SUMMARY

• IBM Certified Senior Middleware Administrator with over 8 years of IT experience, with an experience in planning, installation and administering using IBM WebSphere SOA products.
• Certified AWS Solutions Architect, years of hands on experience working on AWS cloud services.
• Expert in installation, configuration, deployment and Administration of WebSphere Application server 9.0/8.5.5/8.0/7.0/6. x on various platforms like AIX, Solaris, Linux and Windows.
• Expert in configuring IBM WebSphere Application Server Base, WenbSphere Appicaiton server Network Deployment with horizontal and vertical clustering topologies.
• Expert in installing IBM HTTP Server V 8.x/9.x, IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management Tools V 5.x/6.x, IBM MQ V 8.x/9.x, IBM InfoSphere 10.x, 11.x, IBM Cognos, IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler V. 9.3.x, IBM Content Manager EE V8.5.x, IBM Content Navigator(CMEE) v.2.x.x/V3.x.x, SonarQube, OpenText Exstream Design and Prodcution 8.x/9.x in standalone and clustered environments.
• Experience in installation and configuration of IBM BPM 8.5.7 and online deployments of snapshots.
• Experience in installaing ifixes and upgreading the version of IBM BPM to higher version using fix packs.
• Expert in integrations of MQ with WebSpshere Application servers, Content Navigator with Content Manager Enterprise Edition.
• Expert in installation and configuration in Tivoli Workload Scheduler configuring Master Domain Manager, Backup Domain Manager, Dynamic Workload Scheduler, configuring Standard Agents, Dynamic Agents and Fault - tolerant Agents.
• Expert in configuring jobs in Tivoli workload scheduler with a workflow plan amd production plan.
• Experience in troubleshooting batch job issues, failures identifying root cause and resolve.
• Extensive experience in migrating large scale applications from WebSphere 6.x to 7.x/ 7.x to 8.x/8.x to 9.x.
• Experienve in migrating large scale applications from WebSphere 9.x on Windows/VMWare hosted on ESXI hosts to Microsoft Azzure cloud for Disaster Recovery.
• Experience in performing impact analysis for migrating middleware applications to new IP hosts.
• Experience in migrating WASND Cells/Nodes/Servers to new IP Machines.
• Experience in deploying J2EE components on WAS using WAS Admin Console, wsadmin/Jacl and Jython scripting.
• Expert in windows batch scripting for administration, maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Have hands on experience on Middle-Tier administration and configuration and tier TCR requests and also iFixes and PMR fixes.Have hands-on experience in JBoss.
• Highly experienced in integrating WebSphere Application Server ND and webservers including IBM HTTPServer, SUNONE Web Server, Apache Web Server.
• Experience in HTTP server custom plugin configurations for Optimal load distributions to WASND clusters members.
• Configured Workload Management (WLM) for scalable applications through Server groups, Cloning.
• Clustering optimizing the performance of WAS Network Deployment architecture.
• Configured and Secured Web server interface, Session management, WebSphere resources, J2C resources,connection factories and JMS resources in WAS 9.x/8.x/7.x.
• Excellent Technical Knowledge in Java, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, EJB, Web Services, XML, XSL, and with the RDBMS databases like SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2 and Sybase.
• Provided round clock support of end user issues as they related to core LOB applications.
• Familiar with ANT scripts for compile and deployment.Hands on experience in SQL & PL/SQL programming.
• Experienced in DNS, LDAP, FTP, Remote Access, Security Management and System Troubleshooting skills. Configured LDAP and assigned roles for user/group management.
• Experince in working with third part Certificate Authorities CA, generating CSR, CA certitifacte renewal process(Entrust, Symantec).
• Experienced in configuring SSL for major communcaitons Middelware products in Application tier, communications to Data tier and Web Services.
• Experience in Performance and Monitoring tool like Tivoli performance viewer, SolarWinds, CA Wily Introscope tool, AppDyanmics, Perfomance monitor and Optier, Resource Analyzer, and troubleshooting using Log Analyzer.
• Expertise in administering IBM WAS 7.0/ 8.0/8.5.5/9.0 and Network Deployment Manager on various operating systems like AIX, Windows 2012 R2/2008/2000/NT/XP.
• Experience in scripting for WebSphere server configuration changes and administration.
• Experience in scripting languages including Shell, JACL and Jython.
• Deployed EARs, WARs, Monitor Models, Process Models, Rule Archives, Mediation Modules, Themes and skins in WebSphere SOA implementation.
• Imported WSDLs, configured import bindings, event groups.Built and deployed Process Models from Process Center console.
• Experience installing the security certificates and configuring IBM Secuirty Access Manager for single sign on (SSO).
• Experince in working with LTPA base SSO authentication with IBM Security Access Manager and WebSphere Base, WebSphere Network Deployment versions.
• Familiar with packaging applications using WebSphere Application Assembly Tool (AAT) and ANT.
• Experience in Installing, Configuring and Administering Web Servers like IBM HTTP Server (IHS), Apache, TomEE and Microsoft IIS.
• Experience with Wily Introscope to analyze the performance and maintain the availability of WebServer and WebSphere Application Server.
• Familiar with Introscope Power Pack to ensure the health and availability of web applications.
• Significant experience on JMS and MQ.
• Worked with Share Point Admin Server.Experience in change control tool like Remedy and Service Center.
• Expertise in Object Oriented Programming using Java and J2EE technologies: EJBs, Servlets, JSP, Java Beans, JMS and JNDI.
• Experience in migrating existing applications from WebSphere 7.0.x version Application servers to 8.x and 8.x to 9.x on UNIX and Windows Platforms.
• Experience in applying fix packs and plug-ins for WebSphere SOA suite of products and also Maintain the applications which has been deployed on complex SOA environment.
• Responsible for creating all necessary documentation to build, administer, and support all dev, TEST, QA and production environments.
• Experienced in documenting Root Cause Analysis (RCA) documentation for issues occurred and impacting Business.
• Experience is working for Requst For Proposals (RFP) provide level of efforts estimations for technical middleware upgrades and change requests.
• Experince in working with Deliverable Expectation Dcouments (DED’s), Deliverables and Technical Training Knowledge Transfer Trainng Materials (TTKT).
• Created IBM Problem Management Records (PMR) to report Middleware realted problems with required escalations to Duty Managers for faster turnarounds depending on the criticality and impact being caused.
• Experince in Desing and planning for WebSphere application server cluster and nodes spanning to occomodate load for efficiency.
• Experinece in troubleshooting Windows Group Policy realted issues with UAC and Active Directory integrations and bindings.
• Good Knowledge of Edge Components Failover (Active/Standby), HTTP Server Failover (Active/Active), Web Container Failover, EJB Container failover, Session Affinity, Session Persistence.
• Experience in production support and on call rotation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: IBM AIX 6.x/7.x, SUN Solaris 8/9/10, LINUX (REDHAT), Windows 2012 R2/2008/NT/2000 server, Windows 7/XP/98.

Appl/Web Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server ND 7.0/ 8.0/8.5.5/9.0 , WebSphere Liberty Profile, IBM Business Process Management v8.0/8.5.5, WebSphere Operation Decision Management v8.0, WSRR v8.0, WESB v7.5, IBM WebSphere Portal Server 7.0/7.1, WebSphere MQ 7.5, Apache WebServer 1.2.2/1.3/2.0 , IBM HTTP Server 7.0/8.0/8.5.5. Micorsoft IIS.

Monitoring Tools: ApplDynamics, DynaTrace, WebSphere Perfromance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) IBM Performance Tuning Toolkit with Request Metrics, Tivoli Performance Viewer, CA Wily Introscope, SolarWinds.

Languages: C/C++, Bacth Scripts, JACL, Python, Jython (Deprecated)

Development Tools: My Eclipse, IID v8.0, IPD v8, WSAD 6.5/7.x, RAD, AAT, Apache ANT,SONAR Qube.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Charlotte, NC

Middleware/Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensive involved in installing, configuring and managing IBM WAS v8.5.5ND/BPM v8.5.5/WODM 8.5.5 on RHEL 6/7/8 environments.
• Involved in preliminary Proof of Concepts for sample migrations of non-sensitive data web service applications from Confidential to both AWS and Azure and assessments of Hardware Sizing, Enterprise Software licensing and complying with required security aspects.
• Build Servers using AWS, importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, Dynamo DB, S3 Lifecycle Management, Security groups, auto-scaling, internal/external Load Balancers in defined VPC’s.
• Deployed Multi-account multi-region solutions through AWS Cloud Formations, AWS Code Pipeline
• Harnessed AWS capabilities utilizing AWS LAMBA serverless functions/Containerization.
• Helped automate various end to end administrative tasks that helped various teams in wholesale markets on the daily tasks using Python and Shell scripting.
• Extensive knowledge of HPSA, IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler tool for Automation.
• Overall understanding of integrations between Anthill PRO and GIT repository and categorization of build farms.
• Knowledge on integrations between GIT repository and Jenkins tool.
• Troubleshoot issues with Anthill PRO during automated deployments.
• Worked on IBM ODM deployment automation specific to each release with shell scripting that interact with the tool's API.
• Worked on Performance tuning of WebSphere Server, especially of Garbage collection phenomenon, heap sizing and upgrades for high performance of applications.
• Experienced in analyzing the AWR reports to determine the execution times of the database queries.
• Implemented CI/CD process using GIT, Jenkins and Udeploy for continuous deployment for multiple environments.
• Experience in configuring web servers with Site-minder to accommodate Channel Secure logon.
• Worked on Installing and automating the Build and deploy process using python and shell scripting.
• Fair experience with Kubernetes, Bamboo orchestration tools.
• Working Knowledge with IBM UDeploy to integrate with the WebSphere Application Servers for Automating Deployment efforts.
• Working knowledge with Tomcat Application Server and jboss.
• Experience migrating two customer facing domains (All the envs) to an entire new infrastructure
• Created Agent Conf Objects and realms with rules added in Siteminder v12.5 for custom application security for Single Sign on.
• Experience in using Splunk to search for errors and also monitor applications/environments health using the App Dynamics tool.
• Performance tuned the WebSphere Environment by configuring caching, queuing, pooling, JVM parameters and Problem determination using Tivoli performance viewer (TPV).
• Extensively worked on IBM Business Process Management, Process Portal Servers and managed environments from DEV to PROD

Confidential

Sr. Middleware and Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Extensive involvement in installing, configuring and managing IBM WAS v8.5.5/9.x ND onWindows environment, WebSphere architecture in the topology of Servers, Nodes and
• Deployment manager layouts with respect to clustering and application performance.
• Responsible for applying fix packs on WAS v8.5.5/9.x for DMGR and Nodes.
• Configured resource adaptors, J2C connection factories, J2C activation specifications,resources environment entries and Object cache instances and their custom properties.
• Installed and configured IBM BPM 8.5.7 Advanced Process Center and Process Servers as per the business requirement in staging environment.
• Configure serveral flags in 100Custom.cml files to override existing BPM code for adding and modifying BPM features.
• Implemented User access to IBM BPM using the user/group feature in IBM BPM Process Admin console.
• Used BPMConfig file to install and configure performance parameters in IBM BPM to create a clustered environment on Process Center and Process Server environment.
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.x/ 8.0/8.5.5/9.0 on WindowsEnvironments.
• Configured multiple Deployment Managers (8.0/9.0) on single LPAR using profiles creationwizard.
• Responsible for updating refresh packs, fix packs and interim fix packs to web sphere, IHSWebServer and WebSphere MQ.
• Design, installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server 8.5/9.0 cluster onWindows in Dev, Training, Performance, UAT, Staging and Production environment.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server (8.x/9.x) WebServer remotely as well as local.
• Installed and Configured WebSphere Application Server 8.5/ 9.0 versions in standalone aswell as in horizontal nodes and also Configured LDAP for Portal.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server for secured the LDAP with SSL enabled withMicrosoft Active Directory.
• Installation, Configuring and administering interfaces for WebSphere MQ on Windows.
• Defining and maintaining Queue Managers, Queues, Channels and other MQ Objects onWindows platforms.
• Achieved Work Load Management by creating Clusters in WAS 8.5/9.X.
• Administered and managed TAM and TIM to manage user information security and definingroles to user’s successive version called as IBM Security Access Manager(Appliance model).
• Configured SSO with IBM WAS and ISAM for Kerberos desktop based authentication andSPNEGO.
• Experience in configuring TAI++ with IBM WAS and IBM Security Access MAnager (ISAM).
• Involved in configuring the WebSphere load balancing utilizing WebSphere workloadManagement including horizontal and vertical topology.
• Involved in monitoring, shutdown and boot up network support and trouble shooting.
• Handled Staging and production environments as part of the application deployment.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web containerparameters using the Admin Console and wsadmin scripts.Enabled security for the AdminConsole and application components.
• Used Performance Tuning Toolkit, Tivoli Performance Viewer to monitor WebSphereApplications and tuned the environment accordingly like changing the JVM HeapConnection Pool sizes.
• Used command line tools WSCP and XMLConfig occasionally as an alternative to the AdminConsole.
• Experience in AppDynamics for all transactions of real time and end to end applicationmanagement, to improve the web application deployed on complex SOA environment.
• Managed the security and performance optimization for EJB containers and webapplications in IBM WebSphere, IBM IHS web server.
• Experience in troubleshooting WebServer, Plugin, and Application Server by enabling tracesat different levels.
• Installed, configured and maintained IBM Content Manager, IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler,OpenText Exstream (PDF Document Generation Service), IBM Content Navigator.Involved in desgining a pipeline for automation of deployment with integration of the COTS products with the respective plugins, API’s, batch, powershell and python scripting wherever necessary to reduce manual deployment process reducing about 3-5 hours to 4-7 minutes depending on the volume of deployment.
• Used IBM Tivoli Workload schedule to run scheduled and dependent jobs according the nature of the deployment by configuring Master Domain Manager (MDM) and its agents on target machines, create a master plan consisting of Job Stream with sequence of jobs with their dependencies and conditions.
• Involved in trouble shooting and performance tuning using Resource Analyzer and logAnalyzer.
• Experience in working with Batches, batch cycles and analyzing batch performance usingthe monitoring tools like AppDynamics, Tivoli performance viewer and Tivoli WorkloadScheduler Monitoring.
• Responsible for all phases of Batch jobs creation, execution and troubleshooting.
• Carry out technical activities in support of project delivery, service improvement andngoing support for TWS batch jobs and Job streams.
• Experience in installing and configuring IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler with high availabilitysetup of Dynamic pool Agents.
• Experience in troubleshooting network related issues on top down or bottom up approach and issues caused for breaks in the CI pipeline.to find the root cause.
• Worked closely with developers to define and configured application Servers, Virtual Hosts,Web Applications, Web resources, Servlets, JDBC drivers and Servlet Engines-as well asdeployment of EJBs across multiple instances of WebSphere.
• Wrote scripts for accessing remote Admin Servers, cleaning up logs during back-ups.
• Significant experience in JACL, JYTHON, Batch scripting.
• Experience in creating Queue Mangers and Queues and creating channels in WebSphereMQ.
• Experience in creating Application and Channel Triggering in WebSphere MQ.
• Assembled and Deployed the application in staging, in productions, following changemanagement practices and 24/7 support, worked in shifts.
• Troubleshoot Admin Server start-up issues, Java code defects after deployment, andclasspath issues by checking the JVM logs, plug-in logs and the WebServer logs.
• Performed routine management of WebSphere Environment like monitoring Disk Space,CPU Utilization.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5/9.x, IBM WebSphere Application Server8.x/9.x, IBM HTTP Server 8.x/9.x, Windows, WebSphere MQ 8.x/9.x, IBM Business ModelerHTML, Java Script, XML, JSP, Servlets, ANT, Apache TomEE, Microsoft Internet InformationServer, IBM Content Manager EE, IBM Content Navigator, IBM Rational Collaborative LifeCycle Management Applications, IBM InfoSphere, IBM Cognos, OpenText Exstream Design and Production, SonarQube.