Dennis R. Gesker

dennis@gesker.com ᐧ https://dennis.gesker.com ᐧ +1202783202
Lake Oswego, Oregon ᐧ Fort Lauderdale, Florida ᐧ Three Forks, Montana

IT Strategy ᐧ Project Management ᐧ Team Leadership ᐧ Technical Staff Development ᐧ Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) ᐧ Agile & Waterfall ᐧ Enterprise Architecture ᐧ Microsoft Dynamics ᐧ System Administration ᐧ Linux ᐧ NixOS ᐧ Windows Server ᐧ Kubernetes ᐧ Docker ᐧ Podman ᐧ DevOps ᐧ Blockchain & Cryptocurrency ᐧ SQL ᐧ Postgresql ᐧ MySql ᐧ MS-SQL ᐧ NoSql ᐧ MongoDb ᐧ DynamoDb ᐧ AWS ᐧ Java ᐧ Jakarta EE ᐧ Quarkus ᐧ Spring Boot ᐧ GIS ᐧ GeoTools ᐧ Qgis ᐧ SVN ᐧ Maven ᐧ GIT ᐧ Ansible ᐧ Terraform ᐧ Puppet ᐧ DevOps ᐧ Cloud

Awards

Alamon, Inc.

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President’s Award for Innovation

Annual Leadership Conference 2017-Jan Kalispell, MT


U.S. Department of State

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Dedication to Mission

2010 - 2012 US Embassy Italy


U.S. Department of State

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Extra Mile Award

Information Management Office 2011-Sept US Embassy Italy


Patents Pending

Systems and Methods for Distributed Blockchain Monitoring and Inherent Latency Compensation

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18/323408

2023-May-25


Systems and Methods for Economic Price Discovery In Social Media Networks Including Games

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18/323409

2023-May-25


Publications

Two Must-Have Tools for Jakarta EE Developers

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2023-May-25

Candela Global, LLC, Portland, Oregon

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Independent Contractor: January 2022 – Present

  • US Patent Preparation
  • Systems Architecture and Modernization
    • MicroServices
      • Quarkus, Rust, Kubernetes, Docker, Podman
      • Kafka, RabbitMQ, Postgresql Cron Module
    • Monolith to Microservices Migration/Refactor
      • Java/Jakarta EE to Quarkus with Apache Kafka & Spring Boot to Quarkus (Vertx)
  • CI/CD Implementation
    • Terraform, Ansible, OpenTofu, GitHub/GitLab Actions, Jenkins
    • Cloud and Cloud Native, Migrate AWS to/from Linode, Establish Greenfield Backend - Azure, NixOS and Debian Containerization
  • Private CA Authority Transport Layer Security (TLS) Systems
    • Biometric Identity - DNA, Facial Recognition
  • Machine Learning
    • Pipeline Simplification, Analyze and mitigate model overfit
    • Migrate Python Routines (Tensorflow) to/from Rust
    • DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid Information System) Identity Validation
  • Mobile Applications
    • Migrate JavaScript Applications to Flutter, HarmonyOS Preparation
  • Startup Support
    • Cost Control Analysis- Cloud Spend Mitigation, Budget Preparation, CapEx & Depreciation Planning

Alamon, Inc., Kalispell, Montana

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Chief Technology Officer: July 2018 – August 2021

  • Define and represent the firm’s technological agenda
  • Designed and Developed Mobile Application
    • Enabled Division recovery
      • $330,000 Loss 2018
      • $3M Net Profit by 2021
    • GIS Enabled Android System using AWS as Backend
      • Includes GIS Data export/import/validation
        • ArcGIS, Windmill, PostGIS, qGIS
      • Includes Material Tracking and Inventory
    • Real Time Reporting and Work Assignment
    • Microsoft Dynamics Project Accounting Integration
      • MS-SQL Pivot Table Reporting
    • IML Resistograph Analysis & Bluetooth Integration