PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8.8 years of IT experience in Planning, installing, configuring, administering, tuning and troubleshooting IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM WebSphere MQ Network Deployment and Base on various Operating Systems like AIX, SUN Solaris, LINUX and Windows.
• Installations of IBM WebSphere ApplicationServer V5.x,6.x,7.x and 8.x Base & Network Deployment and process server,MQ V5.x, 6.X and 7.x.
• Installing and Configuring IHS, generating and Configuring WebSphere Plug - ins, HTTP Transports and Virtual Hosts for the Product.
• Experience in SSL configuration for IBM HTTP Server Webserver, Iplanet web server, Data Power and WebSphere.
• Experience in deploying J2EE application on WAS 5, 6, 7 and 8.x Versions using WAS admin console and wasadmin scripting tool.
• Experienced in applying Fix Packs, refresh pack and Cumulative Fixes for WebSphere application server and MQ.
• Well-experienced in the migration tasks of WebSphere from V 5.x to 6.x & V 6.x to 7.x and v 7.x to 8.x.
• Experience in SSO installation and configuration for Site MinderWeb agent and TAI.
• Through Knowledge of installation, configuration and deployment of J2EE application, connecting to back-end resources, performance tuning, automation, and troubleshooting.
• Configured and Enabled the Global Security System for WAS Administration for Console users and Console Groups.
• Participation in on-call rotation supporting 24x7 critical production applications.
• Have extensive experience in working on OOAD with MVC, J2EE Server side Technologies (JDBC, JSP and Servlets), IBM WebSphere Application Servers.
• Having noledge on TCP/IP, DNS, LDAP, SOAP, HTTPS protocols.
• Worked with the Application Development team from the very beginning phases of a project to insure dat all proposed technologies and solutions are met the business requirements.
• Experience in monitoring and maintaining multiple applications in Development, QA, Staging and Production environments.
• Having Knowledge in Tomcat, Jboss, Data Power and Message Broker.
• Experience in troubleshooting and bringing up failed mission critical production systems under extreme pressure conditions and time constraints.
• Used IBM thread and monitor dump analyzer, IBM heap analyzer and IBM memory dump tools to analyze java cores& heap dumps.
• Experienced in performance tuning using Wily Introscope, ITCAM and Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Ability to communicate requirements effectively to team members and manage application development.
• Excellent problem resolving interpersonal & communication skills with ability to work under pressure in a highly visible role in a team and individually.
• Creating Users and Domains on Data Power.
• Install, configure, and maintain WebSphere Message Broker V6.1 and MQ V6.0.
• Implemented theclusteringof queue managers to achieve work load balancing and to reduce system administration.
• Creation of Broker and Configuration Manager Components on LINUX and windows environments.
• Configured MQ Objects within the WebSphere Application Environment.
• Resolving Incidents by working very closely with Application Team.
• Configure IBM MQ in a Clustered Environment.
• Creating Execution groups and Broker Topologies.
• CreatedMQ Queues and Channelsrequired for the Application.
• ConfigureSSLSecurity for MQ Client /Server and Server-Server.
• CreatedTopicsand configured and enabled Publish/Subscribe messaging.
• Created queue clusters and stopping and starting the queue managers and Qmgr Services.
• Deployed Bar Filesand involved in trouble shooting the Broker issues. Involved in stopping and starting ofMessage Flows and execution groups.
• SetupHigh Availabilityfor MQ servers.
• Configuring User Agents, SSL Proxy Profile, Crypto Profile’s & Crypto Certificates on Data Power.
• Document SOPS for junior Engineers.

TECHNICAL DETAILS:

Application/Web servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS)8.5.5.x/7.0/6.x and 5.x, IBM HTTP Server(IHS)6.x/7.x/8.x, Apache Web server 2.0/2.2/2.4, Tomcat, JBoss, iPlanet Web server 6.0/7.0, IBM WebSphere MQ 7/8& Message Broker, IBM Integration Bus ( IIB V 9.0 or 10.0).

Operating Systems: LINUX (REDHAT 6, 5), IBM AIX 7.x/6.x/5.x, SUN Solaris 2.7/2.8/2.9, Windows NT/2000 server, Windows 2003/2008 server.

Java Technologies: Servlets, JSP, Applets, AWT, Swing, EJB, J2EE, JMS, Networking, JDBC/ODBC, CXF, JNDI, RMI, JPA/ Hibernate 3.0, Spring 3.0

Languages: C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, SQL, PL/SQL.

Scripting Languages: Unix Shell script (Bourne, ksh, csh, bash), Jython, ANT, Perl, JavaScript, JACL.

Markup Languages: HTML, XML/XSL and DHTML.

Databases: DB2, Oracle 11g, 10.x Sybase, SQL Server and MS Access, JDBC & ODBC.

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP, SSL, LDAP, DNS, FTP, SFTP, SOAP, and HTTP.

Monitoring Tools: Remedy 6.0/7.0/7.5, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Thread Analyzer, Log Analyzer, Heap Analyzer and Wily Introscope.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Environment: WebSphere 7.x and 8.x Base and ND UNIX (AIX, LINUX) and WINDOWS

Sr.Middleware/WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured and Administered WebSphere Application Server ND 7.x/8.x/8.5.5.x, WebSphere MQ 7.x/8.x and WebSphere Application Server on AIX, Sun Solaris, RHEL, SUSE Linux and Windows platform for all Dev, QA, Staging & Production environments.
• Created Profiles, nodes, federation of nodes, WAS instances, Application Servers, Clusters, Virtual hosts, Data Sources, Plug-in configuration, and Service Integration Bus Configuration.
• Applied latest fix pack and Patches to WebSphere Application Server.
• Production Support for more than 200+ applications and resolving the issues on time.
• Worked on Installing/Administrating and maintaining vm clients from VMware vSphere client software.
• Maintained WebSphere Application Servers on AIX/Linux/windows 2003/2008 server platforms, development, testing and staging environments for on-going application development.
• Installed and configured both IBM HTTP Server 8.x and Apache Web servers, plug-ins, configured the web-server interfaces (plug-in file), session management, virtual hosts, Data Sources, HTTP transports for Application Server instances and applications.
• Experience in configuring SSL for Web servers, requesting and installing secure certificates, enabling Global Security using LDAP registry and Single Sign On.
• Managed the security and performance optimizations for EJB containers and Web applications in IBM WebSphere, IHS and Apache Web server.
• Integrating enterprise wide J2EE applications and deploying on WebSphere and managing security policies for different applications.
• Utilized wsadmin and UNIX scripts for automating WebSphere administration tasks such as creating/modifying WebSphere application server resources and enterprise application resources.
• Used Jacl scripts to automate administration tasks on WebSphere.
• Tuned the JVM, web container, db connection pool, web server parameters to get the maximum performance for applications.
• Familiarity and experience with various procedures and policies required for escalation and outage resolution with Strong documentation skills.
• Involved in opening and working on PMR’s with IBM to solve various issues related to the environment. Enabled traces as part of troubleshooting and used collector tool to submit the logs and traces to IBM after running the must gather scripts and enabling various traces and taking thread dumps.
• Install, configure, and maintain WebSphere Message Broker V6.1 and MQ V6.0.
• Implemented theclusteringof queue managers to achieve work load balancing and to reduce system administration.
• Creation of Broker and Configuration Manager Components on LINUX and windows environments.
• Configured MQ Objects within the WebSphere Application Environment.
• Creating Execution groups and Broker Topologies.
• CreatedMQ Queues and Channelsrequired for the Application.
• ConfigureSSLSecurity for MQ Client /Server and Server-Server.
• CreatedTopicsand configured and enabled Publish/Subscribe messaging.
• Created queue clusters and stopping and starting the queue managers and Qmgr Services.
• Deployed Bar Filesand involved in trouble shooting the Broker issues. Involved in stopping and starting ofMessage Flows and execution groups.
• SetupHigh Availabilityfor MQ servers.

Confidential, White Plains, NY

Environment: WebSphere 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0 Base and ND UNIX (AIX, LINUX) and WINDOWS

Sr.Middleware/WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured and administrated IBM WebSphere Application server (WAS) 8.0/7.0, IBM HTTP Server, WebSphere MQ and IIS 7.0 on Red Hat Linux 6.0/7.0, Solaris, IBM AIX and Windows environments.
• Installed, configured and administrated WAS ND in various software development life cycles.
• Created server start up scripts and application deployment scripts for Tomcat Server.
• Experience in managing applications and deployed EARs, WARs on WAS.
• Provided operational support, which included clearing queues, modifying object attributes, starting and restarting queue managers, restarting channels, and supporting application development by halping resolve programming problems.
• Analyzed JAVA garbage collection, heap dumps and identified memory leaks using the appropriate tools as desired.
• Experience in troubleshooting using Traces, Logs and collector tool.
• Experience in providing 24x7 rotations on call production support and off hours support when needed.
• Handled and resolved the issues in all areas of WebSphere including installation, applying patches, configuring DB2, MQ, Security, EJBs, Servlets, application deployment, WS ADMIN scripting, work load management, clustering, plug-in, IHS, IIS web servers and Migration.
• Enabled different components to trace problem determination and collection of JVM statistics, and garbage collection data for monitoring the heap and physical memory.
• Experience in recreating the problems on the test box, problem determination and troubleshooting.
• Well versed in pinpointing the problems concerning various components in different versions of Web Sphere.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server on multiple platforms for both Horizontal and Vertical clustering for Work Load Management.
• Configuring Websphere env as per application requirement which includes J2C resources, JMS resources.etc.
• Deploying J2EE enterprise applications on websphere.
• Improving application performance by monitoring application with TIVOLI PERFORMANCE VIEWER and tuning the websphere environment based on load testing results.
• Worked closely with development teams for preparing deployment plans, configuring the application specific resources, resolving the issues faced during deployment.
• Ensuring security by implementing SSL b/w Webserver and Application server.
• Trouble-shoot the Application Server issues by analyzing logs, trace, Dumps (Thread) and using ISA (IBM Support Assistance Tool).
• Well versed with Industry standard Change Management and Incident Management process using BMC Software’s Remedy Tool.
• Providing support to Datacenter team during the migration / maintenance activities.

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Environment: WebSphere 5.0, 6.0, and 7.0Base and ND UNIX (AIX, LINUX) and WINDOWS

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Set up of Application environment which includes installation of products like IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server on UNIX, LINUX and Windows platform.
• Ensuring High availability, Workload management by implementing clustering for WAS.
• Configuring WebSphere env as per application requirement which includes J2C resources, JMS resources.etc
• Deploying J2EE enterprise applications on WebSphere.
• Ensuring security by implementing SSL b/w Webserver and Application server.
• Trouble-shoot the Application Server issues by analysing logs, trace,
• Dumps (Thread) and using ISA (IBM Support Assistance Tool)
• Copying jar’s, tar and untarring on AIX environment
• Applied Fix packs/e Fixes /Refresh packs / Cumulative fix packs for WAS using update installer and automating it
• Debugging applications in Base and ND of WebSphere Application Server providing load balancing and clustering solutions
• Monitoring and maintaining multiple applications in development, QA, staging and production environments.
• Install & Update the SSL certs on Sun one Iplanet, Apache, and “IHS” also configured URL redirection on these webservers. Configuring changes to Webservers (Iplanet) for Site minder communication.
• Carried out successful implementation of Chinese character URL redirections and halped other teams
• Creation of Queue Manager, Queues, User Creation and Monitoring the Queue depth, Listener status, channel status, Queue manager and resolving incidents in MQ. Handling Business Queries on MQ/MB Infrastructure
• Create / Modify MQ/MB infrastructure for new/existing projects based on the request from the project teams. Provide assistance to application team to test MQ/MB components for new and existing projects.
• Installation and cluster creation on WSRR, application deployment, Data source creation and configuring rest endpoints.
• SSL creation/Renewal on data power Xi150/152 boxes.
• Creation of concepts and upload of WSDL files in WSRR and changing the governance state to various stages of cycles like Dev to production.
• Creation of proactive monitoring shell scripts in order to automate the day today jobs and also to reduce the number of incidents beforehand.
• Responsible to follow up with vendor teams for SR / PMR update for Middleware related issue (IBM, Oracle)
• Responsible to review the shift handover and work with priority incidents
• SPOC for any incident escalation and also responsible for management update on ODR & Client calls for S1/S2 cases
• Help team mates for technical support and also proactively work on high priority incidents very closely.

Confidential, Manhattan, NYC

Environment: WebSphere 6.0 and 7.0 Base and ND UNIX (AIX, LINUX) and WINDOWS

Middleware/WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Set up of Application environment which includes installation of products like IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server on UNIX, LINUX and Windows platform.
• Ensuring High availability, Workload management by implementing clustering for WAS.
• Configuring Websphere env as per application requirement which includes J2C resources, JMS resources.etc
• Deploying J2EE enterprise applications on websphere.
• Ensuring security by implementing SSL b/w Webserver and Application server.
• Trouble-shoot the Application Server issues by analyzing logs, trace,
• Dumps (Thread) and using ISA (IBM Support Assistance Tool)
• Implementing Patch on IBM webpshere and IBM HTTP server.
• Well versed with Industry standard Change Management and Incident Management process using BMC Software’s Remedy Tool
• Providing support to Datacenter team during the migration / maintenance activities.
• Developing scripts for various maintenance tasks of Application server.
• Preparing the SOP, System Implementation, Change artifact documents.