Developed scalable, robust, high availability, enterprise high level Middleware. Providing the open data community with real-time live rail information for public use. An intense short-term project completed by a small multi-skilled team I assisted in leading from project inception to deployment.

Taking the initiative I got fully involved in communicating with customers & managing changing requirements. I iteratively researched, implemented proof-of-concepts, designed, developed and tested phased releases. Modern agile techniques were harnessed including the use of SCRUM; Sonar for software quality; BDD concepts; Collective ownership; TDD; Jenkins Continuous Integration & Jira Studio for task management.

Technical skills and experience include:

1. Java Enterprise Edition with Hibernate, Spring & Spring Integration;
2. Configuring live Message Queues using Apache ActiveMQ & IBM WebSphere MQ;
3. Application server experience with Apache Tomcat & JBoss;
4. Enterprise level relational database experience with Oracle & MySQL;
5. Involved in architecture design discussions & presentations using UML;
6. W3C accessibility standards compliance with JavaScript with JQuery & Twitter Bootstrap libraries;
7. Experience with Eclipse IDE, Maven, SVN, Linux & Amazon Cloud services;
8. Performance testing using JMeter, JUnit tests and Selenium;
9. Liaised with the open data community for out-of-hours product support.