Nik Boyd @ Accruent

Sr. Software Engineer, 2003 February - Present

Accruent
1601 Cloverfield Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Accruent real estate lifecycle management solutions transform the way companies manage real estate assets by providing a reliable system of record and measurable ROI.

• Designed and co-developed frameworks, application components, business objects, and service interfaces for a web-based real estate contract management system using Java and J2EE, esp. JBoss and WebLogic.

• Designed and developed the product human interface menu and navigation framework. Product menus and navigation were configured using XML. Designed an XML schema for defining the product menus and navigation using XmlSpy. Designed and developed the product menu and navigation framework using Java, Echo, EchoPoint, and Castor.

• Designed and co-developed a human interface component framework for enforcing product look and feel styles and idioms using Java, Echo, and EchoPoint. Designed and developed an application event framework for communicating business object changes between application components using Java.

• Designed and co-developed service-oriented architectural frameworks using Java. Designed and co-developed a service gateway framework for separating the presentation and business object layers, a framework of views and view fields for transfering data (DTOs) between the presentation and business object layers, a framework for capturing and recording transactional audits of changes made through the service interfaces, and a security enforcement framework with role-based access control (RBAC).

• Designed and developed an XML schema for business object metadata and a utiliity for installing the metadata into a database using Java, XmlSpy, and Castor.

• Used extensive unit tests to support refactoring, continuous integration, and automated regression testing. Designed and developed unit tests using the JUnit testing framework.

• Developed persistent business objects using Hibernate and SQL.

• Developed portions of the product build process using Ant.

• Collaborated with other team members using a Wiki web.

• Drafted Java design and coding conventions.

• Participated in project iteration planning and effort estimation.

• Participated in daily Scrum meetings.