SUMMARY

Senior IT professional with 20+ years of experience. Expert level systems administrator, architect and SDLC implementer. Hands - on knowledge of all aspects of systems architecture and development with experience in pharmaceuticals, warehousing, manufacturing, logistics, consumer packaging, and financial services. Flexible and service-oriented; combining a unique synergy of creativity and analytical skills to establish and conform to architectural roadmap. Strategic and focused approach, with an established reputation for limiting risk, creating lean teams, and innovating strategies for optimizing internal operations, financial returns (ROI) and external customer service and output.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Cobol iDoctor
• Facets
• .NET/COM
• SQL DB2 iSeries
• Rational iOS Expert
• Cool 2/e
• IBM Websphere
• Implementer
• Informatica iTera for IBM Systems i
• Java
• Lotus Notes
• Mimix (Vision Solutions)
• Python
• Robot Scheduler
• SQL (DBMON)
• Synon 2/e
• MB Performance Tools
• RPG II/III/400/ILE/Free
• MPG Performance Navigator
• IBM i Control Language (CL)
• Turnover
• VMWare
• DB2 SQL
• Aldon (Rocket Software)
• BRMS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Poughkeepsie, New York

Lead Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Perform IBM i Administration: system installs, PTF deployment, software installation, configuration, custom development, and security.
• Participate in specialized projects requiring technical research and/or vendor coordination within benchmark center.
• Perform problem isolation, definition, resolution and follow-up for system, application, and customer problems.
• Monitor system activity and tunes system parameters for optimum performance. Iseries performance expert.
• Provide technical assistance to other members of the IT organization ensuring consistent knowledge transfer.
• Research and recommend architecture layout and design for IBM i computing platform to ensure availability, reliability, and recover-ability.
• Assist with the installation and administration of IBM i compatible operating systems in a dynamic pool of LPAR's with various levels of OS.
• Establish server policies, procedures and design documentation.
• Serving as lead engineer and technical point of contact for formulating and guiding applied research, analysis, and development for secure, efficient, and redundant systems.
• Designed, implemented and maintaining core PowerHA replication to facilitate DR/HA.
• Established plan, schedule and perform regular maintenance PowerHA switches to ensure stability within the environment. Perform emergency switch procedures in the event of total system failure or other similar disaster scenario.
• Created hosting environment for LBS BOSS applications and successfully relocated iSeries farm from ROC to POK for IBM internal systems.
• Performed deep dive performance analysis and system tuning for optimum user experience. Utilizing iDoctor, SQL (DBMON), Performance Navigator (MPG) and personal toolset.
• Responsible to evaluate bid proposals of prospective customers and contractors.
• Built out PowerVC environment to create and maintain hundreds of LPAR’s in IRLP resource pool.
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key applications.
• Wrote internal notification and call out monitoring sub system.
• Developed custom backups to run unattended within BRMS and combining flash and secondary system to archive to tape library.
• Performed certificate management (DCM) for secure and non-secure HTTP to comply with ITCS 104.
• Maintain an in-depth IBM i hardware and operating system knowledge and all related system periphery.
• Administer job scheduling tools on all IBM i systems.
• Provided problem isolation, definition, resolution and follow-up for system, application, and customer problems while successfully achieving aggressive SLA’s.
• Maintain operational documentation, enhance and expand whenever possible and/or necessary.
• Identify, implement and maintain IBM i best practices.
• Provide expert level of advice/assistance on procedures and work methods for management, software engineers and application developers.
• Implemented CIO security directives and built SFTP and SSH connections across multiple subnets.

Confidential, East Syracuse, New York

iSeries Database Administrator/Lead Engineering Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performed phased upgrade from 6.1 to 7.1 on Power7 followed on by migration to Power8.
• Reengineered iSeries platform to provide scalability for core in house developed business systems.
• Analyzed and resolved performance issues related to the SQL based client facing interfaces. Reduced I/O, CPU and Disk Utilization by average of 50% across all transactions.
• Architected SDLC roadmap to leverage corporate investment in current software modules by creating case standards and defining business process requirements methodology.
• Acquired and installed Vision Solutions Mimix Availability products to supports replication between physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
• Utilized Vision Double Take product to allow for single journal utilization replication of iSeries DB2 database machines as well as SQL Server data warehouse housed schemas.
• Expert in system performance utilizing iDoctor, MPG and MB Software solutions offerings to find the actual core coding issues that can cripple the query optimizers ability to provide mission critical performance. QZDASOINIT performance issues resolved and user performance lag eliminated.
• Developed security policies for the security of sensitive data and reviewed for changes as new technology and services are developed in house and with preferred vendors.
• Maintained vendor relationships and contract negotiations.
• Established business process and procedures utilizing work flow tools (Casewise Solutions)for automation and improvements to existing hardware and software architecture.
• Administered and managed development of the native DB2 database on iSeries with real time ODBC performance achieved to data warehouse in SQL Server farm.
• Maintain iSeries operating system security and ongoing reediness with PTF testing and application.
• Upgraded Aldon Lifecycle Manager to include all iSeries native objects as well as SQL based stored procedures and SQL server related objects.

Confidential, Syracuse, New York

Sr. Enterprise Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed NCPDP Benefit Integration standard format to provide delivery platform and data structure to share all accumulator information to address the ACA and HHS requirements to ensure MOOP is maintained within IRS limits. The standard format is used industry wide to maintain compliance with regulatory directives.
• Supported production development in Facets Enterprise implementation.
• Facets Medicare Part D membership and billing core team.
• Member and participant within Architectural Review Board (ARB) and Solution Design Review (SDR) process to implement standards from BPM through all stages of SDLC.
• Designed interface to allow for varying service levels across both integrated and carved out partner/product relationships to address accumulator errors.
• Provided tiered accumulator exchange modules with functionality ranging for sharing Batched Patient/Member YTD accumulators to Real Time Claim Level accumulator exchange.
• Resolved accumulator related errors in claims adjudication by ensuring the Benefit Integration of accumulator values and Member Eligibility are represented within the system data in as close to real time as possible with current system resources.
• Developed best practices within the Software Configuration Management (SCM) group based on architectural roadmap.
• Reduced manual accumulator reconciliation resulting in substantial cost savings in staffing and system resources utilization levels.
• Introduced Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a business-centric IT architectural approach that supports integrating the business applications as linked, repeatable business tasks, or services.
• Designed ODS to standardize claim format(s) in accordance to NCPDP standards.

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

IBM Systems Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Senior Enterprise Architect for RxClaim PBM software solution residing on iSeries platform utilizing Synon (Cool 2/e), RPG ILE, Aldon, CL, SQL.
• Redesigned enterprise claims data pulls to resolve government claims issues.
• Provided business and technical expertise on Facets implementation in support of accumulator exchange and Medicare Part D membership and billing
• Developed code solutions in Claims and Providers Facets modules (.NET, SQL Server)
• Architected Software as a Service (SaaS) business applications and business process as a service (BPaaS) capabilities across the enterprise.
• Implemented use of Informatica to handle big data analysis
• Key participant and voting member on Architectural Review Board (ARB)
• Led teams both on and offshore in successful execution of all aspects of SDLC. Teams ranging in size from 2 to 30 developers and project management support staff to support monthly releases/updates for core system functionality.
• Designed system documentation and system overview training material to facilitate smooth transition for fast growing support team. Reduced ramp up times by 60% with 98% fewer errors contributed to new team members.
• Object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) approach to deliver new application modules in Synon, RPG ILE, and SQL to current PBM software solution .

Confidential, Syracuse, NY

IBM Enterprise Architect and Data Base Administrator (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architect with responsibility for the daily operations of all IBM systems while directing the selection and implementation of iSeries platform with open connectivity utilizing IBM BladeCenter with VMWare and Windows Server 2003 and 2008.
• Led system design/configuration, acquisition and installation of iSeries solution with IBM xSeries (BladeCenter) and IBM nSeries (Sans) virtual server technology.
• Installed and configured Lawson ESM&R 1.1 applications across iSeries database utilizing IBM xSeries Blade Center and nSeries Sans.
• Created, maintained and administrator multiple environments and database configurations across iSeries, System X with VMWare and Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2010 operating systems.
• Administrator of VMWare and built blade center environment with 150+ windows server virtual machines running Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2010 to support Lawson ESM&R application(s).
• Upgraded Lawson ESM&R to version 1.2 across all platforms.
• Installed and maintained iTera solution to ensure 24/7 system availability.
• Utilized Synon 2/e for application development.
• Developed and implemented full life cycle Change Management policies and toolset.

Confidential, Syracuse NY

IBM Systems Architect and Data Base Administrator (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• System administrator with responsibility for the daily operations of all IBM systems while directing the upgrade to iSeries platform with open connectivity.
• Developed custom solutions within Facets production implementation dealing with Claims, Providers and Membership modules.
• System administrator of xSeries BladeCenter with VMWare and Windows Server 2003/2010.
• Hardware architect of AS/400 solution with conversion of DB2 database to native relational protocol and xSeries BladeCenter technology for real time online development.
• Implemented and maintained Websphere application for support web services group
• Designed system documentation and system overview training materials.
• Provided technical writing support for system integration.