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Leader of the J2EE development team at MedCharge. MedCharge was a small company whose primary product was a health care software application used within the University of Michigan Medical Center and affiliated hospitals. The product allows doctors and hospital staff to capture all charges related to a patient's care and to dictate medical notes related to the patient care. The application is a multi-tiered Java enterprise application running on the IBM WebSphere application server with an Oracle database backend. WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) was the development environment used. My responsibilities included serving as the lead java architect, object modeling, software design, lead developer, hands-on technical management, task planning, technical decision making, mentoring, technical presentations, preparing schedules, and monitoring to schedule. We used the XP (eXtreme Programming methodology) on this project.
In architecting this J2EE solution, I utilized object oriented designs skills including UML modeling and the application of J2EE design and implementation patterns. The application featured a Rich Internet Application interface that used many JavaScript techniques that would today be easily implemented with JavaScript frameworks such as Prototype, YUI, etc.
The company went out of business in January, 2003.
Skills Used:
Java, J2EE, Servlets, JSP, JavaScript, XML, EJB, Team Leadership, mentoring, Project Management, Extreme Programming, IBM WebSphere setup and configuration, Oracle DB, SQL, Jakarta Struts, LDAP, UML, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, CVS, Visual Sourcesafe