John Kuk

Experienced Solution Architect and Manager

John Kuk is an experienced solution architect and manager. His specialties are around Systems Integration and Service Oriented Architectures. His technical experiences are broad and deep spanning various IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and Open Source products. He has management experiences collaborating with globally distributed workforces at large organizations. John’s contributions over the years highlight his ability to lead and deliver enterprise scale systems and solutions.

Programming Experiences

Java, C/C++, Javascript, Visual Basic, Windows Batch Scripting, Unix Shell Scripting, COBOL, SQL

Software Experiences

Android Studio, Git/GitHub, SpringSource Tool Suite (STS), Spring Framework, Mule ESB, Apache Tomcat, Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS), NetBeans, Twitter RECESS, JSHint, Node.js, CSSLint, Twitter Bootstrap, Maven, Subversion

IBM WebSphere Message Broker (WMB), IBM Business Process Management (BPM), IBM WebSphere Integration Developer (WID), IBM WebSphere Process Server (WPS), IBM WebSphere MQ, IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS), IBM Rational Software Architect (RSA), IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD), IBM WebSphere Business Integration (WBI), IBM InterChange Server (ICS), IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC), IBM Rational Asset Manager (RAM), IBM Websphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR), IBM DB2, IBM Visual Age for Java, IBM Visual Age for C, IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD), IBM Clear Quest, IBM Clear Case, IBM Rational Requisite Pro, IBM IMS

BEA WebLogic Integration (WLI), BEA AquaLogic Data Services and Service Bus

Oracle 10g/11g Database, Oracle SQL Developer, Oracle Virtual Directory (OVD), Oracle VirtualBox

Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)

Business Objects Enterprise XI, Business Objects Crystal Reports

Siebel

Platform Experiences

Windows 7/XP/NT4/2000/2002/2003/2008, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu Linux, AIX Unix, IBM DataPower, OS/390, z/OS

Other Experiences

SOAP Web Services, REST Web Services, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile/Scrum, MVC Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Virtualization, Cloud, Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP), XML, XSLT, XSD, DTD, LDAP, Single Sign On, J2EE, Java Messaging Services (JMS), JDBC, ODBC, DAO, UDDI, BPEL, Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Accenture Development Methodologies (ADM)

State Farm, Web Systems Analyst

3 State Farm Plaza South, Bloomington, IL

11/2011 - 05/2015

Took part in a development effort to migrate a largely used underwriting decision application from IBM WAS 6.1 to 8.5.
As part of the company’s largest development initiatives, matured development practices for the quality engineering team. While with the team, we participated and led various efforts improving standards and guidance touching a very diverse open source technology stack.
As part of a tactical team evaluated offshore delivered components, and then stepped in to re-factor portions of delivered code to meet quality standards.

Accenture, Consulting Manager

161 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL

08/2006 - 11/2011

08/2011 - 11/2011, Was the technical delivery lead managing the creation of a new Oracle Web Center Portal for one of the United States largest communications providers. (Town and Country, MO)
07/2011 - 10/2011, Was an enterprise service bus architect that transitioned an IBM Message Broker framework between new team members for the state of North Carolina. (Raleigh, NC)
07/2011 - 10/2011, Conducted review sessions as an integration solution architect to propose improvements for a manufacturing system for one of the largest manufacturers of prescription bio-pharmaceuticals. (Princeton, NJ)
05/2011 - 07/2011, Web architect involved in estimating, planning, and proposing a Java Open Source web application for one of the world’s largest hospitality and management organizations. (White Plains, NY)
07/2010 - 05/2011, Siebel delivery project manager in charge of constructing a new Siebel call center application for the largest nonprofit health provider in the United States. (St Louis, MO)
11/2009 - 06/2010, As part of Accenture’s IBM Global Alliance, was acting SOA asset development lead in charge of creating and managing IBM assets to be leveraged by projects worldwide. (Chicago, IL)
02/2008 - 12/2009, Took on several architect roles at one of the top 10 United States health insurers, and built several teams that leveraged IBM technologies in the areas of integration, web, security, data services, and code conversion. (Pittsburgh, PA)
12/2007 - 01/2008, Worked for the world’s largest mutual property and casualty company to compose a technical solution to build a comparative auto insurance rating system. (Bloomington, IL)
11/2007, Contributed to a SOA proposal for the United States largest health insurer as a technical architect to credential information and skills. (Minneapolis, MN)
02/2007 - 10/2007, Learned Java CAPS and became the integration technical architect in charge of restructuring the world’s second largest automotive supply company’s integration landscape. (Van Buren Township, MI)
10/2006 - 02/2007, Worked for one of the United States largest power and gas distributors as an integration architect leading framework construction with WLI as part of their transformation program. (San Francisco, CA)
09/2006, As part of an internal SOA project, reviewed and contributed to company CBT’s that would be used to prepare CIO’s with Accenture’s perspective on its SOA capabilities. (Chicago, IL)

Country Insurance and Financial Services, Middleware Application Developer

1711 GE Road, Bloomington, IL

05/2000 - 08/2006

Leveraged WID as part of an effort to integrate Siebel and corporate client data, and built some of the company’s first WPS environments.
Implemented various user interface and application changes to the company’s agent portal homepage under the company’s WAS platform.
Led WBI development to integrate data transactions between Siebel and the company’s mainframe legacy billing and customer management system.
As part of a Siebel 7 upgrade project took part in development, technical architecture, and system integration using various IBM integration technologies.
Was part of the team that converted the company’s claims applications into a Siebel 6 application, and leveraged WBI to feed critical insurance policy data into the system.
Was part of the team to create the company’s agent portal which merged a Siebel thin client application with the company’s custom WAS portal.
Was part of the Java development team, coding functionality for a homegrown life insurance illustrations application called Illustrations Anywhere.
Used Java, XML, and MQ skills to make changes to a document creation application that generated policies for auto, property, and commercial insurance.
Was part of the company’s Customer Web Content project which developed various integration solutions using a variety of IBM development tools.
Took on-call responsibilities and acted as technical support and a SME for WBI, WAS, Siebel, and various other production systems over the years.

Illinois State University

Normal, IL

12/2000

Bachelor of Science - Applied Computer Science, specializing in Computer Information Systems & Systems Analysis with a minor in Business Administration
Trained two years in Army Reserve Officers’ Training Crops, Military Science, and awarded academic scholarship as well as received a citation and medal for outstanding achievement and exceptional leadership ability

Continued Education

Udacity - Android Development Nanodegree
Mulesoft - Mule ESB 3 Training
Springsource - Spring Foundation Training
IBM - WebSphere Message Broker V6.0/6.1 Development Workshop
Sun Microsystems - Foundations of Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite
BEA - WebLogic Integration 8.1/8.5
IBM - WebSphere Integration Developer & Process Server
IBM - AIX Korn and bash Shell Programming
IBM - WebSphere Business Integration Server
IBM - MQ Adapter Offering (MQAO)
Siebel - Configuration Using Siebel Tools for 2000, 6.1, 7.0, 7.7
IBM - DB2 Developer Training
IBM - MQ Series Training

Professional Societies

McLean County Unit District No. 5 Citizens Advisory Council, research Smart Classroom Technologies (2013-2014)
Accenture Master Technology Architect Program, Technology Architect certified as having acquired and demonstrated necessary base skills and experience in the design and delivery of components of technology architecture. Obtained certification May of 2008.

Activities and Hobbies

Android development, Arduino tinkering, rock climbing, table top board games, TaeKwonDo, running, fishing, snowboarding, welding, Highmark Caring Place, Habitat for Humanity

My Resume Technologies

http://appengine.google.com
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap
http://github.com/johnkuk
http://github.com/extoix
http://www.eclipse.org
http://developer.android.com/sdk
http://www.google.com/drive
http://www.gimp.org
http://www.godaddy.com