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COMCAST - ARCHITECT / TECHNICAL RESOURCE
Career Overview
Bouna has been with IBM for over 17 years and has gained valuable experience leading development teams during various phases of development and test. His technical and leadership skills allowed him to lead various integration projects on site at customers' integration labs while maintaining excellent relationships with the customer. Bouna has also worked closely with customers to help them resolve integration problems involving multiple integrated products. He has great problem solving skills that make his invaluable to customers.
Accomplishments
  • Integration of SS7 Network with An Application Server Apparatus, System and Method for Validating Application Server Validation Errors Interface for Connecting a Network Element to a Session Initiation protocol Application Server System, Method, and Apparatus to Correlate a TCAP Web Service Request to an Application Server Session Method for instantly conferencing two previously connected calls without calling into a conference bridge Publications http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/1003_sall/1003_sall.html.
Work Experience
Comcast - Architect / Technical Resource
July 2013 to CurrentCompany Name
  • Develop JEE enterprise applications Develop SOA applications and Web Services Develop SIP Servlet applications Develop next gen converged applications WebSphere Integration Developer versions 6.0 and 6.2 Install and configure on windows and Linux Develop SOA applications using BPELs, Web Services, SCA components, dynamic assembly, etc.
  • WebSphere Process Server versions 6.1 and 6.2 Install and configure Windows and Linux Administration and testing WebSphere Entreprise Service Bus (WESB) 6.2 Install and configure on Windows and Linux with WID and WPS Develop OSS/BSS Telecom mediations with TOCP WebSphere Business Services Fabric version 6.2 Install and configure on Windows and Linux with WID Develop Telecom applications using Shared Information Data (SID) WebSphere Telecom Operations Content Pack version 6.2 Install and configure on Windows and Linux WebSphere Application Server version 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7 and 8 Install and configure on Windows, Linux and AIX System Administration and management Application development, deployment and integration WEDM version 6.0 Install and configure with DB2 on Windows, AIX.
January 2012 to July 2013Company Name
  • Architect North West Africa, IBM Senegal Hub Main responsibilities: Application/solution architect, minimal project management.
  • Sales client architect assisting the sales team with solution architectures that fit customers'environments.
  • Organized and managed Proof of Concepts (POC) for showcasing IBM products capabilities in customers' environments.
  • Helped train Business Partners on IBM products.
  • Presented IBM Software products and solutions at various in different countries in North West Africa Supported sales teams with technical presentations and demo or IBM products like Guardium, Maximo, QRadar, etc.
  • Presented IBM Software products and solutions at various in different countries in North West Africa Performed an architectural and performance health check of an underperforming WebSphere Portal solution at Tunisie Telecom.
  • Architect for KPMG Tunisia managed services on IBM cloud.
Technical Lead
January 2004 to January 2012Company Name － City, State
  • Main responsibilities: Application/solution architect, project lead, technical resource, software development, minimal project management.
  • Technical lead for Service Provider Team in Annapolis, MD working on a number of assignments for large Telecommunications providers.
  • Managed development and integration projects thru the full lifecycle of development, test, integration and support.
  • Led and managed various integration projects at customer integration labs.
  • Supported various products after delivery to customers including IBM Resource manager and AT&T TCAP.
Comcast - Architect / Technical Resource
  • Architected a Comet Adapter solution for Comcast Caller ID notification system Helped design a Presence Adapter solution for Comcast customers Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) - Technical Resource Worked on overall architecture and design of Next Generation Operations Systems and Software (NGOSS) solution for TSTT Designed a framework for quickly adding new services to the NGOSS platform.
  • Worked with Minerva (IPTV) and Customer (TSTT) on defining requirements for TSTT IPTV NGOSS solution Defined Business Specifications that detail the IPTV NGOSS solution Designed and developed Websphere mediations between ConceptWave Order Management system and Minerva IPTV using IBM Telecom Content Pack (TCP) data model Worked with Customer and Telcordia on designing Telcordia Network Engineer (NE) integration solution with NGOSS.
  • Designed and developed WebSphere mediations between ConceptWave Order Management system and NE using IBM Telecom Content Pack (TCP) data model.
  • XS4ALL - Technical Resource Designed and developed Access Services Mediations using WID6.2 and Business Processes for IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) server as well as Siebel BRM for XS4ALL Designed mediations between TOCP and other applications and vice versa using WID 6.2, WESB, WPS, TOCP for XS4ALL Intrado WebSphere Application Server V7 Proof of Concept - Technical Lead Supported customer port critical 911 call routing application from BEA Weblogic to IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 Helped customer design and configure a Highly Available WebSphere cluster of Application Servers and Proxies and load balancers for their critical 911 call routing system.
  • Supported customer in their acceptance testing of the WebSphere solution including interoperability testing.
Technical Resource / Technical Lead / Project Manager
January 2008 to January 2009Company Name
  • Managed customer interaction with IBM technical team.
  • Managed customer problems to successful resolution by IBM software development Helped customer migrate conferencing application to WebSphere using new Asynchronous Invocation API of the WebSphere Communications Enabled Applications (CEA) feature pack Transaction Capability Application Part (TCAP) Connector/Toolkit - Technical Lead Led Design and development of AT&T's Improved Service Announcement and Information Collection (ISAIC) application and call flow.
  • Main point of contact for supporting AT&T during project.
  • This included closely working with customer on open problems as well as having technical training sessions with customer on how to use products like TCAP connector and Rational Software Architect Worked with Rational development team to extend Rational Software Architect to include artifacts for modeling and quickly development TCAP applications.
  • Led development of various components of the overall solution Led integration effort with third party TCAP stack vendor Continuous Computing (CCPU).
  • This effort included performance and reliability testing.
  • Member of team that integrated TCAP system in customer lab and demonstrated feasibility of solutions by connecting system with customer's network elements and executing defined test scenarios.
  • AT&T Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Service Level Execution Environment (SLEE) certification - Technical Lead / Integration Lead Defined criteria for certifying WebSphere as a Service Level Execution Environment suitable for the Service Provider's network.
  • This effort includes defining failure points of the overall system and defining test cases to cover all standard certification points.
  • Member of team that designed and architected a five-nine reliable Highly Available WebSphere Application Server SIP SLEE for AT&T with no Single Point of Failure.
  • Closely worked with WebSphere development team on performance and reliability issues with WebSphere platform.
  • IBM Presence Zone Proximity - Integrator / Developer Integrated WebSphere Presence Service with IBM Real Time Collaboration Gateway.
  • Helped resolve integration issues with other components in solution.
  • IBM Triple Play - Service Assurance Lead / Developer Led the architecture and design of Service Assurance Business Processes for IBM's Service Development Platform (SDP) Triple Play project.
  • The Business Logic was implemented in Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) using WebSphere Integration Developer (WID) and WebSphere Process server (WPS) Led integration effort with then Vendor Micromuse.
  • Resolved integration issues with Web Services, wsdls, xsds etc.
  • Qwest IPTV caller ID Preview - Developer Designed Business Logic for Quest IPTV caller ID preview Proof of Concept using Web Services IBM New Media Gateway - Technical Lead / Developer / Integrator Led integration and system test team to a successful delivery on a tight schedule of IBM's New Media Gateway project.
  • Managed integration of Media Gateway product at customer system integration laboratory.
  • Led development of a System Management Console component of the New Media Gateway.
  • Led development of Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) component of IBM's New Media Gateway.
  • IBM IP 5.2 Upgrade Release - Technical Lead / Developer / Integrator Led Integration and testing of IP 5.2 release in IBM test lab as well as customer integration lab.
  • Manage release at customer lab by constantly updating IBM and customer on progress Mitigated risks are various times by informing management and coming up with solutions.
Project Manager / Technical Lead
Company Name
  • Led the Voice Distribution Design, development and test team to a successful deployment of the product to Verizon's System Integration Laboratory.
  • Managed development, Integration and Test of Voice Distribution project.
  • Earned an Ovation Award for the outstanding quality of the product and customer satisfaction.
  • Closely worked with on Voice Distribution and IP5.2 issues involving, Resource Manager as well as third party component like DirectTalk and VCO 4K.
Software Engineer Application architect, project lead, technical resource, software engineer, integrator lead
August 1997 to January 2004Company Name － City, State
Software engineer Resource Manager
Company Name
  • RM) product team.
  • Developed various components of the IBM Resource Manager product.
  • Led deployment of RM at various customers including Verizon & SBC.
Resource Manager - Technical Lead / Developer / Integrator
Company Name
  • Design a Text to Speech server that interface IBM's Resource Manager to Telcordia's Orator speech engine.
  • Designed a SCP processor for an 800 number translation.
  • SCP processor gets a query from SS7 network, queries a DB2 database for a routing number translation and sends a response back to the ss7 network.
  • Designed a SS7 server in C.
  • SS7 server is the interface between IBM's Resource Manager and the ss7 network.
  • It uses ADC Newnet's API to encode and decode TCAP messages.
  • Designed a LIDB server in C.
  • LIDB server formats RM LIDB messages into TCAP messages and vice versa.
  • LIDB server receives a RM message and sends a query to SS7 server which in turn formats the message and sends it to the SS7 network.
  • When LIDB server receives a response back from the SS7 server it decodes the sends a response message back to the originating process.
  • Wrote a DirectTalk application called Charge By Phone that allows callers to change their pin and pay their phone bill through the phone.
  • The application gets a telephone number, credit card number, zip code, expiration date of credit card and amount of transaction from the caller.
  • It then does a NPANNX check to make sure that the telephone number is in the covered area.
  • The next step is to send a LIDB message to the SS7 network to validate the phone number and PIN before sending the transaction to NBD (National Bank of Detroit) for a charge.
  • Did the Database design for the above Charge By Phone application.
  • Wrote a Career Routing Algorithm in C for IBM's Resource Manager.
  • The library allows phone calls to be routed to the appropriate Resource Group depending on date and time of calls, load of resource group, and other configurable variables.
  • Carrier Routing is based on a routing table created on startup.
  • Wrote Perl scripts that do the functionalities of affinity groups for Sprint's Voice Activated Dialing System.
  • Some of the functionalities of an affinity group are adding member department's numbers into their address books, being able to dial group members numbers, give certain departments like HR access to all groups and vise versa, etc.
  • Designed a DirectTalk Server in C.
  • DT server get messages from a call processor maps the switch port number associated with the call to a corresponding span and channel and routes the call to the appropriate DT system.
  • Designed multiple java classes for IBM's System Management Console.
Software Engineer
June 1996 to June 1997Company Name － City, State
  • IBM RS6000/AIX4.1, 'C', K-Shell and WARP/OS2 Developed tools on IBM RS6000/AIX to simulate 802.2 LAN events used to test SNA (System Network Architecture).
  • IPCs were implemented for SNA to LAN communication.
  • Wrote test cases in C to test all different states of SNA by sending to SNA different 802.2 frames for Ethernet Token Ring and FDDI LAN types and making sure that SNA sends expected return frame to either host or LAN.
  • De-bugged and compiled a new Proteon LLC code and made sure it worked with our compiler on our environment.
  • Wrote various C Programs and PERL scripts to automatically format trace logs.
  • Worked on finding and fixing SNA related bugs.
  • Ported SNA code on a mainframe S390 and tested SNA net work connectivity on a new ATM Backbone.
Education and Training
Bachelor of Science degree : Electrical Engineering, 5 1996University of Maryland － CityElectrical Engineering
Various classes in Leadership and Project Management.
Certifications
Intellectual Properties - Filed Patents Invoking Multiple SIP Based Services During a Single Communication Session Using Resource Lists Enabling End-To-End Testing of Applications Across Networks
Languages
Fluent in English, French and Wolof
Skills
Rational Software Architect versions 7 and 8
Additional Information
  • AWARDS July 2014, Client Value Outstanding Technical Achievement Award January 2012, Lab Services Award October 2011, Lab Services Award March 2011, Win IBM-Service Excellence Award August 2009, Win IBM-Service Excellence Award February 2008, IBM Ovation Award September 2007, Invention Achievement Award August 2007, Ovation Award March 2004, IBM Ovation Award in 2004
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Resume Overview

School Attended

  • University of Maryland

Job Titles Held:

  • Comcast - Architect / Technical Resource
  • Technical Lead
  • Technical Resource / Technical Lead / Project Manager
  • Project Manager / Technical Lead
  • Software Engineer Application architect, project lead, technical resource, software engineer, integrator lead
  • Software engineer Resource Manager
  • Resource Manager - Technical Lead / Developer / Integrator
  • Software Engineer

Degrees

  • Bachelor of Science degree : Electrical Engineering , 5 1996
    Various classes in Leadership and Project Management.

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