Senior Integration Consultant

Location:

Rotterdam, ZH, The Netherlands

Posted:

January 16, 2014

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Short Summary

A committed, delivery focused, proactive, self motivated, reliable IT professional with

13+ years of proven experience in designing and delivering solutions in the B2B and EAI

space using state of art technology like webMethods, TIBCO and J2EE. The experience

includes leading teams and also playing almost all the roles in SDLC life cycle in different

geographical locations like India, Germany, US, UK and the Netherlands.

IT Experience

Location Duration (Period) Role(s)

Amsterdam, 74 months (2007 – till Analyst / Developer / Designer / Solution

Hague, date) Designer (Architect) / Senior Consultant

Utrecht

The Netherlands

Bristol, 18 months (2006 – Lead Designer / Team Lead / Consultant

United Kingdom 2007)

Philadelphia, 3 months (2005) Consultant

United States

Bangalore, 16 months (2004 – Technical Lead / Designer /

India 2005) / (2005 – 2006)

Munich, 23 months (2002 – Developer / Designer / Onsite

Germany 2004) Coordinator

Mumbai, 24 months (2000 – Developer

India 2002)

Technology Stack Experience/Exposure

Middleware (webMethods) webMethods Platform 6.1/6.5/7.x/8.x/9.x

Integration Server, Broker, MWS, Modeler

Administrator, Adapters (JDBC,EJB etc)

Process Run Time, Trading Networks,

EDI (exposure), Rosetta net (exposure),

Migration from 4.6 to 6.5 / 6.5 to 7.1.2

(analysis),

Middleware (TIBCO) Business Works 5.9.x, MFT Platform 7.2 / 7.1.1, TIBCO Administrator, Enterprise Message

Service 6.3, BusinessEvents 5.1.0 (Exposure)

InConcert 6.x, IcJava 5.14, IcRules,

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Integration Manager 4.5, Message Broker,

TIBCO Rendezvous 7.x, TIBCO EMS

Others Technologies XML and related technology

HTML, JavaScript

JNDI, JMS, RMI IIOP (Exposure)

Java Key tool, SOAP, Digital Signatures

(exposure)

JUnit, Log4j,

Acord JV Specifications (Standard in Insurance

and Reinsurance Business),

Open ESB Mule (Evaluation), Oracle BPEL

Engine (Training),

Groovy scripting, IAM (Exposure), JBoss

Sun Technology Java 2, J2EE

iWS 6.0 and iAS 6.0 (iPlanet)

Sun one Application Server 7.0, JBoss

(exposure)

Tools SoapUI, Jmeter, Fitnesse

Design tools Rational Rose, MS Visio, Enterprise Architect

Database Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access

SQL, PL/SQL

Operating System Win 7, Win 2K, Win XP, Win 9x

Solaris, Linux, Ubuntu

Strengths

More than 13 years of strong Designing and Architecting experience in

Middleware systems.

Excellent experience in working and leading large teams in huge projects (budget

of over million euros) and complicated B2B engagements involving middleware

technology.

Enthusiastic, Hard Working, Committed IT Professional with expertise in using

best of the breed tools and technology.

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Honest, Reliable, punctual team player who always exceeds expectations.

Motivated achiever and problem solver who will do what it takes to get the job

done.

Energetic self starter who is keen to learn new technologies, enhancing current

technical expertise, and applying transferable skill sets.

Functional Domain

The functional domain expertise is split into Telecommunication domain (including

Cable domain) and Reinsurance domain. The last 9+ years has been in the area of

Telecommunication and Cable.

Projects as a freelancer

Only the important projects have been covered in this section.

Name: Internet & Telephony Application Migration

Role: Solution Designer

Client: Ziggo

Technology: webMethods 7.1.2/6.5.2 (IS, Broker, Modeler, MWS, Adapters (JDBC))

Duration: Aug 2013 – Dec 2013

Location: Utrecht, Netherlands

Description: Ziggo is going through a complete revamp of their application architecture

landscape. This project replaces the existing service provisioning platform for Internet

and Telephony. All existing provisioning calls from webMethods to the provisioning

systems (legacy) would be replaced to the new provisioning system but routed via the

new ESB platform (i.e. TIBCO).

Name: M VOIP App Product

Role: Designer / Developer

Client: Ziggo

Technology: TIBCO Active Matrix BW 9.x, TIBCO Administrator, Oracle 11g

Duration: Feb 2013 Aug 2013

Location: Utrecht, Netherlands

Description: Ziggo plans to offer a Mobile app for all its telephony customers thereby

enabling the smartphones to be used as an extra handset in their subscription. The app

can be used to call Ziggo customers on both Ziggo fixed lines as well as mobile (via VOIP)

for free. The cost of calling the non Ziggo numbers is based on existing telephony

contract. The app can be used by Ziggo customer for calling Dutch phone numbers when

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they are outside the Netherlands. This change is done on the future middleware

platform of Ziggo i.e. TIBCO.

Name: Real time Provisioning

Role: Solution Designer

Client: Ziggo

Technology: webMethods 7.1.2/6.5.2 (IS, Broker, Modeler, MWS, Adapters (JDBC))

Duration: Oct 2012 Jan 2013

Location: Den Haag/ Utrecht, Netherlands

Description: This projects aim at delivering real time provisioning of Digital TV content.

The customer can order TV products through the online channels like Portal and IVR and

the provisioning should be carried out real time. The customer should be able to watch

the ordered content within 2 minutes. The change is also aimed at refactoring existing

services to follow SOA principles.

Name: MFT Platform 7.2/7.1.1

Role: Designer / Developer

Client: Ziggo

Technology: MFT Platform Server 7.1.1, MFT Command Center 7.2/7.1.1, MFT Internet

Server 7.2/7.1.1, Command Line Utilities 7.1.1, DNI, TIBCO BusinessWorks plugin for

MFT

Duration: Mar 2012 Oct 2012

Location: Utrecht, Netherlands

Description: Ziggo decided to use TIBCO MFT platform for doing file transfers both

within the organization as with external partners. Since there was no MFT expert within

the organization, I took the responsibility of learning,setting up MFT platform and

carrying out POC for the different transfers using different protocols within Ziggo. A

separate team was built afterwards to handle the day to day activities and the

knowledge was shared with the MFT team. My activities included the following

1. Installation and configuration of all the component on the MFT platform on

Windows, Linux and Solaris.

2. Carrying out POC for the different transfers using the different protocols.

3. Assisting in the production infrastructure architecture and design of the MFT

platform.

4. Automating the processes using CLU's (deployment) and DNI (triggering of

transfers).

5. Training the internal employees and building the Ziggo MFT Team.

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Projects with CGI

Name: VOD platform upgrade & ITV on CE

Role: Solution Designer

Client: Ziggo

Technology: webMethods, DWH, Audio Video, REST etc

Duration: Aug 2011 – Mar 2012

Location: Den Haag/ Utrecht, Netherlands

Description: The VOD (Video On Demand) platform upgrade would require changes in

the different interfacing systems within the CRM domain (webMethods, eBS etc.), DWH

and the Billing interfaces. My role was to analyze the impact in the different system and

prepare a Global Design detailing out the impact and the solution for the changes in the

respective systems. The ‘ITV on CE’ was another very innovative and ambitious change

for the client.

Name: Pay Per Event (Phase I & II)

Role: Solution Designer

Client: Ziggo

Technology: webMethods 7.1.2 (IS, Broker, Modeler, MWS, Adapters (JDBC)), Java,

Duration: Phase I Aug 2010 Dec 2010 & Phase II May 2011 – Sep 2011

Location: Utrecht, Netherlands

Description: PPE i.e. ‘Pay Per Event’ is a product offering from Ziggo which enables the

customer to buy programs/timeslots for a given date/time on a given digital television

channel, instead of subscribing to the channel. The customer pays only for the event.

The events in Phase I was restricted only to Eredivisie football matches. The phase II

extends it to other channels like kids, adults, different kinds of sports etc and also

improves the order management process. The ‘PPE’ Order Management System is

entirely built within webMethods. This includes all the steps of typical order

management including validation, verification & fulfillment of the order. I was the main

designer involved in the solution design for Phase I and Phase II. I was also involved in

designing & developing the highly complicated solution for ‘overlapping’ events to

interface with the DTV system.

Name: Ziggo Business Releases

Role: Senior Consultant

Client: Ziggo

Technology: webMethods 6.5 (IS, Broker, Modeler, MWS, Adapters(JDBC)),

webMethods 7.1.x, SOAP, SoapUI

Duration: Sep 2008 – till date

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Location: Den Haag/ Utrecht, Netherlands

Description: I am responsible for the functional and technical design for the different

integration solutions using webMethods platform. Occasionally for complex and priority

projects, I have also taken the role of a developer for implementing the solution. I am

actively involved in the design and architecture of webMethods solutions within the

organization.

Name: BSS/OSS Integration Programme

Role: Consultant

Client: AtHome

Technology: webMethods 6.5 (IS, Broker, Modeler, MWS, Adapters(JDBC)), SoapUI

Duration: Sep 2007 Sep 2008

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Description: ‘Ziggo’ is the result of a merger of 3 cable companies (AtHome, Casema and

Multikabel) in Netherlands. On completion of the merger, it became the largest cable

provider in the Netherlands. I was responsible for developing the integration solution

for interfacing with the ‘AtHome’ OSS systems under the combined Ziggo Architecture.

wM process models were used to design the provisioning flows for the various products

like Internet, Telephony, ISP etc. The interfacing with the backend system was through

SOAP and JDBC.

Projects with Caritor (now Keane)

Name: Enable Datalink

Role: Designer

Client: Orange, UK

Technology: webMethods (IS, Broker, Modeler, Monitor, Adapters (EJB, MQ, JDBC))

Duration: Oct 2006 Apr 2007

Location: Bristol, UK

Description: ‘Enable Datalink’ targets at developing a B2B interface over the internet for

buying and selling PAYG and PAYM handsets with the Orange preferred Channel

partners (P4U). The exchanges are made using SOAP over HTTP between the channel

partners over a secured environment. The application consists of 2 calls called the

APPROVE and ACTIVATE. The APPROVE call performs a credit check verification of the

customer. The ACTIVATE call does the activation of the handset. The system has been

made in a highly flexible manner such that addition of a new channel partner can be

done with a mere configuration change.

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Name: IShop 2

Role: Designer

Client: Orange UK

Technology: webMethods (IS, Broker, Modeler, Monitor, XSLT, Adapters (EJB, MQ,

JDBC))

Location: Bristol, UK

Duration: April 2006 – Sept 2006

Description: Ishop 2 targets at providing an online shop to the orange consumer for

buying PAYM and PAYG handsets along with their accessories over the net. This is one of

the complex applications involving integration of several disparate and proprietary

systems like payments, fraud, charging & billing, order management, legacy and

customer management systems. The project involved developing the Business Process

Models to achieve the solutions.

Name: Unisys Corp IT B2Bi

Role: Designer

Client: Unisys Corp IT, Bluebell, PA

Technology: webMethods (IS, Developer, Modeler, Monitor, EDI, RosettaNet, TN)

Location: Bluebell, PA, US

Duration: July 2005 – Jan 2006

Description:

Understand the existing Unisys B2B Architecture.

Migration of services from 4.6 to 6.5

RosettaNet setup and implementation at Unisys.

Name: Customer Authentication PAYG

Role: Designer

Client: Orange UK

Technology: J2EE, SOAP

Location: Bangalore, India

Duration: April 2005 – June 2005

Description: The Customer Authentication – PAYG consists of authenticating the PAYG

Customer through an external system running on Experian. The flow consisted of

webMethods sending a request XML to the J2EE environment with the details of the

customer to be authenticated. The exposed interface is an EJB layer. The EJB will

generate the Experian block to be sent to the Experian system. The generated Experian

blocks are sent via web service to a SOAP server on C environment using axis. The SOAP

server, on the C environment, will pass the Experian blocks though the SNA client.

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Name: Enable Evolution – PAYG Upgrades

Role: Designer

Client: Orange UK

Technologies: webMethods (IS, Developer, EJB & MQ Adapter)

Location: Bangalore,India

Duration: Dec 2004 – Mar 2005

Description: The System uses Netonomy as front end. The user submits the request

through Netonomy and Netonomy convert the requests into XML and is put in a

messaging queue IBM MQ. webMethods Polls the queue for new messages and picks up

and passed control to its services. The services in turn call different EJBs for fetching

data from the backend systems and also system exposing XML over HTTP interface. The

data is fetched from the different systems and consolidated and put back into the

messaging queue for Netonomy to pick up. This includes services for checking the

upgrade eligibility of the customer, validation of the handset details and activating the

handset upgrade of the customer.

Projects with Patni Computer Systems

Name: SCA (Strategic Customer Accounting)

Role: Analyst, Designer and Onsite Coordinator

Client: GE Frankona Re, Munich

Technologies: Java, TIBCO (Rvd, IC, IM, IcJava), Oracle, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, J2EE,

IPlanet and SUN One Application servers

Location: Munich, Germany

Duration: Sept 2002 – July 2004

Description: This is one of the most complicated and highly challenging project of my

career. This involved developing a B2B site and carrying out business with our

customers. We received the closing from the clients (Brokers) in the form of XML

messages over the Internet via SOAP. These messages are then processed, mapped to

our format and then moved over a workflow process which involves both human and

system interactions. The message is validated through sets of business rules. The final

step involves in booking the data into the Legacy system. The System has different

components carrying out each of the activities and key was to devise the fail over

mechanism and error handling without having any inconsistent state.

Name: EUnderwriting

Role: Analyst, Designer and Programmer

Client: GE Frankona Re, UK

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Technologies: Java, TIBCO (Rvd, IC, IcJava), Oracle, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, J2EE, IPlanet

Location: Mumbai

Duration: Jan 2002 – Aug 2002

Description: This involved developing an online system for the Underwriters. This was

another data intensive project where data handling was the key. This also involved a

workflow design, which involves the secretaries and the underwriters as the people

using the workflow. The underwriter makes decision on whether to take a particular

quote based on the risk involved. He can also consult the Retro and Index department

for the same.

Name: Epricing I and II

Role: Programmer.

Client: GE Frankona Re, UK

Technologies: Java, TIBCO (Adapter, Rvd), Oracle, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, J2EE, IPlanet

Location: Mumbai

Duration: Feb 2001 – Dec 2001

Description: This was the quoting system developed for different insurance companies

and which had further breakdown on the basis of project and quotes. The Project was

interesting in terms of communicating with an external Quoting engine for doing the

calculations. The communication was carried out using TIB Adapter SDK.

Awards and Achievements

Promoted to the role of ‘Solution Designer’ by the client in 2011.

Received ‘Exceeds Expectation’ rating in 2010.

Received ‘Exceeds Expectation’ rating in 2009.

Internal level promotion to Grade 12 in 2008.

Joined CGI as a Senior Consultant (Integration Specialist) in 2007.

Award for business development and showcasing webMethods abilities to the

client and obtaining client confidence in Q4 2006.

Promoted to Senior Designer/ Project Manager in Q4 2005

Promoted to Designer/Project Leader in Q3 2004

Awarded with the VCA (Valuable Contribution Award) for the performance in the

role of OSC (Onsite Coordinator) for the first two quarters of year 2003.

Awarded with cash awards of 200$ for the contribution to the projects in 2002.

A member of the Team, which won the annual team award for the year 2002.

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Rated as a top performer (top 4%) within the organization on the breakup at

designation level in 2002.

Given the Letter of Appreciation from the client end for the contribution in the

project in 2001.

Educational Qualifications

First Class Graduate BE (Comp Sci) from Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology

(RAIT), Navi Mumbai, India in year 2000

Have scored above 85 % throughout under graduation.

Other Details

Age : 35

Sex : Male

Nationality : Indian

Current Client: Ziggo (www.ziggo.nl)

Passport Details

Passport Number : J8148096

Visa status : Permanent Resident (NL).

References

Name: Adam Kesler

Designation: Project Manager, Ziggo

Contact Details: Upon Request

Name: Richa Joshi

Designation: Project Manager, Ziggo

Contact Details: Upon Request

Name: Trees de Ruiter

Designation: Project Manager, Ziggo

Contact Details: Upon Request

Name: Otto van der Lende

Designation: Architect, Ziggo

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Contact Details: Upon Request

Name: Pieter van der Spiegel

Designation: Fulfillment Architect, Ziggo