PROFILE:

• I am a middleware web administrator with extensive experience in configuration and Administration of various Java application servers especially WebSphere Application Server and including WebLogic and JBOSS, and webservers including Microsoft IIS, IHS and Tomcat, across a variety of Operating systems including AIX, Solaris, Z - OS and Windows, and skilled in automating repetitive tasks through scripting including UNIX Shell Scripting, Jython, wsadmin, Perl, PowerShell and VB scripting and also expertise in design, administration and implementation of third party solutions and comfortable with middleware components like WebSphere Message broker and WebSphere MQ.
• Experience in designing and documenting of Disaster Recovery scenarios for a complex production environment and overseeing of mock disaster recovery drills.
• Ability to adapt to new methodologies, ability to evaluate and understand complex technical problems, well versed in SOA and ITIL terminology, exposure to a broad array of third party tools and ability to work under pressure with clear and logical thought process along with clear and effective communication.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 11.5 years of IT Experience, with more than 8 years of experience in planning, installation engineering and administering of IBM WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, Version Control tools on AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and Windows.
• 10 years of experience in J2EE and related technologies like JSP, Servlets, EJB, XML, JMS, JDBC, RMI, JNDI, Object oriented technology (OOB).
• Extensive experience with Web administration, which includes Installation and configuration of Apache, IBM HTTP Servers and Microsoft IIS
• Experience in installation/migration/deployment of Enterprise Applications using WebSphere Application server 8.5/7.0/6.1/6.0/5. x.
• Experience in migrating applications from WebSphere 6.1 to WebSphere 7.0.
• Experience in Setting up of Nodes, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, Session Managers including installation and configuration of Application Server Trace Service, Applying fix Patches, Plug-ins and Object Level Trace (OLT).
• Extensive experience in Migrating and Administering of WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.0/6.0/6.1/7.0 , IBM HTTP Web Server, IIS, Apache Web Server in Solaris8 AIX5L and Windows NT/2003/2000 in a 24x7 shift rotation and pager support.
• Experience in creating static and dynamic clusters, cluster members, JDBC Providers, Data Sources, JMS Providers and so forth for development, QA and Production life cycles in a DMZ environment.
• Experience in configuring ODR for an XD environment.
• Manual update of plugin file. Creation of ND Plugin, XD plugin or merged plugin for catering to different applications existing in the same environment.
• Successful implementations of WLM using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Clustering for failover and backup/recovery processes.
• Expertise in automating Web Sphere application Server Administrative tasks.
• Good experience with WSADMIN scripts and Shell scripts to administer and automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere.
• Closely worked with Application groups in monitoring JVM, troubleshooting and fine-tuning the application Performance using Wily Introscope.
• Experienced in implementing various authorization and authentication models including LDAP and LTPA in e-commerce applications.
• Profound knowledge of IBM Tivoli Identity Management and Third Party Vendors, such as Netegrity Siteminder 6.0 etc.
• Configured and secured WebServer interface, Session management, WebSphere resources, J2C resources, connection factories and JMS resources in IBM WebSphere 5.x/6.x.
• Deployment experience in WebSphere Process server on Z/OS platform
• Configured Phurnace tool to automate creation of new WAS environments.
• Experienced in working with JACL scripts, recovering and Backing up WebSphere configurations.
• Creating the Problem Management Record (PMR) if there were any unresolved bugs.
• Creation of WebLogic domains for new builds.
• Configuring, managing and monitoring applications on WebLogic platform, configuration of security parameters including defining users, groups and roles
• Deployments, restart of managed servers on WebLogic platform using WebLogic server administration console and through automated scripts.
• Configuration of WebLogic Server services - JDBC, JMS.
• Used version control tools like Clear case, Microsoft VSS and bug tracking tools like clear quest.
• On-call support (24x7), Monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications at Development and QA phases.
• Work well under pressure and accomplish assigned tasks with a high degree of success.
• Excellent client relation skills and the drive to complete tasks effectively and efficiently where customer services and technical skills are demanded.
• Environment Build - WAS Install - creation of nodes, clusters, JVMs, configuration of ODR, datasources, MQ
• Deployment of applications and configuration of application parameters
• Performance Analysis
• Fixpack, security patches installation
• SSL configuration
• Manual updation of plugin, creation of merged plugin from both ND and XD
• Quick recreation of WAS Cells using Backup-Restore methodology
• Troubleshooting
• Configuration of Application Server Trace Service and Object Level Trace (OLT)
• Configuration of coregroups and their administration for large WAS Cells
• Successful implementations of WLM using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Clustering for failover and backup/recovery processes.
• Implemented various authorization and authentication models including LDAP and LTPA
• WAS Cell architecture optimisation for High availability and High Scalability
• Configuration of ODR
• Manual updation of XD plugin, creation of merged plugin
• Creation of Dynamic clusters
• Expertise in automating Web Sphere application Server Administrative tasks using Jython
• Working knowledge of Websphere portal 6.1
• IIS administration and troubleshooting
• Apache administration and troubleshooting
• IHS administration
• Expertise in UNIX shell Scripting
• Expertise in WSADMIN scripting using JYTHON
• Good Experience in Perl Scripting
• Good Experience in JYTHON and JACL scripting
• Expertise with PowerShell scripting and VB scripting

SKILLS:

WebSphere Administration

WAS 8.5, 8.1, 7 and 7 ND

WAS XD

WSADMIN Scripting

Web Administration

Scripting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, El dorado hills

Application Engineer

Environment: IBM WebSphere WAS 8.5, 7 and 6 ND, IBM WebSphere MQ, IBM BPM 8.5, Microsoft IIS, Edifecs 7.03, 7.08 and 7.091, IBM AIX, Windows 2008 R2.

Responsibilities:

• Administration and maintenance of WAS 8.5, 7 and 6 ND including installation, updation of fixpacks, creation of scripts for stopping/starting of JVMs and deployment of applications and troubleshooting any issues.
• Administration and maintenance of Microsoft IIS on the webservers and troubleshooting any issues.
• Administration of IBM WebSphere MQ and troubleshooting any connectivity issues.
• Created a PowerShell script to administer windows services of all Non-production environments
• Created a PowerShell script for verification of the status of all running windows services for Non-production environments and email an html output of the results to users.
• Created a Unix shell script with mqsc c to get status of queue managers and email a consolidated result to users.

WebSphere Administrator

Confidential, New York

Environment: IIS servers on Windows 2003 enterprise edition, IBM WebSphere 6/7 as a middleware technology hosted on IBM AIX servers and Websphere process server on Z/OS platform

Responsibilities:

• WAS 6 ND and XD and also 7 ND
• Experience in migrating applications from WebSphere 6.1 to WebSphere 7.0
• Deployment on websphere process server v7 on Z/OS platform
• Environment Build - WAS Install - creation of nodes, clusters, JVMs, configuration of ODR, datasources, MQ
• Deployment of applications and configuration of application parameters
• Involved in installing, configuring, maintaining, and supporting WebSphere Portal Server 6.1
• Performance Analysis
• Fixpack, security patches installation
• SSL configuration
• Manual updation of plugin, creation of merged plugin from both ND and XD
• Quick recreation of WAS Cells using Backup-Restore methodology
• Troubleshooting
• Configuration of Application Server Trace Service and Object Level Trace (OLT)
• Configuration of coregroups and their administration for large WAS Cells
• Successful implementations of WLM using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Clustering for failover and backup/recovery processes.
• Implemented various authorization and authentication models including LDAP and LTPA
• WAS Cell architecture optimisation for High availability and High Scalability
• WAS XD
• Configuration of ODR
• Manual updation of XD plugin, creation of merged plugin
• Creation of Dynamic clusters
• WSADMIN Scripting
• Expertise in automating Web Sphere application Server Administrative tasks using Jython

Confidential

Web Administrator

Environment: UNIX, WebLogic 9.1, WebSphere Application Server, SiteScope, Infoman

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team in monitoring and maintaining these servers as a Web Administrator and taking part in all release, patching, debugging activities affecting these servers.
• Creation of weblogic domains for new builds and configuring, managing and monitoring applications on weblogic platform, configuration of security parameters including defining users, groups and roles
• Deployments, restart of managed servers on weblogic platform using weblogic server administration console and through automated scripts. Configuration of Weblogic Server services - JDBC, JMS.
• Deployments, restart of JVMs on WebSphere platform

Confidential

Weblogic Administrator, Release Manager

Environment: Solaris 9, Windows XP, Microsoft VSS, Weblogic 8.1, Microsoft VSS, Mercury Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Release Management
• Unix Shell scripting and Perl scripting
• Weblogic Administration

Confidential

Production Support team member

Environment: Solaris 9, Windows XP, Microsoft VSS, Weblogic 8.1, PL/SQL, Microsoft VSS, Mercury Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Resolution of issues in production
• Java and PL/SQL issues debugging

Confidential

Release Manager, Weblogic Administrator

Environment: Solaris 9, Windows XP, Microsoft VSS, Weblogic 8.1, PL/SQL, Microsoft VSS, Mercury Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Release Management
• Unix Shell scripting and Perl scripting
• Weblogic Administration