SUMMARY:

The major technical theme throughout the majority of my career is Software Integration (over 20 years specialized in this area). Each role I have had involved an element of Integration meant to compliment the experience I had already obtained, along with the project specific experience involved in creating Frameworks and Infrastructures that Distributed Systems tend to demand. My titles have ranged from Developer, Consultant, Team Lead, Instructor and Architect in domains as diverse as Telecom, Financial, Aerospace, Defense, Intelligent Transportation Systems and Government to name just a few.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: C, C++, STL, Smalltalk, assembly, Visual Basic, JAVA, Perl, JavaScript.

Oracle Technologies: Oracle Service Bus (OSB), SOA Suite, OIM, Adapters, Weblogic, Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM), Oracle API Gateway, B2B, AIA

CORBA: ORBIX, ORBIXTalk, ORBIXManager, Voyager, OmniOrb, PowerBroker, VisiBroker, ORBacus, OpenORB ITS, Prism Technologies CORBA services, all major services (Notification, Naming, Trading, Logging, Transaction, etc).

J2EE/Java: Prism Technologies J2EE services, Inprise J2EE services, Applets, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Inprise Application Server, Tomcat/Apache, RMI, JDBC, BEA Weblogic, JMX, JBoss, Spring, Struts, IBM WebSphere 6.1.

Web Services/XML: Axis, BPEL, WSDL, UDDI, XML, Xerces, XSLT, XPATH, XML Schema, JAX - WS 2.0, JABX 2.0, JAXP, WS-I Basic Profile, WS-Security, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, SAML, XML Signature.

EAI/ESB: TIBCO Rendezvous, TIBCO Adapter SDK, Tuxedo, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, Webmethods.

Graphics: Xt, Xlib, Motif, OLIT, Xview, Rogue Wave, OpenGL, Swing, Eclipse RCP

Database: Objectivity, Objectstore, Versant, Velocis, Oracle, Sybase, LDAP, Hibernate.

Realtime OS: RTU, VRTX, VENIX.

OS: OS/2, SOLARIS, UNIX Sys V and BSD, HPUX STREAMS, VMS, AIX, HPUX, Linux, Microsoft Windows, UNIX device drivers and embedded systems development.

Tools: ENVY, Jbuilder, Visual C++, TogetherJ, Rational Rose, Clearcase, SourceSafe, NetBeans, Forte, StarTeam, SNMP, ant, Eclipse, Subversion, IBM RAD 7, Oracle Jdeveloper.

H/W: Concurrent workstation (multi-processor 68040 platform), PC, DEC VAX, Macintosh, Sun, HP, IBM embedded Z8002, 486, 186 and TI 34020.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• creating REST/JSON API’s and using middleware OSB, SOA Suite and Oracle API Gateway ( Confidential ).
• Heavy use of Business Rules Engine along with JMS Queues/Topics and oAuth2/JWT. Use of Dev Ops, Agile/Scrum, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery along with Jenkins and SoapUI all on Amazon Cloud and on-site.

Confidential

Integration Architect, Laurel, MD

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering and API design.
• Architecture and Design, including the best approach to integrate with PeopleSoft.
• Development using OSB, XQuery, Java 1.7 and JAX-WS.
• Installation in various environments including Clusters and creating WSLT scripts.
• Subsequent Administration of Weblogic (WLST scripts, JMS, Data Sources, etc), SOA Suite and OSB
• QA approach
• Writing tons of associated documentation.

Confidential

OSB Architect, Tampa Bay, FL

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a re-architecture of an Oracle SOA Suite 10g system to an 11g system functioning as a SAP front end.
• This involved working in several roles including Architecture, Design, Team Lead and Developer. In support of these roles I performed: OSB (Oracle Service Bus) development, prototyping, OSB and API design, overall system design and architecture, code reviews and walkthroughs.
• Technologies used were OWSM, XQuery, XLST, OSB, SOA Suite, Weblogic, Eclipse, JCA Adapters, etc.

Confidential

SOA Architect, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a complete reworking of legacy systems into a SOA Architecture using Oracle SOA Suite 11g.
• Technologies mainly worked with were OSB, XQuery, XLST, JDeveloper, BPEL, SOA Suite, Weblogic, SalesForce.
• Part of all phases from design to development and unit to QA testing.

Confidential

SOA Architect

Responsibilities:

• Part of a project that is in the initial phases of implementing a B2B and SOA solution.
• The main vendor product used is Oracle SOA Suite with my particular part heavily involved with Oracle Service Bus.
• This also included Weblogic and Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM). Other technologies used are ebXML, Oracle B2B, AIA, WS-Security, SAML and of course Web Services standards like WSDL, SOAP, etc.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Helping a startup company evaluate and choose a Cloud OS to setup a IAAS Cloud Provider service.
• The Cloud provider service also included (and involved evaluation) of a Billing System (Zuora), CRM (SalesForce Sales Cloud), Support System (SalesForce Service Cloud), Accounting (Great Plains), Portal framework (Liferay) and Payment Gateway (unchosen still).
• The integration of all of the above to be done using SOAP and RESTful based services.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Working at Confidential helping them integrate new and legacy systems using Oracle Service Bus (previously known as aqualogic), Oracle SOA Suite 10g, Weblogic and WLI. Job consisted of design, coding and testing of operations and their integration into the ESB using both the OSB graphical tool and Java development.
• Mapping of EDI using MFL in OSB.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• My job was to work at one of their electrical utility clients and help them deliver a solution using the Confidential technology.
• This involved diagnosing issues, support, consulting on solutions, etc. Also worked with a firm interfacing to their policynet service using Web Services.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked at Confidential (a freight shipping and logistics company) on new development for supporting hand held devices for use by their drivers.
• This required new applications to be able to communicate with their legacy apps.
• I designed the interfaces (WSDL/Schema's) for these new applications to communicate using Web Services.
• I also coded the layer that translated from the Enterprise Domain Data (as represented by the Schema's) to their legacy app requirements and vice versa.

Technologies used: Java, Apache, Tomcat, JAX-WS, Subversion and Eclipse.

Confidential

Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Part of a team putting together a custom package for CCM (using Confidential Customer Communication Management software by Pitney Bowes) for Confidential .
• My role was involved in the Integration aspect of the project and consisted of supervising a small team, design, architecture decisions and coding.
• Since it was a small team I had to do it all. From installation, creating processes, administration, etc.
• The custom interface was implemented on WebSphere 6.1 with the Web Services Feature Pack, using Java 1.5, JAX-WS 2.0 (Web Services), JAXB, JAXP, etc.
• Developed and delivered using IBM RAD 7 development environment.

Confidential

Integration Specialist

Responsibilities:

• This included meeting with various stakeholders and outside parties to find out the Integration Requirements to serve as inputs to the Integration Architecture as well as other documents.
• The related technology was to be a ESB/B2B solution, but this was basically a document writing exercise.

Confidential

Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the creation and use of a language created especially for the configuration of a complex Court system, allowing it to be extremely versatile and react quickly to changes in its requirements. Technologies used are Java, Struts, Hibernate, Spring, MQ, XML, XSLT, WebSphere and JBoss.
• They also used Continuous Integration here with Cruise Control.
• The more interesting aspects of this project were the creating of a proprietary language and associated engine, along with a proprietary BPEL like solution.
• All of this was designed to help the application change quickly in response to changes in the law.
• My role consisted of working with various aspects of this system and also closely working with the Architecture team in putting together solutions or finding and solving complex issues out of the scope or means of the development teams.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Supported a Billing System onsite at a major telecom provider, this system required configuration and modification of the proprietary
• Confidential product Confidential along with middleware technologies like Tibco, Tuxedo and programming in proprietary languages and Perl.
• The system consisted of hundreds of processes all communicating using Tuxedo internally (as a transaction manager and communication medium) and externally through Tibco/RV, Web Services, J2EE (Weblogic) and Confidential proprietary methods.
• Being onsite my job consisted of interfacing with the customer, guiding changes and measuring impact to the current system.

Confidential

Architect

Responsibilities:

• The majority of my time was spent documenting and helping with design of Architecture and Requirements. The system consisted of multiple services on multiple sites throughout the tunnel all communicating through CORBA or through proprietary methods (used by the plant devices).