Experience

Toronto Hydro

• Canada
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager/Lead - Middleware and Database

  • Sep 2017 - Present

  -- Responsible for all aspects of the Database and Middleware infrastructure.-- Responsible for a team of 15+ professional (mix of full time and contract, Union and non-union)-- Responsible for managing all Environment (DEV, TEST, QA, PROD). -- Capacity management-- Monitoring and Health of the infrastructure-- Licensing and vendor management-- Responsible for process improvement and optimization.-- Environment documentation and standards compliance.-- Incident, Problem and change planning and response.-- Budged creation and management.-- All application deployment, environment health, performance and decommissioning.-- Planning and Managing all Middleware and Database upgrade projects like: - Oracle 11g to 12C and to19C - MS SQL Server 2012, 2014, 2016 to 2017 and 2019 - IBM MQ 8 to 9.2 - IBM WebSphere ND various version to 8.5.5 and 9.0 - IBM IIB to IBM ACE

• Lead - IT Apps and DeskSide Support

  • Mar 2015 - Sep 2017

  Responsible for IT Apps and Deskside Support-- Responsible to manage Helpdesk and Second Level Support-- Procurement and vendor management for all hardware and software to support end users.-- Responsible for budgeting and management of a $3 to $5 Million budget.-- Responsible to manage a team of 6+ staff plus out sourced helpdesk.-- Responsible for managing KPI adherence and manage customer/user satisfaction.

• IT Architect -- Middleware and Database

  • Jun 2011 - Mar 2015

  -- Responsible for Integration, Database and MiddleWare.-- Design and document fully redundant Database and MiddleWare infrastructure.-- Disaster Recovery design and testing.-- Responsible for Licensing Optimization and key participation in vendor negotiations.-- Project Solution Design and/or Review/Approval.-- Responsible for the planning, testing and documenting Database and MiddleWare DataCenter Move/Migration.-- Provide Leadership on all technical aspects for Database and MiddleWare Infrastructure.

• BI Team Lead

  • Jul 2010 - Jun 2011

  -- Responsible for working with project groups to identify business needs, guide and complete system designs for reporting projects.-- Manage a team of developers in the reporting area, manage multiple projects simultaneously.-- Provide leadership to the team in order to ensure that milestones and completion dates where consistent with customer needs and that work efforts was planned and monitored and reported to manager on a regular basis.-- Owned the data quality between the transactional source systems and the reporting environment.-- Responsible for the support and corresponding operational and quality of service of the Reporting environment.-- Worked with the business units to translate functional needs into reports to enhance business operations and reduce.

• SOA Specialist

  • Sep 2009 - Aug 2010

  -- Participated in the SOA Architectural design for SmartMeter as well as other high profile projects. -- Developed in collaboration the design and implementation of application integration.-- Collaborate with the security office to define security guidelines (policies) ensure adhering to these guidelines.-- Work closely with the enterprise architects and other application architects in the organization to make sure that every opportunity for service reuse is being exploited.-- Play a role of an intermediary between the technology groups.-- Work closely with EA office to define the governing policies, best practices, and procedures. -- Promote and foster the adoption of SOA across organization. Help development groups understand the fundamentals of SOA.

• Systems Consultant

  • Oct 2002 - Oct 2009

  -- Created highly effective design and implementation of Load balanced / High Availability Jboss ESB Infrastructure Environment.-- Responsible for working with project groups to identify business needs, guide and complete system designs for projects.-- Created highly effective design and implementation of Load balanced / High Availability Websphere Infrastructure Environment.-- Developed in collaboration the design and implementation of application integration for Enterprise systems using web services.-- Worked closely with internal and external partners including senior management to effectively gather business requirements for the execution of Information Management Strategic Planning projects.-- Responsible for the development of Data models, Application architecture and System architecture on small and medium size projects.



Toronto Hydro Energy Services Inc.

• Senior Web Developer

  • 2000 - Oct 2002

  -- Responsible for setting the standards and executing the development for all web properties at Toronto Hydro -- Instrumental in creating web systems that supported overall business needs closely coupled with IT best practices for all web properties; internal and external. -- Oversaw the daily work of the web developer , while working to establish as a team web guidelines. -- Responsible for the development and ongoing support of the eBills (Electronic bill presentment) system for Toronto Hydro Electric System. -- Instrumental in designing back-end development and integration in support of Toronto Hydro Energy Services electricity and natural gas online contract signup management system.



Information Balance, Inc.

• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Web Developer

  • 2000 - 2002

  -- Worked collaboratively to develop the Intranet site for TRIAX Capital. -- Supported through development numerous projects for the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. -- Responsible for the support and development of the Information Balance Intranet, Extranet and External Web Sites. -- Developed a Content Management System for Business users to update content on Web sites. -- Worked collaboratively to develop the Intranet site for TRIAX Capital. -- Supported through development numerous projects for the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. -- Responsible for the support and development of the Information Balance Intranet, Extranet and External Web Sites. -- Developed a Content Management System for Business users to update content on Web sites.