Profile:

Application Manager/WebSphere Architect, over 13 years JAVA, J2EE development, administration, engineering, and architect experience in IBM, State Farm Insurance, Master Card International, C S Wholesale, John Deere, Macy's, Fresenius Medicare Care, and BJC HealthCare.

Expertise in IBM WebSphere, Tivoli, JAVA, J2EE, Web Service, Oracle 10/11g and SOA. Cerner/Siemens Soarian Application.

Strengths and Skills:

WebSphere Servers and Appliances:

WebSphere Application Server 6.x, 7.x and 8.x, WebSphere Commerce 6.x, 7.x, WebSphere Portal Server 5.x,6.x and 7.x, WebSphere Process Server 6.1, 7.x, Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere DataPower, DataStage

Other Servers and Enterprise Utilities:

IBM HTTP Server, Apache, Tomcat, IIS, WebLogic, JBoss, Oracle Application Server, WebLogic, Tivoli Access Manager and WebSeal, Tivoli Identity Manager, IBM Directory Server, Sun LDAP, Windows DNS, SSL, Ikeyman, Crystal Report, Soarian Financial, Clinical, EDM, and Scheduling

VM and Operating Systems:

VMware, AIX, Sun OS, Linux Red Hat RHEL, Windows, HPUX

Scripting and Programming Languages:

Perl, Korn Shell, JACL, Jython, Batch, Python, ANT, Java/J2EE, Servlet, JSP, XML, SOAP, EJB, JavaScript, SQL/ JDBC/ODBC

Relational Databases:

DB2, ORACLE 10/11g, Windows SQL 2005/2008, Data Replication Oracle Golden Gate

Production Deployment, Monitoring, Trouble - shooting and Change Management Control Tools:

TrueSight, DynaTrace, AppDynamics, Anthill Pro, Opnet Xpolog, Wily Introscope, Sitescope, HP/Mercury Road Runner, QFlex, HP OpenView, CA Service HelpDesk

Clearcase, SVN, WinCVS, PCVS

Performance Monitoring Infrastructure PMI, ISA

Programming Testing and Developing Tools:

Rational Application Developer RAD, WebSphere Integration Developer WIP, Eclipse

Enterprise Solution and Project Management:

Software Development Life Cycle SDLC, Capability Maturity Model Integration CMMI, Information Technology Infrastructure Library ITIL

Relevant Working Experience:

Confidential

• Manage and Lead 5-9 person team responsible for 3rd ICO tier technical support, administration, and maintenance of Cerner/Siemens Soarian healthcare enterprise application, including Soarian Financial, Clinical, EDM and Scheduling. IIS, WebSphere Application Server, Cloverleaf, OpenLink, Microsoft SQL database server, Veritas, Crystal Report.
• Responsible to provide technical expertise and guideline, oversight software support and updates, HL7 compliant application and web service development, system and infrastructure architect, reporting and business intelligence, data management and data warehouse.
• Define goals and objectives and conduct monthly task follow ups and performance reviews. Provide effective prioritization and direction to team members. Responsible for team strategy, process and policy development, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Work collaboratively to understand issues and requirements organizationally, across teams, tiers and disciplines. Coordinate efforts across functional teams for root cause analysis and resolve issues.

Confidential

• Responsible for defining the technical solution to meet the agreed non-functional requirements e.g. system availability/resilience, performance, manageability, capacity planning, security and identity management.
• Provide installation, maintenance, tune-in, update/upgrade and backup/restore of WebSphere, Oracle and Tomcat middleware software.
• Provide production performance monitor, analysis and best practice, troubleshooting production issues.
• Provide Java programming, HL7 compliant web service and interface, and Linux/Windows WebSphere Jython/JACL/Wsadmin, Perl, KornShell and batch scripting for system and application administration, customerization and refresh.
• Assess infrastructure and environment requirements of projects, systems or services and recommend best practice for project implementation.

Project and Technology Highlights:

HL7, Siemens Soarian Financials 3.3 and 3.4. Siemens Soarian Clinical, EDM, Scheduling, Acute ViryaNet, WebSphere application server 7/8.5, WebSphere Commerce 7.0, Weblogic portal 10/11g, LogiXML, OpNet, XpoLog, Oracle RAC, Oracle DB 10/11g, SQL 2008, Linux Red Hat, Windows 2008.

Confidential

• Remodeled Infrastructural Architect of WebSphere enterprise applications to support
• Provided expertise of J2EE technologies, ad hoc production problem trouble shooting, developed technical and conceptual specifications, documented complete application development, installation and configuration work.

Project and Technology Highlights:

WebSphere ND, WebSphere Commerce, RHEL, Anthill Pro production automatic deployment, Akamai content caching, dynamic and personalized content, streaming media.

Confidential

• Built a technical implementation strategy for WebSphere Portal of John Deere Enterprise.
• Worked with Enterprise Architect to develop management and development standards, participated in requirements gathering sessions with business.
• Designed and advised on portal topology Infrastructure, aggregation at Server or Client, and etc, responsible for design and implementation of work related to portal, including portal system architect design, application code review and program, coordination with feature teams, and various groups to address dependencies, tech document creation/review.
• Managed support process and portal server support resources onsite and offshore teams for production and non-production environments, coached development teams on when portal is applicable and patterns that should be used. Provided necessary support during validation performance testing. Provided technical leadership and guidance to the offshore development team.

Project and Technology Highlights:

Deere.com Portal Architect Design and Review. WebSphere Portal system design to provide high availability, ensure integrity and confidentiality across BigIP, WebSphere Application Server WAS 7.0 and WebSphere Portal 6.1.5 clusters, and DB2 9.5, on Linux RHEL 5, and Interwoven TeamSite, LiveSite and OpenDeploy.

SOA, Web Service, SOAP, XML, SiteMinder

Confidential

• Be a technical owner of company hosted websites running on WebSphere platform, including Dev, QA, and Production.
• Provided expertise for J2EE, Web Service, SOA systems and application programming development to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and high availability of company hosted web-based applications.
• Provided guidance in selecting WebSphere products, versions, researched and evaluated fixes and fixpacks, schedule to apply fixes and fixpacks.
• Managed/led web projects to achieve technical architect standards and industry best practices based on budgets, provided project blueprint and architect design/redesign, capacity planning, identified system requirements, issues/risks, security SSO, backup and restore, and system and application monitoring, created related knowledge database.
• Provided in-depth technical knowledge and guideline for WebSphere systems, including application server and cluster installation, configuration, performance tune-in, security and application deployment, 3rd level and escalation end-point support, root cause analysis and trouble-shooting of WebSphere system related issues.
• Coordinated with WebSphere operation team, network/DNS, DBA, OS, application development and support teams for production trouble-shooting, documented technical implementation procedures and schedule production change windows for system or application update.

Technology highlights:

J2EE, Web Service, SOA, WebSphere Application Server WAS, Deployment Manager, WebSphere Process Server WPS, WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere DataPower, DataStage, MQ, WebLogic, AIX, Windows, JACL, Jython, Korn Shell, ANT, XML, SOAP, Tivoli Access Manager TAM, IBM HTTPServer, Apache, IIS, JBoss, Tomcat, LDAP.

Confidential

• Provided WebSphere expertise to project managements for WebSphere system architect blueprint, system requirement, capacity planning, backup and restore, DR procedures.
• Installed and configured IBMHTTP Server, Apache, WebSphere systems, including WAS 5.x and 6.0, WebSphere Portal Server 5.1, Express, Base and ND versions on windows and Unix Solaris and AIX, Linux RedHat
• Deployed, maintained and tuned J2EE WebSphere and/or WebLogic applications.
• Programmed JACL, Korn Shell, Ant scripts to implement installation and deployment automation.
• Performed daily web administration duties, including WAS, WebSphere Portal, WCM, WebLogic and Apache administration, performed heap, thread, and system dumps for root cause analysis, supported trouble-shooting for MasterCard development, stage and production websites.