Lead the team in charge of the insurance platform that manages the full lifecycle of insurance policies. Overseeing a team of 6 developers in a dev ops team with infrastructure deployed in a cloud environment, and using a variety of technologies within the stack.Roles:- Design and implement new requirements and enhancements.- Production support of the cloud infrastructure from EC2 instances, auto scaling groups. - Implement integration gateways with partners.- Development of new products.- Analyse performance issues DB slowness, request round trip overhead.

Lead developer of a software project for one of the major banks in Australia aimed at managing learning requirements for financial advisers in different knowledge areas according to Australian legislation. In charge of setting up the project and build environments with direct involvement in design and implementation of the system from development to production. Roles:- Design and implement learning management system object model.- Implement web service APIs and business logic layer.- Implement UI layer using Vaadin technologies.- Implement ability to create PDF certifications from MS Word templates.- Oversee integration points with third party libraries SCORM engine and Citrix.- Troubleshoot performance and memory leak issues.- Configure build server for our DEV, TEST and UAT environments.- Setup code repository.

Involved in the full SDLC for Zurich’s medium to small general insurance system (Zstream.Xpress). During these two years as an Analyst Programmer the role consisted in working on two major initiatives production support enhancements and new growth propositions. Both initiatives involved a solid knowledge an all components of a complex system such as integration with third parties and mainframe systems, document generation, software administration, policy and account transfers, premium handling, underwriting and batch processing. Roles: - Implementation of CTP DRIVES integration with the RMS. Implementation of 23 RMS transactions following RMS DRIVES specification. - Migration of Marine products from ILOG to Drools engine and java premium handling. - Prototypes for Zurich Commerical Insurance and CTP - Integration Taxi product policy importer and exporter. - Analisys and documentation of the batch processing schedule. - Implementation of an improvement for policy number generation to increase the pool of numbers available. - Implementation of a redbook vehicle key change and liasing with other teams involved. - Associated marine policy transfers Java Support EngineerProvide production support to Zurich general insurance systems by working closely with business units and software developers delivering software maintenance releases to internal and external parties. Roles: - Support to the development team on the delivery of new functionality. New administration modules such as user, account discounting and panel team management. - Solve integration issues between Zstream.Xpress and Polisy (Mainframe system) - Execute change requests to production systems. - Implement code fixes to major and critical issues in the production environment. - Provide quick workarounds to the business units when needed.

Coordinate and lead a team of 10 JAVA developers in the implementation of a software system for the Colombian Ministry of Mines and Energy, which aim to organize and control the mining resources in the national territory.Roles:- Provide leadership to implement the software in a short period of time due to contractual constraints.- Ownership of the role of configuration manager for the entire system using Maven as the build technology combined with Hudson as our integration server. - Lead developers to implement a software demo for the Colombian Ministry of Mines and Energy. The demo included the implementation of BPM process that generated documents from templates, connection to LDAP directories and integration through web services and file system adapters.- Evaluation of technologies for a project for the Colombian Ministry of Mines and Energy to implement a solution based on BPM, ECM and LDAP to implement a set of administrative procedures.

Involved in government projects with supporting roles in existing applications and evaluation of technologies for new projects.Roles:Support the development team that implemented a notifications system according to the legal action under administrative law in Colombia. The solution includes a SOA architecture with orthogonal services and a ESB connecting services.Evaluation of technologies for a project for the Colombian Ministry of Mines and Energy to implement a solution based on BPM, ECM and LDAP to implement a set of administrative procedures.Lead developer in charge of overseeing the agile development of a software demo for the Colombian Ministry of Mines and Energy. The demo included the implementation of BPM process that generated documents from templates, connection to LDAP directories and integration through web services.

of one of the biggest real state companies in the country. In charge of technology tasks such as infrastructure project management and software development. Leadership and constant involvement in the software development life cycle of BCCA, specialized back office software developed in a three tier architecture using open source technologies and design patterns. Spring and Hibernate Frameworks, MySQL in a JAVA 1.5 environment are used in conjunction with a MVC pattern. The software development is done using Agile methodologies using tools for continuous integration, automated software tests and version control.Accomplishments include:Development of CRM, Inventory, Commercial and Operations modules in BCCA.Integration of a BI engine (Mondrian) within the web applications to obtain answers about operations business process.Administration of software tools to manage the overall software development cycle such as Subversion and TracInstallation and administration of services and applications in servers running Linux in a 64 bits architecture.Successful migration of VoIP in the company reusing existing infrastructure to minimize migration costs.Open source firewall installation and configuration of services such as end-to-end VPN and road warrior clients, proxy server, traffic and content management tools. Standardization of the server room including circuits balancing, ground line installation, switch rack organization, UPS maintenance and A/C installation.Estimation and execution of the technology budget of the year 2007.

Lead developer of three-tier JAVA applications using open source tools and frameworks such as Spring , Hibernate, MySQL , JSP, Tomcat and JAVA. These tools were used to model the business model of one of the major real estate company's in ColombiaAccomplishments include:Fast development using code generation tools in all the MVC layers.Adoption of emergent technologies such as AJAX and DWR in the presentation layer and the use of open source libraries such as display tag to generate reports in different formats (CSV, XML, PDF and HTML)Report generation with Jasper Reports.

Job responsibilities consisted in maintenance, technical support, upgrades and rollout of new software packages of Cicloss' intranet applications in addition to the design of web applications to improve the marketing of the company's consulting services.Accomplishments include:Development of J2EE and LAMP applications such as internal applications for testing the knowledge of participants with the Cicloss' tecnology and the implementation of Cicloss' web presence. Positive acceptance from employees with the training programs of new software updates.

Design and develop a real-time 2D air controller simulator using J2SE 1.4.2 APIs. Key features of the simulator were a 2D GUI representation and a physical engine that permitted different flight parameters to be changed. Accomplishments include:Design and implementation of a finite state machine that simulated airplane flights and airport operations.Development of a javax.swing GUI that was updated in real time with the simulator's time module.Integration of an XML database created by another development group that provided plane specifications.Zooming capabilities from the main display screen.