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Work Background

AT&TSr. Technology Architect

Jan. 2014

IBM Software ServiceIBM Middleware SME

Jun. 2013 - Jan. 2014Dallas TXProvided consultancy for IBM clients on IBM Smart Cloud, CloudBurst, IBM InfoSphere BigInsights, InfoSphere Streams, Netezza, DataPower and Cast Iron. • Evaluated Cloud-based InfoSphere infrastructure at Crossmark and solved various show-stopper issues in quick two weeks. • Set up Netezza DW Appliances (PureData Sysetm for Analytics) at Neiman Marcus and ran proof of concepts to show case Data Loading and extractions with Apache Sqoop, Flume, UDF & UDX Development, keys and zone maps administration, and the options to fit Netezza into company’s existing B2B infrastructure and Cloudera/Splunk centric Big Data Architecture. • Conducted pre-go-alive review on DataPower and Cast Iron implementation and Integration with Splunk Enterprise at State of Texas and solved long-existing issues with XSLT, Cast Iron Orchestration, S/MIME & Splunk SDK/SPL. • Integrated on-premise TIBCO Enterprise Messaging with cloud-based SalesForce.com for West Union, using WebSphere Cast Iron, DataPower, WebSphere Message Broker, InfoSphere DataStage, ETL, DB2 and Pentaho Data Integration.

American ExpressIntegration Architect

Mar. 2010 - Jul. 2013Phoenix AZPerformed as an SME in Data and System Integration space for company-wide SOA and Enterprise Data Analytics initiatives, covering end to end architecting, modeling, implementing, system administration, monitoring, governance and service management. • Ran numerous Proof of Concepts and pilot projects in areas of Cloud, DevOps, ESB, BPM and SOA using IBM, Oracle and Open Source products. (IBM Smart Cloud, Cloud Orchestrator, OpenStack, IBM WebSphere, IBM InfoSphere, IBM SOA, IBM BPM, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Apache ServiceMix, Apache Camel, HP Vertica, Greenplum, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Lucene, Solr, Hadoop, Puppet, Chef) • Architected and implemented Amex “International Service Layer (iSL)”, a federated Enterprise Service Bus implementation that combined consumer info, financial transactions and e-Marketing in a common platform. iSL has later been utilized in 10+ sub-projects. (WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances XI50/XI50B/XI52, B2B Appliances XB60/XB62, DataPower Caching Appliance XC10, MPGW, WSP, XML Gateway, SOMA, XSLT, WebSphere Transformation Extender, Stylus Studio, XMLSpy, Web Services, SoapUI, WAMT, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker, WESB, WSRR, Web 2.0, Informatica PowerCenter, ETL, Netezza, Cognos, Tivoli Federated Identity Manager, SAML, OAuth, Tivoli Monitoring, ITCAM, Tivoli Enterprise Console, Netcool/Omnibus and Netcool/Impact, HP Vertica, Chef) • Led Amex Digital Transformation Program that transformed two existing rewards systems and provided extension points based on SOA principles to add new systems; Integrated DTP with Payback, a company acquired by Amex in 2011. (IBM SOA suites, WebSphere DataPower, WebSphere MQ, MQ FTE, WMB, IBM BPM, IBM Integration Designer/WebSphere Integration Developer, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle RAC, Oracle Golden Gate)

TELUS CommunicationsSr. Middleware Architect

Jul. 2008 - Feb. 2010Toronto, ON CanadaEvaluate the architecture, infrastructure and integration methodologies for the current Prospects & Leads Consolidation System (PLCS) 4.0; Introduce metadata database and ESB to simplify and standardize the integration between J2EE and .Net Platform. • Architect PLCS 4.2 system and implement core integration modules with a wide range of IBM WebSphere and MS .Net products. (WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere Business Monitor, WebSphere Integration Developer, DataPower XI50/XS40, IBM Master Data Management, WebSphere Application Server eXtreme Scale, WebSphere Service Registry & Repository, BPEL, ITCAM for WebSphere, ITCAM for SOA, Netcool/Omnibus, Netcool/Impact, Rational Software Architect, Oracle DB, .Net Framework 3.5, IIS 7, Visual Studio 2008, MSMQ, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server Data Warehouse, SSIS, Java, C#, LINQ, BizTalk 2006) • Architect the new middleware infrastructure solution to existing web and portal applications, introducing a common ESB and turning client’s SOA mindset into reality. (WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Portlet Factory, Rational Software Architect, Rational Application Developer, WebSphere Enterprise Serivce Bus, WebSphere Integration Developer, Mule ESB, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, DB2, Oracle, Informix, MySQL, Informatica PowerCenter, Java, Scala, Play, Web Services) • Evaluate current IAM design and implementation and lead the migration to ITIM 5.0 and ITAMeb 6.1 (Tivoli Identity Manager, Tivoli Access Manager for e-Business, Tivoli Access Manager for Operating System, Tivoli Directory Server, WebSEAL, SMS, CARS, BIRT, WebSphere Application Server, DB2, Domino, Lotus, Active Directory, Java, and Eclipse)

Enbridge Gas DistributionSolutions Architect

Nov. 2007 - Jul. 2008Toronto, ON CanadaEvaluate client’s current web infrastructure and the key intranet and extranet based business applications with SOA design principles, providing solutions to various integration issues. • Integrate client’s public facing portal and internal portals with newly created SAP financial module and recently upgraded backend systems. (BEA AquaLogic User Interaction, BEA Event Server, AquaLogic Service Bus, AquaLogic BPM, AquaLogic Enterprise Security, Java, J2EE, CEP, Oracle DB, Oracle RAC, Oracle Data Warehouse, PL/SQL, Java, J2EE, DataStage, ETL, Oracle Web Service Manager) • Migrate the home-grown LOB applications to the common ESB infrastructure, applying the best practices specified in ITIL v3, solving interface mismatch issues and eliminating point-to-point invocations (JBossAS, JBossESB, Drools, JBoss Remoting, XML, Web Services, Java, J2EE, AquaLogic Service Bus, .Net, C#, SharePoint Server, Visual Studio 2005, Oracle, ITIL) • Architect and implement the overall Identity & Access Management solution that aligns with corporate policies, standardize identity management processes and provides well-defined interfaces for LOB and partner applications to adapt to. (CA IAM Enterprise Suite, CA SiteMinder, CA Identity Manager, eTrust Admin, SAML, Sun Java Directory Server, Mule ESB, BEA WebLogic, Apache Http Server) • Rewrite the client’s home-made Single Sign-On module, leveraging the newly introduced CA Identity and Access Management solution. (CA SiteMinder, CA Identity Manager, eTrust Admin, Sun Java Directory Server, Java, JAAS, CA IAM APIs, XML, Web Services)

MTSAllstreamWebSphere & Tivoli Architect

Mar. 2007 - Nov. 2007Toronto, ON CanadaEvangelize SOA and Enterprise Integration Patterns, providing the guidance and best practices on applying service-oriented architecture to client’s current IT infrastructure. • Architect client’s first SOA project that transits the change request system from Vitria to WebSphere Process Server. (WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Business Monitoring, WebSphere Partner Gateway, WebSphere Commerce, OmniFind, DataPower XI50/XS40, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, DB2, Oracle, Informatica ETL) • Enhance Allstream existing B2B infrastructure with IBM B2B solutions, rewrite the home-grown B2B code and integration with WebSphere Commerce. (WebSphere Partner Gateway, BPEL, WebSphere Commerce, WebSphere Commerce Developer, WebSphere MQ, Ajax, RIA, Java, XML, Web Services, SQL, DB2, Oracle, Informatica ETL) • Architect pub/sub modal that plays a role as a hub to integrate 6 legacy projects and implement most of the key modules (WebSphere ESB, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, WebSphere Integration Developer, Web Services, JMS, Ajax, RIA) • Design and implement the integration interfaces between WebSphere Process Server and Microsoft CRM (WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Integration Developer, Web Services, MS CRM, Visual Studio 2005, Java, C#)

AT & TSr. Technology Architect

Jan. 2014AtlantaThought Leader, Architect, Developer and Troubleshooter in areas of Cloud, Big Data, Operational Intelligence and Stream processing with a wide array of products including AWS, IBM Cloud Manager (previously IBM SmartCloud, OpenStack, Hortonworks Data Platform, IBM InfoSphere, Apache Hadoop & ecosystem, IBM Netezza and Splunk Enterprise. • Ran PoCs on packaged Hadoop solutions: Hortonworks DP, Cloudera CDH & MapR, and settled with Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) to take advantage of better YARN support and various add-ons. • Architected and implemented URLClassifier Application that analyzes real-time Clickstream data, runs Map/Reduce jobs and generates T.Data project-consumable URL Classifications. (ElasticSearch, AWS EC2, Amazon VPC, Amazon EBS, Amazon RedShift, HP Vertica, Cassandra, Hortonworks Data Platform, Hadoop, Sqoop, Flume, YARN, Java, Scala, Scalding, Apache Spark Streaming, Map/Reduce v2, REST, HDFS, Hive, Pig) • Created the fault tolerant private cloud comprised of over 400 nodes across 3 Data Centers, based on IBM Smart Cloud and OpenStack Havana and later Icehouse to expand the cloud coverage on more mission critical IT infrastructure and business applications. (Iaas, Paas, IBM Smart Cloud, IBM Cloud Orchestrator, OpenStack, HEAT, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Python, Java, Scala, Ganglia, IBM Netcool Suite) • Remodeled and re-implemented the two core applications of ATT recommendation engine: Customer Affinity Profile and Product Affinity Profile applications in the private cloud. (IBM InfoSphere Streams, IBM BigInsights, Sqoop, Flume, HP Vertica, IBM SPSS, Cassandra, Kafka, Sqoop, IBM Netezza, Scala, Java, OpenStack API)