• Architected and implemented the WebSphere Portal 6.1 infrastructure for the SITA Extranet Project
• Enabled integration with Lotus Domino for both security and collaboration
• Helped the team in terms of development and infrastructure support
• Provided technical leadership within the project team
• Designed and standardized the SITA Extranet Portal themes and skins

• Architected and implemented an efficient continuous integration platform using CruiseControl, Maven2, Apache Ant, Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe and Java.
• Designed and co-ordinated the migration of old WebSphere Portal installations to a standardized and staged environment on P-Series hardwares and AIX operating system.
• Defined, documented and implemented operational standards and procedures for the WebSphere Portal infrastructure
• Aided in the team mission of achieving operational stability and maturity by repeatable environment provisioning, enterprise-wide standards and systems governance.

• Supported Enterprise Architecture and its Engineering function in rolling out a new architecture for the Ecommerce domain using a baby step approach. Focus was to make the new architecture accessible to operations and a pipeline of business applications.
• Led the introduction of an automated Provisioning tool called WELD which is a combination of a CMDB and a set of Shell, JACL and ANT scripts. This tool was developed as a part of the set of “Baby Steps” taken towards achieving high operational IT maturity.
• Helped the Web delivery team in analyzing, designing and planning for migrating their web applications hosted on WAS 4 to WAS 6.
• Defining standards for WAS environments and design and implementation of clustered WebSphere and Portal environments.
• Responsible for investigating and reporting on technical feasibility on various technologies like Tivoli Access Manager, WebSphere Process/ESB server etc.,
• Responsible for defining, standardizing and configuring messaging environments on WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere ESB server and WAS resources such as WebSphere MQ queues, JDBC Providers, Service Integration Buses etc.,
• Aided in defining and implementing load balanced HTTP traffic using Big-IP and horizontally scaled IBM HTTP servers with clustered WebSphere servers at the middleware tier.
• Consultancy and Support to development and configuration management teams on day-to-day maintenance and deployment issues.
• Aided in the team mission of achieving operational stability by repeatable environment provisioning, enterprise-wide standards and systems governance.
• Produced operational and procedural documents to aid in architectural design and planning.

• Involved in the design and development of the Odyssey shipping web application from Locus. Application includes features such as maintaining shipping lines, trade routes, cargo tracking etc.,

Platform and Software used:
• Jboss application server 4.x
• MySQL 5.3
• Jboss Seam Framework
• Hibernate
• EJB3 Persistence
• Eclipse

• Involved in the migration of the application from Apache Tomcat to a Websphere based J2EE application running on Websphere Application Server 5.1.2
• Designed and developed the application using using Rational Application Developer 6.0. Migration tasks included converting existing JSP pages and servlets to EJBs and Struts MVC based web framework.
• Investigated, documented and implemented solutions using technologies and frameworks like Spring, Versant JDO and Hibernate.
• Convert the project into a J2EE 1.3 compliant application along with setting up the entire infrastructure for the system test environment.
• Aided in configuring middleware security based on the Novell eDirectory user registry and setting up single sign-on with existing development servers.
• Involved in restructuring the project, automating builds using ant scripts and installing and configuring the application on Websphere.
• Performance tuned the application using Tivoli Performance Viewer.

• Architecting and implementing solutions on various platforms like Lotus Domino, IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere MQ suite of products.
• Responsible for implementing integrated solutions between applications through WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker
• Acted as the technical authority for QED for all technical issues and contributing to the strategic direction of the design teams
• Communicating with QED’s clients across all areas such as pre-sales, technical guidance, support and planning and design
• As a development manager performed a coaching and mentoring role for the development team on technology and solutions
• Responsible for the roll out of a J2EE web platform in Stannah for selling lifts online and led the technical infrastructure architecture
• Designed and developed a graphical web analysis tool on Lotus Domino for the International Motors group company
• Designed and implemented the Mobile Engineer System solution for Stannah Lifts