Professional Summary:

• Over 7 years of experience in administering, integrating and supporting WebSphere Application Server, WebSphereApplication ServerXD6.x and 7.x, JBOSS, various webservers IHS, Sun ONE & IIS on multiplatform (SUN Solaris, AIX, Linux (RedHat, SuSE).
• Very good knowledge of the complete Change Management Process.
• Particular strengths in administering WAS 5.0/5.1/6.0/6.1/7.0, WebSphereApplication ServerND6.x and 7.x, JBOSS 3.2/4.x, WMQ 5.3, SUN ONE Directory Servers. Web Servers (IBM HTTP Server 1.3.28/2.04.7/6.0, SUN ONE Web server 4.1, IIS, Apache Web Server) & CA e-trust Siteminder.
• Experienced in the change Management process including crating incident/change tickets and assigning priorities to resolve them.
• Good knowledge of BMC Remedy change management tool.
• Extensive experience in driving the effort for major migrations, which included WAS 5.1,6.0,6.1 ,7.0.
• Good hands on installation, configuration, and administration ofWebSphereApplication Server XD.
• Proficient in implementation of SSO (Single-Sign On) Portals.
• Created JDBC Providers, Data sources, and JAAS authentication aliases in order to provide connectivity to Oracle, DB2
• Good knowledge on integrating, tuning, and troubleshooting ofWebSphere Application Server XD.
• Well versed in different stages of implementing the workload Management (WLM) and failover using vertical, horizontal and hybrid clustering for efficient use of resources on single and multiple machines.
• Good knowledge on Web Services, SOAP, XML, XSLT and UDDI.
• Proficient in administering the IBM DataPower Devices XS40 & XI50.
• Involved in creating several objects on Datapower like WS-Proxy, XML Proxies & Multi Gateway protocol.
• Experienced in design, creation of MQ resource objects Queue, Listener, and Channels etc.
• Much experienced in providing HA solutions for Websphere and MQ infrastructure.
• Implementation, configuration, administration, deployment, upgrade and maintenance on multiplatform (SUN Solaris, AIX, Linux (RedHat, SuSE) and Windows).
• Proficient in providing 24x7 production support, best practice trouble shooting, monitoring, capacity planning, performance tuning, naming standards, security and maintenance.
• Extensive experience in optimization of enterprise applications using IBM WebSphere Application server 6.0/5.x/4.x/3.5, WSCP, JACL, Jyhton, XMLConfig scripts, Workload Management (WLM), Resource analyzer, JNDI, LDAP, J2EE, JMS, Oracle 7.x/8i/9i/10g, DB2/UDB on multiplatforms and DB2 on mainframe.
• Experienced in the maintenance of the WebSphere Application Servers on different UNIX platforms and setting up the development, testing, UAT and production environments.
• Experience in problem tracing, log management, scripting to invocate problem-determination actions involving diagnostic traces and thread dumps.
• Experienced in analyzing the application problems using the tools Wily Introscope/IBM Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Involved in creating and managing WebSphere Environmental variables for Data Sources and JDBC Driver paths and other creating shared libraries and references.
• Integrated and deployed applications into application and web Servers.
• Experienced in deploying J2EE Applications on IBM WebSphere application server using AAT (Application Assembly Tool), Apache ANT.
• Applied Fix packs / e Fixes / Refresh packs / Feature packs for WAS using Update Installer and update.sh and automating it.
• Worked on many WSCP/jacl/jython/shell scripts to automate the maintenance process.
• Well experienced in troubleshooting and Performance tuning using Resource analyzer and log analyzer.
• Monitoring and tuning using Tivoli Performance Viewer and Wily Introscope and tracing the transactions during Mercury Load Runner load tests.
• Extensive knowledge in developing PL/SQL scripts as part of J2EE application support
• Performed back-up procedures for system application software data files and WebSphere Config database and xml configs.
• Well experienced in resolving the Severity/Priority issues in a timely fashioned manner

Technical Skills:

Windows 95/98/NT/2000/2003/XP, Solaris 8/9/10, AIX 4.3/5.1/5.2/5.3, Linux,z os 1,9 ,1.5.

Programming Languages:

C, C++, Java, J2EE, SQL, PL/SQL.

Web/Application Servers:

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.x/6.x/5.x/4.0.x, IBM WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0/6.1, IBM Http Server 1.3.26.x/2.0.42.x/2.0.47.x/6.0, Sun One Web server 6.0/6.1, Tomcat 4.0, JBOSS 3.2/4.x

Web Technologies/Scripting:

HTML, XML, Java Script, Servlets, JSP, JACL, Jython, XMLConfig /ANT/ Shell Scripts

SOA Appliances:

IBM Datapower XS40 & XI50

Networking & Communication Protocols:

TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP, SOAP, Ftp, Sftp, Telnet, SSH, SSL

Databases:

Oracle 8i/9i/10g, IBM DB2 7.1.x/8.1.x/8.2.x, SQL Server and Microsoft Access

Other Tools:

BME Remedy, WMQ 6.0/5.3, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Wily Introscope 5,6,7,Rational Rose, Hummingbird Exceed, putty, pscp, cygwin

Professional Experience:
Client: Confidential,Bothell, Washington Oct 10 Present
Role: Web Sphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, configuration and maintenance of J2EE applications on Websphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server in a multi clustered high availability environments.
• Responsible for resolving p1/p2/p3 incidents and also creating and implementing change tickets.
• Responsible for the administration of Websphere MQ.
• Provided 24/7 on call support for deployments as well as application support.
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7.x, JDBC drivers and Servlet engines along with trouble shooting and recovery on AIX, Linux (RedHat, SuSE).
• Attend weekly change management meeting on behalf of our team.
• Highly involved in SSO portal implementation using SunOne Directory Server and CA Siteminder.
• Experienced in deploying J2EE Applications on IBM WebSphere application server using AAT (Application Assembly Tool), Apache ANT.
• Responsible for application changes / deployment across different platforms- development, testing, UAT and production.
• Created JDBC Providers, Data sources, and JAAS authentication aliases in order to provide connectivity to Oracle, DB2
• Migration from WAS 6.1 to 7.0 at enterprise level.
• Involved in creation of MQ resource objects like Queue, Listeners, Channels etc.
• Managed the security and performance optimizations for EJB containers and web applications in IBM WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server and Apache web server.
• Developed many JACL, Jython, Perl, WSCP scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XMLConfig tool.
• Maintaining updated documentation of all the Servers, installed applications and updates.
• Involved in troubleshooting and performance tuning using Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer.
• Security, users, groups administration and daily backup and restore operations.
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere that involves EAR (Enterprise Archives) and WAR (Web Archives).
• Involved in capacity planning, implementation of Websphere 7.0
• Automate application install, uninstall and application enhancements through shell scripts WSCP, JACL, Jython scripts using Cron and at job scheduling utilities.
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.
• Good experience using the version control tool like SVN, CVS.
• Configured Server Groups and Clones for High availability and Fail over capability.
• Ensure application dependencies are integrated on system level components such as database, Data Source Name, and Application Server connection pooling (DB2) including identification and documentation.
• Installed upgrades and fix packs to the runtime environment as required decreasing vulnerability to production environment.
• Build forge installation, configuration and adding notifications, adding libraries filters to the existing project.

Environment: IBM WebSphere AppServer 6.1/7.0, Windows Server, DB2, IBM HTTP Server, Solaris 10

Client:Confidential, Denver, CO Sep 08 Sep 10
Role: WebSphere Administrator
Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, administered and supported WebSphere Application Server 6.1 on Linux RedHat, and Windows environments.
• Installed, configured the Network Deployment Manager, Nodes and Application Servers. Federated multiple Application server nodes to the Deployment Manager.
• Kept track of all the incidents and change tickets in our Middleware queue.
• Created and configured clusters of servers both vertical and horizontal on federated nodes for load balancing and failover.
• Involved in Installation and Configuration ofSiteMinder
• Installed IBM Http Server 2.0.47 and configured it with WebSphere Plug-ins to work with WebSphere Application Server.
• Installed IBM DB2 UDB 8.1.5 and catalogued the remote database server and database for db2 legacy type2 drivers.
• Created J2C authentication data entries for configured data source to test database connection from WebSphere administrative console.
• Configured virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere application servers.
• Configured SSL for IBM Http Server using Ikeyman utility provided with the Http Server.
• Applied fix packs and cumulative fix packs to upgrade the WebSphere Application Server versions.
• Involved in trouble shooting application server, web server and plug-in logs and analyzed them using Log Analyzer in case of any critical issue.
• Developed UNIX shell scripts, JACL and Jython scripts to automate the WebSphere Administration (recycling the application server, deploying customer applications, logs rotation, monitor applications state, etc).
• Monitored the performance of the deployed applications by enabling the Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) using Runtime Performance Advisor and Tivoli Performance Viewer and Wily Introscope.
• Actively monitoring of all the servers in production and staging environments and fixing any issues with the servers.
• Installed, configured, administered and supported JBOSS on RedHat Linux environments.

Environment: IBM WebSphere 6.1/6.0, JBOSS 4.x, IBM Http Server 2.0.x, Linux (RedHat),Oracle9i, SiteMinder 6.0.

Client: Confidential, CA May 06 Aug 08
Role: Middleware Engineer
Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, administered and supported WebSphere Application Server 5.0 on Solaris and Windows.
• Implemented the Clusters / Server Groups and Cluster Members /clones (Vertical scaling & horizontal scaling) for fail over and distribute the workload on WAS
• Integrating enterprise-wide J2EE applications and deploying them on WebSphere Application Server and managing them through WebSphere administrative console.
• Attended change management meetings on a regular basis.
• Created user roles and groups using Local OS registry and secured WebSphere resources.
• Involved in configuring JDBC drivers, Data sources on WebSphere Application Server 5.0.
• Involved in creating UNIX shell scripts, JACL scripts which automates the WebSphere Administration (bouncing the application server, deploying enterprise applications, logs rotation, monitor applications state, etc,)
• Used Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer for performance tuning and troubleshooting
• Installed fix packs and cumulative fixes to upgrade the version of the WebSphere Application Server 5.0.
• Provided technical assistance for Web Hosting team on various Application servers and Web Servers including IBM HTTP Server, Apache Web Server, and iplanet Server.
• Monitoring all Servers, shutdown and startup, Network Support and Troubleshooting

Environment: WebSphere 5.0.x, IBM HTTP Server 1.3.x, iplanet 4.x, Java, EJB, Java Servlets, JSP
1.0, Solaris 8, Windows Server, Oracle 8i.

Client:Confidential,Foster City, CA Feb 04 - Mar 06
Role: WebSphere Administrator
Responsibilities:

• Building, Integrating enterprise-wide J2EE Enterprise Server, IBM Visual Age for Java4.0, Tomcat server, XML, DB2, Shell scripts actions and deploying using WebSphere Application Server Application Assembly Tool and managing security policies for different applications
• Managedpooling and registering web applications (Servlets, JSP) on WebSphere
• Installed, configured, administered and supported WebSphere Application Server3.5/4.0 on AIX, Linux and Windows environment
• Createdserver groups, Model, clones for WebSphere Application Server 3.5
• UsedResource Analyzer and Log Analyzer for performance tuning and troubleshooting
• Createduser roles and groups for securing the resources using Local OS Registries
• Writtenmany WSCP scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XMLConfig tool
• DevelopedEJB components that are run in IBM WebSphere4.0 Application Server in UNIX on AIX environment
• Involved introuble shooting and providing technical assistance for Web Hosting team on various Application and Web Servers including IBM HTTP Server, Apache Web Server, JBOSS and Netscape Enterprise Server
• Monitoring all Servers, shutdown and boot up, Network Support and Trouble Shooting

Environment: IBM WebSphere App Server 5.x, AIX, EJB, J2EE, JNDI, Netscape,
Enterprise Server, IBM Visual Age for Java4.0, Tomcat server, XML, DB2, Shell scripts

Education:

• Bachelors in Computer Science and Information Technology.