Resume of Robert Schultz

Resume of Robert Schultz

Profile

Senior IT professional with over 20 years experience providing software solutions to a variety of industries.

Involved in every aspect of the software development lifecycle
Recent technologies include J2EE and .NET utilizing agile development practices and open source technologies
Broad systems development knowledge including architecture and design, coding, systems integration, and systems administration

Skills Summary

Java Technologies: J2SE (including sockets, RMI, Swing, Java Web Start, Security, JNDI), J2EE (including servlets, JSP, EJB, JDBC), JUnit, Struts, Ant, Eclipse SWT, Hibernate, CruiseControl

.NET Technologies: .NET Framework 1.1, 2.0 & 3.0 (WPF, WCF), NUnit, Sprint.NET, ASP.NET, Nhibernate, .NET Interop, CruiseControl.NET

IDEs: Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, JBuilder, VisualAge Java

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, HP-UX, VAX/VMS

Database Technologies: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, Jadabas, Informix, Teradata, Oracle PL/SQL, ObjectStore PSE

Web and Application Servers: Microsoft IIS, Oracle Application Server, JBoss, Apache Tomcat, Apache Web Server

Source Control: Subversion, CVS, Visual SourceSafe

Other Tools and Technologies: service oriented architecture (SAO), web services, AJAX, HTML, XML, XP, UML, LDAP, SAX, ASP, SSL, Cold Fusion

Recent Experience

UnitedHealth Group - Ovations

September 2006 to Present

Building the next generation of CareOne, a large care management application. CareOne manages patient demographic information, clinician tasks, and inpatient and outpatient notifications (authorizations). This application serves a diverse user community including call center staff and clinicians serving patients in institutional and home health care settings.

Promoting agile practices as development process lead
Designing and developing SOA-based application using the latest .NET technologies, including WPF and WCF
Technologies:

Microsoft .NET: .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 (WPF, WCF), C#, ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX

database: SQLServer 2000 & 2005

web/application server: Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services)

IDE and related: Visual Studio .NET 2005, ReSharper

operating system: Windows XP, Windows Server 2003

other: NUnit, NHibernate, Spring.NET, CruiseControl.NET, DHTML, Subversion, Selenium

MarketWatch

September 2005 through March 2006

Developed the next generation of Virtual Stock Exchange, an online stock trading game from MarketWatch, a division of Dow Jones. VSE allows the public to participate in competitions where they can test their skills trading securities in U.S. stock exchanges.

With the direction of the chief architect developed a service oriented architecture using Microsoft .NET web services
Utilized and promoted agile development practices across development team
Delivered beta system for testing across deployment of thousands of users
Technologies:

Microsoft .NET: .NET 1.1, C#, ASP.NET, WSE.2.0

database: SQLServer 2000 & 2005

web/application server: Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services)

IDE and related: Visual Studio .NET 2003, ReSharper, TestDriven.NET

operating system: Windows Server 2003

other: NUnit, NAnt, CruiseControl.NET, XML, DHTML, CVS, SOAP

Oracle Retail

May 2005 to September 2005

Developed n-tier J2EE-based retail point-of-sale (POS) software for Oracle’s retail division (formerly Retek), concentrating primarily in the functional area of payment processing.

Worked closely with application architects, functional and technical leads, and quality assurance to build software on an iteration-based schedule
As services layer lead promoted good agile development practices
Worked with large retailer in defining interfaces between POS application and retailer's existing applications
Technologies:

Java: J2SE (including Swing), J2EE (including EJB)

IDE: Eclipse

operating system: Windows XP

database: Oracle 9, TOAD

web/application servers: JBoss, Oracle Application Server

other: JUnit, XML, CVS, Ant

3M Library Systems

July 2004 to May 2005

3M Library Systems is the world's leading provider of automated library check-in/check-out kiosk systems. I worked in a small team of skilled senior developers building the software components of the next generation of the 3M SelfCheck product line.

Developed all layers of multi-tier application: main controller service, customer UI, and administration web application
Worked within existing agile development practices, including test first programming, unit testing, and continuous integration; introduced daily standup meeting and iteration planning
Built application interfaces to hardware components, especially USB and serial mag card readers, serial RFID reader, and Ithaca iTherm 280 thermal receipt printer
Technologies:

Microsoft .NET: C#, Interop, ASP.NET, Remoting

Win32: USB HID (Human Interface Device), serial communications

database: SQLServer

web/application server: Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services)

IDE and related: Visual Studio .NET, ReSharper, TestDriven.NET

operating systems: Windows 2000/XP

other: NUnit, NAnt, XML, HTML, VSS (Microsoft Visual SourceSafe), OPOS (OLE for Retail POS)

Thomson West November 2002 through March 2004

Provided senior development services to a number of initiatives in Thomson's ongoing efforts to improve and enhance their legal document processing systems.

Developed a J2EE-based web application that allows legal content experts to link legal documents for use downstream in Thomson products such as WestLaw, utilizing a number of web services
Promoted good agile development practices such as test first programming, incremental design and development, and refactoring
Promoted use of layered J2EE architecture and a strong commitment to OO design
Enhanced and optimized multithreaded application feeding new Oracle database with changes from existing Adabas database
Introduced SWT and Java Web Start as alternative to linking application GUI
Created a web security service to handle application authorization
Automated and documented build processes for hand off to software configuration management team
Supported quality assurance and user acceptance testing efforts
Technologies:

Java: J2SE (including JCE and JAR signing), J2EE (including JSP, servlets, JDBC, JNDI and JAAS), Java Web Start

IDEs: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA

operating systems: Windows 2000, Linux

database: Oracle 9, TOAD, Jadabas, DB2, MySQL

web/application servers: Jakarta Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server

other: JUnit, XML, HTML, Struts, SWT, JavaScript/DHTML, Ant, SAX, UML, VSS

Retek

June 2000 to November 2002

As a consultant to this major retail software services provider I contributed senior level process, architecture, and development consulting services during two major business initiatives.

RSS

Retek Store Systems is a J2EE-based web application that allows retailers to perform store systems functions, such as inventory control, and shipping and receiving, within their store locations. In use by BestBuy stores throughout the U.S., RSS integrates tightly with the Retek Merchandising System (RMS).

Developed and promoted methodology (largely XP) and architectural (n-tier and J2EE) best practices
Served as one of the technical leaders/application architects
Performed extensive day-to-day object oriented development
Notable contributions made in the design and development of a JNDI/LDAP based security layer
Mentored junior developers in Java and XP (Extreme Programming)
Worked in all areas of application development with an emphasis on the data access layers of the application later on in the project. This led to significant performance tuning work

Retail Commerce

Retail Commerce is an N-tier J2EE application enabling retailers and their business partners to collaborate on purchase orders and related documents. I worked on two versions of the product: the first built with Swing and EJBs; the second with JSPs and servlets.

Helped introduce the XP process to the client, utilizing best practices such as small design and development iterations, continuous unit and integration testing, and pair programming
Mentored junior developers in Java while providing senior level object oriented development services

Technologies:

Java: J2SE (including Swing), J2EE (including JSP, servlets, JDBC, and JNDI)

IDEs: Eclipse, NetBeans, JBuilder

operating systems: Solaris, Windows NT/2000, HP-UX

database: Oracle 8, PL/SQL, TOAD, Oracle SQL*Plus

LDAP: OpenLDAP, Netscape Directory Server, Microsoft Active Directory Server

web/application servers: Tomcat, Oracle 9i Application Server, J2EE Reference Implementation, IBM WebSphere

other: XP, UML, XML, HTML, Struts, JavaScript, Ant, CVS, WinCVS, PCVS

3M July 1997 through December 1999

Within 3M's corporate IT department, served as project lead, technical lead, and senior developer for 3M's digital asset management system.

Built web-based internal marketing application that linked the 3M's product and digital asset data through a data warehouse, ultimately feeding information to Internet applications
Developed enhancements to third party application processing to validate databases and create web graphics from stored digital assets for use in the 3M's data warehouse
Technologies:

Java: applets, including security with signed JARs; applications, including those utilizing RMI; networking, including Java integration with sockets and FTP; JDBC; AWT; servlets

operating systems: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95; HP-UX; Solaris; MacOS

CGI: HTML; JavaScript; ANSI C

database: Informix Online Dynamic Server (ODS), Teradata, Microsoft SQL Server, Informix ESQL/C

web/application servers: ATG Dynamo, Netscape Enterprise Server

IDEs: Symantec Visual Cafe for Java; IBM VisualAge for Java

digital image manipulation and generation: ImageMagick, Ghostscript; Java; Visual Basic, COM and DDE (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat; Microsoft Word and PowerPoint; QuarkXPress); Win32 API

Other Experience

Oracle Retail

April 2006 through August 2006

Anaylized performance of, and made custom modifications to, the Retail Price Management (RPM) product. RPM assists retailers with pricing decisions.

Technologies: J2EE, JUnit, EasyMock, Hibernate, Eclipse, Swing, Oracle, CVS, Windows

Integral7

April 2004 through June 2004

Provided assistance with bug analysis and resolution, and coding minor enhancements, offloading effort from development staff during their push for a major product upgrade to Integral7's certification management software offerings.

Technologies: J2EE, EJB 1.1, EJB 2.0, JSP, Eclipse, Linux, Windows 2000, Microsoft SQL Server, Weblogic 6.1, VBA, SSL, Struts, XDoclet

Stratyc

April 2001

Developed consultant utilization reports.

Technologies: Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP), Microsoft SQL Server

CNT

May 2000

Designed and developed a demo version of a corporate Intranet web portal.

Technologies: Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP), Microsoft SQL Server

imagiNETive computing

July 1997 to May 2000

As 50% owner of this small consulting firm, provided web based consulting and development services while being in charge of many of the day to day business operations. Major roles included web site development, technical project management, and internet application development.

Technologies: Java (JSP, servlets, JDBC), MySQL, Linux, Windows NT, Windows 95/98, Solaris, MacOS 9, Apache Web Server (including Apache SSL), Apache JServ, Zeus Web Server, Samba, Netatalk, NFS

HealthPartners

June 1990 to July 1997

Provided programming and analysis in the Information Services this large, Twin Cities-based HMO. Prior to joining the Internet Services Group in April of 1996, worked in the more general administrative systems areas.

Helped start IT department's Internet Services Group
Technical lead for development and deployment of Consumer Choice, a multimedia application allowing HMO members to access clinic and physician data
Project lead for development and deployment of Employer Workstation, a Windows-based system that allowed employers to maintain employee group enrollment
Participated in business process re-engineering initiatives
Served as technical project leader for several financial applications
Technologies: Linux, Digital UNIX, Windows NT/3.x, Java, SQL, Cold Fusion, CGI, ObjectStore PSE, HTML, Forte, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, SQL, M (MUMPS), DEC VAX

Sacred Heart General Hospital, Eugene, OR

December 1988 to June 1990

Converted MIIS-based hospital information systems to M (MUMPS); enhanced and supported Compucare MIIS systems, with emphasis on a pharmacy application.

Compucare, Brainerd, MN

May 1987 to November 1988

Provided on-site, contracted programming services at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Brainerd, Minnesota, as an employee of Compucare, a Reston, VA-based hospital information services company; installed, enhanced, and supported integrated clinical and financial software applications.

Education

University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics

Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)