Current and Recent Contracts
Philips, Eindhoven NL
[Diamond 2 Team Photo, Philips]
Migration of 2nd largest pension fund system worldwide from legacy mainframe to a WebSphere SOA infrastructure
[July 2008 to present]
My current contract is through IBM, working at the worlds second largest pension fund administration company based in Netherlands. The project entails moving the entire IT infrastructure off the legacy mainframe environment and onto a WebSphere environment. As always, I find myself performing a multifaceted role including design, implementation and administration plus introducing best practices / governance standards for a SOA environment. Performance tuning of the new environment is a particulary challenging and rewarding task.
100+ WebSphere servers comprising:
- WebSphere Process Server 6.1/6.2
- WebSphere Portal Server 6.0./6.1x
- WebSphere Application Server ND 6.1.x
- WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) 6.2
- WebSphere Service and Repository (WSRR) 6.2
- WebSphere Business Monitor 6.x
- Oracle 10g and DB2 9.x
- Tivoli Directory Server 6.1
- IBM HTTP Servers
- Tivoli ITCAM / ITM
- Rational Performance Tester
- AIX 5.3 on p5 Series
On-going Web-based Collaboration Projects, Philips
[2004 to 2008]
Following on from the Diamond 2 project I found myself working on various new projects at Philips to enhance the collaboration environment, as well as managing the existing infrastructure. During this period I also found time to enjoy a 4 month safari through East and Southern Africa returning to Philips in May 2005.These projects included:
- Create detailed solution design for WebSphere/Portal, DB2, LDAP, Lotus Collaboration products and document same
- Install and configure all the component software in Production, Test and Development environments
- Manage/administer/upgrade the Production, Test and Development environments for the duration of the project
- WebSphere Application/Portal Server performance tuning
- Problem solving and liaison with IBM developers
- Evaluate Web Server performance enhancement technology (hardware SSL load balancing devices). Conduct performance tests and analysis on same.
- Evaluate Internet and Intranet user access and security technology using hardware SSL VPN devices
- Centralisation of the Lotus Sametime environment
- Expansion of the Sametime Meeting Server environment
- Expansion of the QuickPlace environment
- Introduction of Domino Web Access (DWA) as a web mail client