John - Administrateur système WEBSPHERE MQ

Position: Contract Senior Consultant & Middleware Engineer

Position: Contract Senior Consultant & Middleware Engineer
Department Middleware Payment System Team
Duties: Supporting (3rd Level) Société Générale Bank’s Global Middleware & Application platforms for WholeSale and Private Banking across Solaris, Linux & Windows in an MQ Clustered environment. Architect, Solutions Designer, Technical specialist, Mentor.

WebSphere MQ (formerly MQSeries) V5 & V6 Administration
WebSphere Broker V6 Administration (some)

- Team leading & mentoring of colleagues and new arrival staff
- Managing the stability of the Production MQ environments to ensure
maximum quality of service, supporting a global infrastructure across
different Time Zones.
- Identifying and minimising risks and coordinating resources in case of issues
- Providing On-Call support 24x7 (out of business hours) with a sense of urgency
- Defining, implementing and managing the MQ Architecture for
European, Asia Pacific & American projects
- Designing and implementing a high availability MQ Cluster infrastructure
- Designing and implementing WebSphere MQ interfaces for Applications
- Technically assisting project teams in their MQ implementations
- Building, managing and supporting multiple environments : DEV, ATE,
PROD, DR
- Coordinating with the various skills teams involved in System & Application
changes
- Implementing Disaster Recovery sites to minimise operational downtime
and Business impact. Performing test exercises
- Installation, Upgrading, Patching & Configuration of WebSphere MQ
- Managing the MQ Internal & External HUBS
- Managing POCs
- Managing MQ server migrations
- Planning for the upgrades of existing WebSphere MQ servers to MQ V 7.x
- Designing and implementing message Flows for WebSphere Message
Broker (some)
- Implementation of MQ Software’s monitoring tool - QPASA
- Writing and updating technical documents, operating and escalation procedures
- Scripting in Perl & Korn shell
- English language support - for emails, phone calls & conference calls liaising with a variety of International / Global clients of the Bank

Position: Contract Senior Consultant & Middleware Engineer

Position: Contract Senior Consultant & Middleware Engineer
Change Implementation Management
Department OPS & IT Special Infrastructure Services
Middleware Support

Duties: Supporting ING Bank’s Middleware environments for WholeSale Banking across
Windows and UNIX platforms.

Special responsibility for upgrading Websphere MQ Middleware from V5.3 to V6.0 on UNIX (Solaris 8, 9, & 10 & AIX 5.xL) and WINTEL platforms (180+ Machines) with exceptional access to 'root' UserID for system administration purposes.

Building environments and solving technical problems in the Acceptance and
Production Environments. Liaising and co-operating with other related
Departments ; supporting developers and projects on their way to Production.

WebSphere MQ Administration
- Upgrading & Patching existing servers from MQ V5.3 to V6.0
- Installation and implementation of MQ V6.0 on new servers
- Design of WebSphere MQ interfaces for Applications
- Configuration over a large parc of Servers (more than 180 machines
in the Acceptance and Production environments)
- Detect and resolve MQ software and configuration issues
- Monitor the Acceptance & Production environments and respond to alerts,
MQ Application failures etc to ensure a maximised performance
- Monitor the successful execution of scheduled tasks/scripts
- Monitor the Departmental Mail Box and respond to incidents
- Escalate incidents that cannot be resolved to the appropriate Teams
- Follow the incidents and problems until the solution is productive
- Attend to any other task as assigned by the Operations Management
- Provide Documentation of Bank processes and procedures at Middleware level
- Provide training and education at different levels
- Scripting in Perl and Korn shell
- 24/7 Standby Duty

Deutsche Börse Systems (2nd time working at the German Stock Exchange)

Position: Contract Senior Middleware & Internet Engineer - Production Support
Department Server Operations
Duties: Day to day administration and support of all Unix (Solaris, Linux, AIX) Production and Test Environments of the German Stock Exchange, working alone as well as part of a Team. 24/7 Standby Duty.

Unix - Systems Administration Tasks : Solaris, Linux & AIX
Installing software, performing package and patch administration, managing disk devices and file systems, performing system boot procedures, performing user and security administration, performing system backups and restores using TSM,
writing of scripts for admin-related tasks, handling upgrades of OS and system software, follow-up on patches and version control of system software, monitoring and maintenance of all Unix environments. Zone administration for Solaris 10.
Scripting in Perl and Korn shell.

WebSphere MQ V5.3 & V6.0
Migration from V5.3 to V6.0 - Solaris, Linux, AIX.
Designing and implementing MQ infrastructure on Solaris, Linux and AIX.
MQ administration & support, monitoring, troubleshooting and testing.
VERITAS Cluster Manager ; PQEdit ; qload.

WebSphere Application Server (WAS) V5.x and Network Deployment Manager
for a trading platform based on a Multi-Tier architecture and follows the Java2
Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard.

The application is operated redundantly using Websphere Cell, Deployment
Manger, Nodes and Cluster. Coordination of infrastructure change requests,
patches, configurations and handling deployment of new releases. Hands on
management of administration topics and control of the hosting partner.
Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting in a Mission-critical application Environment.

APACHE WebServer V1.x & V2.x and TOMCAT 5.x
Installation handling, configuration, patch administration, troubleshooting,
deployment management of ’war’ files, deployment of application software
and Portal administration. Module configuration, redirects and proxy, squid,
plug-in handling including AJP configuration. Load Balance cluster.

WebStart
Installation and configuration including JAVA configuration.

VMWARE
Installation and cloning of virtual machines, configuration, patch management, troubleshooting.

Connect:Direct (C:D) V3.6.01
Configuration, technical administration & support, monitoring tasks, troubleshooting and testing.

General Installations
Java, Apache, Tomcat, Oracle Client, DB2 - install and configure for Unix,
general J2EE handling for Swapstream and WebStart.

English language support - for emails & phone calls

Position: Contract Senior Consultant & Middleware Engineer

Middleware Engineer
Department Middleware Engineering & Connectivity Services

Duties: Supporting ING Bank’s Middleware platforms.
Lead specialist with particular responsibility for MQ Middleware running on all z/OS LPARs.

Building environments and solving technical problems in the Development,
System Test and Production Environments. Liaising and co-operating with
other related Departments ; supporting developers and projects on their way to Production.

WebSphere MQ Administration
- Installation and implementation of MQ V5.3
- Configuration over a large parc of Servers (more than 200 machines
in 3 environments)
- Detect and resolve MQ software and configuration issues
- Design of WebSphere MQ interface for applications
- Modification of the architecture to improve performance and stability
- Provide support for Development, Test & Production implementations
- Monitoring of MQ Components using Candle Command Centre
- Educate Team members, Applications teams, Operations staff in product usage and new features/capabilities

ING’s Middleware Administration and Implementation
ING’s Financial Services Architecture (IFSA & ABC Suite) :
ING has developed a Middleware based on MQ (building like a BUS model) and having its own Configuration tools and an Applications’ API.

- Implementation of the ING BUS on all MQ machines
- Creation and implementation of the configurations
- Provide support for Development, Test & Production environments
- Provide Documentation at Middleware level
- Capacity and performance management of the Bus
- Application debugging in Development, Test & Production environments
- Provide training and education at different levels

Position: Contract Senior Middleware

Position: Contract Senior Middleware Engineer - Production Support
Department Server Operations
Duties: Systems Support - ensuring that the Solaris Production Environments for the XETRA DAX are up and running and that any problems are resolved immediately and with a sense of urgency.

Day to day administration and support of the following projects :
DWP Investment Bank, CCP, CEF, Xentric Quote Source, Xontro,
Xentric Order (DAX), Lead Broker administration, Miss and Gate Architecture.

Unix - Systems Administration Tasks
Installing software, performing package and patch administration,
managing disk devices and file systems, performing system
boot procedures, performing user and security administration,
performing system backups and restores using TSM, managing network
printers and system processes, writing of scripts for admin-related
tasks, handling upgrades of OS and system software, follow-up on
patches and version control of system software, monitoring and
maintenance of the Solaris environment. Scripting in Perl and Korn shell.

MQSeries V5.3
Designing and implementing MQSeries infrastructure on Solaris, AIX and NT.
MQSeries installations, upgrades, configuration, strategic planning, technical administration & support, monitoring, troubleshooting and testing.

Connect:Direct (C:D) V3.5
Designing and implementing C:D infrastructure in a Solaris environment.
Installation, configuration, planning, technical administration & support,
monitoring tasks, troubleshooting and testing.

English language support - for emails & phone calls

Position: Contract Application Support

Specialist - Middleware
Department Middleware Engineering Department

Duties: Design and implementation of new MQSeries infrastructure for financial messaging systems on IBM MainFrame, AIX, Solaris and NT.

MQSeries installations, upgrades, configuration, strategic planning, technical administration & support, monitoring & troubleshooting, cluster management for MQSeries Middleware products.

Preparation of training material and procedures for operational support
and training of staff.

Scripting in Perl and Korn shell.

Position: Contract Technical Architecture

Support Manager, Team Lead & Senior Analyst
Department Environment & Middleware Operations ;
Client/Server Applications
Duties: a ) Development, maintenance and management of environments for Unix (Solaris V2.6 & AIX V4.3.2.0), IBM & MQ Series. Systems administration tasks. Configuration management of MQSeries and Connect:Direct (C:D).
Responsibilities for the maintenance of the MQSeries API software.
Scripting in Perl and Korn shell.

b ) Team leading, production and maintenance of accounting software including analysis, technical design, development, training and testing in a Middleware environment and across multi-platforms.

c ) Managing the Technical Architecture error database, assigning tasks to other team members, supervising progress, finding appropriate solutions to Middleware problems and systems architecture for Cargo applications teams.

Position: Contract Senior Applications Consultant

Department Client/Server Applications
Duties: Working on IBM’s International Banking system - Corebank.
Analysis tasks, specification work, maintenance and enhancement of software, testing and provision of documentation.

Position: Permanent Analyst/Programmer

Duties: Working on various teams providing insurance software (COGEN & CABS)
for European clients.
Analysis tasks, functional and technical specification, maintenance and
enhancement of software, testing and provision of documentation, client
support.

Windows 2000, 2003, MS Office, Lotus Notes, Novell, Citrix Metaframe/Terminal Server,
TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager)

MQSeries - V5.2 & V5.3 for Solaris 8 & 9
for AIX 4.3 & 5.2
V5.3 for IBM OS/390
V5.2 for NT
Connect:Direct (C:D) - V3.1 to 3.5 for Unix
ORACLE 8 & 9 ; some SYBASE.
XML, FTP, SFTP, SCP, WinSCP, Filezilla, Putty.