Highly proficient and successful Lead Web Support Engineer with proven experience of delivering and supporting complex projects in banking and media industries. Adaptable, with a proactive attitude towards supporting large systems, quickly identifies problems and draws accurate conclusions. Experience is further enhanced by working with development team to develop a new code to enhance functionality of the system. Now seeking rewarding opportunity to apply educational background and experience to a new project and make an effective contribution in a successful team.
Specialties:
* Application configuration and deployment.
* Application/J2EE Support (MarkLogic, XML, Tomcat, Apache, JBoss, Redhat, SQL, Voca Switch, Anthill,Mysql)
* System Support (Solaris, Redhat, Perl, ksh)
* Web Development (PHP, MySql)
* Java Development
DevOps Engineer @ • Operational management of Linux servers and delivering a complex application stack (RedHat 6.5, CentOS 6.5, Dropwizard, Tomcat, F5)
• Deploying, configuring and managing machines in a Cloud environment (skyscape and rackspace)
• Automate building and configuring new server platforms (TeamCity, Ansible, Puppet, Hiera, rpm, Git, GitLab)
• Testing, debugging and troubleshooting of platform level problems
• Supporting development teams with configuring and testing applications(JUnit, Jasmine, Sinon.js, SauceLabs, Burpsuite pro) From March 2014 to Present (1 year 10 months) Reading, United KingdomSenior Application Support Engineer @ • Provide 2nd/3rd line infrastructure and application support for Mobile Payment system (WebLogic, SOAP, Oracle,F5)
• Automate code deployment into Test and Production environments
• Ownership of all Technical Recovery activities across all systems to ensure restoration of service quickly and effectively
• Design and configure system monitoring and management capabilities (Oracle Enterprise Manager) From October 2013 to March 2014 (6 months) London, United KingdomGBM eCommerce Support Engineer @ • Provide 2nd/3rd line support (on-call) of the global Trading and eCommerce environments (JBoss, Apache, IIS 6.0 & 7.0, XML, SOAP, RedHat, Windows Server).
• Application code deployment and change implementation across the global eCommerce estate (QA and Production).
• Ongoing evaluation and analysis of current eCommerce infrastructure to provide optimum performance.
• Liaison with appropriate application development representatives to optimise value to the business.
• Testing of third party software prior to release to the production environment.
• Management of security and compliance functions across the eCommerce Infrastructure estate (PKI, LDAP & Single Sign On Technologies).
• Apply configuration changes to server Load Balancers and Application Switching technologies (Citrix NetScaler or BlueCoat). From September 2011 to September 2013 (2 years 1 month) London, United KingdomWeb Support Engineer / MarkLogic Consultant @ • Deploy and administrate Tomcat/Apache/JBoss servers in productions and QA environments
• Configure a continuous integration build server
• Manage and implement scheduled MarkLogic application releases and ad-hoc database patches to the Live environment.
• Provide performance improvements to the existing environments.
• Proactive monitoring, alerting and reporting on MarkLogic metrics, performance, capacity
• Ensure timely delivery of new functionality to the Business over a variety of cycles and projects.
• Provide database design/configuration authority for all configuration changes (CPF, Triggers, Indexes, Scheduled tasks, Users, Roles etc.), ensuring a consistent and maintainable approach.
• Tune existing processes and XQuery code and be a quality gate for code written by other team members From March 2011 to August 2011 (6 months) Lead Web Support Engineer @ • Deploy and administrate Tomcat, Apache and JBOSS servers in productions and QA environments
• Build and release new code to QA and production environments in a control manner. (Anthill Pro)
• Provide application/UNIX support ( office and out-office hours) for yell.com
• Administrate and configure MarkLogic Server 4.1 for one of biggest eCommerce website
• Develop many dynamic websites (php) to improve supportability of the yell.com
• Administrate and support live and QA environments (create users, create file systems, vg ,lv, set up permissions, install filesets)
• Develop Java application to ingest xml file into xml server (Marklogic)
• Develop many shell scripts (ksh, perl, sed, awk) to automate variety processes, which help to reduce costs of maintenance and improved stability of the system
• Develop an Ant Tasks to automate configuration and modules deployment into MarkLogic server
• Work with business analysts to design and document system components for major yell.com redesign
• Optimize SQL code to increase a frequency of updates of yell.com
• Build and administrate mysql databases for variety of projects
• Working on scrum team to optimize and redevelop main search application for yell.com (Servlet 2.5)
• Develop Java 5.0 application to control a transfer of files between variety of systems and alert in case of failure (Javamail, JDBC) From November 2008 to March 2011 (2 years 5 months) Senior Software Engineer @ System Support/Java Developer (Dec’06-Nov’08)
Engagement: Barclays Bank PLC, Faster Payment System
• Work closely with a design team to capture requirements correctly and implement them to a higher standard
• Securing the environments by configuring of SSL, SSH, openSSL and installing the SafeSign application
• Successfully manage a team of 4 technical specialists during different phases of the project, which helped to complete the testing on schedule
• Plan, execute and manage changes of the test environments
• Resolve environment defects and restore it into operational level on priory to minimize an outage.
• Integration of variety software components required to successfully build designed solution (e.g. MQ Manager, GPFS, Oracle, Voca Switch, Connect:Direct)
• Develop SQL scripts to load testing data into databases
• Design and build UNIX test environments for a major payment project (including capacity planning)
• Administrate and support existing test environments (create users, create file systems, vg ,lv, set up permissions, install filesets)
• Developing a Java Application for generating ad-hoc reports on payments
• Liaise with testers to help resolve defects
ETL Ab Initio Developer (Aug’06-Dec’06)
Engagement: Barclays Bank PLC, Basel II Capital Reporting Program Project
• Liaise with the technical design and the database teams to clarify any issues identified in the design
• Defect management - analysing root cause of defects and working with the developers to resolve the defects
• Design and develop the ETL Ab Initio scripts using the Ab Initio tool
• Execute a User Acceptance Tests with Barclay’s business representatives From June 2006 to November 2008 (2 years 6 months) Broadcast System Administrator @ From September 2004 to June 2006 (1 year 10 months)
BA, Network Computing @ Brunel University London From 2004 to 2008 MA, Honours in Banking & Finance @ From 1999 to 2004 Pawel Lewicki is skilled in: Apache, MarkLogic, Tomcat, JBoss, J2EE, Unix Shell Scripting, Unix Administration, Perl, Solaris, RedHat, Web Applications, System Deployment, Web Services, XQuery, Application Management
Websites:
http://merrickconsultancy.co.uk