Recommendations 

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“I was priveleged to work with Jim while on assignment in NYC on a project with very aggressive deadlines and challenges. He is very skilled in all phases of the development life cycle and in particular was instrumental in design for efficient middleware data cacheing, helping performance for customer web site visits. In addition I relied on Jim for advice and his expertise in Unix and network related issues.He's also a very personable guy who I looked forward to being around each work day.” October 28, 2008

Jon Joseph , Sr Software Engineer (Contract) , Banc of America Investments

 

“It is a pleasure to recommend Jim Whitescarver. I have known him for about a year while he has worked in middleware team at Banc of America. He demonstrated a high degree of expertise in OOP, Java, Oracle and enterprise middleware architecture. He also has strong analytical skills to diagnose problems and devise viable solutions. I recommend Jim without reservation” October 26, 2008

Kyoung Choi, Web Developer, Banc of America Investments
worked with Jim at Scivantage (Bank of America)

“Jim is very experienced in software industry. He is very hardworking and knowledgeable. His knowledge in UNIX tools and configuration management was extremely valuable to our team.” March 12, 2008

George Cherian, Lead Technical Specialist, UPS
worked directly with Jim at ASAP Staffing LLC

 

“Jim is a highly respected Linux/Unix expert and technical writer. His in-depth knowledge in general Unix/Linux system, scripting, system security and system architecture is outstanding. His responsibilities in our project included designing and developing a processes-monitor in bash script, to start, stop and monitor 50+ mission critical Java server applications; he also worked on defining and creating our CVS java source repository; finally he also tasked with designing & developing the application installation process using RPM. I am highly recommended Jim for all the tasks he worked on and will love to work with him again in the near future.” March 13, 2008

Kat Choi, System Architect, United Parcel Service
managed Jim indirectly at ASAP Staffing LLC

 

“I worked with Jim on a very high profile project at ADT. During that time, Jim was a key player who identified many J2EE specific issues. He single handedly was able to identify several show stoppers and save the project from disastrous results. He is team player and has a great attitude. I highly recommend him to any organization that will treat him with the utmost respect he deserves and where he can truly leverage his talent. If you want to take your company to the next level, look no further.” September 8, 2007
Michael Vargas,  EAI J2EE Developer, ADT
was with another company when working with Jim at The Casey Group

“I had the pleasure of working with Jim as a peer in the design and development of production-grade business systems. Jim has extensive experience as a software engineer having worked with many different technologies to create systems in business domains. He has experience in all aspects of development, from inception through analysis, design, implementation, testing, delivery and production support. His most current skills were used to develop web-based applications using the Java/J2EE platform using IBM WebSphere. Jim is also a very strong Unix developer. Jim is able to understand a business problem and break it down into a solution using object-oriented design techniques. He is an advocate and practitioner of the Agile methodology. Jim also excels at assessing third party technologies (Open Source frameworks), understanding their strengths and limitations, and reusing them where it makes sense to improve time to market and accelerate development. He has demonstrated more than once the ability to combine these technologies to produce an end result that meets a business need. Jim is a good communicator, is open-minded and works well in a team setting.” September 8, 2007

Rob Julian, Sr. Architect/Developer, The Casey Group for ADT
worked directly with Jim at The Casey Group

“Jim is a valuable resource and was used in many ground-breaking exercises in the formation of a large product suite we were establishing. Jim expertise at Unix and all things CVS were invaluable in establishing initial procedures for deployment artifact creation, tracking and deployment. This process was an orchestration of ANT scripts that managed the complete archiving and versioning of deployment artifacts for production release. He also developed the deployment process documentation for the deployment and support group to follow. This group, being a mainframe support group primarily, was completely unfamiliar with J2EE based servers and the created process and supporting documentation was simple and easy to follow resulting in a huge success by allowing us to re-purpose existing resources in an entirely new field. He was additionally used for his architectural strengths and was valuable in our efforts to select the right distribution methods as we were building a complete new system framework from absolute scratch.” September 10, 2007

Russell Nile, Senior Technical Architect, The Casey Group
Jim reported to Russell at The Casey Group

“Jim is extremely knowledgeable in web development technologies and practices. He relayed his knowledge to me and others in the same group through lunch time training sessions which is considered "above and beyond".” September 11, 2007

Joe Malanio, Senior Architect, The Casey Group
worked with Jim at The Casey Group

“Jim was excellent to work with. I only heard great things about his programming code. Jim is extremely knowledgeable and was often used as the in-house encyclopedia for programming, Unix, etc. Jim's devotion to Casey Group projects got him to finish code, test and debug on time and unfortunately there were no remaining projects for Jim at this time. Although Jim is an excellent programmer, I think his best quality is his friendly personality. At the Casey Group Jim always had a positive moral boosting attitude that I believe inspired others personally and professionally. I am hopeful to work with Jim again in the future.” September 8, 2007

Keith Adest, Senior Network Administrator, The Casey Group
worked with Jim at The Casey Group

“Jim W is without a doubt one of the best developer / architects in the US. In the early days of the Web Jim was developing fully-functional complex systems ,when the rest of the pack was marveling over the fact they just registered a dot com address. I would go in a sell a project to a major company and Jim would deliver whatever we promised. Jim has delivered over $5m of projects for me that still operate today.” August 16, 2007

Marty Pisano, President, MediaNow Inc.
was with another company when working with Jim at xanthus.net

“Jim is a competent and very motivated. His leadership was primarily responsible for the successful design, implementation and operation of online fulfillment systems in the banking and travel industries.” January 25, 2005

Paul Dube
was with another company when working with Jim at xanthus.net

“Over 20 years of professional relationship with Jim. He is highly motivated and exceptionally innovative. Recent accomplishments have been leading successful design, implementation and operation of online fulfillment systems for Liberty Travel and Sovereign Bank.” January 19, 2005

Gurinder Singh Johar
worked directly with Jim at xanthus.net and NJIT

“Jim keeps abreast of the latest technology trends and applies them to practical solutions. He is easy going and pleasant to work with. He takes a hands on approach and gets the job done.” January 19, 2005

Bob Michie
worked with Jim at The Casey Group and NJIT

“Jim is a great guy and a true pro. It's not often that you come across someone who has his depth and breadth of expertise and is also a consummate professional. I think I can say safely that his commitment to quality exceeds that of his clients. He's in it for keeps -- his personal standards prevent him settling for anything less than excellence. If he's on the case, I'm not worried.” January 19, 2005

Martin Kaminer
was Jim's client

“Jim finds the path of least resistance when designing new applications and directing baseline techniques. For Liberty Travel and Sovereign Bank he forged new ground, while saving his clients' money. His expertise in system design is well known. He knows where IT came from; he was there. He knows where it's going because he's followed and contributed to standards while staying one step ahead.” January 19, 2005

James Long, Project Manager, Xanthus
reported to Jim at xanthus.net   

“Jim was always and still is a technological "seer"-- He sees opportunities to create new and breakthrough types of systems. And he has the technical skills to build them. When he is working on an exciting project, there is no such thing as a "clock"-- many is the time when he was still working on an evening or a weekend when he had something to finish. Also one of the nicest persons you will ever meet.” March 12, 2008

Roxanne Hiltz, Associate Director, Computerized Conferencing & Communication Ctr
managed Jim indirectly at New Jersey Institute of Technology

 

“Jim's a great guy. Intelligent and creative.” March 12, 2008

Robert Arms, Accounts Monitor, NJIT
worked indirectly for Jim at New Jersey Institute of Technology

 

“Jim Whitscarver was a very successful project director in the efforts he was responsible for at NJIT. He also had considerable technical talent, as well as creativity and experience.” March 12, 2008

Murray Turoff, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, NJIT

managed Jim indirectly at New Jersey Institute of Technology