Business case:
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Scope of work:

• Responsible for managing the design team and defining architectural roadmaps and introducing technology enablers to maintain the company's competitive edge.
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Business case:
Initially consulted as a J2EE architect to implement architectural principals in the technology division of Branch Banking. Branch Banking Technology services a branch network consisting of 700 outlets and supports over 14,000 users. During the first engagement the scope of work changed to apply enterprise architecture principles, to streamline the software development life-cycle and to establish an IT strategy to support future business initiatives.

Scope of work:

• Resolved stability and performance issues in the current environment and improved scalability from 50 concurrent users to 1500 users.

• Assisted the infrastructure team in the design and implementation of a fully automated, clustered and fail-over Blade Centre environment.

• Architectural principles for SDLC supporting Risk & Governance

• Prepared and presented several business cases to support the improvement of the SDLC (Change Management, Problem Management, Application- & System Monitoring, Test Management).

• Assisted in the RFI/RFP process to replace the current branch software stack.

• Development of architecture strategy and roadmap to transform branch technology.

• Keyplayer in Risk & Governance to implement policies, guidlines and processes.

• Assisted in the ITIL assessment and provided recommendations. (ITIL champion for implementation)

• Architectural design of system infrastructure and involvement in Linux vs Windows proof-of-concepts.

• Definition of architectural roadmaps for Identity Management, Peripheral Integration via J/XFS.

• Business-case & implementation of web-presence/-usage monitoring in a Blade environment.

Business case:
BG Phoenics GmbH has developed a J2EE application for different social insurance groups in Germany. Scope of the project to perform system-testing during which the delivery project is evaluated for "production-readiness".

BG Phoenic's application is a document-centric solution which required scanning, recognition, indexing and management of 60,000 documents per hour.

Scope of work:

• Setup and extension of quality assuring activities.

• Performance optimisation and troubleshooting for applications.

• Development and customisation of LoadRunner scripts.

• Utilisation of privately developed "UniversalServer" - a extensible client-server framework to control load tests.

• Performance measurement and profiling using Wily Introscope.

• Performance tuning / problem resolution

• Performance tuning of infrastructure environment (especially MQ Workflow, DB2, IBM Websphere and JVM, Content Manager)

• Analysis of LoadRunner-test results.

Business case:
BG Phoenics GmbH has developed a J2EE application for different social insurance groups in Germany. Scope of the project is to support the production readiness project for the company during the hardware-tender process, mediate between the different hardware providers and produce results to facilitate the hardware selection process.

BG Phoenic's application is a document-centric solution which required scanning, recognition, indexing and management of 60,000 documents per hour.

Scope of work:

• Setup and extension of quality assuring activities.

• Performance optimisation and troubleshooting for applications.

• Management and co-ordination of the test-team (7 people).

• Development and customisation of LoadRunner scripts.

• Development of additional LoadRunner functionality to generate even load in test scenarios.

• Analysis of LoadRunner-test results.

Business case:
The Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (= CEDA) is a government-funded agency to develop the business development in Botswana. The core business of CEDA focuses on the distribution of loans in the commercial-, property-, agricultural- and livestock sectors. The project included a loan-origination and appraisal process which interfaces into SAP and utilises the SAP portal server to present the web-based business application to the end-user.

Scope of work:

• Technical assistance in the last 4 weeks of the implementation phase to implement the appraisal models for commercial-, property- and agricultural loans.

• Design of the database model and generic access beans to store/retrieve business data via JDBC.

• Development of SAP portal-components (DynPage and JSPDynPage).

• Unit- and load-test of the components via JUnit.
   

Business case:
The Internet-application implemented under Visual Age for Java 3.5 and deployed on IBM Websphere Application Server 3.5 needs to be migrated to fully support the J2EE deployment standards. The project includes the migration of libraries and deployment scripts.

Scope of work:

• Technical assistance in migration of the Visual Age repository to IBM WebSphere Application Developer 5.0.

• Design of automated J2EE deployment into WebSphere Application Server 4.0 via ANT and Tcl and Jacl.

• Technical project management and coaching (managing a team of 5 developers, project-planning, business analysis/design).

• Performance and scalability tests via Mercury Loadrunner.

• Production link: http://maxnet.vhv.de

Business case:
A web-portal application should allow multiple insurance companies to share different authentication methods and provide a single-signon for all partner applications. For this project a user is authentified and authorised via RSA SecurID or Kobil SecOVID and user-information is stored in LDAP.

Scope of work:

• Design and development of a model-view-controller application framework for the company.

• Design and development of a Java Native Interface to communicate with the RSA- and Kobil-Servers for authentication.

• Design and development of a XML-based configurable authentication framework.

• Performance and scalability tests via Mercury Loadrunner.

• Production link: http://www.vdg-portal.de

Business case:
Establish an Internet-portal to provide the insurance companies business processes to their insurance brokers and partners. The portal's functionality covers all aspects of an insurance-brokers requirements (change insurance details, customer details, file damage reports, enquiry of insurance contracts etc.).

Scope of work:

• Design and development of a model-view-controller application framework (XML based "Struts"-like MVC model 2) for the company.

• Design and development of the Java Middletier (servlets, Javabeans, JSP) to communicate with the mainframe via CICS Transaction Gateway to invoke legacy CICS transactions.

• Design and development of a XML-based communication infrastructure to transform COBOL copybooks into XML-beans.

• Design and development of a reporting framework based on Apache FOP to generate/transform PDF-documents and serve the documents via the browser.

• Design and development of a distributed Logging-Framework based on Apache Log4J and IBM MQSeries.

• Load balancing and scalability tests of the application via Mercury Loadrunner.

• Project production link: http://maxnet.vhv.de
   

Business case:
Proof of concept for the development of a web-based document management system. The project focused on the automatic processing of documents (letter, emails, fax etc.) via a web interface. Back-end processes included the archiving of new documents into a document server and retrieval functions to access documents from the optical Jukeboxes.

Scope of work:

• Design and development of a web-based application to retrieve document information from the mainframe via MQ Series and display the documents in a browser.

• Integration of APIs to retrieve documents via a servlet from optical storage.

• Development of a 3270 applet to enable users to capture additional information on in 3270 applications.

• Load tests with Mercury LoadRunner

Business case:
The Smart company (a Daimler-Chrysler company) manufactures and distributes in a franchise model the compact Smart-cars. In a restructuring exercise the company focused on launches into new markets.

Scope of work:

• Project management and coordination of the IT-franchise setup for the new market launches in UK, Japan and Taiwan.

• Setup of change-management procedures to coordinate the distribution of new functionality and updates to franchise outlets.

• Co-ordination and setup of a project office and delegation of tasks to team-leaders / project managers.

Business case:
Proof of concept to move the existing branch delivery system to a platform independent format.

Scope of work:

• Analysis, Design and Feasibility study to migrate a large (350+ branches) banking client-server system to Java.

• Development of a Java interface to communicate and exchange data with the mainframe via IBM CICS Transaction Gateway.

Business case:
Enhancing the OS/2 based client-server application to implement additional functionality to increase productivity at the banks branches.

Scope of work:

• Integration of the new Y2K compliant credit-card processing system.

• Management of implementation and rollout of major functional changes to the frontend system to all retail outlets.

• Analysis, Design and Implementation of the Instant Card Issue functionality to issue (print & encode) ATM cards in the branches.

• Management of the deployment of 200 card printers into the branch network (400+ branches).

• Analysis, Design and Implementation of the Teller System, which allows the banks branches to handle all monetary transactions real-time.

• Analysis, Design and Implementation of the "plug 'n play" Serial Port Interface, which enables the "hot-plugging" of any serial device. (This was implemented to launch new hardware quickly and to reduce administration and configuration efforts). As part of this project cash-dispensers, card-readers, cheque-readers and card-printers were deployed to 400+ branches nationwide.

• Analysis, Design and Implementation of the Print Monitor Interface which extends/replaces the functionality of the OS/2 Print Manager. Purpose of the project was to increase the speed of documents printed and to manage 5000+ printers in the branch network.

Business case:
Analysis and Design of business functionality for the Standard Bank of South Africa project.

Scope of work:

• Analysis, Design and Implementation of the Customer Information System to manage customer information and utilise key data for marketing purposes.

• Cross Selling Interface to support customer consultants in their marketing efforts.

• Development of the support-tool "BDRemote/32" to remotely control 800+ servers and 10,000+ desktops in the banks branch infrastructure.