Anthony Tony Bufort

About Anthony Tony Bufort

Senior Java / XML-tech professional keen on leveraging traditional specialties while embracing the new! 25+ years in web / desktop software development with Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, and XML-based publishing for small, mid, and large-sized companies, with XML technologies and Java as career specialties.Well experienced in a wide array of XML tech, including XML from a content/data modeling perspective in addition to XML as a transport protocol, XSLT, XSL-FO, XML Schema (XSD), XProc, XQuery, XLink/Pointer, XML DB (Docato X-Hive, EMC xDB), and XUL. Have styled XML using XSL, FOSI, and CSS plus Oxygen extensions. Have worked with DITA, DocBook 5, Akoma Ntoso, v3.x/4.x and AAMC document specifications in the legislative, IT, medical, and aerospace domains, among others. Much experience performing XML to HTML, XML to PDF, XML to CSV, and SGML to XML conversions using XSLT 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 specs. Experienced in PDF formatting using Antenna House Formatter (AHF), RenderX (XEP), Apache FOP, and Arbortext Publishing engines, as well as the foibles of XSL-FO and area trees / intermediate output for those engines. Experienced in author-experience customizations for Oxygen and PTC Arbortext XML editing environments. Have also worked with Thinlet XUL for Java applications, and Mozilla XUL for desktop apps in the XULRunner/XULExplorer context.Sun-certified Java developer, experienced in desktop and web application servlet / applet programming. Have worked extensively with J2SE, J2EE, Eclipse/MyEclipse, and Maven. Experienced in Spring, Spring Tools Suite (STS), Oracle Enterprise Tools, and TOAD. Have worked with Subversion (SVN) and Git. Familiar with UML modeling. Certified in HTML and client-side Javascript. Also know Delphi (OO Pascal), LISP / SCHEME, C, ColdFusion 4.5, SQL, PL/SQL, PERL, CGI, DHTML, and PHP. Specialties: XML, XSL, and related technologies, Java, software / 3rd-Party API integrations, JavaScript.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer Founder

   Anthony J. Bufort Ajb Consulting

   Mar 2008 — Present · Vancouver, WA, US

   COMPANY WEBSITE : contractor open to new data-formatting / transformation / publication projects, website, web-application, and desktop development. Specialties include XML tech (XML, XSLT, XSL-FO, XSD, XQuery, XML-DB),(X)HTML, JavaScript (both native and with frameworks such as jQuery and Angular), Java, and other languages (when not working on larger assignments).CURRENT :(May, 2024 - Present)- Engaged in development of Saxon XSL processor Java extensions for cloud interactions (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, IBM), to be released on GitHub. Taking HL7 and FHIR training with HL7 International.PLEASE NOTE : A limited set of previous engagements are summarized here.• (Jan, 2019 - Apr, 2019)- Python Integrations Engineer at DomainTools. Integrated DomainTools security products, Iris Enrich and Iris Investigate, into other products (e.g. IBM Resilient, Microsoft Graph). Wrote, tested, and employed Python code interfacing with various REST APIs, and exercised them in service of the integrations performed. Dev environment included Python 2.x, 3.x, and PyCharm, among numerous python libraries, APIs, and tools.• (Apr - Jun, 2018)/(Aug – Oct, 2018)- Marking up various famous legislative documents in Akoma Ntoso legal markup language for upcoming legislative editor version.• (Mar, 2018 - Jun, 2018)- Wrote DITA-to-PDF/HTML XSL transforms for major US clients using oXygen and Apache FOP, DITA Open Toolkit (OT), CSS, and Angular.js in oXygen.• (Dec, 2017 – Jan, 2018)- Developed Spring Boot web-service-based XSLT validation system for Vantage Labs for XSD and business-rule conformance for American Association of Medical Colleges \"curriculum inventory\" submissions via their iSeek API.(MORE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST)

Education

• University of Pennsylvania

  towards M.A. (incomplete), Philosophy

  1995 — 1997

• UC San Diego

  Java Courses I, II, & III, Computer Science

  2000 — 2001

• Rutgers University

  B.A., Philosophy, Greek and Latin

  1988 — 1992

Skills

• Sql
• Git
• Pl/Sql
• Junit
• Css
• Web Development
• Javascript
• Xdb
• Antenna House Formatter
• Servlets
• Phonegap
• Unix
• C
• Programming
• Eclipse
• Ant
• Documentum
• Xul
• Software Development
• Databases
• Oxygen Xml Editor
• Software Engineering
• Maven
• Cordova
• Xslt
• Schematron
• Xml
• Mobile Applications
• Subversion
• Web Services
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Enterprise Software
• Xsl-Fo
• Virtual Machines
• Web Applications
• Tomcat
• Application Development
• Html
• Php
• J2ee