SUMMARY

• Over 8+ years of hands - on experience in designing, developing, implementing, supporting various internet/intranet applications, and over 6 years of strong experience in IBM WebSphere administration.
• Expertise in installation, configuration and maintenance of IBM WebSphere 5.0/5.1/6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0/8.5 application server, IBM HTTP V2.0/6.0/6.1/7.0, Apache V2.0.47, Sun One Web Servers, IPlanet and IIS.
• Successfully implemented WLM using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Cloning for fail over and backup/recovery processes.
• Experience in creating, configuring and administrating profiles, clusters, nodes, node agents and node groups for WebSphere Application Server.
• Installed and Administered IBM WebSphere Portal Server 5.1 and 6.0/7.0.
• Experience in integrating WebSphere Application Server and Deployment manager with IBM Http server, IIS, IBM Directory Server, Sun ONE Web Server, Oracle, Sybase, DB2 and SQL servers.
• Experience in debugging applications in Base and ND of WebSphere Application Server providing load balancing and clustering solutions.
• Experience in configuring work load management and performance tuning using Tivoli performance viewer for WebSphere Application Server.
• Hands on experience in deploying, implementing, testing and support of full life cycle implementations of various J2EE/Internet/Intranet and distributed applications
• Experienced in configuring IBM Tivoli Access Manager Web SEAL on AIX, UNIX and Linux.
• Experienced in applying Refresh packs, Fix packs, Cumulative Fix packs for all versions of WebSphere application server.
• Experienced in migrating the applications from WebSphere V5.x to V6.x and from WebSphere V6.x to V7.0.
• Working knowledge of industry standard development practices and concepts. (J2EE, EJB, JDBC JMS, Java, JavaScript, Servlets/JSP, XML, XSLT, SOA, Web Services).
• Excellent working skills in optimization and analyzing of Enterprise Applications using tools like Wily Introscope, ITCAM, Tivoli Performance Monitor/WAS Resource analyzer, Garbage Collector Tool and Memory Dump Diagnostic Tool.
• Experience in configuring and installation of Websphere process server6.x
• Good knowledge in Bladelogic automation tools
• Good experience in BMC Automation tool.
• Also installed IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite 4.1 on an NT Server and configured it for test purposes. Generated a CRM Information site and an e-Commerce Site for product exploration purposes.
• Experienced in working with change management tools like Remedy, Peregrine and Infrastructure Work request, HP Service Desk Tool.
• Expertise in developing JACL, Jython, Python and UNIX Cron shell scripts for auto deployment process and for performance tuning and also for Auto start of WebSphere/Web server process.
• Experience in writing ANT scripts for compile and deployment.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and wsadmin scripts.
• Experience in Implementing and configuring SSL, requesting digital certificates, creating self-signed certificates and imported/exported public/private keys on Web Servers.
• Knowledge of key Internet protocols to include TCP/IP, HTTP/S,SSH,FTP, SFTP,DNS, NTP, NFS, etc.
• Involved in Installation and Configuration of Netegrity Site Minder and installing the Web Agent and configuring the Web Agent on Web Server instances.
• Expertise in Installation, Configuration, Trouble-Shooting and Maintenance of WebLogic Server 7.0/8.1/9.x/10.x, iplanet Web Server, Apache Web Server on different UNIX flavors and environments.
• Experience in Maintaining BEA WebLogic Server on different UNIX platforms and setting up the Development, Testing, Staging and Production environments.
• Experience in WLST, Perl, and Shell scripting.
• 24x7 on-call production support and troubleshooting problems related to WebLogic Server, iPlanet, Apache Web Servers.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, self-starter, good team player and highly self-motivated with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: IBM AIX 4.3/5.x, Linux (RedHat 6.x/7.x/8.0), Sun Solaris 7.x/8.x, Win NT/2000, HP-UX

Language’s: Java, JavaScript, HTML, JAVA, VRML 2.0, SQL, PL/SQL

Scripting: Perl, WLST, WLShell, Shell Script, Java Script.

RDBMS: Oracle 8i/9i/10g,11g, Oracle Fusion/SOA,Oracle UCM,DSP,UDB DB2, MySql, SqlServer.

Technologies: JMS, EJB, HTML, JDBC, ODBC, MI, XML, XSL.

Networking: TCP/IP,F5 BIG-IP, FTP,SFTP, DNS, ICMP, IGMP and Telnet,Trace.

Web Servers: iPlanet EE 4.0,Apache Tomcat Web Server,Sun One Web Server.

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0/7.0/6.x/5.x, IBM WebSpherePortal Server 5.1/6.0/7.0, IBM WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.0/7.0,XD6.1Weblogic 7.x/8.x/9.x/10.x, JBoss, SharePoint 2003/2007,BizTalk 2006.

MiddleWare: Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Service Bus, Websphere ESB.

Protocols: OSI, TCP/IP, SNMP, POP3, AIX, AS2.

Packages: Oracle Security Suite, MS FrontPage 98/2000, Adobe ProductsMS Office.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Middleware Operations Engineer

Responsibilities

• Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x on different AIX 5.x, Sun Solaris 7.x/8.x, Linux and Windows servers on Dev, Stage and prod Environments.
• Experience in installation, configuration, deployment and management of Enterprise Applications in a clustered and non-clustered environment using IBM WebSphere Application Server.
• Deployed application EAR’s on WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment in QA, Staging and Production environments on a daily basis and troubleshoots various configuration and application issues.
• Well versed in different stages of implementing the Workload Management (WLM) and failover using vertical, horizontal & hybrid clustering for efficient use of resources on single and multiple machines.
• Installed and configured Netegrity SiteMinder WebAgent with webserver and App Agent with WebSphere Portal Server.
• Built new Integration/Test/Staging/Production environments, installed Portal Server, configured with LDAP server.
• Responsible for supporting the existing portal Applications like Member portal and Group Portal, Managing themes and skins, Deploying the portlets and virtual portals through Portal Admin GUI and XMLAccess.
• Profiled all the J2EE Applications and worked with Application Development, and QA teams to resolve possible memory leaks, improve application integrity, performance and resolve all issues, bugs before deploying in Production
• Performed WebSphere Configuration backup and restoration using scripts.
• Experience in troubleshooting performance problems (memory/heap, CPU starvation, hung threads) using Tivoli Performance Viewer, Wily Introscope, Log Analyzer, Heap Analyzer, Thread Analyzer, Application Server Toolkit (AST), and IBM Support Assistant.
• Experience with IBM on problem determination, troubleshooting, and resolution - PMRs, running and submitting, gather scripts and log info, tuning, trace, verbose-GC, taking thread and heap dumps.
• Maintained network and data security, maintained security compliance policies on the OS for SOX and internal audits.
• Utilized skills in shell and wsadmin/JACL scripting to automate deploying, updating applications, migrating data and automating batch jobs
• Monitoring application log files, Application Server Performance, Servlet Status, Active Sessions and DB Pool connections
• Experienced in Configuring MQ JMS providers. Created SSL certificates and CA certificates using IKEYMAN.
• Configured and Enabled the Global Security System for WAS Administration for Console users and Console Groups using Active Directory Server as a LDAP User Registry.
• Configuring Websphere Application Server on multiple platforms for both horizontal and vertical scaling for Work Load Management.
• Involved in opening and working on PMR’s with IBM to solve various issue related to the environment.
• Troubleshot problem-tickets, worked with developers to identify the root cause and resolve the issue or propose a potential work around
• Configured enterprise applications and corrected performance problems by monitoring server availability and resource utilization analysis
• Managed multiple high profile, complex projects and implemented with minimal disruption to end-users
• 24x7 on-site operations support in an environment with over 200 Servers

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, IBM DB2, Linux, AIX, Sun ONE Directory Server 5.1, Sun ONE webserver 6.0, 6.1, Tivoli Performance Viewer, wasdmin, JACL scripts, J2EE, Wily Introscope, SP3, Message Broker, Netegrity SiteMinder Policy Server 5.5, 6.0

Confidential, Thousand Oaks, CA

Websphere Administrator

Responsibilities

• Installed, configured WebSphere application server IBM Http Server (1.3/2.x), applied refresh packs, fix packs and cumulative fixes.
• Involved in number of installations of IBM WebSphere instances from development to production.
• Created application server configuration, clusters ( horizontal / vertical), created JDBC resources ( data source configurations ).
• Involved in deploying the EAR files and scripting automated deployment of the applications.
• Involved in tuning WebSphere application server components such as webcontainer & data source connection pools, jvm heap, and servlet response times.
• Enabled WebSphere global security using Sun One LDAP Server.
• Configured the extranet WebServers and intranet application servers using the firewalls between the Web Servers and application servers (DMZ model).
• Used IBM Edge Server and Network Dispatchers for load balancing.
• Configured the webserver interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere.
• For Administrative Tasks used wsadmin and Jacl/Jython for creating clusters, installing applications, and creating resources.
• Involved in configuring the WebSphere load balancing (WLM) using WebSphere workload management like horizontal cloning and vertical cloning.
• Installed and configured IBM Http Server, installed WebSphere plugins, involved in generating plug-in file and solving plug-in related issues.
• Used Unix and wsadmin for scripting automating WebSphere administration tasks like creating jdbc resources, deploying applications, creating clusters.
• Experience in evaluating session state failover options (memory-to-memory, database persistence and create and configures DRS (Data Replication Service) replication domains.
• Worked closely with Project manager, development, testing and production team to align project deliverables, dates and report issues/concerns.
• Some contribution on COM Bridge to communicate the Java program to Power Point Application.

Environment WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.0, ATG Dynamo Server V5.0/6.0/6.4, IBM HTTP Server 1.3, Jacl, Jython, Apache Web Server V2.0.47, IPlanet V6.0, LDAP, Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, EJB, XML, JDBC, JavaScript, Linux, Solaris and windows 2000/2003

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Websphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and maintenance of WAS 5.1/6.0, IBM IHS 2.0 and IPlanet6.X on Unix and Linux environments.
• Installed WebSphere 6.0, IHS 6.0 and upgraded WebSphere 6.0 to refresh pack 2(6.0.2) and fix packs 7 and 9 (6.0.2.7 and 6.0.2.9).
• Migrated all the applications on WebSphere 5.x to 6.x.
• Installed IPlanet 6.0 and configured Such that Servlets can be served by web server.
• Installed IBM WebSphere MQClient 5.3 on Solaris 5.8 to allow for the usage of Messaging Gateway within Oracle.
• Implemented the Clustering Topology that meets clients’ requirement for performance and functionality.
• Deployed Enterprise applications in AT, Staging and Production environment.
• Administration of Working Applications- starting and stopping the application servers - Regenerating/updating plug-in for IBMHTTP Server and iPlanet Web server.
• Created Self-Signed certificate for IHS 2.0.47 using ikeyman tool Utility.
• Configured IBM HTTP Server for SSL
• Worked closely with Code Deployment Team to resolve application deployment issues
• Worked with SA Team to resolve Operating System issues during installation
• Analyzed log files to detect and troubleshoot server and application problems. Used the Trace feature to resolve issues.
• Configure Tivoli ITCAM monitoring for ESB Infrastructure and setting up performance reports, thresholds for alerts, and monitoring.
• Design XML schemas, WSDL and canonical models for integration, development of XSL and non XML transformations, routing, service enablement and governance using Datapower and WSRR.
• Create ESB technology deployment strategy,scripts and operations management strategy and plan.Optimized the performance of Enterprise Applications using Tivoli Performance Viewer
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling

Environment: WAS 5.1/6.0,AIX5.1,Sun Solaris 5.8, RedHat Linux AS 3.0, HIS 1.3.X/2.0.47,IPlanet 6.0/6.1,IBM MQ Series, J2EE 1.3, Oracle9i

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, administered and supported IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.x on SUN Solaris and Windows 2000 .
• Implemented the Clusters / Server Groups and Cluster Members /clones (Vertical scaling & horizontal scaling) for fail over and distribute the workload on WAS.
• Integrating enterprise-wide J2EE applications and deploying them on WebSphere Application Server and managing them through WebSphere administrative console.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and WSCP scripts. Used wasdmin scripts to invoke Jacl and Jython scripts in WAS 5.0.
• Created user roles and groups using Local OS registry and secured WebSphere resources.
• Involved in configuring JDBC drivers, Data sources on WebSphere Application Server 4.0.
• Used Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer for performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Installed fix packs and cumulative fixes to upgrade the version of WebSphere Application Server 5.0, Netegrity SiteMinder.
• Provided technical assistance for Web Hosting team on various Application servers and Web Servers including IBM HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat Web Server, and iplanet Server.
• Monitoring all Servers, shutdown and startup, Network Support and Troubleshooting.

Environment: WebSphere 4.0.x/5.x, Apache Tomcat, IBM HTTP Server (IHS) 1.3, iplanet, EJB, Java Servlets, JSP, EJB, iPlanet Solaris 8, Windows NT/2000.

Confidential

J2EE Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Designed the application under J2EE architecture using JSP and developed the business components using EJB 1.0.
• Designed and developed the user interface using JSP, Servlets, XML and Java.
• Developed Java Server Pages for both business logic and GUI development.
• Developed Java Bean components to communicate with JSP.
• Designed and developed the front end using JSP and other custom tag libraries.
• Involved to develop forms using HTML and Java Script.
• Involved in writing SQL in DB2 UDB.
• Involved in converting Mainframe DB2 data to SQL Server database.
• Wrote JSP pages for server side to access the database.
• Developed database connection through JDBC drivers.

Environment: JDK 1.2, JDBC, JMS, EJB, JSP, HTML, Windows NT/98, Red Hat Linux 7.1, Oracle 7i, Windows 2000/XP