Developer Java

Christian Edstr m

Sigfridsvaegen *, *** ** Haegersten, Stockholm, Sweden

*** (703) 074-615 *********.********@*****.***

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Senior Developer/IT-Architect with more than 13 years of experience in a

banking and financial institution environment. Demonstrated success in IT

architecture, software development and Liaison Officer expatriate

assignment in Bangalore, India. Software development life cycle experience

using RUP and agile methods such as SCRUM.

Looking for a new and challenging position that will make use of existing

abilities and knowledge and also further my career and professional

development.

Technical skills

Platforms: Solaris/UNIX, Microsoft Windows, IBM z/OS

Languages: Java, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, DHTML, HTML, XML, CSS, BPEL,

Cobol

Methods and Modelling: OOAD, MVC, UML, Design and Architectural Patterns,

RUP, Agile (SCRUM), Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Test-Driven Design (TDD)

Persistence: Oracle, MS SQL, DB2, Gemstone (Object-oriented Database),

Hibernate

Tools: Eclipse, RAD (IBM), Maven, Ant, Quality Center, ClearCase,

SourceSafe, CVS

J2EE frameworks and tools: J2EE, EJB, Servlets, JSP, JSF, SOA, Web

Services, AJAX, Sun JDK/JRE, JNI, JDBC, Log4j, JUnit, SWING, JSON,

REST/RESTful

Misc. Open Source: Spring, Struts, Apache

Containers: WebSphere, Apache, JBoss, WebSphere Process Server.

Key Skills

Software Development and IT Architecture

Experience in working in projects with offshore team delivery

Domain knowledge banking, retail banking, investment banking, insurance

Strong interpersonal skills

Highly experienced working closely with the business side and translating

their requirements to technical artefacts

Delivery of high-visibility, transaction intensive, cross-technology

projects

Willing to travel up to 50%

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IT Architect/Senior Developer June 2009 - present

Swedbank, Stockholm, Sweden (Swedbank is a full-service bank for both

private individuals and companies in the home markets Sweden, Estonia,

Latvia and Lithuania and is the largest retail bank in Sweden)

Information Technology Department

Manage part of the design aiming to migrate a large VB6 application to Java

Actively participating in design and implementation of responsive

design/mobile web capabilities for Swedbank's J2EE n-tier distribution

platform

Created design and hands-on development exposing REST services consumed by

native mobile applications (iOs, Android)

Designed and implemented a process with use of IBM's Business Processing

Modeling product suite.

Involved in the recruitment process of Software Java Developers and IT

Architects

Supervise code reviews and reviews of software architectural descriptions

Key Technologies: J2EE, UML, MVC, REST/Restful, BPEL, WebSphere, WebSphere

Process Server, Spring, Hibernate, AJAX, Oracle

Liaison Officer June 2008 - June 2009

Swedbank (and Logica CMG/CGI), Bangalore, India

(Swedbank Liaison located offshore at the ODC (Offshore Development Center)

in Bangalore with objective to secure the productivity and deliveries of

the vendor offshore team. The ODC was established for delivery of

application development services on Swedbank's distributed platform)

Responsible Technical lead representing Swedbank in Bangalore India on a

one year expatriate assignment

Managed to outperform established KPI's for the Liaison assignment

measuring, among other things, suggested areas of improvement in order to

improve productivity of the offshore team

Provided architectural and design guidance and leadership, supervised

certification process of vendor software developers, testers, project

managers and architects forming the offshore vendor J2EE/Java core team

Liaising all technical, cultural and management issues

Supervised code reviews

Responsible for quality review of the offshore project deliveries

Received recognition and cash award for pioneer assignment at Swedbank IT

IT Architect/Senior Developer June 2006 - June 2008

Swedbank, Stockholm, Sweden

Set technical direction and evaluated emerging technologies to meet long

and short-term business objectives

Team leader on numerous projects utilizing Java, Java EE, Enterprise Java

Bean with connectivity to backend system layer

Assigned technical expert in due diligence covering outsourcing of

application development and maintenance

Continuous contribution in design and implementation of solutions implied

by regulatory and mandatory directives for financial institutions operating

in European Union (for example LEI, Mifid, Basel II)

Produced design, coordinated team of developers and hands on implementation

of stop-loss functionality in Swedbank's online trading system

Key Technologies: Java/J2EE, UML, Servlets, Ant, Maven, Struts, EJB, XML,

JSF, JSP, SQL, Webservices, WebSphere Message Broker, DB2, Oracle,

Hibernate

Software Developer Java/J2EE August 1999 - May 2006

Swedbank, Stockholm, Sweden

Gained experience from 15+ development projects, migration projects and

integration projects with a large delivery in Swedbank's Java and J2EE

platform. Application development covering many different business areas

and all the layers including packaging layer (portal), service layer

(application), business component and webservices, backend system layer.

Focus on consumer and retail banking and stock trading online - transaction

intensive e-business solutions with focus on security, scalability and

performance

Developed a large Client/Server Swing application.

Migrated a system from object-oriented database and application server

solution to WebSphere and Oracle

Designed, developed and tested a component integrated to a third party API

delivering stock market information used in financial end-user consumer

applications.

Key Technologies: Java/J2EE, Servlets, Gemstone, Multithreading,

Serialization, Socket programming, Struts, EJB, XML, JSP, SQL, XML, Ant,

IBM Mainframe, Cobol, DB2, Oracle, Hibernate

Volunteer

Developed a website using Joomla for a non-profit organization in Stockholm

promoting a sustainable, eco-friendly future for housing associations

Created an E-commerce website using OpenCart

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Computer Science 1999, Stockholm University/Royal Institute of

Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Economics/Social Science Program 1996, Gymnasium of Fredrika Bremer,

Stockholm, Sweden

CERTIFICATES

Certified IT Architect, 2007, The Swedish Computer Society (the independent

body for the ICT, information and communications technology professionals

in Sweden), Stockholm, Sweden

SUN certified Java programmer 2004, SUN Microsystems, Stockholm

Professional development

Numerous training in information technology disciplines like java server

programming, Swing and thick client programming, Corba, WebSphere

administration etc

Attended JavaOne developer conferences in San Francisco

Attended Gartner technology conferences

Additional Skill

Proficient in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Visio

High attention to detail

Strong analytical skills

Strong interpersonal skills

English (Fluent); Swedish (Fluent); Finnish (Moderate); Russian (Novice);

Hindi (Novice)

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