Java Team Leader

Ana Suarez Fernandez

Creative and highly motivated software professional who has been delivering and developing

software applications for over 15 years.

Experienced at leading cross-functional teams to deliver software using agile methodologies

(kanban, scrum, iterative delivery, XP)

Worked with customers such as DPD, LIME, BTC, Centrica, Aviva, Game and the UK Government

Specialist in OO design and architecture solutions and Java technologies (Java, spring, Junit,

TDD, Design Patterns, UML)

Very productive, dedicated and a pragmatic problem solver who can make best use of available

tools and technologies, provide technical leadership, guidance and communicate ideas to non-

technical audiences

Skills Matrix

Object oriented design, design patterns, solutions architectures, Java, Spring framework (IOC,

AOP, integration, batchAdmin, ws, unit testing), J2EE (servlets, EJBs, JSP, JMS),

webservices(soap, rest), Unit/Integration Testing (Junit, cucumber,stubby, Jbehave), continuous

integration(maven, Jenkins), tools(eclipse, netbeans, SVN, Git, soapUI, JIRA), data

processing(spring batchAdmin, ETL,BI), Authentication (JAAS, spring security, LDAP), CRM

integrations, web technologies(HTML, VXML, javascript), methodologies(Scrum,Kanban), team

leading(distributed and cross-functional teams, technical mentoring, code reviews, reusability and

quality, delivery process improvement), international customer management.

Employment History

06/2014 - now VoxGen, London/Berlin Development Manager

As a development manager, I ensure applications are delivered on time, with quality, in an

efficient manner and satisfying the needs of our customers.

I am heavily involved with customer teams distributed in several countries, to discuss their

needs and requirements and finding suitable solutions which can be delivered on a timely

manner

I work with the development team making special emphasis in identifying component

reusability and consistent solution architectures across applications. This reduces delivery

time and ensures better quality on the solutions.

I work with all major stakeholders to define scopes, delivery dates and assign appropriate

resources across projects.

I have created a process for the whole delivery team which ensures efficiency, quick

response times to critical issues, improves clarity and communication on the customer

solutions.

07/2009 – 06/2014 VoxGen, London/Berlin Applications Tech Architect

Technical architecture: responsible for development of extensible and configurable

solutions, following development industry standards, guaranteeing quality assurance and

ensuring customer satisfaction:

o Areas: web, voice, mobile, FB.

Leading and mentoring the development process, technical sessions, code reviews,

automated testing coverage and iterations and release planning across several teams:

o Internal group in Berlin and London, off-shore group in India and a specialized

Social Media development team in Madrid.

Defined and implemented an iterative and agile working methodology across the entire

delivery team and the customer, involving the whole life cycle of the project, from

requirements through LIVE deliverables and long term support.

Agile project planning and working methodologies applied across delivery team, team

leading, technical architecture and design.

07/2003 – 07/2009 VoxGen, London/Berlin Senior Developer

I designed and developed a bespoke JEE Spring framework that:

Enabled low-cost development of voice recognition telephony (VXML) applications

Allows business logic to be developed in an OO language (java), decoupling business logic

from user interface, and making solutions independent from proprietary voice-platforms

Allows the solution to be test-friendly, allowing automatic testing coverage

I was the senior developer and architect for the partnership between Voxgen Professional

Services and Cable and Wireless. My achievements included:

Helping the company move to an agile software methodology

Establishing a common technical infrastructure with well-defined architecture and

development best practices

Contributing to the adoption of ISO quality processes across the company

Mentoring new joiners and junior members

Holding presentations to share knowledge of processes and technologies

Driving improvements to the release and delivery process

I also lead the development of:

Several bespoke multimodal solutions (applications which allow voice input alongside

conventional mouse/keyboard inputs)

A voice biometric security solution for a UK financial institution

02/2002 – 07/2003 DHL Logistics, London Analyst Programmer

Analysis, design and development of a number of web applications, used for the tracking and

management of shipments between warehouses and final customer destinations.

Solutions built using:

Core J2EE technologies and design patters.

JAAS security

Data migration from legacy systems extracted as XML documents fed into Oracle

I promoted agile methodologies using an iterative lifecycle, pair programming, acceptance testing,

Unit testing and mocking

I was involved in project planning and coordination of development activities across a multi-

national team spread over three countries (UK, Sweden and India). I coordinated tasks across the

three teams and mentored other developers to ensure a consistent development across teams.

10/2000 – 12/2001 Sila Communications, London Developer

Design and development of a multi-threaded messaging gateway to send/receive SMS messages

from/to software applications and mobile phones via a GSM network aggregator. Skills used: UML,

design patterns, junit, mock objects, XML, java multi-thread libraries

The solution also had a Web front end for administration and configuration.

This was an agile project where we successfully used story cards, iterations, pair programming,

acceptance testing, unit testing and mocking.

12/1998 – 05/2000 Syseca Cantabrico, Spain Developer

I developed a web multi-tiered banking application with a middleware in CORBA/C++ against

Oracle DB.

I migrated the same application into Java technology using servlets, XML and Weblogic

02/1997 – 10/1997 Lider Informatica, Spain Graduate Developer

C++ CRM development with Navision (now Ms Financials) with highly exposure and engagement

with customer, dealing with change requests, requirements analysis and solution delivery

Industry Qualification

2014 Kanban Practitioner London

2011 Scrum Master London

2010 Spring Enterprise Developer London

2009 Spring Framework Developer London

2007 Sun Architect for the J2EE platform. London

2003 Sun Web developer. London

2002 Sun Java Programmer. London

Academic Qualification

1997-1999 Research Project for M-Eng degree Oviedo University, Spain

1992-1997 M-Eng degree in Computer Science Oviedo University, Spain

1990-1992 A-levels Spain

Contact Details

Address: Kopernikusstraße 11, 10245 Berlin

Contact: 004*-***-**** 1527

Skype: available upon request

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Email:

D.O.B: 06 August 1973

Nationality: dual, Spanish/British

Languages: English (proficient), Spanish (native), German (A1), Portuguese (A2)

References

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