Architecture, Analysis and Implementation of Tibco Professional Services in support of a large project for DHS.

Technologies:

Tibco BusinessWorks, Tibco RV, Tibco Hawk, IBM MQ

Responsibilities:

Developed automation processes and procedures for Tibco installation and configuration. Supporting security teams with platform hardening using Nmap and Nessus. This effort is a combination of determining platform vulnerability, threat analysis and tightening access without degrading operability or performance.

Created bridging adapter between Tibco ActiveMatrix Business Works and IBM MQ using JMB Bridging.

Mentored and provided Tibco expertise to development teams with Business Works implementations, troubleshooting, performance analysis and best practices, participated in peer reviews and contributed to system architecture.

Business/Technology Value

·       New business process for DHS

CLIENT: Cingular Wireless – Atlanta, GA

Tibco Architect responsible for Wireless Local Number Portability (WLNP).

Technologies:

Tibco BusinessWorks, Tibco RV, Tibco ActiveDatabase Adapter

Responsibilities:

Use case analysis, UML modeling XSD schema creation using Turbo XML, XML Canon and I.M. AE Schema.  Designed business partner interfaces using SOAP to interact with back end Cingular business processes.

Business/Technology Value

·       Created new Cingular business process using Tibco BusinessWorks

CLIENT: Dominion Resources – Richmond, VA

Tibco Architect and implementation specialist for Electric Distribution Division at Dominion. Responsible for EAI solutions using Tibco BW, JMS, various Adapters and Web Services.

Technologies:

Tibco BusinessWorks, Tibco EMS, Tibco Hawk, Tibco ActiveDatabase Adapter

Responsibilities:

Implemented Web Services server to allow internet based business partners to interact with Dominion applications running in Mainframe environment. Developed Java clients to interact with a JUnit test SOA. Used Ant to read Tibco WSDL and dynamically create Java client stubs, Java reflection to bind SOAP XML payload to requests.

Created several custom BW applications including: PJM trading adapter, MQ to mainframe simulator, MVC (Struts) to BW controller, SAP to mainframe EAI.

Business/Technology Value

·       Evangelized Tibco into other business areas at Dominion, helped to leverage Enterprise License use

CLIENT: Kmart – Troy, MI

Architecture, Design and Implementation of a new messaging infrastructure interfacing 1500 Kmart stores to headquarters in Troy, MI.

Technologies:

Tibco BusinessWorks, Tibco RV, Java

Responsibilities:

Designed enterprise messaging architecture using Tibco JMS. Client opted instead for a custom RV adapter as Tibco JMS is not supported on their store platform, SCO Unixware.

Developed custom Tibco adapter solution (RV API) Adapter rolls up Tibco RV messaging in stores and transfers them as serialized Java Objects over TCP using client/server. Implements fault tolerance, monitoring (JMX) and is highly scalable. Architecture reduced 9000 store socket connections to 1500 and enabled a scalable messaging solution supporting future requirements.

Business/Technology Value

·       Created new messaging model for store access to HQ

CLIENT: Independent Commerce Bank – Brooklyn, NY

Architecture and implementation of a Tibco technology Proof of Concept for the ICB.

Technologies:

Tibco BusinessWorks, Tibco RV, Tibco ActiveDatabase Adapter

Responsibilities:

The POC captured real time customer data entered in a web site browser and published using ActiveDatabase. Tibco BusinessWorks subscribed to customer data, mapping result sets to a common data model. CDM was then stored hierarchically in a SQL Server database and posted to a mainframe using an HTTP transport.

Business/Technology Value

·       Technology demonstration which business later hardened into a production quality new product offering

CLIENT: Telstra – Melbourne Australia

Consultant to Telstra Director of I.T., developed a new organizational model to support new development and lifecycle maintenance

Technologies:

Tibco BusinessWorks, Tibco RV, Tibco Hawk

Responsibilities:

Defined a new application architecture for an Enterprise wide approach to business system monitoring, reporting and control using Tibco Hawk. The existing model apportioned 20+ consultants engaged in O&M support across independent business Silo’s. The new model reallocated existing staff permitting both new application development and ongoing support.

Business/Technology Value

·       Created a more cost effective basis for application support and new business initiatives

CLIENT: Samsung Semiconductor – Seoul Korea

Architecture and baseline performance analysis, responsible generating report to senior management team.

Technologies:

Tibco RV

Responsibilities:

Ran performance benchmarks for existing semi-conductor assembly line for Samsung SemiConductor in Seoul KR. Created a high performance model for new Samsung line utilizing RVRD for load balancing & fault tolerance.

Defined performance metrics using RVPerf. Authored Installation and Configuration guide, and white papers for system performance for new and existing lines.

Business/Technology Value

·       Recommended version upgrades to internal messaging framework

CLIENT: NCS Pearson – Arlington, VA

Responsible for system architecture, design, development and deployment of EAI system used by the Transportation Security Agency.

Technologies:

Tibco BusinessWorks, Tibco RV, Tibco Hawk

Responsibilities:

Implemented complex EAI, mapping and transformations and custom functions using Tibco BW. System deployments and iterations were performed under fast track schedule constraints of the Office of Homeland Security.

Business/Technology Value

·       Created new hiring system for DHS/TSA

CLIENT: Fedex – Pittsburgh, PA

Senior Architect tasked with measuring legacy application performance in comparison of proposed new technology initiative and report results to senior Fedex management.

Technologies:

Tibco RV, Java

Responsibilities:

Lead engineer on a Pilot project for Fedex Ground, responsible for creating a POC for a feasibility analysis, to allow Fedex to assess the risk and ROI of upgrading their legacy realtime tracking system.

The POC system was to benchmark in a simulated Fedex production environment, the performance characteristics of a C code, Berkely sockets implementation against a POC for demonstrating the potential value of upgrading to primitive Tibco RV messaging. Coded POC solution using RV Java API’s. The optimized POC came within 15% of the existing legacy application performance.   

Business/Technology Value

·       Recommended not upgrading existing business application

CLIENT: Mirant Energy - Atlanta, GA

Senior architect and analyst, reporting to onsite Tibco Project manager

Technologies:

Tibco BusinessWorks, Tibco RV, Tibco Hawk, Tibco ActiveDatabase Adapter, Java

Responsibilities:

Requirements analysis, Architecture and Design of a subsystem component of a large energy trading system. Designed interfaces to 5 partner realtime electricity trading systems. System interfaces joined internal trading systems to partners using Tibco Adapters, JDBC, and performed data mappings and transformations between systems.

Designed and implemented a custom portal interface to enterprise trading systems using MVC Jakarta Struts, Tomcat and JSP. Coded Struts and JSP solutions using Java API’s.

Business/Technology Value

·       Implemented new business system

CLIENT: ADT – Boca Raton, FL

Architect, designer and implementation specialist for large security company in Boca Raton, FL

Technologies:

Tibco BusinessWorks, Tibco RV, Tibco Hawk, Tibco ActiveDatabase Adapter

Responsibilities:

Designed, development, implementation and deployment of a large EAI infrastructure which aggregated customer data across the enterprise into an operational data store.

Used Tibco adapters to collect customer data for various enterprise systems running Informix, DB2 and Oracle. Applied business logic in Tibco Message broker and consolidated data within an ODS.

Employed certified message delivery and enterprise monitoring using Tibco Hawk and Hawk scripting in AIX.

Business/Technology Value

·       Created new business processes

CLIENT: SWIFT – Manassas, VA

Architecture and implementation of a Message Store and Forward System for a large banking institution

Technologies:

Tibco BusinessWorks, Tibco RV

Responsibilities:

Implemented a store and forward – guaranteed message delivery system for a large multi national banking institution. System used Tibco RV for the message transport and Tibco I.M. for transaction processing, transformation and business logic processing.

Wrote custom I.M. plugins for exchanging large objects with Oracle DB

Business/Technology Value

·       Created a new business process

CLIENT: Pan Canadian Energy – Houston, TX

Implemented a Real-Time Position Module for natural gas trading company

Responsibilities:

Developed a custom Tibco Adapter in C++, coding to RV API’s to interface between gas management system and realtime in-memory position calculation engine.

Technologies:

Tibco RV, C++

Client applications would interact using Tibco  RV messaging to query for realtime trading results.

Business/Technology Value

·       Created new business process

CLIENT: Equiva Energy – Houston, TX

Created a custom Tibco based Open Link Financial adapter

Responsibilities:

Architecture, design and development of a custom Adapter to Open Link Financial Systems using C++ and Tibco Adapter SDK.

Technologies:

Tibco RV, C++

Business/Technology Value

·       Created a new business application

CLIENT: TIBCO SOFTWARE & Zettaworks, Mar 1997 – July 2005

Responsible for: Pre-Sales, Client EAI Architecture, Product Integration, Client Mentoring and Custom Application Development in C++ and Java.  Supported over 25 Tibco client engagements.

Pre-Sales activities:  Meeting with prospective clients to discuss their business problems and developed conceptual models of how Tibco ActiveEnterprise technologies could be applied to their problem domain. Developed proof of concept and pilot software systems to demonstrate Tibco capabilities and performance. Participated in head-to-head best of breed competitions against other vendors.

Architecture engagements: Meeting with client I.T. architects and subject matter experts to perform the Use Case Analysis for new system requirements. Implemented prototype systems to demonstrate capabilities and model performance. Authored system architecture specifications.

Product Integration: Installation and configuration of Tibco middleware and other 3^rd Party COTS on NT, Solaris, Linux, HP/UX and AIX within the enterprise. EAI implementation. Getting everything working together. Tuning systems for optimal performance.

Client Mentoring: Providing focused, small group, rapid immersion into the tools and technologies used to solve their business problems.

Custom Application Development: The development of custom solutions using Java, JDBC, XML, C++ and various other technologies.

·   Developed custom trading applications allowing companies to enter into contracts to buy and sell product, hedge positions against the market, schedule deliveries and run pricing models.

·   Custom Portal development - Aggregation and presention data from various components within the enterprise.

·   Developed custom Adapters to interface with external market feeds and provide results to business analysts in order to make real-time market decisions.

·   Developed EAI systems which integrate various disparate components within the enterprise allowing for seamless, fault tolerant, guaranteed delivery of information.

·   Development of custom applications to facilitate the creation of new business ventures or product lines for client.

CLIENT: TRW TAMPS PROJECT, Feb 1995 – Mar 1997

Technologies:

C, C++, Java

Creation of real time Mission Planning applications for U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Aircraft. Responsible for the engineering and development of advanced technology prototypes and demonstrations. Developed advanced technology prototype systems for TRW which were demonstrated at the DOD Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstrations (JWID) JWID 95 and JWID 96.

Accomplishments included: Conversion of 1M lines of legacy TAMPS software from Sun Unix to Windows NT. Developed message parser for Air Tasking Order (ATO). Developed Strike Planner application in Solaris/C and OSF Motif. Developed TAMPS prototype UAV MPM which integrated TRW RMS and JCMT systems. Developed CORBA interface to allow external systems to reference TAMPS data. Ported of TAMPS software to HP/UX Version 10.

BBN Bolt Beranek & Newman (Cambridge Mass), Sept 1993 - Feb 1995

Technologies:

C++, ADA

BBN site manager responsible for planning, analysis, software engineering and product integration at LORAL FSC in Manassas Va (formerly IBM FSG). BBN and Loral had joint responsibility for the development and deployment of large scale underwater sensor systems and Acoustic Signal Processing software.

Responsibilities included software integration, debugging, performance analysis, longevity testing and resolution of technical and management issues. Contributed as a technical liaison between Loral project management in Manassas and BBN the project team in Cambridge, Mass.

TRW Federal Systems Group (Fairfax, Virginia),  1984 - Sept 1993

Technologies:

C, C++

Responsible as Software Developer and Work Package Manager (WPM) for all phases of software development for C3I systems. Areas of emphasis include system design, development, debugging, message processing, communications, networking, fault isolation, performance analysis and UNIX system internals. Created message parsing and validation module, UNIX driver interfaces to communications front end processors, client server applications and message profiling and dissemination modules.

Software developer and consultant to project 1500. Responsible for application development, performance tuning, software integration and porting of SPARC 10 code to an IBM mainframe running MVS. Received project commendations for pulling together a key TRW software delivery and for developing a set of tools which optimized baseline compilations.

Work Package Manager/Software Developer responsible for a project sponsored R&D prototype for an Information Processing System (IPS) Managed team of 11 developers: scheduled activities, held architecture and design reviews, delivered products on-time and within schedule.

E-Systems Melpar Division (Falls Church, Virginia), 1982 - 1984

Technologies:

UCSD Pascal, C, x86 Assembler

Software developer for a signal processing system written in 8086 Assembly language using HP. 64000 microprocessor development system. Responsible for operating system enhancements, new application design, performance monitoring and giving design review presentations. Object code was burned into EPROM's and inserted into a airborne control units consisting of multiple 8086 based single board processors.

Designed and developed communications network management software to poll network devices and display connectivity statistics. This program allowed the user to re-route high speed fiber optics communications circuits and graphically display the network topology. The program was written on an Apple IIE using the UCSD-P system. Developed and delivered a training course for this program.

Other Professional Experience, U.S. NAVY1976 - 1982

Six years experience, including two years of advanced technical training in the United States Navy as a Cryptographic Technician within the Naval Security Group. Served as a lead technician responsible for component level repair of telecommunications equipment. Served on staff at CINCPAC headquarters in Honolulu, Hi and at NIC headquarters in Suitland Md.