SUMMARY:

• Having 10+ years of IT experience, in which 5+ years of experience in IBM Connect:Direct, Gentran Suite (Sterling Integrator/Sterling File Gateway), Attachmate.
• Installation and Configuration 
• Setting up of Partners Mailboxes on Sterling Filegateway
• Worked on Sterling Integrator Dash Board and File Gateway
• Extensive knowledge of networking and communications protocols (e.g. HTTP, HTTPS, AS2, FTP, SFTP, FTPS, C: D, SwiftNet) including security, certificates, and keys, Configuring SSL/TLS using Self - Signed certificates.
• Establishing connectivity with third parties via Network Gateway
• Installation of Attachmate and configuration of transfer sites
• Expertise in working with MQ Series on different platforms.
• Extensive Knowledge on Business processes, Monitoring Tools, XML, XPATH, and XSLT.
• Administration, Fixpack Installation, Version Up gradation and Configuration of Websphere MQ on different environments like Windows, UNIX, AIX and Linux.
• Experienced in working with MQ on different concepts like Distribution queuing, and Triggering.
• Hands on experience in Problem determination and Trouble shooting.
• Excellent ability to plan, organize and prioritize my work to meet on time the deadlines of my clients and keep customer’s satisfaction at the highest level possible.
• Proven ability in quick understanding and learning of new technologies and their application in business solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

EAI/Messaging Tools: Sterling Integrator, IBM Sterling File gateway, IBM Sterling Connect Direct, Sterling Secure Proxy, Connect Direct FileAgent, IBM Sterling Control Center, IBM WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.0, WBI Message Broker 6.0/6.1, Attachmate

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris, Windows 2k3, IBM-AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Z/OS.

Mainframe: TSO/ISPF, JCL

Mark Up Languages: HTML, XML.

Monitoring Tools: Sterling Control Centre, Qpasa, Omegamon

Change Management tools: Service Manager 7, Service Centre 5, Service NOW

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

IT Infrastructure Specialist / Sterling Integrator

Responsibilities:

• Designing the solution based on the requirements using CD, SI and SSP. Configuring and Securing the SI/CD transfers using Sterling Secure Proxy.
• Developing applications for B2B integration: Sterling Integrator and Sterling file gateway.
• Implemented SFG (Sterling File gateway ) for Various Partners
• Created routing channel templates in File gateway, extensively used static & dynamic routing in sterling file gateway
• Manage Sterling B2B Integrator permissions, user accounts, and groups
• Identify potential performance problems areas in the Sterling B2B Integrator architecture
• Identify, test, and analyze performance, memory, and cache-related problems
• Use the Performance Tuning Utility to test a system and to adjust performance parameters to increase performance
• Configure business process check in options, use best practices for business process design, and apply modeling strategies, and analyze detailed reports to increase processing efficiency
• Use monitoring and diagnostic tools to monitor system status and identify errors on a server
• Design, develop, maintain and troubleshoot IBM Sterling Integrator custom business processes, Services and service configurations, system settings and properties.
• Collaborate with customers and trading partners to collect systems requirement and business requirement.
• Build: Building the Infrastructure for projects on boarding.
• Guide the startup projects with the design and capability of the tools and provide the best possible solution with the available MFT products.
• Automating the solution wherever possible using tools like FileAgent, Autosys etc.

Environment:: Connect: Direct, Sterling Integrator, Sterling Secure Proxy, C:D Secure+, FileAgent, SCC Windows, IBM-AIX, HP-UX, ZOS. Attachmate

Confidential

IT Infrastructure Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Designing the system architecture, installation of application, creating and installing certificates, installing java custom services, configuring different adapters, coordinating the testing with QA
• Manage the installation and upgrade of IBM Control Center and IBM B2B Integrator application on Linux/Unix
• Process development for outbound and inbound communications like HTTP/S, FTP, SFTP
• Designing the solution based on the requirements using CD, SI and SSP. Configuring and Securing the SI/CD transfers using Sterling Secure Proxy.
• Developing applications for B2B integration: Sterling Integrator and Sterling file gateway.
• Implemented SFG (Sterling File gateway ) for Various Partners
• Created routing channel templates in File gateway, extensively used static & dynamic routing in sterling file gateway
• Manage Sterling B2B Integrator permissions, user accounts, and groups
• Identify potential performance problems areas in the Sterling B2B Integrator architecture
• Identify, test, and analyze performance, memory, and cache-related problems
• Use the Performance Tuning Utility to test a system and to adjust performance parameters to increase performance
• Configure business process check in options, use best practices for business process design, and apply modeling strategies, and analyze detailed reports to increase processing efficiency
• Use monitoring and diagnostic tools to monitor system status and identify errors on a server
• Design, develop, maintain and troubleshoot IBM Sterling Integrator custom business processes, Services and service configurations, system settings and properties.
• Collaborate with customers and trading partners to collect systems requirement and business requirement.

Environment: Sterling Integrator (SI) 5.1, UNIX (AIX5.3), BPML, XPath, XSLT, XML, Application Integrator, Sterling Secure Proxy, C:D Secure+, FileAgent, IBM-AIX, HP-UX, ZOS. Attachmate

Confidential

IT Infrastructure Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Manage the installation and upgrade of IBM Control Center and IBM B2B Integrator application on Linux/Unix
• Develop business processes using BPML for various clients to communicate with different protocols
• Design, develop and implement business process flows using BPML and GPM in Sterling GIS/SI
• Perform query writing and scripting in MS SQL and ODBC
• Performance analysis and tuning. Testing and Implementing Connect Direct inventory for storing All CD nodes details of Organization
• Design and implement architecture of Control Center in organization
• Requirement and capability analysis of IBM Control Center
• Management and monitoring of all CD nodes in Control Center
• Solving production issues on stringent timeline by providing permanent fix
• To provide technical support to Control Center users for monitoring activities.
• Configure Control center Engine for Connect:Direct license tracking system
• Involved with various File Transfer software including IBM Sterling B2B Integrator (including Perimeter servers), Sterling File Gateway (including Sterling Community Manager) as well as various protocols including SFTP, FTP, etc. Use of PGP Encryption for file transfers.
• Build: Building the Infrastructure based upon the agreed solution.
• Audit: Remediation of Non-compliant node as per the Audit requirements laid down by Barclays.
• Mentor Role: Mentoring the new joiners with Tools as well providing the required guidance.
• Transition: Contributing in the Global Transition activities and new initiatives.

Environment:: Connect: Direct, Sterling Integrator, Sterling Secure Proxy, C:D Secure+, FileAgent, SCC Windows, IBM-AIX, HP-UX, ZOS

Confidential

IT Infrastructure Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Installation of Connect:Direct and Secure+ in UNIX and Windows nodes.
• Upgradation of Connect:Direct version to 3.6, 3.8, 4.1 In Unix environment.
• Upgradation of Connect:Direct version to 4.2, 4.4 & 4.6 in windows environment.
• Patching the Connect:Direct.
• Planning and implementing the changes via proper channels (raising change records, getting the approval and thereby implementing).
• Adding the Monitoring Tool Sterling Control Center User ID to the Nodes.
• Analysing the Connect:Direct configuration to remove the test entries from production servers.
• As a part of SVSP upgrading Connect:Direct from lower versions to higher version.
• Conduction unit and development testing and validating the results in production.
• Decommissioning Connect:Direct if it is not in use from long time.

Environment:: C:D Secure+, CD Select, SCC, IBM-AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Windows and Sterling

Confidential .

MQ and MB Admin

Responsibilities:

• Creating and configuring MQ Queue Managers and MQ objects: queues, channels etc.
• Involved in Distributed queue management.
• Enabling triggering on MQ queues based on the requirement.
• MQ security and authorization.
• Migration of MQ from v 5.3 to v 6.0.
• Applying Fix packs.
• Testing the end to end environment.
• Trouble shooting the issues in WebSphere MQ.
• Checking the Message Broker components are stable in the environment.
• Checking the Broker processes to see the Broker is up and running.
• Creating BAR files and Deploying message flows and message sets to the Broker.
• Creating ACL entries to restrict user’s access to configuration manager.
• Provide 24x7 on-call support for the test and mission critical production systems.

Environment: IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0/5.3,WBIMB, AIX and Windows 2000

Confidential, Boston, MA

MQ Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and maintenance of WebSphere MQ on distributed platforms.
• Configuration and managing of queue managers.
• Configuring MQ objects: queues, channels etc.
• Start up and shutdown of MQ queue managers.
• Enabling Triggering on MQ queues based on the requirements of the development environment.
• Created new queue managers and Configured into MQ clustered environment.
• MQ security and authorizations.
• MQ log maintenance.
• MQ problem determination and route cause analysis.
• Ensure standards are followed.

Environment: WMQ 5.3, JMS, WAS 6.0(iBus), IBM DB2, Unix, Windows, Remedy

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the system requirements and developed test plans using technical specifications.
• Prepared test cases based on the Functional Specifications.
• Peer review the Test cases and Test data.
• Execution of the test cases.
• Performed various types of testing like GUI, Functional, and Regression.
• Responsible for back-end testing/database testing, which was done using SQL queries
• Performed validation tests to ensure that the developed functionality meets the specifications prior to UAT testing
• Logged all detected defects in the defect-tracking tool.
• Provides status to the test lead
• Responsible for generating weekly status report

Environment: VisualBasic, ASP and Oracle, TestDirector