SUMMARY:

• Over twenty years of extensive experience as a System Designer, Application Developer and Middleware Architect/Engineer and Administrator with hands - on knowledge of all phases of software development lifecycle and administration.
• Deep understanding of Insurance, Banking and Media industries applications and infrastructure requirements.
• In-depth knowledge of the full project lifecycle of application development: design, development and testing of business software applications.
• Ability to rapidly learn new concepts together with refined interpersonal skills and excellent problem solving skills.
• Expansive thinker with outstanding record of achievement implementing new business concepts, delivering business solutions, and facilitating transitioning operations.
• Proficient in building, deploying and performance tuning J2EE-based applications.
• In-depth, hands-on knowledge of industry security standards.
• Strong IBM WebSphere setup, tuning and administration skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

IBM Software stack: DataPower, WMQ, WAS, WPS, IIB, WTX, BPM, PFS

Javarelated: J2EE (with JDBC, Servlets), Swing, MVC Framework

Distributed Technologies: J2EE, Web Services, SOAP, WSDL, JAX-RPC, ODBC, JDBC, Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), JSP, JSF, JMX, Servlets, HTML, Java Script, .NET

Design Tools: Rational Rose, Visio, UML

Application servers: WebSphere 3.5/4/5/5.1/6/6.1/7.0/8.5, IBM Process Server 6/7, IBM BPM 8.5.x, Tomcat, iPlanet, JBoss, Glassfish

Messaging: WebSphere MQ, JMS, IIB

IDE: IBM Visual Age, WSAD 5.1.2, RAD 6/7/7.5, WID, RSA, MS Visual Studio .NET, Eclipse, NetBeans

Languages: C/C++, C#, VB, HTML, Java, JavaScript, SQL

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 8/9/10 (Solaris Containers), Linux (various), AIX (LPARs/WPARs)

Scripting: Shell scripts (sh, ksh, bash), Perl, Tcl, Jacl, Jython, IBM wsadmin, Curl

Database Skills: SQL Server 6.5/7/2000, IBM UDB 7.1/8.2/9.x, Sybase 10/11, MS Access 2000, Oracle 7.3/9i/10g/11

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

BPM Engineering Lead

• Responsibilities include: installations, upgrades, scripting, securing access, deployments and Level 3 production support and troubleshooting.
• Working with Kerberos and SSL/TLS to provide secure access. Creating operational standards and policies.
• Working closely with vendor(s) on issue resolution.

Confidential

Lead Middleware Engineer

• Responsibilities include: installations, upgrades, scripting, securing access, deployments and production support and troubleshooting.
• Working with SSL/TLS to provide enterprise-wide security. Creating operational standards and policies. Mentoring junior team members.

Confidential

Lead Middleware Engineer

• Responsible for upgrading and maintaining Moody’s Shared Services messaging infrastructure centered around IBM WMQ.
• Performed functions of an L3 Engineer that included new installs, scripting, performance tuning, troubleshooting of various MQ-related issues.
• Also worked closely with an IBM consultant on creating a strategy for a new, shared MQ farm, using MQ v8 as a base.
• Included resiliency features such as: multi-instance queue managers and MQ clustering.

Confidential

Enterprise Architect/Senior Solution Architect

• Confidential is in the process of creating a fully functional Enterprise Architecture organization while also creating and standardizing a company-wide Middleware layer.
• These initiatives involve understanding and using industry best practices.
• Operations and governance are the key points of this effort as this platform will become a cornerstone of the entire enterprise.
• I'm currently tasked with creating EA artifacts using TOGAF 9.1 as a starting point.
• Also, on the operations side I'm using my prior Middleware knowledge to guide the Emblem Middleware team to a stable ESB design.
• IBM WebSphere software stack is being used to build out a hybrid ESB solution using IBM Integration Bus, WebSphere MQ and DataPower appliances.
• WSRR is being used as a service registry and repository. ITCAM is being used for application monitoring and transaction tracking.

Senior Middleware Engineer/Architect

Confidential

• Installation of new WebSphere instances including IBMIHS and WAS Plugins.
• Securing web servers with Siteminder and LDAP.
• Setting up transport-level security between applications as well as between WebSphere components by using SSL certificates (Self-signed as well as CA-issued).
• Setting up message-level security for web services applications (using WS-Security industry standards) using XML Digital Signature and XML Encryption.
• Creating Highly Available WebSphere cluster environments.
• Patching of the WebSphere environments to apply bug fixes and resolve performance issues.
• Creation of MQ Queue Managers and Queues.
• Working closely with the Unix Support team to monitor production environments.
• Application migration from iPlanet 6.5 and older versions of WAS to WebSphere 6.1/7.0.
• Creating Visio diagrams of the existing environments for ease of support and maintenance.
• Close relationship with the application teams helping them resolve performance problems.
• Working with the Architecture group to introduce new, cutting edge technologies into the enterprise to help developers produce better, more robust applications.
• Streamlining the process of promoting applications from test to production environments.
• Designing and implementing various security practices for Audit purposes.
• Migration of legacy application to the new technology platform.
• Participating in the performance testing of applications using LoadRunner.
• Setup and testing of various WebSphere resources: Data Sources, Connection Pools, J2C Aliases, URLs, etc...
• Researching new technologies and tools to help the Administrators and Application teams.
• Documenting best practices and creating "cookbook"-style documents to ease the setup procedures and shorten the time-to-market.
• Capacity planning, participation in Disaster Recovery exercises.
• Design, development and implementation of an extensive library of WebSphere administrative scripts (automated cell/node creation, instance and resource creation, remote deployment, JVM restart/thread dump, inventory, etc) using Jython/Java/Shell scripting.
• Designed and implemented an OpenSSL solution to allow Middleware Team to produce CSRs, create self-signed certificates in a unified fashion and monitor SSL certificate expiration dates.
• Designed and implemented a security solution to satisfy Audit requirements that uses MD5 hashes to maintain deployment package authenticity.
• 24/7 production support.

Senior Developer

Confidential

• Gathering of the business Requirements and writing the Business Requirements Document.
• Creation of the SRS (System Requirements Specifications).
• Development of various business scenarios and walkthroughs.
• Screen design including GUI Prototype development.
• High and low level system design.
• Logical and Physical database design.
• Implementation of the Iterative Development Methodology.