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IBM DataPower Integration Administrator

Location:
Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted:
September 29, 2026

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Resume:

Louie Zhang

Knowledge/Skill Summary

Middleware Product

IBM Datapower Appliance

Nearly 20 year administration experience for finical client’s integration, based on IBM datapower appliances. Familiar with cmd line/gui admin interface. Excellent at soap/soma interface scripting for DP management . Can handle appliance coding if required. Excellent at Datapower appliance init setup/config, application code drop, backup/restore. Plenty mission critical projects for new DP build, migrating from physical DP to new physical, and from physical to virtual. Excellent at trouble shooting and performance tuning/monitoring. Deep understanding, daily support of Datapower application.

IBM Websphere Application Server

Oracle/BEA weblogic application server

JBoss Enterprise application Server

Tomcat application server

15+ years Websphere administration experience. 10+ years weblogic application server administration experience.

10+ years JBoss application server administration experience.

Excellent skill on Websphere/weblogic/Jboss/Tomcat installation, customization, clustering, maintenance, application installation, trouble shooting and topology design. Familiar with J2EE application architecture and implementation.,

IBM DB2

8 years DB2 administration on Unix/Linux/Windows. Skills include db2 installation/backup/restore/maintenance, SQL development, db space estimation. tablespace design/setup, clustering, HADR hot backup.

IBM MQSeries

6 years MQ administration experience. Critical commercial customer MQ design, setup, implementation. Real time MQ upgrade on banking system.

IBM Http Server / Apache Web server/Redhat Jboss Web server

20+ years experiences on different Apache based web server

Iplanet web Server

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IBM Websphere Studio Application

Developer 5.x/4.x, Rational Developer for Websphere

5+ years J2EE application development experience on Visuage Java/WSAD/Rational Developer for WAS.

IBM Tivoli Directory Server 5/6

2 years admin

IBM Websphere Portal Server 5.1/4.x;

1 years admin and 1 year portlet development

Tivoli Framework/Tivolis products for WAS, Domino and DB2;

1 years admin/testing

Operating System

AIX

10+ years experience on AIX. System installation, customization, file system creation, maintenance, etc.

Solaris and other Unix

10+ years

Linux, Red Hat Linux enterprise V5/V4, SUSE enterprise

10+ years

Win 2K/NT

10+ years

Vmware

7 years. Developer environment and training purpose system setup.

Programming Language

XSLT/XML

20+ years, experience on XML/XLST/SOAP related scripting/coding. Started as IBM Websphere/Websphere portal web service application developer back in IBM China Development Lab, before 2002. In 2006, I took role as IBM Datapower admin in HP, to support CIBC account, until now. I have written many shell scripts to send SOMA/JSON requests to Datapower, and process/transform response, to automate all kinds of admin work. Scripts cover functions such as, retrieve/delete/update/add config, check status, export/import config, backup/restore, etc. I also wrote xslt code running on datapower to provide web gui interface for encrypt/decrypt, AAA validation etc. Plus, some experience with Datapower gateway script.

Java/J2EE

5+ years. Development experience on J2EE, including EJB, Servlet, JSP, JDBC, Web Service, IBM Portal Server Portlet API, HTML/CSS

Python, Jacl/Jython

7 years’ experience of create Jython scripting for Websphere and Weblogic administration task automation.

Json

2+ years, mainly on Datapower Json management interface scripting.

Certification

IBM Certified Solution Implementer - WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances Firmware V3.8.1

IBM Certified System Administrator - WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V7.0

IBM Certified Advanced System Administrator - WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V6.1

IBM Certified System Administrator - WebSphere Application Server, Network Deployment V6.1

IBM Certified System Administrator -- WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V6.0

IBM Certified Advanced System Administrator -- WebSphere App Server V5.0

IBM Certified System Administrator -- WebSphere Application Server V5.0

IBM Certified Solution Designer -- WebSphere MQ V6.0

IBM Certified System Administrator -- WebSphere MQ V6.0

IBM Certified Advanced Database Administrator - DB2 9 for Linux UNIX and Windows

IBM Certified Database Administrator -- DB2 9 DBA for Linux UNIX and Windows

IBM Certified Database Administrator -- DB2 Universal Database V8.1 for Linux UNIX and Windows

IBM Certified Database Associate -- DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family

IBM e(logo)server Certified Specialist - AIX Basic Operations V5

Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the J2EE Platform

Sun Certified Java 2 Programmer

CISCO Certified Network Associate

Professional Experience

DXC/HP CIBC account Middleware/ESB support (2014.04- now)

MW L4 support for IBM datapower appliance related projects and run activities. Build and setup appliance from scratch. Create application domain, code drop, troubleshooting, daily run support. Migration from physical appliance to physical, and physical to virtual. Automation script (XSLT/XML/SOMA/Json) for datapower admin task. Code development to simulate application for trouble shooting or concept approval purpose.

MW L4 support for ECIF (Enterprise Customer Information Systems) and ESB ( Enterprise Services Bus ).

MW resource for J2EE based application projects, Weblogic application Server/Weblogic Portal Server/JBoss application server/JBoss web server/Tomcat Application server. Installation, setup, configuration, code deployment, trouble shooting.

CIBC Technical Operation Middleware (2012.04- 2014.04)

Project resource for ECIF (Enterprise Customer Information Systems). Responsible for application deployment, troubleshooting on UAT/PERF/PROD.

MW resource for multiple RBSS (Remote banking shared services) SOA (IBM datapower appliance, weblogic/websphere, MQ) projects.

Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co. TSG Middleware Tower CIBC account (2009.09- 2012.04)

Project MW resource for SSAA (Shared Services Application Adaptor) datapower appliance refresh. Responsible for Datapower appliance setup, config, code drop, script creation/update. Smooth transition of uat/pte/prod SSAA datapower appliances to new hardware.

MW resource for multiple projects on EMB (enterprise service bus) and SSAA, datapower based application.

Project resource for ECIF V7-V13 (Enterprise Customer Information Systems). Support of Domain build, code deployment, troubleshooting on UAT/PERF/PROD.

MW resource for multiple Weblogic and Websphere application projects.

L4 support for EMB and SSAA datapower appliance.

L4 support for ECIF.

IBM Canada ADI/CDT Integrated Technology Delivery (2008.08- 2009.09)

Websphere administration, including installation, clustering setup, customization, config, maintenance and trouble shooting.

Developer for jacl/jython script based WAS admin tool/utility.

DB2 administration, including installation, DB2 HADR setup, backup/restore, maintenance, trouble shooting. DB2 instance creation, db clustering, db space estimation, tablespace setup.

Planning on Middleware installation and upgrade. Documenting step by step process of Middleware installation and upgrade.

MQ administration, configuration and maintenance. Development of MQ objects script. Configure MQ JMS object in Websphere. MQ work flow design.

IBM Websphere portal server admin. Portal server config update, portal theme change, portalet installation.

Administrator for other middleware, including IBM Http Server/apache http server, Domino Server, netcache, etc.

Administrator for Datapower SOA Appliance.

Websphere Process Server installation and initial setup.

Technical support and trouble shooting for IBM WWW/W3 application’s deployment and testing.

AIX system admin, shell script development

Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co. TSG Middleware Tower CIBC account(2007.04-2008.08)

Websphere MQ and Enterprise Messaging Broker Level 3 technical support for CIBC application.

Websphere MQ installation, setup/config, maintenance, monitoring and trouble shooting.

Real time MQ upgrade on production banking system. Upgrade plan design, step-by-step documentation, and lead different team during upgrade process, completion verification.

Websphere MQ MQSC scripting utility tool development.

Present middleware installation and upgrade plan to CIBC change control meeting.

Weblogic server and Iplanet support for CIBC Business Banking.

CIBC EMB Websphere Datapower Appliance admin and utility scripting.

Websphere application server and IBM Http Server support for PC financial online banking.

Websphere application server, IBM Http Server, IBM Content Manager support for CIBC ‘Personal Electronic Signature Authority’ system.

Weblogic an Websphere installation, setup/configuration, application deployment and trouble shooting.

Davis+Henderson, Technical Service, Websphere and middleware specialist (2006.11-2007.04)

D+H online cheque ordering application DEV/QA/UAT environment Websphere administration.

Websphere installation, setup/config, maintenance and trouble shooting.

Websphere jython/jacl automation script development.

Web server installation, setup/config, maintenance and trouble shooting.

Latest application package deployment, installation verification.

Production site access summery report.

Websphere application performance testing, monitoring and tuning.

Developer Apache web server and Tomcat environment support.

AIX system admin, shell script development.

IBM Canada, Global Service, Center of Development and Testing Advisory Technical Support/ ADI WAS Technical lead on WAS/WAS SME (2003.1- 2006.10)

ADI Websphere technical team lead, Webphsere/db2 SME..

Websphere administration, including installation, clustering setup, customization, config, maintenance and trouble shooting.

DB2 administration, including installation, DB2 cluster and HADR setup, backup, restore, maintenance, trouble shooting. DB2 instance creation, db clustering, db space estimation, tablespace setup.

Application installation, DB2/JMS MQ resource configuration, application trouble shooting.

Developer for Websphere/J2EE based User Empowerment Tool. Developer for jacl/jython script based WAS admin tool.

DB2 administration, maintainence and trouble shooting.

MQ administration, configuration and maintainence. Developer of MQ object creation script. Configure MQ JMS object in Websphere.

IBM Websphere portal server admin. Portal server config update, portal theme change, portalet installation.

Administrator for other middleware, including IBM HIS, Domino Server, etc.

Technical support and trouble shooting for IBM WWW/W3 application’s deployment and testing.

AIX system admin, shell script developer.

IBM China Ltd, China Development Lab J2EE application developer and system admin (2000.2-2002.9)

Responsibility:

J2Ee Application Development, Middleware administrator

Honor:

Developer award for eDocXchange project.

Major Projects:

1. EdocXchange (July 2000-Feb 2001), developer and development environment administrator.

EdocXchange is web order/invoice system, based on J2EE/XML technology.

Developer of core compoent, tranforming flat PO file from host to XML format by XSLT technology. Development tool is WSAD.

Setup and maintian on developer Websphere testing environment.

Admin on two set of MQ system used for transferring PO from host to internal system and internal system to external system.

Setup/admin internal/external site DB2. SQL and JDBC developer.

Code build/version control coordinator.

2. eWeb Order Invoice (Oct 2000-Sep 2001), developer and development environment administrator.

web order/invoice system, based on J2EE technology.

Front end web component developer.

JDBC/SQL developer.

Code build/version control coordinator.

3. Tivoli manager for Websphere and Domino on Regatta certification test in US Austin Tivoli Lab (April 2002-June 2002),

Build mulitple Websphere environment on AIX, Solaris, HP-Unix, Linux.

Design and execute test case, generate test report.

IBM China Ltd, Software Department Advisory Technical Support (1998.7-2000.2)

Responsibility:

Websphere/DB2/MQ Product Support, Project proposal, application prototype development on IBM WAS and other middleware;

Honor:

Effective management award

Over achievement award

Education

Bachelor degree on Electrical Engineering

1994-1998 University of Beijing

Contact Information

Address:

45 Roseborough cres, Thornhill, Ontario, Canada, L4J4T7

Contact Phone:

647-***-****

Email:

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