My resume - SUMMARY OF SKILLS

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Business Analysis & Leadership

• Able to attract, retain and lead people. Led team up to 25 developers, responsible for task planning, technical direction, risk management, code inspections, quality control, performance reviews, staff development. Understood how to create working environment to keep people happy, motivated, creative and productive.
• Solid presentation skill, proven in communication with customers, understanding problems, capturing domain knowledge and turning it into high level requirements in suitable form for development team and other stakeholders.

Domain Knowledge

• Financial industry: retail and investment banking, automated trading systems, communication protocols including SWIFT, ISO8583 and FIX. Involved in proposal preparation, conceptual definition and prototyping automated trading system for brokerages based on Marketcetera platform.
• Communication industry: Business processes, practices and standards in communication industry including eTom, SID, OSSJ, Mobile Network Architecture, IN, and TAP3. Hands-on experience in ERP implementation including Billing, Fulfillment, and Accounting.
• Government sector: Hand-on experience in government sector including law enforcement, criminal justice, immigration. Good knowledge in biometrics technology (face and fingerprint) and it's application in government's projects including national ID Cards, and Immigration.

Software Development

• More than 15 years experience in developing software products with deep knowledge of architecture / design of multi-tiered client-server systems based on middleware including Tuxedo, J2EE (WebSphere, WebLogic) and other emerging Web framework as Ruby on Rails.
• Skillful in many programming languages including C/C++, JAVA, SQL, PL/SQL, RUBY. Passionate for the simple and easy to understand software with rich domain model. Well versed in OOP, design patterns (Design Patterns - GoF, Pattern for Enterprise Application Architecture - PEAA, Domain Driven Design).
• Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures and their applications in writing a high performance, time critical system for complex business domain.
• Extensive experience with state of art software development practices such as pair programming, Test Driven Development (TDD), refactoring, continuous integration.

System Integration Using Messaging System

• More then 7 years in design and implementation of software systems that communicate with each other using asynchronous messages. Understand message creation and processing patterns (Enterprise Integration Patterns) and their applications in real world systems.
• Engaged as system architect in many projects that use Event-driven Architecture (EDA) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) integration style.

Infrastructure's Design, Implementation & Administration

• More than 10 years experience in design, implementation and ongoing maintenance of complex IT infrastructure, that includes J2EE middleware (WebSphere AS, WebLogic), messaging system (MQ), database (Oracle), Unix servers, clustering system, IBM SAN DS series, IBM Tape libraries TS series, Tivoli Storage Manager, CISCO router, PIX firewall and VMWARE virtual technology.
• Proven in writing script (SHELL, RUBY, PYTHON) to automate repetitive administrative activities including monitoring, deployment, configuration change, etc.

My resume - EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

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ING Direct Spain, Jul. 2009 - Present

Infrastructure's Software Engineer

• Administer softwware infrastructure of WebSphere Application Server, JBOSS AS for direct banking system

ING Direct Japan, Sep. 2008 - Apr. 2009

Technical Analyst WebSphere

• Maintain middleware infrastructure of WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ for core banking system
• Plan, install, configure and troubleshoot large scale WebSphere Application Server ND and MQ in AIX environment
• Perform application software deployment, update, performance tuning and other house keeping activities
• Provide assistant for application development team in problem identification and solving
  
• Middleware Monitoring System: directly involved in design, develop and implement monitoring system for middleware infrastructure including exception, performance, capacity monitoring
  
• Application Software Deployment Automation: directly involved in design and implementation system for automatic application software update that ensure fast, reliable, error free deployment with no downtime

Centre of Software Engineering - Vietnam, Dec. 1998 - Jul. 2008

Technical Director

• Managed software development process and quality
• Prepared technical proposal and system architecture
• Provided training/mentoring on software design, pattern, refactoring, testing
• Participated in various development/implementation projects by rotating between different roles according to the need at each project phase (team leader, project manager, business analyst, software developer)
• Border Control System: managed the project to design, develop a J2EE application for immigration department and deploy under BEA WebLogic in major international airports across the country, integrate it with existing backend system using messaging middleware and perform data migration. Responsible for all technical aspects including overall architecture, software development, performance, quality control, server installation and production support.
• Data cleansing for law enforcement agency: led a team to perform cleansing of a massive database of hundreds of million of records. Directly involved in design and development algorithm, data structure and rule engine in C/C++.
• Utilities Billing - Hanoi Water Work Company: Led a team that implemented a distributed billing and customer management system based on ORACLE and JAVA. In charge of overall system design (including custom developed system, IT infrastructure component selection, data migration strategy) and development of data synchronization module using JMS.
• Telecom Billing and Order Fulfillment System: Responsible for implementation of high performance (up to 20,000 event per second), nearly real time event rating engine using C/C++, Tuxedo and database in memory technology.
• Personnel Management Information System - Ministry of Home Affair: Managed the development and implementation the Personnel Management Information System for public sector fund by Swedish Agency for Development Cooperation. The system was developed mainly using ORACLE PL/SQL and ORACLE Database.
• Electronic Library - Institute of Mathematics - Vietnam: Participated in concept definition, architecture and technology selection (ORACLE and PERL).

Centre of Software Engineering - Vietnam, Jul. 1997 - Nov. 1998

Software Developer, Database Administrator, Team Leader

• Performed installation, maintenance, support ORACLE Database System
• Designed, developed and implemented framework/library for data synchronization
• Utilities Billing - Hochiminh Cities Water Supply Company: managed a final phase of the project to implement of billing and customer's care for Hochiminh Cities Water Supply Company using ORACLE PL/SQL and ORACLE Database. Directly involved in development of module for data synchronization between branches and head quarter
• Document management system: Installed, maintained, provided support ORACLE Database System ,Ministry of Science and Technology .

Notia Information System - Czech Republic, Apr. 1994 - May 1997

Software developer, Team leader

• Performed installation, maintenance, support ORACLE Database System
• Participated in various software development projects under different roles team leader, software developer, database administrator, technical support personnel
  
• Custom developed ERP - Altron Czech Republic: Led development team in the project to develop and implement of ERP for a distribution and retail company in Czech Republic using ORACLE database design and GUI development in Borland Delphi.
• Fixed Asset Management - Eurotel Prague: Participated in design a fixed asset management software for a mobile phone company based in Prague.
• ERP Package Software: Responsible for development and support of C++ part A/R, A/P of ERP package software, that have been deployed to hundreds of customer in Czech Republic.

Metasoft - Czech Republic, Jun. 1993 - Jan. 1994

Software Developer

• Developed, customized software, provided technical support
• Implemented software supporting activities of an accommodation agency

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My resume - TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION

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Oracle E*Business Suite Training (one week at IBM Singapore) - 2005

BEA Tuxedo 8 Administration Training (one week at BEA in Malaysia) - 2002

Project Management Training (3 weeks at Asia Institute of Technology (AIT) Thailand) - 2000

Software Engineering Conference (CASE University of Technology &Thomson CSF) - 1999

AIX 4.3 System Administration Certification (IBM Certified) - 1999

Oracle Certified Professional on Oracle8 DBA - 1999

RS/6000 Solution Sales Certification (IBM Certified) - 1999

Switch Off Convert line breaks

I have problem when try to post some html stuff on my blog. The posted html contains simple table. However Blogger incorrectly displays it, alignment doesn't work, a lot of strange space. I finally recognized that, this is due to enabling "Convert line breaks" feature of Blogger, that encloses line break into html break tag, I switch it off, and everything work well.

My resume - PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE AND TOOLS

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Operating Systems

• AIX 4.3/5L, HACMP 4.3, Solaris 7/8, SCO Unix, Windows NT/2000/XP, Linux (Redhat Debian, Ubuntu)

Middleware

• Websphere ND 6, WebLogic Server 8.1, Websphere MQ 6, Tuxedo 8.0, Tomcat, Ruby on Rails

Database

• Oracle8i/9i/10g, Oracle Real Application Cluster, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server 6.5, Microsoft Access

Programming Languages

• JAVA, C/C++, Ruby, Oracle PL/SQL, Visual Basic, PASCAL, PROLOG

Tools

• IDEA IntelliJ, Microsoft Visual C++, Rational Rose, Oracle Designer/Developer, Borland Delphi, Toplink, iBATIS, Subversion,Git, Svn, Ant, Maven, Cruisecontrol , JIRA, Mingle, Microsoft Project & Office Suite

The secret behind Rails Integration Test

Find what is behind Rails Integration Test on good blog's post named HeadlessApp

$ script/console
Loading development environment.

>> app.class
=> ActionController::Integration::Session

>> app.get "/home"
=> 302

>> app.controller.params
=> {"action"=>"home", "controller"=>"accounts"}

>> app.response.redirect_url
=> "http://www.example.com/login"

gem's environment

When playing with gem on my Ubuntu machine, I found an useful command

huy@huy-desktop:~/.gem$ gem environment 
Rubygems Environment:
  - VERSION: 0.9.0 (0.9.0)
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /var/lib/gems/1.8
  - GEM PATH:
     - /var/lib/gems/1.8
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - http://gems.rubyforge.org

that shows default gem's environment. By setting the GEM_PATH environment variable to one desire directory, we can share single gem repository across many ruby installations (e.g C ruby and JRuby). The full descriptive information of all gem environments variables can be found in Gem Command References

Naming Exception Corba Comm Failure

Java RMI, Corba, J2EE are sometime still nightmare for developers including these with more than 2 years working experiences with these technologies like myself. I have encountered a "Naming ExceptionCorba Comm Failure" when remote client try to create InitialContext to my Weblogic server. I did check all small details, everything seem to be OK. My Weblogic server is configured to listen on single host interface named "app-svr" that represents a valid IP address 192.168.2.79. My remote client is configured connect to exact same address 192.168.2.79. However it does not work. At some moment, I changed address that Weblogic server is listening from "app-svr" directly to IP address 192.168.2.79, and suddenly it starts work. It also works when I change back listening IP address of Weblogic server to "app-svr" and at the same time put "app-svr 192.168.2.79" in to hosts file of my remote client. Such behavior of the JVM RMI implementation can cause big trouble most JAVA developers including myself.

Cruisecontrol.rb is too slow

I encountered a problem with Cruisecontrol.rb, the method link_to_code(log) is too slow to process a certain output log, sometime it takes 10 seconds making Cruisecontrol not workable. So for the time being, as workaround, I just comment out this code .

#file: app/helpers/builds_helper.rb
  def link_to_code(log)
    log
=begin    
    @work_path ||= File.expand_path(@project.path + '/work')

    log.gsub(/((\#\{RAILS_ROOT\}\/)?([\w\.-]*\/[ \w\/\.-]+)\:(\d+))/) do
      path, line = File.expand_path($3, @work_path), $4
      
      if path.index(@work_path) == 0
        path = path[@work_path.size..-1]
        link_to ".#{path}:#{line}", "/projects/code/#{@project.name}#{path}?line=#{line}##{line}"
      else
        $1
      end
    end
=end
  end