Gary Bauer

Java Developer, Architect, Team Leader and pre-sales consultant. Proponent of Test Driven Development in a Continuous Integration environment. Along with robust OO design skills this helps me deliver quality, flexible solutions. Frequently entrusted to lead the technical effort on the largest or most challenging projects. International experience (UK, Spain, middle-east).

Developer and member of the Design Forum in a team of 30 on a sprint-based project practising pair-programming. We developed a Quotation Engine for sales people to develop commercial proposals for complex network infrastructures. Technologies: Java, Jersey-based REST services, Hibernate JPA, JQuery, JAX-WS, POI/Excel, Simple Framework, JUnit, Selenium.

Design and implementation of robust infrastructure including Maven, Bamboo, JIRA, FishEye, Crucible and Sonar to support development processes, agile and otherwise, in globally distributed teams. Advising on development practices.

ETF Desk. Architecture and development of JBOSS/Solaris-based XML feed and middleware solution featuring EJB3, Hibernate JPA, JAX-WS Web-Service, and JMS (WebSphere MQ) against Sybase. Extensive unit and integration test-cases developed. Worked with colleagues in Australia and Hong Kong.

Enterprise Integration Consultant on an SOA implementation for major insurance company. Defined message-based integration of SOAP web-servcies and JMS-based services. Involved XSD design, XSLT transformations and Axis handler chain definition.

Market Risk Reporting. Design and development of Spring and Hibernate-based Web Application on JBOSS/Fabric against Microsoft SQL Server. Mentored colleagues. Ran technical workshops where practices and technologies were presented and discussed.

Led development of public web application for major business directory company. Used Spring/Struts/Hibernate on Resin/Oracle/Solaris.

Global "Know Your Client" application. As part of a large team, developed Domino web tier and and Java back-end components on WebSphere Application Server.