Candidates About

 

James F. Chams

Professional Summary:

A culmination of seventeen (17) years combined experience in IT Project Management, Development, and Infrastructure Support Solutions, with a total of twenty-two (22) years served as an IT Consultant in various Enterprise Industrial-Level, Small Business, Financial, Medical, and Collegiate environments, with work experiences ranging from Project Management, Sr. Design/Architecture/Analysis, Sr. Lead Programming Developer and L2/L3 Systems Administration & Operations Support with proven knowledge and strong skills in the following areas:

 

·         IT - Architecting & Design Solutions.

·         IT - Project Management & Business Solutions.

·         IT - Cloud Operations & System Administration.

·         IT – Administration for Middleware Application Support & Data Warehousing Solutions.

·         IT - DevOps – Middleware Application Development & Database Integration Solutions.

·         IT - Technical Writing & Support Documentation.

·         IT - ServiceNOW - ITIL Worker-Level L2/L3 Ticket and Desk-Side Support Solutions.

 

Administration, Development, & Operations duties include automation scripting, documentation, and coding in various scripting/programming languages on Cloud-based Server Network infrastructures, hosted Databases, and tool/utility Platforms.  These also include internal LAN/external WAN mixed-Domain Networked integrations of Multi-Server-Desktop Architect installation/operations, deployments of iOT/iiOT Predix solutions with Web-based interface plugin design/integrations solutions to Middleware application platform Development, Data warehousing with ETL/ELT workflow management, and Back-End ongoing patching/code lifecycle maintenance within various Enterprise-Business level in-house and 3^rd Party OS & Middleware platform/tool development frameworks of JAVA, Oracle, MuleSoft, Apache, and Microsoft .NET based platforms tech-stack solutions.

 

Highlights:

Ø  Over Seventeen (17) years of experience in Operations, Systems Administration,  Architectural-Design & Analysis, Project Management, Development (Coding) Applications and Tools using industrial standards of best practice development methodologies with scripting, coding, & security solution provisioning. 

Ø  Total of twenty-two (22) years of software development and IT solutions experience in Enterprise-level, Small-business, College-level, and Personal- home/business computing support services.

Ø  Demonstrated experience with all phases of Virtual Machine (VM) installation, deployments, patching, orchestration, and Middleware Platform/API Server management within Cloud Computing, Database, and Local Clustered environments.

Ø  Strong understanding of system development and deployment lifecycles, and security and policy governance at an enterprise level.  Design and develop provisioning and de-provisioning processes / workflows for accounts across various internal and external systems.

·         Professional Communication/Management skills in working with various businesses and application teams with their User Lifecycle Management provisioning requirements, CRM, End-to-End delivery provisioning and monitoring to enhance IAM capabilities in addressing new business needs.

Ø  Strong administration, operations and scripting in multiple (OS) server operating systems environments, network protocols, LDAP Security, W3C, Enterprise GitHub/GitREPO directory/Code-repository/registry structures, web-based applications and platforms infrastructure, development-platforms and application tools, administrative tools, Business Intelligence (BI) & Management and reporting/notification communication utilities. Configure and develop adapters, connectors, queries, mapping, synchronization and orchestration with various system’s directories, registries, objects, tables, and databases for account provisioning, de-provisioning and updates to user accounts.

Ø  Demonstrating Scripting and Coding techniques with best practices on Linux Ubuntu/RHEL Server Multi-boot Linux/Windows installations with multiple VM population of VM-based OS’, databases, and Developer-based IDE Application, ETL, iIOT/iiOT – Predix, Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline and SOA Architecture packages spanning across multiple domain networks and Cloud environments with OS, Platforms, and App patching updating/installations.

Ø  Strong Knowledge in Aviation Aerospace Systems, CRM, ATC, and Avionics Glass/GPS technologies with Aviation Navigation capabilities.  Good Communication Skills & knowledge of Aviation Language terminology and Weather Meteorological Systems & technologies.

Ø  Experience managing the IAM infrastructure and provide Level 2/3 support with ITIL Worker-Level Access. Work with help desk and other teams to troubleshoot and resolve/ fix issues and bugs. After-hours work as needed for Level 3 escalations and/or deployments.

Ø  Experience working with Security, Vault, and Compliance teams to provide network topology with infrastructure diagrams/documentation, auditing and reporting facilities and processes & operations to deploy and integrate new technologies into the current environments including working in PCI/SOX controlled environments.

 

Technical Skills:

– Enterprise Level Architect and Design implementation solutions.

§  Network Diagraming & topology mapping.

§  Infrastructure security design & modeling.

– Project Management:

§  Agile-Scrum & Waterfall Methodologies.

§  Project Assignment/Tasking, and Tracking.

§  CRM, BI, & PMP scope management duties.

– Cloud (IaaS, IIS) Network Operations & Platform (PaaS) Security & Administration, & SOA Dev/Administration.

§  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

§  Microsoft Azure / Windows Server (Cloud/Site Hosted)

§  Data Center (PrivateCloud)

§  Website Hosting / PHP-based Inventory cataloging

§  ServiceNOW, CMDB, & SupportCentral – ITIL Worker Level access.

– Operating System Administration/Hardware Specialist –

§  Linux/Unix

§  Windows & Mac  OS

§  Novell Netware

§  Hardware:  Server RACK, IPMI over LAN, Remote Desktop, & PC Motherboard.

– DevOps Automation Operations:

§  Chef/Ruby/WebMethods/RAMPS/Predix/JAVA/Oracle

§  +180 additional Tool Tech-Stack dependencies.

§  OS Utilities and tool integrations.

§  Network topology, WC3, SAML, SSL & Apache-Tomcat security implementations.

 

– Middleware Platform tools, Data Warehousing, Databases, and Script configuration:

§  Enterprise Big Data/Real Time Data Solutions:

·         Talend/Informatica with ETL or ELT workflow.

·         Hadoop (Installation/Administration).

·         Data Management - HortonWorks & NiFi.

·         Data warehousing – Apache HIVE & HVR.

§  SOA Development & Web-based IBM WebSphere interface support integrations.

·         HP Systinet – SOA governance.

·         REST API, RESTFul Services, Maven ESB & Java JDK/.NET Framework.

§  Hadoop HDFS, Oracle DB with Schemas, & Java JVM’s

·         Platform deployments.

·         Admin/Dev installation/configuration solutions.

§  Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) Pipeline solution provisioning.

·         Jenkins Pipeline Implementations.

·         Enterprise GitHUB Code archiving.

·         Artifactory Binary repository management.

§  PREDIX – IOT/IIOT integration with Java-based Hosted technologies.

·         RAMPS Cloud deployment solutions.

·         Database hosting solutions – FlywayDB & PostGreSQL.

§  LDAP, SSL, SSH, SAML, CA Siteminder, W3C, and various other cyber Web-hosted security implementations.

§  L2/L3 process Ticketing and ITIL Worker Level Access support for customer tools: ServiceNOW, CMDB, and SupportCentral.

§  Strong Knowledge in emerging technologies, IOT/IIOT, and Automation build tools & processes.

 

Other skillset areas:

Project Management and Manufacturing Methodology - IT / Scrum & Agile/Waterfall Management:

·         PMP (TechMahindra Internal) Courses attended (73 Total Hours; 37 Hours fully accredited, 36 certified, & +195Hours self-study).

·         Lean Six Sigma Training/Certification. (GE/TechMahindra Internal).

·         Technical Writing, Diagram drafting, Presenting, and Documentation.

·         Scope management and Metrics Reporting technics.

·         ITIL Worker Level Training/Certification (GE Internal).

·         Global Information Security Awareness Certification (TechMahindra Internal).

FAA – Certification: Aviator (Pilot)

·         Experienced in Aviation Aerospace Systems, CRM, ATC, and Avionics Glass/GPS technologies,   

·         Strong Communication Skills and knowledge in Aviation Language terminology and Weather Meteorological Systems & technologies.

·         Experienced Aviation Navigation capabilities.

High-to-Moderate level Communication and Written skills:

·         Functional linguistic abilities with various languages

o   Proficiency in English

o   Functional/Basic: Arabic, French, Korean, Spanish & a little Hindi.

Other areas skill:

Music, Athletics, Martial Arts and various (licensed) vehicle operator qualifications.

 

Programming Languages:             : JAVA (w/ EE & Spring,  JVM & Node.js), VB, C/C++, J++, REST API, Python, WebMethods (Mapping), Informatica and Talend (ETL Job) IDE coding; Java, XML/XAML/DQL/SQL/VB, Ruby-Chef deployment & Query Scripting; (LINUX/UNIX) Bash-Shell and (DOS) BASIC & Batch Shell Scripting.

Tools:

IDE (GUI)                                             : Eclipse, JEE/J2EE (Oracle-Java), WebMethods, Talend ETL/ELT, Python, GlobalScape, Oracle Designer, MS Visual Studios J++/VB/C/C++/C#, MS Visual Basic, MS Visio, Borland C/C++, Sublime Text Editor w/ Chef/Ruby Mine/Rails.

Web Editor(s)/Scripting               : MS FrontPage, Visual Studio JavaScript, JQuery, MySQL, XML Notepad, HTML Editor, EMACs, Vi, MS-DOS Basic.

Reporting                                            : MS Visio, Adobe Acrobat, FoxIT PDF Editor, XML Publisher, VB Crystal Reports, and MS OutLook (SMTP automated reporting).

Data Warehousing                          : Talend (Big Data & Real Time Big Data), Cloudera, Apache NiFi, HIVE, HVR, & Informatica.

Database/platforms              : Hadoop, Oracle 7/8i/9i, Oracle DB/OnDemand/RDBMS/AsmLib,

PostGreSQL, FlywayDB, HortonWorks, GreenPlum, Cassandra, HAWQ, Teradata, MS SQL Server, MS Access, MS FoxPro, DB/DB2, SOA – HP Systinet, Predix core iOT/iiOT, Apache Ant, Mulesoft ESB, Maven ESB, Activator, Java EE & Spring Platforms,  Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline, Artifactory, Talend Real Time Big Data & Talend Enterprise Big Data.

OS/Server/Platform                      

: Unix/Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS) AMI, Hadoop HDFS, JBoss, Apache Tomcat, RestFul Services, REST API, SOAP Services, Linux, RHEL, Solaria, CentOS, Linux – Ubuntu, Mate & Mint Desktop/Server.

: Windows 3.1/3.11/95/98/2000/XP/7/8/10, MS-DOS 4/5/6, .Net Framework.

: MacOS 6->10/X, MS Windows Server 2003/7/8/8 RT/Azure with Active Directory Services, MS ISS 4/5/6.

: Virtual Machines Emulators - Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Node.js/Spring, VirtualBox, VMWare, MulSoft ESB, & Maven ESB.

: Novell Netware 3/3.51/4/4.51 with edirectory services

Security                                               : LDAP, CA SiteMinder, W3C, SAML, & SSL Authentication, Amazon Web Services (AWS) & GEA Vault Networking with L2/L3 System Administration support.

Utilities                                               : GitHub Enterprise, Git (+ GitHUB Repo), Subversion SVN & CVS Code repos, ConEMU, PuTTY, Windows Pageant, Remote desktop, SCP, WSCP, WS-FTP, SFTP, FTP, Telnet, SSH, Sudo & Grub command-line utilities, Bash Shell, REST API, MuleSoft & Maven Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), SOAP, Remote Desktop, Symantec Enterprise Ghost, Symantec Enterprise Endpoint.

Applications                                      : ArcGIS, Oracle Designer, .PHP, JSON, Java JDK, IBM WebSphere, MS Windows Azure Tools (Cloud-Computing), IPCop Firewall Server, MS Project, MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher, Outlook, Photo Editor), Corel Draw & Illustrator, Aldus PageMaker, MS Paint.NET, KanBan, WebEx, TeamSpeak Server/Client.

 

Professional Experiences:

General Electric Company (GE)                                                            July’2013 to Aug. 12^th ‘2016

Contractor from Tech Mahindra (Americas), Inc.

 Sr. Lead Design Architect, System Administrator, Project Mgr. & DevOps Developer (Consultant)          

-          Sr. Lead Design Architect and Talend L2 Support System Administrator,               Feb ‘2016 – Aug.’2016

Aviation - Digital Data Services (DDS) - Data Lake.

-          Sr. Lead System Administrator/Developer - GlobalScape L2 Support,                    Jan. ‘2015 - Feb ‘2016

Aviation - Digital Data Services (DDS) - Data Lake.

-          Sr. DevOps Architect/Project Mgr. (SysAdmin/Dev),                                                  Mar.’2015 to Jan. ‘2016

Transportation – Global Service Solutions (GSS).

-          Project Mgr. - webMethods Integration,                                                                       Nov.’2014 to Mar. ‘2015

Aviation - Supply Chain (SC).                            

-          Project Mgr. –SysAdmin/LDAP Integration,                                                                  Nov. ’2014 to Jan.‘2015

Aviation Enterprise Architecture (AEA).        

-          SOA Governance Developer/SysAdmin,                                                                         Sept’2014 to Nov. ‘2014

Aviation Enterprise Architecture (AEA).

-          L2 Lead Project Operations Developer - Chef Automation,                                       July ‘2013 – Oct’2013

Aviation Infrastructure Platform & Product Services - ISS/P&PS.

 

NOTE: Additional IT Consultant position information (other than GE/TechM) can be provided upon request.

 

 

 

Awards:

                Tech Mahindra:

Ø  BRAVO Award 2015.

Ø  Data Lake Team Excellence Award 2016.

Others:

Ø  Academic Excellence Awards.

Ø  Dean’s List Awards, University of Cincinnati (UC).

Ø  Foreign Language Honors Award – Spanish.

Ø  Music Honors Award.

Education:

·         ‘2016-Present:

o   GE Aviation / Tech Mahindra (iLearning):

§  PMP – Project Management Professional – Course Training completed.

§  Lean Six Sigma Certification Training.

§  Global Information Security Awareness Certification.

§  Digital Infrastructure Training.

§  Certified Informatica Developer Training.

§  GEGDC Certified.

o   Online Courses - edX Online Dashboard. [In-progress with Certificate Verification upon completion]: -

§  Linux System Administrator (LFSTBA)

§  Cloud Infrastructure (LFS151x)

§  Linux Foundation (LFS101x).

§  Agile Ruby on Rails Basic & Advanced (CS169.1x).

 

·         ‘2011-TBC: Computer Science/ Global Information Systems (CS/GIS Geography), University of Cincinnati, OH. [Transfer and Pending completion].

·         ‘1995-‘1999: Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, University of Cincinnati, OH.

·         ‘1994-‘1995: Associates of Science, Computer Networking Technologies, University of Cincinnati, OH. [Final year to be completed].

·         F.A.A. Part 91 - Certified Pilot (Aviator) Graduation & Licensed Certification.

·         A.O.P.A. / F.A.A. Aviation Wings Credit Course Accreditations.