B.A. Computer Information Science University of California, Santa
Cruz 1993
Objective
Seeking a senior
management position at a dynamic and exciting company with a promising future.
Career Skills
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Business Development ·
Systems Architecture ·
Design Specification ·
Product Management ·
Software Development
Methodology |
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Customer relations /
training ·
Planning/Budgeting ·
Staff Supervision/Training ·
Project Management ·
Testing /
implementation |
Career Achievements
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Over 13 years of IT
industry experience in multiple engineering organizations (software
architect/development/consulting, technical support, and release management).
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Over 10 years of
managing, architecting and developing web-based enterprise applications.
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Over 4 years recruiting
and managing development teams.
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Experience introducing
and enforcing development standards and processes to startup environments.
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Proven track record for
leading teams to deliver shippable products on time and on budget.
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Negotiated features and
timelines as part of a collaborative multi-University development project.
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Worked with executive
and development teams to identify functional requirements, generate analysis
documents and software application specifications for different phases of the
product.
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Managed and architect
several successful applications that were shipped to customers.
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Responsible for
overseeing the architecture for an engineering division that included over 50
engineers.
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Speaker at the JBoss
World. Architected a project that won honorable mention for the JBoss Best
Practices Innovation Award.
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Strong technical
development background (Java, J2EE, C/C++) and relational database skills (Oracle,
SQL Server, MySQL, PL/SQL).
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Experience designing and
building E-Commerce, Supply-Chain, Enterprise Information Retrieval/Management
and E-Learning applications.
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Sit on the board of
advisors for several San Francisco Bay Area startups.
Career Experience
Director of Enterprise Architecture
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La Petite Academy, Chicago,
IL |
Apr 2005 – present |
As a key member of the senior
IT management team, my primary responsibility is to define the enterprise
architecture for La Petite Academy, including identifying hardware and software
systems required to support the service oriented architecture. In addition,
worked with the CIO to define the IT strategy and ensure the business goals
were aligned.
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Responsible for
selecting all the software and development tools used in the company, including
IDE, Application Server, UML, Data Modeling, ESB, O/R Mapping, Web Framework,
Build Tool, Testing Framework, Functionality Testing, Performance Testing, Web
Development, Source Control Management.
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Introduced Java/J2EE
technology, including newer technologies such as JMS (Java Messaging System),
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Web Services and open-source/cost-saving
technologies (MySQL 5.0, JBoss/Tomcat).
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Developed the
architecture for the company’s Optimal Program Staffing (OPS) application. The
application allowed the company to improve its execution by providing decision
makers with real-time staff status of all 650+ schools. The application is
anticipated to reduce labor costs by up to $25.3M or 15% annually.
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The OPS application was
designed using a mix of open-source technologies (JBoss Application
Server/Portal, Hibernate, Spring, JSF) and proprietary technology (Cape Clear
ESB and Fair Isaac Blaze, Information Builders WebFocus).
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Responsible for defining
the IT developer roles and recruiting and hiring the developers, including
phone screening and in-person interviewing.
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Negotiated with vendors
for pricing the software and hardware for the company. Worked with the La
Petite lawyer to draft up contracts (software license agreements, maintenance
services agreements, and service level agreements).
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Responsible for
overseeing and selecting consulting agency selection process, including writing
the Request for Information (RFI) and being the company’s liaison for all
questions.
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Responsible for
developing Proof of Concepts (POCs) to prove that the architecture works with
the hardware.
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Oversaw the remote
development team in Overland Park, KS and an external consulting agency to
ensure that the projects are developed according to the architecture that was
laid out.
Skills: Java/J2EE, Service
Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Service Bus, JSF, EJB (Message Driven Beans),
JMS, Hibernate, Subversion SCM, Windows 2003, JBoss Portal Server, MagicDraw
UML, Apache Ant, Apache Log4j, Jakarta Tomcat, JBoss Application Server,
Microsoft Visio, Eclipse, Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor, Cape Clear ESB, IBI
WebFocus Business Intelligent
Senior Architect / Technical Lead (Independent
Consultant)
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Various Companies |
Aug 2002 – Apr 2005 |
Blue Cross Blue Shield of
Illinois, Chicago, IL
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Attended meetings with
various internal BCBS divisions to understand the requirements as well as to
determine the architectural requirements and design.
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Designed the application
to be J2EE application server agnostic as well as RDBMS vendor agnostic.
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Application ran on both
BEA Weblogic and IBM Websphere as well as Oracle database and Microsoft SQL
Server database.
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Used ERWin/Visio to
design the physical data model and Rational Rose/Visio to design the UML
diagrams.
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Implemented a
tree-structure relationship between different components of the application
using the composite design pattern.
Sylantro Communications,
Inc., Campbell, CA
Represent Sylantro at a
strategic customer site -- SBC Communications Chicago. Worked with SBC
developers to build SBC's PremierServSM Hosted IP Communication Service
application on top of the Sylantro EJB API.
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Responsible for keeping
management informed of the SBC development progress and acted as a liaison
between SBC & Sylantro.
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Helped the SBC
developers understand the Sylantro EJB-based API and how to implement certain
functionalities. In addition, was responsible for implementing the Call
Treatment functionality of the application.
Network Appliance, Inc.,
Sunnyvale, CA
Worked with the NetApp IT
development team to help them design and implement various components of the
SupportEdge 1.0 release -- a web CRM-based application that allows NetApp
customers to create and manage their technical support requests.
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Managed the day-to-day
activities of the other NetApp contractors. Provided technical guidance and
broke the project into granular parts and then distributed the workload to the
different NetApp contractors.
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Responsible for
designing and implementing an object cache to store CRM Case-related data.
Several modules use this cache to optimize the query retrieval. Worked with
different development team members to finalize the API for the caching
mechanism.
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Architect and
coordinated the efforts to design and implement the attachment module. The module
allows users to upload a file and associate it with the CRM Case from the JSP
UI.
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Developed the SOAP
protocol for the attachment module to allow external clients to access the
attachment functionality. Developed the corresponding SOAP Client initially
using Apache SOAP and then upgraded it to Apache AXIS.
Stanford University,
Stanford, CA
Responsible for designing the
architecture for Stanford’s open-source Assessment and Assignment Manager (AAM)
application which will be deployed on-campus and used by 20,000 users including
students and faculty.
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Represented Stanford
University as part of the Navigo consortium -- a joint venture between Stanford
University, University of Michigan and University of Indiana to build an
open-source IMS and OKI compliant assessment application that can be deployed
in any environment as a web-based application or as a web-service application.
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Managed and delegated
the development efforts to the development staff based upon their expertise.
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The eLearning assessment
application was designed to be IMS and OKI compliant and was deployable in any
environment as a web-based application.
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Developed AAM from its
inception, including determining the best of breed technologies that satisfy
project requirements and available resources.
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Designed the schema for
the project with multiple database considerations (Oracle and MySql).
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Developed Stateless
Session EJB that uses Jakarta OJB technology (O/R mapping technology) for the
persistence layer instead of Entity EJBs.
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Introduced industry-standard
development technologies into the department (e.g. JSP/Jakarta Struts/J2EE and
O/R Mapping) and development practices (e.g. design patterns, consistent
builds, code reviews).
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Considered a
non-traditional XML-based architecture representing the data in native XML and
using a Native XML database (NXD) to persist the data.
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Researched and
recommended an open-source database (PostgreSQL and MySQL) to be used for the
application.
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Reviewed the company's
architecture and helped them develop a roadmap to revamp the existing
architecture.
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Worked with the
development team to help them remove any dependency on proprietary 3rd party
software.
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Replaced the company’s
existing architecture with a SOA-based architecture using OpenJMS and Tomcat.
Stalworth, Inc., San Mateo, CA
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Developed the algorithm
used by DQ*Plus application to detect and report bad data entries in large CRM
systems (up to 10 million records)
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Developed the code that
parses the rule and walks the syntax tree generated by JJTree (a preprocessor
for JavaCC). Vistor Design Pattern was applied to separate the parsing logic in
the compiler from the code generation logic.
Skills: Java/J2EE, Jakarta
Struts, EJB (Session and Entity Beans), Oracle Database, Peoplesoft/Vantive CRM,
JTA, JMS, Multithreading, File I/O, JSP, Jakarta OJB, Apache SOAP, Apache Axis,
Perforce SCM, Windows 2000, Sun Solaris, Oracle Application Server Portal,
PushToTest TestMaker, Jython, Microsoft ASP, Cygwin, ERwin, Rational Rose,
Apache Ant, Apache Log4j, Jakarta Tomcat, Verity K2, Verity K2 Spider,
Parametric Index, Verity K2 Recommendation, Apache Xindice, CVS, BEA Weblogic,
JBoss, MySQL, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Visio, Bugzilla,
JUnit, XML, Apache Ant, Jakarta Lucene, JBuilder, Eclipse, Eclipse Profiler,
JJTree, JavaCC
Development Team Lead
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Fasturn Inc., Redwood City,
CA |
Jan 2002 – Aug 2002 |
Joined the company as the
second team member in the Redwood City office to help the company build a suite
of integrated software products that enable organizations to solve and manage
complex supply chain and people-centric operational processes in a global
enterprise.
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Managed the daily
activities of the business tier application development team.
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Reported the status of
the team to the Vice President of Engineering located in Century City, CA.
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Key developer in
creating the modules used in the modeling processes phase of the Fasturn OPN
product.
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Used Rational Rose to
develop supporting UML diagrams (Class and Sequence Diagrams).
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Abstract Factory and
Composite design patterns were used to represent the process/task/metric/rule
and network/party relationships.
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Developed the Java
classes that were called by the JSP/Struts layer.
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Created an XML-based UI
Framework so that the Swing-based Menu layout was constructed dynamically at
run-time. The DOM parser in JAXP was used to parse the XML file.
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Used Java Reflection API
to dynamically load and execute the menu operations based upon the XML file
configuration. The DTD and XML files were created using XML Spy.
Skills: Java/J2EE, Windows
2000, Sun Solaris, Jakarta Lucene, Cygwin, Eclipse, JSP, Oracle Database 9i,
Microsoft SourceSafe, CVS, Jakarta Struts, Jakarta OJB, Tomcat, JBoss, MySQL,
Computer Associates ERWin, Bugzilla, XML, DOM Parser, Java Reflection, Java
Swing, Microsoft Project
Chief Architect (co-founder)
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Spindingio, Sunnyvale, CA |
Jun 2001 – Dec 2001 |
Managed the team to deliver a
Single Sign-On hosted application that allowed customers to log onto Web
Portals (e.g. Yahoo, Excite, MSN) automatically.
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Met with potential
clients to assess product requirements and develop a roadmap for the company.
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Developed the
architectural roadmap for the product.
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Built a lightweight
Proxy Server using Java Servlet technology and Java sockets to act as gateway
between the customer’s machine and the destination portal.
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Managed a development
team to build the prototype.
Skills: Java/J2EE, Servlet,
Socket, Multithread, Windows 2000, Cygwin, Eclipse, JSP, Oracle Database,
Microsoft SourceSafe, CVS, Jakarta Struts, Jakarta OJB, Jetty, Tomcat, JBoss,
MySQL, Computer Associates ERWin, Microsoft Visio, Bugzilla, Microsoft SQL
Server, Microsoft Project, Microsoft PowerPoint
Software Architect / Development Team Lead / Senior
Software Engineer
Ventro Corp. (formerly Chemdex Corp.), Mountain
View, CA
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May 1998 – May 2001 |
Molded the company’s
architecture and technical vision. Contributed to the company’s success, which
led the company to become the first B2B Marketplace to IPO and achieve an $11B
market capitalization.
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Worked closely with the
executive team to plan the strategic releases for the company.
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Met with potential
strategic company partners to evaluate whether or not the business initiatives
of the two companies were aligned.
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Assessed external
software vendor’s viability and the applicability of the product within the
company’s architecture.
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Led and managed the
development and QA team through several major and minor releases of the Search
and Catalog system for over two years. Came up with feasible timelines and allocated
resources to ensure that projects were completed on time.
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Worked with various
organizations in the company to establish a common development platform and
environment. Worked with the development team leads to reach a consensus on
J2EE compliancy and on the Operating System, JDK, and Application Server to use
in each of the disparate sub-systems.
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Kept the group morale
high despite the economic downturn, collapse of the economy and company-wide
layoffs.
Skills: Java/J2EE, C/C++,
Perl, Windows NT, Sun Solaris, Verity SDK, Tibco RV, Tibco Adapter SDK, JSP,
Oracle Database, CVS, BEA Weblogic, Microsoft Visio, Rational Purify, Rational
PureCoverage, Apache Http, EJB, JTA, JMS, Microsoft Project, Microsoft
Powerpoint
Software Engineer / Senior Technical Support Engineer
Verity, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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Jan 1994 – May 1998 |
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Worked with the DBA to
develop an internal web-based CRM-lite application by integrating Verity
technology with the custom-built Oracle Forms based application.
Skills: C/C++, Perl, Sun Solaris,
Windows NT, Oracle Database, CVS, Microsoft Internet Server, NCSA/Apache HTTP,
Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Visual C++, Sun Forte (Sun ONE Studio),
Rational Purify, Rational PureCoverage, Socket, CGI, gdb
Technical Support Engineer / Builds & Tools
Engineer
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Borland Software Corp.,
Scotts Valley, CA |
Jun 1992 – Dec 1993 |
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Supported the entire
suite of Borland Development Products, e.g. Turbo C/C++, Pascal, Assembly.
Skills: C, Pascal, Windows
3.1, Windows for Workgroup, DOS, OS/2