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Benjamin James Northrop
[email protected]
www.bennorthrop.com
Pittsburgh, PA
412.521.5356 (home)
412.260.7522 (cell)
Summary of Qualifications
 10 years experience in designing and developing software applications on over 25 different
engagements, focused primarily on enterprise-scale J2EE systems and components.
 Proficient with concepts and techniques of OOA, OOD, AOP, Design Patterns, and agile
development processes like XP and Scrum.
 Interested in making software not just functional, but usable; administered and coordinated usability
tests on 3 different engagements.
 Enjoys challenges, thrives in teams, hard worker, dedicated to quality work, excellent communicator,
and strong writing skills.
Summary of Experience
6/07 – Pres.
2/05 – 6/07
4/04 – 1/05
6/02 – 12/03
6/01 – 4/02
1/00 – 5/01
9/97 – 12/00
5/98 – 5/99
Summa
Crown Castle
SDLC Partners
Vocollect
MSA
Carnegie Mellon Univ.
HCII
Philosophy
Straightline Source
Ciber Inc.
FHLB
Transtar
Adclip Networks
Indep. Consultant
IMS Inc.
Senior Tech Consultant
Java, JSP, Struts, EJB, Oracle
Senior Java Developer
Architect
Java, WebWork, Spring, Hibernate, Ajax
Java, EJB, Oracle, Ant, AspectJ
Research Programmer
Graduate Student
Senior Java Developer
Technical Consultant
--Developer
--Java Developer
Developer
Developer
Junior Developer
Java, JSP, Struts, MySQL, Swing
Java, EJB, Struts, JSP
MS Access, Perl
Java, JSP, EJB
Java, JSP, Servlets, Perl, Oracle
MS Access, ASP, VB
MS Access, ASP, VB
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Aug 1995 – May 1999
Bachelor of Science in Information and Decision Systems, 3.67 QPA (4.00 scale)
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Aug 2004 – June 2008 (expected)
Masters of Science in Philosophy (Logic and Computation)
Intended Thesis: “Proofs, Pictures, and Euclid – a Theorem Prover for Euclidean Geometry”
Relevant Skills
Java:
App/Web Servers:
Languages:
J2EE: EJB, JSP, Servlets, JSTL, JDBC, JavaMail
J2SE: AWT, RMI, Java Media Framework, JNDI
Frameworks: Spring, Hibernate, Webwork, Struts, TestNG, Junit, Xerces, Log4J
Tools: Ant, Maven, XDoclet
Weblogic, WebSphere, Tomcat, ServletExec, Apache, IIS
Perl, Javascript, Cold Fusion ML, VB Script (ASP), SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, WML, XML,
XSL, XSQL, VB 5.0, VBA, C++, C, LISP, Prolog, COBOL, Lingo, CSS
Databases:
Operating
Systems:
Java IDEs:
Design Tools:
SCM Tools:
Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Microsoft Access, SQL Server, File Maker Pro
Windows (95/98/2000/NT), Unix, Linux, Free BSD, Mac OS
Eclipse, IBM WSAD 4.0, IBM Visual Age, Symantec Visual Café
Rational Rose, MagicDraw UML, TogetherJ
Subversion, Rational Clearcase, CVS, Visual Source Safe
Certifications
Sun certified Programmer for the Java 2 platform
Sun certified Web Component Developer
Brain Bench certified Object Oriented Concepts
Open Source Contributions
 Created PMDReports, a code quality tool which persists and aggregates statistics generated from
PMD in order to view code quality metrics from a component-level view.
Experience
Summa (Crown Castle)
Senior Java Developer
Pittsburgh, PA
Jun 2007 – Present
Implemented new business-critical features within the proprietary J2EE-based CCIsites application to
help Crown Castle better manage customer license agreements.
 Led the design and development of a web-based system used to manage the process of customers
opting out of license agreements with Crown Castle. (Java, JSP, Struts, Oracle)
 Implemented key enhancements to a proprietary workflow engine, allowing Crown Castle to track
license requests from customers. (Java, JSP, Struts, Oracle)
SDLC (Vocollect)
Senior Java Developer
Pittsburgh, PA
Nov 2006 – Jun 2007
 Led the analysis, design, and development of the Delivery Locations feature for Vocollect’s VoiceLink
3.0 product. Utilized the dependency injection design pattern to improve testability and extensibility
of business logic, and used ORM techniques to achieve portability and better maintainability of
database persistence code. (Java, Spring, Hibernate, WebWork, Ajax)
 Managed the implementation of the reporting module, which entailed integrating a proprietary
reporting component and open-source reporting frameworks with the VoiceLink 3.0 system. (Jasper
Reports, Spring, Hibernate, Webwork, Ajax).
 Served as the lead consultant of 13, helping to coordinate tasks and manage knowledge.
 Helped to coordinate, administer, and analyze a usability test of the VoiceLink 3.0 product and
helped to pinpoint and then eliminate over two dozen critical usability issues.
 Helped define the customization strategy for the VoiceLink 3.0 product.
SDLC (MSA)
Architect, Senior Developer
Pittsburgh, PA
Feb 2005 – Nov 06
 Played a key role in an architecture assessment of MSA’s Gabriel product, a 5 million line ERP system
for the Media industry. The assessment spanned functional, organizational, and technical domains to
discover the extent to which each architectural element supported critical business goals.
 Implemented a performance instrumentation solution utilizing Aspect Oriented Programming to
achieve better maintainability and extensibility (AspectJ, Ant).
 Analyzed and refactored a critical core component that was responsible for system-wide performance
problems (Java Stored Procedures, PL/SQL).
 Acted as a mentor to junior Java developers, performing code reviews, holding consistent brown-bag
learning sessions, and offering general support and assistance.
 Developed a tool used to visualize Ant target workflows for the purposes of understanding complex
Java build scripts (Java, Ant).
 Researched and refactored an exception handling rules-engine (Java, EJB).
Carnegie Mellon
Research Programmer, Gr. Student
Pittsburgh, PA
Apr. 2004 – Jan. 2005
 Collaborated with Information Visualization specialists from the Human Computer Interaction Institute to
design an effective interface for searching and navigating large, multi-faceted, hierarchical data sets (JSP,
Struts, MySQL).
 Implemented a web-based portal and discussion engine used in Pittsburgh’s 2004 Deliberation Day. The
portal was used to host and facilitate political conversations among citizen participants toward the goal of
strengthening democratic discourse (MySQL, PHP, Flash).
Straightline Source
Senior Java Developer
Pittsburgh, PA
Jun. 2002 – Dec. 2003
 Created a Notification hub used by different J2EE applications to send messages to subscribers in different
file formats and via different delivery channels. Implemented based on the Publish-Subscribe design pattern
(JavaMail, EJB, Struts).
 Maintained two key business components for calculating prices of different product configurations of steel
and for checking inventory availability for these products (EJB, Oracle 11i).
 Designed and developed a generic reporting framework which provided common functionality for
displaying and manipulating read-only data, like sorting, paging, filtering, and file conversion (Struts,
Custom Tags).
 Led the development effort for an online contract management tool used by customers to manage their own
accounts. Developed utilizing core J2EE design patterns including the Business Delegate, Session Facade,
Value Object, MVC, and Service Locator patterns (EJB, Struts, WebSphere, Oracle).
 Designed and developed a core logging and exception handling framework used by multiple application
teams within Straightline (Log4J, Struts, JavaMail).
 Built custom extensions to the Struts framework providing common functionality for session management,
resource lookup, and data caching (Struts, EJB).
Ciber Inc.
Consultant
Pittsburgh, PA
Jun. 2001 – May 2002
 Implemented key business components within the EJB specification for an internet application used
by Railroad operators for placing railcar orders (EJB, DB2, WebSphere, Visual Age).
 Built a JSP Custom Tag library used in the presentation tier to encapsalate and reuse complicated
client-side logic for validation, filtering, and complex input fields (JSP Custom Tags, Javascript,
HTML).
 Developed a wireless knowledge management application used to assist a sales team in initial-stage client
meetings. Designed the architecture using a standard MVC pattern, such that core business components
were reused across multiple presentation layers (JSP, JavaBeans, Servlets, Custom Tags, Tomcat, MySQL,
SQL, WML).
AdClip Networks
Programmer
New York, NY
Jan. 2000 – May 2001
 Led the development effort for a web-based administration system used by online publishers and
advertisers to configure and deploy digital coupons (Java, JSP, Servlets, Beans, XSL, XSQL).
 Developed the beta version of AdClip’s first wireless product, the Wireless Wallet (Perl, WML, XML).
 Wrote key business functionality in both the middle and database layers for AdClip’s flagship
product, the AdClip Wallet (Perl, PL/SQL, SQL, XML, Apache, Linux)
 Established in-house process standards centered around the philosophies of object-oriented analysis
and design, communicated via the UML.
 Designed the table schema for a relational data warehouse used to store clickstream and ad-serving
data (Oracle).
 Developed and maintained the data model for a transaction-oriented relational database consisting of
over 100 tables (Oracle 8i).
 Created the database schema for a direct marketing application (MySQL).
Independent Software Developer
Pittsburgh, PA
Oct. 1997 – Jan 2000
 Designed, developed, and maintained various applications for 7 small businesses or organizations in
the Pittsburgh and Boston areas, including point-of-sale, inventory management, and reporting
systems. (Microsoft Access, FileMaker Pro, VB 5.0, Active Server Pages, SQL)
IMS
Programmer
Pittsburgh, PA
May 1998 – May 1999
 Headed multiple projects involving database and web application development. (MS Visual Interdev,
Active Server Pages, Microsoft Access, VB 5.0, SQL)
Interests
Soccer, mountain biking, backpacking, reading