SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a Senior Technology Consultant/Designer with years of consulting and designer experience across the Confidential (AMP, Westpac, Confidential, Confidential, AON), Automobile (Daimler) Industries and IT Consultancy. He is a highly adaptable person who is not only able to provide value on the back of his very deep technical expertise but also to planning, leadership and strategy management.
• He also has a proven track record of having delivered numerous projects across different platforms, technologies and streams. He is an IT professional with extensive experience in Middleware Technologies IT service management, Project Management, Business Continuity, Release and development Management.
• Strong technical knowledge of Complex Infrastructure Environment which includes IBM Middleware Suite, CMS, Directory Servers, etc and Oracle databases on UNIX, Linux and Wintel Environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases: Oracle 9, 10G, 11, MS - Access, SQL-Server 2003, My SQL, DB2

Operating System: Windows NT/95/XP/2003, MS-DOS, Unix AIX, Vmware, Linux-Redhat, Solaris 6/8,10

Middleware: Websphere Portal 6.0, 6.1,7.0,8.0 Websphere MQ, Axway

Content Management: Vignette Application Suite, Adobe Experiance Manager(AEM)

Application Server & IDE: Websphere Application Server 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0, 8.5.5, Apache Tomcat, Eclipse, WebSphere Process Server 6.0.1

Others: Microsoft Project and Microsoft Visio, Crystal Reports, Lotus notes, Hudson, Jenkins, WebSphere Studio 4.0 / 3.5,AAT,SMEUI, Changeman, GetAccess Authentication Tool, TIM & TAM etc. Web Server iPlanet Web Server 6.0/4.x, Apache 2, IBM HTTP Server

Directory Servers: LDAP, LTPA, AD2003

Scripting Language: ANT, Jython, Jacl

Performace Tools: Dynatrace, Compuware, Tivoli, JMeter, nmon

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Infrastructure Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Architecting the Secure Transport (Axway), B2BI systems on Linux & Windows
• Provide support for Secure Transport (Axway),
• Connect Direct across multiple platforms (Unix, Windows), and other data transfer products which utilize SFTP, FTP, HTTP, B2BI.
• Provide on - call support for all file transfer systems.
• Responsible for troubleshooting issues and working with customers to help set up and test new transmissions.

Confidential

Sr. Infrastructure Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Migration of Application serving environment to WebSphere Application Server 8.5 based on Westpac Target Architecture.
• WebShere MQ Support and Upgrade
• Improving the application performance by analyzing the Java Core, Thread Dumps, nmon,
• Expertise in working with Splunk
• Infrastructure Detailed Design
• Server procurement, Linux, Backup, firewall, F5, DNS, DR Simulation and decommissioning
• Working with external vendor for performing the Infra failover testing, Server Procurement etc.
• Current Red Hat Linux (6.x or higher)
• Current version of WAS (8.5 or higher)
• Current version of MQ (7.5 or higher)
• Virtual servers provisioned in New Virtual Environment (NVE)
• Deployment in the Enterprise Perimeter Security (EPS) architecture
• Cross-site active/active architecture

Confidential

Technical Lead Infrastructure and Configuration Management

Responsibilities:

• Technical Lead for the Cloud Migration project for the AMP Digital Applications
• Successfully implemented AEM (Adobe Experience Manager)
• Upgraded WebSphere Portal from 6.1 to 8.0
• WebSphere MQ troubleshooting & Support
• Technical Lead of WebSphere Upgrade and the Mobility project: infrastructure design, environment build, technical verification testing, support, maintenance and troubleshooting;
• Improving the application performance by analyzing the Java Core, Thread Dumps, Configuring Dynatrace across AMP Digital applications
• Joint work with infrastructure, development, testing teams, project managers and vendor (CSC) on the project implementation.
• Logical architectural model & requirements review.
• Detail level design, system diagrams, firewall rules.
• Technical Leadership System integration and administration.
• Responsible for creating & signoff on Server build documents.
• Technical Lead in Infrastructure management and implementations.
• Demonstrated ability to consistently deliver within tight deadlines and budgets through robust planning, scheduling, managing risks, resolving issues proactively and clearly understanding stakeholder requirements and priorities.
• Manage, track and provide leadership & governance around configuration & environment support, Release Management, Capacity Planning and Performance Monitoring activities on the development, test and production environment.
• Ensuring the IT infrastructure (hardware, systems software and network facilities) is well planned with the capacity, flexibility and stability to meet the organization’s requirements.
• Upgraded AMP WebSphere application servers from 6.1 to 7.0.
• Coordinating with CSC infrastructure team to provide the right spec servers.
• Design and implementation of Server Refresh Programs and capacity management.
• Manage IT deployment to Production, including release planning and execution.
• Coordinating and responding to internal and external audits and compliance reviews.
• Produce monthly capacity report on production and non-production environments to different stakeholders so that any capacity issues are addressed earlier.
• Lead the execution of component based & full disaster recovery test.
• Build of additional Websphere portal server in production environment.
• Migrated Vignette content management systems from AIX to Linux platform.
• Installation and configuration of WebSphere Portal Server 6.1
• Installation of WebSphere Application Server v6.1 & 7.0 and configuring Portal Server on WebSphere.
• Managing WEB (HTTP) Servers from AIX and LINUX platforms.
• Administering WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal Server for any BAU activities.
• Configuring WebSphere Portal Server with LDAP & WebSphere application Server.
• Application deployments
• Planning & migrating Physical servers from One Data Center to Another
• Build internal /external relationships and work with stakeholders at various levels in the organization.
• Cloud Migration of AMP Digital Applications
• Successfully Implemented AEM (content management system) replacing the existing system
• WebSphere Portal Upgrade
• Mobility Project
• Websphere Application server and IBM workplace form upgrade project.
• Vignette upgrade project
• Server Refresh Projects
• Oracle upgrade project
• Disaster Recovery test project.

Confidential

Technical Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Technical Lead of WebSphere Portal 7.0 project: infrastructure design, environment build, technical verification testing, support, maintenance and troubleshooting;
• Logical architectural model & requirements review.
• Detail level design, system diagrams, firewall rules.
• Technical Leadership System integration and administration.
• Responsible for creating & signoff on Server build documents.
• Designing and Implementing WebSphere Portal Server 7.0 with TIM and TAM & WebSphere application Server.
• Involved in supporting application deployments.
• Implementing application Security for WebSphere Applications.

Confidential

Infrastructure Environment and Configuration Management

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of WebSphere Portal Server 6.0 & 6.1
• Installation of WebSphere Application Server v6.1 and configuring Portal Server on WebSphere.
• Managing AIX WEB (HTTP) Servers over the Network.
• Administering WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal Server which included creating AppServer clones, Clusters, Configuring AppServer Clones, Installing Applications, Configure NodeAgents, Creating WebSphere MQ Queue destination, Creating JDBC Providers, DataSources etc.
• Rebuild of WebSphere Portal and Application Servers in the Network.
• Configuring WebSphere Portal Server with LDAP & WebSphere application Server.
• Involved in supporting application deployments.
• Extensive experience in WebSphere Administration, Application Deployment & Performance Tuning.
• Enabling Application Security for WebSphere Applications.
• Involved in Planning & migrating Physical servers from One Data Center to Another.
• Involved in Oracle 11g Upgrade.
• Involved in Planning for the Server Refresh Programs.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing WebSphere and MQ Teams
• Installation and configuration of WAS v5.1, v6.0 & v6.1, Portal Server v5.1 & v6.0, Process Server 6.0
• Configuring the WebSphere Application Server & Portal Server applications with LDAP&GetAccess.
• Installations and upgrading of GetAccess in the Network and coupled with theWebSphere Applications.
• Involved in supporting application deployments.
• Involved in supporting Application Teams by helping to resolve WebSphere Related problems.
• Websphere Application server upgrade project & GetAccess Upgrade projects.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• WebSphere Portal server configurations & troubleshooting.
• Design clusters for load balancing & availability of the system.
• Scripting Standard Administration Tasks - XMLConfig and Scripts for Deployment.
• Migrating Portal configurations from one machine to another machine using XML Access
• Vendor Interaction on product issues.
• WebSphere, iPlanet Administration - Installing and Trouble Shooting.
• Handling Deployment Issues in all Environments (SIT, UAT and PRD)