SUMMARY:

• Middleware administration with extensive experience designing, installing, administering, deploying and troubleshooting various versions of IBM WebSphere application server, IBM HTTP Server, IBM BPM, IBM Integration Bus V9, IBM Datapower v7.2, IBM MFT, Tomcat and Apache environments.
• Detail - oriented professional with extensive Web-Tier and Mid-Tier System administration, including 7 years of UNIX shell scripting, Perl, and Python.
• Experienced problem solver, providing technical solutions in complex middleware environments.
• Over 8 years of middleware administration experience designing, implementing, upgrading and migrating IBM WebSphere software’s WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Process Server, Business Process Manager and Tomcat in large clustered and non-clustered UNIX/LINUX and windows server farm environments .
• Over 2 Years of administration in IBM Integration Bus Version 9, WebSphere MQ MFT 7.1/7.5, IBM DataPower XI52 appliance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Mid-Tier and Web-Tier Implementation
• Core dump, Heap dump and stack trace analysis
• IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1, 7.0 and 8.5.5
• Excellent problem solving skills in middleware related environments
• Tomcat 6, 7.0.42
• WebSphere JDBC, JMS, LDAP security
• JBoss 7.0
• BMC Remedy and Perigrine
• IBM HTTP Server 6.0, 7.0 and 8.5.5
• SQL, PL/SQL scripting
• Apache 2.0 and 2.2
• LDAP, Active directory, Tivoli Access Manager and Novell NetWare
• IBM WebSphere Process Server 7.0
• IBM FileNet p8 v4.5.1, v5.1
• IBM Business Process Manager 8.5
• IBM Installation Manager
• IBM Integration Bus Version 9
• NetScaler, ACE load balancers
• IBM MQ MFT 7.0, 7.1 and 9
• TCP/IP, TLS v1.1, 1.2, SSLv3 Protocols
• IBM DataPower v7.2
• Puppet, Jenkins
• Linux(RHEL 5,6 & 7), AIX 5.1 & 6, Windows server 2000 & 2008 system administration
• Oracle 9i,10g,11c,12c, IBM DB2, SQL Server
• Server CPU, Capacity and memory planning
• GIT, SVN, CVS
• WAS Performance tuning
• C, C++, HTML, Java,XML,
• CA Introscope, Tivoli performance viewer
• SSH, FTP, SFTP, TCP, SSL v3, TLS
• Sitescope, Nagios monitoring
• Eclipse IDE, NetBeans
• Wsadmin scripting(Jacl/Jython)
• Unix/Linux Shell scripting
• IBM WAS, WPS, BPM, HTTP server, Tomcat, Apache
• SSL Cert management in app and web tier
• IBM MQ MFT
• IBM Integration Bus and IBM DataPower v7.2
• LDAP/Active directory

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Senior Middleware Administrator

Nashville, TN

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Administer IBM WebSphere application servers, BPM and WPS in cluster environments on RHEL 6 and 7 in production and non-production environments.
• Created and maintained several different configurations of WAS, including network deployment, Base, custom and standalone profiles
• High availability is maintained using 4 node cluster in WAS, Tomcat and BPM and maintained over 80 applications on WAS and Tomcat, 120 on BPM in production and non-production environments.
• Configured WebSphere virtual enterprise for dynamic clustering on WAS.
• Administer Tomcat 7 servers over 80 RHEL 6&7 in production and non-production environments.
• Installed java applications EAR and WAR files on WAS and WPS/BPM. WAR files on tomcat
• Migrated IBM WAS 6.1 to WAS 7 and WAS 8.5.5.
• Migrated applications from IBM WPS 7 to BPM 8.5.
• Migrated IBM HTTP Servers from 6.0 to 7.0 and 8.5.5
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 6.0, 7.0 & 8.5.5 and Apache 2.0 & 2.2
• Installed FileNet p8 4.5.1 on WAS 6.1 and migrated to WAS 7.
• Installed and configured IBM FileNet p8 v 5.2.1 CPE, Workplace XT, Navigator and RME on WAS 8.5.5.
• Migrated IBM FileNet p8 4.5.1(CPE, Workplace XT and navigator) to 5.2.1.
• Upgradation of java 1.4 to 1.6, 1.6 to 1.7 and 1.8
• Configured Two way SSL using certs between Datapower and Tomcat, IIB
• Administer IBM DataPower XI52 appliance.
• Good experience in DataPower AAA and SSL security policies.
• Configure domains, Multi-protocol gateways in DataPower.
• Configured IIB queue managers, FSH on DataPower.
• Installed in house and third party vendor applications on WAS and Tomcat.
• Automated deployments on WAS and tomcat using Shell and Jython scripts.
• Automated fix packs on WAS using shell scripts
• Installed MQ MFTE agents on Linux and Windows servers and configured jobs for B2B file transfers.
• Configured Introscope to WAS and Tomcat servers for performance tuning.
• Responsible for 24x7 on-call duties for production environments.
• Installed fix packs, Interim fix packs to application servers on regular intervals using IBM installation manager and update installer.
• Migrate applications running on Java 1.4, 1.6 to 1.7 and 1.8 on WAS and Tomcat.
• Configured active directory and LDAP authentication for WAS, WPS and BPM.
• Configured Linux service on server and shell scripts for restarting middleware servers followed by OS patching.
• Configured and setup SSL for data encryption and client authentication, Using WebSphere Application Server key management utility “ikeyman” for managing keys and certificates.
• Configured reverse proxies on apache for customers other than middleware applications.
• Good understanding of DMZ’s, Firewalls and Load Balancers.
• Documented work process, Issues and BCP documents in syswiki and OneNote.
• Provide documentation for Helpdesk and offshore team for L1 support.
• Orchestrated deployments in BPM and IIB using Jenkins.
• Experience in code repositories like GIT, CVS and SVN.
• Automated install process of tomcat, Apache web server and IBM HTTPS using shell scripts.
• Created, Configured and managed Generic servers, JMS servers, Connection factories, Queues and destinations.
• Configured over 60 MQ MFT agents across the client network on RHEL 6 & 7 and Windows 2008 servers.
• Configured monitors in MQ FTE for internal file transfers (Files moved using FTE agents).
• Configured B2B file transfer jobs to external vendors using FTP, SFTP, SSH, GPG encryption protocols.
• Created PMR’s and worked with IBM for peculiar issues that were found in the environment.
• Configure JDBC data sources to Oracle DB for applications hosted on WAS and BPM.
• Completed POC’s to migrate applications on WAS to JBOSS, Tomcat and WebLogic for cost evaluation.
• Good understanding of load balancer (NetScaler, Ace and F5) to configure backend HTTP server and ports.
• Content based URL routing on NetScaler
• Experience in configuring Sitescope and Nagios alerts.
• Experience in working with vendors to customize and install applications based on client requirements.
• Good understanding of Agile and scrum methodologies.

Senior Technical Support Engineer

Collegeville, PA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Administer IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 on RHEL 5 and AIX platforms
• Applied fix packs for WAS environments using update installer.
• Installed IBM 4.5.1 on WAS 6.1 RHEL servers.
• Installed IBM HTTP server v 6.0.
• Shell and Jython scripts to automate configuring Data sources and restart application server.
• Automated deployments using shell scripts.
• Server and resource planning to accommodate application growth.
• Provided L3 support for applications.
• Installed and configured Tomcat on RHEL 5 servers.
• Experience in configuring SSL security for the HTTP servers and the plugin.
• On-call support (24x7), Monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications.

Minneapolis, MN

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 on AIX and Linux platforms
• Monitored applications and WAS performance through Tivoli performance viewer and tuned the system caching, queueing, JVM parameters, DB connection pooling.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications on WAS 6.1
• Configured clusters for high availability of servers.
• Implemented Workload management (WLM) for failover using horizontal, vertical and combination of horizontal and vertical clustering.
• E nabled SSL security in web environments for IBM HTTP server and WebSphere application server.