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John Biderman and I will be presenting at the Wilshire Enterprise Data World Conference

Topic is:  Wikify Your Metadata! Integrating Business Semantics, Metadata Discovery, and Knowledge Management

World Class Objects - World Class Objects delivers World Class Results – On Time – On Budget – On Target

Since 1994 – World Class Objects has been a pioneer in the areas of application servers, service oriented architectures, object adapters and rule-based personalization. Our reputation was built by utilizing object technology (Smalltalk, Java and C++) to provide ground-breaking solutions, tools and highly extensible frameworks that aid in the design, development and integration of reusable business components.

Companies such as: EDS, Fedex, Continental Airline, LSI Logic, Ameritech and Unisys, Cincom Systems have successfully utilized World Class Object’s products and services.

S u m m a r y

• Over 20 Years of experience in software applications and systems architecture, design, and development using a wide variety of programming languages and operating systems.

• Extensive involvement with all aspects of complex software development and application environments including technical hands-on leadership of sophisticated software applications and product offerings.

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, as evidenced by publications in leading technical journals, presentations at conferences, industry analysts and investors. Ability to effectively communicate with product management and business stakeholders to ensure clear understanding of business and technical requirements.

• Exceptional combination of interpersonal, management, motivational and mentoring skills leading to on time and on budget high-quality software project deliverables and releases including extensive experience with outsourced and geographically dispersed development processes.

• Quick study with proven capability to attain and maintain thorough, hands-on knowledge of advanced technologies and business requirements. Specific expertise in components and object architectures, multi-tiered and distributed E-business architectures, rule-based Internet strategies and middleware and database technology.

• Comprehensive commercial product experience in the areas of application middleware, integration technologies and development tools including product strategy, requirements analysis, architecture, design, hands-on development and management.

T e c h n o l o g i e s

Programming/Architecture: Design Patterns, UML, OOD, Java, MS Embedded C++, C/C++, Smalltalk, Web 2.0, Dojo, JavaScript, CSS, HTML/DHTML, JSP, JSTL, Velocity, Struts, MVC, Hibernate, Groovy, SQL, XML, XML Schema, XSL, SOAP/WSDL, POI.

Applications and Middleware: MS Visual InterDev, PocketPC SDK, Pocket SOAP, Eclipse, Visual Café , JBuilder, JMS, EJB, Servlets, Apache, Tomcat, Web Logic, Oracle IAS, BEA Tuxedo, TIBCO BusinessConnect, RV and BusinessWorks, XMLSpy, CORBA, IBM MQSeries, MS IIS, Visio 5.0, MS Project, MS Office., Mitem, JMeter, AMP/WAMP, Drupal, Xoops.

Databases: MySQL, SQL, JDBC, ODBC, Oracle 10g and 10g XMLDB, 9i, 8i, and 7.3, SQL Server 7.0., Access and Sybase.

Operating Systems: PocketPC, Windows 9x/XP, NT, 2000, Unix, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, VMS.

E x p e r i e n c e

Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare/Perot Systems, Wellesley, MA - Feb 2003 – Current

Independent Consultant

Engaged by Perot Systems to work with Harvard Pilgrim on their IT strategic initiatives including development of internal standards for architecture, security, infrastructure, tools and development methodology. Additional work includes conception, design and development of product-grade tools and services.

EDI Viewer – J2EE/Struts application providing the ability to view EDI and XML-based log records for claims operations problem resolution.

Profile Services – as an essential part of Harvard Pilgrims strategic architecture, Profile Services is a declarative development environment and infrastructure built on open source components, providing the ability to effectively manage configuration data. The J2EE application provides Web 2.0-Ajax UI (Dojo) dynamically generated with Velocity templates within an MVC framework with data stored in XML.

RTU – Data management utility – RTU provides the ability for business users to version manage reference data through a dynamically generated UI. The J2EE utility allows for the ability to specify business rules for validation of the data as it is entered or uploaded. It also provides a governance model through a check-in, check-out, change, approval and promotion workflow.

RTU and Profile services are both developed on a common framework called the Action Framework that provides XML to Java translation, Role-based access control, validation, dynamic UI generation.

Easy Online Renewal – Technical lead over the development of a high profile, multi-million dollar B2B project. Successfully launched in December 2003, allows for automated rate generation and online renewals of healthcare policies. As a key initiative of company this work involved extensive interaction with the CIO and CTO.

Lead the design and development of the Web Services-based application and infrastructure (messaging, security, integration) utilizing XML and SOAP messaging, Oracle Database, J2EE, Java, .Net/C# and TIBCO messaging.

Aspen Security, Maynard, MA 2001-2003

Aspen Security offered an open standard software platform for building and managing applications that provide mobile and dynamic protection of enterprise assets. Aspen’s platform incorporates the latest in barcode and RFID identification technologies, mobile tracking and wireless hands-held devices and rules-based tracking registries.

Chief Technical Officer/VP Engineering

Developed product strategy and initial alpha release of the Aspen Registry Platform along with the engineering budget, staffing and engineering release plans.

Aspen registry includes an Asset Tracking Object model, metadata-driven framework, graphical tools and open adapter layer to incorporate Auto Identification devices such as barcode readers and RF devices.

Aspen Registry Platform development included wireless client Pocket-PC GUI, and Soap/XML messaging to J2EE Application Server along with an Object Framework for persistence and Java Rules Engine. Tool development included Swing based explorer interface with XML and object-based metadata persistence and Soap request oriented browser.

Verbind Inc., Lexington, MA 2001

Verbind is a well-funded startup, providing behavioral analysis and event triggering services.

Product Strategy/Architecture Consultant

Engaged by senior management to assist in the transition of the company from an ASP to installed software product.

Facilitated a team consisting of the CEO, CTO, VPs of Sales and Engineering in the formation of a new product strategy. The resulting architecture and roadmap re-purposed the existing Lifetime technology into real-time message-oriented components that allows real-time determination of changes in significant customer behaviors. This work lead to a successful exit by investors with the acquisition of these assets by SAS Institute Inc. and is now marketed as the SAS Interaction Management solution.

Bremer Associates, Newton, MA 2000-2001

Bremer Associates, a leader in data transformation and application integration, provides tools, solutions and professional services in the area of enterprise integration EIA for financial services firms, B2B and Government. The software product assets of Bremer were purchased in 2003 by DST International.

Chief Technical Officer/VP Engineering

Provided leadership across all facets of Engineering and Professional Services as well as adviser to executive team and board regarding product strategy and process improvement. Board-level participation in development of corporate budgets, forecasts and business plans. Managed and mentored internal staff of 15 as well as responsibility of offshore development. Directed multiple successful product releases and service engagements.

Developed a product strategy and roadmap for their MetaStreamer integration tool supporting real-time, batch or databases interfaces, while performing sophisticated data transformations. This work proved to be key to the successful exit strategy with the acquisition by DST International.

World Class Objects, Medfield, MA 1995-2002

World Class Objects offers tools, frameworks and professional services that aid in the design and development of complex, transactional, scaleable and distributed business application and reusable business components utilizing object technology.

Founder

As the founder of this company, conceptualized and subsequently developed, marketed and sold innovative products and services in the areas of web personalization and enterprise integration for distributed transaction processing and legacy data access. As a pioneer in the areas of multi-tiered, message-based Web infrastructure and object-to-middleware integration, World Class Objects successfully sold quality products and services to companies such as Fedex, Ameritech, EDS and Continental Airlines as well as licensed its innovative products to partners.

BULL Information Systems– Billerica, MA – www.bull.com 1990-1995 Application Services Product Unit: The Bull Application Services Products Unit had multi-billion P&L responsibility delivering solutions to BULL customers in the areas of open systems Database, Development Tools, Transaction Processing, Systems Management and Workflow.

Director Strategy and Architecture

Executive level contribution including strategy and technical leadership over open systems middleware, database and application development initiatives and partnerships.

Responsible for development initiatives including a large-scale development effort for the Bull Integrated Systems Development (ISD) product set. This work involved the coordination of work spanning the US, UK and France. Directly managed a team of researchers and product architects responsible for the creation of the ISD architecture.

Promoted the ISD strategy internally to management as well as externally to partners, standards groups, industry analysts, the press and customers through presentations and publications. Successfully promoted the ISD strategy to gain market endorsement of major tool, hardware (IBM and HP) and database vendors (Oracle and Informix).

Successfully implemented the transfer of ISD technology to a BULL company, Transtar in Europe.

Chief Architect Application Development Services and Tools

Key contributor to the overall direction, architecture and design of an application model and development strategy oriented towards solving the problems faced by customers developing and deploying mission critical distributed systems on an open systems platform. A key objective for this work was the incorporation of existing systems and technologies into these applications. A product of this work was the COBOL API for the Tuxedo transaction monitor, licensed by BULL and currently sold by BEA Systems.

Cortex Corporation, Waltham, MA 1985-1990

Cortex was an industry leader in the development and marketing of 4th generation application design and development tools, acquired by International Software Group, renamed to Attunity.

Project Leader / Lead Architect

Project leader for Core Technology Team. Leadership responsibility over team of engineers chartered with the redesign and development of Cortex’s design and application generation tool.

Individual contributions included development of key product components such as report and screen designers, messaging system, template driven source code and documentation generators.

E d u c a t i o n

Berklee College of Music:

Performance (guitar) and composition major, graduated with high honors

Framingham State College:

Coursework in computer science

Northeastern University:

Coursework in business and computer science

“CASE STUDY from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care: A Semantic-Driven Application For Master Data Management with John O. Biderman, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Cameron McLean, World Class Objects
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This site was built with WordPress- after dabbling with Xoops and Drupal as well as having buildt many html, and Java-based web sites, and being very busy, I was pleased to find that WordPress allowed me to bring this site online with a fairly rich amount of features – very quickly. I am currently also looking a Grails - I am a fan of Groovy - see my projects section where you can see how I built a validation framework using the Groovy scripting language.

Jinx

Just out of Berklee, I joined Jinx where I played guitar and backup vocals Jinx gigged thoughout the Northeast including Mr. C’s, The Rat,… and perform several showcases for various record companies. We practiced at the Cambridge Music Complex where many famous rock bands such as the Cars and Arrowsmith also practiced. Back in the days when WBCN played local music, we had a couple of songs that were on their playlist including Night Song – (c) 1981 -

Jinx was made up of some very talented musicians including drummer, Jim Kersey now plays for the Zed Zeplian Tribute Band- Led Zepagain

Jeremiah Sullivan Band

Jeremiah Sullivan was a very talented songwriter. I helped him put together a group of excellent musicians and help arrange many of his songs. We created a demo tape that through Wally Gold (produced Kansa first 2 albums) was showcased for Don Kirshner.