Individual Resume

Integration Consultant
Summary
A skilled and motivated software engineer with deep experience in the field of Enterprise Application Integration and the support, maintenance and monitoring of mission critical systems. By his participation in complex enterprise projects in large IT customers such as ABSA and Nedbank, he has gained invaluable knowledge and skills in leading multi-cultural teams across disparate geographical locations and technologies. He possesses deep professional experience with JavaEE, various RDBMS, Websphere integration technologies and Rational tooling. A strong team player and individual, capable of leading large projects involving multiple workgroups.

Education Bachelor of Social Science 1986

University of Natal Durban

Bachelor of Social Science Honours 1987

University of Natal Durban

Skills
AS PER EXCEL SPREADSHEET SKILLS REPOSITORY

Employment History Nedbank 2007 to date

Duties & Responsibilities:

Duties and responsibilities at Nedbank varied widely as periods were spent both within Architecture and Development. End to End and integration design using the UML capability of Rational Software Architect Webservice security configuration on Websphere Datapower Integration development on the Websphere Message Broker platform 1

BPEL,SDO and JCA development on the Websphere Process Server platform Build automation using Ant and Rational Team Concert Knowledge management definition and roll out o Practical training interventions o Method authoring in Rational Method Composer o SOA standards definition and publication Websphere Registry Repository implementation

Projects:
Nedgroup Investments Secure Site Design and technical leadership of implementation team o 7 functional teams o 5 physical locations o 8 technologies Websphere Datapower Websphere Message Broker .Net Tivoli Access Manager Tivoli Identity Manager Connect Direct DB2 Oracle End to End Application Design o Design of the registration and access security components using Tivoli Identity manager and Tivoli Access Manager as the identity and access systems. o Design of the technical security components using SAML for identity assertion o High Level Architecture of an Operational Data Store in order to achieve performance SLAs. Integration Design o Design of the integration to a third party fund administration vendor using Websphere Datapower and Websphere Message Broker o Design of file transfers using Connect Direct Performance Testing o Benchmark of application and web service performance with the Rational Performance Tester tool suite.

Nedbank SOA Centre of Excellence WSRR implementation o Defined the usage of WSRR at Nedbank o Governance model Configuration management process

Development of programmatic integration to the repository for the automated migration of artifacts from the legacy repository into WSRR.

Knowledge Management strategy definition and implementation o Definition of the management of the SOA body of knowledge Release schedules Key participants Use of the Unified Modeling Framework and Rational Method Composer

Implementation of initial consolidated knowledge repository o Authored custom SOA method using Rational Method Composer as an extension of the tool provided SOAML practice library. 3

Homeloan Grants Automation Design and technical leadership of implementation team o 4 functional teams o 3 physical locations o 5 Technologies Websphere Process Server Websphere Message Broker Websphere Datapower .Net Cobol/Cics

AbsaBank

2005 to 2007

Duties & Responsibilities:

Design and implemention of solutions on the WebSphere 6 J2EE platform Leading development teams in timely delivery of projects using RUP o Managing of source control in Rational Clearcase o Allocating and driving delivery o Clearing bottlenecks from the critical path

Projects:

Absa NCA Compliance System Leading the J2EE portion of Absas system to meet National Credit Act legislation Implementation of J2EE web services Java based integration to mainframe over Websphere MQ Series PDF/HTML generation with Jasper reports

Absa Bank Serv Cash Order Integration Implementation of Bank Serv integration using J2EE web services Soap message level security using XML digital signatures for integrity and non repudiation

Websphere Application Server client and server mutual SSL configuration.

Absa Short Term Insurance System Implementation of J2EE website UI development using XLST transforms of XML data model

Business Connexion

2003 to 2005

Duties and responsibilities at Nedbank varied widely as periods were spent both within Architecture and Development. SAP Portal iView Development J2EE web development on the ATG Dynamo platform Development of processes for maintenance and governance procedures.

Sasol.com J2EE web development Implementation of integration to Web Trends analytics software .

Sasol Enterprise Portal Java iView development for the SAP Portal implementation. Research and Development Architecture and development of interfaces and the service framework. Design and development of XML documents and associated schema. Development of Database queries and procedures using SQL and PL/SQL. Liaising with Business Representatives and Oracle Database Administrators. Production of conceptual designs and technical specifications using UML notation. Mentoring of developers new to the portal environment. Coordination of testing and implementation. Portal configuration.

Data Magic 2003 Duties & Responsibilities:

Java component design and development

Projects:
Digiturf.com A short-term contract involving the upgrade of Digiturf.com - an internet horse racing game for Aristis Consulting. Achieved rendering of PlayStation2 quality graphics through the use of openGL4Java. Component design and development. Custom painting Swing components for the display of animated 2D graphics, background and foreground images as well as providing custom UIs for scrollbars. Xml and DTD development. Writing of the resource loader responsible for locating the relevant Xml/DTD files and loading the resources from the relevant jars.

Astrolabe Technologies Duties & Responsibilities:

Support and maintenance

2002

Projects:
Image and Workflow Workflow system for Standard Banks Homeloan department Implementation of small work requests in Java. Maintenance of FileNet VisualWorkFlow Instruction Sheets and development of Java queries to queues within VisualWorkFlow.

Oscars Video and Takeaway

1994 2001

Owner operator of Video Store and takeaway voted one of Durbans top 3 in 1999.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Financial Management. Costing and pricing all items. Year on year budgeting. 6

Administration. Calculation and payment of VAT, JSB, UIF. Human Resource Management: Selection, training and management of 6 permanent staff members and various part-time employees. Customer Relationship Management: Building and maintaining one of Durbans largest video customer bases. Crisis Management: Management of equipment and or power failures, staff absenteeism etc. Conceptualization and design: Responsible for creation of new look following renovations. Organization and Planning: Management of renovation and rebranding. Move to temporary premises for 6 weeks without loss of trading. Negotiation: Negotiated sale of the business over 5 months.

ILPA Language Institute (Portugal)

1993 1994

Duties & Responsibilities:

Teaching English to foreign language speakers

Chrystal Holidays (Austria)

1992 1993

Duties & Responsibilities:

Customer Relationship Management Dealing with problems regarding accommodation, travel arrangements Arranging and running resort entertainment

Townsend Construction (England)

1991

Duties & Responsibilities:

Assistant to bricklayer

University of Durban Westville

1987 - 1990

Duties & Responsibilities:

Lecturing of Macro-Economics Administration Setting and marking of examination papers