Chris Matthew Email & Phone Number

Normal, Il, Us

Business Intelligence, Big Data, & Cloud Application Architect: Advanced Analytics, IBM Global Business Services -- Providing consultative application architecture services in Cloud & Traditional Environments, Big Data & Business Intelligence, subject matter expert in collaboration technologies, portal and enterprise applications. Provides Solution, Application and Infrastructure Architecture services for Client Systems and Infrastructure Projects

Server Optimization & Integration Services, Middleware Implementation Services, Global Technical Services -- Providing consultative infrastructure services in WebSphere, WebSphere Portal, IBM Connections, Forms Experience Builder and FileNet Environments. Provides Solution and Infrastructure Architecture services for Client Systems and Infrastructure Projects.

Provideing consultative infrastructure services for the district's WebSphere, WebSphere Portal, IBM Connections, Forms Experience Builder and FileNet Environments. Provided Solution and Infrastructure Architecture services to multiple education and infrastructure projects.I Installed, Upgraded, Configured and Customized IBM Connections 3.11, 4.0 & 5.0 Environments. I provided support to the customers development & testing teams. I served as the Collaboration SME for multiple projects and provided design guidance for the TIM/Connections Community Provisioning Process and the general Connections Provisioning/Deprovisioning processes. I mentored multiple specialists on the IBM Connections Platform. I provided support to the clients Portal administrators during the upgrade of WebSphere Portal from version 6.1 and 7.0 to 8.0. With the assistance of the client's DB2 Administrator, I helped setup HADR for their Connections & Portal DB2 Environments. I implemented AIX Automation for this solution. I provided Solution/Infrastructure Architecture services for a Education Learning Object Repository Evaluation & Implementation Project and I provided implementation services for a student analytics research project. I served as a Solution Architect under the guidance of the clients Enterprise Architect during the implementation & delivery of their Student Information System.

Bloomington, Illinois, Us

Responsible for leading a team to enable portal technology for all portal developers within the Enterprise. The team engaged developers on design and development practices, guidance and standards for portal development. I assisted all portal areas with problem resolution and root cause analysis. This team also lead the developer enablement of Websphere Portal 7.0 and assisted the first customer with the first production implementation of a Portal 7.0 application.

Bloomington, Illinois, Us

Responsible for leading the design and implementation of the Employee Portal, Reusable Content Portlets, Content Authoring Interface and Enhanced Content Services. Worked closely with business partners on requirements and capabilities, while negotiating additional features, timelines and complexity of the solution.

Bloomington, Illinois, Us

Responsible for leading or contributing on multiple projects as part of an internal consulting team. Mentored junior developers and team on development practices and agile methodology through each project. These projects included a data-mart launch site, Websphere Portal 5.x proof of concept, Websphere Portal 6.0 Employee Site, Authorization Engine Framework, an Electronic Forms project and a Portal Strategy project.

Irving, Texas, Us

Responsible for leading the engineering & quality software teams deliver application & database solutions for our business unit customers. These solutions included legacy data reporting, product bill of material data representation, performance metric gathering and engineering/supplier collaboration tools.

Irving, Texas, Us

Responsible for leading a development team for the development and support of an online part sales application to meet mission critical requirements. These requirements focused on availability, performance, and reliability of the system.

Irving, Texas, Us

Served as a charter member of Caterpillar’s portal development team. As part of a highly motivated and close team we integrated search and application systems into an Employee & Supplier Portal.

Irving, Texas, Us

Responsible for Java development and support of infrastructure applications for Caterpillar applications. Worked in a research group to bring in new IT technologies for use within the Caterpillar Enterprise. Provided consulting services for other development groups in these new technologies.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Worked in the server tape library, night shift server support and other miscellaneous tasks for the Bank of America account in Chicago.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Part of the desktop services rollout team for the Bank of America account in Chicago. Upgrading operating systems from Windows 3.1 and OS 2 to Windows NT.

Macomb, Il, Us

Under Dr Leff, refactored and added functionality to a truck dispatching system in Visual Basic. Wrote multiple procedures for a 3D Maple CAD application for the optimization of 3D objects to determine optimal size/density characteristics without loosing basic object structure characteristics.

Macomb, Il, Us

Under Dr. Leff provided Internet Service Provider support. Provided help desk support for end users in New York running on Windows & Mac OS. Assisted users connecting to the Internet via SLIP or PPP dial-up accounts. Assisted users with e-mail connection assistance, file space quota resolution, account creation & deactivation, and newsgroup assistance. Assisted with nightly backup support for the local Unix server.