Jeff White

Summary

Strengths : Very experienced software designer and systems architect. Having worked in the industry from the 1980s I have accumulated a wide understanding of what makes complex multi-platform, cross language, multi-tier systems work and more importantly "not work". I enjoy green field development projects but also relish problem solving and fire-fighting on mission critical production systems. I am a good project team leader, always ready to mentor and train team members. I am comfortable dealing with customers, managing their expectations and creating a culture of stake-holder responsibility. Experienced in managing projects from inception, pricing, design, development, prototyping and delivery. Experienced in RAD/Agile methods and "waterfall" project management techniques and use selective UML design techniques and design pattern methodologies. Experienced in a wide range of key web related technologies such as security, encryption, authentication, relational and non-relational databases, keyword and full text search engines, fail-over, replication and recovery, internationalisation and localisation, content management, graphics and mathematical and spatial modelling, SOAP, AXIS, XML/XSL/XSLT, HTML2, CSS3, Ajax, Dojo and JQuery. Recent Activities: Developing an advanced UI using JQuery, JQueryUI, JGrid, JQPlot, JSPlumb that delivers management reports and graphs using XML and JSON feeds from a back-end SQL database and Java objects. Specialties: EDI and Supply Chain systems, Billing and Payment Systems, Directory and Information Systems, LDAP, Java J2EE, .NET, SQL databases, XML/XSL processing. Systems Design, Deployment and On-boarding using RAD. Systems fault finding and resolution.