David Medinets - david.medinets@gmail.com

Current

• Consultant at Twin Technologies
• Consultant at Affy Agile Advice & Coding (Self-employed)

Past

• Consultant at infoReliance
• Consultant at AAJ Interactive (Sole Proprietorship)
• Team Lead at Worldwide Retail Exchange

• Senior Software Developer at WorldWide Retail Exchange
• Consultant, Lead Architect & Developer at Cordiem, Inc.
• Director, Research & Development at onProject, Inc
• Manager, Internet Applications at Toys R Us
• Information Systems Analyst at Prudential Insurance

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Education

• Regents, SUNY

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog

David Medinets - david.medinets@gmail.com’s Summary

- Java, XML, and RDBS experience.
- History of Successful Application Deployments.
- Development of Toysrus eCommerce site in 1999.
- 10 years at Prudential Insurance ('86 to '96)

David Medinets - david.medinets@gmail.com’s Specialties:

Application Development, Complex Business Rule Implementation, Java Programming, Oracle, Database Schema Design, Assimilating New Techniques, Evaluating Programming Paradigms

David Medinets - david.medinets@gmail.com’s Experience

• Consultant

  Twin Technologies

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2005 — Present (3 years 5 months)

  Java and Oracle consultant on short-term projects (usually less than three months) to get project over hurdles or ramp-up quickly.

• Consultant

  Affy Agile Advice & Coding (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1987 — Present (21 years 5 months)

  Currently at SAIC developing with EJB3 (ie, JPA), JBoss Portal, JBoss Seam, ILOG JRules, Web Focus, Tivoli Access Manager for a student scheduling project.
  
  - remote paired programming
  - code profiling
  - develop unit and integration tests
  - validation for HTML, CSS, XHTML
  - enhance team productivity
  - mentoring services

• Consultant

  infoReliance

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2006 — June 2006 (6 months)

  Placed at Executive Office of the President (EOP) working on web applications for WhiteHouse.gov using Java, PostrgreSQL, servlets, and encryption.

• Consultant

  AAJ Interactive (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 2005 — December 2005 (7 months)

  Provide 80 hours of expertise in XML, XSL, and database technologies.

• Team Lead

  Worldwide Retail Exchange

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 2004 — May 2005 (7 months)

  Leader of small, dynamic team of application developers creating an XML validation and processing application for a global network of suppliers and retailers.

• Senior Software Developer

  WorldWide Retail Exchange

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  July 2003 — November 2004 (1 year 5 months)

  * Lead team of four developers.
  
  * Designed and implemented J2SE-based application to process multi-lingual XML messages between suppliers and retailers using the Sonic XIS XML Server.
  
  * Wrote over 300 JUnit tests to partially test more than 500 business rules related to Data Synchronization covering ten different messages.
  
  * Used XSLT to convert XML between versions of the EANUCC international schema for trade items including converting between several namespaces.
  
  * Developed custom XML validation routines for XML item information with up to 1,500 attributes.
  
  * Used Spring DAO to persist business objects.
  
  * Used open source POI library to read Excel spreadsheet and open source JudoScript library to convert the information to XML. Modified POI source to use a cache to eliminate over three million method calls.

• Consultant, Lead Architect & Developer

  Cordiem, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 2001 — February 2003 (1 year 7 months)

  * Developed data model holding information about Airplane Inventory; including Part Masters, Serialized and non-Serialized parts. This data model proved efficient at handling over 6 million part master and 20 million inventory records.
  
  * Developed and implemented a framework to synthesize ColdFusion templates (for the User Interface) and WebLogic EJBs (for the Business Logic) into a unified system to emphasize the strengths of each technology.
  
  * Wrote Oracle 9i packages to handle all insert, update, and delete tasks to improve efficiency of ColdFusion application.
  
  * Wrote Java servlet to mediate between ColdFusion and WebLogic.
  
  * Extended the Struts Validator to handle Field definition, Field Groups and Form-level validation.
  
  * Used Ant and xDoclet to create EJBs on Jboss and WebLogic.
  Collaborated with Robin Roos on a “Reference Data Framework” white paper that focused on Java Data Objects (JDO). This paper can be found at http://www.codebits.com/jdo/index.htm.

• Director, Research & Development

  onProject, Inc

  (Computer Software industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year)

• Manager, Internet Applications

  Toys R Us

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years)

  * Managed team of 15 developers.
  
  * Developed data structures to handle pricing rules, adhoc queries, group hierarchies, and product information.
  
  * Developed Oracle stored procedures to improve efficiency.
  
  * Developed efficient XML-based server initialization method.
  
  * Developing an extensive internal toolset to manage the web site.
  
  * Developing a Java-based program to automatically document ColdFusion files in manner similar to Javadoc.
  
  * Toysrus.com was the third most visited website during the 1999 Holiday Season.
  
  * Toysrus.com had over 300 servers in their e-commerce cluster.

• Information Systems Analyst

  Prudential Insurance

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1986 — 1996 (10 years)

David Medinets - david.medinets@gmail.com’s Education

• Regents, SUNY

  BS, Software, Software

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David Medinets - david.medinets@gmail.com’s Interests:

science fiction, unit testing for java programs, activites for young children

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Mensa, Northern Virginia Java Users Group

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