OBJECTIVE:

Obtain position as Websphere MQ/MB(IIB) system developer/Architect to apply my skills and knowledge in order to develop company and gain my knowledge further.

SUMMARY:

• 10Years of professional experience in development, system administration, testingand maintenance.
• Experience in Enterprise application integration (EAI)and SOAArchitecture. Administration and development withIBM Websphere MQ(10 years), IBM Websphere Message Broker(IIB)(9 years),Solace Message Routing Appliances(2 years) and IBM Datapower Gatway(1 year),.
• Experience developing Message Flows and Message sets using ESQL and Java.
• Experience in Installing MQ and IIB on Linux and Administration.
• Extensive experience in Mentoring and training resources in MQ and IBM Message Broker.
• Last 9 years of experience on variousplatforms like UNIX(AIX, Sun Solaris, Redhat linux), Mainframe(ZOS), Windows.
• Experience in working with deadlines and timely service delivery. Breakfix and restoration of issues within defined SLA.

PERSONAL SKILLS:

• Good spirit in working as a team.
• Easy to settle in each environment and flexible.
• Hard working and strong logical sense.
• Good verbal and written communication. self - starter with a strong analytical problem solving, having ability to multi-task, work in a team environment, understand and be responsive to customer needs, work under tight deadlines and work independently and be flexible, a good listener and have strong oral and written communication skills
• Excellent problem resolution and communication skills with ability to work under pressure

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Mainframe(ZOS), Windows

Languages: Core Java, C Programming

Unix Shelly Scripting: SQL, PL/SQL, XML, JSON, XSLT, WSDL, Extended SQL (ESQL)

Database: Oracle, IBM DB2.

Scripting/Meta Languages: UNIX

Shell Scripting: HTML / Java Script

Developing Tools: Eclipse 3.x, SOAPUI, Tortoise SVN

Middleware Technologies: IBM WebSphere SOA Datapower(XI50/XI52/IDG), Solace Message Router Appliances, IBM WebSphere Message Broker(V6.x, 7.x), IBM WebSphere MQ Series(v5.x, 6.x,7.x,8.x,9.x)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr MQ Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering for MQ Infrastructure Build
• Analysis on new features of MQ Product and compatibilities testing.
• Setup NAS File system.
• Analyze and setup log files for Queue Managers.
• Prepare shell script/package for MQ Infra build.
• Open network firewall for MQ Ports and MQ Clients.
• Create MQ VIPs.
• Setup user id mqm and configure OS user level limits.
• Setup filesystems required for MQ Build.
• Install/Build MQ Infrastructure using shell scripts.
• Create MQ Queue Managers.
• Create MQ Components(Queues, channels, listeners, trigger queues, DLQs, XMITQs, Services, etc)
• Setup MQ Clusters(Repositories and Partial repos) and configure cluster Queues.
• MQ Access control using OAM for application ids/users.
• Setup MQ daily Backup process.
• MQ Access Control using CHLAUTH.
• MQ Access Control Using MQ Captialware-MQAUSX Exit.
• Configure MQ SSL/TLS on channels.
• Setup KeyDatabase & Trust store(for storing Public CA certs and Private Keys).
• Taking care of Certificate renewals.
• Work with MQ Clients to install SSL/TLS Certs and renewal process.
• Setup VCS controlled shared storage for MQ HA.
• Setup VCS configuration for MQ HA.
• MQ Fixpack installations.
• Setup Monitoring Scripts to monitor MQ health.
• Setup MQ Stats collection scripts.
• MQ Administration.
• Provide Support to MQ Clients in case of any MQ issues(Test/Pre-Prod and Prod).
• MQClient Installations on application Servers.
• Upgrading MQ and MQ Clients (From 8.0.0.6 to 9.0.0.2).
• Setup monitoring for MQ errors using Germain.
• Setup monitoring for MQ Queues/Qmgrs using HP IR360 tool.
• Setup MQ Traces and analysis.
• Work with Level2 IBM labs on PMR for any product related issues.
• MQ with Siebel Integration(IP 2015) for Ventana-Loyalty Services.
• Migrating from MQ8.x to MQ9.x.
• MQSC Scripting Implementation.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Sr Websphere MQ/MB and DP System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Over 9 years of experience in MQ series and Message Broker system administration.
• Strong technical skills in MQ series administration.
• Support MQ infrastructure on AIX,Linux,Windows and Z/os(mainframes).
• Installed, configured, implemented, administered MQ Series components (Queue managers,QueuesChannels,listeners,trigger queues, clustersetup, PTP, SSL).
• Good experience in setting up MQ clustering, Point to Point setup and server connections among applications.
• Excellent skills and good understanding of MQ clustering concepts.
• Very good analytical skills and troubleshooting techniques.
• Implementation of SSL at MQ level.
• Strong working skills in Unix shell scripting.
• Queue manager aliasing and multi - hopping.
• Very good experience in identifying MQ and Connectivity issues.
• Involved in setup MQ infrastructure on mainframes z/os.(includes CF structure, page sets, shared queuesstorage Classes, buffer pool).
• Defined MQ set-up among various applications.
• Extensive experience with Channels and Listeners and Queues for MQ Series Project
• Analyzed and tune Websphere MQ performance.
• Performed strategic analysis and design of MQ infrastructure
• Create and prepared Websphere MQ Disaster Recovery Environment
• Created, authorized, granted authority, maintained, startup, delete queues to MQ Series Project
• Created, deleted and investigated the condition of Channels, Listeners.
• Experience in migration of the MQ version from 5.1 to MQ V6.
• Experience in migration of the MQ version from 6 to MQ V7.
• Developed scripts for queues and channel creation, setting up trigger queues.
• Experience in Shell scripting (bash, ksh) to automate administration batch jobs including backing up
• WebSphere MQ/MB components
• Responsible for Maintaining production versions of the all components(MQ scripts, Message flows and tar files)
• Responsible for creating packages for Quality (E2) and production(E3) changes.
• Experienced in raising PMRs to IBM product support team.
• Experienced in problem tracing and Websphere log file management.
• Experienced in Recovery and backup of the data from/to TMC storage tapes.
• Designed system to include MQ hub.
• Provide 24/7 pager support for Production systems in a highly available infrastructure.
• Developed stats collector programs and shell scripts to get the statistics at queue level.
• Capacity management reviews.
• Message Broker/IIB Experience:
• Experienced in Message broker administration.
• Coordinate with end application teams to fix any technical integration issues.
• Create or Modify Service data Contracts like XSD, WSDLS
• Review WMB Code and Documents
• Create standard guideline documents for development and deployment of service.
• Maintaining message brokers infrastructure on AIX servers.
• Very good at finding RCAs with messageflows and messagesets w.r.t data issues.
• Experienced in setting up MQ traces and Message broker traces at message flow level in debugging the issues.
• Worked in MQSI brokers decommission projects
• Experienced in monitoring products like Candle,ITM and LFA.
• Experienced in ITM and candle administration.
• Experience in designing candle situations and deploying in policies.
• Experience in developing ITM Tivoli situations and deploying to managed systems.
• Responsible for awareness of all the patches applied on our servers.
• Experienced in migration from IBM SAN to Hitachi EMC SAN on all AIX servers.
• Reviewing all change records that goes to production and ensure that no impacts to the
• BAU applications. Providing approvals for the same.
• Weekly and monthly reports generation.
• Subversion control and migration.
• Integrated WebServices/Restful calls with Message Broker Nodes.
• Communicate all accomplishments to client on monthly basis.
• Ensure that all the team members to fill all working hrs on weekly basis in client site.
• Daily Mainframe monitoring and take necessary actions in case of any exceptions.
• Responsible for tracking all migration activities in Test and production.
• Responsible to ensure that all team members are aware of all client communications and client expectations.
• Responsible to schedule monthly meeting with architects and product teams for any upgrades decommissioning and new infrastructure.
• Worked with Server admin team for any server related patches, upgrades and issues at server level.
• Reviewing offshore work
• Weekly status call with clients.
• Worked in decommission projects.
• Work was additionally completed using SQL and MQ Series Integrator (MQSI) for triggers and automation in a UNIX and OS/390 environment. Some runs under AS/400.
• Install and configure WMB / WMQ software on 2 environments including production.
• Provide troubleshooting and development support with legacy systems throughout the development life cycle.
• Responsible for the standards architecture/frameworks for MQ/Broker in development through production environments.
• Work closely with development team to assist with the implementation of architecture requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring.
• Administer mainframe access and security using RACF.
• Available for non-business hours on-call support.

Confidential

MQ and Message Broker Developer

Responsibilities:

• Gather Requirements from clients
• Analyze the business requirements.
• Experienced in creating Microsoft Visio diagrams for Message flows/Topology diagrams.
• Experienced in designing message flows and message sets.
• Experienced using ESQL and Java for Message Transformations(XML to XML, XML to MRM, MRM to XML)
• Experience in developing web services and SOAP based services.
• Creation of Message Brokers and queue managers.
• Experience on message broker products IBM MQ series Integratorv2.1, MB6 and MB7.
• Deployment of Messageflows and Message Sets.
• Documented the unit testing, system testing and integration testing.
• Developed Startup/shutdown shell scripts for MQ and MB.
• Developed shell scripts to start,stop and status of the messageflows.
• Working closely with Project manager, development, testing and production team to align project deliverables, dates and report Issues/concerns.
• Experienced in Message broker administration.
• Coordinate with end application teams to fix any technical integration issues.
• Create or Modify Service data Contracts like XSD, WSDLS
• Review WMB Code and Documents
• Create standard guideline documents for development and deployment of service.
• Maintaining message brokers infrastructure on AIX servers.
• Very good at finding RCAs with messageflows and messagesets w.r.t data issues.
• Experienced in setting up MQ traces and Message broker traces at message flow level in debugging the issues.
• Worked in MQSI brokers decommission projects.
• Migration of message flows from mqsi 2.1 to Message Broker 6.1
• Migration of message flows from Message Broker 6.1 to Message Broker 7
• Deploying message flows in brokers/defining MQ setup in Test(E1) and Quality(E2) environments.
• Migrate WMB from 6.0 to 6.1.
• Worked as a coordinator with client and offshore team
• Experience in developing web services and SOAP based services.
• Worked as a coordinator with client and offshore team
• Design system to include MQ hub.