Develop and administer tools for internal technical customers. Responsibilities include:

• Administer Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, AccuRev, RPM repository.
• Develop in-house tools for handling transitive dependency management and releasing software.
• Extend third party tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Ant for customized use by Orbitz employees.
• Assist users with debugging problems with tools owned by the team.

Developed tools and plugins with a variety of technologies including Ruby, Rails, Python, Java, Maven, Common Lisp, and Ant. Worked closely with internal customers using a modified Agile Software Approach to prioritize, plan, code, test, and deploy tools.

Developed software for Orbitz backend tier. Projects included:

• Provided Production Support for multiple high traffic sites.
• Architected and wrote the redesign for the switching layer for the air vertical.
• Built tool sets for developers to search site logs, drive controlled transactions, and manage the release process.
• Migrated the merchant processing module to a dynamic plugin architecture.
• Wrote a backend module for Orbitz For Business's hired-car module using SOAP as communication via AXIS.

Used Java technologies such as Junit, Spring, Jboss, Tomcat, JDBC, Beanshell, and Ant. Followed the development model of gathering requirements, drafting technical specifications, designing object and class relationships, writing and documenting code, writing unit tests, and deploying applications.

Designed and implemented http://katherine-anne.com. Created custom framework for easy deployment of new changes to site. Worked closely with partners to write various tools to assist in day-to-day operations of business such as printing forms, managing a customer database, and invoicing. Created the graphic and layout design while adhering to internet usability principles.