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IBM Automation - Senior Technical Specialist - IBM Technology Sales - Public Market

Orland Park, Illinois

NA Technical Sales Specialist - Digital Business Automation

As a member of the Industry Solutions and Business Development team, I am responsible for the ongoing identification, development, and assessment of Cloud Solutions and services business opportunities with key accounts within the Insurance industry, selected based on proactive market screening, targeting, and business analysis. Develop extensive executive and senior management relationships in client organizations. Identify and develop the most attractive opportunities for potential engagement. Work collaboratively with other teams across IBM and with other partners and outside consultants as appropriate.

Cloud Solutions Business Development Executive - Insurance Industry

Responsible for the ongoing identification, development, and assessment of Cognitive Solutions and services business opportunities with key accounts, selected based on proactive market screening, targeting, and business analysis.  Develops extensive executive and senior management relationships in client organizations.  Identifies and develops the most attractive opportunities for potential engagement. Work collaboratively with other teams across IBM and with other partners and outside consultants as appropriate.

IBM Services: Cognitive Solutions - Industry Solutions Business Development Executive

Technical sales consultant to clients, sales teams, and business partners. Extended lifecycle support for sales professionals and worked closely with the IBM sales team to outline, create, and detail all aspects of proposed solutions for business. Responsible for understanding the client’s objectives and long term goals in order to provide resolution.■ Aided in closing about $2M with large accounts as well as $2M in transactional and SaaS.■ Outpaced revenue targets by 145%.■ Honored with numerous awards including the IBM One Hundred Percent Club and Eminence and Excellence Award for exceptional performance in 2015, the Manager’s Choice Award twice for uniting the team and closing deals, and the Spirit Award for displaying personal interest in IBM in 2014.■ Produced 29 opportunities in 2014 and 24 in 2015 to aid sales professional pursue new ventures within organization.■ Participated in Business Value Assessments which demonstrate a true Return on Investment for Digital Experiences Solution.■ Offered technical and marketing empowerment to client teams on new offerings in the Enterprise Social Solutions (ESS) portfolio which included the IBM Exceptional Digital Experience and IBM Experience One. ■ Designed and presented demonstrations for IBM Collaboration Solutions (ICS) portfolio as well as Enterprise Social Solutions (ESS) portfolio and produced proof of technology materials for clients and stakeholders to exhibit return on investment and value.

Senior Technical Sales Specialist - Watson Work and Talent Solutions - Financial Services Market

Provided support and solution strategy in collaboration with clients, sales teams, and business partners.■ Obtained about $800,000 in transactional revenue during this time.■ Completed the IBM Summit for Experienced Professionals program, an influential program focused on sales education and enablement as well as skills training. ■ Constructed and delivered proof of technology materials to clients and stakeholders as well as product demonstrations for IBM Collaboration Solutions (ICS) portfolio.■ Offered RFI/RFP support to IBM Collaboration Solutions client teams from beginning to end of projects.

Senior Client Technical Professional – Collaboration Solutions West IMT Pool Team

Built foundation for company’s WebSphere Portal Customer Facing Solutions, which morphed sixty websites into a unified platform. ■Manufactured and applied elements for e-commerce, automated deployment, web content management, and style guides as well as standards documents to aid in transition to new product. ■ Produced source control standards to regulate the deployment of Java/Portal and executed an SVN team development domain.■ Initiated performance tuning practices in WebSphere, WebSphere Portal, and IBM HTTP Server.

IDEX Corporation

WebSphere/WebSphere Portal Architect

Full time member of a team responsible for site operations, implementation, configuration, and administration of WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal applications.  ■ Orchestrated site operations, configuration, and regulation of WebSphere Application Server and Portal.■ Situated a new order-to-fulfillment system, a dealer information portal, and a single sign-on across multiple domains.■ Designed a repeatable troubleshooting methodology detailing the basic steps of effective assessment.

Cars.com

Senior Application Administrator

Infinite Horizons Consulting specializes in IBM WebSphere and IBM WebSphere Portal Architecture, Implementation, performance tuning, and administration.Clients included: Trustmark Insurance, Trimin Manufacturing, Trimin Government Solutions, and Cars.com.■ As President of the company, directed operation of site, managed budget, and procured sales leads and clients.■ Consulted on projects with clients such as <a href="http://Cars.com">Cars.com</a>, Trimin Manufacturing, Trustmark Insurance, and Trimin Government Solutions.■ Composed and assimilated multiple WebSphere Application and Portal Servers as well as offering new ideas on how to increase performance in software.■ Diagnosed and resolved issues in production, QA, and evolution.■ Updated framework to WAS 6.1.0.27 and WebSphere Portal 6.1.0.2 and authorized web content management across ten portal domains.

Infinite Horizons Consulting, Inc.

President

Member of a team responsible for the implementation, configuration, and administration of all WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal applications.  ■ Integrated program into multiple environments, created web content management for rapid updates, tested performance tuning methodologies, performed troubleshooting and diagnosis of system issues, arranged workstations, and monitored server using ITCAM for WebSphere.

Logicalis

WebSphere/Portal Technical Architect - GATX Corporation

Supervised thirteen consultants in the Enterprise Systems practice, an award-winning practice focused on IBM, Java, Microsoft, and Open Source.■ Generated $2.5M in revenue in 2008. ■ Promoted from Technical Specialist to Practice Manager to Vice President, which resulted in leading three consultants through full development lifecycle of WebSphere, WebSphere Portal, and additional projects.■ Developed new service offerings to establish a vision around WebSphere program, directed design and implementation of program.■ Assisted sales by attending meetings and establishing strategies and met with clients to bolster new projects. ■ Supervised financial, operational, and quality of delivery budgets.■ Promoted workshops to define business objectives, product elements, and approach as well as hosted events to market product and drive interest to develop sales leads. ■ Regulated large-scale performance tuning and analysis and procured proof of concept installations and configurations of Wily Introscope acting as a business partner as well as providing Statements of Work for upcoming projects.

PSC Group, LLC

Vice President/Practice Manager - Enterprise Systems

Team manager for WebSphere Portal initiatives at multiple client sites, which include a major property management company, a world-wide leader in the insurance industry, a heavy machinery company, as well as several other markets.- Led several portal initiatives involving the full deployment lifecycle of WebSphere Portal, including multiple heavy machinery dealers and a major beverage maker company.- Conducted a large-scale performance tuning and best practices analysis on a large portal implementation for a world-wide software vendor.- Architected, installed, configured, and automated a complex, gold standard high availability solution for a major wireless provider’s new Customer facing Portal utilizing WebSphere Portal 6.0.- Facilitated Portal Workshops to define business requirements, portal features, and overall strategy.- Performed analysis and estimation for upcoming portal initiatives.- Created a project methodology for successful implementation of Portal Projects.- Implemented an enterprise-wide Intranet Portal using WebSphere Portal Express 6.0 for a large electrical component company.- Installed, configured, and supported WebSphere Portal Server in standalone, as well as Network Deployment environments.- Installed Lotus Collaborative Components under WebSphere Portal to connect to existing Lotus systems.- Extended WebSphere Portal 6 login classes to provide a simulated single-signon to disparate applications across a major heavy machinery company’s dealer sites.- Created and deployed custom themes and skins for WebSphere Portal 6.0.

Team Manager - WebSphere Portal Initiatives

Regulated the design, integration, and support of middleware for the next-generation clearing system, ENCORE. ■ Guided an initiative which progressed the conversion of WebSphere 5.0 and 5.1 in non-HA and HA environments.■ Led architecture of proof of concepts for migration of ENCORE.■ Installed multiple programs such as Ascential DataStage, Iona Orbix, and WebSphere MQ and performed conversions of existing middleware. ■ Conducted disaster recovery and debugged application issues as well as reporting to developers.

Options Clearing Corporation

Application Integration Middleware Specialist

24x7 support of the BADirect Treasury Management/Commercial Banking web application, which utilized technologies such as IBM WebSphere Advanced Application Server, IPlanet Web Server, Oracle 9i, IBM WebSphere MQ, Borland Application Server, JRun, VisiBroker CORBA components, and several others.- Provided 24x7 production support for the high-visibility BADirect application.- Administration of WebSphere Application Server 5.0 Network Deployment in a high-availability production environment containing a mix of 77 EJB and servlet containers distributed across multiple servers.- Created support tools for use in a large-scale WebSphere production environment using the wsadmin utility and other tools.- Performed system administration tasks on enterprise-class systems utilizing Sun Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8, as well as HP-UX and AIX.- Monitored production utilization using Wily Introscope 4.1 and OS command line utilities.

Sapphire Technologies

Application Support Manager - Bank of America - Differentiated Services

- Designed, documented, and implemented several web applications using WebSphere Advanced Application Server 4.0 in a high-availability server group/clone environment.- Installed multiple instances of IPlanet Web Server, in a load-balanced configuration, for each application implemented.- Group lead for multiple projects which involved attending all meetings, documenting application design and implementation, and implementing the application from development to production.- Configured external interfaces for each application, such as data sources and MQ clients.- Implemented SSL encryption between IPlanet Web Server and WebSphere Application Server 4.0 across the HTTP plug-in.- Installed SiteMinder Web Agents into IPlanet Web Server and imported and exported SiteMinder policies from development to pre-production environments.- Conducted performance testing in a high-availability WebSphere environment coordinating with the testing team using Mercury Interactive LoadRunner.

Glotel

WebSphere Specialist - ABN-AMRO E-Commerce Technical Services

- Implemented WebSphere global security across multiple environments using NDS/LDAP authentication.- Installed, configured, and administered IBM WebSphere Application Server in a high-availability server group/clone environment.- Administrated IBM MQ Series running on Solaris and IBM Mainframe.- Installed, configured, and administered Iona Orbix 2000 in multiple environments.- Upgraded several environments from Iona Orbix 2000 (1.2.3) to 5.1 (ASP/E2A).- Conducted thorough disaster recovery testing and support of production ENCORE from a WebSphere, MQ Series, and Iona Orbix 2000 perspective.- Performed migrations of existing WebSphere 3.5 installations to WebSphere 4.0 Advanced Edition.- Created migration plan for moving from Iplanet Web Server to IBM HTTP Server.- Installed and configured Wily Introscope 3.04 and 4.0 in System Test and production environments.- Led SSL connectivity proof of concept for MQ, to allow external customers secure access to sensitive data.

Oxford and Associates

Application Integration Middleware Specialist - Options Clearing Corp.

Provided 7X24 support for CNA_____ILLEGAL_CHAR_SSSTART146ILLEGAL_CHAR_EEEND_____s online business extension, CNA Central, which implemented technologies such as IBM WebSphere Advanced Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, IBM MQ Series, IBM DB2, Oracle, and IBM_____ILLEGAL_CHAR_SSSTART146ILLEGAL_CHAR_EEEND_____s Common Adapter Framework.- Debugged application problems using tools such as Java decompilers, IBM Visual Age for Java, and JProbe, then reported findings to developers for efficient bug fixes and enhancements.- Planned and documented performance testing and tuning strategies for CNA Central using a three-step methodology recommended by IBM for use in WebSphere environments, along with Mercury Interactive LoadRunner.- Installed and administrated IBM WebSphere and IBM HTTP Server running on Microsoft IIS.- Led project for moving several large-scale applications utilizing IIS from a remote web-hosting site to CNA_____ILLEGAL_CHAR_SSSTART146ILLEGAL_CHAR_EEEND_____s internal data center.- Performed system administration tasks on enterprise-class systems utilizing Sun Solaris 7 and Veritas Cluster Server.

CNA Insurance

Systems Engineering Consultant - Technology Solutions: eBusiness

Designed, documented, implemented and supported the infrastructure and architecture of projects and applications related to emerging Internet technologies such as IBM WebSphere Advanced Application Server, IBM HTTP Server,  Apache Web Server, BEA Jolt, ATG Dynamo,  and several others.- Led project for designing a vendor portal extranet application for implementation in business-to-business activities using Visual Age for Java and an undocumented method of using IBM WebSphere remote OSE accessing several different application servers from one extranet machine.- Facilitated the conversion of the Key Performance Indicator application from Netscape Livewire and Netscape (Iplanet) Enterprise Server to Java Servlets and IBM WebSphere.- Performed system administration and networking tasks on multiple enterprise-class servers, which utilized operating systems including Solaris, Linux, SCO and Windows NT, and maintaining enterprise-wide firewall rules using Checkpoint Firewall-1.

Michael Milani