Manager Engineering

Hands on IT leader with more than ** years of software/middleware/build & release experience, helping technology companies meet the changing needs of their customers while achieving corporate objectives.

Technical Experience

Middleware Engineering

Quality Assurance

Software Development

Release Engineering

Software Engineering

Software Licensing

Client/Server Technology

Internet Technology

SOX Compliance

Professional Experience

The First Marblehead Corporation. Boston, MA 02155 9/04 – Present

First Marblehead is a leading provider of private student loan solutions for lenders, credit unions, and schools offering clients a complete and integrated suite of outsourced services for private student loans, including underwriting, loan origination, and portfolio risk management.

Director / Middleware-Release Engineering

Hands-on manager of Middleware Engineering and Release Engineering. Work closely with Application Development, Database Administration, Web Front End, Systems Engineering and Helpdesk groups.

• Responsible for the build-out and configuration of PCI compliant middleware environments on JBOSS EAP 5.1, 6.0, 6.4, .NET, IIS and Apache.

• Responsible for the implementation of operating system security patches for Windows and Linux on a quarterly basis, using Eratta and Shavlik.

• Worked with GLBA, which is a regulatory framework for handling of PII that’s applicable in financial institutions.

• Worked “7x24” support and trouble-shooting.

• Worked in an Agile development methodology.

• Involved in providing job scheduling requirements in Control-M.

• Involved in the architecture of technology stack, including F5 load balancing (virtual pools), IIS, Apache, JBOSS, Oracle and SQL, working with various IT teams.

• Provide Systems Engineering with VMWare architectural requirements for new environments.

• Committee Member of Change Management team, responsible for ensuring changes are promoted according to an accountable process.

• Responsible for resource monitoring of all critical systems, including web servers, middleware application servers and databases, using JBOSS Operations Network.

• Manage all areas related to source code control and code deployment. Follow governance standards, including lockdown of sensitive code.

• Directed the adoption and implementation of SCM tools, including Perforce, Jenkins, and Anthill Pro.

• Involved in the adoption and implementation of EMC Documentum and Alfresco document management systems. Provide hands-on administrative and configuration support of Documetum and Alfresco.

• Member of management team responsible for transforming all layers of IT infrastructure and software solutions, from proprietary IBM AS/400, AIX, and IBM middleware, to virtual VMWare ESX, Red Hat Linux, JBOSS and Apache platforms, saving the corporation over $500K in annual vendor license and maintenance costs.

• Lead systems engineer on Middleware build-out and implementation of IBM Websphere Application Server 6, MQ 6, and MQ Broker 6. Responsible for the build-out and configuration of WAS appserver clustering, MQ clustering and MQ Broker flow configuration.

• Manage all areas related to source code (Perforce), and code builds and deployments (Maven, Anthill Pro).

• Adopted and implemented SCM tools, including Perforce, Jenkins, and Anthill Pro.

Manager / Systems Engineering

Managed a team of VMWare engineers. Responsible for the architecture and implementation of VMWare ESX servers to meet the requirements for virtual Development and QA, UAT and Production environments. Worked with Systems Engineering, Storage and Network Engineering groups to define and implement a technological framework to facilitate a proper application development lifecycle to production.

The Technology Group, Inc. Baltimore, MD / Tewksbury, MA 01876 10/1992 – 9/2004

The Technology Group was world leader in expert systems Estate-Planning solutions primarily offered to the legal industry.

Manager, Build/Release Engineering

Managed a team of release engineers on product source code and builds for all TTG software products, using tools such as Visual Source Safe, makefiles, batch scripts, cabinet files and proprietary version stamping utilities. Researched and implemented the deployment of web-based ActiveX client controls using Microsoft’s Internet Component Download technology. Implemented the digital signing of deployable web controls using VeriSign certificates.

XyQuest, Inc., Billerica, MA 01821 3/1988 - 10/1992

XYQuest was a windows based word processing software company working in conjuction with IBM to integrate both DOS and Windows and OS/2 products.

National Language Support (NLS) Specialist

Technical specialist involved in the development of 13 national language versions of Signature as contracted by International Business Machines (IBM). Signature was designed as the global replacement for DisplayWrite word processing software. Developed expert knowledge of all aspects of software internationalization including codepage and keyboard support, international formats for currency, dates, time and decimals, and sort sequences.

Co-developed a translation tool which simplified the translation process and generated over $100K in contract payments from IBM. This tool facilitated the successful translation of all components of the product including the installation, executable file and user interface (CUA). Acted as corporate liaison between XYQUEST and IBM translation centers based in Europe and Iceland.

KRONOS, Inc., Waltham, MA 02154 12/1985 - 3/1988

Kronos is a leading Global Workforce Management Solutions company.

Supervisor Technical Support

Supervised the daily operation of the Technical Support Department. Responsible for corporate support of the KRONOS product line, including standalone and PC-based products. Scheduled and implemented the training of support staff who serviced the dealer network and major accounts.

Education: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1978 -1982

Bachelors program in Business Administration

Bentley College, Economics/Finance coursework

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