I worked on distributed systems and looked at using network load and other low-level factors to distribute load on a middleware platform during my PhD.And I have been working for 5 years at the NRC in the software engineering group. Until our group was closed, I was developing and started to commercialize a new technology for modernizing legacy COBOL systems by extracting business rules.I did acquire expertise in performance analysis, business rules, databases (MySQL, SQL Server) and in many other Java technologies. I also was involved in a large modernization project for the government (requirements, RFP and QA reviews).Specialties: ANTLR parser developmentBusiness rulesMaven build managementTest-driven development with TestNG frameworkScala functional programmingIoC with Google Guice and PicoObject Oriented Databases (db4o Most Valued Professional for 2008 and 2009)Full text search with LuceneEclipse plugin developmentMySQL and SQL Server (tuning, SQL programming, stored procedures)Middleware (J2EE, CORBA, etc.)Web developement with Spring, Hibernate and TapestryExpertise in performance analysis