Hi, I am Richard Cunday.
I'm a Boulder County, Colorado based Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, and I am currently seeking Fulltime Employment developing cloud and on-premise enterprise solutions.
When I am not coding, you might catch me hiking with my family in Rocky Mountain National Park, attending a Boulder Linux or Devops Users Group Meetup, or capturing photos in Beautiful Colorado.
About me
I enjoy working with teammates where I can add value with my knownledge, experience and technical and moral support. I love learning new technologies and helping others achieve their career and challenging project goals. Together we can make a difference!
- Location:Boulder County, CO
- Years of Development Experience:40+
- Country:United States
- Interests:Photography, Hiking, Cycling
- Study:Mt. San Antonio College
- Prior Employer:Avaya, Inc.
Work
Software Engineer (MTS)
Served as the Lead Product Architect, Application Designer and Lead Developer for the Avaya IP Agent product line. Avaya IP Agent is a call center telephony application and is deployed in various Fortune 500 corporation. Created various test automation and test monitoring tools and applications. Generated various docker based automation systems used to emulate thousands of call center agents used in solution and load testing of Avaya Oceana and CCaaS Solutions and Cloud based deployments on both on premise (VMWare) and Cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP). Leverage CD/CI DevOps tools Jenkins, Ansible, Teraform, Docker, Kubernetes, GIT, BitBucket, Visual Studio, Visual Code, Rocket Chat, Datadog API
Senior Consultant (Contract)
Primary lead developer for the design and development of real-time and historical report summaries specific to response site sampling, connection diagnostics, site integrity checking and server loads measurements.
Senior Consultant (Contract)
Lead Architect role in the definition, design, development, testing and customer support of an internationalized commercial (TAPI) telephony soft phone product called Lucent CentreVu Agent. Experience with ISO 9000 product development. Served as coordinator providing development representation with various external and internal support teams. Conducted product and technology oriented demonstrations for internal and external customers. Served as Lab Manager and insured availability and coordination of maintenance services of test equipment, software configuration, and administration of Lucent Definity Enterprise Communication System. Provided ISO 9000 documentation support during the complete project lifecycle.
Senior Consultant (Contract)
Design and development of a consistent and standard method to access Business Configuration tools, templates, online documentation for national regions. Development of a Visual Basic application used to launch regional desktop applications and regional retrieval of enterprise-wide data. Provided Web Site design support for FHP Business Rules Configuration IntraNet. Development of Powerhouse Quiz data extracts programs used by various FHP configuration desktop applications.
Senior Programmer
Designed and developed an automated document generator using Visual Basic, Access, Word Basic and OLE Automation. Developed a Visual Basic application, which would download mainframe data, allowing sales to enroll members at remote locations, and uploading data for evening processing. Served as a Project Lead/Developer for Client/Server application developed in Visual Basic, which provided access to mission critical mainframe membership, provider, physician, employer groups, and claims information. Deployed on hundreds of corporate workstations. Served successfully as an implementation Project Lead for a mission critical IS enterprise wide project. Developed the model VAX ACMS server routines, which was successfully used to support a transaction-based application to access mainframe data. Designed and developed application conversion programs to support member based capitation.
Skills
Here is my quick attempt to create a snapshot of my working skills. Constantly learning new techniques, features and skills.
Education
Computer Information Engineering
Found my love of computer programming and was very fortunate that I was surrounded by the best friends one could hope for. I remember arriving at the IBM 370 Computer Lab with my lab friends at 2AM in the morning where batch job queues were light. At sunrise, we would switch over to using IBM and Apple IIe PC lab where my friends and I would write programs the rest of the day. It was also fun solving homework assignments that not only completed the functional requirements of the assignment, but would also play music and render pixel animations as well!
Music
Enjoyed my time at Fullerton College exploring my passion for music. Loved Dr. Frederickson History of Music course, playing the alto saxaphone in the Fullerton Concert and Jazz bands and making lifelong friends. Would not trade that time for the world.
Richard is an extraordinary resource, understanding process, technology and software. He was my go to guy at Health Net whenever we had a major, mission critical project. Plus he is a fun guy that everyone likes working with. I wish I could get him back to Los Angeles!
-- Wesley Scruggs - EVP/CIO at Aptium Oncology
Richard has been a key contributor to Avaya IP Agent softphone product. Over the years, Richard has repeatedly shown his strength and skills in designing and developing good quality software. His desire to understand the big picture, to analyze the overall system interaction issues and behavior, as well as to think and work at low-level details make him a well-rounded software engineer. Richard is also a great person to work at a personal level, and is a good team player.
-- Mehmet Balasaygun - Executive Director Software Engineer at JP Morgan Chase & Co
Richard is an innovative and extremely proficient technologist; his technical savvy shows through in all of his architecture, design, and coding work. Beyond these skills, his superior work ethic and ability to resolve tough technical and teaming situations make him a pivotal member of any development team.
-- Keith McFarlane - Chief Technology Officer at Globality, Inc.
I worked with Richard on several performance and scalability test projects at Avaya, inc. where he developed software for our team of test engineers on numerous very reliable, high performance traffic load generation tools and endpoint emulation infrastructures. His performance test tools were critical in bringing to market our CCaaS and UCaaS solutions which were built both on-premises and on the Cloud. Richard’s designs became highly scalable, easy to manage and adaptable to the ever-changing needs of the project. Richard is very easy to work with, down-to-earth, a great team player, very creative and takes the initiative to take on new challenges. He is an expert and constantly studying and incorporating relevant computing DevOps technologies and practices. Richard will be an asset for any team looking to add an experienced and seasoned Software Engineer.
-- Augusto Mendoza-Rey - Senior Performance Test Engineer
The expertise that Richard provides our product development and system verification teams has proven invaluable when it comes to delivering a quality product on time. His insight and role model as a mentor ensures progressive advancement of others on the team. Richard’s innovative techniques and attention to detail has initiated enhancements for many applications, which promotes increased customer acceptance and satisfaction, resulting in increased product sales. Richard has been a true asset to our team and I would recommend him as a valuable resource for any organization.
-- Mike Storesund - Retired