Benny Bottema

Current

Senior Java developer at CJIB
Java developer at Quintor

Past

Java/Web Developer at ABN AMRO
Java/Web Developer at Achmea Avero
Java/Web Developer at Achmea FBTO

Web Developer at TRES Internet

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Education

Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden

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Industry

Computer Software

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Benny Bottema’s Summary

Software developer/Medior Java Developer with experience in application development using mainly Java, Flash and with remote experience with Delphi and C#. Experienced in webdevelopment using Java and PHP. In general substantial Java experience.

Other professional experience includes Adobe Flash development and expert knowledge of Flash, XHTML, javascript, actionscript, CSS and XML. Also experienced with frameworks such as Struts, JSF+Facelets and Spring. Familiar with Hibernate. Also experienced with Ant and familiar with Maven.

Skillset provided by education includes UML practice, Object Oriented Programming, database design and concurrent programming (threaded application design).

Benny Bottema’s Specialties:

Java, Spring, Hibernate, JSF+Facelets, Struts, XML, JavaScript, CSS, XHTML, PHP, Flash, ActionScript

(Overview years of experience: Java: 6 JavaScript: 9 XHTML: 9 PHP: 2 Flash/AS: 9 JSF etc.: 2 Apache: 2 IBM WebSphere: 1 Tomcat: 2 Linux: 1 Windows OS: 15 Eclipse: 3 Eclipse (RAD 6): 2 JUnit: 3 Struts: 2 Spring: 2 Hibernate: 1 JMock: 1 ANT: 3 CVS / SVN: 3 IBM ClearCase: 2 JSP: 4 Servlets: 4 XML etc.: 6 Cruisecontrol: 3 UML: 3 MySQL: 5)

Benny Bottema’s Experience

Senior Java developer

CJIB

(Government Administration industry)

June 2009 — Present (7 months)

Have worked on a couple of smaller projects, including a proof of concept, leading to a complete rebuild of the so called EIS administration system. This system deals with national administration of crimes, tickets and fee collection in the Netherlands.

Interesting points are:
- Building multiple services that act in a SOA oriented architecture and integrates with an existing landscape of back-ends
- Using JMS queuing as messaging system
- In an Agile configured team (Scrum of Scrums)
- Using frameworks such as Spring, Toplink JPA, JSF+Facelets
Java developer

Quintor

(Computer Software industry)

2007 — Present (2 years )
Java/Web Developer

ABN AMRO

(Public Company; ABN; Banking industry)

December 2008 — June 2009 (7 months)

Completed a project for ABN Amro to completely rewrite and expand an application called MKBnext (www.mkbnext.nl). This is an application with which small to medium business owners and entrepreneur can buy/sell companies. Goal is to provide a faster, more robust application with a completely new design, that is much better manageable.

My role included setting up the project from the ground up including proof of concept/prototype, before other team members were able to join the project. I've worked on all facets of the webapplication, from back-end to front-end.

The following components were involved:

- Very short and strict deadline, which we successfully made
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Worked according to Agile Development Process
- Used technologies:

Spring, JPA (Hibernate), JSF (Mojarra / Richfaces / Ajax4JSF / PrettyFaces), Flex, XHTML+CSS, Ajax, Velocity templating, Alfresco CMS, Flying Saucer and other related technologies.
Java/Web Developer

Achmea Avero

(Insurance industry)

July 2008 — December 2008 (6 months)

Developed a new webbased front-end for Achmea Avero Zorg, which included the following components:

- Java developer function, focussed on a JSF + Facelets front-end
- Large team consisting of developers, architects, testers and many back-end ties
- Short and very strict deadline, which we successfully made
- Other technologies I've used in this project: Spring, Flying Saucer, Richfaces + Ajax4JSF
Java/Web Developer

Achmea FBTO

(Insurance industry)

November 2006 — July 2008 (1 year 9 months)

Worked on the FBTO website with a large team, which included the following components:

- Java Developer function, using mainly Struts.
- Working experience also included working with Agile development process.
- Completed several projects for FBTO integrating new products into the website. Many back-ends (backoffice, AS400, RDW etc.) were involved.
- Completely rebuilt a large part of the website using Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Web Developer

TRES Internet

(Computer Software industry)

January 2006 — July 2006 (7 months)

Worked at TRES Internet for my Bachelor degree. The following components were involved:

- Written an online (web) application for automated ticket sales.
- Used technologies: ASP VBScript (classic), XML, MS Access
- Written a research paper on "development process improvement and best practices"