TIMOTHY NGUYEN
Phone:
512-294-5453 (mobile); 512-670-9036 (land)
Email:
tnguyen.geo@yahoo.com
Yahoo! IM: tnguyen.geo
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Timothy Nguyen is an influential leader and a Sun Certified Enterprise Java/J2EE Architect, Developer, and Programmer with over 14 years of professional software development experience in the roles of an individual contributor, Enterprise Architect, and Development Lead/Manager. He specializes in enterprise architecture, Java/J2EE, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), J2EE App Servers, Web 2.0, Web Portals, XML Web Services, and server-side Java components. He possesses direct hands-on experience with many leading J2EE Web Servers, App Server, and DB Servers including BEA WebLogic, WLP, WLI, IBM DB2, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere MQ, MQSeries, Red Hat JBoss, ATG Dynamo, SunONE JES, SunONE Web/Directory Server, Oracle DB Server, OC4J, Oracle 11i CRM/ERP, and Apache HTTP Server & TomCat. Timothy also has working knowledge of core Java/J2EE, Servlets, JSP’s, Struts, JSF, EJB, JMS, MDB, JMX, JDBC, C++, C#.NET, VB.NET, ASP.NET, XML DTD/XSD, XHTML, XSLT, J2ME, WAP, UML, OOAD, and software & enterprise architecture development methodologies such as RUP, Agile, SunTONE AM, FDD, TOGAF, and Xtreme Programming. He successfully led many architectural elaboration, design, and assessments for large corporations and had successfully completed many business/technical requirements gathering & analysis, application code design & development, testing & performance tuning, user documentation, and launch/release orchestrations. |
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n June 2001 – Sun Certified n March 2000 - Sun Certified Architect for the Java 2 Platform n May 2001 - Sun Certified Developer for the Java 2 Platform n February 2001 - Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform n March 1998 - Microsoft Certified Application Developer for Visual Basic 5 |
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SEPT 1991 – MAR 1995: University of
Minnesota - n Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineer. n Mechanical Engineering major specializing in Heat Transfer & Computer CAD/CAM Design. n AutoCAD, Pro/Engineer/Mechanica/Intralink, Thermodynamics, ANSI C/C++, and FORTRAN. |
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SEPT 1990 - JUN 1991: Normandale
Community College - n Studies & intern work towards Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. GPA: 3.0/4.0 |
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SEPT 1989 - JUN 1990: Inverhills
Community College - n Studies & intern work towards Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. GPA: 3.0/4.0 |
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MAR 2007 – PRESENT: BEA Systems,
Inc. - Principle Consultant, Solutions Architect – BEA Consulting n Successfully led, mentored, and trained BEA’s strategic customers on enterprise architecture development using TOGAF and the SOA architecture pattern to cover Business, Application, Data, Security, and Technology Architecture. n Developed SOA Reference Architecture and SOA Organization & Governance for BEA’s strategy customers in the Financial Services, Telecom, Airlines, and Retail industries. n Collaborated with the BEA Sales Team in delivering software licensing and SOA service solutions to BEA’s strategic customers. n Participated and contributed to BEA Consulting’s EA Program and Central Architecture Team. n Provided training on SOA best practices and assisted BEA’s customers on configuration and performance tuning of WebLogic and AquaLogic products. |
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JUL 2006 – MAR 2007: Oracle USA, Inc.
- Sr.
Principle Consultant, Dev. Lead, n
Successfully led, mentored, and supervised teams of 4 to 6
developers in designing, customizing, developing, deploying, tuning, and
supporting Oracle Retail, eCommerce, and Call Center J2EE products such as
Oracle 11i CRM/ERP Financial Services, Invoicing, and E-Business Suite,
Retail Point-of-Service, Inventory Mgmnt, Central/Back Office, Pricing,
Reporting, and Seibel CRM for large Tier-1 retail customers. n Collaborate with Oracle Retail product development groups & customer’s development teams to customize & enhance Oracle’s J2EE applications for several retail customers on various J2EE platforms including BEA WebLogic, JBoss, IBM WebSphere, and Oracle OC4J App Servers. Utilized SOA, Servlets, JSP, Struts, EJB’s, JMS, OA Framework, Hibernate, Oracle Retail suites. n Led development of training curriculum for Oracle J2EE/Retail products, standards, SOA reuse. |
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APR 2006 – JUL 2006: Harcourt, Inc.
- Solutions Architect – Harcourt eLearning n Successfully led & supervised offshore development teams in designing, developing, and deploying several enterprise applications for Harcourt eLearning on J2EE platforms including Oracle 11i E-Business Suite & Fusion Middleware, BEA WebLogic, JBoss, IBM WebSphere, SunONE JES, SunONE Identity Management, using J2EE Servlets, JSP, Struts, JSF, AOP, and Spring Framework. n Led budget planning, cost tracking, and progress reporting on several large software development projects for Harcourt eLearning involving many domestic as well as offshore 3rd party vendors. n Led Architecture Committee discussions on SOA standards, reuse, and WS-I interoperability. |
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APR 2004 – APR 2006: Dell, Inc. – Round Rock, TX Dev.
Lead & n Successfully led & mentored several Dell IT Software Dev teams (in US & offshore) in designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting many large enterprise applications for Dell’s GSSS/Online, Manufacturing/S&P IT, and Dell Services IT groups. n Utilized Java/J2EE, C#.NET, and SOA in designing, developing, and deploying globalized applications for Dell Factory Outlet, Dell Services IT, S&P Order Fulfillment, and 3rd Party Product data exchange. n Led several global software development projects from Inception to Elaboration, Construction, Test, Release, and Production Support for Dell’s mission-critical Online and Services applications (e.g. ARB, SelectApp, ECOMM, iPort, MORC, DellServ, GFX, Harmony, OrderBroker, GEDI, Tadem DPS). n Designed & implemented many WebLogic/WebSphere/JBoss architectural infrastructures with code design & development using eclipse IDE, WebLogic, WebSphere Portal, and MQSeries. n Successfully developed & deployed many C#.NET XML Web Services & Java/J2EE apps on MS IIS .NET Framework, WebSphere, JBoss, and WebLogic using Service-Oriented Architecture with superior scalability & performance to support more than 2 million eCommerce transactions per day. n Led Architecture Committee discussions on standards, SOA reuse, Java-SIGs, and presented many J2EE/.NET solutions to Dell’s IT Management, stakeholders, and fellow architects. |
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DEC 2003 - APR 2004: VIEO, Inc. (a.k.a. Cesura Inc.) - Contract Consultant & SW QA Engineer - Software Business Strategy Engineering n Designed, developed, and deployed several large BEA WebLogic & SunONE JES applications & environments for testing the Adaptive Infrastructure Management (AAIM) network appliance. n Developed test harnesses, J2EE coding & deployment best practices, and J2EE test cases for QA. n Completed many code/design reviews and system integration & unit testing for software releases. |
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JULY 2003 - DEC 2003: Callidus Software, Inc. - Professional
Services - Contract Consultant & SW Support Engineer - SW Development, QA, and Tech Support n Trained, mentored, and assisted field consultants & customers in designing, developing, and deploying C#.Net & J2EE financial web/XML reporting apps on MS IIS, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere Portal, MQSeries, iPlanet Web & SunONE JES, JBoss, Actuate, Oracle 9i, and DB2. n Provided on-site consulting, architectural design, software troubleshooting, performance tuning, and email/phone tech support to customer & field consultants. |
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SEPT 2002 - JULY 2003: BEA Systems,
Inc. - BEA Professional Services - Principle Consultant - Business Principle Consultant n Successfully led, mentored, and assisted many BEA customers in designing, developing, and deploying enterprise Java/J2EE web applications and implementing J2EE standards & best practices on BEA WebLogic Server, WebLogic Portal, and WebLogic Integration products. n Completed application design, development, and performance tuning for mission critical enterprise Java/J2EE web applications running on BEA WebLogic and the J2EE platform. n Performed critical architectural design, coding, and technical assessments against requirements. n Provided mentoring and product support for BEA’s customers on WebLogic App Server, WebLogic Integration, WebLogic Portal, XML Liquid Data, WebSphere, and WebSphere Portal. |
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JAN 2001 - SEPT 2002: Sun
Microsystems, Inc. - Sun Professional Services - Java Software Architect - Professional Services Engineer IV n Successfully led, mentored, and assisted customer’s IT organizations in designing, developing, and deploying large & complex enterprise Java software applications using the J2EE platform. n Performed application design & development, architecture/code assessments, and analysis for customer critical applications on J2EE platform, iPlanet/SunONE App/Directory/Portal Servers. n Mentored customer’s development staff, performed requirements gathering, technical analysis & design, technical reviews & recommendations, use case analysis, OOAD, prototyping, code design/development/review, and performance testing & tuning. n Authored and maintained design documents, UML diagrams (such as use case, class, collaboration, and sequence diagrams, etc.), functional specification documents, use case documents, QA test cases, and hardware/network capacity planning artifacts. n Utilized Rational Unified Process and SunTONE Architecture Methodology to mitigate technical risks to client’s software systems by addressing systemic qualities such as security, performance, scalability, reliability, extensibility, maintainability, etc. n Hands-on software design & development work on the J2EE platform using JavaBeans, JMX MBeans, JINI, RIO, J2ME, Applets, JSP’s, Servlets, Portlets, EJB’s, JMS messaging, JDBC, JAXP, XML Web Services, XSLT/XHTML, LDAP, IBM WebSphere, SunONE App Server, SunONE Web Server, ATG Dynamo App & Commerce Server, TIBCO Rendezvous, Sonic MQ, Sun ONE Directory Server, Oracle Parallel Server, Apache TomCat, NSAPI plug-ins, iPlanet Web/App Server, SunONE Portal, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, WebSphere Portal. |
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SEPT 1998 - DEC 2000: Trilogy
Software, Inc. - Trilogy Consulting - Senior Software Integration Consultant & Technical Lead n Successfully led teams of 3 to 5 Trilogy consultants (and/or customer’s IT staffs) in designing, developing, and deploying mission-critical web and enterprise Java applications for customers using Trilogy’s Multi-Channel Commerce, Selling Chain, and SC Backbone software suites. n Performed architectural assessment & recommendations, software product researching & prototyping, and architectural capacity planning with client’s technical staff. n Designed, developed, and deployed web-based eCommerce applications for Trilogy’s customers using Object Oriented programming languages such as JAVA, C++, and Microsoft VB. n Hands-on experience with Java & J2EE, CORBA, RMI, Sockets, RPC, Servlets, Applets, JSP’s, EJB’s, XML, ASP, JDBC, ODBC, TOPLINK, OR Mappings, Java Connectors to SAP R/3, BAPI/RFC’s, SSL Certificates & Encryption, JNI, JNDI, LDAP, COM/DCOM, Microsoft IIS, iPlanet Web Server, Allaire JRUN, Apache TomCat Web Server, Strut & JUnit Framework’s, Segue SilkTest/SilkPerformer, and LoadRunner & WebLoad performance testing tools. n Provided integration of Trilogy’s eCommerce applications with back-end databases and ERP/Legacy systems such as SAP R/3, IMI System ESS, ORACLE DB Server, Microsoft SQL Server, BEA Tuxedo, TIBCO Rendezvous, and Siebel Call Center. n Conducted pre-sales demos and presentations to customers and occasionally negotiated additional software license and professional services revenue with customer’s stakeholders. |
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APR 1998 - SEPT 1998: Science
Applications International Corp. - SAIC - Contract Senior Applications Developer n Led a team of 3 to 5 application developers in designing, developing, and deploying enterprise Telephony/Email/Fax Collaboration applications for customers. n Performed architectural design, requirements gathering, technical assessment, and software researching & prototyping, and coding of customer’s software systems. n Developed applications using MS Exchange, Lotus Notes, MS Visual Basic, ASP, VBScript, MS InterDev, MS Outlook, Casahl’s ReplicAction, Oracle DB Server, and MS Access. n Integrated MS Exchange & Lotus Notes w/ customer’s Call Center/Proposal Mgmnt applications. |
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SEPT 1997 - APR 1998: Keane, Inc.
- Keane Consulting - Senior Consultant & Web Architect n Performed architectural design and development of enterprise and web-enabled applications. n Assisted other Senior Software Architects in with application design and evaluating various web development tools such as IDE’s, Web Servers, authentication/firewall/security/email/workflow products, DB Servers, components technology (DCOM/CORBA), and QA load testing tools. n Performed prototype development and made recommendations of evaluation software from various vendors to assess technical risks and business costs vs. benefits, etc. Reviewed and made hardware & systems architectural design recommendations to clients. |
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APR 1997 - SEPT 1997: Edgewater
Technology, Inc. - Consulting - Contract Software Developer & Consultant n Performed technical design & development for the US Postal Service’s Direct Link client/server enterprise application. Developed and maintained the Direct Link application using Microsoft Visual C++, Seagate Crystal Reports, Oracle DB Server, and ODBC database connectivity. n Migrated Direct Link application to a 3-tier client/sever architecture using TP Monitors and middleware such as BEA System's Tuxedo, Transarc's Encina, and Rogue Wave's DBTools.h++ & Oracle Access C++ Libraries. |
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MAY 1996 - APR 1997: Parametric
Technology Corp. - PTC Tech Software Technical Support Engineer & Consultant n Successfully trained and provided development support to many of PTC’s customers on the company’s Pro/ENGINEER, Pro/PDM, Pro/INTRALINK mechanical CAD software products. n Assisted developers with software maintenance using Microsoft Visual C++ and ANSI C on several UNIX as well as Windows platforms. n Developed tools & utility to validate HTML document contents (check spelling, HTML links & tags format, etc.) and build directory structures for deploying company’s web site. n Developed test cases and perform QA testing of PTC’s software products. n Presented software demos and negotiated software licensing with PTC’s customers. |
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MAR 1995 – MAY 1996: Electronic Data
Systems Corp. - EDS - Associate Engineering Systems Engineer n Developed enterprise applications and automotive diagnostic & telemetry software tools for General Motor's Service Technology Division. n Performed requirements gathering, analysis, and development of enterprise applications using MS Visual C++ (MFC), Borland C++ (OWL), Windows SDK, and MS SQL Server. n Developed and maintained enterprise software systems with embedded SQL and ODBC database connectivity on various UNIX and Windows platforms. |
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n Willing to travel as needed, up to 80%. n US Citizen, legally authorized to work in the USA. n Fluent in English, Vietnamese, and very light-reading in French. n Positions in n Available to start after proper notifications & project transitions from current employer. |
UPDATED DECEMBER 2007