Sole Proprietorship; software consulting and contracting

Summary: Leading a team of software engineers by taking responsibility for the team from both a technical and an administrative perspective. Responsibility for software design, specification, implementation and development coordination as well as project and team management. Tasks:• planning, organizing and reporting work of the team, motivating employees, performance appraisals, coaching and mentoring• products responsibility, client tech support• design, development, deployment, release managementProjects:• Address Investigation Platform for building and executing easily customizable synchronous/asynchronous address investigation workflows, delivering/monitoring/reporting results of the workflows, and integrating data from numerous external providers• various products (Batch, SOAP, Portal interfaces) providing information/functionalities related to addresses of private person and companies, for example, current address, connected addresses, moves history, payment experience, normalization of location and name, IDs for person/address/family/house/street/city and assessment of the probability of a letter being accepted at an address• an application used by Operations Team as an essential tool for monitoring, managing and automatically escalating incidents as they occur in the Deltavista Service PlatformTechnologies and tools:• MS Project Server, MS Office, MS Visio, Confluence, JIRA• Eclipse, SVN, Maven, Jenkins, JMeter, FitNesse, SoapUI, Altova XML Spy, MapForce, BIRT• J2SE, Groovy, MS SQL, Tomcat, GWT, GXT, Spring, Hibernate, MyBatis, Camel, JMS, JPA, JTA, JMX, CXF, JSON, SOAP, AXIS, WSDL, XML, XSD, XPath, JUnit, EasyMock, Mockito, Log4j

Summary: Managing, designing and developing various software solutions for German clientsTasks:• planning and defining scope of a project, activity planning and sequencing, estimating, budgeting, scheduling, planning resources, monitoring work progress, managing risks and issues, controlling quality and reporting results• products responsibility, client tech support• design, development, deployment, release managementProjects:• migration of a large number of existing clients from Deltavista legacy products and services to new Deltavista Service Platform• SOAP web service providing access to functionalities of address identification in Deltavista Address Universe (Swiss, German, Austrian and Polish data)Technologies and tools:• MS Project Server, MS Office, MS Visio, Confluence, JIRA• Eclipse, CVS, SVN, Maven, Hudson, JMeter, FitNesse, SoapUI, Altova XML Spy, Altova MapForce• J2SE, MS SQL, Tomcat, Spring, Hibernate, JMS, JPA, JTA, JMX, SOAP, AXIS, WSDL, XML, XSD, XPath, JUnit, EasyMock, Log4J, JXL, RegExp, Dozer

Summary: The same tasks as in the previous position with the main focus on coordination of software development and release managementProjects:• application for monitoring of products indicators• application for managing dynamic lists of pre-calculated scores and keeping these scores up-to-date

Summary: Designing and developing various software solutions and services for Swiss and German clients (banks, telecoms, retailers, credit insurance, finance and credit card companies) and company's internal usageTasks:• planning and organizing work for other workers, mentoring, recruitment• maintenance of solutions created in the previous position• design, development, deployment, performance tuning, release management• client tech support and trainingsProjects:• engine for executing scoring models• toolkit for generating, testing and debugging scoring models• consumer and business credit risk reports and scores• search application for archived reports• components providing business logic, data and utilities for reports• interpretation engine for converting available data into risk indicators (scores, decision tables) Technologies and tools:• MS Office, MS Visio, FogBugz, Eclipse, CVS, Ant, JMeter, Clover, Altova XML Spy• J2SE, J2EE, MS SQL, Tomcat, HTML, JSP, Servlets, JSTL, JavaScript, SOAP, WSDL, XML, XSD, XSLT, XPath, Xalan, Swing, NSIS, JUnit, Javadoc, Log4J, JXL, RegExp, Windows batch file

Summary: Designing and developing various software solutions and services for Swiss clients (banks, finance companies, telecoms, retailers) and company's internal usageTasks: design, front/back-end development, deployment, installers, builds, client tech support, technologies researchProjects:• portal application for designing, configuring and generating reports. Serving most, if not all, Swiss customers of Deltavista• portal application for managing customer's lists of addresses, internal (blacklist, creditcheck) and external (terrorists, suspicious person and companies, politically exposed persons), used to verify and control credit risk and operations on bank accounts of such entities• portal application for creating and configuring scoring models• application for accessing services of central Credit Bureau in Switzerland• SOAP web service being the central point of access to credit risk information from all international branches of Deltavista• SOAP web services providing access to miscellaneous Deltavista (e.g. address identification, payment experience, PDF/HTML reports) and external services• credit scoring models to rank potential and existing customers according to risk• consumer and business credit risk reports• telephone directory Technologies and tools:• MS Office, FogBugz, IBM VisualAge, Eclipse, CVS, Ant, Mindreef SOAPscope• J2SE, J2EE, MS SQL, Tomcat, HTML, JSP, Servlets, JSTL, JavaScript, IIS-Tomcat redirector, Tapestry, AJAX, XML, XSLT, JAXP, Xerces, Xalan, Crystal Reports, SOAP, AXIS, JWSDP, XFire, WSDL, NSIS

Developing software using J2EE (EJB, JNDI, JDBC, JSP, Servlets, JMS), XML and standard Java platform

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