SUMMARY

• Over 10 plus years of experience in IBM WebSphere Application Server, on AIX, Solaris, UNIX, WINDOWS NT platforms and setting up the development testing and production environments.
• Experience in installation, configuration, deployment and management of Enterprise Applications in a clustered and non - clustered environment using IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x/9
• Extensive experience in creating various profiles and Admin Agents and Job Managers.
• Experience in administration of E-Commerce applications with emphasis on IBM WebSphere Application server, IBM HTTP Web Server, WCM, JACL, WSCP Scripts, XML access under AIX, Solaris, Linux and Window NT/2000/98/95 environment.
• Extensive experience in implementation of Workload Management (WLM) using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Scaling for failover and backup/recovery processes.
• Experienced in setting up the Global security for WebSphere and SSL Security for applications
• Expertise in Exchanging certificates between various cells and various devices.
• Hands on experience in setting message listener configuration for MDB’s using MQ objects such as queue connection factories and queue destinations.
• Experience in using Tivoli Performance Viewer, Log Analyzer, Heap Analyzer, ISA, Application Assembly Tool (AAT) and IBM Edge components for WebSphere.
• Experience in configuration and troubleshooting issues related to Clusters in WebSphere 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x environment.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in upgrading JVM’s, applying patches and recommending necessary security fixes.
• Experience in writing shell scripts for automating daily routines like automated and scheduled backups on all UNIX machines.
• Experience in WSADMIN (Jython) to automate administration batch jobs including backing up WebSphere repository.
• Experience in troubleshooting, applying patches and plug-in for 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x
• Experience in web server administration, which includes installation, configuration and troubleshooting of IBM HTTP server 1.3.x/2.0.x/8.5/9.0, iPlanet 5.x, IIS server
• Working experience with relational databases like DB2, ORACLE, and SQL Server.
• Experience in managing applications in a J2EE environment and thorough understanding of all components that comprise a J2EE environment.
• Hands on experience in securing administrative server using Authentication, Authorization, Single Signon, User registry, WebSphere Resources.
• Provided 24*7 production support on WebSphere Infrastructure and applications.
• Excellent knowledge of software development methodologies and lifecycle.
• Excellent organizational and analytical abilities teamed with effective oral and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: UNIX (Sun/AIX/HP), Linux, Windows 2008 Advanced Server /NT

Application Servers: Web Sphere 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x/9, Tomcat

Web Servers: IBM HTTP Server, IPlanet, IIS, SunOne, Jakarta Tomcat, Apache, Java Web Server.

Languages: JAVA, .NET, C, C++

J2EE Technologies: J2EE, Java, Servlet, EJB, JSP, Java Swing /AWT, XML, HTML, DHTML, VBScript, JavaScript

Build Tools: ANT

Monitoring Tools: Tivoli, Splunk

Directory Services: IBM Directory Server, Oracle Unified Directory

RDBMS/DBMS: DB2 UDB, Oracle 8.x/9.x, Sybase, SQL Server, PL/SQL (DML and DDL)

IDE: Eclipse, IBM Websphere Studio Application Developer, BuildForge. UCD

Ticketing Tool: BMC Remedy, StarTeam

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Professional Software Engineer / System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x/9, JDBC drivers and Servlets engines on Linux and Sun Solaris
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Process Server, creating clusters, adding new servers, JDBC drivers.
• Installed and configured WebSphere Service Registry and Repository.
• Created profiles of Job Manager, Admin Agent and Deployment Manager.
• IBM HTTP Server Plugin Configuration
• Worked on WebSphere components such as Work Load Management (WLM), WCM, Servlet Engine, Session Manager, Admin Client and Http-Web Admin tool (thin client).
• Configured the extranet web servers and intranet application servers using the firewalls between the Web Servers and application servers (DMZ model).
• Migrated existing applications from WebSphere versions 6.x to 7.x and 7.x to 8.5.
• Administration of Working Application, Application performance monitoring - starting and stopping the application server, - Installed plugging for IBM HTTP and iPlanet Webserver
• Involved in deploying the EAR files and scripting automated deployment of the applications.
• Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, and Java Mail sessions.
• Written jacl/jython scripts for JDBC connection, Heap size changes, Connection pooling and routine activities.
• Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
• Application service restoration
• Loadbalancing URL (F5) setup
• Migrated existing cronjobs to TWS (Tivoli Workload Scheduler).
• Worked closely with the IBM support through PMR support process and using ISA
• Involved in number of installation of WebSphere instances from development to production.
• Involved in configuring the WebSphere load balancing using WebSphere workload management like horizontal cloning and vertical cloning.
• Configured horizontal and Vertical Clusters.
• System administration experience in setting up Ethernet networks and virtual Local Area networks (VLANs)
• Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Resource analyzer and log analyzer.
• Currently working to Migrate 70+ servers from WAS 7 Linux servers to WAS 8.5.5 Cloud Servers.
• Worked on Setting up BPM (Buisness Process Monitoring) from the scratch. It involved BPM installation, Configuration and trouble shooting .

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7.x/8.x/9, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, Tivoli workload scheduler, Splunk UDB DB2, Oracle, UNIX (Linux, Sun Solaris 8.x and 9.x), WinNT/2000.

Confidential, CA

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation of WebSphere and WebSphere Portal Servers from development to Production environments.
• Supported an eBusiness Website and provided the development, testing, staging and production environments to the new application development and implementation.
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x, JDBC drivers and Servlets engines on AIX, Linux Sun Solaris and Windows, also created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server
• Involved in configuring the WebSphere load balancing utilizing WebSphere Workload Management including horizontal scaling and vertical scaling.
• Involved in trouble shooting and performance tuning using Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer
• Created SSL certification and CA certification using IKEYMAN.
• Handled the maintenance of the WebSphere Application Servers on different UNIX platforms and setting up the development and testing and staging environment for the ongoing application development.
• Achieved Work Load Management by creating Clusters in WAS 6.x.
• Setting up of alerts and monitoring scripts for On Call support activities
• Followed Support Procedures, received live calls from customers and performed initial PD/PSI by searching databases for rediscovery or similar problems and/or analyzing system problems.
• Assisted customers with setting proper Priority/Severity of problems, work problems to resolution, recorded/documented actions in databases as well as utilized tools and resources.
• Responsible for the debugging of the application problems while developing the application.
• Scheduling system monitoring activities in CRON daemon on Solaris server monitoring file, device and system activities
• Installed and configured iPlanet Web server and created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software problems, and interacted with IT staff or vendors in performing complex testing, support and troubleshooting functions.
• Provided level 2 AIX Technical support on various issues such as Installation, Kernel, System Performance etc.
• Provided recommendations on environment standards, product leveling, performance tuning, new project consulting, recommend broadened usage of WebSphere functionality.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x, IBM HTTP Server 1.3.x/2.0.x/7.x, iPlanet 6.1, AIX 5.x, Siteminder 6.x, Solaris 2.8, Windows 2000, IBM Directory Server 5.1, HTML, Java Script, XML, JSP, Servlets.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Code Migrations.
• Deploying Enterprise Application through customized scripts and Administration console.
• Scheduling system monitoring activities in CRON daemon on AIX.
• Automated Non - Prod environments health status report using Shell script.
• Installing, Configuring and Maintenance of Apache, IBM HTTP Server 6.1 & 2.0.47.1 on AIX for testing JSP and Servlets.
• Configuration of JMS by creating buses, queues, connection factories and activation specification
• Generated heap dumps and core dumps in case of server hangs or crashes.
• Setting up Environment for Application packaging and deploying Enterprise Application Archive (EAR) and Web Application Archive (WAR).
• Monitoring file, device and system activities on the AIX.
• Configuring JDBC and Oracle Database Connectivity.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x, IBM HTTP Server 1.3.x/2.0.x, Linux, Windows 2000, HTML, Java Script, XML, JSP, Servlets.