About

Ariel Barboza is a highly motivated Software Engineer currently working as a part of the Leadership & Development Program at Lockheed Martin. He is pursuing a Master of Engineering degree in Systems Engineering from Cornell University. Ariel has a talent for quickly mastering new programming languages and technology stacks. He is diplomatic and tactful with professionals and non-professionals at all levels and is accustomed to handling sensitive and confidential records. Ariel has a demonstrated history of working in the corporate software, information technology field, and military experience. He is flexible and versatile, able to maintain composure under pressure. He is poised and competent with a demonstrated ability to easily transcend cultural differences. Ariel thrives in deadline-driven environments and has excellent team-building and leadership skills. At Lockheed Martin, Ariel is the lead application developer of a Django Framework Application that supports Digital Transformation processes automation for over 200 programs. He leads an Agile Scrum team of 15 developers as a Scrum Master and performs engineering and development changes as a Software Engineer on a project that integrates multiple components supporting full-lifecycle management and sustainment to more than 300,000+ fielded training aids, devices, and simulators. Ariel has engineered over 220 software solutions using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Reporting Services, Oracle Databases, Microsoft SQL Server, and Tableau. He led the transformation of 42 reports to more efficient software architecture resulting in a 40% decrease in DWH load time. Ariel enforced Kanban principles as a Scrum Master that resulted in a reduction of failback rate by 20% in less than six weeks. He coached new team members in Scrum best practices to decrease the failback rate from 20% to 4.5% in three sprints. Ariel has also worked as a Software & Systems Engineering Intern at Lockheed Martin and as a 19K M1 Armor Crewman in the US Army. He holds a Master of Engineering degree in Systems Engineering from Cornell University, a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Florida, and an Associate of Arts degree in Computer Science from Santa Fe College. Ariel's technical skills include Software Engineering, SQL, Integration, Django, test, Javascript, Mobile, Web, Python, and Java. He has 7.20 years of relevant experience in the field.