Select a Language: English German Development Manager Christian Donner

43 Bancroft Rd. Stoughton MA 02072

+1 781 341 4690 cdonner@computer.org http://donners.com/christian/portfolio Manager of an infrastructure or application development group at the Director, AVP or VP level with an annual operating budget of $1 million or more, preferably related to Internet technology. 2000 present Granitar Framingham, MA Granitar is a Web consulting firm specializing in Content Management Solutions for the Financial Services and Media industry. The architect leads all technical aspects of a client engagement, provides pre-sales support, creates the solution design, manages the development effort, the deployment and launch and provides post-launch support. Conducted annual performance reviews for 3 direct reports Defined development goals with engineers and conducted quarterly reviews Interviewed job applicants Defined and structured the scoping process Reverse-engineered current ASP site Documented business requirements based on current site Reviewed functional requirements with the client's business owners Reviewed approach with the client's technical team Wrote the scope document Documentum Content Repository Documentum Web Publisher ASP VBScript SQL Server 2000 XML XSLT http://www.hondaredriders.com Contributed outline of technical solution to the winning proposal Determined project scope with client team Participated in steering committee workshops Reviewed and revised the information architecture of the new site Defined architecture of solution including web and applications servers, database servers, firewalls, load balancer for optimal performance, availability and cost Created solution design, i.e. application modules, data model, external data feeds, search engine implementation and customization of 3rd party components Managed 5 software engineers during development phase Designed legacy system integration with client teams Deployed solution to the client's in-house hosting environment Managed releases as acting configuration manager during bugfixing cycles and deployment Solaris 8 iPlanet AS 6 iPlanet WS 4 Oracle 8i Verity K2 Enterprise 4.01 Divine Content Server 3.6 JDK 1.2.2 Java Applets NetCharts Beans Webtrends 3 MarketFirst Rational Clearquest Shell Scripting HTML/XML/JavaScript Erwin http://www2.standardandpoors.com Engineered integration with IBM Labs Toronto Supported IBM team at the Doculabs site during a 2-day benchmark test of WCS The integration was successful, WCS was moved from 7th to 2nd rank Divine Content Server 3.5 Divine Content Centre 3.5 Divine Catalog Centre 3.5 WAS 3.5 IBM WCS IBM WCM XML/XSLT JDK 1.3 Oracle 8i Managed the development and deployment of a site maintenance release (8 software engineers) Created the solution design for site enhancements Managed release cycles during QA Worked with Idapta engineering to resolve performance problems with the product Solaris 8 Weblogic 5.1 JDK 1.3, Enterprise Beans Oracle 8i Idapta MarketExchange Visual Source Safe http://www.fuelspot.com Conducted Streaming Media provider evaluation and made a recommendation for the hosting of Windows Media seminar video files Designed solution with client and information architecture consulting firm Managed integration of HTML and ASP code from streaming solution vendor (Intel) Designed site infrastructure and defined hardware requirements Managed application development (4 software engineers) Conducted data migration Deployed solution remotely at hosting provider Managed site launch (10/2000) The site won the TechnoLawyer awards in 2001 and 2002 Windows NT IIS 4.0 ASP COM Visual Basic Visual Source Safe SQL Server 6.5 Siteminder 4 Rational Clearquest HTML/XML/JavaScript Erwin http://www.law.com/seminars 1997 2000 Sun Life of Canada Wellesley, MA The Sun Life Financial Group Insurance division operates more than 20 sales offices throughout the US. As part of a major business process and systems redesign effort, the sales organization was provided with a data warehouse and online sales reports. The project started out with an external consulting firm and was later moved in-house. Managed database and report development (2 DBAs, 2 software engineers) Designed development platform, database and reports Designed Actuate class library Performed evaluation and selection of reporting tool and ETL tool Participated in development of a large number of SQL Server stored procedures Conducted monthly status meetings and presented to the project steering committee Interviewed job candidates for engineering positions Created end user training material and documentation Launched the sales data warehouse and reports application Actuate 4 Beta Tester Presented the project at the 1999 International Actuate User Conference Actuate 4 SQL Server 4.0 Stored Procedures HTML Forte Crystal Reports 6 Select Enterprise Modeler Lotus Notes C Programming Language Windows SDK 1994 1997 Racon Vienna, Austria Leader of an infrastructure development team, serving an IT organization with 400+ employees. The team was responsible to provide application framework services (network communication, security, logging, auditability, offline transactions etc) in the form of class libraries, operation of callable components, documentation and training to client-server application development efforts at a large retail bank with a network of 800 Unix servers and 7000 Windows clients. Responsibilities included budget, employee compensation, training, allocation to projects Interviewed new hires Hired four software engineers into the team Hired two external software consultants Conducted formal annual performance reviews Made recommendations for salary increases Managed the development and implementation of a client/server architecture and multi-tier development framework for a retail bank Designed parts of the solution Developed training materials and trained engineers Mentored application development teams to ensure platform compliance MVS CICS SINIX Informix SQL Windows C Language DCE/RPC OS/2 IBM Ultimedia Builder Smalltalk Object Cobol 1985 1986 STUAG AG Vienna, Austria STUAG is a large Austrian construction contracting firm. It operated a datacenter with IBM 4361 mainframes. Batch applications were written in RPG II, online applications in IBM CSP, a "4th Generation" language. Taking wage calculation RPG II CSP 1986 1987 Allprojekt Vienna, Austria Allprojekt was a small software company and data center specializing in statics software for the construction industry. Developed modules for a terminal-based project plan software in C C AOS/VS 1987 1994 Vienna, Austria Casinos Austria Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Robotunits Visual C++ 8086 Assembler Clipper Summer 87 Requirements definition through interviews and workshops with business owners Application development Application deployment Documentation End-user training Application support 24x7 1993 MSEE (Industrial Electronics and Control Engineering) Technical University Vienna, Austria 1996 Project Management Diploma Grundschein der Akademie für Organisation 2002 SCEA - Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for the Java 2 Platform German fluent English fluent French conversational IEEE Computer Society Websphere User Group Boston Austrian-American Association of Boston (board member)