PROFILE

• I am a middleware web administrator with extensive experience in configuration and Administration of various Java application servers including WebSphere Application Server, WebLogic and JBOSS, and webservers including Microsoft IIS, IHS and Tomcat, across a variety of Operating systems including AIX, Solaris, Z-OS and Windows, and skilled in automating repetitive tasks through scripting including UNIX Shell Scripting, Jython, wsadmin, Perl, PowerShell and VB scripting and also experienced in building java archive files using ANT scripting, expertise in design, administration and implementation of third party solutions and comfortable with middleware components like WebSphere Message broker and WebSphere MQ. Experience in designing and documenting of Disaster Recovery scenarios for a complex production environment and overseeing of mock disaster recovery drills.
• Ability to adapt to new methodologies, ability to evaluate and understand complex technical problems, well versed in SOA and ITIL terminology, exposure to a broad array of third party tools and ability to work under pressure with clear and logical thought process along with clear and effective communication. Strong Leadership skills and ability to take initiatives to resolve issues and automate existing processes.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Creating the Problem Management Record PMR if there were any unresolved bugs.
• Experienced in working with JACL scripts, recovering and Backing up WebSphere configurations.
• In the process of configuring Phurnace tool to automate creation of new WAS environments.
• Deployment experience in WebSphere Process server on Z/OS platform
• Configured and secured WebServer interface, Session management, WebSphere resources, J2C resources, connection factories and JMS resources in IBM WebSphere 5.x/6.x.
• Profound knowledge of IBM Tivoli Identity Management and Third Party Vendors, such as Netegrity Siteminder 6.0 etc.
• Experienced in implementing various authorization and authentication models including LDAP and LTPA in e-commerce applications.
• Closely worked with Application groups in monitoring JVM, troubleshooting and fine-tuning the application Performance using Wily Introscope.
• Good experience with WSADMIN scripts and Shell scripts to administer and automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere.
• Expertise in automating Web Sphere application Server Administrative tasks.
• Successful implementations of WLM using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Clustering for failover and backup/recovery processes.
• Manual update of plugin file. Creation of ND Plugin, XD plugin or merged plugin for catering to different applications existing in the same environment.
• Experience in configuring ODR for an XD environment.
• Experience in creating static and dynamic clusters, cluster members, JDBC Providers, Data Sources, JMS Providers and so forth for development, QA and Production life cycles in a DMZ environment.
• Extensive experience in Migrating and Administering of WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.0/6.0/6.1/7.0, IBM HTTP Web Server, IIS, Apache Web Server in Solaris8 AIX5L and Windows NT/2003/2000 in a 24x7 shift rotation and pager support.
• Experience in Setting up of Nodes, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, Session Managers including installation and configuration of Application Server Trace Service, Applying fix Patches, Plug-ins and Object Level Trace OLT .
• Experience in migrating applications from WebSphere 6.1 to WebSphere 7.0.
• Experience in installation/migration/deployment of Enterprise Applications using WebSphere Application server 7.0/6.1/6.0/5.x.
• Extensive experience with Web administration, which includes Installation and configuration of Apache, IBM HTTP Servers and Microsoft IIS
• 7 years of experience in J2EE and related technologies like JSP, Servlets, EJB, XML, JMS, JDBC, RMI, JNDI, Object oriented technology OOB .
• Over 8.5 years of IT Experience, with more than 5 years of experience in planning, installation engineering and administering of IBM WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, Version Control tools on AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and Windows.
• Creation of WebLogic domains for new builds.
• Configuring, managing and monitoring applications on WebLogic platform, configuration of security parameters including defining users, groups and roles
• Deployments, restart of managed servers on WebLogic platform using WebLogic server administration console and through automated scripts.
• Configuration of WebLogic Server services JDBC, JMS.
• Used version control tools like Clear case, Microsoft VSS and bug tracking tools like clear quest.
• On-call support 24x7 , Monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications at Development and QA phases.
• Work well under pressure and accomplish assigned tasks with a high degree of success.
• Excellent client relation skills and the drive to complete tasks effectively and efficiently where customer services and technical skills are demanded.

SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Role: Application Engineer

Description:

Confidential is an Health Insurance Company which uses a product named Edifecs for processing of enrolment, inquiry and Claims functions of its business. To support this Edifecs product, it has a big infrastructure of Unix and Windows platform based servers on which multiple development, testing, performance, stage, pre-production and production environments has been built. The Edifecs suite of applications is hosted on WebSphere application server and IIS webserver on both windows and Unix platform and extensively uses WebSphere MQ.

Environment: IBM WebSphere WAS 6 and 7 ND, IBM WebSphere MQ, Microsoft IIS, Edifecs 7.03 , 7.08 and 7.091, IBM AIX, Windows 2008 R2.

Responsibilities:

• Administration and maintenance of WAS 6 and 7 ND including installation, updation of fixpacks, creation of scripts for stopping/starting of JVMs and deployment of applications and troubleshooting any issues.
• Administration and maintenance of Microsoft IIS on the webservers and troubleshooting any issues.
• Administration of IBM WebSphere MQ and troubleshooting any connectivity issues.
• Created a PowerShell script to administer windows services of all Non-production environments
• Created a PowerShell script for verification of the status of all running windows services for Non-production environments and email an html output of the results to users.
• Created a Unix shell script with mqsc c to get status of queue managers and email a consolidated result to users.

Confidential

Role: WebSphere Administrator

Description:

Morgan Stanley entered into a joint venture with Citi Bank's Smith Barney and a new entity called Morgan Stanley Smith Barney was formed. 9 new environments Development, QA and JVC were required to be built for the conversion activity, which would bring FA's from both sides into a common platform. Our team helped build and manage the hosting environments from both technical and project management perspective.

Environment: IIS servers on Windows 2003 enterprise edition, IBM WebSphere 6/7 as a middleware technology hosted on IBM AIX servers.

Responsibilities:

• Experience in migrating applications from WebSphere 6.1 to WebSphere 7.0
• Environment Build WAS Install creation of nodes, clusters, JVMs, configuration of ODR, datasources, MQ
• Deployment of applications and configuration of application parameters
• Involved in installing, configuring, maintaining, and supporting WebSphere Portal Server 6.1
• Performance Analysis
• Fixpack, security patches installation
• SSL configuration
• Manual updation of plugin , creation of merged plugin from both ND and XD
• Quick recreation of WAS Cells using Backup-Restore methodology
• Troubleshooting
• Configuration of Application Server Trace Service and Object Level Trace OLT
• Configuration of coregroups and their administration for large WAS Cells
• Successful implementations of WLM using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Clustering for failover and backup/recovery processes.
• Implemented various authorization and authentication models including LDAP and LTPA
• WAS Cell architecture optimisation for High availability and High Scalability

WAS XD

• Configuration of ODR
• Manual updation of XD plugin , creation of merged plugin
• Creation of Dynamic clusters

WSADMIN Scripting

Expertise in automating Web Sphere application Server Administrative tasks using Jython

Confidential

Role: Web Administrator

Description:

STS- System Engineering Team

This team was a part of STS Operations Team which needed to provide production support to CITI application servers. A total of 168 UNIX machine servers were supported by System Engineering team in which majority were production servers, the rest were load servers, training servers, test servers, patch servers, development servers and stage servers. The applications were deployed on Unix Solaris Machines using WebSphere and Tibco Servers.

Environment: UNIX, WebLogic 9.1, WebSphere Application Server, SiteScope, Infoman

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team in monitoring and maintaining these servers as a Web Administrator and taking part in all release, patching, debugging activities affecting these servers.
• Creation of weblogic domains for new builds and configuring, managing and monitoring applications on weblogic platform, configuration of security parameters including defining users, groups and roles
• Deployments, restart of managed servers on weblogic platform using weblogic server administration console and through automated scripts. Configuration of Weblogic Server services JDBC, JMS.
• Deployments, restart of JVMs on WebSphere platform

Confidential

Role: Weblogic Administrator, Release Manager

Description:

KS Configuration/Release Management Team

• Knowledge Stream. My role as a Release Manager was to create, maintain and move files in between the development, system testing ST , Pre-UAT and UAT environments. At the end of the quarter, the developed components were needed to be packaged and handed over to production support team for application to production. My role required debugging environment problems. I was required to do basic unix shell scripting for various purposes.
• In Knowledge Stream, developed components needed to be incorporated into an ear enterprise archive file which needed to be deployed on a WebLogic server. Creation and maintenance of WebLogic domains at offshore was my responsibility. Also application of KS and GCF one of the vital KS/Paragon interface application of Deutsche Bank ears to onsite environments where WebLogic servers were maintained by a third party. For my role in KS, I got acquainted with java and some fundamentals of WebLogic administration.

Environment: Solaris 9, Windows XP, Microsoft VSS, Weblogic 8.1, Microsoft VSS, Mercury Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Release Management
• Unix Shell scripting and Perl scripting
• Weblogic Administration

Confidential

Role: Production Support team member

Description:

KS Batch Team Production Support

Knowledge Stream One of the applications of Deutsche Bank Batches were run in production on a daily basis using batch schedulers which were maintained by me. Apart from this my role involved batch debugging and solving of GIMS tickets raised in production . Apart from this every quarter, batches newly developed by development teams were handed over to me for application in control and production environments respectively.

Environment: Solaris 9, Windows XP, Microsoft VSS, Weblogic 8.1, PL/SQL, Microsoft VSS, Mercury Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Resolution of issues in production
• Java and PL/SQL issues debugging

Confidential

Role: Release Manager, Weblogic Administrator

Description:

Paragon Configuration/Release Management team

My role as a release manager was to create, maintain and move files in between the development, system testing ST , Pre-UAT and UAT environments. At the end of the quarter, the developed components were needed to be packaged and handed over to production support team for application to production. My role required debugging environment problems. Maintenance of code in repository VSS was also part of my role. Apart from this co-ordination with IDM team in context to UNIX environmental issues was required as our UNIX servers were maintained by IDM. I was required to do basic unix shell scripting for various purposes.

Environment: Solaris 9, Windows XP, Microsoft VSS, Weblogic 8.1, PL/SQL, Microsoft VSS, Mercury Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Release Management
• Unix Shell scripting and Perl scripting
• Weblogic Administration

Confidential

Role: Team Member

Description:

Production Support it dealt with fixing errors that came during the working of software in actual business environment and maintaining the latest version of software in repositories.

Confidential

Business Acceptance Testing for Delivery 6 it dealt with testing the business change requirements incorporated in already existing software

Confidential

PONL Development of Business Change Requirements in Delivery7- The project was of Development of the Business Change Requirements that came in D7 7th Cycle of Requirement since first Delivery. It mainly dealt with some changes that were made in Designer9i and Forms mainly in Oracle, PLSQL.

Confidential

System testing for delivery 7 The new code written for the business change requirements of delivery 7 was tested in this phase.

Confidential

Business Acceptance Testing for Delivery 7 it dealt with testing the business change requirements incorporated in an already existing software

Environment: Windows 2k, Oracle 8i, Designer 9i Forms

Responsibilities:

• Coding PL/SQL Procedures
• System testing
• BAT Business Acceptance Testing .