Andreas Schaefer

Current

• President at Madplanet.com Inc.

Past

• J2EE System Architect at SeeBeyond Inc.
• Core Developer and Consultant at JBoss Group LLC.
• Senior Software Engineer at eBuilt Inc.

• Senior Software Engineer at Best@IT
• Software Engineer at Univag GmbH

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Education

• Universität Basel
• Universität Basel

Recommended

7 people have recommended Andreas

Connections

119 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company
• Independent JBoss Consulting

Andreas Schaefer’s Summary

Principal Software Engineer with both in-depth knowledge of Java and J2EE as well as broad knowledge in banking, insurance, entertainment and EAI business. Author of many articles for OnJava.com, speaker at many confernces and symposiums and active blogger at Java.net.

Andreas Schaefer’s Specialties:

Expert in Software Architecture and Implemenation, Java and J2EE technologies with a focus on difficult problem areas and the integration of bleeding edge technology like ESB / JBI, Aspect Oriented Programming, EJB3 etc.

Andreas Schaefer’s Experience

• President

  Madplanet.com Inc.

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

  September 2005 — Present (3 years 4 months)

  President and Founder of Madplanet.com Inc. an independent consulting company for J2EE and JBoss.
  
  Madplanet.com Inc. offers competitive but still in-depth J2EE / JBoss consulting. For more information please visit: http://madplanet.com/mpg/profile/services.html.
  
  Currently he is working as Architect and J2EE Consultant for a proof of concept project at GE Healthcare in Salt Lake City using JBI, ServiceMix and OpenESB to see how ESB could help separate the UI from the backend services and enable them to develop them independently.
  He is still working as a consultant of Madplanet.com Inc. for AGMedNet in Boston, MA, to improve their application as well as migrate their server onto a clustered environment.
  He worked as an independent contract at Gateway in Irvine, CA, in developing their new order capture system with EJB3, Java 5, Hibernate and Spring.

• J2EE System Architect

  SeeBeyond Inc.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 2002 — August 2005 (3 years)

  Architect and Lead Developer on ICAN 5.0 Application Server making it pass the J2EE 1.3 Certification.

• Core Developer and Consultant

  JBoss Group LLC.

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

  September 2001 — September 2002 (1 year 1 month)

  Supports clients on all phases of a project with email and on-site support for their applications on JBoss. My activities are review of their design, introduction in JBoss, installation and configuration recommendations, indentify and solve their problems or helping them otherwise to make the most out of JBoss.
  Beside that I am working on the core of JBoss (JSR-77 implementation, Farm. Scheduler and on-the-fly converter) and writing documentation about JBoss.

• Senior Software Engineer

  eBuilt Inc.

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 2000 — September 2001 (11 months)

  Technical Lead of the development team for the Sony promotional ordering system of Exhibitor Relations. Analyzed the existing system and designed the network architecture for the proposal, designed the application using BEA WebLogic, iPlanet and Oracle 8i. The application was developed under a very aggressive timeline, and was later presented at ShoWest, 2001, in Las Vegas (ShoWest is the annual convention for the motion picture industry, and is the only international gathering devoted exclusively to the movie business).

• Senior Software Engineer

  Best@IT

  (Computer Software industry)

  February 2000 — October 2000 (9 months)

  Redesigned and implemented an HTML-Client web application running servlets on the server side. This application is currently in use by the Music Group. The redesign was to make the application thread safe, multi-user capable and easier to change (collected general Java and HTML code, added JavaDoc and the introduction of a resource control tool (Visual Source Safe).

• Software Engineer

  Univag GmbH

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

  September 1992 — August 1995 (3 years)

Andreas Schaefer’s Education

• Universität Basel

  BS, Physics, 1992 — 1997

• Universität Basel

  BS, Computer Science, 1992 — 1996

Additional Information

Andreas Schaefer’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company
• Independent JBoss Consulting

Andreas Schaefer’s Interests:

MythTV (open-source PVR), motor bikes (cruisers), kite surfing, Linux

Andreas Schaefer’s Groups:

SoCal CodeCamp

•    Groovy User Group
•    Los Angeles Java Users' Group [LAJUG]

Andreas Schaefer’s Honors:

Microsoft Certified System Engineer (1996)
Sun Certified Java Programmer JDK 1.2 (1997)
Sun Certified Java Developer JDK 1.2 (1998)

Andreas Schaefer’s Contact Settings

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• new ventures
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