IBM Global Services

Jan-2001 to Oct-2001

Apr-2000 to Jul-2000

BASE Logic Inc.

Client: IBM Global Consulting Services; Tucson, Arizona; London, England.

Position: J2EE Solutions Consultant, Team Leader

Clients: University of Michigan Healthcare, Thompson Travel Group, and British Airways.

The UofM Medical school graduates about 170 physicians annually and is consistently ranked as one of the top institutions in the nation. Research expenditures by Medical School scientists totaled $202 million in fiscal year 2000. (http://umich.edu)

Thomson Travel Group (TTG) is one of Europe’s leading holiday and leisure travel groups. The Group has operations in 8 countries (UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany and Poland) and its principal activities are “travel retailing” and “holiday property lettings”. (http://thomsontravel.com) (http://just.co.uk/).

British Airways (BA) remains the world’s largest international passenger airline. (http://britishairways.com).

Goal of UofM Project:

IBM was contracted to design and develop a clinical information system. The system was to aid doctors and nurses with their daily tasks. Doctors could review history of a patient that included actions performed by any doctor or nurse. The history would include medication and therapy rendered. There was a 2-way pharmacy interface into the LexiconÔ system. This would give real-time drug-to-drug alerts for doctors prescribing medications. There was a great deal of security logic, as this application was required to be HEPPA compliant. There was also a fairly complex UI workflow logic involved to correctly and efficiently display information to the user such as schedules, charts and summaries.

Goal of TTG Project:

The goal of the TTG project was to create web-based access to a data warehouse system for travel related services. The application would allow internal and external agents to access. Some of the system that needed to be accessed would require asynchronous communications so MQSI was used extensively.

Goal of BA Project:

British Airways wanted to expand their current scheduling and reservation system to support WAP devices and adhere to a more robust J2EE compliant architecture.

Scope of Duties:

Mr. Knutson was a member of the architectural review board and a team leader for 7-15 developers and analysts. As an architect, Mr. Knutson was recommending, and refining the overall architecture to be implemented in an iterative. Mr. Knutson delivered RUP design artifacts, including runtime architecture, deployment model, software architecture documents, technical object/component model, and system use cases. Other design deliverables include prototype charter documents, sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams, EJB designs, development standards and best practice documents. Collaborate with testing team to develop testing strategy and model. Extensive experience on design/development of software patterns including façade, factories and singleton patterns. Mr. Knutson duties also included systems management, System administration, project scheduling and project costing.

Technologies:

Java 2 (1.2.2/1.3), Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rational Enterprise 2001, Visual Age for Java, WebGain Studio, TopLink, JBuilder, UML, EJB 1.0-2.0, JMS, XML, XSL, JSP, Servlets, Oracle 8i, WebSphere 3.5/4.0, WebLogic 5.1/6.0, ATG Dynamo, HIS, iPlanet, MQ Series System Integrator (MQSI), Lexicon, Cyber Plus LE, HL7, Cocoon.