Marital Status            Married with one child

Nationality                  British

I am an experience middleware engineer specialising in the Websphere suite of products; IBM Websphere application server, IBM MQ series, Tivoli access manager, Tivoli Monitoring, Symantec i3 Monitoring and MS Biztalk.  I am looking for freelance contract work in these technology areas.

I have in excess of eighteen years IT experience, working in large data centres on highly available high transaction systems with a proven record of implementing systems on time and to budget.

Jan 2006 – Xxxxxxxxxxxx

Freelance Middleware Consultant

A member of the AIX support team focusing on the support of various middleware technologies.  I was responsible for the installation and management of clustered WebSphere application servers and the deployment and administration of J2EE applications.  I am also responsible for the management of the WebSphere Portal product.  Both of the above on Aix equipment using Pseries hardware.

I was a member of a small team which implemented the Tivoli monitoring product across a large number of aix servers and windows servers..  The modules deployed and configured were ITM 6.1, ITM for Oracle, RTT for WebSphere, RTT for applications (SIEBEL) and ITCAMfRTT including development of playback scripts in rational robot.

I was responsible for the introduction of JACL scripting to Nissan for tasks such as application installation and management of system components.

Technology Profile – Websphere application server 5.x, 6.x, Tivoli Monitoring 6.1,  WebSphere Portal 5.x, IIS, IHS,  Apache, IBM HTTP Server 2.x,  AIX 5.x, Windows 200x, JACL scripting for Websphere administration,  Apache Tomcat, Entrust Get Access SOAP, SSL, J2EE frameworks – JDBC, log4j.

1999 – 2006 Prescription Pricing Authority

Senior Technical Support Analyst – Middleware Services

A senior member of the middleware services team responsible for installation, management and administration of middleware services and the deployment, administration and performance tuning of J2EE applications running on these platforms.  The systems were implemented on IBM Websphere application server on Sun Solaris and Windows 2000 servers.

I had responsibilty for the development of scripts using JACL for tasks such as application installation and management of system components via CRON. 

The systems I have worked on are highly available using Websphere clustering via deployment manager installations.  This high availability also includes the use of edge server at the periphery of our systems to make our web servers failover.

Our middleware solutions are secured using Tivoli Access manager with Webseal at the front end to secure web servers.  We have utilised a number of techniques in our security including certificate based authentication for application to application security and non-authenticated junctions for internal testing.

I have designed and developed a prototype prescription transfer system using Microsoft MQ and Biztalk 2000.  This included the development of COM objects in visual basic to integrate the system with MS SQL Server 2000.

I have experience of using JDBC to connect to a number of back end databases including oracle, DB2 and Microsoft SQL 2000.

I designed and implemented a MQ series infrastructure for the delivery of electronic prescriptions from the national programme for NHS IT a 2 million transaction per day highly available queue infrastructure.

Technology Profile – Websphere application server 5.x, Tivoli Access Manager 4.1, Tivoli Webseal 4.1, IIS, Apache, IBM HTTP Server 2.x, Websphere MQ 5.1, Sun Solaris 8 and 9, Windows 2000, JACL scripting for Websphere administration,  MS Biztalk, MS MQ, SOAP, SSL, J2EE frameworks – JDBC, JMS, MDB, log4j.

1999 – 2002  Prescription Pricing Authority

Senior Technical Support Analyst – Micro Support Services

Senior member of the micro support team delivering hardware and software support on micro based servers and PCs over a range of operating systems in a network with in excess of 150 servers.

Technology profile – Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Novell Netware, GroupWise, exchange, SQL Server, Active directory Novell NDS, TCP/IP, VB programming

1994 – 1999 Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council

Software Support Officer – Software Team

This was a technical support role at the council mainly providing micro support and unix support across a large number of servers including the borough wide education networks which linked 120 school servers across a WAN.

Technology profile – Unix – DRS/NX (ICL unix), PCs, PC servers, Novell Netware, windows, os2, MS dos.

1991 – 1994 Price Waterhouse – Computer Auditor

Computer Audit and security consultant. Performing reviews and audits across client sites across the country.  Main speciality PC operating system security.

1988 – 1991 Price Waterhouse IT Technician

PC and server based support.

Technology profile – PCs, DOS, Windows 3.0

1986 – 1988 MARI

Technology trainee in computer programming, electronics and computer hardware.

I am a keen runner and triathlete and I have an interest in the activity euphemistically know as socialising.

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