SUMMARY:

• Over 8+ yearsof middleware experience as WebSphereAdministratoron Windows and Unix environment.
• Extensive experience working on WebSphere Portal Server V8.x,V7.0 and V6.1 in small thru large enterprise environments.
• Experienced in designing and creating MQ resource objects including Queues, Listeners and Channels.
• Extensive experience in optimization of enterprise applications using IBM WebSphere Application server 6.x/7.x/8.0/8.5, WSAdmin scripting client, XML Config, Workload Management (WLM), Resource analyzer, JNDI, LDAP, Site Minder, J2EE, WSAD, JMS, Oracle 10g/11g/12c, Sun Solaris, AIX and LINUX.
• Advanced knowledge of practices within field. Integrates and evaluates new advancements in industry, concepts, techniques and standards to contribute to successful business results.
• Experienced in installation and maintenance of theWebSphere Application Serverson differentUNIXplatforms and setting up the development, Pre - prod and Production environments.
• Hands on Experience in troubleshooting and bringing up failed mission-critical production systems under extreme pressure conditions and time constraints.
• Highly experienced in deploying solutions in High Availability (HA), Load Balancing Configurations eliminating single points of failure.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security using LTPA and LDAP for admin console and application components on both UNIX and windows platforms.
• Considerable experience performing day-to-day operations like deploying portlets, creating pages, exporting configurations, debugging deployment failures and configuring access control using XMLAccess utility.
• Created multiple Virtual Portals and administered them in an enterprise environment to give different look and feel for the same underlying portal application.
• Managed WebSphere Portal Security by creating multiple users and groups, assigned permissions on portal resources, managed inheritance and propagation of role types on resources, and managed role blocks.
• Installed and configured IBM Tivoli Access Manager for WebSphere application server v6.1.
• Thorough knowledge in J2EE technologies, JNDI, JMS, JDBC, Servlets, JSP and EJB.
• Conversant with all phases of software development life cycle.
• Well versed in different stages of implementing the workload Management (WLM) and failover using vertical, horizontal and hybrid clustering for efficient use of resources on single and multiple machines.
• Good Understanding of WAS concepts including workload management, session management, heap dump, and thread analysis.
• Understanding of ITIL concepts including Incident, Problem, Change Request (CR), Configurationand Release Management.
• Familiar with java & EJBdesign patterns, J2EE Architectureand Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Well experienced in resolving the Severity/Priority 1, 2 & 3 issues in a timely fashioned manner.
• Experienced in Development and Deployment of J2EE application Archives (jar, war, ear) on WebSphere Application Servers, and troubleshooting deployment failures.
• Experience with WebSphere portal tools, xmlaccess, wpsconfig and migration tools.
• Ability to quickly master new concepts, applications. Self-motivated person with excellent problem solving and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: AIX 6.x/5.x/4.x, Solaris 9/8.0/7.x, Red Hat Linux 8.0/7.x,9,Windows XP 2008/2003/2000/ NT 4.0

Web/Application Servers: WebSphere 8.5.5/8.0/7.0/6.1.0.13/5.1.1.13/5.0.2 , WebSphere Portal 8.x/7.x/6.x, WSRR, WebSphere Process server 6.0.2.2, IBM HTTP Server 8.5,7,6.0, 6.0.2.x and 6.1.x, Apache 2.2/1.3.x, iPlanet, IIS, Tomcat 3.x., WebSphere MQ 5.3.6.0, 7.0, WMB 5.0,ITAM.

Languages: C, C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, UML, HDML, WML, COBOL, SQL, PL/SQL, Shell Scripts (Korn Shell).

Development Tools: WSAD 5.1, J Developer, TOAD, Rational Rose, Eclipse, Ration HATS

GUI Front End tools: Java Server Pages, Swing, Visual Basic 5.0/6.0,Developer 2000.

Database: DB2/UDB, ORACLE10g/9i/8.0/7.x, SQLServer6.5/7.0, Sybase.

Networking/Protocol: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP, IBM OSE and WAP (WTP/WSP)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Webster, NY

Web Engineer/Web Operations Engineer

Responsibilities:

• UsedWebSphere Admin Console and WSAdmin - Jython scripting to install and update enterprise EAR.
• Maintaining updated documentation of all the Servers and the installed applications and patches.
• Configured a virtual host for Development and Test environments.
• Creating profiles for deployment manager and node agents.
• Keeping Backups of deployed Applications.
• Workload management using WebSphere Modeling and Clustering on Application Servers.
• Applied Fix packs and Feature packs for WebSphere Portal in non-prod and production environments.
• Maintenance of the WebSphere and Portal servers on different UNIX platforms and setting up the development and testing and staging environment for the ongoing application development.
• Configured custom login and logout pages for the WebSphere Portal Server environment.
• Responsible for building the Dev, Test, QA, and Prod environments by installing the WAS and creating the profiles, nodes, federation of nodes, Application Servers, Clusters, Virtual hosts, data sources, MQ connections, Plug-in Configuration and Service Integration Bus Configuration etc.
• Integrated MQseries with WebSphere Application Server for JMS messaging. Defined synchronized and persistent IBM MQ Series Queue manager, Channel Managers and Queues.
• Extensive experience in webserver installation and configuration of Apache, IBM Http Server, IIS.
• Experienced in concepts of Virtual servers, pools, profiles, iRules,Nodes,Monitors, SSL certs, and managing users in Big IP f5 Console.
• Good understanding of the application architecture in all the environments and dependencies like JMS and JDBC resources. Also good understanding of Single Sign ON solution using CAS service application. Actively participated in LEVEL 3 production support resolving issues Confidential all levels.
• Extensive experience in administering windows and Linux operating systems. Installed and maintained multiple versions of windows and Linux on VMWare.
• Ability to perform backup and disaster recovery and take snapshots of VM’s.
• Involved in implementing system architecture for High Availability of Production systems. Worked on the Clusters and High Availability Clustering to make the administration task easy and the Workload Balancing of the messages.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources 4/5 and connection pooling and tuning it and monitoring it using Tivoli Performance viewer by enabling PMI.
• Configured admin console security on WebSphere and creating users with various roles to access the WebSphere admin console - users and groups in ldap and added them as WebSphere Console Groups.

Environment: WebSphere 6.0/8.0/8.5.5 , WebSphere Portal 7/6, IBM HTTP Server, Apache, Solaris 10, SuSE Linux 11, AIX, Hudson, Tivoli Performance viewer, GC, SSH Passwordless login, SSL, ikeyman, JDBC, connection pooling, Tomcat 7, MySQL 5.6,SQL Server 2008, Jboss7/6, Tomcat 7.0, Apache HTTP ServersV2.4, Windows 2003/2008, BIG IP F5 10.x.

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Middleware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building the Dev, Test, QA, and Prod environments by installing the WAS and creating the profiles, nodes, federation of nodes, Application Servers, Clusters, Virtual hosts, data sources, MQ connections, Plug-in Configuration and Service Integration Bus Config.
• Collaborate with project/program management to optimize SDLC and related processes.
• Experienced in configuring WebSphere security for new applications like Administrative security application security, SSL certificates, Global security, and also J2EE security.
• Responsible for applications which are using message broker, involved in bouncing the broker and restarting the execution groups, deployment of bar files, restarting of execution groups.
• Extensively involved in troubleshooting the issues and document the problem resolutions for future references. Created PMRs and worked with IBM personnel for the peculiar issues that were found in the environment.
• Integrated MQSeries with WebSphere Application Server for JMS messaging.
• Implemented security using LDAP
• Tuning the applications by monitoring the JVM memory usage, garbage collection, thread usage, response times etc.
• Configured Workload Management (WLM) using clusters and cluster members in production environment.
• Installed and configured IBM Tivoli Access Manager for WebSphere application server v6.1.
• Experienced in attending the bridge calls for production issues and non-prod issues and involved application teams or database teams or networking teams to resolve the issues and involved in Root cause analysis for the issues encountered. Also provided 24/7 on call support for all the production applications.
• Administered, configured, tuned, and troubleshoot WebSphere in a clustered environment on Windows.
• Responsible for upgrading WebSphere Portal Server environment from 5.1.0.4 to 6.0.1.1 by applying fix packs, refresh packs and fixes
• Responsible for administering, maintaining and configuring a 24 x 7 highly available, multi-clustered, production portal environment
• Developed WSADMIN scripts for updation of datasources, logpath details for jvm’s and MQ resources etc.
• Created J2C authentication data entries for configured data source to test database connection from WebSphere administrative console.
• Involved in evaluating session state failover options (memory-to-memory, database persistence and create and configures DRS (Data Replication Service) replication domains.

Environment: WebSphere application server 7.0/ 6.1/6.0/5.1/5.0 , WebSphere portal 6.1, web sphere, MQ 6/5.3, IHS 6/2.0.47,ITAM, AIX, Solaris, Linux, windows 2003, IIS, LDAP, WMB 5.0,Oracle 10/9.0.2/8.1. x, DB2, Mainframe, TAM, jacl, jython, XML, Wily7, EJB, JSP, JDBC, ISA.

Confidential, Germantown, MD

WebSphere System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for application changes across different platforms- development, testing and production environments.
• Used Release Builder tool, XML Configuration interface for exporting configurations in WebSphere Portal.
• Created users and groups and managed portal site with creating pages, deploying portlets and created databases.
• Implemented Cloning, Clustering, Performance tuning and trouble shooting of IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.0.
• Experience with WebSphere MQ 5.3 and 6.0 and Created MQ queue and Channels
• Set up the Triggering and set up the security for Users/Groups
• Managing Releases of product from Development to QA and Production.
• Setting up Environment for Application packaging and deploying.
• Analyzing the scalability of applications with the help of tools like IBM Tivoli Site Analyzer.
• Diagnosed the problems caused in the applications through the log files and rectified the problems.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security using LTPA and LDAP for admin console and application components on AIX.
• Updating with the Latest Fix-packs.
• Communicating with IBM for resolving the critical problems.
• Supported WebSphere Application Server clustering, load balance and failover.
• Evaluating security control on new and existing UNIX servers to access compliance to policies and standards.
• Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using LDAP system authentication.
• Installed HTTP Server 6.0/6.1/7.0 and configured remote Plug-in for application servers.
• Involved in Configuration of WebSphere Application Server resources like JDBC Data Sources, JDBC Providers and Connection Pooling to connect to the Oracle.
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy Enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 3.5/4.0/5.0 that involves EAR (Enterprise Archives) and WAR (Web Archives) files.

Environment: IBM WebSphere 4.0/5.0.2/5.1.1.13 , Websphere Portal,MQ,MB,IBM MQSeries, IBM HTTP server, iPlanet, Netscape Enterprise Server, EJB, JSPs, Servlets, XML, JDBC, Java Script, HTML, DB2/UDB v 7.2, DFS, Sun Solaris v 2.8, Linux, AIX and Windows2000/NT.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured WebSphere Application 6.0 Network Deployment and support of IBM HTTP Server 6.0.
• Responsible for Installation, configuration and administration of enterprise applications on IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0 and IBM HTTP Server 6.0 on Linux environment.
• Creating and Managing the Nodes, Application Server’s, Cluster’s and Deployed Multiple J2EE Applications.
• Installed IBM HTTP Server 6.0 on different nodes and configured them by generating the plug-in.
• Involved in the configuration of WebSphere Application Server resources like Data Sources, JDBC Providers, JNDI and Connection Pooling in order to connect to DB2 and Oracle databases.
• Troubleshooting problems related to WebSphere Application Server.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server Virtual Hosts, and JVM settings.
• Installed and configured the WebSphere plug-in for remote web servers.
• Achieved Work Load Management by creating Clusters in WAS 6.0.
• Applied Fix packs and Cumulative fixes to Web Sphere Application server.
• Involved in Configuring and Enabled the Global Security System WAS Administration for console users and console Groups using local OS User Registry.
• Handled all related tasks in a company and provided 24x7 on-call supports.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0, IBM HTTP Server 6.0, Oracle Database 9i/10g, Linux, Plugins 6.0.