Cuong Tran

Current

• Principle Consultant/Founder at PragmaQuest Inc.

Past

• Ruby on Rails Consultant at Internet Broadcasting
• Consultant at Quantum Retail Technology
• Consultant at Pearson Vue

• Consultant at Federal Reserve Bank
• Tech Lead at ShopNBC
• Software Archictect at Gearworks
• Consultant at Paychex
• Consultant at Qwest Communications
• Software Architect at Ulysses netSolutions, Inc
• Born Consulting - Java Consultant at ReliaStar

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Education

• University of St. Thomas
• University of Minnesota

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Cuong Tran’s Summary

Application Developer, Software Architect, Mentor in a wide variety of business applications, with a passion to continually building better software.

I've participated in various open-source communities (WebWork, Hibernate, FedoraCommons, etc). Some of the code I've written is at http://github.com/ctran.

Cuong Tran’s Specialties:

Experienced in J2EE technologies with different operating systems and databases (Oracle, MS SQL, DB2, MySQL).

Extensive knowledge of open source frameworks (Struts, WebWork, Spring, Hibernate, RubyOnRails, Merb, Django, etc). Also work with dynamic languages such as Javascript, Perl, Ruby, Python.

An agile software practitioner.

Cuong Tran’s Experience

• Principle Consultant/Founder

  PragmaQuest Inc.

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  January 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)

  Implement a complete REST API for Fedora (http://fedora.info), an open source digital object repository system. The end result was contributed back to the community and currently released in 3.0. This is based on the proposal at http://fedora.info/wiki/index.php/Making_Fedora_RESTful
  
  Implement a Ruby API (http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-fedora) to access the above interface.
  
  Develop extensions for Muradora (http://drama.ramp.org.au), an open source repository application based on Fedora. My work consists of several UI customization to improve usability and a number of back-end extensions such as adding folksonomy, batch object download. jQuery was used to implement a gallery view and multiple object selection (similar to a shopping cart). This was done for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to manage their image collections.
  Technologies: Java, jQuery, Fedora, Jersey (reference implementation of JSR 311)

• Ruby on Rails Consultant

  Internet Broadcasting

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  October 2007 — May 2008 (8 months)

  Develop Slantly.com, a platform to facilitate and increase user participation for local TV stations and other media outlets.

• Consultant

  Quantum Retail Technology

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

  May 2007 — September 2007 (5 months)

  Provide enhancements and bug fixes for Quantum core product, Q, including a web front end with heavy use of Ajax

• Consultant

  Pearson Vue

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)

  July 2006 — January 2007 (7 months)

  Adding enhancements to flagship test authoring product, CERTS, including the conversion from TDL to QTI.

• Consultant

  Federal Reserve Bank

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry)

  December 2005 — July 2006 (8 months)

  Provide enhancements to the ACH system. (WebSphere,MQ,Connect:Direct)

• Tech Lead

  ShopNBC

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VVTV; Luxury Goods & Jewelry industry)

  February 2005 — December 2005 (11 months)

  Participates in creating project scope, requirements, design, test plan and project plan. Leads and mentors other developers in areas involving Oracle Applications ERP, J2EE, EAI development, and implementation to ensure the appropriate technical solutions are implemented.

• Software Archictect

  Gearworks

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)

  February 2001 — February 2004 (3 years 1 month)

  Provide technical evaluation and recommendation for middleware, application frameworks and third-party products.
  Mentor team members on Java technologies and OO design.
  Define and implement software architecture to support business strategies and visions.
  Develop applications for mobile/wireless devices (Pocket PC handhelds, J2ME phones) and server infrastructure.
  Utilize full XP methodology such as test-driven design, continuous integration, pair programming...

• Consultant

  Paychex

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PAYX; Accounting industry)

  May 2001 — December 2001 (8 months)

  Identify configuration and performance problems that prevent a financial application from going into production. Load Runner is used to simulate the expected system load and OptimizeIt is used to identify memory leaks and performance bottlenecks. The system consists of NES, JRun, Weblogic, Oracle running on HPUX.

• Consultant

  Qwest Communications

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  October 2000 — May 2001 (8 months)

  Re-design an existing application that was written under Weblogic 4.0 and migrate to Weblogic 5.10. The goal is to improve performance, increase flexibility and code re-use, and take full advantage of Weblogic 5.10. The application is written using JSP,Servlet, EJB, RMI and Corba (Visibroker).
  The application allows Qwest customers to register for Internet products online or from CDs.

• Software Architect

  Ulysses netSolutions, Inc

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 2 months)

  Architect for the development of e-Business systems for clients, utilizing proven and enterprise technologies such as Netscape Application Server, BEA Weblogic, IBM WebSphere.

• Born Consulting - Java Consultant

  ReliaStar

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)

  October 1998 — August 1999 (11 months)

  Build a Java framework to incorporate business data from many incompatible systems. This framework is used as a foundation to build future business applications.
  
  Utilize the above framework to build a financial web application to manage insurance policies. This application is built using Netscape Application Server 2.1

Cuong Tran’s Education

• University of St. Thomas

  MS, Computer Science, September 2002 — September 2004

• University of Minnesota

  BS, Computer Science, February 1993 — February 1997

Additional Information

Cuong Tran’s Groups:

•    Python Community
•    Django
•    LinkedMinnesota
•    Ruby On Rails Community
•    Google App Engine Developers