Thomas A. Oehser
Tom@Toms.NET
4020 64th Street - Bethesda, MD 20816-2618 - 301-320-5786
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SKILLS
Full life cycle
Project management, requirements analysis, scope assessment, system
architecture, design, team leadership, EAI, JAD, RAD, UML OOAD,
eXtreme Programming, quality assurance, deployment, re-engineering,
training, performance tuning, troubleshooting, project review metrics.
Current
J2EE - Java, JDBC, JSP, Servlets, EJBs, HTML/DHTML/XML/XHTML, Web
Services (SOAP, UDDI, WSDL). SilverStream eXtend AppServer, Composer,
JBroker, and Director. ECMAScript/JavaScript. Weblogic, iPlanet,
WebSphere, and the Sun J2EE Reference Implementation.
Comfortable
Unix and Linux system administration and development. C/C++, Oracle,
Sybase, DNS, LDAP, CVS, PVCS, and Sendmail expertise. Security,
encryption, PKI, and related technologies. All web technologies and
tools.
Past Mastery
MVS, PowerBuilder, Open Client/Open Server, CICS, COBOL2, x86/ALC,
JCL, MicroFocus, REXX, MQ, BASIC, TSO/ISPF, Datacom/DB, Intertest,
Roscoe/RPF, VSAM, 370/BAL/ALC, OS/2, Framework/FRED, CLIST, DB2,
Forth, Strobe, Xpediter, SQLWindows, Realia, IDMS/ADSO, VSE/ICCF, RPG,
DYL, ACL/E.
Other
Expert Linux skills. I created and maintain a popular small Linux
distribution (http://www.toms.net/rb/) used for system administration,
recommended in works such as the O'Reilly Unix Backup and Recovery.
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GOALS
Responsibility & Contribution
Positions offering opportunities to contribute to enterprise
architecture and technology selection as well as to lead programmer or
project teams.
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OTHER
Response
Please respond by e-mail to Tom@Toms.NET if at all possible.
Location
Must be within or on the I-495 Capital Beltway or will telecommute.
References
Excellent references available upon request.
Salary
Requirements available upon request. Competitive inquiries only,
please.
Resume updates
Will be posted to http://www.toms.net/career/ when available.
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HISTORY
SilverStream Software
J2EE Java Application Server ISV
7/10/2000-current
Senior Consulting Engineer supporting all aspects of SilverStream J2EE
(Java server) services including planning, installation, design,
development, troubleshooting, and education. Recent achievements
include an instrumental role in the design, development and deployment
of the U.S. Army's first web-based enterprise application, the Army
Human Resource System PERSCOM PERSTEMPO system with Northrop Grumman
IT (Logicon/PRC) and EDS.
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ReliaStar
Financial Corp. - Now ING
3/25/96-6/29/2000
Technical Team Lead, Senior Technologist, Lead Systems Analyst, and
Systems Consultant II in a large n-tier EAI Client-Server environment.
Clients include a PowerBuilder customer service workbench, voice
response units, HTTP clients, and imaging systems. Mid-tier built in
Java, C, and SQL and run on HP/UX, Solaris, and Linux. Over 60 legacy
systems on the back end (mostly MVS) connected with multiple forms of
real-time gateways, replications, screen scraping, custom bridges, and
asynchronous queues. We are currently extending in house a Java
framework running under both iPlanet (Kiva/NAS) and Weblogic and
migrating business logic out of the clients. I led the proof of
concept evaluations of both BEA Weblogic and IBM Websphere to replace
iPlanet.
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CommSys
(Now Perot)
Telecommunications Billing
7/95-3/22/96
Senior Analyst using MicroFocus, COBOL2, CICS, OS2, NT, MSAccess,
Oracle, DOS, C; design and development in a telecommunications billing
and telemanagement environment. Responsible for tariff and V&H
systems, MicroFocus conversion, and OS/2 and Windows technical
support. Modified MicroFocus IFH routines for VSAM path access.
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Keane/USCS
Government
9/94-6/95
Senior Programmer Analyst working in CICS, COBOL2, DATACOM,
development at U.S. Customs Service Headquarters. Developed online
database applications for the Automated Commercial Systems of the
USCS. Implemented large systems - terabytes of data across hundreds of
tables. Treasury background investigation and clearance to sensitive
information.
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USLICO
(Now ReliaStar)
Life Insurance
12/88-9/94
Senior Programmer Analyst providing life insurance application
support. Tax reporting and Investment Management. Evaluation of new
technology. Designed, coded, documented, and provided training for
CICS systems.
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SAMBA
Health Insurance
12/87-12/88
Programmer, One of a 3-person MIS staff (myself, a manager, and an
operator), with wide responsibilities. Programming, scheduling,
execution, some systems programming (DASD, VTAM and VSAM tuning).
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Montgomery Data Systems
Service Bureau
2/85-12/87
Operator/Programmer. Wrote utilities in BAL including CCW (channel
command word) programming. Managed the Tartan Data Entry system.
Converted ATLAS TP-monitor systems to CICS. Operational support.
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Current as of: 11/19/2001