software engineer

CLAUDIANUS “CLAUDE” K ADJAI

Aurora, Colorado ****3

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Results-oriented IT Professional with 7 years of software development and operational technology leadership experience. Expertise in object oriented multi-tiered application and architecture development in multi-platform environments and batch processing. Excellent team player with solid hard-working ethic, strong analytical skills and the ability to integrate business goals, IT requirements and end-user needs. Excel in fast-paced, dynamic and time sensitive delivery environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Design

 Application and Application Architecture Design

 Application Modeling using UML/ Rational Unified Process

 Object Oriented Application Design and Modeling

 User Interface and user experience design

 Requirement Development

 Business Process Design

 Interface with external systems and batch processing

 Data Modeling

 Tools: Rational Rose, Rational Software Architect.

Application Development

 Languages: Java/J2EE, JSP, VB.Net, ASP.Net, PL/SQL, XML, shell scripting

 Databases: Oracle 9i and 10g, MS SQL, Sybase, HSQL

 IDEs: Eclipse, MS Visual Studio .Net

 Build: Ant, Maven (novice)

 Platforms: Windows, Solaris, Linux (on a VMware)

 Frameworks: MVC, Spring Framework, Hibernate, Spring Batch, CXF, JBossWS

 Version Control Tools: MS Source Safe, Serena, Subversion, ClearCase

Project Management

 Project Planning,

 Estimating

 Project Monitoring

 Resource Planning & Staffing

 Business Process Re-Engineering

 Business Acumen

 Methodologies: Waterfall, Scrum (agile methodology)

 Tools: MS Project, MS Excel, ScrumWorks

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ACCENTURE LLC, Denver, Colorado 2002 - 2009

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company.

Application Specialist /Team Lead (2008 – 2009)

Project: Idaho Department of Health and Welfare – Welfare System Transfer

• Managed, coached and mentored a team of five (5) software developers to customize the batch and interface component of a J2EE Welfare System to meet business and technology needs for the State of Idaho.

• Directed several cross-functional teams to assess business and technology requirements and determine areas for batch and interface customization.

• Created strategy and plan by using “gap analysis” techniques to map technology requirements to stringent timelines.

• Assessed and evaluated risks for the project and apprised client management of potential issues and solutions.

• Delivered full-functionality of the first two releases ahead of schedule implementing 100% features agreed upon with the product owner.

• Significantly reduced processing time for client recipients who originally experienced 1-2 week lag time. Enabled recipient’s immediate response in processing claims.

Technical Lead (2007)

Project: Starz Entertainment Group – Movie Download Service Billing System Implementation

• Implemented and designed a low cost PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) architecture for the billing system through the use of open source components and existing software ecosystem resulting in licensing, maintenance and hosting fees savings in excess of at least $1M for the first year.

• Designed, developed, tested and implemented a custom billing system to support new business model and product offering. The result was increased customer satisfaction and significant reduction of billing errors to customer.

• Managed a team of four (4) developers to successfully deliver detailed design and implementation of the first release of the billing system.

• Influenced and convinced the client of an optimal way to build the new billing system. This approach gained cost savings and system flexibility.

• Researched, designed and integrated a PCI-DSS credit card processing engine and a tax processing engine into the billing system.

Correspondence Design and Development Team Lead (2006)

Project: New Jersey Labor and Workforce Development – Unemployment Insurance Operations Modernization

• Managed a team of seven (7) Accenture and client personnel to design and implement the framework used to generate correspondence within the system.

• Led a team of developers to institute a process used to design, build and test correspondence generation and data composition within the system. This was successful in gaining efficiencies and consistencies for other significant development work.

Application Designer/Developer (2002 – 2005)

Project: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment – Object Oriented Unemployment Insurance Tax and Benefits Implementation

• Managed the development of general and detailed design (including creating specification documents and object oriented model using Rational Rose/UML) for several components of the Benefits sub-system of a statewide unemployment insurance system including charging, batch and interface, and correspondence components.

• Conducted and mediated client meetings and working sessions to gather requirements and design the Charging component along with some external system interfaces among which some other government agencies (DMV, WRIS…).

• Developed test plan and test scripts for several components of the system.

• Undertook requirement gathering, design, UML modeling, template creation, development, coding/bug fixing, testing, and configuration of all 110 pieces of correspondence the Benefit sub-system sends out.

EDUCATION

Master of Science, Mineral Economics / Operations Research

Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado

Bachelor of Art, Economics and Finance

ENAP, Rabat, Morocco

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Project Management: Estimating, Work planning, and Monitoring

Accenture Professional Development Center, St Charles, Illinois

Talk So People Listen

Speakeasy, Atlanta, Georgia

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