## BIO
**Vella, Raymond**
Montreal, Quebec
CITIZENSHIP: Canadian
LANGUAGES: English, French and Italian
**EDUCATION**
**2003 IBM – Websphere Solutions Developer with WSAD for J2EE**
**2002 ** **Sun Certified Java Programmer**
**2002 Sun Certified Java Web Component Developer for J2EE**
**1996 - 1997** **Bois-de-Boulogne College, Montreal ** UNIX Administration
**1994 - 1995** **Dawson College, Montreal -** Computer Science - Programming
**1991 - 1992 Institute of Charted Financial Analysts(CFA) –** Level 1
**1987 - 1988** **Canadian Securities Institute - ** Canadian Securities Course
**1981 - 1982 ** **Dawson College, Montreal -** Social Sciences
**PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE**
**04/2003 – 07/2003 SINC Development Inc. , Montréal, QC – *Java Developer***
· Designed and implemented a web-based interface for the administration of LDAP users for Standard Life Insurance. Environments used included Java, JSP, Servlets, WSAD, Struts, HTML and Javascript.
**11/2002 – present Raynbow Technologies Inc. , Montréal, QC – *Web Developer/ ***
*** *** ***Owner (Contracts)***
· Ported a VB application from an MS-Acesss database to MySQL using MyODBC for e-Time Solutions Inc., a company based in San Jose, California.
· Conversion of a ‘Student Course Registration System’ written in Java to a Java Applet.
· Creation of company Web site and a web application for the management of hockey pools at : [login to view URL]
· Tools used include Java, Servlets, JSP, WSAD 5.0, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, JAXP, Linux(Redhat 8.0 and Mandrake 9.0) , Windows 2000 and Apache Tomcat 4.0.
**6/2000 – 3/2003 8D Technologies – Montreal, Quebec, *Java Developer***
· Part of a team of 7 developers responsible for creating Java based client/server components for Espion, a new advertisement-driven cellular phone company partly owned by Microcell (Fido). Tools used included Java, JDBC, Servlets, XML, Swing and Oracle.
· Created a Java AWT/Swing GUI client for the servers allowing users to set up Ad campaigns, Ads and user profiles. All objects communicated with each other using objects serialized into XML messages.
· Developed a Database API for an On-Line store selling movies and CD's using Perl, ePerl, PostreSQL, CGI and HTML which allowed web page designers to interface with the API in order to allow searches and writing to a database.** **
· Developed a timesheet application using Servlets, JSP and EJBs with VisualAge on IBM WebSphere.
**1/1999 - 6/2000 BancTec Inc. , Montreal, Quebec, *Senior Software Developer***
· Part of a team of 20+ developers with the task of analyzing/developing/maintaining/ image-based payment processing software (VB, C++) destined for large Canadian and US banks and utilities. This software is able to handle 500,000 bill payment transactions per day at Bank One, USA. Tools used included VB, Java, C++, Oracle, Crystal Reports and Sourcesafe.
· Developed an archiving program written in C++ used by Detroit Edison, USA as their archiving solution.
**5/1997 – 1/1999****DPM Financial Planning, Montreal, Quebec, *Software Developer***
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## Area of Expertise
**SKILLS Skill Level Experience
Java / Swing/JDBC Expert 4 years JSP/Servlets Expert 3 years
WSAD 5.0 Good 1 year
EJB/WebSphere Good 6 months
XML Good 2 years
Visual Basic Expert 9 years
C/C++ Intermediate 2 years
SQL Expert 9 years
Oracle Good 4 years
PostgreSQL Good 4 years
MySQL Good 1 year
Access Expert 6 years
Perl Good 2 years
Crystal Reports Expert 5 years
Linux/Unix Good 5 years
Windows NT/2000/XP Good 5 years
IBM VisualAge Good 1 year
Ant Intermediate 6 months
Junit Intermediate 6 months
Struts Intermediate 6 months**