Scott Lepech

abl5mx@r.postjobfree.com

312-***-****

Technical Summary

Scott Lepech is a Consulting IT Architect. Mr. Lepech has worked with a

broad range of clients across multiple sectors and industries and has been

the technical lead of a broad range of projects covering areas such as: SOA

integration development, SOA governance, middleware operations strategy,

SOA infrastructure design and enablement, performance tuning, operations

automation, SOA Center of Competency, and enterprise n-tier infrastructure

implementations. Specific product expertise includes DataPower, Message

Broker, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR), WebSphere

Application Server Virtual Enterprise (XD), WebSphere Portal Server, DB2,

and WebSphere MQ. Mr. Lepech has extensive experience working with both

domestic and international clients. Mr. Lepech consistently clarifies

customer needs for tangible financial results, performance improvement, and

client satisfaction. He is an innovative problem solver with strong

technical leadership, communication, and management skills.

Skills

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository 6.3, 6.2, 6.1

. Planning, design, install and configuration of Enterprise

Service Registry

. Ontology and classification implementation

. Creation of Custom Governance Lifecycle

. Migration from WSRR 6.1 to 6.2 to 6.3

. Scripted installation of WSRR

. Indoctrinating client teams with process and change management

disciplines related to SOA Governance and WSRR usage

. Integration of WSRR with Message Broker and Datapower

. Configuration and extension of WSRR plug-ins

. Managing client resources working on project initiatives

. Custom Security Model design and implementation

. Design and Implementation of service metadata promotion model

. Scripted automation of administration tasks

DataPower XI50 and XS40

. Planning, design, install and configuration of DataPower XI50

and XS40 domains

. Authentication of Web Service Requests with Username Tokens

against an LDAP Server

. Integration of DataPower with ITCAM for SOA

. Configuration of DataPower Load Balancing

. Installation and configuration of DataPower Eclipse plug-on

. Setup of error action and error rules

. Modification of the MQMD of a MQ messages via DataPower XSLT

Extensions

. Enforce Service Limitations via SLM

. Configuration to allow Remote Logging to a Syslog Daemon

. FTP file retrieval via WMQ Trigger

. Configuration of Common Base Logging with BIRT for data

reporting

. Creation of XML Firewalls and MPGs

. Integration of DataPower with WSRR

. Expertise designing and developing DataPower services to perform the

following

Protocol translations

. HTTP(S) to JMS

. HTTP(S) to MQ

. HTTP(S) to FTP(S)

. JMS to HTTP(S)

. MQ to HTTP(S)

. FTP(S) to HTTP(S)

Transformation between the following data formats

o Binary/Flat file (CSV, EDI)

o COBOL Copybook

o SOAP

o XML

. Dynamic message routing based on defined policies or message

content

. Utilization of WSRR for dynamic endpoint lookup and selection

. Message enrichment

. Service Level Management - Policy driven approach to decide with

which priority requests are treated. This includes throttling

and blocking messages based on SLM policies

. Orchestration of multiple services - ie calling multiple

services and aggregating the responses.

. Design and development of processing policies that encrypt,

decrypt, message signing, authentication, authorization and

auditing

. Design and development of processing rules that provide policy

enforcement

. Configuration of DataPower as a REST gateway to front SOAP

services

. Design and development of Web Service Proxy services that

provide:

o Endpoint/URI abstraction

o XML Threat protection

o XML Well-formedness checking

o SOAP schema validation

o Payload schema validation

WebSphere Message Broker 6.1

. Planning, design, install and configuration of highly available

message brokers

. Scripted installation of Message Broker

. Dynamic endpoint resolution using Endpoint Lookup node

. Policy retrieval using Registry Lookup node

. Design of digital certificate configuration for multiple execution

groups per each broker

. Implemented WS-Security authentication via user name token and X.509

certificates

. Expertise designing and developing Message Broker flows to perform the

following

Protocol translations:

. HTTP(S) to JMS

. HTTP(S) to MQ

. HTTP(S) to FTP(S)

. JMS to HTTP(S)

. MQ to HTTP(S)

. FTP(S) to HTTP(S)

Transformation between the following data formats

. Binary/Flat file (CSV, EDI)

. COBOL Copybook

. SOAP

. XML

. Dynamic message routing based on defined policies or message content

. Orchestration of multiple services - ie calling multiple services and

aggregating the responses.

. Utilization of WSRR for dynamic endpoint lookup and selection

. Message and Schema validation

soapUI

. SOAP and RESTful service load testing

. Service Mocking

. Functional testing

. Integration with Junit

WebSphere Virtual Enterprise (VE) 6.1, 6.0

. Planning, design, install and configuration of XD Operations

Optimization and DataGrid

. Advanced XD configuration using Health, Routing and Service

Policies

. Migration from XD 6.0/ND 6.0 to XD 6.1/ND 6.1

. Scripted automation of XD administration tasks

. Indoctrinating client teams with process and change management

disciplines related to XD adoption

. Facilitating documentation of current system administration, application

testing and operational processes, and designing efficient To-Be

processes

. Developing technical implementation plans that address the risks

associated with the new design

. Managing client resources working on project initiatives

WebSphere Portal Server 6.0 5.x, 4.x

. Install and configure large cluster configurations with DB2 on

AIX, Solaris, and Linux

. Install and configure Portal Web content management

. Infrastructure planning and portal performance tuning

. Integration of Portal with Tivoli Access Manager 5.1

. Integration/Tuning of Portal With RSA ClearTrust and Novell

IChain

. Capacity planning and Monitoring strategies for Portal

. WebSphere Edge server and content cache with Portal

. BPEL engine configuration with Portal

WebSphere Application Server 7.x, 6.x, 5.x, 4.x, 3.5

. Installation, configuration, clustering and tuning of WebSphere

across multiple systems.

. Configuration of WebSphere with JACC

. 64 bit Java implementation of WebSphere on AIX

Professional Experience

wal-Mart - Principal IT Architect

July 2006 to Present

Current responsibilities include technical leadership of

multiple projects utilizing client SDLC methods. Project

lifecycle methodology includes requirements gathering, modeling,

production selection, capacity planning, sizing, assembly,

testing, deployment, and management supported by governance and

best practices.

Service Oriented Integration Team Lead

Technical leader of the SOA Infrastructure operations and

integration team

. Mentoring a team of Integration Engineers and Architects

. Design and implementation of SOA integration solutions

. Contributing to task identification, work effort estimates,

and work schedules.

. Developing policies and procedures to ensure work processes

and products meet IT standards.

. Defined and documented support SLAs

. Technical documentation created for team training

. Created integration standards and playbook for WSRR,

DataPower and Message Broker

. Provided 3rd level support

. Founded Infrastructure Governance Board

. Creating Infrastructure Governance lifecycle to ensure

architectural compliance

. Created sizing methodology for middleware

Retail Integration Project

Solution uses DataPower XI50 to secure SOAP and MQ connections

. Installation, configuration and integration of DataPower

with the existing SOA stack and legacy store systems

. Technical documentation authored

. Authored DataPower Operational playbook for use of support

team

. Provided 3rd level support

SOA Infrastructure Architect

. Design of Service Oriented Infrastructure

. Installation, configuration and integration of the

following SOA components

o WebSphere Service Registry and Repository

o WebSphere Message Broker

o WebSphere VE

o WebSphere Portal Server

o WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus

o WebSphere Datapower

o HP BAC for SOA

. Developed runtime governance framework and implemented

standards for all components

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository

. Technical Lead of project

. Represented Service Oriented Infrastructure team in the SOA

COE

. Documentation, installation and configuration of Eclipse

and visual studio plug-in

. Custom security model creation and implementation

. Integration of WSRR with DataPower and Message Broker

. Ontology and classification design and implementation

. Design and implementation of custom governance lifecycle

. Provided 3rd level support and occasional day to day

administration

WebSphere Virtual Enterprise

. Architectural design of Enterprise XD solution

. Design, development and implementation of Jython automation

framework for VE to allow administration to be done command

line

. Technical planning for migration effort of all WebSphere

4.x and 5.x to VE

. XD 6.0 to VE 6.1 migration project planning and design

. Hardware and XD domain architecture design for WebSphere

Portal 6.x on VE

. Design and implementation of XD Object Grid proof of

concept

. Coregroup redesign due to large cell configuration

. Service Policy planning, design and implementation

. Health Policy planning, design and implementation

. Development and execution of 24 test cases to validate N-

tier VE architecture pre and post configuration changes

. Design, development and implementation of Jython automation

framework to allow administration to be done command line

. Provided 3rd level support

. Day to day administration of VE environment

WebSphere eXtended Deployment ObjectGrid/Extreme Scale

. Architectural design of dynamic XD OG caching solution for

enterprise portal

. Developed OG monitoring tools and monitoring methodology

. Developed and executed OG performance testing methodology

. Authored OG design docs including non-functional

requirements, Architecture Overview, Operational Model

. Design, development and implementation of Jython automation

framework to allow OG administration to be done command

line

. Additionally Implemented OG for Portal Server session

persistence

. Designed OG SOA service

WebSphere Virtual Enterprise Enabled Portal Server

. Architectural design of multi-cell VE enabled enterprise

portal

. Database domain design for portal

. Designed and implemented ODR multi-cell routing topology

. Authored portal design docs including non-functional

requirements, Architecture Overview, Operational Model

. Design, development and implementation of Jython and

xmlaccess automation framework for Portal to allow

administration to be done command line

Client environment: WSRR 6.3, 6.2, WebSphere XD 6.1/6.0.2.x, WPS

5.1, WebSphere Portal 6, RSA ClearTrust, Linux, AIX 5.3, HP-UX,

DB2 9.x, WebSphere Application Server 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0, 7.0,

WebSphere MQ, IBM Directory Server, Active Directory, IBM HTTP

server, Cisco CSS, Cisco GSS. DataPower X150/XS40, WebSphere

Message Broker 6.1.x

CITCO - IT Architect

June 2006 to July 2006

Responsibilities included Portal architecture review and

automating via script the complete installation and

configuration of a clustered WebSphere Portal 5.1 Installation

on UNIX and Windows.

AMerican greetings - IT Architect

May 2006 to June 2006

Responsibilities included installation and configuration of

Tivoli Access Manager and WebSphere Application Server and

WebSphere Portal along with 64-bit Java. JACC implementation

utilized with built-in TAM that is part of WAS 6.0.2.x

ARmy air force exchange service - IT Architect

November 2005 to May 2006

Responsibilities included design and implementation of worldwide

Highly Available Linux Java based point of sale system.

. Developed Tivoli System Automation (TSA/SAMP) scripts for

HA Linux clusters

. Developed server pair cloning process to automation server

rollout to worldwide locations

. DRBD set up for shared replicated file system between HA

cluster members

. Installation and configuration of WebSphere Remote Server (

WAS, DB2, MQ) in a 2 server pair HA cluster configuration

. Installation and configuration of NLPOS 9 (SUSE 9) Branch

and Admin servers. NLPOS includes OpenLDAP, rsynch, named,

PXE, and DHCP.

. Java clients run on NCR cash register hardware

. Provided 3rd level support

Client environment: Tivoli System Automation, WebSphere Remote

Server, SAP Triversity Transactionware Enterprise, NLPOS 9,

IRES (SUSE 9) v2, DRBD, WebSphere MQ 5.x, DB2 8.x

Lowes - Portal/IT Architect

June 2005 to November 2005

Responsibilities included architecture, design, implementation

and performance tuning of multiple WebSphere Portal 5.1.x

environments.

. Infrastructure and application performance tuning

. WebSphere and Portal Domain Architecture design and

documentation

. Capacity planning/Monitoring strategy

. Web Content Management architecture and design

Client environment: Wily, WebSphere Portal Extend 5.1.0.1 Novell

IChain, Linux, AIX 5.2, DB2, Sybase, WebSphere Application

Server 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0, WebSphere MQ, IBM Directory Server and

IBM HTTP server

wal-Mart - Portal/IT Architect

November 2003 to June 2005

Responsibilities included architecture, design and performance

tuning of WebSphere and WebSphere Portal based systems.

. Support of international WebSphere Portal rollout on AIX.

. Architecture review of existing WebSphere environment as

well as recommendations for new high volume sites.

. Facilitator of best practices for migration from 4.0 to 5.0

to 6.0

. Capacity planning

. Infrastructure and application performance tuning

. Application problem determination and root cause analysis

WSAM/ITCAM Implementation

Responsibilities included

. Installation and configuration of a dual server clustered

WSAM managing server

. Installation over 200 WSAM data collectors on Z/OS and AIX

5.x

. Upgrade of WSAM from 1.3 to 2.1.2

RSA ClearTrust integration with WebSphere Portal 5.1

Architecture, planning and configuration of WebSphere Portal 5.1

server with RSA Clear trust for Web Access Management

. Installation and configuration of a Portal 5.1 including

custom TAI

. Configuration of RSA Clear Trust agents

. Configuration of developer workstations using Rational

Software Architect Portal 5.1 UTE with Microsoft AD, IBM

HTTP Server, and RSA CT

IBM Lotus Workplace Content Management implementation

Architecture, planning and configuration of ILWWCM

. Installation and configuration of multiple ILWWCM servers

using a DB2 content store

. Performance tuning

WebSphere Host Access Transformation Services implementation

Architecture, Planning and configuration of HATS

. Installation and configuration of HATS

. Development of screen transformations

. Macros developed to automate multiple logins

Application Server/Portal Administration tools and automation

. Portlet auto-deploy application written utilizing java and

XMLAccess to update existing portals

. Wrote many jacl/jython scripts to report on application

server configuration

. Java application written to parse Application Server

configurations and configure all performance tuning

parameters the same across all cells.

Client environment: WSAM, WPS 5.1, WebSphere Portal

Experience 4.2.1 and Tivoli Access Manager, WebSeal, Linux,

AIX 4.3.3, AIX 5.2, HP-UX 11.11, DB2

8.x, WebSphere Application Server 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0, WebSphere

MQ, Secureway Directory Server and IBM HTTP server

wachovia - IT Architect

September 2003 to November 2003

WebSphere 5.0 implementation

Design, installation, configuration and tuning of WebSphere

Application Server 5

. Set up and configuration of WebSphere Edge Components on AIX

5.x

. Architecture review of existing WebSphere environment as

well as recommendations for new high volume sites.

. Facilitator of best practices for Application migration from

WebSphere 4.0 to 5.0.

SBC - IT Specialist

July 2003 to August 2003

WebSphere Support

Mr. Lepech was a member of the Project Office at the customer.

Responsibilities included WebSphere product family support for all

customer project teams. This support included teaching best

practices for development and production support for all WebSphere

systems.

. Set up and configuration of certificate based authentication.

The included two WebSphere 5.x servers and Sonic MQ via

WebSphere global security using IBM LDAP as the X.509

certificate repository.

. Technical review of existing WebSphere environment as well as

recommendations for new sites.

. Facilitator of best practices for migration from WebSphere

3.5 to 4.0 to 5.0.

. Support for WSAD 3.x, 4.x, 5.0 and WebSphere MQ 5.x

. IDS (LDAP) and WAS integration

. Application trouble shooting and problem determination

. WebSphere 5.0 clustering/JMS/MDB support

Client environment: Solaris, Linux, AIX 4.3.3, AIX 5.2, DB2 8.x

and 7.2, Oracle 9i, NT, Sonic MQ, WebSphere Application Server

3.5, 4.0 and 5.0, WebSphere MQ, Secureway Directory Server 3.x,

Open LDAP, and IBM HTTP server

TYCO/ADT - IT Architect

June 2001 to July 2003

WebSphere Portal 5.0 Proof of Concept

Installation and configuration of WebSphere Portal Server (WPS) 5.0 to

evaluate product for future deployment.

. Evaluation of WPS 5.0 software on AIX 5.1

. Identify and document existing application upgrade path from

WebSphere Portal 4

. Identify and document application migration path from Caucho

Resin to WebSphere Portal

Portal Implementation

WebSphere Portal Technical Architecture, Design and Implementation

Responsibilities included software product set design, architecture,

installation, configuration and optimization of WebSphere Portal

Experience.

. Troubleshooting of problems with and performance tuning of

custom WebSphere application on AIX.

. Reviewed code using WSAD and profiled running application using

Wily Introscope

. Authored technical architecture and system blueprint

documentation for portal implementation.

. Responsible for Portal product set selection and implementation

. Integration of Portal and Access Manager into existing WebSphere

domains.

. Installation and configuration of WebSphere Portal Experience,

including: Tivoli Access Manager Tivoli Directory Integrator

EIP Sametime WebSeal QuickPlace WebSphere Transcoder

Publisher IDS 5.1 (LDAP) WebSphere Personalization DB2 8.1

OpenCMS - content management system

. Portlet Administration and customization

WebSphere Application Server Implementation

Responsibilities included software product set design, architecture,

installation, configuration and optimization. Additional

responsibilities include management of WebSphere team and project

management. Further responsibilities include iPlanet

Directory Server installation and administration. DB2 set up, tuning

and administration.

. Troubleshooting of problems with and performance tuning of

WebSphere applications.

. Reviewed code using WSAD and profiled application using Wily

Introscope

. Technical review of existing WebSphere environment along with

problem determination.

. Performance tuning of WebSphere environment including Edge

Server, IHS, iPlanet Directory Server, and AIX.

. Installation and configuration of multiple iPlanet 5.1 Directory

Servers in multi-master configuration with Configuration

Directory servers

. Installation and configuration of multiple DB2 Servers and

WebSphere MQ

. Installation and configuration of WebSphere Site Analyzer

. Upgrade of WebSphere environment from 3.5 to 4.0 to 5.0

. WSCP scripts written to automate application deployment

. Automated EAR and WAR build process from PVCS using Ant

. Installation and configuration of Business Objects

WebIntelligence

. Installation and configuration and administration of TIE

Commerce eVision EDI

Directory Server (LDAP) Migration

Responsibilities included tech lead role and management support for

migration team.

. Troubleshooting of problems with and performance tuning of IDS.

. Migrated from iPlanet Directory Server 5.0.2 to IBM Directory

Server (IDS) 5.1

. Provided technical support to LDAP administration team

. Provided hardware sizing guidelines

. Installed and configured IDS 5.1

. Delivered system blueprint

. Managed support relationship between client and IBM technical

support

Client environment: AIX 4.3.3, DB2 6.1 and 7.2, Oracle 8i, NT, Tibco,

Model/Clone (WLM) WebSphere Application Server 3.5, 4.0 and 5.0,

WebSphere MQ, Iplanet LDAP server 5.0.2, IBM HTTP server, IBM Web

Traffic Express Proxy, IBM Network Dispatcher, TIE Commerce's eVision,

WebSphere Portal Experience, ESS

Professional Certifications

IBM

IBM Certified System Administrator -IBM WebSphere Portal V5.0

IBM Certified System Administrator-WebSphere Application Server

V5.0

IBM Certified Systems Expert -Administration for WebSphere

Application Server V4.0

Certified Lotus Professional Principal -Application Developer R4

Certified Lotus Professional Principal -Application Developer R5

Certified Lotus Professional Principal -System Administrator R4

Certified Lotus Professional Principal -System Administrator R5

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