
Software Architect at itemis
Toronto, Canada Area

Software Architect at itemis
Toronto, Canada Area
I have a software engineering background with a passion for open, community-driven software and efficient ways to software development. I am well-connected into the Eclipse ecosystem and serve as a committer on a number of open source projects, including Eclipse, openArchitectureWare, Xtext, and FindBugs.
I work as a consultant, coach, software architect and software engineer.
DSL and EMF consulting in USA / Canada, extreme good connections to the Eclipse community, Domain Specific Languages, DSLs, Xtext, openArchitectureWare, oAW, MDSD, Eclipse, Eclipse PDE, Eclipse Plug-in Development, Eclipse RCP, Enterprise Eclipse RCP, FindBugs, MDA, AndroMDA, Velocity, GMF, EMF, UML, Java, JEE, J2EE, J2SE, Tomcat, Websphere, WSAD, Weblogic, Together, MagicDraw, DocBook, Documentation Engineering
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
I work as a consultant, coach and software architect for itemis. I am a committer on the following Eclipse projects: Xtext, Xpand, Model Workflow Engine, openArchitectureWare.
Itemis is a Stretegic Developer Member of the Eclipse Foundation and contributes to Eclipse by employing 8+ full-time committers.
In my role as a consultant and software architect, I help clients increase their productivity by using model driven technologies such as EMF and Domain Specific Languages.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
January 2007 — January 2008 (1 year 1 month)
As a software architect, I worked for a number of Gentleware's clients in banking, transport and software development. I worked on various levels, ranging from coding to design to coaching to high-level consulting. Technologies used were JEE, Eclipse RCP, Eclipse, model driven software development (MDSD).
(Computer Software industry)
2005 — 2007 (2 years )
(Public Company; Airlines/Aviation industry)
October 2001 — December 2006 (5 years 3 months)
I worked as a software engineer and software architect on a number of JEE / Eclipse RCP projects. As a technical project lead / software architect, I lead a team of 8 developers.
Dipl. Wirtschaftsinformatiker (FH) , Computer Sciences , 1996 — 2000
Domain Specific Languages (DSLs), Model Driven Software Development (MDSD, MDD)
Eclipse Strategic Development Member
Eclipse Committer