Curriculum Vitae of Suresh Kumar
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Suresh works for the IBM EMEA Northern Region eBusiness practice, where his broad range of technical knowledge in Networking Operating systems, Internet technology, and Messaging systems are put to use in architecting, designing and implementing e-business solutions for many of IBM’s clients. He has spoken at internal seminars and training programmes on the subject of collaborative messaging and Internet Security. Suresh has spent the last 6 years working for IBM UK.
RECENT ASSIGNMENT
Grattan, Bradford, UK. – 7 months
Suresh is part of the development and infrastructure team designing and implementing a 300-supplier chain extranet service for Grattan. The extranet, a key IBM e-Buisness customer reference site, consists of a complex web based workflow system for allowing Grattan to manage orders between itself, its suppliers, and their courriers. The Server architecture is based around their legacy mainframe, integrated with DB2 UDB using JAVA and JDBC, and Lotus Domino R5.0 as the Web Application Server, combined with JavaScript and MS DHTML using Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0Suresh also was responsible in developing a replacement for their existing EDI system for their larger customers using JAVA and XML as way of transferring business information to the extranet. The architecutre also required the use of SSL and digital certificates for secure communication, SNMP for system management and error notification.
Lotus (EMEA), Professional Services, Consulting Services – 7 months.
Suresh spent 7 months seconded from IBM to Lotus, as a Technical Consultant, to assist with Consulting Services work. This was also an opportunity to build relationship within both services organisations.
He worked with the pre-sales technical team in the development of prototypes for illustrating system integration using JAVA, and how to integrate this effectively with the new Domino R5 Server Web Application Server, showcasing CORBA, JDBC, and Sockets for effective mechanisms for remote object access.
Lotus (HQ), Cambridge, MA. , USA. – 2 months
Suresh worked in Lotus, Cambridge, liasing with the US product managers and Iris developers in co-authoring a new book on Internet security in Domino 5.0. The new book called "Lotus Notes 5.0 /Domino 5.0: Security Inftastructure Revelead" launched at LotusSphere ‘99, covers updates to Domino’s security infrastructure, and covers topics like RSA Public/Private key encryption, S/MIME, X.509 v3 digital certificates, firewall configurations, Single Sign On, LDAP directories, IIS integration, Domino certificate authority, key recovery http://www.redbooks.ibm.comLarge UK Pensions company, - 1 week
Suresh worked with the IBM eBusiness Security practice, in providing this customer a full security audit of their new Internet Web Site, his work mainly covered exposing any security loopholes that had been left open in their configuration and setup of their Domino and Windows NT environment. Through their investigation Suresh and the accompanying Consultant were able to find a security hole on their website. They demonstrated to the customer, how it was possible to redirect users to an alternative site, and access passwords to their internal mainframe systems.
Asda, Leeds, UK. – 2 months
Suresh recently finished developing a prototype extranet application and infrastructure for this UK supermarket. This involved demonstrating to the IT manager the issues regarding SSL, Certificate management, and replication across the Intranet.
East Midland Electric, Nottingham, UK. – 2 months
Suresh consulted and developed an Intranet Site for this Company. This included working with the Graphic designers to prototype a Web Sites using Net Objects Fusion, before importing into Domino. Also a HR Application was developed for their Intranet, which could be accessed through Notes and a Browser.
Aegis, London, UK. – 1 month
Suresh joined a team of specialists working on migrating a worldwide cc: Mail Post Office e-mail network to Lotus Notes, he worked with the Lotus (UK) Messaging practice in delivering the co-existence and migration solution using the cc: Mail MTA.
Mitsui Corp., London, UK. – 2 weeks
Suresh was brought on as technical consultant in implementing an e-mail gateway solution between their London and Italy offices. The solution delivered facilitated mail translation and directory synchronization between Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes.
National Westminster Bank, London, UK. – Natwest Business OnLine – 6 months
Suresh came on to the project and assumed the role as the Development team leader responsible in delivering a Domino based Search proxy application based on AIX, DB2, and Perl Web Interface.
As well as getting involved in the Domino/LotusScript & HTML integration development, he was responsible for writing many of the back-end AIX and DB2 scripts for delivering unattended
Application management of the environment. He also worked closely with IBM Managed Operations in defining operational guidelines for availability, security and systems management.
Boehringer Ingleheim – 2 weeks
Domino/Intranet system design proposals. Part of the work included Capacity planning, identifying metrics for processor load/user connections and considering technologies to provide scalable Web Servers running on RS/6000, including using technologies developed at the IBM Olympic Web Site, like Network Dispatcher.
Global Asset Management, Worldwide Network Operations, London, UK – 7 months
Suresh worked as part of the Network Operations team, in building and deploying a R3 to R4 Notes
Mail and applications infrastructure across the world (NY, LON, HK, ZUR) on UNIX Sun Solaris. His work included the development of administration procedures and evaluation of the technologies for migration between cc: Mail and Notes, and using Intranet technologies like Domino.
Other responsibilities included:
OKI (Europe), London, UK – 3 weeks
Suresh assisted in the design and architecture of a pan European infrastructure across 12 countries to run European applications designed to support Sales and Marketing groups.
Next plc, Enderby, Leicester, UK - 3 weeks
Developed a help desk application for their IT department with Notes 4.1, used off-the shelf product, re-wrote the application plus providing them with extra functionality incl. Reporting/statistics information.
IBM Global Networks, N.Harbour, Portsmouth, UK. – 2 months
Suresh developed software to create automated Lotus Notes Server to Server replication via dialup SLIP connections.
Financial Times, London, UK. 1 week
This involved having discussions with the IT director on his plans to work with Notes 4.0 to provide information on the Internet. Their current practices made the process of creating Web pages laborious and time consuming and so were interested in using Internotes to improve the process.
IBM ISSC, Outsourcing & Proposal administration group – 1 week
Suresh was brought in to develop a strategy on how Notes could be used to improve the processes involved in administering the departments bid proposal cycle. His ability to understand the business environment and demonstrate how Notes could be used was key to the success of this assignment. His final recommendations greatly influenced the decision, which led to the go-ahead of a test pilot project.
IBM PC Company, EMEA Marketing. – 3 weeks
Suresh designed and developed a news-item marketing database, which supported the Marketing group in consolidating which news articles should be published monthly. The database was received so enthusiastically by the end-users that it led to the database being deployed worldwide.
IBM (UK) PC Company, Project GENIE. – 18 months
Suresh worked as a project specialist working closely with the Principal Notes Architect, to implement a 500-user Lotus Notes R3 infrastructure. Suresh’s keys sub-projects was to implement a Lotus Notes SMTP Internet gateway, and setup Notes Server ISDN communications between IBM and Lotus (UK). His other tasks involved developing systems management software using the Notes and TCP/IP API that would monitor the Notes Servers and NETBIOS bridges and automatically warn the administrators when there were any problems.
Department of Trade & Industry, Insurance Division, London, UK. – 12 months
Suresh was a member of a large Government MIS development project, he worked as one of the analysts in the Data Conversion team responsible for migrating data from a legacy database system to a UNIX based RDBMS. Suresh was principally responsible for identifying requirements for re-insurance data that had not previously been captured in a computer before, and had to design and develop a database that would capture, validate, and migrate this data before being accepted by the new systems design.
TECHNICAL SKILLS AND TRAINING
Operating System
UNIX - AIX 4.1 on RS/6000, Sun Solaris 2.4.1 on Sun Ultra Sparcs, Windows NT 3.51/4.0
Hardware
Notes & Messaging
Lotus Notes 3.x & Lotus Notes 4.1, Lotus Domino R4.6, and R5.0, Microsoft Exchange 5.0, cc: Mail & SMTP MTA
Web & Internet
JAVA - JDK 1.1.6, Server side development, incl Servlet API,Domino R5.0 JAVA API/CORBA remote access, Java – TCP/IP, Socket implmentation of HTTP protocol, Microsoft DHTML 4.0 for IE, TCP/IP (Sendmail, DNS, DHCP, SMTP), SSL 2.0/3.0 Cryptographic Security, IIS 4.0, Net Objects Fusion 3.0, Domino Intranet application Development and integration with HTML.RDBMS & other
Ingres (ver 6.4) - isql, SQL, knowledge manager,(rules and database procedures), systems catalogs, DB2(circular logging, database recovery, db2 load, tablespace management), C, SQL, BSD UNIX shell scripts, LotusScript Object Classes, LS:DO, JDBC
Technical Training
OS/2 2.11configuration and performance tuning.
Lotus Notes 3.x System Administration I,
Lotus Notes 3.x Application Development I
Domino 4.5 & AIX Systems Configuration (3 day),
Lotus Domino Development Day (2 day),
Lotus Domino & Enterprise Integration (Oracle, DB2, MQ Series) - (3 day),
IBM AIX Internet POWERSolutions (5 day),
AIX 4.1 Systems Administration (5 day),
AIX TCP/IP Communications (2 day),
Domino 4.5 Advanced Administration (2 day),
Domino 4.6 Application Development Update (1 day),
Domino 4.6 System Administration Update (1 day),
Domino HTML/Javascript Development (5 days),
Domino 4.6 and Java Integration (2 days).
Personal Development Training
MITP (IBM’s Project Management methodology - 1 day),
Principles of Selling (IBM Sales School, Warbrook -3 days),
Presentational skills (IBM Business School, Warbrook -2 days,
Understanding and influencing your Client (IBM Business School, Warbrook, 4 days),
Negotiation skills, ‘How to run meetings’,
Planning workload.
Certifications
Lotus Notes R3 CLP - (Lotus Certified Notes Consultant)
Lotus Notes R4 CLP - (Lotus Certified Notes Systems Administrator) {SA1, SA2}
Lotus Notes R4 CLP - (Lotus Certified Notes Application Developer) {AD1, AD2}
IBM IT Specialist – Working on Senior IT Specialist accreditation.
Education
University of Hertfordshire: B.Sc. (Hon) in Computer Science
My Main area of technical Expertise is as a Lotus Notes Consultant for IBM. I focus primarily on messaging and Internet Integration with Notes. This covers cc:Mail/ SMTP/Exchange mail systems with Notes, and using products like Domino for exploiting Lotus Notes rich distributed object Store for building intelligent workflow based Internet Applications. I also spend time discussing with customers the infrastructure issues, related to deploying Intranets. Areas like Performance/Load Balancing capabilities and PKI Security.
(Suresh Kumar - 14/08/1997)
My aim is to show customer that you can build RAD applications on the WEB in the same way that we have been doing with Notes for years. In the next 12 months people will start to realize that anyone can build a WEB site, but how many out there will really be able to incorporate business process and manageability on a large scale on the WEB.
Content, Quality , and function will become more important than Coolness and Graphics. Its fine to create 5, 10, 20 pages. But once you start wanting to scale things up 10 fold, with authors that are based around the world, with the need for multiple sites for load balancing people will realise how much more effot is required to keep it running and managing it.
People will realize that WEB extends our view of the CLIENT/SERVER model, which has been essential viewed as a 2 tier system. The new model that will evolve places the WEB as the OPEN/Interactive front-end, but there will have to be a need for intelligent middleware, that sits between the WEB and CORPORATE data. And this is where Notes will fit in very nicely.
So if anyone tells you that the WEB will kill NOTES, just tell them that the WEB is the best thing that could have happened to NOTES.
(Suresh Kumar - 17/09/1996)
Below is a presentation that i gave to about 50 people at a special interest group in IBM, Bedfont, UK on 22/11/96.
INTRANETS
What is it?
DOMINO ARCHITECTURE
Fundamentals
A better way?
PUTTING THE RAD BACK INTO THE WEB
Lots of real DYNAMIC stuff in DOMINO
DOMINO Advanced Services
Performance
Weblicator
What is it??
DOMINO R5
What to look forwards to?
JAVA BEANS
IIOP