Alan Schwartz Jr.
LinkedIn Profile

Skills and Proficiencies
    Programming Languages
    - Scala, Java, Python, SQL, UNIX Shell
    Markup Languages
    - XML, YAML, HTML
    Development Tools
    - Spark, Ansible, Jenkins, uDeploy, Git, Maven, SBT

Work Experience
    CIGNA (Bloomfield, CT)
        TECDP Specialist [July 2018 - Present]
        - Team: Data & Analytics
        - Role: IM Software Engineer
        - Configured kernel for Jupyter Notebook service to support PySpark and Impala
        - Designed and built infrastructure for batch analytics engine to support DataRobot models
        - Researched and benchmarked performance of Cockroach DB and Amazon Aurora in AWS using TPC-B and TPC-C tools
        - Drove team planning sessions and maintained quality and standard of user stories
        - Released two projects to the Cigna IT community to accelerate employee on-boarding and day to day operations

        TECDP Analyst [January 2017 - July 2018]
        - Team: Information Management
        - Role: IM Software Engineer
        - Designed and built infrastructure for batch analytics engine to support Spark applications
        - Automated test and deployment for batch analytics engine, enabling continuous integration and delivery
        - Delivered Spark application for detecting and reporting opioid prescriptions
        - Implemented chat operations (ChatOps) across four project teams
        - Trained software engineers in using Scala, SBT, and Apache Spark

        TECDP Intern [September 2015 - January 2017]
        - Team: Information Management
        - Role: Application Developer
        - Wrote first Spark application for a batch analytics proof of concept
        - Delivered Hive script for aligning members to health specialists
        - Collaborated on a secure chat application to connect teenagers and young adults suffering from depression and anxiety with behavioral coaches

    The Jackson Laboratory (Farmington, CT)
        Research Intern [August 2016 - October 2016]
        - Lab: Computational Biology
        - Researched mathematical formulas for predicting feature importance in genomic research

    Three Rivers Community College (Norwich, CT)
       Student Worker [January 2014 - June 2015]
        - Office: Student Programs
        - Led migration of management and services system for student organizations from a paper-based process to a web-based application

    Windsor Travel Corp. (Houston, TX)
        Data Entry Clerk [January 2013 - July 2013]
        - Led migration of customer profile system from a paper-based process to a customer relationship management tool
        - Wrote stored procedures to provide travel agents with individualized services for customers

Organizations
    Eastern Connecticut State University
        Computer Science Club
        - Vice President: Fall 2014, Spring 2015

    Three Rivers Community College
        Student Government Association
        - Student Representative: Fall 2013, Spring 2014
        - President: Fall 2014, Spring 2015

Education
    Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT
        - Bachelor of Science, Computer Science [2015 - 2016]

    Three Rivers Community College, Norwich, CT
        - Associate in Science, Computer Science Technology [2013 - 2015]
        - Associate in Science, Architectural Design Technology [2010 - 2012]