# Herman Clark > Principal Software Engineer at Nike Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/hermanclark Lead Architect and Systems Engineer with Director level experience managing teams, administering and implementing solutions utilizing the following technologies including, but not limited to, Linux, WebLogic Server, Apache Tomcat, Portal, Java/J2EE, WebSphere, Content Management, MQ Series, Virtualization (VMware), Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), Rational Unified Process – UML, Use Case(s), Agile and waterfall methodologies, LDAP, TCP/IP, Oracle DBMS, Hadoop, HDFS NoSQL tools (HBase, Mongo DB, Cassandra, Solr), Service Oriented Architecture, micro services, SOAP, REST and implementation of mainframe to J2EE/java conversion methodologies. ## Work Experience ### Principal Engineer - Global Trade and Customs @ Nike Jan 2021 – Present | Beaverton, Oregon, United States Experience: Nike, Beaverton, Oregon 7/2021 - present Principal Software Engineer • Focused on Nike’s Information technology tools used to create, store, and exchange of all forms of information. • Designed and developed IT architecture (integrated process, applications, data and technology) solutions to business problems aligned with enterprise architecture direction and standards. • Analyzed needs and requirements of existing and proposed products, services, applications, and service offerings, and developed technical, structural, and organizational specifications. • Lead Engineering and Architecture of “Lift and Shift” and modernization of Nike Global Trade and Customs applications. • Moved all components (Batch jobs, UI, web services, etc.) from on premise to cloud provider (AWS). • Architected and lead initiative to transfer all component and processes to cloud provider. • Provided technical leadership in the form of implementing best practices for seamless integration to the cloud with an eye towards modernization and “cloud agnosticism”. • Created standards and models to monitor and enhance capacity, logging and performance. • Migrated Java ‘monolith’ application which included interaction with disparate components (spring batch, Oracle RDS, Autosys, cron, Fusion, Informatica, etc.) to AWS. • Through functional and regression testing of upstream and downstream endpoints. • Technologies utilized included Terraform, Splunk, Okta, AWS stack (ALB, EC2, CloudWatch, Kinensis, Firehouse, Fargate, AirFlow, Route 53, S3, etc.), Jenkins CI/CD and Kafka. ### Principal Software Engineer @ Medtronic Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States • Developed enterprise-grade applications using but not limited to Java 8/JEE, Angular, JBoss, Weblogic, PostGres, Oracle DBMS, ELK stack, among other tools. • Implementation of MDT business data models and application functionalities to design and implement effective architecture components and processes. • Authored REST webservices, backend modules, unit tests, OAuth integrations, CI/CD pipelines. • Designed and developed APIs for consumption by mobile and web applications • Created design documentation, program and test applications utilizing SDLC. • Provides technical leadership in the form of mentorship to newer developers. • Work with the test developers to ensure quality and coverage • Write scalable, secure, maintainable code that powers MDT products. ### Java Developer @ American Well Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Boston, Massachusetts • Implemented FHIR H7 microservices for connecting patients instantly with doctors over secure video and towards facilitating other health related requests and services. • Utilization of the following technologies includes but not limited to the following: Spring Framework (SpringBoot, Spring Security, etc.) KeyCloak, OAuth2, JWT, Docker, SOA/microservices, Java8/11, shell scripts (bash and bourne shell) git, Atlassian tools (JIRA, bitbucket, confluence, etc.) git, Oracle, Postgresql, MongoDB, Maven, Eclipse and Ubuntu. ### Tech Lead Software Developer @ Accenture Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Jose, California Implemented logging template(s) and supplied application logging support for Palo Alto Networks Orchestration Platform. Utilization of the following technologies includes but not limited to the following: Kafka, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, SOA/microservices, Redis, python 2.7, Java8, shell scripts (bash and bourne shell) make tools, perforce, MySql, MongoDB, Maven, and Ubuntu deployed in GCP. ### Senior Software Engineer @ NWEA Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Portland, Oregon Area Responsible for the delivery, implementation, configuration and development of a unified RESTful authentication and authorization API service. Utilizing the following technologies: MongoDB, AWS EC2, Spring Framework v4 (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, etc.), Swagger, Docker, Service Oriented Architecture, microservices, Tomcat, Linux (Ubuntu), SQL Server, React/JS, Angular 5, node.js, Relational Junction, Salesforce, Git, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, Eclipse IDE, maven, Gradle, JSON and Java 8. ### Senior Java Engineer @ Vesta Corporation Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Portland, Oregon Area Responsible for the implementation, configuration and development of Payment Web Services (SOA and microservices) for Vesta utilizing the following: Java/J2EE, Object Modeling and Data Modeling, SQL, stored procedures, JavaScript, Ajax JSP, and Tomcat. ### Integration Architect @ PayPal Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Implementation and integration of new PayPal API/SDK initiatives with POS devices (ORPOS, MICROS, PayPal POS, etc). Utilization of but not limited to the following: ORPOS (Oracle Retail Point of Service Suite) Java/J2EE, JavaFX, Oracle RDBMS (11g/12) Virtual Box, Red Hat Linux, nfc/rfid technology, and GitHub. ### Sr. Technical Architect @ Nike Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Beaverton, Oregon Focused on Nike’s Information technology tools used to create, store, and exchange all forms of information. Analyzed needs and requirements of existing and proposed products, services, applications, and service offerings. Developed technical, structural, and organizational specifications. Created standards and/or models to monitor and enhance capacity and performance. Technologies utilized include but not limited to the following: Hadoop, HDFS (Mongo, Cassandra), Solr, API Engines (Apigee, Layer 7), J2EE stack (JDBC, JTA, JMS, JAXB, etc.) JavaScript, Sabrix, Sterling DOM, Epicor POS, Omniture, Endeca, CQ5, Cybersource, SAP (Retail), RHEL 5.x, 6.x, Oracle RDBMS, NoSQL, MySQL, and Amazon EC2 ### Solutions Architect @ Gap Inc./ Gap Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Directed the architecture and management of developers implementing the opening of Old Navy store (s) in Japan. Heavy utilization of agile methodology principles. Technologies utilized include but not limited to the following: VMware, Java 1.4 and 1.6 Oracle Retail Point of Service suite, DB2, Ruby, Jira, WebSphere, Eclipse, ant v1.8, Subversion, Spring/Hibernate, Apache Tomcat, JBoss, Hadoop, Solr v4, HBase, MongoDB, NoSQL, iBatis, TOAD, Pig, Hive, and Jenkins CI environment. ### Enterprise Architect @ PolyMorph, Inc. Jan 1995 – Jan 2010 | San Francisco Bay Area Founder of a consulting company specializing in the development, implementation and deployment of technology solutions. Mentored and advised upper management, both technical and business at Fortune 500 companies in best practices as it relates to developing, staging and deploying multi-tiered, web based service applications. This includes coordination, development of strategies and processes related to integrating disparate technologies, managing, documenting and coordinating efforts of technical practices, business practices and service providers and developing re-usable frameworks and standards related to the deployment of internet, web based services and solutions. Preferred vendor for Sun Microsystems. ### Senior Technical Architect @ Toyota North America Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 | Greater Los Angeles Area Architected, coordinated and implemented an end to end build and deployment solution for TMS Parts and Issues RTS Document System (Reporting and Tracking). Technologies and methodologies utilized include the following: J2EE, XML, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), SSO (Netegrity, (Siteminder)), LDAP, ant, Oracle 9i (Data Partitioning/Sharding) EMC, BEA WebLogic Portal ### Lead Solutions Architect @ Nissan Motor Corporation Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 | Gardena, California Management, implementation and coordination of corporate taxonomy solution for Digital Asset Management at Nissan. Included the creation of RFPs, managing third party vendors, implementation of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and managing budgets for projects related to content and knowledge management. ### Tech Specialist/Java Developer @ Washington Mutual Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 | Seattle, Washington Responsible for the processes and procedures related to the deployment, conversion and migrating from an Entrust security platform to an Oblix/Active Directory solution. Responsibilities include translating requirements into functional specification, mainframe to J2EE conversion and implementation, systems administration, implementation, and development of test suites related to performance and scalability. Performed and advised on various system and network configurations. Technologies and methodologies utilized include BEA WebLogic 8.1, CORBA (Visigenics), MQ Series, Rational Unified Process (UML, Agile, etc) J2EE (Servlets, JSP, JMS), Oblix/AD, LDAP, Netegrity (Siteminder), Oracle, LoadRunner, Ant, and Sun Solaris. ### Senior Java Developer @ Western Asset Management Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 | Greater Los Angeles Area Develop and maintained various tools and services for managing portfolios, asset allocations and automated trade ticket generation. This includes analysis and implementation of various Fixed Income analytic instruments, reports, trade ticket generations and integration of third party products and service. Services utilized include Bloomberg and FIX protocols and associated APIs. Technologies utilized include Java/J2EE related standards/APIs, WebLogic, Actuate eReport, and Sybase. ### Lead Application Architect @ Toyota North America Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 Responsibilities included managing, mentoring and advising upper management, technical and business practices internal to TFS on industry practices as it relates to developing business strategies, staging and deploying web based financial service applications. Technologies utilized include the following: BEA WebLogic Application Servers, Oracle 8i, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Apache Web, Proxy and Reverse Proxy Servers, XML, RUP; particularly ClearCase, ClearQuest, Agile methodologies and Rational Robot, Ant, Java 2 and related standards/APIs (Java 1.3.x, JSDK2.x, JNDI, JSP, JMS, Servlets, JDBC, EJB 1.x and 2.0, Swing, J2EE), Veritas and EMC, Interwoven TeamSite Server, web agent and OpenDeploy, SiteMinder, LDAP/NDS (Novell Directory Server), Cisco LocalDirectors and implemented Mainframe to Java conversion methodologies ### IT Infrastructure Architect @ J.P. Morgan Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 Project management and senior technical expertise in the design, implementation and integration of various cash management systems. Heavy utilization of OOA/OOD/OOP methodologies (Booch94, Design and Analysis Patterns), CORBA/IIOP (Inprise Visigenics ORB), JDK 1.1 and accompanying APIs including servlets, applets, security, Swing and JNI, Sparcworks C/C++, Tools.h++, Oracle7, PL/SQL, ODBC, JDBC, Actuate reporting server, JavaScript, Unix and Windows NT. Other technologies used include SNA, TCP/IP, LDAP, RSA Security, Entrust and DB2 v5. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Sun Microsystems Jan 1996 – Jan 1997 | San Francisco Bay Area Responsibilities included design, analysis and implementation of three tiered distributed applications installation, set up and maintenance of Database Servers, Database Application Servers (written in Java). Conversion of in-house applications to Java and new Java development to address internal clients business needs. Heavy utilization of Sybase SQL Server (4.9.2 and version 11), Java Development Kit (1.x) and related APIs (AWT, etc), Java Management API (JMAPI), implementation of JDBC/ODBC and development of "Pure Java" Database drivers, SCCS, Solaris 2.5 and shell scripting. ### Senior Java Developer @ Charles Schwab Jan 1996 – Jan 1996 Part of a team responsible for defining requirements towards increasing capacity and volume on Charles Schwab’s web trading platform. Utilized the following technologies: Netscape Commerce Server (Secured Server) SSL, NSAPI, Java (applets, AWT, etc.) Visual J++, CICS, Cobol, mainframe to C API for use with NSAPI (shared object development), Spackworks 4, Symantec Cafe, Java Workshop, COM, Windows NT (3.5 and 4.0) and Sun Solaris 2.5.x. ### Software Developer @ UCSF Jan 1993 – Jan 1996 Redesigned the News and Publication Information Services Database used to track, store, deploy and distribute news related collateral and news services. ### Principal Consultant @ Oracle Jan 1994 – Jan 1996 Responsible for the design, analysis, and implementation of real time audio and video application and development tools to be used towards creation of front end, middleware and backend services. Worked extensively with Oracle Web Server, Oracle 7.x, PL/SQL and Pro*C, ### Engineering Consultant @ 3Com Jan 1993 – Jan 1993 | San Francisco Bay Area Responsible for quality assurance and debugging of various network diagnostics and monitoring tools for Ethernet and Token Ring networks. Duties included developing installation scripts, designing automated test scripts, installing and upgrading operating systems, installing network adapters and network operating systems, developing and debugging device drivers for various network configurations. ## Education ### Computer Science University of California, Berkeley ### B.S. in Applied Mathematics UC Irvine ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/herman-clark-4b55707 --- Source: https://flows.cv/hermanclark JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/hermanclark/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12