Roger Sakowski
495 Albee Farm Road Venice, FL 34285
(239) 989-3277 ● roger@sakgroup.com

IT Training: Mentor, Motivator, Team Leader, Innovator

Accomplished instructor and systems architect with nearly 30 years of experience in IT specializing in enterprise solutions primarily using Java EE and related technologies. Self motivated with a team focused attitude and a solid track record of delivering high quality training and products on time.
  • Proven oral, written, and interpersonal skills. Successful presentation of ideas to a broad base of audiences ranging from team members to executive management.
  • Numerous overseas assignments in Europe, India, Middle East and Asia provide exceptional diversity experience.
  • Years of effective web development, public speaking, marketing and public relations experience.
  • Focused, determined, and self directed with an inherent desire to tackle issues and resolve them quickly.
  • Effectively design innovative solutions for complex challenges that span legacy and emerging technologies.

Technical & End User Training ● Courseware Development ● Java EE ● Java SE ● EJB 3.0 ● JMS ● JMX ● JSTL ● JSF ● JSP● JAXB ● JAXP ● JAX-RPC ● JAX-WS● JUnit ● Log4J ● SOAP ● WSDL ● DOM ● SAX ● XML ● XSL ●  XSLT ● DTD ● XML Schema ●  HTML ● CSS ● JavaScript ● Data Management ● Warehousing● SQL● Oracle ● DB2 ● SQL Server ● PostGreSQL ● MySQL ● OOAD ● Design Patterns ● SOA ● UML ● Six Sigma ● Business Process Management ● JBoss ● Apache ● Tomcat ● OC4J ● Sun AS ● IIS ● Linux ● Eclipse/MyEclipse/JBoss-Eclipse  ● JDeveloper ● NetBeans ● IBM RAD ● Ant ● XMLSpy ● Oxygen ● Dreamweaver ● FrontPage ● Visio ● Microsoft Office ● Windows ● CorelDraw ● Emerging Technologies

Sak Group: 1979 – Present: Venice FL
A leading force in IT training, custom courseware development, applications development and project-based follow-up support as well as providing marketing and public relations expertise.

Duties: Overall responsibility for the successful completion of all training, courseware development, client/task group communications, systems/software architectures, logistics and budget management. Consistently provided imaginative and innovative solutions focused on quality and customer satisfaction. Provide experienced direction to team members.

Recent Projects:

General Electric's Information Management Leadership Program (IMLP): Developer/Consultant. Responsible for development of multiple five-week boot camps and the training. Developed case study, course content, materials, workshops and labs. Provided on-going consulting services to support specific projects that the boot camp conceptualized.

Oceanering: Provided extensive training and mentoring in Java APIs and enterprise design. Web Services project leader integrating PeopleSoft into a Java EE development environment.

Mayo Clinic Projects: User Interface Best Practices training: Responsible for application UI best-practices focused on medical applications special needs. Developed courseware for real-time touch screen UI for patient status in the OR.

Johnson & Johnson Information Management Leadership Development Program (IMLDP) : Responsible for development of multiple one-week boot camps as well as the training. Developed case study, course content, materials, workshops and labs based on TCP/IP, UDP and IIOP. Provided on-going consulting services to support specific projects that the boot camp conceptualized.

Cisco Systems: XML, XSL, XSLT, Schema, and DTDdevelopment. Platform neutral IM implementing an SOA roadmap.

Partial Client list: General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Nortel, IBM, Mayo Clinic, Wells Fargo, Borg Warner, CISCO, Intuit, Nortel, NASA, SAC, NJ and OH Department of Taxation, WI Department of Transportation
Focused and Experienced Training Venice FL
Lakewood NJ
(239) 989-3277
roger@sakgroup.com