RICHARD WALKER
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Email: [email protected]
CAREER SUMMARY
- 10+ years of experience in Information Technology in using various tools and technologies for development, Maintenance and support of IT Applications.
- Experience in Agile methodologies, like scrum.
- 7 years of experience in Development and implementation of Business Applications with Enterprise
- Application Integration (EAI) using TIBCO Suite of products.
- Strong working knowledge of XML and web services, WSDL and SOAP.
- Have given production support on the Tibco products, in various operating platforms like Windows and UNIX.
- A keen analyst and team player with thorough understanding of all aspects of the SDLC from understanding client requirements through direct client interaction, translating them into technical specifications and driving their execution.
WORK EXPERIENCE
1) Technology Lead
Nordstrom Inc – Seattle, WA – December 2016 to Present
Description:
ClubHouse is TrunkClub exclusive stores where customers can visit and purchase inventory. The purpose of the project was to enabling Merchants to plan, allocate, and write POs to Clubhouse locations using existing Full-Price buying tools while enabling Clubhouse locations to receive inventory and post sales.
Responsibilities:
- Designed and Developed message flows using TIBCO BusinessWorks 5.13, EMS, REST Plugins.
- Created various queues, assigned access privileges.
- Created different java functions for data processing.
- Deployed the services in SIT and UAT Environments from TIBCO Administrator.
- Involved in supporting Integration testing of interfaces.
- Creating the required EMS components (Queues, topics, bridges, routes and destination acl’s.)
- Maintaining TIBCO Application servers for different environments.
- Performed Troubleshooting, Debugging and Unit Testing of various TIBCO code.
- Build archive file, deployed the projects into various environments by using TIBCO Administrator.
- Providing implementation, production and warranty support to applications.
- Environment: TIBCO BusinessWorks 5.13, TIBCO EMS, Linux
2) Technology Lead
Nordstrom Inc – Seattle, WA – June 2015 to January 2016
Description:
TrunkClub for Women is Nordstrom’s premium membership service through which the customers sign up and the stylist sends Clothing and accessories based on current trends and individual preference. The Application was developed to integrate TrunkClub, a third party system with Nordstrom using Tibco Business works and REST 2.0 Plugin.
Responsibilities:
- Designed and Developed message flows using TIBCO BusinessWorks 5.10, EMS, REST Plugins.
- Created various queues, assigned access privileges.
- Performance tuning the application.
- Deployed the services in SIT and UAT Environments from TIBCO Administrator.
- Involved in supporting Integration testing of interfaces.
- Creating the required EMS components (Queues, topics, bridges, routes and destination acl’s.)
- Maintaining TIBCO Application servers for different environments.
- Performed Troubleshooting, Debugging and Unit Testing of various TIBCO code.
- Build archive file, deployed the projects into various environments by using TIBCO Administrator.
- Providing implementation, production and warranty support to applications.
3) Technology lead
BB&T – Raleigh, NC – March 2014 to April 2015
Description:
Wire and ACH transactions originating from BB&T had to go through Fraud and Whitelist Filtering; Actimize was a third party vendor providing Fraud and WLF Functionalities. The Project involved multiple teams involving upgrading web services provided by the vendor and the message formats that were received from Actimize via MQ Queues. The services had to be optimized for performance optimization considering the increased volume of ACH and Wire that BB&T was receiving.
Responsibilities:
- Designed various WSDL and XSDs for web services service and client implementation
- Created various queues and topics.
- Involved in supporting Integration testing of interfaces.
- Creating the required EMS components (Queues, topics, bridges, acl’s.)
- Maintaining TIBCO Application servers for different environments.
- Performance tuning the application.
- Deployed the services in SIT and UAT Environments from TIBCO Administrator.
- Involved in supporting Integration testing of interfaces.
- Providing implementation and production support to applications
4) Team Lead, Software Designer
BB&T, RALEIGH, North Carolina – Raleigh, NC – May 2013 to February 2014
Description:
The Customer Information File (CIF) in Mainframe Legacy system contains all the information about the Bank’s customer and Accounts. Tibco services were developed to enable integration with the frontend web applications that were developed using .Net and Java. The SOAP Services exposed by Tibco enabled seamless integration with the Mainframe systems. Services such as Add Client, View Client, Add Profile, Edit Profile were developed.
Responsibilities:
- Developed SOAP over HTTP Services,
- Participated in the Technical Design Discussion sessions and also in Best Practices for TIBCO Components.
- Coordinated with offshore Team to manage delivery. Providing implementation and production support to applications.
- Deployed the services in SIT and UAT Environments from TIBCO Administrator.
- Involved in supporting Integration testing of interfaces.
- The required EMS components (Queues, topics, bridges, routes and destination acl’s.)
- Maintaining TIBCO Application servers for different environments.
- Performed Troubleshooting, Debugging and Unit Testing of various TIBCO code.
5) Team Lead, Software Designer
BB&T, RALEIGH, North Carolina – Raleigh, NC – August 2012 to April 2013
Description:
As part of the Filenet Integration the documents that were generated by the various applications need to be stored in FileNet. Services to Add, Find, Update and get Documents were created. Various Batch Services that runs on Timer process or JMS Message triggers were developed that runs as nightly batch to archive the documents.
Responsibilities:
- Participated in the Technical Design Discussion sessions and also in Best Practices for TIBCO Components.
- Development of the Tibco operations using the Tibco BusinessWorks Designer.
- Deployed the services in SIT and UAT Environments from TIBCO Administrator.
- Involved in supporting Integration testing of interfaces.
- The required EMS components (Queues, topics, bridges, routes and destination acl’s.)
- Maintaining TIBCO Application servers for different environments.
6) Team Lead, Software Designer
BB&T – Raleigh, NC – August 2011 to July 2012
Description:
MortgageIntegration involves integration with the third party UNIFI System over MQ.SOAP over HTTP Services were built as wrapper over the MQ Message .Services for adding retrieving. Services to Generate, Split or Merge PDFdocuments using iText API were developed as for Mortgage Applications.
Responsibilities:
- Participated in the Technical Design Discussion sessions and also in Best Practices for TIBCO Components.
- Development of the Tibco operations using the Tibco BusinessWorks Designer.
- Deployed the services in SIT and UAT Environments from TIBCO Administrator.
- Involved in supporting Integration testing of interfaces.
- The required EMS components (Queues, topics, bridges, routes and destination acl’s.)
- Maintaining TIBCO Application servers for different environments.
- Performed Troubleshooting, Debugging and Unit Testing of various TIBCO code.
- Providing implementation and production support to applications
- Developed retry mechanisms for failed messages, Performance tuning for the application. Ensuring high availability of the system
7) Team Member
Ingram Micro – US – August 2009 to July 2010
Description:
Worked on support and enhancement for a leading technology distributor and a technology sales, marketing and logistics company. The project involves support for Partner Connectivity Gateway for vendors and customers for Regions across the globe .Business Connect, receives the request from Partners through http, authenticates the request and forwards to Business Works where it is then validated using xsd and is converted to copybook format using JaxB and sent to mainframe using JGate API for further processing.
Responsibilities:
- Monitoring and responding to system generated Alerts and user queries
- Monitoring transactions in BC, small enhancements of existing code
- Managing BW process and EMS Queues (monitoring message count in queues).
- Participating in daily status calls.
EDUCATION
- Certificate in Business Administration University of Washington in 2017
- Master of Science in Software Engineering Periyar University – Salem, Tamil Nadu in 2005