Project Development

J ames Smith

Email: ***************@*****.***

H i,

I saw your post on craigslist, and I am interested in discussing working with you.

W hat sort of app are you looking at creating?

I currently have over a dozen different iPhone apps in the store which I have been

f ully responsible for creating, I have contributed to more than a dozen other apps,

and am working on half a dozen more currently in development. I deliver reliable,

p rofessional results, and I'm a pleasure to work with.

P lease feel free to contact me with any questions.

Experience:

P rincipal Consultant and CEO (October 2007 – present)

-Open Source Architect and iPhone, Android, Blackberry developer.

-Developed iPhone, Android, Blackberry applications. Help customers with Jboss,

Ruby on Rails and

E C2 infrastructure.

-Development and sale of healthcare applications for the iPhone, Android,

B lackberry with a JEE backend and XMPP messaging.

Software Performance Architecture Consultant

-Created performance framework for their Flex based product line.

-Lead team of 3 that created performance tests and performance infrastructure.

-Provided JBoss (JEE) architecture advice to their customers for the optimal

deployment

of their suite of applications.

P r incipal JBoss Consultant and Architect

-Adviced JBoss customers on how to leverage the software architecture of the JBoss

A pplication Server stack to reduce cost and improve time to market in their projects

and implement SOA architectures.

-Achievements: Successfully helped a major financial institution port a legacy

application to JBoss.

Senior Softwa re Developer and Technical Lead

-Design and development of mid to large size enterprise Java projects in the

t ransportation vertical market segment.

-Achievements: Technical lead and architect for the successful development of a new

p rofitabili ty module in our main product line.

Consultant and F reelancer

-Selling and developing Java and C# desktop applications.

-Achievements: Developed a Java Swing based application that acted as point of sale

and communicated with a web-based database via XML.

-I designed and developed web and enterprise applications using Java with EJB,

JSP,

JavaBeans, Servlets and JDBC technologies.

-Achievements: Managed and developed a successful pilot web application project for

a

major customer in the insurance industry.

Skil ls:

-Proficiency in Object Design patterns, U M L and refactoring patterns.

-Requirement gathering in the form of use-cases and user stories.

-Experience with implementing various agile software processes (XP, Scrum,

C leanroom) in small teams.

-Capability Matu ri ty Model experience.

-Expert knowledge of Cocoa Touch for iPhone and iTouch development.

-Expert knowledge of J2EE and JEE 5 technology stack with focus on JBoss and

Spring.

-Expert knowledge of SOA with JBoss and Spring focus.

-Expert knowledge of clustering JBoss systems.

-Expert knowledge in Messaging and distributed computing.

-Expert knowledge of XMPP protocol with a focus on OpenFire and OpenFire

p lugins

-Expert knowledge of Tomcat and Jetty.

-Expert knowledge of Ruby on Rails.

-Expert knowledge of distributed and multi threaded systems.

-Expert knowledge of Flex 2 and 3 (MXML), ActionScript and BlazeDS.

-Software architecture design and analysis.

-Software development modeling and analysis.

-Programming languages: Java, Objective C, C, C++, PHP.

-Expert knowledge of Hibernate.

-Productivity tools: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project.

-Technical drawing tools: Visio, Visio development.

-Expert in JBoss and JVM performance tuning.

-Experience in implementing and using the Project Management Institu te (PMI)

p roject

management body of knowledge.

L ist of writ ten articles on request.

J ames Smith

Email: ***************@*****.***

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