Thomas Jung

Current

• Senior Software Engineer at MC Squared
• Solutions Consultant at ZaneSoft

Past

• Senior Software Engineer at Aisle7
• Software Engineer at Healthtrio

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Portfolio

Thomas Jung’s Summary

My passion is building applications and websites that are easy to use while simultaneously fulfilling their business purpose most efficiently. Making things simple is hard and I enjoy the challenge. The technology used, I believe, is secondary; which is why I cultivate the ability to learn new methods and approaches quickly. I consider people the most important part of the process and know, from experience, that excellent communication (using the right tools) and cooperation are paramount to the success of a project. I therefore strive to facilitate those interactions and implement the appropriate tools.

Thomas Jung’s Specialties:

rich-client, connected applications, performance and design optimization (database, n-tier, client-side), solution architecture, requirements validation; Substantial experience in: Adobe AIR/Flash, JavaScript (AJAX, jQuery, Ext JS), RDBMS (SQL Server expert, MySQL, PostgreSQL), .Net/C# 3.5, Java Certified Programmer, Python (Django), PHP expert, ColdFusion, Apache, IIS, Windows and *nix administration, Network-based apps (SMTP, HTTP, custom protocols); compliant and cross-browser CSS and (X)HTML

Thomas Jung’s Experience

• Senior Software Engineer

  MC Squared

  (Partnership; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  May 2009 — Present (7 months)

  Senior member of engineering team developing connected RIA with focus on Adobe AIR client applications for C#, .Net-based web services.

• Solutions Consultant

  ZaneSoft

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 1999 — Present (10 years 7 months)

  Architect, develop and design software & web applications; deeply integrating a wide array of current technologies and focusing on the true needs of a business and its customers; manage development and production life cycle; apply agile processes to get solutions to market quickly; general consultation on a wide variety of IT issues

• Senior Software Engineer

  Aisle7

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2006 — September 2009 (3 years 9 months)

  As senior member of the engineering team, involved in all aspects of desktop, thin-client and server-side software design and implementation, covering a wide range of functional areas, of which I was the core developer for the following:
  * Developed a high-performance rendering engine for branded and skinnable content delivery that supports HTML, XML and JSON formats (C#, .Net platform running both on server and desktop client)
  * Remote desktop client statistics gathering with centralized analytics and reporting server, close-to-real-time, 15-minute lag of reports (C#, SQL Server, Reporting Services)
  * Custom Google Analytics integration for hosted services offering
  * Remote thin-client content delivery application that is interactively and visually equivalent to thick desktop client (C#, SQL, HTML, AJAX/JavaScript)
  * Programmable image manipulation and image generation platform to support branding and skinning (C#, various image formats supported, automatic image optimization, running both on server and desktop client)
  * Performance and memory use optimizations of all components of which I was the core developer to support low-memory, legacy desktop clients (128 MB RAM)
  * Implemented HTML-based printing support for desktop client
  * Maintained at least 50% unit test coverage as well as functional and integration tests
  * Maintained and applied significant performance optimizations to legacy, ColdFusion-based content delivery system
  
  Shared responsibility with other team members:
  * Contributed significant parts to the design and implementation of a custom data access and object caching module that is the basis for all client- and server-side code
  * Contributed various, in a few cases fundamental parts of the data and object model design
  * Participated in content delivery API design and contributed key design ideas such as versioning, focus on REST-style approach, multiple output format support (HTML, JSON, XML)
  * DBA responsibilities

• Software Engineer

  Healthtrio

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  September 2002 — April 2006 (3 years 8 months)

  Key Accomplishments: Significantly improved critical performance paths in the ColdFusion-based front-end, in the J2EE middle-tier and in the database layer. Developed several core application features, such as a medical code search, a medical topology knowledge system based on SNOMED, and a rules engine. Contributed fundamental parts to a permissions-based medical information access control system, to a claims transaction processing engine (up to multi-million dollar hospital claims with 10s of thousands of procedure line items) and to other external data interfaces (EDI, X12, HL7, ETL of payer data). Implemented internationalization for entire application.
  Tasks: Designed, developed and/or enhanced key business software components as well as user interface components for healthcare web portal with millions of users (providers, members, brokers and administrators). Assured cross-browser compatibility for all JavaScript code and UI components. Provided problem-solving support and mentoring for other developers.
  Technologies used or integrated: ColdFusion, JavaScript, Java, C#, T-SQL, J2EE, .Net 1.0, Servlets, JDBC, XML, XSLT, Jasper reports, JUnit, CVS, log4j, Eclipse, Visual Studio, UML, Tomcat, WebSphere, IIS, SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Serena (TeamTrack).

Additional Information

Thomas Jung’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Portfolio

Thomas Jung’s Groups:

•    Agile