SUMMARY:

• An accomplished IT architect with over 20 years of performance tuning, systems integration, automation / DevOps integration and IT project management experience across an array of industries, including Telecommunications, Healthcare, Insurance, Financial Institutions, Defense and Energy.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology and Tools: Platform Architecture Performance Test Planning Capacity Planning Strategic Roadmap Development Operational Automation Security Hardening PCI Remediation DevOps Automation Hybrid and Private Cloud JAVA EE Solutions for reducing delivery times Expert at automation frameworks and servers: Chef, Puppet, Urban Code, VMWare Automation of software upgrades / installs installations Expert at Middleware Integration (e.g. WebSphere, SAP, Oracle, DB2, MQ series) Middleware Integration across several platforms including WebSphere 6/7/8/8.5, WebSphere Liberty, WebSphere MQ, SAP, Oracle, DB2 Performance Tuning in an SOA Environment Mentor Development / Administrator Group on J2EE Development Web2.0 Technologies - Dojo, REST, EJB 3.x, JPA 2.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Java EE Application Server and Portal Architect

Responsibilities:

• Established the Java Enterprise Application Server Strategy, including Guiding Principles, Architectural Decision mapping and Portal Roadmap. Providing strategic guidance and consultation on platform vendor issues. Managing and creating strategies to lower platform TCO. Integrating Intelligent Management capabilities increasing resilience and adding dynamic behavior. Reducing some mean time to recovery scenarios by more than 90%.
• Establish WebSphere best practices including:
• Monitoring Standards
• Automating Environment Builds
• Establish Java Application Server Guide lines and direction
• Developing Security Hardening Recommendations and Guidelines
• Remediating to meet PCI Requirements

Confidential

IT WebSphere Consultant ISSW AIM Services

Responsibilities:

• WAS 7/8/8.5/8.5.5 ND Install / Architecture/Performance Testing/Troubleshooting/PCI remediation
• Architect, performance test, install and configure large complex WebSphere environments. In addition, to help troubleshoot and problem solve infrastructure issues. Also, re mediate PCI compliance issues. Made architecture recommendations based on the current best practices. Provide best practice recommendations and support for an early implementation of a Watson analytic solution.
• WAS 6.0/6.1 ND Performance Testing
• Worked with the administrator and development groups to re-architect, configure, monitor and analyze the performance data. In addition, to helping tune, troubleshoot and problem-solve infrastructure issues, I helped to automate the some of the monitoring analysis such as NMON, and ITCAM.
• Rational Application Developer & WAS 6.1 ND WebServices Development
• Lead the development in constructing WebServices the construction of the WebServices to an existing JCA (IMS) backend following best practices. Performed analysis, design, and implementation of the WebServices. Mentored the operations team to configuring and maintain the WebServices in test and production.
• WAS 6.1 ND Java EE/Maximo Architecture/Performance Tuning
• Lead the WebSphere with administrator team, to help them performance tune, troubleshoot and problem solve issues. The system consisted of integration with SAP, MQ, and Oracle amount others. We successfully performance tested the (then) largest volume of messages for a Maximo implementation using WebSphere and launched into production a mission critical system for a major utility company.
• WAS 6/6.1 ND J2EE/Messaging Architecture
• Lead and mentored a team of enterprise leaders to guide them in defining an appropriate J2EE framework and creating a center of excellence incorporating WebSphere best practices for J2EE and SOA development and guidelines. The framework areas covered many areas including the following: Access tothe Mainframe, Business Event management, Caching, Persistence, Security, Transactions, SOA, and Model Driven Development.
• WAS 5 ND Architecture/Code Review Trouble shooting
• Worked with the development and operations teams managing several development environments, to help them troubleshoot and problem solve infrastructure issues. Made tuning suggestions and reviewed code based on the current best practices.
• Java Development
• Mentor developers on the WAS 4.0 (J2EE) development environment. Designed and developed the first iteration of a XML marshaling and un-marshalling API . This interface produced domain objects from metadata and then invoked legacy services by interacting with enterprise java beans (EJBs). And upon the EJB reply again use metadata to convert the domain objects back into the appropriate XML message and send it to the requester.
• Framework Integration
• Mentored developers on the WAS 3.0.2 EE, WAS 3.5 EE (Component Broker) and WSEE 4.0 (J2EE) development environment. Integrated WAS EE into a Development framework platform that include Tivoli's Secureway Policy Director, WAS AE, Oracle DB and MQ Series. Assist in the development of a Proof

Development Team Lead

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Developed enterprise objects which employed enterprise java beans (EJBs), servlet and JSP technologies to define an ecommerce system used to provide customer service representatives with customer billing and account information. Designed and implemented an XML interface representing a billing ecommerce interface. Develop and manage project schedules.

IT Development Consultant

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Conducted object oriented analysis and design of software for clients implementing an object oriented methodology (OMT). Implemented the software design in an object oriented programming language (C++ and Smalltalk).Developed and promoted the use of design patterns.