IT Consultant – Software Development and Software Architecture

I am an IT consultant with 16 years’ experience in Financial Industry. My focus is on project development and architecture.

• Implemented projects under vendor contractual agreements and as an independent consultant
• Ability to effectively handle direct client relationships
• 17 years of progressive experience in software development and architecture
• 16 years of experience in Financial Services: equities, FX, derivatives, credit risk, commercial banking
• 12 years of Java/JEE programming, 5 years C/C++ programming, SQL, HTML, XML, JavaScript
• Extensive experience in Architecture (TOGAF 9 certified), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Event Driven Architecture
• Extensive experience in OOP Analysis & Design, Domain Driven Design, Aspect Oriented Programming, Design Patterns, Refactoring, application integration, performance tuning

Operating systems: Solaris, Linux, HPUX, OSF/1, Windows

Programming & Scripting Languages: Java, C/C++, SQL (PL/SQL, Transact SQL), JavaScript, Unix Shell scripting

Java / Java EE: EJB, Servlets, JSP, JMS, JCA, JDBC, JPA, JNDI, JTA, JavaMail, JAXP, JMX, JavaBeans, RMI, JNI, Java Threads, Java Reflection

Tools / Frameworks: Struts (1 & 2), Spring, Spring Security, Spring MVC, Spring LDAP, iBATIS, Hibernate, XML Beans, XStream, Castor, JAXB, Log4J, JUnit, DbUnit, Prototype, Dojo, DWR

JEE Application Servers: Apache, Tomcat, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, JBoss, iPlanet

Middleware: TIBCO EMS, TIBCO Rendezvous, IBM MQSeries

UI Development: JSP, HTML, DHTML, CSS, Ajax, Java Swing, X-Windows (Xlib, Xtoolkit), Windows SDK

Application design: UML, Enterprise Architect, VISIO, TogetherJ, Rational Rose

Code/build maintenance: ANT, Maven, CruiseControl, Continuum, Hudson, CVS, Subversion

Profiling/Automated testing: JMP, JProbe, HttpUnit, Mercury WinRunner, Canoo WebTest

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, Sybase

Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, LDAP, FIX, SOAP

FIX Engines: Cameron FIX, APPIA (Javelin Technologies), QuickFIX

Complex Event Processing: Streambase, Esper