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Søren Berg Glasius
Date of birth March 2nd. 1969
Addresse Hedevej 1, Gl. Rye
DK-8680 Ry
Denmark
Phone: +45 4044 9188
E-mail: Soeren@Glasius.dk
Civil status
  • Married since 1994.
  • Children: Two. Boy from 1998 and a girl from 2002
Job experience
  Last used No. of years Experience / Knowledge
Programming languages:
Java SE 2010 10 Certified
SQL 2010 7 Solid experience
Groovy 2010 1 Good experience
Ant 2009 5 Solid experience
Application servers / Web-containers:
JBoss 4.0 AS 2006 1 Good experience
WebLogic 2008 1 Some knowledge
Tomcat 2010
Some knowledge
Apache Web server 2010
Some knowledge
Development IDEs:
Eclipse 2009 3 Good experience
IntelliJ IDEA 2010 2 Good experience
NetBeans 2008 3 Solid experience
Frameworks:
Grails 2010 1 Solid experience
Javascript 2010 3
Solid experience
PrototypeJS 2010 1
Solid experience
jQuery / jQuery UI 2010 1
Some knowledge
YUI2 Javascript Framework 2009 1
Some knowledge
JFC (Java Swing) 2006
Solid experience
SpringFramework 2006
Some knowledge
Struts 2006
Some knowledge
Operating systems:
Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 2009
Good experience
Linux 2010
Good knowledge
Version control:
Subversion 2010
Good experience
CVS 2009
Some knowledge
Other areas:
XML 2009
Good knowledge
JSON 2010 Good knowledge
TCP/IP, network communications and administration 2000 Certified
Qualifying jobs
Sviluppo.dk
DK-8680 Ry
03.2007 -
Freelance developer

Started as a freelance developer on 1 March 2007. Likes to work with assignments, where many technologies have to fit together. Have experience in working with Groovy, Grails, JSE, JEE, XML, XSLT, XSD, Struts, JSP, JMS, MQ, JDBC, Hibernate and other Java-related technologies.

Working from home or at customers site.

Customers and tasks performed:
GR8 Conference Europe 2010 2010.01 -

GR8 conferences are a series of developer-driven conferences, covering Groovy, Grails, Griffon and other great technologies. The idea for the conference was conceived by Guilluame Laforge and I in early 2009.

The first edition was held in Copenhagen with great success: over 100 attendees from 17 countries. Currently there are two GR8 conferences in the making: GR8 in the US, and GR8 Conference Europe 2010, for which I am the primary organizer.

Highlight of tasks performed:

  • Conference website: (eu.gr8conf.org)
    • Architecture
    • Developed in Grails
    • Ajax / jQuery
    • RESTfull services for iPhone webapp
    • Grails plugin development (jQueryUI plugin).
    • CloudFoundry deployment
  • Conference planing
    • Venue booking
    • Speaker contact
    • Agenda planing
    • Speaker travel/accomodation

The conference in Europe is organized by the Danish JUG (Javagruppen.dk)

Gennemtænkt IT 2009.07 -

Gennemtænkt IT (translates to "Thoughtful IT") is a small Groovy and Grails based company in Denmark. They were looking for an experienced Grails developer to help with advanced UI design, Ajax'ification of a web-application and Grails development.

Highlight of tasks performed:

  • Web-application developed in Grails
  • Usability improvements in Web Interface.
  • Ajax / PrototypeJS.
HighPulse Gaming 2009.07 - 2009.12

HighPulse Gaming hired me to do a web-based administration tool for their gaming platform. I choose Grails, because of the fast development cycle, the testing-capabilities and the large number of plugins available.

Highlight of tasks performed:

  • Administration module for game platform
  • System architect
  • Web-application developed in Grails
  • Modulized application through Grails plugins
  • Ajax, PrototypeJS og YUI
  • JMS
GR8 Conference 2009 2009.05

Highlight of tasks performed:

  • Founder together with Guillaume Laforge (SpringSource)
  • Website developed in Grails: www.gr8conf.org
  • Practical running of the conference
  • Collaboration between Javagruppen (The Danish JUG)) and SpringSource
  • Brought the following top Groovy and Grails names to Denmark:
    • Guillaume Laforge (Groovy project lead)
    • Graeme Rocher (Grails project lead)
    • Dierk König ("Groovy In Action" author)
    • Paul King (co-author of "Groovy In Action")
    • Jim Shingler (Plugin developer for Griffon)
    • Jonathan Felch (Real world study case)
CSC Scandihealth A/S 2009.01 - 2009.04

Highlight of tasks performed:

  • ICANN 5 integration platform for the EPR system.
  • JMS-based
  • MsSQL database backend
  • Development of data verification tools
TDC A/S 2007.03 - 2008.12

Highlight of tasks performed:

  • Working on large danish telco online-tools:
    • Web-frontend (Struts, Tomcat)
    • Middle-tier development (J2EE, WebLogic)
    • JMS, MQ, database, Webservices
    • Optimization and caching of data in middle-tier
  • System architecture
  • Integration between Cobol system and Siebel:
    • Dataexchange from MQ Cobol format
    • Data exchange to Siebel via JMS, with XML og XSD
 
Forbruger-Kontakt
DK-2630 Taastrup
10.2001 - 02.2007
Software architect and developer
  • Framework development in Java
  • Client (Swing) / Server (J2EE) development.
  • Setting up development, build, deploy and production environments.
SilverStream Software Danmark A/S
DK-1256 Kbh. K
09.2000 - 10.2001
Software Developer / Field Application Engineer
  • Java development
  • WAP client development
Munk Edb-Management A/S
DK-5260 Odense S
08.1998 - 06.2000
System consultant
  • System consultant on Windows (NT/Terminal Server/Citrix)
  • Network desinger.
  • Troubleshooting small and medium-sized computer and network installations.
Terma Elektronik AS Italia
I-21023 Besozzo, Italy
11.1997 - 06.1998
Developer
  • Delphi 3 development.
Various locations
Denmark
1995-1997
IT-Staff
  • User support
  • Server and network configuration.
  • Paradox-database programming
  • Education of staff
Certifications
2001 Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform
2000 intel     mcse     citrix
Education
Odense University, DK-5230 Odense M 1997
Bachelor in Computer Systems Engineering
Bjerringbro Gymnasium, DK-8850 Bjerringbro 1990
Tuscarawas Valley High School, Ohio, USA 1988
Exchange student for one year
Courses and conferences
2010 Java near the Glass (Javagruppen.dk annual conference, DK)
2009 Groovy & Grails eXchange (London, UK)
2009 Devoxx 2009 (Antwerpt, BE)
2009 GR8 Conference (Copenhagen, DK)
2009 Alternative Enterprise Java (Javagruppen.dk annual conference, DK)
2008 Devoxx 2008 (Antwerpt, BE)
2008 TheServerSide JAVA SYMPOSIUM, Europe (Prague, CZ)
2008 Enterprise Open Source Java (Javagruppen.dk annual conference, DK)
2007 JavaPolis 2007 (Antwerpt, BE)
2006 JavaPolis 2006 (Antwerpt, BE)
2006 Enterprise client application development (Javagruppen.dk annual conference, DK)
2005 JavaPolis 2005 (Antwerp, BE)
2005 Downsizing Enterprise Architecture (Javagruppen.dk annual conference, DK)
2005 Javagruppen.dk CodeJam'05: Spring Architecture (Copenhagen, DK).
Personal values
  • Personal education and development
  • Professional colleagues
  • High quality of work delivered
  • Honesty
  • Informal tone
  • Time and space for family life
Other computer related activities
  • Programming of small apps on a hobby level over the last 21 years.
  • Grail, Spring Framework and JSP/Struts based websites
  • Running own Linux server for the last 15 years.
Language skills

English Conversation Level and basic German skills

Affiliations
  • Board member of the Javagruppen.dk since 1999
  • Founder of Groovy & Grails meet-up group in Aarhus
Interests

My family, Rhythmic choir singing and Computers - computers - computers...

Other
  • Non-Smoking - though not fanatically
  • Have car and drivers license