Senior WebSphere/WebSphere portal SME, middleware Architect, Senior Unix/WebSphere/Portal Architect

(consultant)
September 2003 - August 2004
* Responsible for day-to-day 24x7 Unix support & administration, operations, migrations, upgrades
and bug escalation for various outsourced projects; managing and hands-on for high-end project
implementations
* Production environment upgrade/migration for the whole ADP account from WebSphere 3.54 to
WebSphere 5.022 and MQ Series from 5.2 CD1 to 5.3 CD4 (all clustered with load balancing and
fail-over)
* Day-to-day responsibilities include the WebSphere, iPlanet and Unix support of Charles Schwab,
Google and ADP accounts, working together with developers in order to fix existing problems, do
system patches, new builds, performance tuning and monitoring, backup (Tivoli ADSM and Backup
Express) and disaster recovery procedures, securing the environment by using ssh, scp, sftp (for Sun
Solaris, AIX and Linux) and Windows as well. Upgraded the whole Veritas clustering Unix environment
(from 2.1 to 3.5) for Charles Schwab (Sun OS, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas clustering, NDM, HSI
X.25, Secmon, Oracle and Lexmark printing )
* Installing, configuring and patching existing WebSphere environments (to fix existing bugs),
deploying new Enterprise Applications, with various EJB modules.
* Took part of the NYSE SEC project encompassing Oracle 8i, EMC Clariion FC4700, FC4500, Sun Fire
6800 and 4800 (in separate Veritas clusters), Syncsort Backup Express 4.2, BreeceHill 9.140 and
9/40.50 tape storages The project consisted of 6 TB of data restoration and processing for an SEC
inquiry. My responsibilities consisted of configuring, tuning up the 6800 and 4800's, creating the
necessary volumes and supervising/debugging the data restoration
* Responsible for Finance Web (HP-UX 11.x) production and development server modifications/upgrades
including BMC Patrol upgrade to v3.4 for all HP-UX environment
* Preparing a rollout of Red Hat AS 3.0 and SuSE 8.0 for approx 50 NYSE production servers
(upgrades)
* Supervise the entire Veritas clustered environment (including new server deployments), SE 6320 Sun
Storage Arrays (10 TB), NIS+, routing tables, NFS, users accounts, ssh/sftp and DNS changes,
security strengthening and various apps as Samba, PCX Trade, IBM HTTPD, Apache, Tomcat, Jrun,
Concorde eHealth checkup, NDM, Autosys, Tripwire

(consultant)
April 2003 - September 2003
* Responsible for the deployment, maintenance, performance tuning and support of Sun Solaris, AIX
and IMB iSeries WebSphere App Server, WAS Portal Server, iPlanet & IBM HTTPD servers, Blaze, Tivoli
Storage Manager, Vignette, Verity, LDAP, Tomcat and WebSeal
* Responsible for the installation, configuration and maintenance of multiple instances and clones
of WebSphere 4.04, LDAP 5.1 and Netscape iPlanet 5.1 on Sun Solaris 2.8 platform
* Responsible for the 24x7 UNIX support - mixed Sun Solaris 2.9 and AIX 4.3.3 environment - for New
York Times Adportal project including DNS, NIS, E-mail server, Veritas Netbackup. Responsible for 40
production, 35 development, 32 disaster-recovery (DR) and 25 UAT servers: Sun Fire 6800 with
multiple domains, Sun Fire/880/480R/280R/V100, E420R, E220R, RS6000 either with local storage as
D1000, D420 or centralized SAN storage as Sun StorEdge SE6320, Hitachi, IBM Shark - 5 TB of storage
* Responsible for the architecture, configuration/maintenance of multiple domains for Sun Fire 6800
(Veritas clustering)
* Responsible for multiple server configurations, deployments, migrations, new installs (in prod,
dev, DR)
* Responsible for security enhancements of all Unix systems (buffer overflow patches, ssh/scp/sftp
install and configuration, disabling services, enforcing password aging), plus NDM file transfer
setup/maintenance
* Setting up Netbackup client/server and TSM (Tivoli Storage Management) client for all the
production, UAT and DR environment. Building and deploying new Sun and Windows 2000 servers
(including Sun Blade Technology). Deploying new monitoring tools to all existing AdPortal servers

Shield, Newark, NJ, US
(consultant)
December 2002 - March 2003
* Responsible for supervising/managing WebSphere and Unix environment for whole Horizon Blue Cross
HR and Doctor's Portal environments
* Installing / configuring and maintaining multiple instances and clones of WebSphere 4.04, LDAP 5.1
and Netscape iPlanet 5.1 and Directory Smart 4.5 SP2 on Linux and Sun Solaris 2.8 platforms
* Installing / configuring and maintaining multiple instances of WebSphere 3.54/4.04, LDAP 5.0/5.1
and IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000 platform (DELL PCs using SCSI disk arrays) with radware redirection
* Patched existing WebSphere installations (to fix existing bugs), deployed new Enterprise
Applications, with various EJB modules. Debugged initial setups and future deployments of WebSphere
(servlet and EJB debugging or Network connectivity problems, J2EE application maintenance)
* Responsible for the 24x7 UNIX/Win NT support for Horizon's BCBSNJ: 50 production, 25 development,
10 staging and 10 sandbox servers (HP Compaq Proliant series, Sun Fire 880/280R, E-6500, E420R,
E220R, Ultra-10, Ultra-5 all with D1000 arrays) including DNS, NIS+, E-mail server and Netbackup
* Setting up Netbackup client/server from scratch for their UAT and DR (disaster recovery) sites
* Responsible for ClearCase maintenance, code deployment, process debugging, performance tuning
* Responsible for the Data Center conversion project from WinNT platform to Linux and Sun Solaris
(50 servers) - planning, transitioning, data migration and new server build/deployment
* Updating Data Center procedures and server build processes

Manhattan, NYC, US
(consultant)
January 1998 - December 2002
* Responsible for the Global Business environment in NYC (global operations encompassing approx
1,200 Unix servers - production, development, QA, UAT, DR)
* Meeting on a regular basis with various business groups (IB, Market Data, FITS) and global
engineering to setup standard goals, to draw integration and migration plans, setup procedures and
step-by-step details
* Installing / configuring and maintaining multiple instances of WebSphere 3.54/4.0, LDAP 5.0/5.1
and Netscape iPlanet Server 6.0 on the same machine
* Installed, configured and insured second-level support for JRun v3.1, iPlanet Netscape Server 6.1,
en-Commerce v2.0 (secure LDAP 3rd party connection) and Razorfish Mazinga real-time query engine
* Successfully managed the 60 Wall exit project (90+ servers currently migrated to other locations)
* Reconfigured new 60W migrated servers to support NIS+, SEOS, BOKS, KEON, Tivoli and Legato
* Enhanced server redundancy (for 60 Wall exit project) adding new disaster recovery and UAT servers
* Managing the Solaris 8 & Sybase 12.5 migration project for Investment Banking for 30+ servers
* Responsible for the whole Investment Banking server deployment, migration and new install projects
* Providing necessary liaison with UAT (sandbox testing) and DR (disaster recovery) in terms of H/W
and S/W planning and implementation
* Part of the global ETS team responsible for the whole Chase infrastructure environment: DNS, NIS+,
sendmail, Netbackup, server inventory, new server deployments (responsible for 350 production, 300
development, 280 UAT and 350 DR servers)
* Worked for the JPM Chase merger integration project of various applications like ClearCase, NDM,
Autosys, FAMIS, FDS, Client Coverage, TMT, Global Pipeline, Market Data, FITS and MNA into Heritage
Chase environment
* Provided EMC Clariion support (only configuration/maintenance for Clariion CX6200/CX6400)
* Provided AIX production support (version 4.3.3) on RS6000 servers
* Supported Documentum (on Sun platform) for the whole Investment Banking environment (WebSphere
deployment, configuration, tune-up, new installation in development, disaster recovery, production,
UAT)
* Configured applications & supported Veritas Cluster 1.2/1.3/2.1 (Sybase/Oracle clustering and
VxVM) and Sun Cluster 2.x and 3.0 as well (for the whole Investment Banking and Market Data
environment)
* Provided second tier support for Globalnet (E10k - 4 domains, fully clustered)
* Provided ClearCase support, maintenance, upgrades, code deployment for the whole Investment
Banking
* Responsible for the 24x7 UNIX support for Investment Banking Technologies of Americas at JP Morgan
Chase: 24 production, 16 development, 20 contingency/disaster recovery servers (Sun Fire 6800,
E420R, E220R, E-6500, E-4500, E-3500, Sun Sparc Enterprise-1000, Ultra-60, Ultra-10, Ultra-5 all
with T3 / D1000 / A1000 / SSA110 or Box Hill arrays) all with Legato backup and centralized Sun
StorEdge storage
* Responsible for several critical applications: FDS (Securities, Stock Reports), DRI (Compustat,
Euroclear, Model Bank), IDD, Data Query, Populator, PriceLink, FAME (JPM's General Ledger), FAMIS,
Gentia Server, Web Factory, FAME Site Server (Moodys, Standard & Poor tearsheets, US Pricing, First
Call, IBES, IBES History), Java TimeIQ all with Legato and OperMenu Backups (with IBM's Tivoli
alerts)
* Entirely reconfigured all of the production, development and disaster recovery servers (hardware
upgrades from Sparc-20/E-1000/E-3000 to E-6500/E-4500/ E420R/E220R; and from Solaris 2.4/2.5.1 to
2.6 & 2.8)
* Reinforced system security (restricted logins; restricted shared disks access thru NIS; disabled
potential dangerous services as tftp, finger, rwall, systat, rusersd,sprayd; masked users thru NIS
maps; monitored
Web access thru Wusage, etc). Used various security tools as Tiger, Cops, Crack, SecMon, Adrian;
* Enhanced system reliability through heartbeats & CA Unicenter monitoring
* Planned 2nd tier Sun hardware upgrades to 420R & 220R Workgroup Servers with D1000 StoreEdge
(RAID-5 with UFS logging and mirroring) and A1000 with FC-AL connectivity
* Installed, configured and provided ClearCase v4.1 support (for version controller software) to NT
clients connected to UNIX hosts through Samba 2.2 and TAZ
* Used Samba and TAZ to configure UNIX machines to act as NT domain file and print servers as well

(consultant)
April 1997 - December 1997
* Managed the Dow Jones News Reports integration project (H/W and S/W upgrades. setting up standards
and business long-term goals, procedures, etc)
* Insured application and data migration from HP-UX and Dec platforms to Sun Solaris platform for
more than 30 servers; assured performance tuning, application troubleshooting and monitoring
* Managed a mixed Unix environment: Sun Solaris, HP-UX, SCO, Dec Alpha and AIX (50+ servers and 250
Unix workstations)
* Unix system administration tasks include: maintenance of master/slave NIS, master/slave DNS, NFS,
E-mail servers, users' accounts, networked printers, RAID cross mounted disk arrays using VERITAS
VxVM, scheduled backups (using Legato backup), HW/SW maintenance of various systems like E-4000,
E-3000, Ultra 2, Ultra 1, Sparc 20/5, HP9000, DEC Alphas and PCs plus 3rd party s/w installations /
configurations like: Perl 5, ClearCase v2.1, Oracle v7.3.1, Legato DBU, News and HTTP Servers, SQL
Net Plus
* Insured all software transition from Sun Solaris 2.4 to Sun Solaris 2.5.1/ Solaris 2.6 (for more
than 250 Sparc 5/20 workstations plus 10 Ultra 2 / E-4000 servers - using jumpstart)
* Setting up a disaster recovery plan for the main servers and the existing RAID Arrays
* Maintained ClearCase database (setup, upgrades, debugging, code deployment) for Unix (Sun, HP-UX,
SCO, DEC Alpha) and Windows NT clients

(consultant)
July 1996 - April 1997
* Technical Architect Manager for the JaMS project (job scheduling, data processing/monitoring using
AutoSys, Syncsort, NDM, BMC Patrol and Oracle database)
* Designed the main technical architecture for the new AT&T billing system
* Responsible for Unix developing MP machines for JaMS project (HP-UX, SCO, NCR SVR4 & Sun)
* Unix system administration tasks include: maintaining users' accounts, networked printers, 200 GB
disk
RAID-1 arrays using VERITAS VxVM for Sun E-6000, scheduled backups (using Legato DBU or OSA A&M),
3rd party software installations & configurations like: Sablime, AutoSys, Connect Direct, BMC
Patrol, Oracle, Legato, Micro Focus Cobol, Object CenterLine, SQL Net Plus, Netscape Enterprise
Servers
* Insured all software transition from NCR SVR4 (3435) to Sun Solaris 2.5.1 (E-6000)
* Managed 20 HP-UX servers (HP3000 and HP9000) for the JAMS project
* Developed a job process scheduler under AutoSys (using JIL script language)
* Maintained Sablime SBCS tracking system

* Designing sample applications for APPC, SNA Function Management and SNA Path Control, in C under
DOS, Windows and Unix (on Sun Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, SCO and NCR SVR4)
* On-Line Priority Engineer Group Leader
* Acting as a manager and liaison to development and production support. Also responsible for
telephone support to Field Engineers and customers; ensured timely resolution of all customer
problems; handling big accounts (with more than 1,000 workstations & gateways installed) and the
mission-critical sites
* Revitalized team spirit and morale in spite of arduous challenges and significant overtime
requirements with written procedures, clearly specified expectations, fair discipline, multi-level
communications and mutual personal and professional respect
* Participated into the approval process of pre-alpha and beta release notes and documentation of
AFW, AFW NT, AFU, SNA/OSI PC/LAN Gateway V3R1 for Unix and the product enhancements, fixes as well
* Provided training support and specific phone techniques for new on-line engineers

* Senior On-Line Engineer (Emulation Team)
* Main task was to debug / solve the clients' problems related to communication protocols of OSI/SNA
Gateways, LAN Router/400 and IP Routers and Bridges, terminal emulations (VT 100/220, IBM DFT 3270
and 5250) as well as related network problems (Novell NetWare, OS/2, LAN Man, Banyan Vines, TCP/IP
on SCO Unix SVR4, HP-UX, AIX, UnixWare and Sun Solaris Unix), MS-DOS or IBM / non-IBM Host Front End
Processors
* Providing on-site help to distributors; developed standard gateway configurations and on-line help
database to ease the debugging procedures

* Supervised 5 engineers, 3 operators and 2 clerks; responsible for all aspects of automatic system
planning and related support services
* Responsible for a team that developed a custom job scheduling system related to all phases of
computer operations, data entry management and system programming
* Led four major database software upgrade projects and implemented a New Information Center
regarding the Security of Data Administration
* Managed a whole mixed Unix environment: Sun Solaris, HP-UX and SCO
* Designed and developed a Data Base Management System related to students' end-testing processing
and a 3rd generation on-line development language, based on FoxPro, SQL and C++ languages
* Developed a client-server communication package based on TCP/IP protocol (in C, under SCO UNIX) to
link SIMSMART's workstations - Silicon Graphics, or simple IBM PCs to a G2 VAX mainframe
* Implemented a software package for a complete financial company administration
* Responsible for all aspects of system development and related support services (network contained
50 IBM PCs in 2 Novell LANs with one bridge)

* Responsible for various software implementation apps:
* Graphical library package, EGA resolution: reverse engineering for dual terminals (in MASM and C,
on IBM PC and TAXAN 1000 Workstations)
* Written various resident software drivers (mouse, tablet, printer, keyboard)
* Nine simulation software apps for MOS VLSI technologies (all written in FORTRAN on Sperry Univac
and VAX machines)
* Design and implementation of an interactive CAD/CAM package for schemes design on VT 100/241
terminals (all written using a combination of FORTRAN, C and VAX/VMS DCL language)
* Automatic production and surveillance package (in FORTRAN, on IBM PC)
* Loan and jobs payment package for Department of Computations (translation from COBOL on VAX
mainframe to FORTRAN on IBM PC)