SUMMARY

• 9+ years in Installation, Configuration, Trouble - Shooting and Maintenance of IBM WebSphere V8.5/7.0/V6.1/V 6.0.2/5.1/5.0. x, IBM HTTP Server 1.3/2.0/6.1/7.0, SAP Netweaver, Apache Web server 1.3/2.0/2.2,Apache Tomcat, IIS 7, Triple Point Technology, Trading Solutions on different UNIX and Windows flavors.
• Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Load Balancing, Clustering, Deploying Applications, Performance Tuning and Maintenance WebSphere Process Server 6.x, Business Process Manager 7.x.
• Expertise in Tuning of Application Servers by Tivoli Performance Viewer like setting the dynamic cache size and setting the JVM heap size using collected Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) data.
• Involved in deploying and troubleshooting applications in Quality Assurance, Pre Production and Production Environment.
• Configured Nodes, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, configuring Servlet Engines, Session Managers including planning, installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server.
• Knowledge on WebSphere Commerce Server 7.x installation and configuration on multiple operating systems like Windows, AIX.
• Troubleshooted JVM related problems in portal environment.
• Creation of JDBC providers, data sources, configuring connection pool etc.
• Creation of JMS MQ queue connection factory, queue destinations, listeners etc.
• Experience in integrating databases like Sybase, Teradata, Oracle, UDB/DB2, and SQL Server for WebSphere Connectivity.
• Configured multiple WebLogic domains by using Configuration Wizard and WLST.
• Experience in 24x7 on-call production support and trouble-shooting problems related to Oracle WebLogic and iPlanet Web Servers, MQ Series and Database, Managing security, organization and remote computing issues.
• Solid expertise in prerequisite, topology planning and installation planning of WebSphere / UNIX on different environments like Development, Pre-Production.
• Installing SSL certificates and enabling Global Security for the Application Server and Single Sign On using Site Minder to secure Enterprise applications.
• Experienced in tuning, security, upgrade, backup & recovery of IBM WebSphere Application Server on AIX, Sun Solaris, Linux (Red Hat).
• Implemented Work Load Management (WLM) using Cloning, Session Management, Load balancing and Clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Cloning for failover and backup/recovery processes.
• Installed and Configured on Websphere Process Server.
• Created and Managed WebSphere environmental variables for Data Sources and JDBC Driver paths on AIX, Linux and Solaris platforms.
• Involved in development of JACL, Jython and shell scripts to automate the WebSphere regular maintenance tasks.
• Deployed J2EE applications on Web Sphere Application Servers, Web sphere Enterprise Service Bus.
• Configured SSL on WebSphere, IIS, Apache, iPlanet and Site Minder v.4/5/6.
• Experience in Software upgrades, O/S upgrades, applying fixes and patches to AIX, Solaris and Linux Operating Systems.
• Experience on Monitoring Tools like Wily, Tivoli.
• Collection of JVM statistics, garbage collection data for monitoring the heap and physical memory.
• Developed Cron jobs for scheduled tasks like providing server status and other maintenance jobs.
• Experience in 24X7 on-call production support and troubleshooting problems related to Web Servers, WebSphere Application Server, MQ Series and Database in Managing security, organization and remote computing issues.
• Experience in handling the data back-up with Storage Area Network and Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 on Linux/AIX Platforms.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: SUN Solaris 7/8/9/10, AIX 5.1, RHAS 2.1/ 3, Win2008/2003/NT, HPUX11i

Application Servers: Web sphere 3.x/4.x/5.x/6.x/ 6.1/7.1/8.5., WebSphere Process Server 6.x, Business Process Manager 7.x, Sun One 7, JBoss 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, Apache, WebLogic 8.1/9.x/10.x.

Web Servers: Apache1.3/2.0, IIS 5/6, IBM Http Server 1.3.26/2.0.47.2/6.0

Networking: Firewalls, NFS, NIS, LAN, WAN.

Databases: My SQL, Oracle 9i/10g/11g, DB2, SQL Server 7/2000, Sybase ASE 12.X, DB2 7.1/8.1, MS. Access

Languages: Java, J2EE, C, VB, Visual FoxPro, PL/SQL, XML, HTML

Monitoring Tools: Wily, Tivoli (Tivoli Access Manger), BMC Patrol and NetIQ, Nagios.

Scripting: JACL, Jython, TCL, Korn Shell Script, Java Script

Protocol: TCP/IP, FTP, SSH, Telnet.

IDE: WSAD, Net Beans, Edit Plus

Hardware: Sun Enterprise Server (E250/450), Sun-fire 280R, IBM RS-6000

Security: Site Minder, LDAP

Testing Tools: WinRunner, TestDirector and Load Runner

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Hopkins, MN

Sr. Application Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and maintenance of IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5/6.1, IHS 8.0, IIS 7/6, Apache Tomcat, SAP Netweaver AS, JBOSS and Supported for Migration to IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 on LINUX, AIX and Windows.
• Worked on migration of WAS6.1 to WAS8.5 and deployed 100+ applications in Non-Prod and Prod Environments.
• Worked on installation, deployment and configuring SAP Netweaver J2EE applications by supporting on deployments, upgrades, patches fixing, backups on different Landscapes.
• Level 2 Technical Support Specialist with 24/7 technical support, on-call rotation.
• Implement and configured the IBM Tivoli monitoring infrastructure for application Diagnostics for Websphere.
• Expertise on configuring and administrating monitor agents on different window & linux platforms.
• Worked on configuring & monitoring Wily on SAP Netweaver J2EE applications for three major prod environments.
• Expertise in documentation of all implementation and monitoring activities in day-to-day business issues.
• Experience in running EODS jobs on daily basis and trouble shoot with DB scripts and resolving the deadlocks and Job hung states.
• Expertise in handling all the message monitoring, queue manager, position manager which relates to techno-functional implementations.
• Setup and perform Load-Balancing through F5 Load Balancer through GUI Mode.
• Configuring and monitoring Wily for Websphere, Jboss and SAP Netweaver applications a
• Expertise on Oracle 11g and worked with DB team for restoring schemas, Table space issues, verifying the daily business logics through SQL.
• Worked on creating & updating SSL certificates on servers in all environments.
• Deployed Enterprise applications and configured the JDBC connections and deployed the J2EE Applications into Tomcat and JBOSS Application Server.
• Configured resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling on WebSphere and tomcat.
• Created scripts to monitor domains, recycle clusters, monitor disk space, monitor number of Apache connections, and ran them as cronjobs for timely running programs.
• Managed the security and performance optimizations for EJB containers and web applications in IBM WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server and Apache web server.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server ND 8.x/6.x, SAP Netweaver, CommoditySL 7.1.6.11., IBM Websphere, JBoss AS 6/7, IBM WebSphere Publishing Server v6.2,IIS7,Apache 2.x, Sun Solaris 10/9, PL/SQL, Oracle 11g,Unix,Windows,IBM Tivoli Monitorning, Wily Introscope, BMC Remedy, ALM.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

WebSphere Administrator/Middle Ware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the development staff and application vendors to determine compatibility of upgrades and fixes and implementation plans.
• Extensively worked on major migration from WAS6.1 to WAS8.5 and deploying 200+ applications on dev, Test and Prod environments.
• Worked on analyzing the Pre-Migration and the Post-Migration scenarios by working on the compatible levels between UNIX (Solaris) and WebSphere New version (8.5).
• Involved in Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of WebSphere Application server 6.1/8.5, in a Network Deployment Environment on UNIX platform - used Admin Console and wasdmin scripting.
• Experienced the new changes in IBM WebSphere 8.5, Install Manager (IM), Liberty Profile and Extended Deployment, Dashboard configuration and HPEL setup on WAS8.5 Console.
• Worked Extensively on Software deployment with an update fix pack Installations 8.5.0.2. on all three environments dev, test and Production.
• Responsible for administrating JBOSS Application Servers.
• Involved in mentoring with other developers on building the Arcitecture, Development and Deployment of JBoss.
• Troubleshooting on issues such as out of memory, memory leaks, hung sessions and session replication, federation of nodes and synchronization of nodes with NDM.
• Experience in editing response files (xml), manual installation files and Restart Server Scripts on Unix Solaris.
• Created Queues, Alias Queues, Dead Queues, and configured in cluster environment.
• Experience on Maintaining and configuring of IIS (Internet Information Services) as the WebServer instances.
• Configuring the http servers (IIS) for the communication over SSL/non-SSL.
• Provided the Teradata DataSources to the Application Servers and resolved the connection compatibility issues and tested the Connections Successfully.
• Supporting, monitoring all Applications at Development, Testing and Production environments.
• Working on writing the scripts for deploying applications on Application Servers on WAS8.5 from command line.
• Configured web servers ports and virtual host based on network load balanced URL’s.
• Upgraded Applications with various patch files (JSP's, Class files, changing various properties and property files).
• Worked with MicroStrategy team in deploying their applications and configuring siteminder connections.
• Troubleshooting various problems in different stages of development using log files and with coordination from Development teams.
• Monitoring WAS performance through Tivoli Performance Viewer and tuning the system - caching, queuing, JVM parameters, DB Connection Pooling.
• Extensive hands on using UNIX shell scripts, Jython and JACL automated scripts for administration.
• Configure SSL for Web Servers and LDAP Security for WebSphere using IBM Directory server.
• On-call Production Support monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications in Development and Test and Production Environments.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server ND 8.x/7.x/6.x, IBM Process Server v7.x, Business Process Manager 7.x. IBM Websphere MQ 7.0.1,JBoss 6.x. IBM WebSphere Publishing Server v6.2,IIS7,Apache 2.x, Sun Solaris 10/9, PL/SQL, Oracle 11g/10g,Sybase ASE 12.x, Teradata13, IBM DB 2 9.7/9.5/9.1, Microstrategy 9.2.1,Unix,Tivoli Performance Viewer, Tivoli Directory Server v6.0 (LDAP), WebSphere Service Registry and Repository.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

WebSphere Administrator/Middle ware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Setting up environment for application packaging and deploying Enterprise Application Archive (EAR), Web Application Archive (WAR) in WebSphere on Development, QA, UAT and production environments.
• Involved in WebSphere Commerce Server 7.x installation on multiple platforms.
• Deployed Commerce stores on WebSphere Commerce Server.
• Installed latest fix packs on WebSphere Commerce server and application server using Updated installer.
• Installed, configured and administration of WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7.x Network Deployment on Windows Server, UNIX and AIX Servers.
• Installed, configured and administration of IBM HTTP Server V.6/7.x.
• Installed fix packs to overcome Application server problems.
• Involved in updating WebSphere Commerce stores.
• Administration of WebSphere Application Server and Network Deployment.
• Involved with other team members in writing scripts to automate deployment process and backup procedures.
• Solid experience in development and deployment of applications on multiple Weblogic Servers and maintaining Load balancing and High availability.
• Troubleshooting and fixing of problems on WebLogic Application Server.
• Installed and maintenance of Enterprise Applications in a clustered environment with failover support with the interaction of the developers.
• Configured Plug-in for hosting Web Modules of Enterprise Applications on Web Servers on Local and Remote Systems and on Multiple Web Servers on same host.
• Installed Tivoli and wily 7.0 on WebSphere Application Server.
• Installed security certificates and installed Site Minder 5.5 for single sign on (SSO).
• Configured IBM WebSphere Application Servers 6.1 and Network deployment servers.
• Configured Service Integration Buses in WAS 6 adding members to SIBs (application servers and clusters) and fine tuning of messaging engines and creating link between different SIBs using foreign addresses and enabling mediations. Successfully implemented ESB using WebSphere Application Server V6.
• Configured SSL on WebSphere, IIS, and Apache.
• Involved with the application deployment, database and WebSphere MQ team to configure the resources to map the application to actual resources using JNDI.
• Maintained IBM WebSphere Application Servers 6.x / 6.1 Stand-Alone and Network deployment servers on Linux/AIX platform using profile creator
• Applied fix packs for Websphere portal server 6.x
• Applying updates and security patches for WebSphere Application Servers and also migrating WebSphere application server 5.x to 6.0.
• Experience in Setting up of Nodes, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts and configuring Servlet Engines, Session Managers, and Websphere Enterprise Service Bus.
• Involved in Troubleshooting by analyzing log files using the Log Analyzer tool and also by running traces.
• Extensively worked on Websphere monitoring with Nagios in order to increase server, services and its application.
• Involved in configuring the WebSphere load balancing utilizing WebSphere Workload Management including horizontal scaling and vertical scaling.
• Team player in writing scripts to handle routine System Administration tasks such as backup procedures, system tuning etc. using CRONJOBS in Unix environment.
• Used Integration Broker for exchange information.
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues.
• Maintenance of the local and remote Apache and IBM HTTP web server administration

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 6.1, 6.0, Websphere Portal server 6.x/7.1,IBM HTTP server, IBM WebSphere MQ, WebSphere, IIS, Apache, Shell Script, Log Analyzer, Nagios, TAM, ITCAM/RTT, MSP, IBS, LDAP,Site Minder, Sun Solaris, Linux (RedHat), AIX, Weblogic 8.1/9.x/10.x.

Confidential, DC

WebSphere Administrator/Middle ware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed and maintenance of Enterprise Applications in a clustered environment with failover support with the interaction of the developers.
• Installed, configured and administered of Oracle WebLogic Server 11g(10.3.5) in various environments.
• Installed various versions of JDK upgrades on different versions of WebLogic Server.
• Installing WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus for providing a non SOA channel for communication between different modules in production environment and setting the Memory Usage of the ESB application server..
• Deployment of EAR, WAR files on Application servers.
• Tuned process definition and JDBC connection pooling, and supported the testers in the testing and pre-production environments.
• Configured IBM WebSphere Application Servers 6.1 stand alone and Network deployment servers.
• Installed, configured and deployed websphere portal 5.x.
• Troubleshooted JVM related problems in portal environment.
• Applied fix packs for Websphere portal server 5.x
• Configured Service Integration Buses in WAS 6 adding members to SIBs (application servers and clusters) and fine tuning of messaging engines and creating link between different SIBs using foreign addresses and enabling mediations.
• Successfully implemented ESB using WebSphere Application Server V6.
• Configured JDBC drivers and providers and testing the established connections on routine basis.
• Configured SSL on WebSphere, IIS, and Apache.
• Configured Plugin for local and remote Web Server installations.
• Configured TAM (Tivoli Access Manager) on Web Sphere Application Server.
• Experienced with the application deployment, database and WebSphere MQ team to configure the resources to map the application to actual resources using JNDI.
• Maintained IBM WebSphere Application Servers 6.x / 6.1 Stand-Alone and Network deployment servers on Linux/AIX platform using profile creator.
• Configured Heap size, connection pools as per the requirement of the application.
• Updated security patches for WebSphere Application Servers and also migrating WebSphere application server 5.x to 6.0.
• Set up IBM WebSphere MQ Queue Manager, Channel Managers and Queues.
• Performing Troubleshooting by analyzing log files using the Log Analyzer tool and also by running traces.
• Maintenance of the local and remote Apache and IBM HTTP web server administration.
• Monitored forced thread dumps to check for system objects and threads using thread analyzer.
• Used PVCS version manager to keep track of the version of client xml.
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues.
• Knowledge on System Administrator knowledge experience includes NFS, NIS maintenance.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 6.1, 6.0,Websphere Portal server 5.x IBM HTTP server, IBM WebSphere MQ, WebSphere, IIS, Apache, Shell Script, Log Analyzer, TAM, ITCAM/RTT,MSP,IBS, LDAP,Site Minder, Sun Solaris, Linux (RedHat), AIX, Weblogic 8.1/9.x/10.x.

Confidential, Battle Creek, MI

WebSphere Administrator/Middle ware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed of IBM WebSphere Application Servers 6 stand alone and Network deployment servers on Linux/AIX platform using profile creator in implementation of Horizontal and Vertical scaling of WebSphere Application Server (WAS) for workload-management which involves modeling and creating cluster members on same and distributed physical systems services in WAS.
• Also experienced in heterogeneous scaling.
• Installed and maintenance of Enterprise Applications in a clustered environment with failover support with the interaction of the developers.
• Installed Plugins for hosting Web Modules of Enterprise Applications on Web Servers on Local and Remote Systems and on Multiple Web Servers on same host .
• Installed IBM WebSphere MQ series 5.x in a clustered and session replication environment.
• Deployment of EAR, WAR files on Application servers.
• Installed Web Sphere Application Server Trace Service.
• Installed Tivoli and wily 7.0 on WebSphere Application Server.
• Installed security certificates and installed Site Minder 5.5 for single sign on (SSO).
• Configured IBM WebSphere Application Servers 6 stand-alone and Network deployment servers.
• Configured Plug-in for local and remote Web Server installations.
• Experience in Setting up of Nodes, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, configuring Servlet Engines, Session Managers and configuration of WebSphere Application Server Trace Service.
• Configured security of WebSphere using LDAP server using Sun one Directory Server and also using local OS.
• Knowledge on System Administrator knowledge experience includes NFS,NIS configuration.
• Configured TAM (Tivoli Access Manger) on Web Sphere Application Server.
• Set up IBM WebSphere MQ Queue Manager, Channel Managers and Queues.
• Setting the JVM heap sizes for Application Servers for effective Memory Management. Creating Swap files for providing extra resources in the form of Virtual memory.
• Team player in writing scripts to handle routine System Administration tasks such as backup procedures, system tuning etc. using CRONJOBS in Unix environment.
• Used Integration Broker for exchange information.
• Maintenance of the local and remote Apache and IBM HTTP web server administration.
• Monitored forced thread dumps to check for system objects and threads using thread analyzer.
• Knowledge on System Administrator knowledge experience includes NFS, NIS maintenance.
• Experience in implementing SSL using Self Signed/VeriSign certificates and Single Sign On using Site minder to secure Enterprise applications.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 6.0, IBM HTTP server, IBM WebSphere MQ, WebSphere, IIS, Apache, Shell Script, Log Analyzer, TAM, ITCAM/RTT,MSP,IBS, LDAP,Site Minder, Sun Solaris, Linux (RedHat), AIX.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

WebSphere Administrator/ Middleware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed IBM WebSphere Application Servers 5.x stand-alone and Network deployment servers on Linux platform using profile creator.
• Installed IBM WebSphere Process Server on Linux platform.
• Involved in Installation of Versata Logic Suite / Studio for Web Sphere Application Server.
• Installed WebSphere Application Server using Trace Service.
• Installed IBM MQ Series on Linux platform.
• Creation and Deployment of EAR, WAR files on Application servers.
• Installed third party software necessary to test the product such as IBM Http Server,DB2.
• Involved in installation and integrating the third party B2B applications using web methods Integration Server 4.6 using Built-In/Custom Java/Flow services and web services.
• Involved in producing system use cases design using UML and workflow analysis and design.
• Installed security certificates and installed Siteminder 5.0 for single sign on (SSO).
• Installed wily and Tivoli Performance Viewer on WebSphere Application Server 5.x.
• Configured WebSphere App Server 5.x and Worked with Ant Build scripts and Unix Shell Scripts for the automatic configuration of the project and deployment of jar files into the WebSphere App. Server.
• Configured TAM (Tivoli Access Manger), ITCAM/RTT on WebSphere Application Server.
• Configured SSL on WebSphere, IIS, and Apache.
• Configured security certificates and configured Siteminder 5.0 for single sign on (SSO).
• Configured Security of Websphere using LDAP server (Microsoft Active Directory).
• Maintained Websphere 5.0 Application server for web applications development and deployment JSP and EJB components on WAS.
• Maintained the local Apache web server running on a Solaris server.
• Setting the JVM heap sizes for Application Servers for effective memory management creating Swap files for providing extra resources in the form of Virtual memory.
• Collection of JVM statistics, garbage collection data for monitoring the heap and physical memory.
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues.
• Knowledge on System Administrator knowledge experience includes NFS, NIS maintenance.
• Maintained Websphere Process Server providing with a scalable and reliable business integration environment and transaction, security, clustering and workload management.
• Used Tivoli Performance Viewer to monitor connection pools and web threads of an application.

Environment: WebSphereApplicationServer (5.x),WSAD,WebSphereProcess Server,MQ,Visio, AIX, AS400, Solaris, Versata Logic Suite, JSP, EJB, RUP, UML, XML, SQL, JavaScript, DB2/UDB, Site Minder, Tivoli (Performance Viewer), ITCAM/RTT, Ant script, Shell Scripts.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.0 on AIX, Solaris and Windows environment.
• Created Server groups, Model, Clones for WebSphere Application Server .
• Installed IBM MQ Series on AIX/Solaris/Windows platform.
• Integrated and deployed enterprise-wide J2EE applications using WebSphere Application Server Application Assembly Tool and managing security policies for different applications.
• Installed Tivoli Performance Viewer, wily 5.0 on WebSphere Application Server.
• Involved in Installing VeriSign certificates on IBM HTTP Web Servers.
• Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using Local OS Registries.
• Configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.0 on AIX, Solaris and Windows environment.
• Configured groups, Model, Clones for WebSphere Application Server and also configured group for securing the resources using Local OS Registries.
• Experience in Setting up of Nodes, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, configuring Servlet Engines, Session Managers including configuration of WebSphere Application Server Trace Service.
• Configured SSL on WebSphere, IIS and Apache.
• Configured Tivoli Performance Viewer, Wily on IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.0.
• Used Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer for performance tuning and troubleshooting
• Developed EJB components that are run in IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.0 on AIX environment.
• Developed shell scripts, JACL scripts that automate the WebSphere Administration (recycling the application server, deploying customer applications, logs rotation, monitor applications state, etc,).
• Experience in Setting up of Nodes, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, configuring Servlet Engines, Session Managers.
• Team player in writing scripts to handle routine System Administration tasks such as backup procedures, system tuning using CRONJOBS in AIX/Solaris.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.0, IBM HTTP Server, Wily, Tivoli Performance Viewer, IBM MQ Series, AIX, Solaris, Windows 2000, EJB, J2EE, JNDI, XML, DB2, Shell scripts, JACL scripts, OOAD, UML, Log Analyzer, IIS, and Apache.