Eddie R. Williams

ac4gjo@r.postjobfree.com

704-***-****

Current Technologist Skillset

Quarterly project upgrades (remediation) and deployments of major projects:

User application, middleware and network system support (F5 as DNS, Firewall, BIG-IP, GTM, LTM) plus security cert products and troubleshooting.

Architect network transaction re-routing to alternate datacenter.

Coordination (TPM) of Vendor product, server and mainframe product remediation.

Coordination (TPM) of application testing (DIT, CIT, SIT, QA, etc.) to deployment.

Coordinate OS patching, trouble-shooting and problem-solving of any kind.

Analysis and remediation of Web, application, middleware and Z/OS remediation (e-fixes, SMP/E, etc.).

Websphere MQ Admin, Message Broker (IIB) admin.

Weblogic, JBOSS (Wildfly) admin.

Strong understanding of Mainframe as started tasks, JCL, batch, online and security tools, ex. RACF, AC2, Vanguard, Venifi cets

UNIX (AIX, Linux, Solaris) and Windows shell scripting

Create and maintain relationships with application Managers, project managers, etc.

Project / team lead skills plus provide weekly status updates

Ability to organize datasheets, edits, create spreadsheets

Change management - ITSM as (PAC200, Remedy, JIRA, etc.)

Disaster Recovery Planning

Risk management - To lower the chance of security breeches. (User applications, OS

Systems, VTAM, Network F5, security and monitoring are involved).

Partial Career SUMMARY

20 years extensive Project Management Leadership experience in Quarterly project upgrades.

15 years project management / architecture project design in government and manufacturing across z/OS platforms thru to production deployment and remediation.

13 years leadership - successful project management (TPM) / architecture project design in high traffic finance and banking systems across multi-platforms thru production deployment and remediation.

10 years TPM mainframe (CICS and batch projects of about 4 to 5 people).

15 years risk management.

22 years vendor and user application project management, implementation and support.

3 years shell scripting on Windows, AIX, Solaris and LINUX(Red Hat).

3 years Weblogic, JBOSS (Wildfly) admin.

Knowledge Cloud technology, security and hosting containers, … AZURE (MicroSoft public cloud offering) PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, CPS (Cloud Platform Services).

Knowledge of Mule ESB technology.

Knowledge of TIBCO ESB technology… support and remediation.

Knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM) and IdentifyIQ (As for as my IAM knowledge, I am a user and Not an admin. I have performed some work designing groups with authentication for users to be placed. Groups are more manageable userIDs. With those groups, one can define the security access thus the users within the group will have that same group auth. This is used for moving userIDs to and from various groups and new application projects.

Along with this info I have ordered and deployed digital certs.)

Knowledge of MobleFirst.

25 years TSO/ISPF, Batch (JCL), started tasks, problem determination and monitoring (OMEGAMON for mainframe networks).

15 years CICS, CICS/DLI, IDMS, CICS/DB2 (RDBMS), MVS, ACF2 & RACF mainframe SECURITY, VTAM/SNA/TCPIP, FTP (transfer files over internet), VSAM and flat files.

5 years User of MS-PROJECT, CA-TPX to toggle between LPARs, Tivoli NETVIEW, VPS, ConnectDirect (NDM) for file transferring, SAS for batch scheduling and reporting, SMF (for billing).

6 years COBOL application programming, SQL, EasyTrieve, panvalet,

15 years general product installation and maintenance.

14 years working with VTAM/APPN firewall group and F5 technology (DNS, VIPS, WIPS, BIG-IP) as Network security.

17 years combined - Change mgmt., configuration and release management, Quality Assurance testing, Quality Center, Peregrine, MAXIMO, REMEDY, PAC2000.

5 years working with Oracle (WebLogic) applications support via MQ (for security and assured message delivery).

5 years working with Websphere Application Server (WAS) administration and support via MQ (for security and assured message delivery).

5 years experience in Installation, Configuration, and Administration of IBM Websphere Application server 8.5/8.0/7.0/6.1/6.0/5.1 on AIX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows Platforms.

3 years DataPower (XI50, XI52) Web server engineering support - IBM PMR (e-fixes), (WSDL for AAA security, SOAP and XML routing), SSL security, SOAPUI, SOA, ESB, etc.), subversion, HTTP, HTTPS.

Experience with Web Server load balancing (GTM / LTM), Firewalls, BIG-IP, Security as F5. Ordering and installing Venifi certificates.

7 years WMQ (WebSphere MQ Admin) Clustering / Message Broker (Publish/Subscribe), WLM, failover processing.

Experience with Websphere MQ high availability (HA) failover processing (NFS).

16 years WMQ (WebSphere MQ Admin version 5 thru 8.0), WMQ 8.5, OAM security and SSL security. SSL/TLS Certificates (Venafi Verisign (Symatec)) on Windows, AIX, LINUX and Solaris servers.

14 years UNIX and Windows WMQ (WebSphere MQ Admin) system installation, clustering and qmgr building tasks.

16 years extensive WebSphere MQ Administration experience in WMQ software on Windows, AIX, Solaris, LINUX(Red Hat) and mainframe (z/OS). UNIX commands used for viewing and managing user/platform resources. Use of started tasks, batch(JCL) jobs plus MVS/DB2/WMQ utilities.

3 years experience scripting on z/OS, UNIX shell / perl and Windows; Assembler, REXX coding on z/OS, BMC Bladelogic used for automated MQ server upgrades

Knowledge of Security as Symantec, CA, Secureworks, F5, RSA (Cloud), Tripwire

Experience with Adabas / Natural language (NLP)

8 yrs telnet, LAN, WAN, VTAM connections as Enterprise Extender, Tivoli NetView and Enterprise Portal, Tivoli MFT for file transfer

User of JES2, Enterprise Extender, VTAM/APPN for WS connections

7 years Mainframe WLM (work load mgr.), DASD Capacity planning, SMP/E (PMR fixes)

5 years GSKIT, JRE, RTE, JAVA v1.8

7 years general program products installation and maintenance

1 year MQ FTE (file transfer)

Knowledge of Java enterprise products as JBOSS (Wildfly), TOMCAT, Apache

Knowledge of Hadoop and Splunk

1 year of Tivoli, RTT and runbook to track computer equipment and software

Knowledge of ITCAM for monitoring and diagnostics. SSO (Siteminder) for userID access

Knowledge of auto deployment products as uDeploy and Ansible.

3 years working with VM and VMware.

3 years user of BladeLogic for MQ server upgrades and AppWatch for administration.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Successfully collaborated with small team to design and implement enhancements for numerous WMQ CLUSTER projects at BofA.

Successful remediation of Web and application servers at WellsFargo.

20 years of successful application, vendor product and network disaster recovery exercises.

Lead successful remediation of Web middleware software with web and application servers required by government regulators at WellsFargo.

WSDL AAA security to eliminate XML hacking at BofA .

Ensured customer satisfaction by providing online technical support.

Quality Assurance and Quality Control.

oStreamlined QA process to increase efficiency and reduce new product rollout time by one week at BofA.

oAssisted in Network Security at BofA and WellsFargo

oSuccessfully updated network systems to support confidential company operations and eliminate hacking ability (SSL and OAM security). System Integration at BofA

oEstablished compatibility with third party software products by developing programs and scripts for modification and integration at BofA.

IBM WMQ 095 Certification.

IBM CICS V7 Certification.

BofA Silver Award for full production MQ V7 cluster move project. Customer Integration awards at BofA.

BofA Certification for driving improvements in lowering FCIs on voice-guided and online systems.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TEK Systems (Bank of America), Charlotte, NC

Network / Websphere MQ (admin) / Message Broker Engineer Risk Mgnt, April 17 to July 20 2017 responsible for: …

Upgrade of 78 QMgrs to V8.0 (test and prod).

Network application re-routing from datacenter1 to datacenter2.

oChange network routing, firewall, IP, DNS,

oCheck intranet and extranet security plus RACF security for mainframe,

oRedefine and test the new Websphere MQ

Plan production deployment for both tasks.

ATR Int (Wells Fargo), Charlotte, NC

PM for Middleware Remediation, October 2015 to April 10 2017

Lead successful remediation of Web and middleware server software required by government regulators. 168 applications involved. Qualys reports, Remedy(PAC2000) used as source.

Risk management decisions for 168 applications

Managed the definition Javascript, HTTP and HTTPS to subversion as used with XML routes. Managed the definition of Javascript to MQ queues.

Project management products:

oOpenssl (SSL – TLS 1.0, 1.1, 1.2)

oPOODLE

oWebsphere MQ V8.0

oSiteMinder

oApache Tomcat, Apache HTTP

oJAVA 1.6.x, 1.7.x, 1.8.x

oJBOSS / WILDFLY

oWeblogic V10.x

oVenifi and PKI Certificates

oOS Patching

oAtlassian (JIRA)

Bank of America, Charlotte, NC

EIB (ESB) Engineer, November 2011 to June 2015

DataPower firmware engineering and application (assist in QA application) testing.

Architect / Project lead to manage for 10-12 user application projects rollouts yearly (capacity planning, how application changes affect current environment, etc.).

Manage platform (vendor) fixes.

DataPower device management support (help in updating device components).

EIB (ESB), XML route management support (create xml routes requested by application groups). Subversion used for route management.

Define Javascript, HTTP and HTTPS to subversion as used with XML routes. Define Javascript to MQ queues.

VTAM/APPN firewall group and F5 technology (DNS, VIPS, WIPS, BIG-IP) as Network security and NSLOOKUP for IP management.

Utilized Tivoli Netview and Enterprise Portal, Tivoli MFT for file transfer.

WebSphere MQ admin object support for group (up to MQ 8.0).

AAA Contract Security and (Verisign) SSL Certificate Security support (monitor and correct test plus prod security access issues).

IBM PMR fix management for DataPower XI5x devices.

SPLUNK user to monitor DataPower logs.

User of SSO (Siteminder) and LDAP for userID authorization.

Sharepoint used for technical and project documentation.

Assist in device cost and ownership management via RTT and runbook.

Vendor and user application implementation and support.

Exercise Risk management.

Bank of America, Charlotte, NC

AVP Software Engineer/WebSphere MQ Administration, January 2000 to July 2011

Project lead (PM) to manage team in new product rollouts, upgrades (e-fixes), MQ clustering maintenance, etc. APPWATCH used for MQ administration. BladeLogic software used to perform multiple upgrades simultaneously. About 3 rollouts yearly along with 10 application projects yearly.

Project lead (PM) managing about 3 platform production rollouts yearly. Test environment is included in this process.

TSO/ISPF, JCL, batch and online commands used.

Message Broker used to transform application messages between requester and service. This is determined at project design time in Six Sigma’s DMAIC process.

Installation, configuration, deployment, scripting, troubleshooting of Weblogic Application Server 11 on Linux. Define Websphere MQ channel and queue to route to MQ environment for assured delivery.

Support JBOSS via troubleshooting and define Websphere MQ channel and queue to route to MQ environment for assured delivery

Experience in Planning, Installing and Configuring, Administering and Tuning and Troubleshooting IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x on AIX 4.x/5.x, Linux 5.2 to 8.0, Sun Solaris 2.6/2.7/2.8, and Windows NT 4.0/2000/2008 Servers. Websphere Message Broker installed.

Collaborated with small team to design and implement enhancements for numerous projects which resulted in a revenue increases.

Created test environments by installing WMQ software on Windows, UNIX (AIX, LINUX and Solaris) operating systems.

Installed GSKIT for SSL, OAM security onto WMQ software on Windows and UNIX (AIX, LINUX and Solaris) operating systems.

Developed and implemented in-house source organization system, increasing efficiency.

Successfully trained employees to use new operating system.

Responsible for design specifications and development of key components and features of core product.

Used a wide variety of techniques and tools in the development and unit testing of software applications, including: (OO) object oriented programming languages and software tools, analysis and design techniques, data base management systems, middleware and data access and retrieval programs.

TCP/IP and VTAM/APPN firewall group and F5 technology (DNS, VIPS, WIPS, BIG-IP) as Network security and NSLOOKUP for IP management.

Developed and implemented complex Internet and Intranet applications on three different platforms.

Led design presentations to several teams of product development individuals.

Coordinated with systems partners to finalize designs and confirm requirements.

Capacity planning involvement per project.

Developed and managed project plans while providing status updates to management.

Designed, documented and executed appropriate maintenance procedures including system upgrades, patch management and system backups.

Supported customer facing applications via SDLC.

Supported internal Bank of America customers.

Supported external customers, ie: IBM, BMC, etc. plus 3rd party vendors

Participated in WMQ on-call (24x7) rotations for distributed and mainframe support.

Vendor and user application implementation and support

Exercise Risk management.

Bank of America, Charlotte, NC

Officer/WMQ Mainframe maintenance/WebSphere MQ Administration, August 1999 to January 2000

Defined and maintained internal and external business partner test environments on Windows, UNIX (AIX, Solaris, LINUX) and z/OS platforms.

Exercise Risk management.

Utilized OMEGAMON to capture Log information for problem resolution on mainframe system (z/OS)

Prior experience available upon request

EDUCATION

BS in Math/Computer Science

East Texas State University, Commerce, TX

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