SUMMARY:

• I have 14 years of experience in IT industry.
• Over 11 years of experience in administration of web and application servers.
• I have strong expertise in infrastructure management & Remote Administration of web and application servers.
• My previous responsibilities include Windows, Linux administration, IT infrastructure maintenance and data center operation.
• Installation, configuration, administration and troubleshooting of Middleware application servers, webservers and related support tools.
• Designing scalable runtime environments for multi - tier J2EE web applications using application servers on Linux and Windows platforms.
• Hands on experience in configuration/deployment of J2EE applications on application servers, webservers, with failover & cluster capabilities.
• Good Knowledge in Internet technologies, open source middleware products.
• Strong troubleshooting experience in middleware environment issues.
• Knowledge in cloud based server infrastructure. extensively worked in complex environments which require multi-tasking.
• Superior interpersonal and customer service oriented skills.
• Experience in leading a team of middleware administrators and guiding them in delivery.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Linux (SuSE, RHEL), Solaris, AIX, Windows 2k3, 2008, 2k12.

Web Servers: Apache, IBMHttp Server, IIS.

Application Servers: WebSphere Application Server 5.1, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, Jboss 5.x, 6.x, 9.0.2.

Messaging Systems: IBM MQ v7.0

Scripting: Bash scripting, Windows Batch Scripting

PROFESSIONAL - PROJECT EXPERIENCES:

Confidential

Webserver: Apache webserver, IBMHTTPDServer

AppServers: IBM WAS server, JBoss/Wild fly, Tomcat, and Oracle WebLogic Server.

Tools: used: RiskVision, HP Opsware, nmap(zenmap), openssl, Firebug, Fiddler, Optier, Splunk, AppDynamics. Scan tools: Nessus, Risk Vision, Trust keeper, Pen Test, Appscans, nCircle.

Responsibilities:

• Remediation of vulnerabilities arising from PenTest, AppScans, Nessus.
• Handling the "Migration to TLS1.2 protocol" in middleware servers.
• Top vulnerabilities fixed: SSLV3 Poodle & FREAK, RC4, WAS Zero Day vulnerabilities, RC4, DES, BEAST, Heartbleed, and EXPORT Ciphers.
• Analyzing security vulnerability and providing the solution to fix the vulnerabilities.
• Apache upgrade script using bash and Opsware.
• Apache installation automation for new versions of apache.
• IBM WebSphere patching assistance using bash scripting, Opsware.
• Proof of concept of new versions and fixes for vulnerabilities.
• Patching support for web and application servers.
• Production support for middleware servers. (On rotating shift).

Confidential

Technology: Middleware

Responsibilities:

• Implementing best practices on middleware administration on various engagements and auditing the same.
• Audited engagements in their process and technical ability to meet the Confidential C2O standards.
• Skilled in system analysis, ensuring audit compliance to quality standards.
• Participated in many ideation meetings to come up to the themes requirements for process improvement and to find out transformation opportunities.
• Understand technical requirement and translate into design.
• Execute IT infrastructure and enterprises application solutions based on the design provided.
• POC “Proof of concepts” for technologies, migration from one product to other like “IBM Middleware product suites, Oracle product suits to Open source like "Red Hat JBOSS” and Vice-Versa.
• Experience in preparing/answering for Request for Proposal (RFP) and Request for Information (RFI) for new opportunities. Skilled at requirement gathering.
• Build & maintain knowledge repositories and conduct basic/intermediate training sessions.
• Provided training on “Apache & Tomcat administration” for associates through Academy.
• Presented “Best Practices in middleware” in IT IS Learning Mela.
• Involved and executed the Team Connect application upgrade for MASS Mutual project.
• Supported WebLogic environment setup for FDINDIA.
• Supported AMEX Explore application up gradation from lower to higher version of WebSphere Portal.

Confidential

Technology: WebSphere, JBoss, Jetty, IIS, Apache.

Responsibilities:

• Western Union is concentrating on core-money transfer applications on Internet. Dynamic changes in application, environments are constant.
• Supporting WU production websites and web applications, in maintaining up-time and performance of the applications.
• Install, configure and administration of WebSphere Application Server, Network Deployment Manager, web servers. (WU.COM), applying WebSphere patches.
• Setting up of run time environments for J2EE web applications as per developer requests.
• Migration of existing application server environments from WebSphere 5.1 versions to 7.0.
• Implemented log archival scripts for all IIS webservers, and application servers.
• Administration of western union Internet/intranet web applications, which run on WebSphere application server and IIS/Apache.
• Troubleshooting Production incidents.
• Supported in Data-center migration of application servers and applications.
• Deployment support on JBOSS, Jetty web containers, Message Broker, MQ, IBM Portal Server and IBM Data Power Systems.
• Provided production on-call support during the weekends.
• Co-coordinated with development and Testing teams in resolving issues and outages in QA/UAT environments.
• Resolved day to day issues and published RCA for the incidents.
• Supporting movement of production traffic from one data center to another data center. (Using F5)
• Training new recruits and team members on middleware technologies.
• Documentation of support activities. BCP Lead. Supported team in achieving ISO 9001 certification.
• Leading the team in automating the repetitive tasks and fine tuning the support process.
• Interacting with OM and DAG in monitoring the team’s delivery. We followed ITIL v3 process.
• Managed the resource planning on assigning the tasks/tickets/shifts plans.
• Created Known Error Database from the issues and maintained it for efficient troubleshooting.
• Reporting to management on a regular basis, regarding teams' performance and areas we need support.
• Got Pinnacle award in December 2010 for the best team in IT IS.

Confidential

Technology: RHEL4, WebSphere Network Deployment (5.1, 6.0), IBM ND.

Responsibilities:

• Supported eBBS application, a J2EE Application which is been used as Core Banking software for Standard Chartered Bank. It has a three tier J2EE architecture running on IBM IHS, WAS, DB2, & LDAP.
• Daily Activities: Supporting eBBS products on Development, ST, SIT, UAT and production environments. (From setting up the environment, till the testing cycle is completed.)
• Environment support including installation, patching of IBMHttpServer, WebSphere Application Server.
• Automated WebSphere configuration backup on daily basis.
• Completed the rollout of 6 Offline Branch Servers in Nigeria. The Nigeria Offline Branch Servers contains Red Hat Linux 4.3, IBM WebSphere 5.1.1.8 Base Edition, OpenLDAP2.2, DB2 Express 8.1 edition.

Confidential

Technology: CentOS4, JBoss, Apache, My SQL.

Responsibilities:

• Designed Wizdom runtime environment (J2ME) for scalable performance using apache, Jboss and Apache Reverse proxy. We hosted this application in house and for failover we used multiple ISP. For effective failover we used DynDNS.
• Installation and configuration of Apache Tomcat, Jboss, MySQL servers on Linux. (We used CentOS). Connected these servers to the Internet.
• Maintaining a network of 30 computers including 4 Linux servers and a Windows Active Directory Server. Maintained the Intranet website with features like web calendar, Forum, Blog, Wiki (using Apache and PHP), Jabber Chat Server.
• Configured the File server under Linux using Samba.
• Configured automatic backup of MySQL databases using BASH scripts.
• Configured VSFTPD server, which provides FTP access for Content Creators to submit their files to our server.
• Configured NAT and Firewall for Server access and Security.

Confidential

Technology: RHEL3, Win2k, Win2k3, Apache, BIND.

Responsibilities:

• Provided Technical training for MCSE (win2k3), RHCE (RHEL3.0) courses.
• Provided Technical Consultation for customers regarding LAN maintenance.
• Managed a network of 30 computers with Internet connection sharing and file server.
• Maintenance & Trouble shooting of system & Network infrastructure.