OOT at RABA Technologies
    Nov 1996 - Oct 2006 · 10 yrs

    Performed mentoring roles in OOA, OOD, and OOP/C++ and Java. Lead research and development tasks that spanned CORBA, J2EE, messaging, Web services, EAI, and ESB.

  • Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin
    1996 - 1996 · Less than a year

    (Lockheed Martin buys Loral) OO Mentoring

  • Systems Engineer at Loral
    1990 - 1996 · 6 yrs

    (Ford Aerospace purchased by Loral) LAN Architecture, OO/C++ Development, and OO Mentoring