Innovative, technically inclined, and performance-focused professional,
offering comprehensive experience in technology architecture and design,
TIBCO diagrams and inventory, system integration, and business optimization
across energy, healthcare, retail, telecommunications, and transportation
settings. Adept at providing hands-on leadership to complex IT projects,
while ensuring technology and operational alignment with business needs.
Known for the ability to thrive in high-pressure environments by
exemplifying outstanding technical, analytical, management, and problem-
solving skills. Bilingual in English and Portuguese.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TIBCO Software, Inc. - Houston, TX (2010-Present)
Business-to-Business (B2B)/Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Architect,
Madison, WI, USA 2014
< Provided essential support to the validation and processing of Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) by leading the
automation of real-time loading of thousands of BusinessConnect (BC)
participants and business agreements.
< Efficiently handled the configuration and deployment of BC Instance,
Gateway, and Interior Server; while developing and executing Enterprise
BusinessWorks Project Libraries and TIBCO End-to-End Business-to-Business
Health Care Document Exchange Solution.
< Leveraged industry expertise by training clients on the TIBCO
development, management, and operations resources.
TIBCO Architect, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 2012
< Exemplified technical proficiency in reviewing and evaluating the
following:
- Current hardware and software environment for Dev, SIT, QA, user
acceptance training (UAT), and PROD to provide and document specific
recommendation to virtual machine (VM) environment optimization
- Customer-centric (B2C) and external and internal application
integration (B2B) requirements
- Integration roadmap of projects, non-functional requirements (NFRs),
and current deployment architecture for gap documentation and
necessary federated deployment for co-location
< Worked collaboratively with the Operations Team for the tuning and
configuration of TIBCO adapters and applications; while also providing
architectural guidance to the Client TIBCO Development Team.
< Offered assistance with the migration of TIBCO applications, while
defining TIBCO's BusinessWorks design and implementation strategies.
< Played a vital role as the liaison of TIBCO support for the resolution of
service requests which were introduced by the client staff.
< Oversaw the defining of the optimal messaging bus as well as the
evaluation of the B2B gateway for performance bottlenecks.
< Facilitated comprehensive training to mentor the local TIBCO project
lead.
TIBCO Administrator, Montreal, QC, Canada 2012-2013
< Pioneered TIBCO infrastructure's development, quality assurance, and
production framework through ActiveMatrix BPM; ActiveMatrix Service Grid;
Collaborative Information Manager; Enterprise Message Service; Spotfire
Plugin for BPM; Spotfire Plugin for CIM; and Spotfire Server.
TIBCO B2B/EDI Architect, Woodbridge, NJ, USA; Baltimore, MD, USA; Toronto,
ON, Canada;
Dallas, TX, USA; San Antonio, TX, USA 2012
< Organized and supervised comprehensive performance testing of the
BusinessConnect Infrastructure, while effectively evaluating the B2B
gateway configuration and operation.
< Spearheaded efforts in providing recommendation for configuration
improvements, which were based on detailed observations of the B2B
performance characteristics of the system.
< Determined the technical specification for BC EDI plug-in upgrade; and
the overall architecture of TIBCO BusinessWorks Private Process
components which entailed the support of the new BC EDI plug-in.
< Took part in defining and determining of project and hardware
requirements, while arranging substantial tasks and timelines for the
TIBCO BusinessConnect Implementation.
< Served as subject matter expert for the improvement and implementation of
TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI 6.x.
< Directly supervised the evaluation of the BC infrastructure; recording of
the TIBCO software; and reviewing of BC engine logs
< Resolved BC performance issues through effective diagnosis as the subject
matter expert.
TIBCO Architect, Brasilia, DF, Brazil; Baltimore, MD, USA 2012
TIBCO Architect, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Tampa, FL, USA 2011
TIBCO Architect, Indianapolis, IN, USA 2010
< Employed proficiency in performing various duties, which included testing
strategies and management of DMZ project; configuration and deployment of
framework; and mentoring of local TIBCO architect.
< Fabricated a proof of concept for the efficient monitoring and management
B2B real-time transactions.
< Strategically developed solutions through TIBCO BusinessEvents (BE); and
sample RTView displays through real-time solutions.
< Ascertained TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS) Queue Bridges in
capturing the TIBCO BusinessConnect (BC) messages and BW private process
layer.
< Assisted the resolution of TIBCO service requests; configuring multiple
BC domains; and implementing split BC domain.
< Offered tactical actions to resolve issues, while reviewing BW and EMS
configurations.
< Optimized the performance characteristics of the existing platform by
executing BC and the EDI and HIPAA Plugins on RedHat Linux.
TIBCO B2B/EDI Architect, Dallas, TX, USA; Baltimore, MD, USA 2011
< Technically led the diagnosis analysis of BC performance issues;
evaluation of BC infrastructure; inventory of TIBCO software; and keen
review of BC engine logs.
Perficient, Inc. (formerly ZettaWorks, LLC) - Houston, TX (2005-2010)
TIBCO EDI Architect 2006-2010
< Proficiently classified the Edifecs specification and guideline documents
through TIBCO BusinessConnect EDI interfaces; and the testing framework
for the automated regression and performance analysis.
< Ensured the successful delivery of EDI solution on extremely aggressive
timelines by leading the team of onsite and offsite TIBCO developers.
< Directed and configured the TIBCO BusinessConnect components, which
included EDI interfaces and Trading Partner Information; and SAP for
internal client systems.
TIBCO Architect and Developer 2006
< Fabricated and engineered the TIBCO BusinessWorks Application components
to transform and deliver global facilities application data for the
downstream trading, scheduling, and accounting systems of global energy
company.
TIBCO Testing Infrastructure Architect 2005-2006
< Provided leadership and guidance to a small team of developers in
defining and delivering GreenHat Development Testing Framework.
< Carried out wide-ranging activities, which comprised of writing technical
training manual, designing tutorial laboratories, and delivering training
course through the GreenHat Development Testing Framework.
TIBCO BusinessConnect Specialist Infrastructure Architect 2004-2005
< Master-planned and executed TIBCO BusinessConnect Business-to-Business
Application Deployment for major North American Transportation
Corporation through TIBCO EDI protocol, while communicating Electronic
Funds Transfers (EFT) with financial institutions.
< Capitalized on industry expertise in modifying BusinessConnect and
BusinessWorks components in providing stability and performance in a high-
demand environment with multiple transport protocols.
< Exemplified technical capabilities in defining the following:
- Edifecs specification and guideline documents through TIBCO
BusinessConnect EDI interfaces
- SQL server stored procedures and JDBC Java tasks through the
monitoring and analysis of HIPAA EDI X12 transactions
- Multiple Hawk rule bases through the monitoring of overall health of
BusinessConnect Infrastructure components
EARLIER CAREER
ZettaWorks, LLC - Houston, TX (2003-2005)
TIBCO Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Architect Technical
Architect Project Manager
Independent, Intelometry - Houston, TX (2003)
TIBCO Consultant
CGI Information Systems and Consulting Services, Inc. - Houston, TX (1999-
2003)
Senior Consultant Systems and Applications Architect Lead Developer
Senior Developer
Norrell Information Services - Houston, TX (1998-1999)
Consultant
TransEnergy Management Inc. - Houston, TX (1997-1998)
Technical Analyst
Tenneco Energy - Houston, TX (1991-1997)
Programmer Analyst
Houston Republic Builders - Houston, TX (1989-1991)
Full Charge Bookkeeper
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics, University of
Houston Clear Lake - Houston, TX
Graduated cum laude (GPA: 3.69) - Alpha Chi
Associate of Arts in Computer Science, Houston Community College - Houston,
Texas
Graduated magna cum laude (GPA: 3.79) Computer Science Transfer Plan -
Phi Kappa Phi
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform ~ TIBCO BusinessWorks 5.x
Certification
Architecting Composite Applications and Services with TIBCO Certification
TECHNICAL ACUMEN
Application Servers WebLogic ~ WebSphere ~ Tomcat ~ .NET
Programming Java ~ Java Management Extension (JMX) ~ Java Messages
Languages and Service (JMS) ~ J2EE
Technologies Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) ~ Servlet ~ JavaServer Pages (JSP)
~ Remote Method Invocation (RMI) ~ Java Naming and Directory
Interface (JNDI) ~ C ~ C++ ~ SQL HTML ~ Server and Client
Side JavaScript ~ TCP/IP Networking
Database Microsoft SQL Server ~ Oracle ~ Sybase ~ DB2
Operating Systems UNIX ~ NT ~ Windows ~ Linux
Additional TIBCO ~ WebMethods ~ UNIX Scripting ~ Rational Rose ~
Methodologies Relational Database Design ~ Implementation and
Administration ~ Stored Procedures and Triggers
Web-Services ~ Servlets ~ XML ~ XSLT ~ XPATH ~ Unified
Modeling Language (UML)
TIBCO TIBCO Analytics - TIBCO Spotfire
TIBCO Application Integration - TIBCO ActiveMatrix
BusinessWorks) TIBCO Administrator ~ TIBCO BusinessConnect ~
TIBCO Foresight ~ TIBCO Managed File Transfer
TIBCO Enterprise Messaging - TIBCO Enterprise Message Service
~ TIBCO Rendezvous
TIBCO Event Processing - TIBCO BusinessEvents
TIBCO Business Process Management - TIBCO iProcess
TIBCO Monitoring And Management - TIBCO RTView ~ TIBCO Hawk