Anthony Vigil
About
Anthony Vigil
Senior Software Engineering Manager at The Walt Disney Company
avigil@uw.edu
Summary
Software Engineering Manager specializing in Building Quality teams, Application Development and Project Leadership
Technologies:
Java, Tomcat, Spring, Hibernate, Maven, Eclipse, JSON, XML, Rest
AWS, Linux, Jenkins
C#, .NET, ASP, ASP.NET, IIS
Cassandra, MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL
Android phone application development
Ajax, JavaScript,
Perl, Python, C++, Scala, SOLR, Hadoop, MongoDB, Cassandra CLI, Hive queries
Graph data, Metadata, Taxonomy
Certifications:
DataStax Certified Cassandra Developer
Sun Certified Java Programmer
Sun Certified Web Component Developer
Certified Scrum Master
Certified Scrum Product Owner
Experience
Senior Software Engineering Manager at The Walt Disney Company
Content, Metadata, and Digital Asset Management
February 2016 – Present
• Managed 17 software developers, tech writers, and project managers to build and enhance platform services that are used by multiple disparate Business Units
• Lead the migration and re-architecture of services to AWS
• Lead the development of custom content layout applications for Disney Business Units
• Lead the development of custom Digital Asset Management applications
• Lead the development of custom metadata applications
• Lead the effort to implement DRM for video playback of pre-aired content
• Built strong relationships with customer and peer teams
• Mentored and developed strong engineers
• Developed new skills (Cassandra, Graph DB, AWS) for engineers on the team
Senior Software Engineering Manager at The Walt Disney Company
Customer Identity
June 2015 – February 2016
• Managed 35 software developers, database engineers, and project managers across 4 development teams to build and enhance platform services
• Implemented requirements for compliance, security, and legal in identity services
• Built strong relationships with other teams
• Drove key improvements to the product and team processes
• Collaborated with other teams (QA, Ops, Sustainment) to add stability to software releases
• Developed, mentored, and promoted strong engineers
Software Engineering Manager at The Walt Disney Company
Customer Identity
September 2012 – June 2015
Staff Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
March 2012 - September 2012
• Lead of Identity and Commerce Services team
• Migrated service database to Cassandra from MS SQL Server
• Planned sprints and ran daily scrums
• Mentored developers
• Architected java restful applications
Senior Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
January 2010 - March 2012
• Lead on java projects for the Identity and Commerce Services team
• Set up a Solr Cluster to scale search of relational data
• Created server side mobile payment application which integrates with multiple billing sources
• Mentored junior developers
Sr. Web Application Developer at Serena Software
April 2008 - November 2009
• Integrated a java application into our existing Ajax/C# application
• Updated application to a SaaS (Software as a Service) application.
• Created unit tests for Ajax/Javascript
• Maintained application code and fixed production bugs as they occurred.
• Developed and executed tests, and maintained and upgraded C# projects
E-Commerce Applications Developer at Clearwire
June 2007 - January 2008
• Implemented multi-threaded java application to utilize all cores on the servers for faster processing
• Enhanced existing eCommerce XML APIs for partner companies
• Maintained PHP application code and fixed production bugs as they occurred.
• Developed and executed tests, and maintained and upgraded projects
Software Engineer at Walt Disney Internet Group
June 2006 - June 2007
• Designed and implemented java applications that are accessed with large data sets
• Created Requirements and Specification Documents for programming projects
• Developed and executed tests, and maintained and upgraded projects
QA Engineer at Active Voice
May 2004 - December 2005
• Developed Automated Tests
• Created new test plans and performed existing test plans
• Created application installation CDs to test final build
Data Mediation Engineer at Verizon Wireless
January 2004 - May 2004
• Wrote UNIX shell and Perl scripts to automatically gather statistics on network traffic
• Generated reports on hardware configurations of Verizon Wireless data centers
Education
University of Washington
Bachelor's, Computer Engineering, 2006
Activities and Societies: McNair Scholar
Bellevue Community College
AS, Physics, 1999 - 2002
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2012-09-03 - present - Disney (Senior Software Engineering Manager)
- 2006-06-01 - 2007-06-01 - Disney Connected and Advanced Technologies (Software Engineer)
- 2007-06-01 - 2008-02-01 - Clearwire (Ecommerce Application Developer)
- 2008-04-01 - 2009-11-01 - Serena Software (Senior Web Application Developer)
- 2010-01-01 - 2012-09-02 - Disney Connected and Advanced Technologies (Senior Software Engineer)