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Confidential Professional Profile
Mikell F. Vander Laan, Jr.
6520 Lickton Pike
Goodlettsville, TN 37072
Qualifications
Seventeen years progressive systems engineering design and development in the following areas:
Leadership of software engineering teams developing multi-tiered networked object solutions.
Advanced design and development of high concurrency networked services and component based applications.
Design and development of Java, C++ and C# based systems for Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Win32 and OS390.
Development of large capacity network infrastructures for Solaris, Linux HPUX, AIX, Win32 and OS390.
Management of enterprise-wide architecture and development policies for engineering teams.
Design and development of CORBA, EJB and SOAP based network systems.
Recruitment and team building of engineering professionals, developers, administrators and executives.
Engineering level knowledge of Solaris, AIX, HPUX, Linux, OS390 and various Win32 operating systems.
System Administration and definition for various Unix environments
Distributed Object Modeling: UML, definition development and mentorship
Project management, risk analysis, delivery management and iterative process development.
Professional Experience
For the past 11 years I have successfully lead and built engineering teams consisting of 5 to 30 man units, whose expertise ranged from network architecture to low level operating system development. My in-depth technical knowledge has allowed me to mentor junior members on sound iterative process development, risk mitigated processes for design, development and delivery, systems and network architectures and problem resolution. My primary domain expertise is the design and development of large scale commercial distributed software solutions on a variety of UNIX platforms and recently Windows. Successful delivery of these and many more systems is the product of years of building engineering knowledge at all layers in the OSI stack. From Imonics and Bell Labs to First Consulting Group, the systems and teams needed to deliver the goals have all had a single common thread: sound highly efficient networks, the development of scalable object based software solutions and a sound proven risk mitigated development and deployment process. I am considered expert in the following areas: software architecture and development of distributed multi-tier solutions, software development processes, infrastructure design and development (systems and networks) and finally management of the resources to provide delivery and development.
First Consulting Group, Nashville, TN (2003 to 2005)
Title: Senior Engineering Manager
Task: to reformulate existing product suites into refined commercialized products for the FCG client base. Providing senior engineering leadership, team building, architectural guidance and technical expertise to developers of sophisticated network architectures, I was eventually made head of the Nashville Network Operations Center. Other tasks included but were not limited to leading teams in the build-out of distributed networks, LANS - WANS for our client base, the development and build out of the NOC and the migration of entire data centers throughout the United States with less than 12 hours of down-time per system.
Software: Concord eHealth, Nerve Center, HP Openview, Active Directory, RSA, Apache, Rational Rose
Languages: C++, C#, Java, Perl (SNMP)
Equipment: CICSO, IBM 7 Series, Intel, Sun Microsystems
Operating Systems: IBM AIX-5L, Z-OS, Win32, HPUX, Solaris, Linux
Phyve Security Products, Nashville, TN (2001 to 2003) {purchased by company above}
Title: Senior Engineering Consultant
Task: the design and development of a HIPAA compliant perimeter security systems providing access to hospital resources from the internet. This was a “”Federated Identity Management System” pattern written in C++, leveraging RSA, MS Active Directory, JBOSS and CORBA based objects running as a loosely associated Apache modules under Windows and Solaris. Secondary task was to design and build out secure networks for the client base and the long-haul connectivity to the Nashville hub.
Software: RSA Framework, Active directory Framework, WMI, Rational Rose, Orbix, Tivoli
Languages: C++, Java, PHP, Perl
Equipment: CICSO/Bay Networks, Intel, Sun Microsystems
Operating Systems: Win32, Solaris, Linux
CNA Insurance, Loews Corporation, Nashville, TN (2001 to 2001)
Title: Project Lead/Consultant; Underwriters Desktop
Task: designed and developed a replacement application for the risk mitigation and underwriting department’s desktop. This application allowed underwriters to profile and project risk for labs, demographic as well as application and historical financial data on underwriting subjects. The solution was a derived object from MS Word2000 in C++, the backend and services were all SOAP based interfaces to Neuron Data’s JAVA rules engine, and Oracle 8i database. All transaction interfaces were based on IBM’s MQSeries for Java. The application templating features represented a pattern based approach to solving actuarial problems and documentation while maintaining a familiar word processor based look and feel. The deployment of the system included the design and build out of an enterprise WAN to allow real-time access to the system through out the globe.
Software: Neuron Data Rules Engines, Rational Rose, Orbix, Tivoli
Languages: C++, Java, Perl
Equipment: CICSO, Intel, Sun Microsystems
Operating Systems: Solaris, Linux, Win32
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN (1997 to 2001)
Title: Senior Software Engineer: Technical Lead Component Engineering Group
As a senior engineer on matters concerning distributed computing solutions, I both built and lead the Medical Center’s Component Engineering Group for four and a half years. I successfully transitioned the Medical Center’s solutions strategy and skill set from centralized OS2 dominated solutions to platform independent pattern based distributed services. I successfully introduced the Medical Center’s domain experts to formal engineering methods and domain analysis using UML and an iterative development cycle. My duties included strengthening the Component Engineering Group through discrete technology recruiting efforts and mentorship of these engineers concerning project development strategies and application design. I was the lead engineer on the Center’s Collaborative Care application product: Pathworx. Application and service development at the medical center consisted of CORBA, BEA Weblogic EJB servers, ObjectStore and Oracle persistence engines. All solutions were written in Java and C++ for NT, Solaris, AIX, OS390 and CICS environments.
Software: ObjectStore, BEA Weblogic, Rational Rose, Orbix, Tivoli
Languages: C++, Java, Perl
Equipment: CISCO, Intel, Sun Microsystems, AIX S70, S390 (Z-OS)
Operating Systems: Solaris, Linux, OS390 (Z-OS), Win32
Lucent Technologies, Cary, NC (1995 to 1997)
Title: Senior Software Engineer: Technical Lead GUI Development
My responsibilities as a senior engineer to the Advance Software Construction Center included design reviews of existing projects and development of two key products: EdgeSwitch for GlobeView 2000: a broadband delivery system for AT&T communications, and ASOS, a broadband multimedia delivery system for Pacific Bell. My participation on these projects consisted of development of server application frameworks and interfaces to CMISE/CMIB controlling architectures and provisioning equipment. The solutions demanded certified expertise at all levels of the OSI stack. Applications and services were developed with CORBA and ObjectStore solutions in C++ and Java for HPUX and Solaris environments. Additional responsibilities included but were not limited to network monitoring design and build out for the underlying provisioning frameworks. This system consisted of a 3.4 billion node management system and interfaces to three mirrored Network Operations Center in the United States.
Software: ObjectStore, ATT Telecom Framework, Rational Rose, Orbix, Tivoli
Languages: C++, Java, Perl
Equipment: Lucent, CISCO, Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems
Operating Systems: HPUX Solaris
Imonics, Cary, NC (1992 to 1995)
Title: Senior Software Engineer: Technical Lead GUI Development
My primary responsibilities as the senior engineer for GUI issues included but were not limited to the overall definition, design and development of visual objects used by the corporation in their various application suites and frameworks. This included development and implementation of corporate-wide policies for GUI design and development of an identifiable, intuitive corporate LOOK and FEEL, mentoring of junior engineers on OO Motif development strategies, sound CHI principles and development of an integration path for the corporation’s products with the Common Desktop Environment. As a senior team member of the Distributed Solutions Group, my responsibilities were to lead all design, development and integration of DCE front end GUIs, for the DCE Encina application servers written for our clients. Our applications were delivered to Chase Manhattan, AT&T Universal Credit, BMG and Deutsche Telekom’s DeTeMobiI. I directly managed GUI teams consisting of 7 to 15 engineers. In addition to my development duties my responsibilities to the CEO and his staff included client presentation and engineering support to potential investors as well as due diligence on potential acquisitions. Applications and services were development using CORBA, DCE and MOTIF solutions in C++ and Java for the Solaris environment. This corporation was sold to Medaphis in 1996
Software: Encina DCE, Rational Rose, Tivoli, Calera, Kodak
Languages: C++, Java, Perl
Equipment: Calera OCR/ICR Processing systems, Sun Microsystems
Operating Systems: Solaris
Law Offices of Calame, Linebarger, Graham, & Pena, Austin, TX (1990 to 1992)
Title: Lead Software Engineer
Primary responsibilities at the law firm included leading the architecture and development teams for the firms Litigation Desktop suite of applications; “SANDI”: (Law) Suits and Interventions. All applications were developed on X11R4 and X11R5 with C++ interfaces to Motif and OpenLook. ICCM, sockets and rudimentary ToolTalk were used to affect a clean interface between the database, DPS, PostScript and the desktop tools. Essentially, this project constituted a very high-speed correspondence system used to electronically automate the legal document process. The primary focus of the project was to create a distributed (17 cities) high speed enterprise-wide mail merge engine and document composition tool set that could produce and mail over 200 thousand legal transactions per day. Supervisory duties on the project included overall guidance of the team on the principles of complex distributed software design in X and the UNIX environment. Applications were developed in C++, C, PostScript, Display PostScript and ApplixWare: ELF for a Solaris 2.X server environment and 1500 X Terminals from HDS.
Software: Custom Frameworks, ESRI’s Arc/Info
Languages: C, C++, Perl
Equipment: Sun Microsystems and ATT
Operating Systems: SunOS, Solaris and UNIX 5.2 – 5.4
Texas General Land Office, Austin, TX (1987 - 1990)
Title: User Interface Developer
My primary responsibility at the Agency was to design and develop Geographic Information Systems: GIS automation applications and desktop for the Agency’s Natural Resource and Political mapping divisions. Software development centered on creation of user interface code for RedApple: the agency's federal, state and local redistricting application and the agency’s remote presence oil spill surveillance application. Additionally, I was responsible for the development of several discrete toolkits used remotely control GIS data sets across the Internet. Hewlett-Packard and Versatect electrostatic plotters, as well as, a HP Raster Transfer Language interfaces were developed with Motif and low-level Xlib utilities on X11R3 and X11R4 servers. All software was developed in C and ESRI’s Arc/Info for an HPUX environment.
Software: ESRI’s Arc/Info
Languages: C, FORTRAN
Equipment: Sun Microsystems and Hewlett Packard
Operating Systems: SunOS, HPUX
Education:
BA, College of Government, Econometrics: 1987, The University of Texas, Austin
Educational Classes Developed and Conducted:
· Developing Networked Architectures
· The Marriage of Distributed Computing Environments and The Common Desktop Environment: CDE.
· Development and Integration for the Common Desktop Environment.
· Discrete Desktop Solution Tool Design Philosophy.
· ToolTalk, ICCM and the Development of Discrete Desktop Solutions.
Technical Skills:
· Programming Languages
Java C++, C#, Pearl, all standard UNIX utility languages and Web definition APIs
· Design / Process Control
UML with Rational Rose and TogetherJ, RUP, CVS, CLEARCASE and PVCS
· Operating Systems
SOLARIS, HPUX, AIX, LINUX, WINDOWS 2000 …, OS390
· Foreign Languages
Russian, US. State Department Level 3
Arabic, US State Department Level 1