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Ottawa, On, Ca

Ottawa, On, Ca

Ottawa, Canada Area

Completed the Interactive Advance Passenger Information (IAPI) project involving designing and implementing a new interactive data exchange between the CBSA and external airline industry members.Re-engineered a single threaded flight matching algorithm to be multi-thread to support a new interactive transaction for the IAPI project that needed a 4 second response time SLOConverted all transactions in the Data Acquisition System to support 2 phase commit in order to meet the new… Show more Completed the Interactive Advance Passenger Information (IAPI) project involving designing and implementing a new interactive data exchange between the CBSA and external airline industry members.Re-engineered a single threaded flight matching algorithm to be multi-thread to support a new interactive transaction for the IAPI project that needed a 4 second response time SLOConverted all transactions in the Data Acquisition System to support 2 phase commit in order to meet the new interactive data exchanges of the IAPI project.Performed in-depth requirements gathering with clients and external airline industry members to refine business requirements.Participated system design with diverse IT teams at CBSA including groups responsible for enterprise architecture, database design, solution architecture and IT security.Participated in project planning session in order to prioritize and organize project work to allow for early prototyping and end to end testing of the solution.Provided technical advice to managers on various topics including risk management of potential problems, implementation and testing strategies and project scoping decisions.Represented the CBSA at working groups and status meetings with external government agencies and airline industry members.Produce detailed impacts for changes or fixes to the application containing: problem definition, alternatives, dependencies, recommendations, time requirements and severity of the problem.Produced risk and cost analysis documents for proposed changes to the application in response to changing business requirements or problems that have identified.Participated in emergency incident management resolution teams, which include representation from across the CBSAs IT departments.Member of the production support team responsible for responding to problem reports, trouble-shooting problems, recommending solutions or mitigation strategies and implementing them. Show less

Ottawa, Canada Area

Completed the CVS to SVN repository migration (Develop script and application changes, create and manage migration schedule and project plan).Configure and troubleshoot various J2EE based applications on an IBM WAS platform (EJB2.1 and 3, Java Servlets, JSP, MQ queue configuration, MQ MDB endpoints).Write and maintain XML to Object mapping applications utilizing the JAXB API.Maintained ANT script based workspace build and rolling build system (troubleshoot problems, develop new… Show more Completed the CVS to SVN repository migration (Develop script and application changes, create and manage migration schedule and project plan).Configure and troubleshoot various J2EE based applications on an IBM WAS platform (EJB2.1 and 3, Java Servlets, JSP, MQ queue configuration, MQ MDB endpoints).Write and maintain XML to Object mapping applications utilizing the JAXB API.Maintained ANT script based workspace build and rolling build system (troubleshoot problems, develop new functionality, impact future changes).Maintained existing Python based modules of build system and develop new modules to support evolving requirements.Maintained existing XSLT based modules of build system (troubleshoot problems, develop new modules, and updated existing modules with bug fixes and new functionality).Created user guides and tutorials for SVN migration.Hosted DevCentre Technical Forum (DTF) on a by-weekly basis (Organize and host meeting, prepare agenda, prepare meeting minutes).Provided technical advice and recommendations on diverse organization wide topics (Development platforms, standard JAVA libraries, infrastructure changes, development best practices, application architecture proposals).Created and troubleshot RSA workspaces, shared components and rolling builds.Performed impact analysis on proposed application and infrastructure changes. Show less