Project Manager Java Developer

Oleksandr Maksymchuk

Software Development Lead

Lviv, Ukraine

****@***.***, +380-**-***-****, Skype: omaksymchuk

Objective

Career opportunities in Technical Leadership position.

Overview

10+ years of software and web development experience.

8+ years of professional experience in outsourcing for US and Europe clients (including 3

years of experience as full time remote developer).

6+ years of experience in a technical leadership positions.

Proficient in web development with Java, PHP, JavaScript and shell scripting; familiar with

Groovy, Phython and many others.

Knowledge of software development practices and full SDLC processes.

Extensive software product development, configuration and build management experience.

Experience working onsite in Amsterdam and San Francisco for short time projects.

Expertise

Technical Expertise

Programming/Scripting/Markup Languages

Java PHP JavaScript SQL Groovy Bash XHTML, XML, XSTL CSS

DBMS

MySQ SQLit

L H2 Database e HSQL PostgreSQL Oracle

Technologies, APIs and Concepts

Servlets, JSPX, JSTL AJAX JDBC, JPA LAMP OOA/OOD/OOP MVC/MVP

IoC, Dependency Injection REST, SOAP

Frameworks, Libraries

Spring Framework, Spring MVC, Spring Security Grails, GWT Struts, Velocity

(archaic) Hibernate Smarty jQuery, Prototype JFreeChart JUnit

Mobile

Development

Java ME

Platforms

Cloud Computing: GAE/J, AWS

Web Servers

Tomcat Jetty Apache HTTP Server nginx WebLogic, WebSphere, Jboss AS

(minor)

Development, Modeling and Management Tools and Environments

Maven,

Ant Subversion JIRA Confluence, Trac Hudson CI, Continuum

MS

Project MS Visio, Graphviz Dot Eclipse, IntelliJ Idea

Processes and Approaches

DDD,

TDD Continuous Integration

Methodologies and Practices

Waterfall Agile: Scrum, XP

Operating Systems

Windows Mac OS X Linux (Debian, Ubuntu)

Open Source

Report pugs and develop/contribute patches into Jetty, Maven, TinyMCE, Hudson.

Skills and Capabilities

Work directly with the client on identifying and influencing business and technical requirements.

Act as a thought leader and technology expert.

Provide technical team leadership and mentoring.

Strong analytical and problem solving abilities.

Strong ability to adhere to best practices in OO analysis, design and development and

apply industry standard development methods.

Take overall ownership of project issues and tasks.

Ready to do prototyping, develop new concepts and work with a customer application.

Work Experience

Key (latest) customers/projects.

Principal Software Engineer, Product Development

phase-6, Germany/Switzerland

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)

2007 2010 (2 years 10 months)

Software company providing spaced repetition system and high-quality publisher content to boost

learning at school, college or the university, for trainings and certifications on the job. The system

provides the learning reinforcement at exactly the moment when it will have maximum benefit.

Allows plug and play with virtually any (multimedia) content and is the most versatile engine on the

market: vocabulary, formulas, facts, definitions, all can be committed to long term memory.

Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments

Primary technical leader and decision maker responsible for defining technical strategy,

architectural design and implementation of the company's main product and technology

development.

Work directly with the client on identifying and influencing business and

technical requirements.

Lead the main product software development efforts setting up full technical product

development cycle.

Lead the efforts of a local (Lviv) team of programmers as well as direct the efforts of remote

employees/contractors from other locations (Switzerland, Germany, Russia), providing

technical leadership and mentorship.

Conduct and participate in recruitment, create job descriptions and qualification requirements,

perform candidates interviews (screening and technical) and managing selection processes of

qualified contractors/engineers for development and QA team extension.

Provide technical and architectural direction on product operations and

performance. Determine the application architecture.

Lead and participate in the analysis, architecture design, prototyping, implementation,

refactoring/adaption, maintainance, fixing/debuging, documentation, deployment efforts,

and support technical aspects of the product and integrated tools to reliably create good

quality, high standards, performance-minded code.

Work closely with other engineers to complete releases on schedule.

Present technical issues and their business impact to management.

Ensure proper technical design, documentation and quality of the development.

Produce and improve the documentation required for the project development.

Identify and communicate best practices for overall product, business development and

customer services engineering.

Introduce and maintain product development standards, documentation management, issues

management. Integrate tools to facilitate and manage the development process and

procedures including JIRA for issue management, Confluence for requirements specifications

and documentation, WebSVN for code reviews, JUnit/Selenium for automated web testing,

Hudson for automated Maven2 builds and deployment. Ensure adherence to engineering

processes such as code reviews, code quality control (CheckStyle, FindBugs, PMD, Emma,

JDepend etc.), source control, unit testing, use case analysis, defect management and other

SDLC and best practices.

Design and implement of protected publishers content format to be used by all

publishers/content providers/editors.

Implement and integrate tools that works with old (native) and new (Java) versions of

the program allowing to import the content.

Develop and conduct technical design and code walkthroughs and reviews process to

ensure that the code conforms to well accepted development and quality guides and

standards including readability/clarity, high maintanability, modularity, extensibility, consistent

in the utilization of patterns and frameworks and adhering to best practices.

Ensure design used principles are flexible and can evolve with the business

requirements with minimum effort, time and cost.

Assist in the sharing of ideas and exploration of new practices to continually improve the

quality of software development for the company.

Design and promote development, build and configuration management principles,

processes and techniques.

Single sign-on system selection, configuration, deployment and support.

Design and develop reusable auto-integrated on build time Java/Javascript Maven plugin

internationalization sourced directly from easily accessible single Google Spreadsheet.

Research, design and server side implementation of system/browser independent

spellchecker support in the product.

Research into mobile application platforms – developed several prototype Java ME

applications.

Automate of Windows and Mac OS X installer package generation and copy protection.

Configure and create development, system test and production builds of the application

and deployment.

Develop and maintain a consistent build system across all the development areas of

the project using Maven2.

Perform various supportive tasks regarding in-house development and business infrastructure

management.

Level 3 production support.

Research and evaluate new technologies to move from one web server to highly scalable

web solution (AWS/GAE) to serve millions of users and educational or professional

organizations.

Assist in assessing competitive online products and mobile solutions before buying them

(vokker.net) and further integration, development and maintenance management.

Monitor

other competitive products.

Review and suggest improvements to other programmers' systems.

Work with management in understanding business needs, defining technical issues,

and proposing solutions.

Work closely with product management providing support in their work with requirements

definitions and priorities, and quality assurance.

Work with configuration manager, business development team, marketing, customer support

to understand end user and overall business requirements. Reviewing technical error reports

helping customer support team to understand the user's environment problem.

Coordinate with other C-level management (CEO, CIO).

Technology Experience

Java, SWT, Swing, Jetty, JSPX, Servlets; JavaScript, jQuery; H2 Database, MySQL, HSQL;

Groovy, Bash, Maven2, Hudson CI; MacOS X, NSIS, ProGuard; Java ME; C#, WPF and WinForms

(minor and not desired), PHP; GWT (minor but higly desired), Wicket (minor); JOSSO, OpenCMS;

Hunspell, JNI

Team Lead and Project Manager

Lohika, Ukraine

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

2004 2008 (4 years)

Management and technical/team leading of Java and PHP projects of the following companies

being at Lohika (offshore outsorcing provider).

Centive, US

CompCentral - Sales compensation management system.

Marktplaats / eBay, NL

First classifieds platform of the Netherlands.

Seriosity, US

Attent - virtual currency based group attention system.

GoFish Technologies, US

Social network and entertainment (audio/video) website.

Stanford Graduate School of Business, US

Alumni Consulting Team website.

U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School, US

O-Week - University newbie students orientation services shop.

Career Management System for students.

Senior Software Engineer

Centive, US

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

2007 2008 (7 months)

The most experienced provider of on-demand sales compensation management.

Projects

CompCentral Sales compensation management system.

Role

Java Developer

Team Lead (3 dev)

Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments

Lead development team.

Collaboration with quality assurance.

Bug fixing of previous yearly product release and enhancements implementation to next one.

Technology Experience

J2EE, EJB, SOAP, JMS, JAXB, JSP, Spring Framework, JFreeChart/iText, JavaScript/AJAX,

jQuery, Hibernate, Swing, Maven; Jetty/WebSphere/WebLogic; PLSQL/Oracle

Team Lead and PHP Developer

Marktplaats / eBay, Netherlands

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ebay; Internet industry)

2006 2007 (1 year)

First classifieds platform of the Netherlands. 8M (half of the country) unique users per month.

700+ server cluster structure. Super-high-loaded system.

Projects

Front-end (main website) and back-end (CS and other services).

Role

Team Lead (2-8 dev)

PHP Developer

Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments

Onsite development of pilot project (starting 2 dev).

Establishing customer's remote team extension (from 1 to 8 dev), evironment setup and

configuration.

Main technical contact point for the customer, including meetings,

discussions, correspondence and reporting.

Projects management and projects planning.

Conduct and participate in joint application/architecture design (JAD) reviews and

development processes.

Leading local team and co-ordination with customer the design, development, testing and

delivery of new project and processes.

Team leading, architecture design and development of fronted and backend modules: Ask

Seller / Bidder Question, SOAP Web Services for Admarkt SOAP API, E-mail (event

based) CMS.

Mentor engineers in your team and promote exchange of skills between engineers

Debug and prioritize issues assigned to the team.

Bugs and Train Conductor tasks assignemtns and fixing, colaborating with quality assurence.

Refactor internal design and implementation of legacy code/modules.

Code and design review and code style.

Documentation support.

Status reporting.

Technology Experience

LAMP, PHP, Smarty, SOAP; JavaScript, Prototype; Tired/Layered Architecture, Load-balanced

Apache HTTP Server; Vertically and horizontally split MySQL, Highly loaded system (> 100

web/db servers).

Technical Lead, Team Lead and Architect

Seriosity, US

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

2005 2006 (7 months)

Attent Internet/intranet group attention system based on virtual currency (virtual banking) and

social network via plug in based communication mechanism like email or IM to the central

Bookkeeper server.

Projects

Bookkeeper Server

Role

Technical Lead and Architect

Team Lead (3 dev)

Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments

Responsible for the server (Java) part of the product.

Design and implementation technical and team leading of Web services API and AJAX

enabled web dashboard.

Technology Experience

J2EE, Spring Framework/JSP/JSF (MyFaces), JAXB, WebServices, Acegi Security,

JavaScript/AJAX, Hibernate, iBatis; Apache Tomcat; MSSQL, Oracle, Stateless database

backed architecture

Technical Lead, Project Manager and Java Developer

GoFish Technologies, US

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

2005 2005 (9 months)

Social network and entertainment (audio/video) website.

Projects

myGoFish Members area of the mulimedia search oriented social networking site, Image

Cache Server, Amazon media library crawler and data integration, Google search results

integration for GoFish

Role

Project Manager

Technical and Team Lead (8 dev + qa)

Java Developer

Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments

Managing, technical design and team leading of projects development.

Technology Experience

Spring Framework / JSP / JSTL / Struts Tiles, JavaScript / AJAX, JAXB WS, Acegi Security, JMS,

Hibernate, PHP; PostgreSQL; Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP

Technical Lead and Project Manager

Stanford Graduate School of Business, US

(Educational Institution; Education Management industry)

2004 2005 (9 months)

Alumni Consulting Team (ACT) Provides pro bono management consulting services to the

nonprofit community through a network of alumni volunteers.

Role

Technical and Team Lead (3 dev)

Project Manager

Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments

Managing and technical leading of all enhancements and support.

Architecture and bottle necks discovery of the existing web application using incorporating

to database sources, bug fixing, adding enhancements, support.

Technology Experience

Stored Procedures, JSTL/Struts, JavaScript; Apache Tomcat; MSSQL, SyBase

Java Developer and Technical Lead and Project Manager

U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School, US

(Educational Institution; Education Management industry)

2004 2004 (3 months)

O-Week - University newbie students orientation services shop.

Role

Technical and Team Lead (2 dev)

Java Developer

Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments

Design and implementation and further managing and support.

E-commerce web application for o-week (zerro) students, with discounting/promotions system

of several types. Implementation, adding enhancements, support.

Technology Experience

JSP/Servelts, JavaScript; Tomcat; MS SQL

Java Developer and Technical Lead and Project Manager

U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School, US

(Educational Institution; Education Management industry)

2004 2004 (4 months)

Career Management System for students.

Role

Technical and Team Lead (5 dev)

Java Developer

Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments

Design and implementation and further managing and support.

Ported desktop Visual Basic application to Java web enterprise application allowing

more quick and reliable administration of the students hiring process.

Technology Experience

JSP / Servelts, JavaScript; Apache Tomcat; MS SQL

Full (2000-2004, or more recent) employment history and other information are available at

Linkedin Profile.

Education

National University 'Ivan Franko', Lviv

Specialist, Financial Mathematics, Statistics, 1997 2002

Modules include: Databases, Object-orientated Programming, Web Programming

(HTML/JavaScript/Java/Applets), Theory of Computer Science, Pascal/Delphi Windows and

Network Programming, COM/DCOM Programming.

Diploma paper: "Stock Market Portfolio Optimization" (English).

Final project focused on a Windows (Delphi) application for optimal portfolio calculation.

Additional Information

Languages

English (advanced), Ukrainian (native)

Professional Interests

Constant self-education in new technologies, higly scalable architectures, software development

processes and standards, software architecture in general, leadership and management, agile

development, organization and self development, personal and professional effectiveness.

Industries: IT/Computer Software, Education/E-learning, Finance.

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