Agile Methods, BI, BPM, BRM, Configuration Management, DevOps, DWH, Java/J2EE/JEE, OSS, Senior IT Consulting, Software Architecture/Development

Technical background Overall project

Technical background of the concrete application

Technical background

Technical background Overall project
Development of a CRM system both to support the implementation of the multi-channel strategy of the Gothaer Group and to map the business processes of the sales partners more efficiently.

Technical background of the concrete application
- Collaboration in the team SCM (Software Configuration Management) for the group release management
- Creation, packaging and delivery of releases and bug fixes
- Support project and release management development and pre-integration environments
- Maintenance and further development of the build and deployment processes and expansion of the procedures to include further systems as required
- Ensuring and supporting the tools used

Technical background
- Planning, concept, implementation and test of the migration of the "Goliath" application from Maven 2 to Maven 3
- Planning, design, construction and control, test, maintenance and documentation of a Continuous Integration System (CI) for the CRM project. The CI system comprises the following components
    - Maven Repository Manager - Nexus
    - Continuous Integration Master - Jenkins-CI
    - Multiple Windows and Linux build slaves
    - Code Quality Server - SonarQube
- Planning and controlling of the move of the Source Control Management System Git of the external supplier of the CRM project into the Inhouse Subversion System
- Development, testing and support of build and deployment plans for the CRM project; ensuring on-schedule delivery capability
- Evaluation of the Code Review solution "Review Board
- Planning and control of the extension of the TeamViewer application as a code review or pair programming solution
- Collaboration in various CRM task forces for the optimization and automation of the provisioning of test days with direct reporting to the program mgmt., the management, division and department management
- Development of an automated solution to connect all CRM projects to the Code Quality Server; the connected projects are currently all built and deployed with a proprietary in-house solution.
- Development of a prototypical solution for automated dependency and impact analysis
- Development of a solution for the automated migration of all in-house projects to Maven, including connection to the CI system.
- Development of a (development) process to adapt the CI system for future projects (focus: software quality and dependency/impact analysis)
- Cross-project contact for build and configuration management and Maven questions
- Cross-project application development support

Technical background Overall project

Technical background of the concrete application

Technical background

Technical background Overall project
Maintenance and further development of the "PRISMA" sales portal of the Sparda Banking Group in order to support the customer advisor in direct discussions with the bank customer in a demand-oriented and case-by-case manner.

Technical background of the specific assignment
Maintenance and further development of both the frontend (portlet) and the backend components (web service) of the cooperation partner DEVK (e.g. for the products construction financing, life insurance, Riester pension). Adjustments due to SEPA migration.

Conversion of the portlets "Baufi", "DEVK" and "Praemien-/Provisionabrechnung" to the residual debt insurer "Credit Life". Ensuring parallel operation with the previous residual debt insurer "Cardif" for selected Sparda banks.

Technical background
- Further development of existing portlets (Portlet API 1.0)
- Further development of existing web services
- Connection of existing MBS web services
- Concept, architecture, implementation and test of the Java Web Service (JAX-WS) based backend components for the connection of the residual debt insurer "Credit Life".
- Familiarization with the professional and technical standards of BIPRO e.V.
- Review / Refactoring

The XDP2FO project is a collection of XSL Transformation (XSLT)
stylesheets to convert documents from Adobe's XML Data Package (XDP) vocabulary into documents in the W3C's XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) vocabulary.

Technical background Overall project
Replacement of the M76 based steel mill control software by a Java Enterprise solution. Connection of the new building projects vacuum plant "VD4" and continuous casting plant "CC6".

Technical background of the concrete application
Maintenance and further development of the productive Java Enterprise subprojects of the steelworks control system (SLS) (e.g. tundish administration, ladle rotation planning and GKV ingot casting).
 
Support of the subprojects converter and secondary metallurgy

Technical background
Interdisciplinary, cross-sectional commitment to enable and promote the agility of all sub-projects

- Build Management, among others
    - Introduction Eclipse Team Project Sets
    - Consolidation Maven Artifacts (Ongoing Task)
    - Introduction of Maven Best Practices (Ongoing Task)
- Dependency management
- Deployment Management, among others
    - Introduction of Deployment Units (EAR, WAR, ZIP)
- Configuration management, among others
    - Concept and implementation of various Maven plugins
- Migration JBoss 4.2.3.GA to JBoss EAP 5.1.0
- Release Management, among others
    - SVN Structure Migration
- Maintenance and further development
- Consulting, coaching and support regarding JBoss, JEE/J2EE, Maven and Test

Technical background Overall project
Replacement of the AS/400 legacy application of the Foreign Information Department (AAA) for the provision, maintenance and control of foreign economic information.

Technical background of the concrete application
Development of an XML schema and a subsystem for the transfer of foreign trade information deliveries from various suppliers to Orbis.
 
Development of an output management system for the generation, distribution and archiving of standard letters and foreign information.

Technical background
Concept, architecture, implementation and test of a subsystem for the transfer of foreign trade information deliveries of different suppliers to Orbis.
 
Concept, architecture, implementation and test of a fail-safe and standards-based output management system (OMS) for the generation, distribution and archiving of standard letters and foreign information.

Technical background Overall project
Implementation of the customer's business rules based on the Business Rules Management System (BRMS) ILOG JRules. The aim is to simplify rule maintenance and to react quickly to changes in the market or by the legislator. To this end, the specialist staff should be able to maintain and further develop the rules themselves.

Technical background of the concrete deployment

DecisionBox - "Durables"
Migration and transfer of the credit decision of the "Risk Management Durables" department to the DecisionBox.

DecisionBox - "Dealer Rating"
Transfer of the "Dealer Rating" score calculation of the "Risk Management Vehicles" department to the DecisionBox.

Technical background
Analysis, implementation, integration and testing of the DecisionBox - "Durables" scorecards and rules.

Concept, implementation, integration and test of the DecisionBox - "Dealer-Rating" Scorecards.

Concept, architecture, implementation and test of the standard based J2EE/JEE component DecisionBox - "PropertyManager" to control the DecisionBox rulesets. The following requirements were implemented

- Authentication
- Authorized access to properties / property groups
- 4-eyes principle
- Audit safety
- Versioning
- Persistence
- Reporting
- Reliability

Concept, architecture, implementation and test of a standard (JAXP) based XML pipeline to support agile QA processes and subsequent QA (mass test) use cases

- Validation of test inputs and outputs
- XML data transformations
- XML target/actual comparison
- (AdHoc) Reporting
- Local unit, integration and mass tests
- (Semi)automatic test documentation

Code Review / Refactoring

Technical background Overall project
With the product Tributum, Steria Mummert Consulting offers a standard solution for the calculation and reporting of taxable investment income pursuant to §20 EStG and disposal results pursuant to §22 (2) EStG in conjunction with §23 (2) ff. EStG.

Technical background of the concrete application
- Performance analysis and tuning
- Quality Assurance
- Test Automation

Technical background
Runtime analysis and tuning of both frontend and backend components of the entire Tributum application.

Concept, architecture, implementation and testing of a standard (JAXP) based XML pipeline to support agile QA processes and subsequent QA (mass test) use cases.

- Validation of test inputs and outputs
- XML data transformations
- XML target/actual comparison
- (AdHoc) Reporting
- Local unit, integration and mass tests
- (Semi)automatic test documentation
- (Semi)automatic provision of test sets

Code Review / Refactoring

Technical background Overall project
Border Control Platform - Solution for (full/partial) automation of border control processes with electronic travel documents and biometric procedures.

Technical background of the concrete application
Prototypical version of the "Border Control Platform" as "Proof of Concept" (PoC)

Technical background
Planning and realization of the prototypical and service-oriented version of the "Border Control Platform" based on BEA Aqualogic BPM and Drools.

Connection of the VISOCORE ePass-reading and verification device via SOAP. Connection of different fingerprint scanners via SOAP and Biomiddle.

Development of a web front end to visualize the ePassport and the biometric data, the process steps, the rule engine decisions, the audit data and for user interactions.

Evaluation of different Business Process and Business Rules Management Systems.

Technical background Overall project

easyCredit installment loan application - client- and quantity-business capable, sales-oriented and web-based application for the sales channels partner banks (around 900 partner banks with around 11,000 sales outlets and 32,000 branch employees) and the Internet, among others

Technical background of the concrete application
- Creation and maintenance of print templates
- Printing the credit agreement documents
- Credit agreement return control
- Provision of data for quality reporting
- Commission settlement of the partner banks

- Reporting

Technical background
Runtime analysis and tuning of both frontend and backend components of the entire easyCredit application.

Conception, prototyping and implementation of the volume business capable aspects of the print component incl. prepress.
From mid-2006, responsibility for the print component and prepress. Conceptual design, architecture and implementation of a standards-based, system-independent, multi-client, multi-country and multi-language print component. Integration of a Java Rule Engine (here Drools).

Takeover, redesign and further development of the ETL and reporting components. Conception, architecture and implementation of a system-independent, multi-client, multi-country and multi-language reporting component. Replacement of the ETL processes by standard solutions.

Conception, architecture and implementation of a framework for the integration of Java Rule Engine API compliant Java Rule Engines (here JESS and Drools).
 
Code Review / Refactoring