Gerard Spinks Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, GA, US

Atlanta, GA, US

I am presently the Director of Engineering for the Intelligence Platform at Equifax. The Intelligence Platform is a Criminal Justice Information System compliant cloud computing platform that runs in both AWS Cloud and GCP. I lead a team of engineers, architects, and quality engineers to deliver products in the cloud using cloud security and compliance.

Atlanta, GA, US

I first started at Equifax as a sole contributor software engineer in the MFT space. I did that for 1.5 years and then began to lead the team as we worked through 3 major migrations to cloud computing and led a team of 34 engineers dispersed across the USA and India.

Gerard Spinks is a Middleware Data Integration Consultant. I work with Fortune 1000 Corporations on bridging heterogeneous data environments. My expertise lies in Supply Chain integration and the transformation of data from external and internal clients. These systems and my expertise includes:OS: Linux, Unix, Windows ServerData Transformation App tools.

Hartford, CT, US

Supported IBM Connect Enterprise across multiple hospitals. Worked with both internal and external customers to onboard customers onto the Connect Enterprise network. Handled the entire file transfer life cycle from beginning to end that included ftp/s over port 22, ftp over private VPN networks over port 21, and other secure transfers. Worked closely with.

Atlanta, GA, US

Supported multiple EDI Projects at Coca Cola Enterprises. Worked with customers to define requirements, develop EDI maps, and migrate customers into production. Environment consisted of Linux, SAP, and GXS Application Integrator.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Worked with IBM banking client to onboard, test, and migrate customers onto the Middleware Stack of systems to be able to transaction global business and data with State Street. Stack including several applications: Axway Secure Transport, IBM Connect Direct, and the Mainframe. Daily Responsibilities: 1. Work with internal and external customers on data.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

Provided Migration services to PNC Bank to move internal client nodes from IBM Sterling Connect Direct nodes to IBM Sterling Integrator and Sterling File Gateway. Met with clients and managed Remedy Tickets for all workload. Setup all external client connections via Sterling Integrator, Sterling File Gateway, and the Sterling Secure Proxy Servers. Backend.

Indianapolis, Indiana, US

Provided technical MFT Migration services to migrate legacy external clients from home built transfer system to Sterling Integrator and Sterling myFileGateway. Worked with clients to document requirements and do the technical onboarding of Producers and Consumers to SFG. Worked with external clients and all data transfer protocols including sFTP, FTP/s.

London, Greater London, GB

GXS EDI Migration to upgrade EDI SAP IDOC maps to SAP R/5. Developed, tested, and migrated all EDI maps to QA instance of SAP. Maps included: 850 Purchase Orders, 856 Advanced Ship Notices, 810 Invoices, and 855 PO Acknowledgements.

US

Responsible for building Axway Secure Transport 5.2 integrations with IBM Tivoli Scheduling software and systems. I worked on new projects and integrations for US Cellular third party partners. I built out Transfer Sites, Built Subscriptions, Traded SSH Keys, Traded PGP Keys for encryption/decryption, and handled testing data transfers and moving them into.

Springfield, Massachusetts, US

Served on technical team to migrate legacy MFT systems to Axway Secure Transport 5.2. Setup data integrations, tested, and migrated to production using Secure Transport and IBM Connect Direct.

San Francisco, CA, US

Hired by State Bar of California to assist in requirement analysis and selecting a Middleware Application that could handle 34 individual API's. Created business process maps, flow diagrams, business use cases, and software architecture technical documents.

New York, NY, US

Order to Pay Integration Architect. Worked directly with large customers to understand the customer integration requirements and build XML based solutions to onboard the customer onto the Xign Order to Pay Payment Settlement Network. Maintained and updated EDI 850, 810, and 820 maps using Inovis BizManager and communications sent via Bizlink. Axway Secure.

Oakland, CA, US

Served as the senior implementation consultant assigned to The Gap Vendor Toolkit project, UPS Supply Chain Solutions, DHL Global Freight, CEVA Logistics, and Expeditors project for Eaton Corporation. This entailed working closely with the customer to identify all EDI and MFT data integration requirements to process purchase orders, shipping orders, ASN’s.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Primarily responsible for managing a Centralized Return To Vendor B2B Project which will save The Home Depot $53 Million over the entire project lifetime. Developed EDI and MFT data integrations between THD and GENCO using Sterling Integrator, Connect Direct, and Seeburger Business Integration Suite. Used Inovis Bizlink AS2 to transmit documents to and.

Smithfield, Virginia, US

Served as the onsite development lead to build "pseudo" EDI maps using GXS Application Integrator and sending these down to offshore teams to complete the map testing work. Main responsibilities were to gather all technical map requirements from Trading Partners and make sure that the 850's, 810's, 855's, and 860's were mapped per the TP spec using GXS AI..

Dallas, TX, US

Hired by AT&T to develop 4 distinct Gentran Integration Suite 4.2 map and business processes to handle the outbound processing of large invoice files being sent to AT&T’s largest customers. Developed Outbound 810, two Outbound 811’s, and one custom Inbound Acknowledgement business process and map. Developed custom business process to handle files greater.

Nashville, TN, US

Redesigned the file transfer and upgraded Sterling Gentran Integration Suite from 3.1 to 4.3 and put it in a clustered environment running on Oracle 10G. Pushed ftp traffic from old ftp servers to new VM secure FTP using Sterling GIS 4.3. Integrated data from Carrier Point Portal Application to the Global Track and Trace Application at Transcore.

London, England, GB

Technical Architect and lead to migrate NYK Transportation and Logistics software system from a custom legacy application to install Sterling Gentran Integration Suite on Oracle in a Unix environment. Created, tested, and migrated all 200 series maps from the legacy to the new system. Maps included: 204, 210, 214, and other transportation EDI data maps.

Tokyo, JP

Technical Architect on team that was responsible for converting all NYK Line ocean liner business EDI X12 data maps from GXS AI to the new Sterling Gentran Integration Suite. Developed, tested, and migrated all 300 series Ocean Carrier maps.

New York, NY, US

Served as Technical Architect responsible to migrate Con Edison utility EDI X12 documents and system from a legacy EDI system to newly purchased Sterling Gentran Integration Suite in an Unix Oracle environment.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

Alcoa was charged with doing a large Oracle Migration of all of their plants across the United States to move from legacy disparate applications to Oracle Supply Chain. I went to different plants doing assessments of their as is architecture and creating new to be architecture using Oracle and EDI.

Led Technical Architecture to migrate from legacy EDI and ERP system to new Oracle Supply Chain and Sterling Gentran Integration Suite.

San Jose, CA, US

Served as Technical Lead for Cisco Service Sales Center application upgrade team. Responsible for coordinating quarterly releases of the Service Sales Center application.

Emeryville, California, US

Served as technical lead to migrate the Trusted Link Enterprise system to new system with Oracle Supply Chain.

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