Freelance software and integration consultant
London, United Kingdom
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- Founder at open source project: Wicket RAD
- Java Web Architect at Teligent limited
- Consultant and Founder at Infonatural limited
- Past
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- 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
- Architect & Developer - Independent contractor at Boxton AB
- CEO, founder at Network Avalanche
- Developer/Architect at Kampanjkontoret.com
- Education
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- Linköpings universitet
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Wille Faler’s Summary
9 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
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Feel free to contact for any reason you see may be of mutual interest.
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Wille Faler’s Specialties:
Freelancing software and software-integration consultant specialized in:
* Strategic Integration and Architecture
* Object-oriented technologies: J2EE and .Net architecture and development (J2EE being primary area of expertise)
* Bridging the gap between business goals and technical know-how
* Software development methodologies and best practices
Wille Faler’s Experience
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Founder
open source project: Wicket RAD
(Computer Software industry)
May 2008 — Present (6 months)
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/wicketrad/Home
Founder of this Open Source project focused on Rapid Web Application Development.
Based on Apache Wicket, a framework that aims to ease and speed up web application development dramatically through providing a suite of RAD components that can quickly generate views from almost any datasource - Components include a form generator and a pageable, sortable and filterable table generator.
The framework also has extensions that allow for quick generation of CRUD ("Create, Read, Update, Delete") functionality with the provided view components. -
Java Web Architect
Teligent limited
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
August 2007 — Present (1 year 3 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. -
Consultant and Founder
Infonatural limited
(Computer Software industry)
March 2005 — Present (3 years 8 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.
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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. -
Architect & Developer - Independent contractor
Boxton AB
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; 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/Architect
Kampanjkontoret.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)
January 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 10 months)
Developer and later architect for B2B office supplies internet-exchange.
Responsible for technical migration from Perl/CGI technology to Java/J2EE technology.
Wille Faler’s Education
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Linköpings universitet
Bachelors Degree, Systems Science, 1998 — 2001
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