Resume / Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data Last update: 04/September/2008
Name: Arjen van Mierlo
Nationality: Dutch
E-mail address: arjen@arjen.com


Summary
  • 11 years of experience developing and implementing integrated software solutions, as a programmer, architect, team lead and since 2006 as a project lead
  • Capability Lead of the J2EE Capability within Accenture Technology Solutions in the Netherlands
  • Strong knowledge and good understanding of e-business applications and architecture
  • Good knowledge of processes involved with application development, delivery and maintenance as well as project management (Prince2 Foundation certified), service management, change management and incident management (ITIL Foundation Certified)
  • Strong technical skills (Java (J2EE - Sun Certified Java 2 Programmer, Sun Certified Web Component Developer), (D)HTML, XML, etc...)
  • Good analytical skills, persevering and independent
  • Ability to translate the business goals behind a business problem into software specifications
  • Team player, people developer, ambitious
  • Areas of special interest: personalized web sites, 1-to-1 marketing, project management, airline industry

Experience
 
Accenture Technology Solutions - Almere, the Netherlands, Started November 2002.
Job Title: Manager (as of September 2008, Started in 2002 as Specialist/Sr. Programmer)
Extra: As of 01/01/2005 Member of the Works Council (re-elected per 1/1/2007), Fundraising for the Educational Programma of VSO in Nepal
Duties at Accenture Technology Solutions: Cell Lead Java Custom Development cell
  • Scheduling of people
  • People management
  • Training curriculum (together with seniors in the cell)
  • Recruiting
Duties at the customer (current): Delivery Lead (Project Lead)
  • Responsible for a proof of concept consuming services via a web servcies rather than proprietary API
  • Technologies, Tools and Methodologies involved: Prince2, J2EE, Webservices, Hibernate, XML, WebSphere Application Server 6.0, RAD7, SVN, MS Project and UML.
Duties at the customer (recent past): Delivery Lead (Project Lead).
  • Responsible for the Global Design of a new version of a SOA middleware application.
  • Responsible for the scope, budget, planning and delivery of this application (being the project lead)
  • Technologies, Tools and Methodologies involved: Prince2, J2EE, Webservices, Hibernate, Spring, XML, WebSphere Application Server 5.0, RAD6, SVN, TestDirector, MS Project and UML.
Duties at the customer (previously): Delivery Lead Application Maintenance and Technical Lead of a project.
  • Responsible for the part about the technical application architecture in the Global Design of a B2B web application.
  • Help the customer in defining parameters for improving the applications and setting priorities for implementing changes and fixes.
  • Coordinate changes and fixes by planning them and distributing the work among the team members
  • Mentoring and coaching J2EE developers in the Application Maintenance team and determining their training needs
  • Developing procedures and templates for developers implementing changes and doing deployments as well as for 1st and 2nd line support to recognize causes of incidents reported.
  • Improve the maintenance process and delivery process for application maintenance applications.
  • Application maintenance of web-enabled Enterprise/B2C/B2B/B2E applications running on WebSphere/AIX, first as a senior programmer, later on as team lead. Incident, change and release management for several applications.

HSO - Scherpenzeel, the Netherlands, July 2001 - October 2002. Contract terminated due to restructuring at HSO.
Job Title: Senior BroadVision Consultant.
Duties: Application Architecture, Technical Design, Mentoring junior developers and development.

  • Architecture, Technical Design and development of new functionality for several web sites / portals using the BroadVision platform.
  • Mentoring several junior BroadVision consultants and Java programmers and providing in house and on the job training.

OneStopHost - Oude Meer, the Netherlands, September 2000 - June 2001. Contract terminated due to restructuring at OneStopHost.
Job Title: Senior BroadVision Engineer.
Duties: Resource management, recruitment, supplier liaison, team management and development/coding.


Cap Gemini - Utrecht, the Netherlands, January 1999 - August 2000.
Job Title: Internet Developer, Senior BroadVision Engineer.
Duties: Team management and development/coding.


Baan Midmarket Solutions - Ede, the Netherlands / Slough, UK, April 1998 to December 1998. Contract terminated due to restructuring at Baan.
Job Title: Internet Web Developer.
Duties: Web site development/coding.


Databasix - Utrecht, the Netherlands, September 1995 - March 1998.
Job Title: Technical Writer, Webmaster.
Duties: Technical writing and web site development.
 

Certificates
Prince2 Foundation Certificate (2005)
ITILF - Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (2005)
SCWCD - Sun Certified Web Component Developer 1.4 (2005)
SCJP - Sun Certified Java Programmer 1.4 (2004)
 

SkillsLevel
Languages
DutchMother tongue
EnglishFluent
GermanGood
Web servers / Application servers
WebSphere Application Server
Tools
WebSphere Studio Application Developer
MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS PowerPoint
Programming Languages, etc.
Java/J2EEExpert
JavaScriptExpert
XMLExpert
WebservicesAdvanced
 

Training
  • ATS Succession Program (2008, internal - Accenture Technology Solutions)
  • Team Lead School (2006, internal - Accenture Technology Solutions)
  • People Development Fundamentals (2005, external - Kaleido)
  • The Pyramid Principle (2005, CBT - Accenture)
  • Masterclass Quality of Software (2004/2005, external - Cibit)
  • Architecting and Designing J2EE Applications (SL-425) (2004, external - Sun Microsystems)
  • Analysis, Design, and Technical Architecture - using Accenture Delivery Suite (2004, CBT - Accenture)
  • ITIL Foundation (2004, external - ISES)
  • Java Enterprise Connectivity: Security (2004, CBT - Accenture)
Before this also trainings in the area of BroadVision, Java and other technologies as well as personal skills trainings.  

Education
  • Language and Information Science, Faculty of Arts of the Tilbury University. Diploma in 1995. Courses were mainly in the field of man-machine communication, information retrieval, automatic text generation and editing and the Dutch and English language.
  • Athenaeum (Pre-University); diploma in 1989.
 

Hobbies
In my spare time I like watching movies, reading books (literature, horror stories and detectives) and walking. My holidays usually lead me to the mountains in Europe or elsewhere in the world, although London is a city I like to visit once or twice each year too (mainly for the West End theatre shows).