Neil P. - BSc. (Honours)

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Berlin, Germany

Experience

Sep 2023 - Present

2 years 1 month

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AKDB

Design, development, testing, and maintenance of various end-to-end workflows (dialogs, backend services, persistence layer, test suite) for new driver's license applications as well as changes/extensions of existing licenses, management of parking permits and truck driver cards
Development and maintenance of various web services for communication between local traffic authorities and the Federal Motor Transport Authority, FAER register, technical inspection offices, and driving schools
Performance optimization and targeted refactoring for the future migration to a cloud architecture and addition of a new web client (Vaadin)
3rd-level support for customers in live operations
Technologies: Java 17, Jakarta EE 8/10, JBoss EAP 7/8, Hibernate 5/6, Swing (MVC), SOAP/REST, Maven, GIT, Jira, Oracle

Aug 2020 - Jun 2023

2 years 11 months

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Daimler Truck

Maintenance and consolidation of legacy code
Modernization of various enterprise Java web applications in a cloud-based architecture using JSF 2 and Angular frontend, Spring Boot, Oracle backend, and Docker/Kubernetes deployment
Migration of business code from legacy Oracle Forms applications (PL/SQL) to Java
Development of web applications to generate various reports for production and assembly
Technologies: Java 17, Java EE 8, JBoss EAP 7, Spring Boot, JSF, PrimeFaces, REST, Oracle, Angular, GIT, Jira, Docker, Kubernetes

Jun 2018 - Apr 2020

1 year 11 months

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Materna

Project Customs Authority Düsseldorf

Development of a web-based customs processing system for sending customs documents and managing communications
Implementation of workflows as a user worklist (inbox) for managing electronic mail between users and participants
Development of the JSF user interface
Conducting Java coaching for staff (pair programming, workshops) and code reviews

Project Federal Ministry of Justice (BfJ) Bonn

Design, implementation, and testing of a prototype based on JSF and PrimeFaces, JEE, and Hibernate for the web portal for handling cross-border enforcement assistance
Technologies: Java EE 8, JSF 2.2, PrimeFaces, JBoss, JPA, REST web services, Oracle, Eclipse, Jira, JUnit, Maven, GIT

May 2017 - May 2018

1 year 1 month

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PSI

Implementation of a JAAS/LDAP authorization system (frontend/backend) for user authentication and authorization based on roles and permissions
Implementation of a multi-tenant database (JPA/CDI multitenancy) to separate customer data without impacting the source code
Technologies: Java, JEE, JBoss/Wildfly, REST, OSGi, JPA, LDAP, Oracle, Angular, TypeScript, JUnit, Docker, Maven, GIT, Jenkins

Jan 2016 - Apr 2017

1 year 4 months

Cologne, Germany

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Gen Re Versicherung (Berkshire Hathaway Inc)

Maintenance, further development, and testing of the COMPASS application and risk assessment engine for life and health insurance applications
Development of a fraud detection module as a component of a claims processing system
Design and development of a new XML-based input/output interface to capture all relevant application and risk data and display risk assessments hierarchically
Definition of the interface model based on Bipro standards as a JAXB-ready XSD for client integration
Frontend design and development of a web-based rules editor using JSF/PrimeFaces for rule sets for automatic fraud risk assessment
Technologies: Java, JEE, JBoss/Wildfly, Spring, JSF 2, PrimeFaces, JPA, Bipro web services, SOAP, REST, Maven, Selenium, SVN

Apr 2015 - Dec 2015

9 months

Cologne, Germany

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AXA Versicherungen

Backend design and development of a web-based tariff calculator for direct health insurance sales
Calculating health insurance rates, preparing quotes and generating applications in direct sales
Integration of BiPRO web services for price calculation and application processing
Persisting applications and analytics files in a relational database
Technologies: Java, Tomcat, Oracle, Spring, JPA, JAX-WS, BiPRO web services, Scrum, Maven, SQL, Jenkins, IntelliJ, SOAP, Jira

Oct 2013 - Mar 2015

1 year 6 months

Cologne, Germany

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Roland Rechtsschutz-Versicherungen

Development of a new web-based quoting portal to support the TAA (tariff, quote, application) process for external brokers
Creating a library of JSF/PrimeFaces-based composite UI components to capture and validate customer and quote data (e.g., bank details, address data, agent numbers)
Implementing rate calculator dialogs for product selection and data entry to generate quotes
Technologies: Java EE 6, WebLogic 11, Oracle 12, JSF 2, PrimeFaces 5, JPA, Maven, SQL, Eclipse, Selenium, SVN, Jenkins

Mar 2013 - Sep 2013

7 months

Cologne, Germany

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Gothaer Versicherungen

Pilot project to connect a new CRM application to host policy data (partner & contract details) via BiPRO web service
Designing and developing a base JAXB web service to fetch and provide policy and partner data from IMS and AIX in BiPRO-compliant XML
Validating, authorizing and defining Gothaer-BiPRO key mappings in the base web service and specializing it for the legal expenses line
Technologies: Java EE 6, WebSphere 7, RAD 7.5, JAXB, JAX-WS, BiPRO web services, SOAP, SVN

Dec 2011 - Feb 2013

1 year 3 months

Cologne, Germany

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IBM

Extending the existing Sales Activity Management application to create new dialogs for managing discount campaigns
Designing, developing and testing various dialogs and backend services for discount campaign management
Technologies: Java EE 6, WebSphere 8, RAD 8, Swing, DB2, Eclipse, SQL, SVN

Mar 2004 - Oct 2011

7 years 8 months

Dortmund, Germany

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Signal Iduna Versicherungen

Designing and developing a unified CRM application to manage customer master data in IMS, Oracle and DB2
Specifying customer requirements and designing the technical architecture based on J2EE and the Chordiant CRM Framework
Designing, developing and testing services (EJB, Servlet) and modeling the database schema and persistence tier
Integrating with legacy systems using resource adapters and JMS (ESB)
Coaching during the introduction of the RAD development platform and WebSphere and providing Chordiant CRM Framework training
Replacing the Chordiant CRM Framework and designing a new architecture based on Java EE 5, EJB 3, Hibernate, JPA and JSF
Technologies: Java EE 5, WebSphere 6.1/7, RAD 7.5, JSF 1.2, Swing, Oracle, DB2, JUnit, JPA, SQL, MQ Series

Jan 1989 - Sep 2002

13 years 9 months

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Siemens and Alcatel

Design and development of various C++ components for managing intelligent network nodes
Technologies: C++, CORBA, HP OpenView, Sun Solaris, HP-UX Workstations

Summary

Working in the IT industry since 1989. Collaboration with renowned companies such as Signal Iduna, Siemens, Daimler, Alcatel, IBM, AXA, and ITZBund. In-depth knowledge of architecture, design, development, and testing of large-scale enterprise applications in Java, Angular, and C++. Current focus on design, development, and testing of Java, 'Full-Stack' JEE, and Angular applications.

Design and development of large-scale systems based on Enterprise Java and Spring (Boot)
Web client development using JSF, PrimeFaces, Angular, TypeScript
Server and persistence tier development with EJB, CDI, Hibernate, and JPA
Application development with Eclipse, IntelliJ, VSCode, Maven, Jenkins, Jira
Definition and development of web services using SOAP and REST APIs
Planning and programming applications in an agile environment (Scrum, Kanban)