Ben Northrop

Senior Java Developer
Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.bennorthrop.com

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CodersCV

May2008

1 year 10 months

Java, iBATIS, Spring MVC, JSP

Summa

Jul2007

2 years 8 months

Java, JSP, EJB, Struts, Oracle, JMS, SQL, Spring, iBATIS, Spring MVC, Spring Web Services, JDOM, Dezign for Databases, JUnit, DbUnit

Senior Technical Consultant

Pittsburgh, PA

Financial Client

Worked along side a team of 5 to architect, design, and implement a greenfield Software as a Service (SaaS) product for the client built for universities to manage their payments to students and faculty. Helped deliver the system on time and under budget. (Java, Spring, Spring MVC, iBATIS, SQL, JSP )

Created and configured a Spring Web Services module and created an endpoint that accepted messages about new client accounts opened by students. (Java, Spring Web Services, JDOM )

Designed and maintained the relational data model consisting of over 40 tables. (Oracle, Dezign for Databases )

Created and configured the infrastructure for an automated unit and integration testing framework and helped maintain 100% pass rates throughout the course of the construction phase. (Java, JUnit, DbUnit, Spring )

Telecom Client

Led the design and development of a web-based system used to manage the process of customers opting out of license agreements with the client. (Java, JSP, Struts, Oracle, EJB )

Implemented key enhancements to a proprietary workflow engine, allowing the client to track license requests from customers. (Java, JSP, Struts, Oracle )

Designed, garnered consensus on, and then implemented a key refactoring to an infrastructure piece responsible for managing configuration files. (Java, EJB, JMS )

Helped implement enhancements to the client's Online Application system to support a critical business goal of increased agility and responsiveness to customer requests. (Java, EJB, Struts, JSP )

Euclidean Geometry Theorem Checker

Mar2007

1 year 0 month

Java, JavaCC

FHLB Toolbox

Jan2007

4 months

Java, Webwork, Hibernate, MySQL, Javascript

PMDReports

Jul2006

1 year 8 months

Java, XSL

CRM and Scheduling System

May2006

1 year 2 months

Java, Struts, Hibernate, JSP, Javascript

SDLC Partners

Feb2005

2 years 4 months

Java, AspectJ, Ant, Java Stored Procedures, PL/SQL, EJB, Spring, Hibernate, WebWork, Ajax, Jasper Reports

Senior Consultant

Pittsburgh, PA

MSA

Played a key role in an architecture assessment of MSA�s Gabriel product, a 5 million line ERP system for the Media industry. The assessment spanned functional, organizational, and technical domains to discover the extent to which each architectural element supported critical business goals. ( )

Implemented a performance instrumentation solution utilizing Aspect Oriented Programming to achieve better maintainability and extensibility. (AspectJ, Ant, Java )

Analyzed and refactored a critical core component that was responsible for system-wide performance problems. (Java Stored Procedures, PL/SQL, Java )

Acted as a mentor to junior Java developers, performing code reviews, holding consistent brown-bag learning sessions, and offering general support and assistance. ( )

Developed a tool used to visualize Ant target workflows for the purposes of understanding complex Java build scripts. (Java, Ant )

Researched and refactored an exception handling rules-engine. (Java, EJB )

Vocollect

Led the analysis, design, and development of the Delivery Locations feature for Vocollect�s VoiceLink 3.0 product. Utilized the dependency injection design pattern to improve testability and extensibility of business logic, and used ORM techniques to achieve portability and better maintainability of database persistence code. (Java, Spring, Hibernate, WebWork, Ajax )

Managed the implementation of the reporting module, which entailed integrating a proprietary reporting component and open-source reporting frameworks with the VoiceLink 3.0 system. (Jasper Reports, Spring, Hibernate, Webwork, Ajax )

Served as the lead consultant of 13, helping to coordinate tasks and manage knowledge. ( )

Helped to coordinate, administer, and analyze a usability test of the VoiceLink 3.0 product and helped to pinpoint and then eliminate over two dozen critical usability issues. ( )

Helped define the customization strategy for the VoiceLink 3.0 product. ( )

BUMP 2.0

Dec2004

3 months

Java, Swing, JMF

Carnegie Mellon University

Aug2004

5 years 7 months

Masters of Science in Philosophy (Logic and Computation)

RealStats Website

May2004

1 month

PHP, MySQL

Carnegie Mellon University

Apr2004

9 months

Java, JSP, MySQL, Struts, PHP, Flash

Classic Clips Website

Mar2004

4 months

PHP, MySQL

Accounting System

Jan2003

2 years 2 months

MS Access

Straightline

Jun2002

1 year 6 months

EJB, JavaMail, Struts, Oracle, Java, Custom Tags, WebSphere, Log4J

BUMP

Oct2001

2 months

Java, JMF

Ciber

Jun2001

11 months

EJB, DB2, WebSphere, Visual Age, JSP Custom Tags, Javascript, HTML, JSP, Servlets, WML, JavaBeans, Custom Tags, Tomcat, MySQL, SQL

Adclip Corporation

Jan2000

1 year 4 months

Java, JSP, Servlets, Beans, XSL, XSQL, Perl, WML, XML

KIWI Bulimia Database

Sep1998

10 months

MS Access

Customer DB

Jun1998

2 months

FileMaker Pro

CRIMP

Nov1997

1 year 1 month

FileMaker Pro

Carnegie Mellon University

Aug1995

3 years 9 months

Bachelor of Science in Information and Decision Systems

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Pittsburgh, PA
Masters of Science in Philosophy (Logic and Computation),
Intended Thesis: �Proofs, Pictures, and Euclid � a Theorem Prover for Euclidean Geometry�