Shawn Wheeler - solver

Silkroad is a Human Resources Software company with offerings in Recruiting, Learning, and Onboarding. I was hired to work with the Recruiting application. I quickly transitioned to writing lower level java libraries to compensate for gaps and bugs in Coldfusion. The last 6 years was mostly spent working with C# and .NET in an effort to modernize the Recruiting application. I was also responsible for architecting and developing multiple integrations with external vendors.
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I was initially hired to provide L3 support for Bank Of America's fraud detection applications. However I was immediately tapped to build internal tools that supported the L3 teams.
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Transcor is a company that handles scheduling for bus and air transportation services. My primary job was converting older applications to a new RESTful API based application using the Jersey implementation of JAX-RS and GlassFish 3.1.2. I also had the chance to work with JMS, Rabbit MQ, and even create a prototype Android application.
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Oracle acquired Taleo in June of 2012. At the time I was working on Taleo's candidate assessment application helping to convert the client facing UI from JSP to JSF2. I continued on that project until my last month when it was retired in favor of the project I was moved to. This project had a greater range of functionality and utilized more modern technologies like Struts 2 and a recent version of Hibernate with JPA. Oracle offered me a permanent position but it was contingent on moving to Dublin, CA. I declined.
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My first 3 years with Taleo was spent maintaining the Vurv applications Taleo acquired when they purchased Vurv. After the last Vurv application was 'sunsetted' I successfully transferred to Taleo's candidate assessment application. Soon after joining the assessment team, I was tapped for a special project, where I participated in adding e-Offer functionality to Taleo's main recruitment and candidate portal applications.
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I began my professional software development career in 2004. I started by assisting in diagnostics and repair of existing Recruitmax/Vurv corporate edition HR products. These products were all written in ColdFusion with a MSSQL Server database. At the time all of their applications were custom, client specific implementations. In an effort to become more scalable Vurv implemented a 'vanilla' product. Shortly after its release I moved to the team responsible for maintaining and enhancing this application which served more than a hundred clients, including many well known enterprise clients like Coca Cola, Yahoo, and Unilever. I eventually became the lead developer on this team and took on additional high profile custom clients like Disney and Deutsche Bank. I received several awards in this role.
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