SUMMARY:

• Information Technology - Software Development - Strategic Planning
• Technology and business visionary with hands on experience in automating multi-billion dollar enterprises. Strong record of success in creating robust IT architectures and infrastructures. Proven ability to bring the benefits of IT to solve business issues while managing costs and risks. An industry leader, experienced in system integration, application development, and technical support across multiple UNIX platforms, Mainframes, and Microsoft environments. Extensive ‘hands-on’ experience with major operating system environments and technologies of the modern Information Technology enterprise. Expert for varied Middleware methodologies, software engineering, and skilled in every phase of the software development life cycle. Provide strategic direction to senior management on technology.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

INDUSTRIES: Energy Sector, Financial Services (Brokerage, Banking), Telecommunication, Software Engineering, Retail and Manufacturing, City Government

EXPERTISE: Java/J2EE, Websphere Message Broker, Websphere Application Server, Websphere MQ, Oracle 11g, SQL Server, Tortoise Svn, JBOSS EAP and Application Server, Apache Tomcat, Eclipse, EMC Documentum, JSP Servlets, Ant build, RESTful web services, Accela Automation, Accela Mobile Office, Misys Meridian, Misys Opics, Apache Log4j, Autosys, JMS, BEA Tuxedo, FioranoMQ, SonicMQ, TIBCO Rendezvous, UNIX, Windows, JMS, C, C++, Informix, SQL, XML, UML, Solace, JIRA, Confluence.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Webspher Engineer and Developer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and documenting the current architecture being utilized.
• Meeting with Business analysts and application developers to define new architecture, infrastructure and requirements for new development and application updates from the ESB viewpoint.
• Define new Architecture and Functional Specifications documents and diagrams for the new infrastructure.
• Attend daily Plan of The Day meetings with all department heads to discuss and plan for any daily operational issues and daily plans of the AMI IT department and Customer Support Centers.
• Completed middleware development to complete new middleware development components and coordinate unit, integration and system testing with AMI Project Application teams.
• Provide software development, enhancements, testing and deployment for over 200 Java/J2EE applications, over 150 Websphere Message Broker applications and multiple Unix and Windows Shell scripts that made up the ESB infrastructure.

The project utilizes: Core Java, Java/J2EE, Eclipse, Websphere MQ, Websphere Message Broker, Ant, XML, Tortoise Svn, Spring Framework, Websphere Application Server, RESTFul, Oracle 11g, SQL Server, RFHUTIL, multiple UNIX and Windows environments, Big Data and QlikView analytics..

Confidential, Broadway, NY, NY

Enterprise Interface Developer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and documenting the current architecture being utilized.
• Meeting with application stakeholders to define new architecture, infrastructure and the impact on their applications.
• Define new Architecture and Functional Specifications documents and diagrams for the new infrastructure.
• Receive an XML input from the AA” schedule inspection” event.
• Design and develop Web Service to interface with AA.
• Architect, Design, develop and test the PDF on the Fly Application (MDB Java) n to create the required Digital Work Packets PDFs for the inspection.
• Architect, design, develop and test the Documentum uploads to the B-SCAN repositories for the inspector’s device sync in the morning.
• Managed middleware development teams to complete new middleware development components and coordinate unit, integration and system testing with DOB IT Application teams.
• Architect, Design, Develop and test the Accela GIS solution for the DOB GeoSupport interface.

The project utilizes: Core Java, Java/J2EE, JSP servlets, JBOSS, Apache Tomcat, Eclipse, Websphere MQ, Ant, XML, HTML, XHTML, iText, wkhtmltopdf,, RESTFul, EMC2 Documentum, JMS and Message Driven Beans (MDBs).

Confidential, Boston, MA

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and documenting the current architecture being utilized.
• Meeting with application stakeholders to define new architecture, infrastructure and the impact on their applications.
• Meeting with local and offshore Oracle development teams to understand and define new Oracle components needed for the project.
• Define new Architecture and Functional Specifications documents and diagrams for the new infrastructure.
• Managed offshore middleware development teams to complete new middleware development components and coordinate unit, integration and system testing with Oracle, Middleware and Application teams.

Confidential, New York NY

Enterprise Middleware Developer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Middleware Software Security, Message handling and processing
• Authentication, Security Monitoring
• Configuration Management, Capacity Management
• Resiliency and Recovery, Health and Performance Monitoring.

Confidential, New York NY

Enterprise Middleware Developer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Identify and relocate all Channel equipment residing in the Sears Tower Data Center to appropriate target location
• Ensure that environments required to support production are available and functional throughout the life of the project.
• Ensure the functionality, performance and support of all relocated environments is equal to or better than in Sears Tower Data Center.

Confidential, New York NY

Middleware Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and architected the Middleware Component for the BLUSA Banking System that allowed all components in the System to communicate with each other. The components included the Montran, CHIPS, SWIFT, FED, OPICS and multiple gateway systems.
• My responsibility was to architect, design, develop and test the middleware components for the system using Websphere MQ, Message Broker and Application Server, Java, SonicMQ, TIBCO EMS and OPICS. In addition to that I trained application developers in incorporating Websphere MQ and Message Broker in their applications.
• I also worked with the management team in developing system architecture and project planning. I designed and developed the BLUSA Archive System that was used to archive all Websphere MQ, Websphere Message Broker, Websphere Application Server error logs, core dumps and log files. My duties included maintaining the system health of all production applications, and update all machines in the production, UAT, development and test environments to the correct version of Websphere MQ, Websphere Application Server and Websphere Message Broker. I designed and developed the BLUSA Application Management System that was used to monitor applications, queues, logs, startups and shutdowns of all applications. It was developed using Java, JavaScript, Powershell and TIBCO Rendezvous for passing system and performance messages to operators. Design, developed and test the SWIFT and FED
• Money Transfer Application, which handled money transfer transactions that were received, and sent in the bank. It was developed using Java/J2EE, Websphere Application Server and Websphere MQ. I was also responsible for overseeing the UAT and eventually the successful production deployment. Additionally, I was responsible for the support of the Misys OPICS application. This included OPICS updates, issue support in the daily online process and the nightly batch processes. I also architected, designed and developed an OPICS monitor system that was used to start, stop and monitor the end of day processes.

Middleware Developer Consultant

Confidential, New York NY

Responsibilities:

• Designed and architected the Middleware Component integrated processing environment for the UBANY Banking System that allowed all components in the System to communicate with each other. The application components included Metavante’s Prime which was used for banking compliance checking (OFAC checking), Infosys’s Finnacle Treasury and Core, Misys ST Payments and Trade Innovation applications.
• Architect and design all message queues, queue managers and communication processes for all system applications and processes utilizing clustering, routing, asynchronous communication and data communication models.
• Develop system wide naming standards and architectural documents for the system.
• Work alongside management team in developing capacity and project management plans with an emphasis on security requirements and recoverability.
• Worked with the Misys development team in developing the Middleware Message Router application to track and route all transactions in and out of the system, utilizing Websphere MQ, 5.3, 6.0 and 7.0, Websphere Message Broker 5.x, 6.x, Core Java, Unix and Windows shell and a Misys Java toolkit called Meridian.
• Architect, design, develop and deployed the Application Management System utilizing HTML, JavaScript, Unix shell, Windows shell and PowerShell and TIBCO Rendezvous. startups and shutdowns, monitor system health, queue manager and queue depth monitoring, handle pending messages on the Middleware Message Router (MMR) queues, configuration files changes,
• Transaction completion summary reporting.
• Report printing.
• In addition to that I trained application developers in incorporating Websphere MQ in their applications.
• Introduced, developed and employed the MQ Extended Security Edition for Websphere MQ 6.0 and Websphere Application Server 6.0 in the Testing and Production environments to enhance Websphere MQ Security deficiencies.

Confidential, Jersey City NJ

ITArchitect / Business Consultant

Responsibilities:

• My mandate was to utilize my in-depth knowledge of technological trends and alternatives, business systems andrequirements, to conduct an independent technical analysis and review of the system.
• It was also my responsibility to recommend innovative architectural enhancements by providing technological strategy, direction and support to accomplish ICAP’s business objectives.
• I completed an in-depth review of the legacy system producing an ICAP Middleware Analysis document that was reviewed by upper management, which became the standard design document for the system.
• Architecturally redesign the current system utilizing current tools/solutions to improve the middleware architecture in terms of performance, resiliency, availability, scalability and globalization needs.
• Reviewed and demoed 4 middleware products as a best-fit recommendation for the future re-development of the software. IBM’s Webshphere MQ, Websphere Message Broker for message transformation, FioranoMQ and SonicMQ and TIBCO Rendezvous for passing market data to end users .
• Provide recommendations to the management team for the development environment in implementing a full Software Development Life Cycle for future implementations.

Confidential, Whippany NJ

Middleware Engineer and Developer

Responsibilities:

• My responsibilities included architecting, designing and developing interfaces with Confidential external systems and the development of the:
• Fixed Income,
• Deposit and Loans,
• Financial Futures,
• Foreign Exchange,
• Outgoing and Incoming SWIFT Confirmations,
• Repos and Reverse Repos,
• Security Static Data
• Swaps & Caps/Floors Interfaces.
• The project entailed receiving messages from WebSphere MQ queues in the Barclays proprietary message format BC Message Format, converting to XML using Websphere Message Broker, handling all internal logic for the interfaces and creating standard OPICS interface header and detail messages. OPICS is a Capital Markets System solution developed and supplied by MISYS.
• Misys provides deal capture, deal verification, credit risk, position management, revaluation, confirmation and settlement processing, payments messaging and multi-currency accounting functionality.
• My s also included re-engineering Apache Log4j to include an application name, category and error code for Windows NT event logger for each interface.
• Create all Jil scripts for starting and stopping all interface applications under Autosys.
• Additionally I created a system administration application Project Mexico Application Management System (PMAMS) using HTML and JavaScript for controlling and monitoring all interfaces and nightly batch processing.