IT SPECIALIST WEB DEVELOPER

IT Specialist with over 10 years of experience in Enterprise Web Development and support of HR web applications. Successful in guiding new global resources into development teams and fostering trusting relationships with the clients. Experienced in addressing long term environment needs to ensure successful project outcomes and enhanced delivery quality for clients. Exceptionally high work ethic, willing to assume the authority to get work done and continue to identify opportunities to create efficiency.

Core strengths in

TECHNICAL SKILLS

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

• Designed and developed sensitive HR web application solutions on AIX and Linux operating systems. Utilized HTTP, WebSphere, Java J2EE , JSP, Struts, Servlet, XSLT, DB2 SQL, Dynamic HTML, Ajax, JSON, XHTML and JavaScript. Proven coordination and negotiation skills working with application owner and usability teams.
• Converted code for processing browser cookies when a defect was discovered in the server code, including converted code into production code so that front end development remained on schedule for the 4 weeks it took to turn this server defect around.
• Developed text-only version of web application to replace image heavy version which was exceeding required load times of 6 seconds per page by 200 or more text-only version was chosen as the final release code with load times of 5 seconds or less.
• Maintained / achieved Client Satisfaction rating of 10 out of 10 on the Health Care website.
• Provided technical leadership across multiple projects with stable base for next release by transitioning one project to external vendor and providing immediate impact to a new project, removing all open JSP coding errors and standards violations.
• Created standalone tool allowing comparison between multiple releases and returned updated translation files, reducing NLS translation update costs by 50 .
• Reduced testing time 20 by implementing a menu driven test scaffold to bypass manual log on of predefined user ids to meet specific re-creatable test conditions.
• Selected to take on additional assignments verifying IBM coding and accessibility standards were met by projects prior to final IBM validation testing removing all major and most small errors.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

DataStage Admin Team Lead / Web Developer

• Technical and team lead for global admin team of 5 members from China, Philippines, and Mexico supporting a shared environment of 30 plus DataStage project teams from Europe, China, India and Brazil in development, test and production environments.
• Replaced ineffective and time consuming wiki solution with an application using email and a web interface to assure notification to affected server users while reducing time used for notification by 60 .
• Reduced request ticket call backs to less than 5 by designing word document attachments to collect required information in the initial ticket request.
• Served as Tech lead through multiple server migrations, OS upgrades, DataStage releases and fix pack migrations across development, test, and production environments.
• Provided training and mentoring to new admin members and new DataStage application development teams.
• Added value for both the admin team and DataStage project development teams by enhancing existing tools and procedures.
• Worked closely with both hardware and software support teams to maintain schedules and limit impact to our users.
• Integrated DataStage command line commands into scripts to relieve demand on DataStage admin team, achieving complex job schedule by customer project 90 of jobs are run from under cron using the scripts, while the remaining 10 are run as scripts by the DataStage admins keeping admin involvement at a minimum.
• Assisted a DataStage project team to meet their schedule by saving 2 months of development time by adopting previously developed scheduling scripts to meet their needs.
• Created cut and paste admin guides for standard procedures to reduce errors and assist in training new admin team members.

Confidential

Data Analyst

• Provided assistance to companies across Europe and the Caribbean owned by IBM with incompatible HR systems convert data into the IBM HR database. Assisted companies in converting employee data information into corresponding IBM data fields.
• Designed and implemented an Excel macro application based on the project spreadsheet that represented all data fields used in the HR database. Use of the application provided a means to collect company data while reducing travel cost to 0.
• Reduced project completion time by 4 months, leveraging remote work options including phone conferences and screen sharing to support multiple companies at the same time.
• Coordinated functions of data checking, password secured approval stage, and built-in ftp for data file proved to be reliable and reusable as a monthly reporting tool for 20 out of 20 companies that used the application initially.

Confidential

Application Developer

• Transform prototype code into Java application to convert large XML source and DB2 data into JSON and XML objects for use in RESTful service by multiple web applications in IBM Learning.
• Created time saving function to generate reusable file containing converted data from XML file and DB2 query. Run time was reduced from 20 min to 2 min. Development was able to continue using a previous run file when the DB2 server was unavailable for an extended time.

Confidential

Web Application Developer