Summary of Qualifications

· Architect, build, deploy, and manage WebSphere MQSeries application projects

· EAI expertise designing and building application interfaces between Unix, z/OS and Windows Operating Systems

· WebSphere MQSeries Certified Specialist

· Telecommuncations, Health Care, Retail and Government industry experience

Experience:

Transportation Security Administration

Dec/04 – Present (IBM) Development Lead

Designed, built and supported a high performance messaging applicaion for TSA Secure Flight. Designed custom software components from Use Case models. Responsibilities included the creation of component models, sequence diagrams and class diagrams. Presented/Reviewed designs with interested parties. Developed Java and Websphere Message Broker components. Used JUNIT and ANT to release a quality product.

US Dept of Education

Jun/01 - Dec/04 (Accenture) Middleware Specialist

Implemented middleware architecture at Dept of Education. This was the first implementation of middleware technologies at Dept of Ed. This implementation supports exchange of financial and student aid information across disparate Systems. Implemented Websphere technologies (MQSeries, MQSeries Integrator). Designed and developed re-usable components for the exchange of information across multiple systems in support of dozens of interfaces. Selected/Implemented adjunct technologies to support EAI (Systems Montoring/System Administration/File Transfer).

NewPower

May/00 - Jun/01 (IBM) Middleware Specialist

Implemented MQseries; Designed/Developed/Implemented Interfaces between CRM (Clarify) and system and billing system.

US Postal Service

Mar/99 - May/00 (Candle Corporation) Middleware Specialist / Systems Monitoring

Candle Command Center support for US Postal Service “Package Tracking System”; Installation and support MQSeries monitoring tools; Design, Develop, MQSeries Performance Metrics, Customer Training MQ Support for MVS and NT.

LTV Steel

Oct /97 - Mar/99 (Andersen Consulting) - Interface Architecture

Designed, built and supported a “interface architecture” product used for enterprise messaging and file transfer. This architecture was used by application developers to transmit files/messages throughout the organization. The developed product utilized vendor software IBM MQSeries, Sterling Commerce Connect Direct (file transfer) Dec Message queue. Software was developed using Oracle Pro*C.

Bell Mobility

June/95 - Oct/97 (Andersen Consulting) - Programmer/Analyst - Call Rating System

Worked on the design and construction of a “data migration” process used in the transfer of “data” between mainframe legacy system and a client/server “Call rating” system.

Newfoundland Telephone

Feb/95 - May/95 (Andersen Consulting) - Application Design / Customer Order Entry System

Worked as member of a design team building an interface between a Customer Order Entry System and a Field Appointment Management System.

American Telephone &Telegraph

Feb/90 - Jan/95 (DMR) Programmer/Analyst

· Defined order entry data requirements and edit rules for telecommunications product 'Equal Ease of Access'.

· Implemented a corporate Remote Procedure Call (RPC) tool used to establish client/server relationships in a heterogeneous computer environment.

· Performed analysis, design and construction tasks in the development of a telecommunications order entry and order provisioning system.

· Acted as a project leader for the development and execution of an automated ‘conversion’ system. The system populated a corporate ‘customer’ and ‘billing account’ database and converted 60 million dollars in ‘accounts receivables’ to a new ‘accounts receivable’ system.

· Performed maintenance and support functions on Accounts Receivable systems.

· Defined the business requirements for an automated 'conversion' of customer and accounts receivable data.

Sears Canada Incorporated

Sept/85 - Feb/90 - Programmer

· Sears Canada Financial Systems.

ANALYST SKILLS:

· All aspects of software development methodology lifecycle

· Develop Class Diagrams, Use Case models, and Sequence diagrams

· Develop Relational Database Modeling and Entity Relationships diagrams

· Business Process Modeling - ability to quickly understand and document complex business procedures and communicate analysis to systems developers and business users

· Object Oriented analysis and design

· Construct and implement automated and manual business systems

· Develop systems maintenance and support procedures

· Project planning, estimate tracking and control

· Formal test plan development, documentation and execution

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

· WebSphere MQSeries design build and administration

· WebSpere MQSeries Message Broker design build and administration

· TSO/MVS, OS/2, Windows and UNIX operating systems

· TCP/IP networking protocols

· Programming Languages, COBOL. REXX C, and Java - batch and OLTP systems

· J2EE Technologies, XML/XSD , JAVA, JDBC, JAXB

· CICS application programming

· VSAM data files and IDCAMS utilities

· MVS utilities, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, PDSEDIT

· Relational DB - DB2, Sybase and Oracle

· Unix Shell scripting language

· JES2 Job Control Language

EDUCATION:

Dec/03 WebSphere MQSeries IBM Certified Solution Designer

Dec/99 WebSphere MQSeries Certified Specialist

Nov/98 Oracle Performance Tuning

March/94 Netwise Incorporated - Software Vendor of RPC technology

Client/server connectivity issues between mainframes and distributed systems

Sept/93 Ryerson Polytechnic University - Object Oriented Programming and design using Smalltalk / Object Oriented Concepts and programming

Aug/93 Texas Instruments - Business Area Analysis-Information Engineering CASE tool; Data and Process modeling.

Sept/82 ‑ Aug/84 Georgian College of Applied Arts - Computer Science

REFERENCES: Available upon request