Project Specialist

Professional Profile

Robert I. Yang is an IT Specialist in the Enterprise Integration Practice.

The practice is responsible for providing project management, integration

services, and e-business solutions. He has twenty years experience in the

IT industry with the last ten focused on enterprise systems integration

with additional emphasis on middleware systems administration, application

development and Implementation. He also has experience with large systems

software installation, maintenance, and tuning, capacity planning and

performance measurement, conversion and migration projects. His industry

exposure includes retail, manufacture, financial services, insurance, food

and beverage, and government.

Employer History

July 2006 - Present IBM, Atlanta, Georgia

IT Specialist

. Middleware development focused on ESB integration solution with

WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker.

September 1999 - June 2006 IBM, Charlotte, North Carolina and Atlanta,

Georgia

IT Specialist

. Middleware System Administrator in Design, Develop, configure, Implement,

performance, security and troubleshooting in vary industries. Responsible

for WebSphere family product including, WebSphere Application Server,

WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere

DataStage.

March 1996 - August 1999 IBM, Charlotte, North Carolina

Application Development

. System Engineer in developing Bill Payment backend engine and Adapter

applications. Responsibility including detailed design, programming, unit

testing and life cycle maintenance.

May 1994 - February 1996 Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts

Application Development

. Senior System Specialist in design, develop, test and maintenance product

life cycle for the bank's Demand Deposit Account System, Check Process

System and Zero Balancing account System.

February 1990 - May 1994 J Baker Inc, Hyde Park, Massachusetts

Application Development

. Senior Programmer Analyst in design, develop, test and maintenance

product life cycle in the company's Sales system.

Assignment History

IT Specialist, IBM Blue Harmony. Southbury Connecticut, September 2009 -

Present

. Blue Harmony is a major global initiative that will accelerate the

pursuit of IBM becoming the Premier Globally Integrated Enterprise. The

objective of this project is to achieve process simplification and

integration in a true enterprise manner by unifying all IBM business

units, organizations and geographies on a single SAP platform..

. My job responsibilities include: 1. WMB SAP adapter architure, 2. WMB

flows development, 3. Coordinate between and SAP teams, 4. WMB SME.

IT Specialist, Leading Refreshment Beverage Company . Atlanta, GA, January

2013 - February 2013

. POC to introduce .NET processes within WMB V8. The objective is to take

the SQL CE files that come from every dispense on a daily basis, extract

from 2 of the tables contained in the database file and insert the

records in Netzza working table.

IT Specialist, Natioanl Bank in the Middleeast. Abu Dhabi, UAE, November

2012 - December 2012

. Develop POC to support use cases with WMB V8 to replace legacy point-to-

point system. The POCs is including WMB8 new feature, global cacheing

IT Specialist, IBM Blue Harmony. Southbury Connecticut, February 2012 -

November 2012

. Blue Harmony is a major global initiative that will accelerate the

pursuit of IBM becoming the Premier Globally Integrated Enterprise. The

objective of this project is to achieve process simplification and

integration in a true enterprise manner by unifying all IBM business

units, organizations and geographies on a single SAP platform..

. My job responsibilities include: 1. WMB SAP adapter architure, 2. WMB

flows development, 3. Coordinate between and SAP teams, 4. WMB SME.

IT Specialist, Canadian ehealth Company. Manitoba Canada, July 2011 -

January 2012

. Mentoring client with WebSphere Message Broker (V7) HealthPack design and

development.

IT Specialist, IBM Blue Harmony. Southbury Connecticut, April 2011 - July

2011

. Blue Harmony is a major global initiative that will accelerate the

pursuit of IBM becoming the Premier Globally Integrated Enterprise. The

objective of this project is to achieve process simplification and

integration in a true enterprise manner by unifying all IBM business

units, organizations and geographies on a single SAP platform..

. My job responsibilities include: 1. WMB SAP adapter architure, 2. WMB

flows development, 3. Coordinate between and SAP teams, 4. WMB SME.

IT Specialist, US leading Steel Making Company. East Chicago, Indiana,

November 2010 - April 2011

. Integrate legacy systems into newly implemented SAP system for it's

Finance and Ordering systems. Job responsibilities include: 1. WMB SAP

Adapter architecture, 2. Detailed flow design and development, 3. support

Integration tests

IT Specialist, IBM Blue Harmony. Southbury Connecticut, September 2009 -

October 2010

. Blue Harmony is a major global initiative that will accelerate the

pursuit of IBM becoming the Premier Globally Integrated Enterprise. The

objective of this project is to achieve process simplification and

integration in a true enterprise manner by unifying all IBM business

units, organizations and geographies on a single SAP platform..

. My job responsibilities include: 1. WMB SAP adapter architure, 2. WMB

flows development, 3. Coordinate between and SAP teams, 4. WMB SME.

IT Specialist, US leading Whole Sale Club. Framingham Massachusetts, July

2008 - September 2009

. Phase I project to define, design, build and test an Integration Layer to

support the construction phase of the new POS Solution that is part of

client's strategic Business System Modernization Roadmap. The objective

of this effort and my responsibilities are: 1. to introduce an

Integration Layer design that is flexible and ribust, allowing client to

move away from point-to-point integration where appropriate. 2. to

specify and build a core set of facilities, or common services, to be

used by the new POS Solution. 3. to design and develop a Proof of Concept

to test message scenarios to validate the use of ESB - WebSphere Message

Broker tools and integration connectivity. 4. to design and develop a

Proof of Concept to send TLog message to SAP POSDM repository using WMB

SAP Adapter. 5. to build core integration skills to support the new POS

Solution construction phase.

. Phase II Enhance the Integration Layer and support the POS Pilot. This

phase provides additional support to the POS Team in the area of

Integration Testing and Consulting Support. Enhancements to the

Integration Layer include 1. Evaluating MQ V7 new features, 2. Developing

Technical testing Plans, 3. Development of TLog Processor and Operational

Repositoy to support POS interfaces and transitioning to Client's

Middleware team.

IT Specialist, Worldwide PC Company. Beijing China, July 2007 - July 2008

. WebSphere Message Broker Developer responsible for detailed flow design,

develop, unit test, integration test, documentation and production

support. The PC company's ESB project is an IBM effort to design a new

generation of enterprise application integration architecture using IBM'

ESB technology based on Service Oriented Architecture and to implement

this new architecture to support the new strategic enterprise application

development and integration as a part of the PC company's newly

acquisition and separation of the legacy system. The project aims at

developing the system interfaces between the PC company's strategic

application such as SAP ECC, CRM and GTS with external applications and

services providers for sales orders, invoicing, payments, distribution

channel management, collaboration with suppliers for procurements and

provisioning, shipping and logistics,OEM manufactureing, services and

repairs, payrolls, expenses reimbursments.

IT Specialist, Leading Brand Tire Company. Greenville SC, April 2005 - Jule

2007

. Lead Data Warehousing implementation project for North America. The

project is part of the company's worldwide business integration process

which is to build a single cross-domains solution that will be deployed

all around the world.. Accomplished installing the software, configured

the parallel runtime environment, deployed customer code and

troubleshooting for the application. The main Architectural components

included WebSphere Datastage, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ

and Oracle DataBase.

. Implementation Message Broker environment in EAI project. The project

included WebSphere MQ network install, implementation and build and

WebSphere Message Broker install, implementation and build. The main

Architectural components included WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere

Interchange Server, WebSphere MQ and Oracle DataBase.

IT Specialist, Worldwide PC Company

. Designed and implementated Business Partner Reporting Systems. Migrated

the old reporting system from Domino into new WebSphere Application

Server clustered environment on top of existing HTTP servers. The main

Architectural components included WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP

Server and DB2 DataBase.

IT Specialist, Insurance Company

. Implemented WebSphere Portal environment for customer's intranet web

site. Installed, configured WebSphere Portal Server in a clustered

environment with Tivoli Directory Server security enablement. The main

Architectural components included WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP

Server, WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Content Manager, Tivoli

Directory Server and Oracle DataBase.

IT Specialist, US Government

. Participated in the re-design, re-development, and integration of a

departments import/export control portal crisit. Troubleshot the root

cause and re-implemented the system. The main Architectural components

included WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, WebSphere Portal

Server, WebSphere Directory and DB2 DataBase.

IT Specialist, Automotive Company

. Implemented customer's automotive finance commercial website. With

existing automotive commercial, customer requested to add auto finance

site for its customers. Participated in extensive design and

implementation with customer. The main Architectural components included

BEA Weblogic, Apache WebServer and Oracle DataBase.

IT Specialist, Beverage Company

. Implemented WebSphere Portal environment for customer's vender internet

web site. Installed, configured WebSphere Portal Server in a clustered

environment with Tivoli Directory Server security enablement. The main

Architectural components included WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP

Server, WebSphere Portal Server, Tivoli Directory Server and Oracle

DataBase.

Senior System Specialist, Bank and Investment Firm

. Participated in the design, development and implementation of Checking

Account System. Developed several banking products including Demand Deposit

System, Zero Balancing Account System and Check process in MVS CICS

environment.

Senior Programmer Analyst, Retail Company

. Designed, developed, maintained for the company's Sales system. Full life

cycle development and maintenance in the early 90s legacy system in MVS

CICS environment.

Education and Background

IBM WebSphere Message Broker V8.0, Solution Development

Certified IBM Solution Developer - WebSphere Message Broker V6.1

Certified WebSphere Application Administror V5

MS in Mathematics, Computer Option, from University of Massachusetts at

Lowell

BA in Business mathematics, from Soochow University, Taiwan

Language Spoken: English, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese

Summary

Industries: Retail, Automotive, Government, Insurance, Food and

Beverage, Banking

Project Domain: Application Implementation, Application Development,

System Administration, Performance and Tuning

Hardware: IBM RS6000, Sun Microsystems, INTEL-BASED Servers

Operating AIX, Solaris, Linux, Windows 2000/2003, OS390

Systems:

Computer Middleware: ESQL, C/C++, perl, Java, Java Scripts, Shell

Languages: Scripts

Mainframe: CICS, COBOL, JCL

Middleware WebSphere MQ V6.x, V7.x, WebSphere Message Broker V6.x

V7.x, V8.x

RDBMS: Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g DB2 8.2, CloudScape/Derby, DB2

Development Broker Toolkit, WID, TSO, ISPF, SDF

Tools:

Applications: MS Office Suite, Visio

Methodologies

Training: WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere DataStage, WebSphere

Portal Server, W

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