SUMMARY

• To obtain a position as a middleware architect, middleware lead, solutions engineer, consultant or pre - sales engineer in the middleware & integration space.
• With over 17 years of IT experience I starting my career in Java & web application development and later moved into the middleware & integration space for the past 10 years.
• I have had the opportunity to work with a variety of middleware technologies in a multitude of roles and responsibilities.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Middleware Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led and was responsible for all aspects, which included infrastructure design, implementation, configuration, support, maintenance and direction of the following middleware platforms running on RHEL and Oracle in a clustered HA environment.
• Oracle SOA Suite 11g/12c, Oracle BPM Suite 11g/12c, Oracle Service Bus 11g, Oracle BI Publisher 11g, Oracle Web-Tier 11g, OEM 12c (Middleware Management Packs), Mule 3.7.3, JBoss A-MQ.
• Worked with development and business teams to design complex integrations.
• Worked with development and lead best practices, procedures, common frameworks and patterns for use with the Oracle Fusion and Mule middleware platforms.
• Automated code and configuration deployments and integrated with the corporate automation tool HPOO for middleware deployments. Used OEM, JMX, WLST, Shell Scripts and HPOO for monitoring, automation and management.
• Maintained and configured the existing Weblogic, Oracle ADF, JBoss 5/6, Tomcat, Apache servers.
• Maintained and configured F5, Axway API Gateway, SSL, LDAP to load balance, expose and secure services.
• Assisted team with DevOps initiatives and continuous integration tools. HPOO, Jenkins, Nexus, Maven, Ant as well as setting up AWS and moving Java applications to Elastic Beanstalk.

Confidential, Miami, FL

Integration Architect/Oracle SOA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Consulting on virtualization, server configuration & middleware solution.
• Worked with business teams for requirements to develop SOA integrations.
• Project lead in Offshore/Onshore model
• BPEL Development for integrations between Oracle CRM On-Demand & E-Business Suite
• Oracle SOA Suite 11g environment installation & management

Confidential

Oracle SOA Suite 11g & Oracle OSB Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a team to build out an integrated service hub for B2B/EDI transactions and health insurance claims.
• Oracle Service Bus Configuration & Development
• BPEL, WSDL & Schema Development
• Weblogic & JMS configurations
• Edifecs XEngine Server was used as the transformation engine

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

B2B Integration SME

Responsibilities:

• Configured and tuned the GIS implementation for optimal performance.
• Redesign and coding of business processes in GIS.
• Heavy use of Oracle database and GIS tables.
• Significantly improved performance within the system.
• Knowledge transfer of best practices for development and administration of the system.
• Heavy use of web services, xml messages. JMS messaging between GIS and Weblogic 9.2.
• Exposure to Connect Direct and MQ Series on the project.
• Heavy use of shell scripting and Unix tools for monitoring and gathering performance statistics. JVM monitoring and analysis.

Confidential, Norcross, GA

GIS/B2B Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design and Development of eInvoicing Solution with GIS 4.3
• Rosetta Net, PIDX partner setups and Business Process development.
• Ariba AS2 configuration. Ariba EDI and cXML formats. XML, EDI and SQL Mapping
• Java JSP/Servlet Web Application development for on-boarding new trading partners.
• Knowledge transfer and Documentation

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Oracle BPEL Process Developer

Responsibilities:

• Consultant for developing BPEL processes for Oracle’s BPEL Process Manager Server.
• Helped business unit design and create models using Oracle’s BPA Suite. Converted these business processes into executable business processes in BPEL.
• Developed several core processes and workflows that included using Human Tasks, JMS, FTP and many uses of the DB Adapter and database schemas that were used in the total solution.
• Worked with many Oracle tools and products: oc4j, JDeveloper, BPA and SOA Suite including ESB, BPEL, BAM and Rules engine.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Consulting/Development/Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Implemented EAI, EDI & B2B solutions using Sterling Commerce's Gentran Integration Suite (GIS) Server
• Designed solutions to meet the customer’s B2B & Integration needs.
• Performed installations, upgrades of standalone and clustered environments with multiple versions of the product: GIS 2.x, 3.x, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3.
• Worked on all supported operating systems: Window, Linux, Unix and AIX.
• Worked with all supported databases: Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQLServer.
• Developed BPML flows and configured adapters to work with a variety of communication protocols between trading partners as well as internal systems: AS2, FTP, FTPS, SFTP, HTTP/S, SMTP, SOAP.
• Developed data maps: EDI, XML, IDOC, Flat File, SQL
• Provided solution architecture, performance tuning, testing, project planning, best practices and knowledge transfer for projects.
• Helped teams administer & monitor environments and documented best practices.

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Java/J2EE Consulting

Responsibilities:

• Architected a solution to expose existing credit card account information as web-services. Allowing for the integration of web-services to expose new services using business process tools. (BPEL)
• Proposed solutions for the credit application process that would allow an application to be configured dynamically using XML Schemas.

Confidential, Roswell, GA

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a team to implement a site-redesign project using Java, JSP, and Servlet API to provide a common user interface and menu system for all of ups.com. The project extended Struts as the web application framework, using the MVC design pattern. The framework allowed for configuration files for each individual application, as well as for internationalization. This project involved the use of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
• As a developer, worked with Struts, JSP, JavaBeans, JSP Tag-Libraries, Log4j, Ant, JDBC, XML, and Tomcat. Our team developed a web application that allowed retail package locations to accept packages for drop-off. This gave the retail locations access to the UPS databases for further package information and scheduling for pickup.
• Worked on a team that managed the UPS online tools web site, this work included debugging, and refactoring Java code that originally provided a template-engine for the sites content. Our team modified the original application code, implementing the MVC design pattern for future maintenance.
• Introduced co-workers and managers to open source Java tools. This on-going effort led to reduced costs, development time, and redundancy, while increasing productivity, skills, and team morale.
• Gathered documentation and wrote development standards for implementing a test-driven development process, using tools such as JUnit, HttpUnit, Cactus, Maven, and Ant.

Financial Analyst/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Using Visual Basic 6.0 and Microsoft Access, we were able to automate the auditing of telecom contracts and billing reports.
• This helped transform a labor-intensive Excel Spreadsheet approach into a more reliable, timesaving and consistent process.
• Analyzed and reviewed legal documents and bills for contact compliance, to ensure proper billing for large customers.