Ibm Work Values

Daily Duties at Ibm:

Application Architect for Gwinnett County Public Schools (Georgia). Assisted the CIO and senior management plan development of a large portal based on WebSphere Portal. This includes: • Developing an Enterprise Application Architecture based on Service-Oriented Architecture principles • Planning what applications are to be delivered through the Portal • Evaluating alternative development environments (Rational Application Developer, Eclipse, WebSphere Portlet Factory) • Evaluating alternative Rich Internet Technologies (AJAX, Flex, Portlet Factory) • Planning migration of the current Portal from version 5.1 to version 6 • Planning the different Portal environments required for development, testing, staging, and production • Helping teams begin design and development of applications for the Portal Mr. Pagano was a WebSphere Portal Technical Lead on a project for the U.S. Department of Education to build a Grants Tracking system using WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Application Server, SOA architecture and J2EE technologies. He led the team tasked with designing the user interface for the Grants application. Developed HTML prototype screens and then implemented them as portlets for WebSphere Portal using Java Server Faces technology. The portlets called back end SOA-based services presented as EJBs for this internal application. Mr. Pagano was a WebSphere Portal specialist on a project for the U.S. Army to build a Portal to track maintenance information about Army vehicles (Abrams tanks, Bradley Infantry Vehicles, etc). He developed portlets and JSPs for WebSphere Portal for Finding Vehicle Identification Numbers, Displaying Vehicle Information Summary, and Vehicle Status Information. The application architecture had portlets interface to a SOA-based Web Services layer via an SDK. Used Rational Application Developer 6 and the Portal 5.1 Test Environment and WebSphere Portal 6. Mr. Pagano was a WebSphere Portal Architect for the U.S. Courts Administrative Office. Designed configuration for production, staging/disaster recovery, test and systems integration environments for portal initiative to support a large number of separate concurrent portals. Defined requirements for initial portal. Designed security solution for portal and other applications based on Tivoli Access Manager, Tivoli Directory Server, and Tivoli Directory Integrator. Researched use of Collaborative Portlets. Mr. Pagano was an architect on a proposal effort for a federal agency to develop a Claims Administration System. He wrote significant sections of the technical solution and investigated various hardware and software technologies – including Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Service-Oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA). Attended SOA Architect Bootcamp training class taught by IBM.

What they like about Ibm:

The social vibrance of a hiring firm is very important to you. Your ability to make and maintain friendships there is a critical part of your decision. You would likely be dissatisfied with a workplace that is quiet, cold, or otherwise not particularly social. When you investigate a new hiring company, ask recruiters, managers, and potential co-workers about the social life and opportunities there. This is especially important when you are relocating; moving dramatically alters your social sphere both inside and outside the workplace.

Tags

Architect, SOA, J2EE, Java, Patterns, Process, Smalltalk, WebSphere, WebLogic, AIA, Ruby, Oracle, DB2, MQ, iPhone

Skills

Software Implementation, Leadership , Design of J2EE-based application, Design and development of J2EE application on WebSphere or WebLogic, Development of Java application using Eclipse, Development of Java application using Rational Application Developer and Rational Software Architect, Design and development of SOA-based application, Design of re-usable frameworks for J2EE, Application of Universal and J2EE-based design patterns, Design of UML Diagrams

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