Name MICHAEL ROSS MURPHY eMail Address michael@michaelrossmurphy.com Website Address http://www.michaelrossmurphy.com Location

Ottawa Ontario Canada

Mr. Murphy is a Enterprise Systems Architect based in Ottawa, Canada, specializing in the design, development and implementation of Enterprise Java and XML applications.

Working languages: EnglishFrench Secret Clearance 25 years experience Keywords: systems delivery services e-commerce information architecture data modeling telecommunications network planning telecommunications technical support client/server architecture software evaluation ISO-9000 Mr. Murphy has wide experience in technical solutions architecture, with a specialty in large-scale relational and network database applications. He is currently providing technical architecture support for the Information Technology Services (ITS) branch of Public Works Canada, on behalf of IBM Global Services, providing architectural solutions and coordinating J2EE infrastructure development for a government-wide Cognos 8 enterprise BI Tools and data warehouse shared services facility. Over the past five years, he has provided technical architecture support for the Government Telecommunications and Informatics Services (GTIS) branch of Public Works Canada, on behalf of IBM Global Services, leading a team of Unix and Windows NT/2000 engineers. Recently, he performed a technical architecture review for Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC), a large government agency, providing an enhanced design for a unified data access facility using Java and the J2EE Java Connector Architecture (JCA) with Oracle and IBM WebSphere MQ. As Enterprise Architect, Mr. Murphy designed and developed a commercial Java interface for a client's tableBASE OS/390-based software product. The adapter technology was branded as "tableBEANS", and consists of a flexible multi-tier architecture. Mr. Murphy was the DMR Application Support Manager for the successful implementation of the electronic Statement of Mailing (eSOM) Internet application on behalf of Canada Post Corporation. As Senior Systems Architect, Mr. Murphy provided project management, system architect and team leadership services to DMR and its clients. The business areas supported included Address Management, Mail Transportation, Mail Operations, Customer Service and Sales & Marketing. He was a founding member of the DMR/AMS Change Control Board that prepared and reviewed project implementation planning, configuration management practices and application release readiness. Mr. Murphy led many projects for the Application Maintenance Systems department at DMR Consulting Group, primarily for DMR Ottawa's main client, Canada Post Corporation. Before joining DMR Consulting Group, Mr. Murphy was employed with Canada Post Corporation where he was a principal designer of the original Postal Code Support System, as well as other mail processing and industrial engineering applications. He began his career with five years of progressive experience in computer operations at Canada Post Corporation, where his responsibilities included telecommunications planning and support, as well as shift supervision, job scheduling and management reporting. Mr. Murphy was also the principal Systems Architect for a series of major enhancements to the Postal Code Support System for Canada Post Corporation. He has also designed and developed interface applications between the Postal Code Database and a variety of other systems, also for Canada Post. He also helped establish the DMR support team for several mission-critical PC and mainframe-based applications for Canada Post in a systems integration role. Mr. Murphy's analytical and design skills have made him a valuable problem solver on many projects. IBM Global Services PWGSC Government Telecommunications and Informatics Services (GTIS) Enterprise Architect Software Engineer April 2005 - present As Solutions Architect on behalf of IBM Global Services, Mr. Murphy provides technical architecture solutions for the Information Technology Services (ITS) branch of Canada's Public Works Department. He has architected and coordinated the implementation of a government-wide Cognos 8 Business Intelligence solution on the IBM WebSphere Java 2 Enterprise platform. The multidisciplinary team has recently completed the initial phase to service and support the Real Property Services branch of Public Works. Mr. Murphy is now working in a key role within the Shared Services Organization of Public Works & Government Services Canada to scale out their BI Tools and data warehouse infrastructure for their next wave of new clients. Apache Webserver; Sun One Application server; Sun Identity Manager; Sun One 5.2 Directory Server LDAP; Microsoft IIS/ASP/.Net, WebSphere 5.1.1 Network Deployment Edition; PKI, security and network architecture; Oracle 8i & 9i; Microsoft 2000 & 2003, Solaris 8, 9, 10 and HP-UX Unix 11.11 server platforms. IBM Global Services PWGSC Government Telecommunications and Informatics Services (GTIS) Project Manager Enterprise Architect Software Engineer August 2004 - April 2005 As Project Manager on behalf of IBM Global Services, Mr. Murphy led a team of systems engineers in providing technical infrastructure support for Transport Canada's Oracle Financials group. Mr. Murphy and his engineering team provided this managed facilities service offering as part of the Government Telecommunication and Informatics Services (GTIS) branch of Canada's Public Works Department. Supported architectures included Oracle 10g Applications and Database software in a high-availability configuration. The midrange platforms ranged from Microsoft 2000 and Citrix application servers to large-scale Tru-64 Unix server platforms. Mr. Murphy assisted Transport Canada in achieving security compliance to the specifications of the Auditor General for Canada. Apache Webserver; PKI, security and network architecture; Oracle 9i, 10g Financials and database; Microsoft NT/2000, Citrix & Tru-64Unix platforms. IBM Global Services PWGSC Government Telecommunications and Informatics Services (GTIS) Enterprise Architect Software Engineer Hardware Engineer June 2002 - July 2004 As Enterprise Architect on behalf of IBM Global Services, Mr. Murphy provided technical architecture support for the Government Telecommunication and Informatics Services (GTIS) branch of Canada's Public Works Department. He led an engineering team that supported midrange Unix and Windows NT/2000 servers as well as the network and software infrastructure for the Real Property Services branch. Solution architectures included Apache Webserver, Sun iPlanet, Microsoft IIS/ASP, WebSphere and ColdFusion application server products with enterprise-class Oracle 8i databases. The midrange platforms ranged from Microsoft NT/2000 servers to large-scale Solaris and HP-UX Unix server platforms. Mr. Murphy and his team worked closely with RPS development projects to help them achieve their business objectives. Apache Webserver; Sun iPlanet, Microsoft IIS/ASP, WebSphere and ColdFusion application servers; PKI, security and network architecture; Oracle 8i; Microsoft NT/2000, Solaris and HP-UX Unix platforms. IBM Global Services HRDC Database Reengineering Division Enterprise Architect Software Engineer January 2002 - March 2002 As Enterprise Architect on behalf of the eBusiness group at IBM Global Services, Mr. Murphy conducted an architecture review of a federal government department's database reengineering division. After gaining consensus for his recommendations for architectural change, he assisted the development team with the necessary high-level design and prototyping to implement the expanded enterprise database access facility. The database access facility provided a common access framework for an EIS data tier that utilized both relational (an Oracle 8.1.7 database) and legacy components (CICS/VSAM and Adabas) residing on an IBM OS/390 mainframe environment. The middle tier clients used Oracle 9i Application Server on both Windows 2000 Server and HP-UX platforms. Access technologies used were IBM MQSeries, CICS and the J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA). Enterprise Java IBM MQSeries J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA) Data Kinetics Ltd. Data Kinetics Ltd. Project Leader Lead Architect Software Engineer April 2000 to September 2001 Mr. Murphy designed and developed a commercial Java interface to the tableBASE software product sold by Data Kinetics Ltd. The adapter technology has been branded as tableBEANS, and consists of a flexible multi-tier architecture. The data tier is a DKL's proprietary "in memory" database, residing on the z/OS Unix mainframe environment accessed by a Java wrapper employing the Java Native Interface (JNI) with C/C++. The middle tier uses EJB, JSP, Java servlets and XML. This middle tier can be located on a Unix host server (such as HP-UX, Sun Solaris, IBM z/OS or Linux) or on a Windows 2000 Server platform. The architecture supports various Internet and Intranet-based client tier types, such as "thick client" Java applications with Java Foundation Classes (Swing) as well as "thin client" HTML browser-based clients. The development environment utilized VisualAge Java IDEs on Windows 2000 Professional workstations with NFS-based cross-platform file sharing, communication and security facilities to Windows NT 4, Windows 2000 Server, Linux Red Hat 6.2 file servers and multiple z/OS mainframe LPARs. Mr. Murphy was responsible for the configuration management and facilities planning for the Unix environments, including cost estimation, project management and reporting. VisualAge Java 3.5 w/EJB WebSphere 3.02, WebSphere 3.5 IBM POSIX IBM OS/MVS DMR Consulting Group Inc. March 1991 to April 2000 Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Applications Support Manager Lead Architect November 1999 to April 2000 Mr. Murphy provided production implementation services for a Canada Post e-commerce Internet application while establishing and training the new DMR support organization. With the successful implementation of the Commercial Customer Automation Project (Phases I and II) achieved, Mr. Murphy led a team that provided application support services under the aegis of the Application Maintenance and Support group of DMR Ottawa. VisualAge Java 2 w/EJB WebLogic 4.0.3 SunOS Unix Solaris 7 Oracle 8i Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Project Manager Senior Systems Architect November 1999 As consulting Senior Systems Architect, Mr. Murphy assisted the initiation of a project to design and develop a VisualBasic / SQL Server application to support the evaluation and recognition of mail presortation software by Canada Post Corporation. Visual Basic 6 SQL Server 7 Windows NT 4.0 Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Senior Systems Architect August 1999 to October 1999 Mr. Murphy was the Senior Systems Architect on a project that designed and developed a prototype VBA and Excel-based application to support a new type of postal sortation equipment being acquired for nation-wide implementation by Canada Post Corporation. Windows 95 Excel 97 Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Senior Systems Architect April 1999 to July 1999 Mr. Murphy designed and implemented a new interface application between the mainframe-based Postal Code Support System (IDMS) and the new Decentralized Redirection System (Visual Basic / Oracle) based on an NT server platform. CA-IDMS CA-ControlM ConnectDirect Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Senior Systems Architect September 1998 to March 1999 Mr. Murphy was the Senior Systems Architect on a small project team that planned and coordinated the release testing and the implementation of approximately 20 application systems that had been Y2000 repaired and compliance tested within Canada Post's Address Management business area. These applications and their interfaces ranged in scale from very large mainframe applications (such as the Postal Code Support System), to a variety of Unix client-server and PC-based applications assessed as "mission critical" to the Corporation. This project demanded wide-ranging skills, from technology consulting and strategic planning to issue management and risk mitigation, due to factors such as convergent upgrade of operating environments and interfaces among applications, some of which were interlocked with applications contained within other concurrent large-scale Y2000 release projects. IDMS 14 IBI-Focus Ultrix Oracle 7 VAX/VMS Data Transfer Facility Windows 95 CA-Clipper PC Anywhere Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Project Leader December 1997 to August 1998 As Senior Systems Architect, Mr. Murphy led the Y2000 Repair Team to perform Y2000 repair to the Postal Code Support System and its interfaces. This also entailed a technology upgrade of this large-scale application from IDMS 10.2 to IDMS 14. Mr. Murphy's team also provided technical support to the Y2000 Compliance Test Team to ensure the project completed successfully on time and within budget. IBM 3090 with OS/MVS/XA CA-IDMS V10.2 ADSO IDMS COBOL ISPF CList Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Project Leader May 1997 to November 1997 As Project Leader, Mr. Murphy led two development teams in parallel to deliver a set of business enhancements for the Postal Code Support System prior to Canada Post's Y2000 project. One set of enhancements (the Address Edits project) expanded the flexibility of managing address to postal code relationships while perfecting address uniqueness validation. The other (Consumers' Choice), honoured a commitment by the Corporation to improve service both to the direct mail business sector and the Canadian public by enabling individual Householders to opt out of Canada Post's ad mail delivery service. IBM 3090 with OS/MVS/XA CA-IDMS V10.2 ADSO IDMS COBOL Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Project Leader January 1997 to May 1997 As Project Leader, Mr. Murphy successfully implemented the changes to the Retail Service Center applications to introduce the new Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) to Canada Post Corporation finance and sales applications. Progress VAX/VMS Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Systems Architect November 1996 to January 1997 Mr. Murphy provided on-site technical consulting services for Canada Post while concurrently establishing and training a new support organization based at DMR premises. The transition took place during a critical phase of the Customer Shipping System (CSS) EDI implementation project after Canada Post had lost key EDI support team members. Mr. Murphy accomplished a smooth transition from a Canada Post-supported technical support service to an outsourced operation under the aegis of the Application Maintenance and Support group of DMR Ottawa. X.12 EDI Tandem Messageway VAN Technology MS Access Lotus123 CA-Clipper Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Systems Architect March 1996 to October 1996 Mr. Murphy designed the communication architecture for a new I-Mail Automation Facility that provided a two-way link between Head Office mainframe systems and the LAN-based I-Mail Despatch Systems at four remote mail processing sites across Canada. Mr. Murphy also developed the integrated and automatically scheduled weekly flight specification download and remote deployment subsystem. Visual Basic 3.0 Windows 3.11 Novell 4.1 CA-Clipper CoSession DataPac IBM/OS/MVS CA-IDMS V10.2 Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Systems Architect November 1995 to March 1996 Mr. Murphy was the principal architect and team leader for a set of comprehensive enhancements to the International Mail application systems for Canada Post Corporation. Mr. Murphy was responsible for the design, development and implementation of the changes to the Inbound (BAG) and Outbound (BAH) applications required for Canada's compliance with Universal Postal Union agreements. IBM 3090 with OS/MVS/XA CA-IDMS V10.2 ADSO IDMS COBOL CA-Clipper 5 Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Systems Architect June 1995 to October 1995 Mr. Murphy performed the role of systems analyst in the creation of new interfaces between the PCSS Application and a variety of other application systems for Canada Post Corporation. Mr. Murphy was responsible for the design and application software as well as the Interface Control Documents. The new applications were the Delivery Manifest System (DMS) and the Entitlement Management Information System (EMIS). IBM 3090 with OS/MVS/XA CA-IDMS V10.2 ADSO IDMS COBOL IBM DB2 Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Systems Architect June 1994 to May 1995 Mr. Murphy was the principal architect for a large-scale redesign and enhancement project for the IDMS-based PCSS database and its related applications and interfaces. He performed multiple roles as team leader and systems designer, including full responsibility for data modeling, physical database design and coordination of the information architecture for the six releases for the project. IBM 3090 with OS/MVS/XA CA-IDMS V10.2 ADSO IDMS COBOL ISPF Clist Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Systems Architect February 1994 to May 1994 Mr. Murphy was the principal architect for the interface between the Postal Code Support System (PCSS) database and the Oracle-based Sortation Data Management (SDM) application. He developed the Interface Specification in cooperation with Andersen Consulting, the contractor responsible for the SDM application. Mr. Murphy designed and developed the IDMS database extract software and the IBM to VAX data transmission facilities. IBM OS/MVS DTF IDMS/R IDMS COBOL VAX/VMS / ORACLE 6.0 Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Systems Architect September 1993 to February 1994 Mr. Murphy was the principal analyst and systems architect for the final phase of the Software Evaluation and Recognition Program, Presorted Mail products. Mr. Murphy established the Presort Specification in consultation with Address Management, Mail Operations and Retail Products to ensure compliance with the National Distribution Guide. Mr. Murphy also led the team that completed the Evaluation Software and Tracking applications. IBM 3090 with OS/MVS/XA ISPF SAS Clipper COBOL Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Systems Architect March 1991 to August 1993 Mr. Murphy was responsible for applications support, in a Systems Integration capacity, for several major IBM mainframe, PC-based and VAX-based applications. He also coordinated the Change Management and Computer Security policies for DMR users of CPC's mainframe computer and telecommunications environment. He played a key role in network planning for the telecommunications link between Canada Post IBM mainframes, VAX systems and the DMR Netware LANs. IBM 3090 with OS/MVS/XA ISPF ADS/O IDMS/R IDMS COBOL COBOL Canada Post Corporation September 1977 to March 1991 Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Technical Specialist May 1990 to March 1991 Mr. Murphy supported and enhanced critical mainframe software applications including the Postal Code Support System for Mail Operations and the PC-based Postal Code CD-ROM Lookup application for CPC Customer Service. He also designed and implemented the high volume magnetic tape duplication and an associated shipping facility for the distribution of Postal Code Products to CPC clients. IBM 3090 with OS/MVS/XA ISPF ADS/O IDMS/R Culprit IDMS COBOL Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Quality Assurance Specialist December 1989 to May 1990 Mr. Murphy defined the terms of reference and strategic objectives for the system test team. As team leader, he designed, received approval for and carried out the system test series for all 15 design groups of the PCSS application (online and batch), in order to identify design and/or coding defects for correction and retesting. IBM 3090 with OS/MVS/XA ISPF ADS/O IDMS/R Culprit IDMS COBOL Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Systems Architect September 1989 to December 1989 Mr. Murphy developed application software and common subroutines for both on-line and batch subsystems. He was responsible for the detailed design of both the on-line and the batch subsystems. He designed and documented the Canadian Postal Code Directory and Address Tape products, including the creation of product specifications and marketing information. On behalf of the PCSS project, Mr. Murphy liaised with external organizations, including Statistics Canada, the House of Commons and the Queen's Printer. He was the principal liaison between Canada Post Corporation and the development subcontracting organization. He also established testing standards, change control and the configuration management protocol for the on-line and batch IDMS programs written by subcontractors. Mr. Murphy facilitated the creation of an automated PC-mainframe application interface to up-load Route Restructure Data directly to the PCSS database to reduce cost and effort, also preventing entry errors. IBM 3090 with OS/MVS/XA ISPF ADS/O IDMS/R Culprit IDMS COBOL COBOL IBM PC Clipper Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Systems Designer May 1988 to September 1989 Mr. Murphy created the design specifications for all of the Postal Code products, including the Canadian Postal Code Directory, Addresses on Magnetic Tape, Householder Directories and Delivery Mode data, as well as participating in the physical data model and database design. He assessed the impact of change requests on the system development and operation costs as well as the delivery schedule. IBM 3090 Mainframe with OS/MVS/XA Macintosh MacDraw Excel IBM PC IBM DCF/SCRIPT Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Systems Analyst January 1988 to April 1988 Mr. Murphy defined the functional specifications for all of the new and existing Postal Code products, including the Canadian Postal Code Directory, Address, Householder and Delivery Mode information on magnetic tape, microfiche and publication formats. He also participated in the definition of the logical and physical data models for the Postal Code database. IBM 3090 Mainframe with OS/MVS/XA PSL/PSA DCF/SCRIPT Macintosh MacDraw Excel Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Systems Architect September 1987 to December 1987 Mr. Murphy designed and developed an MSA - Information Expert productivity measurement application to track and report variances between budgeted and actual postal volume and labour information with comparisons to the previous year's historical data. He designed and developed decentralized data capture facilities as well as database administration software and procedures. Mr. Murphy also designed an interface between these applications and the Corporate Financial General Ledger system. IBM 3090 Mainframe with OS/MVS/XA and CICS MSA Information Expert (4th GL) FCS/EPS/Multi Relational DBMS Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Programmer/Analyst January 1980 to December 1987 Mr. Murphy was responsible for numerous activities including application support, systems analysis, design and development for approximately 30 computer information systems within Canada Post Corporation. These supported such business areas as Industrial Engineering, Personnel, Finance, Operations Research and Mail Operations. Honeywell Level 66 COBOL FORTRAN BASIC SPSS Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Computer Operations Department Shift Supervisor October 1978 to December 1979 Mr. Murphy was responsible for a team of up to ten computer operators on three rotating shifts operating a national computer centre, with two mainframe computer systems and two national telecommunications networks. IBM 370/145 OS/MVS Honeywell Level 66 Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Production Control Division Production Controller/Analyst June 1977 to October 1978 Mr. Murphy was responsible for scheduling computer operations on Canada Post's national computer facilities, including utilization monitoring, quality assurance, and liaison with operational programming sections and service bureaus. IBM 370/145 Honeywell Level 66 REI O.C.R. Degree Programs Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario Bachelor of Science (Incomplete) Professional Development Courses Algonquin College (Ottawa)Mathematics and Modeling University of Waterloo (Guelph)Structured Programming Canada Post CorporationData Modeling Canada Post CorporationCASE Tools Canada Post CorporationMSA Information Expert Canada Post CorporationAdvanced FCS Relational Databases Canada Post CorporationMVS ASSEMBLER Algonquin College (Ottawa)Advanced FORTRAN Canada Post CorporationIDMS/R Database Design Canada Post CorporationADS/O Applications Development DMR ConsultingIntroduction to DMR Productivity Plus(r) DMR ConsultingDMR Productivity Plus(r) Online DMR ConsultingLAN Administration Carleton University (Ottawa)Smalltalk Object-Oriented Programming DMR ConsultingIEEE and ISO 9000 QA Standards DMR ConsultingOracle Designer & Oracle 8i DMR ConsultingDMR Workshop Facilitation DMR ConsultingC++ DMR ConsultingObject-Oriented Programming DMR ConsultingDMR ProductivityCentre(tm) - Familiarization DMR ConsultingInformation System Modeling Microsoft Corporation (Ottawa)Component Oriented Middleware The Object PeopleVisualAge for Java Sybase CorporationDeploying J2EE for Maximum Scalability, Performance & Reliability Rational CorporationRequirement Management With the Rational Unified Process Rational CorporationProject Leaders' Survival Guide Professional Associations eWEEK Senior IT Research Panel IBM VisualAge Developers (VAD) Microsoft Software Developers Network (MSDN) Oracle Technical Network SIGGRAPH (Association for Computing Machinery) Sun Java Developer Connection (JDC) IBM developerWorks Research Panel (Member) IBM Partners in Development (Software Member) IBM WebSphere Developers (WDD) ICANN (Member at Large) Hardware Platforms IBM OS/MVS z/OS IBM PC Macintosh G3 Sun Solaris Tandem Unisys Computer Languages Java XML ebXML XSLT XPATH XML Schema Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) XML Schema RDF Dublin Core MARC SGML C/C++ HLASM Assembler CA-IDMS COBOL IBM ISPF CA-ADS/O IBM JCL IBM Utilities CA-SQL MVS COBOL FORTRAN SAS Korn shell BASH Shell VisualBasic Oracle SQL Plus Operating Systems IBM Unix System Services (USS / Open MVS) IBM OS/MVS Windows 2000 Server Windows 2000 Professional Windows NT 3.5 Workstation SUN OS Solaris 7 Windows NT 4.0 Server Unix BSD Unix V VMS Database Facilities IBM DB-2 IDMS ORACLE SQL Server Lotus Notes / Domino MS-Access VSAM Communication Facilities TCP/IP Connect:Direct Novell Netware Application Servers WebSphere 4.0 Advanced Edition WebSphere 3.5 NT WebSphere 3.02 NT WebSphere 3.02 OS390 Oracle 9i Development Environments IBM VisualAge for Java 4.0 Enterprise Edition IBM VisualAge for Java 3.5 Enterprise Edition Eclipse.org Oracle 9iAS IDE Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Professional Edition Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Edition