SUMMARY

• Ten years of IT industry experience in Middleware Technologies and Support.
• Hands on experience in installation, configuration and administration of Net IQ (formally Novell) Security Management Suite - eDirectory, Access Manager and Identity Manager using SAML, OAuth, TCP/IP protocols.
• Setup, configured, managed and integrated various Data power devices in all environments, as required.
• Involved in Data power XI52 firmware migration from 5.0.0.8 to version 7.0.0.
• Configured and implemented the Datapower authentication and authorization procedures AAA Policies for proxy web services.
• Hands on expertise in configuring & creating components of Data Power appliance such as Web Service Proxy, Multi-Protocol Gateway, XML and Web Firewall, SSL Proxy Profiles, Load Balancer Groups.
• Enabled security on Data Power appliance and, tested end-to-end using external tools like SOAPUI.
• Configuring Front Side Handler and Back-End Connectivity including HTTP, HTTPS, JMS, MQ Resource, SSH Setup involving various XML Threats.
• Closely worked in administering various services on DataPower appliances including WebGUI, CLI and XML Management Interface.
• Good Knowledge in LDAP and Microsoft Active Directory.
• Excellent working knowledge in configuring multiple Weblogic domains including machines, manage servers, node managers and cluster environments.
• Expertise in migrating, upgrading WebLogic Server and updating JDK versions, applying patches for WebLogic server.
• Extensive hands-on experience in setting up multiple clusters and implementing Load Balancing, High Availability and Failover functionality.
• Extensive experience in configuring and managing secured environments using SSL certificates.
• Solid experience in deploying the applications on clustered and standalone WebLogic and WebSphere Servers.
• Good troubleshooting skills on issues related to WebLogic, WAS, Networking, Database, UNIX and applications, and worked with respective engineers to resolve them and provided RCA.
• Implemented patches, updates, and fixes as necessary following established Change Management processes.
• Configured and Migrated WebSphere MQ from windows server to appliance.
• Extensive experience in server administration, deployment, incident & capacity management and issue troubleshooting.
• Worked with the entire cycle of application development from requirement gathering to moving the application to a production environment.
• Good interpersonal and analytical skill. Excellent team player and achiever. Ability to lead a team functionality-wise.
• Worked closely with the Business clients in requirement analysis, identification and documentation of functional testing efforts and provided project testing estimates and timelines.
• Supported on call schedule 24/7 for Production support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Middle Ware: Oracle Weblogic12c, IBM Websphere Application server, IBM Webspehere MQ v8 and appliance v9, XI52, Software AG WebMethods product suite 9.5, NetIQ e-directory, Novell Access Manager, NetIQ IDM.

Web Server: Internet Information Server, Tomcat

Database: SQL Server2008, Oracle 10g/9i/8.

Operating System: Windows, UNIX, LINUX

Monitoring Tools: Nastel Auto Pilot, Mercury Sitescope, Check Point, Smart Dashboard

Tools: Win Runner, Test Director, Quality Center, SOAPUI, Q-Pasa, XML Spy

Data warehouse: Cognos, Business Objects

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WebLogic Administrator

Confidential

Environment: J2EE, Oracle WebLogic12c, Apache.

Responsibilities:

• Worked on applying WebLogic and OSB critical patch set updates and JDK upgrades.
• Implementation of application and infrastructure related change requests, enhancements and modifications.
• Deployed the applications, formats of WAR and EAR in WebLogic servers.
• Involved in disaster recovery planning, building and testing the DR servers.
• Troubleshooting server and application related issues in production environment to ensure maximum availability of applications.
• Worked on upgrading WebLogic servers to 12c and deployed applications on the new environment.
• Worked on Health check scripts.
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues.
• Handling 24/7 on call rotation for production issues, perform root cause analysis, managing incident tickets per the SLA's.

Application Support Specialist

Confidential

Environment: J2EE, Oracle WebLogic12c, Tomcat, IBM Websphere MQ, IBM WebSphere Data Power, Web Methods Suite, Microsoft Technologies (IIS, MSSQL), NetIQ Products (eDirectory, Access Manager, Identity Manager).

Responsibilities:

• Setup, configured, managed and integrated various Data power devices in all environments, as required.
• Involved in Data power XI52 firmware migration from 5.0.0.8 to version 7.0.0.
• Developed and implemented proxies for web service and SSL, efficiently. Also, responsible for deploying those artifacts to higher environments.
• Configured and implemented the Datapower authentication and authorization procedures AAA Policies for proxy web services.
• Hands on expertise in configuring & creating components of Data Power appliance such as Web Service Proxy, Multi-Protocol Gateway, XML and Web Firewall, SSL Proxy Profiles, Load Balancer Groups.
• Enabled security on Data Power appliance and, tested end-to-end using external tools like SOAPUI.
• Configured IBM MQ and Datapower appliance for High availability.
• Responsible for IBM Data Power Appliance administration and application deployments.
• Configuring Front Side Handler and Back-End Connectivity including HTTP, HTTPS, JMS, MQ Resource, SSH Setup involving various XML Threats.
• Configured repository Queue Managers in a Clustered environment.
• Configured and migrated MQ from windows server to IBM MQ Appliance M2001B.
• Expertise in installing, configuring WLS domains, load balancing, performance tuning, deploying, troubleshooting and maintaining of WebLogic servers.
• Extensive working experience in setting up multiple domains, including machines, managed servers, node managers and cluster environments.
• Configured and created data sources, connections pools & multi connection pools.
• Involved in trouble shooting and fixing day-to-day problems of the applications in production, production-Fix and testing environments.
• Configured LDAP using directory Server for user authentication.
• Created SSL and Digital Certificates for requesting, generating and implementation for the communication between web server and the Application Server.
• Deployed the applications on multiple Weblogic Server instances and maintained Load balancing, high availability and Fail over for the servers.
• Deployed the applications, formats of WAR, JAR and EAR in WebLogic 12c.
• Responsible for installation and configuration of applications using IBM Websphere MQ v8.0.
• Migrated WebSphere MQ 7.0 to 8.0 on Windows and migrated MQ from windows server to IBM MQ Appliance M2001B.
• Responsible for IBM Data Power Appliance administration and application deployments.
• Used Network tools for network traffic monitoring and troubleshooting the applications.

Application Support Specialist

Confidential

Environment: WebLogic 12c, Java, DB2, Informatica

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating and configuring Managed servers, Node Manager, Node agents and clusters for Weblogic Application Server.
• Implemented the Work Load Management using clustering.
• Created Clusters and instances in Weblogic to support high availability, fail over and implemented clustering.
• Configured Weblogic Recourses like JDBC connections.
• Involved in migrating WebLogic from v10 to 12c on Windows servers.
• Involved in Installing Upgrade Fix Packs and Migrating to latest versions.
• Work with vendors and developers for application related issues.
• Deployment and troubleshooting of JAR, WAR, and EAR files in domain and clustered environments.
• Monitoring thread usage, connection pool usage, CPU usage, Memory usage and preparing reports for the performance tests, dry run tests and load tests conducted on the Application Servers.
• Opened tickets with Oracle support, worked with support to troubleshoot and fix the issues.
• Troubleshoot environment and application issues and provide root cause summary to application stakeholders.

Associate Consultant

Confidential

Environment: Web Methods, WAS, DB2, Mainframe, Java, J2EE, Oracle

Responsibilities:

• Provided support in code deploy, change management, and application level. troubleshooting for the Dev, Test, Pre-Prod & Production environment.
• Installed, configured & upgraded WAS for all Dev, Test, Pre-Prod & Production environments.
• Worked closely with development, messaging, network support teams, as the application was integrated with other products.
• Configured JDBC connections, JMS servers and security settings for WAS.
• Involved extensively in trouble shooting the issues and finding out root cause analysis.
• Deployed services and maintained B2B packages.
• Participated in activating packages and updating message services.
• Prepared and managed log files including server transactions.

Associate Consultant

Confidential

Environment: IIS, DB2, Mainframe, .Net Framework, Oracle, TIBCO

Responsibilities:

• Participated in procedures such as installation, server maintenance and system upgrading issues.
• Supported technical team members in troubleshooting and resolution of all IIS application problems.
• Migration of accounts and data from web server to another web server.
• Worked closely with the Business clients in requirement analysis, identification and documentation of functional testing efforts and provided project testing estimates and timelines.
• Creating XML for data requests for application testing, Editing and validating XML documents using XML spy
• Executed SQL scripts/queries for data verification to compare and to check table output values by accessing DB2, SQL server and ORACLE tables
• Involved in preparing Impact Assessment sheets.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Environment: ABAP (SAPGUI), Web Dynpro/BSP/HTML

Responsibilities:

• Onsite co-ordination, bug-reporting/debugging, regression testing.
• Interaction with the clients and developers for debugging issues.
• Executed test cases to check the Accessibility of each module using the screen reader Software (JAWS Version 6.10).
• Reported the error/defects using the CSN / GTP.
• Involved in Regression Testing.
• Knowledge Sharing Sessions.