PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• IBM WebSphere Administrator with more than 7 plus years of IT experience in ever increasing levels of responsibility and expertise in a wide range of disciplines specializing in Application Server, WebServer adept in all facets of administration, maintenance, deployments, Integration including Installation and Configuration.
• 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, Object Level Trace(OLT) and IBM Distributed Debugger.
• Experienced in installation, configuration and administration of WebSphere Application Server 4.X/5.X/6.0 and MQ Series.
• Install, Configure and Administer WebSphere Commerce server
• Experience in installation, configuration, and tuning of WCS environments
• Involved in setup, installation, administration and migrating applications from WASND 6.0/6.1 to WAS 7 and JBoss including MQ.
• Strong experience in WebSphere Application server implementation, support, workload management and performance tuning.
• Experienced in Web server setup, including complex secure sockets layer(SSL) configuration on IBM HTTP Server (Apache based).
• Experience in managing security using Authentication, Authorization Certificates, Single Sign On, LTPA and User Registries.
• Strong experience in installing and configuring Wily’s Introscope and Dashboard. Did troubleshooting of Java applications using Introscope (Leak Hunter).
• Networking communication skills and protocols such as TCP/IP, NFS, DNS, LDAP, DHCP, NTP and SMTP
• Experienced in Installing, Configuring and Administering Web Servers like IBM HTTP Server, iPlanet, SunOne and Apache.
• Experienced in applying patches and Plug - ins for WebSphere application server.
• Successful implementations of WorkLoad Management (WLM) using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Cloning for failover and backup/recovery processes.
• Expertise in developing WSCP scripts and Shell scripts to administer and automate batch job scheduling including backup and recovery processes and to automate WebSphere installation.
• Well experienced in packaging applications to build platform independent applications using WebSphere Application Assembly Tool (AAT).
• Hands on experience in development and deployment of J2EE applications on Web Sphere Application Servers using IBM WSAD 4.0/5.0, JBuilder.
• Experience in J2EE (JSP, Servlets, EJB, JNDI, JMS), Java2.0, JDBC, Java Beans, RMI, CORBA, JavaScript, XML, HTML, SQL.
• Familiarity and experience with various procedures and policies required for escalation and outage resolution with Strong documentation skills.
• Ability to communicate requirements effectively to team members and manage applications. Team player with excellent interpersonal skills, dedicated and understand the demands of 24/7 system maintenance, production support and have good customer support experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: C, C++, J2EE, SQL, ESQL, XSL, UML

Web technologies: HTML, XML, XSD, XSLT, XPATH, JavaScriptServlets, JSP:

Scripting: Shell, Perl, Jython, ANT

Database: DB2, Oracle 9i/10g, SQL Server

Web Servers: Apache, IHS, Sun Java WS, IIS

App Servers: WAS, JBOSS, Tomcat, Web Logic

Development Tools: RAD, SOAP UI, SOA Test tool, XML Spy

Communications Protocols: TCP/IP, Http/Https, RMI/IIOP, SOAP, SSH,SFTP

SOA: IBM Datapower XS40, XI50

Version Control: CVS, SVN, Clear Case

Project Management Tools: MS Visio, MS Project

Operating Systems: Windows, AIX, Solaris, Linux (RedHat)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta

WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Upgradation of WebSphere Application Server from V 6.1 to 7.0 and applied necessary fix packs to be in compliance with patch management.
• Involved in development of project plan to setup WebSphere environment to support J2EE enterprise application, system test case, develop implementation routine to meet business needs.
• Experience in Installing and Configuration, administration of Websphere Application servers 7.0, IBM Http server, Websphere Message Broker.
• Developed, enhanced and maintained Message Broker tools and components for providing stable environment.
• Tuning of Message Broker from application and configuration perspective for better performance.
• Involved in infrastructure systems architecture planning and working with the vendors to make sure that required infrastructure needs are delivered Confidential the right time to meet the project deadlines.
• Installed and upgrade commerce fixpacks & feature packs to 7.0.0.7
• Designed the proof of concept for WAS/MQ cluster and successfully moved into production environment.
• Involved in Configuring and Installing IBM WebSphere Commerce Server 6.x/ 7.x on AIX platforms.
• Designed High Availability, Load Balancing, and Workload Management using Horizontal and Vertical Scaling.
• Developed capacity planning guidelines to meet future requirements based on analysis of application enhancement and user requirements
• Created users, groups and directory structure in LDAP for configuring user authentication for the Middle Ware server administration as well as application access.
• Monitoring the servers built for Production, Pre-Production and the UAT environment while extensive tests are being conducted.
• Made configuration changes to accommodate best practices whenever possible.
• Installed WebSphere 6.1.15 ND in Windows 2003 server and Linux server.
• Effectively supported the application by troubleshooting issues, Deployment, Applying fix packs to WebSphere Configuration, OS level updates etc.
• Acted as primary point of contact from India team for any issues concerning server or DB level.
• Lead a team of 5 by providing technical support, training and the required knowledge transfer for the team to come up to speed with the application support.
• Worked on clustering of WebSphere environment and fine tuning the JVM according to the application usage.
• Acted as a central point of contact for any production support and worked closely with the vendor for any fixpacks necessary to fix the issues.

Environment: WebSphere ND 7.0/6.1.0.15/6.1.0.17, IHS 6.1.0.15, AIX 6.1, Redhat Linux 5.2 (Tikanga), Windows 2003 Server, DB2, Wall Street Systems 4.3, Cash Management Module, Galssfish, LDAP/AD, Oracle 10g, MS SQL Server 2000&2005, Introscope 7.2.1.1, Peregrine ServiceCenter 6.1.1.0 .

Confidential, Atlanta

WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured and troubleshot WAS 6.1.0.5 base Installation on Windows 2003 Server for SAS Reporting tool Application.
• Worked on JBOSS Migration projects by building Tier1 and Tier2 using custom build scripts and configured the Tier1 plug-in and performed tuning and configuration for Tier2.
• Contributed to a project to automate WebSphere and JBOSS Installation through Opsware by writing Shell scripts, JACL scripts and Perl scripts.
• Installed, Configured, and troubleshot WAS 6.1.0.15 ND Installation on RedHat Linux 4.
• Installed and configured MQ series on Windows Platform.
• Provided production support to the WebSphere/JBOSS environment whenever required.
• Worked exclusively in resolving issues and in pre-prod and production environment by using OTRS ticketing system.
• Performed EAR deployments in all the environments as required using wsadmin, MKS Integrity Client and WinSCP.
• Worked in the project to migrate WebSphere security from LOTUS-DOMINO to LDAP-AD and effectively resolved all the problems that occurred during the conversion.
• Created PMR with IBM incase of issues and have resolved some outstanding problems.
• Problem Determination through the log files (JVM Logs) and rectified the problems or interacting with IBM support to solve problems.
• Deployed applications to development, test and production environments when necessary.
• Actively involved in providing a long term monitoring solution to monitor the performance of servers and applications.
• Created IBM Problem Management Records (PMR) to report WebSphere related problems.
• Responsible for reliable maintenance and support of J2EE applications in WebSphere environment.
• Created Change Records using Peregrine Service Center and also documented all the resolutions and shared it to the team in Microsoft Sharepoint.
• Provided 24X7 Production Support when required.
• Worked independently to resolve issues and for getting things done for every project and if required reached for the right group to get things resolved or done.

Environment: WebSphere ND 5.0.2.8/5.1.1.17/6.0.2.23/6.0.2.25/6.1.0.5/ 6.1.0.13, JBOSS 4.2/4.3, IHS 6.0.2.15/6.0.2.23/6.1.0.13, Apache 2.2.8, AIX 5.3.0.5, Redhat Linux 4, Windows 2003 Server, LDAP/AD, Oracle 10i/9i, MS SQL Server 2000&2005, Introscope 7.2.1.1, Peregrine ServiceCenter 6.1.1.0, MKS Integrity Client 2006 build 4.8, SMS 2003 SP1 Control, Microsoft Sharepoint 2003, WinSCP3, Secure CRT 5.5.1.

Confidential, CA

WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Involved in upgrading Websphere application server from version 6.0 to 6.1 along with custom configurations and IBM Http Server upgrade.
• Installed and Configured WebSphere ND 6.1.0.15 on AIX 5.3 and Windows 2000&2003 Operating System.
• Working on the migration project from WAS on Windows 2003 to WAS on AIX environment.
• Implemented code changes in Production whenever required.
• Created Clusters, Application Servers, Virtual hosts with host aliases on both WAS 5.x and 6.x.
• Replicated an existing production environment to support failover/load balancing abilities and to go by IBM gold standard.
• Responsible for application deployments across different platforms- development, staging and production environments through change management process.
• Installed and upgraded MQSeries in Windows based environments. Windows 2000, 2003, and Windows XP.
• Researched and presented new MQ Functionality to customers, such as clustering and SSL.
• Assisted AIX System Administrators with MQSeries installation and upgrade process
• Created Change Packages in IBM Mainframe: ISPF 5.7 to document the production changes.
• Worked on deployment, configuration and fine tuning of applications running on WebSphere Process Server.
• Involved in automation project including deploying the application, creation of cluster etc.
• Enabling Performance Monitoring Service (PMI).
• Created the connectors and modified the agent profiles to enable Wily on the JVMs in Production, Development, Loadtest and Acceptance environments.
• Involved in the migration project from Wily 6.1 to Wily 7.2
• Troubleshoot the errors in SOA environment efficiently with prior experience and by opening up PMRs with IBM.
• Closely involved in the migration project of SOA applications from WAS 5.1.1.9 to 6.1.0.15v
• Involved in the project of migrating operating system of an application from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003.
• Provided on-call support as desired.
• Effectively interacted with the users on a daily basis, decreasing downtime and increasing user productivity.
• Administered and maintained production & development environments offering flexible shifts.

Environment: WebSphere ND 5.1.1.9/6.1.0.9/6.1.0.15(POC), IHS 1.3.28/ 6.1.0.15 (POC), AIX 5.3, Windows 2000/2003 Server, Introscope 6.1/7.2, LDAP, Oracle 9i, HEAT, UltraVNC, VMWare virtual-center 1.3.1/2.0.1, Exceed Hummingbird v12.

Confidential, IN

Websphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Involved in upgrading Websphere application server from version 6.0 to 6.1 along with custom configurations and IBM Http Server upgrade
• Experience in Installing and Configuration, administration of Websphere Application servers 6.0/6.1, IBM Http server, Websphere Message Broker.
• Responsible for creating broker, execution groups and creating bar files for deploying in various environments.
• Involved in monitoring solution setup with Tivoli for all the middle ware tools like WAS, MQ, WMB.
• Excellent coordination & communication skills working with other team members like DEV, QA, Operations, Networking, DBA groups.
• Involved in capacity planning including horizontal and vertical cluster configuration using WAS ND for high availability and scalability.
• Worked with a team which is involved in new environment setup including creating DMGR, Cell, Profiles, custom nodes(federating to DMGR), resource configurations including JDBC and data source
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server, JBoss that involves EAR and WAR
• Developed and created shell, JACL, Jython scripts to automate the deployments and administrative tasks
• Involved in trouble shooting and performance tuning including configuring JVM parameters as required
• Strong in creating and configuring Websphere MQ objects like Queue managers, Queues, Channels and receivers
• Installed and configure Websphere message broker including Queue manager cluster to support high availability
• Experience in enabling the required trace and using Tivoli performance viewer while performing the load test
• Good in installing IBM Http server, plug-in, Apache, mod jk including generating plug in for required clusters.
• Involved in upgradation of IBM Http Server as part of the websphere application server migration including taking back up.
• Strong in install and configuration of JBOSS, Tomcat for intranet applications including cluster environment for JBOSS with all configuration mode
• Integrated JBOSS cluster with DB2 and configured JDBC providers, data sources for various applications
• Opened multiple PMR’s with IBM for several issues with Websphere application server and message broker.

Environment: IBM Websphere Application Server, Message Broker, IBM HTTP Server, JBoss, Tomcat, clear case and ANT, Java Script, EJB, JSP, XML, Servlets, RationalQuantify, Load Runner, J Probe suite, Tivoli Access Manager, Site Minder, IBM Directory Server.

Confidential

Websphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design and development of the java applications for various client requests.
• Extensive use of JavaScript, HTML for front-end validation.
• Development of JSP’s for presenting data.
• Developed Java Beans that are used by various modules of the application.
• Wrote SQL queries and stored procedures to retrieve and store data.
• Implement code for Web services using XML, SOAP protocol.
• Use Log4j for logging across the application.
• UseSVNfor version controlling.
• Use ANT scripts for build creation and to push onto various environments.
• Involve in updating and writing new test cases for unit testing of the new functionality and the whole system together.
• Coordinated with the Testing team to resolve the issues and helped them in creating the test plans.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 5.x, WSAD 5.0, JDK 1.4, Oracle, Solaris and Windows, SOAP, SVN, ANT