Fikru A. Bedeke,

Current location: Columbus, Ohio, USA

Phone: 240-***-****

Email: ad4m8c@r.postjobfree.com

App Connect Enterprise, IBM Integration Bus (ACE/IIB/WMB), API Connect, and DataPower Developer

Summaries:

Web based integration services developer. Develop messaging services based on REST, SOAP, HTTP, TCP/IP, MQ, KAFKA, CICS, IMS, JMS, SAP, Salesforce; etc., protocols

Built, tested and delivered applications on agile principles and practices

Tools/Techs: REACT, JSX, JS, JSON, HTML, CSS, XML, JAVA, API, SOA, SOAP, ESQL, SQL, WINDOWS, VS, SHELL SCRIPT, GITHUB, LINUX, UNIX, AIX, MQ, MQMON, ACE, IIB, WMB, DP GATEWAY, SPLUNK, KIBANA, OCTOPUS, UDP, etc.

EDU: MBA (July 2008); BSc (July 2004)

Work Experiences

I.CSX Technologies, 500 E Water Street., Jacksonville, Florida (Jul 2023 till now)

Role: Production and Application Enhancement Support

Responsibilities: Monitor applications health/status; make enhancements on existing integration web services; support production incidences and issues; implement change requests; promote changes to desired environments, participate on breakout bridge calls, recycle applications brokers/integration servers as needed; monitor IBM MQ queues and backup or reprocess message went to DLQ queues; debug and identify backend service issues.

Environment: Windows, Linux, AIX, Hybrid Cloud (Azure), ACE/IIB, Apigee, Attilas, Data Power Gateway, MQ, SQL, Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, Perl, Python, Cobol, Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, MySQL, MQ Series 11, GitHub, Jira, SharePoint; SoapUI, Postman, MQ Monn, Ansible, AWX

II.CVS Health, 2100 E Lake Cook Rd., Buffalo Grove, Illinois (FEB 2021 to JUN 2023)

Role: Lead ACE/IIB Developer:

Responsibilities: Design/develop and deliver SOAP and RESTful based web services; expose RESTful over backend MQ service, integrated MQ service with Kafka Provider; expos RESTful service to CICS provider; expose publish/Subscribe services; configure common frameworks for logging and monitoring; enhance functionality of existing service; deploy artifacts to DEV, QA, PT, UAT, PROD regions; used Octopus, UCD interfaces for deployment automation; support APIC configuration; support DataPower configuration; participate on code review and enhancements; worked on IIB to ACE migration projects; participate in design/architectural review meetings; participate in F5(GTM/LTM) configuration/implementations; support production deployment and monitoring.

Environment: Windows, Linux, AIX, Cloud (IBM, Azure, AWS), ACE/IIB, APIC, Data Power Gateway, MQ, SQL, Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, Perl, Python, Cobol, Oracle DB, DB2, SQL, MongoDB, MQ Series, GitHub, SVN, Splunk, Jira, SoapUI, Postman, RFHUtil, Ant/Jenkins, Octopus, Urban Code Deploy (UCD)

III.Nationwide Mutual Insurance, Columbus, OH (July 2018 to Dec 2020)

Role: IBM Integration Bus (ACE/IIB) Developer:

Responsibilities: Design/develop SOAP and RESTful based web services; implement end-to-end logging and monitoring; improve service scopes; implement MQ, File, HTTP and JMS based integrations; troubleshoot production issues and identify root cause; create WSDLs, XSDs artifacts; develop subscribe/publish flows; invoke Apache Kafka services; implement common frameworks; support migration projects; support integration broker/server recycling and configuration; deploy bar files ; identify and fixed defects; participate in sacrum meetings;

Environment: Windows, Linux, AIX, Guidewire, IIB 11, IIB 10, IIB 9, MQ9, MQ 8, MQ 7.5, Mainframe, DataPower XI52, XG45, WSRR 8.5, Java, IBM FTM, Jenkins, Splunk, Oracle DB, Informatica Power Center, IBM DB2, MongoDB, Linux, windows 10, etc.

IV.Prudential Financial, Minneapolis, MN (Jun 2017 to Aug 2018)

Role: Integration Developer:

Responsibilities: Analyz existing development frameworks; create project roadmap and delivery plan for the new/upgraded SOA system; participate in architectural and technical review meetings; develop SOAP and REST web services using IBM Integration Bus; design and develop message flows to perform message domain transformation; work with team on refactoring existing services; create WSDLs, XSDs and COBOL copy books; implement common framework for logging and monitoring; document applications artifacts; identify and fixed defects; perform functional testing.

Environment: ACE/IIB, MQ Series, IBM Tivoli Java, ESQL, SAP, Oracle Database, DB2 Database, MS SQL Server, Informatica Power Center, Windows, Linux, Mainframe.

V. Farmers Insurance, Los Angeles, CA (Oct 2016 to May 2017)

Role: Integration Bus Admin Support

Responsibilities: work on infrastructure planning and execution; install and configure IIB and MQ components into development and QA environments; create MQ objects (Queue Managers, Queues, Listeners, Channels); create integration nodes (brokers) and execution groups; add users to BRKR and MQM groups; add broker to cluster group; configure load balancer on broker and MQ servers; Created configurable services on integration node and servers’ configure security groups on brokers and servers; create configurable services for database; CICS servers; configure and deploy bar files into ST/QA environment; monitor applications for CPU/memory utilization Run user trace to capture application; backup broker/server configurations;

Environment: Integration Bus (IIB 9.0), Message Broker 8, 7, Datapower XI52/XI50, WTX, MQ Series 7.5, Java, ESQL, DB2, Oracle, XSLT, XML, XSD, SAP, Windows, AIX, Linux, z/OS

VI.Judge Software, Jacksonville, FL (Nov 2015 to Sep 2016) Developer

Role: DataPower/Integration Developer

Responsibilities: Develop MPGW Services; review proposed solutions; transform inputs messages to desired outputs format; create WTX artifacts; work with 837, 270, 271 transaction sets; work with HIPAA and HL7 messages and transform to other HIPAA sets in the output; support project migration from WMB 7 to IIB 9 environment; create message models using DFDL, SAP Adapters (Data object), MRM message sets modifications for processing Text, XML and Cobol Copy book messages; configure AAA policy objects for LDAP, AD, TAM calls for authentications and authorization services; configure various DataPower actions while defining rules and policies like Transform action, AAA Action, Match Rule, Encryption, Decryption, Filter action, Validate, Route and Scheduling; develop transformations in DataPower using XSLT and XQuery; Used WTX Maps in DataPower as Interoperable services. Created Maps, Functions and type trees in WTX; Set up WSRR; setup SSL (One way and two way) configuration on DP server; trouble shoot of production issues; develop Rest and SOAP web services in IIB and DataPower; integrate client service with IBM Information Management System (IMS); develop message flows using SOAP, HTTP, MQ; JMS, File, FTE, Compute, Mapping, Filter, Collector and Aggregate nodes.; add logging and exceptional handling utilities to msg flows; develop message transformations using ESQL, Java, XSLT and mapping; impot ODM rules into IIB flow; call stored procedures to fetch data from databases; work on offshore/on-shore development team

Environment: Integration Bus (IIB 9.0), Message Broker 8, 7, DataPower XI52/XI50, WTX, MQ Series 7.5, Java, ESQL, DB2, Oracle, XSLT, XML, XSD, SAP, Windows, AIX, Linux, z/OS

Education:

●MBA (Major in Finance), AMU, 2006-2008, INDIA

●BSc in Manufacturing Technology, Adama Science and Technology University (1999-2004), ADAMA, ETHIOPIA,

●Advanced Diploma in Technology, Bahir Dar Poly Technic Institute (1994-1997), BAHIR DAR, ETHIOPIA

Certifications

●IBM Certified Solution Developer –Message Broker V8 Certification,

●Web Developer Certification

●Linux Shell Scripting Certification

●Linux Network Administration Certification

●IBM DataPower Certification

References:

2. Haftom Gebere

Role: Apigee API Developer, CSX Technologies

Phone: +1-720-***-****

1. Jane Xie

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phone: +1-847-***-****

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