Key Technical Skills
Programming Languages
• Java (included Swing and Jsp, Servlet and EJB),J2EE (EJB also EJB Enterprise 2.0, JDBC, JNDI),JDK1.x., Java 2 SDK, C., C++, J2EE,J2ME,VB 4/5/6, ASP,JSP,EJB HTML, PHP, JavaScript, Cobol, RPG400, SQL, SQL*Plus, PL/SQL, Developer 2000 , Oracle Form ,Oracle Report, Visual Basic, Assembler, Oracle Workflow
Scripting Languages
• Perl, ,JACL,JYTHON,wsadmin, KORN Shell, Bourn Shell, C Shell, JavaScript, VB Script
Development Tools
• IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD) 6 an 7,Visual Studio 6, WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WASD) 4/5 and Integration Edition, JDeveloper, JBuilder, Eclipse
Databases
• Oracle 9/10, SQL Server, DB2, Informix, Sybase, Access
Database Designing Tools:
• Designer 2000,Designer 6i
Object Oriented Designing Tools
• RAD, JTogether
Monitoring Tool: ITCAM,Topaz, Micromuse, Wily Introscope, Tivoli Monitor
BPM: BPEL, jBPM
Web Server
• Apache Server 1.3/2.0,IBM HTTPServer 1.3/2.0,6.x, IIS 4/5/6
Internet Area:
CORBA Oracle iFS
Reporting Tool:
• Oracle Report Builder,Business Object 5 and 6
ERP
• Oracle Applications 10/11
Application Server
• BEA WebLogic 8/9/10, Sun formerly NetDynamics now iPlanet, IBM WebSphere 3.5/4.0/5.1.x.x/6.x/7 on Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris and zOS, WebSphere ESB, WebSphere Process Server, JRun, SilverStream, Jakarta-Tomcat 5.x/6.x(included Apache Server),JBoss
Portal
• WebSphere Portal 5.x and 6, BEA Web Logic Portal 8.x/9.x
Integration
• WebLogic Integration 8.1,WebSphere Business Integration,WSAD Integration
• WebSphere ESB
• WebSphere Process Server
• Oracle BPEL
WEB Related Technologies: Struts, SOAP, ANT, Java WSDP, JAXM, JAXP, JAXR, JAX-RPC, JSTL, UDDI, Ant, Log4J, Velocity, Turbine, Jetspeed,IBM WebSphere SDK for Web Services (WSDK) Version 5.0.1, JSR 168, JSR286, JSF
OpenSource: Jakarta, Jetspeed, Jmeter, JBoss,HttpUnit, Junit, Spring, Maven,Hibernate
XML Technologies
• Cocoon, Xalan, Xerces, Crimson, SAX and DOM
Versioning Software
1 CVS, VSS, ClearCase, SubVersion
Middleware
• WebSphere MQSeries, JMS, Tibco, WebMethods, Tuxedo
Security: IBM PolicyDirector , Tivoli Access Manager 4.1/5.x/6.x, Tivoli Identity Manager 4.1/5.x/6, Policy Server;TFIM,TAM
Object Oriented Programming: UML and JavaSoft Conventions
Content Management: Vignette, Broadvision, Slide,TeamSite Interwoven
Workflow: Oracle Workflow 2.6.1, Struts Workflow, WebSphere MQ Workflow
Trade and Risk Management software (Credit, Exotic, OTC and Equities Derivatives):
• Murex,
• Calypso
Testing/Performance/Monitoring
Mercury LoadRunner, MercuryWinRunner,Wily Introscope,Topaz Mercury,QPasa,Candle Omegamon,IBM ITCAM,Tivoli Monitoring, WSSR
Languages: English fluent, French good, Spanish sufficient , Italian mother tongue
March 2011– November 2011 DEXIA Bank
WebSphere , WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Brokerr Migration Specialist
Migration of the 3 IBM components (taget are WebSphere MQ 7, WebSphere Message Broker 7 and WebSphere Application Server 6) from version 6.02/6.1 to version 7.
Creation of a new flow.
J2EE and JEE application architecture, design and development
June 2010 – February 2011 ING
WebSphere Migration Specialist
As WebSphere Migration I was involved in the migration of near 50 Applications from WebSophere 5.1 and WebSphere Portal 5.1 to WebSphere 6.1 and WebSphere Portal 6.1. Also migrated from TAM 5 to TAM 6.1.
Covered all aspects from reenginneering to instzasllation and support.
April 2010 – June 2010 HP
WebSphere Migration Specialist
As WebSphere/JBoss Migration Specialist I was supporting operations and the migration project.
I was supporting/installing/configuring/build/scripting/troubleshooting/tuning for performance the following Products:
• WebSphere Application Server 6.1
• Portal
• WebSphere MQ 5/6/7
• JBoss
• Siteminder
• LoadBalance
• Apache HTTP Server
• Jmeter
• Loadrunner
• Sitescope
• LDAP
The migration project involved the migration of the whole HP customer infrastructure from two datacenter to one in Germany.
August 2009 – March 2010 TCS
WebSphere Specialis
As WebSphere/JBoss Specialist I was supporting operations, development team and new projects
I was supporting/installing/configuring/build/scripting/troubleshooting/tuning for performance the following Products:
• WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7.x
• WebSphere Process Server 6.1/6.2
• WebSphere MQ 6
• WebSphere ESB 6.1
• WebSphere Portal Server 6
• JBoss
• LDAP
• SOA
• DataPower
April 2009 – July 2009 Agilisys
WebSphere Specialist
As WebSphere Specialist I was supporting different development teams on a common Telecom IT Project.
I was supporting/installing/configuring/build/scripting/tuning for performance the following Products:
• WebSphere Application Server 6.1/7.x
• WebSphere Process Server 6.1/6.2
• WebSphere MQ 6/7
• WebSphere Message Broker 6.1
• WebSphere Portal Server 6.1
• WSRR (WebSphere Service Registry & Repository)
• LDAP
• SOA
November 2008 – March 2009 Oxford County Council
WebSphere Technologist
As WebSphere Technologist I was involved in two main projects:
1. Migration of WebSphere Portal and WCM from version 5.1 to version 6.1
2. Implementation of a new collaborative/social platform using IBM Lotus Connections
The technologies involved were:
• IBM WebSphere Application Server 5 and 6.1 and 7
• IBM WebSphere Portal 5.1 and 6.1
• IBM WebSphere Message Broker and MQ 6.x
• IBM Lotus Connections
• IBM Rational Application Developer 7.5
• TAM (Tivoli Access Manager)
• TIM (Tivoli Identity Manager)
• TID (Tivoli Integration Directory)
• IBM Document Manager
• IBM Omni Finder
• Java, J2EE, Portlet JSR168/JSR286 and JSF
• SOA
My main tasks were: troubleshooting, install configuration, migration WCM from 5.1 to 6.1, convert portlet to JSR168/286 standard, migration WebSphere Portal 5.1 to WebSphere Portal 6.1. Performance test and tuning were among my tasks.
Integrate and synchronise profiles and LDAP for Lotus Connection as well as installation configuration and performance tuning
August 2008 – November 2008 Norwich Union
WebSphere ND and AS, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Portal and WebSphere MQ specialist
WebSphere Process and Portal Server specialist for Healthcare, Life and Corporate Pension applications. All the application have a Presentation Layer that for Life Pension, was portlet deployed on WebSphere Portal 6. a Business Layer, Front end, Siebel , and Backend IBM DB2 and IBM Cics
WebSphere Application Server version 6/7. WebSphere MQ version 6/7 for all projects.
I was in charge of Application and Change Team support (troubleshooting, performance test assistance to developer teams) as well as applying Fixpacks and install new environment and or upgrade the existing ones for WebSphere Portal
, WebSphere Network Deployment 6.x and WebSphere Process Servers.
As regard MQ I was upgrading for MQ5.3 to 6.x and in some case to 7.x.
All projects were based on SOA paradigm/principles
April 2008 – August 2008 KBC Group
WebSphere ND and AS, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Portal and WebSphere MQ specialist
J2EE and Infrastructure Architecture on WebSphere Application Server ,WebSphere Portal 6.0 and WebSphere MQ.
Also administration, performance and tuning on the existing infrastructure.
Installation and support of various packages like Swift Alliance, Mosaic Cama, Tombeller Embargo and Globus.
Support for “Achate/Vente de Titres” – Securities Trading System. (ETS)(Trading Floor)
I was also in charge to apply fixpack and fixes to WebSphere Portal and WebSphere ND as well as install new environments and/or upgrading existing ones. I was delivering also a series of jython/ant scripts to make the deployment automatic.
Operating system was Sun Solaris 10.
I designed and applied ssl security to all MQ infrastructure of the client
January 2008 – April 2008 IBM
WebSphere ND and AS, WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Portal specialist
J2EE and Infrastructure Architecture on WebSphere products for a porting project of a Micro-Finance package from Tomcat/JBoss and MySql to WebSphere and Oracle/DB2.
The package have been developed using J2EE 5, than using RAD 7, and common framework as Hibernate and Spring on Linux/AIX
September 2007 – December 2007 AirFrance Group
Web Administrator and Web Deployer
Administration, configuration, troubleshooting and scripting for Oracle Application Server 9i 10g , Jboss 4.x and WebSphere. 6/5deployment , administration and support for J2EE applications deployed in a Websphere Portal 5/6 environment.
The complex environment included also administration, configuration and troubleshooting on IBM DataPower,Tivoli Access Manager, IBM Director Server,WebSEAL, IBM HTTP Server and Open Source Product as Alfresco, JIRA and Bamboo.
The backend was Oracle 9/10 as Database and WebSphere MQ Series 6.x administered using QPasa
February 2007 – August 2007 Honda
WebSphere ND and AS, WebSphere ESB Specialist and WebSphere MQ Engineer
WebSphere Application Server and Network Deployment was used in a Windows/Wintel Farm to manage near 50 J2EE Applications World Wide. The infrastructure had a Security Layer composed by IBM WebSEAL, Tivoli Access Manager (TAM), Policy Server and Policy Director. A Load Balancer was spraying the load to two Web Servers on Wintel using Microsoft IIS 6.
A WebSphere cell composed by 4 Nodes plus the Deployment Manager was the infrastructure where the 50 Intranet and Internet J2EE applications.
The Backend was Oracle 9/10 on AIX/Wintel and DB2 8 on Windows and ZOS. WebSphere MQ 5/6 were used for the Messaging System on ZOS, AS400 , Windows and Unix. As developer I was using WID 6.02 for developing Mediation and BPEL Module , RAD for J2EE application.
I was installing and updating the environments and following the deployments. To automate the deployment an Open Source called AutoDeployment, developed in Java as J2EE application) was in evaluation and I was following also this project as alternative to Shell and jacl scripts already existing and developed in house.
WebSphere ESB 6.0.2(Enterprise Server Bus) where SCA modules and Mediation Flow were deployed, WebSphere Process Server where SCA artefact and BPEL process were deployed, WebSphere Integration Developer (WID) 6.0.2 and WebSphere MQ Message Broker 6 were used for a specific project for replacing an existing J2EE applications for the Dealers (Order Entry, Spare Parts Order and management, Marketing and Planning).
I was installing and Administering the infrastructure that was composed by 3 IBM AIX p-Series: one for the Network Deployment and the other two for the nodes.
Messaging System based on WebSphere MQ version 6, mainly, with some installation still in version 5.3. The messaging system was used World Wide and I was following the European part inside a team interacting with Team in Japan and US.
The messaging System was implemented on a Distributed Architecture using IBM Candle Omegamon as Repository and Administrative tool.
The systems used were: Mainframe ZOS, AS400, Unix (Linux and AIX) and Windows/Wintel.
I was working on the daily administrative tasks and troubleshooting as well as I was involved in new projects for new subsidiary (Turkey and Poland). The new projects consisted in designing and implementing the messaging systems for the new Subsidiaries.
October 2006 – December 2006 HP
J2EE/EAI/SOA Architect
EAI/SOA Architect for defining the architecture for a new SOA project regarding Order Management and Chaining Supply.
Oracle SOA Suite , Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle ESB, JDeveloper and Oracle 10g RAC as well as WebLogic9.1 were the main components involved in the Architecture and first design of the project.. Maven was used as project tool from the beginning. Maven was used by inside JDeveloper do the plugin was the one for JDeveloper. I wrote some template for Maven Build scripts to be used by developer.XPath, XQuery and XSchema were part of the basic knowledge for this job, as well as BPEL language. Rich Client SWT, Eclipse RCP and Oracle ADF/JSF.Active Directory Server was choosen as Directory Service for the project along with SiteMinder.
Unix , Windows 200 and Windows NT the OS used and supported.
July 2006 – October 2006 Atos Origin
J2EE/WebSphere AS/ND and MQ Development Support
Websphere and Infrastructure and MQ Engineer and Application support (3rd Level). The support was done on J2EE applications and related tools like Maven, Forrest, Autonomy, Ant, CruiseControl...
I was also being responsible for the implementation of Websphere MQ as well as the installation of MQ, defining Queues Managers and queues.I was involved in the installation of WebSphere AS as well as the implementation of the tool infrastructure on Unix.(HP, SUN Solaris 9/10 and AIX 5.3 p-Series). All environment were covered: dev, integration and Production.Alert and monitoring via BMC Patrol for both Internet and Intranet applications, included E-Business apps.
April 2006 – June 2006 GMA
EAI J2II Technical Application Specialist
Senior Software and Infrastructure Engineer for this Insurance Company working on their new Intranet supporting the development teams and the Unix and Networking teams.
I was following and monitoring all the environments both from infrastructure and application point of view using Maven as project tool.
February 2006 – April 2006 HP
EAI 2EE WebSphere AS/ND, WebSphere MQ and WBI and WBIMB specialist
Technical Architect in a high Transactional Environment on a large project for a large customer.
High-Level and Low-Level Design. The environment should host J2EE applications using Portal Single Sign ON and become the common infrastructure environment also for all future J2EE application developed by the customer.
Products I was working on to produce the HLD and LLD design were WebSphere Suite and Oracle.
October 2005 – February 2006 HSBC
J2EE , WebSphere ND/AS , WebSphere Portal 5.x and WebSphere MQ Specialist/Engineer
Technical support for different Internet Applications based on a common Framework. The applications were J2EE applications deployed in a WebSphere Portal environment. The Portal Database is Oracle 9.2.0 and the backend was accessed via WebSphere MQ Series..
WebSphere App Server and MQ were installed on Linux and Sun Solaris while WebSphere MQ was installed both on IBM pSeries and Z/OS.
The applications were for different countries and both Internet Personal Banking than Private Banking.
Performance and Application Profiling was part of the job.
All the environment, dev – test – QA and production, were followed both from infrastructure than application point of view. The prod environment was monitored mainly via BMC Patrol and Wily Introscope. Some applications were using Maven as project tool so I was giving support also for it.
The main projects involved the following technologies:
1 WebSphere Portal 5..02 and 5.1
2 WebSphere Application Server and Network Deployment 5..1.1.x with some exposure to WebSphere 6.0.2
3 WebSphere MQ 5.3 on Sun Solaris and Z/OS (Mainframe)
4 Cisco Load Balancer
5 Murex MxG 2000
6 Murex Mx Asset Manager
7 IBM Edge Server
8 Wily Introscope
9 TCL, JACL and JYTHON scripting
10 Shell Scripting
11 WebSphere Portal scripting using xmlaccess.sh, WPSconfig.sh interfaces and wpscript scripting language for Portal administration.
May 2005 – October 2005 IBM
Performance and EAI Architect and Application Support on J2EE applications
As Performance Architect and Application Support I was involved in different projects based on client side.
Supporting the development team was one of my tasks as well as prepare and execute complex performance test case and plans in order to deliver the expected performance both for the single components (tuning) that for the overall architectures.
Load/stress test were prepared with the collaboration of the developer and executed normally in QA environment.
The support was for development of the J2EE applications to be deployed in WebSphere and for deployment and administration of WebSphere and WebSphere MQ and WBIMB, supporting the development of scripts using Perl, Shell Scripts and JACL/Jython along with wsadmin scripting for WebSphere Application Server.
The main projects involved the following technologies:
13 WebSphere Portal 5.1
14 WebSphere Application Server and Network Deployment 5..1.1.x with some exposure to WebSphere 6.0.2
15 WebSphere MQ 5.3 with some exposure to WebSphere MQ 6
16 WMQI 2.1 with use of ESQL
17 WBIMB and WebSphere Message Broker 5.0.x
18 WBI Modeler
19 WebSphere Message Broker , WebSphere Business Integrator Adapters 6.0 ,WebSphere Adapters 6.0, WebSphere Modeler
20 WebSphere Process Server 6.0
21 IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation and Choreography
22 WebSphere 5.1.x Process Choreographer
23 Rational Rose
24 IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software 6
25 IBM Rational Software Architect
26 DB2
27 Java
28 WebSEAL
29 Policy Server
30 Directory Server (LDAP)
31 AIX 5.2 and 5.3 on IBM PSeries Power 5 hardware
32 SOA Architecture
Aug 2004 – May 2005 UBS
EAI J2EE/WebSphere Network Deployment and WebSphere MQ Engineer
I was working on two different projects:
1 A J2EE application for Strategic Confirmation, Settlement, Accounting system for Cash Equity products
2 A J2EE application to allow internal users and client to access to derivatives and future options markets such as CBOT, LIFFE, Eurex, Euronext Paris, US Equity Option exchanges. CME connectivity was under build.
3 Electronic Trade Front End application
In the Equity Department I was in the team involved in downsizing the Equity Application from Mainframe to Linux RHAS 3.1 on x386 IBM Blade systems. The complex architecture, designed for WebSphere Application Server and Network Deployment
3 WebSphere Application Server and Network Deployment
4 WSAD for the Development of Java/J2EE part of the application
5 WebSphere MQ 5.3 Architect and Administrator
6 WMQI and WBIMB support
7 WebSphere Service Gateway
8 Tibco Rendezvous, Tibco Integration Manager, Tibco InConcert and Tibco Hawk
9 WebMethods
10 WBI
11 ClearCase Administration
12 Rational Rose for UML creation
13 IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software v6
14 Oracle 9i/10
15 Omegamon MQ for administering and monitoring MQ and Queues
16 Wily Introscope for WebSphere monitoring
17 Scripting using Shell scripts, Perl, JACL and jython
My Role was WebSphere Architect and after support for the development team and the support team.
Feb 2004 – August 2004 Royal Bank of Scotland
WebSphere/Web Server E-Services Specialist.
The main projects I was involved were:
Certificates of Interests, Retail Direct, Payment Message Repair, BACS ODD and ISCD Mortgages Web Application and an Equity application.
All of these applications were J2EE applications running on WebSphere. WebSphere was installed and running on Windows NT/Win2000, AIX and Sun Solaris and on IBM 390 (WebSphere z/os)
The WebServer was normally IIS on Windows NT/Win2000, but for same specials project was Apache. All project were using JSP, Servlet and EJB (CMP, BMP and Statefull and Stateless)
Support for Intranet application WebSphere based in a banking environment on multiplatform: AIX, Windows NT/Win2000/Win2003 and S390 where WebSphere for zOS were used.
The Database used are Oracle and DB2. To connect to DB2 on Mainframe DB2 Connet is used.
One of the projects had a complex architecture as was using Business Objects with WebSphere, so I was doing also installation, administration and troubleshooting for BusinessObjects/WebIntelligence.
The performance and stress testing for all application was done using Mercury LoadRunner while WebSphere was monitored by Tivoli Monitoring for Web Infrastructure.
Feb 2003 – Jan 2004 Belgacom
WebSphere and WebSphere Portal Architect/Administrator and Application Support
• WebSphere and WebSphere Portal Architect/Administrator in a complex environment based on Unix Sun Solaris machine with some Win2000 machines and having as infrastructure products: WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Application Server, Network Dispatcher, WebSeal , Tivoli Access Manager and Identity Manager, IBM SecureWay (Ldap) and Oracle as Database. JAAS was used along with WebSphere 5.0.
• I am involved in the migration from WebSphere 3.5/4.0 to WebSphere 5.0 both from a point of the planning and the realization. All the script converted from wscp to wsadmin .The Middleware is Tibco RendezVous and InConcert. The Web Server, HTTP Server, used is Apache 1.3 , but we are using as prototype also Apache 2.0 with WebSphere 5.0
• We managed WebSphere both on Unix environment (Solaris/Aix/Hp but mainly Solaris) and Windows NT/2000.
• Under WebSphere and Apache as HTPP Server are running near 40 Applications, while 3 Applications are running under NetDynamics and iPlanet depending on the environment.
• Tivoli Access Manager , Tivoli Identity Manager and PolicyDirector
• Shell and Perl scripting as well as wsadmin, jacl, jython, wscp.ant and websphere Ant to build the ear files using JMX architecture as well
Aug 2002 - Dec 2002 Corus
WebSphere 3.5/4.0 Architect/Administrator
• I was administering, configuring, deploying applications (mainly J2EE applications), testing, tuning and troubleshooting and I was involved also in the security aspects. I was doing also support for 6 different development teams.
• J2EE packaging, deployment and troubleshooting
• The architecture was quite complex as behind a firewall were used products as NetworkDispatcher, WebSEAL, Policy Director and after Tivoli Access Manager and Tivoli Identity Manager and IBM SecureWay LDAP and DB2 as Database Server and MQSeries. The Unix systems used were RS6000 (AIX). I developed scripting using Shell scripting and XML to automate the deployment process. Also configuration and software management were my task. The Web Server was Apache HTTPServer.
• We manage WebSphere both on Unix environment (Solaris/Aix/Hp but mainly Solaris) and Windows NT/2000.
May 2002 -July 2002 Infeurope
Tem Leader/Senior Developer/Designer for the development of a J2EE application
Oct 2001 - Apr 2002 European Commission
Designer and Senior developer on an intranet project developed in J2EE
Mar 2001 - Sept 2001 Pfizer
WebSphere Senior J2EE Developer
Sept 2000 - Feb 2001
Oce' Laboratories Namur
Senior Developer and coach on J2EE project for a Printing Server developed on
1997 - Feb 2000 Telecom Italia as IBM Consultant
1996 - 1997 FIAT – Oracle DBA
