John Murga ()
Nationality : British / EU UK Phone Number : 020 8123 5013 Web-Site :
PERSONAL SUMMARY
I was at my last employer (Deutsche Bank AG), for 5 years during which Irose steadily through the ranks thanks to my hard work, commitment and technical excellence. I am looking to forge an equally strong relationship with a solid company where I can once again demonstrate my skills and integrity.
I’m active in the Linux/Java world and keep abreast of new developments (search Google for “John Murga”).
I have just ended a 6 month sabbatical travellingthrough South America and Europe. During this time I also underwent teacher training to further improve my public speaking and mentoring skills.
SKILLS SUMMARY
SSADM v4.2 (Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method) (TickIt! Certified 1994)
Specialized in Java (J2EE) and related APIs/Technologies (jUnit, Log4J, Struts, etc)
App Servers : BEA Weblogic, Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, JBoss 3.2, JServ
IDE’s: IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, NetBeans, JBuilder, Visual Age, JDeveloper
(Certified in EJB development with Visual Age 3.5 at IBM training UK - Year 2000)
Proficient in JSP, PHP, HTML, JavaScript – Dreamweaver 4-MX, TopStyle, Homesite, JEdit
Experience XML authoring and coding (Castor, JDom, kXml, Sax, XML Spy, Docbook)
Managed, configured and used : CVS, Subversion, PVCS, Perforce & RCS source control.
UNIX: Linux (Kernels 0.79 – 2.6.15), Solaris, Sco V5, HP-Ux, Aix, Clix, Xenix and others
(I also maintain my own Linux variant and forum at )
UNIX ‘C’ programming: daemons / curses libraries / data processing / ESQL / GCC
UNIX UTILITIES AND SCRIPTING: AWK/SED/MAKE/SCCS/VI (Macros)/BASH/…
Oracle v7.1-v9i Administration (Attained Oracle 7.2 DBA1 certification - Year 1996)
INFORMIX (4GL, SQL, ACE) (On-Line/Std Engine) (Some DBA work)
IBM DB2 Universal DB version 5 (Some interfacing to DB2 MVS)
Sybase Adaptive Server 11 - 12.5 (Mostly over JConnect and iSql)
WINDOWS C/C++ : OLE/COM, DLLs, Data Processing, MFC, GCC (and MingW)
(Certified in Visual C++/MFC V4.0 at South Thames College - Year 1995)
Microsoft Visual Basic Versions 4.0-5.0 (and exposure to REAL software’s REALbasic)
(Certified in Visual Basic V4.0 at South Thames College - Year 1996)
Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows (Macro/Automation , OLE/DDE programming )
Nat-Systems NatStar 2.16, 2.15, 2.11, 2.10 & 2.03, NS-DK 1.54
Qualified English teacher (Bridge-Linguatec TEFL 2006)
Technical Team Leading (attended a variety of QA courses and mentored in this area)
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Worked full time in IT mostly in a technical capacity since 1993. Fluent in Spanish.
Recent work focused around the use of the J2EE platform and in particular BEA and JBoss services abstracted through highly usable AJAX Uis (Web 2.0), capitalizing on the advantages of the platform through the use of JMS, JSP, Solaris and Linux. Fostered the use of open third party API’s like jUnit, Log4J, Struts and others where they provided a clear advantage. Designed, developed and managed several J2EE/AJAX solutions for a variety of environments within tight constraints and made every project a success. Delivered two of the most recent projects with outsourcing partners in India, tailoring working practices to challenging situations.
Have full knowledge and experience of the complete systems development life cycle (SDLC) from several perspectives, from initial design through to testing, implementation and signoff. Sought to increase own
ability to positively influence projects, this resulted in a drive to attain certification in a number of areas.
Very capable and personable individual who is able to fit in to any team environment and fulfill a variety of roles. I tend to gravitate towards techinical and mentoring roles as I avidly absorb and assimilate technical info and try to improve the environment around me. My prior exposure to several methodologies and environments also puts me in a good position to foresee future problems and caveats.
EMPLOYMENT RECORD (1/2)
06/2001 – 03/2003 Deutsche Bank (London, UK)
03/2003 – 06/2006Deutsche Bank (New York, USA)
Project Manager - Technical Architect / Team Lead
Joined Deutsche Bank (London) as a technical architect to create the iCroci system ( Devised ways of meeting posed technical challenges and decided what technologies would be appropriate after evaluating them in real-world scenarios. Chosen solution combined the best of what WebLogic, Oracle, Struts and other Jakarta APIs had to offer while using innovative techniques to consolidate data feeds.
Became involved in many Equities Research projects (based in the UK and US), and provided teams with anything from design skills to development expertise. Devised a development environment that could be easily installed on Windows workstations and that allowed developers to work seamlessly between Unix and Windows platforms while using standard Ant/shell scripts and automated deployment tools. This environment was devised at the start of 2002 is still in active use by DB teams and their offshore partners.
Transferred to the New York office in early 2003 so that the organization could take advantage of some of the expertise and relationships I had built up working with our offshore partners while in London. Cast in the role of project manager I was very successful at coordinating and delivering complex solutions to several regions on time and under budget (while consolidating the data from several localized feeds, such as “Thomson Financial”), eventuallysetting the standard for the use of distributed resources within DB.
Most business exposure was in the area of Equities Research, however, more recent projects provided some exposure to Emerging Markets - Fixed Income (Bonds), and Mortgage Backed Securities.
J2EE STRUTS AJAX ANT XML TOMCAT WEBLOGIC JBOSS ORACLE SYBASE SUN LINUX CVS GCC
References:Michael T Lees (USA)(Former program manager)
David Coons (USA)(Former project manager)
10/2000 – 06/2001Fidelity International (London, UK)
Java & Web Development Technical Specialist
Fidelity staff are not allowed to give references
Joined Fidelity to move forward an online multi-lingual institutional dealing system and provide consultancy as part of a technical committee for a unified future architecture and B2B strategy based around J2EE.
Became head of development for the Spanish Institutional WebXpress project, which interfaced with existing legacy systems through Corba services and database interfacing to give brokers a web driven system (localized through XML), that allowed them to place deals on behalf of customers.
JAVA XML SERVLETS EJB WEBSPHERE SYBASE NT SUN PVCS
03/2000 – 08/2000Eloan UK Ltd (London, UK)
Senior Java Developer
Joined ELoan as a Java developer and was immediately responsible for the maintenance and bug fixing of the ELoan web site, in addition to working on new development. Designed and implemented a XML based needs analysis system enabling business rules and requirements to keep up with the latest trends without the need for further coding, and mentored staff on this new philosophy and associated technologies.
Eventually put in charge of evaluating new technologies, applying many of them until ELoan UK folded.
JAVA XML SERVLETS RMI ORACLE NT SUN CVS
References : Nick (CTO at Eloan UK in 2000)
Darragh O’(PM Eloan UK in 2000)
EMPLOYMENT RECORD (2/2)
03/1998 - 03/2000Bristol & West PLC (Bristol, UK)
NatStar Technical Specialist
Originally employed to assist the technical support department, but became responsible for all NatStar product support and concept proving. Developed several libraries for B&W in NatStar, C++ and Java.
In charge of several B&W projects, often based on proofs of concept I had developed. Was responsible for producing and maintaining specifications as well as supervising the coding.
NT NATSTAR VC++5 OLE JAVA PVCS
References : Dave (Head of GS)
11/1996 – 03/1998Britannia Building Society (Leek, UK)
NatStar Consultant
Responsible for the design and implementation of a Point of Sale printing system. Mentored developers and provided technical/NatStar support to other teams on the project. This involved consulting, prototyping and coding, and resulted in innovative solutions like an OLE server (written in Visual C++), that provided an interface into the Point of Sale system that was able to trigger actions.
NT NATSTAR VC++5 OLE
References: Peter (Sema Group Project Leader)
06/1996 – 11/1996AXA Equity and Law (Middlesex, UK)
Analyst / Programmer
Developed a series of libraries and screens to enable the selection of data from a mainframe, this data could then be amended before being used to automatically create documents via MS Word 6.
NS-DK ’C’ MS WORD 6 TANDEM GUARDIAN
10/1994 - 06/1996Co-Cam UK Ltd (London, UK / Rome, Italy)
Analyst / Programmer – Technical specialist
Was offered a position at Co-Cam and bought out of my contract with Mountfield. Consulted and developed everything from a generic call-center system to UNIX consolidation daemons.
SCO AIX HP-UX DG-UX LINUX WINDOWS 95 MS-VC/C++ INFORMIX ORACLE VER 7.1/2
06/1993 - 10/1995Mountfield Software (Hastings, UK)
Analyst / Programmer
Attended a full-time working course covering UNIX systems including AIX, SCO, XENIX, Bourne/Korn Shell scripting, K&R ‘C’, database structure and design, SQL database query language, the principles of 4th generation languages and the use of Informix RDS/4GL and ESQL.
Assigned as Analyst/Programmer to several sites:
AUG 93 - OCT 93FD International PlcINFORMIX-4GL SQL UNIX
OCT 93 - DEC 93Benham A BuckinghamINFORMIX-4GL SQL ‘C’ UNIX BOURNE SHELL
DEC 93 - FEB 94Hunslett TPLINFORMIX-4GL SQL UNIX CLIX
FEB 94 - APR 94Space Systems Ltd INFORMIX-4GL SQL UNIX ‘C’ CURSES
MAY 94 - OCT 94SISl (Siemens)BS5750 INFORMIX-4GL SQL MAKE AWK SCCS
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