SUMMARY:

• A seasoned IT Professional with about 10 years of multifunctional experience in IT domain with technological forte in WebSphere Application Server administration, JBOSS, Tomcat, Linux, AIX, IBM me Series AS400, Java, J2EE, Oracle and DB2
• Working as a Middleware Consultant for State Street Corporation, Boston, MA
• Worked as a Project Lead - Offshore for Wipro/UBS Americas CORC EOL project.
• Worked/working on different domains such as Airline, Automobile, Banking, Insurance, Power and Transport
• Hands on WebSphere Application Server ND V8.x, V7.0, V6.1, V6.0, V5.x.
• Hands on IBM HTTP Server V2.0, V6.0, V7.0, V8.x and Apache Web server Administration
• Hands on Tomcat administration
• Hands on JBOSS Application Server administration
• Hands on IBM MQ Series V6.0,
• Hands on IIS Web server administration
• Expertise in scheduling Autosys Jobs
• Good knowledge of SOA in Insurance & Automobile domain
• Good administration knowledge of CA Siteminder
• Experienced in development/code analysis of J2EE components and API’s include Servlets, JSPs
• Dealt with databases Oracle, DB2 to improve teh performance
• Have exposure working at Onsite for challenging clients to align technical/operational activities such as Knowledge Transition (Plan and Execution). Been to Countries: USA, France, Singapore, Malaysia and Qatar.
• Well versed with culture and working experience for Regions: North America / Europe / Nordic / Asia etc
• Recognized and Rewarded with "Certificate of Achievement Award" by Executive Vice President of CSC,GIS (Mr. Gary Budzinski) for "Smoothly Transitioning services from Alstom Sub contractors in a Highly political environment"
• Worked extensively in migrating of WebSphere Application Server V6.0.x to WebSphere Application Server V7.0.x/V8.x in AIX and Sun Solaris using wsadmin scripts
• Worked as a L2 - L3 Support (WebSphere Application Server) for Scandinavian Airlines
• Worked as Team member for Chrysler LLC a major Automobile based in US
• Experience in 24/7 Production Support on WebSphere Application Server and JBOSS Application Server
• Experience in handling high priority tickets like P1s and restored teh services within SLA
• Providing Route cause analysis for high priority outages, as its part of incident management
• Extensively involved in configuring teh end points of teh external services which has been used by our Middleware layer
• Ability to assess high level product plans to determine functional requirements for middleware support.
• Quick learner and a proactive individual with good communication skills
• Proven technical and analytical skills, with sound understanding and skills in project delivery, requirements analysis, estimation, coordination between onsite team and offshore, impact analysis, application development, code walkthroughs, unit testing, project billing and entire project management
• Acknowledged trouble shooter and a key decision maker with well-honed skill set in collaborating with cross-functional teams and deploying technology to build successful solutions

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Middleware: IBM WebSphere Application Server V5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, IBM MQ V6.0, WebSphere Portal Server V6.0 WebLogic Application server

Middleware (Open source): JBOSS V5, V7, Tomcat V5.X, V6.X, V7.X Rabbit MQ

Web Servers: IBM HTTP Server V6.X, V7.X, V 8.5, Apache V2.X, IIS

Cloud Computing Services: IaaS/PaaS

Monitoring Tools: Wily Introscope, Nagios

Java& J2EE Technologies: JDK 1.6, Core Java 1.5, Servlets3.2, JSP 2.0, JDBCData Bases Oracle 11g/10g/9i, DB2, MS-SQL Server, MySQL, Exadata

Platforms/Operating Systems: Linux, AIX, Windows 2008 R2, VMware, IBM me Series/AS400

Version Control Management/Deployment: Clear Case, Build Forge

Jobs Scheduling/Management: AutoSys Scheduler

Ticketing /Change Management tools: BMC Remedy, POB, Service Now, TTTS IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.0 Network Deployment, Core Administration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Middleware Consultant

Confidential, Massachusetts

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server V 8.x, V7.0, IaaS/PaaS - Cloud, Tomcat 7.x, Linux, IHS/Reverse Proxy, Apache, IBM MQ Series, Autosys Scheduler

Responsibilities

• Building teh middleware infrastructure in Cloud (IaaS) and migrating Apps from non-cloud to cloud.
• Plan/Design/Administer Cloud VMs across environments
• Analyzing teh PROD/BUAT/UAT environment performance issues persisted in App and WebSphere JVM instances
• Writing teh RCA’s for all teh PROD env issues using teh IBM ISA workbench and Health center tools.
• Install EAR/source code to UAT/BUAT environments
• Plan and run meetings with Dev leads, Security Analyst, MQ Analyst, DBA’s, Technical Lead and Business Architects to gather middleware requirements
• Tuning JVM, transport channel services and web servers.
• Assist with Design of Test environments and assist with creation of Topology diagrams
• Preparing/scheduling Autosys jobs for new client/application setup
• Identifying risks, dependencies, mitigations and contingencies

Lead Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Responsible for analysis, design, and build of infrastructure for all JAVE/J2EE web based application as part of migration activity.
• Build and implementation of J2EE application environments, security and connectivity
• Responsible for end to end communication with clients for requirement gathering, design and develop application for new projects.
• Involved in migration of JAVA/J2EE application from WebSphere Application server to Tomcat Platform.
• Technical design meets sizing and performance requirement of each application.

WAS Admin Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Providing L3, Middleware Support for severity incidents, changes and problems/RCAs in across all environments.
• Understanding & coordinating client’s needs / enhancements, customization, Application-related issues, provide solutions in adherence to delivery schedules.
• Key resource of WebSphere Migration project. Project involves Platform Migration (AS400 to Linux) and Product Migration (WebSphere Application Server V 6.1 to V 8.5.5)
• Accountable for solving day to day issues of WebSphere Application Server, Rabbit MQ, IBM Connections, Web-server (IHS/Tomcat) on AS400, AIX and Windows
• Responsible for end to end communication with clients for requirements specification for new projects
• Implement and Fixing Certificates issues at various interfaces for multilevel security
• Responsible to Identify teh permanent fix for re-occurring incidents in production environment and implementing teh same
• Locating and eliminating bottlenecks and using CA Wily IntroScope halp to monitor garbage collections, number of requests in teh system
• Using Service Now as Incident and Change Management tool

Transweb Consultant

Confidential

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server V 8.x, V7.0 ND, IBM InfoSphere Datastage V8.5, IIS, IBM HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, Cartesis FPM, Analytics SSAS, Windows 2k3, 2k8, Linux, and BMC Remedy for incident tracking

Responsibilities

• Providing 24x7 support for Business critical applications running on WebSphere Application Server, JBOSS and InfoSphere Datastage in Production Environments
• Offshore face to Client (Primary POC) for Business Critical Applications in ALSTOM Global
• Responsible for end to end communication with clients for requirements specification for new projects
• Administration of WebSphere Application Server V7.0, InfoSphere Datastage V 8.5 and Installing & upgrading with fix packs, interim fixes and security fixes
• Installed and Configured InfoSphere Datastage V 8.5 in Training Environment
• environment and implementing teh same
• Responsible for Performance Tuning in WebSphere Application Server for better performance
• Working on Maintenance weekend activities and coordinate with other support/co support teams
• Using BMC Remedy as Incident and Change Management tool
• Ensuring business critical application availability during red, black periods
• Maintenance and deployments of WebSphere infrastructure.

Confidential

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server V5.x, V6.x, V7.0 ND, IIS, IBM HTTP Server, WebSphere MQ Series V6.1, Windows 2k3, 2k8, Linux, Wily Introscope for monitoring and POB for incident tracking

Responsibilities

• Respond and resolve teh incidents, changes and problems in production environment related to WebSphere infrastructure
• Managing SSL Certificates using CellDefault Truststore, Cell Default Keystore, Node Default TrustStore (Trust.P12) and Node Default Keystore (Key.P12)
• Installed IHS and created new IHS Instances and configured Plugin
• Created Websphere MQ messaging provider in v6.0
• Ensure all queue managers are running correctly
• Ensure all required jobs are running
• Ensure MQ connectivity between hub and spokes
• Installed VeriSign certs for SSL enabled webInstances. Managed teh certs using iKeyman through command line interface
• Configured Core Group custom properties on WAS cell
• Configured Heap settings and Generic JVM arguments for Websphere tuning
• Recycling of Deployment Manager, Nodeagent, Application Server/JVM and HIS and HIS webInstances as part of maintenance work
• Handled common errors in applications like hung thread, JVM hung or a more complex cause (for example, a resource deadlock
• Change Management activities like impact analysis, feasibility, etc.
• Experience in monitoring Java applications using Wily Introscope
• Interaction with clients for requirements specification of new projects
• Identify teh permanent fix for reoccurring issues in live and implement teh same
• Maintenance and deployments of WebSphere infrastructure
• Cleaning up of log files and maintaining file system Threshold level
• Setting JVM logs by configuring teh Log file rotation based on Log file size /time parameters. Setting teh number of Historical log files
• Locating and eliminating bottlenecks and using ISA halp to monitor garbage collections, number of requests in teh system

Confidential

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.x, V7.0 ND, JBOSS Application Server EAP 5.1, IIS, IBM HTTP Server, Linux, Apache, VMware, Windows 2k3, 2k8 and USD for incident tracking

Responsibilities

• Installing and Configuring WebSphere/Jboss Application Server
• Installed Refresh Packs, Fix Packs, Cumulative Fixes and Interim Fixes through command line Interface (CLI) using response file. Installation of latest version of Update Installer for maintenance package updates
• Setting up WebSphere/Jboss clusters for failover and load balancing
• Troubleshooting Jboss runtime/configuration issues
• Tuning Jboss for best performance
• Deploying scheduled builds on to WebSphere/Jboss Application Server
• Configuring workload management by creating a cluster members by selecting Node, set weight and generate unique HTTP ports (default)
• Configured self signed Certificates and extracting signer Certificates
• Generated new Plugin under WLM and moved Plugin config file to IHS to establish communication between Web server and WebSphere
• Configured Session Timeout settings and PMI settings in WAS as a part of Websphere tuning
• Created new Virtual Hosts and configured Host Aliases
• Clustering teh federated nodes with security configured to federated LDAP repositories
• Configuring JDBC providers, creating Datasource and configuring connection Pool settings for better performance
• Monitoring CPU utilization, JVM memory utilization, finding process id with Port number and resolving Port conflicts using various Unix commands
• Process and implement change requests for deployments, configuration changes, enhancements, E-fix and patch management
• Documenting existing process in teh system

Middleware /SOA Admin

Confidential, San Dimas, CA

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server V7.0 ND, IBM HTTP Server, VMware, Windows 2k8, IBM Portal Server, WebSphere MQ Series, and ESB

Responsibilities

• Design and Deliver Proof of Concept (POC)
• To perform end-to-end project Discovery phase
• Interact to Identify and gather details with JD Edwards development team
• Identify technical dependencies (product/platform)
• Identify and Brige-in teh functional gaps in teh existing environment
• Sharing teh Plan and Design to Business partners for SOA Solutions
• Propose and Successfully deployed SOA concepts by using IBM WebSphere Suites and JD Edwards

PAWS - System Engineer

Confidential

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server V 5.x, V6.0 /V6.1, V7.0, WebLogic 8.1, IBM HTTP Server V2.x, V6.x, V7.x, CA Siteminder QMR4/5, AIX, SUN Solaris, WebSphere MQ Series V 6.0, Nagios for Infrastructure monitoring and TTS for incident tracking

Responsibilities

• Management of IBM WebSphere Application/Portal Servers, Webservers in Development, UAT and Production boxes
• Creation of Horizontal and Vertical Clusters for Failover and Load Balancing purpose and combination of both clusters in some application environments
• Profile Management in V 6.x through (a) Dmgr profile (b) Managed profile (c) Default Profile (d) Cell Profile
• Trouble Shooting all L3 issues and fine tuning of UAT/Production servers in WebSphere by co-coordinating with developers
• Providing 24x7 support for Dev, UAT, Production environments
• Performing application deployments using EAR / WAR files through ANT Build scripts and also through Admin console, as requested by teh application teams on teh respective environments
• Co-ordinate with IBM (Vendor) for application teams to resolve L4 issues by doing Must Gather information needed and FTP teh files required to IBM site. Implementing teh changes that IBM suggests
• Worked extensively in migrating of WebSphere Application Server V6.0.x to WebSphere Application Server V7.0.x in AIX and Sun Solaris using wsadmin scripts
• Installing and Configuring CA Siteminder QMR 4/5 on HTTP Server
• Configuring JDBC providers and creation of Datasource for V4 and configuring Datasource settings and Configuring connection Pool settings for better performance.
• Performance monitoring and tuning of application server / webservers
• Monitoring CPU utilization, JVM memory utilization, finding process id with Port number and resolving Port conflicts using various Unix commands
• Process and implement change requests for deployments, enhancements, E-fix and patch management. Up-gradation/Migration of versions. Installing Maintenance packages as in case of v 6.0/6.1 and installing UpdateInstaller in version 6.x.
• Session Management by memory to memory replication by Client/Server or Peer To Peer topology, Work Load Management by Plugin
• Securing Websphere Admin console, configuring LDAP user registries, and adding LDAP groups for various roles like Administrator, Monitor, Operator etc
• Developed small Shell script programs in Unix to automate few manual process