• Administered and maintained IBM Sterling File Gateway/Sterling Integrator, Sterling Control Center, Sterling External Authentication Server, Connect: Direct (CD), and Sterling Secure Proxy for John Hancock US/Canada environments.
• Built-up a new MFT environment for Canada Manulife in IBM Soft Layer (cloud) from ground zero. Configured MFT infrastructure and deployed Sterling Commence MFT solution (SI, ICC, SSP, PS, SEAS, PGP) in a cluster environment.
• Provided technical support for the Manulife Asian MFT environment.
• Managed all key infrastructure for John Hancock/Manulife.
• Managed all Firewall rules and LB (F5/NetScaler) configurations for the MFT environment for both US and Canada.
• In charge of all PoC projects for MFT solutions.
• Maintained and upgraded all MFT components from Sterling (SI 5.2.6.3_iFix10, ICC 6.1.2.1 iFix02, SSP 3.4.3.2 Build 341 and SEAS 2.4.3.0 build 99, CDW 4.7.0.3 build 20 & 6 build 6, PGP McAfee SDS E-Business Server v9.0.2036).
• 24 by 7 production support for John Hancock/Manulife MFT environments.
• Primary key player for all troubleshot in MFT environments.
• Migrated current US MFT environment from on-premise to Microsoft Azure.

• Administered and maintained IBM Sterling File Gateway/Sterling Integrator, Sterling Control Center, Sterling External Authentication Server, Connect: Direct (CD), and Sterling Secure Proxy.
• Configured and provisioned partners in Sterling Integrator and File Gateway. Analyzed and provided solutions for optimal file transfer configuration based on application requirements adhering to policies and security standards.
• Coordinated with external and internal teams during testing and deployment of file transfer configuration. Created custom business processes and channel templates to meet specific application needs for file transfer. Worked together with external and internal partners during the on-boarding of an application for file transfer. Troubleshoot file transfer issues in coordination with other support teams in a timely and efficient manner. Provided regular status updates to all the parties involved in file transfer.
• Provided periodic after business hour on-call support to ensure Sterling products availability and resolved transfer issues using Control Center.
• Supported the MFT product suites for platform and product upgrades, patches, and fix packs.

• Smart Connectivity Solutions for Secure commerce, deploy, configure, and test Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) and Connect: Direct (CD) in Development, Test, Production and Disaster Recovery environments with an external trading partner.

• Deployed, configured, tested, and debugged moderately complex file-based integration middleware CONNECT Family Products (Managed File Transfer) for E-Business communication Infrastructure on various UNIX and Windows systems in a TCP/IP environment.
• Connect: Direct Mass Deployment Fixpack testing with Sterling Control Center, Tivoli Server Tivoli Endpoint Manager, and Tivoli Console.
• High-Volume and High-Performance Testing with Sterling Control Center (SCC) 5.4, using an automatic script to deploy, configure, start, stop, upgrade over 1000 Connect Direct nodes in UNIX, Windows, and OS 390 platforms. Wrote Java API code to test SCC CCAPI/CCNCAPI interface with remote configuration management.
• Integrated Sterling Integrator (SI 5.2.3)/Sterling File Gateway (SFG2.2.3) with IBM WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition (MQFTE).
• Designed, deployed, coded, configured, and tested Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP), demilitarized zone (DMZ) based application proxy that protects the file transfers from the public Internet by enforcing tight controls that included trading-partner authorization, multi-factor authentication, and session break all before the transfer every enters the trusted zone using JAVA, Jetty, Certicom toolkit, and CVS.
• Designed and coded FIPS-140 compliant Secure+ module for CD: UNIX in Solaris, AIX, HPUX, and Linux using Certicom's Security Builder and RSA Crypto-C/SSL-C Toolkit.
• Designed and coded the Asset Protection module for CD: UNIX using Certcom's AP toolkit to limit one running instance per license file.
• Enhancement for command manager (CMGR) in CD: UNIX to allow a user to send spccli command through JAI to Connect: Direct UNIX to manage secure+ configuration.
• Enhancement for process manager (PMGR) in CD: UNIX to provide the ability to use alternate communication path used for outbound process.
• Updated ZLIB and JRE to the latest versions on all platforms.
• Deployed, tested, and troubleshoots newly developed and redesigned Company B2B Software Solutions (Connect: Direct 4.1.00, Sterling Control Center 5.4, Sterling Secure Proxy 2.0.02/2.1.00/3.0.00), Sterling External Authority Server, Sterling File Agent. Sterling CertWizard, Sterling Connect: Enterprise and Sterling File Gateway/Sterling Integrator.
• Created, maintained, implemented test plans and test cases (HP Quality Center, Rational Quality Manager/Rational Team Concert, PERL, CURL, TCL/EXPECT, and WinRunner/QTP). Documented and summarized test results and reports findings.
• Participated in defining scope and objectives for complex quality testing projects.
• Troubleshoot and resolved or recommended solutions to a diverse range of complex software testing problems.

• Utilized a thorough knowledge of programming and server software operations to develop custom programs written in languages such as C/C++, Java, HTML/XML, JavaScript, CGI, PERL, ASP/ASP.NET, Visual Basic/Visual Basic.NET, Excel, Crystal Report, DTS with SQL 2000, Access, Informix, and Oracle database.

Lexmark International Corporation, Lexington, KY - Senior Firmware/Software Engineer

• Developed firmware cryptographic application (SHA-1, RSA, AES, DSA, FIPS-140, and Cryptlib) in C/C++ and UML (Rational Rose) on Linux (PowerPC, ARM, and MIPS), cryptographic printing server, authentication server, LPC manager in C/C++, Java, XML on Windows and UNIX and integrated Lexmark PrintCryption Server with OM PLUS by adding front and back-end services to OM Plus.

UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, TX - Senior Software Engineer

• Designed and coded Sepsis Burn Injury Project System using ASP and SQL Server and made the business application web more accessible.

• Designed, coded, and debugged web-enable and telephone-based customer care and acquisition application using HTML, JavaScript, PERL, C/C++, Pro C, Java, Informix 4GL, UNIX Shell Script, ASP/ASP.NET, DTS, with Informix and SQL 2000.

• Designed, coded, and debugged moderately complex file-based integration middleware (CONNECT: Direct) for E-Business communication Infrastructure using C/C++, Socket, RPC, and shell scripts on various UNIX systems in TCP/IP environment.

• Designed and implemented the SEMI Standards (SECS I/SECS II) for Polaris 3500 Microlithography Cluster using C/C++ and shell scripts on UNIX system.

• Designed, coded, and maintained library information automation system in client/server architecture using C/C++, PERL, HTML, and shell scripts on UNIX systems (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux) and NT system with Oracle (OCI) and Informix (ISAM) environment.