SUMMARY

• IBM Certified Websphere Engineer with over 20 years of industry experience. In recent years I've worked primarily as a Lead Systems Software Engineer with a focus on Websphere products, WebLogic, Enterprise Sharepoint, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), running on Solaris, AIX, Linux, MS Windows (VMWare) and zOS platforms.
• I've successfully engineered and implemented electronic commerce and intra/internet services across multiple platforms in several large scale organizations.
• I am a team player with excellent analytical skills, seeking to join an organization that offers career opportunities and potential for growth.
• More than 15 years of Information Technology experience in technical architecture, engineering & administration of system software in large - scale enterprise-wide, distributed J2EE environments.
• Experience Design & Planning and Implementation of Enterprise version of Sharepoint intranet/extranet 2007 and 2010. Other products include Avepoint, Team Foundation Server, Project Server, CorasWork and Nintex.
• Expert knowledge in the design & planning installation, configuration, administration and production support of Web Server (Apache, -IHS, IIS) and Websphere 8.5, 7, 6 Application Server and Websphere Portal, Content Management and other J2EE products (i.e.- WebLogic 12, 10, Tomcat, JBOSS, etc).
• Years of experience as Technical Lead for SOA/BPM environments; leveraging Websphere Application Server, Websphere ESB, Websphere MQ, MQ Broker, SiBus, Tibco, Vitra-Business Ware, HIPAA, EDI - Industry Health Pack.
• Possess high- level System Administration skills on AIX 6, Solaris 10, and Red-Hat Linux, VM Ware.
• Strong knowledge & expertise in planning & design of Multi-Tier Internet/Intranet Web load balancing solutions, using various topologies and components; Big-IP(3DNS), F5 (GTM/LTM), LDAP, Web Servers, Websphere clustering (leveraging vertical & horizontal scaling), Vitria clustering (F5) and database resiliency (Oracle, DB2, etc).
• High level proficiency writing automation frameworks to perform routine tasks, such as application server, cluster stop & starts, builds, deployments, configurations of J2EE enterprise applications, profile creation, silent installs, upgrades, etc. Scripting tools include: wsadmin, JYTHON, PYTHON, PERL, JACL, ANT, Shell (bash, ksh, sh, etc).
• Excellent problem determination skills, leveraging such tools as Tivoli, Wily Introscope, Candle, ITCAM, Leak Hunter to analyze and perform root-cause-analysis.
• Strong working knowledge of other Middleware technologies, including: Sun LDAP, Open Source LDAP, Tivoli Access Manager, MQ, MQ Broker, PVCS and more.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: AIX 6, Solaris 10, RHEL 6, Windows 2007 Server, Windows 2010, Z/OS

Middleware & Other Technologies: IBM HTTP Server, Apache, Microsoft IIS 7, I-planet, IBM WebSphere Application Server, V4.07, V5.0, V5.1, V6.0 & V6.1, V7.0, V8.0 & 8.5,WebSphere ESB, Portal, SiBus, RAD 7.0, WAS Lite, WSAD, WSID, WebLogic 12 & 10, JBOSS, JRUN, IBM Tivoli Access Manager, Microsoft Transaction Server, DB2 V6.1 & DB2/UDB V7.2, DB2 Connect, Oracle 10, Sybase, Merant Dimensions, PVCS, SourceSafe, IBM MQ Series v6, MQ Broker, VITRIA/Business Ware, HIPAA Pack, Sun One LDAP, CDS LDAP, OpenLDAP, WILY Introscope 7.2, Candle, Tivoli Performance Viewer, ITCAM

Languages: PowerShell, STSADM, Java Programming, Korn & Bourne Scripting, PERL, JavaScript, XML, UML, WSDL, WSCP, JACL, JYTHON, PYTHON, TCL & TK Toolkit scripting, EJB, JSP, Servlets, HTML, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Technical Architect and Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Web-based application (Weblogic & Websphere) server design and build outs for applications and services in a UNIX and Windows infrastructure.
• Facilitate In-depth technical consultation with developers and Technical Service Providers for new projects
• Troubleshooting complex application integration points and coordinating with virtual team members across the enterprise to deliver complex J2EE hosting solutions
• Manage multiple projects concurrently and be readily adaptable to change. Additionally this person is expected to be self-motivated, a strong leader, able to influence others and able to think creatively.
• Manage and work closely with application teams deploying new applications in the Weblogic/Websphere hosting environment(s). Gather application configuration needs and facilitate changes with administrators and product vendor (when need be) to resolve technical configuration or application issues etc.
• Liaison between application teams and administrators for hardware and/or software upgrades
• Create detailed project budgets that include hardware, software, & resource costs.
• Create and execute project plans on time and on budget
• Demonstrates strong written and oral communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
• Manages multiple complex technical projects
• Knowledge of Hardware Infrastructure, Local Area Networks, and System Development Life Cycle
• Possess strong background in Infrastructure Engineering
• Weblogic/WebSphere, Unix, J2EE knowledge (Java, JSP’s, Servlet, EJB, JMS, MQ etc)
• Knowledge of: RDBMS, Web Servers, Web Server load balancing (GTM/LTM)
• Leads project teams consisting of resources that are not direct reports (virtual team)

Environment: AIX 6.1, Solaris 10, Linux 6, Websphere 8.x, 7.x, Weblogic ( 9.x, 10.x or web center), Oracle (10G & 11), Solaris ( 9, 10), Resonate/GTM/LTM, iPlanet/SUNOne or Apache, MQ Series, Capacity planning, Building out and maintaining Disaster Recovery environment

Confidential, Waukeegan, IL

Intrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performs Technical Lead role for Web team at Confidential .
• Assists management in developing process improvement for IS organization.
• Performs production support for Abbott Web Technologies
• Performs Root-Cause-Analysis for mission critical environments & major system/application outages.
• SME for Problem Determination & triaging of web-related issues, including memory leaks, garbage collection analysis, connection leaks, thread conflicts, heapdump & coredump analysis, and other techniques using IBM Support Assistant.
• Responsible for the installation and configuration for Sharepoint 2007 & 2010, Websphere Portal and Websphere products.
• Participates in change/implementation process for Web Technologies, such as: Websphere products, WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache and Sharepoint.
• Participates in planning and coordination of new Sharepoint products, such as: Team Foundation Server, Nintex, OpenXML, Project Server, Avepoint
• Performs front-end and back-end monitoring, detailed triage analysis and problem determination using Wily/Introscope.

Environment: AIX 6.1, Solaris 10, Linux 6, HPUX, Windows 2008, SQL, DB2, Sharepoint 2007 & 2010, WSS, Websphere 6.1, 7.0, 8.5, SOA, Websphere Portal 6.0, WebLogic10 & 11, JBOSS, JMS, Apache, IIS 7, JMS, TFS, Avepoint, Nintex, CorasWorks, Project Server

Confidential

Websphere Support

Responsibilities:

• Performs Technical Lead role for Web team at Confidential, E-commerce Division.
• Performs Root-Cause Analysis of issues related to Ecommerce infrastructure, including triaging of 3DNS, GTL/LTM, VIPs, FrontEnds, ODRs, Application Servers, MQ, EIB, BackEnd (Oracle or Informix) and mainframe.
• Assists management in identifying permanent solutions, works with third-party vendors to ensure issues are resolved and recommends process improvement for IS organization.
• Performs Root-Cause-Analysis for other major system/applications, including SiteMinder, SiteScope.
• Responsible for the installation and configuration of Websphere products, (v6.1, 7.0, Fix Packs).
• Participates in change/implementation process for Web Technologies, such as: Websphere products, Tomcat, Apache and Sharepoint.
• Performs front-end and back-end monitoring, detailed triage analysis and problem determination using Wily/Introscope v8. Assist with setting up and making recommendation for dashboards, alerts, thresholds within Wily/Introscope.
• Performs analysis of threadumps, heapdumps using IBM ISA tools.
• Also managed POD configurations and headquarters, in support of NextGen 2 environment (DC on, DC off).
• Writes automation scripts as needed using wasadmin, Python, JACL, Shell scripts to improve efficiency of support, and assistance to Operations teams.

Environment: AIX 6.1, Solaris 10, Linux, Windows 2008, SQL, DB2, Sharepoint 2007 & 2010, WSS, Websphere 6.1, SOA, Websphere Portal 6.0, WebLogic, JMS, Apache, IIS 7, JMS, TFS, Avepoint, Nintex, CorasWorks, Project Server, Introscope v7 & 8, Tivoli, AppviewX, Netuitive, Splunk, MyCTO

Confidential, Waukeegan, IL

Intrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performs Technical Lead role for Web team at Confidential .
• Assists management in developing process improvement for IS organization.
• Performs production support for Abbott Web Technologies
• Performs Root-Cause-Analysis for mission critical environments & major system/application outages.
• SME for Problem Determination & triaging of web-related issues, including memory leaks, garbage collection analysis, connection leaks, thread conflicts, heapdump & coredump analysis, and other techniques using IBM Support Assistant.
• Responsible for the installation and configuration for Sharepoint 2007 & 2010, Websphere Portal and Websphere products.
• Participates in change/implementation process for Web Technologies, such as: Websphere products, WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache and Sharepoint.
• Participates in planning and coordination of new Sharepoint products, such as: Team Foundation Server, Nintex, OpenXML, Project Server, Avepoint
• Performs front-end and back-end monitoring, detailed triage analysis and problem determination using Wily/Introscope.

Environment: AIX 6.1, Solaris 10, Linux 6, HPUX, Windows 2008, SQL, DB2, Sharepoint 2007 & 2010, WSS, Websphere 6.1, 7.0, 8.5, SOA, Websphere Portal 6.0, WebLogic10 & 11, JBOSS, JMS, Apache, IIS 7, JMS, TFS, Avepoint, Nintex, CorasWorks, Project Server

Confidential

Sr. Architect/Administrator

Responsibilities:

• My primary responsibilities are to lead the SOA, J2EE Systems Administration, Web-based system Infrastructure Architecture design and implementation, Unix Systems Administration, and Systems Administration for all other web based systems across all platforms (AIX LPARS, Solaris 10 and Windows 2003).
• Responsible for activities related to Internet Systems Administration and Internet Systems Architecture for J2EE (Websphere and Weblogic on UNIX and Windows 2003), .Net, and IIS based systems.
• Other duties include the design and support of SOA architectures, such as Websphere ESB, Vitria Business Ware - BPM, Transformer Extender, as well as integration with other Services over a MQ backbone and JMS topologies.
• Perform Installs, maintains, configures and secures computer hardware and operating systems software (Sun/Solaris, IBM/AIX, HP/UX, Linux, etc.) as well as supported software/network services (file and print, server clustering, web servers, directory services, security services, etc.).
• Responsible for designing & writing automation framework for Websphere Administration and deployment processes, using such tools as wsadmin, JYTHON, PYTHON, JACL, PERL and Shell Scripting.
• Other duties include recommending and implementing High Availability solutions (i.e. VERITAS, etc).
• Accountable for the integrity of the systems infrastructure environment, all activities related to production systems management and problem resolution, root-cause analysis, all related planning, scheduling, capacity planning, performance tuning, testing and coordination, the maintenance of growth statistics, space forecasts, hardware and software inventories and tape backup coverage/inclusion ownership.
• Provides technical support to other support teams and team members, engages in network and systems management and monitoring using various tools (OS & SW logs, SiteScope, Wily Introscope, network packet analysis, etc.), and participates in disaster recovery planning and testing.
• There is frequent contact with internal and vendor software developers, internal and vendor support personnel and internal business users.

Environment: AIX 6.1, Solaris 10, Oracle 10, Windows 2003, Sybase, SQL, Websphere 6.1, SOA, Websphere ESB, Transformer Extender, Informatica Power Center 6.2, WebLogic, MQ, MQ Broker, JMS, Vitria, Apache, IIS, JMS, HIPAA, EDI, Sun One LDAP, CDS LDAP, SSL

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility is to engage certain LOBs to determine a suitable infrastructure for their application environment. This involves setting up meetings across various regions globally and negotiating with the various teams and managers to set expectations and appropriate project deliverables.
• Responsible for the implementation and support of over 1400 Web-application environments, globally. These applications span across numerous data centers world-wide, including America, London, Zurich, Singapore, Asia and India.
• Environments were comprised of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), various Application Server technologies, leveraging Websphere 5.0.x, 5.1.1.2, v6.0.2 and 6.1; several Tomcat and JRUN Lightweight application servers, as well as Microsoft’s Sharepoint Team Server. Additionally, leveraged Oracle and Sybase database servers, as well as MQ Series & Rendezvous as asynchronous & synchronous messaging systems, which use JMS configured consumers and producers.
• Platform of choice for this middleware is Solaris 10 and Linux RHEL 3 servers.
• Other duties include the setup of front-end web servers a) shared Apache server instances, which sit behind a 3-DNS and BIG-IP Load-Balancers, b) IIS front-end web servers, as well as c) a secured Apache environment, hosted by SAVVIS, in Los Angeles, CA and London
• As a financial institution this environment relies heavily on its security infrastructure. Hence, there’s a great deal of emphasis placed on the setup and maintenance of security mechanisms. These include Identity Manager - using LDAP, LTPA, AuthSSO, SSO, SSL, as well as Websphere global security, JAVA 2 security.
• The instrumentation of Websphere performance monitoring is achieved using Wily Introscope 5.3.2 and 7.0 via an automated scripting process. All applications within the development life cycle include this instrumentation for capturing performance metrics.
• To streamline administration implemented a very robust scripting framework, leveraging Jakarta ANT, wsadmin, JACL, JYTHON, and UNIX shell scripting. This framework allows for the automation of our WAS environment build-outs, initial Application Server cluster setup and Enterprise application deployments.

Environment: Solaris 9, Red Hat Linux, Window 2003, Oracle 8, Windows 2003, Sybase, SQL, Websphere 6.1, SOA, Websphere ESB, WebLogic, MQ, MQ Broker, JMS, Identity Manager, LDAP, AuthSSO, WSAD, RAD, Eclipse, SSL, Wily Introscope, Sitescope

Confidential

Sr. Systems/Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include the review and implementation of Web Infrastructure changes, as well as the setup and configuration of all Websphere Servers throughout our enterprise. The enterprise is a 24 X 7 operation, comprised of over 350 Websphere Application Servers (WAS), with a large percentage of applications using (SOA) Service Oriented Architecture and leveraging MQ Series & Broker, SOAP/HTTP & SOAP/JMS.
• The environment was a multi-platform environment, which included AIX, Solaris and Windows (using VMWare virtualization technology).
• Worked on several large-scale projects. These projects include conversions from Websphere 3.5 to 4.0 and conversions to v5.1.
• My experience includes - v3.5 Advanced Edition, Single Server v4, v4 - Advance Edition, v5 - Portal and v5.1 Advanced Edition.
• Other experience includes planning and installation and configuration of new Websphere infrastructure (Edge-Servers, Web-Servers, Websphere-Servers, UDB and Persistence DB, MQSeries, JMS, etc.), defining and establishing new guidelines for various development teams, building the new Websphere environments for each stage of the lifecycle (Test, QA, Stress-Test, QC and Production), testing firewalls and managing conversions when appropriate.
• Other duties include performance testing and tuning, new installs, upgrades, troubleshooting and etc.
• Setup of a new scripting framework (in Korn, Perl, XML, WSCP, WSADMIN & TCL, JACL) is developed, as well as developing new processes and procedures to support the day-to-day operations of the environment.

Environment: AIX 5.1, Solaris 9, Windows 2003, Oracle, DB2, SQL, Websphere 5.1, 4.6, MQ, MQ Broker, Tomcat, Apache, WSAD, Candle, LDAP, TAM

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Technical oversight and maintenance of Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Websphere Hubs, displaced in various regions around the U.S.
• Responsible for the design and build-out of Infrastructure framework.
• Coordinated the migration of Websphere move to new AIX LPAR platforms
• Installation and configuration of Websphere Portal.
• Responsible for scripting framework of WAS4 andWAS5 environments.
• Perform installs, upgrades and validation tests.
• Responsibilities include conducting performance test and tuning the software components appropriately to share system resources.

Environment: AIX 5.1, Windows 2000/XP, zOS, Oracle 8, DB2, Sybase, SQL, Websphere 5.1, 4.0.7, Wesphere Portal, SOA, MQ, MQ Broker, LDAP, SSL, SSO, Apache, Wily Introscope

Confidential

Sr. Websphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Part of a team responsible for a very large intra/internet enterprise with more than 20 domains across 40 Solaris 8 servers in the USA, the UK and India; 200+ JVMs primarily supporting Administration of multiple HTTP & Apache Web Servers and Websphere Application Servers.
• Responsible for planning, installation of Websphere 4.0.5, as well as the conversion of applications running on Websphere 3.5.6. This migration effort was an 8 month project which required significant coordination with developers and various lines of business enterprise-wide. The migration was managed using a combination of Korn, BASH, PERL and TCL scripting languages. Platforms included Solaris and Linux.
• Other duties include: The day-to-day administration of Websphere across all stages of the life-cycle, including TU, QA, QC and Prod.
• Responsible for participating in an on call rotation to support all changes (i.e. - fix packs, e-fixes, etc), as well as setup and configuration of the Admin Server, implementing Server Groups & Clones, managing ports through numerous firewalls (External & DMZ), setting up Application Servers, installing EAR, JAR and WAR using WSCP and XML.

Environment: Solaris 8, Linux, Windows 2000, Oracle 8, Sybase, SQL, Websphere 5.0, 4.0.7, MQ, MQ Broker, CICS, WSAD, PeopleSoft, Apache, LDAP, SSO

Confidential

Sr. Websphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Our team was responsible for the planning and implementation of 10 plus Websphere domains, with an infrastructure that includes Edge Server technology to support workload management and clustering (vertical & horizontal scaling), leveraging IBM AIX Servers.
• Participated in the planning, installation of Websphere 3.5.6. This was major upgrade migrating from the previous fix-pack and required significant coordination with development and business units to minimize impact.
• Platforms include AIX and NT.
• IBM's HTTP Server was upgraded to v1.3.12. Worked with Open Systems Administrators to bring OS to appropriate software level.
• Provide maintenance and support of multiple environments, which include: Lab machines, a Development environment for integration testing, Quality Assurance environment for load-testing, training and performance tuning, as well as a Production environment which includes multiple Edge Servers, HTTP Servers for fail-over and faster throughput. Other responsibilities include:
• Installation and configuration of DB2 UDB for Websphere Repository.
• Configuring & Deployment of enterprise applications across various stages of the life-cycle and determining best practices for automating these processes using WSCP, XML and TCL scripting language.
• Setup Model and cloning configuration to support fail-over and improve throughput.
• Install, maintain developer lab servers with fixes and patches.
• Work with IBM to resolve PMRs for Websphere related issues.
• Installation and configuration of Visual Age for Java v3.5.
• Responsible for performing routine house-keeping tasks, including: scheduling compaction of multiple repositories, performing user administration, managing projects, packages and classes, as well as configuring the VAJ server and clients.
• Responsible for the configuration & setup of Websphere Studio for the development community. An IDE interface was setup to communicate with the common Dimension repository. The developers were subsequently able to move their WAR & JAR files into the repository.

Environment: AIX, Windows 2000, DB2 Sybase, SQL, Websphere 4.0, 3.5, MQ, MQ Broker, NVDM, Tivoli, Visual Age, LDAP, SSO Apache, CICS, zOS, PVCS