Ben Kandu

11526 Sorrento Valley Rd.                                                                                 BKandu@foundrylogic.com

Suite J                                                                                                                            Phone: 858-243-1821

San Diego, CA 92131                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

 

PROFILE

 

Over 15 years of software development for a wide range of industry verticals including Retail, Utility, Financial, Healthcare, Media, Construction and Manufacturing sectors.    Delivered many 3-tier web applications, distributed applications and enterprise solutions for 100+ users.  Has a sound database experience for Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP).     Well verse with all types of integrations: view level (UI based, portal based), message level (Web Services, CORBA, COM, Tibco, EDI, etc.) and data level integrations (ETML).  Launched many robust applications into stringent production environments as found in ISC (International Speedway Corporation), Intuit, American Express, CheckFree and Cayenta.

 

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

XML, Web Services

Oracle, SQL Server, SQL Server CE, Sybase

EDI/VAN, EDI/https

Java, J2EE, EJB, Java script, JSP

Web Services, Microsoft MSMQ, JMS, CORBA, Tibco Rendevouz , COM/DCOM

App. Security: Authentication and    Authorization

C#, ASP.Net, C++, C, Smalltalk

UML, MSF

Crystal Report, Crystal Excelsius, Macromedia flash

Microsoft .Net 2003, 2005, Microsoft Compact Framework

IBM Eclipse, Hibernate

XP, Agile, RUP

Ant, MKS Version Control, PVCS

Rational Rose, XMLSpy, Erwin

Windows, Unix: Solaris, Linux, AIX

WebLogic, JBOSS, WebSphere

Bus. Intelligence: Dashboard, ODS, Data Marts, Data Mining

Win2K Device Communications: RS232, RS422, Device Net, Modbus

Test Automation: WinRunner, Tasker, Rational Performance Tool

TOAD, SQL Server Management Studio, Sqlplus

Business Process Management and Workflow

 

 

OTHER SKILLS

Project Scoping and Approval

Implementation Planning

Project, Program Mgt (25+ people)

Requirements Gathering

Quality Assurance and Control

Product Management

Functional Analysis

Budgeting and Financial Status

Business Development

System Object and Architecture Design

Deployment and Roll-out

Client/Account Mgt (3M annual revenue)

                                                                                                                     

 

EXPERIENCE

 

FoundryLogic, San Diego                                                                                                                                                                                                                 2002 - current

                                         

As a subcontractor to Gartner Inc.,  performed an enterprise architecture review for the 2nd largest US Tire Reseller.

·         Conducted interviews at various levels of management and architects

·         Created an architecture strategy and roadmap

Technologies: Java, Enterprise Java Bean (EJB), COBOL AS/400

Tools: Web Logic, Aqua Logic, IBM Eclipse, InfoManager, IBM DB2

 

As a subcontractor to Gartner Inc., performed a vendor selection process for retail solution at International Speedway Corporation (ISC), an affiliation of NASCAR. 

·         Collected requirements and created business strategy roadmaps for the automation of the retail business

·         Selected initial list of vendors, developed RFP and conducted the vendor selection process.

 

Worked with International Speedway Corporation (ISC) to develop:

·         The store setup application to automate the configuration of 400+ stores

·         The data conversion module from PeopleSoft

·         A pilot command center application for business and operation monitoring

Technologies: C#, Microsoft .Net, SQL Scripts

Tools: Oracle, Toad

 

·         A handheld solution that is integrated with the retail solution to be used for Physical Inventory, Receiving, Transfer and Inventory Check.  Later, enhanced the application to perform Sales on the handheld, Credit Card Processing as well as mobile printing and evolved to become a standalone product.

Technologies: C#, Microsoft .Net, Microsoft Compact Framework, Web Services

Tools: SQLServer on Windows CE, Symbol Pocket PC, ONeil Printer, MSMQ

 

·         A reporting solution and a pilot sales dashboard for Executive Management. 

Technologies: Crystal Report, Crystal Report Excelsius

Tools: SQL queries, Macromedia flash technology

 

As a subcontractor to Gartner Inc., performed an in-depth review of a mission critical project of a $5 billion Title Insurance company for their next generation system

·         Led the technical review process that included the review of project’s analysis, design, implementation, deployment and support

·         Conducted interviews of various levels of team members and presented results and recommendations to the COO, CFO and senior executives.

 

·         After 2 years, was consulted again to perform a follow-on in-depth strategy review with the addition of a new company acquisition and to recommend a product strategy roadmap

 

Technologies: Java, Enterprise Java Bean (EJB), Microsoft .Net

Tools: Versata, Brio, Microsoft .Net, SQL (IBM DB2)

                                                                                                                                                                            

Cayenta (a subsidiary of Titan Corporation), San Diego                                                                                         1998 – 2002

 

Cayenta Utility Management Product Division, Vancouver, BC.

·         Designed and implemented a full application security component for the Human Resources product.  The technical foundation was J2EE-based using JBOSS application server and Oracle 8i as the database engine.

 

Cayenta Platform Engineering Team

·         Directed a team of senior developers and architects to build a J2EE based application framework for re-engineering of Cayenta products.    Code-generated UI screens, controllers and complete database access methods from logical business object models.  Focused application developers on business object implementations and UI layout configuration.

·         Not only reduced application development time by 30%, but also improved product robustness and quality in addition to ensuring the UI consistency.

 

Assigned to Soliance, a deregulated subsidiary of Sempra Energy

  • Led a team of 10-15 people to build and maintain a complete CRM and CIS solution for an Energy Service Provider in Atlanta to process end-to-end utility transactions and to support for 100+ customer service and operation team users.  Selected a 3rd party billing application and business partners to provide bill printing service and remittance services for check, ACH, credit card and cash payments.    Developed B2B interfaces for integration with 7 external partners and implemented a workflow system to manage the end-to-end business processes.  
  • Delivered the first release on-time in 8 weeks.  The system was praised by the Public Utility Commission (PUC) of Georgia for its accuracy and timeliness for the delivery of bills.    The system has been in production for 3 years and its development environment was in Java using Oracle/JDBC to support interfaces such as EDI/VAN, EDI/https, XML/https, COBOL interface, database interface, and variable length record file-based interface.
  • Extended the solution with an implementation of Data Marts for customer profiling, financial information, marketing program assessments and operational goals.

 

Assigned to Healthwell, a subsidiary of Penton Media                                                                                                                                                                            

·         Staffed and directed 20-25 people to develop a B2B Catalog Exchange product for use in alternative Health industry.  The system facilitated broker exchanges and featured full catalog order-entry system.  The technology was Java/JSP and EJB back-end using Persistence for object oriented access to Oracle 8i.

 

Technologies: Java, J2EE, EJB, Application Servers, JSP, HTML, Java Script, Data Marts, COM/DCOM, Workflow

Tools: JBuilder, WebLogic, JBOSS, Persistence, Rational Rose, Oracle, MicroStrategy, Erwin, Metastorm, Actional

 

CheckFree/Intuit, Chicago                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1995-1998         

Intuit Services in Chicago, the online processing division for Quicken, Quickbooks, Microsoft Money and TurboTax, was purchased by CheckFree in 1996

 

Accomplishments:

·         Architected and delivered a 7x24 online banking service for Quicken users to access their American Express transactions.  The external B2B interface was CORBA-based interface and it was integrated with the internal Tibco-based distributed computing.

·         Led a team to build an Open Financial Exchange (OFX) component adapter to attain an open standard platform for personal financial products such as Quicken, Microsoft Money and others for online banking transaction, bill-payment and bill presentment.

  • Maintained, supported and enhanced a farm of UNIX distributed systems for online access with capacity of handling 1500 concurrent users on 35 SUN servers and an additional fail-over remote site.

 

Technologies: C++, CORBA, Distributed Computing, RDBMS, SGML, OO modeling

Tools: Rogue Wave, PVCS, SUN compiler, XShell, Tibco, Orbix, Erwin, Sybase

 

Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting), Chicago                                                                                                            1993-1995

 

  • Built an Object Oriented Persistence module to allow users to define and access persistent objects, transparent to the underlying database model: RDB (Relational DB) or OODB (Object Oriented Database)
  • Created the Enterprise Distributed Object Architecture for Andersen Consulting application framework to support its WAN distributed requirement for its Trader and Load Balancing services.

 

Technologies: C++, Smalltalk, CORBA, Distributed Computing, ODBMS, RDBMS

Tools: VisualWorks Smalltalk, Rogue Wave, XShell, Oracle, Versant, Persistence, Poet

 

Other experiences                                                                                                        

  • Built an application to aid process engineers to design Chemical Processing Plants.   Supported invocation of simulation programs for design analysis and execution of rule-based processing for valves emergency release.    C++ was used along with an Object Oriented Database (Versant).
  • Wrote the initial version of GNU C++ debugger for MCC at Austin to be tested with its new parallel processing systems.

 

 

 

Education

 

B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering, University of Houston. 

                            Summa Cum Laude, GPA: 3.9/4.0

M.S. Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering,

                              The University of Texas at Austin.  GPA: 3.9/4.0

 

Legal Status

 

 

US Citizen