Steve Guine

Please send all resumes to: [email protected]

Java Developer 1-3 years overall experience

Position Description

Finance Technology group is closely aligned with the Global Financial Control Group (FCG). FCG is responsible for financial records, ensuring that the assets and liabilities of the Firm are properly controlled, and providing accurate and timely financial information to senior management as well as to statutory and regulatory bodies. The IT team develops software and implements third party applications across a wide range of technologies including the most cutting edge development tools and mainframe technologies. The Finance IT team is looking for developers with a broad skillset focused in the unix environment. The IT group builds multi-tiered applications with much of the business processing done in a java J2EE environment. Many applications are home-grown and deal with high-volume transaction processing or reporting systems. All of the latest technologies are used in the development process.

Skills Required

- Experience (2-5 years) in developing applications using web and server side JAVA applications - Good knowledge of Perl, K-Shell, or other unix/linux scripting languages - Candidate should have good communication skills, both written and oral. He/she will interact with business analysts and users to gather and document requirements during the analysis phase, and interact with other technical staff and management through the complete development lifecycle - The candidate should be self-motivated and have a proven record of managing their own time and work. He/She will need to provide regular status reporting to their manager and be able to assess potential issues and risks to project timelines. - Experience with services-oriented architecture (SOA) and web services - Experience in medium to large scale development projects and teams - Strong project process and methodology

Skills Desired

- Experience working in a distributed client-server environment doing some database development in a large scale RDBMS (Sybase a plus) - Business knowledge including financial applications such as general ledger accounting and other financial products will be a plus - Experience with workflow and business rule processing - Experience with Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) tools - Experience with J2EE, EJB

Please send all resumes to: [email protected]

Direct candidates only, please
[ November 12, 2007: Message edited by: Steve Guine ]

Position Description
Mid level software developer to work on the development and deployment of a new, front-office, derivatives trading platform as part of the comprehensive renovation of trade capture, pricing, and risk management architecture. The candidate will be responsible for designing, programming, and deploying functionality enhancements in a large, mission critical system. Most of the system is being written in Java and C#, making use of related technologies such as SOAP/XML and MQ. The server components are to be deployed on a Linux platform with user interfaces on Windows and with Sybase on the backend. This position provides an opportunity for rapid growth and learning from close exposure to the business in a global leader for derivatives trading. The candidate will join a global team with members in London, New York and Tokyo. There is ample opportunity for contact with the trading desks and other parts of the firm.

Skills Required
Java Unix/Linux

Skills Desired
C# Knowledge of Fixed Income Windows SOAP XML

Please send all resumes as text/word attachment to [email protected]
[ October 10, 2007: Message edited by: Steve Guine ]

Position Description
Java developer to participate in new development of multi-asset trading platform for Fixed Income Business. The developer will be working in a fast paced, dynamic and creative environment on a large-scale project to develop a new generation trading platform for OTC derivatives to support Credit, Interest Rates, Commodities and FX businesses. The candidate will be responsible for functional requirements gathering, design, programming, testing and deploying system to production. The candidate will primarily be doing server side development in Java.

Skills Required
Strong with server side Java and relational databases. Experience with distributed N-tier systems and middleware technologies. Experience with XML standards and XML based languages. Strong inter-personal skills and the ability to work directly with end-users.

Skills Desired
Experience with Spring and Hibernate, DB2 an advantage. Experience in financial industry specifically in the areas of Fixed Income or Equities Derivatives is a significant advantage. Any experience with complex trade/product modelling is an advantage
[ October 10, 2007: Message edited by: Steve Guine ]

Good day to you,

I am currently staffing 10 positions for an investment bank in New York. In order to qualify for any of these positions you need to have Equity Trading Applications Support experience.

I can consider H-1B (transfer) candidates.

Additonal requirements are:

2-7 years of Unix, Java application support experience

Oracle and/or Sybase/SQL Server skills (stored procedures, triggers, queries)

Excellent Communication Skills

Advanced Excel skills (VBA and formulas)

A Thick skin as you will be supporting equity traders

There are two open positions for entry level candidates, who should have Unix, Excel(VBA), and exceptional math skills. You must have excellent communication skills.

The positions pay to:
Lead position - 110K + bonus
Developer - 90K + bonus
Entry Level position - DOE, and potential

Please send all queries to steveATguinDOTcom (I had to spell it that way because of all the junk mail I receive)

Thanks and best,

Steve
[ July 25, 2006: Message edited by: Steve Guine ]

Send your resume to steveAT(NO SPAM)guin.com

Senior Applications Developer

Description
The primary responsibility for the position is to lead design and development of enhancements to existing production applications as well as building new applications.

Candidates must be a self-starter, customer-focused, detail oriented, well spoken, eager to learn different technologies, comfortable working on highly technical teams, and able to handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop enhancements of existing applications
• Building new applications � proof of concept, design and development
• Design and develop highly reliable, available, and performance applications
• Lead project and mentor junior developers


Requirements
• 5-8 years experience in VB 6.0, ASP, VB.NET, and ASP.NET
• Must have recent experience with multi-threading
• 4 years experience building enterprise level applications using Visual Studio.NET
• Strong XML, XSD, XSLT
• Experience using third-party custom controls
• STRONG SQL skills (SQL Server 2000 in conjunction with ADO and ADO.NET needed) including SP, UDF
• Must be able to work independently with minimum guidance and supervision
• Must be able to find solutions and present them to senior staff members
• Must have full life cycle application development experience
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related field of study
• Experience with Crystal Reports and SQL Reporting services is desirable
• Experience with application server, preferably JBoss and J2EE/JSP Frameworks is desirable
• BPEL, SOA, workflow engine, and ESB familiarity is desirable


In addition to the above skills, the ideal candidate will possess excellent written and verbal skills.

Please send your resume to steveAT(No SPAM)guin.com

H-1B transfers are welcome

Java, XML Developer

I am seeking a Java/XML Developer to join a fast-paced Applications Group in downtown Manhattan. The Java/XML developer will be a member of the integration team tasked with designing and development of system to system integration, ensuring the file/data transmission and maintaining/supporting the systems integration upon its completion. The Java/XML developer will work closely with team members to ensure the implementation of the company's integrations to meet the client�s need.

Responsibilities

• Work interdependently with minimal supervision in a team environment
• Write XSLT to translate proprietary XML to Sterling XML
• J2EE programming/configuration to connect Sterling to proprietary Applicant Tracking Systems.
• Design and Develop proper code (controller class) to call services and make data available to a GUI front-end.
• Provide program documentation and system documentation that is understandable by other technical people
• Write applications that are easy to support and maintain
• Ensure reliability, availability, and performance of applications

Technical Skills
• Solid OOD/OOP foundation
• J2EE/JSP Framework (Spring, JSF, etc.)
• Apache WebServer Web Server and JBoss Application Server
• Familiar with WSDL, XML Beans, creating XSLT template, creating XML Schemas
• Strong XML processing experience (XSD, XPATH, XSL/XSLT)
• Communication Skills to present ideas and concepts effectively, Strong and proven problem solving capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to set and meet deadlines
• Have the ability to think logically and analyze system problems
• JavaScript, XHTML/HTML, CSS (optional)

The following are a plus:
• JSF
• Version Control (e.g. Subversion, VSS, CVS)
• Knowledge of communication protocols like TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS
• Spring, Hibernate
• Database design/logical and physical data models
• Information architecture experience
• Experience with MS Project and Visio

Work Experience and Education
• 2 � 4 years experience with object-oriented design and programming using J2EE/JSP Frameworks
• 2 � 4 years experience with creating XSLT templates and XML Schemas.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related field of study
• Formal software development life cycle process training desired
• Formal software development life cycle process training desired

All direct candidates should e-mail their resume to me at steve-at-guin.com (please remove the -at- and replace with @ I get a lot of spam)
[ June 07, 2006: Message edited by: Steve Guine ]

In order to apply to this position, you must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.

I am looking for several junior developers to join a cutting-edge team of open-source technology advocates. The primary responsibility for these roles will be to develop and integrate existing applications across an enterprise network while at the same time developing strategies for new applications. Candidates will be instrumental in helping to analyze and develop an open-source integration platform consisting of an ESB, a BPM Engine, a Rules Engine, all of which will be married to pure Java modules that handle, work items and queues, security and permissions, and user management.

Candidates MUST have software development experience with Java/J2EE and XML. Candidates must also have familiarity with implementing web services, as well as WS-Security standards. Pluses include: server experience � JBoss and Apache; framework knowledge � Hibernate, Spring, Struts, Acegi.

Candidates must be well spoken, eager to learn, and able to work both in team and singular environments.

Short-term Responsibilities:
� Work with senior developers to continually research better open-source alternatives to current development and runtime tools
� Analyze open-source tools and frameworks against a growing list of requirements and produce summary recommendations for appropriate usage and inclusion in a larger existing architecture
� Develop proofs of concept to showcase performance and/or features of newly selected open-source solutions

Long-term Responsibilities:
� Develop business processes by transforming requirements from business analysts
� Design highly customer-customizable workflow solutions
� Integrate workflow-managed business processes with existing subsystems
� Implement complex customized logic using a rules engine

Candidates will learn:
� BPEL-based process integration skills
� Intricacies of heterogeneous web services and accompanying technologies
� Unified messaging and complex data transformation via an enterprise service bus
� Externalization of complex client customizations through a rules engine
� Single sign-on principles and implementation
� Business activity monitoring and proactive responsible to failure

What I am looking for:
� 1-2 years of application server experience, preferably JBoss
� 1-2 years of integration experience in EAI or B2B
� BPEL familiarity desirable, but minimally 1-yr of exp with some workflow engine
� 1 year of experience or more with web services
� Some experience with messaging; knowledge of JMS and MDB concepts
� Some experience with two application frameworks: Hibernate and Spring
� Pluses: any experience with ESB-related products and/or business rules engines

Please send your word resume to [email protected]

In order to apply to this position, you must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.

I am looking for several junior developers to join a cutting-edge team of open-source technology advocates. The primary responsibility for these roles will be to develop and integrate existing applications across an enterprise network while at the same time developing strategies for new applications. Candidates will be instrumental in helping to analyze and develop an open-source integration platform consisting of an ESB, a BPM Engine, a Rules Engine, all of which will be married to pure Java modules that handle, work items and queues, security and permissions, and user management.

Candidates MUST have software development experience with Java/J2EE and XML. Candidates must also have familiarity with implementing web services, as well as WS-Security standards. Pluses include: server experience � JBoss and Apache; framework knowledge � Hibernate, Spring, Struts, Acegi.

Candidates must be well spoken, eager to learn, and able to work both in team and singular environments.

Short-term Responsibilities:
� Work with senior developers to continually research better open-source alternatives to current development and runtime tools
� Analyze open-source tools and frameworks against a growing list of requirements and produce summary recommendations for appropriate usage and inclusion in a larger existing architecture
� Develop proofs of concept to showcase performance and/or features of newly selected open-source solutions

Long-term Responsibilities:
� Develop business processes by transforming requirements from business analysts
� Design highly customer-customizable workflow solutions
� Integrate workflow-managed business processes with existing subsystems
� Implement complex customized logic using a rules engine

Candidates will learn:
� BPEL-based process integration skills
� Intricacies of heterogeneous web services and accompanying technologies
� Unified messaging and complex data transformation via an enterprise service bus
� Externalization of complex client customizations through a rules engine
� Single sign-on principles and implementation
� Business activity monitoring and proactive responsible to failure

What I am looking for:
� 1-2 years of application server experience, preferably JBoss
� 1-2 years of integration experience in EAI or B2B
� BPEL familiarity desirable, but minimally 1-yr of exp with some workflow engine
� 1 year of experience or more with web services
� Some experience with messaging; knowledge of JMS and MDB concepts
� Some experience with two application frameworks: Hibernate and Spring
� Pluses: any experience with ESB-related products and/or business rules engines

Please send your word resume to [email protected].

Unfortunately, I cannot accept resumes from third party recruiters, consulting firms, or agencies as there is no money allocated for such.

[ January 27, 2006: Message edited by: Steve Guine ]
[ February 08, 2006: Message edited by: Steve Guine ]

Thanks for poitning that out to me!

Best,

Steve

There is a short term assignment available in NY for someone with Java Server Page (JSP) and Java Server Faces (JSF) experience.

Ideally,if you have J2EE, Java, JSP, JSF, Struts, and BPEL experience, we would very likely be interested in talking to you about full time employment.

You must be authorized to work for any employer within the United States in order to apply for this engagement. There is no relocation expense offered.

Please forward all resumes (sorry no agencies, consulting firms or third party recruiters) to: [email protected]

Please make sure that you put One Month JSP in the subject heading. Thanks.

[ August 24, 2005: Message edited by: Steve Guine ]

[ August 24, 2005: Message edited by: Steve Guine ]
[ August 25, 2005: Message edited by: Steve Guine ]

Good day,

Currently, I am staffing several JAVA, J2EE engagements in NY, NY, Atlanta, GA and Charlotte, NC.

At least 5-7 years of JAVA, STRUTS, BEA WebLogic. Must have solid SDLC along with analysis and client interface skills. These are long term consulting engagements (1 year or more) paying between $45.00 and $80.00 per hour.

If you are interested, please contact me at [email protected] with the location in your subject heading.

Thanks and best,

Steve

Good day to you all,

I am currently staffing a huge project in Charlotte, NC. Among the many things that I need are JAVA, J2EE Developers with experience in WebObjects, 4.5 and the ability to write SQL calls to Oracle. This has team lead qualities, but is officially a developer position. The length of the engagement is 6-12 months.

you can e-mail me at [email protected].

Thanks and best,

Steve