
IBM Certified IT Specialist, Cloud Engineering and Experience
Greater New York City Area

IBM Certified IT Specialist, Cloud Engineering and Experience
Greater New York City Area
Daniel Krook is an IBM Certified IT Specialist based in Armonk, New York. He has over 10 years experience in Web site development and presently builds integrated applications on WebSphere and DB2 along with Apache, MySQL, and PHP for ibm.com and the intranet. He holds certifications in PHP (ZCE), Java (SCJP, SCWCD), DB2 (ICDAssoc., ICAD), and Solaris (SCSA). He occasionally writes PHP-related articles for IBM developerWorks and co-authored the IBM Redbook 'Developing PHP Applications for IBM Data Servers.' His current interests include Cloud computing, RESTful Web services and mobile applications for smartphones.
* Broadly skilled application developer with nine years of professional experience planning, designing, developing and maintaining Web sites.
* Specialized expertise with the LAMP platform (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and enterprise Java applications (J2EE, servlets, JSP) built on IBM middleware (WebSphere, DB2).
* Application architect responsible for the analysis, design, implementation and deployment lifecycle of numerous enterprise, freelance and hobby Web sites.
* Experienced delivery organization project lead, team lead and project manager.
* Strong communication skills, a background in international studies, dual USA-Finland/EU citizenship, and experience with globally distributed teams in China (on site), India (on site), Brazil and Slovakia, among others.
* IBM Certified IT Specialist / The Open Group Master Certified IT Specialist
* IBM Certified Application Developer (DB2 9) (ICAD)
* IBM Certified Database Associate (DB2 9) (ICDAssoc.)
* Sun Certified Web Component Developer (J2EE 1.4) (SCWCD)
* Zend Certified Engineer (PHP 4) (ZCE)
* Sun Certified Java Programmer (J2SE 1.4) (SCJP)
* Sun Certified System Administrator (Solaris 9) (SCSA)
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* IBM Ovation Award: Second Place, IBM CIO Technology and Innovation Situational Applications Contest; 2009
* IBM Bravo Award: 1x2x Dynamic Navigation, ibm.com; 2007
* IBM Bravo Award: Authoring and Publishing, IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal; 2005