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Skills |
Programming
Java: J2EE, J2SE, J2ME, Network Application development (Socket
programming)
Eclipse RCP design, development, and mentoring
Struts design, development, and mentoring
GWT, AJAX, HTML/DHTML, JavaScript
COM/COM+, MTS Development: Visual Basic, ASP/VBScript
Shell Scripting(ksh, csh, sh)
C/C++, Perl, tcl/tk
SQR
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Operating
Systems
UNIX: Solaris, AIX, IRIX 6.5, HP-UX, SCO
Microsoft Windows: XP, 2000, NT 4.0 (Server and Workstation),
95/98, 3.x, and MS-DOS
Macintosh: 7.5.x, OS X |
Various
Professional experience with Classic Structured Development
and Object Oriented Software Engineering methodologies
RDBMS: Oracle 8i/9i, DB2, MS SQL Server 2000, Sybase SQL Server,
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS Access
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Professional experience with FIX
Protocol
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| Professional
Experience |
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Oct 2007 - Present
Senior Software Engineer/Contractor
(Contract)
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Software developer and
consultant designing and implementing Java system: highly interactive
Equestrian Management System being develop using Java architecture,
with a Swing/JFC GUI and MySQL backend.
Tools used: NetBeans IDE, MySQL, Java 6, JasperReports. |
MBA, Wilfrid
Laurier University - Waterloo, Ontario |
Mar 2007 - Aug 2007
Sabbatical (MBA)
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Completed MBA (in Operations/Technology
Management) at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario.
- MBA concentration: Operations Management, specializing in
Technology and Innovation Management.
- Other areas of study included strategic management, marketing,
and investment management (portfolio management).
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Apr 2007 - Jun 2007
Senior Software Engineer/Contractor
(Contract)
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Software Developer/Engineer
designing and implementing Java Enterprise applications, using google's
GWT and JEE backend (AJAX, Servlets, EJBs).
- Designed and implemented highly interactive web application
consisting of user registration system and full blown shopping
cart application (GUI design and implementation).
Tools used: Eclipse IDE, JEE, J2SE 1.4/1.5, JBoss, google's
GWT, Instantiations GWT Designer.
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Aug 2004 - Feb 2007
Senior Software Engineer/Contractor
(Contract)
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Worked as Software Engineer
with Professional Services team customizing and adding new functionality
to flagship online banking systems, including Financial Fusion Banking
Suite and Financial Fusion Capital Markets Suite (SWIFT/FIX protocol
implementation).
- Software Developer for TradeForce
SWIFTNet FIX Hub: assignment included maintenance and implementation
of new features and enhancements of Financial Fusion's Hub architecture,
FIX Connector (C++ client serving as bridge between SWIFTNet
Link and TCP/IP FIX Engine), and GFIXLite trading web application.
SWIFTNet and GlobalFIX are the P2P (peer to peer) infrastructure
of secured trade-related messages for banks, broker-dealers,
exchanges, industry utilities and associations, institutional
investors, and information technology providers from around
the world.
- Completed coding of multi-branding project (from existing
design document and in group of 3). I.e. Online banking system
is now capable of assigning a brand to new enrolled customers;
The end user's experience is customized depending on bank brand.
Coding included JSP and every logical layer in a J2EE architecture.
- Detail designed and implemented per item approval of business
and accounts modification for deployed U.S. commercial banking
system: designed Web User Interface using JSP, custom tags,
JavaScript, and DHTML; developed components of every logical
layer in a J2EE architecture adhering to existing framework
- Detail designed and implemented new feature for existing Global
Messaging system: new feature included changes of core J2EE
framework and full integration with deployed U.S.
banking system - Implemented same feature to core product,
assuring proper thread safety programming and using the JavaMail
API for external message delivery
- Worked with Sybase in-house engineering team in general maintenance
of flagship product
- Worked with U.S. team in general maintenance of client's deployed
system: J2EE development and team member in whole development
process
Tools used: Eclipse IDE, J2EE 1.3, J2SE 1.3/1.4, Oracle 8i,
DB2, WepsSphere 5.1, P4 Perforce repository system |
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Mar 2004 - Jul 2004
Programmer Analyst/Contractor
(Contract)
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Programmer Analyst working
with BMO's and Telus' in-house development team to convert existing
BMO InvestorLine Tango
web application to the WebSphere 5.1 platform (BMO InvestorLine
is rated as one of the best online investor sites in Canada)
- Developed web tier of Investing section using the Java programming
language, following in-house development standards and completing
the work under a really tight schedule while working within
a large team - Sections completed included the following transactional
products: Mutual Funds, Foreign Exchange, GICs, Equities, Fixed
Income Products, Potential Stops Manager
- Implemented the MVC design pattern using Struts v1.1 for the
web tier and EJB 2.0 for the business tier (Tools: WebSphere
Studio 5.1, J2EE 1.3, Struts v1.1, Oracle8i, Tango)
- Communicated with development team through extensive use of
UML
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Jan 2004 - Feb 2004
Technical Developer/Contractor
(Contract)
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Senior Software Engineer
acting as main Brio consultant to analyze, design and implement
reporting Brio portal application and integration with existing
WebSphere 5.1 portal application.
- Designed and implemented executive dashboard (Sub portal application)
- UI development and Brio Portal v7 customization: configuration
of 2 different sets UIs and implementation of single sign on
integration with Novell's iChain directory services
- Integrated Brio Portal application with existing WebSphere
5.1 portal application
- Mentored United Airlines's software developers to maintain
and expand Brio portal
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Dec 2003
Senior
Software Developer/Contractor
(Contract)
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Working with a Premier
Partner (a Hyperion solution provider company located in the U.S.)
building tools for the Brio8 Performance suite. Tools are being
deployed in the following sites: Toyota Motor Sales, Inc (Long Beach,
CA) - Brio is now part of Hyperion.
- Designed and implemented (from specifications) Brio repository
replication framework using the Brio8 SDK APIs. Framework replicates
all Brio objects from one repository to any other repository:
Users, Categories, Groups, Roles, etc.
- The framework is being developed to be sold as commercial
product and you can buy it from 1
Answer Solutions Inc. (Tools: Brio8 Performance suite and
SDK APIs, MS SQL Server 2000, Oracle8i, J2EE, JBuilder9, JSP)
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Dec 2002 - Dec 2003
Technical Developer/Contractor
(Contract)
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Senior Software Engineer
developing Java Applications and SQR Reporting applications supporting
Data Warehousing project.
- Designed and implemented security patch for Brio Portal application:
Java Servlet allows users to get static files reports (Brio
Dashboards) securely via Brio Portal (Tools: JBuilder 9, Brio
Portal, iPlanet 4.x, Oracle8i with JDBC, Java I/O and Servlet
API)
- Designed and implemented TCP/IP Client and Server Java application
to harvest Brio services logs. Application is scheduled to run
daily and is executed remotely via TCP messages - Application
is driven by properties files managed through Web interface
(Struts driven) (Tools: Together J 6.0, iPlanet Enterprise Server,
Oracle 8i, Brio scheduler)
- Designed and implemented PDF batch report generator: Java
console application is scheduled to run through Brio scheduler
Portal interface (Tools: Together J 6.0, Oracle 8i, Brio scheduler,
SQR report generator)
- Customized front end for Brio Portal as part of Data Warehousing
project: Java Applet and Servlet using Brio's APIs (Tools: Brio
Software Solution Suite, iPlanet Enterprise Server, JBuilder
6.0, SQL Server 2000)
- Team lead for SQR reporting project: Analysis, design and
coding of SQR bilingual reports (Tools: Brio Report Builder,
Oracle 8i)
- Team lead for Brio Architecture performance project: Lead
Analyst of Brio Architecture (Brio Portal, On Demand Server)
to increase delivery of reports via Web Portal. Achieved performance
increase of 50% across the board, through Application Servers
fine tuning (Tools: Brio Application Servers, Oracle 8i) Duration
of project: (9 weeks - July to August 2003)
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Sept 2003
Senior Software Engineer/Contractor
(Contract)
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Contracted to streamline
and optimize distribution of existing Brio Dashboards within
Enbridge Portal application.
- Designed and implemented solution to stream line Intranet
report distribution: Automated report generation of all employees
to be distributed through company Portal - Improved report delivery
performance by more than 300% (Tools: Brio On Demand Server,
Oracle9i, PlumTree Portal, Brio Intelligence Designer, VB scripting)
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May 2002 - Jun
2002
Senior Software Engineer/Contractor
(Contract)
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- Designed and developed proof of concept J2ME
application: prototype runs on i85s Motorola Java enabled
phone connected to serial interface to gather information and
then connect wirelessly to J2EE server and store the data in
a PostgreSQL database (Tools: Forte For Java 4.0 ME, Visual
Age for Java)
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Sept 2001 - Nov
2002
Senior Software Engineer/Contractor
(Contract)
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Principal Software Engineer
analyzing, designing and implementing high volume project tracker
system (www.boomitup.com).
- OO Design of custom web system - Design phase included writing
of functional specification from story-boards supplied by client,
creation of Entity Relationship Diagram, Class/Sequence Diagrams,
and recommendation of technology (Low cost, and scaleable flexible
design were key). Tools used: Together J 5.0
- Designed and developed entire system (from the ground up)
using J2EE technology implementing MVC design pattern with the
aid of Struts, an Open Source framework. Technology used: JSP/JavaScript,
Servlets, custom tag libraries, JavaBeans and JDBC connecting
to PostgreSQL DBMS (IDE: Visual Age for Java, Together J)
- Delivered fully functional and fully tested web application.
System consisted of: task management section; contact and user
profile manager; budget manager, including payment issuing/payment
history, and bidding process; scheduling, including Gant chart
generated dynamically using Java 2D API; dynamic PDF reporting
using iText APIs; and form/document repository with the ability
to email from within the application using Java Mail APIs
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Mar 2001 - Sept
2001
Lead Developer
(Full
time) |
Lead Developer (promoted
to Director of Software Development) in charge of Software Development
of task oriented simulation software. I was also in charged of providing
Technology direction for the company: Implementing Development Methodologies,
Development Standards.
- Designed simulation engine to assess prospect's ability of
task completion and accuracy (OOD). Technology used: J2EE mainly
JavaBeans, JSP, Servlets and JDBC (IDE: Visual Age for Java)
- Designed and implemented multi platform Java 1.1 AWT Applet.
Application simulated a desktop application suite consisting
of: email client, word processor and library repository - Small
size signature, easy of use and expandability were keyˇ
- Designed Entity Relationship Diagram for the application (MySQL)
- Wrote functional specification documents for secure Customer
Administration site (Simulation assignation and reporting) and
Candidate site (Tutorial and simulation site) - Technology used:
JSP, JavaBeans and HTML/JavaScript
- Served as technical leader and project manager successfully
delivering fully functional application on a tight schedule
(Tools used: MS Project 2000 for tracking purposes)
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Mar 1999 - Feb
2001
Senior Software Engineer/Team Leader
(Full
time) |
Senior Software Engineer leading Software Developer teams to
build Enterprise web application supporting the company's flagship
product.
- Team Lead for web development group (6 members): 3 web developers,
1 Senior Software Engineer, 2 graphic designers.
- As technical lead for the web development group the following
was accomplished:
- Successfully built www.epod.com site, partner.epod.com(SSL)
and member.epod.com (10 Weeks). In charge of scheduling
Developers time, co-ordination with QA resources (3 members),
deployed 3 sites in co-ordination with the Operations department
(2 members)
- Delivered fully functional/fully tested web sites (3 sites),
where partner.epod.com and member.epod.com are a full suite
of web application, including reporting tools, and web management
tools - Scalable design and easy of use were key - Technology
used: IIS 4.0/MTS/SQL Server/ASP/JavaScript
- Introduced/Implemented Software Engineering Methodologies
and Processes to the company's site building strategy, including:
proper application analysis, proper source repository use,
Web Development standards (naming convention, coding conventions,
directory tree conventions).
- Introduced and successfully implemented Waterfall Methodology
for Web Application deployment
- Mentoring of junior developers
- Wrote and implemented Detail Software specifications for Web
Applications (to name a few):
- On-line Reporting tool (version 1.0 and 2.0)
- Web management content tool (web publishing)
- On-line support form
- On-line resume submission with file attachment
- 5 different member sign up processes
- Affiliate Network sign up integration (bFree)
- Member Approval/Rejection process
- Secure session partner.epod.com site (HTTPS/DB driven)
- Reverse Member Look Up (VB COM component/ASP/SQL Server)
- File Upload repository for Flash web content management
tool
- Debug/Fixed Java applet classes
- Optimized and "obfuscated" (make unreadable once de-compiled)
Java classes for small download memory signature on different
families of web browsers
- Researched and Implemented HTTPS (Secure Socket Layer on IIS)
for Secure Web Site: partner.epod.com
- Integrated proprietorship web software with commercial e-commerce
solutions
- Effective technical interviewer of prospect developer/engineers
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Jun 1998 - Dec
1998
Internet Systems Analyst
(Contract)
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System Analyst and Software developer in charge of Y2K compliance
of On-line publishing system of the Toronto Start Newspaper (Electronic
version) and Deployment of v2.0 of Classifieds on-line system.
- Designed, Developed, and Deployed Web based UI Classifieds
system (v2.0). Used JHTML (ATG Dynamo Java server component)
for the UI and Oracle 8i as the back end.
- Analyzed The Toronto Star Electronic Newspaper publishing
system (Web based system using CGI scripts) to establish Y2K
compliance - System analysis of IRIX based systems.
- Installed (from the ground up) and maintained SGI UNIX (IRIX)
testing/development network - Experienced with IRIX 6.5, Netscape
Enterprise Server 3.5.1, Perl 5.0, tcl/tk scripting, ksh.
- Worked closely with web administrator to deploy and functional
test NetGravity Add management system 3.5.
- Developed test strategy (from the ground up) to assure Y2K
compliance for publishing system and Ad manager (Netgravity).
- Developed/Maintained Y2K Intranet Server Site - Automated
testing environment, and defect reporting system (CGI Programming).
- Developed and deployed defect reporting tool - Web Server
dynamically serving MS Access database connections.
- Coordinated and guided testing team
- Coordinated programming schedule and fixed Y2K issues found
during testing (CGI and Perl/tcl programming)
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Nov 1997 - Jun
1998
Software Developer
(Full
time) |
Software Developer.
- Developed and Refined UI Java front end of 3 tier application
(SQL Server, Power Builder Back end, Java Front end) - Tools
used: Symantec Café 2.5, SQL Server, Power Builder.
- Programmed Java testing tools - Multithreaded applet to test
load resources on Netscape Enterprise Server
- Developed Web/Database UI using RAD tool (Tango connecting
to SQL Server)
- Developed/Maintained QA Department Web Site - Database Integration
of defect tracking system over the Internet (Netscape Enterprise
Server, SQL Server)
- Developed and Designed installations for software packages
using IstallShield: for power Builder applications and Java
applets.
- Secondary role in the design and coding of custom demo software
for legacy system integration using SilverStream Java development
environment.
- Played key role in establishing Software Development process
- Mainly Quality Assurance Process
- Evaluated and recommended development tools: ShowBase, PVCS,
Tango, OO Methodology tools - CGPro
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Dec 1996 - Sept
1997
Tester/Business Analyst
(Contract)
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Business Analyst/Software quality Assurance of financial application
(DiamondView Team.)
- SQA Automated Testing
- Regression testing
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Jun 1996 - Dec
1996
Quality Assurance Specialist/QA Lead
(Full
time) |
Lead Quality Assurance specialist of flagship products: Tango
and Bolero web analyzer (Company bought by Pervasive Software.)
- Served as Technical Lead of Quality Assurance of Web development
tools
- Developed and maintained QA intranet site
- Managed Beta program
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May 1995 - Dec
1995
Software Testing Engineer
(Contract)
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Contract Software Testing
Engineer.
- Programmed automated testing tools using: C, tcl/tk, and
shell scripting languages
- System Maintenance and System administration of Testing Machines
(HP-UX 9.x)
- HTML programmer: Maintained QA Group intranet site(Developed
CGI interface to generate on the fly status reports)
- Quality Assurance of UNIX Servers and Network monitor application
- Managed Beta program - Served as technical contact for local
high-tech companies participating in beta program (MKS, OpenText,
Mitra, University of Waterloo)
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Sept - Dec 1994
Jan - Apr 1994
Software Testing Engineer
(Co-op)
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Co-op Software Testing
Engineer.
- Quality Assurance of UNIX Servers and Network monitor application
- Played key role in beta program: visiting and setting HP
equipment at every site (trouble shooting)
- ROM testing - Wrote and executed detailed test plan to verify
proper hardware and software functionality
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