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Gerd W. Naschenweng is a proactive, experienced senior software architect and developer with a track record of delivery quality solutions quickly in the IT-, financial- and government-sector. During his 12 years in the IT industry he has had roles in development, systems analysis and project management using technologies like C, Java / J2EE, XML, MQ Series and CICS Transaction Gateway on a number of large and complex projects.
Gerd holds diplomas in Business Management and Marketing Management from the Damelin Management School (Rosebank, South Africa) as well as in Business Enterprise Studies and Marketing Management from the Institute of Commercial Management (Bournemouth, UK).
He has extensive experience in J2EE technologies ranging from the design and development of complex model-view-controller architectures to the integration of legacy mainframe architectures. He has worked with the latest development tools such as IBM Websphere Application Developer, IBM Visual Age and has performed deployments and load-balancing exercises on IBM Websphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server using various performance monitoring tools.
Gerd has worked extensively in the retail banking and insurance industry providing transaction based solutions with the main focus of web-enabling legacy mainframe applications.
Between December 2000 and May 2003, he worked as a consultant for the German company Maas High Tech Software to implement large-scale web-applications in the financial industry. Thereafter Gerd was involved in various projects (SAP portals in Botswana, government projects in Germany) and currently does consulting work in South Africa. Gerd currently holds the position of a senior J2EE Architect / Chief Architect for the Branch Banking Technology Division of First National Bank.
Gerd enjoys developing and delivering systems but he also relishes the human side and gets the most out of his work when he's interacting closely with project stakeholders to deliver systems that add value and give a return on investment. He has the ability to motivate and manage his team to ensure the best results.
Recent achievements
* Architectural support in decision making of Linux vs Windows in a retail banking branch environment
* Architectural design of future architecture for retail banking branch platform
* Introduction of complete SDLC in retail bank
* Technical lead during the hardware selection process and proof of concept for a € 5 million hardware tender
* Team-lead, performance-measurement and scalability-tests with Mercury LoadRunner for a large EJB government-application.
* Development of insurance reporting system with SAP Portal Development Kit.
* Migration of a Visual Age 4.0 Repository to IBM Websphere Application Developer 5.0.
* Migration and automated deployments from IBM WSAD to IBM Websphere Application Server (4.0 and 5.0).
* Design & Implementation of a data access layer to communicate with the mainframe via CICS Transaction Gateway to invoke legacy CICS Transactions.
* Design & Implementation of a single-signon solution using JSSE and LDAP with the use of RSA SecurID and Kobil SecOVID tokens.
* Design and Development of an Internet application to web-enable an insurance company's legacy mainframe applications.
