CV/Mission MIDDLEWARE freelance

Aperçu des missions de John,
freelance MIDDLEWARE résidant dans les Hauts-de-Seine (92)

• Position: Contract Senior Consultant & Middleware Engineer

  Société Générale Bank - La Défense, Paris
  Jan 2009 - aujourd'hui

  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

  Environments: WebSphere MQ / some Broker Administration - V6.0, V5.3 Solaris (8 & 10), Linux (RedHat) & Wintel MQ Clustering SSL OAM Connection Factory (JNDI) - connects JMS to MQ QPASA Configuration Management & Monitoring Tool Eclipse platform, MQExplorer, various MQ SupportPacs, Rfhutil, AutoSys Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook, Citrix.

• Position: Contract Senior Consultant & Middleware Engineer

  ING Bank - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Jan 2008 - Jan 2009

  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

  Environments: SUN Solaris 8, 9 & 10 AIX 5.xL WINTELWebSphere MQ - V6.0, V5.3 Solaris AIX & WINTEL Eclipse platform, MQ SSL OAM, MO71 Monitoring package MQExplorer PQEdit qload Candle Omegamon XE for MQSeries configuration and monitoring , SUN Cluster HA (High Availability) for WebSphere MQ Windows XP, MS Office, MS Outlook, Novell Peregrine IRMA service management software including problem tracking and process automation for managing the Middleware service desk. Also, ARS Remedy

• Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliant environments. German Stock Exchange - Frankfurt, Germany
  Jan 2006 - Jan 2008

  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

  Environments: SUN Solaris 8, 9 & 10 (SUN E10K & E15K) systems administration tasks SuSe Enterprise Linux 9, AIX 5.xL Windows 2000, 2003, MS Office, Lotus Notes, Novell, Citrix Metaframe/Terminal Server, Veritas Cluster Manager, TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager), XML, FTP, SFTP, SCP, WinSCP, Filezilla, Putty

• Position: Contract Senior Consultant & Middleware Engineer

  ING Bank - Brussels, Belgium
  Jan 2004 - Jan 2006

  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

  Environments: IBM MainFrame (z/OS), WebSphere MQ, JCL, TSO/ISPF, CICS Unix - SUN Solaris (7, 8 & 9) & RS 6000 AIX (5.1) - Korn shell & Perl scripting WebSphere MQ - V5.3 for z/OS, Solaris, AIX & WINTEL (NT/XP/2000/2003) MQ Clustering MQExplorer PQEdit qload Candle Omegamon XE for MQ configuration and monitoring some Spazio Documentation procedures using - Word, Excel, Powerpoint & Visio. XML, FTP, SFTP, SCP, WinSCP, Putty Peregrine service management software including problem track

• Position: Contract Senior Middleware

  German Stock Exchange - Frankfurt, Germany Deutsche Börse Systems
  Jan 2002 - Jan 2004

  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

  Environments: Unix - SUN Solaris 8 & 9 (SUN E10K & E15K), systems administration tasks, Korn shell & Perl scripting, BIG Brother & BMC PATROL for monitoring, Secure shell (SSH)

• Position: Contract Application Support

  Credit Suisse First Boston - Zürich, Switzerland
  Jan 2001 - Jan 2002

  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.

  Environments: Unix - SUN Solaris & RS 6000 AIX IBM MainFrame (OS/390), SQL, DB2, JCL, TSO/ISPF MQSeries - V5.2 for Solaris & AIX IBM V2.1 V5.2 for NT

• Position: Contract Technical Architecture

  German Rail (Deutsche Bahn AG) - Frankfurt, Germany
  Jan 1998 - Jan 2001

  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.

  Environments: MICROFOCUS COBOL, Unix (SUN Solaris & RS 6000 AIX), Shellscripts, Makefiles, Animator Debugging Tool, PVCS Version controlIBM MainFrame (OS/390), COBOL II, SQL, DB2, JCL,TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, XPEDITER, AbendAid, Fileaid, PlatinumMQSeries - V5.1 for Solaris & AIX & V2.1 for IBM OS/390 PQEdit TMon for MQSeries Connect:Direct (C:D) - V3.1 for Unix & V4.03 for MVS Windows NT, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Access 97, Word 97, Excel 97, ODBC Database connectivity. Some C and ORACLE 8.1.6.

• Position: Contract Senior Applications Consultant

  IBM-CIC (Corebank)Copenhagen, Denmark
  Jan 1997 - Jan 1998

  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.

  Environments: IBM MainFrame (MVS/ESA), COBOL II, SQL, DB2, JCL, TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, QMF, XPEDITER, ABENDAID, OS/2, OS/2 REXX, HPS Case Tool, Lotus Notes

• Position: Permanent Analyst/Programmer

  CSC CONTINUUM - Dublin (Now CSC Financial Services Group)
  Jan 1995 - Jan 1997

  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.

  Environments: IBM MainFrame (MVS/ESA), ADABAS/Natural (MainFrame), COBOL II, SQL, DB2, JCL, TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, CICS, XPEDITER, ABENDAID, INTERTEST, PANVALET, ENDEVOR

• IBM MainFrame (OS/390)
  aujourd'hui

  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.