Experience

Tsunami Tsolutions

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Web Engineer

  • Jan 2019 - Present

  Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States First as a contractor then an employee, primary Web Engineer for WebLogic, Websphere and IIS based applications. Brought in Sonic Wall WAF and then SMA410 Secure Mobile Acess appliance to improve security for Tsunami’s own applications. Responsibilities include: Primary Web Engineering support for Pratt and Whitney on premise implementation of Maintenix and associated applications, and the at Tsunami installed development instance. Primary Web Engineering and SQL Server DBA… Show more First as a contractor then an employee, primary Web Engineer for WebLogic, Websphere and IIS based applications. Brought in Sonic Wall WAF and then SMA410 Secure Mobile Acess appliance to improve security for Tsunami’s own applications. Responsibilities include: Primary Web Engineering support for Pratt and Whitney on premise implementation of Maintenix and associated applications, and the at Tsunami installed development instance. Primary Web Engineering and SQL Server DBA support for Pratt and Whitney on premise implementation of EDATA and the at Tsunami installed development instance Installation and configuration of Sonic Wall Web application Firewall and then SMA410 Secure Mobile Acess appliance/application firewall Installation and configuration of POC for Tsunami’s Oracle Cloud implementation of the Maintenix suite of applications utilizing weblogic and Oracle Web Application Firewall. Configuration and Administration of the Oracle Cloud services, IAAS for the application, PAAS for the database and associated network and security rules at Oracle. Show less



Voya Financial

• Manager Web Operations and Middleware Infrastructure

  • Jan 2012 - Apr 2018

  Windsor Connecticut Manage three teams responsible for the strategy, solutioning, maintenance and operation of the Web Infrastructure and Middleware Infrastructure. Teams consist of senior engineers and offshore junior engineers as well as an outsourced vendor managed services contract with Cognizant. Outsourced contract handles platform support of multiple middleware infrastructure components including WebMethods, MQ series, Web team supports infrastructure components Apache, jboss, weblogic, websphere, Brocade… Show more Manage three teams responsible for the strategy, solutioning, maintenance and operation of the Web Infrastructure and Middleware Infrastructure. Teams consist of senior engineers and offshore junior engineers as well as an outsourced vendor managed services contract with Cognizant. Outsourced contract handles platform support of multiple middleware infrastructure components including WebMethods, MQ series, Web team supports infrastructure components Apache, jboss, weblogic, websphere, Brocade load balancers, pki management and certificate generation and deployment. Responsibilities include: • Manage service recovery efforts related to service impacting outages, coordinate efforts with partner technology teams • intake, forecast and balance workloads and assignments for and evaluations of full time team members • Ensure all deliverables completed within time and budget constraints • Direct oversight of the managed service contract • Prioritization of projects and any coordination of subsequent overflow work efforts (ad hoc regulatory extracts and audit requests, data quality fixes and one shots, batch scheduling changes) as dictated by demand

• Web Engineering/Java Development

  • 2010 - 2012

  Lead technical resource providing SiteMinder Admistration and support for Website Security. Development and support of SSO/SiteMinder and associated JAVA applications supporting partner and member registration, and authorization/authentication for those applications. Supported web infrastructure for the applications, including Apache, Weblogic, Brocade load balancers.

• Java Design and Development

  • 2000 - 2010

  Led the team responsible for implementing Intranet Proposal system. Responsibilities included design, development, and testing. System, which calculates correct case pricing, and produces Proposals, and New Business Paperwork in PDF format, was developed in Java Server Pages, Stateless Session Enterprise Java Beans, JDBC, and integrated with third party software to produce PDF output. Configuration and supplemental information accessed from XML files, data passed to presentation JSP pages via… Show more Led the team responsible for implementing Intranet Proposal system. Responsibilities included design, development, and testing. System, which calculates correct case pricing, and produces Proposals, and New Business Paperwork in PDF format, was developed in Java Server Pages, Stateless Session Enterprise Java Beans, JDBC, and integrated with third party software to produce PDF output. Configuration and supplemental information accessed from XML files, data passed to presentation JSP pages via Java Beans. Time delay automatic redirection from error pages back to a central location was implemented via Javascript.



Aetna

• Java Design and Development

  • 1999 - 2000

  Team lead for the design and development of Desktop and Internet Defined Benefit/Defined Contribution Calculator implemented in Java. Desktop wrapper utilizing the Java Runtime Enviroment produced RTF files and launched Word to convert the files into reports. Internet version was developed in Servlets and HTML. Developed calculators deployed as Servlets, one for Monthly Budgets, and one for Education Savings. Designed and developed multiple releases to an integrated financial needs… Show more Team lead for the design and development of Desktop and Internet Defined Benefit/Defined Contribution Calculator implemented in Java. Desktop wrapper utilizing the Java Runtime Enviroment produced RTF files and launched Word to convert the files into reports. Internet version was developed in Servlets and HTML. Developed calculators deployed as Servlets, one for Monthly Budgets, and one for Education Savings. Designed and developed multiple releases to an integrated financial needs analysis tool written in Java, utilizing Swing, JDBC, and third pary Charting packages. Maintained and enhanced basic Inquiry servlets running under Websphere providing producers access to their licensing, appointment and address information currently on file. Show less



Aetna

• Workstation Architecture, Design & Development

  • 1989 - 1999

  Managed re-architecture, design and development efforts on multiple client server systems supporting Customer Service and Producer Administration functions. Redesigned vendor provided license tracking system built under C++ to an Object Oriented implementation utilizing Microsoft's Foundation Classes Document/View Architecture and incorporating reusable, business objects. Developed Object Oriented C++ system supporting a centralized 800 number service (system maintains customer profiles… Show more Managed re-architecture, design and development efforts on multiple client server systems supporting Customer Service and Producer Administration functions. Redesigned vendor provided license tracking system built under C++ to an Object Oriented implementation utilizing Microsoft's Foundation Classes Document/View Architecture and incorporating reusable, business objects. Developed Object Oriented C++ system supporting a centralized 800 number service (system maintains customer profiles, tracks request processing, generates correspondence, and maintains basic account information). Developed Java Servlet Based inquiry application for Producer data with HTML presentation and Sybase back end storage accessed through JDBC. • Prototyped distributed object inquiry version of current application • Trained traditional mainframe programmers on required tool set: C++, Microsoft Foundation Classes, Object Oriented design • Incorporated mainframe access vis both MQ series and Sybase Direct Connect gateways • Designed system utilizing Rumbaugh's Object Modeling Technique (OMT) • System design included use of Sybase Sequel Server relational database, communications to mainframe via LU6.2 to access additional account information • Developed and maintained reporting subsystem of 25 Visual Basic executables producing reports via Forest and Trees or DDE interfaces to Microsoft EXCEL Show less



Aetna

• Mainframe Development

  • 1985 - 1989

  Supported online and batch systems supporting Credit Insurance eligibility, billing, claim processing and payment, Billing and Collection processes, and Mortgage Record Keeping functions within Healthcare environment. Supported vendor (XYCOR, TESSERACT) software, developed BAL code as well as Command Level CICS COBOL going against both IDMS and VSAM databases, and developed and maintained large scale host to external system (remote tape, DEC) connectivity. * Developed and implemented… Show more Supported online and batch systems supporting Credit Insurance eligibility, billing, claim processing and payment, Billing and Collection processes, and Mortgage Record Keeping functions within Healthcare environment. Supported vendor (XYCOR, TESSERACT) software, developed BAL code as well as Command Level CICS COBOL going against both IDMS and VSAM databases, and developed and maintained large scale host to external system (remote tape, DEC) connectivity. * Developed and implemented buffering strategy improving daily batch performance 20% * Developed system to facilitate compiling, linking, printing, creating new GDG bases, restoring test environments, or copying one test environment to another. * Developed code to translate fields into their "two's complement" when stored on the database and translated back when retrieved so sets could be stored in a mixture of ascending and descending order (not supported by the IDMS database). Show less