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WALTER CEDRIC 

Marital status: single.
Nationality: French.

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Several years of object oriented programming experience, with emphasis on Java, J2EE, EJB, web applications, XML and related technologies

Education

Certified Scrum Master

• 2012 Profile at scrumalliance.org

School of Engineering: Control Theory and Computer Science

• 1996  to 2000 - 3-year course
• Industrial software system (LSI)
• ENSISA- Ecole Superieure des Sciences Appliquee pour l'Ingenieur de Mulhouse.

Preparation for admission to French Engineering Schools

• 1995 to 1996 - 1-year course
• PREPA (ATS)
• Lycee Louis Armand Mulhouse,3 Bd des Nations

Industrial Control And Regulation Process.

• 1993 to 1995 - 2-year course.
• Secondary Studies (Grammar School) (BTS CIRA)
• Lycee Louis Armand Mulhouse, 3 Bd des Nations

Industrial Control And Regulation Process.

• 1991 to 1993 - 2-year course (BTCR).
• Lycee Louis Armand Mulhouse, 3 Bd des Nations

Professional Experience 

As Senior Solution Architect since 2006

Formerly part of a major insurance company, innoveo solutions, a leading provider of software solutions to the insurance industry, announces its launch as an independent company. Composed of high-level experts in insurance and IT (SOA, open source, Java...), Innoveo enables its clients to deliver flexible and business-oriented products and services to its customers. Innoveo has already developed and operated a platform that supports the delivery of €billions in offer volume and dozens of business applications. The company is looking forward to creating similar value for its clients in the Western European insurance industry. More information on Innoveo can be found at innoveo.com.

Innoveo Skye ®™ is a generic, flexible insurance sales solution. It supports an unlimited number of products and services, all lines of business (life and non-life) and all sales channels. Industrialize  
Insurance-specific, J2EE (TM) based IT solution on commercial (Weblogic (TM), Websphere (TM), ...) and open source (JBoss (TM)) infrastructure stacks, together with a wide range of business-oriented services.

• Code quality enforcement with Check Style, PMD, Find bugs, Metrics, code coverage, duplicate.
• Continuous Build strategy with Jetbrains Team City
• From ANT to Apache Maven module migration
• Reporting with Sonar/Site
• Spring framework development
• Web applications test infrastructure and development with Selenium
• Release management (Continuous, Nightly, Integration) setup
• Developer Environment setup and control
• Innoveo solutions AG (Helvetia Patria), Zurich / Switzerland
• Infrastructure tasks: Debian Vserver, Xen Guest, updates of tools (JIRA, Teamcity, Maven, ..)

From 1st Oct. 2008 to february 2010

• Adcubum AG - Rorschacherstrasse 267 - CH-9016 St. Gallen
• 80% Adcubum SYRIUS® development 3.0. 
• 20% Innoveo SKYE development.

From 14 Oct. 2008 to 24 Oct. 2008

• Adcubum ACADEMY - Ausbildung des Systen adcubum SYRIUS®
• Einführung - Grundlagen von Adcubum SYRIUS®
• Produkte - Analyse von ausgewählten Krankenversicherungsprodukten und deren Abbildung in adcubum SYRIUS®
• Leitungen - Leistungsanalyse in Bezug af Leistungspflicht und Berechnungsregeln.
• Verträge - Parametrieren der wichtigsten Aspekte von Rahmen-, Kollektiv- und Eizelverträgen.
• Vertriebspartner und Provisionen - Analyse unterschiedlicher Vergütungsarten,
• Dokumentenmanagement - Generieren von Dokumenten,
• Prozesse - Aufbau der adcubum SYRIUS® Prozesse.

From 1st Jan. 2007 to 30 Sept. 2007

eCenter-solutions team member
Team member of Offertsystem VP (Système d'offres Prévoyance privée / Sistema di offerta Previdenza privata) is the new Life offering system of Helvetia Versicherungen and is using the latest technologies (Java, JSF, web services, Meta model of eCenter.solutions) to allow multiple user group: internal users, brokers, Raiffeisen Bank to better assist them in the process of selling Helvetia and Raiffeisen Life Insurance products.

• Development of the chwebservices webservices layer for Helvetia: Integration of ISIS Papyrus with Apache AXIS2 (client and server side).
• JSF templating (faces) and tag definitions (Taglib) of advanced widget with AjaxAnywhere.
• Permissions and Profile implementation.
• Defining object model for broker data (Berater) and search operations.
• Design and implementation of the compiler Repo2PK which transform a host product model in XML to the eCenter product Meta model.
• Engine for exchanging data between POV (Partner Object Verwaltung) partner and printing back end proprietary format (Life VDBM)
• Engine for exchanging data between AVENIR (Contacter partner model) and printing back end proprietary format (Life VDBM)
• Layer for operating changes on the fly on documents (concatenation, form filling, overlays)
• Generic deployment scripts based on ANT / ant4eclipse created for VPOffer and reuse now across all eCenter projects.
• Responsible for deployment during 6 months.
• Know how transfer with Life Junior team member.
• Regression testing
• Documentation.
• e-center solutions AG (Helvetia Patria), Zurich / Switzerland

As Senior software developer from 2003 to 2006

From 1st January 2006 to 31 December 2006

• 10% HPV workbench presentation layer and runtime with JBOSS Seam, JSF.
• 70% Life Team new offering system Offertsystem VP with eCenter technologies.
• 20% Internet Life Offering system www.hpvpartnernet.ch
• Helvetia Patria - St Alban Anlage 26, Basel (Switzerland).

From 1st March 2004 to December 2005

• 70% VBP project ePAKT
  • Helvetia Patria - St Alban Anlage 26, Basel (Switzerland). 
• 30% Internet Life Offering system www.hpvpartnernet.ch
  • eBusiness Center - Hohlstrasse 560 - 8048 Zurich-Alstetten (Switzerland).

ePAKT - is a new Web application and the first software for the collective life insurance business in Switzerland. ePAKT offers to customers and selling partners all relevant contracts and policies information and is completely integrated into the old system AcompaNet.(.NET) Indoor service also profit strongly from ePAKT: they now possess a selling-oriented, self-describing information platform.

• 30 WebService using apache Axis: Axis .Net and Axis Java framework Host
• A modular WebService PDF On Demand framework using:
  • IBM Odwek onDemand extended to support a SQL query language (Zql parser)
  • AFP 2 PDF using ISIS papyrus server (HTTP request)
  • Filtering: read PDF (with PDFbox (BSD)) and modifying PDF on the fly: overlay, disclaimer(with iTEXT (LGPL))
• Deployment(Apache ANT)
• Finite State machine for policy mutation status.

1st Nov. 2005 - 3 weeks

• Prototype with IBM WEBSPHERE 5.1, Java Server Faces
• Helvetia Patria - St Alban Anlage 26, Basel (Switzerland).

As Senior software developer (Team Life)

From 1st March 2004 to Nov. 2005

• Maintenance and new Life insurance products development (Saphir Carat, Terzavita cardinale) in the offering system OFEV Renten 2000
• Deployment OFEV RENTEN 2000 to offline using eCenter offline platform.
• Migration of Raiffeisen Users to the online platform.
• Helvetia Patria - St Alban Anlage 26, Basel (Switzerland).

From 1^st Nov. 2001 to 1^st March 2004

The eBusiness Center is the first and largest project initiated by the Helvetia Patria Group.. It is directed towards realizing e-business solutions for brokers, agents and distribution partners in the different European countries. The eCenter acts as an enabler for the subsidiaries to build front-oriented e-business applications on a central platform using common standards (infrastructure HP Nimius) which are based on a common knowledge (set of methods, tools, frameworks).

References:

• Helvetia Patria Doubles Return on Investment with Hewlett Packard Service-oriented Architecture (Yahoo, HP)
• Hewlett Packard Introduces Industry-specific Service-oriented Architectures (Yahoo, HP)

J2EE development with international team members (from Germany, Spain, Italy and Switzerland) with the help of Hewlett Packard consultants and XDreamTeam

• Migration from Visual Age to Eclipse R2.1
• Performance task force, develop project Onion (purpose is to determine maximum load that can support our components, profile them and do optimization where it is needed).
• Developing E3 services, plugin and miscellaneous. frameworks on the Hewlett Packard e-commerce platform HP Nimius.
• Develop some frameworks for the Platform
  • Workflow framework, drive users through an application, use a description language very similar to java, generate dynamically buttons definition in XML. Multi applications.
  • Chart engine framework customized for insurance, based on Chart2D. Accept a meta description container in XML to read data. Output GIF, JPEG, PNG. Adding a new product is done by dragging a configuration file in a directory. Design/Layout, retrieving data are configured through reusable factories.
  • Virtual Transport (VT) framework which provide independency of protocol (generic client ProcessIF) with the help of plugins: Soap Apache, Soap Axis, socket, local JVM. Calls are driven by controller plugin: load balancing, fault tolerant, Once, first Working. The responsibility to choose a server among a list is done through load balancers (random, weighted round robin (WRR), round-robin (RR), least weight connection (LWC), least connection(LC) ). The error handling is done with the help of failures handlers (single, multiple fail over, rethrow). Discovering of webservices and also servers is done with a load balanced and redundant pool of UDDI registries (use also VT). Exception are dynamically rendered through exception renderer. The internal design is highly extensible(60 pages of documentation- 180 classes, 48 interfaces) - checked exception - 3 caching algorithms - Audit/history in XML - 10 factories.
  • Container framework for holding data in bean and E3 for Nimius. Automatic marshalling into XML.
• OFEV migration using eCenter technology. (add nimius security, use Oracle, migration of data and users login, redundancy of compute process, refactoring (1100 classes))
• Support for projects: Helvetia Riester (DE), Helvetia Prevision Life Offering (SP), Helvetia Domani Pension Funds (IT), Combo (CH), OFEV (CH)
• Administrator of the eCenter homepage (Intranet based on PHP-Nuke), bug tracking tool (Intranet based on Mantis). Develop some PHP modules and new functionality.
• Technical support, member of eSTEP (eCenter Support, Training & Engineering for Projects) team.
• Document a lot of part of the platform
• eCenter Helvetia Patria - Dreikönigstrasse 12 - 8022 Zurich (Switzerland).

Internal Nimius training course.

• 16.01.2001 - 22.01.2001: Nimius ODS: Overview and extensions, EJB basics, Nimius Back end integration,
• 23.01.2001 - 06.02.2001: E3, X-framework, EJB development.
• Hewlett Packard eCenter Europe - Urdorf (Switzerland)

As software developer from 2000 to 2001

Dec. 2000 to April 2001

Start of The eBusiness Center.

• Project "OFEV Pilot" 3 days per week in eCenter - Zürich, 2 Days in Basel.
• Develop connector to a remote car insurance German product (integration of a remote CGI-BIN)
• Proof of concept.
• eCenter Helvetia Patria - Dreikönigstrasse 12 - 8022 Zurich (Switzerland).

From 1^st August 2000 to 1^st November 2001

• Active acting in project OFEV Renten 2000
  • Thin client in HTML, server side in Java,
  • Output documents in PDF using a java server component,
  • Connection to back-end system (JNI - C++),
  • Input control, Workflow manager,
  • Multilingual application (German, French, Italian).
  • 25 insurance products - GUI made of 150 templates
• In use in intranet, Internet, broker center, standalone (1000 broker notebooks across Switzerland).
• Helvetia Patria - St Alban Anlage 26, Basel (Switzerland).

As Engineer training course

From 1^st March to 1^st August 2000

• Helvetia Patria, 3^rd life insurance company in Switzerland.
• Framework Development, using Webmacro
• Starting product RENTEN 2000,
• Java Servlets, database Foxpro/sql 6.5,
• PDF Rendering output
• Window low-level API's (Sound),
• Microsoft Foundation Class,
• Visual C++ 5.0. Visual Basic GUI.
• Documentation
• Helvetia Patria - St Alban Anlage 26, Basel (Switzerland).

From 12^nd May au 18^th May 1999

In charge of the "Internet stand" at the Trade Fair of Mulhouse for Est Video Cable com (Student job).

From 15^thApril to 1^st June 1999 - Student

• Project "Smart Stethoscope" in ESSAIM's laboratories.
• Transform a sound card into a device that can read and compute heart signal.
• Ecole Superieure des Sciences Appliquee pour l'Ingenieur de Mulhouse.

From 30^th June to 1^st August 97 - Training period

In family firm.

From 30^th May to 30^th Sept. 1994 - BTS Training period

• Power plant (French Electricity Board).
• "Study and improvement of the cooling system of hydroelectric machines"
• Electricité de France, Centrale Hydroelectrique de Kembs. Kembs, Haut-Rhin. 

May 1989 - Study travel

• Study travel in French Guyana during 1 week.
• Visiting the French launch area Kourou
• Launching small rocket with a local club (sponsored by Clemessy and CNES).

Foreign Language

French: Native
English: written & spoken.
German: written & spoken.

Software and skills

Operating system

• Professionally
  • Windows XP/Vista/7,
  • Debian 5.0 (4 years), Ubuntu 10.04LTS (4 years), OpenSuse (4 years)
  • Xen server 5.6/6.0
• Private
  • Linux OpenSuse 12.1,
  • BEOS Zeta 1.2

Methodology

• Scrum methodology since 2007, Certified Scrum master
• Test Driven Development (TDD) with JUnit, EasyMock
• Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with JBehave
• Design Patterns,
• Anti Patterns, 
• Refactoring Techniques,
• Extreme Programming, 
• Rapid Applications Development,
• MCSE,

Development Languages

• Primary languages: Java J2EE 1.6 (since Java 1.3.1)  since 2000
• Markup languages: XML, XSL, XHTML, HTML
• Java Server faces 1.2 (JSF), JSP
• Apache ANT,
• Apache Maven since 2006
• PHP since 2003 as advanced hobbyist for Joomla CMS
• PERL,
• Regular expressions.
• SQL,
• Groovy 1.5
• Web languages: JavaScript, CSS 2.1/3.0,
• Ajax toolbox: JQuery, MooTools,  
• C++, ADA, SMALLTALK, Turbo Pascal.  stop using them in 2000 :-)

Software

• Continuous build server:
  • Jetbrains Teamcity (at work and for my homepage), 
  • Atlassian Bamboo (only for my homepage)
• Bug tracker:
  • Atlassian JIRA + Greenhopper (at work and for my homepage)
  • Mantis
  • Bugzilla
• WIKI
  • Attlassian Confluence + TWIKI (work)
  • MediaWiki (private as admin)
• Citrix Xen server
• Maven Repository
  • Artifactory administration (2 years)
  • Sonatype Nexus (since 2010)
• XML spy / Oxygen XML, 
• Microsoft Office Groove, 
• Microsoft MS Office,  Open Office 
• Adobe Photoshop,  The GIMP
• 3DS Max 5.0, 
• Twente Sim 3.0 (1 year), 
• Style Report/EE (3 years), 
• UML: Together  / Omondo UML
• Visual Basic,

Web server

• Apache since 2004, Nginx since 2011

Application server

• BEA weblogic since 2010
• JBOSS 4.2.2GA

Servlet runner

• Tomcat 7.0 (since Apache Tomcat 4.0 in 2003)
• Resin,
• Lotus domino,
• Adobe Jrun.

Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

• Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA 11 since 2011,
• Jetbrains PHPStorm 4 since 2011,
• Eclipse 3.7 (since 2003 with Eclipse 2.1),
• Eclipse PDT for PHP (2006-2011), 
• Visual Age for java 4.0 (2.5 years),
• Visual C++ 5.0 (2 years),
• Borland Jbuilder 3.5.(1 year)    

Control Management Systems (SCM)

• GIT since 2011,
• Subversion (since 2007),
• CVS (5 years),
• Envy (2 years)

Open source frameworks

• Apache Maven since 2006
• Spring framework since 2007
• Junit, JMock, Mockito
• Apache Log4j, Apache Jmeter,
• Jakarta ANT,
• Spring-WS, SOAP Apache  and SOAP Apache Axis 2 web services
• Saxon (XSLT), Apache Xerces (XML) and Apache Xalan (XSLT).
• Apache Batik (SVG),
• Apache myFaces (JSF),  
• Selenium RC, IDE and Grid
• IBM UDDI4j

Others

• Joomla (CMS since 2004),
• CygWin (since 2000),
• PHP-Nuke (2 years),
• Mantis (4 years),
• Mambo CMS (2002-2003),
• Vulnerability in web applications, Hacking

Database

• MySQL 5.0, Oracle 10G, Oracle Express, SQL server 7.0, FOXPRO.

Modeling

• Universal Modeling Language,
• Bond graph analysis.

Open- source/GNU activities

Hyper active in the scene of open source development, in PHP and Java (GPL v3), as administrator and main developer of:

• 21 extensions for your Joomla site in the Joomla Extensions Directory, the official directory for Joomla components, modules and plugins.
• 12 Repositories at GitHub
• 4 Google Code projects
• 4 My Gists @github.com

Java projects

• TuxDroid plugin for Jetbrains TeamCity: With this plugin you can notify your Tux Droid with your TeamCity build results. After login you can find the new notificator Tux Droid in your notification settings. You need your Tux Droid server IP and port to connect your Tux to TeamCity. After you have saved the parameters you can configure your individual notification settings for just all projects/specific projects/build failures/... Each registered User can customize Tux Droid messages or choose different Attitunes.
• Blogg-X is a cross platform (developer role) - (OS X, Windows XP, Linux) content management tool for web sites based on the Joomla! CMS. Blogg-X runs locally on your computer as a desktop application. Utilizing built in WYSIWYG and HTML source editors you can post rich content on your Joomla! site without the use of the web browser

Others

• Maintaining more than 20 sub domains,
• Release 2 GNU FDL review on Linux SUSE Here and Here (view 50.000 times in 1 month), a mirror is available on Linux Net Mag
• Write HP Nimius E3 launcher plugin for eclipse 3.0M4

Translations

• Reflex XTR RC Helicopter simulator
  • Creator and WIKI Sysop of the Reflex manual translation community
  • Localization of the radio controlled helicopter and airplanes flight simulator REFLEX XTR(www.reflex-sim.de) from English to French (MFC DLL).
  • Localization of the Reflex Model construction Kit (www.reflex-sim.de) from German to English and German to French (MFC DLL).
• English to French:
  • "EK4-S2 astuces de réglages et rodage"
  • THE RC Helicopter Checklists
  • Translate Neo-Geo arcade emulator NeoRage X 0.6b documentation
• Some other localizations done in open source projects.

Personal interest and activities

• My Internet homepage You are reading (450.000 visitors per months)!
• BEOS 5, OpenSuSE,
• Cryptographic systems and attacks, my java coding guidelines page
• Webmaster 2003 of Modelisme Club d'Illzach Modenheim homepage (previous design).
• Flying small radio controlled helicopter (3), Monster Truck(and airplanes for fun) since 2000. Acting on forum Runryder under pseudo elta68.
• In charge of computer matters at Essaim's Junior Enterprise (ECRAIM) in 1999.
• Designing Internet sites for ECRAIM and many interventions in public about Internet technologies (HTML, JAVASCRIPT, Search Engine).
• Took part in the French Robotics Cup Contest E=M6 1999 (mechanics) and 2000 (ADA kernel and positioning system on a PC-104 main board): ESSAIM ranked 5^thout of 183 in 1999).
• Webmaster of the UHA (University of Mulhouse) ISF site (Engineers without Borders) 1996-1998.
• Mineralogy(more than 1000 items), Restoration of old vintages scooters (12 pcs) and motorcycles (1 pcs) of the 50's
• Music: pop and rock.
• Sport: Snowboard, VTT, Fitness in Silhouette Zürich Bellevue 3 times per week.

Others

• Switzerland working permit C
• Full Driving License (Car & motorcycles)
• Army Training Certificate (PMTE) 1998
• Vegetarian, non drinker, non smoker.

References

• Zwischenzeugnis 2004 (Interim Report, original on demand)
• Zwischenzeugnis 2007 (Interim Report, original on demand)
• Kursbestätigung Adcubum

References available upon request.