Dean Malone Email & Phone Number

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Eugene, Oregon, US

 As part of a team of 4 developers, wrote 45 Pathway micro-servers, mostly with embedded static SQL/MP. Set up new NonStop server to do a menu-driven automated server startup and shutdown. Wrote most of the code for an automated parts reordering system that integrates with John Deere. Wrote most of the code for new warehouse inventory counting system..

Paris, Paris - Issy-les-Moulineaux, FR

 As member of a team of 10 developers, have been working to automate many operational functions.  Set up new configuration-driven framework that was used to migrate 11 Distribution Centers to 4 new L-Series servers with a single set of scripts. Have built on this framework to automate many manual operations tasks and dispatch timely emails to investigate.

Minneapolis, MN, US

 As member of a team of 5 developers, did 2nd level support by turn, resolved production issues, made program enhancements, set up and maintained Control-M batch jobs and job streams. Set up an alternate EMS distributor and collector to deliver filtered events to a Prognosis threshold to page on-call 2nd level support of critical application events. Set.

Louisville, KY, US

Was tasked with migrating all development, QA and two production NonStop server applications, resources etc. from Itanium to NonStop X servers. This included NonStop Console configuration, startup/shutdown, sysgens, SQL/MX & SQL/MP database setup, batch, XyPro, pathways, virtual tape backup and much more.

San Francisco, California, US

 Consulting engagement where I provided operational support for all aspects of OSS and Web-based services; including Node.js scripts, COBOL web page generation, Java servlets, J2SE, TACL and shell scripting. Established release management standards and framework for OSS code deployments. Developed and deployed a COBOL/SQL program to automate the.

Montreal, Quebec, CA

 As Architect of New Technology, wrote white papers, did requirements analysis, designed, developed initial releases as POC and lead teams of up to 10 developers as hands-on thought leader. Migrated BESS product (i.e. over 600 COBOL programs and 160 ENSCRIBE files) from TNS-ENSCRIBE-COBOL85-Guardian to Native Mode-SQL/MX-c++-OSS for BESS 21.5, 22.0 and.

El Segundo, CA, US

 Initially engaged to stabilize Prognosis environment for DirecTV account (see related work 2007-2008) and integrated it with new blades systems. Became a member of the operations team responsible for maintenance and support of 5 NonStop Blades systems and Prognosis repository servers. Environment was comprised of Tuxedo, SQL/MP, SQL/MX, TCP/IP, Expand.

 Upgraded, tuned and stabilized WebSphere MQ queue managers for core processing. Set up Prognosis Windows enterprise repository with Web reporting and displays. Tuned KMSF and disk cache on eight production servers after writing Prognosis automation to quickly analyze configurations and generate focused monthly analysis reports. Assisted in quickly.

 Ported open source prngd program (random number generator) from UNIX to Guardian. The program was stress tested, measured, benchmarked and ported to Itanium. The next task was to modify sendmail (Open Source POP3 email server) to manage mailbox file space more efficiently. Designed high-performance SETMODE-141 file system to leverage NonStop.

El Segundo, CA, US

 Was initially engaged to tune 48-CPU NonStop environment comprised of two clustered pairs of nodes with RDF-synchronized databases. Found performance problems with SQL queries and made recommendations to redistribute DP2 processes to more evenly spread load. Also helped shape roadmap for future upgrades and software/hardware architecture. Spearheaded.

London, GB

 Key integration role, responsible for operational health, architecture and integration of all applications through a complex environment of mainframes, UNIX Servers, NonStop servers, CORBA, J2EE, WebSphere MQ; with particular focus on NonStop systems and their integration with these other entities. Involved with vendor and product selection in evolving.

Columbus, GA, US

 Installed, configured and tuned WebSphere MQ middleware on the HP NonStop servers to handle huge volume of traffic and provided stress-testing to verify and validate capacity interfaces with mainframes. Implemented proof of concept to migrate enterprise traffic from LU6.2 proprietary messaging infrastructure to WebSphere MQ over TCP/IP.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

 Installed, configured and tuned WebSphere MQ middleware on the HP NonStop server to handle huge volume of traffic and integrated it with existing systems. Completed tasks ahead of schedule, thereby saving the company two months of man-hours. Set up a master build workstation, creating a fully automated master build using ControlCS software (which I.

 As one of five members of the Architecture Team responsible for migrating Shazam EFT/POS network from IBM to NonStop, I was given the initial mandate to implement a fully-integrated metrics subsystem.  Created architecture and design documents of the Metrics Subsystem using Rational Rose and UML. I then implemented the Metrics Subsystem client.

Irving, Texas, US

 Installed, configured, secured and tuned WebSphere MQ on production and development servers; created middleware to simplify integration with existing COBOL servers and documented all deliverables.  This deliverable had already slipped badly on the project schedule, and the client was very apprehensive. By my quickly evaluating and addressing.

Palo Alto, CA, US

 As this client (Continental Airlines) had little in-house experience with the NonStop platform, my mandate was to help them set up and integrate the various systems. Mentored both development and systems personnel. On first arriving, we identified the need to install SAMBA so developers could access the NonStop OSS (i.e. UNIX) file system from their.

Overland Park, Kansas, US

 Was subcontracted to find memory leaks in their call records capture system There was a lot of code to review and only six weeks to find the leaks.  Out of three production programs with memory leaks, resolved two. Due to the low business impact, Sprint decided not to apply additional resources to resolve the third.

Harris County, Texas, US

 This global technology leader had a $50 million contract with Target Corporation ($50 billion in revenue) to implement the first Zero Latency Enterprise (ZLE) by tying seven operating companies together into a single operational data store (seven terabytes) to give a single system view of the customer. My mission was to tune the 48-CPU production.

 Assisted in porting their UNIX code base for their ControlCS code management software to the OSS (i.e. SVR4-compliant UNIX) environment of Tandem NSK and integration with the Guardian file system.  Resolved security issues, process identities, application repartitioning, properly configuring the environment, and enabling UNIX BSD sockets.

US

 My mandate as a consultant was to help them convert from fractional pricing to decimalization.  Developed price encapsulation routines used by the rest of the team and conversion of the Quotes Processing subsystem that applied OPRA and local options quotes as well as underlying securities pricing from NASD to the PHLX market database.  The engineering.

 Mandate was to help tune SQL queries for the State of Texas Medicaid/Medicare billing system.  Analyzed complex query explain plans and applied techniques for improving performance.

Los Angeles, California, US

 Subcontracted to act as architect and project lead over a team of five people. The mission was to port a TAL/NonStop application onto Sun Solaris and make it fault-tolerant with a budget of $300,000, to be completed within 90 days for their client, the Chicago Board of Trade. Options trades from the automated trading system were formatted into billing.

Rochelle Park, New Jersey, US

 My mission was to design a guaranteed delivery message switch (GMSS) capable of sustaining fifty 1Kbyte messages per second on a HP-UX 7000 series server that would be scalable to 500 messages per second.  Supervised a team of five engineers Designed a message switch that was predicated on ServerNet and MyraNet high speed bus technologies. Produced a.

Taguig City, Metro Manila, PH

 Engaged to port their NetEssential and HPS-Server 4GL components to the NonStop OSS (i.e. SVR4-compliant UNIX) platform.  Performed all operations and systems administration support on two NonStop development servers. Set up NFS, wrote all TCP/IP sockets and CPIC LU6.2 listener and middleware software, established security policy in our distributed.

 Ported the IBM Mayflower UNIX (WebSphere MQ) reference code base to the NonStop platform, did detailed analysis, design and substantially shaped architecture in brainstorming sessions with two other senior engineers. Mentored the team of 12 developers on how to leverage NonStop architecture fundamentals, supervised three of them, built several key.

 Was contracted to port their product onto the Tandem NonStop server platform. This small venture capital startup was a pioneer in MOM technology with their XIPC product. This product went on to become the foundational plumbing of Microsoft’s MSMQ on all non-Microsoft platforms and was marketed by Level 8 Inc. (who subsequently acquired Momentum) as.

 Implemented the world’s first wireless wide-area network, which involved connecting 50 workstations operated by Ontario Provincial Police, four regional police forces, Ministry of Health Ambulance Services, and Ministry of Transportation (MTO) Carrier Enforcement Division to several host computers concurrently.  Was one of two key architects responsible.

Associates Degree, Computer Science

Grade 13 Honors Graduation Diploma