Mark Braksator Email and Phone Number

Open to work on meaningful projects - for profit or non for for profit as long as they keep me inspired.Current projects:Development of tennis strength index TSI algorithm - improvement over UTR to be used free by all within official and inofficial tennis groups/tennis clubsSupporting mature JDBC driver for LDAPData mining - statistical data analysis of large sets of data for insights

retired

modernized IBM legacy Security Identity Manager (ISIM) product by planning the conversion to containers and performing the entire work within 8 months. The converted product is comprised of 5 container images and may now run on docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift and other container platforms. During the project, gained a working knowledge of the following underlying technologies: HELM, Kubernetes, Docker, containerization, OpenShiftOver 160 hrs in 2020 spent learning concepts related to data science. Earned over 10 badges - many of them related to practical applications of AI and other data science concepts: Machine learning algorithms, Python notebooks, Watson Studio, data science principles, data cleaning data analysis, trend analysis, NLP, sentiment analysisCompleted extensive, 1 year long leadership program for managers – Leading@IBMCoached and mentored junior staff members.Main inventor on multiple IBM patents and an author of numerous technical papersDev Lead/Scrum Master/on Identity Governance Intelligence (IGI) product. SCIM specification, Identity Brokerage adapter architecture, RESTful microservice architecture, customer advocate.Scrum Master on ITIM Service Center project (ITIM offspring) – RESTful API design, large scale performance tests, analysis and solutionsChief Programmer leading a team of 20+ developers in various tasks such as planning, preparation and recorded presentation of multimedia training material for product support personnel, application for DOC export certification of products containing crypto technologies, participating in defect scrub meetings, preparing and reviewing product documentationTechnical Advocate for Tier-1 customersWorked with clients on solving urgent deployment issues.