Jim Klapwyk

Jim Klapwyk has over 10 years of experience in the technology field. He has worked extensively to design and develop internal and external web sites, integrate with various database technologies, and implement solid business logic components. As the lead architect on the team, his responsibilities included developing technical strategies, code design, connectivity to legacy systems, adherence to standards and audit compliance.

Jim has worked with Microsoft to conduct code and design reviews, and has worked to develop best-practices and coding standards. Performance analysis and monitoring have been a major focus along with load testing and deployment.

Jim’s technical skills have been focused on the Microsoft platforms including C#, .NET Framework, ASPX, ASMX, Serviced Components, SOA, IIS, SQL Server, Visual Studio .NET, XML, XSL, Windows Server 2000/2003, BizTalk, Delphi.

Jim completed a 3 year Programmer Analyst program at Centennial College in Scarborough, Ontario and graduated with honours. While in his third year, he was hired as a programmer / analyst at CIBC in Toronto, and finished his education attending evening classes while working full-time. Following CIBC, he worked within Manulife Financial for close to 10 years.  He continues to keep up-to-date by attending Microsoft Tech-Ed conferences and participating in .NET user groups.

Professional Assignment Highlights:

Integration Project
This project objective was to bring in a 3rd party billing system and integrate it with legacy systems. Jim’s role on this project was lead architect responsible for overseeing a team of developers. Development work included many .NET components implemented in a Microsoft clustered environment. Much attention was paid to performance of all components.  Jim also guided the development team through design reviews, code reviews, load testing, code profiling, and implementation.

Cross-platform Data Entry
This project was struck to develop a new process that would streamline the data entry process. A data entry user interface was developed to bridge the gap between the Windows server-based system and the mainframe-based legacy system. Jim’s role on this project was to architect and design the technical components in the application, as well as to oversee the construction of the application.  Performance was a key success factor, especially considering the complexity of the cross-platform nature of the application.

Batch Load Project
With the introduction a new admin system, client feeds needed to be transformed from the many customer input formats into the single format that the new admin system was capable of processing. During this project, Jim was responsible for architecting and designing the application to do these transformations.

Stand-alone Quotation Project
This project was struck to develop an application to allow users to quickly enter customer data and produce a quote for a particular product offering. Jim designed this application to be distributed as a Windows forms application, making full use of XML behind the scenes. The XML schema was modeled closely after the ACORD XML standard for insurance data. This application was built to take the input data, and pass it through a quotation engine. Jim designed and built the COM wrapper for the quote engine, and was able to successfully integrate the new application with the legacy quotation engine.

Workflow Project
This project was struck to develop a workflow management tool to deal with claims that failed during auto-adjudication. Jim was instrumental in designing a robust system that allowed failed claims to be automatically assigned to the appropriate user depending on a set of criteria including the complexity of the claim and the confidentiality of the data. The system was also designed to allow a user to partially process the claim, and then pass it on to another user for completion. Jim was responsible for ensuring the performance of this application.

Other Accomplishments

• Implemented automated build process.
• Worked with Microsoft to resolve technical issues.
• Ensured SOX compliance within development processes.
• Developed many reusable utility components.
• Brought code profiling and automated unit test tools into the development environment.