TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: HP Proliant ML/DL/BP Series Servers, Sun SunFire, IBM Netfinify, Dell PowerEdge, Compaq Prosignia, Proliant Servers, Cisco 7206, 4600, 2500 series routers, Cisco 5500, 3500, 2900 and 1900 series switches, ADIC, StorageTek, Qualstar DLT, SDLT, LTO, AIT - 2, S-AIT Tape libraries

IBM: WebSphere Application Server 4.x - 8.x, IBM Lotus Notes 6.x-8.x, AIX 5.x-7.x

Novell: Netware 3.x, 4.1x, 5.1, 6.5, OES 8 and 9. GroupWise 5.5, 6.0.X and 6.5.x

Microsoft: Windows 2.x - 2012, Microsoft IIS 3-8.5, RAS, DNS, WINS, DHCPMS Office 4.x - 2016, Visio 5.x - 2016, MS Mail.

Sun: Solaris 8, 9, 10

Other: Business Objects XIR1-3, Vignette Portal, CA SiteMinder WebAccess Manager 5.x - 6.x, Arcserve 5.x - 9, NetBackup 4.x - 5.x, Citrix MetaFrame XP for Windows, Partition Magic, System Commander, LapLink, etc…

Databases: MS SQL, Sybase, Oracle, Paradox (DOS, Windows), MS Access and DataEase

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New Jersey

Senior Web / DataPower Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementing Enterprise solutions for B2B wif Web Service Proxy (WSP), Multi-Protocol Gateway, XML Firewalls (MPG), Autantication and Authorization using IBM DataPower XI52 devices.
• Working wif application teams and coordinating entire process of on-boarding DataPower applications wif JP Morgan (GTI) Infrastructure teams (Network / Security / Web)
• Leading troubleshooting sessions wif DataPower connectivity wif Internal / External customers and providing support for quickly resolving complex issues.
• Utilizing Wireshark / SOAPUI and various other tools to analyze packet captures and connection issues wif SSL / Network / Application
• Streamlining and defining security and network standards for DataPower devices across all teh environments.
• Managing logging, automation and performance monitoring for teh DataPower devices.
• Working as part of teh GTI Global L3 Web Team supporting Global Production Web Infrastructure across all lines of business.
• Troubleshooting critical production issues wif FAST AS, WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Microsoft IIS, SiteMinder SSO or Web / Application related incidents.
• Working wif SSO SiteMinder to create new protected instances and optimal secured application instances wifin JPMorgan SiteMinder environment.
• Assisting AD and Operate teams wif Architecture of new high availability and secure application / web environments
• Engaging external vendor support and working to facilitate co-ordination between vendors and internal teams to halp resolve critical issues.
• Closely working wif internal Engineering teams to halp provide customers wif end to end solutions for specific application / web products
• Creating custom automated scripts / solutions for managing notifications and other daily operations.
• Training, Consulting and Guiding L1 and L2 web GSO Web Support and Applications teams to resolve complex issues.
• IBM DataPower administration, configuration, support and implementation of enterprise applications.
• Troubleshooting SSL and general connectivity issues wif external IBM DataPower customers and application teams for business critical applications.

Confidential, New Jersey, New Jersey

Senior WebSphere Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting critical production issues related to SiteMinder SSO or Web / Application related incidents.
• Working wif SSO SiteMinder to create new protected instances and optimal secured application instances wifin Citigroup SiteMinder environment.
• Working on Regionalization of teh Global Application to serve application to different regions in Americas, EMEA and APAC.
• Working wif multiple Citigroup Infrastructure teams to create application and server redundancy wif maintaining high availability and security of teh applications.
• Leading teh WebSphere Upgrade process to move from WebSphere 6.1 to WebSphere 8.x
• Managing and updating SSL certificates for all teh application instances.
• Leading Application VA assessments and working to make sure all teh discoveries are corrected.
• Creating documentation for teh projects and teh management reviews.

Confidential, New Jersey, New Jersey

Senior WebSphere / Portal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designing and building resilient and high availability environment architecture for 350+ WebSphere / Portal applications running on AIX and Windows and Linux platforms.
• Leading teh design of web hardware and software infrastructure.
• Authorship of design documents and topologies, and guiding these through teh design approval process.
• Advising on specification of implementation instructions, monitoring requirements, network hardware requirements, and application-modification instructions.
• Monitoring, tuning and performance testing activities for live and in-flight applications.
• Hands-on implementation and trouble-shooting in all pre-production and production environments.
• Mentoring and Leading teh team of 9 web engineers.
• Resolving complex production problem issues and creating non error reports and restoration guides.
• Project Lead when updating R6 SiteMinder SSO protected web instances to teh new R12 SiteMinder infrastructure.
• Utilizing scripting to monitor WAS processes and setting notifications policies to alert appropriate teams when events are generated.
• Using Wily and custom BMC monitoring to analyze and troubleshoot various WAS Applications, WAS Portal issues, and performance testing scenarios.
• Working closely wif AD teams and various Enterprise Infrastructure teams to ensure application performance is optimized.
• Streamlining and automating application deployments in teh lower environments to standardized deployment process.

Confidential, New Jersey, New Jersey

Senior WebSphere / Portal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked in complex shared environment architecture and administration for 4,000+ WebSphere instances running on AIX, Redhat and Windows platforms.
• Was responsible for day-to-day (24x7) WebSphere Application Server / WebSphere Portal support & administration, upgrades, maintenance and patching for various LOBs.
• Automated WAS 7.x Installation, Configuration and Deployments of teh WAS Applications
• Installed and configured monitoring tools such as Wily and Tivoli for WebSphere instances running on multiple platforms.
• Was responsible for Installing, Configuring and troubleshooting of CA SiteMinder SSO Agents on wif IBM IHS Webservers running on AIX, Redhat and Windows.
• Documenting & Publishing fixes in central noledge base.

Confidential, New York, New York

IB Cross-LOB Senior Web Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design/Architect, 3rd level Support and Maintenance of Investment Bank SiteMinder SSO Infrastructure for three regions NA, EMEA, APAC.
• Creating and maintaining SiteMinder SSO policies for individual applications in all of teh environments (Development, QA and Production).
• 3rd Level Web Application Support for Cross Line of Business in teh Investment Bank for Development, QA and Production environments.
• Responsible for managing SSL Infrastructure and Operations for Confidential IB Line 0f Business.
• Provisioning, Installing and Maintaining SSL Certificates for all Cross LOB Web applications and servers.
• Lead WebSphere Application server 3rd level support for all applications running in Cross-Line-of Business for IB.
• Administered complex SOA based WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Application Server applications in various Environments.
• Experienced in administering WebSphere Process Server cluster configurations in v6.1,6.2/7.0 in different topologies on different platforms (UNIX, Windows) and providing Core functionality for implementing Service oriented Architecture.
• Lead teh project to upgrading and migrating WAS 5.1 servers to 6.x - 7.x ND servers wif clustering.
• Architect, Installation and Configuration of Vignette Portal servers wif WebSphere 4.x - 7.x
• Installing, Configuring and Optimizing Web Servers such as Sun Web Server (iPlanet), IBM Http Server (IHS), Apache, IIS.
• Install, Configuration and 3rd level Support for Business Objects servers and integratation wif SSO Environments.
• Creating custom configurations for Apache/Tomcat application servers to use SSO SiteMinder using AJP and other Protocols / Tools.
• Fine-tuning, core dumps, thread dumps and log analysis, performance monitoring for WebSphere, Apache, Tomcat, SSO, 3rd party applications, JVM, persistent sessions, memory parameters, JMS/MQ queues and connections.
• Using shell scripting to automate installations and configurations of web servers and application servers on Solaris and Linux.
• Provides assistance wif, and review of, teh load testing team's test plans and test cases to ensure early and appropriate load testing is done. Works wif project Technical Leads to identify critical/new components for early performance profiling or load testing. Ensures release conforms to all security standards and other non-functional requirements. Creates, socializes and mentors teh use of design and coding best practices and standards.
• Provide mentoring to staff on WebSphere Application Developer (WSAD), modern Java technologies, and integration wif Active Directory via LDAP.

Confidential, New York, New York

Senior WebAdmin/WebArchitect/WebEngineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, Installed and Configured WebSphere Application Server 6.0.2.7/ 5.1.1.10 and deployment manager on RHEL 3 and z/OS 1.11
• Experience installation, configuration and administration of WAS 6.0.2 using appserver and DM profiles and setup horizontal clustering for WLM Support.
• IBM z/OS (versions 1.9 or above) systems software experience including installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting teh z/OS operating system in a multi-CPU, parallel sysplex environment.
• Expert in installing fixpacks and cumulative fixes for Websphere V6 .
• Configured teh HTTP Server (Apache), created webserver definition and regenerated teh web server plug-in on WAS 6.0 to route teh traffic from webserver to AppServer tier.
• Configured teh JDBC resources and created teh connection pooling wif respect to teh database (UDB DB2).
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using teh Admin Console.
• Worked closely wif developers to define and configure application servers, web resources, datasources, queue connection factories as well as deployment of EJBs and WARs across multiple instances of WebSphere.
• Enabled security for teh Admin Console using local OS and application components.
• Provided leadership and unique insight in teh analysis of customer business requirements
• Experience in installation and setup of UDB DB2 8.2, creating instances and databases.
• Users and groups administration in LDAP Servers like adding/removing a user, working wif attributes and configuring them wif applications.
• Experience in problem tracing, log management, problem-determination actions involving traces and thread dumps

Confidential, New York, New York

Web Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server 4.0 and HTTP WebServer 1.3.12 on Aix platform.
• Maintained Websphere Application Server clones, load balancing and failover.
• Migrated teh existing applications from WebSphere 3.5 versions to 4.0 using waspreupgrade and waspostupgrade tools.
• Involved in trouble shooting and providing technical assistance for Application Development team on various Application and Web Servers including IBM HTTP Server, Apache Web Server, JBOSS and Netscape Enterprise Server.
• Created user roles and groups for securing teh resources using local operating system autantication.
• Worked on web development experience using WSAD including responsibilities like building teh application, generating XML schemas, building & deploying EJBs.
• Configured JMS resources and queue connection factories for various backend applications.
• Problem determination by checking JVM logs and by running diagnostic runtime and startup traces.
• Log file management and troubleshooting issues and problems.
• Deployed Session and Entity EJBs in WebSphere.