SUMMARY:

As a developer and architect in the Information Technology Industry, I use my leadership capabilities and technical expertise to make effective and lasting changes to the business systems and applications of the enterprises I service.For 10+ years, I have developed enterprise solutions for clients in banking, finance, healthcare and the federal government sectors utilizing WebSphere Message Broker technologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

Websphere MQ Broker Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Position Summary: Confidential is the largest seller of college textbooks and school apparel. My responsibilities included the monitoring of the SFA tables. These tables hold the detail information of the sales. I constructed a set of SQL database queries that when executed verified the success of the sale transactions. Interruptions of these database updates Indicated a processing issue and appropriate escalations were exercised. Additionally I worked with schools and books stores to facilitate automated purchases of books and other course material. I was also responsible for assisting the schools and bookstores in the setup and execution of their Registration Integration efforts. This process automated book purchases at the time of course registration. My responsibilities included coordinating with the store managers, the setup of the school’s term codes by working with the college bookstore managers and the schools technology group to configure their integration requirements.

Confidential,Washington DC

Application Architect/WMB Developer

• Position Summary: The Customs and Border Modernization Project is a large scale integration solution combining several key legacy applications concerning border crossings. My current assignment addresses the processing of Air Manifests. This entails the validation of the manifest’s data and its relationship to other data elements. The manifest contains information addressing the origination and destination of the various shipments as well as descriptions of the various cargo items. The manifest data is validated against the entry summary information that is submitted by the shipper prior to the arrival of the cargo at the destination airport.
• Technology : WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere MQ / MQExplorer, DB2

Confidential,FL

WebSphere Message Broker Developer/Architect

• Position summary: This project supported the HIPAA health care insurance initiatives in the processing of the X12 834 EDI enrollment transactions. Our team was responsible for the application design and implementation. The initial phase of this application facilitated the communication between the insurance providers, the state exchanges and the insurance brokers. A unique and flexible design was developed to address the processing requirements of this application.
• Technology : WebSphere Message Broker 8.0.0.2, WebSphere MQ / MQExplorer 7.5, DB2

Confidential, PA

WebSphere Message Broker Developer/Architect

• Position summary: Our team was responsible for the development of new offerings for the United States Postal Service. Our application addressed the processing of USPS transactions for package delivery notifications. These notifications are delivered through the use of sms messages. We utilized HTTP technology to transmit the delivery notification transactions to AT&T for delivery to the subscriber’s handsets.
• Obtained a USPS clearance
• Technology : WebSphere Message Broker 7.0.0.4, WebSphere MQ 7, DB2, MQExplorer

Confidential

WebSphere Message Broker Developer/Architect

• Position summary: On this project my focus was to improve the performance of the DecisionSvc message broker project. This project executes the business rules that are applied to the subscribers. The application had been terminating prematurely due to inefficient esql coding. I examined and modified the esql code for 40 business functions and a number of the message flows which control the overall processing of these functions.
• Technology : WebSphere Message Broker 6.1.0.9, WebSphere MQ 6.5, DB2, MQExplorer

Confidential,Honolulu, HI

WebSphere Message Broker Developer/Architect

• Position summary: While on this project I provided development and architectural support for their CIS system. I was primarily responsible for the development of their Generic Error Handler. This error handler was designed to capture the errors and report them through the use of a relational database table. This solution utilizes the MQRFH2 header to hold information and pass it to the subsequent flows. The process utilizes the exception list, which was created by the occurrence of the error, to capture the error message information. The information that is collected by this flow is sent to downstream message flows and inserted into the error table.
• Technology: WebSphere Message Broker 7, WebSphere MQ 7, DB2, MQExplorer

Confidential,St. Louis, MO

WebSphere Message Broker Developer/Administrator/Architect

• Position summary: Provided architecture and development activities for the Authorization Service Bus. I was involved with the architectural review of their solution as well as a participant in the development efforts. I reviewed the solutions for efficiency and resiliency, documenting the suggested changes to their application. Performance issues, in both the message flow structure and the associated coding, were reviewed and suggested modifications were documented. I also created documentation addressing performance related enhancements in configuration, deployment and coding. The detailed design for the resiliency efforts for the profile information processing and the application logging process were developed. Transaction orchestration was also reviewed and suggested modifications were documented. This modification will increase the efficiency of the transaction processing.
• Technology: WebSphere Message Broker 7.0.0.1, 7.0.0.2, WebSphere MQ 7.0, DB2, AIX 6.0, MQExplorer
• Additional responsibilities included assisting other team members on the use of the WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere MQ Series products as they pertain to the Authorization Service Bus being developed. My best practices and knowledge, obtained from previous experiences, were shared.

Confidential, PA

WebSphere Message Broker Developer/Administrator/Architect

• Position summary: Developed and maintenance of WebSphere Message Broker message flows for IBC’s HIPAA Process. The EDI messages are passed to the WebSphere Message Broker through a WebSpehre MQ Series queue. The data elements in these messages are validated using esql to enforce business logic. After the validations are performed the data is transformed to a proprietary format through the use of Neon Transformation nodes. These transformations are performed on both accepted and rejected transactions which are then processed by legacy applications and eventually various business partners.
• Responsible for assisting other team members on the use of the WebSphere Message Broker, and WebSphere MQ Series as they pertain to the HIPAA solutions being developed.
• Assignments addressed the maintenance of the 4010A 837I and 837P transactions. These are the claim transactions for Institutional and Professional business partners. The message flows for these two transactions contain over 35,000 lines of esql.
• Technology: WebSphere Message Broker 6.0, 6.1.0.8, WebSphere Transformation Extender 8.2.0.3, WebSphere MQ 6.0, DB2, AIX 6.0, MQJExplorer

Confidential Jersey City,NJ

WebSphere Message Broker Developer/Administrator/Architect

• Position summary: Development and maintenance of WebSphere Message Broker message flows and message sets as well as WebSphere Transformation Extender maps and trees in support of the banks transaction processing.
• Worked with IBM on the installation, configuration and testing of the Enterprise Platform framework, EP. Formerly known as EPP, Enterprise Payment Platform, this framework consolidates a number of critical applications into a common processing scheme and data administration. Performed the migration of the WebSphere Message Broker 5.0 message flows to the new WebSphere Message Broker 6.1 environment. This included the testing of all existing message flows.
• Created of new WebSphere Message Broker environments. This includes:
• Coordinating with the database administrators, system administrators and the WebSphere MQ administrators
• Creating the Configuration Manager
• Creating the WebSphere Message Broker(s)
• Setting up the access for the application databases
• Setting up the toolkit Topology for multi - broker access
• Technology: WebSphere Message Broker 6.0, 6.1.0.3, WebSphere Transformation Extender 8.2.0.3, WebSphere MQ 6.0, DB2, AIX 6.0, Message Test 1.2, 1.3 QPasa

Confidential,Washington DC

Application Architect/WMB Developer (Full Access Security Clearance)

• Position Summary: The Customs and Border Modernization Project is a large scale integration solution combining several key legacy applications concerning border crossings and financial transactions.
• Technology: WebSphere Message Broker 6.0.2, WebSphere MQI 2.1, WebSphere Transformation Extender 8.0.1, WebSphere MQ 5.3 and 6.0, WBIA 5.5.5 and 6.0, DB2, AIX 4.3.3, OS/390
• Developed message flows, MRM’s and WTX maps to support the processing of truck manifests and related transactions, application synchronization messages and insertion of financial transactions to a DB2 database
• SME on all queuing and message flow issues
• Monitored the MQ Series queuing system, the memory utilization of the WebSphere Application Server and error/application queues for the WMB / WMQI message flows
• Developed procedural write-ups for knowledge transfer
• Replayed transactions when required
• Utilized segment tags to reduce processing of a manifest from 200 seconds to 16 seconds
• Worked with various application groups to ensure complete and accurate data transfer
• Oversaw architecture of the asynchronous services
• Other responsibilities
• Deployment and Migration into multiple environments
• Documenting development issues
• Assisting in the creation of new test environments
• Technical support for development team members
• Testing (Unit and Integration)

Confidential, PA

Application Architect / WMQI Developer

• Position summary: The HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) development project was a large-scale, federal government mandated integration effort between the X12 EDI standard and IBC’s proprietary formats to allow for continued access to legacy applications and databases.
• Technology: Websphere MQI 2.1, NEON, Websphere MQ 5.3, DB2, AIX 4.3.3, OS/390
• Set the direction for the processing design of the conversion project
• My responsibilities included:
• Determining processing standards
• Ensuring that business needs were met with planned implementation(s)
• Acting as a technical resource for the development team
• Coding and testing WMQI message flows and NEON formats
• Assisting other team members on technical issues
• Technical support for other application groups with their WMQI implementations/modifications
• Conducting performance testing and implementing performance tuning

Confidential New York, NY

• Position summary: NEON ( Confidential ) was one of the earliest companies in the EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) arena, where I was involved in every aspect of their consulting service.
• Technology: NEON Formatter and Rules, eBiz Integrator, MQ Series 5.1, DB2, OS/390
• Coordinated with clients to assess their needs and propose new projects
• Reported status to President of Professional Services and oversaw team of Project Managers