SUMMARY

• Proficient in installation, configuration, and administration of IBM Datapower XI - 50/52, WebSphere Application Server, CA Wily Introscope, Sun ONE Directory Server,, JBoss, IBM HTTP Server, WebSphere MQ Server, Tomcat, Apache, IIS and Sun ONE Web Server on AIX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows.
• Ten years of IT experience in Administration and Production Support of various systems on Sun Solaris, AIX5L, Linux (RedHat, Suse) and Windows environments.
• IBM Websphere Application Server Certified.
• Experience in J2EE enterprise applications development.MVC Framework Struts, Hibernate, AJAX, EJB, JSP, Servlets, SOAP, Web Services and JMS.
• Adept at writing wsadmin, JACL, Jython and ANT scripts to automate various WAS administration and deployment tasks such as JVM configuration, J2EE application deployment, ear/war installation, backups, JVM export/import and the like.
• Excellent working knowledge of JBOSS Application Server, middleware and other JBOSS components
• Excellent migration skills from WAS 6.x to WAS 8.x
• Deployment, software installation, maintenance, fix upgrades, general administration, troubleshooting and performance tuning of JBOSS
• Experience in CA Site minder web agent installation, configuration for the SSO portals.
• Proficient in performance tuning and monitoring using various tools like JProbe, and Tivoli Performance Viewer, configuring JProbe, in order to monitor WAS, JBoss
• Responsible for installation, configuration and maintenance of WebSphere Application Server (Base and ND), WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere MQ in a heterogeneous environment
• Strong knowledge on Websphere MQ administration including the 6.0 migration
• Configured and maintained more than 100 WebSphere applications running on several AIX, SOLARIS, and Windows servers.
• Experience in administration, maintenance and application support of J2EE applications
• Created Web Sphere cells, Horizontal and Vertical clusters, and added cluster members to clusters in effort to create fault-tolerant, scalable, and highly available WebSphere environment
• Proficient in trouble shooting various applications specific or any J2EE code related issues.
• Installed fix packs, eFixes, and cumulative fixes to the existing infrastructure
• Installed and configured remote WebSphere plug-in for IBM HTTP Server. Manually updated plug-in files for IHS servers located in DMZ
• Automated FixPack/eFixes installations, daily backups, log archival, and other tasks using shell scripts
• Worked closely with Load testing team to identify performance bottlenecks using Load Runner, Jprobe, and Tivoli Performance Viewer
• Performed root-cause analysis for Production outages and provided management with root-cause analysis reports.
• Configured global security for WebSphere Application Server using IBM Directory Server as LDAP user registry
• Installed SiteMinder Web Agents, Policy Servers, registered Web Agents with Policy Servers
• Configured SiteMinder Policies for domains
• Configured Policy Store with LDAP
• Created JDBC Providers, Datasources, and JAAS authentication aliases in order to provide connectivity to Oracle, DB2 (mainframe and UDB)
• Configured Queue Connections Factories, Queue Definitions, and Listener Ports in order to provide connectivity to Enterprise MQ infrastructure.
• Configured DB2 Node and DB catalogs to connect to mainframe DB2 databases via DB2Connect server.
• Configured several third-party products such as Cognos ReportNet suite, on WebSphere Application Server.
• Successful implementations of Workload Management (WLM) using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Clustering for failover and backup/recovery processes.
• Expertise in supporting enterprise based distributed applications over a wide range of operating environments on a 24/7 rotation basis for high volume, secure transactions and Web services.
• Experience in setting up of Nodes, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, configuring Servlet Engines, Session Managers including planning installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server Trace Service.
• Well versed in creating resources, modifying properties, view runtime attributes, commit modifications and securing administrative server using Authentication, Authorization, Certificates, Credentials, Permissions, WebSphere Resources (Servlets, JSP files, HTML files).
• Experience in J2EE (JSP, Servlets, EJB, JNDI, JMS), Java2.0, JDBC, Java Beans, RMI, CORBA, JavaScript, XML, HTML, SQL.
• Experience with various procedures and policies required for escalation and outage resolution with Strong documentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages and scripting: C, C++, Java, Unix Shell scripting, Jacl/Jython/ANT Scripting, Java Script, PL/SQL,CGI (PERL), LDAP, DHTML, XML, XML config, JMS, EJB, Java Swing, JSP, ASP, Servlets, JDBC, EJB, Struts, RMI, JNDI,.

Networking & Communication Protocols/Devices: IBM Datapower XI-50/XI-52, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP, Putty, Humming Birdv7.1.

Databases: LDAP, MS Access, Sybase, MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, DB2, Oracle 8.x/9.0/10i Web/Application

Servers: WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.x/6.x, CA e-trust Site Minder 6.3/5.2, WMQ 7.0/6.0/5.3, WMQI 5.1, IBM HTTP Server 1.3, 2.x, 6.0, 6.1, WebSphere Portal Server4.0, 5.x, Sun ONE Web server, IIS, Apache, Apache Tomcat, Sun ONE Directory Server

Operating Systems: IBM-AIX 4.2/4.3/5.x, Linux, Sun Solaris 8,9,10, Windows 2k,03,NT, Xp-Pro

Development/Build Tools: JCreator, JDeveloper, WSAD, RAD.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Middleware Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for tuning, trouble-shooting and maintenance of IBM Datapower XI-50/XI-52, (WAS) Application Server 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.5, MQ, WebSphere Process Server, in DEV, QA, Production XD environments, with SOA compliance.
• Installation of XI-52 and Migration of Datapower XI-50 to XI-52
• Message Queuing of ECX environment for ADIS traffic with Installation, Administration, Troubleshooting and Maintenance
• Migration of WAS 6.x and 7 to WAS 8.5 with liberty profile and ND
• System Administration of IBM AIX RACK boxes (5.3) with Power 7 hardware
• Configured IBM MQ environment for Server Groups and Clones for High Availability and Fail Over capability for DATA CENTERS.
• Installation of WMQ server and client, creating and configuring Queue Managers, Channels, Queues, Process definitions, Clustering in all production, test and development environments and ensures functionality on Windows and UNIX systems.
• Migrating Multi-Version IBM WebSphere Application Server from 6.0/6.1/7.0 to 8.5, with JDBC drivers, ORACLE XA data sources, JDK 1.6 in an extended environment (wily does not support 1.7 at this time)
• Installed CA Wily Introscope, migrated Wily from 9.0.5.1/9.0.6.5 to 9.2.X
• Monitoring with CA WILY Introscope for WPS, WAS, ECX Administration in DEV, QA and PROD
• Complete with metrics collection, dashboards and alerting system in DEV, QA and PROD
• Configuring application adapters, web services and resource environmental providers.
• Providing support for O.S Configuration and Performance Issues Impacting WPS, WAS Environment.
• Ticket Problem Resolution, according to Deadlines, in a High Volume Environment.
• Scheduled to migrate to IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, JDBC drivers and Servlet engines along with trouble shooting and recovery on AIX 5.3 with Power 7.
• Responsible for application changes across different platforms - development, testing, UAT and production.
• Configuration and Administration of MQ and JMS for Unix.
• Configured SSL Certificates for IBM Http Server using Ikeyman utility provided with the Http Server
• Direct Storage Arrays to configure Storage in a Useable and Reliable Manner.
• Coordinating and implementing production configurations and problem resolution strategies.
• Meetings with Developers, Testers, Project Managers for performance and trouble-shooting.
• Design and documentation of complex extended environment with load balancers, web servers, application servers, databases with identity management and security devices
• Providing 24/7 on call support for deployments as well as Application Performance Support
• Managed the security and performance optimizations for EJB containers and web applications in IBM WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server, Tomcat and Apache web server.
• WebSphere User account management with open LDAP and enabling global security mechanism with Secure Socket Layer (SSL)

Environment: IBM Datapower XI-50/XI-52, IBM WebSphere Process Server 6.x/7.x, IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0.2/6.1/7.0/8.5, IBM MQ, CA WILY Introscope 9.0/9.2, SIB, IHS Web Server, SAN, AIX 5.3, S Clustering, WMQ 6.1(Pub/Sub), Tivoli, Windows XP, Cron, SSO, SSL, EJB, JDK, J2EE, JNDI, DB2, MySQL, TOMCAT, IBM HTTP Server6.0.2, APACHE, HORIZONTAL/VERTICAL, Open LDAP, WebSphere User Account Security and Management, VMWare

Confidential

Middleware Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for tuning, trouble-shooting and maintenance of Datapower XI-50, WebSphere application server 6.0/6.1/7.0, Tomcat, WebSphere Process Server 6.x, MQ, Wily 9.0.x in DEV, QA, PROD.
• System Administration of DEV environment in AIX 5.x with Power 5
• Developed JACL, Jython, Perl, WSCP scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XMLConfig tool.
• Configured Server Groups and Clones for High Availability and Fail Over capability for DATA CENTERS.
• Installation of WMQ server and client, creating and configuring Queue Managers, Channels, Queues, Process definitions, Clustering in all production, test and development environments and ensures functionality on Windows and UNIX systems.
• Installation and Monitoring with CA WILY Introscope for WPS, WAS, ECX Administration in DEV, QA PROD.
• Providing support for O.S Configuration and Performance Issues Impacting WPS, WAS Environment.
• Ticket Problem Resolution according to Deadlines in a High Volume Environment.
• Scheduled to migrate to IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, JDBC drivers and Servlet engines along with trouble shooting and recovery on AIX 5.3 with Power 7.
• Responsible for application changes across different platforms - development, testing, UAT and production.
• Configuration and Administration of MQ and JMS for Unix.
• Configured SSL Certificates for IBM Http Server using Ikeyman utility provided with the Http Server
• Direct Storage Arrays to configure Storage in a Useable and Reliable Manner.
• Mentoring Team on WebSphere 7.0 and problem resolution strategies.
• Meetings with Developers, Testers, Project Managers for performance and trouble-shooting.
• Providing 24/7 on call support for deployments as well as Application Performance Support
• Managed the security and performance optimizations for EJB containers and web applications in IBM WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server, Tomcat and Apache web server.
• Configured Server Groups and Clones for High Availability and Fail Over capability for DATA CENTERS.

Environment: IBM Datapower XI-50, WebSphere Process Server 6.x, CA WILY Introscope 9.0, IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0.2/6.1, IHS Web Server, SAN, AIX 5.3, Sun Solaris, Clustering, WMQ 6.1(Pub/Sub), Tivoli, Sun ONE Directory Server2, Windows XP, Cron, SSO, SSL, EJB, JDK, J2EE, JNDI, DB2, MySQL, TOMCAT, IBM HTTP Server6.0.2, APACHE, HORIZONTAL/VERTICAL Clustering

Confidential, IPSWICH

Middleware Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Migration of WebSphere Application Server 6.x to 7.0 with requisite back-ups for the Confidential Host.
• Installation and Administration of IBM Datapower XI-50
• Performance Tuning of WAS and JBOSS Applications on AIX, Solaris and Windows 2003
• Configured Server Groups and Clones for High Availability and Fail Over capability for DATA CENTERS.
• Installation of WMQ server and client, creating and configuring Queue Managers, Channels, Queues, Process definitions, Clustering in all production, test and development environments and ensures functionality on Windows and UNIX systems.
• Monitoring of the WMQ Objects with BMC for WMQ Administrator.
• Providing support for O.S Configuration and Performance Issues Impacting WAS Environment.
• Ticket Problem Resolution according to Deadlines in a High Volume Environment.
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.1, JDBC drivers and Servlet engines along with trouble shooting and recovery on Solaris, Linux (RedHat).
• Responsible for application changes across different platforms - development, testing, UAT and production.
• Configuration and Administration of MQ and JMS for Unix, z/OS.
• Configured SSL Certificates for IBM Http Server using Ikeyman utility provided with the Http Server
• Direct Storage Arrays to configure Storage in a Useable and Reliable Manner.
• Mentoring Team on WebSphere 7.1 and problem resolution strategies.
• Meetings with Developers, Testers, Project Managers for performance and trouble-shooting.
• Providing 24/7 on call support for deployments as well as Application Performance Support
• Migration of Websphere MQ 5.3 to 6.0 with Requisite Back-Ups.
• Managed the security and performance optimizations for EJB containers and web applications in IBM WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server, Tomcat and Apache web server.
• Developed many JACL, Jython, Perl, WSCP scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XMLConfig tool.
• Configured Server Groups and Clones for High Availability and Fail Over capability for DATA CENTERS.

Environment: IBM Datapower XI-50, WebSphere Application Server 7.x, SAN, Sun Solaris, Clustering, WMQ 6.0, Tivoli, JBOSS 5.x, Linux (RedHat), AIX, SiteMinder 6.0, Sun ONE Directory Server6.2, Windows 2003, Cron, SSO, SSL, EJB, JDK, J2EE, JNDI, DB2, MySQL, TOMCAT, BMC Patrol, IBM HTTP Server6.0.2, APACHE, HORIZONTAL/VERTICAL, BIG IP F5, HA, z/OS.

Confidential, River Woods, IL

Middleware Administrator

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, configuration and maintenance of J2EE applications on Websphere Application Server, JBOSS 4.2, HTTP Server6.0.2, Apache in multi clustered high availability environments
• Migration from Websphere 6.x to Websphere 6.1 at enterprise level on AIX
• Integration and Migration Issues of Middleware Servers on Solaris and Linux Environments.
• Involved in Disaster Recovery Related To Data Centers.
• Group Meetings for Performance and Migration Status Resolution.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Apache Active MQ.
• Responsible for the administration of WMQ in a Clustered Environment.
• Responsible for the creation of MQ resource objects like Queue, Listeners, Channels etc.
• Monitoring of WMQ via Tivoli Monitoring Tool.
• Mentoring Team on WebSphere MQ 6.0 and problem resolution strategies.
• Meetings with Developers, Testers, Project Managers for performance and trouble-shooting.
• Providing 24/7 on call support for deployments as well as Application Performance Support
• engines along with trouble shooting and recovery on AIX, Linux (RedHat).
• Configured SSL for IBM Http Server using Ikeyman utility provided with the Http Server
• Providing 24/7 on call support for deployments as well as application support
• Responsible for application changes across different platforms- development, testing, UAT and production.
• Migration of Websphere MQ 5.3 to 6.0
• Creation of MQ resource objects like Queue, Listeners, Channels etc
• Managed the security and performance optimizations for EJB containers and web applications in IBM WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server and Apache web server.
• Developed many JACL, Jython, Perl, WSCP scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XMLConfig tool.
• Maintaining updated documentation of all the Servers, installed applications and updates.
• Involved in troubleshooting and performance tuning using Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer.
• Security, users, groups administration and daily backup and restore operations.
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 6.0.2 that involves EAR (Enterprise Archives) and WAR (Web Archives).
• Involved in capacity planning, implementation of Websphere 6.x
• Automate application install, uninstall and application enhancements through shell scripts WSCP, JACL, Jython scripts using Cron and at job scheduling utilities.
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.
• Configured Server Groups and Clones for High availability and Fail over capability.
• Ensure application dependencies are integrated on system level components such as database, Data Source Name, and Application Server connection pooling (DB2) including identification and documentation.
• Installed upgrades and fix packs to the runtime environment as required decreasing vulnerability to production environment.
• Utilized Big IP F5 in environment.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0, WMQ 6.0, JBOSS 4.2, Linux (RedHat), AIX, Windows 2000, Policies, SSO, SSL, EJB, JDK, J2EE, JNDI, Web Agents, DB2, Ping Federate, UNIX, AWK, SOA, SiteMinder 5.2, BIG IP F5, LDAP Directory Server, IBM HTTP Server6.0.2, z/OS, WMB.

Confidential, Teaneck, NJ

WebSphere MQ Administrator

Responsibilities

• Installed WebSphere 5.x, Apache, IHS, IIS and configured JBOSS.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server and IBM WAS on AIX and SUN Solaris.
• Administration of Apache and IBM HTTP Web Server in production environment.
• Provided technical assistance for Web Hosting team on various Application servers and Web Servers including IBM HTTP Server, Apache Web Server, and iplanet Server.
• Installation of Websphere MQSeries 5.2
• Installation of Websphere MQ Integrator 2.1
• Configured and setting up MQSeries environment including Queue Manager and its objects such as Queues and MQ Channels.
• Created scripts for automated shell scripting of jobs.
• WebSphere MQSeries administration in AIX, Linux, Windows, Solaris and Z/OS environments.
• Troubleshoot and fix issues, as well as provide day-to-day support to the WebSphere MQ environment.
• Designing, planning, and administering the overall MQ environment.
• Installed MC75 MQ Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) and add MQSeries services to MSCS.
• Configured and add DB2 services to MSCS on two WMQI servers.
• Defining channels using SSL certificates. Designed MQ applications supporting application level security and delivering MQ infrastructural solutions using link level security. Worked under DQM and Clustering environment
• Responsible for User Exit Programs using C and Java. Monitor all MQ Objects using MQ supplied utilities.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 5.x, Site Minder, Websphere MQSeries 5.2, WBI Message Broker 5.0,, HTTP Server 2.0x, BizTalk server, DB2, Oracle, Java, JMS, XML, LDAP, Windows, Sun Solaris, AIX, Linux for Windows, OS/390, MSCS, Veritas, Qpasa, Visio, Tivoli Monitoring, Remedy Notifications, iplanet, MQ Integrator 2.0, IBM HTTP Server 1.3.28 on Windows NT.