Michael Halliday

IT Consultant

+1 (860) 946-4473

[email protected]

http://flymike.fayor.com/resume.doc

Summary of Qualifications

• 37 years experience in large systems software design and programming for IBM as an IT Consultant and a Senior Programmer.
• Superior verbal and written communications skills.

Objectives

• Architect, design, and solve complex problems with large messaging, groupware, and content management systems – telecommuting as an independent consultant on goal-oriented projects of limited duration.

Skills

Leadership level

• Internet Messaging & Message Content Management, Data Analysis, Database Design, Application Design & Programming – using Lotus Notes, sendmail, Apache, DB2, MySQL, Java, Perl, Brio, Unix

Working Knowledge level

• HTML, PHP, XML, XSL, XPATH, C++, Rexx, LotusScript

Selected Accomplishments

• Designed, implemented and deployed a statistics collection and reporting system for a global messaging system serving 400,000 users worldwide, utilizing Java, DB2, and Brio. This was then used as a substitute for information obtained from a real-time probe system which had been eliminated in order to save $140K per year.
• Redesigned the configuration of 32 global messaging relays, simplifying and reducing the size of the configurations by 60%, thus enabling configuration changes to be deployed globally over a 2-week period, instead of the 6-week period required previously.
• Architected and designed a migration solution for the non-disruptive deployment of a new messaging gateway technology in a large enterprise Lotus Notes domain containing 360,000 active e-mail users, yielding cost savings of $13M over 5 years.
• Designed an extensible and flexible sendmail configuration which was deployed as a corporate standard solution on 18 sendmail relays around the world for the use of 360,000 e-mail users. Directed its deployment.
• Designed and implemented a messaging firewall solution for 8,000 Lotus Notes users in Latin America.
• Architected a solution for integrating Lotus Notes into a corporate domain of 8,000 active OfficeVision/VM e-mail users in Latin America.
• Led the reconstruction of a corporate site SMTP and OfficeVision/VM e-mail system of 3,500 users.
• Designed and implemented a Unix-based SMTP e-mail solution to remove dependence on the mainframe. Responsible for the seamless integration of Lotus Notes into existing e-mail systems.
• Designed and implemented a multiple Lotus Notes SMTP gateway solution to provide adequate and dependable capacity for e-mail traffic flowing between Lotus Notes and other messaging systems.

Prior Accomplishments

• Directed the design of the highly parallel version of IBM's high-volume transaction processing product (z/TPF), which today achieves transaction rates exceeding 5,000 per second.
• Designed and developed a PC-based, low-cost, continuously available resource scheduling system employing voice response and touch-tone telephone access.
• Designed the run-time environment supporting 'C' language programs on z/TPF.
• Initiated and designed the adaptation of distributed database technology into z/TPF.
• Designed and developed a highly parallel machine architecture emulator which co-existed with the z/VM operating system.
• Invented an operating system i/o offload technique, then designed and developed a prototype which demonstrated an overall performance improvement of 10%
• Designed and developed a set of platform services on z/OS, enabling simple communication between z/OS applications.
• Invented and deployed a software defect classification scheme, leading to a net benefit of $481,000 on one project.
• Deployed a corporate software quality measurement system across multiple software development sites.
• Designed and implemented a corporate client/server application for the classification of software defect data, collecting the data using an OS/2 GUI at multiple sites, and storing the data at a central relational database.
• Designed a client/server corporate data discovery tool enabling multiple sites to search a central software defect database for interesting trends, presenting the results as charts to the end user.
• Negotiated the technical content of a multi-million dollar joint software development contract between IBM and four major airlines.
• Invented a source code control system enabling multiple developers to work on multiple versions of the same software product simultaneously.