
Senior Solutions Architect at Innoveo-solutions ag
Zürich Area, Switzerland

Senior Solutions Architect at Innoveo-solutions ag
Zürich Area, Switzerland
Seeking to leverage expertise as a software engineer while refining current skills and developing competency in emerging technologies. Several years of object oriented programming experience, with emphasis on Java, J2EE, EJB, web applications (Servlet, JSP and JSF), XML and related technologies
Latest resume available at
http://www.waltercedric.com/content/view/228/84/
* WinXp, Linux
* J2EE 1.5, Xml, Xsl, Jsp, Javaserver faces, ANT, PHP, Html, Javascript, C++.
* XMLspy, Groove, GIMP, Together
* Apache, Tomcat, Nimius
* Eclipse 3.3
* OO fw: Apache Junit, log4j, Jmeter, Jakarta ANT, IBM UDDI4j, SOAP, SOAP Axis, Saxon, Xerces, Xalan, Batik
* EJB, Webservices, Joomla/Mambo, Mantis, CygWin, Vulnerability in webapps, RAD, Regular expressions.
* mySQL, SQL server.
* UML, Patterns, Anti Patterns, Refactoring, Extreme Programming, MCSE, Bond graph analysis.
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Insurance industry)
October 2007 — Present (10 months)
Formerly part of a major insurance company, innoveo solutions, a leading provider of software solutions to the insurance industry, announces its launch as an independent company. Composed of high-level experts in insurance and IT (SOA, open source, Java...), innoveo enables its clients to deliver flexible and business-oriented products and services to its customers. innoveo has already developed and operated a platform that supports the delivery of €billions in offer volume and dozens of business applications. The company is looking forward to creating similar value for its clients in the Western European insurance industry. More information on innoveo can be found at innoveo.com.
innoveo solutions
Hohlstrasse 560 -
8048 Zurich-Alstetten (Switzerland).
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Insurance industry)
January 2007 — September 2007 (9 months)
Offertsystem VP is the new Life offering system of Helvetia and is using the latest technologies to allow multiple user group: internal users, brokers, Raiffeisen Bank to better assist them in the process of selling Helvetia and Raiffeisen Life Insurance products.
* JSF templating and taglib of advanced widget with AjaxAnywhere.
* Permissions and Profiles implementation.
* Broker data OM and search operations.
* Design and implementation of the compiler Repo2PK (host metamodel <-> eCenter product metamodel.
* Engine for exchanging data between POV (Partner Object Verwaltung)/ AVENIR (Contacter partner model) partner and printing backend proprietary format (Life VDBM)
* Layer for operating changes on the fly on PDF
* Generic deployment scripts.
* Responsible for deployment.
* Know how transfer, Regression testing, Documentation.
* Developement of the chwebservices layer for Helvetia: Integration of ISIS Papyrus with Apache AXIS2 (client and server side).
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)
January 2006 — December 2006 (1 year)
10% HPV workbench presentation layer and runtime
70% Life Team new offering system VPOffer with eCenter technologies
20% Internet Life Offering system www.hpvpartnernet.ch
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)
March 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 10 months)
50% Helvetia Patria - eBusiness Center
70% VBP project ePakt
30% Internet Life Offering system www.hpvpartnernet.ch
ePAKT - is a new Web application and the first software for the collective life insurance business in Switzerland. ePAKT offers to customers and selling partners all relevant contracts and policies informations and is completely integrated into the old system acompaNet.(.NET) Indoor service also profit strongly from ePAKT: they now possess a selling-oriented, self-describing information platform.
- Diverse webservices (30) using apache Axis:
Axis <-> .Net and Axis <-> Java fw <-> Host
- A modular webservices PDF OnDemand framework using:
IBM Odwek onDemand extended to support a SQL query languuage (Zql parser)
AFP 2 PDF using ISIS papyrus server (HTTP request)
Filtering: read PDF (with PDFbox (BSD)) and modifying PDF on the fly: overlay, disclaimer(with iTEXT (LGPL))
- Deployment (Apache ANT)
- Finite State machine for policy mutation status.
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Insurance industry)
November 2001 — March 2004 (2 years 5 months)
- Maintenance, new products development (Saphir Carat, Terzavita cardinale)
- Deployment Ofev Renten 2000 to offline
- Migration of Raiffeisen Users
- J2EE development with international team members (from Germany, Spain, Italy and Switzerland)
- Migration from Visual Age to Eclipse R2.1
- Performance task force, develop project Onion
- Develop some frameworks for the ePlatform:
# Workflow framework, Chart engine framework, Virtual Transport (VT), Container framework
- OFEV migration using eCenter technology. (security, Oracle, migration, redundancy, refactoring (1100 classes))
- Support for projects: Helvetia Riester (DE), Helvetia Prevision Lifeoffering (SP), Helvetia Domani Pension Funds (IT), Combo (CH), OFEV (CH)
- Administrator eCenter homepage (Intranet PHP-Nuke), bug tracking tool (Intranet Mantis). Develop some PHP modules
- Technical support, member of eSTEP (eCenter Support, Training & Engineering for Projects) team. Document part of the plattform
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)
August 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 4 months)
Active acting in project OFEV Renten 2000:
- Thin client in HTML, server side in Java,
- Output documents in PDF using a java server component,
- Connection to back-end system (JNI - C++),
- Input control, Workflow manager,
- Multilingual application (German, French, Italian).
- 25 insurance products - GUI made of 150 templates
- In use in intranet, internet, broker center, standalone (1000 broker notebooks across switzerland).
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)
March 2000 — August 2000 (6 months)
- Framework Development, using Webmacro
- Starting product RENTEN 2000,
- Java Servlets, database Foxpro/sql 6.5,
- PDF Rendering output
Engineer, School of Engineering (Control Theory and Computer Science), 1996 — 2000
1-year preparation for admission to French Engineering Schools, Mathematics Specials (Spe ATS), September 1995 — August 1996
BTS CIRA, Industrial Control And Regulation Process. 2-year course. Secondary Studies, September 1993 — August 1995
BTCR, Industrial Control And Regulation Process. 2-year course, 1991 — 1993
Java January 2003
* Joomla/Mambo GPL development * BEOS 5, OpenSuSE 10.3, Cryptographic systems and attacks, and my internet homepage www.waltercedric.com * Webmaster 2003 of Modelisme Club d'Illzach Modenheim homepage (previous design). * Snowboard, VTT * Flying small radio controlled helicopter (3)(and airplanes for relaxing) since 2000. Acting on many forum under pseudo elta68. * In charge of computer matters at Essaim's Junior Enterprise (ECRAIM) in 1999. * Designing Internet sites for ECRAIM and many interventions in public about Internet technologies (HTML, JAVASCRIPT, Search Engine). * Took part in the French Robotics Cup Contest E=M6 1999 (mechanics) and 2000 (ADA kernel and positionning system on a PC-104 mainboard): ESSAIM ranked 5thout of 183 in 1999). * Webmaster of the UHA (University of Mulhouse) ISF site (Engineers without Borders) 1996-1998. * Mineralogy (more than 1000 items), Restoration of old vintages scooters (12 pcs) and motorcycles (1 pcs) of the 50's
Project administrator of:
* http://developer.joomla.org/sf/projects/com_securityimages
* http://developer.joomla.org/sf/projects/com_hashcash (PHP
* http://developer.joomla.org/sf/projects/com_bayesianspamfiltering (PHP - GPL)
* http://developer.joomla.org/sf/projects/com_log4php (PHP - GPL)
* http://developer.joomla.org/sf/projects/com_akocommentplus (PHP - GPL)
* http://developer.joomla.org/sf/projects/com_akobookplus (PHP - GPL)
* log4php4mambo.mamboforge.net
Others:
* Creator and WikiSysop of the Reflex manual translation community
* Release 2 GNU FDL review on Linux Suse, a mirror is available on Linux Net Mag
* Write HP Nimius E3 launcher plugin for eclipse 3.0M4
Translations:
* Localization of REFLEX XTR (www.reflex-sim.de) from english to french (MFC dll).
* Reflex Model construction Kit (www.reflex-sim.de) from german to english and german to french (MFC dll).
* THE RC Helicopter Checklists + other localizations done in open source projects.