PERSONAL SUMMARY

Technical Background

• Significant experience of full software lifecycle in heterogeneous enterprise environments covering systems analysis and design, software development, systems integration, testing, support and administration.
• Strong focus on problem solving, technical troubleshooting and issues management.
• Over ten years experience with WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker product family including pre requisite and co requisite platforms, products and technologies.
• Certified for WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker and DB2.

Principal Platforms, Technologies and Standards

• WebSphere Message Broker (message flows, message sets, ESQL, tuning and performance), complimentary technologies and tools.
• WebSphere MQ on distributed platforms.
• DB2, Java Platform, pSeries/AIX, Sun Sparc/Solaris, Windows, Linux, zSeries USS/TSO.
• Integration solutions supporting SWIFT FIN, FIX, EDI, SAP, IBM Enterprise Payments Platform (Financial Transaction Manager).
• Legacy experience with COBOL2, DB2/MVS, CICS, TSO, JCL, REXX, SQL/DS, ISPF, VM/ESA, CMS.
• Appreciation of Java and C programming (read, investigate, debug, fix).

Organisational

• Concise written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to organise, prioritise and concurrently execute on multiple and diverse objectives.
• Appreciation of organisational and management structures, processes and business controls.
• Appreciation of finance with sensitivity to revenue and costs.
• Ability to work unsupervised, pre-empt issues and risks and pursue technical, qualitative, procedural and organisational issues to closure.