SUMMARY

• Have total experience of 7 Plus years in Middleware (Weblogic, IBM Datapower, MQ Series & WebSphere) and Mainframe Technologies.
• Have experience in Server Administration experience with consistently increasing responsibilities in Administration for Production and Staging environments.
• Sound Knowledge about Banking and Financial process and Credit Cards.
• Played different roles such as Team Lead, Subject Matter Expert and on call support for Middleware & Mainframe Applications.
• Have experience in transitioning of apps to offshore team and building the expertise offshore team and lead the team during transition phase.
• Administration, Installation, configuration of Weblogic, WebSphere, IBM Datapower & MQ Series
• Actively involved in migrating Weblogic 8.1 applications to Weblogic 9 & 10.3
• Extensive working experience in setting up multiple domains, managed servers, node managers, cluster environments and WebLogic based applications and deploying them in each environment.
• Hands - on experience with WebLogic/WebSphere/Datapower Administration, Support and troubleshooting.
• Proficient in deployment and troubleshooting of JAR, WAR, and EAR files in domain and clustered environments of WebLogic/WebSphere Server.
• Proficient in deployment and troubleshooting IBM Datapower Appliance.
• Sound knowledge in understanding the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based environments.
• Strong experience in configuring and troubleshooting WebLogic/Websphere/Datapower Server issues in production, production-fix and testing environment.
• Strong experience with Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and HP-UX platforms.
• Installed Sitescope, configured monitoring. Configured HP diagnostics monitoring tool at every JVM tool and set up metric for parameters to monitor.
• Have sound knowledge on ITIL process.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating systems: Windows, UNIX,Linux & z/OS

Languages: Shell Scripting

Middleware Technolgies: Weblogic, WebSphere, IBM Datapower, IBM MQ Series, SOAP, XML, ParaSoft SOA Test

Mainframe Technologies: JCL,COBOL,DB2,CICS,Omegamon,Control M, Ondemand, RMF,CA7

Tools: HP BAC, Sitescope,HP Service Manager, HP Service Desk,HP Operations Manager

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plano, TX

Technologies: WebSphere 7 and IBM Datapower (XI 52).

Tools: HP BAC, Diagnostics, Sitescope, HP Service Manager, F5 Big IP.

Responsibilities:

• Provide hands on administration of DataPower & WebSphere appliance infrastructure.
• Work with the DataPower & WebSphere development team on deployment of applications in to the system as well as the support of the appliances themselves.
• Administer the integration of DataPower devices with web service applications to provide security and transformation services.
• Support deployment and promotion of DataPower & WAS services, including enhancements and automation of the deployment process.
• Maintain and assess operational requirements and service issues for improvement opportunities.
• Help to ensure production and lower environment implementation and maintenance activities are performed as required.
• Implement and manage effectiveness of Incident, Service Request, Change and Problem management processes for the service area.
• Work with architects, line of business, and other project members to create middleware solutions.
• Leads large, complex projects to achieve key business objectives.
• Support, analyze, and make performance or capacity recommendations as necessary.
• Providing technical guidance and leadership to team members.
• Serve as the escalation point for all issues not resolved by the other support staff.
• Work with vendors, business & dev teams, and other technical teams to meet the needs of the project.
• Installation, configure monitors on Sitescope & HP BAC for all application and web servers.
• Collaborate with other engineers to develop and tune middleware standards.
• Seek opportunities to learn, automate, document, share, educate, and improve processes where appropriate.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Technologies: WebLogic 11g, BPEL, SOA, IBM MQ Series

Tools: HP BAC, Diagnostics, Sitescope, HP Service Manager, F5 BigIP.

Responsibilities:

• Professional experience in Weblogic Administration, which includes extensive experience in Unix Administration and Application server Administration providing support for Production and Staging environment.
• Extensive experience with Administration of WebLogic Application Server 8.1, 9.2, 10.3 and 11g Clustering (WLS) and Apache web Servers.
• Extensive experience in Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting of WebLogic 10.3.x.
• Interacted with BEA Weblogic Technical Support Team in resolving the Weblogic critical issues, and used to follow up on the opened tickets, by analyzing the respective thread dumps and Config files.
• Deploying Enterprise Java Beans and J2EE Applications and Monitoring the Application servers and Web servers, troubleshooting performance issues using the Log messages and Log files.
• Installation, configuration of hardware and software, migrating systems to current OS releases, upgrading software and tools.
• Deploying J2EE Application archives JAR, WAR, EAR and RAR on WebLogic Application Server.
• Experience in BPM (business process management), Oracle Fusion Middleware (SOA (service-oriented architecture) suit 10g & 11g.
• Proficient in log analysis, tuning and troubleshooting JVM, OS related issues.
• Experience in developing Shell scripts to administer and automate for reporting purpose during major rollouts.
• Have experience in troubleshooting data issue and analyse XML requests with SOA Test tool and worked with development teams to fix the issues.
• Provided suggestions to Development Team to automate certain functionalities to easy of work.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Technologies: JCL, VSAM, COBOL, DB2,CICS.

Tools: Omegamon, Ondemand, RMF

Responsibilities:

• Supported 22 Mainframe application as Subject Matter Expert
• Involved in Problem Management calls and L3 Teams
• Monitoring of batch application and works with Monitoring team to configure new setup for applications
• Configuration Management (CMDB).
• Capacity Management for application and attend meetings and analyze requirements during new rollouts/projects.
• Availability Management and Service Level Management reporting
• Access Management for production applications and Offshore Team
• Audit and Compliance management and maintenance of support guide for production application
• System On-Boarding of new applications and make sure they comply to all CapOne production applications standards.
• Involve in Business Continuity Exercise for the applications

Confidential

Technologies: JCL, VSAM, COBOL, DB2,CICS.

Tools: Omegamon, CA 7 OPC

Responsibilities:

• Mainframe batch monitoring & restart/ System Operations that includes tools like CA7, OPC, Control- M, ESP MF Batch Monitoring & Restart
• Restart job from step/ top with/ without control- R
• Understand and execute job/batch as per Job documentation
• Understand complex batch streams and impacts to the downstream
• Perform activities like Hold/Cancel/Demand/ Force complete jobs
• Monitor SLA jobs as per checklist
• Perform notification of critical jobs as defined in the procedure
• Perform system IPL's and take action on system alerts/messages
• Startup/ Shutdown of online regions