PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Over Sixteen years of professional software experience in IT industry, specializing in architecture, design / development of applications using various technologies. Also worked as an Interface developer in Enterprise Application Integration using IBM Middleware tools and technologies.

Over Sixteen years of experience in Designing, developing and implementing of Enterprise application integration using IBM APP Connect Enterprise 11.0.0.4, IBM Integration Bus 10, IBM Integration Bus 9.0.3, WebSphere MQ 8.0, WebSphere Message Broker v8,v7,v6,v5, WebSphere Process Server 6.1, ESB, WebSphere Interchange Server, WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI52, Rational Team Concert, WebSphere eXtreme Scale, API Connect, WebSphere Adapters and WebSphere Partner Gateway, RESTful APIs, SOAP APIs, SAP integration, SOA architecture, web services and REST integration.

Experienced in design, development and mapping using WMB and MQ with different formats like JSON, XML and MRM formats.

Hands on experience with Web Services (REST / SOAP) design & implementation

Familiar with developing and exposing API / Services using API connect

Hands-on experience with Micro Services and API development

Knowledgeable in creation of XSD, WSDL and Swagger.

Understanding of DataPower services like multi-protocol gateways, web service proxies, firewalls

Extensive Object-Oriented Programming experience using Java and related technologies

Extensive hands on experience in working with adapters including JDBC, Jtext, WebSphere MQ, SAP, Email, HTTP in WebSphere Adapters.

Expertise in developing Application Business Objects, Advanced Mapping, Relationships, Collaboration Templates, Collaboration Objects

Experience in interacting with mainstream Relational Databases, Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and NoSQL database MongoDB.

Experienced in System integration testing and validation and application documentation.

Documenting System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) phases as follows: Requirements Analysis, Design, Development, Integration and Test, Implementation, Operation and Maintenance.

Experience in developing the Web Services using IBM App Connect message flows.

Strong Object-Oriented experience on Construction & Manufacturing domain expertise methodology throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Highly motivated team player with strong communication, analytical and organizational skills.

Strong understanding of concepts of integration technology Message Broker Development and administration experience.

Experience in using J2C Java data binding tool for inter-operating with CICS COBOL programs.

Experience in using WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI52

Basic knowledge of AWS

Experience in using WebSphere Transformation Extender

EDUCATION:

Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

CERTIFICATIONS:

IBM Certified Deployment Professional - WebSphere Interchange Server 4.3.

IBM Certified Solution Designer -- WebSphere MQ V7.0

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems : Windows XP, 2000/NT, LINUX and AIX

Languages : Java, C, C++,XML

WebSphere Family : IBM APP Connect 11.0.0.4, IBM Integration Bus V10, V9, WebSphere MQ 8.0, WebSphere Message Broker v8.0, v7, v6, WebSphere Process Server 6.1, WebSphere ICS 4.3, WebSphere Partner Gateway 6.2. IBM Rational application developer 8, IBM WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI52 IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender 8.1, SAP Adapter, WebSphere eXtreme Scale, IBM Integration ToolKit 9, App Connect Enterprise Toolkit,API Connect

RDBMS : Oracle (9i, 8.x, 7.x), DB2, SQL Server and MongoDB

Web/Application Servers : WebSphere Application Server 7

Version Controls : Rational Clear Case, CVSNT, SUB-VERSION, Rational Team Concert, GIT

WORK EXPERINECE:

TBC Corporation Mar’13 – Mar’20

WebSphere Consultant

Employer: Miracle Software Systems, USA

Description:

TBC Corporation is one of the nation's largest vertically integrated marketer of tires for the automotive replacement market. The Company's retail operations include Company-operated tire and automotive service centers under the "Tire Kingdom", "Merchant's Tire & Auto Centers", and "National Tire & Battery" brands, and franchised stores under the "Big O Tires" brand. TBC markets on a wholesale basis to regional tire chains and distributors serving independent tire dealers throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

TBC Store Technicians will use CARS interface (Frontend GUI, also known as RPOS, Retail Point of Sale) to add customer, vehicle info, check the inventories (tires, parts and services), create, update and to finalize orders. CARS will invoke multiple services which are not limited to create / update / get customer info, inventory details, products, Vehicle info and Orders related Web Services/ REST/ RFC that are exposed by SOA (the middleware layer). The SOA system will then invoke SAP ERP/JD Edwards ERP Web Services to get the information and return the response back to CARS site. All the Web Service calls are synchronous request/response pattern calls. The RPOS (Retail Point of Sale) sends the request which comes to SOA middleware (supported by IBM App Connect, Data Power and Extreme Scale technology) and SOA middleware sends the data to SAP. It also processes the response from SAP system and sends back the data to front-end UI. So, SOA middleware plays an important part in the whole architecture.

Tire America web site interfaces: SOA middleware REST interfaces are needed to make or get the tires Inventory, demand, and supply details in SAP available to Tire America website to successfully deliver the customer orders. Updated inventory details for Tire America will be sent from SAP to OMS (Order Management Systems) via the middleware so that OMS can have the latest information for the incoming customer demands.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for design, coding, testing, and documenting medium to large IT initiatives using IBM WebSphere MQ, IBM APP Connect, ESQL, XML, XSLT, Java and WebSphere Extreme Scale Caching technology.

Will perform and develop technical specifications for new and existing systems and analyzes system and program requirements by conducting meetings with the business, back-end and other development teams.

Developing interfaces using IBM App Connect and WebSphere MQ, WASND and Extreme Scale Technology.

Develop and deliver the necessary artifacts like Canonical Models (XML Schema definition), Interfaces, WSDL's and Swagger for all the services according to the Business Requirement.

Develop reusable framework components (Custom nodes) using IBM App Connect Enterprise Tool Kit as part of integration solution to solve complex business problems.

Designing and developing REST APIs and Micro Services.

Integrated with third-party vendors WHI, Carfax, Citi and Mitchel.

Designed and developed RESTful integration solutions to OMS and SAP applications for Tire America web site.

Responsible for developing and reviewing technical specifications, interfacing with client areas.

Managing design and development of code and testing programs and sub-systems for deployment.

Provide guidance around application design including common framework, services and orchestrations, transaction monitors, distributed processing and data modelling.

Interfacing with clients to determine requirements, resolve problems and perform testing.

Develop and deliver IBM App Connect services and APIs which includes service development, service integration with the clients, support integration testing, service deployment and support services after deployment

Coding, Unit testing of applications for migration.

Provide documentation support and best practices.

Provide production deployment guidelines and execution plan.

Develop reusable framework components (Custom Nodes) using IBM APP Connect Enterprise Toolkit as part of the Integration solution to solve complex business problems.

Environment: WebSphere MQ 8.0, IBM App Connect 11.0.0.4,IBM Integration Bus, WebSphere Message Broker, DB2, Rational Team Concert, GIT for Version controlling, API Connect, WebSphere DataPower XI52, SAP Adapter, WebSphere Extreme Scale, SQL Server and Linux.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Florida (Florida Blue) Jul’11 – Mar’13

Integration Consultant

Employer: Miracle Software Systems, USA

Description:

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida is a leader in Florida’s health industry. Since 1944, the company has been dedicated to meeting the diverse needs of all those it serves by offering an array of choices. BCBSF is a not-for-profit, policyholder-owned, tax-paying mutual company. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., BCBSF is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, an association of independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies.

The WMB interfaces (Provider Information Platform, FEP, FEMS, ITS Host, BXX and Transaction History) get various types of input data from various other applications like Portal, Mainframes etc. These messages are first converted into required format and Input messages are validated against with message set. Successful validated messages are process and if required it stored into database for further use. Processed messages are mapped to required output structure. These canonical XML messages are sent to Target systems. Many flows/Interfaces are publish/Subscribe model.

Responsibilities:

Develop and support WMB and WAS applications like Provider Information Platform (PIP),Federal Employee Program (FEP), FEMS, ITS Host, Transaction History and various other applications in BCBS Florida.

Installation and Configuration of software like WebSphere MQ, WBI MB and RAD on Windows Platform.

Taking the ownership and solving the issues in UNIT, TEST and Production Environment on time.

Trouble shooting, Bug Fixing and Enhancement of existing Interface development will be adhered to the metrics.

Involves in coding and testing of WMB flows in UNIT, Test and staging environments in BCBS Florida.

Preparing the Deployment package using BART and deploying in UNIT, TEST and Staging. Then providing the Prod package to the infrastructure support for deployment.

Migrated WebSphere Message Broker applications from version 6.0 to 7.0.

Providing technical support to convert the code from WMB to JAVA.

Works with System Analysts to get new requirements.

Provide expert knowledge for various applications.

Coordinating Project activities and tasks, as well as dependent deliverables.

Managing tasks, issues, and risk retirement

Provide documentation support and best practices.

Provide production deployment guidelines and execution plan.

Configured WebSphere DataPower XI50 appliance using WebGUI for Web Service Proxies, XML firewalls, multi-protocol gateways in UNIT and Test environments.

Using WebSphere Transformation Extender to generate the files that are required to support the request (XML-COBOL) and response (COBOL-XML) transformations in the DataPower appliance.

Installed and initiated a Proof of Concept in WebSphere Message Broker 8 for the record and replay feature.

Environment: WebSphere MQ 7.0, WebSphere Message Broker 7,8, DB2, Clear Case, SUB-VERSION, Rational Application Developer 8, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere DataPower XI50, IBM Integration Bus V10, API Connect.

Michelin Tires -- GIC FACTORY Dec’08 – Jun’11

Lead Consultant

Employer: Wipro Technologies, USA

Description:

Michelin is a French multinational tire manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. It is the second largest tire manufacturer in the world after Bridgestone and larger than both Goodyear and Continental.

Michelin North America operates in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico with headquarters and plants in each country, demonstrating Michelins long-term strategy of being close to its customers. Wipro Technologies provides the Consulting and IT support for Michelin. The scope of this project is to provide the Global Support for Application Message Integration. It involves providing smooth operation of Michelin Integration

The WMB interfaces get various types of input data from various other applications like Web, WMS, Mainframes etc. These messages are first converted into required format and Input messages are validated against with message set. Successful validated messages are process and if required it stored into database for further use. Processed messages are mapped to required output structure. These canonical XML messages are sent to Target systems. Many flows/Interfaces are publish/Subscribe model. E2E Logging is happened while message received into WMB and while going to Target system. If any error happens, while processing the message, those errors and messages are also logged into E2E. These logged information: we can get from E2E.Configuration of Source and Target Trading Partners, Receivers and Gateway to provide centralized B2B trading partner and transaction management using WebSphere Partner Gateway.

Responsibilities:

Global Support for Application Message Integration (AMI) Operations on both North America

Installation and Configuration of softwares like WebSphere MQ and WBI MB.

Taking the ownership and solving the issues in Production Environment on time.

Trouble shooting, Bug Fixing and Enhancement of existing Interface development will be adhered to the metrics.

As per the Change Request (CR) / Problem Request (PR) / Enhancement Request (ER), once the Bug fixing is done, testing in the Local system for all the test cases defined in UTC. If all the test cases are passed then ITC will be performed in the Development (Client) Server.

Then preparing the Deployment package and providing it to the infrastructure support for deployment.

We also ensure that the necessary Database creation scripts, MQScripts and E2E Scripts are available in the package and make sure whether it has been executed successfully in Development Server or not.

For WPG, creating Source and Target Trading Partners for Document Exchange.

Creating a Receiver to receive incoming Document through one of the many supported protocols like HTTP(s), FTP, File Directory etc.

The processed Document needs to be sent to the target trading partner. A destination needs to be defined to that target trading partner to send the output document through one of many supported protocols like HTTP, FTP, File Directory etc.

Co-coordinating with product vendor IBM and fixing IBM Message Broker and WebSphere Partner Gateway related issues on time.

Adhered to SLA for the tickets as per the client requirement.

Monthly/Weekly/Daily Status Report will be prepared and publish it across to all the customers.

Acknowledgement and Resolution Metrics of the ticket/issue as a day-to-day basis and publish it across to all the customers.

Sales Order Distribution System Report to customers will be prepared and sent.

Assign the work to the team depends upon the Priority and handling the team successfully.

Environment: WebSphere MQ 6.0, WebSphere Message Broker 6, Oracle, JDBC Adapter, JTEXT Adapter, WebSphere ICS, WebSphere Partner Gateway 6.2, ManageNow for Tracking tool and Clear Case, IBM MQseries, ICS and WebSphere Partner Gateway on different operating system. Application Message Integration will support the 700 product interfaces with the application.

ACS Medicaid (Xerox) Jan’07 – Nov’08

Technical Lead

Employer: Wipro Technologies, USA

Description:

Affiliated Computer Services Inc. (ACS) was a company that provided information technology services as well as business process outsourcing solutions to businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations.

The objective of the project is to design and convert the Government sponsored current Health care - Medicaid management product, developed in COBOL, into a highly customizable SOA based J2EE application. The customers for this product are typically the Medicaid system offices of the US States, such as New Hampshire, Mississippi, North Carolina, Florida. The ENTERPRISE system will be built using latest technologies on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with the highest level of customizability. The system will integrate all the existing various applications within the product suite, such as MMIS, EDI, Xpression, Geostan and Enrollment broker into a single enterprise application framework. It will also provide flexible Rules Engine (Fair Isaac) for managing all rules related to the application. The intention of the project is to create a core application that can be readily customized for individual ACS customers, with minimal effort and maximal manageability.

Responsibilities:

Analysis of requirements and specifications

Implemented and end to end Medicaid system that include Claims Administration, Adjudication through payment process

Analyzed the existing application and prepared the new design based upon the client’s requirements.

Used WebSphere Integration Developer as IDE for development and WebSphere Process Server as Runtime for the development of BPEL.

Developed Mediation modules and interfaces for various COTS products like Geostan Address Validator, Xpression Letter Generation and EDMS.

Actively contributed in design and development of Batch Tracking solution for the Enterprise.

One of the core team members for EDI-MQ integration with WPS

Developed different BPEL processes, SDOs and Interfaces.

Experience with WebSphere Admin Console.

Involved in Administration of WebSphere Process server.

Imported external interfaces to the business process and invoked activities from business process.

Contributed highly towards WPS performance tuning.

Worked on Flat File WebSphere adapter.

Test case preparation and execution

SRS, HLD and LLD preparation

Environment: WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere ESB, WebSphere App Server, Oracle, UNIX and Windows XP.

Flowserve Oct ‘06 – Dec’06

Integration Lead/Developer

Employer: Wipro Technologies, India

Description:

The Flowserve Corporation is an American multinational corporation and one of the largest suppliers of industrial and environmental machinery such as pumps, valves, end face mechanical seals, automation, and services to the power, oil, gas, chemical and other industries.

Flowserve associates and distributors of Flowserve pump parts use Web Fastraq to create and manage quotes and orders related to North American parts. Fastraq is a custom web application developed for the WebSphere application server environment. It uses custom database tables and also accesses tables within the Oracle ERP. It is tightly linked to the Oracle ERP such that changes to the ERP must consider the effect they may have on Fastraq, and vice versa. The Enterprise Application Integration part involves integration of numerous

applications like Moosic, WCS, Oracle TCA, WCS, BAAN and Symix. Involved in planning, providing consultancy and executes the integration services using WebSphere Business Integration Server

Responsibilities:

Developed server-side components containing business logic.

Involved in gathering requirements from client, attending requirement review meetings and prepared technical specifications according to client requirements.

Prepared design documents (HLD/LLD) for different interfaces.

Developed Application Business Objects, Advanced Mapping, Relationships, Collaboration Templates, Collaboration Objects.

Configuration of WBI adapters.

Implemented custom Data Handlers using Data Handler API to convert between a particular serialized format and a business object.

Involved in analysis of ICS process flows.

Prepared test cases and test data for testing the various interfaces.

Coordinating and mentoring offshore team.

Involved with offshore and onsite co-ordination.

Environment: WebSphere MQ, WebSphere ICS, WBI Adapters, Oracle.

JohnsonDiversey-ICC Mar ‘05 – Sep’06

Developer

Employer: Wipro Technologies, India

Description:

Diversey, Inc. is a provider of cleaning and hygiene products serving customers in the hospitality, healthcare, food and beverage, food service, retail and facility management sectors

Integration Competency Center (ICC) is a joint program between JohnsonDiversey and Wipro Technologies wherein the integration needs of JohnsonDiversey are serviced by Wipro Technologies resources. The Enterprise Application Integration part of the ICC involves integration of numerous applications like SAP, Siebel, BPCS and JDE to name a few across the Europe and US. Wipro Technologies works with JohnsonDiversey in planning, providing consultancy and executes the integration services using WebSphere Business Integration Server

Responsibilities:

Developed server-side components containing business logic.

Responsible for the debugging of the application problems while developing the application

Preparation of test case and execution

Involved in Production support Activities like Server Recycling, Deployments, Client interaction.

Responsible for Installation, Administration and maintenance of WBI ICS, MQ and DB2 servers.

Worked on Problem Management Reports (PMR) with IBM to find effective solutions to various problems and performance issues. Worked on WebSphere system related system work (patches, fixes).

Created Environment Specific Reference Document for Managing Various Operations.

Performed routine management of WebSphere Environment like monitoring Disk Space, CPU Utilization

Taking the ownership and solving the issues in Production Environment on time.

Monthly/Weekly/Daily Status Report prepared and published across to all the customers.

Involved with onsite and offshore co-ordination.

Environment: WebSphere ICS, WBI Adapters, WebSphere MQ and DB2.

Developer Jul’04 – Jan’05

Project: Wea Trust Integration

Employer: IBM India

Description:

WEA Trust is an independent, not-for-profit company based in Madison, with a Wisconsin staff proud to serve those who serve Wisconsin. WEA Trust provides medical plans for Wisconsin public employees – school, municipal, county and state.

The WEA Trust integration project is an Enterprise Application Integration project, where in various front-end application will be integrated with legacy application on AS/400. There are 17 applications that have been identified for integration. As the initial step the MEDecisions application is being integrated. MEDecisions is one of the front-end applications, which is being hosted by a third-party vendor. This application is basically a medical management application and must be integrated with WEA backend application. WBI ICS has been chosen as the core integration technology. A service layer is also designed to launch various backend application based on input type. This service layer is hosted on WebSphere Application Server (WAS).

Responsibilities:

Creating Application Specific Business Object for MQ and WebServices using WebServices ODA.

Installation and Configuration of software like WebSphere MQ and WBI ICS on Windows Platform.

Creating Generic Business Object for the interface.

Creating the Meta Objects for MQConnector.

Creating Custom Maps from Source to Generic and Generic to Destination Maps.

Designing a Collaboration Template and creating the Collaboration object and binding it to the Connectors.

Implemented custom Data Handlers using Data Handler API to convert between a serialized format and a business object.

Prepared test cases and test data for testing the various interfaces.

Running the collaboration to execute the business logic.

Environment: WebSphere ICS, WebSphere MQ, WAS and DB2.

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