Aga Cena

 

jobs@cena.com

0409 531 354

Queenscliff, NSW

Australia

 

Skills Summary

Over 19 years experience developing large-scale mission critical enterprise applications for Fortune 50 companies and technology industry pioneers.

Accomplishments

§          Founded software company Milo Inc. which was acquired by Voxeo Corp on March 2001.

§          Actively participated in acquisition proceedings leading to the sale of Gloss.com to Estée Lauder Co.

§          Production launch of the following IT Systems:

o         FIFO for Genworth Financial

o         The GNet Portal for Soul Australia.

o         Online Mobile Pre-Paid activation for SingTel Optus.

o         Sony.com.au, SonyStyle.com.au, Sony.com.au/WegaTheatre for Sony.

o         Gloss.com for Estée Lauder Co.

o         On-line Credit Card Verification System for First Data Corp (FDC) for Pacific Bell.

o         Teller Vision for Wells Fargo Bank.

o         Outage Management System for Pacific Gas and Electric.

o         Network Facility Management System for AT&T.

 

Technical Skills Summary

Programming Languages

Java 1.4.x/1.5.x(JSP, JMS, Portlets JSR 168, JDBC, Servlets, JHTML), C, Perl, SQL, PLSQL

Java Frameworks

Hibernate, Spring, jBPM, OpenSymphony WebWork, Apache Axis, GnuJSP

RDBMS

Oracle, Sybase, SQLServer, Informix, Ingres, MySQL, Postgres, VAX Rdb

Application Servers

JBoss, Tomcat, ATG, BEA WebLogic, JServ, Blue Martini

HTTP Servers

Apache, Netscape Enterprise Server, Microsoft Internet Information Server(IIS)

Operating Systems

Sun Solaris, Linux 2.1 ES, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, Windows NT, VAX VMS, UNIX AT&T Sys V, HP-UX

Development Tools

Eclipse, Ant, Maven, Oracle Designer 2000, Oracle SQL Developer, Toad

 

Industry Experience Summary

Telecom

Motorola, AT&T, Soul Australia, SingTel Optus, Pacific Bell

Consumer eCommerce

Sony, Estee Lauder/Gloss.com 

Internet

Netscape, ThirdAge Media, Milo

IT

Hewlett Packard, Digital Equipment Corp

Banking and Finance

Wells Fargo Bank, Genworth Financial

Pharmaceuticals

Syntex Corp

 


Experience

Genworth Financial

June 07 – March 2008

Solution Architect, Consultant

§    Lead Architect for the Fax In Fax Out (FIFO) project.  The FIFO project is the replacement of system that receives customer lenders mortgage insurance (LMI) applications through facsimile, sends documents to customers and process LMI documents for underwriting.  This mission critical system represents 80% of Genworth’s business. The new system is a fully redundant, active-active, 24 x 7, Sarbanes-Oxley compliant and fully supported with Service Level Agreements for each component with internal IT and with software and service providers. System components: document imaging, document management, workflow and telephony.  The FIFO project was launched into production on Feb 21, 2008.

§    Initiate the implementation of a major transformation in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and shared services. Responsible for developing, validating and promoting SOA target architecture for Genworth. Evaluated SOA products from Tibco, WebMethods, Sun, Oracle, BEA, IBM and RedHat.

§    Lead Architect Deliverables: Solution Design, Interface Specifications, Non-Functional Requirements, Operational Guide, Implementation Plan and Failover and Disaster Recovery Strategy Document. 

§    Lead Architect Duties and Responsibilities: Oversight for the development team and vendors. Evaluate software products and professional service vendors. Develop target architecture and roadmaps for Enterprise Utilities shared services covering technical infrastructure, application and information services to successfully deliver lower costs, risk management and increased business flexibility.  UML 2.0 modeling using Enterprise Architect.

Environment: Mule Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Oracle 10g, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Java 1.5.x, BEA WebLogic 9.x, Active Server Pages (ASP), Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor.

 

Soul Australia

Apr 05 – May 07

 

Senior Software Developer, Consultant

§    Responsible for end to end technical architecture, development, launch and maintenance of a system to manage customer data in the Integrated Public Number Database (IPND) and Sensis Directory systems.  IPND is a central repository of public number customer data used by emergency services and law enforcement.  Sensis publishes a directory of public phone numbers.

§    Responsible for end to end technical architecture, development, launch, quality assurance and maintenance of the New South Wales(NSW) Government Broadband Service Portal (GNet Portal). The GNet Portal provides access to performance metrics, Service Level Agreements (SLA), ordering, billing, trouble ticketing and reporting of broadband services. The NSW Government Broadband Service is a purpose built Government network, comprising dedicated Government Network Access Points (GNAPs) interconnected with fibre and microwave services.

§    Develop the end to end solution design and specifications for the Shared Spectrum Service Management System (SSS).  SSS is a system for storing and managing data associated with the provisioning, management and wholesale billing of Soul Wholesale Residential DSL services using Soul Shared Spectrum Service.

Environment: JBoss Application Server 4.x, Spring Framework 1.2.x, Hibernate 3.x, Oracle (9i, 10g), JBoss jBPM 3.x, Apache Tomcat 5.5.x, Apache HTTP Server 2.x, OpenSymphony WebWork 2.2.x, Java 1.5.x, Eclipse 3.x, Sun Solaris, Linux 2.1 ES, Java Server Pages (JSP), HP Openview Service Desk 4.5.x API

SingTel Optus Pty Limited

Aug 04 – Apr 05

 

Solution Architect Designer, Consultant

§    Develop the end to end solution design and specifications for programs to provide a cost effective, timely and quality solution which complies with the line of business and domain architectures and with Optus standards and documentation requirements.

§    Develop detailed specifications for interfaces between solution components.

§    Assist in the estimation of program cost and timeframes.

§    Solution Architecture Designer role for the following projects: Mobile Pre-Paid Activation, eCRM/eTransactions, Customer Self Service Web Content Product and Services Portal.

§    Software Developer for the Mobile Pre-Paid Activation application. 

Environment: BEA WebLogic 8.1 SP2, Oracle 9i, Linux 2.1 ES, Netegrity(Secure Proxy, SiteMinder, IdentityMinder), Vignette V7 (Content Management, Application Portal), Java 1.4.x, BEA JRockit 1.4.x, J2EE (Servlets, JDBC, JSP, JMS, Portlets JSR 168), Java Server Pages (JSP), Eclipse 3.x, ANT 1.5

Sony Australia Limited

Aug 03 – Aug 04

 

Technical Architect, Consultant

§    Responsible for end to end architecture, development, launch and maintenance of Sony.com.au, SonyStyle.com.au, Sony.com.au/WegaTheatre and internal corporate portal.

§    Design, code and implement distributed computing environment consisting of SAP R/3, See Beyond, Remedy, and ATG Dynamo using web services (AXIS, SOAP, WSDL) and JMS.

§    Technical advisor to Senior Executive management team including the CIO.

§    Hands on manager to a team of programmers.

Environment: ATG Dynamo 5.x and 6.x, Java 1.3.x, J2EE (Servlets, JDBC, JSP, JMS), Java Server Pages (JSP), MS SQL Server 2000 8.x, WSDL, AXIS 1.1, SOAP 1.1, Eclipse 2.x, MS IIS 5.x, ANT 1.5, JHTML, Linux WS 2.1., MS Windows, Apache 1.3.x

Gloss.com / Estée Lauder Companies (ELC).

Dec 99 – Dec 01

 

Executive Systems Programmer ELC / Gloss.com Jun 00 – Dec 01

Lead Technical Architect  Gloss.com  Dec 99 –  Jun 00

ELC acquired Gloss.com on May 2000

§    Responsible for architecture, development, launch and maintenance of Gloss.com, a premier multi-brand cosmetics e-commerce site.  Gloss consists of 9 brands and is owned by Estée Lauder, Chanel and Clarins.

§    Enterprise resource planning and architectural design.

§    Design, code and implement the product catalog and the Remote Object Management for Products (ROMP) tool. 

§    Oracle data definition language (DDL), Java/XML/Database object relational mapping, Java object hierarchy for the product catalog and ROMP.

§    Transition Gloss.com from an outsource solution to an in-house solution.

§    Transition Gloss.com from Blue Martini/ BEA WebLogic to ATG Dynamo.

§    Perform due diligence during acquisition and evaluation of 26 software and service vendors.

§    Oracle database performance tuning and backup and recovery strategies for production Gloss.com commerce website. 

§    Achieve 100% uptime and zero data loss for the production Gloss.com Oracle database.

§    Assisted in acquisition proceedings and post-acquisition transition.

Environment: BEA WebLogic 4.5.1, Blue Martini 3.x, ATG Dynamo 5.x (DCC, DPS, DAS), Oracle 8.x, 9.X, PL/SQL, SQL, J2EE (Servlets, JDBC, JSP, JMS), Java 1.2.2, Netscape Enterprise Server 3.x, Perl5, Java Server Pages (JSP), JHTML, XML, XSL, Sun Solaris. 

Milo, Inc. / Voxeo Corp.

Sep 98 – Mar 01

President and Co-Founder Milo, Inc. Sep 98 - Jan 00

Board of Advisors Milo, Inc / Voxeo Corp. Jan 00 - Sept 01

Voxeo Corp. acquired Milo, Inc on Mar 2001.

§    Attend and actively participated in acquisition proceedings with several acquiring corporations.

§    Compose formal response to RFPs (Request for Proposal).

§    Consulted with executive management teams from large corporations such as Digital Impact and Charles Schwab on designing and implementing systems based on Milo MVC Framework.

§    Design and code high performance, high volume Internet solutions for enterprise customers.

§    Worked as a technical team member to conceptualize, design, code, and shipped the Milo Internet groupware product MiloMail to ThirdAge Media.

§    Oracle data definition language (DDL) and entity relationship design for MiloMail. 

§    Manage the operation and execution of a high growth Internet business.

§    Build a profitable, customer oriented, multi-function organizations from an early stage.

§    Grapple creatively and successfully with private and public financing, and with planning, developing and managing strategic partnerships with significant industry players.

Environment: JDK 1.1.x/1.2, JDBC 1.22, Java Servlets, Java Server Pages (JSP), GnuJSP, Apache 1.3, Oracle 8.x, Linux.

ThirdAge Media

Sep 97 – Dec 98

 

Technical Architect, Consultant

§    System Administration for all Netscape Web Server products, Oracle 7.X, 8.X and Sun UNIX Servers.

§    Oracle DDL and entity relationship design using Oracle Designer 2000.

§    UNIX TCP/IP Sockets Network Programming.

§    Design, code and implement statistical analyst tools for web site traffic tracking, user membership and registration, search, and dynamic content server.

Environment: Java (JDK 1.1.x, JSDK 2.0, JDBC 1.22), 'C', Pro*C, PL/SQL, FastCGI 2.0b2, Netscape Enterprise Server Ver 2.x/3.x, Perl 5 (Exts: DBD, DBI, FCGI, SFIO), oraperl, HTML, Oracle 7.x/8.x (NT 4.0, Solaris 2.5.1), Oracle Designer 2000, Sun Solaris.

Netscape Communications Corporation / Actra Business Systems, LLC /  General Electric Information Services

Jun 96 – Jun 97

 

Programmer Analyst, Consultant

Actra Business Systems is a joint venture between GEIS (General Electric Information Services) and Netscape.

§    System administration for all Netscape Web Server products, UNIX hardware and Oracle/Informix DBMS.

§    Develop, code and implement HTML parsers and http clients to automate testing for the Actra Publishing System V1.5/V1.6 and the Business Document Gateway (BDG). BDG is an electronic commerce software solution for business-to-business electronic data interchange (EDI) over the Internet and non-Internet networks.

§    Develop Billing C++ API and Command Line API test modules for CORBA based products.

§    Manage a release lab consisting of several instances of Oracle and Informix and every released/beta/alpha version of Actra commercial products.

§    Develop performance monitoring and statistical analyst tools.

§    Ran user group sessions throughout the project to gather requirements, jointly develop user interface, test and training.

Environment: Netscape Publishing System V1.x, Netscape Commerce Server, Netscape Enterprise Server, LiveWire, LiveWire Pro, LivePayment, Netscape Bank Card Gateway, Perl 5, DBPerl, oraperl, HTML, Java, JavaScript, C/C++, Oracle 7.x, Informix 7.x, Sun Solaris 2.5, IRIX Release 5.3, Windows NT 3.51/4.0, Windows 95. System

Pacific Bell Information Services

Dec 95 – Jun 96

 

Programmer Analyst, Consultant

§    UNIX Network Programming. Network topology engineer.

§    NON-Local Host IPC programming using TLI API for a concurrent connection oriented server and client processes.

§    Local Host IPC programming using Named Stream Pipes for I/O Multiplexing Server for multiple clients.

§    Design, code and implement a serial device driver for Solaris Operating System.

§    Design, code and implement an Interactive Voice Response System and On-line Credit Card Verification System for FDC (First Data Corp).

Environment: C, TCP/IP - Transport Layer Interface (TLI), Named Stream Pipes, Solaris 2.4, SunOS 4.1.3, Pro*C 2.0.3, Oracle 7.x. Perl V4.0, OraPerl V2.4

Hewlett Packard

Sep 94 – Sep 95

 

Programmer Analyst, Consultant

§    Oracle DDL and entity relationship design for an 800 Gigabyte Oracle database comprising of more than 300 tables.

§    Design, code and implement a system to manage product and pricing information for all HP products worldwide.

§    Design, code and implement a system to provide backwards data compatibility and concurrency from a legacy mainframe database system to the new Oracle database.

Environment: C, OraPerl V2.4, Perl V5.0, PL/SQL V2.0, Pro*C 2.0.3, Oracle 7.x, HP-UX 9.x

Wells Fargo Bank

Nov 93 – Sep 94

 

Programmer Analyst, Consultant

§    Architect software development, quality assurance and production environments for Teller Vision.  Teller Vision is an X Windows base system used by bank tellers.  Teller Vision was the largest private UNIX network in the world handling over one million bank transactions a day.

§    Oracle database performance tuning, capacity planning and backup and recovery strategy. 

§    Oracle DDL and entity relationship design. 

§    Design, code and implement a system to provide branch transaction information and account reconciliation data.

Environment: C, Pro*C, Oracle 7.x, HP-UX 9.01

Pacific Gas and Electric Company         

Jan 93 – Jan 94

Programmer Analyst, Consultant

Continuation of the Oct 92 - Feb 93 PG&E project

Digital Equipment Corporation

Feb 93 - Jun 93

 

Programmer Analyst, Consultant

§    Design and code DECwindows Motif GUI for a Department of Justice Statewide Integrated Narcotics System.

§    Write a serial device driver for Indentix finger print image capture and verification device (Biometric Access Device).

§    Design and code a computer security system using finger print verification.

§    Design and code image rendering modules.

§    Develop a system to provide information on War Room, Surveillance and Investigative and Analytical and Mission Planning Activities.

Environment: C, VMS, X Window, DECwindows Motif, DEC VUIT, DECimage, VAX Rdb/VMS 4.1, MS-DOS

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Oct 92 - Feb 93  

Programmer Analyst, Consultant

§    Design, code and implement the Outage Management System (OMS).  OMS is a system to track electronic switching operations to manage statewide power outages.

§    Develop a system to provide a means of exchanging information with customers and among distribution and customer operation groups involved in electronic service interruptions and restoration.

§    Design and code data retrieval modules using Oracle embedded SQL.

§    Oracle DDL and entity relationship design.

§    Analyze algorithms and implement performance enhancing modifications.

Environment: C, SunOS, Pro*C, Oracle, X Window, Xview, RTworks software developer.

Carlyle Systems

Feb 92 - Jun 92

 

Programmer Analyst, Consultant

§    Design, code and implement a library business management system.

§    Develop coding standards for X Window interface.

§    Design and code data retrieval modules using Ingres embedded SQL.

§    Ingres DDL and entity relationship design.

§    Design and code the Xview interface for the Acquisitions business function.

Environment: C, SunOS, X Window, Xview, Ingres

Syntex Corp.

Dec 91 - Jan 92

Programmer Analyst, Consultant

§    Design RMS data structures.

§    Develop modules to generate analytic data for the marketing, finance and accounting departments.

§    Add additional functionality and enhancements to Intellinomics Workbench Report Writer Software.

Environment: C, VMS, VAX RMS

Motorola Inc.

Feb 91 - Sep 91

Programmer Analyst, Consultant

§    Design, code and implement a business system to execute the Motorola business plan and provide full business management functionality for accounting, marketing and finance departments.

§    Develop screen functional specifications.

§    Educate Motorola employees and consultants on UNIX, Oracle, Relational Theory and JAM.

§    Design screen and cursor navigation standards.

Environment: Oracle, UNIX AT&T Sys. V, X Window - Motif and JAM

AT&T

Oct 89 - Feb 91

Programmer Analyst, Consultant

§    Manage the technical development of a joint venture between AT&T and Electronic Data Systems to create an Interactive Computer Graphic System to be used for Geographic Information Systems, Network Facility Management System (NFMS), Computer Aided Design and Global Positioning Systems.

§    Sybase and Sun system administration.

§    Develop formal courses on UNIX, Sun, Sybase system administration and NFMS for AT&T employees and clients.

§    SunLink DNI/Ethernet - Network System Administrator for Sun, DEC VAX and Intel X86 PCs.

§    AutoLISP application developer.

Environment: C, Sybase, SunOS, X Window, Xview, SunView and Programmers Hierarchical Interactive Graphic System (PHIGS) software developer.

Education

§    Master of Science in Computer Science

DePaul University, Chicago, IL.

Completed 12 Courses, GPA 3.75/4.00 Overall.

§    Bachelor of Science in Statistics

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, - Dec 1987

Activities

§    Traveled extensively throughout Australasia, Pacific Islands, South East Asia, China, Central America, South America, North America, Himalayan Countries and Europe

§    Surfing

§    Sailing

§    Rock Climbing

§    Snowboarding

§    Cycling

References

Available upon request

Work Eligibility

 

§    Australian Permanent Residence/Citizenship Nov, 2007

§    United States of America Citizen