• Integration Architect and Guidewire's Technical Lead for a project implementing a billing system at an insurance company in Warwickshire, UK. 17 months duration, approx. 18 people in development project team. Java EE web profile, Guidewire BillingCenter and platform APIs, Axis. IBM WebSphere MQ and Broker, Microsoft SQL Server, Tomcat.
• Held in-depth hands-on technical workshops and presented on various technical aspects of Guidewire software products to a wide range of audiences in a pre-sales context.
• Developed two courses targeting developers and architects integrating with Guidewire software products, and delivered these courses to several Guidewire customers in the USA.

Enterprise Java software development for a financial software product targeted at the investment banking market.

• Motivated and led the architectural refactoring of this large Java EE application to leverage dependency injection and AOP principles using Spring 2.5.
• Added an ESB-style integration frontend to said application using Mule 1.4 and a distributed store-and-forward messaging fabric using ActiveMQ 4.1.1, and used this to interface with an external financial system.
• Designed and implemented a message-centric XML data export/import sub-system using JAXB 2.1 and Dozer 4.2.

Contributed to the establishment of a Java EE-based SOA and BPM strategy and managed a team of 2 architects and 9 Java software developers (both internal and external; hiring 4).

• Augmented an existing Java-only SOA with WS-I Basic Profile conformant web service bindings based on JAX-WS 2.1 and JAXB 2.1. Drove the modernization and re-design of the corresponding service interfaces and implementations.
• Led architecting and implementing a complete end-to-end blueprint for BPM (business process management) through transactional service orchestration and human task handling with JBoss jBPM.
• Improved software engineering foundations by prioritizing fully-automated build/package/deploy, product versioning, continuous integration and a rounded SOA-compatible automated test approach.
• Argued for the extension of the principles of componentisation and separation-of-concern beyond the Java sphere across the entire enterprise software architecture.

Identification, evaluation and recommendation of software architectural choices; implementation of enterprise Java software following these architectural guidelines; supporting the IT team in the adoption of new software development and software engineering technologies.

• Comprehensive re-design of ShipServ’s software architecture around SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) principles: WSDL-first approach to establish a WS-I Basic Profile conformant document-centric web service layer using JAX-WS 2.0. Re-use of the established XML vocabularies OASIS UBL 1.0 and xAL 3.0. Java EE 5.0 on JBoss 4.
• Architect and Developer for ShipServ Pages, a web-based maritime supplier search service, as a proof-of-concept for this architecture and a strategically important product for ShipServ. JSF, JAX-WS 2.0, EJB 3.0, JBoss 4, Tomcat 5.5.

Consulting in software development (as project manager, software architect, object-oriented designer, Java developer and mentor), typically at medium-size enterprise software development projects at customer sites for several months. Selected projects and roles:

• Lead Architect for “T-Com ID Server”, a Liberty-compliant identity management and Single-Sign On solution for a German telecom's customer-facing web applications, integrating existing identity systems. Essen, Germany. 3 months duration, approx. 15 people in project team. J2EE, Spring framework, Struts, SourceID Liberty client framework. IBM WebSphere application server and MQ, Oracle 9.2 RAC, Sun Java System Web Server, Access Manager and others.
• Technical Project Manager for the largest Austrian telecom's 2nd-generation implementation of the “A1 Organizer”, a multi-device (web, WAP, PDA, SMS) wireless portal. 3 month duration, 7 people in project team. Complete range of Sun Java Enterprise System 2 software products, including Portal, Application and Identity Server.
• Portal Architect for the largest Austrian telecom's “Vodafone Mail” portal application for mobile phone devices. 4 month duration, 5 people in project team. System architecture, mentoring.
• Developer for a large German telecom's “Legal Mail Interception” project in Düsseldorf, Germany. 3 month duration, 6 people in project team. J2SE, JavaMail, JNDI; SunONE Messaging Server and Directory Server.
• Component Lead and Project Manager for the largest Dutch telecom's Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) implementation and iMode-MMS-Gateway, respectively, in Den Haag, The Netherlands. 7 month duration, approx. 12 people in project team. Prince2 project management methodology; J2EE (EJBs, Servlets, JavaMail); LogicaCMG wireless infrastructure products (MMSC, WSB, Wap-Gateway, Push Proxy Gateway); SunONE enterprise software products: Application Server, Message Queue, Directory Server.
• Technical Project Manager for the largest Austrian telecom's “A1 Organizer” (see above). 7 month duration, approx. 13 people in project team. PRINCE2 project management methodology; J2EE (JSPs, Servlets); SunONE enterprise software products: Portal Server, Messaging Server, Calendar Server, Application Server, Directory Server.
• J2EE Architect for project at a large German Bank in Frankfurt developing a distributed private banking portfolio management system. 5 month duration, approx. 30 people in project team. J2EE (EJBs, JMS), Swing; BEA WebLogic 6.1, Oracle 9i, IBM MQSeries.
• Consultant for architecture, OO-design and prototype implementation for high-throughput execution platform for intelligent software agents at an Austrian start-up. 6 month duration, 8 people in project team. J2SE; IBM DB2.

Requirements engineering, architecture, design and implementation in Bioinformatics software development projects:

• JMIMS, an enterprise information management system for the production and usage of cDNA microarrays in support of the in-house microarray facility. J2EE (JSPs, Servlets), OQL; Tomcat, POET OODBMS.
• A web-based data-management system for protein sequence analysis. J2EE (JSPs, Servlets), OQL; Tomcat, POET OODBMS.

• Analyst and Requirements Engineer for a workflow project at MorphoSys AG (medium-sized German biotechnology company) in Munich, covering the scientific core competency of that company (antibody generation). approx. 4 month duration. Interviews, use-case modelling, OOA, UML; Java prototype implementation.
• Java Web component developer for small Austrian software company. HTML/JavaScript, Applets, J2EE (JSPs, servlets), XML, XSLT; Tomcat, Oracle8i; Linux.

• Architecture, design and implementation of client tier and application server tier of an Intra/Internet front-end to a multimedia database. HTML/JavaScript, Applets, J2EE (JSPs, servlets), XML, XSLT; Apache Web Server, Tomcat, Oracle8i; Irix.

• Requirements engineering, functional specification and project management for outsourced Bioinformatics (functional genomics) software development projects.
• Design and implementation of numerical/statistical algorithms for the analysis of DNA microarray data and their correlation with clinical data.
• Protein and DNA sequence analysis.

• Scientific software development in Bioinformatics projects (Langevin and Molecular Dynamics, electrostatic potential of proteins). Java, C++, Fortran, scientific visualization; Irix, Linux, Windows.

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