OBJECTIVE

End-to-end J2EE consulting with an emphasis on server-side and database applications

FORMATS

Word, Text

WORK STATUS

US: Can work for any employer on a new TN (Trade NAFTA) visa or (preferably) transfer existing H1-B visa (Preferred location: Greater Boston Area)

Canada: Citizen (Preferred location: Greater Toronto Area)

SUMMARY

Thirteen years fulltime industry experience, including seven years with Java and five years with J2EE. Predominant skills include Java, JUnit, Oracle, JSP, Servlet, JDBC, JMS, JNDI, Web Services, JBoss, WebSphere, Ant, Patterns, Eclipse, AIX, XML, and Apache. Emphasis is on server-side development close to the database. Significant customer-facing experience delivering custom enterprise solutions to Fortune 500 companies such as Pfizer, Toyota, Siemens, Goodyear, and Michelin. Ten years of leadership experience with a hands-on development component of 50% to 75% throughout. Ten years experience in the Workforce Management Systems space.

EXPERIENCE

June 24, 2002 - June 30, 2006
Software Engineering Manager
Kronos Incorporated, Chelmsford, MA

• July 2005 - June 2006
  
  • Lead, Standards-Based Notification Service
    
    • Developed prototypes to evaluate various JMS options such as topics (publish/subscribe), queues (point-to-point), asynchronous (event or listener-based; producer contacts consumer), synchronous (consumer makes blocking receive call to producer), and durable subscriptions (offline messages; allows topics to emulate queue behavior) [JMS]
      
    • Rewrote legacy code to replace existing persistence mechanism with JMS [J2SE, Eclipse, AccuRev]
      
    • Developed master JMS producer, master JMS consumer, and notification manager to implement existing interfaces and hide JMS details from existing (legacy) notification producers and consumers [Patterns, J2SE, Eclipse, AccuRev]
      
    • Prototyped use of serialized object payloads to update application caches [JMS, Eclipse, AccuRev]
  
  
  • Lead, Workforce Central J2EE Certification
    
    • Led a team responsible for certifying the Kronos suite of Workforce Central applications on multiple supported J2EE application server platforms and operating system platforms with emphasis on WebSphere and AIX [J2EE, WebSphere, JBoss, Unix]
      
    • Discovered, resolved, and documented JSP constructs found to compromise cross application server portability [J2EE, JSP, Eclipse, AccuRev]
      
    • Modified LDAP authentication code to get WebSphere to work with Netegrity SiteMinder. Using System properties to set LDAP provider in JNDI initial context wipes out WebSphere's enviroment (PMR 05503,756) [JNDI, LDAP, WebSphere, Netegrity SiteMinder, JSP, Eclipse, AccuRev]
      
    • Developed test application to help IBM resolve RMI-related bug in WebSphere (PMR 01654,756) [J2EE, JSP, Eclipse, AccuRev]
      
    • Employed the Dependency Injection and Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP)/Inversion of Control (IOC) patterns and mocks to bring legacy classes under unit test [Patterns, JUnit, J2SE, Eclipse, AccuRev]

• March 2004 - June 2005
  
  • Lead, Workforce Central API Infrastructure 5.1
    
    • Architected and led the development initiative to expose the product suite's set of XML-based APIs as SOAP-based, document-literal, Basic Profile 1.0-compliant Web services using the Apache Axis SOAP engine [J2SE, SOAP, XML, Web services, Apache Axis, Eclipse, VSS]
      
    • Studied classloading schemes for various application servers and resolved classpath issues with Apache Axis [Java]
      
    • Architected pass-thru strategy to integrate Web service with .Net service implementations [Java]
      
    • Wrote .Net Web service client and ran tool to ensure Basic Profile 1.0 compliance [.Net]
    
    
  • Lead, Workforce Central OEM Components 5.1
    
    • Held oversight responsibility for all embedded and non-embedded third-party components used by the suite of products, including operating systems, application servers, Web servers, browsers, databases, database drivers, and Java runtime libraries [WebSphere 5.1, JBoss 4, AIX, IIS, Apache]

• March 2003 - February 2004
  
  • Lead, Workforce Central Integration 5.0
    
    • Completed the migration of the product's integration technologies to the XML paradigm via the implementation of a complex state machine [XML, J2SE, Eclipse, VSS]
      
    • Architected and led the development of a Transaction Assistant utility for editing and resubmitting failed XML import transactions [XML, J2SE, JSP, MVC, Eclipse, VSS]
    
    
  • Lead, Workforce Central Unit Testing Framework 5.0
    
    • Extended the JUnit framework for use with the company's Java product suite for automated unit testing [JUnit, J2SE, Eclipse, VSS]

• June 2002 - February 2003
  
  • Release Manager, Workforce Central 5.0
    
    • Managed the release schedule for the suite of applications during the innovation phase (first half) of the release [Rational Unified Process, Agile, Iterative Development, Continuous Integration, Microsoft Project]
      
    • Planned build, integration, and smoke test schedules
      
    • Identified areas of risk and presented options for risk mitigation
    
    
  • Lead, Workforce Central Extensibility 5.0
    
    • Architected and evangelized the incorporation of significant extensibility enhancing mechanisms into the product such as guest-host business objects, plugins, and runtime discovery of product suite members and their configuration data [Patterns, J2SE, UML]

• April 2001 - April 2002
  
  • Senior Project Leader, Next Generation Development
    
    • Led the design for the company's next generation time & attendance (T&A), scheduling and shop floor data collection (SFDC) suite of systems [UML, Patterns, Iterative Development, J2EE]
      
    • Led the analysis of the legacy 300,000-line client-server product and produced nearly 300 pages of requirements including 140+ use-cases [Requirements Analysis]
      
    • Chaired work sessions responsible for the OOA/D and data modeling of the next-generation system resulting in class and sequence diagrams involving 180+ objects and 80+ tables [Object and Data Modeling]

• May 1999 - April 2001
  
  • Senior Manager, Implementation Development
    
    • Led the development and implementation of custom T&A and SFDC system modules for Newport News Shipping (Virginia), BASF, Lafarge, Mercury Marine, Guidant, United Airlines, and Pfizer (New York City) [J2SE, Applets, Swing]
      
    • Lead developer for several major features for the applet product including labor distribution, shop-floor-data-collection (jobs/projects), duration-based (elapsed-time or timesheet) time entry, overtime reason, vacation and overtime scheduling (VOTS), screen design tool, most-recently-used (MRU) pick lists, localization, user-defined fields, and complex pro-ration [J2SE, Applets]
      
    • Architected sockets-cum-DCOM-based API for Java-based Web tier to access specific non-Java business logic [J2SE, Applets, sockets, DCOM]
      
    • Implemented SmartUpdate for the client-side Java runtime [J2SE, Applets]

• May 1997 - April 1999
  
  • Manager, Software Development Center
    
    • Highly effective customer-facing pre- and post-sales involvement with various Fortune 500 clients
      
    • Led the development and implementation of custom T&A, scheduling, and SFDC system modules for Goodyear (Valleyfield, Quebec), Goodyear (Akron, Ohio), Square D (Lincoln, Nebraska), and Michelin [Delphi, Clipper, Oracle]
      
    • Architected and led the development effort on numerous product modules and/or frameworks for real-time client-server product including external time clock interface, language localization, shop-floor-data-collection interface, statutory holiday legislation for all 13 Canadian provinces and territories, bonus-based statutory holiday payment, manpower scheduling, overtime equalization, payroll approval workflow, multiple cascading accruals, and incentive (piece-work) rate calculations [Delphi]

• April 1996 - April 1997
  
  • Manager, Technical Implementations
    
    • Led the development of custom T&A and SFDC system modules for Siemens (Drummondville, Quebec), Siemens (Windsor), Mont Tremblant (Quebec), and Tibbet & Britten [Clipper]
      
    • Managed the complete software development lifecycle for several DOS-based product modules including attendance bonus calculation and reports, employee-driven self-service absence scheduling and shift trading, multiple-shift-per-day scheduling, and pay smoothing [Clipper]
      
    • Developed frameworks for payroll, costing, and production interfaces to SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, ADP, JD Edwards, MAPICS, and other HR, payroll, ERP, and MRP systems [Clipper]

• April 1995 - March 1996
  
  • Developer
    
    • Developed custom T&A and SFDC system modules for Uniroyal (Kitchener, Ontario), Toyota (Cambridge, Ontario), and Abitibi [Clipper]

• Automation Coordinator, Southwest Ontario
  
  • Developed, installed, and deployed the Job Bank application [Clipper]
    
  • Managed a Banyan Vines wide area network (WAN) [Banyan Vines, WAN]

• Teaching Assistant
  
  • Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS)
    
  • IBM S/370 and Intel 80x86 Assembly Languages
    
  • Matrix Algebra