Seasoned IT Senior architect and consultant with over 22 years of work experience encompassing client engagements all over the globe assessing client requirements architecting design proof of concept benchmarking system testing Networking TCP/IP and SNA capacity planning bullet-proofing and managing development efforts. Able to performance tune operating systems operating system resources and numerous product resources on Windows Linux AIX Unix Solaris Alpha VMS z/OS zLinix Solaris in solving the clients thirst for leading edge service oriented technology.

IT lead developer who has been involved in a multitude of projects relating to the development delivery and support of technical courseware for the IBM WebSphere Education team concerning IBM WebSphere MQ IBM WebSphere Message Broker and IBM Rational Application Developer across a broad range of operating systems including Windows AIX Solaris z/OS.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior Technical Sales Specialist

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Senior Technical Sales Specialist responsible for developing sales presentations and demonstrations dealing with Avada s Infrared360 WebSphere monitoring solutions. Assisted sales executives in all areas of the sales cycle including sales qualification determining customer prospect needs problem determination and resolution for IBM WebSphere MQ IBM WebSphere Message Broker and Avada s Infrared360 products.

Independent Contractor

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Senior Contractor a Banking sector engagement supporting AIX Linux Windows Solaris HP-Alpha and Windows platforms. Responsibilities included guidance assessing developing supporting architecting IBM WebSphere MQ SOA product suite.

Supported and headed up the WebSphere MQ environments during the movement of WebSphere MQ resources throughout the MQ Clustered environment

Installed and configured IBM Composite Application Manager for Applications ITCAMS responsible to monitoring and configuring WMQ WMB at Citizens Bank.

Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Registry and Repository. Implemented WMQ V7.0.1.2.

Assisted with their disaster recovery plan including Microsoft Clustering MSCS WebSphere MQ recover and domain name systems DNS architecture concerning IBM WebSphere MQ

Audited WebSphere MQ environment and established Best Practices to assists in going forward with WebSphere MQ technology with regard to availability administration vertical and lateral scaling.

Senior IT Specialist

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Senior developer responsible for developing advanced IBM courseware for IBM WebSphere MQ and IBM WebSphere Message broker. Considered a subject matter expert SME tasked with reviewing lecture material lab environments and certification tests for accuracy. Instructed newly developed courses to both IBM trainers and external clients.

Designed and developed the IBM WebSphere MQ Administration courseware.

Senior Application Developer

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IBM A seasoned consultant responsible for the sales support architecture integration design problem determination and implementation for over 75 clients across the globe for the banking retail insurance healthcare manufacturing and telemarketing industries. Specialized in Operating system builds Computer Telephony integration CICS TCP/IP V4/V6 SNA APPC Async Bisync IBM WebSphere MQ IBM WebSphere Message Broker Callpath TCS MDP CallFlow High availability HACMP configuration Microsoft Cluster MSCS configuration VSAM DB2 and Oracle Java virtual machine and JVM and Java classes configuration and usage.

Architected and developed complex 24X7 high availability Active/active and Active/standby configurations at various client engagements enabling hardware and software redundancy for mission critical applications. Architected and developed complex IBM WebSphere MQ clusters at various client engagements which decreased the administrative requirements and introduced work load balancing during peak messaging periods.

Managed and participated critical situation Crit/Sits dealing with the IBM product line at various clients. Frequently traveled on a moments notice to ensure a prompt fix and work to improve client satisfaction roadmap.

Architected and developed installation procedures for the Early Cloud IBM product line. This enabled the install process to decrease from a multi resource 3 week effort to a single resource 1 week effort saving the client base and IBM both in expenses and man hours.

Senor Advisory Programmer

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1987 - 1996

Early Cloud Co IBM acquisition Architected and developed proprietary computer telephony integration products which managed automated Callcenter Technology. Managed Beta rollouts Customer Support product internal and external training and implementation efforts at various Client sites globally.

Designed developed and supported Cobol based products on various platforms including MVS AIX AS400 DOS-VSE Widows and Wang VS-85 operating systems.

Architected and introduced IBM Callpath telephony and MQSeries products into the Early Cloud Product line which widely increased Early Clouds install base.

Developed proprietary LU62 asynchronous TCP/IP and bisynchronous messaging systems.

Assisted the sales team. marketing team customer support and training team with technical on-site support related to Sales presentations training courses and meetings.

PLATFORMS AND TOOLS

z/OS - WebSphere MQ WebSphere Message Broker zLinux MVS JCL CICS VSAM DB2 RACF ACF-2 TSO ISPF Rex Clist ESQL Unix System Services USS .

AIX - smitty Korshell WebSphere MQ WebSphere Message Broker Tivoli Sysback network configuration TCP/IP and SNA system builds software and operating system upgrades HACMP Encina SFS vi cron JMS TCP/IP V4/V6 SNA broker Plug-in Development.

Windows - XP VMWare player VMWARE workstation Adobe Framemaker Microsoft PowerPoint Excel Citrix ITCAMS WSRR Lotus Notes networking WebSphere MQ WebSphere Message Broker ESQL message flow development system builds Eclipse add on development IBM Support Pack development.

OS/400 - SYSOPR functionality system builds Command Language Cobol software installation and configuration.

Linux - WebSphere MQ WebSphere Message Broker ESQL JVM broker Plug-in Development.

CLIENT ENGAGEMENTS

Credit Agricole Sears JCPenny Citizensbank Bank of America American Express United Healthcare Mars Candy Company Central Guarantee Bank Liberty Life of South Africa Eetna Nationwide Insurance Bank of

Montreal ABN-Amro Ratheon Scotia Bank ECI Book Club Wall-Mart Progressive Insurance Nationwide Insurance State of New York State of California Michigan State University Alamo Car Rental. Pacific Bell Rockwell AT T Nortel.

SKILLS

WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker certifications