Rhys Evans - Director of Engineering, TerraTrue

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Work Background

TerraTrueDirector of Engineering

Jan. 2024

TerraTrueEngineering Manager & Technical Lead

Jan. 2022

TerraTrueSoftware Engineer

Jan. 2020 - Feb. 2022

OpenTextPrincipal Software Engineer

Oct. 2016 - Jan. 2020Irvine, CAAppWorks Lead

OpenTextSenior Software Developer

Oct. 2014 - Jan. 2020Irvine, CAAppWorks team senior developer, Enterprise Java and the mobile web.

NetBrains, Inc.Software Developer

Oct. 2013 - Oct. 2014Orange County, California AreaFull stack development on Java 7, using GWT and Spring based tools. Worked on innovative medical/health/robotics related applications within a fast paced Agile startup environment. My main concern was the Hamilton NIMBUS INSTINCT method desingner interface (http://www.hamiltoncompany.com/products/laboratory-automation/platforms/microlab-nimbus, view Software section).

NetBrains, Inc.Software Engineer

Jul. 2013 - Oct. 2014Irvine, CA

NorthgateArinsoSenior Java Developer (Software Engineer)

Aug. 2012 - Oct. 2013Irvine, CAI worked as one of the technical leads on NorthgateArinso's global mobile initiative. This project dealt with the aggregation of HR data from NorthgateArinso's various IP HR and Payroll solutions across the globe, covering (but not limited to) Western Europe, North America and Oceania. These solutions are enterprise grade, providing services to large organisations consisting of many thousands of users making this an interesting multi-disciplinary engineering task. This role included: Development of a high performance RESTful API service using JEE6 (JAX-RS, JAXB, EJB3.1, JPA2 EclipseLink, Memcached, GlassFish plus embdeded). Development of a mobile device agnostic JavaScript client using Dojo's mobile offering. This offers some interesting challenges of its own, especially considering we were very early adopters of the library. Continuous Delivery via an automated delivery pipeline. I am one of the team members responsible for the maintenance of this pipeline, we currently use Jenkins with as few plugins (some Maven ones of our own plus the useful Sonar w/ JaCoCo) to achieve this. Testing and general project management including, - creation and management of JEE6 Maven projects, maintenance of artifacts and repositories - unit testing of individual components and "integration" testing of EJB components and subsystems (involving embedded/light-weight containers) - automated system testing of the API solution via its REST interface - automated acceptance testing/BDD using CucumberJVM - performance/stress testing and tuning using JMeter, VisualVM, AppDynamics Mentoring and management of offshore resources, this includes regular remote review and training sessions, as well as candidate assessment. I also provided expert advice on and help maintain the ResourceLink related web services that I worked on in my previous role.

NorthgateArinso HRJava Developer

Apr. 2009 - Oct. 2013Worked in a support and maintenance role on a collection of web applications associated with a major HR/Payroll system (ResourceLink). The majority of these web applications are written in some form of Java J2EE (EJB, JSP, Struts, JSF etc..) but I do deal with alot of JavaScript, XSL and other technolgies associated with Java based web applications including GWT. As I deal with large quantities customer data on a regular basis, a good working knowledge of SQL and its DBMS incarnations is essential (Oracle and Microsofts SQL server mainly). This includes functions, views etc within these dialects. My work involved refactoring OO subsystems within the applications as well as implementing QA and maintenance functionality (all kinds of unit testing, logging). I have a personal interest in OO technologies, patterns and web applications in general.

Northgate Information SolutionsPROIV Developer

Oct. 2007 - Apr. 2009Worked as part of a bespoke team developing custom software artifacts for a large HR Payroll system (ResourceLink). http://www.northgatearinso.co.uk/resourcelinkaurora. Responsibilities involved: Writing new functionality in PROIV code SQL functionality (scripting, debugging, data fixing, entity design and creation) Writing and gathering requirements (direct customer contact) Specification authoring, UML, GUI design QA of personal and teams work