Senior Consultant /Software Engineer / Architect focused on providing technical leadership to development teams, aligning business priorities to technical projects, and managing business application development and rollout. Strong track record as Software Engineer, Team Lead, and Applications Architect on full lifecycle, enterprise-wide software development projects.  Excellent communication skills and experience working with executive management to analyze complex business needs, design effective technical solutions, and ensure timely implementation to meet client expectations. 25+ years of industry experience specializing in both the Java 2 and Microsoft .NET Platforms, Open-Source Java and .NET frameworks, and Object-Oriented analysis and design. I have spent the last seven years on Design and Developing GWT/MVP/GAE running on Google APP Engine.  These applications run on multiple DEVICES including MOBILE.  I am a subject matter expert in MVP/Activities and Places, Editor, AutoBean, RequestFactory, RPC, JSON, JSNI, Validation Framework, writing Web APPS with both Browser History integration and Back Button Support.  I develop Stateless, Scalable, Clustered APPS with the STATE being in Javascript on the Client side, which considerably decreases the need for Server Side STATE which simplifies the Replication through the cluster. Experienced in all phases of SDLC, including Agile and Waterfall.  Increased productivity by 15% by using Agile, high-collaborative approaches in majority of my projects, unless specified by client. Extensive experience in an Agile environment, participating both in planning, execution, and testing.  Utilizing Agile project trackers and other tools like: JIRA, GreenHopper, STASH, GIT, Jenkins, Maven, Bonfire, Bamboo, Crucible, FishEye, Crowd, Confluence,  and many more.

 

My claim to fame is creating stateless, scalable, clustered, load balanced, highly available, fail safe, multi site, SAN architected, large volume transactions with sub second SLA’s. I have worked for very high volume transaction companies like Credit Card volume with 35 million transactions per day, Banks with very high volume transactions and agreed upon SLAs, and Brokerage Firms with high volume distributed transactions interfacing with all relevant market data, including Standard and Poor’s, CBOE, and CBOT for quotes collection, distribution and processing. 

 

I am very familiar with Map-Reduce Design Pattern, Hadoop, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Queue-Storage-Services, and queue based messaging solutions for large volume transaction processing. 

 

Expert Level in both providing Web Services, and Consuming Web Services.  I have worked extensively on both WSDL first (Contract first) web services, and Java First web services utilizing Annotation, Schema/XSD for SOAP.SOAP and REST specializing in Behavior-driven ( BDD  and BDT ) utilizing  JBehave with Stories, and Scenarios.

 

Subject matter Expert in All phases of SOA with experience in all SOA platforms like, Mule, Fuse ESB, Camel (Routes, and processors), Karaf, Fabric, OSGI, Zookeeper, WSO2, and WAS.  Subject matter expert in Identity Server, and Governance Registry, working with Authorization, Authentication, and Acess Control List (AAA).  Can setup an Camel Route using DSL or annotation in few minutes.  Able to consume web services in many different ways in the Camel ESB engine within minutes.

 

Subject matte expert in setting up Active-MQ to work with PUB SUB with very complex flows, working on both REST and SOAP endpoints, and many integration patterns including Content Based Router, Aggregator, Splitter, Load Balancer, Multicast.

 

Utilizing WSO2 ( CAR FILES), and Mule for versioning WSDL and supporting multiple versions of the WSDL, and adding security to the  WSDL.  Developing a framework with Façade and MVP pattern for Web   Services to have the same interface for both REST AND SOAP, thus UI layer delegates the SOAP or REST call to the proxy.  This way technology of REST or SOAP is encapsulated in the PROXY and UI layer makes the same call regardless of the underlying service being SOAP or REST.  Develop a framework to speed up the web services through caching datasources and concept of REMOTE or LOCAL endpoints.

Automated the process of Creating Web Services (SOAP and REST) through maven and Jenkins The automation lifecycle include: These Steps: 1.  Put annotation on service methods.  2.  Put cache or actual data source  in JBOSS Resource.java where endpoint is assigned. 3.  Add Comment to WSDL methods.  4.  Use Apache CXF Web Services stack to generate service porttype, and assign endpoint.  5.  Use apache cxf to generate the WSDL with comments at top, bottom, prototype and endpoints.  6.  Run SOAPUI to invoke the test of web service by entering data into WSDL 7.  Run JBehave to run the stories and scenarios.  7.  Point to JBOSS WSDL to automatically add security to the WSDL and test the web services utilizing with JBehave in both junit testing and integration testing.  8.  Create Transformation for WSO2 to support versioning of the WSDL for multiple version of our service.  9.  Generate Car File that handles multiple versions of the WSDL.  10.  Run Integration test utilizing WSO2 endpoints for different versions of the WSDL.  11.  Maven tasks to generate Proxies for abstracting out the SOAP or REST services utilizing one interface regardless of consuming SOAP or REST service. Use REST API with JAX-RS and JSON to call Jenkins Rest API to automatically test our web services. 

 

Utilizing DRY principle, Open Close Principle to develop, Dependency Injection, inheritance and Polymorphism to develop SOA APPS.  Working with ESB engine, Governance Registry, Identity Server, CAR files, Proxies, Web Services Transformation, Groovy, javascripts, WSO2, GitHub, linux, osx/mac, Vagrant, Chef, puppet, CentOs, virtual machines.

 

Subject matter expert in all search technologies such as SOLAR, LUCENE, ELASTIC-SEARCH, JBOSS Infinispan Datagrid with JGROUP sitting on top of LUCENE, Oracle Coherence Datagrid with support for Hibernate.  Subject matter expert in Distributed Search VS Replicated search and advocating Distributed search over Replicated Search due to less memory and less network traffic for synchronization of Datagrid.  In Memory Distributed Datagrid scales, and sitting on top of search engine like LUCENE, SOLAR, or ElasticSearch will give better performance and better scalability than Conventional Relational Databases with order of magnitude in performance.

 

Worked on developing Android APPS using various environments like: Visual Box, Redhat LINUX, Android Studio,  Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA.

 

Expert Level in consuming and Developing Web Services of SOAP and REST in SOA environment with SOA governance: SOA governance can provide optimal service quality, consistency, predictability and performance. It may also ensure that personnel follow prescribed policies and correct system problems or policy infractions as they occur.

Worked on WSO2 Governance Registry utilizing UDDI specs via UDDI Server enforcing JAXB, JAXWS and JPA standards.  Utilized UDDI to describe , discover , and integrate business services.  Embedded UDDI server is synchronized with the Registry and allows users to add services from Registry and manage them through UDDI APIs. Providing a common interface for UDDI calls.

 

Designed and coded application components in an Agile environment utilizing a test driven development approach. Agile process included the following steps:  1.  Products: Pivotal Tracker, and JIRA.  2.  Iterative development.  3.  Agile Scrum practice.  4.  Participation in multiple Teams, Global and Local Teams.  5.  Participated in Sprint Planning sessions every two weeks, with lesson learned from previous sprints, and story development.  Participating in Global Teams concurrently.  6.  Assigning stories in pivotal tracker, and having the team votes on points to stories.  7.  Measuring velocity 8.  Having Team meetings, assigning points to stories through Pivotal Tracker.  9.  Having standup each morning with STIKYs, moving stories between these categories (Not Started, In Development, Ready For Acceptance, Moved to DEV, Accepted).

Developing APPS in Virtual Box, utilizing Redhat Linux, windows and MAC OS.  Using GIT/STASH for version control.

Automated utilizing GIT commands like (CHECKOUT, COMMIT, STASH, Branch, Merge, pull, fetch, push) through scripts to simplify distributed version control.

Utilizing meld for source compare in redhat linux, and Beyond Compare in Windows.

 

Expert Level in both  Front End UI, and Back End services.  Feel comfortable with large or small teams, Agile or waterfall; Whatever the client desires.

 

Wrote Services for Lucene search engine, interfacing with SOAP Services to serve attachment, and documents needed by the consumer.

Wrote Services for LDAP directory interfacing it with Lucene search engine and other Web Services.  Have over the years worked with OpenLdap, ADS, LdapJS ( Node.js) directory services.

 

Subject matter expert in Master Data Management (MDM) /HER, to create a source of truth for patient search and maintenance, where multiple vendors using the same source (IE: NextGate PersonEJB) for keeping healthcare records.  This system is encapsulated within the ESB Camel Route and Processors, converting patient data between many different formats like HL7, FHIM, Canonical Model and other proprietary formats.  The Camel Transformations are done either through XSLT, JAXB, and GROOVY. Vendors subscribe to an outbound QUEUE, make patient search request, the MDM finds that patient, returns it as HL7, and the result is converted to a canonical model which is broadcasted to subscribing vendors so they can update their system.

 

Cell: 314-225-4403

Email: ffjabbari@gmail.com

Industry Experience:	Insurance, Banking, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Hi-Tech, Retail, Telecommunication
Competencies:	Project Management, Business Analysis, Financial Analysis, Marketing Analytics, Enterprise Architecture, Data Model Architecture
Languages:	Java, JavaScript, JSP, Java Servlets, HTML, XML, Spring MVC, GWT/MVP, C, C#, SQL, Web Services, REST, SOAP, SPRING MVC, JAXB, JAX-WS, JAX-RS, SPRING-WS, Mule ESB, SPRING RESTTEMPLATE, JQuery.  JBehave, WSDL, Apache CXF Web Services, JAX-RS, JAX-WS, JAXB, JSON, AngularJS, Node.
Software/Tools:	IBM WebSphere, Eclipse, JBuilder, MS Visual Studio, IBM VisualAge for Java, TOAD,  SQURREL, RAD, Agile, JQuery, PL/SQL, SPRING MVC (Ecommerce), SPRING Template, Maven, Jenkins, JBehave, Virtual Box, STASH, GIT, VAGRANT, Mac/OSX, BAMBOO, INFINISPAN Search, Elasctic Search, LUCENE Search, Hibernate, JPA, SONAR Search, GITHUB, LINUX, IntelliJ, CentOS, GITHUB, Polymer, Mean Stack, MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node, Groovy, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Android Studio, NPM, BOWER, NPM.
Databases:	Oracle, MS SQL Server, MYSQL, DB2, MongoDb, Cassandra, NOSQL
Operating Systems:	Windows, Unix, LINUX

FFJ Consulting LLC, St. Louis, MOMay 2000 – Present

Senior Architect / Developer

Enterprise Architect, collaborating with stakeholders to develop system architecture that aligns company objectives, strategy, and processes with client core objectives.  

 

·   Healthcare Application (Grands Rapids, MI, March 2013 - Current) – Architecting Healthcare Applications interfacing with Cerner and EPIC healthcare Applications.  Frist three months on Cerner APPS in Kansas City, KS, and the rest on various Healthcare APPS in Grand Rapids MI:  Developing and consuming SOAP and REST Web Services to provide value added healthcare services to comply with new healthcare laws.  Worked on both Provider side (Insurance) and Delivery side (Hospital).  Worked on both Front End and Back End Services.  Front End Tools like Angular JS, JavaScript, MEAN Stack,, Mongo DB, Node, Express and Polymer.   Worked on back End Services like JAVA, Elastic Search, SOLAR, INFINISPAN, BOWER, and NPM.

 

·   Telecommunication Application (Charlotte, NC, March 2013 – Sept 2013 ACN) – Developed an Architecture to modernize current system.

o   Design and development of GWT MVP (Model, View, Presenter, Activities and Places, Editor, Driver, AutoBean, RequestFactory), Spring MVC/MVP, GIN and GUICE, WEB SERVICES, JAX-RS, JAXB, JAX-WS, SPRING-WS, Mule ESB, SPRING RESTTEMPLATE, and Hibernate.  Design and development of new framework to rewrite current Sales and Order Entry APP in days and not in months!!!  Back-End Services: Mule ESB, JAXB, JAX-RS, JAX-WS, SPRING-WS, Creating WEB SERVICES, and consuming other WEB SERVICES. WRITING JENJKINS Scheduling Service to Schedule Job, and allow it to be consumed by other REST Services.  Utilizing SPRING RESTTEMPLATES to develop other Web Service APIs.

o   Architected a framework running on Google APP Engine (GAE) that Stands up a very complex, AJAX, Web 2.0 APP, in minutes utilizing the new WB 2.0 GWT MVP Activities, Places, Editor, AutoBean, Request Factory, GIN and GUICE, completely integrated with Browser’s History and Back Button.   This design is based on interface, and completely eliminates all boiler plate codes , integrated with MAVEN, Jenkins, and test first.  The reason for writing it fast is that there is ZERO PERCENT boiler plate code to write, and uses JSON/STRING for all data types!!!. 

o   Leading Architect for developing GWT WEB APP capable of running on ANY DEVICE, using GWT MVP with Dependency Injection, separating the code into View and Presenter, with a Dumb View that handles multiple DEVICES (including Mobile) effortlessly.  You write your logic for multiple devices once, and have it renders each devices view.  This proves you do not need to write multiple presenters for each DEVICE.   So, through interface, and polymorphism, we have eliminated DEVICE DEPENDENT LOGIC codebase!!!

o   I create multiple DUMB views (one for each device) with one presenter based on common VIEW Interface.  A presenter that can render many devices including Desktop, Mobile, Tablets, and so on.  I will demonstrate to you why Web APP can be written so fast, because there is nothing to write!!!  That is the MAGIC!!!  Validation is done by XQUERY and Annotation.  The framework provides a method of writing Web APP by configuration and not by writing boiler plate code that could otherwise be completely eliminated. 

o   If you look at a Web APP that does not have the code to move data from services to Domain Object, From Domain Object to DTO, from DTO to UI Layer, From UI back to DTO, from DTO back to Domain Object, From Domain Object back to Services, and no validation code to be written, then what code are you going to write in the UI layer?

o   Architecting a Web Framework that simplifies Web Services and integrates it with UI layer based on JSON/STRING.  Simplifying Services to have UI layer transforming UI data into the input of the Web Service and visa versa utilizing XQuery and JSON transformation.  Completely eliminating boiler plate code for Web Services utilizing Canonical Model with transformation from JSON to XML and visa versa, with transformers written in XQURY, and Velocity, and JSON .  If you build your services based on STRING/JSON, and with proper transformations, you have essentially created a GLUE between your UI and Service Layer which simplifies the Marshalling and UnMarshalling of Web Services TYPES.  If you automate the GLUE Code and Data TYPE transformation for web services, then what code are you going to write besides invoking the business logic?

o   Conducted Architecture Mapping, using Architecture Design Language (ADL) for Architecture Mapping of Enterprise Integration Components.  Used AcmeStudio and Eclipse to define configuration of Architecture Components and Connectors for specific Endpoints, and Channels.  Created Components, Connectors and corresponding classes and ports.  Created mapping from components, connectors and ports to classes.

o   Worked on distributed end of the Architecture as well, involving,  Systems which have many entry points:  UI is GWT, but it is a Dashboard to the Distributed transactions coming in from all over the world.  Large volume of transaction from partners going thourhg Web Services (REST and SOAP) that provide many services.  It takes transactions through Service Endpoints and serves them. It is connected through the distributed networks of other processes and OS ( IE: Mainframe, Lagacy APPS) that the distributed transactions communicate with.  Two Phase Commit where a Transactions goes through Disparate systems to create a cross OS Multi Phase Transactions.  Utilizing SPRING, JAX-RS, JAX-WS, WSDL, REST, XSD, Marshalling Unmarshalling.  Utilizing RPC style, and Literal Encoding, SPRING MVC, JSON, SCHEMA Based Operations, and REST Based Operations.  Interacting with Distributed Scheduling System to serve other REST Services utilizing Security.

o   Very proficient in MAVEN, Jenkins, Continuous Integration TOOLS.  Have written REST API for all Jenkins Command API, and have contributed it to public for use.

o   Large Volume SOAP and REST Services with caching, and acceptable SLAs.

Used: JAVA JEE, GWT/MVP, Activities and Places, Editor, Driver, AutoBean, RequestFactory, RPC, Validator, JSON, Spring MVC, DB2, Oracle, Mule, Web Services, ArchMapper, AcmeStudio-plugin, JAX-RS, JAXB, JAX-WS, XSD, Schema, JSON, WSDL, SOAP, REST, CXF, JBehave.   Distributed Transactions, Global Transactions, Transactions going over distributed, Disparate Systems.

 

 

·   Healthcare Application (ST LOUIS, MO, March 2012 - March 2013 – USBank) – Developed an Architecture to support Banking regulations.  Addressing requirements stated by Business Stakeholders, and bank Auditors.

o   Developed GWT/MVP web applications interfacing with third party services, and data warehousing to display metadata that represented System of Records summary information and flows.

o   Developed Spring MVC web applications interfacing with legacy systems, and communicating with third party systems through web services.

o   Back End transaction volume was very large where we utilized Data Warehousing and working with multiple Web Service Endpoints to provide a large scale Web Services that was consumed by other companies, and also, we consumed other web services as well.  The distributed transactions went over multiple operating systems, and utilized JAXB annotations for Marshalling and unmarshalling data throughout the system.  It was both SOAP and REST services both on consumer, and provider side.

o   Very proficient in MAVEN, Jenkins, Continuous Integration TOOLS.  Have written REST API for all Jenkins Command API, and have contributed it to public for use.  Have done PL/SQL, Big Data and other Distributed database TOOLS.

o   Large volume REST AND SOAP Services, both providing services and consuming other services, with Stateless Transactions.

Used: JAVA JEE, GWT/MVP, Activities and Places, Editor, Driver, AutoBean, RequestFactory, RPC, Validator, JSON, Spring MVC, DB2, Oracle, Mule, Web Services, JAX-RS, JAXB, JAX-WS, XSD, Schema, JSON, WSDL, SOAP, REST, JBehave, GIT, GIT, CXF, Android APP, WSO2, CAR File, SOA Governance, Mule,Caching DataSources in JBOSS, Endpoint Swapping to support versioning, JQuery, Google App Engine ( GAE) ,Distributed Transactions, Global Transactions.  Distributed transactions and integration with distributed, Disparate Systems.

 

 

·   Telecommunication Client (Morrisville, NC, March 2011 - March 2012 - AT&T) – Developed an Architecture to support Financial services.  Addressing requirements stated by Business Stakeholders, and external customers represented by other financial institutions.

o   Developed GWT/MVP web applications interfacing with third party services, external financial institutions.

o   Developed Spring MVC web applications interfacing with Oracle database utilizing YUI.

o   Large Volume transactions with optimized Queries.

Used: JAVA JEE, GWT/MVP, Activities and Places, Editor, Driver, AutoBean, RequestFactory, RPC, Validator, JSON, Spring MVC, DB2, Oracle, Mule, Web Services, Google App Engine, Big Data, JQuery, JBehave, GIT, CXF, Android APP, SOA Governance, Mule,Caching DataSources in WAS, Endpoint Swapping to support versioning,

·   Healthcare Application (Seattle, WA, Sept 2009 - March 2011 - GE) – Developed an Architecture to support Healthcare services.  Addressing requirements stated by Business Stakeholders, and external customers represented by other healthcare entities.

o   Developed SPRING MVC, GWT, MVP, web applications interfacing with third party services, external healthcare institutions to manage hospital services, and Doctor Offices.

o   Developed Spring MVC and GWT MVP web applications interfacing with Oracle database, utilizing JavaScript, and Mule ESB.

o   Large volume transactions with Stateless, load balanced, clustered transactions with security (Basic Auth)

Used: JAVA JEE, Spring MVC, TANDOM Databases, Tomcat, and JBOSS, JAVA JEE, GWT/MVP, Activities and Places, Editor, Driver, AutoBean, RequestFactory, RPC, Validator, JSON, Spring MVC, DB2, Oracle, Mule, Web Services, Google App Engine, REST API, SOAP, GIT.

 

·   Manufacturing Application (second engagement) (St. Louis, MO, Oct 2007 - Sept 2009 - Boeing) – Developed an Architecture to support Manufacturing and Warehousing services.  Addressing requirements stated by Business Stakeholders, and external customers represented by other Manufacturing companies.

o   Developed SPRING MVC, GWT, web applications interfacing with third party services, and external vendors.

o   Developed STRUTS web applications interfacing with Oracle and DB2 databases, utilizing JavaScript, and velocity template.

o   Large Volume Transaction Services with Security.

Used: JAVA JEE, STRUTS, Spring, Oracle, DB2, WebSphere, and Tomcat, GWT/MVP, RPC, Validator, JSON, JQuery, GIT.

 

·   Insurance Application (Madison, WI, Jan 2006 - Oct 2007 – American Family) – Setting up infrastructure for development of Life Application, interfacing with legacy systems through web services, Filenet, and legacy mainframe transactions.

o   Developed STRUTS, GWT, web applications interfacing with third party services, and external vendors.

o   Developed STRUTS web applications interfacing with Oracle and DB2 databases, utilizing JavaScript, velocity, Ehcache, and Spring Framework.

o   Large Volume Transactions with Spring Security.

Used: JAVA JEE, STRUTS, Spring, Velocity, Filenet, Ehcache, Oracle, DB2, JBOSS, and Tomcat, GWT, GIN, GUICE

 

·   Financial Application (St. Louis, MO, Oct 2005 - Jan 2006 – Gilster-Mary-Lee) – Setting up infrastructure for a brand new JAVA shop to develop Financial applications, interfacing with variety of financial institutions.

o   Developed STRUTS web applications interfacing with third party services, and external financial institutions.

o   Developed STRUTS web applications interfacing with Oracle and DB2 databases, utilizing JavaScript, velocity, Ehcache, LDAP, and Spring Framework.

o   Large volume transactions with Caching.

Used: JAVA JEE, STRUTS, Spring, Velocity, Filenet, Ehcache, Oracle, DB2, JBOSS, and Tomcat.

 

·   Pharmaceutical Application (Two engagements) (St. Louis, MO, May 2004 - Oct 2005 – Express-Scripts) – Account Receivable application converting from legacy system to JEE.  Interfacing with other in house systems.

o   Developed Java Applications interfacing with JMS, CORBA, and legacy systems to process and report financial transactions.

o   Developed Java Applications interfacing with Oracle Stored Procedures, and other asynchronous clients to process financial transactions.

o   Large Volume Transactions with highly Clustered, Stateless, Fail Safe Design.

Used: JAVA JEE, STRUTS, Oracle, JBOSS, and CORBA.

 

·   Engineering Application (first engagement) (St. Louis, MO, Apr 2003 - May 2004 – Express-Scripts) – Engineering application providing peer to peer collaboration between departments working on common projects.

o   Developed Java Peer to Peer Applications interfacing with pre-written engineering tools in variety of languages.

o   Developed Java Applications interfacing with SWING Applications utilizing custom made Peer to Peer ORMs implemented through MYSQL, and other relational databases.

o   Large Volume Transactions with peer to peer design patterns.

Used: JAVA JEE, MYSQL, Oracle, and RMI.

 

·   Telecommunication Application (St. Louis, MO, May 2002 - Apr 2003 – AT&T) – Developed a Database ORM framework to interface with order entry system, communicating with over 900 pages.

o   Developed Java application using STRUTS, interfacing with EJBs to encapsulate business rules for the order entry application.

o   Developed Java Applications interfacing with stored procedures, and third party services to implement common business functionalities.

o   Large Volume Purchase Order Transactions, for 3^rd party clients.

Used: JAVA JEE, EJB, Oracle, RMI, and JavaScript.

 

·   Pharmaceutical Application (St. Louis, MO, May 2000 - May 2001 - Monsanto) – Scientific application development working on a database framework that interfaces with CORBA, and running multi-threaded jobs to create parallel processes to speed up scientific findings.

o   Developed multi-threaded applications utilizing a customized database framework to do parallel processing on scientific applications.

o   Developed Java Applications to interface with Stored Procedures and other multi-threaded applications to record and synchronize JOB outputs.

o   Parallel processing for Large Volume DNA sub systems, and computations.

Used: JAVA JEE,, Oracle, HTML, SWING, and CORBA.

 

·   Artificial Intelligence Program Recognition of Developing Forward and Backward Chaining parsers to feed Expert Systems.

·   Parser Design for Compiler Pre Parsers recognition.

·   Networking Compression Solutions recognition.

Washington University, St. Louis, MO (1987)

Master in Computer Science / Information Technology