PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 8+ years of strong experience in Middleware Administration and Integration. Extensive experience in deployment and management of enterprise applications. Strong knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Trouble shooting skills and certified in ITIL process.
• Installed and configured Web Sphere Portal 8.x, WebSphere Application Server ND 8.5/7.0 in Development, Staging, Testing and Production Environment on RHEL 6.x.
• Experience in development of critical business applications utilizing Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, Struts, EJB, JDBC, Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, Ajax, JSF, Design Patterns, JNDI, Apache Tomcat 5.5/6.0, IBM Websphere Application and Portal Server (WAS/WPS) 6.0/v6.1.
• Expertise in installation, configuration of Websphere commerce(WCS) v7.x/v8.x
• Installed and upgraded, configured, and fine - tuned WebSphere Commerce Applications.
• Expertise in installation, configuration, maintenance and administration of WAS 8.x,7.x/6.x/5.x, and IBM HTTP Server.
• Setting up and maintaining Dev, QA, Stage and Production environment forWebsphere Application Server, Websphere Process server and Websphere Commerce server.
• Administration, Deployment of Enterprise Applications, Configuration of Enterprise Environment and supporting applications running on WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Process Server, Websphere Portal Server and Websphere Commerce Server.
• Extensively used IBM Websphere Integration Developer(WID) to implement SOA.
• Expertise in installation, configuration, maintenance and administration WebSphere MQ and Message broker.
• Expertise in Administration task of IBM Data power (xi52).
• Expertise in installation, configuration, maintenance and administration of IBM WebSphere service registry and repository.
• Remarkable experience in Websphere E-commerce development
• Huge knowledge of EJB, Struts, MQ, JMS, DB2, XML, Web Services
• Exceptional knowledge of automated software and system management tools
• Deep knowledge of network hardware, protocols, and standards.
• Good understanding of J2EE technologies.
• Participated in role swapping and data center migration and Disaster Recovery (DR) exercises.
• Experienced in managing SSL Certificates, requisitions, renewals and securing the infrastructure.
• Configuration of Single Sign On (SSO), LTPA and User Registries.
• Excellent working knowledge of SOA and Web services technologies
• Experienced and basic administration skills in AIX, Linux and other UNIX flavors.
• Configured MQ Queue Connection Factories and MQ Queues in Websphere Application Server.
• Configured JDBC resources and database connection pools in Websphere Application Server.
• Installed SSL certificates in Websphere Application Servers and Weblogic Servers.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server (HIS)& Apache Server.
• Created multiple instances of IHS and Apache Server as per the business requirement.
• Installed IBM Plug-in and configured it with the web server and the application server.
• Good knowledge in installation, configuration and administration of IBM Websphere MQ 6.0/7.x, and WebSphere Message Broker 6.x/7.0 on various platforms.
• . Created shell scripts to automate application code deployments and setting up different monitoring in the servers.
• Worked on multiple monitoring tools like Wily Introscope, Tivoli Performance viewer, IBM Thread/Heap Dump Analyzer, App Manager and App Dynamics.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server in GUI and Silent mode.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server in conjunction with IBM DB2 and Oracle DB.
• Implementing Work Load Management and fail over topology using clusters and load balancers.
• Responsible for creating clusters and implemented horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Creation of different profiles, Federated multiple nodes to the Deployment Manager.
• Migrated WAS from across multiple versions. (6.x, 7.x, 8.x).
• Experienced in writing swarming a Pythons and shell script to automate various WAS administration and deployment tasks such as application deployment, ear/war installation, backups.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Application Servers: Websphere Commerce Server (6 and 7),Websphere Application Server 7.0 & 8.5 ND, WebSphere Portal 7.x & 8.x, IBM Data power (Xi52), IBM WebSphere service registry and repository (6.x), IBM Message queues (7.x), IBM Message broker (8.x),Websphere Commerce v7.x/v8.x.

Monitoring tools: Dyanatarce (6.x), Tivoli performance, Epilog, RMF.

DevOps: Jenkins, Maven, Sonar Cube, Bamboo, Chef, GIT, Junit, Jira, Bit bucket, Kanban board & SVN.

Webservers: IBM HTTP Server 7.0 & 8.5, LDAP.

OS: Windows, RHEL 6.x & 7.x, AIX 6.X, Cloud & Solaris

Database’s: Oracle, DB2, Cassandra

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, XSD.

Testing Tools: meter, HP Quality Centre, SOAP UI & Postman.

Web services: SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2, REST

Scriting: Shell, Jython, JQuery, AJAX.

Load Balancer: Big-ip F5.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. WebSphere Commerce Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience in WCS store model (B2C) which includes Catalog sub-system, Order Management Sub-system, Marketing Subsystem, Member Subsystem. Experience in design and implementation of Dyna cache, SEO, Promotions and Command Framework.
• Experience in developing Hybris based applications. This include building Accelerator and customizing PCM and CMS Cockpits as well as configuring Back office.
• Expertise in Oracle Endeca, Apache Solr search engines and their solution implementation and integration.
• Experienced in both Waterfall and Agile software development methodologies. Good knowledge and experience in utilizing agile methodologies such as SCRUM.
• Strong conceptual and hands on programming skills in Multi-threading, Collections, Exceptional handling, Memory management and all OOPS concepts in core java.
• Expertise in J2EE technologies such as Servlets, EJB, JDBC and frameworks such as Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Struts, Hibernate.
• Designed, Developed and implemented web services using SOAP and REST APIs. Worked in JUNIT framework for unit testing. Good debugging and problem solving skills with Log4j, SLF4J.
• Responsible for migration of Sherwin Williams B2C website toWebSphereCommercev 7 features.
• Worked with Attribute and Catalog data models in Catalog subsystem, Member data model in Member subsystem, Order data model in Order management subsystem and Page layout data model.
• Customized CategoryDisplayCmd, to retrieve configured display page for specific category in specific catalog, OrderItemAddCmd, to provide color added to product in Order Item table and created new commands to accomplish client needs.
• Enhanced B2C storefront and customization of out of box promotion functionality.
• Utilized Dyna cache, sever side caching to improve the performance of website by caching store objects.
• Enhanced search functionality by enabling enriched search engine capabilities such as automatic search term suggestions and spelling correction.
• Search Engine Optimization was introduced to improve results of search engine indexing and ranking of website.
• Management of delivering assigned modules on time was done.
• Co-ordination with the team regarding the requirement and deliverables.
• Wrote detailed design documents describing the approach to be taken and programming details.
• Actively participated in daily and weekly status meeting calls
• Gave recommendations for improvements and fixed defects found.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5.x, 7.x/6.x,, Websphere Commerce Server (6 and 7), LDAP, HIS,DB2 10/9.7/9.5,WebSphere MQ V7.x/6.x, WebSphere message broker 8.x/7.1, AIX 7.x/6.x, IBM Datapower firmware ( Xi52), Windows 2003, Tivoli Directory Server 5.1,Dyanatarce, IBM UCD (DevOps).

Confidential, FL

Web Sphere Commerce Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring a complete websphere commerce environment includingWebsphere Application Server, Websphere Commerce Server, DB2, IBM HTTP server, MQ.
• Applying fix packs and feature packs on Websphere application server and Websphere Commerce server and enabled various feature pack features.
• Installing and configuring IBM HTTP Server, WAS, WCS, DB2
• Installing Fix packs for WAS, IHS, WCS, WMQ
• Configuring Apache Solr with WCS in all environments
• Perform Solr performance tuning using solrconfig.xml
• SVN administration and configuration
• Performing planned live deployments and changes
• Performance tuning and problem analysis, raising PMR etc
• .Working on all live issues like indexing failures, db propagation, search failures, Caching issues, Data loading issues
• Working on all file system, memory, CPU related issues, monitoring
• Writing shell scripts to automate day to day tasks
• Automate deployment process using WCBD.
• Troubleshooting deployment issues, issues related with Jenkins.
• Setup Solr cluster using https port to meet security requirements
• Installing and configuring Nagios for continuous monitoring and alert notifications.
• Build and deployment usingBANDD and WCBD.
• Streamlining and automating the build and deploy activity by creating shell scripts.
• Setting up and monitoringstage propagation.
• Worked on the SQL queries and scripts forDatabase cleanup.
• Monitoring and creating newscheduler jobsfor enhancing the overall performance.
• Troubleshooting commerce site issues.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server ND 8.5/7.0, WebSphere Process Server 6.0.x, Websphere Commerce Server (6 and 7), IBM HTTP Server (6),Tivoli Directory Server (LDAP),IHS V8.5/7.0, DB2 10.x, RHEL 6.6, EJB, Apache Tomcat.

Confidential, Portland, OR

WebSphere Commerce Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for migration of Sherwin Williams B2C website toWebSphereCommercev 7 features
• Worked with Attribute and Catalog data models in Catalog subsystem, Member data model in Member subsystem, Order data model in Order management subsystem and Page layout data model.
• Customized CategoryDisplayCmd, to retrieve configured display page for specific category in specific catalog, OrderItemAddCmd, to provide color added to product in Order Item table and created new commands to accomplish client needs.
• Designed and developed e-commerce systems.
• Performed system requirements analysis, definition, allocation, and documentation.
• Installed and upgraded, configured, and fine-tuned WebSphere Commerce Applications.
• Mentored and trained junior developers on the IBM WebSphere Commerce framework.
• Created solution outline documentation as it relates to the technical design solution.
• Maintained, supported, and upgraded existing systems and applications.
• Adhered to best practice coding standards.
• Enhanced B2C storefront and customization of out of box promotion functionality.
• Utilized Dyna cache, sever side caching to improve the performance of website by caching store objects.
• Enhanced search functionality by enabling enriched search engine capabilities such as automatic search term suggestions and spelling correction.
• Search Engine Optimization was introduced to improve results of search engine indexing and ranking of website.
• Management of delivering assigned modules on time was done.
• Co-ordination with the team regarding the requirement and deliverables.
• Wrote detailed design documents describing the approach to be taken and programming details.
• Actively participated in daily and weekly status meeting calls
• Gave recommendations for improvements and fixed defects found.

Environment: JDK 1.8, J2EE,WebSphereCommercesuite 7.1,WebSphereApplication Server, Rational ApplicationDeveloper8.0.x, Solr, IBM DB2, Struts, Agile/SCRUM Methodology, JAX-WS, EJB, JSTL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Angular JS, Dojo, Log4j, AJAX, JSP

Confidential

WAS Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Building the WebSphere Application server and IBM HTTP environment on different Platforms like windows and Linux.
• Configuration & Administration of WebSphere application server on Linux, Windows.
• Administrating/Monitoring server instances running on different machines.
• Ability to troubleshoot applications using WebSphere logs and deployment of applications using WebSphere console.
• Created and configured JDBC Providers and Data Sources at various scope levels to support backend database applications using Oracle database.
• Configuration and Maintenance of Web Server Functionality for WebSphere Application Server.
• Troubleshooting the daily system problems reported by users.
• Involved in bridge calls with other team leads and developers for resolving the High Priority Issues for High Availability Production Systems.
• Analyzing the standard logs, application log, profile logs and Activity log files and diagnosing Application Server problems.
• Documenting the issue report by users and RCA for resolved issues.
• Involved in supporting activities and able to provide the 24*7 support in multi-mode shift.
• Analyzing the Thread Dump and Heap Dump of the Application Server.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of IBM WAS 7.x and 6.x on Linux Environments.
• Installed, configured and propagated IBM HTTP server and its Plugins for managed and unmanaged nodes
• Deployed application EARs on IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment in Development, System Test and Performance Test on a daily basis and troubleshoot various configuration and application issues.
• Installed Refresh Packs, Fix Packs and Interim Fixes for WAS.
• Configured WebSphere resources such as JDBC Providers, Data Sources and Connection Pools.
• Created Virtual Hosting, Global Security, SSL, LDAP.
• Problem Determination through the log files and rectified the problems or interacting with IBM support to solve problems.
• Created IBM Problem Management Records (PMR) to report WebSphere Application Server problems.
• Installed and configured MQ Objects like Queues, Channels and Queue Manager.
• Design and test the build-in message-based Session Replication instead of the database based HTTP Session Persistence as HTTP Session Persistence Mechanism.
• Expertise in Migration, testing and production.
• Configured Global security for WebSphere using LTPA authentication mechanism and LDAP as user registry.
• Configuring WebSphere Application Server on multiple platforms for both horizontal and vertical scaling for Work Load Management.
• Enabling Performance Monitoring Service (PMI).

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.X, IBM HTTP Server, Linux & Windows, Oracle9i, Tivoli., WebSphere MQ Series, WebSphere message broker 8.x/7.1, AIX 7.x/6.x

Confidential

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in complete infrastructure setup and configuration which included WebSphere ND 6.0/6.1/7.0.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1, WebSphere Portal 6.1.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server on multiple platforms for both horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of JBOSS 6.
• Implemented Cloning, Clustering, Performance tuning and troubleshooting of IBM WebSphere MQ Server 7.0
• Web Order Entry to facilitate CSR to place order through the web asadmin.
• Payment Integration for PayPal and Vme.
• Performance optimization both client-side and server-side.
• SEO optimization.
• Management Center Customization.
• Promotion customization for various business requirement.
• Front end customization and creating custom controllers for various business requirements.
• Custom tag library implementation.
• Creating web service clients for various in-house systems.
• Customized Category and Product recommendation e-spots for various store features.
• Writing Selenium, Junit, WCS unit test cases
• Customized data load utility to load custom table data.
• Worked on PCI requirements on Staples.com
• Writing Selenium, Junit, WCS unit test cases
• 3rd party integration like ad agility, shop runner.
• Created Custom registry for data caching.
• Customizing calculation framework for tax, shipping, promotion
• 3rd party integration like social amp, gulps, pinterest, fblike.
• Created Custom registry for data caching.
• Created custom business Context for storing sticky session information.
• Customizing calculation framework for tax, shipping, promotion

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1/7.0, ), Websphere Commerce Server (6 and 7), WebSphere MQ Series, AIX 7.0, JBOSS 6, Oracle 10g, Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0/7.5, XML, WebSphere Portal Server 6.1, MQSeries 7.0, LDAP, Site Minder 6.0.