OBJECTIVE:

Seek a position as a Senior Middleware Architect with a top - notch company that can utilize my eclectic skill set and rich experience in architecting best-of-breed solutions.

SUMMARY:

• 23 years of in-depth professional experience in full system development life cycle: business analysis, architecture, design, coding, testing and deployment of multi-tiered enterprise applications in multi-platform environments.
• Rich experience in project management, strategy articulation, artifact creation, OOAD patterns, CASE tools, RUP, SOA, BPM, ODM, GUI design, API led connectivity, web services, portals, data modeling, performance monitoring, capacity planning, fine-tuning, integration, migration and governance.
• Designed and implemented cost-effective solutions for banking, insurance, home automation, environmental services, energy trading and tourism industries.

COMPETENCIES:

• Highly adaptable, agile, ambiguity tolerant, empathetic, approachable and trusted advisor.
• Consulting, facilitation, virtual team building, subject matter expertise and leadership skills.
• Ability to define and champion standards and collaboration with stakeholders (PMO, VP & C-Level).

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:

Programming Languages: Java, SQL, PL/SQL, VB

RIA Design: HTML, DHTML, Java Script, CSS, AJAX

Report Writers: R & R 6.5-8, Crystal Reports 4-6, Oracle Reports 2.5

Operating Systems/Environments: UNIX (Solaris, AIX), Linux, Windows

Databases: Oracle 7/8i/9i/10g/11g, SQL Server 6.5-7, DB2, Microsoft Access

Hardware: Intel Pentium PC, Sun UltraSPARC, Unisys Clear Path MCP Server

Testing/Logging Frameworks/Tools: Junit, Log4j, Load Runner, JMeter, Jtest, Test Director

Office Automation/Project Management Tools: OpenOffice, MS Office, MS Project, HP PPM

Version Control Systems: AccuRev, PVCS, VSS 4.0, WinCVS, SVN, Star Team Professional, Git

IDEs: JBuilder 3-7, Dream Weaver Ultra Dev 4/MX, Eclipse, Jdeveloper, RAD, WID, Anypoint Studio

Technologies/Frameworks: Struts, Spring, Hibernate, J2EE, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, BPEL REST, TOGAF

CASE/Modeling Tools: System Architect, Rational Rose, Rational XDE, MS VISIO, WebSphere Modeler

SOA/BPM/MQ: DataPower, TOMCAT, WebLogic, WebSphere BPM, WODM, WPS, WBAM, WBE, WESB, WSRR, MQ, Apache Camel, Mulesoft Anypoint platform, Active MQ, RabbitMQ, RAML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Integration Architect

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Technical Environment: SOA, BPM, SharePoint, NetSkope CASB, Mulesoft Anypoint Platform, Active MQ, BMC ITSM, Atrium CMDB, B|DNA

Responsibilities:

• Led the PoC to integrate vendor/internal applications to CMDB leveraging iPaaS on BoA’s SOA/BPM COE.
• SOR rationalization, tool consolidation, championing standards on service integration and governance.
• Spearheaded the integration efforts on the PoC for multiple product catalog integration and harmonization using B|DNA Technopedia/Normalize.
• Provided integration architecture design for middleware and database lifecycle services using API led connectivity for connecting and exposing assets through purposeful and reusable APIs.
• Evaluated numerous Enterprise Architecture technology exception and classification requests (Apache Flume, Rabbit MQ, B|DNA, etc.) and provided key recommendations.

Middleware Architect

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Technical Environment: SOA, DataPower XI50, WebSphere App Sever 8.x, WebSphere MQ 7.x, TOMCAT, Jenkins CI, Apache Camel, VMware SRM, Windows and Linux

Responsibilities:

• Provided key recommendations to the SOA governance board on enriching the existing middleware infrastructure to support SOA ecosystem.
• Participated in DR planning and testing efforts led by AT&T using VMware SRM technology.
• Spearheaded the operational readiness testing efforts of enterprise messaging infrastructure.
• Led the effort to build technical specification for creation of middleware infrastructure.
• Played a crucial role in building the POC for a highly available, fault-tolerant and scalable messaging infrastructure using multi-instance queue manager feature.
• Played a pivotal role in architecture evaluation, estimation, technology selection and strategy articulation.

Solutions Architect

Confidential, Houston, TX

Technical Environment: SOA, Datapower XI50, Tivoli Omnibus, WebSphere Process Server 7.0, WebSphere Business Monitor 7.0, WebSphere Business Events 7.0.X, Business Space, WID 7.0, DB2 9.7, Windows and AIX

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and fine-tuning of WebSphere BPM stack (WID, WPS, WBAM & WBE).
• Extensively involved in architecting and building a multi clustered topology (WPS, WBAM and WBE).
• Created bi-directional integration between WBE, WBAM and Tivoli Omnibus.
• Created complex KPIs, metrics, dimensional reports, event filters, synthetic events and interaction sets.
• DataPower integration with WBE via Multi Protocol Gateways to dispatch the tamper events from meters.
• Created and deployed complex event processing models in WBE for smart meter tamper event correlation.

Technical Architect

Confidential, Houston, TX

Technical Environment: SOA, J2EE, Unix, WebSphere Process Server, Itemfield, Datapower, WebSphere Adapters, Websphere MQ, MS VISIO, MS Office, XML, HP BAC, Jtest, RAD, Cognos BI and ORACLE

Responsibilities:

• Led technical architecture efforts, performed process modeling and ensured standards compliance.
• Played a lead role in setting up SOA infrastructure using Websphere family of middleware products.
• Spearheaded the performance prediction and capacity planning efforts for middleware infrastructure.
• Responsible for strategic decision making, project management, architecture evaluation, technical design, feasibility assessment, vendor management, problem resolution, fine-tuning and mentoring.