David Medinets - david.medinets@gmail.com

EJB3, JPA, JBoss SEAM, JBoss Portal, Java, SQL, XML Contractor

Washington D.C. Metro Area

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
Education
  • Regents, SUNY
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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 2005Present (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 1987Present (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 2006June 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 2005December 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 2004May 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 2003November 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 2001February 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)

    20002001 (1 year)

  • Manager, Internet Applications

    Toys R Us

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

    19982000 (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)

    19861996 (10 years)


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

  • Regents, SUNY

    BS, Software, Software


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