Summary
Jim Hawks is a Senior Software Engineer with over 25 years of hands-on experience building and supporting mission-critical systems across finance, telecommunications, retail, and defense, now focused on full‑stack work at CACI. He brings deep expertise in Perl, SQL/Oracle, Java, and messaging/middleware technologies, and has a track record of modernizing legacy systems—consolidating databases, prototyping SOA REST services, and migrating complex exports to Java/Hibernate. Comfortable across Unix and Windows stacks, Jim has designed reliable job schedulers, daemons, and messaging layers and has participated in both hands-on coding and production on-call support for classified and high-availability systems. A Secret-cleared engineer with a strong math and CS background (BS, 3.86 GPA), he pairs pragmatic problem-solving with a creative bent—aptly summarized by his GitHub motto that imagination takes you anywhere.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.86 / 4.00, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.86 / 4.00 at University of Central Missouri