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			Dino Fancellu
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Name		Dino Fancellu		Date of Birth		2/12/1966
Email		dino@felstar.com		Nationality		British
Address		Epsom, Surrey		Status		Married
Mentor Architect		City Java Finance		XML/XSLT		Senior JSP Mentor
SKILLS SUMMARY
Business		Credit Card Banking, Credit Derivatives, Risk, E-Commerce, FX Dealing, Estate Agency, SWIFT, Message Manager, Pensions, Settlement Systems, Health Care, Online Directories, Hospitality, Smart Cards
Design		UML, Relational Databases, Object Oriented Design, Software QA
Java (Client)		Applets, Ant , AWT, Flash, Flex, HTML/DHTML, AJAX, Backbase, OpenRico, Scriptaculous, JavaScript , MIDP, Swing, JFreeChart
Java (Server)		J2EE, EJB , JDBC , JNDI, JSP, JSTL, Struts/Tiles, XSQL, Servlets, Weblogic, WebSphere, JBoss
Java (Message)		XML/XSLT 1.0/1.1/2.0/XQuery, SOAP, CORBA, RMI, JMS, MQ, JBossMQ, ActiveMQ, Rendezvous, EMS, Sockets, JNet
Microsoft		ASP, C#, Visual C++/MFC, VISUAL BASIC
Languages		BASIC, DELPHI, Perl, PHP
Database		SQL Server, Sybase, Oracle, PL/SQL, MarkLogic, Access, MySQL
O/S		UNIX, Linux, VAX/VMS, MS-DOS, Microsoft Win95/98/NT/Win2K/XP
Benchmark		Score of 99% quartile on Brainbench Java 2 benchmark. Score of 100% quartile on TekCheck JDBC and Java 2 benchmark
WORK SUMMARY
Felstar Ltd						Jan 2000 - Present
Java XSLT Developer		Fitch Ratings PLC				Oct 2006 - Present
Java XSLT Developer		Elsevier Science Ltd				Mar 2006 – Oct 2006
XML Contractor		Fish4.co.uk				Feb 2005 – Dec 2005
J2EE Contractor		Misys International Banking Systems				Sep 2004 – Jan 2005
Senior Contractor		Capula/Elan Ltd				Jan 2004 – May 2004
Senior Contractor		Invokon Ltd				May 2002 - May 2003
Contractor		Javelin Software Ltd				Oct 2000 - Oct 2001
Contractor		pensionsbusiness.com				Oct 2000 - Oct 2001
Contractor		Sapient/Assertahome.com				Mar 2000 - Jun 2000
Contractor		LastMinute.com				Jan 2000 - Feb 2000
Senior Developer		Future State Technology				Jun 1996 - Nov 1999
Senior Developer		Fusion Systems Ltd				Jan 1996 - May 1996
Senior Developer		Icon Software Ltd				Jun 1993 - Nov 1995
Developer / DBA		Alex technologies Ltd				Sep 1991 - Jun 1993
Developer		Grid Ltd				Oct 1990 - Jan 1991
Support Manager		KPG Ltd				Mar 1989 - Sep 1990
System Developer		PCC Ltd				Jun 1988 - Aug1988
Unix Sys Admin		Borax Consolidated Ltd				Jun 1987 - Jun 1988
Unix Sys Admin		J. D. Ward & Co				Dec 1986 - Jun 1987
EDUCATION SUMMARY
1983-1985		North East Surrey Technical College				3 A-Levels (Computers, Physics, Pure Maths)
1978-1983		Alleyn's College, Dulwich.				9 O-Levels
EMPLOYER	FELSTAR LTD				Jan 2000 – Present
POSITION	CONSULTANT / DIRECTOR
CLIENT	Fitch Ratings PLC				Oct 2006 – Present
BUSINESS	I was in the development team for RAPCD: Risk Analytics Platform for Credit Derivatives for the synthetic CDO market. I wrote the Market Data Report in XSLT 2.0 with 17 different business rules to show data state and quality, intra-day comparisons and alerts, used before uploading ValuSpread and Markit CDS market data to the Algorithmics pricing engine. I also developed various XSQL/XSLT pages for the main RAPCD web interface, adding pages for the handling of Market Data Batches, overrides and workflow, using AJAX technology for better user experience http://www.derivativefitch.com/rap_cd.cfm I also added custom XSQL action tags for SOAP WebService consumption, so that XSQL pages could access various external web services. Also created XSQL actions tags to publish to JMS Created cross server communication framework with ActiveMQ JMS to enable various cross server processes to integrate workflow
TECHNOLOGY	Java 1.5 and XSLT 2.0 via Saxon8-sa, Optimized XLST that took many hours to run so that it now took a couple of minutes. XML REST web services and web pages via Oracle XSQL, Oracle 10g, XSLT, JSP, Javascript, AJAX/Prototype/Scriptaculous Excel 2003 XML Maps, XSD, SOAP, ActiveMQ, JMS
CLIENT	Elsevier Science Ltd				March 2006 - Oct 2006
BUSINESS	I was in the development team for their web delivery system, Phoenix. Phoenix is the platform which delivers hundreds of online scientific journals, with accompanying custom websites, to individuals, societies and companies. My main task was to speed up and improve their Tiptree toolset, which was what they used to translate their site definition XML to the final delivery content format, also XML. Given my experience at Fish4, this proved to be an area with which I was very comfortable. I was also tasked with converting Tiptree to be compatible to our new J2EE platform. My next task was to write a standalone test harness for the security module (A&E), allowing them to chase down severe performance issues. Next I was tasked with migrating the in house C++ search and content engine (Bibliotek) to MarkLogic, a pure XML XQuery database, as the current system was slow, unstable, and couldn’t take on any more business.
TECHNOLOGY	Pure Java, JDK 1.4.2. SAX/XML/XSLT 2.0, 900+ journals to process, thousands of XHTML site fragments. Sped things up enormously, made it possible to select individual journals or clusters of journals for translation after the project lying dormant for over 6 months. The migration to MarkLogic of course involved converting the existing 1999 technology to the latest version of the MarkLogic pure XML/XQuery database, with the client side COM/Java code turned into pure Java.
CLIENT	Fish4.co.uk				Feb 2005 – December 2005
BUSINESS	I was in charge of the ppm, the advert pre-proccesing module. Every advert in the system went through the ppm in order to be validated, altered, and transformed into our final XML standard. It handles over 900,000 adverts a day from many different sources, for jobs, homes and cars. Also did Data Migration for over 600,000 user saved searches to new platform. Documented the ppm, complex (Java and XSLT) business rules were translated into English for the Business Analysts. Headed up GateKeeper project, taking final XML feeds from customers and validating against complex XSD schemas and Java side business rules in order to ensure data quality. Built web based MIS system to drill through advert data.
TECHNOLOGY	Pure Java, JDK 1.4.2. SGML, delimited, and loose XML (Silver) goes in, strict (Gold) XML goes out, for final upload to separate Import Module, also sent process messages to JBossMQ via JMS. Delimited files and SGML were transformed to intermediate XML, ready for XSLT. Business rules held in Java and XSLT. IDE was Eclipse 3.x For the Saved Searches project I used Sybase ASE 12.x, T-SQL Stored Procs, Commons Digest, Oracle PL/SQL, and MySQL 4.x. For Gatekeeper I used XSD schema plus custom DOM Builder so I could handle multi megabyte XML files yet still have easy use Document objects For the MIS system I used Tomcat 5.5x,Netbeans 5.x and JSP/JSTL/EL
CLIENT	Misys International Banking Systems				Sep 2004 – Jan 2005
BUSINESS	This was for the Message Manager Thin Client, a financial messaging platform. I created the SWIFT MT95/96/99 messaging module, system data admin, host data admin, and 4-eyes security administration module.
TECHNOLOGY	The system ran on WebSphere 5.1, IBM MQ, with an Oracle 9i database. Our IDE was WSAD plus Dreamweaver MX. For data access we used EJB and Spring, and on the front end we used Struts, JSP, JSTL, Taglibs, DHTML, and Javascript
CLIENT	Capula/Elan Ltd				Jan 2004 – May 2004
BUSINESS	The system tracked patients in hospital, and managed their care pathways. Given the nature of the information the system had to be secure, robust and perform well. My role, as senior contractor, was to optimise the system, convert PHP code into Java and provide mentoring.
TECHNOLOGY	I helped optimize the system, for example making the XML/XSLT transforms 100 times faster from Tomcat and Apache, and made the database calls to an Oracle database over 200 times faster using PL/SQL. I converted a lot of code from PHP to Java, in order to create a pure Java solution, using Struts and Tiles. Used Lucene to create a Swing Application for codebase mapping. I also introduced many tools to the organisation that made work more productive for the other developers, and spent a lot of time in a mentoring role. Running on Redhat Linux and Windows.
CLIENT	INVOKON LTD				May 2002 - May 2003
BUSINESS	I was head developer for a distributed desktop system for the hospitality industry. The system allowed complex configurable menus, food-ordering and logistics, data-entry, credit cards, multi-media presentations, chat and instant messaging. This was a cutting edge project due to the high demands from user requirements. You can find more information here http://www.escapismmedia.com.
TECHNOLOGY	The front end of the system ran in IE and used layered DHTML pages generated with JSP coexisting with Flash and Swing Applet components written in Java JDK 1.4. Communication to the server used a combination of JSP and Flash Web Services on Tomcat. Real time communication used a Java Socket level API called JNet, to broadcast data. A large object-relational persistence layer wrote to an Oracle 9i database. Running on Linux and Windows.
CLIENT	JAVELIN SOFTWARE LTD				Oct 2000 - Oct 2001
BUSINESS	I was part of team that developed a code generation tool called JGenerator and JPool. My responsibilities were to create the components to generate a JSP administration interface, and web service interface for the product, and to code and test JPool. Also worked on JNet.
TECHNOLOGY	JGenerator uses a model driven approach to read in a business description of a project and generate an object-relational persistence layer in a number of flavours (e.g. JDBC to SQL Server, Sybase or Oracle and EJB to WebLogic or Sun). The administration system ran HTML, JSP and SOAP in Tomcat and Resin. JPool is a JDBC connection pool providing cross-database support, SQL translation, exception handling and failover.
CLIENT	PENSIONSBUSINESS LTD				Oct 2000 - Oct 2001
BUSINESS	Pensions Business is a web site that sold Group Pensions from a number of different Life Companies. I was responsible for developing the web pages and Origo message feeds to the pension providers. The web pages involved a lot of compliance work.
TECHNOLOGY	Over 200 web pages were designed in Dreamweaver, Photoshop, DHTML and JSP running on Resin using Java JDK 1.3. The JSP web pages spoke to an object-relational persistence layer and a MS SQL Server database. XML Messages were sent to pension providers based on the Origo XML format using MD5 encryption, EMail and HTTPS.

CLIENT	SAPIENT / ASSERTAHOME.COM	Mar 2000 - Jun 2000
BUSINESS	Sapient produces a house buying website called asserthome.com. I was responsible for doing high-volume table displays and data-feeds to other 3^rd party sites, such as communicating data to data-centres, or surveyors.
TECHNOLOGY	I developed a lot of form entry HTML, JSP and Servlets in WebLogic using Java JDK 1.2 and re-designed the Oracle PL/SQL Stored Procedures. I developed various custom data-feeds to 3^rd party providers using HTTP.
CLIENT	LAST MINUTE LTD	Jan 2000 - Feb 2000
BUSINESS	Lastminute.com is a large travel-oriented website. I was responsible for doing high-volume table displays.
TECHNOLOGY	I developed a generic architecture for handling large table displays using Java, JHTML in ATGDynamo using an Informix database. Running on Solaris and Windows.

EMPLOYER	FUTURE STATE LTD	Jun 1996 - Nov 1999
POSITION	SENIOR DEVELOPER / CONSULTANT
PROJECT	UNITY SETTLEMENT SYSTEM	Jun 1998 - Nov 1999
BUSINESS	To develop a new settlement system called Unity for today's markets.
TECHNOLOGY	The system was built used a hybrid of Visual C++ and Java. The system used a C++/MFC on the client, Weblogic Tengah EJB Server as the application server and Versant OODB as the database.
CLIENT	FIDELITY BROKERAGE SERVICES	Jan 1998 - Jun 1998
BUSINESS	The purpose of this project was to create software modules that would allow for the creation, maintenance, and execution of customer fees and charges
TECHNOLOGY	The system was developed by creating new Visual C++ modules for the Insight (Now CityNet) Financial Control Application that interacted with a Sybase database using Transact SQL store procedures.
CLIENT	FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL LTD	Jun 1996 - Dec 1997
BUSINESS	To develop a generic financial-control application that allowed dynamic navigation though accounting reports laid out in like spread-sheet format. The initial deployment allowed the financial department to resolve problems in the TAROT brokerage settlement system.
TECHNOLOGY	The system used a grid control in Visual C++/MFC to access an Oracle 8 database.

EMPLOYER	FUSIONS SYSTEM LTD	Jan 1996 - May 1996
POSITION	SENIOR DEVELOPER / CONSULTANT
CLIENT	BANKERS NETWORK	Jan 1996 - May 1996
BUSINESS	To develop an online FX order system, as part of a larger suite of financial applications. The FX order system allowed clients to enter into FX positions and specify stop-loss or take-profit orders, as well as manage portfolios. The system and companies involved were sold to Dow-Jones.
TECHNOLOGY	The system was developed using PERL, Java, Applets, and Visual C running on HTML, sockets, or the Rendezvous Messaging bus talking to Sybase and running on Windows 3.1/95/NT and various Unix platforms.