Arno Schneider

Web-Application Architect / Consultant

Location: Barcelona Area, Spain
Industry: Internet

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Resumen de Arno Schneider

Actual

Software Architect / Consultant en Banking Sector Germany

Anterior

Consultant / Architect en Zankyou
Technical Lead en City Scout Network S.L.
Partner en Bermi Labs

Speaker at PHP Conference en PHP Barcelona
Lead Developer en Weblogs SL
System Architect en Local Billing Ltd.
Speaker at phpbarcelona08 en PHP Conference Barcelona
Lead Developer en Commercegate Ltd
Java Developer en University of Siegen
Developer en Schneider New Media (self-employed)
Junior Developer en KMW: Kölner Medienwerk GmbH

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Educación

Fachhochschule Oldenburg/Ostfriesland/Wilhelmshaven
SAE Technology College

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Contactos

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Scientific background combined with thirteen years of handson web-development experience
and a strong focus on Web-Application Architecture, Scalability and Team-Building.

Especialidades

Software Architecture, Server Architecture, Scaling webapps, High Availability; Fast, precise and highquality PHP development, creative solutions to challenging problems; Payment Processing, Online Fraud Prevention; Unit-Testing, Continuous Integration (CruiseControl, Xinc) , Phing, PHP Frameworks, Akelos Framework, Zend Framework;Percona, Mysql, Mysql-mmm; JIRA, Confluence, Fisheye

Software Architect / Consultant

Banking Sector Germany

August 2011 – Present (10 months)

Consultant / Architect

Zankyou

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry

June 2010 – July 2011 (1 year 2 months)

I was hired through a recommendation to prepare the website for a major increase in traffic. Besides re-factoring, designing a scalable architecture I am taking part in building the development team, training developers and making decisions upon future features of the website.

Projects

- Design of new HA Architecture
- Selection of Datacenter
- Migration of Datacenter in various phases
- Selection of external Smart-MTA provider
- Selection of DNS provider for GeoDNS Loadbalancing
- Team building
- Migration from Apache + PHP5.2 to Nginx + php-fpm 5.3
- Setup of Mysql Replication
- Training of development team in coding standards, best practices
- re-factoring of image processing systems for higher performance
- Performance optimization of Zend Framework
- Implementation of loadbalanced, distributed session management
- Integration of CDN
- Application for querying visitor stats via google analytics data-api
- Introduction of first unit-tests
- Design / Implementation of Server / System monitoring via Zabbix
- Migration of 12 standalone wordpress blogs to 1 wordpress 3.x Multisite setup

Technical Lead

City Scout Network S.L.

October 2009 – June 2010 (9 months)

After being part of the development team for the two major projects of City Scout Network, they hired me as the Technical Lead to continue the development of their websites and grow the development team

Websites

http://www.modelmanagement.com
http://www.vimity.com

Projects

- Architecture of a highavailable, scalable platform for the websites
- Migration of websites to new platform
- Based on Akelos Framework (PHP) + Mysql
- Integration of payment systems
- Introduction of Unit testing into the development cycle
- Introduction of issue tracking (JIRA) into development cycle
- Introduction of the QA-Role into the development team
- Introduction of Online-Helpdesk Zendesk

Partner

Bermi Labs

June 2008 – September 2009 (1 year 4 months)

Express Web Development for advanced and innovative technology projects.

Together with my colleague Bermi, we lead a small team of designers and several programmers to deliver website projects in an agile manner.

Major Projects:

- Modelmanagement.com
- Vimity.com

Speaker at PHP Conference

PHP Barcelona

September 2008 – September 2008 (1 month)

Keynote Speaker: Agile Framework == Happy PHP Developer - Rasmus, think again!

Lead Developer

Weblogs SL

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry

March 2008 – June 2008 (4 months)

As the leading spanisch speaking blogging network, Weblogs needed to scale better in order to be able to scope with the increasing traffic. The blogs were based on Wordpress which is very comfortable for the editors but very poor in performance on the frontend side.

Project

- Development of a custom frontend rendering (Lightpress2)
- Migration / Implementation of various Wordpress plugins into Lightpress2
- Integration of caching strategies
- Introduction of Continuous Integration and Unit-Testing into the development cycle

System Architect

Local Billing Ltd.

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry

August 2006 – March 2008 (1 year 8 months)

Software and System Architect of the market leading Online Payment Solution, specialized in localized payment methods and optimization for the local markets

- Analysis, Planning, Design and Development of a Payment Gateway for multiple billing methods and Customer Support Platform based on MySQL, PHP 5
- Planning, Design of Internationalization System for multilingual payment pages
- Integration of multiple payment methods and payment gateways
- Migration of a payment system and database to the new platform
- Planning, Design, Development of a load balanced, high-available platform
- Preparation for PCI-compliance

Speaker at phpbarcelona08

PHP Conference Barcelona

Nonprofit; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

February 2008 – February 2008 (1 month)

Keynote: Continuous Integration and PHP - how it can help to improve your development process

Lead Developer

Commercegate Ltd

September 2005 – August 2006 (1 year)

- Planning, Design and Development of a Credit card Gateway and Customer Support Platform based on Oracle, PHP, XML
- Integration of billing platform with various payment gateways
- Implementation of a dynamic, pattern based Fraud Screening System
- Administration of the Credit Card Gateway
- Preparation of PCI compliance

Java Developer

University of Siegen

Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Research industry

December 2004 – July 2005 (8 months)

Administration Application for Students Accounts: Java Development on top of Eclipse Architecture (RCP), Database Design, UML Design

Developer

Schneider New Media (self-employed)

2001 – 2004 (3 years)

Summary

Worked as a self employed programmer in many different fields
- managed small and medium projects in Web Design, Content Managementand Java development
- worked as a subcontractor for small, medium and large companies

Projects:

- Zewa SCA Hygiene Products GmbH ( home care products ), Germany – Development of a flashbased usertracking and logging system: ActionScript, Javascript, SQL, XMLRPC, bashscripting
System: Leading Java Programmer
- Henkel AG ( market leader in laundry & home care products ) - CI Relaunch: Developmentof Visual Basic Applications for automated Word and Powerpoint processing
- Henkel Annual Report 2001 Online,as subcontractor of KMW: Köln – HTMLTemplates, CSS, Javascript, DHTML, PHP
- E.ON AG, Germany – Presentation for Annual Meeting: Leading Lingo Programmer, Team Leader, Presenter
- Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG ( printing machines, supplies and software ),Germany – Interactive CDROM: Junior Lingo Programmer

Junior Developer

KMW: Kölner Medienwerk GmbH

1999 – 2001 (2 years)

- planned and developed individual Content Management Solutions for small and medium sized companies based on PHP / MySQL
- developed and presented professional presentations on Annual Meetings
- developed interactive CD-ROMs based on Lingo programming
- managed small and medium productions of interactive CD-ROMs

Projects

- Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Germany – Junior Lingo Programmer:Interactive CD-ROM Metadimension
- Linde AG, Germany – Presentation for Annual Meeting – Junior Programmer Lingo
- Henkel SHEReport Website 2000 – HTMLTemplates, Javascript, DHTML