PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of extensive experience in implementing Single Sign On using CA Siteminder and Sun One/Oracle Directory servers.
• Provided Architectural recommendations for Shared Security Services Infrastructure including CA/ Netegrity SiteMinder Policy Servers and Web Agents, Directory Servers.
• Experienced in installing and configuring Siteminder Policy Server and Web Agents on Solaris, Redhat Linux , AIX and Windows environments.
• Proficiency in configuration of Siteminder authentication forms.
• Highly experienced in SAML2.0 POST federation using CA SiteMinder 6.x, R 12.x and R12.5 and also setting up both IDP's Identity Provider and SP's Service Provider .
• Experience using PING Identity Solutions for performing the federation aspects in large enterprise networks.
• Experience with using Secure Proxy Servers and Reverse proxy servers.
• Extensive experience in different Siteminder Web Agents on HTTP Web Servers like IIS, Apache, SunOne Web Servers.
• Experience in configuration of SiteMinder Authentication Schemes, Policies, Realms, Rules and Responses.
• Experience in installing different J2EE Application Servers like WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat and Weblogic.
• Expericence in installing and configuring SunOne DSEE 6.x and Oracle DSEE 11g.
• Implemeted Load Balancing and Failover to improve the performance of Policy Sever.
• Implemented Logging and Auditing system for Siteminder to track and identify user activity as well as acquire intrusion reports of unauthorized attempts at access.
• Working knowledge on CA Identity Minder, Auth Minder and Risk Minder.
• Worked with Application Team for Siteminder Web Agent deployment as well as troubleshooting Ecommerce applications for integrating SSO.
• Hands on experience in designing, deployment, disaster recovery, fine tuning, replication and maintenance of SunOne Directory Servers on Solaris and Windows platforms.
• Expert in maintaining, troubleshooting issues in production environment.
• Strong analytical skills , interpersonal and leadership skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. SiteMinder Consultant

Involved as Sr. Siteminder Engineer to install, configure, implement, maintain and support enterprise infrastructure security solutions using CA Siteminder r12.x.

Responsibilities:

• Created policies, realms, rules, responses in Siteminder Policy Server to protect the applications and validate the users to work under SSO environment.
• Upgraded SiteMinder from r12SP3 to r12 SP5 and implemented SSO across multiple domains.
• Installed and Configured CA Siteminder Web Agent on IIS 6.x/7.x, Apache 2.x, SunOne Web Servers.
• Experience in configuring Siteminder Policy/Key Stores on Oracle DSEE 11G.
• Installed and configured CA Siteminder Federatoin User Authentication services using SAML 2.0 Post and creating the policies for Identity Provider and Service Provider in Siteminder Policy Server.
• Developed Custom Login Forms for user authentication.
• Analyzed the existing configuration and provided the road map to integrate the CA SiteMinder with several web applications.
• Experience in helping the application team troubleshoot errors when integrating with SSO.
• Perform Functional, Regression, Stress and Certificate-based Authentication tests.
• Conduct proactive and reactive performance tuning for Web Agents, Policy Servers, Policy Stores, User Stores to meet and maintain operational requirements process, thread, connection, cache .
• Determine the root cause, implement solutions, and apply patches to resolve authentication, authorization, and performance issues, as well as provide feedback to CA Siteminder product bugs.
• Created documentation for Change Requests, Service Requests, and upgrading processes for support purposes.
• Experience in troubleshooting urgent priority tickets wit minimum response time.
• Documented technical specifications and procedures for Siteminder best practices.
• 24x7 production support.

Environment: CA SiteMinder r12.x, Sun Solaris 10, Windows Server 2003/2008, Microsoft IIS 6.x/7.x, Oracle DSEE 11g, Apache2.x, Java Scripts, JSP, Weblogic.

Confidential

Sr. Siteminder Consultant

Worked as Senior Siteminder consultant to configure Siteminder r12.SP3 and upgrade from Siteminder 6.0SP6.

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and upgraded CA Siteminder Policy Server 6.0SP6 to r12SP3, configured policy store on SunOne DSEE 6.3.
• Configured and updagraded Siteminder Web Agents 6.x/r12.x on IIS 6.0/7.0, Apache 2.x, and SunOne web servers.
• Creation of trusted hosts, host configuration objects, agents, agent groups, and agent configuration objects, and implementation of trusted host registrations
• Creation of application based Domains, Realms, Rules, Policies and Responses.
• Used smobjexport and smobjimport and migrated policies from Sun One directory server 5.2 to 6.3.
• Configured load balancing and failover mechanisms for various Siteminder components including Policy Server, Policy Store in QA and Production Environment.
• Was responsible for infrastructure design and development of R12SP3 infrastructure, including creating cluster of policy servers on the failover subnets at different datacenters.
• Applied operating system patches to Siteminder according to the system requirements to resolve authentication, authorization, and performance issues.
• Created Identity Provider and Service Provider policies for SAML2.0 Post Federation Assertions.
• Extensively created documents on Root Cause Analysis and the solutions implemented.
• Experience in Troubleshooting urgent priority tickets with minimum response time

Environment: CA Siteminder 6.0SP6/r12SP3, Windows Server 2003/2008, Microsoft IIS 6.0/7.0, Apache 2.x, SunOne DSEE 6.x.

Confidential

Siteminder Consultant

Worked as Siteminder consultant to configure and administer Siteminder 6.0SP6 policy servers, install web agents to implement SSO and support the enterprise security solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Policy-based Security using Siteminder Web Agents, User Directories, Realms, Authentication schemes, User Sessions, Rules, and Responses to protect, manage, authenticate and authorize access to enterprise resources.
• Installation and configuration of Web Agents on Apache and IIS Web Servers.
• Developed custom form authentication using JavaScript, Servlet and HTML.
• Installed, Configured and Designed CA/Netegrity SiteMinder Policy Server.
• Implementation of SSO and authentication services using CA/Netegrity SiteMinder.
• Involved in capacity planning in terms of hardware and user load for CA Siteminder policy server.
• Troubleshoot and resolve Siteminder issues, provided support.
• Worked with Web Hosting Team and co-ordinated web agent installations on web servers.
• Prepare project plan and submit weekly progress reports, throughout the project duration.

Environment: CA Siteminder Policy Server 6.0SP6, Sun One Directory Server 5.2, Apache Web Server 2.x, IIS 6, Java JSP and HTML.

Confidential

Siteminder consultant

Assigned as a Siteminder consultant to install, configure, implement, maintain and support enterprise infrastructure security solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Provided 3rd level support for LDAP, Siteminder code issues.
• Performance tuning for Siteminder to provide better response time, low latency, high availability and maximum throughput.
• Created strategies for backup and recovery of Siteminder environment.
• Configured SAML affiliate agents on the web servers designated for affiliate customers.
• Created policies, realms, rules, responses to protect Siteminder resources
• Configured Siteminder 6.0 web agents for Apache web server 2.0, IIS 6.0 and Sun One iPlanet Web Server 5.2.
• Designed and implemented user authentication, web security and security solutions.
• Installed Siteminder Policy Server 6.0, migrated the settings from 5.5 to 6.0 for all of the policy servers.
• Installed and Configured Web agent on IIS 6.0 , Apache 2.0 to implement SSO.
• Monitor user activity through one view monitor, error, and other exception reports to ensure security is being maintained.
• Maintain working relationship with application owners and subject matter experts to determine current and future needs.
• Work with other Web Hosting team members and Java Development staff to understand requirements.

Environment: Sun Solaris , Windows 2000/2003,CA Siteminder Policy Server5.x/6.x , Sun One Directory Server 5.2, IIS5, Apache HTTP server.

Confidential

Siteminder Administrator

Worked as SiteMinder Administrator, to re-design and improve the high availability SiteMinder architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Installed SiteMinder policy server 5.5 and upgraded from Siteminder 5.0.
• Upgraded web agents for Apache IIS web servers.
• Upgradation and migration Policy Store from Sun One directory server from 5.1 to 5.2.
• Created Realms, Rules, Response and Policies in policy server.
• Troubleshoot Siteminder and User issues.
• Provide support on rotation basis.
• Analyzing and troubleshooting Sitminder operational issues, resolve performance problems, outages and forecasting for capacity.

Environment: SiteMinder 5.0, SunOne Directory Server 5.2, Solaris, Apache, Windows Server 2000, IIS, Tomcat.