SUMMARY:

• Infrastructure Architect / Business Analyst experienced in Healthcare, Commercial Banking, Insurance (Health, Life, Property and Casualty), Retail, and Credit industries.
• Demonstrated abilites to effectively communicate, build strong, sustainable relationships with internal and external individuals, perform effectively in high - pressure situations and successfully manage multiple duties across multiple projects.
• Service-oriented architecture Systems integration
• TOGAF Project management
• Systems analysis SDLC
• Business analysis Quality assurance testing

Operating Systems:   Linux (SUSE / RHEL), VMWare, AIX, Microsoft, OS/390

Knowledge Base:  WebSphere, Tomcat TomEE, Active Directory, LDAP, SiteMinder, F5 load balancing, DNS, DataPower, NMON, Wily Introscope v8/v9, MQ Series, DB2, SQL, MS IIS /.Net, BMC Configuration Optimization and Atrium Discovery tools, MS Office suite (VISIO, Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook), Lotus Notes, SharePoint, AWS Infrastructure Essentials, Cloud Integration Strategies, Mainframe (COBOL, OS JCL & Utilities, XML, TSO/ISPF, EZTRIEVE Plus, and FILEAID)

Change Mgmt Tools: ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN 5.5.

RELATED EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked with application groups to create infrastructure designs for both new and existing applications for multiple environments based upon stakeholder requirements.
• Worked in concert with Solution Architects to provide needed requirements for conceptual architecture diagrams and filled the role of Solution Infrastructure Architect as needed on small to medium projects.
• Worked closely with technology SMEs to architect enterprise technology shift from a SUSE Linux / Websphere model to Red Hat Linux / TomEE.
• Reviewed and provided infrastructure guidance for security and data access Data-at-Rest and Two Authorization projects.
• Reviewed proposed infrastructure designs for adherence to enterprise standards and approved design to proceed for provisioning.
• Provided guidance to project managers on infrastructure options and delivery timelines.
• Provided project managers with highly accurate project cost estimates for hardware, software, and storage.
• Ensured the seamless integration of vendor software solutions into multiple enterprise environments.
• Provided architecture solutions to address project budget constraints.
• Performed risk analysis of solutions to ensure client fully understands benefits/repercussions of chosen solution.
• Involved in design of disaster recovery solutions for existing applications.
• Assisted the configuration management team in addressing server performance issues as identified through the BMC Configuration Optimization and Atrium Discovery tools and suggested courses of action.
• Facilitated design review meetings with application groups and the various SMEs from each of the technologies incorporated within the proposed design solutions.
• Architected the migration of DB2 databases from AIX to a Linux platform.
• Advised application groups and DBAs on performance issues raised in the Windows / SQL 2003 to Windows / SQL 2012 migration project.
• Acted as daily operations manager for the Infrastructure Solutions group.
• Architected Windows 2008 to Windows 2012 conversion project.
• Worked with application architects on GAP analysis for the WAS 8.5 / ODM 8.7 conversion project.
• Provided the basic documentation necessary for provisioning of required infrastructure.
• Presented complex designs to audiences of senior executives and technicians.
• Participated in RFP reviews and made infrastructure recommendations.

Confidential, Lincolnshire, IL

Infrastructure

• Transitioned Disaster Recovery disk volume back-up function from Systems Programming to Job Scheduling.
• Created business and functional requirements documentation, use-case process flow process flow, and project plan for Disaster Recovery transition project.
• Facilitated JAD sessions between System programming, Disaster Recovery group, and Job Scheduling.
• Trained Job Scheduling personnel on Disaster Recovery process.
• Updated processes and documentation for Job Deletion and Dataset recovery.
• Participated in a SOX initiative that segregated access to open systems servers’ access into development, test, and production environments.
• Identified and verified needed firewall rules for connection from the mainframe to the remote database servers were functional.
• Facilitated design meetings between the Application managers, Source development managers, and ID Security group for ID assignments.
• Created use-case diagrams and business requirement documentation for assigning ID and system access rights for consultants.
• Tracked and assigned project defect incidents.
• Assisted Systems programmers in evaluating an automated inventory system’s JCL and COBOL programs for relevancy.
• As part of a Security waiver created a VISIO diagram that depicted the data flows between remote servers and the mainframe for a Security department waiver.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Consultant

• Worked on the integration of NYMEX/DME exchanges into the daily and monthly job cycles.
• Created COBOL/DB2 programs, procedures, and run JCL to process monthly job cycles.
• Provided documentation, test plan, and DB2 SQL statements to populate test data.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Consultant

• Conducted GAP analysis for replacement of existing data feed to Treasury Securities System.
• Created business and functional requirement documentation for replacement of existing data feed.
• Tracked and resolved defect incidents during UAT
• Created requirements traceability matrix.
• Created user acceptance test plan for enterprise release.
• Assisted in creation of implementation schedule for enterprise release.
• Working closely with business users developed a transaction conversion matrix that allowed for minimal changes to existing COBOL/DB2 CICS/Batch reporting system saving two man-months of work.
• Designed DB2 stored-procedures and supplied testing support for ISIS an e-commerce Billing System that allowed a Java based system with a GUI front-end to trigger DB2stored procedures that queried the mainframe based DB2 tables and returned the results back to the open system via a global DB2 table.
• Modified real-time commercial COBOL/DB2 based transaction processing system due to the deactivation of the current data input system.