PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Versatile Senior Developer and Architect with over 30 years of experience in a variety of technologies and platforms.
• 16+ years of strong experience in software development using Java/J2EE technologies.
• 16+ years of WebSphere Application Server Administration 7.0/8.5 developer edition Administration; 2+ years of WebSphere Application Server ND Administration 7.0/8.5.
• 2+ years of IBM Integration Bus Developer (Message Broker/MQ Series/ESQL ) utilizing a variety of patterns (pub/sub, fire/forget, request/response, subscribe/notify).
• Well - versed in the Software Development Life Cycle phases which include Analysis, Design Implementation, Testing and Maintenance.
• Well-versed with Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) methodology using tools like Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Rational Unified Process (RUP) using Rational Rose, Agile XP.
• Well-versed in J2EE technologies like SOAP/REST, JSPs 1.x/2.0, Servlets 2.2/2.3/2.4/2.5 , EJBs 2.0/3.0, JDBC JNDI and AJAX.
• Well-versed in various J2EE design patterns like DTO, DAO, MVC Session Facade, Business Delegate Service Locator, Transfer Object Singleton and View Object in the development of Enterprise Applications.
• Java development utilizing JSF framework (IceFaces) for developing Multi-Tier distributed Enterprise Applications.
• Experience in developing Web Applications with various Open Source frameworks: JSF 1.2, JPA, Drools, Log4j 2.0, Hibernate.
• Extensive use of persistence frameworks JPA/Hibernate and JDO to map POJOs to a relational database.
• Extensively worked on implementing Web Services (Service Oriented Architecture) using XML Web services (REST/JSON, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and XML Parsers).
• Worked with XML parsers like JAXP (SAX and DOM) and JAXB.
• Excellent Experience in Server side Business Logic Development using Session, Entity and Message Driven Beans.
• Excellent Expertise in applying JMS (Java Messaging Service) for reliable information exchange across Java applications.
• Good Exposure in using MQ-Series middleware for asynchronous exchange of data across cross-platforms. HTML 4.0, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, XML 1.1 XSL, XSLT, XPath, XQuery.
• Hands on experience with JUnit Http Unit, and Log4j in developing test cases and determining application functionality.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Freeport, ME

Enterprise Architect/Technical Lead/Sr. Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• WebSphere Application Server Administration 8.5.
• IIB Server Administration.
• IBM Integration Bus Developer (Message Broker ).
• Java, REST, SOAP
• JSP, JavaScript
• Git class development and educator.
• Coupon, customer, email marketing (gift card, coupon reminders).
• Corporate card web services (offering).
• Perl, Bash development.
• Rules Engine design(Drools).
• Business to Business (Direct to Business) website upgrade.
• Design and Implementation of proprietary Event Driven Architecture.
• Architecture, Design and Implementation of Gift Card Services.
• Architectural and high-level design of Event Notification Service.
• Design and Architecture for Marketing Web Services: Coupon, Customer, Loyalty, Postmaster, Promotions.
• Implementation and Support for third-party integration (Responsys, Oracle/ATG).
• Implementation and Support for vendor packages (Affinium) for Email Event-driven and Promotional Campaigns, Email Marketing(Responsys)
• SAP Integration utilizing WebSphere Message Broker/IIB 10
• Presentations to Senior Leadership on SOA, the value of Reuse, Portal and BPM.
• Senior contributing member of high level requirements and design for Referential Architecture Model.
• Responsible for Java, SOA, Web Services Standards and Guidelines for over 8 years.
• ESB, Portal, BPM RFI/RFP, Requirements, Assessments and Referential Architecture.
• Application Framework modernization assessments (IceFaces and JPA).
• Java Development (WebSphere, REST/JSON, SOAP, JEE, JSE).
• Retail Catalog Selection application design and implementation.
• Oberlo, Shopify, Google Adwords, Facebook Ad Management.

Confidential, South Portland, ME

Staff Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for choosing new development language platform(Java) and Application Server (WebLogic) implementation. Define Reuse principals and component architecture, resulting in increased development time for Intranet-based applications. Configuration of Application Servers.
• Java Web Application development for Decision Support Reporting, Security Role Administration and Contract Negotiation.
• Authored Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Procedure documents to assist developers in application of Unified Process and UML.

Consultant

Confidential, Valley Forge, PA

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of technical deployment of proprietary User Interface and Transaction frameworks. Created reference architectures to be utilized by development teams.
• Responsible for UML education and evangelism.
• Programming in Visual Basic 5.0 and COM for Strategy Management System (trading analysis system)

Consultant

Confidential, Blaine, MN

Responsibilities:

• Logical and Physical Data Modeling of Customer Database for remotely deployed client database.
• Benchmark Order Processing System against various database architectures (Oracle, Sybase, DB2).
• Programming in C++.

Consultant

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

Responsibilities:

• Logical and Physical Database Modeling for Customer, Inventory, Forecasting, Order Placement in Microsoft SQL Server.
• NT Server System Administration, Capacity Planning, Technical Architecture Design, Performance Tuning.
• Confidential Facilitation and Project Leadership for database migration from Sybase to Microsoft SQL Server.
• Programming in Powerbuilder for Forecasting, Inventory Control, Customer Maintenance Systems.
• Held Confidential Certification for 5 years.

Confidential, South Portland, ME

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Programming, Analysis and Design for Customer Database and Infrastructure Systems.
• Applications written in DB2, COBOL and Telon.
• Instructor for company in development using COBOL.

Confidential, PA

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Programming, Analysis and Design for TRUST applications utilizing IDMS, ADSO, COBOL.