Wilfred Springer

Current

Chief Scientist at Xebia
Owner at Agilejava.com (Self-employed)

Past

Software Architect TomTom Mobile at TomTom Mobile
Senior Software Architect at TomTom Desktop and Services
Senior Software Architect at Sun Microsystems

Software Developer and Architect at CMG

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Education

University of Hertfordshire

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

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Wilfred Springer’s Summary

Passionate about creating the ideal circumstances for growing a healthy crop of software; figures his imagination and enthusiasm are his greatest assets, and considers that to be a good thing. Often considers the question more important than the answer.

Likes the word 'open' in general, and open source in particular. Launched several projects, including:

* Spring ME (http://springframework.me/)
* Preon (http://preon.sourceforge.net/)
* Limbo (http://limbo.sourceforge.net/)
* Pecia (http://pecia.sourceforge.net/)
* Blammo (http://blammo.sourceforge.net/)
* DocBook Maven Plugin (http://code.google.com/p/docbkx-tools/)

... and was involved in a couple of others, including:

* WADL (http://wadl.dev.java.net/)

Wilfred Springer’s Specialties:

- Java (SE, ME, EE)
- Agile development
- REST
- Geospatial

Wilfred Springer’s Experience

Chief Scientist

Xebia

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2009 — Present (10 months)
Owner
Agilejava.com (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

January 2002 — Present (7 years 11 months)
Software Architect TomTom Mobile

TomTom Mobile

(Public Company; Consumer Electronics industry)

September 2008 — January 2009 (5 months)
Senior Software Architect

TomTom Desktop and Services

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

February 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 8 months)

Anything Java and SOA related.
Senior Software Architect

Sun Microsystems

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

March 2000 — February 2006 (6 years )

Responsible for leading strategic customer projects in early adoption of SOA and Web Services technologies to achieve significant reductions in Time To Market and Total Cost of Ownership. Frequent speaker at Sun and other industry conferences on the topics of SOA, XML and Agile Software Development.
Software Developer and Architect

CMG

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

1996 — 2000 (4 years )

Software Developer and Architect in large scale projects, primarily in the financial services industry.