Bruno Patini Furtado

29 years, Brazilian, married.
email: generic@bpfurtado.net
software development blog: http://bpfurtado.livejournal.com
web page: http://bpfurtado.net
twitter: twitter.com/bpfurtado

Objective:  Analysis, Design and Building of Object Oriented Systems

Interests

• Different programming paradigms;
• Software Reuse: Object Oriented Modeling;
• Software tools and techniques focused on productivity enhancement;
• Agile Software Development Methodologies;
• Java Platform and Web Browsers struggle & evolution;
• Social movements behind the software history (GNU/Linux and several others);
• Wikipedia phenomenon;
• History (also computer science history), Archeology, Classical and 80's music, old books;

Qualifications

• Team working;
• Software Architectural view (at least the types of architectures I had to work with);
• Strong knowledge in the design and building of Object Oriented systems.
• Both theoretic and practical knowledge of the Design Patterns catalog [GoF].

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Sciences
Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP)
Conclusion year: 2001 (4 years).

Additional training in Objected Oriented Software Design
SENAC
Attended one year, unfinished.

Technical Skills and Certifications

Development Platform: J2SE, J2EE (Java Servlet, Java Server Pages)
J2EE Application framework: Spring;
ORM Framework: Hibernate;
Web applications Framework: Spring MVC, Struts, Tiles (Layout Manager);
Servlet container: Apache Tomcat 4.x. / 5.0.x / 5.5.x;
Application Server: JBoss 3.2.3;
Automated Build Tool: Ant;
IDEs: IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Visual Age for Java, Together, JBuilder;
UML Tools: Poseidon, Rational Rose, Jude, Enterprise Architect;
Source Code Version control tools: CVS, Subversion, Visual Source Safe;
Other tools: Xdoclet, Velocity, Webmacro;
Operating systems: GNU/Linux (Red Hat, Fedora, Suse, Mandrake, Debian, Ubuntu), Windows 2000/NT;
Databases: MySQL, PostgresSQL + PostGIS, SQL Server, Oracle;
Rules Engines: Blaze Advisor;

Java certified programmer in the Java 2 SDK 1.4.1 development platform.

Language Training

English - Advanced (reading, speaking and writing).

Professional Experience

05/03/2007 - Present - Fair Isaac
Blaze Advisor Consultant
Accomplishments:

• Sizing of several Blaze Advisor Rules Engine projects;
• Effort Estimation of several projects and projects proposals;
• Building of full Blaze Advisor projects and deployment into JEE environemnts;
• Solved performance issues using free & open source tools like Apache JMeter;
• Advised performance bottleneck investigation plannings, suggested tools and tasks;
• Defined Tasks and related efforts for full Blaze Advisor Projects;
• Writing and maintenance of some UP artifacts;
• Worked on the following business areas: Insurance, Credit facilities, Fraud investigation;
• Technical support on candidate interviews for job positions similiar to mine;
• Presented Blaze Advisor Overview presentations in Portuguese and Spanish;
• Comunicated with clients/colleagues in both Spanish and English on a almost daily basis;
• Traveled alone to client sites on Latin America to solve/assess problems;
• Traveled to USA for 3 training sessions;

10/19/2005 - 04/30/2007 - Atech - Critical Technologies
Senior Software Developer and Software Architect
Accomplishments:

• Building of the first demo of the "Smart Search" product, using several different applications and frameworks like Nutch, Lucene, Protegé, Docco, Swing, etc.
• Software Architect of the Troubleshooting Aid System using Spring, Spring MVC, Spring HTTP Invoker, Tomcat and Hibernate.
• Object Oriented modeling and technical supervisor of a 'GIS Console' module build to a external client. Reduced the coupling between components and enhanced their potential to be reused across other projects.
• Restructured a problematic fat Visual Basic client moving database operations to a PHP server application, enhancing also the server logging capabilities in order to better diagnose future errors. Used HTTP requests that return XML documents which are parsed by the Visual Basic client. Also helped with HTML and CSS technical advices.
• Technical consultant in the several other projects using other technologies like Java Web Start, JDIC and search engines APIs like the ones from Google and Yahoo.

02/2004 - 15/08/2005 - E-Consulting - Client: Companhia Suzano de Papel e Celulose
Systems Analyst and Programmer
Accomplishments:

• Conception, Object Oriented design and building of a web framework with a strong emphasis on component reuse. The framework was successfully used by several team members increasing the speed of development. I was the main developer of several main features.
• Building of several modules of a corporate system whose mission was to manage the quality of a set of corporate processes.
• In the Project's second phase I participated as a Systems Analyst in the Requirements engineering, Use Case modeling and Object Oriented design. Also in this phase I collaborated in the building of two modules mainly dealing with the persistent layer using Hibernate.

06/2002 - 01/2004 - TPI - Telefônica Publicidade e Informação
Systems Analyst and Programmer
Participated in the building of several corporate intranet systems and also in the Company's web portal: Guia Mais.
The technologies involved were EJB, Java Servlets, JSP, Struts and JUnit.

03/2002 - 05/2002 - CHECKFORTE
Systems Analyst and Programmer
Design and building of the new system of Credit Analysis and maintenance of legacy systems using the java network API in a Debian box.

05/2000 - 02/2002 - MULTIBROKER S/A CORRETORAS ASSOCIADAS
Programmer
Building and maintenance of the Multibroker system whose mission was to provide an Internet medium to 23 BOVESPA Stock Exchange brokers.
The technologies involved were Java Servlets, Java Server Pages and the Webmacro template engine.

09/1999 - 04/2000 - SDC ENGENHARIA
Programmer
Building and maintenance of the Sales system and utility programs to support image processing systems.
The technologies involved were Delphi e Turbo C++.

02/1999 - 08/1999 - Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, PUC-SP
Programmer
I was member of a Scientific initiation group with the mission to build a software tool to aid human resource recruitment and selection.
The technology involved was the J2SE.

Seminaries, Events and Courses

• Sun Tech Days 2002;
• Sun Tech Days 2001;
• Just Java 1999.