PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• IT professional with 7+ years of experience in Middleware Engineering related technologies application administration, design, development, testing using SOA appliances like IBM Data powerXS40, XI50/52, ESB, Messaging, Web Sphere MQ& Message Broker, Application Servers TIM/TAM, Kerberos, OAuth, Web Servers Apache, IHS, AIX5L, Z/OS, Linux (Red Hat, SUSE) and Windows environments.
• Experience in configuring &creating components of data power appliance such as Web Service Proxy, Multi - Protocol Gateway, XML Firewall.
• Strong knowledge in SOA like XML, XSD, XPATH, XQuery, WSDL, Web Services, WS Security & 8Policy, UDDI, WSRR.
• Extensive experience using Web GUI, CLI including XML Management Interface for Data power admin tasks.
• Proficient in developing message transformations using XSL including custom XSLs for various policies in Data power appliances.
• Solid experience in implementing Web service proxy for filtering, routing, transforming and securing various messages.
• Extensive experience in developing POC's and executed negative, positive and load test cases prior to developing interfaces.
• Experience in integrating various applications using Web Sphere Data power XI50, XI52, XS40and Web Sphere MQ, Message Broker, Business Events.
• Strong in troubleshooting by enabling probe, debug and migrating configurations into various environments including upgrading firmware images for Data power.
• Strong experience in infrastructure support for highly scalable environments including horizontal & vertical scaling, capacity planning and third-party tools.
• Experience in performance tuning with specialized knowledge in analyzing thread, core, GC using ISA support and opening PMR's with IBM.
• Extensive experience in Application server administration activities including infrastructure planning and designing, configuration of servers /clients, user management.
• Provided 24x7 production support, best practice troubleshooting, monitoring, capacity planning, performance tuning, naming standards, and maintenance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Servers/Tools: IBM Web Sphere Data power (XI50, XI52, XB62, XG45), IBM Web Sphere Application Server Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM), Tivoli Access Manager (TAM), Tivoli Identity Management (TIM), Tivoli Storage Manager, Clear Case (Version Control Software), SSO (Single Sign On), SSH.

Databases: ORACLE, SQL Server, MS-Access.

Languages and Scripts: Java, J2EE, C++, C, SQL/PL SQL, HTML, Shell scripting, Perl, Web Servers IIS IBM HTTP Server, Apache HTTP Server, Sun One/ iPlanet Web Server.

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, IBM AIX (V4.3.3 and 5L V5.1, HACMP) and Windows T/2000/XP.

Network /Protocol: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH, Telnet, FTP, RMI/IIOP and WAP (WTP/WSP).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Georgia

Sr. IBM Data power Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Used SOAPUI extensively to test and debug services enabled in IBM Data power.
• Tested SOAP over HTTP binding using WSDL and migrated Data power objects within various test environments.
• Performed end-to-end testing, resolved problems and validated the test results. Performed unit testing and unit Integration testing.
• Integrated various applications with SOAP, JSON, XML and Non-XML services.
• Configured various actions while defining rules and policies like Transform action, AAA Action, Match Rule, Encryption, Decryption, Filter action, Validate, Route and various others.
• Added responsibilities were basic authorization, SSL offloading, custom header injection, error handling, and display user friendly HTML error pages concealing vital information that was leaking into error messages before Configured Web Service proxy with WSRR with manual/poll/automatic synchronization methods.
• Understand and provide input for the integration of WSRR with Data power
• Responsible for detailed technical design and deployment of runtime end-points of web services in WSRR.
• Installed and configure WSRR with Data power XI50/52.
• Built Multi-protocol gateway for HTTPS MQ protocol bridging, while performing transformation of the messages from SOAP to XML and back.
• Integrated with a mobile application server (consumer) accessing through browser and getting data from 3 different web services using Service Aggregation.
• Resolved complex issues related to Data power, mobile applications and back-end service calls.
• Developed solution for Scheduled Automatic Backup of all to be stored on a remote NFS mount
• Also, configured AAA action based on information available for Digital Signatures, Certificates, and generating key pairs and in accordance configuring mapping resources and mapping credentials.
• XML data validations using customized and available source XSD Validation Frameworks.
• Involved with other team members in writing scripts to automate deployment process and backup procedures.

Environment: Data power XI50/XI52, XG45 Web Sphere 6.x,7 Oracle 9i,10g, IHS 6.0, Apache(ERS) 2.0/2.2, Wily 8.0.1.0/9.0.6.0 , Visio 2000, Site Scope, Solaris 8, Windows 2000/2003, AIX 5.3/6.1, RH Linux

Confidential, NYC, NY

IBM Data power Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed services (Multi-Protocol Gateway, Web Service Proxy and XML Firewall) using assorted flavors of SOA Data power appliances (XI50/XI52/XG45/IDG).
• Developed web services to send/receive XML, SOAP and EDI request/response messages on TCP/UDP ports.
• Integrated Tibco EMS, IBM MQ and Web Sphere JMS to process SOAP and EDI messages.
• Developed WSDLs and XSDs for web services which handled XML and SOAP request/response messages.
• Integrated WSRR (Web Sphere Service Registry & Repository) with Data power appliances to fetch WSDLs and XSDs.
• Developed XSLT transformations for XML request/response handling using XML Spy editor.
• Utilized Putty and Filezilla tools to manage file system of backend systems, analyzed packet capture of network flow by using Wireshark tool to troubleshoot Connection and SSL issues.
• Created and installed SSL certificates and keys within Data power for HTTPS communication. Extracted Vendor certificate and keys using OpenSSL tool.
• Integrated SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)with Data power to monitor health of appliance and to monitor application level errors.
• Integrated Syslog with Data power to store logs of appliance and application level logs.
• Developed SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) components in Data power to integrate with SFG (Sterling File Gateway) to send/receive files & documents via secure channel.
• Developed test cases to validate web service functionality, configured & executed test cases by using SoapUI tool.
• Integrated Data power XI52 with IBM API Management 2.0 and created Management node, Analytics node, Gateway node and Assembly node in IBM API Management environment.
• Designed and developed framework to support REST API using Data power Multi-Protocol Gateway component to validate, authenticate and transform.
• Initialized Data power appliances and configured Web user interface by using Putty tool.
• Upgraded Data power appliance Firmware to latest & compatible versions.
• Managed and Tracked change requests and issues using BMC Remedy tool, the knowledge on Remedy tool gained during this assignment.
• Managed and Tracked defects/bugs by using Clear quest tool, the knowledge on this tool acquired in this assignment.

Environment: Data power appliances (XI50/XI52/XG45/IDG), SOAP, EDI, SoapUI, Tibco EMS, IBM MQ, Web Sphere JMS, WSDL, XSD, Visio, UML, WSRR, XML, XSLT, XML Spy, Wireshark, Putty, Filezilla, BMC Remedy, Clear Case, SNMP, Syslog, LDAP, SSL, TCP, UDP, SFTP, OpenSSL, SFG.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

IBM Data power Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis, design and development of Interfaces by using Data power Appliances XI50.
• Responsible for developing technical design documents for various Interfaces based on functional designs.
• Configured Data power devices after they delivered to data centers including SSH, management console.
• Developed several policies like AAA for securing various Web Services including service virtualization in Data power devices.
• Designed and developed various XSL's for message transformation including XML to XML, XML to Binary formats including content based routing and schema validation for message well format.
• Proficient in executing CLI commands along with Web GUI and XML Management Interface for IBM Data power administrative tasks.
• Involved in configuring the load balancer groups at Data power device clustering and provided high availability solutions.
• Worked in debug, troubleshooting various issues by using logs, probes and problem determination tools which are available in Data power device.
• Created and managed log targets including user management, device configurations including domain creation, updating latest firmware versions.
• Developed several proofs of concepts prior finalizing architecture and design of various interfaces in Data power.
• Created and configured MQ Objects like queue managers, remote queues, local queues, queue aliases, channels, clusters, transmission queues.
• Good in monitoring the MQ objects with configuration tools like ITM, OMEX.
• Responsible for Configuration Management and delivery management activities from middleware engineering team.
• Installed upgrades and fix packs to the runtime environment as required decreasing vulnerability to production environment.
• Provided 24x7 production support, best practice troubleshooting, monitoring, capacity planning, performance tuning, naming standards, security and maintenance.

Environment: Data Power XI50 & XS40, WMQ6.1/7.0, WMB 6.1/7.0 Linux, Windows 7