Juan Osuna

Owner of consulting firm, providing hands-on development services using Java, JEE, Spring and Hibernate technologies. Currently developing ExpressUI framework for rapidly building enterprise applications using Spring, Hibernate and Vaadin. See http://www.expressui.com.

Developed member-, employer- and provider-facing portal licensed by BCBS entities nationwide, using Java, Websphere Portal and JSF.

Developed Anti-Money Laundering application to transform and transmit data directly to the US Department of Treasury's Financial Crime Enforcement Network, using Java and EJB3 technologies.

Designed and developed merger-related, human resources system for managing position and employee data with hypothetical budget forecasting, using Spring, Hibernate, Oracle 11g, Flex, GraniteDS and Maven.

Designed and developed applications for purchasing extended car warranties and setting privacy preferences, using Hibernate, Spring Webflow, JQuery. Integrated with PayPal via web services.

Architected and developed back-end system providing intelligent services to set-top TV boxes and Microsoft Media Center clients. Lead small team and worked with following technologies: RESTful web services, Hibernate, Spring, Spring MVC and XMLBeans running under JBoss.

Provided both architectural guidance and hands-on support to Moneta Corp., a startup that spun off from CheckFree and now provides a new form of payment processing that acts as a gateway between online merchants and the Federal Reserve’s Automated Clearing House. Refactored code and troubleshot issues in Java Spring MVC and C# web-service components.

Designed and developed web services in Java for Bank of America Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Services. Developed lightweight rules engine for applying validation to CRM data represented in both Hibernate-mapped objects and web-service requests. Design uses annotations, generics, reflection, dependency injection (Spring) and strategy patterns. Developed framework for transforming XML document requests into Hibernate-mapped objects, as part of CRUD operations.

Designed and developed software in Java and C# for Wachovia Corporate Investment Banking. Wrote architecture documentation for utility-based SOA platform consisting of DataSynapse FabricServer, JBoss, Hibernate and open-source components. Developed libraries in Java and C# for accessing grid. Wrote tutorials for grid development.

Designed and developed a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) framework for the startup Youcentric, a software company later acquired by J.D. Edwards, then by PeopleSoft and finally by Oracle. Lead team in developing J2EE framework for building various vertical apps. Mentored on methodology issues, lead code reviews, etc.

Served as the lead developer in building a J2EE-based online subscription service, offering legislative news, bill tracking, custom reports and email alerts to major government and commercial customers, including the U.S. Congress. Spearheaded early adoption of Java-based technologies beginning with servlets and JSPs. Championed and led the transition from a legacy “green screen” search-retrieval system to a modern, J2EE, web-based system.

Jack of all trades for a non-profit, scientific association of PhD-granting computer science and computer engineering departments, research laboratories and affiliated societies. Responsibilities ranged from writing news content to systems administration to developing web-based applications.

Covered police beat and city government for a daily paper with a circulation of 35,000 among 11 counties in West Virginia.

New communications technology

Symbolic logic, philosophy of science