SUMMARY:

• WebSphere Products/Business Continuity Planning/Mainframe Systems ProgrammingUNIX, Windows & AS400
• Operating Systems/Multiple Systems Management/Business Process Improvements
• Senior Software Developer/Technical Liaison and Certified Confidential Business Process Analyst with more than 20 years of hands - on experience, in managing the installation & upgrades of critical applications and software packages for back & front-end environments.
• Implemented an in-house interactive system on surplus hardware, generating savings of $6 million per year in outside timesharing services. Consequently, this system became the preferred platform for all interactive systems within 2 years at Confidential .
• Installed, configured, and maintained network of distributed VM systems allowing consolidation and elimination of communication connections. Increased utilization of this new network provided a method to dynamically reconfigure and adapt to communication outages with minimum disruption to end-users.
• Selected by senior management to design and implement an automated self-documenting disaster recovery system, which seamlessly piggy-backed on existing file backup and recovery procedures.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY:

Internet Connectivity: LAN/WAN/TELCO, Administration, design, planning, migration, implementation, security, deployment, AS400, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SNA, VPN, cabling, hubs, switches, routers, wiring

Operating Systems / Server Hardware: Confidential z/OS, Confidential z/VM, Confidential AIX, Confidential z/VSE, Confidential OS/2, MS Windows XP/2000/ME/98/95/3.1, Sun Solaris UNIX, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, OS/400, Macintosh, Symantec Professional Antivirus/Mail Security/Ghost

Systems Hardware: Servers / Workstation, Confidential, Compaq, Dell, Macintosh, ThinkPad Laptops, Linksys, HP high-speed laser printers, Honeywell mainframes

Application Software: MS Office Suite, Symantec Antivirus, Ghost, Confidential Lotus Notes, MS Project, Norton Utilities, Visio, Adobe Acrobat, VMware, Confidential WebSphere Application Server, Confidential WebSphere MQ, Confidential WebSphere MQ Workflow, Confidential WebSphere Process Server, Confidential WebSphere Business Modeler, Confidential WebSphere Business Monitor,. Confidential DB/2, Confidential WebSphere Message Broker, Confidential BookManager, Confidential DB/2 Alphablox, Graphical Data Display Manager (GDDM), ISPF, Confidential Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Sametime, Lotus SmartSuite, Confidential Rational Application Developer for WebSphere, Confidential Rational ClearCase, Confidential Tivoli NetView, Confidential Tivoli OMEGAMON, Confidential WebSphere Portal, Confidential WebSphere Studio Application Developer, Compuware Abend-Aid, Compuware Xpediter, Confidential Resource Access Control Facility (RACF), Remote Spooling and Comunication Subsystem (RSCS), CA VM:Secure, CA VM:Account, CA VM:Operator, CA VM:Backup, CA VM:Batch, CA VM:Director, CA VM:Schedule, CA VM:Archiver, CA VM:Spool, CA VM:Tape, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Confidential Magic, Microsoft SharePoint, IIS, Citrix, Ant, Toad

Languages: COBOL, Fortran, PL/1, Confidential Mainframe Assembler, APL, Java, JavaScript, C, C++, Visual Basic, REXX, RPG, ASP, JSP, BPEL, CICS, CLIST, Dialog Manager, EXEC, EXEC2, eSQL, FOCUS, JCL, SAS, Snobol, XML, HTML, DHTML, CMS, VBA, SQL, SVG, Unix scripting and shells

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Technical Startup & Conversions; Large-Scale Engagements; Defining Software System Requirements; Utilizing Benchmark & Best Practice Techniques; Ability to Grasp & Utilize New Technologies; Technical Problem Analysis & Resolution; Project Leadership; and Managing Multi-Platform & Multi-Site Logistics.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Change Control Board, coordinating all of the deployment groups, and providing approval on all changes for production systems.
• Developed tools for the Change Control process, including reports showing the metrics and queries to show the various work queues and work needed, interfacing with both Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server and Confidential ’s Magic.
• Deployed changes to a wide variety of systems, including Windows and Unix, JBoss, web services, MQ Series, and numerous other third-party software systems.
• Supported enterprise applications, including WebSphere MQ, JBoss, etc. using Java, Oracle, Unix scripting, and other languages.

Confidential, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked at Confidential Corp headquarters in North Carolina on a 6-month assignment providing support for Confidential ’s WebSphere MQ, including configuration, security, and development support.

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

Senior IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Selected by senior management to develop technical training classes for several new products prior to their General Availability dates. Classes were taught worldwide, and proved instrumental in marketing numerous Confidential software releases.
• Recognized for authoring 3 Confidential certification exams. Exams are administered to end-users who desire to be Confidential certified on the following applications: WebSphere MQ Workflow, WebSphere Business Integration Modeler, and WebSphere Business Integration Monitor products.
• Selected as a Subject Matter Expert on an internal project to streamline the development of sales bids worldwide. Worked closely with Confidential management in Germany as the first “Guinea pig”.
• Acknowledged as subject matter expert and selected to mentor consultants on products
• Served as team lead on numerous projects, working with other Confidential consultants, as well as the customer’s employees. Projects included either assisting the customer in installing the WebSphere products, fixing problems encountered by the customer, or performing a “Proof of Concept” in order to help sell the products.
• Chosen to assist with several “Critical Situation” teams to help resolve serious problems with customer’s systems.
• Developed a set of “Best Practices” for several WebSphere products. These Best Practices were entered into an internal database and used by other consultants at engagements worldwide.
• Selected to Who’s Who of Executives and Professionals

Confidential, Charlotte, North Carolina

Assistant Vice President, Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed a Confidential remediation effort for a large IMS & batch system. Invented and designed a method of converting 2-digit years to 4-digit years, which unlike most commonly used methods, was not patented, and will not fail in 50 years.
• Developed and maintained systems to perform risk management on corporate loans, and to meet treasury requirements.
• Developed a procedure to automatically scan configurations on multiple systems and identify definitions that were obsolete and unnecessary or incorrect, then removed or corrected to optimize the systems.
• Planned, installed, and supported MQ Series on multiple platforms, including mainframes, Windows, and UNIX. According to Confidential, this was one of the largest MQ Series networks in the country.