M. Ahsen Jaffer

Lansdale, PA
Cell: 267.664.4042
E-mail: ahsen.jaffer@gmail.com

Objective

Senior Software Developer position, solving challenging problems, using agile development techniques.

Experience

9+ years of OO analysis, design & development with Enterprise Web Applications.

Skills

Java EE, JavaScript, HTML, XML
WebSphere, Eclipse, WebMethods, TFS
RUP, XP, Agile / SCRUM (CSM Oct 2006)
Hibernate, Spring, Struts, Junit, Fitnesse

Education

MSSE-IST, Drexel University (part-time)
BS in CS, GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences & Tech., Pakistan May 1998

Experience

(Harleysville Group Insurance: July 2003 - Present)

Senior Developer / Scrum Master (part-time)

Claims Portal Payments & Reserves
July 2007 - Present

Facilitating: Release planning, Iteration planning, Daily Standup, Sprint burn-down using TFS
WebServices in WebMethods to fetch data from SQL Server.

Senior Developer

Personal Lines Download
April 2007 - July 2007

Designed & Developed C# Web Services, WebMethods Services for a batch process, invoked by TWS (Tivoli Workload Scheduler), to download policies every night.

Tech Lead

Claims Portal
Dec 2005 - April 2007

Architected & implemented the Application: Struts, codeless delegate with Spring, Stateless Session beans using Hibernate for OR mapping to connect to SQL Server DB, XML translation using XMLBeans, rich client experience using AJAX.
First team to adapt SCRUM, first sprint: November 2006.

Senior Developer

Commercial Lines Portal
July 2005 - Nov 2005

Involved in the architecture of the whole application.
Researched and incorporated Hibernate for database connectivity, while using Spring plug-in for Struts actions.

Developer

Commercial Auto
July 2003 - June 2005

Provided technical guidance during requirements analysis and design phases.
Responsible for Adapter Module, which creates POJOs from complex insurance rules. These POJOs are then used to display part of the data driven screens.

Honors & Activities

"Good people to know" Awards (Jan 2006, May 2007)
Promoted to Application Developer V (Jan 2006)
Vice President of Public Relations at Harleysville's Toastmasters Group (June 2007 - )
Secretary at Agile Philly (April 2007 - )