About

I work for Aspen Grove Solutions as the VP of Infrastructure & Automation.  Within this role I am responsible for managing the delivery and support of a secure enterprise scale global computing platform for our business and customers.

• Design, delivery and management of hybrid enterprise IT Infrastructure solutions.
• Embracing a devops culture improve efficiency and increase automation across IT operations and development.
• Champion delivery of infrastructure/network and storage as code initiatives within the enterprise using tools such as Terraform, Vagrant, Packer, Puppet and Ansible.  
• Responsible for the delivery of the Infrastructure Roadmap and Cloud Infrastructure strategies across the business.
• Extensively working with Global Enterprise Technology partners to delivery high quality Infrastructure Services and Support to our staff and customers.
• Collaborating with Application Release Management, Application Teams, DBA, QA, Service Delivery and Partners to deliver enterprise class solutions to our customers.
• Responsible for the strategic planning of all infrastructure related activities and driving innovation within the team and implementing future state technology to support the business.

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Download at http://activemq.apache.org/
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package my.mq.samples;

import javax.jms.JMSException;
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import com.ibm.mq.jms.MQQueueConnection;
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