Andre C.J. Kaan
Allison Park PA 15101 © United States of America
Email: bmc88@worldonline.nl

OBJECTIVE:
To utilize my expertise as a Web/Software Developer in an innovative and challenging environment.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
? Top-notch JAVA Developer with more than 5 years experience.
? Extensive practical hands-on experience in developing,
designing, maintaining and refactoring object oriented applications.
? Productive and creative both as a software developer and architect with
a unique combination of expertise in B2B logistics and finance.
? Effective working alone or as a cooperative team member.
? Embracing new technology and developments in creating quality products for customers.
? Proficient at defining the architecture for stand-alone, distributed,
two tier, three tier or multi tier applications.

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
03/2001- PRESENT
Java Developer and Consultant (Long-term Project-related Assignments)
Free-It Consultants, Bosch en Duin, The Netherlands

Java-Developer
ABN-AMRO Bank Global Transaction Services, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands

Refactoring of an existing application that handles high volume and high value
international direct debit (IDD) batches represented by EDI transactions. Planning
and developing implementation of a new messaging communication channel to
different platforms (AS400/AIX/HP-UX/ WindowsNT/IMS) and to the offices of
European countries based on IBM MQ Series and JNI. Improving the performance of
the XML part of the application OO redesign using UML (TogetherSoft) and
introducing Java PL/SQL routines. Improving the stability of communications to the
billing systems by solving multi-threading issues. Improving the quality of the
software by means of designing automated Unit tests (JUnit) and handle production
problems for major customers for the bank.

Managing the pilot for further performance enhancements based on redesign of the
database (Oracle Designer) and introduction of Java PL/SQL routines in the Java
framework. Along with these central activities, responsible for implementing the
validation rules for specific countries in the legacy portal in C.

The product and platforms are: HP-UX 11.x, Windows NT, Visual Age for Java
3.02/3.5.3 Enterprise Edition, Oracle Designer 6.0, TOAD, Oracle DB 8.1.7, Oracle
PL/SQL, JDK 1.2.2/1.3.0, IBM MQ-Series, JNI, JUnit, OptimizeIT, TogetherJ, VAJ
WebSphere Test Environment (J2EE), JRun 2.0, JBuilder 4.0.

03/2000 – 02/2001

Java Developer , Researcher and Staff member
Internet and EDI Research and Development Department
Municipal Port Authority of Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands

Developed a B2B internet application that creates and processes EDI messages for
notification of ship movements, dangerous goods notifications and port
declarations to legacy systems. The application consists a 100% Java client
(JavaWebStart), RMI application server as middleware (Sun Solaris) and database
server (Oracle). Completed the project as a Java architect and technical designer
aimed to design this mission critical application.

The project skills required were: OO Modelling in UML (TogetherSoft), database
design (Oracle), directory schema design (LDAP), directory replication (iPlanet),
database replication (Oracle), multi–tiered software architecture, solving
concurrency issues, creating fail-over mechanisms, defining object persistence
layer (TOPLink) and extensive JFC Swing UI programming. As a technical member
involved with setting up a network architecture together with network
administration handling issues as firewall, procmail, fail-over and security.

The project was implemented with Visual Age for Java 3.0 Enterprise Edition in the
JDK 1.2.2 version, RMI, JNDI, JFC Swing 1.1.1, JDK1.2.2, JDK1.3, Sun Java-Plugin 1.3,
Java WebStart 1.0, Oracle 8.1.7, iPlanet Enterprise Server 4.0, iPlanet Directory Server
4.1, Sun Solaris 8.x, SCO Unix, TOPLink object persistence layer, TogetherJ and
OptimizeIT.

09/1997-03/2000
Java-Developer and Internet Developer Long-term Assignments
Quality PRO – Software Development, Hoofddorp, The
Netherlands

Java Developer , Researcher and Staff member
Internet and EDI Research and Development Department
Municipal Port Authority of Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands

Developed and deployed the meteorology and hydrology Java application for Traffic
Control and third party end users. As the team developer, worked closely with end-
users using DSDM for analysis, design, rapid prototyping, testing and
implementation of the product. Besides delivering the product our secondary goal
was to establish guidelines for embedding Java applications in the mainstream
software development tracks of the Rotterdam Port Authority. The internet version
of the application can be seen at
http://www.portmanagement.com/UK/Waterandweather/OnlineObservations/.
Built the application in Visual Age for Java 3.0 for JDK 1.1.7B utilizing Swing 1.0.3,
JNDI, TOP Link object persistence layer.

The software design includes parallel processing, visual composition, bean design,
design complex SQL statements and model view controller architecture. The
platforms and products used were Oracle 8.1.5, Sun Solaris 7.0, Windows NT 4.0,
Netscape Enterprise Server 3.62, Netscape Directory Server 3.1, JWSDK 2.0, JDBC,
JDK1.2.2, JClass graph components, Netscape Communicator 4.7 and the Java Plug
in 1.2.2.

Developed and deployed web-application for the public and port officials to show
arrivals and departures of sea ships in the Rotterdam harbour. Developed, designed
and programmed the Server side-JavaScript program based on command pattern
with multi lingual capabilities. The process of designing is now serving as standard
future applications written in SSJS or any other basic web scripting language. The
internet version of the application can be seen at
http://www.portofrotterdam.com/UK/Shipinfo/.
The platforms and products used were Oracle 8.1.5, JDK 1.1.5, Macromedia
DreamWeaver 2.0, Netscape Enterprise Server 3.6.

Developed the yellow pages for Port Authority on the intranet with browsing and
data entry capabilities using Server Side JavaScript and Java Server Pages in JDK 1.1.5
and Oracle 7.3.

Developed, designed and implemented the EDI information intranet application
which is used by traffic control to verify received EDI messages sent by customers
in a real-time environment. The application consists of three parts. The first part is
the front-end imports extracted meta information of electronic ship notifications
from the EDI server into Oracle by means of SQLLoader. The second part consists of
the database triggers and PL/SQL routines that generate statistics. And the last part
is the user interface which displays the generated statistic.
The platforms and products used were Oracle 8.1.5, JDK 1.1.5, Oracle SQLLoad,
PL/SQL, Netscape Enterprise Server 3.6 and Server Side Javascript.

Developed a sea ship tracking applet prototype for tracking ship movements in the
Rotterdam harbor. This Java 1.1 application draws the ship on a map based on real-
time radar information and can be traced in the AWT GUI.

Involved in the development of the Java technology research group, restructured the
corporate internet http://www.portofrotterdam.com, structured and build the
corporate intranet, deployed search capabilities to all corporate websites and
product evaluation.

Web Developer For Corporate Library
Municipal Port Authority of Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands

The technical lead of the POrt Information NeT (POINT) as a web portal for
document retrieval in the library of the Municipal Port Authority Rotterdam Port
Authority. Created and implemented the document search and a document retrieval
application by means of the Verity search engine. Installation and maintenance of
web servers on the HP-UX systems. Rapid web application development in
cooperation with the user group.

Involved in the port 'old' Verity client server document retrieval application into a
Java application.

The platforms and products used were HP-UX 9.x, HP-UX 10.x, Netscape Enterprise
Server 3.5.1, Verity Information Server, Server Side JavaScript, JSDK, JDK 1.1.

Internet Consultant and Integrator
Busak+Shamban in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands

Connected the main office of Busak+Shamban to the internet, provide basic Internet
email service and provide a strategy for connection all their European offices to the
Internet. This included upgrading the infrastructure, providing ISP, leased lines and
upgrading the Novell network to Novel IntraNetware. To provide a strategy I
performed a survey for the multinational amongst most European service providers
and presented these outcomes. The platforms and products used where Novel
IntraNetware and Windows95

Unix C-Programmer
Merck, Sharp & Dohme, Haarlem, The Netherlands

As a Unix C-programmer I fulfilled the task of creating a simple tool for the
helpdesk to perform simple system administration duties (password change, printer
spooling, adding users, etc). The program was written in combination C and shell
scripting on the HP-UX platform.

Technical Project leader for Web and Mail Services
Quality Pro BV, Haarlem, The Netherlands

Technical project leader of the next generation of web services for qualitypro.nl.
Involved a total solution of mail- and internet- and extranet-web services.
Challenges were installing Netscape Enterprise Server (3.5.1) and hosting the
internet website, setting up Netscape Mail Server (3.5) in connection with directory
driven user administration in Netscape Directory Server (3.1). Installing ColdFusion
Application Server 4.5 and write the user administration application in ColdFusion
for managing Extranet users. Setting up firewall solution for the corporate office of
Quality Pro BV.

Internet Engineer
Quality Pro BV, Haarlem, The Netherlands

Performed an internal task of setting up the first website and test environment for
web services under the domain www.qualitypro.nl. The platforms and products used
were Linux / Windows NT and C programming for CGI on Apache webserver.

COMPUTER
SKILLS

Programming languages:
Java, C, PL/SQL, Unix Shell scripting, JavaScript, Visual Basic, Pascal, Fortran, C++

Programming techniques:
DSDM, SDM, RAD, Use Cases, Visual composition, OOP, Component Based
Development

Operating systems:
HP-UX (9.x/10.x/11.x), Sun Solaris (7.x/ 8.x), Linux 2.x, SCO, Windows
95/98/ME/NT/2000, Netware 3.x/4.x.

Middleware:
Netscape Enterprise Server (3.5-3.6.1), Netscape Directory Server (4.0), Netscape
Mail Server (3.5), iPlanet Enterprise Server (4.0), iPlanet Directory Server (4.0/4.1),
IBM MQ-Series (5.1/5.2), Verity Search Engine (3.0-3.6), IBM Websphere Test
Environment, Allaire ColdFusion 4.0/4.5

Software:
Visual Age for Java Enterprise Edition (2.0/3.0/3.0.2/3.5.3), Visual Studio for C
(5.0), Rational Clear Case, TOAD, Oracle Designer 6.0, Oracle SQL-PLUS, Oracle
SQLLoad, Microsoft Office (97/2000), MarcoMedia DreamWeaver (2.0/3.0/4.0),
MarcoMedia Fireworks (3.0), Java Plugin (1.2.2/1.3.1), Java Webstart (1.0),
OptimizeIT 3.0, TogetherJ 3.0

Java packages:
JDK (1.02/1.1.x/1.2.x/1.3.x), JSDK (servlets), JNDI (1.1), JDBC (1.0/2.0), Java Mail
(1.1.3), JAF (1.0.1), JAXP, JWSDK (1.0.1/2.0), JFC/Swing (1.0.3/1.1), TOPLink (2.0),
JClass (KLGroup), Websphere Test Environment

Databases:
Oracle 8i, Oracle 8, Oracle 7.3, Microsoft Access

Internet:
XML, XSLT, Java Server Pages, JavaScript, DHTML, HTML, Cascading Stylesheets,
Active Server Pages.

Design Skills:
Object oriented analysis and design, detailed knowledge of core Java language and
extensions, multi-tiered object applications, object to relational mapping, database
and directory schema design and application development, application servers,
distributed computing, Java user interface development in Swing, UML and
modelling tools.

EDUCATION & TRAINING
October 2001 – present
Sun Certified Java Developer Assignment, Sun Microsystems BV, Amersfoort, The
Netherlands

October 1998
Sun Certified Java Programmer, Sun Microsystems BV, Amersfoort, The Netherlands

September 1998
Object Oriented Thinking, CEBIT, Utrecht, The Netherlands

September 1997
Verity Information Server, Verity, Utrecht, The Netherlands

June 1994
Post-graduate Commercial Engineer, College of Zeeland, Vlissingen, The
Netherlands.

September 1993
Received the 1993 HZ Stern Award for outstanding achievements in the
development and research of the thesis entitled: "Switched Capacitors on a Digital
CMOS IC," College of Zeeland, Vlissingen, The Netherlands.

June 1993
HTS-Electronics, Bachelors Degree in Electronics and Telecommunications, College
of Zeeland, Vlissingen, The Netherlands.

June 1989
MTS-Electronics, Diploma in Electrical Energy and Installation Engineering,
Technical High School of Antonie Keldermans, Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands.

References Provided Upon Request

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