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Greater Pittsburgh Area

Leadership role in design, development and implementation for a number of enterprise and specialized applications, including both in house developed Java applications and vendor based solutions. Involved with full project life cycle including Production support. Provide expertise in leveraging DataPower for web service security and integration.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

DataPower consulting, service design & development, and administration roles with integration team supporting multiple cross functional enterprise and line of business projects. Firmware management; appliance security access and integration via LDAP; Ethernet interface, SNMP, and remote logging configuration; SSL certificate implementation and management; development & deployment support.Linux Support role for infrastructure group supporting Linux servers within Amazon Cloud. Active Directory integration; software installation, configuration, patching.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Leadership role in design, development, integration, enhancement, and support of business, technical and composite Web Services (DataPower, Java) using Highmark’s SOA standards. DataPower consulting/designing/development (XSLT, XML) and administration to provide Web Services security and integration (REST, SOAP) at the edge for both the Highmark enterprise and external ASP consumers; SSL certificate implementation and management; deployment support.Technical support for DataPower and Java enterprise service implementations for existing customer solutions.Consulting role for Web Service Security, API Management, DataPower solutions, and SOA best practices.

Leadership role in analysis, design, development, and implementation of large scale customer facing applications. Create preliminary and detailed design documents from detailed business requirements.Provide leadership and mentoring in application development areas as well as business users including technical expertise, coaching, ad hoc training through prepared presentations, IT solutions and technical direction.Communicate effectively with all levels of organization on status of projects to manage customer expectations and provide visibility and insight into projects.Coordinate design, development and integration between many existing application areas hosting internal and vendor products as well as new applications being implemented by both in house development and external consultants.Provide technical support for application issues of existing customer solutions.

Provide 24X7X365 Application Support for multiple J2EE Web Applications (maintain SLAs, incident/defect resolution, enhancements).Leadership role in platform upgrades on high volume, high availability WebSphere (physical and virtual environments) application servers.Assist with project management (communicating status and managing expectations) on multiple initiatives across separately managed applications owned by independent groups within company.Work with internal and external members of application development teams (PNC and external vendor based solutions) to coordinate development and implementation efforts.

Provide 24X7X365 Application Support for multiple J2EE Web Applications (working incident tickets, resolving defects, maintaining SLAs).Provide a leadership role in the design and development of new Java functionality (including use of JSPs, Servlets, and Web Services), enhancements, and defect resolution of multiple J2EE web applications running on WebSphere application servers and Apache web servers.Analyze and understand business requirements to ensure successful development, implementation, and support of J2EE web applications.Develop and maintain working relationships with departments of downstream and external systems (including inbound and outbound SSO and security certificates) for effective problem resolution to maintain application integrity and to meet expected service level agreements.

Provide 24X7X365 Application Support for multiple J2EE Web Applications (working incident tickets, resolving defects, maintaining SLAs).Provide a supporting role in the design and development of new Java functionality (including use of JSPs, Servlets, EJBs, and Web Services), enhancements, and defect resolution of multiple J2EE web applications running on WebSphere application servers and Apache web servers.Analyze and understand business requirements to ensure successful development, implementation, and support of J2EE applications.Develop and maintain good working relationships with external and downstream systems for effective problem resolution to maintain application integrity.

Supporting role in development and maintenance of Oracle databases and electronic litigation media.Update and maintain web kiosk for customer support.Maintain good relationships with internal groups to create client requested electronic litigation media for client support.

Supported design and development of flash and multimedia projects.Consulted with clients on design requirements of web products.