SUMMARY

• Key contributor to numerous enterprise - level projects
• Roles include Solution Architect, Team Lead, Oracle Middleware Specialist, Oracle SOA Suite Specialist, Troubleshooter
• Technology specialization includes Java EE, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle BPM Suite
• Responsibilities include performance optimization, code audits, HA and DR design and implementation, mentoring, security configuration, development, administration
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Proven ability to lead teams, engage with clients, executives, other teams
• Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW) 11g
• Oracle SOA Suite 11g
• Oracle WebLogic Server (WLS) 8.1, 9.2, 10.x, 11g
• Oracle Service Bus (OSB) 3.x, 10gR3, 11g
• Oracle Business Process Management (BPM) 10gR3, 11g
• Oracle WebLogic Integration (WLI) 8.1, 9.2, 10.x
• Oracle WebLogic Portal (WLP) 8.1, 9.2, 10.x
• Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) 11g
• Oracle JRockit JVM, JRMC

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Java EE
• Clustering, failover, HA, DR
• SSO, SAML, SSL
• Web Services, SOAP, WSDL, RESTful
• XML, XSD, XPath, XQuery, JAX-WS, JAXB, WS-*
• Spring, JPA, KODO, Hibernate
• WLST, Ant, Groovy
• JUnit, Grinder, SoapUI, Eclipse, JDeveloper

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Freelance Consultant,

Responsibilities:

• Confidential, UK: FMW Specialist. Lead resolution of critical SAML implementation issue. Developed JAX-WS/SAML SSO solution. Devised resilience tests. Assisted with design and configuration of clustered production and DR environments for WebLogic Portal. Advised on hardening and security. Mentored development and operations staff. Assisted with WebLogic Portal upgrade. 7 months
• Confidential UK: FMW/SOA Architect. Designed and implemented complex DR solution, involving Oracle RAC, Oracle D Guard, Oracle Gloden Gate, FMW 11g, SOA 11g. Advised on issues related to performance tuning, including analysis of JMS; load balancing; SAF; WLST. 5 months
• Confidential, UK: Oracle SOA Specialist. Resolved project quality and delivery issues by defining communication channels and documenting delivery processes. Improved environment build process. Advised on design/architecture of environment. Resolved production issues and assisted performance optimization of applications at code, middleware and O/S level. Oracle BPM 10g, 11g; Oracle Service Bus (OSB) 10g/11g; Oracle WebLogic Portal; Oracle Policy Automation (OPA). 8 months
• Confidential, UK: Lead Solution Architect. Requirements gathering, design and implementation of key part of SOA solution for major government project. Documented best practice; provided guidance and mentoring to development team; ensured compliance of implementations; interfaced with stakeholders and agencies. UML; OSB 10gR3; WLI 10gR3; Oracle BPM 11g; Oracle SOA 11g; BPM 11g; WebLogic; Java EE; Web Services; SoapUI; Groovy; JUnit; XML; SOAP; WSDL; WS-Security; WS-*. 9 months
• Confidential, UK: OSB Development/Test Team Lead. Analysis/design of OSB architecture; advising on best practice/design patterns; managing communication with interested parties; delivering presentations to stakeholders; performing code reviews; leading test team and certifying approach. Worked closely with PM to define scope, manage resources, perform change request impact analysis. 3 months
• Confidential, UK: Lead Architect. Designed new HA/DR architecture for production system. Produced high level design, detailed configuration, hardware sizing, disaster recovery (DR) configuration and test plan, performance tuning. Oracle RDBMS, RAC, WebLogic, OSB. Produced and delivered WLS/OSB course for operations staff. 4 months
• Confidential Confidential Business, Ireland. SOA Architect. Provided SOA best practice for ConfidentialOSB and Oracle BPM. Designed and implemented use cases. Mentored staff. 1 month
• Confidential Investment Management, Ireland: Service Bus Specialist. Provided executive level and technical level presentation on benefits of SOA, Oracle BPM and ALSB/Oracle Service Bus. Helped design and provided detailed advice on physical architecture of highly-available production system. 2 months
• Confidential.Clearnet, UK: Solution Architect and Development Team Lead. Full life-cycle project to build secure, robust trade request handling system. Implementation used Java EE, EJB 3, Spring, JPA, KODO, AspectJ, WebLogic. 6 months
• Confidential, UK: Solutions Architect. Migration of Oracle Application Server (OAS) applications to WebLogic. Mentored and assisted staff. Designed and implemented new architecture. Created build scripts. Assisted with server hardening. WebLogic Server 11g; Oracle HTTP Server (OHS); Oracle WebCache; Spring; Ant; JSP, JSF, EJB (1.1/2.1/3.0), WSDL, XSLT, JAXB, Axis2 Web Services and RESTful services, Custom Authentication providers, SSO, OC4J. 4 months
• Confidential, UK: WebLogic Portal Specialist. Designed and implemented WebLogic Portal production environment. Generated resilience/failover tests. 1 month
• Confidential, Northern Ireland: Solutions Architect and WLI Specialist. Mission critical HA infrastructure for police force. Analysis of hardware and software requirements; risk analysis; development of contingency and DR plans; analysis of security risks; design and implementation of architecture. Implementation of SSL and SSO solution. WLI development. 3 months
• Confidential South Africa: WebLogic Specialist. Designed and configured HA WebLogic environment. Migrated to new production environment with zero service downtime. 1 month
• Telkom, South Africa: WLI Specialist. Resolved production stability and performance issues on business-critical WebLogic/WLI applications. Performed code reviews, advised on architecture and design improvements and assisted operations team with problem diagnosis. 1 month
• Confidential, UK: Oracle FMW Specialist. Consulted on all aspects of architecture, design and implementation of WebLogic, WLI, OSB project. Provided architecture designs, test plans. Implemented security, contingency and DR plan. 5 months
• Confidential, UK: WebLogic Security SME. Design of highly secure single sign-on (SSO) system utilizing SAML 1.1, SSL, X.509 for applications using WLS and WLP. 3 months
• Confidential, UK: WebLogic Specialist. Resolved trading system performance issues, refactoring JEE code, changing environment configuration (WebLogic, JVM, O/S). 1 month
• Confidential, UK: Development Team Lead. Utilized WLI, ebXML, XPath, XQuery to deliver high-volume, secure integration with telcom partner. 6 months
• Confidential, UK: Infrastructure Architect. Designed and implemented WebLogic clustered business critical applications. Provided technical hand-over. Trained operations staff and delivered configuration and operation documentation. 2 months