SUMMARY

Mr. Gaber continually researches the latest technologies and software development trends.  He employs this changing landscape to assist his clients in staying competitive through long-lived, Java and Web technology based systems.  As an IT Architect, he has worked in complex environments ranging from the very smallest entrepreneurial to the very largest of public enterprises.  Mr. Gaber has extensive experience in communicating and collaborating with business and technical stakeholders of IT projects including, C-level executives, business managers, senior technologists, consultants, and support staff.  In the past twenty years he has held positions at several levels including Director of Product Development, Director of Web Technologies, Software Solution Architect, Development Manager, and Principal Consultant.

IT MANAGEMENT EXPERTISE

• Director of Product Development: with off-shore development teams reporting to
• Director of Product Development: responsible for development and delivery of a broad array of company applications
• Director of Web Technologies: responsible for the development, delivery, and maintenance of all web-based systems
• Solution Architect: have managed small companies with responsibility for all phases of business and product development
• Solution Architect: have built and managed technology and multi-disciplined teams of over 100 direct reports
• Solution Architect: have managed multi-million dollar software engineering projects
• Solution Architect: have designed and implemented new software product marketing strategies
• Solution Architect: have determined and managed the technological strategy for the creation of new software products
• Solution Architect: have designed and architected advanced, transactional, high-productivity, enterprise applications
• Solution Architect: have mentored many technologists on best practices, process methodologies, design and engineering methodologies

IT ARCHITECT TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE

Key Strengths of Team

• Collaborative skills
• Inspirational team building
• Strategic and tactical IT planning
• Domain Driven Design
• Business process analysis
• Requirements analysis
• Software architecture
• Engineering patterns
• Object-oriented engineering

Development Processes

• Domain Driven Design
• Agile Modeling
• Agile Development
• Model Driven Development
• Test Driven Development
• Rational Unified Process
• CMMI

Distributed Object Computing

• Object-oriented analysis
• Engineering methods and best practices
• Refactoring and quality assurance
• J2EE
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Web Services
• Enterprise application architecture and engineering
• Engineering design patterns (GOF, Fowler, Core Java, EIA, Refactoring)
• Application modeling using UML and OCL
• Business process modeling using BPMN and BPEL

Programming Languages, APIs, and Frameworks

• Java
• J2EE (all major APIs)
• .Net
• PHP
• SQL
• Spring
• Hibernate
• Ant
• JUnit
• Maven
• UML

Open Source Business Systems

• SugarCRM
• Oxid eShop

Team Tools

• Eclipse
• Webshpere Studio Enterprise Developer
• Websphere Integration Developer
• BEA Workshop
• 4D (4th Dimension)
• Rational Rose
• Visio
• MagicDraw
• MS Project
• Subversion
• TeamCity

Servers

• Tomcat
• Apache
• Weblogic
• Webshpere
• Webshpere Portal
• Websphere Workflow
• MQ Message Broker
• JRun
• Oracle RDMS
• SQL Server
• MySQL RDMS