Responsible for Broadcom DX APM environment design, monitoring and configuration on all key Navy Federal Systems to reduce time to fix on issues, creating dashboards, upgrades, and turning business and project requirements into Monitoring Systems to exceed expectations. Integrating APM with other monitoring tools

• Senior Engineer leading a team of 20 engineers across multiple locations. Responsible for the management, support, architecture design, and direction of the Middleware environment, including all technologies such as WebSphere Application Server, MQ, Portal, IBM DataPower XI50/XI52, and XC10, Process Center, Process Server, WebSphere Business Monitor, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, and IBM Build Forge for scripting and automation that is used for mission critical online and mobile banking systems with 5+ Million users.• Technical SME and WebSphere Engineer working on the WebSphere 7.0 to 8.5 upgrade.• Lead Engineer and responsible for a successful WebSphere 6.0 to 7.0 migration, and virtualization of the WebSphere environment.• Managed and performed a DataPower XI50 to XI52 migration in a challenging timescale.• Lead and implemented several successful Disaster Recovery exercises and documented recovery procedures.• Implemented XC10 caching for a large scale online banking environment.• Managed the middleware software suite licensing to ensure compliance.• Documented complex systems and situations and mentored staff.• Conducted technical presentations to colleagues and management.• Used tools such as CA APM and Splunk to deep dive into complex multi system issues to resolve production challenges.

Responsible for WebSphere Architecture, including installs, updates, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery and planning, and creation and documentation of processes and procedures.Completed upgrade procedure in all environments from WebSphere 5.0 to 6.0.2 in challenging timescales through all environments, and migrations of entire cells to new hardware.

• Proactive maintenance of Solaris and AIX servers and identifying potential issues and resolutions in production and development/test environments.• Undertook a reconciliation of all user accounts from multiple feeds, and wrote scripts to check for and resolve the inconsistencies. This lead to a reduction of over 15% in the map sizes. Document the process for future use.• Wrote scripts to automate operations in the Data Security environment.• Resolved user questions and requests.

Analysing customer requirements and specifying hardware, software and resource costs to implement projects and produce cost models and quotations, including SAN design and clustered systems. Undertaking technical tasks on projects in line with my experience gained in the Unix environment. Continued support of servers and systems for various EDS clients in the UK.

Responsible for ensuring the team of engineers across two sites met the contracted Service Level Agreements, and standing in as Unix Manager as required. Writing and performing disaster recovery procedures, and developing processes, procedures, and best practices for the Unix team. Technical areas covered include: - * Security hardening of servers, including shutting down services, restricting logins and remote logins/shells, running of at/cron and system auditing. * Upgrade and maintenance of the Helpdesk call logging services running Remedy and Sybase * Performance Tuning of internet proxy servers leading to a threefold increase in access speed * Building jumpstart servers to facilitate the building of multiple machines from multiprocessor E4500's to Ultra 5s on Solaris 2.6,7, and 8 in tight timescales on a project basis, and managing the rollout of machines to end users. * Supporting machines with Veritas volume manager and Disksuite

Employed as part of the Trunk and Signalling System design team, responsible for the C7 Signalling blocks for AXE 10 telephone exchange software. This involved: - * Performing block, subsystem and system test on the software produced including producing test specifications and instructions and resolving software faults found * Technical Responsible for the emulator environment during projects, for which duties included technical co-ordination of block releases and updates for 6 subsystems, building Module Test Emulator Dumps, and supporting these dumps and the Module Test tools and environment.