Qualifications Summary

WebSphere Architect Experience

• Specializing in WebSphere Commerce with over 14 years experience in solution design and implementation.
• Completed all the Rational architecture courses at the Rational University successfully.
• Over 19 years experience in WebSphere with successful installation, qualifications and as well solution design and implementation under the belt.
• Very proficient in the Rational and WebSphere development toolset. Conversant and as well as hands-on in the engineering tools as well as the integration and development tools for WebSphere, which include modeling, and round-trip engineering of code to models in Java.
• Strong analytical skills and well as toolset experience in code evaluations, performance and static analysis of the engineered systems.
• Strong skills in the design, implementation and maintenance of WebSphere systems.
• Comfortable in mentoring team members as well as negotiating with C-level on the Business Requirements for a project.

Software Systems Development

• Over 25 years experience in IT organizations.
• Pioneered development of first integrated eCommerce team of end users, developers, and IT developers to deliver sophisticated solutions in support of new WebSphere eCommerce product line.
• Lead architect for Africa SSL Software Solutions Lab designing lab to showcase SOA Technologies and Software. C-Level negotiations and discovery practices to establish potential maturity for particular corporate and government departments to implement SOA processes. BPM Discovery and solution modeling. Design and implementation of new business venture in the IPTV market. Researched, designed and coded concept implementation for new IPTV market in Southern Africa, on new hardware and software platform.

Project Management Delivery

Extensive experience managing multiple projects while implementing best practices processes, technologies and procedures. Delivered short and long-term results through careful analysis of organizational processes identified trouble areas and executed innovative processes and procedures to enhance productivity and efficiency.

Team Leadership

• Highly experienced in establishing architectural practices and implementing the correct paradigm for the implementation of WebSphere Commerce websites. Expert in the use and implementation of the correct toolset to do complete roundtripping between implemented code and architectural design diagrams to establish the architectural rigidity of an implemented website.
• Successful in coordinating cross-functional teams in multiple implementations of eCommerce systems for major corporations encompassing all aspects of definition, design, system and product testing, roll out and refining.
• Evaluated and implemented a BPM strategy at a large chemical company. Establish governance practices for defining, delivery and documenting all the business flows for the company.
• Designed and implemented SOA architecture and showcase implementations for Africa Software Solutions lab. Successfully co-lead on BPW workshop, implementing the SOA/BPM discovery process, to establish the maturity for an electricity supply company in South Africa. This process was successful in helping the company discover the major gaps in their Business process, which helped create a more productive departmental workflow.
• Successfully co-lead the SOA Governance maturity SGMM for a governmental organization in South Africa. This weeklong workshop leads to a follow on engagement of 300 days.

Core Competencies Expertise

Technical Knowledge

• Enterprise Software: WebSphere Application Server, Apache, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere eCommerce portal enabled commerce , WebSphere Business Integration WBI , SOA web services , WSRR, BPM Implementation Via WebSphere Process server WPS Dev Portfolio. WebSphere Lombardi V7.1 and V7.2
• Development Tools: Visual Age C 5 years , VisualAge for Java 4 years , VisualAge Generator 3 years , WebSphere Studio Application Developer WSAD 4 years , Rational Application Developer RAD 18 months , Rational WebDesigner 18 months , Rational Architect 2 years RSA includes Rational Suite, RequisitePro, Rational Modeler, XDE, Robot , WID and WSRR 5 months , WebSphere Business Modeler 2 years , WebSphere Integration Developer, MotoDev, Netbeans
• Architecture: UML, RUP, SOA 3 years SOMA, SGMM. SIMM, SCA, BPM 3 year
• Architecture Tools: Rational ClearCase, Rational RequisitePro, Rational PurifyPlus, Rational Architect, Rational Functional Tester, Rational Portfolio Manager, Crystal Reports 18 months , rational Business modeler 3 months , Rational Method Composer, Rational Software Architect
• Technologies: BPM, SOA,OOA/OOD, CORBA, OpenGL, SOA, UML, JMS, JNDI, JSF, SQL, WML, XML, EJB, J2EE, SOAP, SOM/DSOM, SDO, Adapters, EGL, MQ, TCP/IP, Templates, Patterns, JUnit, Ant, DAD, DADX, DDL, DOM, Eclipse, xHTML, XSL, Hyades, IPC, JAX-RPC, JAAS, JSP, LDAP, MIME, RSS, SQLJ, WAP, WSDL 5 years , COBOL to WebServices , javaFX 2 months , JavaFX, Xlet, STB, RIA, UDP, RTTP, RSTP
• Databases: DB2, IMS, Dbase, MSSQL Server, Oracle, Cloudscape as well as design of CRUD access objects to all legacy databases 5 years , SDO's to various Corporate Databases
• OS Platforms: Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, AS400, MVS

Professional Experience

Confidential

Whirlpool Corporation

• Design lead responsible for adherence to corporate brand message and design.
• Principal Architect for eCommerce responsible for re-Architecting the global sites to adhere to global practices of reuse and business development and support

Principal Consultant, Confidential

• Performed analysis of the Target.com website to provide a code review on the implemented code.
• Used the Rational toolset as well as other static analysis tools to provide roundtripping from implemented code to Architectural Models.
• Successfully delivered report as well as a roadmap on how to improve the code, site performance as well as code performance.

Confidential

• Performed analysis of the JEGs.com website to fully understand the performance issues for the website.
• Evaluated and recommended improvement for coding practices, and optimization for application performance issues.
• Implemented an SEO practice improvement to establish a roadmap for improvement for the website.

Confidential

• Work as the team lead for Sigma-Aldridge on evaluating, recommending and establishing their BPM Governance practice.
• Started with WebSphere Business modular and moved over to WebSphere Lombardi as the implementation tool.
• Part of the process was to establish the ground work for the move to WC V7.
• Evaluated, and recommended improvements for the current status-quo, for the migration of the enterprise architecture, from WC V6 to WC v7.
• Lead the team the provided the data migration task to V7 as well as creating prototypes for the data migration procedures for the various data modules to WC V7.

Confidential

• WebSphere Commerce Solutions Architect within the eCommerce practice of Atech.
• Worked on projects for Harley-Davidson.com and Coach.com establishing and mitigating risks, system design and performance analysis, Code Audit and improvement practices.

Confidential

• WCS Enterprise Architect responsible for optimization the commerce database, enabling and optimizing caching configuration.
• Mentored programmers, developers and other architects, responsible for design review and best practice implementation for the WebSphere Commerce V6 system.
• Enterprise System optimization and performance tuning.

IPTV Project Confidential

• Designed and created prototype for IPTV industry based on new javaFX technologies for the IPTV market. This technology is the new implementation for RIA technologies on STB as well as mobile phones, PCs and integrated TV platforms.
• Investigated and delivered a migration of a Dos based VB POS system to Java for the liquor industry.

Senior Architect

Confidential

• Successful in establishing the IBM Software Solutions Lab for Africa. Received multiple letters of congratulations from IBM Exec's on the success of the labs.
• Set up a major BPM Technical deep-dive for the CEMEEA region of IBM to train all the technical experts on the procedures and methologies of implementing BPM. Also functioning as part of the SW services Group evangelizing BPM and implementations.
• Lead the design of and successfully completed, the prototype for the Nigerian Insurance Commission NIACOM . This project was designed to assist in minimizing the fraud in the industry as well as improving the cooperation between NIACOM and the Insurance companies. The project was the first SOA BPM project in non-South Africa for IBM.
• Lead Architect SWITA for South Africa SSL on SOA technologies.

Confidential

• Education on SOA and Rational product set.
• All courses completed successfully.

Experienced Manager

Confidential

• Setup and trained people on full UCM Configuration Management for their development teams.
• The tools that were used were rational ClearCase for source version control and Rational ClearQuest for change management and reporting. Also tools to setup RUP and UMA procedures to ensure proper quality control for full life cycle application delivery.

Confidential

Was brought in to help with critical project that needed to be delivered and developed within three months due to internal audits for the USPS. Utilized Rational toolset to design, develop en integrate the system with the current in-house systems. Systems were developed on Windows using Rational Software Architect V6.0 running WebSphere network systems, but the system had to run on UNIX with access to VSAM and Oracle databases. Part of the implementation was the training and mentoring of the in-house developers. System was successfully delivered and implemented before the deadline.

Confidential

USPS

• Utilized the Rational suite of tools to design and implement the project. Used RequisitePro to translate the hardcopy requirements into requirement statements. Integrated into Rational Software Architect to translate the requirements into Models and Use Cases.
• Performed Business Analysis on the requirements for translation into Business Models and Use Cases. Use Cases were then transformed into Business integration code within Rational Software Architect RSA /RAD .
• Used the EGL facilities of the RSA tool to develop SOA code, in particular SDO's to integrate a .NET application into the legacy system using Enterprise Java Technologies J2EE . SOA WebSphere Services .
• Used RSA to create, deliver and integrate Project Documentation into Project Design scope. Project documentation included system model, business model, business flow model, UseCase diagrams, sequence diagrams, deployment diagrams as well as Class description documentation .

Confidential

• WebSphere Commerce V5.6 project. Utilized the RAD tools in conjunction with WebSphere Business Integrator WBI to create the EJB J2EE Integration Patterns to facilitate the transfer data from various in-house applications.
• The Rational suite was used to do roundtripping for translating the code back into models to understand the overall design/architecture of the project.
• Completed additional CBT course for the Rational Toolset.

Confidential

• Played a key role in the development of an e-commerce company, from conceptualization through start-up. The company was designed to use satellite imagery to perform market assessments and reduce the surveying time of engineering sites from 6 months to 3 weeks.
• Implemented full life cycle eBusiness system for satellite imagery. Managed all structures and features, using Rational Architecture toolset, to include the corporate website and international payment system.
• Successfully drove the company to achieve positive cash flow within six months of implementation.
• Negotiated and implemented services agreements with African Governments.

Senior Consulting Technical Specialist

Confidential

• Implemented, mentored, and supported eCommerce team. Moved eCommerce software from initial to Business Critical marketplace. Reached quota already in the first year of team implementation.
• Instrumental in developing the IBM WebSphere Commerce technical marketing team from initiation time to a full technical marketing team. Served as a technical lead for the team, assisting team members in doing pre-and post-sales proof of concepts. Served on design review meetings for major corporate customers and consulted with executive members in brainstorming their ecommerce and implementation design goals. Consulted with major corporate customers on bringing their ecommerce websites from planning, design, testing to roll-out.
• Part of IBM's Technical Skill Review Board.
• Certified Technical Specialist for WebSphere Commerce as well as proficient in WebSphere Application Developer Tool WSAD .
• Proficient in designing large-scale, enterprise wide WebSphere implementations as well as the Java/J2EE model2 design scenario.

Technical Marketing Specialist

• Successfully implemented a marketing strategy for the VisualAge Toolset. Instrumental in reaching sales quota for Developer Tools. Successfully implemented VisualAge Tools in various Fortune 500 companies.
• Implemented design specifications into code for a system's graphic interface and updated design specifications and documentation for the system used IBM's VisualAge C tool. Designed all relevant screens and performed all programming involving the handling and manipulation of data to represent on the screen. Aided in reducing a backlog from 18 months to 6 weeks over estimated date of completion.
• Designed and engineered the migration project for MCI's customer database and user interface implementation to achieve a single source code running on OS/2 v.3 and NT v.3.51. Used VisualAge C to implement code and project file sharing across the platform.
• Facilitated OneUp Corp.'s Smart Tool project by setting up reference tables for cross-linking API calls between OS/2 and NT integrated TCP/IP, CSET , PM, and SOM/DSOM. Assumed control of the education and training division, with emphasis on designing and delivering OS/2, C , SOM/DSOM, and TCP/IP courses.
• Performed in a technical marketing capacity, to include developing the market, qualifying leads, completing POT/POCs, and providing technical pre- and post-sales support as team lead.

Additional Experience

Systems Engineer

Confidential

Additional Accomplishments

• Wrote a whitepaper on the Automation of SOA Governance through the use of Rational Toolset.
• Successfully completed courses in the following: Rational and WebSphere. SOA, BPM
• SOA Governance: Successfully completed, presented and delivered Governance process example using WID, WSRR and RSA for Governance entry point design live cycle
• Rational Software Architecture, successfully utilized on large enterprise projects, for database integration, business integration and legacy integration, RUP and UML as part of the Enterprise Architecture process.