Personal details
Mark de Does
Magdalenastraat 6
3512 NH Utrecht
born January 3, 1956
phone +31 30 2314150
email mark@mdedoes.xs4all.nl
 
Profile
Mark is an experienced software architect that always tries to find the simplest possible solution even if it is not a standard one. He can explain technical subjects in simple everyday language and to convince. As an impatient individual, he likes to design and to implement software quickly, but not at the expense of technical maturity.
His long experience helps Mark to easily pick up new subjects and technologies. Mark is a good listener who understands functional requirements and knows how to translate them to a technical solution. First of all, Mark is a goal oriented doer that knows to focus on the essentials without completely ignoring the details. As an enthusiastic craftsman with a hands-on attitude, Mark is a better coach than he is a manager.
His current focus is on Java/JEE and internet technology. He has not forgotten his long experience with databases and in C/C++ development for Unix and Linux however. He even side-tracked into integration, mobile and legacy technology subjects.
Mark is a member of the following professional associations: NLJUG (Dutch Java User Group), ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).
Potential Roles
Initial design and proof of concept development
Solution architect
Lead developer/ Technical lead/ Technical coach
Technical trouble shooter
Software architect, Technical designer
 
Overview of technical knowledge and experience
 
 
Subject
Level
Years
Software Product Design
Senior/Expert
25
Software/System Architecture
Expert
15
Build Systems and Software packaging
Maven 2 and 3, Ant, Make, deb, rpm, msi, unix PKG, HP swinstall
Expert
20
Maven: 7, Ant: 6, Make 20
Quality Control and Test Suites
JUnit, Regression test suites, Scripting VMware VIX, Vagrant, VirtualBox and Docker to run them, Fitnesse
Senior
15
Junit: 5
GUI Programming
Angularjs, Swing, AWT, GTK, Motif, NextStep
Senior
15
Document Formats (and their relative merits)
RTF, PDF, PostScript, XML based, ePUB, HTML, markdown
Senior/Expert
15
Linux, Unix
Expert
25+
Windows
Medior
15
Java
Expert
15+
C/C++
Unix cc,gcc,MS-C,from K&R via iso/ANSI 9898-1990 to full C++
Senior/Expert
25+
HTML/CSS
Senior
15
Javascript/jQuery/AngularJS
Senior/Expert
10,
AngularJS: 3
Scripting
sh, bash, perl, vbscript
Senior/Expert
20
SQL
Senior/Expert
15
Relational Databases (general experience)
Expert
20
Oracle
Senior
15
MySql
Senior
10
DB2
Senior
5
Various other databases
RDB, Solid, Informix, HP-Neoview, NCR Teradata, C-Isam, PussyCat/Berkeley DB, PostgreSQL, MS-Sql, Sybase
Senior
15
Java IDE's
Eclipse, IntelliJ, RSA, Oracle J-Developer, NetBeans
Senior
10
Eclipse: 8
Source Code Control Systems
GIT, CVS, Rational ClearCase, Subversion
Senior
20,
GIT:4
Network Protocols
Mainly HTTP, raw socket programming and some SMTP and WebSocket
Senior/Expert
15
HTTP/HTTPS: 10
JEE Application Servers
JBoss, WebSphere AS, Tomcat,
Senior
10
Websphere AS: 6, JBoss: 4, Tomcat: 10
JEE Integration technologies
Spring Framework/CDI
Senior/Expert
10
Java Object Relational Mapping
IBatis/myBatis, Hibernate, JPA, Spring JDBC-Template, HP ObjectServer
Senior
6
myBatis: 10, Hibernate: 4
JEE Front End Technologies and web templating
JSF, Plain JSP, Spring MVC, Freemarker, Velocity
Senior
7
JSP: 5. Spring MVC: 5. JSF: 5 on an occasinal basis.
Web Services/ REST
JAX-RS 1 and 2, Spring WS, XML-RPC, Spring REST through Spring MVC, JAX-WS, CXF, Jersey 1 and 2, JAXB
Senior/Expert
10
Java Messaging
IBM WebSphere MQ, JBoss-MQ, JBoss Messaging, Active MQ
Senior
5
WS-MQ: 5, JBoss * 2, Others 2
 
October 2015 - now -- Lead Java Developer with Mylette
 
November 2016 - now -- Mylette Tax Reclaimer
Reimplementiation of the existing Mylette tax reclaimer application as a REST/AngularJS application using Bootstrap CSS. As the data model is relatively flat, the application can easily be mapped to the single page paradigm and the majority of the transactions can easily be mapped to the REST model. As an extra challenge I used open source components rather than home-brewn directives. The build of the project includes a grunt web build in the regular maven Java build to make sure that the build command results in a single (war) deployment unit. The core of the application is a highly configurable PDF form filler.
 
Technologies: JAX-RS, Angularjs, Apache PDFBox, MyBatis, Spring Framework 4, Apache Shiro, Apache POI, MySQL, npm/grunt/bower/maven
 
October 2015 - November 2016 -- Financial Derivative Pricing
Migration of a legacy pricing application of one of the major Dutch Pension Funds to a REST based solution based on the open source OpenGamma platform. The solution consists of an Excel frontend plugin that communicates (via WCF) with a JAX-RS (Jersey) based Java backend that runs in Tomcat. We use OpenGamma as a library, rather than as a stand-alone system. Apart from the Excel plugin, the solution has a batch style module that performs the valuation of complete portfolios.
 
Technologies: JAX-RS(1), JAXB, OpenGamma, JSON, Maven
2009 - October 2015 -- Software Architect with TriOpSys
Software Architect / Consultant with TriOpSys. TriOpSys is a medium sized systems integrator with a focus on mission critical systems and mobile solutions. Besides that, TriOpSys is a specialist in traffic management systems.
April 2015 - October 2015 -- Software Architect Traffic Management Systems TriOpSys
I was responsible for the architecture and the design of traffic management software projects at TriOpSys. In this short period I was the technical lead and coach of two teams. Both teams did projects for the Dutch infrastructure ministry. (RWS) One team built an experimental user interface based on AngularJS for traffic management on top of a simulator of Dutch inland navigation traffic. The backend implementation was based on GeoServer and the Unity game engine. The other team brought a set of data services into production. We managed to make the software that was messed up by another party about good enough to go into production.
 
Technologies: Java, (some) Spring framework, JMS, Hibernate, C#, Unity game engine.
July 2014 - March 2015 -- Application Engineer (Software architect) KID at RABOBANK
The Klantinstellingendienst is the application at RABOBANK that manages configurable settings that control customer authorizations. It augments the KAD with settings for individual customers that can be configured by the bank or by the customer. Together with the KAD that manages the role of the customer and her authorizations based on business rules, the KID is the heart of the customer authorization logic at RABOBANK. A first version went into production in spring 2015.
The work involved technical consultancy, algorithm and software design and coaching. I built a POC implementation and I also actively participated in the Scrum implementation team.
 
Technologies: SOAP, Java, Spring Framework 4, WebSphere Application Server, DB2, myBatis, Apache CXF, JAX-RS, JAX-WS, Oracle OSB and SOA Suite
July 2012 - Summer 2014 -- Application Engineer (Software architect) DVO-A at RABOBANK
The Transparante Vergoedingen application at RABOBANK is a simple application to collect fees owed by RABOBANK customers. Technically, it was a simple project but the challenge was to finish it fast without cutting too many corners. RABO had the legal obligation to go life in 2012 and we finished just in time. The software is gradually extended to become the standard tool to collect fees for advice.
 
Technologies: Java, Spring Framework 4, Oracle database, DB2, myBatis, Linux, Connect Direct
September 2011 - March 2015 -- Application Engineer (Solution architect) KAD at RABOBANK
The Customer Authorization Service (KAD) is the system that is responsible for all customer authorizations for self-service applications at RABOBANK. The system is based on the customer and product data in Siebel and the administration of personal bank passes. The expected rapid growth of the use of self service applications over the internet requires high performance and high scalability. For that reason authorizations are precalculated and stored in a single record in the database. For performance and security, we (ab)use DB2 as a key-value-store.
I designed the technical software architecture and and the general authorization interface for all RABO internet applications. I actively participated in the implementation team as a senior member and as a coach.
As defining the rules for customer authorizations is a difficult subject with many legal details, we expected the authorization rules to change often during and also after the project. For that reason, it would be almost impossible or at least very error-prone to code the rules in a programming language. We have chosen to implement the business logic in JBoss Rules decision tables that are maintained in Microsoft Excel by the analysts. The developers only check the syntax of the decision tables before they are included in the software.
Storing authorizations in a database is a handle for fraud. For that reason we sign the records in the database with a digital signature. (RSA) Authorizations from records that do not match their signature are denied.
The KAD to covers the authorizations for 100 000 000 customer arrangements besides those for 11 000 000 customers. Timely recalculation from the Siebel database is a performance challenge, that we just meet with traditional relational database technology. We achieved this through several rounds of performance tuning with the help of extensive monitoring of every single step in the process.
The work involved technical consultancy, algorithm and software design and coaching. I also actively participated in the Scrum implementation team.
Technologies: Java, Spring framework 3, JBoss Rules, JAX-RS (Jersey), WebSphere Application Server, myBatis, DB2, Oracle OSB, SOAP, JAXB, JAX-WS, Zabbix
2013 CIV -- Database migration (RABOBANK)
We Migrated the 130 table/200GB CIV database from HP NeoView to IBM DB2 on Z/OS. The challenges of the project were: (1) Keeping a system with 20 000 users in production while we changed the basis. (2) To recover the original database design and to remove concessions that were made to cope with NeoViews limitations.
A secondary goal of the project was to improve the availability of the CIV application and the underlying database to 7* 24. We managed to re-implement the legacy data logistics in such a way that reloading a database table does not hurt availability. (Combining DB2 Clone tables with ITWS scheduling.)
 
Technologies: WebSphere Application Server, iBatis, DB2, IBM ITWS, perl scripting to derive the DB2 schema from a data dictionary in MS-Excel
March 2011 - March 2015 -- Application Engineer (Software Architect) CIV at RABOBANK
The Customer Information View (CIV) is a web application embedded in an IFRAME in the Siebel console. In this way CIV supplements the Siebel CRM system of RABO bank. The application gives customer and account information to all customer facing staff at the local banks and at all call centers.
We gradually upgraded the application from traditional Java web technology (JSF) to a modern HTML5 and JavaScript based application.
The work involves technical consultancy, design, coaching and a little too much trouble-shooting.
 
Technologies: SOAP, Java, Spring Framework 2.5, WebSphere Application Server, DB2, iBatis, Apache CXF
November 2010 - September 2011 -- Software Architect KNMI Climate Information System
TriOpSys reimplemented the Climate Information System of the Dutch Royal Meteorological Institute. (KNMI) The new system has a uniform architecture and is more robust than the original system. The focus was on future extensibility and on making the data available to researchers, public relations and even to the general public.
The system stores all weather and climate observations from 1850 until now. The data is exposed through a web based system for ad hoc queries. The result of the queries can be downloaded in CSV format or formatted in a wide variety of different formats including publication ready graphs and diagrams.
I participated in the general design of the system and implemented the data layer that is at the basis of the system. Throughout the project I have coached the development team with architectural and technical advice.
 
Technologies: Oracle database, Spring Framework 3, Spring MVC rest support, JSON, jQuery, Apache Tomcat, JFeeChart, Linux, PostScript/PDF, Spring JDBC template.
November 2010 - July 2011 -- Software Architect Prikroute
TriOpSys built a mobile application for a Health Care laboratory. Nurses take blood samples at the patients home and take the samples to the laboratory. Every day, requests for examinations are collected, planned and then sent to the nurses PDA. The progress of the nurses during the day is monitored and the results are reported at the end of the day.
The application consists of several components: (1) Receiving orders over HL7. (2) Automatically planning the orders based on geographic information. (3) Sharing the information with the PDA. (4) Reporting.Special attention was paid to the reliability and the statelessness of the communication between the PDA and the application server.
 
Technologies: Spring Framework 3, myBatis, JBoss, Jopt SDK, HAPI HL7 Library, .Net, MS-SQL.
January 2009 - November 2010 -- Software architect iMOS
Software architect for TriOpSys iMOS field service application product. iMOS is a mobile application that supports the field service process. It consists of a set of standard modules for planning. On top of the base functionality, TriOpSys develops and delivers custom modules for its customers. My task was to gradually modernize and optimize the iMOS application architecture without completely overhauling it. A non negligible part of the energy went into the task of convincing the organization that change was necessary if we want the product to survive.
 
Technologies: JBoss, Hibernate, JBoss MQ, HTTP, CreMe JVM, Windows Mobile, MySQL, Oracle, MS-SQL.
May 2007 - December 2008 -- Software Architect with Ordina J-Technologies.
September 2007 - December 2008 -- Software Architect CIV at RABOBANK
CIV is customer/product information system that supplements the Siebel CRM system of RABO bank. The application gives customer and account information to all customer facing staff at the local banks and at all call centers. It is embedded in an iFrame in the Siebel user console. Since end 2008, the system is in production with up to 22,000 concurrent users, serving 800,000 screens per day.
The integration with Siebel on one side, and various legacy database structures on the other side were a challenge. The high number of external interfaces and the evolving specifications forced us into a very modular component based architecture based on the Spring framework.
As requirements were not completely clear at the beginning of the project, we have used an incremental approach to development to get commitment in the organization even though this was completely against corporate culture.
 
Technologies: JSF, Spring Framework 2.5, Oracle, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, HP-NeoView
June 2007 - August 2007 -- Implementing iDEAL at Europeesche Verzekeringen
This is a proof of concept implementation that actually went into production.
 
Technologies: Plain JSP, EJB, WebSphere Application server, XML-RPC, Prototype JS (too much of it)
May 2007 -- Legacy system replacement for a Transportation Company
I participated in the reimplementation of a legacy FOXPRO application with Spring MVC. A major part was fixing the reporting module that was built with BIRT.
 
Technologies: Spring Framework 2, BIRT, iText.
May 2002 - May 2007 -- Senior developer and Team Lead HP OpenView Service Desk
Senior developer and Team Lead of the Service Desk Team at HP-OpenView in Amsterdam. Service Desk is a Java application that implements the ITIL service management standard. My position was partly in design, partly in implementation. Many of the activities relate to making the product more mature:
I designed and built an automatic regression test framework. The framework fully automatically installs the packages that come from the latest build, then creates a database and runs the tests.
I am the designer of the Service Desk installation and upgrade procedure. It is a major challenge to implement and maintain a complex database schema like the Service Desk schema at the customer site.
I was the architect of the ServiceDesk/Database interface: A home brewn object relational mapping mechanism. Though standard technology might have been preferable, it was quite successful in separating the details of the database schema and the application implementation.
March 2000 - May 2002 -- Founding Member W3Creative.com
March 2000 - May 2002 -- Member of the technical team
W3Creative.com is the author of the 'Game of the Worlds' internet game that can be found at the URL www.simcountry.com. It is a virtual world consisting of oceans, continents regions and countries. The players are the presidents of the countries. They decide on the budget, education, social policy and economic issues or they just work on trade contracts for their countries. Behind the scenes is a realistic economic world model that runs at the pace of three month in one day on Linux servers. I contributed to the general architecture of the application and the implementation of the model. It was quite a challenge to optimize the economic model process that fully updates a 200000 record database several times a day.
1984 - March 2000 -- Chief Engineer with SuperNova Technology
1984 - March 2000 -- Chief Engineer
SuperNova Technology started as a software house specialized in UNIX. It now produces the software tools like SuperNova Application Developer, SuperNova Decision Query and SuperNova Visual Concepts. Since I left SuperNova the company has been acquired by WRQ inc. and the tool set was renamed to WRQ VeraStream.
As chief engineer and architect directly reporting to the CEO, I am one of the principal designers of the SuperNova software tools that include:
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SuperNova Application Developer is an object based 4GL and graphical application builder.
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SuperNova Decision Query is a report generator in which the user can build a template report, and let the generator derive the query strategy from the report.
 
I contributed a major part to the architecture and the implementation of the tool set. (Mostly in C.) My contributions to the architecture and implementation include:
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The abstraction layer between the products and database engines or record managers. It offers simultaneous access to different database systems through a uniform interface.
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The core SuperNova engine. It is an object based engine that executes the business logic in an application system.
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The Query By Report algorithm of SuperNova Decision Query.
1983 - 1984 -- Statistician, Programmer with RIVM
I wrote programs for statistical analysis and data management of the epidemiology department of the National Institute for Public Health in C. An important part of the work was statistical consultancy.
1975 - 1983 -- Student in Mathematical Biology
Statistical analysis programs and simulation programs, mostly in a biological context. At university I worked on graph rewriting systems and formal languages. I built a generator for Map L systems, producing graphical output.
2000 - 2015 -- Technical achievements outside the context of a job
I am the author of a set of spelling servers originally for the NextStep environment. It is a set of production quality spelling checkers. Its main interest lies in the application of finite automata for approximate search.
I am the author of the Ted RTF text formatter. As one of the more complete and fastest open source text formatters Ted is widely used to produce appealing PDF output from application software. I have done several projects where I have extended the Ted text formatter to support more RTF features and to integrate it with database applications. In particular for two Italian service providers to local banks that use the Ted text formatter to produce contracts and policies. I am a specialist in various document formats and their conversion. In particular in RTF, PostScript, PDF and HTML.
I am the author of an easy lightweight wysiwyg rich text processor for Unix/Linux and GTK (or Motif). It is based on the Ted text formatter. Though it runs on any POSIX implementation it is a Linux application in practice. It is available from http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted. It implements most of the RTF 1.5 standard. Besides that it is an experiment into the limitations of one single individual when he has to implement a full software product.
For pleiade management and consultancy I built a framework for conducting surveys over the internet: www.pleiadesurvey.nl Once installed, it allows a surveyor such as a market researcher to conduct a survey without the help of a technician. For pragmatic reasons the system was implemented in perl. The survey questionnaires are defined as an MS-Excel spreadsheet and uploaded to the application server. The survey is conducted over the internet and the reporting module produces complete fully formatted statistical reports with publication quality tables, statistic tests and bar charts in Microsoft Word format.
I have recently rewritten the front end of Pleaiade survey as a modern responsive single page web application using AngularJS 1.x and Bootstrap CSS. The new frontend consists of a WYSIWYG interactive survey builder and a fully responsive single page survey module to take the surveys. The new front end communicates with the old server side through rest-like JSON messages. Evidently, the new front-end is built (through grunt) as a single uglified deployment unit.