Scott Dunbar

GutCheck - a start-up company producing qualitative research tools
V.P. of Engineering - full time employee
Denver, Colorado - 2/2010 to present

• Manage the engineering and Q/A teams responsible for creating an online tool that allows do-it-yourself qualitative researchers to bring research participants into a one-on-one chat or group bulletin board in real time. The tool was the winner of the DEMO people's choice award in March of 2011.
• Hands-on with daily involvement in the architecture, design, and agile implementation of new code in addition to delivery planning, daily stand-ups, schedules and sprint planning, hiring, and performance reviews.
• Manage electronic information infrastructure for the entire company, from hosting to phone system.
• Product uses a SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) with a Java/JEE back-end and a Sencha/ExtJS front end. Communication between the browser (desktop and mobile) and the back-end uses XML and JSON.
• Includes extensive integrations to third party vendors including Salesforce, Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Sendgrid in addition to external panel providers.
• Coordinate feature and bug fix releases with product management, sales, Q/A, and customers.

BridgeView IT - a software consulting firm
Senior Software Engineering Consultant - 6 month contract
Denver, Colorado - 8/2009 to 2/2010

• Consultant at Digital Globe, Longmont, with sole responsibility for implementation of a web-based production monitoring and control system.
• Frequently interact with production support technicians to ensure product direction.
• Product architecture consists of:
  • JMS queues for sending and receiving of asynchronous messages.
  • JPA over Hibernate for access to multiple PostgreSQL and Oracle databases.
  • ExtJS JavaScript/CSS framework.

The Spitfire Group - a software consulting firm
Senior Software Engineering Consultant - 3 month contract
Longmont, Colorado - 4/2009 to 7/2009

• Consultant at TDA Ameritrade, Denver, instrumental in creating a web-based trade reconciliation application used by internal customers.
• Extensively immersed in the SCRUM-based development environment with daily stand-ups and sprint planning.
• Drove the technical architecture of the product. Technologies used include:
  • A Struts-based MVC framework on top of JBoss
  • ExtJS JavaScript framework for UI components and AJAX.

Skyetek, Inc - a RFID hardware and software provider
Technical Manager / Chief Software Architect - full time employee
Westminster, Colorado - 8/2008 to 3/2009

• Instrumental in creating a scalable, fault tolerant, and cluster capable SaaS-based architecture that was able to scale to millions of RFID tag read events and thousands of users using:
  • A persistence layer using JPA over Hibernate on top of a new schema built on PostgreSQL.
  • A JMS queue in a publish/subscribe model to distribute events
  • JAX-WS SOAP web services to interface with external systems and devices
  • JMX management and configuration
• Investigated MVC framework technologies including JSF based (ICEfaces, RichFaces) and others such as Wicket/Seam.
• Managed the software team including delivery planning, schedules, hiring and performance reviews.
• Changed the existing dedicated server configuration saving the company about $50,000/year.

SpireLine Systems (formerly Patron Systems) - public safety industry software provider
Director of Engineering / Lead Architect - full time employee
Boulder, Colorado - 8/2006 to 8/2008

• Responsible for the architecture and contributed extensively to the development of the new SaaS product line that was capable of connected and disconnected operation.
• Developed web services in both C# and Java to communicate between remote devices and the server.
• Frequently interacted directly with customers to ensure that any customer issues were included in future product schedules.
• Worked with Adobe XML-based form processing to allow on-the-fly modification of form data before presentation to the end user.
• Managed the software and quality assurance teams including hiring, product schedules, and employee reviews.

McKesson - medical industry software provider
Senior Software Engineer - full time employee
Louisville, Colorado - 1/2005 to 8/2006

• Responsible for the Hibernate persistence layer on top of an Oracle database.
• Integrated a legacy database with a MVC architecture by creating a "double MVC" pattern.
• Developed Apache Axis based web services to communicate between multiple systems.

Sandoz via TEKsystems - software consulting
Contract Senior Software Engineer - 3 month contract, extended
Broomfield, Colorado - 8/2004 to 1/2005

• Created a WebLogic Portal based environment for use throughout the worldwide Sandoz company.
• Developed interfaces to multiple existing databases, external systems, and SAP.

BEA Systems - produces software platform products
Senior Software Engineer - full time employee
Boulder, Colorado - 8/2000 to 7/2004

• Lead the team responsible for the entitlements portion of WebLogic portal, leading to a patent.
• Provided customers a voice in engineering and architectural directions and assisted customers in integrating third party products into WebLogic Portal.
• Integrated Netegrity Siteminder into WebLogic Portal to provide enterprise single sign on capabilities.
• Created code to allow the Autonomy Systems search engine to be used within a portal environment.

Global Commerce Systems - provided services for corporate credit card processing
Lead Software Engineer - full time employee
Broomfield, Colorado - 4/1999 to 8/2000

• Lead a team of a six responsible for the architecture and implementation of the data store used in the product. This toolkit was used throughout the company as the persistence layer.
• Used Informatica PowerCenter to import credit card data into the database.

Platinum Technology (formerly AutoSys) - produced a cross-platform job scheduling product
Senior Software Engineer - full time employee
Boulder, Colorado - 1/1997 to 4/1999

• Lead the Database and Communications Infrastructure teams, creating API's for use by the entire team and in multiple other products within the company.
• Responsible for the architecture and implementation of an objected-oriented library for use across five different database back ends.

Various Option and Commodity Trading and Financial Firms
Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer - full time employee
Chicago, Illinois - 9/1987 to 1/1997

• Implemented a multi-threaded C++ option pricing server on Solaris from mathematical models, increasing option valuation calculation throughput over 700%.
• Managed the architectural design and implementation for a distributed equity option trading system used by hundreds of traders in geographically distributed locations.
• Created a TCP/IP socket communication framework that drastically simplified the existing software architecture, reducing pricing calculation times from 15 minutes to under 1 second.