• Built, maintained, or upgraded the Tomcat, Apache, and WebSphere shared environment sites for the Line of Business in Test, QA, and Production, while ensuring technology quality assurance review and project completion.• Assessed Business Requirements in order to design cost-effective Network Solutions to support existing and future applications and technologies, driving organizational strategic initiatives.• Developed software components and hardware for complex projects, aligning… Show more • Built, maintained, or upgraded the Tomcat, Apache, and WebSphere shared environment sites for the Line of Business in Test, QA, and Production, while ensuring technology quality assurance review and project completion.• Assessed Business Requirements in order to design cost-effective Network Solutions to support existing and future applications and technologies, driving organizational strategic initiatives.• Developed software components and hardware for complex projects, aligning these with business strategies and objectives, as well as communicated with customers and integrated their needs with development to meet business objectives.• Provided expertise on best practices, standards, engineering approaches, and complex technical resolutions for processes, as well as placed an emphasis on quality improvement efforts, ensuring that deliverables were secure, scalable, and reliable through estimation and correction.• Assessed and effectively managed all of the risks associated with the business objectives to ensure activities were in alignment with the bank's and unit's risk appetite and risk management framework.• Interfaced with Partners and Vendors to continuously improve the Network performance, as well as to deploy innovative solutions, best practices, and reduce operational costs.• Managed cluster XML maintenance, application and Apache log clean up, certificate maintenance, plug-in configuration, and new WebSphere cell creation.• Collaborated with the SiteMinder team in setting up new Apache sites with SiteMinder Policies, while supporting and consulting during business and off hours over 180 Apache and WebSphere sites for the Line of Business.• Troubleshot hardware or software problems, providing technical expertise to remote users, as well as provided support in identifying and resolving application issues.• Customized internal applications, integrating vendor software into company standards to maintain established security policies. Show less

• Develops software components and hardware for projects; aligns these with business strategies and objectives.• Independently solves common problems and updates applications with new technology.• Collaborates with engineers, architects, developers and other staff to meet project objectives.• Analyzes the technological needs of customers and provides ongoing support for clients.• Works with development or delivery of an application.• Clarifies to others a specific… Show more • Develops software components and hardware for projects; aligns these with business strategies and objectives.• Independently solves common problems and updates applications with new technology.• Collaborates with engineers, architects, developers and other staff to meet project objectives.• Analyzes the technological needs of customers and provides ongoing support for clients.• Works with development or delivery of an application.• Clarifies to others a specific development methodology or process.• Explains relevant documentation, standards, policies and practices.• Documents associated phases, activities, deliverables and processes.• Researches phase and task dependencies and considerations.• Maintain and troubleshoot WebSphere, Apache and Tomcat application servers Show less

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