Senior IT Consultant, Senior Software Architect, Senior Software Developer, Senior DevOps Engineer

Automation of database major/minor releases for the TKeasy project

Concept for database major/minor release automation

As-is analysis

Evaluation of Redgate Flyway functionalities

Concept creation

Products: Redgate Flyway, GitHub, Quest, Erwin Data Modeler, Oracle, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence

Skills: Docker, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Redgate Flyway, Major Releases, Minor Releases

Design, maintenance, further development, quality assurance, and documentation of the ExtensionAPI and the client components

Professional and technical responsibility for connecting form servers to the Kommunalportal.NRW

Extension development

Coaching and knowledge transfer

Design, maintenance, quality assurance, and documentation of the standard ExtensionAPI SOAP web service interfaces

Design, implementation, maintenance, quality assurance, and documentation of the ExtensionAPI Java client components

Design, implementation, maintenance, quality assurance, and documentation of the Java HelloWorld extension based on the ExtensionAPI

Design, implementation, maintenance, quality assurance, and documentation of the ExtensionAPI C# client components

Design, implementation, maintenance, quality assurance, and documentation of the C# HelloWorld extension based on the ExtensionAPI

Design, implementation, maintenance, quality assurance, and documentation of the ExtensionAPI test framework

Design, implementation, maintenance, quality assurance, and documentation of the high-performance and scalable Java enterprise middleware application Form-Solutions Extension based on the ExtensionAPI

Design and documentation of the Java Feedback extension based on the ExtensionAPI

Design, implementation, maintenance, quality assurance, and documentation of the Java LinkChecker application based on REST services

Design, implementation, maintenance, quality assurance, and documentation of a documentation approach based on DocsAsCode

Design, implementation, maintenance, quality assurance, and documentation of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) and continuous inspection pipelines

Requirement, release, configuration, documentation, test, and build management activities

Products: Maven, Apache Solr, Apache Axis, Artifactory, Asciidoctor, C#, Eclipse, EclipseLink, Elastic-Stack, ELK-Stack, Form-Solutions, Git, GitLab, Java, Jenkins, JetBrains Rider, JUnit, Jupiter, MySQL, Payara, SoapUI, SonarQube, .NET, Dotnet, Forms.IO, Camunda BPM, SwaggerUI, Docker, Podman, Arquillian

Skills: EJB3, J2EE, JEE, Jakarta EE, Continuous Integration, Continuous Inspection, Scrum, Java, JSF, HTML5, CSS3, JBatch, AsciiDoc, DocsAsCode, SOAP, REST, JAX-RS, JAX-WS, OpenAPI, JAXB, JAXP, SAX, StAX, WSDL, XML, XSD, XSLT, XÖV standards, SQL, web services, JDBC, MicroProfile, portals, BPM, Genericode, use cases, UML, PlantUML, C4 model, ExtensionAPI, Servicekonto.NRW, Kommunalportal.NRW, OZG

Replacement of an old CRM system

Migration to Salesforce with Talend as middleware

Further development of build management

Setup of a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline for the Talend middleware artifacts

Integration of the group-wide Artifactory instances

Git configuration

Support for the deployment process (Salesforce project)

Setup of continuous inspection for the Talend artifacts and the Salesforce project

Setup of test automation

Setup of an OpenShift cluster for the Talend middleware stack

Products: Red Hat OpenShift, Talend DSP, Talend Middleware, Salesforce, SonarQube, Jenkins, Artifactory

Skills: Scrum, agile development methods, Java, JEE, Red Hat OpenShift

Supporting Java application development for the Client On-Boarding and Account Maintenance (COBAM) project - Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)

Collecting and processing customer master data

Designing business processes with jBPM

Products: IBM WebSphere, IBM WebSphere Portal Server, IBM Rational Architect, Vaadin, Spring, Java, IBM DB2, IBM UDM, Eclipse

Skills: UML, use cases, portals, portlets, EJB3, J2EE, JEE, master data, FATCA, BPM

Replaced the steel plant control software with a Java Enterprise solution in the Phoenix project

Maintained and enhanced the production Java Enterprise subprojects of the steel mill control system (SLS)

Introduced Eclipse Team Project Sets and consolidated Maven artifacts

Implemented various Maven plugins

Migrated from JBoss 4.2.3.GA to JBoss EAP 5.1.0

Conducted SVN structure migration and release management

Advised and coached on JBoss, JEE/J2EE and Maven

Products: Apache Ant, Apache Maven, Apache Subversion, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Jira, CVS, Eclipse, Enterprise Architect, Hibernate, Informix, Java, JBoss Application Server, JBoss EAP, Jenkins, JFC (Swing), JUnit, Oracle, Sonatype Nexus, SVN

Skills: EJB3, J2EE, JEE, Java Message Service (JMS), Java Management Extensions (JMX), JDBC, JPA, Maven Plugin, SQL, XML, XML Schema (XSD), Scrum, Kanban

Implemented business rules using ILOG JRules in DecisionBox

Migrated the credit decision process for Risk Management Durables

Moved the dealer rating score calculation into DecisionBox

Architected and implemented the DecisionBox - PropertyManager component to manage the rule sets

Implemented authentication, audit compliance, versioning and reporting

Designed a JAXP-based XML pipeline to support agile QA processes

Performed XML data transformation and actual-to-target comparisons

Conducted code reviews and refactoring

Products: Apache Ant, Apache Maven, Apache Xalan, CVS, Eclipse, EclipseLink, Hibernate, IBM WebSphere, ILOG JRules, Java, JBoss Application Server, JUnit, OpenJPA, Oracle, Saxon, XMLUnit

Skills: Ant Tasks, EJB 2.1, EJB3, JAXP, JDBC, J2EE, JEE, JPA, Servlet, SQL, XPath, XProc, XML, XML Schema (XSD), XSL, XSLT, Scrum

Developed a prototype of the Border Control Platform as a Proof of Concept (PoC)

Planned and implemented a service-oriented version based on BEA AquaLogic BPM and Drools

Integrated the VISOCORE ePass reader and fingerprint scanner using SOAP

Developed a web front end to visualize biometric data and process steps

Evaluated various business process and business rules management systems

Products: Apache Axis, Apache Jackrabbit, Apache Maven, Apache Tomcat, BEA AquaLogic BPM, Biomiddle, COSA BPM, Drools, Eclipse, ILOG JRules, Java, JBoss Application Server, JBoss jBPM, JUnit, Oracle Business Rules, VISOCORE

Skills: EJB 2.1, EJB3, J2EE, JEE, Java Rule Engine API (JSR 94), JSP, JCR, JMX, Maven Plugin, SOAP, UML, Scrum

Design and implementation of the easyCredit installment loan application

Responsibility for the print component and prepress

Preparation of loan contract documents and print template creation

Providing data for quality reporting and commission accounting

Architecture of a system-independent, multi-tenant, multilingual print component

Integration of a Java rule engine (Drools)

Redesign and further development of the ETL and reporting components

Architecture of a framework for integrating JSR 94 compliant rule engines (JESS, Drools)

Runtime analysis and performance tuning of the entire application

Products: Adobe LiveCycle Forms, Apache Ant, Apache Jackrabbit, Apache Maven, Apache FOP, Apache Struts, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Jira, Big Faceless Java PDF Library, Drools, Eclipse, Eclipse BIRT, iReport, iText, JasperReports, Java, JBoss Application Server, JProbe, JUnit, Oracle, Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB), PL/SQL, RenderX XEP, Toad for Oracle, XDoclet

Skills: CWM, DOM, EJB 2.1, EJB3, J2EE, JEE, JSR 94, JSF, JSP, JAXB, JAXP, JCR, JDBC, JMX, Maven Plugin, PDF, SAX, SQL, StAX, UML, XFA, XLink, XML, XPath, XSL-FO, XSLT, Scrum

BTS PlaTo: development of an intranet application for strategic and operational planning

Design of an XML-based solution for form and report generation

ProperView reengineering: porting the XML layer and Command Design Pattern to Java

Implementation of the database layer via JDBC and redesign of user management

Development of a Java chart component based on web standards (similar to SVG)

Technical consulting for the design of DTD and XML schema for thermophysical material data

Design and implementation of an open Java Search API

Development of a Java thick client as a frontend for the Bayer material database

Customization of the admin console and redesign of the CGI-Perl interface

Design of the single sign-on (SSO) extension and integration of the PassGo SSO applet

Support takeover and further development of the intranet application for the material database

Products: Apache Ant, Batik, FOP, POI, Tomcat, Eclipse, Java, MS Excel, Oracle DB, PL/SQL, Visual SourceSafe, Together CC, JavaHelp, JProbe, Symantec Visual Cafe, MS IIS

Skills: CSS, DOM, DTD, JavaScript, Java Servlets, JSP, JavaBeans, LDAP, Oracle XSU, PDF, SAX, SMTP, SQL, SVG, XForms, XHTML, XML, XSL-FO, XSLT, XSQL, Java-COM Bridge, HTTP, ISAPI, SSL, OLE, UML