Resume 4

Experience

As CTO & Chief Architect for StarSoft, James performed pre-sales activities, prepared proposals, and had P&L responsibility for the professional services arm of StarSoft. James was also responsible for defining and implementing StarSoft s core strategic direction, as well as managing StarSoft s information systems. In addition to these internal responsibilities, James has been instrumental in assisting StarSoft s clients in developing and implementing their own strategic vision.

• James was engaged by Avis-Europe to act as their Chief Architect to help Avis-Europe define a service-oriented architecture for a mainframe based legacy reservation system.
• James worked closely with the CIO and CTO to develop an open architecture that allowed Avis-Europe to better access their mainframe data, as well as create a service layer that would allow third party applications to be decoupled from the mainframe.
• With a budget of 12MM and team members in London, Amsterdam, New York, and Denver, James was instrumental in keeping the project on track.
• Through the course of the project, James had responsibility of leading other senior architects and developers to bring the project to fruition.

To provide a service-oriented architecture, a web services approach was taken, and Weblogic 6.1 was used as the J2EE application server. All web services were registered in a UDDI registry, described using WSDL. Java based client applications utilized JAXR and JAXM to connect to the UDDI registry and to send the SOAP based messages to the service.

An Integration Broker was developed for communication with the mainframe and other external entities using Websphere MQ as the transport mechanism, along with Websphere MQ Integrator to handle message transformation and routing. The service layer utilized JMS for communicating to the Integration Broker. Also, another key feature was the ability for the Integration Broker to accept the Open Travel Alliance OTA XML messages for car reservation and translate them to format that was acceptable to the mainframe.

The project was developed using SUN servers for Weblogic, Websphere MQ, Websphere MQ Integrator, and Tivoli Policy Director. The development was done on W2K boxes using WebGain Studio, Rational Enterprise Suite, following the Rational Unified Process.

American Express engaged James as Lead Architect for the worldwide smart card issuance system they were about to develop. James worked with key AMEX employees and groups to develop a system that allows AMEX to issue new smart cards to any one around the world, as well as provide the capability to do post issuance management of the cards. James coordinated this 32MM iterative Method 1 / RUP development effort with a team of developers in Denver, London and India, as well as various business units in Salt Lake City, Phoenix, New York, and Australia.

The key features of this system include an Integration Broker to facilitate the exchange of data between various systems on different platforms, a system to manage all card applets and the card population, and the applet delivery system.

The Integration Broker was developed using MQ-Series and MQSI. The key role that Integration Broker played was to transform messages in one format such as an XML description of the card to another format that could be understood by other platforms in this case an AS/400 and a mainframe.

Another key feature was the applet management system. This was developed using J2EE with Websphere application server on Sun Solaris. This feature used Java Server Pages JSP to interact with the client to ask them questions about what they wanted on their card, and then communicated with other systems via JMS and the Integration Broker to fulfill the client s request. Also, the JavaCard API in conjunction with the Opencard Framework was utilized to communicate with the smart cards.

James was engaged to be a Chief Architect for a nationwide moving brokerage company. As Chief Architect James defined and implemented the strategy to integrate their current legacy systems with a new web based automated quote generation system. James worked with a team of developers to iteratively RUP develop and integrate existing systems with tracking and routing software to optimize the routing of cargo around the country. As part of this project, James had to oversee the development of a J2EE application that was deployed using Weblogic. This included Java Server Pages, Servlets, Enterprise Java Beans, and an Oracle database. Budget 1M

As a Java Architect for the Sun Java Center, James was instrumental in helping the Sun Java Center grow from 20 consultants around the world, to an organization with more than 200 senior level consultants. He was instrumental in pre-sales activities as well as the development and execution of statements of work. His technical leadership resulted in several successful projects, some of which include:

• Strong Funds Brokerage Project
  System Architect/Project Lead
  Helped Strong Funds design and implement an online brokerage system. Had responsibility for the overall system architecture, as well as the integration with several internal legacy systems.
• FirstUSA Concierge Service
  System Architect/Team Lead
  Helped FirstUSA develop a web based concierge service for card members. Was responsible for leading and mentoring the developers as well as the overall system architecture.
• Southwest Airlines Rapid Prototype
  Project Lead
  Responsible for creating a prototype which showed SW how it could use Java technology with their existing mainframe systems. A great deal of time was spent communicating with various business groups at SW to understand their needs and their concerns.
• Transportation Management System
  Team Lead
  Help design and build a large transportation management system for a industry leading shipping company. Responsible for leading the team that was tasked with integrating the companies various AS/400, PBX, and other external systems with the new Java/CORBA based management system. Responsible for the design and architecture of team deliverables, as well as providing support to other various teams on the project.
• Interactive Training System
  Project Lead
  Lead architect for an Interactive Training System for a large automobile manufacturer in the U.S. As the lead architect had the responsibility of cost and schedule estimates as well as the overall design and delivery of the product. Responsible for leading the other architects, as well as giving presentations to the customer.
• Embedded Java Study
  Team Lead
  Provided guidance and mentoring to a large smart card provider in Belgium. The result of the three-week study was a paper outlining how this company could use Embedded Java in their card readers. Had to interact not only with the customer, but also with various internal Sun groups to find solutions to the various problems posed.
• S.W.I.F.T.
  Architecture Review
  Asked to come to Belgium to review the CORBA architecture for a large project at S.W.I.F.T. Was able to provide valuable insight and support, which in turn led to a more robust CORBA infrastructure.

As a Software Engineer, James was responsible for developing distributed mission management software for use in controlling satellites from the control center. As a member of the technical staff, James was responsible for the overall design and deliverables of the data distribution subsystem.

As a Software Engineer for Infonational, James was responsible for developing automation software to validate data for electronic phone book directories. Primary technologies utilized were C++, Oracle, MFC, proprietary OCS software.

As a software developer for KBCT TV & Radio James was responsible for developing inventory management software for the station. Technologies utilized were C++, Oracle, and MFC.

• J2EE Sun Certified Java Programmer for Java 1 & Java 2 Platform
• EJB
• JSP
• Servlets
• JMS
• JDBC
• JNI
• JINI
• RMI
• JNI
• JINI
• JavaCard
• CORBA / IIOP
• Websphere MQ
• XML/XSL/XSLT
• JAXM
• JAXR
• SOAP
• UDDI
• WSDL
• Web Services
• Rational Unified Process
• OO Software Lifecycle Processes.
• Unix Solaris Windows NT/2000
• C++
• Websphere & Visual Age
• Inprise Application Server / Jbuilder
• Weblogic

• Able to create vision and direction that is both compelling and challenging to work towards
• Able to inspire and motivate individuals with different personalities
• Able to encourage people to seek out solutions to problems, not just identify them.
• Able to set clear goals and responsibilities so that tasks can be completed with high quality and in a timely manner.
• Able to make and carry out decisions that will server the long-term interests of the business.
• Able to effectively manage budgets and allocations of funds at all levels of an organization.

Brigham Young University
B.S. C.S. Salt Lake City, Utah, US
University of Colorado - Denver
MS CS Denver, CO
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