SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a senior architect and team lead with Confidential Software Services for WebSphere, a specialist organization within Confidential which is dedicated solely to providing highly experienced consultants with deep skills in SOA, EAI, WS - BPEL, J2EE, Web Services and Confidential ’s WebSphere family of products.
• Software Services for WebSphere consultants provide SOA, WS-BPEL, EAI, J2EE and Web Services architectures; design, development, and deployment expertise, focusing primarily on application environments where high to massive scalability, availability, and reliability are critical requirements for the success of a project.
• Confidential ’s main areas of expertise are in designing enterprise architectures using SOA, J2EE, EAI and Web Services

SKILLS:

• Systems Architecture
• OO Analysis & Design
• Software Development
• Consulting Experience
• Team Leader/Technical Mentor
• WS-BPEL, EAI, SOA, Web Services, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, WS-Security, Java EE 5
• EJB, Servlets, JSP, JMS, SCA/SDO, RMI, JNDI, JDBC, JTA
• XML, XSL, DOM, SAX, StAX, JAXP, JAX-WS, JAX-RPC, JAXM, JAXR
• Ajax, Google Web Toolkit
• Java 2 / J2EE Security, WS-Security
• Java
• SOA
• WS-BPEL
• Java EE 5
• Web Services
• ESB
• SQL
• .NET and .NET/J2EE integration
• C++
• XML
• Confidential WebSphere Application Server 4.0 AE, AEs, 5.0 ND, 6.0 ND, 6.1 ND
• Confidential WebSphere Process Server 6.0.x
• Confidential WebSphere Advance ESB 6.0.x
• Confidential WebSphere ESB 6.0.x
• Oracle 7.2, 7.3, 8.0.5, 8.1.6, 8.1.7, 9i
• Confidential DB2 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8
• Confidential HTTP Server 1.3.x, 2.0, 6.0
• Confidential Secure Way / Directory Server 3.1.1, 3.2.2, 4.1
• Confidential MQSeries/ WebSphere MQ 5.2, 5.3, 6.0
• Apache Tomcat
• SQLServer, Informix, Sybase
• Windows XP
• Windows 2000
• Windows NT
• UNIX
• Linux
• DB2
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Oracle
• Sybase SQL Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Software Services for WebSphere

Responsibilities:

• Architecting solutions based on the SOA, EAI, WS-BPEL, Java EE and Web Services framework and WebSphere technology set.
• Full software development lifecycle from taking inputs from sales, customers, and the field, to writing product requirements documents, to working with engineering during development, to working with marketing through to product release.
• Development of infrastructures for use in J2EE applications, and design of Service Oriented Architectures.
• Mentoring developers in J2EE design patterns and best practices, and production of J2EE best practice documents.
• Guidance with implementing software engineering best practices using Unified Modeling Language, and OO development methodologies such as Rational’s Unified Process, and more recent agile methodologies such as XP.
• In-depth technical mentoring for developers using EJB, Servlets, JSP, Web Services, and Confidential ’s development toolsets.
• Design of 24 x 7 production deployment topologies, and mentoring management and administration staff in best practices for application deployment and management for such highly available production systems.

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Full software development lifecycle from taking inputs from sales, customers, and the field, to writing product requirements documents, to working with engineering during development, to working with marketing through to product release.
• Built SOA Proof-of-Concept business process applications to demonstrate best-practices for designing and implementing a Service Oriented Architecture using Confidential development and deployment technologies, and WS-BPEL, WS-I standards.
• Mentoring developers with Web Services, ESB, SOAP, JAX-WS, JAX-RPC, WebSphere’s implementation of these technologies, and the tools provided by RAD for Web Services development
• Assisted architects and developers with process modeling issues, as well as advising on architectural approaches to SOA and web services developments, and technology choices for design and development.
• Assisted other members of the Confidential team in troubleshooting technical issues with SOA, Web Services developments, and deployment to WebSphere Application Server, WPS and WESB.
• Provided Architectural and Implementation guidance for using Confidential ’s Service Component Architect and Service Data Objects.
• Provided recommendations on application design based upon J2EE design patterns, to help improve performance and reusability within their applications.
• Mentored architects in use of Confidential new technology such as SDO, SCA, CEI, WPS, WESB and WebSphere 6 best practices.
• Assisted architects in the design of new applications
• Mentored developers in SOA, Java, J2EE, OOA&D, RAD tools, software process, and best practices for development
• Troubleshooting and resolving design issues, coding errors, and performance bottlenecks.

Confidential

WebSphere Architect / System Architect

Responsibilities:

• Full software development lifecycle from taking inputs from sales, customers, and the field, to writing product requirements documents, to working with engineering during development, to working with marketing through to product release.
• Built Web Services Proof-of-Concept business process applications to demonstrate best-practices for designing and implementing a Service Oriented Architecture using Confidential development and deployment technologies, and J2EE/WS-I standards.
• Mentoring developers with Web Services, SOAP, Axis, JAX-RPC, WebSphere’s implementation of these technologies, and the tools provided by WSAD for Web Services development
• Assisted Confidential architects and developers with process modeling issues, as well as advising on architectural approaches to web services development, and technology choices for design and development.
• Assisted other members of the Confidential team in troubleshooting technical issues with Web Services development, and deployment to WebSphere Application Server and WBISF 5 and beta versions of WAS 6.0.
• Provided Architectural and Implementation guidance for using Confidential ’s Service Data Objects.
• Provided recommendations on application design based upon J2EE design patterns, to help improve performance and reusability within their applications.
• Mentored Confidential architects in use of Confidential new technology such as SDO and WebSphere6 best practices.
• Assisted Confidential architects in the design of new applications
• Mentored developers in Java, J2EE, OOA&D, RAD tools, software process, and best practices for development
• Troubleshooting and resolving design issues, coding errors, and performance bottlenecks.

Confidential

WebSphere Architect / System Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided recommendations on application design based upon J2EE design patterns, to help improve performance and reusability within their applications.
• Mentored Confidential architects in use of UML, OOA&D, J2EE Design Patterns, and WebSphere best practices.
• Assisted Confidential architects in the design of new applications, and extensions to Confidential Java infrastructure.
• Mentored developers in Java, J2EE, OOA&D, WSAD tools, software process, and best practices for development
• Troubleshooting and resolving design issues, coding errors, and performance bottlenecks.
• Assisted WebSphere Administration team in design and implementation of production systems, and best practices for scripted deployment of each of the 125 application clusters.
• Worked with WebSphere administrators in WebSphere performance monitoring and tuning

Confidential

WebSphere Architect / System Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided recommendations on application design based upon J2EE design patterns, to help improve performance and reusability within their applications.
• Mentored West Group architects in use of UML, OOA&D, J2EE Design Patterns, and WebSphere best practices.
• Assisted West Group architects in the design of new applications, and extensions to West Group Java infrastructure.
• Mentored developers in Java, J2EE, OOA&D, WSAD tools, software process, and best practices for development
• Troubleshooting and resolving design issues, coding errors, and performance bottlenecks.
• Assisted WebSphere Administration team in design and implementation of production systems, and best practices for scripted deployment of each of the 125 application clusters.
• Worked with WebSphere administrators in WebSphere performance monitoring and tuning

Confidential

WebSphere Architect / System Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided recommendations on application design based upon J2EE design patterns, to help improve performance and reusability within their applications.
• Mentored Confidential architects in use of UML, OOA&D, J2EE Design Patterns, and WebSphere best practices.
• Assisted Confidential architects in the design of new applications, and extensions to Confidential Java infrastructure.
• Mentored developers in Java, J2EE, OOA&D, WSAD tools, software process, and best practices for development
• Troubleshooting and resolving design issues, coding errors, and performance bottlenecks.
• Assisted WebSphere Administration team in design and implementation of production systems, and best practices for scripted deployment of each of the 125 application clusters.
• Worked with WebSphere administrators in WebSphere performance monitoring and tuning

Confidential

WebSphere Architect / System Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided recommendations on application design based upon J2EE design patterns, to help improve performance and reusability within their applications.
• Provided recommendations on the use of Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs), JSPs, and Servlets.
• Mentored Java programmers in the use of WebSphere Studio Application Developer.
• Help resolve issues related to WebSphere Studio Application Developer and Rational ClearCase
• Help resolve issues related to J2EE packaging efforts and developed a batch build process using ANT and Rational ClearCase.

Confidential

WebSphere Architect / System Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided recommendations on the use of Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs), JSPs, and Servlets.
• Help resolve issues related to WebSphere and the client’s application.
• Mentored Java programmers in the use of WebSphere Studio Application Developer.
• Assisted in the migration of WebSphere version 2.0.3 to WebSphere version 4.
• Participated in the design of WebSphere topology in production environment
• Provided recommendations on application design based upon J2EE design patterns, to help improve performance and reusability within their applications.

Confidential

WebSphere Architect / System Architect

Responsibilities:

• Migration of Confidential ’s entire on-line auction business from a Microsoft-COM based solution ( Confidential ’s ‘V2’ system) to a completely redesigned J2EE-based implementation, running on WebSphere Application Server AE v4.0.
• Worked with other Confidential, Sun, and Confidential architects, to design the application architecture, the business domain model, the layering of the system, the decomposition of the application into subsystems and components, the design patterns for collaboration between servlets in the presentation tier and EJBs in the business tier, the design for building XML documents from data retrieved from the business tier, and the transformation of such XML documents into XHTML via XSL transformations.
• Provided guidance and assistance in network topology for load balancing, design of J2EE packaging and physical deployment of the application across the 120+ WebSphere AppServer nodes, and assisted in development of guidelines for J2EE and WebSphere v4 deployment best-practices.
• Developed components for the V3 application infrastructure, and assisting and mentored Confidential developers with J2EE, WebSphere AppServer, and the WSAD development tool.
• Provided assistance with application builds and deployment, and on-call assistance with troubleshooting and problem resolution for 24 x 7 operational environments.

Customer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided recommendations on the use of Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs), JSPs, and Servlets.
• Mentored Java programmers in the use of WebSphere Studio Application Developer.
• Assisted in the implementation and configuration of WebSphere 4.0 on Solaris.
• Assisted in the integration of WebSphere 4.0 with Netscape Enterprise Web Server 4.9.1.
• Assisted in the migration of WebSphere version 3.5.4 to WebSphere version 4.
• Help resolve issues related to WebSphere and the client’s application.
• Provided recommendations on application design based upon J2EE design patterns, to help improve performance and reusability within their applications.

Customer ­

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided assistance and guidance with Confidential best-practices for design and implementation on the use of Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) and Servlets.
• Performance tuning and profiling of an already built J2EE / WebSphere application, in order to resolve a number of J2EE architectural issues. Performance bottlenecks were identified and rectified.

Customer ­

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided assistance and guidance with Confidential best-practices for design and implementation on the use of Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) and Servlets.
• Help resolve issues related to installation of WebSphere 4
• Performance tuning and profiling of an already built J2EE / WebSphere application, in order to resolve a number of J2EE architectural issues. Performance bottlenecks were identified and rectified.

Customer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and built object model - This involved analyzing use cases and requirements to form both static and dynamic object models using UML that demonstrated the use of Servlets/JSPs, EJBs, Java Beans in a layered architecture
• Designed and implemented applications, representing various aspects of their business, including B2B solutions, using J2EE design patterns, WebSphere and VisualAge for Java.
• Mentored customer developers and junior consultants on WebSphere and VisualAge for
• Java
• Provided recommendations on the use of Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs), JSPs, XML and Servlets.
• Mentored COBOL and Visual Basic programmers in the use of the VisualAge for Java.
• Provided recommendations for implementing the use of JMS within their IT environment.
• Assisted in the implementation and configuration of WebSphere and MQSeries on Windows and AIX.
• Built and deployed complex WebSphere applications in a distributed and cloned environment
• Troubleshot complex problems in both development and production environment
• Implemented WebSphere Security with LDAP.
• Troubleshoot any issues that would arise related to WebSphere, MQSeries and VisualAge for Java.
• Assisted in the design and scope of a conversion from Microsoft’s web architecture to the J2EE architecture. This includes the conversion of Active Server Pages (ASP) to Java Server Pages (JSP).