SUMMARY

• Innovative and highly effective integration architect / lead, with career history of leading organizations to dramatic gains in service - oriented architecture maturity, API utilization, messaging systems efficiency, capability, and performance. Seasoned IT professional with deep subject matter expertise in enterprise service bus implementations, API / micro service architecture, financial services platforms, order management systems, messaging products, and tools. Extensive hands on development experience with IBM Integration Bus, Apigee API gateway, TIBCO BW / FTL across multiple business domains. Persistent problem solver who never allows a project to fail due to technical complexity. Motivating leader who evangelizes cross-team collaboration. Experience with Azure, Google, and AWS cloud PAAS.
• Integration Architecture API Architecture SOA Architecture Cloud Architecture IBM Integration Bus Architecture
• Apigee API Gateway Enterprise Service Bus Tibco Business Works / FTL IT Infrastructure Technical Writing
• Team Leadership Agile Jira Project Management User Liaison Requirements Gathering Process Improvement
• DevOps App Connect Enterprise / IIB / WMB Node JS Product Evaluation Proofs-of-Concept Migrations

TECHNICAL SKILLS

TECHNOLOGY: API Apigee SOA ESB App Connect Enterprise / IBM Integration Bus / WMB MQ Series WSRR Tibco BW - FTL JSON XML REST SOAP WSDL XSD CI / CD VSTS GIT RCS SVN PVCS Maven Loggly Gigya Agile Confluence Jira HPQC XMLSpy SOAP-UI Postman Swagger OAuth2 WebSphere Extreme Scale Fidelity Wealth Central Advent Portfolio Exchange NaviPlan Black Diamond Reporting Salesforce Siebel CRM Node JS C C++ ESQL Java Ksh PL/SQL COBOL CICS IDMS IBM 370 Assembler JCL Visual Studio Oracle DB2 / UDB SYBASE SQL Server UNIX (AIX, Solaris, HP-UX) Microsoft Windows MVS ZOS TSO

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Far Hills New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Implemented the Apigee API Gateway platform supporting callouts to 75 REST methods (Azure microservices).
• Established API naming and versioning standards as well as OAuth2 authentication standards.
• Redesigned the ESB to improve the maturity of the SOA platform and promote expanded reuse of ESB components.
• Managed all aspects of the integration and API platforms.
• Defined and managed agile sprints, including approval of new stories, scheduling of tasks, and defect resolutions.
• Managed offshore development resources.
• Introduced an ESB transaction header to support service versioning and service governance.

Confidential - Teaneck New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed integration projects for compliance with architectural standards and guide selection of integration platform.
• Created transition plan to move a point-to-point / hub & spoke ESB to fully compliant SOA architecture.
• Enhanced the ESB transaction header to support service versioning, service governance, and error handling.
• Created a architecture detailing business processes, integration points, and vendor data interactions.

Confidential - Greensboro, North Carolina

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements for integrating new business segments into the ESB / SOA architecture.
• Defined mapping documents for new interfaces to support development activities.
• Expanded the canonical model to support new business requirements.
• Migrated the clients’ hosted eBay E-Commerce solution into the on-premise order management system.
• Provided Message Broker expertise for planning the migration from WMB 8.04 to IBM Integration Bus V10.
• Developed Web Service and interface adapter message flows.

Confidential - Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

ESB / SOA Architect / Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Defined the canonical model to support access to internal data services as well as external service providers.
• Developed reusable components, including runtime exception handler, web service gateway, and fault handler subflows for all services and adapters. Mentored developers on product usage, debugging, and SOA concepts.
• Implemented 25 web services comprised of over 200 operations within a 3-month timeframe.
• Integrated IIB into the change management process, including automated build and deployment scripts.
• Evaluated Java based WebSphere Extreme Scale caching for persisting data across the broker topology.

Confidential - Raleigh, North Carolina

ESB Architect / Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided WebSphere Message Broker expertise for ESB / SOA implementation.
• Redesigned BAR file build and deployment strategy to overcome constrained ZOS environment.
• Mentored developers on debugging, exception handling, and ESQL, including handling legacy data formats.
• Integrated WSRR for web service governance and dynamic configuration / endpoint lookups.
• Migrated ESB from ZOS to AIX and provided L2 production support.
• Performed IBM Integration Bus and MQ Series administration tasks on Windows and UNIX platforms.
• Developed and maintained ESQL and Java based Web Service message flows.

Confidential - Pinehurst, North Carolina

Vice President of Information Technology

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated all new technology, including trading platforms, reporting tools, and aggregation tools.
• Negotiated hosted environment contracts and established support relationships with numerous vendors.
• Defined comprehensive Business Continuity Plan while integrating recovery plans with hosting and platform vendors, as well as with trading platform custodian.
• Established a Plug-and-Play architecture including web servers, intranet site, active directory and compliance servers.
• Developed automated CRM workflows (BPM) to automate advisor on-boarding.

Confidential - Clinton, New Jersey

AVP Middleware Architecture and Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Served as sole customer receiving Solaris code during both WebSphere Message Broker versions 6.0 and 6.1 beta programs at the IBM Hursley UK lab. Requested by IBM to provide defect detection and requirements development.
• Defined roadmap for WMB and MQ messaging tools, facilitating move toward Service Oriented Architecture.
• Integrated WMB with Legacy Modernization project to invoke web service enabled mainframe transactions.
• Exposed existing back-end MQ transactions as web services.
• Mentored team of developers in usage of Control Center GUI, Eclipse toolkit, ESQL, and messaging techniques.
• Garnered a 200% increase in utilization of server assets by benchmarking / load balancing a complex and extensive system of ETL processing.

Confidential - Plainsboro Township, Raritan Center, and Jersey City, New Jersey

Application Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led first project to utilize IBM Integration Bus (MQSI V1), integrating legacy mainframe transactions with the Siebel CRM platform.
• Defined and implemented the Prime Broker platform integration and messaging architecture.
• Provided wide array of ETL, data warehouse senior analyst, and application DBA services.