SUMMARY

• Over 6 years experience as IBM WebSphere Administrator with ever increasing levels of responsibility and expertise in a wide range of IT disciplines specializing in Application Server, WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Portal in all facets of Administration, Maintenance, Integration including Installation and Configuration.
• Extensive experience in Installing and Troubleshooting IBM WebSphere Application Server V5.x/6.x/7.x, WebSphere MQ Series, Apache Http Server, IHS & Sun One Web Servers, TAM & Site Minder Policy Servers, LDAP.
• Experienced in migrating the applications from WebSphere V5.0 to V6.0 and from WebSphere V6.0 to V7.0, and also Web Servers.
• Experienced in configuration of cells, nodes, application servers, virtual hosts, session management, configuring web server plug - ins, IBM HTTP Server, Apache, Sun ONE Directory Server (LDAP), and IBM Edge Server.
• Highly experienced in deploying and debugging application EARs in Base and ND WebSphere Application Server providing load balanced and highly available clustering solutions.
• Installed Fix packs, Cumulative Fixes and Refresh Packs on the Base and ND Versions.
• Knowledge of SSL, SSH, secure protocols, WebSphere security, overall web security standards.
• Experienced in Application data backup.
• Created Jython/jacl scripts for start/stop clusters, servers and for auto deployments.
• Diagnosis and repair of the WebSphere environment. Assist developers with the diagnosis and repair of WebSphere applications.
• Involvement in performance monitoring and tuning by using the Tivoli Performance Viewer and Wily Introscope on IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x/7.x.
• Well experienced in performance tuning, trouble shooting using Resource analyzer, log analyzer.
• Experience in applying fix packs and plug-in’s for WebSphere Application Server.
• Used Heap Analyzer and thread Analyzer to tune the WebSphere JVMs.
• Experienced with Microsoft Windows Storage Area Networks(SAN's).
• Knowledge of network protocols TCP/IP, RMI/IIOP.
• Successfully managed complex projects with global implementation, and rapidly evolving requirements.
• Excellent verbal and written skills, especially with regards to presenting findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Extensive experience in providing 24/7 on-call support for applications servers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Middleware: IBM WebSphere Application Server7.x/6.x/5.x,Network Deployment Manager, Websphere MQ6.0/7.0,WebSphere Message Broker 6.0/7.0/8.0

Hardware / OS: UNIX, IBM AIX 5.3, Red Hat Linux, I- series, Windows

Monitoring Tools: Tivoli Performance Viewer, Load Runner, Wiley Interoscope, Thread Analyzer, Log Analyzer

Database: Oracle 11G/10G/9i DB2, SQL Server, MS Access 97/2000

Protocols: TCP/IP, DNS, LDAP, RMI/IIOP, SOAP, WSDL, NFS, NIS

Web Tech: HTML, J2EE,JavaScript, JSP, XML, XSL

Programming Languages: C,C++, Java, C#

Web Servers: IBM HTTP, IIS, Tomcat, Sun One iPlanet, apache

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and administered IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0/6.1 on Red Hat Linux and AIX Environment.
• Installed, configured and administered IBM HTTP Server
• Worked in different environments like Development and QA, and Production
• Configured clustered environment in Web Sphere Application Server V 6.1.X, V7.0.X and deployed applications on Windows, Linux and AIX environment.
• Deployed EAR applications in clusteredWebSphere Application Serverfor Dev and QA, Production environments.
• Setup profiling tools for J2EE Application's and worked with Application Groups in improving performance of application and possible memory leaks in application before deploying.
• Upgraded Applications with various patch files (EJB classes, JSP's, Class files, changing various properties and property files)
• Created Digital Certificates and configured SSL for WebSphere, Http Server.
• Configured and Enabled the Global Security for WAS Administration Console users and Console Groups using Active Directory Server as a LDAP User Registry and set up the application security.
• Hands-on experience in setting upNodes,Data Sources,Virtual Hosts, configuringServlet EnginesandSession Managers and managingWebSphere Environmental variablesforData SourcesandJDBC Driver paths.
• Configured and administeredConnection pools, multi connection poolsand Data Source for JDBC connections.
• Applied the maintenance fix pack and fixestoWebSphereApplication ServerandHTTP servers.
• Involved inmigratingapplications fromWAS V6.1 to 7.0.x.
• Involved in Modifying Shell Scripts like Automation of Startup and Shutdown Processes and Automated the WAS environment with Jacl and Jython Scripts.
• Performance tuned the WebSphere Environment by configuring caching, queuing, pooling, JVM parameters and Problem determination using Tivoli performance viewer (TPV).
• Involved inTroubleshootingServerstart-up issues,Java code defectsafter deployment, likeclass path issuesandapplication properties file errorsby checking JVM logs and Plugin-logs.
• Provided 24X7 supports to the clients in production support environment.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0/6.x, IBM HTTP Server 7.0, LDAP Microsoft Active Directory Server, J2EE1.3/1.2, Java2.0, JSP1.2, EJB2.0, JDBC2.0, XML, AIX 7.2, Red hat Linux 11.1, Windows 2000 Advanced Servers,, DB2, Oracle 8.1.7/9.0.5 , Shell Scripts, wsadmin scripting(jacl and Jython).

Confidential, Herndon, VA

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed WebSphere 6.0 in Linux and windows 2000.
• Installation, Configuring, Upgrading and troubleshooting the WebSphere Application Server and Installation of fix packs.
• Installed/configured IBM HTTP (1.3.12.6) Server. Worked on various components of WebSphere such as Work Load Management (WLM), Servlet Engine, Session Manager AdminClient, and WebSphere Administration, Configuration, Tuning, Clustering and troubleshooting WebSphere related problems.
• Supporting System Administration Services, Production Support, launching web projects, Working on AIX, and NT environments for Development, Testing and Production environment.
• Monitoring the Logs after the stress test performed by QA team and made decision for hosting the Application into Production.
• Responsible for Documentation of operational environments support procedures including Configuration and management of Application clusters
• Responsible for Application load balancing, Application Server tuning and problem isolation.
• Responsible for Configuring and Maintenance of WebSphere Application server.
• Deployed and Configured the XML files for various Applications running on the Server.
• Elevate performance and monitor tools, includes IBM Tivoli Performance and Monitoring tool.
• Monitoring Multiple Applications on QA and Prod Environments using wily introscope.
• Trouble shooting various problems in different stages of development using logs files and enabling traces.
• Monitoring WebSphere Application Server performance through Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Used Scripts (start, stop and deploy EAR’s).
• Workload management using WebSphere Modeling and Cloning on Application Servers.
• Application data backup and recovery provided by Local backup
• Diagnosis and repair of the WebSphere environment. Assist developers with the diagnosis and repair of WebSphere applications.
• On-call support (24x7), Monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications at Development and QA phases

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 7.x/ 6.x, IBM HTTP Server, Apache 1.3.20IBMVisualAge3.5.3, wily51, HomeSite5.0, Rational Rose, IBM Mainframes, IBMMQ SeriesXML, EJB, JSP, JDBC, Java Script, HTML, DB2, AIX and Windows2000.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Middleware WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Deployed large Web-based transaction systems in WebSphere application Server 6.0. Migrated applications from WebSphere 5.x to 6.x
• Responsible for administration, development and implementation of web applications using WebSphere Application Server5.0.
• Worked with various project teams to provide support in performance tuning and issue resolution.
• Created new groups and added users to those groups in LDAP for different environments.
• Provided different levels of access to different users in the Admin console as per the request.
• Monitored Applications and WAS performance through Tivoli Performance Viewer and tuned the system - caching, queuing, JVM parameters, DB Connection Pooling
• Provided load/stress and architecture validation testing.
• Also responsible for installing and configuring third party software necessary to test the product such as IBM Http Server.
• Installed WebSphere Application Server (5.0) on Solaris Platform.
• Developed WebSphere backup scripts using WSADMIN and JACL scripts.
• Installed WebSphere Portal Server 5.0
• Installed and configured the iPlanet (Sun One) Web servers & setup firewall filtering with Squid Proxy server for web caching on Sun Solaris.
• Maintained WebSphere 5.0 Application server for web applications development and deployment of JSP and EJB components.
• Write scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup, everyday system tasks, troubleshooting etc.
• Supported a 24X7 production system.
• Maintained the local Apache web server running on a Solaris server.
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x,5.x, Solaris, IBM AIX, UNIX, Windows 2000, DB2 UDB.

Confidential, Tulsa, OK

Jr. WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured of WebSphere application server 5.x.
• Deployed java application on WebSphere Application Server 5.x.
• Worked on general Administrative tasks like starting and stopping the application server, up-grading, installed plug-in for IBM HTTP Web Server.
• Created Server Groups and clones for WebSphere Application Server V5.0.
• Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
• Configured WebSphere LDAP Security using Windows Active Directory Services environment.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, and Java Mail sessions.
• Implemented horizontal and vertical scaling of WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Advanced edition in a workload managed cluster.
• Guided the project team in designing, developing, and deploying applications on WebSphere.
• Designed and developed use cases, sequence, activity and class diagrams of the application with UML using Rational Rose.
• Designed and developed JSP pages.

Environment: WebSphere application server 5.x, IBM HTTP Server, Java, Oracle 8i, Windows 2000, AIX, Linux.