TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

• Offering over twenty years of IT industry experience.
• Confidential Wade is a detail - oriented, results-driven IT Specialist.
• A Senior Web Experience Factory and WebSphere Portal Developer, with extensive experience and expertise in the design and implementation of custom solutions in the manufacturing, retail, and industries.
• Confidential is a hands-on project leader / developer with a demonstrated ability to quickly learn new skills and technologies while keeping focus on the specific requirements of the customer.
• He has a proven track record of understanding complex business processes and developing solutions to improve those processes.
• Confidential is passionate about learning new and existing technologies and to being able to translate that knowledge into successful projects.

SKILL:

Operating Systems: Confidential WebSphere Portal v 8.0/7.0/6.1.5/6.0.1.5/5. X, Confidential WebSphere Server v 8.5/8.0/7.0/6.1/6.0.2. xIBM Connections v4.5/4.0/3.0, iSeries

Web: HTML, Dojo, jQuery, JavaScript

Languages: Web Experience Factory 8.x/7.x, (WEF), WebSphere Portlet Factory 6.x/5.x, Java, SQL, RPGLE, COBOL, XML, XSLT

Project Management: Agile, CVS, Subversion, Dimensions, Rational ClearCase, Rational Team Concert, HP Quality Control

Development Tools: Eclipse, SoapUI, Putty, Filezilla, Selenium

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior WEF Developer/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Application Architect / Team Lead for four concurrent portal projects.
• Wrote architecture documents for Retail portal.
• Using Agile practices organized and planned each sprint with using the priorities of the business.
• Made architectural and designs decisions
• Worked with business to refine user story requirements.
• Implemented best practices for Web Experience Factory development.
• Created proof of concepts for reusable components.
• Worked with services team to design SOAP and REST services.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Portal Lead / WebSphere Experience Factory Lead

Responsibilities:

• Portal Lead for release development using Agile.
• Created, estimated, and assigned tasks to the portal team.
• Teamed with Portal Architect to design Portal/WEF solutions for future releases.
• Responsible for new staff on Web Experience Factory
• Documented and changed WEF structure and code in order for client to reuse as much as possible for the future customer portal

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior WebSphere Portal Architect

Responsibilities:

• Consultant responsible for providing expertise, leadership, and development in WebSphere Portal and Web Experience / Portlet Factory.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Portal Lead / Developer

Responsibilities:

• Lead developer in creating “CargoIntranet” portal with initial booking application using WebSphere Portlet Factory.
• Converted existing external cargo web site to use WebSphere Portlet Factory running on a WebSphere Application Server.
• Conversion allowed the company to justify a project to completely rewrite the site and eventually move to portal.
• Portal Team Lead / Developer on Airport Services portal to convert multiple sites into portal.
• Working with .Net and Cognos teams to provide data to portal.

Confidential, Greenville, SC

Senior IT Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Developed UI to maintain Course Proposals with Portlet Factory using REST services to retrieve / maintain custom SABA tables.
• Single WEF developer of a Benefits Open Enrollment Portal that allowed the Confidential employees to enter their benefit elections thru the portal.
• Integrated web services from PeopleSoft.
• Worked with the Human Resources and Payroll teams to develop, test, and implement the portal.
• Delivered on time and enrollment was successful.

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Portal Lead / Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Managed and directed a team of 12 developers.
• Responsible for project planning of the final phase of the project.
• Worked with existing India team to address architecture issues with previous phases.
• Directed the completion of final three phases using Portal and Portlet Factory best practices.
• Personally developed a Quick Search Portlet and implemented.
• Delivered the remaining portlets on time and successfully completed performance testing

Confidential, New York, NY

Team lead

Responsibilities:

• Transferred my Portlet Factory knowledge to other team members.
• Developed a major part of the Student Profile portal.
• Collaborated with other development teams to coordinate the development of the search portlets.
• Was promoted to Portal Team lead and successfully led the team in completing the final release on time.

Confidential, Columbia, SC

Manager of Application Development

Responsibilities:

• Managed and developed enterprise applications on a heavily customized ERP system.
• Sole Java resource and primary Portlet Factory resource for WebSphere Portal projects.
• Separated legacy iSeries ILE applications into Model / View / Controller architecture.
• Duties included both planning and management of project and also hands on development.

Confidential

Project Lead / Main developer

Responsibilities:

• Created stored procedures from iSeries to retrieve/update production data.
• Developed Portlets using WebSphere Portlet Factory
• Saved 5 to 10 man-hours per week for each scheduler across four plants.
• Used Portlet Factory Profiling to distinguish customers from internal users.
• Used existing Java classes in Portlet to extract and display documents from legacy document system (RVI).

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Converted data information system (Infomanager) to portal application using Portlet Factory 6.0.
• Wrote stored procedures to extract information for data stores on SQL Server.
• Designed custom builders for Portlet Factory models.

Confidential

Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Stored Procedures using ILE and embedded SQL to transfer data to DAO.
• Developed the themes, skins and screens for the Portal.
• Integrated with Omron PLC system to capture paint recipes setting and physical readings to create a “recipe” for future paint jobs.
• Learned proprietary language for Omron to assist consultant in design of recipe system.
• Setup MS Access Database and Visual Basic procedures to upload / download recipes from iSeries.
• Converted legacy COBOL invoice program to current RPG ILE structured code.
• Wrote tool to aid conversion of COBOL programs to RPGILE.
• Developed print overlays using MS Word.
• Added files and programs for Unit level invoicing.
• Successfully tested and implemented company wide
• Worked with Sales and Administration users to convert Excel forecasting spreadsheet to iSeries application.
• Designed system to handle eight levels of forecasting.
• Reduced manual process from 8 hours per lot to 1/2 hour.
• Replaced multiple spreadsheets and manual procedures.
• Designed, tested, and integrated with Jobscope ERP system.
• Used embedded SQL in RPGLE to pull sales and booking data into summary screens.
• Created and updated database triggers to maintain summary repositories.

Confidential, Greenville, SC

Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Individually implemented new ERP system to 5 mills. Responsible for program changes, and implementation.
• Wrote Automated Finished Inspection system at a yarn mill.
• Worked with users and management to purchase equipment needed
• Designed work flow to match how the cloth was inspected.
• Created new labels and setup printing procedures.
• Modified existing ERP system to run newly acquired pocket cutting mill in Texas.
• Modified System and Implemented.
• Successfully added alternate units of measure across system.
• Implemented inventory supply system across seven mills.
• Worked on team to implement new warehouse system at yarn mill.
• Worked with RF scanners to set up cycle counts.
• Became lead support for mill.
• Worked on team with Deloitte & Touche
• Developed and implemented Accounts Payable system.
• Developed and implemented Accounts Receivable systems.
• Wrote Receiving and Reverse Receiving programs.