Wille Faler

Current

Application Architect at Financial Times
Consultant and Founder at Recursivity limited

Past

Java Web Architect at Teligent limited
Business Application Architect, contractor at Fujitsu Services
Technical Lead, contractor at SITA

Integration Architect, contractor at Pohjola
Consultant at Accenture
Senior Developer - Independent contractor at Sun Microsystems
IT Architect & Senior Developer - Independent contractor at IBM
Developer - Independent contractor at Accenture
Developer - Independent contractor at Boxton AB
CEO, founder at Network Avalanche
Developer at Kampanjkontoret.com

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Education

Linköpings universitet

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Industry

Computer Software

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Wille Faler’s Summary

10 years of experience in software architecture, team lead and development roles working with J2EE-, .Net and messaging technologies.
Track-record of success within large projects with large clients such as IBM, Sun Microsystems and Accenture.

e-mail:
wille.faler (at) gmail.com

before you contact me:
Feel free to contact for any reason you see may be of mutual interest.
However with regards to connecting at LinkedIn, I prefer to keep my connections exclusive to people I have actually dealt with in the past in some capacity, therefore I would appreciate if you refrain from sending connect-requests if I do not know you.

Wille Faler’s Specialties:

Freelancing software and systems integration consultant specialized in:
* Integration and Architecture
* Object-oriented technologies: Java and .Net architecture and development (Java being primary area of expertise)
* Software development methodologies and best practices
* Objective-C, Cocoa (Mac) and iPhone development.

Wille Faler’s Experience

Application Architect

Financial Times

(Media Production industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

London, UK

Application Architect for Metadata management and extraction
Consultant and Founder

Recursivity limited

(Computer Software industry)

March 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)

London, UK (Services available worldwide).

Founder and consultant for this small software and integration consultancy focused on J2EE & .Net technologies, strategic integration and cross-technology interoperability.

www.recursivity.com
Java Web Architect

Teligent limited

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

August 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 2 months)

Kings Hill, Kent/Stockholm, Sweden

Java Web Architect for the delivery of 4 provisioning applications, delivered successfully on time.

Mentored other developers in the technologies used, and Agile practices such as Test Driven Development.
Spent approximately 70% doing hands-on development, 30% mentoring, helping leading other developers.

Technologies used: Wicket, JPA, Hibernate, EJB 3, JBoss, MySQL.
Business Application Architect, contractor

Fujitsu Services

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2006 — April 2007 (10 months)

Bracknell, Berkshire, UK

- Responsible for the remote services architecture of the J2EE layer of a large-scale new development for a government project.
- Work involved prototyping and performance testing a custom HTTP server based on asynchronous I/O and a custom Threading architecture. The server was able to handle massive concurrencies with a theoretical limit of 10 000+ concurrent connections.
- Work involved providing an XML-based services interface for thick client-side applications.
- High requirements on resilience, performance and scalability due to the massive expected concurrency and load on the system.
Technical Lead, contractor

SITA

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

December 2005 — June 2006 (7 months)

Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom

- Technical Lead for a project at the worlds leading provider of information- and telecoms services for the airline industry (SITA is one of the world’s most international organizations, with offices in almost 200 countries).
- Overall responsibility for the implementation of a Java/J2EE framework and application that provides a high-performant XML-interface for a backend airfare pricing system implemented in prolog.
Integration Architect, contractor

Pohjola

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Financial Services industry)

May 2005 — October 2005 (6 months)

Helsinki, Finland

- Integration Architect for one of Finlands largest financial institutions.
Overall responsibility of several deliverables of varying sizes, managing and delegating the work of up to 6 other people.
- Overall responsibility for defining a strategic target vision for the organizations enterprise-wide J2EE architecture, integration and J2EE practices, this included the definition of a step-by-step roadmap to that vision.
- Above mentioned responsibility included exploratory work around Service Oriented Architectures and Enterprise Service Bus concepts.
- Architect and developer for the Proof of Concept inception phase of an initial project utilizing the defined concepts and architectures, aimed at allowing corporate clients manage their insurances online. The environment consisted of WebSphere Application Server, heavily utilizing Websphere MQ and integrating with IMS- and CICS based mainframe environments.
Consultant

Accenture

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ACN; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — March 2005 (3 months)

London, UK

Consultant for Accenture Business Consulting - UK Delivery Center.
Speciality: Solution delivery excellence and development best practices
Senior Developer - Independent contractor

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Software industry)

August 2004 — December 2004 (5 months)

London, UK.

Undisclosed Service based integration architecture/integration Message Bus "Proof of Concept" project.
IT Architect & Senior Developer - Independent contractor

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2003 — May 2004 (1 year 2 months)

Helsinki, Finland

Work on several projects for several customers as a consultant/developer/architect (roles differed from project to project).
- One project included the new version of Finlands most used online credit-card payment system run by Luottokunta, a joint-venture between Finlands banks to handle credit-card payments.
- Work on a Services platform for TeliaSonera, scandinavias larges Telecom operator. Work focused on authentication, authorization and basic J2EE infrastructure software.
- One project included refactoring and re-architecting of an already delivered b2b commerce-platform that had encountered scalability problems and other problems.
- Work with a lot of IBM's product suite: IBM Webpshere Application Server, Payment Manager, Commerce Suite, DB2, Tivoli Access Manager etc.
Developer - Independent contractor

Accenture

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ACN; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2002 — April 2003 (7 months)

Helsinki Finland

Consultant/developer for two projects for Scandinavias largest newspaper, resulting in a remake of one of Finlands most visited websites: www.helsinginsanomat.fi, and a remake of its media extranet-site: medianetti.helsinginsanomat.fi.
Developer - Independent contractor

Boxton AB

(Computer Software industry)

July 2002 — October 2002 (4 months)

Stockholm, Sweden

I helped this small company further develop its Business intelligence platform aimed at the hotel- and hospitality-industry during 3,5 months.
www.boxton.se
CEO, founder

Network Avalanche

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2000 — June 2002 (1 year 9 months)

Stockholm, Sweden

A company that provided digital distribution solutions for the music and movie industries. Technology that combined P2P-technology with DRM-capabilities. One deal with BMG music Sweden.
- Technological work included architecting and development of a Digital Rights Management platform utilizing P2P distribution, integrated with payment solutions and an online music store (the look-and-feel reminded a lot of what iTunes looks like today).
- One patent with regards to the technology combining P2P distribution and DRM cryptography.
- Work included ongoing business development, client management & sales.
Developer

Kampanjkontoret.com

(Information Services industry)

January 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 10 months)

Developer for B2B office supplies internet-exchange.
Responsible for technical migration from Perl/CGI technology to Java/J2EE technology.