# Evan P. Mills (@social.epmills.com)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/social.epmills.com
Headline: Senior Manager, Digital Marketing Automation

## About

Passionate Principal Software Engineer with over 40 years of hands-on experience, dedicated to staying at the forefront of cutting-edge technologies. Renowned for expertise in software engineering, excels in designing and constructing innovative solutions that meet and exceed client expectations.

## Career

- **Senior Manager at Fidelity Investments** (Nov 2024 - Present)
  Covington, KY
  Senior Manger, Digital Marketing Automation
- **Principal Software Engineer at Fidelity Investments** (Jun 2015 - Mar 2024)
  Covington, KY
  \* Backend engineer for a gamification enterprise capability to promote customer engagement whereby customers earn badges by accomplishing goals and completing challenges
  \* Fullstack engineer for a new mobile applicaton guiding young investors toward more effective saving habits
  \* Worked as a fullstack engineer in an agile team to integrate the Localytics mobile push SDK in the firm's primary mobile application
  \* Worked as DevOps engineer to stand up Kafka clusters and Zookeeper ensembles across development, staging and production environments
  \* Served as tech lead within a small team to implement a new Kafka-based microservice workflow platform
- **Senior Software Engineer at Fidelity Investments** (Jan 2012 - Jun 2015)
  Covington, KY
  \* Lead developer on enterprise document storage and governance SharePoint implementation
- **Senior Consultant at Ascendum Solutions** (Jul 2007 - Jan 2012)
  Cincinnati, Ohio, US
  \* Developed and improved several Java web applications that support the processing of inbound customer communications
  \* Created a Spring Web Services- based web service to proxy to read and update data to an existing web application
  \* Developed ten major updates to three internal Java web applications that track archived check deposits and print PDF forms
- **Senior Consultant at Ascendum Solutions** (Oct 2006 - Jun 2007)
  Cincinnati, Ohio, US
  Formerly Professional Data Resources (PDR)  Java development in the manufacturing domain.
- **Software Developer at Ascendum Solutions** (Nov 2003 - Sep 2006)
  Springboro, Ohio, US
  Formerly Professional Data Resources (PDR)  Java development in the legal, information and analytics domain.
- **Software Developer at Ciber** (Apr 2003 - Nov 2003)
  Cincinnati, Ohio, US
  VB.Net and SQL development in the manufacturing domain.
- **Software Developer at Ciber** (Dec 2002 - Apr 2003)
  Cincinnati, Ohio, US
  VisuaBASIC, VB.NET and Microsoft CRM development in the customer relationship management domain.
- **Software Developer at Ciber** (Jan 2002 - Dec 2002)
  Cincinnati, Ohio, US
  Interactive voice response systems development with VisualBASIC/VisualVoice in the home healthcare domain.
- **Software Developer, Project Manager, Support Technician at Ciber** (Feb 1997 - Dec 2001)
  Cincinnati, Ohio, US
  Interactive voice response systems development with VisualBASIC/VisualVoice in the clinical drug trial domain.
- **Software Developer and Technical Support Engineer at Computer Task Group, Incorporated** (Aug 1996 - Feb 1997)
  Cincinnati, Ohio, US
  VisualBASIC, database and Microsoft Access development and PC support within the insurance domain.
- **Software Developer at Computer Task Group, Incorporated** (Apr 1996 - Aug 1996)
  Springboro, Ohio, US
  Microsoft Access and Excel development in the legal, information and analytics domain.
- **Software Developer at Computer Task Group, Incorporated** (Jan 1995 - Apr 1996)
  Fairborn, Ohio, US
  Data modeling with Microsoft Access and Microsoft Project in the information technology domain.
- **Software Developer at Computer Task Group, Incorporated** (Jun 1993 - Dec 1994)
  Sidney, Ohio, US
  Automated parts catalog publication with Paradox for Windows, InfoPublisher and Microsoft Word in the manufacturing domain.
- **Technical Support Engineer at Computer Task Group, Incorporated** (Jan 1993 - Jun 1993)
  Cincinnati, Ohio, US
  Worked as a member of a four-person user support group to provide computer solutions to a corporation of over 400 employees.
  
  Duties included the installation, configuration, and upgrading of PC hardware and software.
  
  Also helped associates with PC-to-VAX connectivity through the installation and support of DEC Pathworks  and SmarTerm.
- **Software Developer at Computer Task Group, Incorporated** (Mar 1992 - Dec 1992)
  Cincinnati, Ohio, US
  Worked as a member of a team to develop a system under VMS used to monitor rotating machinery.
  
  Duties included the design, implementation and testing of code written in C with embedded SQL that was used to archive and perform trend analysis on acquired data.
  
  Established a set of environment guidelines and customizations to aid the team in sharing code.
- **Software Developer at Computer Task Group, Incorporated** (Oct 1991 - Mar 1992)
  Cincinnati, Ohio, US
  Worked as a member of a team to develop a tracking and control system for engineering drawings.
  
  Duties included the design, implementation and testing of code written in C with embedded SQL under both UNIX and VMS operating systems.
  
  Developed code to automatically generate C code based on user interface specifications stored in an Oracle database.
  
  Applied SQL to perform basic operations on Oracle databases.
- **Software Developer at Illinois State Water Survey** (Jul 1986 - Sep 1991)
  Champaign, Illinois, US
  Developed in C a user-interface for an urban run-off simulation model.
  
  The model runs under MS-DOS and is used by hydrologists to analyze pollution loadings and to predict the effects of best management practices on minimizing those loadings.
  
  Contributed to a publication of the projectís findings and presented to findings to a conference of two dozen hydrologists.
  
  Ported a Soil Economics model from Pascal on MS-DOS to UNIX C.
  
  The model is used to calculate the best land management techniques taking into account both environmental and economic concerns.
  
  Developed a stream flow assessment model to calculate the extent to which ground water levels would be raised by the diversion of water from Lake Michigan to the suburbs of Chicago.
  
  The model was ported and enhanced from FORTRAN code on a VMS system to C running under MS-DOS.
  
  Developed in Microsoft QuickBASIC an application that produces estimates of long-term streamflow conditions.
  
  The program allows water resource managers to see in detail the potential effects of various water-use practices before they are implemented. Served as the technical writer for two user manuals describing the operation of the application.
  
  Aided in the development of a database of hazardous waste sites in Illinois, used primarily by other government agencies as a repository.
  
  The database was created on UNIX using C and the standard UNIX utilities.
  
  Contributed to a publication detailing the results of the project.

## Publications

- THE ILLINOIS STREAMFLOW ASSESSMENT MODEL - VERSION 3.2 - USER'S GUIDE — Illinois State Water Survey (Dec 1991) https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/48967
- SIMULATION OF URBAN RUNOFF AND POLLUTANT LOADING FROM THE GREATER LAKE CALUMET AREA — Illinois State Water Survey (Oct 1990) https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/77090
- Simulation of Urban Runoff and Pollutant Loading from the Greater Lake Calumet Area: — Illinois State Water Survey (Oct 1990) https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/77090
- THE ILLINOIS STREAMFLOW ASSESSMENT MODEL - VERSION 3.0 - USER'S GUIDE — Illinois State Water Survey (Dec 1989) https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/49007
- Enhancement of the HWRIC  Database - 1986 — Illinois State Water Survey (Aug 1986) https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/26135

## Skills

### Technical
- AJAX
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Android Studio
- Angular
- Bootstrap (Framework)
- C#
- Docker
- Eclipse
- Git
- Java Enterprise Edition
- JIRA
- jQuery
- Kotlin
- Linux
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- Node.js
- OOP
- PL/SQL
- PostgreSQL
- REST
- Spring Boot
- SQL
- Swift (Programming Language)
- TypeScript
- XML
- XSLT
### Interpersonal
- Technical Leadership
### Other
- Agile Methodologies
- Amazon Dynamodb
- Amazon S3
- Amazon SQS
- Angular CLI
- Ant
- Apache POI
- AWS Lambda
- C (Programming Language)
- Cassandra
- CDK
- ClearCase
- CMIS
- Computer Maintenance
- Data Modeling
- Development & Production of Publications
- Dialogic
- Documentum
- Embedded SQL
- Go (Programming Language)
- GraphQL
- Hibernate
- HTML + CSS
- HTMX
- InfoPublisher
- Insomnia
- Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
- Java
- Java Web Services
- JavaScript
- JDBC
- Jenkins
- Jest
- JSP
- JUnit
- Localytics
- Maven
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Customer Relationship Management
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft Word
- Novell Netware
- Oracle Database
- Paradox for Windows
- Servlets
- SharePoint
- SharePoint Designer
- SOAP
- SoapUI
- Software Design Patterns
- Spring Framework
- Spring MVC
- Struts
- Subversion
- SwiftUI
- Swing
- TestContainers
- Tomcat
- Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
- Translation
- uDeploy
- VB.NET
- Visual Basic
- Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
- Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
- VisualVoice
- Web Applications
- WebSphere
- Xcode
- xctest

## Credentials

- Working with Design Patterns in Go (Golang) — Udemy (Jul 2024) http://ude.my/UC-393a7b09-b78d-45e4-8b87-4f4ea22e761a
- Practical integration testing using Testcontainers — Udemy (Jul 2024) http://ude.my/UC-270d4fb9-ad01-4246-966f-7fd9b8fb2a62
- AWS & Typescript Masterclass - CDK, Serverless, React — Udemy (May 2024) http://ude.my/UC-6e7ba6af-e0ea-4072-b682-328b25aeb1e5/
- Fullstack Development with Angular17 SpringBoot3 Bootstrap5 — Udemy (May 2024) http://ude.my/UC-c24739c4-312d-4f77-9280-d1bd8536f5b0/
- HTMX - The Practical Guide — Udemy (May 2024) http://ude.my/UC-cabb49fb-f1f6-434a-b4da-5624ebbe3ca4
- Certified ScrumMaster — Scrum Alliance (Apr 2015 - Apr 2017)
- M102: MongoDB for DBAs — MongoDB, Inc. (Nov 2013) https://s3.amazonaws.com/edu-cert.10gen.com/downloads/45b27315c07c4a91a674edcfd0f40bc0/Certificate.pdf
- M101JS: MongoDB for Node.js Developers — MongoDB, Inc. (Oct 2013) http://education.mongodb.com/downloads/certificates/b8ef669f0c6c481ba496e25f67bae237/Certificate.pdf
- Certified Developer on Apache Cassandra — O'Reilly Media http://www.oreilly.com/data/cassandracert

## Education

- **University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign** — Bachelor of Science (1984 - 1988)

## Links

- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/epmills