EAI Architect

Period : August 2007 – Present

Company : Dutch Insurance Company (in top 5)

Position : EAI Architect



Activities : Interim position EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Architect at business unit responsible for all EAI solutions for this company. Company wide we are implementing ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) paradigm and design patterns as a part of an Service Oriented Architecture. Company has adopted IBM IAA as a basis of ICT Architecture. ESB spans over two platforms .NET en IBM Websphere on Java.

EAI architect is responsible for: development of EAI design patterns, help to Business Projects which are using ESB as webservice platform, review of developed EAI solutions, Co-leader of EAI Community Of Practice.

In this period we worked on: company wide message format based on and as extension of webservice standards, WS-I Basic Profile 1.0, ESB Design patterns, implementation guidelines for webservices using Websphere Message Broker 6 en design best practices for Business Process Orchestration using BPEL en Websphere Process Server.

Period : September 2007 – Present

Company : 5hart

Position : Java 5 teacher



Activities : I have developed The “Java 5 New features” workshop. I teach this course at 5hart. See www.vijfhart.nl

FBTOWoon

Period : May 2006 - July 2007

Company : Achmea Active

Position : Senior J2EE Developer



Activities : Enabling multi-label features in a large J2EE Component based service architecture. Some software components should be refactored according to reference architecture and company standards. Design and development of new features and design patterns for xml parsing, error handling, build process, etc. We are also coaching junior Java developers at work.

Tools: JBuilder 9, Eclipse 3.1.2, Bea Weblogic , DB2, Castor , XMLSpy, Ant , ClearCase, Rational Rose, etc.

Java SE 5 Course

Period : January 2006 - Mart 2006 (part-time)

Company : Be-value

Position : Docent Java 5



Activities : Development of a Java SE 5 workshop for a team of 15 java developers. The goal of this course is to highlight Java 5 and EJB 3.0 aspects by a combination of theoretical and practical lessons. Workshop duration is 2 days.

See "New Features of Java 5" (or download it here ) powerpoint presentation and a short SCJP Mock Exam .

Tools: JBoss 4, Eclipse 3.1 , JBoss IDE, Ant , MySQL

Toeslagen Kantoor Applicatie

Period : March 2005 - April 2006

Company : (Dutch tax authority) Belastingdienst

Position : Technical Architect/Designer



Activities : For project "Toeslagen" we are developing an J2EE based administration system. The application mostly integrates existing and legacy application written in various languages. My function is team leader of a team existing of 10-15 developer including coaching en planning. Definition of Development directives and standards. Source code review. I am also responsible for non-functional requirements and Performance engineering plan.

Techniques: J2EE , MQ , CICS , XML, SQLJ.

Development Process: RUP

Operating Systems: UNIX AIX, z/OS.

Tools: WSAD , WAS, PMD , Ant , JACL, Struts , WAF, Rational Suite Development Studio, JMeter, JProfile.

Be-Informed

Period : January 2005 - February 2005

Company : Be-value

Position : Senior J2EE Developer



Activities : In very short time we have to implement various non-functional requirements to Be-informed platform including: transaction support, security, scalability, batch processing and performance management. Be-informed is platform developed by Be-value , which makes it easy to develop and maintain knowledge based applications.

Techniques: J2EE , JBoss 3.2, Design Patterns.

Tools: Eclipse , Cocoon 2, Hibernate , Ant , MySQL .

Toeslagen

Period : September 2004 - 2005

Company : (Dutch tax authority) Belastingdienst

Position : Technical Architect/Designer



Activities : Primary responsibility for leading architecture, design, and implementation of the front-end web application using Java and J2EE to integrate legacy Cobol based systems and new written workflow system. Hands-on responsibilities included architecture, design, and implementation of the core J2EE frameworks and sub-systems, applying and identifying patterns and best practices. Mentored team members on Java/J2EE, architecture, design, patterns and best practices.

Techniques: J2EE , MQ , Design Patterns.

Development process: Rational Unified Process

Tools: IBM Websphere WSAD , WAS, PMD , Ant , Struts , WAF, Rational Suite Development Studio.

Ordina AM - Java Training

Period : April 2004 - September 2004

Company : Ordina Application Management

Position : J2EE Coach



Activities : Mentored team of junior Java programmer on Java/J2EE aspects. Primary tasks include coaching less experienced staff members by training on the job and ensuring adherence to departmental design and coding standards and practices.

Tools: MyEclipse, JBoss , Tomcat, CVS, MySQL , SQL Server, Hibernate .

Verzuimmanager OnLine

Period : November 2003 - April 2004

Company : Ordina Finance - Achmea

Position : Software Architect



Activities : Verzuimmanager OnLine - Web based application for staff absence management according to Dutch law introduced in 2004 (Wet Verbetering Poortwachter (WVP).Design, developed en implemented web based J2EE application, defined performance engineering and hosting infrastructure. Most of used development tools and frameworks are from open source projects. Application is licensed under ASP license.

Tools: Eclipse , Ant , CVS, CruiseControle, JMeter, JBoss , Hibernate , PMD , jTDS .

Instrument

Period : October 2003 - December 2003

Company : CZ actief in gezondheid

Position : Architect



Activities : Defined Software Configuration Management (SCM) standards and guidelines based on Unified Configuration and Change Management (UCCM) of Rational. Developed integration tools for UCM and Java Component Based projects. Mentored implementation of UCM by other projects

Techniques: UCCM, Java , design patterns.

Development process: Rational Unified Process

Tools: WSAD , WAS, Ant , ClearCase, Rational XDE, Rational RAS

SuMo

Period : Augustus - November 2003

Company : Fortis/ASR via Ordina Finance Business Solutions

Position : Software Engineer



Activities : Development of a workflow framework in C++. Existing solutions Staffware workflow does not fulfill requirements in the new architecture and will be replaced with this lightweight solution. Fixed-price Fixed-date project.

Techniques: C++, SQL, Software generation tool, Process modeling.

Development Process: XP

Tools: TOAD, C++ Builder

Database: Oracle

e-Pensioen

Period : June 2003 - July 2003

Company : Delta Lloyd via Ordina Finance Business Solutions

Position : Software developer/designer



Activities : Design en development of print box for an web-based application based on cocoon framework. Print box translates XML domain data to PDF documents according to user preferences for look and feel.

Techniques: Cocoon, JSP/Servlet, FOP, Velocity, XSLT, XML

Development Process: XP

Tools: Eclipse 2.0 , Jetty servlet container, IBM WAS, Ant , CVS, etc.

Database: MySQL , DB2, Mainframe, z/OS

Thema project: Automated Testing freamwork

Period : January 2003 - May 2003

Company : Achmea ICT via Ordina Finance Business Solutions

Position : Senior Consultant, Technical Project leader



Activities : Led short project with goal to define and develop solution for automated testing in Component Based Architecture. Automated Testing of software inside of an CBA, developed in an iterative development process is very dependent of software configuration changes. Distributed components developed by various projects, are not under control of test team.

Techniques: J2EE , JUnit, JMS, UML , UCM, XML, XSLT

Tools: JavaNCSS, Ant , JBuilder, Rational Rose Enterprise Edition, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Rational Test Manager, etc.

Database: DB2, Mainframe

Nieuwe Wonen

Period : 2001 - 2002

Company : Achmea, Centraal Beheer Particulieren via Ordina Finance Business Solutions

Position : Software engineer



Activities : For a assurance company we are developing java components which will be used application integration tier. I have fulfilled roll of Configuration Manager using Rational ClearCase UCM. I have mentored developers and testers in using Change/Configuration Management.

Techniques: J2EE , JAXB, JMS, Log4J, JUnit, IBM MQ series, BAI, UML , UCM (Unified Configuration Management), Struts , XML, XSLT

Development process: BAI en RUP .

Tools: JBuilder 5, Rational Rose Enterprise Edition, ClearCase, ClearCase integration met Ant .

Database: DB2, Mainframe

POM

Period : 2000 - 2001

Company : OVSoftware b.v, Gronau Duitsland

Position : Software engineer



Activities : Design of Java Persistency Layer for large bank in Germany. Persistency Layers consist of run-time framework, OO- RDBMS mapping tool and diagnostic tools. Techniques: Java , XML, JDBC, Informix Dynamic Server, CORBA, SQL, Mapping patterns, RUP design and UML .

WestLB Credit

Period : 2000

Company : OVSoftware b.v Oldenzaal

Position : Software engineer



Activities : Development of web based savings administration system for a large German bank. This is first Java Server Pages/ Java Servlets application in this company. Techniques: Java , Oracle database server, IP, iPlanet web server, SQL.