SUMMARY:

• More Than 30 Years Of IT Experience In The Financial, Insurance, Public Utilities, and Defense Industries, Working In Various Capacities Including Systems Programmer, Programmer/Analyst, Capacity/Performance Engineer, And Middleware Specialist / Administartion.
• Special Expertise In Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) And Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Ten Years of In - Depth Experience Working with Websphere as an Administrator/Engineer
• Highly Adept At Administering Websphere MQ (WMQ); Websphere Message Broker (WMB); Websphere Application Server (WAS); Websphere Enterprise Service Bus (WESB; And jBoss.

SKILLS/TECHNOLOGIES:

Databases: DB2 UDB, MySQL, MS Access, SQL Server, Derby/Cloudscape Oracle, PostgresSQL, MarkLogic

Languages: C/C++, PL/1, IBM Macro Assembler, Java, Python, Ruby, Perl, SAS, R, Mathematica, And UNIX Shell Scripting (Awk, Sed, Ksh, Bash)

Enterprise Applications: Apache, Tomcat, Websphere Application Server, Websphere MQ, Websphere Message Broker, jBoss, WebLogic, Glassfish, and Geronimo

Operating Systems: Windows 2K/NT/XP/Vista/7, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 , OS/2, Red Hat Enterprise Desktop/Server Versions On I86 & z/OS, SUSE On I86 And z/OS, Solaris 9/10, AIX 5, Mac OS X, Z/OS, Z/VM

Tools: MS Office, XML Spy, Toad, Rational Rose, Visio, Project, Sharepoint, InfoPath

Other: CVS, Subversion, GIT, Jenkins, Scrum, VMWare, Chef, Puppet, Nagios, Splunk

EXPERIENCE:

Content Specialist

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured, And Administered MarkLogic XML Database Server
• Maintained, Updated, and Reported On Editorial Operations Oracle Database Schema on Solaris
• Created Perl, Ruby, Python, And Shell Scripts In Support Of Various Utility Functions
• Deployed Enterprise Web Applications to JBoss and WebLogic Servers
• Developed REST and Soap Services To Create Reports, Monitor, and Administer MarkLogic Server via Curl and Websphere MQ (Using Java and C/C++)
• ReplicatedWMQ and MarkLogic Servers Across Virtual Machines Across Virtual Linux Machines Using Chef
• Created Web Pages For Intranet Consumption Using HTML/5, CSS/3, Javascript, jQuery, and Perl and C CGI scripts
• Created XQuery Scripts Within MarkLogic For Administrative Functions
• Migrated and Loaded MarkLogic Data Using MLCP (MarkLogic Content Pump) Using Java
• Created Nagios Modules Using C and Perl
• Managed MarkLogic
• Maintained and Administered WebSphere MQ Version 7.0.1 Servers in a Clustered, High Availability Environment
• Monitored WMQ with Nagios and Splunk

MQ / Integration Engineer

Confidential, Mooresville, NC

Responsibilities:

• Architected And Engineered Middleware Solutions
• Worked On Implementing WMQ File Transfer Edition
• Worked On The Implementation Of WMQ And WMB High Availability Using Clusters And Standby Queue Managers
• Worked On Documentation Workflow System POC Using Lotus Forms, MS InfoPath, Adobe Flash Builder, And Sharepoint
• Performed Middleware Capacity And Performance Analysis
• Supported Legacy JBoss Servers
• Performed Performance and Capacity Reporting Using SAS

MQ Admin / SOA Consultant

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Designed And Developed Java and .Net (C#) Utility Programs In Support Of SOA Initiatives
• Designed And Developed Perl And Python Programs For Automation
• Participated In V6-V7 WMQ, WMB, And WAS Upgrades
• Designed WMQ/WMB Continuity Solutions Using Queue Manager And Broker High Availability Features, Queue Clustering, IBM GPFS, And NFS-4
• Installed And Configured Websphere Process Server V7 And Websphere V7 Lombardi For SOA POC
• Installed And Configured IBM BPM 7.5 For SOA POC
• Designed XSL Templates For XML Transformations
• Designed XQuery, XProc, And XSLT Code For Advanced XML Querying And Processing.

Enterprise Integration Specialist

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Responsibilities:

• Administered And Supported MQ, WMB, WAS, Tomcat, and jBoss
• Installed And Administered WAS 7.0 Network Deployment In Distributed HP Unix Environment
• Participated In V6-V7 MQ And WMB Upgrades
• Administered And Supported Apache Tomcat And HTTP Servers
• Deployed Enterprise Applications To WAS, Tomcat, and jBoss Application Servers
• Developed And Deployed WMB Integration Projects
• Created And Presented Management Level Summaries
• Performed 24x7 WMQ, WMB, Tomcat, jBoss, And WAS Support
• Performed Performance and Capacity Reporting Using SAS

Senior MQ System Engineer

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Planned And Performed Multiple Websphere MQ And Broker Upgrades To Meet Business Needs
• Installed And Maintained WAS, WESB, WPS, And JBoss
• Carried Out Installation Of MQ Client And Investigated/Resolved Issues
• Completed Installation And Configuration Of Tivoli Omegamon/XE On Distributed Servers
• Developed System Growth Forecasts And Facilitated Performance Improvements By Processing Tivoli And SMF Data, Using SAS, MXG, And Crystal Reports
• Enabled High Availability By Implementing MQ Clustering And Queue Sharing
• Improved Efficiency By Creating Automation Scripts And Utilities
• Installed MQ And Broker Support PACS On All Platforms
• Created And Maintained System Documentation Using Microsoft Office Suite, Including Visio And Project
• Maintained OAM Security And SSL On Distributed Platforms
• Implemented Batch Job Automation With ZEKE/ZEB On Mainframe And Autosys On UNIX
• Set Up Mainview And Tivoli Tech Console Alerts
• Installed WMQ V7 In Sandbox
• Analyzed Queue Manager Dumps And Set Up Traces And Tersed Files For Upload To IBM
• Opened PMRs And ETRs With IBM

Statistical Programmer

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Carried Out Data Mining And Modeling, Simulation Exercises, Data Analysis, Data Reporting, And Construction Of Consumer Profile Models From Oracle Database
• Prepared Ad Hoc Reports From Oracle Database Using SAS, Crystal Reports, And Quest Toad
• Validated And Calibrated Risk Models
• Provided SAS Support For Marketing Team And Statisticians

Senior MQ Series Administrator

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Installed And Maintained MQ Series Queue Managers On Multiple Server Platforms And MQ Client Developer Workstations
• Installed And Maintained BMC Patrol For MQ Monitoring
• Carried Out Installation Of IBM Secureway (LDAP Directory)
• Improved Efficiency By Implementing MQ Clustering On Heterogeneous Platforms
• Facilitated Performance Improvement By Troubleshooting MQ Issues For Developers
• Installed Websphere Message Broker V5 With Neon Rules
• Provided MQ Series Support In A 24x7 On-Call Rotation
• Performed Performance and Capacity reporting Using SAS

MQ Series Administrator

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Installed And Maintained MQ Series On S/390, Solaris and AIX UNIX, Windows Server, And Linux
• Actively Involved In Beta Testing Of IBM Component Broker (CORBA)
• Actively Involved In Beta Testing Of IBM Websphere Application Server For OS/390
• Assisted Developers In Transitioning From Batch Pipes To MQ Series
• Provided MQ Series Support In A 24x7 On-Call Rotation
• Performed Capacity Planning For MQ On Mainframe Using SMF Records

Capacity & Performance Analyst

Confidential, Winston-Salem, NC

Responsibilities:

• Collected Data From MVS, Tandem, UNIX, And AS/400 For Performance Analysis
• Created And Maintained Large Performance Database Using MXG And SAS
• Maintained Charge-Back Database
• Prepared Quarterly Capacity & Performance Executive Summaries
• Used Best/1 And SAS To Model System Utilization
• Used Landmark TMON To Monitor MVS And CICS Performance
• Interviewed LOB Application Managers To Determine Capacity Projections

MVS/VM Performance Analyst

Confidential, Long Beach, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed MICS And MXG Performance/Capacity Databases
• Prepared Monthly System Utilization Executive Summaries
• Used Candle Omegamon To Identify Performance Problems
• Made Various Changes To PARMLIB Parameters In Order To Increase System Performance

MVS System Programmer

Confidential, Pico Rivera, CA

Responsibilities:

• Performed MVS Product Installation & Maintenance Using SMP/E
• Created MVS Operating System Exits Using IBM Macro Assembler
• Created RMF/SMF Automated Dumping Program
• Monitored System Performance Using RMF/SMF, Omegamon, And MXG
• Participated In 24x7 On-Call Rotation