Senior WebSphere Consultant

I am an independent consultant with a strong back-end Java development experience and focus on SOA and applications integration. Having practically applied Scrum, agile software development method with test driven approach, I successfully participated in numerous projects with full application development life cycle, from requirement gathering, design, development, testing to going live. I have experience in insurance, online payment, automotive industries.
Having in total more than 9 years of IT experience during last 6 years I was building my expertise in technologies mainly based on JAVA. By being involved in various IBM projects I got extensive experience in developing core JAVA applications, writing J2EE applications for WebSphere Application Server, integration using WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus or WebSphere Message Broker, developing portlet applications for WebSphere Portal Server, developing in integrated development environments like Eclipse, Rational Application Developer or WebSphere Integration Developer.
Practically applied knowledge of object oriented and SOA design patterns. Being a senior developer and developer team lead I got strong teamwork and problem solving skills.
Additionally I am skilled in integration of distributed systems and services (SOA, XML, XSD, WSDL, SOAP, JSON, Web Services, JMS, BPEL, REST). I am also experienced in open source technologies such as Spring framework, Hibernate, Google Guice, AspectJ, Ant, Maven. Experienced in testing technologies like JUnit, SoapUI and Selenium, building and testing applications using Hudson/Jenkins Continuous Integration.