Lewis Cawthorne

168 King George Way
Columbia SC 29210
P: (803) 394-6337
LLC@acm.org

Software Developer currently acting as Technical Lead for Subrosource seeking programming opportunities in or near Raleigh, NC.

Degrees

Masters of Engineering, Computer Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, Dec 2014
GPA: 3.5/4.0; Specialization: Information Security

BS, Computer Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, Aug 2011
GPA: 4.0/4.0; Minor: Mathematics

AS, 4.0 High Honors, Midlands Technical College, Columbia, SC, May 2009

Technical Lead, EXL, Jan 2015-present

Took an leading role in an agile group with seven developers acting within a larger corporate organization to provide software and services to insurance domain customers
Updated Subrosource application from Weblogic 10.3 to Weblogic 12 and from Java 1.6 to Java 1.8
Maintained, extended, and helped secure an existing Java EE 5 application on Oracle WebLogic Application Server and Java 1.6 backed by an Oracle 11g database
Performed security scans with HP Fortify software and patched found vulnerabilities
Develop a new web application to provide insight to support technicians debugging general data import issues with JDK 8 and Java EE 7 technologies running on Glassfish 4.1 Application Server with a Vaadin GWT-based rich user interface accessing an Oracle 11g database and custom scripts to extract text log information
Researched and made recommendations on ways to ease development team growth pains by better incorporating automated unit, integration, and acceptance testing
Wrote, tested, and debugged a batch process based on preexisting procedural logic to on-board a new customer by cleaning, transforming, and importing 80,000 customer claim records which were split up to over half a million relational table entries; primarily handled through the creation and integration of new awk processing scripts, some modification of a C# account registration program, and PL/SQL customizations in the database to handle customer specific account logic

Teaching Assistant, University of South Carolina, Aug 2012 - Dec 2014

Fall 2014: Lecture Instructor for CSCE 212 - Intro to Computer Architecture (Assembly)
Summer 2014: Lecture Instructor for CSCE 146 - Data Structures Using Java (Java)
Spring 2014: Lecture Instructor for CSCE 212 - Intro to Computer Architecture (Assembly)
Fall 2013: Lecture Instructor and Lab TA for CSCE 101 - Intro to Computing (Java)
Spring 2013: Lecture Instructor for CSCE 204 - Program Design and Development (Visual Basic)
Fall 2012: Lab TA for CSCE 145 - Algorithmic Design (Java)

Research Assistant, Center for Information Assurance Engineering at USC, Aug 2011 - Dec 2014

Quantum Complexity Theory research advised by Dr. Stephen A. Fenner
Analyzed algorithms which require quantum computers and how problems solvable via quantum algorithms, such as factoring, differ in structure from classical problems
Studied quantum entanglement effects on classic two party game theory
Investigated mutually unbiased bases for secure quantum key distribution
Expanded a C program for web based analysis and graphing of lambda closure functions including a LaTeX based formula parser

REU Program Coordinator, Research Experience for Undergraduates at USC, Aug 2011 - Aug 2013

Coordinated summer housing and activities for 10 undergraduate participants
Guided participants through all steps of creating and submitting an academic paper
Offered proofreading and implementation advice on 10 papers from 7 different subareas

Undergraduate Research Assistant, MLEG Lab at USC, Jun 2010 - Aug 2011

Created SMEE, the Sorting Motif Extraction Engine, a biomedical text analysis service using Python for Natural Language Processing and Django web framework

Linux System Administrator, EMR Technical Solutions, Feb 2010 - Jun 2010

Setup various server applications on three Linux servers
Managed security on servers, including detection / elimination of prior intrusion

Network Administrator, Wave Communications / Durocom / Volaris Online, June 1995 - Sept 2002

Lead the building of what quickly became a 3000-4000 customer Internet provider
Maintained 14 high volume servers running multiple operating systems
Participated in a 24-hour emergency response on call rotation
Supervised a team of 20-40 technical support representatives
Ultimately shared primary responsibility for a $10-million regional ISP with a co-administrator, which was acquired by a super-regional provider and then by Earthlink

Database Administrator, Doulos Productions, Apr 1992 - Nov 1996

Specialized Skills: Java EE, EJB2, EJB3, JSP, JSTL, JSF, RichFaces, JTA, JPA, Layered Architectures, Agile Development, Information Security, User Testing, Full-stack Web Development, Version Control, Web Design

Markup/Programming: Java, Python/Django, JavaScript, JQuery, Ruby/Rails, XHTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, XML, XSLT, Perl, Awk, PL/SQL, Shell Scripting

Applications: Eclipse, IntelliJ, Microsoft Office, HP Fortify Security Scanner, Google Drive, Vim, JQuery, Oracle 9i-11g, Selenium, Git, Subversion, WebLogic 10.3 - 12, Glassfish 4

CNSS 4011, National Training Standard for INFOSEC Professionals

Presidential Graduate Fellowship, University of South Carolina, Aug 2012 - Apr 2014
Magellan Scholarship Winner, competitive research funding, Jan 2011 - Aug 2011
Outstanding Senior Award, University of South Carolina, Apr 2011
IBM Master the Mainframe Competition, winner Parts 1 and 2, Dec 2010
ΥΠE Scholarship Winner, competitive scholarship, Aug 2010