Simon Niederberger

My person

Date of birth

November 14th, 1973

Residence

Baar (ZG), Switzerland

E-Mail

simon dot niederberger at want dot ch

Languages

German (native)

English (fluent, total of 5 years in the USA)

Profiles

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Skills

Languages and APIs

Java (J2SE, J2EE), Kotlin, Delphi 5, C#, PHP, Perl, COBOL, SQL

Angular / TypeScript, Javascript

OS

Windows, Ubuntu, HP Unix, FreeBSD, MVS/ESA

DBMS

Sybase ASE 15, MS SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL 9, DB/2, Oracle, MS Access

Application Servers

Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere 4, JBoss

IDE / CASE

Eclipse (inkl. IBM WSAD), IntelliJ / Android Studio, Visual Paradigm for UML, Visual Studio

Frameworks, Libraries

Spring (incl. Spring Boot), Hibernate, jOOQ, Axis2, Angular (2-7), RxJs, jQuery, Bootstrap, Backbone, Android, J2EE, Jakarta Struts, Jakarta POI, Apache FOP, Microsoft .NET

Methodology

SCRUM, eXtreme Programming, RUP, V-Modell, UML, IEEE Std 829 (Testing)

Projects

2020 - present

Swiss bank

Developer

Working in a team of 5-8 people, based on Scrum principles. 2-week sprints.

Design and implementation of change requests in the area of inter-bank APIs
Design and implementation of change requests in the area of payment processing

Java 11, Oracle, GitLab, Jenkins, Spring (incl. Spring Batch), Angular, Jasmine

2017 - present

Project 'funnel.travel'

Development of a corporate post-booking travel management tool (ongoing).

Design and implementation of application
Managing UI designer via UpWork

Backend: Java 8, Sprint Boot 1.5.12, jOOQ 3.10.2, JUnit 5, Springfox, PostgreSQL

Frontend: Angular 6 (TypeScript 2.7), RxJs, Angular Material Design 6, Jasmine

2018

Side project 'Photo Compare'

Comparing photos on Android.

Design and implementation of application
Marketing using IndieHackers and ProductHunt

Android SDK 28, Java 7, PhotoView

2018

Side project 'Isthmus'

Development of a REST API connector.

Design and implementation of application
Marketing using IndieHackers, ProductHunt, and Google Analytics

Java 8, Sprint Boot 2.0.3, JUnit 5

2017 - 2020

Swiss software vendor

Developer

Working in a team of 5-8 people, based on Scrum principles. 3-week sprints.

Design and implementation of change requests
Lead of the "Engineering Chapter", responsible for defining and supervising department-wide quality guidelines

Java 8, Websphere (WLP), JBoss/Wildfly, Oracle, DB2, GIT, Gerrit, Jenkins

2005 - 2016

Software architect, Lead developer

Extended cooperation as a Java freelancer, starting with typical freelance assignments, but eventually maturing into leading the (small) development team.

Design and implementation of a Sabre Red App to allow access to profiles in Umbrella Faces
Design and implementation of Travel Complete, a web-based tool to manage booking confirmations along with corporate data such as cost center. (Java web-app using Spring 4.2, Hibernate 5.1)
Design and implementation of Umbrella Faces, a web-based traveller profile management system with synchronisation capabilities to Galileo, Amadeus, AeTM, Cytric. (Java web-app using Spring 3.2, Hibernate 4.1)
Technical design and implementation of Umbrella.net, a web-based midoffice system for travel agencies. (Java web-app using Spring 3.2, Hibernate 3.6)
Design and implementation of a Windows Service (C#, .NET 4) to read, convert and publish travel reservation data. Incoming data sources include Galileo, Amadeus, Sabre, CETS.
Development of UI based on IE instance embedded in Delphi-based client/server. The UI used Microsoft XML Data Binding and DHTML-Behaviors

J2SE 6,7,8, JSP, Spring, Hibernate, Sybase ASE, Axis 2, Tomcat 6
jQuery, Bootstrap, Handlebars, Backbone, Dojo Javascript Toolkit
Load tests with JMeter
IE XML Data Islands (DSO-Binding), DHTML Behaviors
Ubuntu (both hosted managed server and hosted root server)

2008 - 2009

internal

Do-it-all

Design, implemenation and test of the JTrack web application. JTrack tracks and reports athletics results (such as Erdgas and Migros-Sprint). Used in the national school athletics championships 2007 (Zug), 2009 (Schaffhausen) and 2010 (Glarus).

J2SE, JSP, Tomcat, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL

2004

Financial services, Zug

Software-Developer

Freelancer assignment, software development for a portfolio management system, espc. implementation of a reporting framework to produce Excel reports.

Java 2 SE (1.3.1), Jakarta POI (reporting), Softwareing (JFC), RMI, Microsoft SQL Server 2000

2001 - 2004

Teacher

Preparation and teaching of various courses (German titles):

Anforderungen ableiten und Evaluationen durchführen
Datenschutz, Datensicherheit gewährleisten
Risiken beim Betrieb bewirtschaften
Test, Einführung und Unterhalt von IT-Systemen
OO-Analyse und -Design
Allgemeine Programmierung (C++)
Allgemeines Softwareengineering
Intranet- und Internettechnologie I und II
Einführung in Datenbanken

2002 / 2003

Siemens Building Technologies AG

Coach, Software-Developer

Coaching of the eBusiness departement of SBT AG in getting started with a J2EE / Websphere application platform.

J2EE (EJB, JNDI, JDBC), Jakarta Struts, IBM Websphere Application Server, IBM Websphere Application Developer Studio, Oracle 8.1.7 and SQL Server 2000

1998 - 2001

Analyst, Consultant

Employment. Software development for various telecommunication companies (CH, DE)

Perl, C++, HP-UX 11, Sybase ASE 12.0, Arbor/BP, COBOL II, DB/2, MVS (later OS/390), JCL, Spufi, ZEKE

1991 - 1997

Part-time jobs

quality assurance, tech. support

Creation of a testing environment for Visonik (Landis & Gyr Europe AG, Zug)

User support for 'Framework', and replacing some Framework-macros with a dBase III application (Lustenberger Treuhand AG / Zanoni & Partner AG)

Education

2005

Sun Certification

Sun Certified Developer for the Java 2 Platform

2004

Sun Certification

Sun Certified Java Programmer (1.4)

1998 bis 2001

Verschiedene interne Schulungen der Accenture AG

Successfully Facilitating and Interacting in td Meetings
Communications End-to-End
eCommerce System Delivery
Netcentric Architecture and td
Business Process Overview
Implementing Business Solutions

1997 bis 1998

University of California, Berkeley, California (USA)

Diplomarbeit "Experimental Study on the Transition of Friction Mechanisms on Polyethylene and Silicon"

1993 bis 1997

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich (CH)

Studium an der Abteilung für Werkstoffwissenschaften, Tätigkeit als Assistent an der Abteilung für Oberflächentechnik
Abschluss mit Notendurchschnitt 5.43 (Beste Note: 6)

1986 bis 1993

Kantonsschule Zug (CH)

Abschluss Typus C (Naturwissenschaften)
Notendurchschnitt 5.16

1983 bis 1986

Roni Primarschule, Hünenberg (CH)

4. bis 6. Klasse

1979 bis 1983

Loyola Elementary School, Los Altos (California, USA)

Kindergarten, 1. bis 3. Klasse