Fortune 500 hospitality company

the Fortune 500 hospitality company needed to translate core functionality (currently only in English) into German, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese, integrating with a third-party translation vendor.

- Phase 1 focused on German; Phase 2 focused on Spanish and Chinese (Simplified) - Integrated a web service client into the Fortune 500 hospitality company Globalization Project that communicated to a third party translation vendor - Implemented message driven beans to poll JMS queues in order to process messages sent through the web service client - Translated XSDs to Java classes using JAXB and XMLBeans in order to marshal and un-marshal XML used by external the Fortune 500 hospitality company components - Responsible for the build process using Ant scripts - Worked and coordinated test plans with multiple teams within the Fortune 500 hospitality company organization - Wrote and implemented detail design documents that fit the client's requirements - Delivered all critical workflow components and test activities on time - Designed and created an error handling mechanism to alert production support so they could respond to all fatal errors - Organized deployment plans for future releases with the client - Organized and planned the transition of the Translation Mediator to the client - Moved to a technical lead role in the second phase of the project and led 5 resources through build, testing, and delivery phase - Planned and organized performance testing with the client in order to get sign-off into the production environment - Ran weekly status meetings with development resources to resolve tickets opened during the testing phase - Worked with the project plan and project manager to meet all milestones through the lifespan of the project

- Web service client integration with third-party translation vendor - Message-driven beans (MDBs) polling JMS queues for asynchronous message processing - JAXB and XMLBeans for XSD-to-Java class translation (XML marshal/un-marshal) - Ant-based build process - Custom error handling mechanism alerting production support on fatal errors

Coordinating test plans and workflow delivery across multiple teams within the Fortune 500 hospitality company organization while meeting critical path milestones

Delivered all critical workflow components and test activities on time; obtained client sign-off for production deployment via organized performance testing

Moved to a technical lead role in Phase 2, leading 5 resources through build, testing, and delivery; ran weekly status meetings with development resources