CareerCup

Gil Shapir
406-37 Oriole Road• Toronto M4V 2E6 ON Canada • Tel 416-5468937 (messages)
Email: gshapir@gmail.com (preferred)
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
SENIOR JAVA/J2EE C++ and WEB SOFTWARE ENGINEER
who brings to the table more than 30 years of IT hands-on skills
Objectives: Software Development, Design and Leadership
HIGHLIGHTS
 Highly skilled OOD/OOP Software Engineer:
- JAVA(Sun Certified Java Developer): J2SE, J2EE (more than 12 years)
- C++: STL, Boost, multi-threading, QT (more than 10 years)
- C#: Server side, WinForms and integration with C++ (3 years)
- UNIX (Linux, AIX, Solaris): IPC, Sockets, Scripts (more than 10 years)
- Microsoft C# Windows .Net ( 3 years)
- Microsoft certifications: MCSD, MCT
- Other technologies: TDD,Jasper iReports, Perl, Cobol, C, mobile/wireless,
ClearCase, ClearQuest, SVN , PerForce, CVS, RCS, Xtra-C,
HP Quality Center
 WEB skills
- Web Services (axis, axis2, wsdl , soap) (3 years)
- Portals, Portlets (Liferay Portal Server) (1 year)
- Web Servers & containers : Tomcat, Apache, IIS (5 years)
- Application Servers BEA WebLogic (5 years), IBM WebSphere
- XML, XSLT (5 years)
- Script languages: Perl/CGI, JavaScript, Python
 SQL RDBMS: (Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, DB2, MsSQL) (more than 10 years)
 Project leading and Product Leading, customers Facing worldwide (5 years)
 International skills (Canada, U.S., Israel)
 Instruction and presentation skills (more than 10 years)
 Multiple Industries skills
- Financial (4 years)
- Telco (5 years)
- Computers , computer services, semi-conductors (15 years)
- Health Care (3 years)
- Energy (3 years)
- Military (3 years)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Java/J2EE Middleware Software Engineer at Comverse, Toronto, Canada
March 2011 -
Projects for Comverse One Billing product
• BSS - Front End Server Side Business Logic for Billing, Java 6 & 7 J2EE Development
• Worked on extensibility framework which enables client to extend OOTB (Out of The Box) functionality
• Designed and implemented Web Services based interface design with Mobile Interface Hub (another Converse Product)
• Design and implemented 4 generation identities provisioning and CRUD (billing)
• Worked on Comverse 1 core product SAPI (Single API) Java/2EE Spring based framework
• Trained off-shore team members (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Software and tools: Java/J2EE 6, Eclipse, Web Services (Axis, Axis2, Soap, XML,XSL), Oracle 11, WebLogic 10 and 11, Ehcache, Tomcat, Unix/Linux/Solaris, Maven, Ant, Spring, BPM WorkPoint, JUnit, Solaris, ClearCase, ClearQuest., Code Collaborator

Senior Java/J2EE Programmer Analyst at Amdocs, Israel Nov. 2009 – January 2011 (contract)
Projects for major Canadian Telecos: Rogers and Telus;
 OSS OMS (Orders Management System) Development for major strategic Canadian Telcos.
 Server Side J2EE Amdocs Enterprise Framework development
 Client side: UI thick client, downloaded by JNLP Java Web Start
 Server side: Java/J2EE,
Software and tools: Java/J2EE, Oracle, Eclipse, WebLogic,
XML, Ant, JNLP, Xtra-C, HP Quality Center, Unix & Windows

Senior Java Programmer Telus Toronto Canada March 2009 – August 2009 (fixed term contract)
The customer was a large Toronto hospital and the business challenges were client facing, learn existing business in order to smoothly port to new Telus web based healthcare system
Migrating a major hospital system from Client/Server to the WEB
 Developed WEB GUI components, using vOacis vTools (Java Swing based) GUI toolkit
 Developing and Optimized Sybase stored procedures queries
 Developed Bean Shell (Java based) code
 Developed Jasper Reports using iReports
Software and tools: Oacis vTools, Jasper iReports, Bean Shell ,Tomcat, Java, Sybase,
SQL, XML, OOD/OOP, Design Patterns, SVN, Unix, Solaris

Senior Server Side C++ Software Engineer at Orbixa, Toronto, Canada Sep 2008 – Jan 2009
Customers were in-house and external day traders. The business challenge was to boost performance of the FIX protocol based trading systems, to give the clients significant trading advantage.
 Developed new Gateways in multi-threaded C++ Solaris environment.
 handled inbound and outbound FIX Protocol remote messages using TCP and UDP
 Developed MySQL Prepared Statements for efficient C++/ MySQL performance
 Contributed to the design of a trading system for the EURO & US markets.
Software and tools: C++, STL, Boost, ,OOD/OOP, Design Patterns,
MySQL, Sybase, SVN, FIX Protocol, Unix, Solaris

Senior C++, C# Software Engineer at Philips Medical, Israel April 2007- July 2008 - contract
Developed CT scanners which were targeted for medium size hospitals in the country and worldwide. The scanner environment was Microsoft based .
 Developed Host/Console software for existing CT system using C++ for the Server and C# WinForms for the Client
 Designed and Developed Host/Console for a brand new CT using C# for Server and client.
 For both system defined rules for computing various values and check their validity
 Developed TDD based automatic testing suites for a future CT scanner using TestComplete.
Software and tools: Visual C#&C++,.NET,ClearCase,ClearQuest,Nunit,TestComplete

Principal Java/J2EE Software Engineer at Symantec, Israel August 2006 – April 2007
I4J2EE products targeted large J2EE based shops like financial institutions and banks.
The product usage is to monitor and boost performance.
 Developed I4J2EE software tool which is a distributed J2EE WEB based product for monitoring J2EE applications performance. The team both in U.S.A and Israel.
 Developed Portlets and DHTML GUIs for displaying result to users over the WEB,
using the MVC design pattern heavily.
 Supported interfaces between I4J2EE and other products like I4Oracle
Software and tools: Tomcat, XML, XSL, JSP, JDBC, EJB, WebLogic, WebSphere,
Liferay Portal Server, DashBoard Portlets User Interface

Project Leader & Software Engineer IBM Haifa Research Lab Israel May 1996 – July 2006
working at IBM more than 10 years as a Research Staff Member, 5 of them as Team Lead
All kinds of projects for international internal and external customers.
Two examples of project which I lead follow:

IBM Verification Group (2002-2006)
• Designed and implemented advanced QT and XML Based GUI for Unix (QT is a package of C++ GUI widgets).
• Designed and Implemented clustered testing system based upon Perl, K-Shell and XML .
• Led development of two verification commercial verification tools:
- RuleBase static verification and FoCs for Dynamic verification of VHDL & Verilog.
Leading of the above two verification tools in parallel included:
time to market solution, interaction with customers (pre-sale and post-sale), hiring, engineers guidance, tool/product releases, announcement, licensing, distribution
and on-going channel with the department management.
• Project leading of about 5-15 engineers each (engineers numbers varied)
• RuleBase Worldwide CRM (Customers Relationships Manager). See:
http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/projects/verification/RB_Homepage
Responsibility contained market oriented solutions, daily contacts with customers and product management.
Software and tools: C++, XML, MYSQL, QT, Java, Perl, Python, LINUX, AIX, Solaris ,UNIX,CVS
IBM Application group (1996-2002)
 Technically managed about 15 people in a worldwide multimedia 2 projects for the Hermitage museum, at St. Petersburg, Russia. The teams were multi-national and multi-cultural. The Hermitage project contained Internet Web Site
and in house Information Help Kiosks. These projects were complex projects, which used as a showcase for IBM’s technologies: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org
Software and tools: Java/J2EE, C/C++, Servlets, HTML/JavaScript, Perl/CGI, DB2 Web servers, AIX UNIX, NT, WebSphere/Apache, UML
 Developed WEB interface to Tivoli software.
Software and Tools: C/C++, Java, AIX, UNIX, JavaScript
Senior Software Expert and f/t consultant at Digital (DEC), Israel 1992-1996
Worked with major companies country wide.
 Supported and developed specific software for large customers.
 Worked on Internationalization/NLS: modified XLIB and Motif for Hebrew support,
 Modified a C++ debugger to be able to support Japanese.
Software and tools: C, C++, UNIX Scripts, UNIX, NT.

Certification & Classes
WebLogic 11 Administration, 2013
Visual Studio .NET 2005 Team Leaders
IBM LDC (Leadership Development Center) workshop, 2003
SUN : Certified Java Programmer, 2001
MCP: Microsoft Certified Professional for Windows 2000 Professional and Server
MCT: Microsoft Certified Trainer, 2000
MCSD: Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer, 1999
MCP: Microsoft Site Building, 1999.
MCP: Microsoft Certified Professional, 1999.
Computers units management, Bar-Ilan University, 1991.
Instruction
About 16 years of teaching various software subjects, and leading student's projects.
The major instruction subjects were: Java, the Internet and UNIX.
The technologies included Web sites, Java and C++ applications, to name a few.
Awards
Award of Excellence Comverse - 2012
Award for verifying a block critical to IBM – 2004
IBM Research Division Award for participating in the RuleBase PE project - 2004
IBM Research Division Award for leading the Hermitage museum project - 2003
IBM alphaWorks Award for publishing FoCs on IBM alphaWorks. - 2002
Publications
“Developing in the UNIX Environment”: This book assists Hebrew students in learning and practicing UNIX, including many code samples.
EDUCATION
M.S.c in Computer Sciences, the Israeli Technion, 1986.
B.S.c in Computer Sciences, the Israeli Technion, 1983.

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