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United Kingdom

Senior Middleware Engineer with responsibility for managing IBM MQ, IBM Tivoli, File Transfer and other Middleware or associated products, and liaising with service providers to ensure service availability, continuity, and maintenance.

London Area, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Working within a team providing administration, Change management, Incident management, and Problem management duties.Management of MQ-related TLS certificates in Production and non-Production environments, also IBM MQ patch application utilising both manual methods, and UrbanCode Deploy (UCD). Responsibilities also included knowledge transfer and.

London, England, United Kingdom

Provision of High-Availability MQ infrastructure (Multi-Instance Queue Managers) and migration of single-instance Queue Managers to Multi-Instance Queue Managers.Migrating Java-based MQ Client applications to the use of JSON-format Client Channel Definition Table (CCDT) filesFurther establishing and implementing best-practice procedures, client.

Gogarburn, Edinburgh And Islington, London

Engaged in project-specific related work across the RBS Middleware estate.Assisting with day-to-day problem resolution and provision of subject matter expertise to Operational-level personnel, and enhancement of various shell scripts.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for upgrade of existing MQ infrastructure to IBM MQ Version 9.0, managing, establishing and implementing best-practice procedures, client on-boarding, and support duties.Introduced standards rationalisation and security improvements, along with service improvement to reduce management overhead.Responsibilities also included knowledge transfer.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Positioned at ABN AMRO, Amsterdam, Holland. Migrating IBM MQ and IBM MQ Managed File Transfer (formerly WebSphere MQ and WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition) messaging infrastructure to an on-premises customer-private cloud, and responsible for project support and solution delivery.

London, United Kingdom

Working within a team providing administration, application defect support and general middleware tasking, engaged on a Data Centre Exit project to migrate middleware infrastructure from Netherlands-based to UK-based, on Linux, AIX, Solaris (non-zone), i5 (iSeries), and Windows architectures.Assisting with day-to-day problem resolution and provision of.

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

Working within a multi-disciplinary Middleware team as a Senior SME providing administration, operational support, and project assistance for WebSphere MQ and Spazio-solution file transfer infrastructure.Assisting with day-to-day problem resolution and provision of subject matter expertise to Operational-level personnel.Provision of best-practice advice.

London, United Kingdom

Recently engaged to carry out project-specific work within the RBS Group, primarily on the Linux and Solaris platforms.

Inchinnan

Responsible for the detailed solution design, build, and commissioning of a service transfer and provision of consultancy and SME input for customer project solutions, including Disaster Recovery, and advising on staff technical training requirements and knowledge transfer.

Positioned at ABN AMRO, Amsterdam, Holland. Responsible for project support and solution delivery of IBM-supported multi-platform middleware infrastructure, upgrade and migration of WebSphere MQ infrastructure, and proof-of-concept installation and evaluation of WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition and WebSphere MQ Advanced Message Security.

Solution design and implementation of those designs into the development and test environments. Support and maintenance of delivered project infrastructure and preparation for deployment into Production and Disaster Recovery environments. Installation and configuration of Microsoft MQ and MSMQ-MQSeries Bridge in a mixed Windows 2003 and Windows NT4 native.

Contracting for Tech Mahindra providing WebSphere MQ technical resource to Developers, and infrastructure administration.Responsible for installation of WebSphere MQ on HP-UX and Solaris, defining queue managers and interface objects between systems, and problem determination and resolution.

Systems analyst and administrator for IBM WebSphere MQ and IBM WebSphere Message Broker (v6) on the WinTel, AIX and z/OS platforms.

Authoring of a Windows 2000-based networking course, with a high level of practical work involved, aimed at 14-16 years old students. The course was designed as an industry profile enhancer.

Education record

Although I lack a degree I have accrued a number of skills over the years including aircraft engineering and maintenance, and adult.

Education record

O Levels & CSE