Richard Durso Email & Phone Number

Hyattsville, Md, Us

Deployment SME for IBM Global Services via TriTech Enterprise Systems, Inc. working with U.S. Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service.Member of the Deployment Team supporting the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Coverage Data Repository (CDR) and Information Returns Database (IRDB) Projects. CDR serves as the backbone for approximately 16 other ACA projects. Provided critical support and developed reusable automation scripting framework which allowed the CDR Project to be the first CI/CD database project in the IRS to demonstrate continuous deployment capability.Developed extensive Linux scripting library to automate Oracle and JBOSS Deployments, reduced deployment execution time from several hours to minutes.Production deployment support – create VDD instruction documentation and support DBA / SA staff during production deployments, supported 20 production releases to date.Standardized deployment procedures across releases by abstracting out environment specific details to configuration files allowing documentation to be consistent across environments

Invented, manufacture and distribute a product called "Durso Standpipe" which is used to silence overflow chambers used in fresh water and marine aquariums.Provide private consulting on stony coral propagation and reef aquarium maintenance.Authored several published articles on reef aquarium related topics.

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Supporting CSC's IRS IPS Project designing and delivering project infrastructural tasks that include technologies such as WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Process Server, Application Server ND and IBM HTTP Server on Solaris 10. Review application change requests and advise management on business or technical impacts. Monitor application infrastructure and provide root cause analysis. Participate in software configuration, deployment and schedules.Key Accomplishments:* Smart ID Compliance - Developing techniques to enable WebSphere to support authentication using PIV and Smartcard ID instead of passwords for Administrative consoles and test accounts* Production Deployment Support – provide documentation and support during production deployments* Windows 7 VM Role Out – Designed, built and supported migration from Windows XP to Windows 7 for developer VM based desktops* Refined Automated Deployment processes - added support for additional object types, updated supporting scripts for Windows 7 compliance

Glen Burnie, Md, Us

Senior IT Engineer for IBM Global Services via Tidal Federal Solutions working with U.S. Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service.Member of Affordable Care Act (ACA) Release Level Technical Support (RLTS) Integration Team supporting all systems and projects which compose the ACA platform. Primary responsibility around process and service improvements.Key Accomplishments:* Bulk Data Loads - collaborated with Projects CDR (Coverage Data Repository) , IRDB (Information Returns Data Base), AIR (ACA Information Returns) and supporting applications and infrastructure to validate ACA was able perform bulk data loads in either Production or the Alternate Site Processing Environment (ASPE). Worked with network and engineering teams to investigate all possible network enhancements on reducing WAN latency. Built real-time dashboards within Riverbed/OPNET to monitor CDR’s bulk data loads for troubleshooting and management briefings. Collaborated with project SME’s to identify and mitigate performance issues.* Certificate Expiration - Establish a process to manage ACA’s 1400 known certificates across 11 environments to provide advanced notification of expiration with workflow for certificate replacement to minimize impact to ACA operations.* Virtualization Improvement - Conducted extensive investigation in virtualization capabilities supporting the ACA environments and delivered recommendations for process improvements which helped reduce VM instantiation from 30 days to 5 days.* ITOCC Control Room – Participated in 24x7 ACA production monitoring and triage during entire IRS 2014 Tax Filing Season.

Glen Burnie, Md, Us

Infrastructure Architect for IBM Global Services via Tidal Federal Solutions working with U.S. Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service.Member of IBM's Senior Leadership Project Team and listed as key personnel. Lead the process that aligns the technology foundational components to the business system initiative. Work in close partnership with IBM Chief Architect coordinating, directing, designing and delivering project infrastructural tasks that include technologies such as WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server.* Solution scalable to 10,000 users with 1,500 sustained concurrent users.* Architected and build clustered WebSphere Portal Server, Clustered WebSphere Process Server and clustered WebSphere Application Server ND deployment on SUN Solaris 10 environments.* Integrated WebSphere with Active Directory to allow seamless end user Single Sign-On.* Designed automated build process and code deployments featuring "drag-and-drop" deployments from desktop to remote WebSphere servers. Performed over 1,500 deployments.* Designed Project DR plan for the application servers - performed actual production fail-over to DR and back to production.* Perform Root Cause Analysis for production application issues.* Performance optimizations, application profiling, JVM configurations, GC analysis and production monitoring.* Support a staff of 30+ developers and testers. Responsible for all developer WebSphere test environments and Rational development tool suites. * Designed and built developer desktop standard image and automated integration with LDAP, JDBC and application specific configuration needs. Supported the migration to virtualized developer desktops under VMware.

Primary responsibilities include architecture design, implementation and support of the Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) infrastructure implemented throughout GE Capital. Architect and deployed environments utilizing WebSphere Process Server and Business Monitor Server designed after IBM’s “Gold Topology” pattern consisting of App and Messaging clusters across multiple servers. Deployed “Business Space” environment to facilitate real-time management dashboards and Alphablox to provide multi-dimensional analysis capabilities. Handle IBM license management and compliance issues.Designed and coded automation procedures for application installs and uninstalls to WebSphere clusters. Reduced deployment times by 85%.Extended Single Sign-On (SSO) to handle Windows & Citrix Applications, Internet sites in addition to existing Intranet sites using “ActiveIdentity” to extend Microsoft Active Directory.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

GE Capital WebMaster. Designed and supported GE CEF’s external web infrastructure for customer facing applications. Consolidated CEF’s intranet application servers to a highly available clustered shared service environment.Established Internet server build and hardening standards for IIS. No GE Capital web servers based on my specifications were ever defaced or hacked.Designed and implemented COM+ Routing and Load Balancer solution to provide significant performance increase and fault tolerance. Received a GE CEF award as recognition of efforts.Managed off-shore consultants supporting all CEF business. Handled over 1,300 Change Controls per year.Designed and deployed a code migration and sync. application for IIS in VB.NET. Allow developers to query run-time environment parameters, remotely restart and delete applications. Greatly reducing support costs while empowering developers to debug and deploy applications. Provided auditing functionality to management.

Greater Chicago Area, Il, Us

Designed and implemented enterprise networks.Migrated Token Ring to Ethernet while consolidating mail servers to single environment.Migrated the environment from departmental IT groups to business level shared IT group.Established new data center, managed migration of data and applications to new environment. Phased out older environments. Converted Sybase database servers to MS SQL Server. Performed DBA functions.Rolled out TCP/IP, WINS, DHCP, Dynamic DNS.Developed first generation intranet sites.

Supported IT needs for departmental level group.Managed 12 OS/2 servers and migrated to Windows NT 3.1.Pioneered desktop image based roll-outs and unattended deployment. Coded tools to detect installation differences across images. Migrated 100+ desktops from MS-DOS to Windows 3.0 to Windows 3.1 to Windows for Workgroups.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Level 3 customer support for difficult to solve or troubleshoot issues related to telecommunications, modem configuration, software installation, etc.