As a generalist in the role of technical project manager, I was working with software projects from many perspectives – system integration, guiding the development, conceiving new solutions.
Integrations of internal and external systems, scalability, system details knowledge, and having the big picture in mind all play a significant part in daily work.
The Pole Energy online shop project was truly interesting and creative, but on the other hand a big challenge as well.
The goal was to create a secure, modern, multilingual online shopping application. It has taken about a year, from the initial idea until the full version, during 2009 and 2010, with the first release at the beginning of 2010.
At the beginning of the project I have created the application architecture, entities, relations, and use cases. As we did agree to loosely follow Agile development process, the architecture was redesigned several times during the project.
During the implementation, I have lead a crew of experienced developers in the effort to achieve high quality and performance.
We have decided to go with the Microsoft stack, using ASP.NET MVC enhanced with jQuery to create the user interface, using Entity Framework, LINQ, and C# for the middle tier DAL (Data Access Layer), and Microsoft SQL Server as the back end.
The project is successfully running on the cloud platform at www.poleenergy.ch
Document processing system, for more details please have a look on the [permalink href=”127″]Serbian Archives of Medicine[/permalink] project page.
During 2007 and 2008 I worked on a document analysis tool called “Matchpoint”.
The idea is to parse the document by identifying content blocks and then find certain keywords within the context. The document is tagged based on the found information.
I did the software architecture first, creating the concepts, entities and relations,and identifying crucial parts of the system.
The heart of the system is the parsing engine that identifies segments of document, for example education, experience, and so on. All the permutations of the segments are used, and the one that matches the most segments is selected for further analysis. Each of the recognized segments is then searched for the keywords. Each keyword has appropriate tags assigned, and this way the document is in the end tagged.
Since the algorithm has to analyze documents in different languages, using semantic algorithms seemed a bit too complicated, so I went with regular expressions.
The documents can be emailed or uploaded by FTP to the web server, where is a Windows service monitoring configured folder. A .NET console application is then run to convert document to plain text using IFilters, and then to run the analysis, and upload the data to the Microsoft SQL Server database in the end.
Users can use a web application built on ASP.NET Web Forms to search and view indexed documents.
During 2006 and 2007 I was working on the web publishing platform for “Serbian Archives of Medicine” Journal of the Serbian Medical Society.
The requirement was to create a system that would accept the submitted articles, routing them through the complex system of administration, reviews, revisions, edits, and so on until they reach the publication.
On the other hand, there was a need to put the existing printed editions online as well.
I have presented to the revision board my analysis of the entities and processes, shown some ideas how to handle them in the system, they loved it, and I was hired to do the job.
After several iterations of architecture revisions, I have designed the database in Access (hosting limitation) which was later migrated to Microsoft SQL Server.
The web application was implemented in ASP.NET 1.1 WebForms, as it was the platform available for hosting at the time, using C# and NUnit for testing.
The design was aimed for clean overview and quick loading times, implemented in XHTML (as far as ASP.NET 1.1 WebForms allow), CSS, and enhanced a bit with JavaScript.
The document management system was a real challenge, since the client had a complex process, but in close cooperation it was implemented successfully.
The system was later a bit tailored and deployed to [permalink href=”247″]Serbian Dental Journal[/permalink] web site.
Please have a look at the front end of the site for more details here srpskiarhiv.sld.org.rs.
