Four J’s Development Tools Schiltigheim, Alsace, France Project manager for e-business & front-ends
Company. Four J’s Development Tools develops and distributes an enhanced Informix 4GL compiler that connects to Informix, Oracle, DB2 and other main databases and to thin clients under Web, WAP, Java-based, Windows, X11 and VT-style terminals. The compiler and associated run times are running on Windows NT and major Unix (HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, SCO, Linux, DG-UX...).
Senior Project Manager. Thanks to the success of the e-business products I was responsible of, I have been in charge of e-business and all front-ends. Front-ends include all thin clients and user interface applications that connect to the Application Server or directly to the business logic applications. This include:
4 main products.
8 people directly involved in the project.
12 shared resources.
August 2002 – November 2002.
e-business Project Manager. Creation of an “internal start-up” to catch up our late arrival in the e-business field. Management of heavy investment on new technologies and highly skilled and different team member profiles. The result was an impressive solution, developed in months. The solution is in production for most customers, since both its releases in November 2000 and December 2001. Among current features is output in various formats including several versions of HTML, Compact HTML (i-mode), WML and XML. The aimed and reached objective was to allow the e-business application developer to have only one common source code to all outputs. The position included marketing of the product & technology to partners and customers. The product is now evolving to include features to compete with Java EE (J2EE) application servers. The latest release, available since August 2002, includes, among other features, Web Services support. The following results were achieved:
Catch up of the delays took by Four J’s Development Tools in the area of e‑business.
Very high satisfaction of customers & users.
Creation and upholding of a dynamic team with complementary skills.
June 2000 to July 2002.
Project Manager. Development of an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) using Java SE (J2SE) on Windows NT and several Unix platforms. Conception around a very modular architecture that offers performance similar to the one achieved using native development. Integration of the Java 2 and XML technologies. Management of a team of 3 for this project. I also took back the former 2 projects which mean I was managing:
3 projects with a team of 7 in a high technology environment.
My budget for 1999 was about 90K USD. For 2000, it was 300K USD.
June 1999 to June 2000.
Jr. Project Manager. Four J’s Universal Compiler allows different thin graphical clients to use a portable p-code (somehow like Java). My goals were:
Supervise a German team working on a “Java Client” allowing users to connect to the application server using a Java 1.1 compliant browser.
Write the end-user / technical documentation (fully written in English).
September 1998 to June 1999.
Software Engineer. Due to the increasing demand on web based product, I developed in C/C++ an open interface and gateway for web browsers, using CGI, TCP/IP, HTML on several Unix platforms and Windows NT. I was also in charge of the user / technical documentation of the project. April 1998 to September 1998.
Support Engineer. Technical support in English, French and German. Training and learning period to the company’s products. November 1997 to April 1998.
Technologies. Java (Java SE, Java EE), C & C++, distributed architecture, HTML / XHTML, WML, C-HTML, XML, XSL/T, CSS, Web Services, HTTP, TCP/IP development, Visual C++, UML, make, CVS, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Windows, Informix, DB2.
