PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 12 years of IT experience in the areas of Business Integration (both EAI and B2B) implementations and web application design and development. Involved in various stages of implementation, which include POC’ s, high level design, development, testing and postproduction support.
• Extensive working knowledge in the areas of Business Integration using IBM Integration Bus 10.x/9.x (IIB), WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker 8.x/ 7.x/6.x ( WBIMB ), IBM WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50/52, XB60, WebSphere MQ 7.x/6.x ( WMQ ), APIC , Service Oriented Architecture ( SOA ), Enterprise Service Bus ( ESB ), Enterprise Application Integration ( EAI ) platforms
• Experience in IBM Financial Transformation Manager (FTM2.x & 3.x) in Financial Domain with exposure to various message formats
• Experience in writing DFDLs , good understating how parsing is done with DFDL
• Experience in JAVA/J2EE and XML based application development on Apache, BEA Web logic and WebSphere application servers
• Experience in designing and developing EAI/B2Bi solutions using WBI technologies with strong understanding of integration architecture and coding patterns
• Having very good experience and knowledge on different integration patterns like Publish/Subscribe , Request/Reply, Point to Point, Hub and Spoke, Synchronous/Asynchronous etc
• Exposed to deploying solutions in High Availability , Load Balancing Configurations eliminating single points of failure
• Expertise in developing middleware modules and converting the business rules into message interfaces
• Experience in applying security polices certificates, encryption and SAML in various Datapower devices
• Proficient in developing message transformations using XSL (XSLT) including custom XSLs for various policies in Datapower including routing, protocol mediation and message enrichment
• Experience with application development using MySQL, DB2 and Oracle databases
• Expertise in writing ESQL and Java Compute Node procedures and functions, knowledge of ERP system integration, TPI connector and WTX node
• Hands on expertise in configuring & creating components of Datapower appliance such as B2B Partner Profile, B2B Gateway Service, Web Service Proxy, Multi - Protocol Gateway, XML and Web Firewall
• Knowledge of monitoring strategies, performance tuning and ability to apply technical knowledge to effectively troubleshoot, problem diagnostics and investigations also provided L2 and L3 production support
• Proficient in build and deployment of Message Broker and Integration Bus components in more than one environments manually and also using scripts (auto deployment)
• Good experience in developing common reusable components utilizing ESB and SOA technologies
• Experienced in DevOps , understand ing the melding of operations and development to quickly deliver code to customers
• Experienced in Web Services , WS-Security , WSDL and service governance using WSRR
• Experience in application adapters like SAP R/3, Siebel , technology adapters like JText , JDBC / ODBC and Email
• Experience with UNIX flavors and environments and shell scripting
• Strong oral and written communications skills and demonstrated ability to interact with business users and understand and manage requirements and process

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Primary Skills:  Middleware IIB 10.x, IIB 9.x, WBI MB 8.x/7.x/6.x, WMQ V7.x/6.x, IBM APIC 5.0.7.2, WebSphere Process Server, IBM DataPower Integration Appliance XI52/50 XB60/XB62, Web Sphere Data Interchange (WDI), WebSphere Message Broker File Extender (WMBFE), WSRR V8.0.0.2

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP, UNIX, Linux E4, Ubuntu, AIX 6.1

Languages/Methodologies: DFDL, Java/J2EE, ESQL, Scala, Groovy, Clojure

Markup Languages: HTML, XML, XSLT and XPath

J2EE Technologies: JNDI, JMS, JDBC, Servlet, JSP, JAXP(SAX/DOM), Web Services, JAXB, JavaScript

Distributed Technologies: EJB, RMI

Web Servers/ App Servers: Apache Tomcat, WAS 8.5/ 6.1, J2EE Application Server, Weblogic Server

Source Control/CM : GIT, CVS, Clear Case, POWER,

Software Tools/IDEs : RAD 8.5, RSA 8.0, Eclipse, JDeveloper, IntelliJ IDEA

Others: IBM Data Studio, JUnit, UML, Remedy, Microsoft Visio, XML Schema , Quality Center, Ant

Programming Languages: Basic Perl Programming, Shell Scripting,

Middleware Skills: API Connect, IBM WBI Adapters - JDBC, mySap, SAP PI, IBM ODM

Database: DB2, Informix, Oracle, Teradata, MySQL, MS SQL Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago West suburbs

Integration Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• As a member of Enterprise Service Delivery I was involved new services development for ESL (Enterprise Service Layer), Enhancements of existing services, Migration from legacy systems to new Service layer and various support, management and monitoring activities
• Worked on architecture which used Java Client, RAD, APIC, Datapower, Tivoli IT CAM, WSRR, MQ, IIB and legacy systems.
• As Technical lead I delivered two major projects to completion in timely fashion with high customer satisfaction and appreciation from Project team and ESD team.
• Briefly worked on IBM APIC connect to create Products and publish, also used analytics to debug and other statistics.
• The service integration has transformation of Java Objects to JSON and, JSON to SOAP Message using APIC and Datapower , SOAP to XML using Datapower, and XML to COBOL using IIB, with broadcasting, publish subscribe, aggregation, synchronous and asynchronous message transportation.
• As part of FIPS 140 series compliance i worked on enabling secure connections from IIB to DB2 Database hosted on mainframe and AIX servers using JDBC Type 4 and ODBC drivers with TLS 1.2
• Worked excessively on migrating WMB 6 message flows to IIB 9 with use of DFDL for various backends like RxClaim, Recap, QL (Quantum Leap) and Tandem.
• Followed linear-sequential life cycle model helping documentation, stability without ambiguous requirements and projects with short timelines but expertise resources.
• Worked on critical services involving major Clientele like Peoplesafe, Vordel, COS, CAS, Portal, IVR and others. With domains involving Enterprise, Specialty, Digital and Pharmacy Benefit Management
• Worked extensively on Retry mechanism with custom requirements, logging framework with custom levels using log4j, enhancements involving manual aggregation to make backend calls sequential.
• Worked on infrastructure project where in new server/brokers were added to Production environment in preparation to high traffic welcome season.
• Managed and supported deployments, regression and test support for Client Test Environment involving Datapower, IIB, Message Broker along with WSRR.
• Effectively managed multiple PMRs with IBM for different issue and support with IIB and APIC.
• Efficient interaction with offshore team to train, guide and work along to achieve tight timelines.

Environment: JSON, XML, DFDL, IIB9.0.0.4, APIC WMQ 8.0, EQSL, Datapower XI52, Serena, Splunk, XML Spy, Tortoise SVN, SOAP UI, Putty, Beyond Compare, RAD, Node JS, SQL Developer, HP QC, F5 Load Balancer

Confidential, Chalotte, NC

Apps System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a member of Global Payment Broker team I was involved in various integration projects involving, new development, maintenance of current environment and migration for FTM 2.1 to FTM 3.0
• Used ESQL, DFDL extensively to parse different message formats like SEPA, JSON, NACHA, OFAC, IFML, ISF, GUS and various others
• Provide support for existing ACH Int’l Module in logical testing, fixing defect and enhancements
• Install and setup the complete FTM 2.1 and FTM 3.0 architecture framework in local system for development and testing purpose
• Developed various interfaces in FTM3.0 and enhancements in FTM2.1 involving efficient ESQL coding and utilizing FTM
• Effectively used Web Services Distributed Management Event Format Standard with Common Base Event integrated with FTM
• Prepared and implemented migration procedures for WMB7/FTM2.1 interfaces to IIB 9/FTM 3
• Create and manage enterprise change control requests, work requests on Pac2000, and track it to successful completion
• Efficiently used Confluence to create and share information, JIRA to track and deliver projects, FishEye for source code and Crucible for code reviews along with Anthill Pro
• Documented current environment and created mapping documents for existing applications
• Handled complex code with development and enhancements with tight SLAs

Environment: FTM 3.0/2.1, Java 8, JDK 1.8, XML, DFDL, IIB9.0.0.4, WMQ 8.0, EQSL, WMB 7, WAS 8.5, DB2,IBM Data Studio 4.1.1, IBM RSA 9.1, SVN, JIRA, Confluence, FishEye, Crucible, AntHill Pro

Confidential, Blue Ash, Ohio

Integration Services Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a member of Integration services team I was involved in writing services that can be integrated and used with platform independent technologies also including IIB 10 message flows
• Used Java extensively to create a parser that can parse ACE Tlog and transform into POSLog using XSLT
• Investigating alternate configurations & implementing better solutions
• Help solve problems with EDI inbound and outbound flows in XB62
• Extensively used XML handling Java APIs JAXP, JAXB, and DFDL archives
• Created XSL stylesheets to transform TLog xml to POSLog xml
• Used XPATH in transformation to POSLog
• Used Confluence and JIRA and GIT with FishEye

Environment: Java 8, JDK 1.8, JAXB, JAXP, XML, XSL, DFDL, IIB9.0.0.2, IIB10.0.0.2, WMQ 7.0, EQSL, GIT, Datapower XB60/62, ACE Tlog, JIRA, Confluence

Confidential, Salisbury, North Carolina

IBM Middleware Consultant/ Application Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Business Integration efforts and as a member of shared services data integration team I was involved in all phases of the project life cycle from scoping and planning, requirements gathering, design, development and testing
• Created Design Documents for Functional and Non-Functional requirements, Build and Deployment docs, Release Notes and Support documents
• Involved in customer facing role which involved Technical design review, Code reviews with Senior Solution architects
• Used IBM support packs(IA9C & IA9V) for development of Non-Functional interfaces
• Designed and developed Publish/Subscribe interfaces to achieve message distribution
• Designed and developed reusable components such are Error/Audit/Logger interfaces with IBM Common Base Events schema
• Used ESQL extensively and achieved mapping with beneficial functions like Propagate, Absval, Case, Lastmove, Fieldvalue, Cardinality etc.
• Developed various KPI components to provide management and technical staff with insight of middleware processing components health
• Worked extensively on XMLNSC parsers and COBOL Copy book formats
• Did Unit Testing, Created Unit Test Case documents, involved in regression and integration testing
• SME on Websphere Data Interchange application as part of EDI.
• Identify systems, connections, and access that needed to be updated due to security migration
• Document meeting notes, outcomes, action items, etc.
• Identify segmentation conflicts with design and research solutions
• Revise application architecture based on meeting results
• Regularly interact with senior technology and business management and or also explain complex technical matters to both technical and non-technical staff
• Manage and support application non production Environments and co-ordinate with Developers/QA/Testing/Business users & Infrastructure teams for Incidents
• Participate in the pre-deployment analysis of systems and software in order to plan activities and meet deadline
• Prepared migration steps and procedures for version 7 application interfaces to IIB 8.x/9.x along with proper test cases
• Support deployment of new application code/releases on Test and production environments
• Manage application environment crisis, Track, resolve and implement pro-active measures to any potential issues & document all application infrastructure issues
• Providing continuous suggestions for various improvements with regard to performance, capacity sizing, better utilization of the hardware/software available resources
• Review, develop and execute implementation plans (eg., Smoke Testing, Pre Production Requisite for Production Go-live) for all production changes.

Environment: WBIMB 8/7.0.0.3, Websphere Data Interchange (WDI), WMQ 7.0, ClearCase, EQSL, RfhUtil, Eclipse Tool Kit, XML Spy, XML schema, Copybooks, DB2, AIX, Windows & Mainframe z/OS, Wintel, MQMON, RfhUtil, DB2 and AIX

Confidential, Bentonville

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• To work independently and manage multiple assignments. Onsite - offshore coordination and provide guidance to junior team members
• Extensive use of Java compute nodes in the development of a java based middleware solution in Message Broker
• Creating deployment policy (SOMA interfaces) to deploy the DataPower objects to higher environments
• Creating Webservice Proxy, HTTP Front Side Handler, XML Firewall, Proxy Rules to configure the DataPower XI52 4.0.2.0
• Day to day production support, Investigating production error messages and addressing client queries effectively maintaining SLA
• Involved in customer facing role which involved Technical design review, Code reviews with Senior Solution architects
• Interacting with testing team to resolve various testing issues for pre-deployment activities
• Handling critical issues, WAR rooms, coordinating tasks and action items to various teams
• Providing continuous status updates, monitor and suggest various improvements with enhancements and reports
• Developed utilities for application health check, payload, throughput and key analytics

Environment: WBIMB 6.1, WMQ 6.0/7.0, EQSL, RfhUtil, DataPower, Eclipse Tool Kit, XML Spy, WSDL, XML schema, SOAP, SOAP UI, Copybooks, Oracle, DB2, AIX, AS/400 and Windows

Confidential, Bentonville

Sr. Middleware Developer

Responsibilities:

• Technical Unit Testing (TUT) of both Brazil and Chile message broker interfaces, common services, router flows
• Effectively used HP Quality Center to create and track Test Cases, Test Sets and Defects with coordination with various teams
• Involved in daily status and hand-shaking calls with onsite team to understand the status and plan work
• Preparing daily status report on the overall status, queries and follow ups

Environment: WBIMB 6.1, WMQ 6.0/7.0, EQSL, Datapower, RfhUtil, Eclipse Tool Kit, XML Spy, WSDL, XML schema, SOAP, SOAP UI, Copybooks, Oracle, DB2, AIX, AS/400 and Windows

Confidential, Bentonville

Associate

Responsibilities:

• As technical lead, involved in requirement analysis, creation of service specification document and technical design documents
• Involved in three modules includes technologies WBIMB, MQ, JAVA
• Development of interfaces with extensive use of advanced product features such as File node, Java Compute node, MQGet node etc
• Developed auto deployment scripts for admins and developers to implement interfaces
• Usage of timer nodes for the triggering of message flows for processing batch transactions
• Implemented WS Security, WS Addressing, encryption/decryption, digital signatures including certificate generation and SSL
• Responsible for analysis, design and development of Interfaces using Datapower Appliances XB60, XI52
• Successfully configured datapower components including WS Proxy, XML Firewall, Multiprotocol Gateway (MPGW), and Web Firewall
• Responsible for taking the system live in co-ordination with the administrators including setting up of the MB environment and MQ infrastructure
• Involved in daily status and hand shaking calls with onsite team

Environment: WBIMB 6.1, WMQ 6.0/7.0, EQSL, Datapower, RfhUtil, Eclipse Tool Kit, XML Spy, WSDL, XML schema, SOAP, SOAP UI, Copybooks, Oracle, DB2, AIX, AS/400 and Windows

Confidential, Bentonville

Technical Lead/Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Technical Lead for an end to end Integration of E-commerce platform with legacy systems using WBI suite of products (Web sphere Message Broker / MQ), Java Web services.
• Involved in requirement analysis and Creation of Service Specification Document and Technical Design Documents
• Responsible for performance, analytics enhancement of the system with additional features as and when business requires
• Developed units for tracing and logging to help determine problems and propose solutions
• Involved in different modules with different technologies like JAVA, MQ, WBIMB
• Coordinate and handle hand shake calls and work status updates with onsite team

Environment: IBM WBMB 6.1/MQ 6.0, J2EE, IBM's integration software platform, JDBC 2.0, Cookies, WebSphere Application Server 6.1, RSA 7.0, Informix, DB2, Teradata, Oracle

Confidential, Bentonville

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in large Business Integration efforts and as a member of project team was involved in all phases of the project life cycle from scoping and planning, requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and go live
• Involved in Content, Payment and Fulfillment modules, later became SPOC for 2 modules
• Involved in analysis, design and implementation for above 3 modules which involves JAVA, MQ, WBIMB
• Responsible for design and development of the Error handling framework (Error Sub Flow) using LOG4J
• Involved in developing Card Authorization webservice, interacts with EPAY(Third Party) to authorize credit cards
• Developed web service flows using message broker adopting WS-Security at flow level
• Developed JUnit test cases for all development activity, done unit testing in 3 environments Dev, IT and QA
• Created Unit Test Cases(UTC) and Unit Test Plan(UTP) documents for all the development activities
• Individually developed the logging and alerting using Log4j in Websphere Message Broker, Java and Webservices
• Effectively driving interactions with MQ team, meetings, presentations, and reviews with the client
• Created Code review doc, Design review docs, Build and Deployment docs, Release Notes and Support documents
• Efficiently maintained project data in CVS, and code maintenance in ClearCase
• Involved in deployment activity using POWER, and moving application to different environments
• Effectively used Remedy and HP Quality Center for the project needs
• Individually driving Change Requests, and application support issues when project was in support phase
• Involved in daily status and hand shaking calls with onsite team.

Environment: IBM WBMB 6.1/MQ 6.0, J2EE, IBM's integration software platform, JDBC 2.0, Cookies, WebSphere Application Server 6.1, RSA 7.0, Informix, DB2, Teradata, Oracle

Confidential

Associate

Responsibilities:

• Studied legacy architecture thoroughly and c reated Flow Charts, UML diagrams and architecture document for the whole architecture
• Created Blue Print document for the new version application, with all business, technical and development artifacts
• Involved in direct discussions with Sales and Marketing Dept to understand requirement
• Created Functional and Technical Design documents, build and deployment document and production support documents
• Developed MIS Reporting Module, bar-coding module which exchange messages between front end web systems to backend systems (database, audit systems, billing)
• Created Unit test cases and did unit testing, created Unit test plan
• Created Support documents and provided End-User support

Environment: IBM WBMB 6.0/MQ, J2EE, JDBC 2.0, XML, SAOP, My-SQL 5.0, AIX/Unix, Linux, Apache Subversion

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis, design and implementation of different modules
• Design of mid-tier interfaces, ESQL programming, and development of a JMS framework to interface between the web front end and MQ Series
• Design and develop message flows for interfacing between the web front-end and the mainframe backend
• Design and modeling of message sets involving XML-CWF mapping and vice versa

Environment : IBM WBMB 6.0/MQ, Java, JDBC 2.0, WebSphere Application Server 6.0, DB2, Oracle 9i, CVS, Windows XP/ AIX

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement Analysis, Design Documents and weekly Review Meetings
• Designing and creating the Database tables using ER-Diagrams
• Developed the user interfaces using HTML 4.0 and JSP 1.1
• Developed servlet on the server side to accept the data from multiple HTTP clients, and interact with the back-end My SQL to generate output for the users
• Developed Server side components using servlet
• Developing Test Cases and subsequently unit testing of the various modules developed

Environment: Java/J2EE, JSP, HTML, JDBC 2.0, Servlet, J2EE Application Server, Eclipse 3.01, SQL Server 2003