Peningo Systems, Inc.                       _ 

 

Candidate Rate:  $150 per hour

 

Method of Payment: Candidate is available on a W-2 or Corp to Corp Basis

 

Availability: Candidate is available to work for “Direct” Clients only. Candidate is not available to work with Tier Companies / Third Party Companies

 

Location: Candidate’s first choice in the New York City metro area

 

Contact info:  For information on the candidate please email us at  info@peningo.com

 

 

 

Candidate PEN-001

 

 

SUMMARY:

Over Eleven years of experience. Tivoli Access Manager - WebSphere Implementer / Administrator – Software Engineer with a strong background in WebSphere, WebSphere Portal, Tivoli Access Manager, WebSphere / websphere Portal Administration and Configuration, WebSphere Clustering, LDAP namespace integration with Tivoli Access Manager and WebSphere Portal Personalization, LTPA/LDAP, Java JNDI, WebSphere Portal Personalization API, Oriented Analysis and Design, middleware and application development in Java, C/C++, WebSphere AE/AEs (AIX and iSeries/OS400/W2K), IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer, IBM VisualAge for Java, IBM WebSphere Studio, IBM WebSphere Development Studio Client/IBM WebSphere Development Tools for iSeries/AS400 (IBM WebSphere Studio for iSeries/AS400, WebFacing), MQSeries, MQSI, SOAP, WebSphere Commerce Suite, relational and network databases application development for various operating systems (Unix, OS/400 for IBM eServer iSeries (AS/400), OS/390 and Microsoft Windows). Over four years of experience in developing, delivering and maintaining Web applications using IBM WebSphere family products and open source frameworks, including implementation distributed J2EE components. Proven track record of successfully implementing and delivering to production enterprise applications.

Over eight years of experience in Enterprise Application Integration including EAI/ETL data integration/synchronization (Sunopsis, MQSI), real-time messaging systems (MQSeries) and security integration frameworks (IBM Tivoli Access Manager, Netegrity SiteMinder, Whale Communications e-Gap). Security administration and management for centralized authentication, authorization, and single sign-on for enterprise applications within Web Portal implementations such as IBM WebSphere Portal Server and Apache Jetspeed.

 

Over six years of experience in developing, delivering and maintaining Web applications using IBM WebSphere family products and open source frameworks, including implementation distributed J2EE components.

 

Proven track record of co-working with IBM staff on variety of design and implementation projects and successful delivery to production enterprise applications. Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform

Experiences includes:

 

 

• Tivoli Access Manager and WebSphere Portal Server Implementation / Integration for IBM’s client Joanne Stores. Integration of the WebSphere Portal with Tivoli Access Manager. UNIX ksh scripting: population of ACLs and objects in the protected domain based on users’ self-care LDAP WPS attributes and user’s group association rules. Used LDAP client queries and Perl-type regular expressions for processing.  Implementation of the Access Manager Form based Authentication for WebSphere Portal. Reconfiguration of WebSpere Portal to allow the existing Portal Self-care customized component single sign-on with the Tivoli AM. Implementation of the WPS custom Account Management Pages and implementation of the dual (TAM and WPS) logout.

• Tivoli Access Manager Secure Authentication and Authorization. Designed and implemented the Single Sign-On using LTPA/LDAP, Form SSO, SSL Form SSO, Basic Authentication SSO. Integration of a diverse set of web based legacy systems with the intranet portal (SPSS ShowCase Enterprise Reporting/Analyzer, Lotus Notes/Domino, and Kronos Workforce Central) including applet based web applications such as SPSS Analyzer. Used IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer, Tivoli GSK API for Java/JSP development, IBM SecureWay/AS400/AIX. CA digital certification configuration, Tivoli WebSEAL junctions’ configuration and maintenance. Designed and implemented the interface to Tivoli Access Manager for automatic global sign-on synchronization and resource population using the Tivoli GSK API.
• Designed and implemented LDAP namespace schema/information model for integration with Tivoli Access Manager and WebSphere Portal Personalization. Designed and implemented the regular-expression-enabled parser tool for data migration from the Lotus Notes/Domino to the LDAP datastore. Used IBM SecureWay/AIX, Java JNDI and Jakarta-ORO regular expression implementation.
• Rule-based dynamic personalization using the IBM WebSphere Portal Personalization for AS400. Integrated WebSphere Portal Personalization with LDAP/Tivoli Access Manager using Java JNDI and WebSphere Portal Personalization API. Designed and implemented dynamic personalization-enabled portlets. Used WSAD IDE, Personalization API/LDAP/JNDI, and DB2/400. Used Apache Struts for implementation of a simple content management and iBATIS SQL Maps database object mapping/persistence.
• Application/Security integration of the Kronos Workforce Central with the Intranet Portal. Used Tivoli Access Manager for single sign-on/authentication/authorization. Designed and implemented the connection-failure-tolerant XML interface to Kronos Workforce Central timekeeper service. Used Kronos WFC 4.1 XML API and user-mode device driver API. Coordinated and supervised the production release.  Successful production installation on over 389 POS’s systems.
• IBM WebSphere for iSeries/AS400 administration and security configuration.  Course-grained/ACL security configuration with the Tivoli Access Manager and fine-grained with J2EE/JAAS on the web application level. Coordinated the source code and deployment transition from the WebSphere 3.5/4.0 to 5.0. Used WebSphere Studio Application Developer/Visual Age for Java.

• IBM MQSeries server-to-server installation, configuration, and interface customization on Unix AIX. Used Java and C++ API for the 2-channel interface implementation.
• Reengineering and integration the part of the existing Oracle PL/SQL Cartridge OAS to Java based web technology and WebSphere AE.
• Design and implementation of the Flexible Service Order: FlexUP (web enabled XML-based service order template designer application). Used IBM Visual Age for Java, IBM WebSphere Studio, IBM XML API, and Oracle 8i. UML modeling using Visio 2000. Production delivery for ConEdison.
• Java Source code transition from the IBM WebSphere 3.0 to 3.5. Used IBM Visual Age for Java Team Repository Server.
• IBM WebSphere 3.X/AIX installation, administration and configuration.

 

CERTIFICATIONS:

2002 Kronos Workforce Central 4 Using Java to Develop API Applications
2002 Kronos Workforce Central 4 - System API
2001 Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform
2000 IBM Developing Server Side Application using VisualAge for Java
1997 IBM AIX TCP/IP Network Administration

 

 

 

EDUCATION:

 

 

November 1994 - Master Degree in Computer Science. 

Awarded scholarship for academic achievement.

 

 

SKILLS:

 

Languages: C/C++, Java, ANSI SQL, PL/SQL, JSP, C#, D/HTML, XML/XSL, JavaScript, Perl, scripting languages (Korn/bash/csh shell, Awk, Rexx), UML, VB, Pascal (ANSI, Borland), Assembler.

OS/environments: Unix (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Data General), OS/400, OS/390, MS Windows NT/2000

IDE/CASE tools: IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer, IBM VisualAge for Java, IBM WebSphere Studio, IBM WebSphere Development Studio Client/IBM WebSphere Development Tools for iSeries/AS400 (IBM WebSphere Studio for iSeries/AS400, WebFacing), Microsoft Visio 2000, ERwin, TogetherJ, Microsoft Visual Studio (C++, VB), Microsoft .NET Visual Studio Driver Development Toolkit (C++, C#), Rational ClearCase, CVS, MKS, SCCS

Middleware (EAI/ETL): MQSeries, MQSI, SOAP, Sunopsis 

Web technologies: IBM WebSphere AE/AEs for AIX and iSeries/OS400/W2K, IBM WebSphere Portal/Personalization, WebSphere Commerce Suite, Apache Jetspeed Portal, Apache/Tomcat/Ant/Struts/Turbine, Oracle OAS/PLSQL Cartridge, BEA Weblogic, Domino Server, Tivoli Access Manager/WebSEAL API (LDAP/SecureWay, GSK Java/C++ API), Kronos Workforce Central (WFC).

Databases: Oracle, IBM DB2, IBM DB2 UDB for iSeries, mySQL, RAIMA dbVista, DB2, Sybase

 

 

EXPERIENCE:

 

 

April 2005 to August 31st 2006

(Client Name is kept Confidential)

 

Implementation of reverse proxy for Web-based Applications with Whale Communications e-Gap application firewall. Integration of redundant authentication and authorization for WebSphere deployed applications with LDAP/Lotus Domino Directory/WebSphere Portal 5.1. Implementing high availability solutions for HTTP and LDAP protocols with Nortel Altheon ACD

site selector and Nortel application switch for WAN redundancy.

 

• Implementation of the infrastructure for web application security with e-Gap Application Firewall. Prepared regular expression based application firewall rules enforcing secure delivery of web content from back-end Web applications.

 

• Single sign-on implementation for Java applications with Lotus Domino using IBM LTPA and Active Directory/Kerberos with Vintela VSJ library.

 

• Design, documentation and implementation of several environments for development, load, and UA testing. Configuration Management for multiple WebSphere/Portal environments. LTPA single sign-on implementation for WebSphere, Lotus Notes and Lotus Sametime Connect. Used eGap reverse proxy and Nortel Networks Altheon site selector for high availability (WAN).

 

 

 

January 2005 to March 2005

(Client Name is kept Confidential)

 

Design of the WebSphere Portal policy-based security infrastructure with Tivoli Access Manager

 

• Prepared plan of integration of WebSphere Portal authentication and authorization with external security manager (Tivoli Access Manager/Tivoli Identity Manager).

 

• Compiled the existing Functional Specification to produce matrix for portal user roles and resources (pages, page groups and portlets).

 

August 2004 to December 2004

(Client Name is kept Confidential)

 

Transition of WebSphere Portal 4.0 to WebSphere Portal 5.0 / Domino Notes SSO/ e-Gap with site selection using Alteon Content Director (ACD) and e-Gap reverse proxy 2.4 for secure remote access.

 

• Prepared detailed procedure for creating development, assembly, test and staging runtime environments for Portal and Domino. Used VMware ESX server-hosted virtual systems to facilitate time-efficient implementation of the multiple development, test, and staging environments. Prepared procedure of building multi-server WebSphere Portal environment by creating replicas of the master WebSphere/Portal instance on several virtual hosts.

 

• Extensively used ws_ant build tool and JACL scripting for custom application deployment, administration and creating custom runtime Java environment.

 

 

• Implementation of Domino Notes LTPA Single Sign-on over multi-hub Wide Area Network. Prepared the runtime test environment for the site selection with Alteon Content Director (ACD). Prepared unit and integration scripts for WebSphere Portal Failover and High Availability Test.
• Analyzed runtime application performance metrics using WebSphere monitoring services (PMI) and Tivoli Performance Viewer under simulated user load. Prepared recommendation for tuning the Application JVM, optimal servlet/EJB response time.

 

• Successful production release on the wide area network environment.

 

 

 

June 2004 to July 2004

(Client Name is kept Confidential)                                                                  Roseland, New Jersey
Netegrity SiteMinder/WebSphere Portal 5.0.2.1/LDAP Implementation/Integration

 

• Implementation of the dynamic WebSphere Portal resource authorization roles assignment – the key feature WP5: new access control model that allows fine grained access control over the all portal resources (nested pages and portlets). Runtime/on demand assignment of LDAP user groups to WP5 roles. Design and implementation of the user Self Service Configuration Portlet to facilitate the above task. Design and implementation of the pool of active open LDAP contexts (WSAD,WPT).

 

• Coordination of the installation of the WP5/WAS/Oracle/IDS QA test environments with the LTPA/LDAP global security on. Portlet deployment on the on WP5 QA test system within SiteMinder external policy server. Preparing unit and integration test cases. 

 

April 2004 to May 2004

(Client Name is kept Confidential)                                                                    Hudson, Ohio
SOW: Tivoli Access Manager and WebSphere Portal Server Implementation/Integration

 

• Integration of the WebSphere Portal with Tivoli Access Manager. UNIX ksh scripting: population of ACLs and objects in the protected domain based on users’ self-care LDAP WPS attributes and user’s group association rules. Used LDAP client queries and Perl-type regular expressions for processing. 

 

• Implementation of the Access Manager Form based Authentication for WebSphere Portal. Reconfiguration of WebSpere Portal to allow the existing Portal Self-care customized component single sign-on with the Tivoli AM. Implementation of the WPS custom Account Management Pages and implementation of the dual (TAM and WPS) logout.

 

• Synchronizing LDAP user registry with Policy Server. User and Group repository import to Policy Server. Used UNIX shell scripting language and regular expressions. 

 

 

 

 

May 2002 to 2004

(Client Name is kept Confidential)
Sr. System Analyst - WebSphere Administrator, Tivoli Access Manager Implementer/Admin

 

• Tivoli Access Manager Secure Authentication and Authorization. Designed and implemented the Single Sign-On using LTPA/LDAP, Form SSO, SSL Form SSO, Basic Authentication SSO. Integration of a diverse set of web based legacy systems with the intranet portal (SPSS ShowCase Enterprise Reporting/Analyzer, Lotus Notes/Domino, and Kronos Workforce Central) including applet based web applications such as SPSS Analyzer. Used IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer, Tivoli GSK API for Java/JSP development, IBM SecureWay/AS400/AIX. CA digital certification configuration, Tivoli WebSEAL junctions’ configuration and maintenance. Designed and implemented the interface to Tivoli Access Manager for automatic global sign-on synchronization and resource population using the Tivoli GSK API.
• Designed and implemented LDAP namespace schema/information model for integration with Tivoli Access Manager and WebSphere Portal Personalization. Designed and implemented the regular-expression-enabled parser tool for data migration from the Lotus Notes/Domino to the LDAP datastore. Used IBM SecureWay/AIX, Java JNDI and Jakarta-ORO regular expression implementation.
• Rule-based dynamic personalization using the IBM WebSphere Portal Personalization for AS400. Integrated WebSphere Portal Personalization with LDAP/Tivoli Access Manager using Java JNDI and WebSphere Portal Personalization API. Designed and implemented dynamic personalization-enabled portlets. Used WSAD IDE, Personalization API/LDAP/JNDI, and DB2/400. Used Apache Struts for implementation of a simple content management and iBATIS SQL Maps database object mapping/persistence.
• Application/Security integration of the Kronos Workforce Central with the Intranet Portal. Used Tivoli Access Manager for single sign-on/authentication/authorization. Designed and implemented the connection-failure-tolerant XML interface to Kronos Workforce Central timekeeper service. Used Kronos WFC 4.1 XML API and user-mode device driver API. Coordinated and supervised the production release.  Successful production installation on over 389 POS’s systems.
• IBM WebSphere for iSeries/AS400 administration and security configuration.  Course-grained/ACL security configuration with the Tivoli Access Manager and fine-grained with J2EE/JAAS on the web application level. Coordinated the source code and deployment transition from the WebSphere 3.5/4.0 to 5.0. Used WebSphere Studio Application Developer/Visual Age for Java.

 

 

 

September 2003 to Present

(Client Name is kept Confidential)

Englewood, Colorado

Sr. System Analyst

• Enterprise application integration with Sunopsis software suite - Java-based ETL middleware. Designed the workflow, error handling and the journalization rollback feature to preserve the referential integrity of the target system. Used Ant/Java for portable implementation.

 

 

August 2001 to April 2002

(Client Name is kept Confidential)                                                  Clearwater, Florida
IT Consulting Services.

Sr. Software Engineer                                                                                            

• Implementation of the database vendor-independent framework for rapid application development: database persistence mapping toolkit and cacheable database connection pool.
• Design and implementation of the system for handling banner advertising and detailed statistics on commercial web sites. Used Java/Ant/Struts, Oracle 8 on Linux Mandrake Enterprise Server. Used SQL Maps for database object model implementation.
• IBM WebSphere AE 3.5/4.0/iSeries/Linux Administration and configuration.

 

 

September 1998 to July 2001

(Client Name is kept Confidential)                                                                                     Tampa, Florida
Software provider of computer-aided dispatch systems (CAD) dedicated to the Utility Industry. Over 20 production releases for the leading industry companies such as ConEdison, UtiliCorp United, Southwest Gas Corp.

Sr. Software Engineer

• IBM MQSeries server-to-server installation, configuration, and interface customization on Unix AIX. Used Java and C++ API for the 2-channel interface implementation.
• Reengineering and integration the part of the existing Oracle PL/SQL Cartridge OAS to Java based web technology and WebSphere AE.
• Design and implementation of the Flexible Service Order: FlexUP (web enabled XML-based service order template designer application). Used IBM Visual Age for Java, IBM WebSphere Studio, IBM XML API, and Oracle 8i. UML modeling using Visio 2000. Production delivery for ConEdison.
• Java Source code transition from the IBM WebSphere 3.0 to 3.5. Used IBM Visual Age for Java Team Repository Server.
• IBM WebSphere 3.X/AIX installation, administration and configuration.

 

 

May 1995 to October 1998

(Client Name is kept Confidential)                                                  Palm Harbor, Florida

Software provider of Clinical/Laboratory Information Systems. Over 300 production releases of the software suite for clinical laboratories over the United States and Canada.

Sr. Analyst Programmer

• Design and implementation of the new modules of the Clinical Information System responsible for processing medical serology tests (SoftMIC/SoftLAB). Used the Unix C++ implementation and system programming for a diverse set of Unix systems (AIX, HP, Solaris). Used dbVista network-type database API and Perl regular expression library for processing data from medical instruments. Production support and maintenance after the production release.
• Database design and data migration to the new schema. Successful production rollout of the new module. Part-time production support and maintenance of the product.
• Coordinated French language localization of the product.

 

 

May 1994 to May 1995

(Client Name is kept Confidential)                                                                                          

Software provider of Clinical/Laboratory Information Systems. The branch office of the SCC Soft Computer Consultants

Sr. Analyst Programmer

• Design of the database schema extension for serology components of the Clinical Information System (SoftMIC 6.0).
• Design and implementation of the database migration tools. System programming in C++ for Unix. Used the dbVista database API, and the Unix curses-based library C-Scape for the user interface.