Summary

• IT Specialist skillful in finding ways that technology can add value to business operations and match company objectives to produce supportive solutions. Successful background in managing software implementations and process improvement projects. Understanding business requirements, designing
• cost-effective technology solutions, and implementing solutions on time and under budget. Highly proficient in assessing/analyzing environmental needs, developing strategies and formulating plans to increase business. And most importantly a Team player.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Websphere Admin / Technical Analyst

• Build Websphere Application Servers 7.0.0.xx, IBM Webservers with vertical/horizontal clustering topology. Work with Citrix group integrating Netscaler Load Balance for fail-over environment, secured https unsecured http, session affinity round robinconfigurations. Created node agents addNode federated into deployment manager. Configured JVM custom properties, datasources, websphere environment variables, J2c authentication, global sercurity, performance tuning. Managed keys certificates.
• Trained offshore team for 24/7support,CareMoreWebsphere Application Server topology, created documentation and diagrams.On call support for escalations.
• Facets installation customization deployed TriZetto releases ear files. I supported Facets Application and customer support. Initiated TriZetto tickets and resolved issue's. Created development, test, stage and production environment. Work with the team for the go-live project from Facets database 4.71 to 5.01 implementation.

Confidential

Websphere Admin / Technical Analyst

• Websphere Administrator support security, policy and monitoring system logs, Tivoli performance tuning of garbage collections, setting the Heap Size to optimal performance.
• Administration/Development/Deployment and other web/app servers as WebSphere, Tomcat, jBoss, IBM HTTP Server, IIS, Apache. Configuring Horizontal Vertical clustering In an IBM i/Linux environment for Websphere Application Sever Websphere Portal.
• Migration of Websphere Portal 6.0 base to Websphere Portal 6.1 ND to Websphere Portal 8.0 ND and applying fixes levels to Portal and WAS.
• Migration of Websphere Commerce Server 6.0 to Websphere Commerce Server 7.0 using IBM migration script and applying current fixes. Optimizing WAS heap size and connections pools for performance tuning.
• Configuring IBM HTTP Web-Server SSL/HTTP for external Web Sites, setting up port blocks Web-services using Websphere SOA DataPower, monitoring logging on DP, HTTP and systemout.logs.Provide support for SSL implementation, PKI, SSO configuration, and Securing Web Applications that are integrated with 3rd party vendors. Debug J2EE Enterprise applications with a focus on JSP, Servlet, JMS, JDBC, J2EE Security, Struts . Perform and enable remote technical support of IBM software and solutions for WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Process Server, and DB2 Universal by analyzing problems, reviewing traces, thread dumps, logs and other documentation. Create end-to end system test scenario's and test the solution in clustered and single server environments. Use the wsadmin tool to develop and run scripts in JACL and JYTHON scripting language for testing purposes.
• Configuring DataPower XI50 Appliances, upgrading firmware 3.8.1, Deploy Web Services/create policy rules for the services to Websphere Application Server V6.1 ND and port blocks initiated on the IBM I. Create front side handlers HTTP/HTTPS/FTP. Create XML Firewalls configure XML Firewall policy, turn up logging CLI for testing. Create production/test/dev domains, deploying rules polices from test to production via backup export and import files. Export SSL certificates from Websphere and import certificate into Datapower. Editing XML input response to SOAP request. Capturing performance and writing to a statics style format.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator V5-V6 muli-platforms

Implementation of security policies e.g., authentication and authorization , protection of WebSphere resources, and defining and installing WebSphere Application Server, implement a federated repository WAS . Perform maintenance and performance activities tomcat server. WebSphere backup/restore and archive configuration tasks, monitoring the size of logs/files and backup/purge as needed, managing the plug-in configuration file e.g., regenerate, edit, propagate, etc. , tuning performance of WebSphere Application Server jvms e.g., configure caching, queuing and pooling parameters, tune JVM heap size, etc. Configuring JDBC resource connections and testing connections. Installing databases DB2 . Troubleshooting, deploying and configuring J2EE applications in both shared and standalone environments. Using either the administrative console or wsadmin tools, install PTF files. Configure WebSphere java2 security. Troubleshooting failures, analyzing root causes. Patching WAS, 3rd party applications, and Operating Systems. Work on multiple operating systems ranging from AIX, HPUX, Iseries V.5 R.3, EDI Trusted Link Iseries, X12 data. Navigate within the AIX file system

Confidential

System Administrator/ WebSphere administrator

• Leading a team of Unix Admins, performing System Administration tasks across multiple UNIX platforms to include installing AIX 5.x , HP-UX 10x-11x. Performing installation and configuration tasks of WebSphere 5.x enterprise software, multiple jvm/node environments clustering ,
• WebSphere administrative security as well as management of web servers IBM HTTP on Linux servers and Enterprise IBM-Blade Server architecture J-class, Ps, . Working closing with PD E product development , internal and external clients. Configuration J2EE custom banking solutions using WebSphere jvms , and Eclipse software. Creating scripts using wsadmin Installing, configuring, patching and building Informix Databases. Configuring users and groups in federated repositories project readiness. Update support to the team from a technical perspective. Provide day to day as well as 24/7 production support. Implement production changes. Responsible for maintaining ticket queues by addressing and/or closing trouble tickets. Meet the SLA/SLO requirements from management. Navigate within the AIX file system.

Confidential

Team Lead. / Response Center Engineer

• Assisted both on-site and remote system administrators with problem resolution in both production and development environments. Prepared written documentation of problems and changes to operating system and hardware configurations for client tracking purposes. Provided advice and guidance to management and programmers on network software systems and hardware problems. Researched programs, systems, and hardware configuration alternatives to determine methods to maximize efficiency. Trained System Administrators and operators in control and use of new software. Assisted other administrators with more difficult tasks. Determined and solved problems with the on-line network.
• Provided technical guidance and direction to management, other system administrators, and operators regarding software and hardware. Performed tier II support for HP nationwide clientele, mostly High Availablility critical systems.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

HP-UX 10.X/11.X, AIX 5.x, Linux, DB2, Control-M batch monitoring , Linux, WebSphere WAS v5-v6, Netscaler, Eclipse MqSeries, Informix v8,HACMP clustering LVM, DNS, NIS, FTP, NFS, ITO, Maestro, NetCool, Apache, IHS, Jacl, OmniBack 3.5, M/C ServiceGuard, Netscape Communicator 4.X, Internet Explorer 6.0, MS Office 2000, Remedy, Clarify, Virtual Vault, ITSM, Veritas Netbackup