SUMMARY:

• Confidential is an winning senior technology leader with twenty - seven years of in-depth software engineering and leadership experience.
• His specialty is in leading and turning around complex at-risk software development projects, and attracting, qualifying, and growing the best talent.
• His long career of successes makes him a strong asset to any team.
• Twenty seven years of in-depth software engineering experience s including the winner of a PC Magazine software and many technology innovation s
• Strengths in leading and turning around complex at-risk software development projects
• Over twenty years of experience building strong teams and recruiting top talent.
• Delivered large strategic solutions for clients
• Extensive experience in Enterprise Architecture and is an innovator in both web and mobile platforms including Android and iOS
• Strong communication skills gained through in-depth first-line sales presentations and client relationship building experience
• Demonstrated a consistent track record of quickly identifying project risks, delivering on a vision.
• Has consistently been qualifying, growing and attracting the best talent.
• Extensive experience with enterprise application technologies including WebSphere and WebLogic Application Servers.
• Over five years of experience with Android and iOS Mobile application development with published apps in both app stores
• System technical architecture and legacy system integration experience
• In-depth first-line sales presentation and client relationship building experience including responding to RFPs/RFQs
• Object oriented analysis and design (UML using Rational Rose) and component based development
• Project management and leadership experience
• Software specifications, verification using formal methods expertise
• Software testing - unit, system, reliability, validation and performance testing
• Experience with Google’s App Engine cloud platform

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Extensive experience in: enterprise Java, SOA/Web service technologies (including J2EE, Spring, EJB, JSPs, Servlets, JSTL/Taglibs, JDBC, JFC, JMS, JNDI, Struts, Tiles, JavaMail, JUnit, Maven, Ant, Log4J, PHP, JMeter, Grinder, Web Tools, OpenSTA, iBatis, Hibernate, JBoss, and JasperReports)

Practical experience with: XML/XSLT, FOP/PDF, WML/HDML & WAP, HTML, SQL, PL/SQL, Visual C++, MingW, Visual Basic, PostScript, Pascal, Python, Django, 4GL SQLWindows

RDBMSs: UDB/DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, SQLBase, MS SQL, and MongoDB, NoSQL

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Chief Technology Officer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I lead both the Digital Group and Information Technology Group.
• The Digital Group is responsible for all web, mobile, and ecommerce development, personalization and gamification, Ad unit development, email channel marketing, and SEO/SEM, analytics and decision support for our clients.
• The Information Technology Group is responsible for the software and hardware infrastructure of Confidential, in addition to managing the hosting environments for many of our clients.
• I oversee the network, storage, backup, disaster recovery, VOIP phones, Internet access, VPN, peripherals and all infrastructure for both companies.
• I led the development of Canada’s primary social network for entrepreneurs called Confidential.
• This site was built from the ground up using PHP/MySQL and hosted on Rackspace’s Cloud VPS environment.
• This site regularly gets 50,000 to 70,000 monthly visits and is Arlene Dickinson’s personal blogging platform.

Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for leading the design and development of several large enterprise Java applications.
• I was usually assigned to complex or at-risk projects where I was given the direction and leeway to deliver project on time.
• Most of the projects were large web based applications for that collect and disseminate millions of records of healthcare data collected from across Canada.
• The files are processed asynchronously, after which the dada transferred to the data warehouse via ETL.
• There the data is analyzed using SAS and is sometimes published through MicroStrategy.
• I was also responsible for the WebECM project which was there external facing web site running on Oracle’s Web Center Interaction and Universal Content Manager.
• These applications are usually Java enterprise applications based the Spring Framework for both the controller and service tiers.
• Spring was also used for the security, web service, and persistence implementations.
• Builds were managed via an automated build tool called Bamboo, and Maven and Artifactory were used to manage dependencies releases.
• In addition, I was also responsible for producing all of the iteration plans, estimates, design documentation, code reviews, and maintenance guides.
• The internal clients were very pleased with the execution of the projects, which were delivered on time and under-budget.

Senior Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for the complete development life cycle including sizing, architecture, design and construction of the Guardian Group of Funds Advisor's web site.
• The site was comprised of two enterprise web applications, one which was public facing, and an intranet administration application.
• The site was primarily designed for advisors to provide value-add services their clients.
• The previous incarnation of the site was a implemented in Microsoft .NET technology.
• This new site was fully J2EE compliant and made use of Spring for both the controller and service tiers. Spring was also used for the security, web service, and persistence implementations.
• I was also responsible for building the development and integration environments, and facilitating the build cycles.
• The build and deployment process was completely automated using Continuum and Maven.
• Coding style was confirmed as part of the build with checkstyle and PMD reports. Unit and integration test reports were automatically produced with every build using JUnit and Web Tools, respectively.
• In addition, I was also responsible for producing all of the architecture, design documentation, code reviews, and installation guides.
• The clients were very pleased with the execution of the projects which were delivered on-time and under-budget.

Senior Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for building and leading a team of skilled developers in the design and implementation of the Confidential.
• The first project was a complete redesign of the MasterCard acquisition web site.
• This is one of the most important channels for acquiring new credit card customers.
• The acquisition site allows prospects to build their credit card online selecting only the features they want, and then allows them to apply for it.
• The second project involved porting the entire enterprise application to a new J2EE platform.
• Websphere 6, MQ 6, IHS 6, Solaris 10 - Containers, and Oracle 10g.
• I participated in the complete lifecycle of the projects, including the requirements sessions, architecture, design, reviews, coding and testing.
• I also developed OpenSTA scripts, which were used to perform performance testing on the sites.
• I was also responsible for producing all of the architecture, design documentation, code reviews, deployment and operations guides, delivery letters, and application security policy documents.
• The clients were very pleased with the execution of the projects which were delivered on-time and on-budget.

Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I was working as a technical team lead for a J2EE development project.
• The application is a commercial property and casualty insurance application responsible for policy inquiry, submissions, and quoting.
• Following the completion of the project it went into production in a phased cross-country rollout.
• My responsibilities include estimating work effort, producing mockups, distributing workload to team members, problem triage, code reviews, design, development, performance testing, and coordinating development effort with delivery cycles.
• The design of the application consists of a layered J2EE application consisting of a struts architecture over top of a spring business services layer and a hibernate persistence layer.
• Security integration with Siteminder was required to implement the web based authentication layer.

Senior Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a senior developer, part of a development team building a new reporting site for the Confidential division.
• Responsible for developing several large components of this WebSphere-hosted, J2EE application.
• Developed various tiers of components of the site including JSPs, Taglibs, Servlets, Applets, Session Beans (EJBs), DAOs, and JDBC using the latest open source application frameworks.
• The Applets and Servlets were used to generate JPEG images of portfolio performance bar charts at runtime.
• Assisted in developing stream-lining the automated build and deployment scripts using Ant.
• I was also involved for a short time in monitoring and performance testing of an existing US Group Pension site for production support using OpenSTA.

Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I was one of 4 leads coordinating a large internal intranet site.
• The intent of the site was that it would replace several separate loans systems and would allow the bank to balance its credit risk more effectively.
• Led the design effort for several large components of the project.
• Produced several design documents for the project;
• Applied various J2EE patterns and best practices, and open source frameworks:
• Struts 1.1, and Tiles; Session Beans with POJO implementations.
• Involved in JAD sessions and screen design with actual end-users using Dreamweaver.
• Led a team of onshore and offshore designers to deliver the detailed design documents for significant components.
• Provided work estimates and sizings for project planning.