Olaf Kruger - Software Developer | XML, DTD, XML Schema, XSLT, C++, Java, UML

2/1999 – 7/2002

Software Architect, UML Modeler

UBS AG (Union Bank of Switzerland), Strategic Solutions Programme, Zurich, Switzerland

• XML, XSLT, DTD, XML Schema, Select SE, UML, Workflow, WebSphere, Java, JMS, MQ Series, DB2, NT
• Development of a component software architecture: mapping of business architecture, composition strategies, and layering models. Specification of workflow integration, transaction models, and an XML-based message bus.
• UML Use Case modeling, design and specification of a global counterparty system including data integration and migration using technologies such as DTD, XML and XSLT.
• UML modeling of business services including component design, class models and XML service.

5/1995 – 7/1998

Software Engineer, Technical Project Leader

National Australia Bank, Global Treasury Technology, Melbourne, Australia

• C++, ObjectStore, TIB, Orbix, Infinity Fin++, Solaris, Mentor OO Methodology, ClearCase.
• Domain modeling and design for the Reference Data, Deals Management and Transaction Management components in a high-volume, foreign exchange trading system (using TIB messaging, Orbix and Objectstore). Design of the system recovery strategy as well as capacity estimation and performance tuning.
• Technical project management for a system interfacing to the Reuters and EBS electronic trade execution systems - including system architecture, design and specification, task scheduling as well as staff management.

9/1993 – 4/1995

System Designer, Software Engineer

Telecom Australia, Network Systems, CAMS and One3Gateway Projects, Melbourne, Australia

• C++, ObjectStore, Fabric ORB, ObjectCenter, SunOS.
• Design and development of a CORBA-like object request and transport architecture implementing inter-operability between Smalltalk clients and Unix-hosted C++ server objects.
• Specification of a versioning scheme to allow management of call routing configurations; development of a scheduling facility to allow service activation of such versioned configurations (utilizingObjectStore’s versioning capabilities).
• Database design, load testing and tuning; in particular, the versioning facilities, locking and transaction schemes, physical segmentation and object clustering.

1979 – 8/1993

Software Engineer, Database Administrator, Programmer

• C++, C, Cobol, Pascal, Oracle, DMSII, ELisp, ClearCase, SunOS, Unix,Unisys A5, Mac, HP3000, IBM/370
• Design of an extensible Transaction Processing Monitor for a multi-point video-conferencing application; including method dispatch, object distribution and class hierarchy design. Specification and class design of a persistent object management facility.
• Software development for ReMind, an AI Case-Based Reasoning shell. Specifically, development and implementation of the internals for nearest neighbor matching, qualitative modeling, and case prototype retrieval modules.
• Porting of the Oracle product to Prime computer systems (PL/SQL compiler, SQL*Plus and Easy*SQL).
• Data modeling, data base administration, performance evaluation and capacity planning; implementation of systems development methodology and supporting CASE tools.
• Various assignments, both as analyst and programmer, on the following applications: accounts payable; sales order processing; order entry; accounts receivable; and internals of a file management tool.