Management Quality Assurance

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Lexington, MA 02421

SUMMARY A highly knowledgeable, self-motivated professional with demonstrated success in management, research, software

development, architecture and quality assurance, teaching/mentoring and problem solving: A New Paradigm

Thinker. A self-starter. Experience in large scale enterprise-wide software engineering, product development

lifecycles, enterprise and business processes, technical management, deployment and operations.

Adapts and succeeds in challenging settings: startup or establishedQA companies, product/IT development

organizations. Proven analytical and quantitative skills. Proficient in handling multiple projects. Interacts

effectively with people from diverse backgrounds.

Holds US DoD Secret Clearance.

STRENGTHS Architecture/Software Development Doer Pragmatic Business Sense

JAVA, J2EE Researcher Motivated Problem Solver

Databases Thinker Thrives on Challenge

RECENT

ACHIEVEMENTS

Data Services using ORM and EJB3

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• Rescheduling product architecture, design, development, management, operations

$2.9M winning proposal for US Air Force

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SOA Practitioners Guide

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Knowledge Management Technology Roadmap for the US Naval War College

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Portal Architecture for the Massachusetts Medicare System

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Identity and Access Management Architecture for a Retail Brokerage System

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Business Services Architecture for a Customer-Facing High-Volume Trading System

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Next Generation Architecture for Digital Archiving based on Service Oriented Architecture

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Architectural directions for the National Archives and Records Administration RFP

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Architecture for Enterprise Travel Management using Weblogic Portal

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J2EE implementation of Delta Airlines MYOB-Travel Portal.

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• J2EE framework for Enterprise Travel Management and implemented with Weblogic

Java-based Web Services using SOAP and EJBs for Weblogic and iPortal Application Servers

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EXPERIENCE General Dynamics, C4 Systems, Natick, MA

Technical Software Development Consultant 2009 – present

Led middleware data services application architecture, design and development for the NSA Key

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Management Infrastructure (e.g. user management, enrollment, rule and role based access, naming

and attribute authorities, error handling) with hands-on coding.

Designed and developed several JAVA EJB3 components using Weblogic 10, Oracle 11g, JPA,

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object relational mapping with Toplink/Eclipselink, queries using JQL.

• Defined data models with PowerDesigner, developed SQL and PL/SQL with Oracle SQL

developer

• Created entity models using Netbeans, Eclipselink Workbench and Dali

Designed Java/EJB components in UML with JBuilder TogetherJ, tested with JUnit. Used

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Clearcase for version control.

Defined interfaces for SOAP-based Web Services, tested them using SOAPUI.

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• Integrated with Layer7 for Security and leveraged ActiveVOS for processes using BPEL.

Provided expert advice in software architecture and development in areas such as caching,

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transactions, concurrency, ORM, EJB3

Recommended several open source technologies such as Object to Object mapping (Dozer),

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EJBJunit, Aspect oriented programming, cruise control, wikis.

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EXPERIENCE Cover4Me/Irbe Corporation, Wellesley, MA

CTO/Architect 2/2008 – 2009

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Defined/architected/managed the product and technology at an early start-up for hourly workforce

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rescheduling in retail environments using BPM and SOA based on Web, SMS text, IM and e-Mail

communication.

Chose, directed and contributed development using JAVA, JSF, RichFaces, AJAX, Web 2.0,,

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Spring, JPA,Hibernate, Quartz, Postgres, Tomcat, NetBeans, Apache on Linux/Windows, Amazon

(AWS, C2, S3), FaceBook.

Hands-on involvement: requirements, architecture, coding, testing, deployment and operations.

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Developed SMS and email communications using SOA and broker architectures.

• Hired and managed a diverse engineering team (in- and out-sourced) of business analysts,

developers and testers.

Drove the product requirements, architecture, design and agile software development using

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SCRUM.

Planned/executed/improved product development, QA and deployment processes

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• Defined and managed engineering schedules, directly reporting to the Board

Managed the IT capital expenditures and lights-on costs. Ran the IT operations in production.

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Interfaced with customers and investors.

CellExchange, Cambridge, MA

Office of the CTO

Senior Architect 2006 – 2008

Provided architecture and solutions vision. Head the technical team for defining the technical

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portions of all federal proposals and customer engagements. Research on companies, systems and

technologies of interest. Determine the feasibility of technical solutions, pricing and staffing. Oversee the

architecture specification, determining design and development approaches, and product selection for

all proposals using various technologies centered on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on

J2EE platform, portals with Spring-Hibernate framework, portlets, WSRP and JSF, and Web Services,

distributed databases, messaging platforms using enterprise service bus (ESB) and .NET.

• Wrote the key technical volume for the US Air Force RFP to win a $2.9M program.

Provided enterprise architecture solutions to federal government agencies and commercial clients.

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• Manage technology prototype for Creek Nation’s Business Intelligence using Oracle.

• Provide technology directions for the Strategic Information Management for the Duval County

Public School.

Program architect for the Air Operation Combat Support, Global Logistics Support Center, Air

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Force. Provide architecture vision, design and technical solutions for improving logistical command and

control decision support and supply chain management processes with innovative approaches. Manage

the technical team for the collaborative delivery of the technical prototypes, pilots using agile

development approaches. Interface with Air Force representatives, SCRA, Air Force Institute of

Technology.

• Program architect for the Naval War College, Future of the Library – Knowledge Management.

Defined technology for the knowledge and collaboration management and social networking. Directed

prototype developments using Web 2.0 and 3.0 techniques. Created technology implementation road

map. Interfaced faculty and IT to chart solutions.

• Provided best practices for the operations at the Time Warner Cable Data Center for managing

Application Server farms.

• Actively participate in OMG’s SOA Consortium as steering committee member.

• Lead New England BEA User Group.

• Author Business Service Information Library, part of SOA Practitioners’ Guide Series and leverage

practices based on ITIL.

• Presented SOA Practitioners’ Guide at the Federal CIO Council’s SOA CoP eGovernment

Conference, participated at the SOA Best Practices Panel moderated by Zapthink.

• Panelist on SOA Governance at the Mass Technology Leadership Council Event.

• Created Innovation Ladder and organized delivery processes to the customers using workshop

approach.

• Managed and implemented SharePoint Portal for corporate IT.

• Build a technical vision for the sustainment of Forces in Combat for the US Air Force based 2006

on Quadrennial Defense Report, Logistics Doctrine, And Air Operations Concept of Operations.

• Provided the solution architecture for the Mental Health Medical Record System, US Army based

on U3 Flash Drive platform with Portable Apps and J2EE/Oracle integration.

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• Defined the search architecture for the incident management for the BP Health and Security

Department based on Lucene and Oracle.

• Wrote the technical volume response to Navy Personal Research Science and Training proposal.

Played key role in the selection of technical team members. Contributed to the management volume

and oral presentation. Proposed an overall enterprise architecture for the workforce modeling of the

Navy Personnel System. Interfaced with sub-contractors: Antheon and SAIC.

• Crafted the technical solution for the Performance Monitoring Portal for the Office of the Secretary

of Defense, Deployment Health Support Directorate. Brought an open-source centric solution based on

Liferay Portal, Afresco Content Management and JBOSS application server and business process

modeling.

• Determined the CellExchange’s participation in the Department of Homeland Security, e-

Recruitment proposal primed by Anteon based on technical requirements.

• Provided technical guidance to the overall look and feel of the company website and the content of

services. Directed and guided the development team at the India offices.

• Acted as an advisor for enterprise architecture to Cambridge Technology Enterprise (a Cell

Exchange Company) on architecture workshops for Colgate-Palmolive Hill’s Pet Nutrition, British

Petroleum and National Mutual Grange account.

CGI-AMS, Andover, MA

Consulting Technical Architect 2005 – 2006

• Responsible for portal architecture of the Medicare self service system at the Executive Office of

the Health and Human Services, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

• Oversaw the architecture specification, determining design and development approaches, and

product selection for the portal system working with Spring-Hibernate framework, JSR-168 Portlets,

WSRP and JSR-127/JSF, and Web Services.

• Created models for portal architecture including vertical and horizontal portals, consumer and

producer portals, and integration with shared security using SUN Java Enterprise System Identity and

Access Management.

• Provided architectural guidance to a team of 5 engineers and led the development efforts.

Interfaced with the prime contractor [EDS] and Commonwealth of Massachusetts teams.

• Conducted prototypes and proof of concepts using Eclipse/myEclipse/BRA workshop/Sun Studio,

Weblogic/Pluto/JetSpeed/Sun Portals, Hibernate, MyFaces, AXIS and XFire, XMLBeans, and Oracle

database.

JP Morgan Chase, Boston, MA

JP Morgan Invest, Retail Brokerage, BrownCo 2005

Vice President, Business Services Architect

• Responsible for enterprise business services architecture overseeing architecture specification,

determining design and development approaches, and product selection for trading, security, identity

and access management, caching, persistence, component framework, rules engine, transactions,

system deployment, business process modeling, cryptography, and domain model.

• Provided architectural direction to the Enterprise Architecture Initiative based on componentization,

Service Oriented Architecture [SOA] and Event-Driven Architecture [EDA] using J2EE with Weblogic

portal, integrator and application servers.

• Reviewed/Approved all business requirements documents, use cases, functional specifications,

high-level and detailed-design documents. Charted architectural directions for design and construction

for the development teams. Interfaced with a development team of 20 on a daily basis for code review

and best practices.

• Provided approaches to middle-tier architecture for restructuring and refactoring retail brokerage

application in JAVA running on Weblogic J2EE server using Oracle on Windows and Solaris platforms

and ADP/SIS on Tandem platform.

• Proposed a four-layer architecture model following business component factory fundamentals.

• Spearheaded xml/web-services to be built on component-services using business objects with

Spring framework.

• Defined the Identity and Access Management Architecture using Siteminder and Sun LDAP Server,

Entitlements Architecture using BEA Aqualogic Enterprise Security.

• Defined persistence architecture using Oracle Toplink with Spring abstraction layer and Hibernate

as a alternative.

• Defined caching architecture using Tangosol Coherence, Apache Cache and Jcache.

• Defined SSO architecture using Siteminder and SAML.

• Defined encryption architecture using RSA Crypto-J and Key Management Server.

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• Created architecture for entitlements, profile and user management components for Weblogic

Portal.

• Defined architectural approaches for securities trading, portfolio management, brokerage account

opening and management.

• Defined identity store architecture

• Negotiated licensing and purchase agreements, pricing and statement of work with vendors on

identity management (CA/Netegrity), entitlements (Securent, BEA) rules engine (Fair Isaac Blaze

Advisor), cryptography (RSA) and trading (NEXA).

• Contributed to the forming of SOA Alliance.

Iron Mountain Information Management, Boston, MA

Digital Archives 2003 – 2005

Principal Engineer/Architect

• Responsible for developing architectural directions and vision using standards, commercially

available and emerging technologies.

• Defined the to-be architecture for digital asset management based on standards, service-oriented

architecture, open archival information systems, and portals.

• Led Architecture Working Group and Created master system architecture from subsystem

architectures of 8 other architects.

• Defined a service-oriented, event-driven architecture using binary XML and Fast Web Services.

• Oversaw security architecture including single-sign-on, SAML, WS-Security, XML key

management, identity management.

• Provided architectural direction to the National Archives and Administration RFP. Worked in prime

integrator selection process. Interfaced with capture management from Northrop-Grumman, Raytheon,

and Harris in regard to the technical volume. Prepared legal briefs for all technical aspects of proposals.

• Provide architectural directions for EMC Documentum integration based on Web Services, Identity

and Access Management for the Enterprise (IBM, SUN, RSA, NOVEL, ORACLE), Operations

Architecture and the Storage Architecture using IBM Total Storage System DR550 for data center.

• Reviewed and responded customer RFPs and RFIs,

• Created a Service Oriented Architecture using Web Services, SOAP/XML, UDDI, J2EE and BPEL

standards.

• Researched Open Archival Information Systems [OAIS] and its impact to Enterprise Values Archive

Architecture [EVAA].

• Participated in Systems Architecture and Storage Architecture evaluations.

• Redesigned data ingestion component for SEC compliant e-mail archiving with TIBCO Business

Works, MQ series, and ORACLE.

• Analyzed and reviewed DoD 5015.2 STD specifications for records management. Performed gap

analyses.

• Created templates for Architectural Documentation using IEEE 1471-2000 Recommended Practice

for Recommended Practice for Architectural Description of Architectural Description of Software-

Intensive Systems Software-Intensive Systems.

• Provided comparative analyses for Federal Enterprise Architecture.

• Analyzed and recommended identity and access management vendors, provided vision for

enterprise-wide security architecture for software, data encryption, key management, authentication and

authorization.

• Evaluated BPEL standards and its integration to current web services architecture under Weblogic.

• Developed software for digital data/image archiving using Weblogic, JAVA, XML, PVCS, ANT,

UNIX, TIBCO, MQSeries, Rational RequisitePro and Rose, ORACLE, Snowbound. Reviewed code.

• Researched and recommended enterprise reporting tools for business ingtelligence.

• Oversaw intellectual property rights and patent application process with legal counsel.

• Contributed to the reengineering of new hire process within the IT department which reduced turn

around time.

Oracle - Amadeus e-Travel, Waltham, MA

Waltham Development Branch 2001 – 2003

Technical Lead

• Provided expertise for all aspects of J2EE architecture, design and development using Weblogic

Application Server in a clustered environment with massive Oracle databases. Performed the leading

role in system analysis/design and integration. Provided all necessary inputs for project management.

Defined component models and created logical/implementation model using Rational Rose UML.

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Specified all requirements, implementation plans to move development environment from C++/IIS to

J2EE/WebLogic. Advised to upper management in every stage of transition. Provided technical

direction to team members for implementation specifics with alternatives. Mentored others in areas of

expertise and best practices of JAVA development. Worked with QA, integration, and production groups

for successful rollout of newer versions of products.

• Designed and implemented RDBMS based security realm, authentication/authorization using

Weblogic Portal.

• Designed and developed Hotel Component for Enterprise Travel Management using SOAP, JDOM,

SAX and J2EE on Weblogic. Implemented MVC framework.

• Led a 7-engineer development team coordinating day-to-day activities, tasks, etc.

• Designed object model and JSP Tags for Map component using MapQuest and Vicinity.

• Developed a multi tier J2EE application for Enterprise Travel Management (Airline Pricing and

Search Engine using ITA for Delta Airlines) using JMS, JSP, and JSP tags, EJBs, JDBC, Weblogic

clusters with IIS proxy, ORACLE, XML. Wrote all back-end “plumbing” code from ground-up. Provided

all code templates and defined all elements of Java development.

• Implemented J2EE patterns. Developed MBean clients, JMS components, Bean managed Entity

and stateless/stateful Session EJBs. Devised unit tests with junit. Reviewed and contributed to the data

model using ERWIN. Created the automated build structure using Jakarta-Ant.

• Developed functional prototypes with Weblogic Portal and Integrator using Weblogic platform 7.0.

• Researched and developed prototypes for profile, user/group management, and entitlements for

Weblogic Portal Server to lay out the basis for architectural design of the next generation product.

• Led performance testing to tune Weblogic, JDBC, and JVM parameters. Used Sitraka/JProfiler and

Segue/Silk Performer to identify bottlenecks. Achieved 3-fold performance improvement.

• Investigated ILOG JRules and created prototypes.

IONA Technologies PLC, Waltham, MA

iPortal Server Development 2000 – 2001

Principal Software Engineer

• Designed and developed the AutoUpdate production Web Service for XMLBus that will allow users

to automatically retrieve newer software versions. Used SOAP/HTTP, XML, XSD, Java Beans, JSP,

HTML, and Weblogic. Created documentation.

• Investigated CapeConnect (www.capeclear.com) and provided product technical analyses. Created

EJBs and Java classes for web services using SOAPDirect.

• Developed EJBs to verify adherence to SOAP and WSDL specifications using Weblogic and iPortal

Server.

• Developed XMLBus web services technology demonstration (www.xmlbus.com) deriving examples

from finance, gravity, elasticity, electricity, and geometry.

• Created web services using SOAP (Apache, Idooxoap, XMLBus, IBM-WSTK) and EJBs on

Weblogic and iPortal application servers.

• Investigated Borland JBuilder soapwiz toolkit that creates web services. Developed server and

client side JAVA code for web services. Proposed development design for Forte integration.

• Researched UDDI, WSDL, web services, SOAP over HTTP using IBM’s web services toolkit

(WSTK) with Websphere application server, Bowstreet-JUDDI, UDD4J, and Apache-Soap. Developed

proof-of-concept Java applications. Used DB2 database and tools to test local UDDI servers (v1).

Researched UDDI v2 and proposed an architecture for the UDDI registry development using J2EE.

Compared UDDI registry with ebXML registry and determined how to co-locate both registries.

• Architect and team lead for design, and development of J2EE based search component (4+ tiers)

for Internet portal using AltaVista and Autonomy search engines; managed 4 engineers. Designed and

implemented session and entity EJBs, JSP tags, JSP pages, integration APIs, Servlets, and HTML.

Used UML, iPortal Application Server, Tomcat, XML. Developed a web crawler to index portal site

contents. Investigated SoniqMQ JMS and message driven EJBs for asynchronous calls to third party

applications

• Created iPortal Server J2EE Commerce Components using enterprise Java beans (EJB): catalog,

inventory, user, order, and account management. Designed a 3-tier architecture: database, relational-

object mapping, and EJB. Modeled the e-commerce logical data using ER/win. Implemented the

physical data model with ORACLE. Mapped database models to object models using a Relational

Object Framework and JDBC. Developed session beans for all business objects and interactions using

J2EE compliant IPAS/Weblogic. Provided XML interface to the fourth client tier. Developed sample

fourth-tier client code using servlets and Java Server Pages-JSP (Apache Tomcat, Java Web Server).

Implemented Open Catalog Format using Oracle. Oversaw sample data generation and QA efforts.

• Contributor to due-diligence process for acquisition of KnowledgeTrack technology: attended

technical reviews, evaluated products, and wrote executive briefs.

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• Spearheaded transition from CVS to ClearCase: Created a build framework using Jakarta-Ant;

Debugged and used relational object framework tools written in Java. Created Bash shell scripts and

makefiles. Tracked defects using Bugzilla/Vantive. Trained sales and support engineers. Evaluated third

party products. Presented products to customers at IONA World 2000.

Watershed Technologies, Waltham, MA

Development 1999 - 2000

Senior Development Engineering Consultant

• Developed EJB components for e-commerce catalog integration using Weblogic. Designed session

EJBs using Weblogic for the NECX e-Commerce application. Created servlets using Java Web Server.

Refactored legacy JAVA code by writing several EJBs. Wrote XSL to generate HTML from XML.

• Contributed to the Java-based Relational Object Framework [ROF].

• Developed SQL to connect NECX ERP system using ORACLE financials. Used OO/Relational

mapping tools (Sybase & ORACLE).

• Member of the core team which successfully sold the company to Iona Technologies.

Parametric Technology Corporation, Waltham, MA

Server Applications

QA & Process Engineering 1998 - 1999

Consultant

• Designed and built a JAVA framework for unit and component testing, including logging and

statistics. Created Java components for XA transactions against ORACLE database. Evaluated and

used JavaStar in testing. Developed the strategy and requirements for testing Product Data

Management application product [Pro/INTRALINK] written in JAVA.

Led developmental SQA projects for Server Applications and product data management group.

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Formed and managed The Internal Test Engineering, a group of 10+ engineers of varying backgrounds

and technical skills, to restructure the testing approaches and to guide the team to create a new set of

regression tests by introducing concepts like core reference data, fundamental regression tests.

Established a QA workflow process to track the life cycle of regression tests using the Intranet and

ORACLE. Reviewed and analyzed all requirements, test cases and their implementations. Developed

QA procedures for the product data management [PDM] product, Pro/INTRALINK, on NT & UNIX

platforms incorporating Pro/ENGINEER CAD objects. Reverse engineered earlier test cases for the

MFC-based client server application for Pro/INTRALINK. Reviewed and assured the quality of ORACLE

Database Management Utility tools written in TCL/TK on UNIX & NT platforms using white-box testing.

Developed sample Java Code to demonstrate persistence mechanism of WINDCHILL. Oversaw

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installation and implementation of development environment for WINDCHILL, a JAVA based client-

server application on NT and UNIX platforms.

Developed programs in PERL, SQL, Java and UNIX scripts. Tracked software bugs using

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SCOPUS. Used Rational ClearCase for version control. Installed and maintained IIS WEB servers,

ORACLE databases, JAVA development environments (JDK, JFC, Visual Café, Rational Rose for

Java), MS FrontPage, and Apache WEB Servers.

• Presented concepts of software development and its quality assurance process in seminars and

executive meetings.

Delphi Information Systems, Billerica, MA 1997 - 1998

Consultant

• Developed software using Korn-shell, PERL, SQL*PLUS, and PL/SQL for ORACLE databases

housing insurance data. Installed and configured Oracle databases on NT servers. Utilized

DataJunction and SQL*LOAD to load, import and export data.

• Created programs to migrate data from mainframe to ORACLE. Developed GUI driven tools using

Visual Basic with RDO and Oracle OLE to identify errors originating from the mapping of Accord

insurance forms to ORACLE.

• Identified QA needs for relational databases: On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP). Designed

and implemented testing schemes and regressions to support successful conversion of insurance data

from Legacy–based formats to Oracle7.3 Client/Server architecture: data model/schema comparisons

and functional, system and performance testing.

• Contributed to the GUI testing of CD Global Visual Basic application with white-box testing using

SQL, and with black-box testing using SQA Robot and Visual Test. Reviewed procedures and code for

the GUI automation using Rational SQA Manager. Used Visual Source Safe for version control. Logged

problems to WEB Problem Tracking System and used Lotus Notes for reporting. Provided guidance to

the junior staff.

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Miller Systems, Inc, Brookline, MA

Development 1997 - 1998

Consulting UNIX/C++ Developer

Developed, expanded and maintained e-Commerce software in C/C++ on UNIX [Solaris] platform, which

provides access and registration for events managed by MHA via HTTPS. Enhanced existing C/C++ back-

end programs. Custom designed and developed JavaScript front-end programs to register for Comnet,

MACWORLD, Telecommuting & Home Office Exposition & Conference, and E3 Expo. Developed tools in

Korn/Bash shell.

Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA

Fidelity Retail Customer Group, Technology 1996 - 1997

Consultant

• Identified QA needs for relational databases [Data Warehousing]. Designed & developed testing

schemes and regressions to support successful migration of Retail Marketing Database from Teradata

to SP2/Informix environment: Temporal metrics, data model/schema comparisons, and congruency,

functional, system and performance testing. Built a decision control matrix approach to fully automate

QA processes for monthly database refresh. Developed and maintained QA processes. Wrote test

plans and reports. Reviewed documents.

• Created SQL and 4GL for Teradata and SP2/Informix.

• Developed PERL programs and UNIX shell scripts [Bourne, C, Korn]. Researched to implement

Object-Oriented software quality assurance methods to C++ and Java programming. Versioned source

code with CVS. Performed testing using PLATINUM Autosys (JIL) job control package.

• Developed and maintained Intranet Web Pages with Netscape SuiteSpot. Identified bugs in

development processes and used Lotus notes to log and track software defects.

• Reported on the One-to-One Marketing Approach by Peppers & Rogers and its impact to software

development and quality assurance.

EPSILON Inc, Burlington, MA

System Test and Release

InfoQuest Operations 1996- 1997

Consultant

• Added C++ classes to EPI [Epsilon Parallel Infrastructure], a tool-set for writing high performance

applications, using ROUGEWAVE. Wrote queries using Epsilon Query Language (EQL).

• Developed and implemented QA methodologies: wrote test plans and reports, reviewed

documents, and created automated test tools. Identified SQA needs for databases in hierarchical and

parallel architecture. Reported directly to the client to accelerate QA issues. Designed testing schemes

and regression suites for a number of QA factors: functionality, reliability, correctness, audit trail, and

referential integrity. Applied white & black box testing form C++ program suites which extract/submit

information [feeder preprocessing & update] to/from propriety marketing databases in hierarchical and

parallel architecture. Introduced new testing concepts: data subsets, synthetic data and reference data.

• Created Generic Testing Tools [GTT] suite on UNIX system to test C++ programs.

• Developed shell scripts [Bourne, C, Korn] and PERL programs to test C++ programs on IBM-AIX

machines. Created automated testing scheme for Command Line Interface of System Access Layer

package. Used Atria/CLEARCASE for version control in development cycle. Performed testing

procedures on IBM SP2 parallel machines with Unison MAESTRO-JCL job control package. Identified

bugs in software. Used Lotus Notes for Problem Tracking: monitored their status from inception to

resolution. Supervised audit trail testing. Trained new team members and oversaw their progress.

TERADYNE Inc., Boston, MA

Central Engineering Services 1995 - 1996

Consultant

• Developed PERL, JAVA and C programs and UNIX shell [Bourne, C] scripts to support system

administration and network control tasks for a network of UNIX workstations running SunOS and

SOLARIS.

• Implemented database for backup-tape-archive and search engines. Created a front-end for

Revision Control System [RCS] using CGI. Created a database to track performance and maintenance

of 4000+ Solaris boxes.

• Established Intranet Solutions: automated polling of system parameters and reporting scheme for

Distributed Defect Tracking System (DDTS).

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• Modified NIS, DNS and automounter maps. Installed operating system and software packages on

Sun Workstations. Installed and supported CSO Nameserver [qi/ph]. Installed/Maintained servers, and

browser. Created Central Engineering Services Intranet site. Worked within the systems team to

provide computational requests.

INSTITUTE of GEOPHYSICS and PLANETARY PHYSICS, La Jolla, CA

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD 1994 - 1995

Programmer-Analyst

Responsible for programming, software development, systems administration, supervision of daily

operations and maintenance of data acquisition and archives for geophysical and geodetic research.

Streamlined GPS data acquisition by creating DASS [Data Acquisition Software Suite] software package:

daily download via modem, analysis, categorization, and storage for retrieval over the Internet. Reorganized

data archives by introducing concepts of MIS & hierarchical storage management (HSM).

Managed/Administered a LAN of PCs and SUN/HP UNIX workstations, and jukeboxes. Restructured data

archives and streamlined routine data acquisition. Supported bulletin board service and internet-FTP.

Purchased/Installed computer hardware & software. Interfaced with team members to provide computational

requests. Created/Maintained WWW pages. Developed effective software [shell scripts and OS/2 REXX]

on PCs & UNIX workstations (SUN/ HP).

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA 1987 - 1994

Earth Resources Laboratory, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

Postdoctoral Associate

Graduate Research Assistant

Researched/Applied geophysical and geodetic methods to model plate kinematics and crustal deformation.

Analyzed/Interpreted Global Positioning System [GPS], gravity, magnetic, seismic, seismological, thermal,

and geological data. Formulated a tectonic model for the Eastern Mediterranean by analyzing Global

Positioning System data: Euler pole definition for the Anatolian plate. Developed algorithms to simulate plate

kinematics using finite element [FEM] method. Led GPS surveying field teams at various locations in US

and Turkey. Developed a multitude of scientific software on UNIX (FORTRAN, shell script, C) for

geophysical data modeling, estimation theory, statistical error analysis, digital signal processing, Kalman

filtering, etc. Tailored methods to standardize GPS data analysis.

Created software package to model plate motions via Euler vectors using GPS/SLR velocities. Devised

generalized inversion methods to model crustal thickness from the Bouguer gravity. Developed algorithms to

simulate plate kinematics using finite element method. Administered/Maintained UNIX [DEC & SUN]

workstations. Installed computer hardware & software. Ported software packages from SUN to DEC

platform. Instructed and supervised data analysis. Coordinated the flow of information between participating

institutions. Collaborated with visiting scientists. Wrote progress reports and scientific papers, presented the

results at international meetings. Developed WWW pages.

AFFILIATIONS SOA Consortium

OMG

New England Java Users Group

New England Weblogic Users Group

AFCEA Bedford/Lexington Chapter

IAC/ICA Enterprise Architecture SIG

Service Oriented Architecture Community of Practice

Java Community Process

MIT Alumni Association

International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association (IKYTA)

RECENT ACTIVITIES

MWI Negotiation Workshop, 2007

Fourth Service Oriented Architecture eGov Conference, Speaker and Organizer, 2007

Third Service Oriented Architecture eGov Conference, Speaker, 2007

Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, Panel Member, 2007

No Fluff Just Stuff, Java Symposium, 2006

No Fluff Just Stuff, Java Symposium, 2005

American Management Association, 5-day MBA, 2004

American Management Association, Communication, 2004

MIT-Sloan, Managing Technical Professionals and Organizations, 2004

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SKILLS

Languages

JAVA, SQL, UML, XML, PERL, UNIX shell scripting (Bourne, C, Korn, Bash), BASIC, Visual BASIC, C++, C,

4GL, PL/SQL, FORTRAN, HTML, JavaScript, CGI, REXX, LaTeX

Operating Systems

Windows-NT/2000/XP, UNIX (Sun-Solaris, Compaq-Ultrix, HP-UX, IBM-AIX, NextStep), Linux, OS/2 Warp

Database

Oracle, SqlServer, Sybase, DB2, Informix, Teradata, Access, Hypersonic, Cloudscape, PointBase

Application Servers

Weblogic, iPortal Application Server, WebSphere, Tomcat

Portal Servers

Weblogic, Jetspeed, Websphere, Sun, Liferay, Pluto

Hardware

PC, Sun, Compaq, HP-UX, IBM-AIX, NextStep, Macintosh, IBM SP2 Parallel Machines,

Teradata Parallel Machines

Software

Rational Rose, ClearCase, Ant, Eclipse, Perforce,VisualCafe, JBuilder, emacs, Bugzilla, WebPTS, PVCS, CVS,

Vantive, SCOPUS QualityTeam, DDTS, Lotus Notes, CVS, Visual Source Safe, SCCS, RCS

EDUCATION Ph.D. - Geophysics, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences 1994

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

M.S. - Geophysical Engineering 1987

Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

B.S. - Geophysical Engineering 1985

Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

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