SUMMARY

• 9+ years of Strong Hands on Experience on implementing SOA Design patterns based on Message Endpoint, Message Routing specifically by using Event Driven Consumer, Messaging Gateway and Splitter.
• Experience on working with Protocol, Transformation, Routing and Database specific nodes in the IIB/WMB toolkit.
• Thorough Understanding and implementation knowledge on ESQL built in functions like String Manipulation, Date - time functions and Miscellaneous functions.
• Strong Experience in Creating ESQL Registry Routines to call the java wrappers and DB2, SQL Server specific stored procedures with varying Dynamic result sets.
• Extensive implementation experience on Data power services like Multi Protocol Gateway (MPGW), Web service Proxy (WSP), XML Firewall (XMLFW) and Web Token Service(WTS).
• Experience and Enormous understanding on different objects that can be configured in Data power like log target, load balancer groups, OAUTH clients, OAUTH client groups, XML Manager and Processing Policies.
• Experience in Configuring the IBM API Connect Instances both On-Premise and on IBM Cloud.
• Good Understanding and Hands on Implementation experience on implementing the OAUTH based authentication for APP Developers specifically using the API Connect developed artifacts.
• Strong implementation experience on configuring AAA(Authentication, Authorization and Auditing) by creating a AAA policy using different Authentication mechanisms like in house AAA file, LDAP, TFIM(Tivoli Federated Identity Manager) and TAM(Tivoli Access Manager)
• Experience in working with File, FTE, MQ,HTTP, SOAP and web sphere Adapter based nodes in IIB
• Strong Hands on Experience in configuring Security on both the Message as well as Transport protocol level by implementing Security specific nodes in IIB like Security Pep and by configuring the SSL on the Web services and MQ based Services.
• Rich Experience on Configuring SSL Proxy profiles depending upon the security guidelines specified in the FDD(Functional Design Documents) for Data power Appliance sitting at the DMZ zone.
• Extensive Experience working with Transformation nodes in IIB like ESQL-Compute, Java- Compute, Mapping Node and XSLT Node for specific transformation implementation.
• Administrative Experience on MQ with full blown implementation of aspects as Creation of Queue Managers with custom object configurations, assembling MQ Clusters, Multi instance Queue Manager setup creation and creation of Alias, Model and Dynamic Queues.
• Thorough Understanding on Canonical Data Models specifically XML Format for reducing the number of transformation depending on the application message format
• Experience working on different environments Dev, Test, Pre Prod and Prod with on call 24/7 Development and Production support experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

IBM SOA Services: IIB 10, 9, Message Broker 8, 7, 6.1, IBM Api Connect, DataPower Gateway Appliance, XI52/XI50, XB62/60, XG45, WTX, WSRR, WESB, Websphere Extreme scale (WXS), MQ Series 8, 7.5, 7.

Programming Arena’s: ESQL, Java, XSLT, XQuery, Perl scripting, Shell scripting

Others: ITCAM, Omegamon, Tivoli, SAP, SOAP UI, Oxygen, Splunk, CVS, Clear Case, SVN, SAP

OS: Linux, Unix (AIX, Solaris, HP-Unix), Z/OS, Iseries (AS/400)

Database: Oracle, DB2/UDB, Sybase, SQL Server, MYSQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bloomfield, CT

IIB and DataPower Lead

Environment: IBM IIB 10, 9, Message Broker 8, Data Power Gateway Appliance, IBM API Connect WSRR 8.5, Swagger, WTX, XML, XSLT, HIPAA, HL7, SOAP UI, ODM, Cobol, EDI, SAP, DB2, Oracle, Linux, Unix, Z/OS

Responsibilities:

• Developed Message flows involving invoking of Web Services provided by vendor for Real time transactions using HTTP/ SOAP and JSON domains.
• Designed and Develop message flows that involve File transfers to Trading Partner specific SFTP Servers
• Mediated the backend services through proper SSL mitigation techniques by making us of SSL Client proxy profiles by importing the certificated and setting them to the Validation Credentials
• Preparing infrastructure design documents and use them to develop necessary policies, scripts and code on Data power
• Created services which make use of proper in house caching that can be set by making use of Custom XSLT codes to store the failure status of the transaction that are polled from MQ destinations.
• Configured the Global Caching Mechanism by making changes to the already existing High availability Multi broker Cache Policy with appropriate count of Integration Servers.
• Created Message Flows which involve Graphical Mapping node for Database Stored Procedure call keeping the Performance into high consideration by reducing the CPU usage by 10%.
• Developed Common Reusable sub flows for Error Handling for reduced development time.
• Troubleshooted Flows that contained bugs and Modified them to be issue free.
• Closely collaborated with QA to ensure quality deliverables.
• Developed the WTX specific maps by creating type trees for the HIPAA Compliant EDI Transaction sets like 837,270,271, 276 and 277 to canonical Data format (XML).
• Configured the Processing Policy with appropriate Processing Rule containing the Transform action for Requests with the WTX map with proper logging configured.
• Worked on Agile methodology and Participated in multiple scrums
• Created project and proposal documentation, content, estimates.
• Developed Message flows which involves the Callable Message flow nodes for the on-premise installation which involves idle thread block similar to HTTP Request node.
• Created ANT scripts which involve the targets to create BAR files, override the Barile along with deployment to the specific Integration Server of the Integration Node.
• Involved in the Administrative task of Configuring the Data power XI52 Appliance with proper Ethernet settings, Secure Restore, Secure Backup and Firmware Upgradation
• Created reusable Processing Policies that can be used with Multiple MPGW which are Dynamic in nature depending upon the specific user role and URL.
• Configured Tivoli Access Manager to be used for AAA policy in Data Power.
• Developed XSLT code involving DP Functions, Variables such as Metadata Extension Functions, Cryptographic Extension Functions, Context and Service Variables
• Developed test cases and participated in Integration testing and Black box testing (Defect resolution)
• Worked on Production support, problem determination, War Room support of SOA platform.

Confidential, Georgia, Atlanta

Sr. Middleware Developer

Environment: IBM IIB 9, Message Broker 8/7, Data Power XI52/XI50, WSRR 8, WTX, XML, XSLT, F12, SOAP UI, Cobol, EDI, SAP, DB2, Oracle, Linux, Unix, Z/OS

Responsibilities:

• Involved and Interacted with Business Analysts to understand business requirements.
• Configured Crypto tools, SSL proxy profiles and AAA (file-based and LDAP) in DataPower
• Involved in configuring MPGW and WSP Services, Error Handling, troubleshooting, Logging, Load Balancing, Monitoring and SLM policies in DataPower
• Used XSLT for dynamic routing and transformation in DataPower
• Worked with Collector, Aggregate and timer nodes in Message Broker
• Involved in administration and support of Message Broker/IIB, MQ and DataPower
• Developed SAP integration services in IIB using SAP Adapter nodes
• Involved in Message Broker 8 to IIB 9 Migration
• Involved in Production and on call support and problem resolution by enabling traces in IIB and probes in DataPower
• Involved in configuring Promote properties in IIB and Deployment policies for code migration in DataPower
• Created deployment scripts, SLM policies in both IIB and DataPower
• Performed database integration with Message Broker using ODBC and JDBC adapters
• Created type trees and functional maps in WTX as per the given mapping Specifications
• Involved in Integrating WSRR with IIB and DataPower to provide alternative services
• Performed logging using Log4j in IIB/ Message Broker and SPUNK in DataPower
• Worked on Agile methodology and Participated in multiple scrums and created user stories.

Confidential, Lakeland, Florida

MQ administrator and MB Developer

Environment: IBM Message Broker v7,v8, MQ Series v7, Datapower xi52, xg45, Java/J2EE, XML, Windows, Linux, DB2, ESQL

Responsibilities:

• Creating Application Domains, objects like Web Service proxies, Multi-Protocol Gateways as per the requirements.
• Involved in the creation and configuration of AAA Services, MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) & WSP Services and XLST transformations in DataPower.
• Configured Cryptographic keys and SSL Proxy Profiles.
• Created Web Services for both consumption as well to provide Services using SOAP and HTTP Nodes.
• Worked with Message modeling with DFDL and also created message sets using MRM.
• Developed Message flows doing transformations using Compute Node (ESQL), Java Compute Node (Java) and Mapping nodes.
• Worked with XML, JSON, EDI, SWIFT, Copybook Data formats.
• HTTP Built in nodes in combination with SSL certificates were used to send and receive HTTP service requests from bank vendors.
• Developed message flows in Message broker to do XML to copy book transformation routing and Database retrieval using ESQL and Java.
• Involved in pulling data from the Mainframe via a COBOL copybook (EBCDIC), placing it on an MQ, and having Message Broker perform a transformation.
• Developed message flow for purge process using timer nodes and developed message flows to process flat files using File nodes and MQ nodes.
• Used email nodes for notifying error report to production support team.
• Created Re-usable sub-flows, Common ESQL functions in Message Broker.
• Developed common sub flows for audit logs and error logs using Log4j.
• Implemented Fan-in and Fan-out solutions in Message Broker using Aggregate and Collector nodes.
• Developed Message flow services using ESQL Compute Node, File Nodes, Timer Nodes, Email nodes, and Routing Nodes.
• Created deployment strategies and scripts to deploy the message Broker/IIB artifacts across environments.
• Created Harvest deployment package with promoted properties files, Build BAR files and deployed in DEV, TEST and QA environment.
• Created test cases and involved in string testing and bug-fixing for message flows during UA(User Acceptance) testing.
• Involved in administration tasks using MQSC commands like creating Queue Managers, Queue, Channels, Process Definition, Name Lists, backup and recovery.
• Worked on critical issues and provide the solution in less turnaround time and participated in crisis calls.