SEWELL TANG - Résumé

Qualification Summary

Team player with over ten years of IT work experience. Strong analytical skills with the ability to make positive and significant impacts on projects. Experience with the software development life cycle including requirements gathering, architecting and implementation for both middleware and web solutions. Excellent client relationship, presentation, organization and problem solving skills.

Technical Skills

Languages: Java, Ruby, HTML/CSS, Javascript, PHP, C/C++, Visual Basic.

System Architecting: EAI, OOAD, MVC, State Pattern, Strategy Pattern, Agile, UML.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Spring Framework, Eclipse, MySQL, Subversion, MQ Series Integrator (MQSI) 1.0/2.0, Websphere MQ, Sybase ASE, Sybase EAServer, JMS, Unwired Orchestrator, MS SQL Server.

Platforms: Windows XP/NT/2000, Linux, RHEL, AIX, FreeBSD.

Professional History

CTO/Senior Developer
Monetary System (New York, NY)
January 2007-Present

Monetary System offers SaaS solutions and consulting services to community banks. Responsibilities include the design and development of solutions from initial concept to production using Agile development methodologies. Maintaining back office support systems and resolving customer support issues. Conducting presentations and holding training sessions to various groups including executive management and board of directors of community banks.

Projects:

Defined and developed new features and enhancements, including a collaborative text editor, for E-Board, a board portal. Increased roll-out of updates to the solution by re-platforming the SaaS solution to Ruby on Rails with the use of Capistrano and Subversion.
Architected and implemented an account opening SaaS solution for banks to collect funds over the Internet using Ruby on Rails, State Machine Pattern to manage workflow, REST to integrate with an identity verification provider and Ruby-Java Bridge to generate PDF documents.
Developed a secure SSL/database encrypted AJAX solution using script.aculo.us and prototype that allowed banks to create different types custom online forms including mortgage and home equity applications.
Identified, established and managed infrastructure and service provider vendor relationships.
Performed back office and system administration tasks, including server configuration (Apache, Mongrel, Subversion), data backups (MySQL, file systems) and builds.

Founder/CTO
FS Group, Inc (New York, NY)
April 2001-Present

Worked with clients to create solutions that address their business needs. Projects ranged from custom desktop application development to development of e-commerce websites. Acquired new business opportunities as well as maintained existing client relationships.

Projects:

Created and maintained a book price comparison website, http://www.booksmoothie.com using Java/Spring Framework/Tomcat/Ant. Ported booksmoothie as a Facebook application.
Developed a Java applet financial application for automobile dealerships. The application allowed the dealership to increase the sales price and the profit margins by several hundred dollars on each car sale.
Architected several solutions for an insurance company and their clients using PHP and MVC patterns.
Simplified maintenance of a property management firm's website by customizing an opensource PHP real estate package.

Senior Consultant
Sybase/New Era of Networks(NEON) (New York, NY)
April 1999-February 2006

Implemented Sybase software products and solutions at financial and healthcare companies. Commitment to client satisfaction drew praises from customers and high evaluation marks from Sybase management. Assisted sales people with client presentations, proof of concepts and technical discussions regarding various Sybase products.

Projects:

Architected and implemented a framework at an Utility company using BPM and BAM software to manage and process incoming transactions. Roles on the project also included being the team lead, participating in gap analysis sessions and training client staff on products.
Successfully implemented USA PATRIOT ACT compliance solutions utilizing ASE, EAServer, e-Biz Integrator and JMS as the technical lead at several financial institutions in NY and Puerto Rico. Interfaced trade data, SWIFT messages, payment systems and customer data that would be scanned by the solution.
Developed interfaces to deliver medical test results from hand-held devices, which are entered into hospital laboratory systems utilizing Visual Basic and screen scraping technologies.
Implemented the Sybase Business Process Integration for Healthcare solution utilizing Perl, Java and EDL code to process incoming X.12 messages and route the data to appropriate department.
Developed new interfaces and was the SME for an international commercial bank that was extended its MQ Series Integrator (MQSI) implementation to their London office.

Education

MS in Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
December 2006

BS in Decision and Information Sciences
University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD)
December 1998

Last modified 21 March 2008.