Prasad Reddy

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Phone: 224-***-****

Austin, TX 78736

Email:acc17b@r.postjobfree.com

Sr.Consultant - AIX & Z/OS - Websphere Middleware

Dedicated and motivated professional with a strong background in Middleware

Architecture, Systems Design, Development, tuning, Installations, planning

upgrades and patching/upgrading. Automating Support Scripts, Assisting in

updating design and functional specs. Support, Rolling On-Call Production

Support 24X7, Working with IBM PMRs & support SR Tickets with respective

vendors, Managing, and Mentoring. USA Permanent Resident (Green Card

holder) with 15+ Years of successful experience consulting on multifaceted

IT projects in the Financial, Insurance, Healthcare and Retail sectors;

streamlining internal processes to enhance overall productivity, and

fostering positive working relationships with a wide range of clients,

colleagues, and key business partners. Able to easily adopt emerging

technologies as well as conceptualize and develop profitable new

frameworks. Consistently recognized for outstanding contributions to the

bottom line and solid reputation for resolving complex technical issues.

Commended for organization, perseverance, efficiency, and priority

management skills.

Areas Of Expertise

IBM Mainframes, pSeries, Data Analysis & Reporting Technology Integration

iSeries Project Management

Quantitative Analytics Platform & Product Strategic Planning

Datapower, WSRR,WMB, MQ Installs Production Support

Design & Development Agile & Waterfall Risk Mitigation

Systems Engineering Coding & Maintenance J2EE, Web Services, SOA

Service Oriented Performance Tuning Quality Assurance

Architecture Documentation & Standards Process Optimization

IBM Websphere Middleware

VSAM, DB2, CICS - based Client & Vendor Relations

apps

Training & Team Building

Professional Experience

CHARMING SHOPPES - Bensalem, PA 2008-Present

Senior EAI Middleware Architect (direct report to The Director - IT

Operations)

Plan, Prepare(Spec, design,coding), deliver, performance tuning and

Support(24X7 rolling on-call) of middleware IT Solutions across Z/OS

mainframes, pSeries AIXes and iSeries iOSes for a $3.5 billion multi-

channel retail organization supporting multiple retail divisions, 2400

stores, three distribution centers and five e-commerce websites.

Update/Support existing infrastructures built on various IBM platforms

augmented with core Java and overseeing the system that uses tiered

computing utilizing Parallel Sysplex mainframes, pSeries LPARs, iSeries

with Websphere MQ 7, WMB 8, WSRR, Datapower XI50 & XI52 appliances, DB2,

VSAM data storages and CICS transcations. Manage multiple platforms,

Staging multiple environments (production,pre-prod,UAT and developmet),

support project deliveries with the goal of 24X7 availability/monitoring,

improving risk models and systems performance.

. Led creation and maintenance of a standardized middleware Websphere

messaging platform & solution for the Charming shoppes' needs. Acted

as the key player in the design, development, enhancement, testing,

and production support for the Charming shoppes' Websphere messaging

integration suite.

. Serving as a member of the Enterprise IT middleware team while

resolving support issues, providing technical guidance,new

product/project concepts, resolving patch/incremental upgrades issues,

and ensuring optimal systems performance.

. Working closely with the Server, Enterprise Security and QA teams to

implement the requisite messaging middleware technologies, project

deliverables and version upgrades.

. Focus on delivering robust WebServices using WBI ESB - SOA and Message

oriented Middleware(MOM)

. Creating Configuration managers,DataPower domains, Planning

Webservices governance with WSRR, Broker domains, Brokers,

EG(Execution Group)s, Deploying BAR files, MRM maintenance.

. Design and development of message flows, message sets, programming WMB

nodes with Java J2EE, JMS, ESQL, XML, MRM Transformations and XSLT.

SSL implementation for Servers. JSON - REST WS

. WMB and MQ on Z/OS, AIX and Windows - Administration, Production on-

call support even during weekends/nights/holidays- 24X7,Upgrades,

Monitoring, Performance Tuning, log keeping, recoveries, standardizing

practices, knowledge base maintenance, Raising issues and following

IBM product support.

. Received the Charming Shoppes "Spirit Medallion" Award in light of

outstanding achievements and contributions towards technical

objectives and organizational goals.

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Webject systems - Bridgewater, MA 2001-2008

Senior Consultant

Worked with clients of Webject systems in their IBM mainframe, Java J2EE,

IBM MQ messaging middleware needs.

. IBM Global Solutions, Atlanta,GA (2004-2008) - WMB and MQ Planning,

Installations, Administration and support in their SIEBEL CRM QA Test

lab.Distributed globally across NA, EMEA regions - Sysplex Z/OS

Mainframes, AIX pSeries farms, windows machines - Test director,

WinRunner, QTP, LoadRunner.

. Charles Schwab, SFO,CA(2002-2004) - Initially a programmer then Led

development of CICS ECI - COBOL programming on Mainframes, AIX MQ java

JMS & C programming - RSA Security in MQ Channel Exits.Extending legacy

CICS transactions using CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG) and DB2/VSAM

Updates as WebServices/web - SOA to the partners and customers,

simultaneous DB2 Updates using MQ to transfer data across, multi-tiered

systems, with robust security and failover mechanisms that should be

typical and needed for a financial organization, managing a trillion $

plus of it's customers using MQ, JAVA, C, MVS/ESA, DB2, TSO/ISPF,

FileAid, COBOL, JCL, VSAM Datasets, ROSCOE, CSP/AD, CICS, CTG.

. Olympus/ComputerAssociates, NY (2002) -Developed MQ Messaging Services in

HL7 (Health Layer 7) hospital protocol using JMS and IBM MQ in a

windows/custom firmware environment for Olympus' Endoscopy camera

equipment.

. CVS/Pharmacy, Woonsocket, RI (2001)- Architecting and developing,

documenting Proof of Concept Solutions in then emerging J2EE technologies

using EJB Specs, ORACLE, Access, EXCEL, JDBC, JNDI, ODBC, SERVLETS, ASP,

ADO, CSS, HTML, VBScript, VBA, JavaScript, Java, IIS, JRun, WebLogic,

NetDynamics, Unix Shell, Solaris and Windows

DHARMA SOFTWARE solutions - Bangalore, India 1995-2001

Systems Programmer - Dharma SQL

Development of Dharma's in-house Relational Database SQL Parsing engine.

Development utilizing Visual Basic front-end and C++ CORBA back-end.

Parsing, syntax/SQL tree generation and optimization modules(for mainframe

and mid range computers). Technologies used: MVS, AIX, OS/2, COBOL, DB2,

CICS, TELON, FILE AID C, C++, Unix system level programming, Shell scripts,

purify and Assembly

Education & Training

. IBM Certified MQ Series Specialist

. Java Programmer & Developer - BrainBench Certified

. Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science - BSCS 1995 batch, India

. Professional Training:

> WMB/WBI MB/ WMQI / MQSI (historically NEON) Workshop - NT, AIX,

Compuware/IBM

> Websphere MQ Programming using COBOL and C in AIX, IBM

> MQ Series Administration on Z/OS mainframes, IBM

> MQ Series Administration on Windows, IBM

> ES/9000(MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, JCL, DB2, CICS, CSP) Programmer

Workshop, IBM

> AS/400(OS/400, RPG, CL/400) Programmer Workshop, IBM

> UNIX IPC - Inter process communication mechanisms (Semaphores,

SharedMemory, Pipes)

> Quick Test Professional(QTP) 5.6 & 6 - Advanced Testing by

Mercury-interactive/HP

Technical Proficiencies

Application Servers/Gateways: WSRR,DataPower XI50-52,Websphere WAS,

JBoss;Apache & IIS (http)

J2EE Technologies: EJB, JNDI,JMS, JDBC, RMI, Servlets & JSP, JMS, XML,

WebServices

B2B Servers: IBM Websphere Middleware Messaging-MQ&MQ

Integrator/WMB/IIB

Programming Languages: COBOL, Java, C, C++,RPG, PASCAL, FORTRAN, VB

and Assembler

Databases: DB2, VSAM file systems, Oracle, (MongoDB, Hadoop)

Object Oriented Design: UML, Java & J2EE Design Patterns, Message

Oriented Middleware(MOM), MDB

Design Tools & IDE: Visio, Eclipse-Based IDEs, Borland, MS Visual

Studio

Operating Systems: Z/OS, MVS/ESA, AIX, iOS, OS/400, OS/2, few Unix-

es&Linux-es and Windows

Quality: Quality Fundamentals, QA proc.s & doc.s, Test Director, QTP,

Load Runner

Other Technologies: WBIMB (WMB including version 8) message flows -

message sets, EAI, MQ, CICS Command level and ECI,

HL7 Protocol, MOM, ESQL, Web Services, Unix Shell

Scripting, JCL, CL/400, FileAid, ROSCOE,

ChangeMan,VSS, BMC Patrol, WinSock & BSD Sockets

programming, BSD System Calls, MQI-MQAI-Channel Exits

Programming

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