Provided architectural guidance for building Suncorp's insurance claims application across multiple lines of business and brands. Developed prototype during a number of architectural spikes. Defined the application architecture along with supporting material including development standards and educational website. 

Java, JDK5, Guidewire, GScript, Jetty, Tomcat, Scrum. 

The department is replacing their ageing billing system for land tenures. Developed prototype for phase 2 based on the chosen technologies. Worked out of way of getting hot deploy to work with the architecture using Jetty for more productive development. Prototyped a mechanism to dynamically build JSF forms based on metaprogramming. Investigated static analysis tools and enhanced the tool suite used. Upgraded Hudson and configured to show trend graphs. 

Java, JDK6, Tomcat, Jetty, Spring Framework 2.0, Hibernate 3, EJB3, JPA, JSF, Facelets, RichFaces/Ajax4JSF, Seam, Ingres, Hudson, Ant, Maven, CVS, PMD, FindBugs, CheckStyle. 

Developer on EigerPay Gateway version 2.0, a payments gateway connecting to VOCA's new ETS WebService and implementing a drop-in HST solution. Implemented configuration UI and services for data retrieval and distribution. Assisted port to IBM zSeries (S/390). Implemented redirect-after-post on top of Spring MVC, upgraded Spring configuration to make use of the new Spring 2.0 namespaces, enhanced beans via Spring AOP to fire property change events, translated Spring DAO exceptions at the service layer boundary to application exceptions via Spring AOP.

Java, Spring Framework 2.0, Spring MVC, Velocity, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Hibernate 3, Jetty 6, Tomcat, OC4J, PostgreSQL, Eclipse. 

Developer on the Qpid project This is open source implementation of the Advanced Message Queue Protocol (AMQP). The project provides a broker implemented in Java and C++ and clients implemented in Java, C#, C++, Ruby and Python. I improved and maintained the Java broker and clients in both Java and C#.

Java, Generics, Multithreading/Concurrency, Java 5, Java 6, C#, Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, JetBrains ReSharper, Windows, Linux 

Improving, streamlining and maintaining the Strategic Partner Interface which provides online and batch interfaces to third parties such as Virgin Mobile and BT.  

Java, C/C++, WebLogic Platform 8.1, Eclipse, Spring, Swing, Tuxedo 8.1, Oracle, Sun Solaris, Linux 

Member of a team developing a Service Management System (on the whole a CRM system). The software process we followed was Feature Driven Development (FDD). 

Mentored 4 new developers to the project. Built the business delegate layer between the Macromedia Flex based user interface and services provided by Hibernate and WebLogic Web Services. Built auditing and logging subsystem leveraging Aspect/J and WebLogic Aspect System (from BEA dev2dev). This used a WebLogic AuditProvider to enable the auditing of authentication events. Web Services where used to provide auditing and logging services to external applications. Built a WebLogic authentication provider which was configurable via a JMX property to authenticate in one of three ways. Enhanced this provider by implementing additional JMX interfaces in order to make it compatible with WebLogic Portal. Set up development and system test environments and ensured that the application to deploy successfully in that environment. 

WebLogic Platform 8.1, WebLogic Workshop, JBuilder X, Eclipse, Hibernate 2.1/3.0, Web Services, Entity Bean CMP 2.0, Macromedia Flex, Sybase, Linux, HP-UX. 

Worked on a Toll management system written in Java, JDBC, RMI and Oracle 9i PL/SQL. The system was a custom built application server heavy with multithreading/concurrency, and networking code (both TCP/IP streams and UDP/IP datagrams). Application Server framework based on custom services framework utilising Doug Lea’s concurrency utils which became the foundation for the addition to Java 5. 

Raised awareness of JMS and promoted it as a solution to reliable distributed messaging requirements. Through a number of refactorings, removed almost 1000 lines of redundant code. Improved productivity by re-enabling the testing system including JUnit test cases. This allowed the developer to test conveniently from their Windows development machine rather than building the application and deploying to the Sun-Solaris server before testing can proceed. This also enabled graphical debugging from within the integrated development environment, IntelliJ. Diagnosed and fixed a critical issue caused by a race condition which allowed messages to be processed out of order. Performed intensive code reviews, pointing out and resolving many various problems with the application code. Modifications to log4j application logging in order make the system more manageable.