SUMMARY:

Seasoned Information Technology professional with over 15 years of experience in the development of financial services applications. Extensive experience in multi - vendor and multi-platform computer environments. Strong communicator with excellent analytical and problem solving skills. Able to adjust readily to shifting business requirements, and work well under tight deadlines and pressure situations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: UNIX, LINUX, OPEN CLIENT LINUX, Confidential (Z/OS, OS/390, 370/43XX/30XX), VARIOUS PCs (Windows NT, XP, Windows 7)

Software: TIBCO, MQ SERIES, JMS, C, UNIX SHELL SCRIPTS, ALTOVA XMLSPY, GEMS, COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, QMF, JCL, VSAM, FOCUS, MICRO FOCUS, RAMIS, PANVALET, FILE-AID, OMEGAMON, INTERTEST, MVS/TSO, VM/CMS, RBASE, 3COM LAN, OS2, PC DOS, CLEARCASE, SUBVERSION, MS VISUAL SOURCESAFE, MS OFFICE, MS FRONTPAGE, SHAREPOINT, CRYSTAL REPORTS, LOTUS NOTES.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boulder, CO

TIBCO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assuming a leadership role in the setup of TIBCO products in development, UAT and production environments for a major Confidential.
• Responsible for the administrative support of all TIBCO products in use, including the installations, configurations, upgrades and management of the following TIBCO products on a Unix/Linux platform: EMS, Business Works, Business Events, Hawk, Rendezvous, and Administrator.
• Monitor the overall health of the TIBCO environment using Hawk.
• Respond to system outages of any components that comprise the TIBCO environment and restore services to operational level.
• Manage the deployment and configuration of TIBCO applications in development, UAT, and production.
• Configure Business Works applications for load balancing and fault tolerance.
• Monitor and fine tune application performance.
• Provide EMS support with fault tolerance using High Availability NFS.
• Interact with internal teams and outside vendors, when necessary, to diagnose and resolve support issues.
• Build application deployment, EMS object management, and general maintenance scripts.
• Document installation, maintenance and upgrade procedures.
• Provide input to the development of release management standards and policies.
• Provide 24x7 on-call support.

Confidential, Frederick, MD

TIBCO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the installation, configuration and administration of TIBCO middleware products including TIBCO EMS, Business Works, Business Events, Rendezvous and Hawk in a LINUX based environment.
• Monitored the health of the TIBCO environment to ensure high availability of mission critical lending applications, and respond to system and application outages.
• Performed root cause analysis and implemented preventative measures.
• Configured EMS objects (Topics, Queues, Bridges, Routes, Data stores and Log Files) using GEMS and manual commands.
• Provided EMS support with fault tolerance and high availability using the Confidential for clustering/load balancing.
• Deployed and configured TIBCO applications as needed according to release and user specifications using TIBCO Administrator and the TIBCO AppManage utility.
• Set up load balancing and fault tolerance for BW engines at runtime.
• Supported post-deployment technical and business validations.
• Developed Hawk rules for monitoring BW and BE engines, and application log files.
• Set up application performance monitoring using Optier, JMX ports and JConsole for issues with CPU usage, memory problems or other issues that impacted end-users.
• Supported the planning and implementation of TIBCO infrastructure changes in test and production environments.
• Assisted in the maintenance patching and upgrades of the operating system on TIBCO servers.
• Assisted in performing capacity assessments of storage, CPU and memory requirements to optimally support load.
• Developed shell scripts and cron jobs to automate the run-time environment where possible.
• Assisted in backups and recoveries as needed.
• Managed source code repositories using ClearCase and Subversion.
• Assisted with the creation and maintenance of departmental documentation.
• Assisted in establishing and implementing departmental standards and procedures for TIBCO application deployments and the administration of the TIBCO infrastructure.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Senior Applications Integration Specialist (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the administration of middleware applications using TIBCO software products including Administrator, Rendezvous, Business Works, Business Connect and Hawk.
• Resolved batch and real time transactions issues and diagnosed problems using web services, UNIX (Solaris), and Oracle SQL via a database interface (TOAD).
• Deployed new and revised TIBCO application service instances using Altova XMLSpy and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe.
• Assisted in the management of account creations/deletions.
• Responded to and resolved Incident and Change Request tickets.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Middleware Engineer/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Played a leading role in the engineering, deployment, and operational support of the Firm’s middleware messaging technology on mainframe and distributed platforms.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed the configuration and integration of messaging infrastructures for the Firm’s applications utilizing MQ, TIBCO MQ Adapter, TIBCO Rendezvous, TIBCO Hawk, TIBCO EMS, TIBCO Integration Manager, COBOL, CICS, and Assembler.
• Interfaced with various development groups to identify business requirements and recommended viable middleware solutions.
• Responsible for the successful transition of implementations from testing through production and for post implementation support.
• Identified performance bottlenecks and tuned systems as necessary.
• Major participant in the implementation of MQ, TIBCO Rendezvous, and TIBCO MQ Adapter on UNIX (Solaris) and LINUX (Red Hat) platforms.
• Mentored junior staff and provided technical guidance to development teams regarding proper middleware configurations, testing and production issues.
• Major participant in the implementation of MQ security for the Firm.
• Responsible for performance testing and tuning projects of new and existing MQ and TIBCO STP (Straight Through Processing) infrastructures for associated applications.
• Developed programs using MQ, UNIX shell scripts, C, CICS, and COBOL for system enhancements, maintenance and monitoring.
• Deployed internet related technologies using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MS FrontPage and Crystal Reports.
• Worked continuously with clients to provide timely resolutions to messaging problems often under time-critical circumstances.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained various Treasury applications utilizing COBOL and CICS, accessing DB2 databases, VSAM, and sequential files.
• Supported an existing Bank Accounts Management System using VM/CMS FOCUS.
• Supported a Client Credit Information System and Accounts Payable System in a FOCUS VM/CMS environment.
• Enhanced existing programs with user specified revisions.

Confidential, New York, NY

LAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all phases of 3+OPEN and LANMAN 2.0 LAN Administration support.
• Supported a Claims System in a FOCUS MVS/TSO environment.
• Developed and maintained COBOL, DB2 and FOCUS based systems in an MVS/TSO environment.
• Designed, programmed, and implemented RBASE databases.