John Experienced

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Professional Summary
Track record of delivering quality Java/JEE based solutions over 8+ years in the
Investment, Insurance, Finance, Telecommunications, and Retail industries.
2.0+ years as a hands-on architect, 2+ years as a technical lead, 3+ years in
Java/JEE development, and 3+ years in system integration.
Well versed with entire development life cycle and facilitating agile practices.
Spearheaded the design and development of a Spring MVC, Spring, and
Hibernate based mission critical system budgeted at $10 million, which earned high
accolades in the independent code and design reviews conducted by an independent
consultancy.
Achievements
Provided technical leadership on the architecture, design, and successful
implementation of a mission critical 24x7 Java/JEE application valued at $10 million at
BrandName Ltd.
Enjoyed repeated success in understanding business expectations, building
effective solutions, and facilitating agile development practices.
Re-architected, refactored, and performance tuned a Websphere and J2EE based
online insurance application, which previously came down almost daily, became a true
24x7 application at BrandName Ltd.
Instrumental in building our Java/JEE consultancy teams at Consultancy Ltd to
grow from 6 consultants to 25 consultants and technical pre-sales activity in placing the
consultants at client sites.

Technical Summary


Java Technologies: 8+
years
Java 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, & 1.5, Swing, Applet, JMX, JDBC, and RMI.
3+ years in building stand-alonemulti-threaded and TCP/IP
socket based applications
JEE Technologies: 5+
years
JSP, Servlet, JSF, EJB, JMS, JSTL, EL, JNDI, JTA, and LDAP.
Frameworks/Libraries:
Spring (2+ years), Hibernate (3+ years) , Acegi, Spring-ws (6+
months), JSF Sun RI (2 years), Facelets, Ajax4JSF, JiBX,
JUnit, Log4J, etc
Tools:
Ant, Maven2, CVS, SVN, Eclipse, Rational Software Architect,
etc
Platforms:
Databases (Oracle, MySQL), OS (Linux,
Windows), Application Servers (Tomcat, JBoss,
Websphere, and Weblogic), Message Oriented
Middleware (Websphere MQ and webMethods).
Design skills:
OOA (Object Oriented Analysis) & OOD (Object Oriented
Design), AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming), Design by
contract, GoF design patterns, JEE & EJB design patterns,
and UML.
Software Development
Methodology:
Agile methodology, RUP (Rational Unified Process), XP, TDD
(Test Driven Development).
Other:
SOAP Web services, HTML, CSS, Ajax, JavaScript, XML, XSD,
XSL, XSLT, XSL-FO, WSDL, JAXP, Xalan, Xerces, SQL, and
Jasper Reports.


Work Experience

Aug 2006 Present: Brand name Ltd - Sydney

Position: Java/JEE Architect/Senior developer ( Design & development focus of a $10 million
dollar high visibility and mission critical project using cutting-edge technologies and
frameworks.)

Tasks/Achievements:
Architected a JSF, Websphere, Oracle, Spring, and Hibernate based 24x7 Web
application.
Built an end to end vertical slice for a JEE based billing application using popular
frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, JSF, Facelets, XHTML, Maven2, and Ajax by applying
OO design concepts, JEE & GoF design patterns, and best practices.
Integrated other sub-systems like loans application, equity markets online
application system, and documentation system with the structured products application
through JMS, Websphere MQ, SOAP based Web services, and XML.
Designed the logical and physical data model, generated DDL scripts, and wrote DML
scripts for Oracle 9i database.
Tuned SQL statements, Hibernate mapping, and Websphere application server to
improve performance, and consequently met the SLAs.
Gathered business requirements and wrote functional specifications and detailed
design documents.
Improved the build process by migrating it from Ant to Maven2.
Built and deployed Java applications into multiple Unix based environments and
produced both unit and functional test results along with release notes.

Technologies used: Java 1.5, JSF Sun RI, Facelets, Ajax4JSF, Richfaces, Spring, XML,
XSL, XSD, XHTML, Hibernate, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, MINA, Spring-ws, SOAP Web service,
Websphere, Oracle, JMX, ANT, Maven2, Continuum, JUnit, SVN, TDD, and XP.




Feb 2003 Aug 2006: Consultancy Ltd - Sydney Clients: Sure Insurance, ABC
utility, and MQR Finance.

Position: Java/J2EE Technical lead/Senior developer (Leadership, design, and
development focus of a number of Java/JEE based multi-tiered, high volume (10,000 to
100,000 users), and distributed applications.)

Achievements:
Managed and mentored a group of application developers, assigned
responsibilities, elaborated use cases, managed project schedules, and module targets.
Reviewed code and encouraged developers to use key design patterns, such as
faade, singleton, factory, command, proxy, strategy, decorator, etc.
Provided recommendations on OO design concepts, best practices, exception
handling, and identifying and fixing potential memory, performance, and transactional
issues.
Conducted interviews and made recommendations for hiring Java/JEE
professionals.
Increased the number of JUnit tests from 30+ to 400+ in my watchful eye to
improve the overall quality of the Java/J2EE based applications.
Produced detailed design documents with design alternatives, pros and cons for
each approach and reasons for the recommended approach.
Analyzed What if scenarios and exceptional conditions and made
recommendations to fill the gaps identified in the functional specs and detailed design.
Technologies used: Java 1.4, EJB 2.0, JNDI, JDBC, Servlet, JSP, Struts, Spring, XML,
XSL, XSL-FO, XSD, XHTML, Hibernate, Oracle 8i, PL/SQL, FOP, Websphere, ANT,
CVS, and JUnit.


Jan 2000 Feb 2003: Telecom Ltd - Sydney

Position: Java/J2EE developer (Development focus of Java/J2EE based applications.)

Tasks/Achievements:
Designed and developed Struts like MVC 2 Web framework using the front-
controller design pattern, which is used successfully in a number of production systems.
Spearheaded the Quick Wins project by working very closely with the business
and end users to improve the current websites ranking from being 23
rd
to 6
th
in just 3
months.
Normalized Oracle database, conforming to design concepts and best practices.
Resolved product complications at customer sites and funneled the insights to
the development and deployment teams to adopt long term product development
strategy with minimal roadblocks.
Convinced business users and analysts with alternative solutions that are more
robust and simpler to implement from technical perspective while satisfying the
functional requirements from the business perspective.
Applied design patterns and OO design concepts to improve the existing
Java/JEE based code base.
Identified and fixed transactional issues due to incorrect exception handling and
concurrency issues due to unsynchronized block of code.

Technologies used: Java 1.2/1.3, Swing, Applet, Servlet, JSP, custom tags, JNDI,
JDBC, XML, XSL, DTD, HTML, CSS, Java Script, Oracle, DB2, PL/SQL, Weblogic,
JUnit, Log4J and CVS.


Education
BEng in Mechanical Engineering with First Class Honors.
Training in Websphere Application Server.

Other skills and achievements
Secured 97% in Java test conducted by Brand name Ltd.
Passed the senior Java application developer test conducted by Consultancy
Ltd.
Passed the EJB [1.1 & 2.0] Tests conducted by Sure Insurance Ltd.
Passed the Senior Developer Technical Interview with the Sun Micro Systems.
Maintaining a Java blog at http://www.java-success.bogspot.com/ to
communicate my findings and thoughts.

Publication
Self-published a book entitled Java/J2EE Job Interview Companion
(ISBN 978-1-4116-6824-9), which is abest seller at http://www.lulu.com and received
4.0 out of 5.0 star user rating on http://www.amazon.com.
Published a Java World article entitled Some Java Topic, which had over
40,000 views and positive review comments.

Professional Affiliations
Member of Australian Computer Society (ACS).
Member at http://java.dzone.com and http://www.theseverside.com to keep my
knowledge up to date on latest developments.

References
Available upon request.