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. Did analysis and wrote white paper for enabling over 1000 programs and hundreds of both ENSCRIBE and SQL/MP files and tables to utilize TMF without having to change source code or recompile same.

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 when jobs fail. Set up their entire NETBATCH environment, including standards document, comprehensive TACL macros and 22 operations automations that saves at least 30 man-days a year and significantly reduces probability that exceptions are missed by adding alerts and email notifications. Also set up Enterprise Web Viewpoint alerts to capture NETBATCH job abends, and trained staff in its use.

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 up a library of Confluence pages to document recovery procedures and assist in diagnosing issues.

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 archiving of stale customer records. Wrote Prognosis displays and reports and created database collections to gather metrics for QA and production analysis of performance and to identify problems. Wrote white paper recommending how to better leverage Prognosis across the enterprise.

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 22.5 releases. Wrote the foundational SQL/MX DLL libraries that serve as the template for migrating all the ENSCRIBE files to SQL/MX tables and mentored developers on proper use of same. Introduced Eclipse NSDEE 3.0 as the shop’s development seat using Subversion for code management; designed the SVN repository and mentored all staff in use of both tools. Later upgraded to NSDEE 4.0. Wrote complex TACL and OSS macros/scripts to automate the deployment of BESS developer sandboxes that can easily be upgraded with new releases and customized for each user with a single configuration file to drive the installation and upgrades from a single code base with referenced database and reference data. Converted conventional BESS application security to LDAP for user authentication and roles authorizations. Analyzed SQL/MX query plans to identify database I/O bottlenecks and tune to eliminate inefficiencies. Performed POC during BESS release 22.0 to integrate SWIFT transactions asynchronously between BESS and CGI Intelligent Gateway using SOAP. This included evaluation of several SOAP solutions. Defined, developed and implemented BESS enterprise workflow integration framework sufficient to meet planned BESS product and customer needs and did substantial development of OO. Did requirements analysis and design of BESS queue subsystem for performance improvement. As management team member, helped define the BESS five year roadmap. Composed and conducted WebEx presentations to introduce the products I built to BESS Customers.Read what one of my colleagues said about me below...

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, ODBC, XP SAN storage arrays, VTS, OSS (i.e. SVR4-compliant UNIX), NetBatch, shell and TACL scripting, Prognosis and Golden Gate. Was project lead for designing and implementing Disaster Recovery solution for DirecTV. Solution involved replicating a 2.4 TB production database on XP20000 to remote system across an OC3, and then keeping it synchronized using Golden Gate. This was a complex and challenging endeavor.  Designed and implemented a high-performance Golden Gate solution that was tightly coupled to TMF audit trails and thus well balanced data replication across GG trails.

 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 identifying and resolving several production incidents by using advanced skills in Prognosis to quickly identify the root cause.

 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 technology’s fastest file I/O technology and used linked lists and algorithms similar to hard disk sector management. Wrote an API that implements UNIX sockets, IPC and terminal file I/O on Guardian that is similar to UNIX with select() to facilitate easier porting of UNIX applications to Guardian.

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 initiative to acquire Prognosis for performance monitoring and capacity planning. Did all work to implement product from POC to production and development deployment. Implemented the first fully fault tolerant Prognosis deployment on Windows Servers clustered with MSCS and SAN storage that can survive any single point of failure. Implemented historical data collection that will save performance data for years. Developed web dashboard, several extractors and dozens of displays and implemented thresholds. Constructed a fully automated application build with ETK that takes the entire suite of 150+ Tuxedo servers and libraries from Subversion source code base to SQL-compiled and deployed to multiple production servers as labeled releases – complete with all startup and shutdown scripts. This solution separates packaging from configuration so that code can be seamlessly deployed to multiple code bases with the same common scripts and assets using an “overloading” methodology. Deployment reliability was significantly improved.  Was technical lead on $3M hardware upgrade initiative that was completed in under four months.

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 infrastructure, teamed with system owners. Significant contributions in helping development teams achieve an operational continuous integration environment and implementing a workable reusable code infrastructure.

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 installed and configured), documenting the process and training staff.

 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 component. Integrated ClearCase release management software with daily-build automation and complex UNIX and TACL scripts to deploy fully implemented sandboxes, complete with RDBMS catalog, Pathway environment, properly configured CORBA and catalogued network resources.  Participated in architecture brainstorming sessions and document reviews to help shape team deliverables.

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 architecture flaws, participating in the weekly status meetings, creating a well-defined set of deliverables, and exceeding deadlines, satisfied the client’s concerns.

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 desktops. We then configured the Pathway environment to run the Java servers they had developed on PC and did performance testing to demonstrate the linear scalability of the NonStop platform.

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 servers.  The client was so impressed that I was asked to take over the role of Compaq’s on-site advisory architect.  Assessed the data loader server code as unsalvageable, wrote a reference loader CORBA/C++ program that had 60% fewer lines, and provided a great deal of reusable code.

 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 team adopted my proposed solution on how to properly represent decimal data without losing precision between the Stratus and Sun systems.  Actively participated in the design, development and code reviews of core system components.

 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 records, put on a WebSphere MQ queue for delivery to the back office IBM mainframe, and a backup message was put on another queue on a hot-standby Sun Solaris server. Additional software was needed for the hot standby to do failover detection and recovery. The solution was required to ensure no loss or duplication of messages. Project was on time and on budget. Brought in key team members of my choosing, produced a design, and constructed the application.  Wrote the functional specification and design documents.

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 verified design capable of sustaining tens of thousands of transactions per second.

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 environment, wrote automation software that generated NSK platform-specific source code, wrote data marshalling routines, and participated in all architecture reviews. Constructed release packaging with automated and comprehensive deployment wizards, developed sandboxes, and automated daily builds with integrated regression testing.

 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 subsystems myself and contributed 26 key architecture innovations.

 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 Falcon-MQ.  Negotiated their Tandem Alliance Strategic Partner agreement, uncrating and completely configuring the NonStop development server, all architecture, design, development (including writing first ever Active NonStop C servers) to implement fault-tolerant shared memory, integration, and technical support across multiple CPUs and across Expand.

 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 for shaping requirements and evaluating telecommunications technology. I identified the critical success factor – the wireless message switch – and made sure it was properly identified as a mandatory RFP requirement.  To achieve a seamless applications interface to the network, I designed and developed a Middleware API. The applications deployed included Computer Aided Dispatch (i.e., OMPPAC, PRC and Intergraph), Electronic Ticketing, Criminal Offenses Database, MTO proprietary systems and ARIS.  Received Certificate of Appreciation from the Government of Ontario. See: https://mobileinfo.com/Case_Study/PublicSafety_Law_Fire_Amb/gov_public%20_safety.htm

Associates Degree, Computer Science

Grade 13 Honors Graduation Diploma