SUMMARY

• IT professional with 9+ years of experience in Middleware Engineering related technologies application administration, design, development, testing using SOA appliances like IBM Datapower XS40, XI50/52, ESB, Messaging, WebSphere 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 datapower appliance such as Web Service Proxy, Multi - Protocol Gateway, XML Firewall.
• Administered IBM DataPower, major tasks include Firmware upgrade from XI50 to XI52, creation of users, domain, assigning ACL.
• Strong knowledge in SOA like XML, XSD, XPATH, XQuery, WSDL, Web Services, WS Security & 8Policy, UDDI, WSRR.
• Highly involved in Implementing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Extensive experience using WebGUI, CLI including XML Management Interface for datapower admin tasks.
• Proficient in developing message transformations using XSL including custom XSLs for various policies in Datapower appliances.
• Solid experience in implementing Web service proxy for filtering, routing, transforming and securing various messages.
• Good working knowledge in protocol bridging and mapping legacy data formats (XML-Cobol-XML) to XMLSOAP 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 WebSphere Datapower XI50, XI52, XS40, Layer 7appliances and WebSphere MQ, Message Broker, Business Events.
• Strong in troubleshooting by enabling probe, debug and migrating configurations into various environments including upgrading firm ware images for Datapower.
• Good at installation, configuration, administration & supporting JBoss, WAS, WebLogic, Tomcat, HIS, Apache, Sun Java Web Server, WMQ and WMB including installing plug-in and mod jk.
• Strong knowledge in WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment (DMGR, Cell, Node Federation) in distributed environments.
• Experience in implementing WS-Security infrastructure for all the Web Services publishing outside by creating various AAA policies.
• Proficient in configuring resources including JDBC providers, data sources for Oracle, DB2, MQ and JMS.
• 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.
• Experience in installing enterprise, web, broker archives (EAR, WAR, BAR) files and configured application.
• Specific JVM settings including custom properties.
• Design, develop, test, and service over 40 WebSphere Message Broker flows using WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) v6, v8, and IBM Integration Bus (IIB) v9.
• Created and configured WebSphere MQ objects like Queue Managers, Remote queues, Local Queues, Queue Aliases, Channels, Clusters, Transmission Queues.
• Strong experience in JBOSS configurations like default, all, normal including tuning JVM arguments and custom properties.
• Good experience in configuring resources in JBOSS including JDBC, MQ, Oracle, DB2, MySQL and JVM parameters.
• Experienced in deploying J2EE Applications on IBM WebSphere application server using AAT (Application Assembly Tool), Apache ANT.
• Involved in designing the WMQ and WMB part of the project from High-Level Design toDetailed design and preparing design docs.
• Expert in migrating applications from WebSphere to JBOSS including custom configurations in JBOSS.
• Extensive experience in Application server administration activities including infrastructure planning and designing, configuration of servers /clients, user management.
• Provided 24x7 production support, best practice trouble shooting, monitoring, capacity planning, performance tuning, naming standards, and maintenance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Servers/Tools: IBM WebSphere Data power (XI50, XI52, XB62, XG45), IBM WebSphere 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, Canton, Michigan

Senior IBM DataPower Consultant/Admin

Responsibilities:

• Used SOAP UI extensively to test and debug services enabled in IBM DataPower.
• Analysis, design and development of ESB architecture on Datapower XI52/XI50s, XB62s to better integrate existing and new applications and web services for transformation, routing, mediation and conversion.
• Tested SOAP over HTTP binding using WSDL and migrated DataPower objects within various test environments.
• Performed end-to-end testing, resolved problems and validated the test results. Performed unit testing and unit Integration testing.
• Tested SOAP over HTTP binding using WSDL and migrated DataPower objects within various the environments.
• 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 DataPower
• Implemented Web-Service Proxy service in DataPower XI50, XI52 for various applications' Web-services and created various reusable Front Side Handlers (FSH) like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NFS and IMS.
• Responsible for detailed technical design and deployment of runtime end-points of web services in WSRR.
• Involved in upgrading API connect to 5.7.x.x.
• Integrated DataPower XI52 with IBM API Management 2.0 and created Management node, Analytics node, Gateway node and Assembly node in IBMAPI Management environment
• Integration with MQ and API connect.
• Worked on integration o f API connect and Datapower for Gateway security.
• Installed and configure WSRR with DataPower 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 DataPower, 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.
• Work on API security certification , authentication, authorization, IP security setup , and end point configuration.
• Integration with MQ and API connect.
• XML data validations using customized and available source XSD Validation Frameworks .
• Great hands on experience on IBM Java, SQL scripting, Tomcat, Apache, Site Minder, JSON.
• Installation fix packs to overcome Application server problems.
• Installation, configuration and administration of IBM HTTP Server V6.0
• Involved with other team members in writing scripts to automate deployment process and backup procedures.
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 6.x and JBoss that involves EAR (Enterprise Archives) and WAR (Web Archives).
• Configuring JDBC Providers, Data Source, Virtual Hosting, Global Security, SSL, and Two Factor Authentication by Web SEAL Monitoring, LDAP, and Connection Pooling to connect to Oracle.

ENVIRONMENT: : DataPower XI50/XI52, XG45 WebSphere 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, RHLinuxConfidential, Louisville, Kentucky

IBM DataPower Consultant/Admin

Responsibilities:

• Developed services (Multi-Protocol Gateway, Web Service Proxy and XML Firewall) using assorted flavors of SOA Datapower appliances (XI50/XI52/XG45/IDG).
• Responsible for setup, Installation and Administration of IBM WebSphere Datapower SOA Appliances XG45, XI50, XI52.
• Responsible for analysis, design and development of ESB architecture on DataPower XI52 to integrate existing and new applications and web services for transformation, routing and mediation.
• Developed web services to send/receive XML, SOAP and EDI request/response messages on TCP/UDP ports .
• Integrated Tibco EMS, IBM MQ and WebSphere JMS to process SOAP and EDI messages.
• Developed WSDLs and XSDs for web services which handled XML and SOAP request/response messages.
• Integrated WSRR (WebSphere Service Registry & Repository) with Datapower 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.
• Implemented Digital signatures, AAA and HTTPS/SSL security at message level in Multiprotocol gateways.
• Created and installed SSL certificates and keys within Datapower for HTTPS communication. Extracted Vendor certificate and keys using OpenSSL tool.
• Integrated SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) with Datapower to monitor health of appliance and to monitor application level errors.
• Integrated Syslog with Datapower to store logs of appliance and application level logs.
• Developed SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) components in Datapower 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 DataPower XI52 with IBM API Management 2.0 and created Management node, Analytics node, Gateway node and Assembly node in IBM API Management environment.
• Responsible for configuring Front Side Handler and Back-End Connectivity including HTTP, HTTPS, JMS, MQ Resource, SSH Setup involving various XML Threats.
• Designed and developed framework to support REST API using DataPower Multi-Protocol Gateway component to validate, authenticate and transform.
• Initialized Datapower appliances and configured Web user interface by using Putty tool .
• Upgraded Datapower appliance Firmware to latest & compatible versions.
• Developed and tested (White Box) XML based data exchange mechanism and instant messaging API for mx-Builder and Frontline Server.
• 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: DataPower appliances (XI50/XI52/XG45/IDG), SOAP, EDI, SoapUI, TibcoEMS, IBM MQ, WebSphere JMS, WSDL, XSD, Visio, UML, WSRR, XML, XSLT, XML Spy, Wireshark, Putty, Fielzilla, BMC Remedy, Clear Case, SNMP, Syslog, LDAP, SSL, TCP, UDP, SFTP, OpenSSL, SFG.

Confidential

IBM DataPower Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis, design and development of Interfaces by using DataPower Appliances XI50.
• Responsible for developing technical design documents for various Interfaces based on functional designs.
• Configured DataPower devices after they delivered to data centers including SSH , management console.
• Developed several polices like AAA for securing various Web Services including service virtualization in DataPower devices.
• Tested SOAP over HTTP binding using WSDL and migrated DataPower objects within various test environments.
• 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 IBMDataPower administrative tasks.
• Involved in configuring the load balancer groups at DataPower 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 DataPower 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 DataPower.
• Created and configured MQ Objects like queue managers, remote queues, local queues, queue aliases, channels, clusters, transmission queues.
• Configured various actions while defining rules and policies like Transform action,AAA Action, Match Rule, Encryption, Decryption, Filter action, Validate, Route and various others.
• 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.
• Configuring JDBC Providers, Data Source, Virtual Hosting, Global Security, SSL, and Two Factor Authentication by Web SEAL Monitoring, LDAP, and Connection Pooling to connect to Oracle.
• Great hands on experience on IBM Java, SQL scripting, Tomcat, Apache, Site Minder, JSON.
• Created the diagrams using UML to represent the system use cases, objects components etc. and to know the relationships between them.
• Provided 24x7 production support, best practice trouble shooting, monitoring, capacity planning, performance tuning, naming standards, security and maintenance.

ENVIRONMENT: DataPower XI50 & XS40, WMQ6.1/7.0, WMB 6.1/7.0 Linux, Windows 7

Confidential

IBM DataPower Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the definition, planning and execution of all infrastructure activities required to support the Datapower environment.
• Worked with IBM Datapower devices to secure and integrate the web services .
• Developed XML Firewalls and Webservice Proxy along with the required objects.
• Creating network routes and configuring Ethernet interfaces on the device as part of the device deployment.
• Implemented Crypto profiles, SSL proxy profiles as part of SSL implementation.
• Developed Load Balancer Groups to load balance the requests to multiple back end points.
• Developed AAA policies to authenticate and authorize user requests using LDAP.
• Developed and configured WSDL and XML proxies.
• Experience in working with multiple development and infrastructure teams.
• Performed general operation tasks such as Firmware upgrade, User management etc.
• Worked on XSLT and used XML Transformation node to transform an XML message to another form of XML message.
• Exposed different Web Services using SOAP Nodes to support SOA.
• Developed Subscriptions which make use of WSDLs deployed in WebSphere Service Registry & Repository(WSRR).
• Integrated Datapower with LDAP for User authentication & authorization.
• Implemented Syslog to store log files to external server.
• Implemented SNMP to monitor Datapower device alerts/traps.
• Worked on Datapower CLI, XML Management and Web Management .
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces in Web Sphere Message Broker. Worked in transformations of XML and TDS format messages.
• Implemented Certificate Monitoring alerts to notify on Certificates nearing expiry dates.
• Developed Log Targets to capture application level critical alerts.
• Troubleshot potential problems during message flows by verifying logs & probes.

ENVIRONMENT: Datapower XI50/XI52/XG45/IDG, Firmware 3.8/5.0/6.0, SOAP, Web Services, WSDL, XSD, Visio, UML, WSRR, XML, XSLT, Syslog, LDAP.