Delta Airlines

Senior Software Engineer

WEB SERVICE GOVERNANCE

Converted user systems (like redeeming Sky Miles for partial ticket price) to use modern web services (Java/SOAP) on the front end that still interacts with the existing Delta-matic mainframe.

Skymiles Team

Improved the redemption of SKyMiles by allowing the customer to use SkyMiles as a portion of the payment. The user could adjust the number of SkyMiles used and see the remaining balance owed. They could also use SkyMiles for seating upgrades if they so chose.

SITE RELIABILITY

Converted a number of cron triggered scripts on obsolete servers to use Quartz Scheduler. This helped the business in having a single place that “over-night scripts” were executed from and, because it had a dashboard, allowed them to easily see if and when a job had run. If there was a failure, or a process needed to be run ad-hoc, it was as easy as pressing a button (assuming one had the correct permissions). At the time Quartz supported text only email. I extended the functionality to use MIME multipart messages so that reports could be attached to the email. This was contributed back to the open-source software.