Chokha Palayamkottai
Mobile: 508-740-1870
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Summary:
Experience in the software industry for more than 9 years. 
Expertise in SUN JES, IBM WebSphere application 6.x and IBM WebSphere Portal
server 5.1 Administration.
Experience in Tivoli/JES Access Manager, LDAP and SSO.
Designed, developed and deployed multi-tier J2EE applications.
Experience in EJB, JSP, JSF and Servlets.
Experience in Sun Solaris 2.5.1 to 9, FreeBSD/OpenBSD/BSDI, Linux (RedHat
,Ubuntu)
Extensive experience in WSAD 5.1.2 and Rational Application Developer 6.0.
Experience in Telecom/Wireless industry and Wireless based products. 
Expertise in SCM methodologies and writing build scripts (Ant).

Education:	B.S (Computer Science).
Skills:
Application Server:	IBM WebSphere 6.0, IIS.
Portal Server:		IBM Portal Server 5.1, Sun JES Portal 5.
Web Servers:                 Apache Web server, Tomcat, HIS, Sun One.
Operating System:        	Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux, Sun Solaris 9.0, Windows XP,
Windows 2003.         
Languages:                    Java, C, C++.
Server Side:                   Servlets, Portlets , JSP, CGI-PERL.
Framework:		Struts1.1
Tag Based:                    	Html, XML, XSLT, XFDL, WML 1.1, VoXML.
Portal API:		IBM Portlet API, JSR-168, Struts-Portlet API,JSF
RDBMS:		IBM DB2, Oracle 9i.
IDE:			WSAD 5.x, RAD 6.0, Macromedia DreamWeaver ,Fireworks.
Security:		Tivoli Access Manager.
Modelling Language:	UML (Rational Rose and Rational Unified Process).
WebServices:		SOAP.
Version Control:	             PVCS, CVS,Subversion.

Experience:
Blue Cross Blue Shield 			September 2006 to Present.
Working as a Systems Integration and technology specialist and mobility
consultant for multi-tier applications. 
Responsibilities:
Support vendor centric integration operations.
Project design and integration.
Implement Portal based solutions for providers.
Design and provide recommendation for new projects.
Provide security support for SSO and SAML based applications.
Environment: IBM WebSphere, MQ, Access Manager, SSO, SAML, Portal, LDAP, J2EE,
Solaris 10.

Oakland County Health Dept.			June 2005 to August 2006
EHealth.
Responsibilities:
Architect applications for IBM WebSphere Application Server.
Environment: Web Sphere Application Server 6.0, Apache HTTP Server, CVS,
Bugzilla,Trimble, GPS, J2ME, Windows 2003.

SBC, Troy, MI					November 2004 to June 2005
Intranet Services.
Responsibilities:
Administer WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal Server.
Integrate the Portal Server with IBM Directory Server (LDAP).
Integrate /Develop and Install skins and themes for the Portal Server.
Used IBM Directory Server for Login and other authentication services.
Developed the login module using LDAP.
Used JSR 168 and JSF for developing different modules.
Environment: Java/J2EE, JSR-168,JSF, LDAP,J2ME,WAP, EJB, XML, Portlets, Portlet
Toolkit, Design Patterns, Servlet 2.2,JSP, on WebSphere 5.0.2, RAD 6.0, IBM
WebSphere Portal Server, Oracle, Sun Solaris, Linux, Windows 2003 Server.

IBM. Southfield, MI 				July 2004 to October 2004
eFiling Application.
Responsibilities:
Installation and administration of the IBM WebSphere Application and Portal
Server 5.0
Involved in integration with Tivoli Access Manager for SSO.
Defined the resources and roles for users in the Portal Server
Responsible for installation and maintenance of Portal Application
Defined the Access Control for the Portal Server
Used J2C for accessing the LDAP objects
Designed the front end using JSP with Portlet API tags and other tag libs
Implemented a CourtClient to communicate with the MQ Series to get and parse
messages
Designed the themes and skins for the WebSphere Portal Server
Involved in the installation and administration of IBM WebSphere application
server 5.0
Environment: Java/J2EE,LDAP, EJB, XML, XFDL, Struts, Portlets, Filenet, IBM
MQSeries, Portlet Toolkit, Design Patterns, Servlet 2.2,JSP on WebSphere 5.0,
WSAD 5.1.2, SOAP,Tivoli, IBM WebSphere Portal Server, DB2, Windows 2003 Server

Oakland County Health Dept. Waterford, MI. 	September 2002 to July 2004
eHealth Septics Application, eHealth Well Log Application, Community Corrections
module
and eHealth Lab.
Responsibilities:
Involved in the eHealth architecture analysis and design.
 
Involved in the Database design for the application.
Implemented EJB’s for business logic.
Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0,J2EE, LDAP, EJB, Struts,
Design Patterns, Servlet 2.2, JSP, WSAD 5.0, SOAP and Oracle

Signal Soft Corporation. Boulder, CO.	August 2001 to August 2002. 
Location Finding Controller (LFC) Driver (Nextel)
Responsibilities:
Involved in the Detail Design of the LFC Driver.
Coding for the entire LFC Driver and Location Proxy.
Used Ace APIs for SS7 and TCP/IP event dispatching.
Involved in the Product documentation .
Involved in the design of test cases.
Involved in the design of Client Acceptance test Procedure.
Environment: Tomcat server, Apache HTTP server, C/C++, GSM, GPRS, Java/J2EE,
Design Patterns on Solaris 8.

Location Finding Controller (LFC) Driver (Ericsson)
Responsibilities:
Involved in the Detail Design of the LFC Driver
Used Ace APIs for SS7 and TCP/IP event dispatching
System Integration with LM and the PDE
Involved in socket level programming using JAVA/C++
Involved in Product documentation
Involved in Test Case design
Involved in the design of Client Acceptance test Procedure
Environment: C/C++, GSM, GPRS, Java, J2EE, WAP, DB2, LDAP, Design Patterns on
Solaris 8

Project: ATI Location Finding Controller (LFC) Driver (Vodafone).
Responsibilities:
Involved in the Detail design of the driver
Involved in the System Integration of the driver with the SS7 Network
Involved in Product Documentation
Test Case design
Involved in the design of Client Acceptance test Procedure.
Involved in extensive SMS testing in the logica SMS WAP Gateway 
Environment: C/C++, SMS Gateway, GSM, GPRS, WAP, J2ME, ACE API resting on
Solaris 8.

RPG Cellular Services Limited.	                 April 1999 to December 2000.
Project:	WAP
Client:		RPG Cellular Services Limited.
WAP based application to access mails and subscriber information from the
database. 
Responsibilities:
System, study and design of WML applications.
Server side WAP enabled content done in Java.
Environment: WML1.1, Java (Jdk1.2). JSP, UML,WebLogic, UP.sdk, Oracle 8.0 on
Windows NT 4.0

Project: Project Thunderbolt
Client: RPG Cellular Services Limited.
Responsibilities:
System, study and design
Design and coding of Customer Administration Module
Environment: Java (Jdk1.2), Oracle 8.0 on Windows NT 4.0.

Excellent Institute of Computer Technology, Chennai         February 1997 to
February 1999                                                      
Worked as a Java Programmer.