Senior Middleware & Java Application Specialist

DEOGRACIAS GREGORIOS

mobile phone: 416-***-****; e-mail: ***********@*********.**

OBJECTIVE: Middleware Specialist Senior

HIGHLIGHT OF QUALIFICATIONS

Creation of cloud servers

-Configure, install, maintain and support applications

Providing support on the following:

-SWIFT Alliance Messaging Hub (AMH)

-Client Projects Operations

-Middleware application development and technical support

-WebSphere Application Server Administration experience

-Unix, Linux

-Servers in AWS and VMWare data center

-WorkForce Management (AWFM) application for Bell Canada (SME)

-Production Application Support (on page, rotation) (Automated WorkForce Management

Liaising and coordinating with teams and clients for application testing and incident problem resolution

Creating technical documentation for support procedures and application process flow

Managing and working as team player to enhance productivity and customer-focus

Keeps up to date with changes in the industry through continuous professional development

Accomplished programmer/analyst with proven ability to design, develop, implement, maintain, and support applications to achieve business and financial objectives

Proven leadership, project management and communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Language Java, J2EE

Cloud Technology Create, administer, and support servers in AWS cloud platform. Knowledge of other platforms such as Azure and GCP

Application Server IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0/7.0/8.5, WebLogic 7/8/9/11, Apache Tomcat/IIS

Business Process Vitria BusinessWare

Database Structured Query Language (SQL), TOAD, Oracle 9/10/11g/12c, DB2, MS Access, Data Studio, SQLServer 2008/2012, Postgres 10

Development tools IBM WebSphere Application Developer (WSAD), WebLogic Workshop, BusinessWare Modeling Environment, Extensible Markup Language (XML), XML Spy

Automation Tools Knowledge of CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and Ansible including repositories (such as GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket), Yaml, JSON)

Directory Server Sun One LDAP server, Active Directory

Incident/Agile/Sprint Jira

Integration Tool Hudson, CA7, Jenkins

Java Technology JDBC/ODBC, JSP, Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB), JavaScript, Java Servlets, Enterprise Java Beans (EJB)

Messaging Java messaging Service (JMS), Tibco EMS Broker, WebSphere MQ

Others HTML, Word, Excel, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, Slack, Trello, Jabber

Scripting and build tools Korn Shell, BASH

Source Management MKS, Concurrent Versioning System (CVS), Subversion (SVN), Perforce, GitHub

Web Server IBM HTTPServer, Apache Tomcat, Internet Information Services (IIS)

Operating System Solaris, Windows 20**/XP/NT, DOS, Unix/AIX 6.0, OS/400, REHL, Ubuntu, Centos

Hardware: Sparc Solaris, IBM PC, RISC/6000, AS/400, Laptop, X86_64

WORK EXPERIENCE

Application Support, Global Wires and Payments Technology – CIBC (Contract) May 2023-May 2025

Supported SWIFT Alliance Messaging Hub (AMH) java applications deployed on JBoss 7 using an Oracle 19c database. The tools used were AMH dashboard, toad, tectia, and KSH scripts

Coordinated with other teams that supported other components interfaced with AMH

Supported projects that were enhanced in UAT AMH and other components

Application Support, L2 – TD Bank (Contract) Sept 2021-July 2022

Supported OPERA java applications deployed on WebSphere/IIS using an Oracle database using Eclipse, SQL Developer, Putty, XML Spy, and SQL scripts

Performed impact analysis on relevant to system incidents

Performed investigation on issues about the feed process and migration of the feed data to OPERA Enablon

CSO Security team, Intermediate DevOps Engineer – Telus Communication (contract) May - July 2021

Responsible for development using Agile methodology of various transformation and jobs using Pentaho data integration tool, SQL scripts and java scripts, SVN, MySQL and Oracle. Other tools used included Jira, eclipse and Wildfly

Participated in rotation for a week supporting various eTOOLs, Control-M, Jira, Front Door and Pentaho

Performed impact analysis on the changes proposed by the users

Met with team members on a daily scrum meeting and bi-weekly for a sprint meeting

Client Projects Operations, Sr DevOps Engineer – Moody’s Analytics July 2014-February 2021

Built Environments for development and test servers for RiskAnalyst, RiskOrigins and CreditLens applications

-Built environments for RiskAnalyst, RiskOrigins and Creditlens in the VMware data center and in AWS; operating systems such Windows 2008, 2012, and 2016 were hosting the application/web servers, Redhat Enterprise Linux hosting the Postgres database

-Built data of RiskAnalyst, RiskOrigins and Creditlens on one of the following databases such as SQL server, Oracle, and Postgres. Built or imported/restored database or schemas

-Installed SQL server (2008 – 2012) or Install Oracle (11g-12c, 18c or 19c) on the windows server

-Installed WebLogic 11/12 and WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5 for RiskOrigins

-Installed Postgres (10 or 11) and build database on the RedHat Enterprise Linux

-Used Jenkins for automated jobs to update or configure production servers

-Performed migration of data from RiskAnalyst/RiskOrigins to CreditLens

-Configured .NET and IIS in Windows server

-Configured SSO and HTTPs access IIS and WebSphere application; role base access in the application

-Installed and configured RiskAnalyst, RiskOrigins and CreditLens applications

-Handled troubleshooting issues in various processes surrounding IIS, Oracle, and SQL Server

-Liaised and coordinated with teams and clients for application deployment, testing, and incident problem resolution. Tools used: Jira, Slack, Trello

As a member of implementation team, installed, configured and resolved issues and challenges with clients’ systems; travelled to various states in the U.S. to help client with application implementation.

Environment Specialist – TD Bank Financial Group (Contract) Jan-April 2014

Managed and coordinated projects focused on environments for test and pre-production servers for lending applications

-Prepared runbook for data conversion load.

-Created deployment instructions document for deployment team.

-Supported SYS and PAT MDM conversion environments.

-Managed trouble shooting issues during load process surrounding WebSphere Application Server, CA-7 jobs, J2EE applications, and DB2.

Environment Specialist – IBM (Contract) May-Dec 2013

Responsible for managing environments for development and test servers for lending applications

-Prepared Application servers configuration spreadsheets for a lending environment for line of business Spreadsheets contained configuration information about IMS, MQ, JMS, Oracle, DB2 and JVMs of WebSphere application servers

-Created build documents for each lending applications

-Customized configuration settings of application enterprise archive

-Created deployment instructions document for deployment team

-Supported DEV, SYS, and INF environments

-Managed troubleshooting of issues encountered in various processes surrounding WebSphere MQ, Application Server, IBM HTTP Server 6.1, J2EE applications, and Oracle 9/10/11g

-Liaised and coordinated with other teams and clients for application deployment, testing, and incident problem resolution

Deployment/WebSphere Administrator – Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Contract) June 2011-March 2013

Supported, led, and facilitated configuration, build and deployments of product master environment system on WebSphere Server 6.1

-Prepared and setup configuration of MQ, Tibco EMS, JMS, Oracle and JVMs of WebSphere application servers on various environments (DEV, QA, CAP, UAT and PROD – total of thirty physical servers and 270 application servers)

-Prepared and setup automated configuration of WAS and deployment of application (around 110 apps) using Hudson, Jython, wsadmin and Perl scripts.

-Created deployment instructions document for production support (deployment on UAT and production)

-Developed Hudson jobs to build various applications (110 apps)

-Created Hudson jobs to automate configuration of WAS and deployments of applications.

-Executed Hudson jobs manually or on timer to stop application servers, uninstall applications, configure WebSphere, deploy applications on WebSphere and start application servers.

-Implemented Hudson (Jenkins Predecessor) jobs to build applications and deploy on 270 target servers.

-Liaised and coordinated configuration of the load balancer with system and network team.

-Planned and prepared for upgrading Websphere 6.0 to Websphere 8.5.5

-Supported Production, UAT, CAP and DEV environments.

Handled troubleshooting of issues encountered in various processes surrounding WebSphere MQ, Application Server, IBM HTTP Server 6.1, J2EE applications, and Oracle 9/10/11g

Supported 30 servers and more than 100 applications

Used Subversion as the code source control and repository

Liaised and coordinated with other teams and clients for application deployment, testing, and problem resolution

WebSphere Administrator TD Bank Financial Group (Contract) May 2010-May 2011

Handled successful deployments of document management system on WebSphere Server 6.0/7.0

-Planned, developed, implemented, tracked and reviewed deployment instructions for web application on WebSphere application server and web server

-Created deployment and configuration instructions of FileNet Taxonomy and MQ on WebSphere application server

-Support UAT and production WebSphere environments

-Liaised and coordinated configurations with other teams (System Admin, MQ Admin and WebSphere Admin) and clients for application deployment, testing (QA team) and incident problem resolution

Managed troubleshooting of issues in various processes surrounding WebSphere MQ, Application Server, IBM HTTP Server 7.0, FileNet 4.5.1, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Oracle 10/11g

Supported Web Service, Messaging, Enterprise Document Management (EDM), Document Ingestion Services (Kofax)

Used MKS as the code source control and repository.

24X7 Production Support

WebLogic Administrator – Elections Ontario, Toronto (Contract) June 2009-March 2010

Administered WebLogic 7.0 and IIS 6.0

Created a high availability environment by installing and configuring a proxy service with clustered weblogic application servers from/to IIS or Apache http server

Handled problem determination on election day(s)

Created test plan and test cases for unit and application tests

Installed and configured WebLogic server for a preparation into high availability application server

Liaised and coordinated with other teams and clients for application testing and incident problem resolution

Created documentation for design, system interfaces and test plans

Built, fixed and deployed J2EE application(s)

Used CVS as the code source control and repository

Middleware Consultant – CGI, Markham Nov. 2003 – December 2008

Installed and configured Sun One, Vitria, WebLogic server for AWFM applications

Collaborated and performed designing SCS Application deployed on WebLogic application server; coding using Java, Eclipse, CVS, JDBC/ODBC, XML Spy, TOAD and Oracle

Led and facilitated deployments of AWFM on WebLogic 8.1/9.0 and Vitria Businessware

Performed deployments for various platform such as WebLogic, J2EE, JMS/MQ and Vitria Businessware

Performed maintenance of the process application (NSC Hub) using Vitria BusinessWare Modelling tool, Java, ANT, JDBC/ODBC, Oracle including Activation and Provisioning, Dispatch and Assignment

Provided 7/24 pager/prime support to the Activation, Provisioning, Dispatch and troubleshoot severity one system problem within a short period of time

Liaised and coordinated with teams and clients for application testing and incident problem resolution

Trained and coached new team members for activation and dispatch hubs

Created test plan and test cases for unit and application tests

Created documentation for design, system interfaces and test plans

SME for activation and dispatch applications Automated Workforce Management (AWFM) for Bell Canada

Administer, support, and monitor AWFM Hub and configuration services for Bell Canada

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Cloud Computing and Applications

Computer Programming/System Analysis

Various training programs under IBM Education Centre

-AIX Administration

-Object-Oriented Programming with Java

-OO Analysis and Design Using UML, Java, Rational Rose & Design Patterns

-Servlet & JSP Development using WebSphere Application Developer

-Kofax Capture 9.0/ Kofax Transformation Module training

-Vitria BusinessWare 3.1.7

DevOps Practitioner and on AWS Certificate

CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins Training

CKA-Certified Kubernetes Administrator training

Git and GitHub Training (including GitLab and Bitbucket)

Data Science with Python Certificate

Other professional and personal development training

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