Born 2/2/1976
Swiss national
Single
Josefstrasse 137
8005 Zurich
+41 079 654 97 57
info at andrey dot net
www.andrey.net |
Java Software Architect |
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| Objectives |
| Design software applying state-of-the-art technologies. |
| Advise clients and coach coworkers in their software engineering efforts. |
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| Why hire me ? |
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Strong analytical skills
- I solve problems efficiently, I optimize relentlessly my activities and I grab the “big picture” fast.
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15 years Java experience
- I possess extensive know-how based on solid theoretical knowledge.
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Consulting mindset
- I pay attention to the organizational and personal needs behind technical issues.
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Excellent writing skills
- I write both documents and code with the same passion for quality.
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Intercultural experience
- I easily integrate myself into a team, even the most heterogeneous one.
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| Technical Skills |
| Core skills |
Software architectures, technical consulting, agile practices, Java microservices |
| Experience in |
Service-oriented architectures, stakeholder management, database design and development, temporal databases, self-organizing teams, rapid prototyping, DevOps, geographical information systems |
| Java |
15 years, since 1997. Developed batches, web services, Spring Boot applications, JSP and Thymeleaf pages, EJBs, applets, GUIs based on Eclipse RCP, Swing and GWT, and stand-alone applications
Sun Java 2 Certified Programmer (2001)
Part one of the Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (2007)
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| Frameworks |
Spring Boot 2.1, Swagger 3, OpenShift, Hibernate 4, ArcGIS Pro SDK, Eclipse RCP 4.3, Struts 2.3, Google Web Toolkit 1.5, Bouncy Castle, EJB 3.1, OpenEJB |
| Application servers |
JBoss 7, BEA Weblogic 6, Apache Tomcat 6, Websphere 6.1, ArcGis Server 10.4 |
| Tools |
IntelliJ, Eclipse 4.7, Maven 3, Git, openssl, HP ALM (Quality Center) 11, Visual Studio 2019, ArcGIS Pro 2.3, Toad |
| Databases |
Postgres 11, Oracle 12, MS SQL Server 2000, MySql 5 |
| SQL |
2 years in 2000-2002, on MS SQL Server 6.5 and 2000. Developed stored procedures implementing financial functions on a database of stock exchange data.
20 months in 2003, 2009-2010 and 2015-2020 on Oracle
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| Unix scripts |
2 months in 2003. Implemented ksh scripts for scheduled jobs dispatching and parsing files, using gawk. |
| Visual Basic |
1 year in 2001. Implemented and rolled out an Excel front-end to a MS SQL Server, for financial functions. |
| Other languages |
C#, PHP, JavaScript, Json, XML, Unix shell, Visual Basic, XSD, UML |
| Methods |
SAFe, Kanban, Scrum, RUP |
| Platforms |
Linux Ubuntu and Mint, Windows 10, 7 and Vista, Mac OS X |
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| Past Positions |
| Feb. 15 - present |
Freelance and Akros for SBB |
Berne |
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Software architect specialized in rail network
topology |
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- Assumed the technical lead in two self-organizing,
cross-functional DevOps teams.
- Designed alternatives ways to integrate a new GIS platform into
an existing railway topology system (a temporal database with long
transactions).
- Conceived, evaluated and verified alternative solution
architectures.
- Built proofs-of-concept with ArcGIS Pro (C#), ArcObjects (Java)
and Oracle Locator (PL/SQL) and then took part in the development of
the chosen solution.
- Specified and implemented an optimization algorithm operating on
graphs, which allowed for an efficient, automatic calculation of
train schedules.
- Contributed to the overall design of the company’s integrated
topology platform (itop) by specifying a microservice combining the
different aspects of a topology.
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| Dec. 13 - Feb. 15 |
Freelance for UBS |
Zurich |
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Eclipse Rich Client Platform Developer |
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- Developed highly customizable GUIs for the management of
portfolios.
- Reversed-engineered parts of a proprietary framework based on
RCP.
- Integrated the continuous deliveries of external companies
supplying backend and frontend components.
- Ensured the multi-version capability of GUIs using OSGi.
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| Mar. 12 - Sep. 13 |
Freelance for the Federal Department of Justice and Police |
Berne |
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Solutions Architect |
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- Designed the architecture, specified and prototyped a secure data
processing pipeline transporting biometric data captured by private
companies throughout the world and centralizing it into the Swiss
visa application system.
- Defined a standard data exchange format for visa applications
using XSD, RSA encryption, cryptographic message syntax (CMS) and
digital signatures based on the Swiss AdminPKI.
- Gathered and negotiated requirements for the system with its two
sponsors: the Federal Office for Migration as data owner and the
Consular Directorate as user.
- Formulated the technical requirements of a platform for various
authorities to exchange electronic documents concerning foreign
residents, and assessed the feasibility and architectural compliance
of its business requirements.
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| June 11 - Jan. 12 |
Sabbatical: traveling, certifications, learning
Spanish
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| Nov. 10 - May 11 |
Capgemini |
Zurich |
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Consultant technical architecture |
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- Specified a data warehouse adapter for Postfinance.
- Gathered the requirements, prototyped and configured a Salesforce
application for managing the sales pipeline in a branch of an
automobile insurer. Delivered it as Software-as-a-Service (Saas) in
the cloud. Trained twelve users.
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| Apr. 09 - Feb. 11 |
Capgemini for CSS Insurance |
Lucerne |
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Technical architect and Java EE developer |
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- Designed, implemented and maintained GWT-GUIs integrated in a
Siebel portal for managing contracts, as well as batches for
calculating and printing commissions for brokers.
- Designed and implemented the architecture of a rule engine for
calculating insurance offers, integrating it over six corporate
divisions.
- Unified and completed technical documentation about contract
management.
- Provided 3rd level support of the core system managing contracts,
products and commissions
- Coordinated emergency responses to production problems.
- Coached new hires in the development and support teams.
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| June 08 - Mar. 09 |
Capgemini sd&m |
Zurich |
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Consultant technical architecture |
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- Conducted an architectural audit of a real estate platform
written in .NET.
- Designed an automatic data entry system as an ETL process
integrated in an SOA, for a company providing financial data.
- Wrote bids (incl. raw architecture, effort estimates and
presentations) pertaining to software re-engineering, application
management, development off-shoring and staffing for companies in
finance, logistics or real estate.
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| Jan. 08 - Mar. 08 |
Erasmus Student Network |
Zurich and Besançon |
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Chair of the Annual General Meeting |
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- Prepared and moderated a conference of 450 delegates from all
over Europe
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| May 07 - Nov. 07 |
Freelance for UBS, Zurich |
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Java Developer |
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- Designed and developed interactive applications automating manual
processes in a web portal using Swing.
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| Jan. 05 - Mar. 07 |
Freelance for Steria |
Zurich |
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J2EE Developer |
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- Specified and developed the web interface of a distributed
monitoring system for highway tunnels, using Struts and Tiles.
- Built an automated unit test infrastructure based on Struts Test
Case and HtmlUnit.
- Wrote EJBs deployed on JBoss 4.
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| Apr. 02 - Aug. 03 |
Logica for Credit Suisse First Boston |
Zurich |
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J2EE Developer |
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- Designed, developed and supported an e-Banking portal, using J2EE
in a highly secured environment.
- Automated the build and release processes of the various
components of the portal, using Jakarta Ant.
- Gathered the requirements for and specified an online payment
system, bringing together all involved actors, from support to
sponsors and from payment troubleshooters to Corba service
providers.
- Closely cooperated with the various staff and departments inside
the client’s organization, in the course of a Unix support
project.
- Implemented Enterprise Java Beans and servlets, using, in turn,
IBM Visual Age, Borland JBuilder and Eclipse.
- Ensured the platform’s continuous operation during the
several months of its launching phase, by providing the operations
team with round-the-clock technical support.
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| Nov. 99 - Mar. 02 |
Logica for BT&T Asset Management, Zurich |
Zurich |
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Consultant and Developer |
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- Developed an Intranet application for financial analysis and data
management, using ASP, Java applets and servlets.
- Responsible for the design, implementation, rollout and
maintenance of an automated data feed from a remote data provider
into a local database.
- Data was fetched from Bloomberg via FTP several times a day. It
was then filtered, checked and eventually dispatched into a legacy
SQL Server database.
- Conducted and presented studies on documentation management,
server performance optimization and database scalability.
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| Oct. 98 - Mar. 99 |
Freie Universität Berlin |
Berlin |
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Diploma Thesis |
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- Contributed to the development of JacORB, a Java-based
implementation of CORBA.
- Developed the authentication part of the security service, by
using certificates based on a public key infrastructure (SPKI).
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| Aug. 98 |
Elca |
Lausanne |
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IT-Security Intern |
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- Conducted an audit of the external internet security of the
company.
- Three-week “challenge” against the corporate IT
division
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| July 97 - Oct. 97 |
UPMC |
Pittsburgh, PA |
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System Administrator |
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- Maintained a 15-node Windows NT network.
- Trained its twelve users.
- Chose software and hardware to purchase, installed it and
troubleshot it.
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| Education |
| 2003 - 2004 |
University of Zurich
Economics courses
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| 1994 - 1999 |
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
Master's degree in Computer Science
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| 1998 - 1999 |
Freie Universität Berlin
Diploma thesis |
| 1996 - 1997 |
Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Exchange year |
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| Languages |
| French |
native |
| English |
fluent |
| German |
fluent |
| Swiss German |
good |
| Spanish |
basic conversation |
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| Teaching Experience |
| Summer 2004 |
Private |
Zurich |
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French Teacher |
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- Designed and taught a private beginner French course.
- Tailored the material to the particular objectives of
the student.
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| 1998 | EPFL |
Lausanne |
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Teaching Assistant |
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- Coached a group of 25 students attending to a programming
course.
- Explained them the theory and checked their comprehension
with exercises.
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| Community Involvement |
| Nov. 03 - Apr. 10 |
Erasmus Student Network |
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Europe-wide organization helping the personal, cultural
and social integration of exchange students.
- Mentored foreign students and coached new members
- Organized cultural and social events.
- Managed legal, motivational and communication problems in a crisis in the European network in 2009
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| Nov. 03 - Mar. 08 |
Toastmasters |
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International organization dedicated to developing the communication
and leadership skills of its members.
- Co-founded one club and recruited new members.
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| Jan. 04 - Dec. 04 |
Students’ Parliament |
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Elected representation of the 23,000 students
of the University of Zurich.
- Contributed to the formulation of non-smoking guidelines
able to gain public acceptance in university buildings.
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| References |
“Mr. Andrey took the initiative and constantly strove to
improve the quality of our company's deliverables and the efficiency of its
work. ”
-- W. Lohrer, former country manager, Logica
More references on
request.
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