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Software craftsman with a mathematical background in a wide variety of languages in all aspects of client server applications. Always interested learning new skills and finding solutions to complex problems. Specialties: Agile software development Java C++Consultant @ Java Backend Developer - IceMobile Working in a multidisciplinary team creating smartphone applications for supermarket loyalty programs. Java backend REST and SOAP web services; Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Git, Maven, Oracle WebLogic, Oracle DB, MyBatis. Migrated the Java application server from Oracle WebLogic to JBoss which reduced licensing costs by 90% and increased developer productivity. NodeJS RESTful web services including LDAP login and a OAuth 1.0A proxy using Redis, Mocha, Chai, SuperTest and Istanbul. Developed a ReactJS frontend for a push notification system using Bootstrap, Grunt and Gulp. From August 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) Senior Java Developer @ Senior Java Developer / Scrum Master - Rabobank Online January 2014 - July 2014 JCA Resource Adapter for HTTP Connections written from scratch using Apache Http Client as an implementation. Achieved 100% test coverage using no mocks and JUnit units tests and integration tests using the JBoss Arquillian with Java 7. Target DTAP environments ran IBM JDK 1.6 running on IBM Websphere 7 and 8.5.. Other projects used Spring Core, Spring MVC, Javascript, CSS 3. JBoss Consultant - European Patent Office, Den Haag, Feb 2013 - Dec 2013. JBoss 4 to JBoss EAP 6 migration project of over 80 applications. As part of a DevOps team developed a standard JBoss EAP 6 server configuration, including JGroups clustering, Kerberos, SPNEGO, custom JAAS login modules. Migrated and extended reference applications for EJB 3, JMS and Spring. Produced internal documentation and conducted training for team members. Helped development team members migrate their applications involving, Java code and Maven changes. From January 2013 to July 2014 (1 year 7 months) NetherlandsConsultant @ Provide consultation services to RedHat's clients on the products and services of JBoss Enterprise Middleware throughout Europe. From January 2012 to December 2012 (1 year) Solution Architect @ Java JMS Eclipse Hibernate JPA Spring From October 2011 to December 2011 (3 months) Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsJava consultant @ Java Developer - AHold - Albert Heijn e-commerce Develop J2EE server applications, components and libraries for AHolds various websites including www.ah.nl, webwinkel.ah.nl. Also worked on developing RESTful web servies for the Appie smartphone application and website, http://www.ah.nl/over-ah/services/appie-app Technologies used included Spring, JSP, XSLT, Javascript, JQuery and Maven hosted on Websphere. From May 2010 to September 2011 (1 year 5 months) Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsSoftware Developer @ ● Developed e-commerce RESTful XML based Java server applications using Spring, Hibernate, JUnit, MySQL, Wicket, Maven (inc Plugins) ● From Dec 2008 a BHV (First Aid and Emergency Response Officer) for a floor of the TomTom Oosterdoksstraat office. ● Scrum Agile XP development process was used throughout and I was been a Scrum Master for several sprints. From October 2008 to April 2010 (1 year 7 months) Software Developer @ ● Developed software in C++ on Mac OS X and Windows for the TomTom HOME product using Boost, Carbon and Win32 API, including some tooling in Python. ● Lead the migration the Windows installers from InstallShield to the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, saving over 50% in bandwidth costs. ● Scrum Agile XP development process was used from late 2006. From October 2006 to October 2008 (2 years 1 month) Software Developer @ Developed a Java server application to be a B2BUA for VOIP calls using the SIP protocol. From October 2005 to September 2006 (1 year) Software Developer @ Developed Java software for a 3D strategy game using Java OpenGL//OpenAL, JDO, SQL, NIO sockets and core Java 1.5. From July 2005 to October 2005 (4 months) Cambridge, United KingdomSoftware Engineer @ As part of a Scrum team (at Smartner then) developed software for push and synchronisation of a user's mobile phone data (email/calendar/contact). In C++ extended the server application to use Lotus Notes/Domino data. The software was tested using unit and sub system tests. From June 2004 to July 2005 (1 year 2 months) Cambridge, United KingdomProfessional Officer, Human Systems Integration Group @ ● Research and develop systems to provide users with leading COTS large vocabulary voice recognisers for use in large IT systems (Lotus Notes). This also included developing a vocabulary of abbreviations and acronyms. ● Research and develop information extraction techniques (Part Of Speech Tagging) for categorising documents with large free text fields. ● Write technical reports and externally reviewed academic papers. Deliver presentations (eg live speech recognition demos) to military clients and visitors. ● List of publications available at http://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=lWMA0ogAAAAJ From January 1998 to January 2004 (6 years 1 month) Adelaide Area, AustraliaResearch Assistant, Civil and Environmental Engineering @ Converted Fortran77 fluid dynamics software to Fortran90 so it could run on a 128 node Connection Machines CM-5, the supercomputer in Jurassic Park, you the black machine with the red flashing lights! Knowledge of parallel computing was required to improve performance of the fluid dynamics models. Conducted basic Unix administration tasks on the Solaris servers. From November 1997 to January 1998 (3 months) Honours Pure Mathematics, Pure Mathematics @ University of Adelaide From 1998 to 2000 Bachelor of Science (Mathematics and Computer Science), Computer Science and Pure Mathematics @ University of Adelaide From 1995 to 1997 Oliver Carr is skilled in: Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Java, Spring, Maven, XML, Software Development, Java Enterprise Edition, Hibernate, JUnit, C++, Linux, JBoss Application Server, Python, REST