SUMMARY:

• With 17 years as messaging system architect/designer in the Confidential, Confidential has extraordinary expertise in enterprise integration. He played key role in the success of the Wall Street’s Pre - Issuance Messaging project at U.S. and Confidential . The system had earned the reputation for being the most robust in the industry - flawless in production for 12 years.
• Authored a paper on design that has become the widely adopted IBM MQ SupportPac MD04
• After moving to IT, Confidential applied engineering practice to IT and pioneered the concept of defensive design, a principle that focuses on robustness of systems from design so that lacking problem becomes emblematic. He possesses a highly conceptual mind and is talented in grabbing the essence of new technologies and presenting complex systems in the most straightforward way.
• He takes initiatives, gets things done, and has a relentless drive for quality and simplicity. He has excellent communication skills and is talented in inspiring team spirit in pursue of the best solution. He is trilingual − fluent in English, German and Chinese. He holds the “Competent Communicator” title from Toastmaster International for his effective public speaking and presentation skills.
• By applying his passion in Lean and TOC, his team achieved zero downtime in MBUSA’s integration middleware services and infrastructure years in and years out. He is a senior member of the Confidential

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Leadership: PMP, CSSBB, ITIL, TOGAF, TOC.

IT Techincal: MQSeries v9, IIB v9/10, Docker, UNIX (AIX, HP, Solaris, LINUX), OpenVMS, TCP/IP, DB2, C/C++, Unix Shell, Perl, Java, XML, PythonEngineering: Structural (static and dynamic) Design, Hydraulic System Design, and Defensive Design of Information Systems/Applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Progressively implemented the concept of Defensive Design that tolerates the rare event of failure without compromising system performance and simplicity. With relentless pursuit of improvement, established a high throughput and failure-free enterprise-wide messaging & integration infrastructure.
• Took countless Initiatives within and beyond IT: Aspect-Oriented methodology, Grid Computing, introducing Message Broker / IIB into MBUSA IT which resulted in a high performance integration landscape with zero down-time year in, and year out.
• Hired, mentored and supervised junior team members in integration service and Infrastructure projects. Applying Positive Reinforcement techniques in addition to his genuine care in the coaching process, he helped his team members grow into competent and self-driven professionals who handle most of the complex administration and development tasks independently.
• Earned the reputation for delivering robust services that lack problems, which gave him the time/energy to take further initiatives that keep MBUSA’s Integration Infrastructure at the very front technology-wise among the global Daimler organizations, like multi-instance MQ and IIB that ensures high availability without the use of expensive HA devices.
• Applying SMED (Single-Minute-Exchange-Of-Dies) from lean manufacturing, his team achieved zero downtime in virtually all infrastructure maintenance. Virtually unheard of in IT, his team achieved zero downtime migrations at 7 Mercedes Part Distribution Centers in the NAFTA region during business hours.
• Initiated the Introduction of Docker technology for middleware infrastructure - setting up IBM MQ and IIB in docker containers, readied middleware infrastructure and services for cloud deployment.
• Applying his passion in simplicity, his team continuously simplified and consolidated existing infrastructure while improving throughput and reliability, achieved millions of dollars of saving in hardware, software and related support cost for the company.

Confidential, NJ

System Integrator

Responsibilities:

• Redesigned existing messaging infrastructure to meet the increasing need of various enterprise integration projects, which involved MQSeries, MQSI, Workflow, Websphere and proprietary back-office systems.
• Established architectural guidelines for the implementation of MQSeries/MQSI/Workflow; established procedures to simplify system management, improved performance, scalability, and reliability in the integration infrastructure. Automated system deployment operations.
• Performed system administration, trouble-shooting and coached/supported the whole development team in the enterprise integration group on MQ and MQSI.

Confidential

Senior MQSeries Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided expert services on MQSeries architecture, administration, application development.
• Designed MQSeries messaging infrastructure. Established technical/architectural guidelines; authored scripts to automate start of day and end of day procedures. Assisted the team to build a tiered API to shield application developers from the complexity of the MQSeries.
• Coached technical staffs to take over high quality support of the established MQ and application infrastructure.

Confidential, New York

MQ Architect, Application Architect / Developer

Responsibilities:

• For the merger of Confidential, designed and implemented messaging systems in the Proof of Concept for a post-merger global reference data query system. Employed a multi-tier Client/Server architecture, with MQSeries cluster as transport layer. Implemented the server application as a stand-alone server, Java RMI server, and Java Servlet, respectively, connecting them to DB2 using JDBC. Measured system performance and performed systematic statistic analysis.
• Coached and mentored developers and administrators at Confidential on messaging system design, administration, and application development.

Confidential, New York / New Jersey

MQSeries Architect / System Designer / Developer / Tech Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented MQSeries system.
• Developed data structures for a new trade messaging protocol. Redesigned the existing legacy back-office Note Issuance System to use MQSeries as transport layer. Implemented new system using MQSeries API. Brought the new system through to production.
• With the superior design with a focus on fault tolerance, achieved zero downtime of the trade settlement system at Confidential and Confidential .
• As a result and recognition of his achievement, Confidential was awarded the Confidential green card by the INS in 2000 as a “professional with exceptional capabilities”
• Authored SupportPac MD04 - Design rules, naming conventions for MQSeries system. The recommendations proposed in this paper have since been widely adopted as a standard guideline for MQSeries infrastructure and application integration design.

Confidential, New York

Structural Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and analyzed bridge structures for the City and State of New York, including the Tri-Borough Bridge.