SUMMARY:

• Confidential Senior SOA Specialist with multiple s in Websphere MQSeries offering over 25 years of experience specializing (for the past 20 years) in providing total hands on WebSphere MQSeries/Message Broker solutions from installation, architecture, customization, standards, and through implementation and 24 X 7 production support across platforms that includes Solaris, AIX, Linux, Windows, and z/OS . Have also been providing Tibco/EMS and Solace support.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in the implementation and support of the Tivoli suite of ITCAM monitoring products. Confidential broad and extensive background in the design, development and implementation of banking, brokerage, and government applications, as well as the installation, support, and tuning of CICS. Has developed MQSeries and CICS Courses including text that have been used in various assignments.
• Supported enterprise application integration efforts using Confidential central message broker. Developed business continuation plans, backup and recovery procedures for MQSeries applications utilizing high availability in Confidential DMZ/firewall environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: IBM AIX and DataPower, Solaris, HP - UX, IBM z/OS, PC

Software: WebSphere MQSeries, Message Broker, IIB, Application Server, TibcoEMS, Solace, CyberArk, Autosys, CICS, Unicenter NeuMICS, See Confidential, WebLogic, iWay, Siebel, BPM, Eclipse, SAS, Veritas, MSCS, Solaris, z/OS, AIX, Linux, Windows, MQSeries Monitor tools (QPasa, Tivoli OMEGAMON, BMC, Nastel), ITCAM, Tivoli for SOA, AlarmPoint, DB2, ORACLE, XML, Montran, MTS, OFAC, SWIFT Alliance, Merva, Turbo SWIFT, Remedy, IMS, JMS, Java, C++, C, VB, BAL, COBOL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Infrastructure Architect / VP

Responsibilities:

• Supported the integration of an acquired company infrastructure into existing processing flows using best practices.
• Reviewed upgrade to IIB.
• Coordinated disaster recovery tests which included review of test plans and scripts, working with stakeholders and venders, tracking issues and driving remediation. This was followed by managing the post mortem with intent of upgrading infrastructure as appropriate.
• Worked through security audit issues that entailed SSL, CyberArk, open access, and Unix entitlements.
• Migrated from Nastel to BMM product.
• Responsibilities include administration, engineering, documentation of support procedures, development and 24 by 7 global production support that encompasses the full project life cycle.
• Technical support includes working with developers through application issues. This manifests itself in reviewing JMS client configurations, error logs, reviewing processing flows, etc.

Confidential, New York, NY

Systems Architect / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Included anticipatory and proactive alerts.
• Underlining software was MQSeries V7 using pub/sub and Message Broker V7 utilizing Linux on z/OS.

Confidential, New York, NY

Systems Architect / Administrator / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Integrated in scope agencies with the message broker backbone. This included integration of Confidential Siebel request front end.
• Worked with agency teams to evaluate best integration approach. This was followed by installation of MQSeries, support as appropriate, monitoring set up, integration into the DOITT support model. and providing of support procedures.
• Specific focus included providing high availability utilizing Veritas and MSCS clustering, taking advantage of MQSeries clustering to provide scalable and resilient infrastructure. The integration components included DataPower, WebLogic, iWay, Siebel, and AquaLogic BPM.
• Developed Confidential production support model based upon Tivoli tools. This included ITCAMS, Universal, Unix Log, and SOA agents. Monitoring agents were deployed for MQSeries, Message Broker, DataPower, App Server and Unix. Warehousing and reporting of the captured statistical information was within scope.
• Involved in the planning and migration of MQSeries, App Server and Message Broker to V7.

Confidential, New York, NY

Systems Architect / Project Manager / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported Global Funds Transfer and Prime Brokerage for the Capital Markets division. Market data feeds such as Bloomberg were also supported. The ESB connections included Tibco and SonicMQ.
• The MQSeries/Message Broker clustered environment encompassed AIX, SUN, Linux, z/OS, and Windows.

Confidential, New York, NY

MQ Series Infrastructure Architect / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical guidance and support for an MQSeries/Message Broker clustered J2EE environment (AIX, SUN, HP-UX, Win2K, z/OS) that handled firm wide financial transactions. investors bank & trust, Boston, MA
• Provided the architecture structure for financial service interfaces including DTC, Fedwire, and SWIFT utilizing MQSeries in Confidential firewall/DMZ clustered environment. Application interfaces included MTS, SWIFT Alliance, and OFAC. The J2EE environment utilized WebLogic and See Confidential . Hardware included Solaris, AIX, and Windows. High availability/DR was provided utilizing Veritas replication as well as clustered servers. Monitoring tool was QPasa.

Confidential, New York, NY

Systems Architect / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed an architecture recommendation that evaluated the appropriate platform to support Confidential data warehouse XML enabled application utilizing an ETL tool. The choice was between Sun E10K with UDB and OS/390 with CICS/DB2. Both platforms use MQSeries and DataStage.

Confidential, New York, NY

MQ Series Systems Architect / Project Manager / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided 24 X 7 operational technical support for an MQSeries/MB/CICS Web enabled environment (AIX/NT/VAX/MVS) that handled money transfer utilizing Montran and interfacing with SWIFT, Chips, and Fedwire. Responsibilities included, production and development support, addressing monitoring, architecture, configuration, and security issues.

Confidential, New York, NY

MQ Series Systems Architect / Administrator / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical guidance and support for an MQSeries/CICS environment that handled client payment requests. This included configuration of monitoring tools, integration with HP/Open View, develop monitoring procedures, technical support, and support staff.

Confidential, New York, NY

Systems Architect / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed Confidential seamless, cross-platform Messaging Architecture (MVS/AIX/WinNT) that supported the Institution’s global messaging requirements incorporating MQSeries. Responsibilities included performance benchmarks and product evaluation of vendor support software including monitoring tools

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the conversion of Confidential legacy International Trading system to Confidential Client/Server environment utilizing MQSeries, CICS/6000 and ORACLE on an AIX platform. Areas of responsibilities included managing the conversion of existing 3780/3777/LU6.2 interfaces and incorporating new MQSeries, FTP, TCP/IP, FAX, TELEX, and SWIFT interfaces.. This system provides real-time access

Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in partnership with IBM in the development of MQSeries for implementation on various CICS platforms. Specific area of responsibility included development of the Message Channel Protocol used to transport Messages via LU6.2, restart/recovery, and various configuration tools. Other responsibilities include the development of migration tools to allow current ezBRIDGE Transact users to benefit by the MQSeries products.

Confidential, New York, NY

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Re-engineered client/server data access interface between CICS and EASEL customer service application in order to provide improved performance.
• Other responsibilities included providing support for various SWIFT formatted messages