Entrepreneurial-minded software developer, skilled in Hadoop, Hive, MySQL, Java, JavaScript, C++, PHP, HTML5, CSS3 and some Python. MS in Information Systems Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, with coursework in big data processing, software project management, software engineering, and information assurance. I am open to recruiter inquiries.

Software Developer @ Designed, developed, debugged, tested, documented, installed, and demonstrated software for customers. Wrote software for various hardware and software platforms, including Unix and Linux workstations, Windows PCs, and mobile devices. Designed software with UML and design patterns to ensure robust software architectures that facilitate reusable code. • Enhanced a defense engineering software application in order to support evolving national technical means (NTM) capabilities. Packaged the software, installed it, and tested it at the customer’s site. Received a “Pride@Boeing” award for helping deliver it on-time according to a very aggressive, time-critical schedule. • Created a visualization application for the US Army's Future Combat Systems Warfighter Machine Interface. Received a “Pride@Boeing” award for the work. • Retooled an application that allows Warfighter Machine Interface GUI developers to build custom interactive multifunction display systems. • Wrote a reference manual for users of our application programming interface. • Wrote both Java and C/C++ code, as needed, for an enterprise Web application supporting a collection management system. Boeing received 100% of its potential government award fee and each team member received an Appreciation Award as a result of our team’s success. • Proactively created and refined object-oriented software modules for internal use by other programmers. • Developed multiple plug-ins and reusable modules for parsing various XML data types. • Designed and developed a scalable, fault-tolerant communications protocol for wireless data transfers among varying numbers of mobile devices and laptop computers. • Improved a software plug-in that reads real-time telemetry data feeds from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for display in our company's 3-D geospatial visualization environment. From January 2000 to May 2010 (10 years 5 months) Financial Advisor @ Helped customers plan for retirement and college expenses, and protect against financial loss. Obtained National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) Series 6 and Series 63 registrations, and state health and life insurance licenses. From April 1997 to August 1997 (5 months)

Master of Science (M.S.), Information Systems Engineering @ The Johns Hopkins University From 2011 to 2012 Certificate (with Honors), Computer Information Systems @ Hawaii Pacific University From 1998 to 1999 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Social Sciences @ Hawaii Pacific University From 1995 to 1996 Social Sciences @ Hawaii Loa College From 1989 to 1992 James Parsons is skilled in: Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, MySQL, Java, C++, PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, JSP, jQuery, XML, UML, Linux