Feb 2003 Aug 2006: Consultancy Ltd - Sydney Clients: Sure Insurance, ABC utility , and MQR Finance.

Position: Java/J2EE Technical lead/Senior developer (Leadership, design, and dev elopment focus of a number of Java/JEE based multi-tiered, high volume (10,000 t o 100,000 users), and distributed applications.) Achievements: Managed and mentored a group of application developers, assigned responsibilitie s, elaborated use cases, managed project schedules, and module targets. Reviewed code and encouraged developers to use key design patterns, such as faade , singleton, factory, command, proxy, strategy, decorator, etc. Provided recommendations on OO design concepts, best practices, exception handli ng, and identifying and fixing potential memory, performance, and transactional issues. Conducted interviews and made recommendations for hiring Java/JEE professionals. Increased the number of JUnit tests from 30+ to 400+ in my watchful eye to impro ve the overall quality of the Java/J2EE based applications. Produced detailed design documents with design alternatives, pros and cons for e ach approach and reasons for the recommended approach. Analyzed What if scenarios and exceptional conditions and made recommendations to fill the gaps identified in the functional specs and detailed design. Technologies used: Java 1.4, EJB 2.0, JNDI, JDBC, Servlet, JSP, Struts, Spring, XML, XSL, XSL-FO, XSD, XHTML, Hibernate, Oracle 8i, PL/SQL, FOP, Websphere, ANT, CVS, and JUnit. Jan 2000 Feb 2003: Telecom Ltd - Sydney

Position: Java/J2EE developer (Development focus of Java/J2EE based applications .) Tasks/Achievements: Designed and developed Struts like MVC 2 Web framework using the front-controlle r design pattern, which is used successfully in a number of production systems. Spearheaded the Quick Wins project by working very closely with the business and e nd users to improve the current website s ranking from being 23rd to 6th in just 3 months. Normalized Oracle database, conforming to design concepts and best practices. Resolved product complications at customer sites and funneled the insights to th e development and deployment teams to adopt long term product development strate gy with minimal roadblocks. Convinced business users and analysts with alternative solutions that are more r obust and simpler to implement from technical perspective while satisfying the f unctional requirements from the business perspective. Applied design patterns and OO design concepts to improve the existing Java/JEE based code base. Identified and fixed transactional issues due to incorrect exception handling an d concurrency issues due to unsynchronized block of code. Technologies used: Java 1.2/1.3, Swing, Applet, Servlet, JSP, custom tags, JNDI, JDBC, XML, XSL, DTD, HTML, CSS, Java Script, Oracle, DB2, PL/SQL, Weblogic, JUn it, Log4J and CVS.