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WebSphere Architect


This Candidate is a Consulting IT Specialist at IBM’s Pan-EMEA software services practice. The practice is focused to helping clients successfully deploy IBM software technology, primarily J2EE and WebSphere-based packages, such as WebSphere Portal and Application Server. Separate areas of interest include Tivoli monitoring and security products as they are strongly connected to WebSphere middleware. His typical engagements are mostly short time and highly demanding consulting projects, requiring leadership skills and deep technical experience alike. Building confidence and establishing a trustworthy relationship with various key stakeholders ranging from top executives to developers is one of his most important objectives. While many engagements last several weeks, this candidate has also a proven track of record leading long-term engagements designing and implementing IT architectures for various highly visible clients across EMEA. Additional responsibilities include mentoring of other professionals and facilitating multiple joint efforts between different internal organizations, making him a widely recognized cross-brand services specialist. This Candidate holds a master’s degree in engineering construction and is a regular speaker at IBM technical conferences.

AssignmentMajor GSM provider, Czech Republic – Systems integration for the client’s corporate Portal for internal users was created; based on WebSphere Portal, which was integrated with other existing J2EE applications. Architecture for messaging layer with WebSphere MQ Platform, WebSphere Application Server v5.0 and Message Driven Beans (MDB) was created and implemented.
Technologies WebSphere Portal 5.0.x
Directory Servers (various)
MQ 5.3
WebSphere Application Server 5.0
Assignment• Serono International consultancy – large WebSphere Portal project in Switzerland. This candidates responsibility was performance tuning and WPS scalability. Starting from custom developed portlets, themes, skins he had to improve scalability of every single Portal component. Additional effort was spend tuning infrastructure component, such as the LDAP directory, Databases, WAS connection pooling, JVM thread pools, and JAVA heap analyzing. The solution is in production since January 2005.
Technologies WebSphere Portal 5.0.x, Lotus Domino, AIX 5.2
Assignment• Fortis Bank Brussels BTT application tuning – Fortis IT department wrote a Business Transformation Toolkit based on a system aimed for branch office services. It was supposed to run in 1200 offices with an average user load above 5000 concurrent users. When this candidate joined the project the current system was not able to handle more than 200 concurrent users on the test environment. The actual target however was to serve 1000 concurrent users. After decomposing the architecture he identified various performance bottle-necks and proposed a new design based on his findings. After supporting the implementation of the new architecture, this candidate also assisted in bringing the solution into production. As of today Fortis Bank has successfully deployed the new solution in most of its branch offices.
Technologies WebSphere Application Server 4.0.x
Tivoli Access Manager 5.1
PathWAI Performance Analyzer
AssignmentUBS Switzerland – WebSphere Portal 5.x logging framework for Tivoli Web Site Analyzer. Created custom loggers required for proper parameters logging.
Technologies WebSphere Portal Server 5.0.x
Tivoli Web Site Analyzer
Rational Application Developer
AssignmentNOKIA Finland extreme LDAP system – as a part of international team this candidate has participated in a CritSit aimed to tune the LDAP based system designed for provisioning applications in Vodafone US. The system is supposed to run 90 millions operations per 8 hours (3125 per second). His role in the team was to review the application code resulting in a rewrite of many parts of the application within days. The changes were successfully tested and the system was accepted by Vodafone and supposed start in production by October 15th.
Technologies WebSphere Application Server 6.0.x
Tivoli Directory Server
LDAP Transactional API
AssignmentJyske Bank Denmark web infrastructure project – Head architect and implementation team leader for Web infrastructure in the bank. Project based on WAS 6.0.2 with TAM 5.1 integration based on TAI+. As a part of this solution this candidate implemented a JMX based subsystem for creating configuration objects like application servers, clusters and others based on full traffic automation. He designed all security and monitoring components for Tivoli which he also proposed as an alphaWorks technology aimed for distributed systems management based on various standards.
Technologies WebSphere Application Server 6.0.x
Tivoli Access Manager 5.1
ITCAM for WebSphere
JMX framework for WebSphere
Rational Application Developer
Assignment• Vodacom South Africa – WebSphere Portal based development in order to create a completely new customer care system on top of the WebSphere Portal framework. This candidate used the Asynchronous Beans framework together with Distributed Map object cache to accommodate long running call to backend systems. This design led to much improved page refresh times which turned out to be the key success factor for the implementation team. This candidate published an article on Developer Works based on this approach.
Technologies
AssignmentBC/ICT Netherlands government portal performance testing consultant – Highly visible WebSphere Portal 5.1 project aimed for fine tuning for a BCS/GBS created solution able to handle thousands of concurrent users. This highly sophisticated environment required deep technical skills in many areas. This Candidate has been leading this effort resulting in a successful deployment of the solution.
Technologies WebSphere Portal 5.1.0.3 based on WAS 6.0.2.9
Tivoli Directory Server 6.0
Tivoli Federated Identity Manager 6.0
Tivoli WebSEAL 6.0
DB2 8.2

Since 2001 – IBM Poland, pan-EMEA WebSphere Services Consultant
2000 – 2001 – ADSO S.A. as consultant of J2EE technology.
1999 – 2000 – Herbico leasing company – IT Manager

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with UML (2003
Enterprise Connectivity with J2EE V1.3 (2003)
Enterprise Application Development with IBM WebSphere Studio, V5.0 (2003)
IBM Certified System Administrator - WebSphere Application Server V6.0
IBM Certified Solution Developer – WebSphere Portal V5.1
Sun Certified Java Developer

Frameworks: J2EE 1,3/1.4, JSR 168, IBM Portlet Framework, Struts, Spring, Java Server Faces, JSR 170 (Content Repository API) Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Solaris (9, 10), AIX (5.2, 5.3), Linux (Suse/Novell, RedHat/Fedora), OS/400 5.2, 5.3 Languages: UML 1.3 & 2.0, Java 5SE. SQL, HTML, XML, UML Databases: IBM DB/2, Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server Development Tools: Rational Application Developer, WebSphere Integration Developer, Visual Age for C++, Visual Basic .NET Middle ware Tools: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.0/6.1/7.0 – Administration and Development, Feedback to development team member IBM WebSphere Portal – 5.x, 6.0 IBM WebSphere Process Server 6.0 – Administration, Development and Deployment IBM WebSphere MQ 5.3, 6,0 – Deployment IBM Tivoli Directory Server, SUN One Directory/Netscape iPlanet Directory IBM Tivoli Access Manager 5.1, 6.0 IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager 6.0 IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager 6.1 Software Tools: Microsoft Office & Project, VMWare Workstation, Rational ClearCase & ClearQuest, Rational Performance Tester, Mercury Load Runner Methodologies: IBM GS Method, IBM Signature Selling Method, RUP Other: TCP/IP Networking, UNIX administration

Telecommunications, Banking, Manufacturing, Insurance


Microsoft Windows, Solaris (9, 10), AIX (5.2 + 5.3), Linux (Suse/Novell, RedHat/Fedora), OS/400 (5.2 + 5.3)

UML 1.3 & 2.0, Java 5SE. SQL, HTML, XML, UML

IBM DB/2, Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server

Rational Application Developer, WebSphere Integration Developer, Visual Age for C++, Visual Basic .NET

IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.0/6.1/7.0 – Administration and Development, Feedback to development team member, IBM WebSphere Portal – 5.x + 6.0, IBM WebSphere Process Server 6.0 – Administration, Development and Deployment, IBM WebSphere MQ 5.3 + 6.0 – Deployment, IBM Tivoli Directory Server, SUN One Directory/Netscape iPlanet Directory, IBM Tivoli Access Manager 5.1 + 6.0, IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager 6.0, IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager 6.1

Microsoft Office & Project, VMWare Workstation, Rational ClearCase & ClearQuest, Rational Performance Tester, Mercury Load Runner

IBM GS Method, IBM Signature Selling Method, RUP

TCP/IP Networking, UNIX administration

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