Charlton Rose

Oct. 2018-present
(full time)

Principal Software Engineer, Ancestry (Lehi, Utah)

• Lead team in developing and adopting effective code review processes.
• Perform daily code reviews, frequently providing written tips for improving code.
• Present trainings on assorted technologies.
• Lead team in effective Git branching strategies.
• Mentor junior/senior engineers.
• Author team's dev setup guide.
• Develop unifying common library in support of multiple projects.
• Port legacy web services to Java.
• Develop Java client libraries for selected web services.
• Maintain/stabilize essential global property storage service.
• Interview new manager candidates.
• Experience: CA Agile Central Git GitHub Enterprise Java 8 Javadoc JMockit JUnit Kubernetes MacOS Maven Mockito Spring SQL TestNG

Nov. 2014-Oct. 2018
(full time)

Principal Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Workfront (Lehi, Utah)

• Lead development of tenant/user profile unification service for unifying profiles across segmented product line.
• Port flagship product to Java 8.
• Port flagship product to Wildfly application server.
• Overhaul configuration framework in flagship product.
• Invent procedure entry/exit logging framework with graphical visualizer for post-mortem debugging.
• Manage application deployment processes for complex, high-cardinality lane configuration.
• Maintain proxy sign-in service for customer support.
• Troubleshoot and repair complex bugs in flagship product.
• Design and build application gateway.
• Drive synergy between Dev and QA to improve knowledge transfer and testing effectiveness.
• Discover and proactively log numerous bugs outside assigned area concern.
• Promote sane unit testing practices.
• Maintain search indexer service.
• Experience: AWS DynamoDB AWS CloudFormation AWS EC2 AWS Lambda AWS S3 Docker Elasticsearch Git GitHub Enterprise GitLab Enterprise HTML Jasmine Java 8 Javadoc JBoss 7 JUnit Kafka Kong Lua MacOS Maven Node 6 SAML2 Serverless Framework Spring SQL TestNG WildFly 8 Workfront

Mar. 2007-Nov. 2014
(full time)

Development Lead/Manager, Senior Software Engineer, Corp. Of The Presiding Bishop (Riverton, Utah)

• Manage employee performance:
  • Conduct monthly 1-on-1s.
  • Administer biannual performance reviews.
  • Promote employee growth through relevant challenges and feedback.
  • Address specific performance concerns through compassionate but direct intervention.
• Interview prospective employees and make hiring decisions.
• Lead teams developing enterprise software solutions for the church's missionary program, using Java and .NET technologies:
  • Architect and lead development of application to generate dynamic, individualized information booklets in multiple languages.
    • System mass-generates thousands of documents per week as part of an essential business process.
    • Complex documents are automatically assembled from 5 different media types on industrial printers.
    • System includes content editor and configurable rules engine to support constantly shifting business requirements.
    • System incorporates versatile, semi-automatic translation learning processes.
  • Manage development team building the application used by church leaders to make and record missionary assignments.
  • Organize and coordinate the emergency efforts of several product teams to address a sudden and dramatic change in missionary funding policies.
  • In general, routinely:
    • Architect effective solutions for complex problems.
    • Establish clarity from ambiguous requirements and build team consensus.
    • Manage teams using agile methodologies.
    • Develop, formalize, document, and promote team standards, processes, etc.
    • Build relationships of trust with the customer.
    • Plan and estimate projects.
    • Provide timely and effective customer support.
• Develop web portal for missionary force, automatically customizing content based on user role and status.
• Develop Facebook/Twitter module for uploading personalized photo badges.
• Develop Android-based personal organizer software for missionaries.
• Maintain statistics reporting system based on InfoPath web forms hosted in a SharePoint environment.
• Experience: Android AngularJS Apache CXF Apache httpd Backbone.js C# CSS Facebook Graph API Git Grunt Handlebars HTML5 InfoPath Java JavaScript Jira jQuery JSP LESS Linux Maven MediaWiki OAuth 1 & 2 PHP RequireJS SharePoint Spring Framework Spring Social SQL Subversion TFS Tomcat Twitter Bootstrap Windows WordProcessingML XML XQuery