CAREER SUMMARY:

• Trouble shooting various problems in different stages of development by analyzing the logs.
• Over 10 years IT experience with a proven track record of System Administration, Production Support and Configuration of distributed environmentswith emphasis inWeb Administration, J2EE Application Administration being the key strength
• Senior Systems Administrator with around twelve years of experience in WebSphere Administration, WebSphere Portal Server Administration, SOA Administration, 24/7 Technical Support and J2EE Application Development.
• Extensive experience in installation, configuration, deployment and management of portal applications using WebSphere Portal Server 5.0/5.1/6.0 on Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux, AIX and Windows platforms.
• Very Good experience in all components of WebSphere Administration like Architecture, Design, installation, Configuration, Deployment, Scripting, Migration, and Trouble shooting on Solaris 10/9/8, Aix7.0/5.3/5.2/4.3, Suse Linux, Window 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 2003 Server Environments.
• Implemented HORIZONTAL and VERTICAL cluster.
• Provide support for all Incident tickets on all AIX and Linux servers that escalated by WAS L2 team.
• Create Problem management tickets provide Total Resolution and RCA for all Problem tickets.
• Implemented Renewed Web SSL certificates using Microsoft Lifecycle Manager.
• Worked with IBM setting up a PMR whenever required.

WebSphere Skills

• Installation and maintenance, Websphere4/5/6.1/7.0, on Unix OS and documentation.
• Strong system administration, installation, implemenation skills in WebSphere Application Server administration/Websphere Portalon Sun Solaris, Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2003 server Operating Systems.
• Significant experience in optimization and fine tuning of Enterprise Applications in WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7.0/8.0, Weblogic Application Server 5.1/6.x/7.x/8.x/9.x/10.3, WebSpherMQ, JNDI, LDAP, Service Integration Bus, under Sun Solaris, AIX and Windows NT/2003.
• Hands on experience in migrating the existing configuration and applications from WebSphere 5.1 and 6.0, 6.1 to WebSphere7.0 on Sun Solaris, AIX, linux operating system environments.
• Extensive experience in installing, configuring and administering IBM HTTP Server.
• Considerable experience working with HP Diagnostics Server.
• Installation and maintenance of JBOSS Application Server, Apache Tomcat Application Server.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of Weblogic 8.1/9.x/10.x.
• Building the environment with Apache HTTP server as web server and securing them using SSL certificates.
• Good knowledge of PL/SQL, Oracle.
• Good Knowledge in Creating Horizontal and Vertical Clustering in WAS and Web logic Application servers for execution environment and long-running applications
• Highly proficient in automating environment builds, administration and deployment operations using standard scripting utilities like XMLAccess, ReleaseBuilder, WPScript, wsadmin, ws ant, JACL, JYTHON and Perl.Installed and configured Single Sign on SSO
• Worked on IBM Tivoli Access Manager TAM for securing applications
• Experienced in IBM Tivoli Directory Server LDAP for authentication and authorization
• Experienced working on auto scheduling tools like Autosys and cron job for defining, scheduling and monitoring the jobs.
• Good knowledge
• Well versed in the various procedures and processes involved in resolving outages and providing production support for multiple projects 24/7 and working effectively with different groups in multiple environments Development, QA, Production .
• Understand current infrastructure and follow different processes followed by UNIX/DBA team and work accordingly on daily activities
• Excellent problem resolution and communication skills with ability to work under pressure in a highly visible role.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Operating Systems:Solaris 7, 8, 9 10, AIX 4.3.3/5.1/5.2, Linux 8/7.2/7.1/6.2, SuseLinux, HP-UX 10.20,Windows NT/2000/2003/2008 and Ms-Dos
• Languages :C, C , Java 2.0/1.2, .Net VB,ASP,C , VB 6.0, ASP and VC
• Application/WebServers: WebSphere 8.0/7.0/6.1.0.13/5.1.1.13/5.0.2/4.0.7, Websphere Portal 7.0/6.0, WebLogic 5.1/6.1/7.0/8.1/9.2/10.3, Jboss Application Server 5.1, Apache Tomcat Application Server, Tivoli Access Manager 5, Tivoli Directory Server, SiteMinder 5.5/4.5, IHS 6.1/2.0.47/1.3.28/1.3.26/1.3, IIS6.0/5.0, Apache2.0.47/1.3.28, Sun ONE WebServer 6.1/6.0
• Databases:Oracle10g/9.0.2.5/8.1.7/7.x, SqlServer 2003/2008, DB2UDB, 8.2/8.1/7.2/7.1, Sybase and MS-Access 2000
• J2EE Technologies:J2EE1.4/1.3/1.2, Java2.0, Servlet2.3/2.2, Java Beans, JB2.2/2.0/1.1/1.0, JSP1.2/1.1/1.0, JDBC2.0/1.0, JNDI, RMI, CORBA, Java Swing /AWT, XML, HTML, DHTML, and JavaScript, WebSphere MQ 5.3,
• Special Software:RAD 7.5/7.0/6, WSAD 5/4, IBM Rational ClearCase, RemedyUser, SiteScope, Wily 7.1/7.0,Citrix ICA Client, IBM VisualAge, UltraEdit, Forte, Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio, XMLSpy, HomeSite 4.5/5.0, IntroScope, Resource Analyzer, and LogAnalyzer, Candle, Actuate 5/6

Professional EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Web Spare Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Build, maintain, support, administer environment using JBoss Application Server and Apache HTTP server.
• Deploy applications, code drop on JBoss Application Server, WebSphere Application Server.
• Expert in configuring JBoss application server on Linux/Unix environment
• Hand-on experience in mod jk and mod cluster load-balancing
• Expertise in setting up application server cluster, web server-app server communications and deployments to cluster.
• Experience in setup and installation of SSL Digital Certificates
• Expert in installation, configuration, performance, tuning and maintenance of JBoss application servers
• Hands on experience in using version control software ClearCase.
• Experience in HP PPM ticketing tool.
• Support the environment, server restart, troubleshooting the issues related to these environments.
• Installation, configuration, administration and support ofWebSphere Application Server 8.0/7.0/6.x.
• Implemented clustering of servers in WebSphere Application Server.
• Installed and configured multiple IBM HTTP Servers to participate in clustering, with remote WAS plug-in.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server.
• Well experienced in configuring various LDAP user registries for authentication and authorization and implementing SSO Single Sign On
• Enabling counters for performance testing to gather data as requested by testers.
• Provide ongoing product maintenance including problem identification, program fix installation and validation including regular maintenance cycles to implement fixes to known problems.
• Co-ordinate with Database Teams/Application Development Teams/Client Managers/End Users/System Administrator Teams/IBM-Project Managers to troubleshoot various severity level outages
• On call 24x7 support on rotation basis on primary and secondary support for the team.

Environment: WebSphere 8/7/6.x, Apache Tomcat 6, JBoss Application Server 5.1, IIS5.5/5.0, Apache HTTP 2.2.22, J2EE1.5/1.4/1.3, Java2.0, JSP1.2, EJB2.0, JDBC2.0, XML, Windows 2003/2008, Sun Solaris8/9/10, ClearCase, HP PPM, Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008, Load Director, Tivoli Access Manger , VSS, Shell Scripts.

Confidential

Sr. Web Spare Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Built environments from scratch using Apache Http Server and JBoss Application Server or Apache Tomcat application server on Linux environments.
• WebSphere/Weblogic administration, configuration, tuning, clustering and troubleshooting WebSphere related problems.
• Supported System Administration Services, Production Support, launched web projects, worked on Solaris and Windows OS for development, QA and production environments that also include software installations, backups, memory management, patch administration, documentation.
• Configured the Web server Instances, Session Management and Virtual hosts for WebSphere Application Server
• Installed, configured and administered of Oracle WebLogic Server 11g 10.3.5 in various environments.
• Responsible for setting up the Dev, Test, QA, Pre-Prod and Production Environments which includes Installing the WebSphere, Creating Profiles, nodes, federation of nodes, WAS instances, Application Servers, Clusters, Virtual hosts, Data Sources and Plug-in configuration.
• Monitored the logs after the stress test performed by QA team and made decisions on deploying applications.
• Responsible for documenting operational environments support procedures, configuration and management of application clusters, load balancing, tuning and problem isolation.
• Configure and troubleshoot the WebSphere Application Server.
• Installation, configuration, maintenance and support of Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP server. Installed and configured Sun One I-planet web server.
• Responsible for providing security for new enterprise applications like creating policy, rules, realms, user provisioning, single sign-on, access control using Tivoli Access Manger, Tivoli Directory Server.
• Generated CSRs for ordering SSL certificate.
• Implemented SSL certificate on Apache, Tomcat, Jboss application servers and on IIS.
• Trouble shooting and fixing issues with SSL certificates.
• Installed MySql server and Oracle 10g client on Solaris and Linux servers.
• Experienced working Autosys for scheduling, monitoring the jobs.
• Diagnosis and repair of the WebSphere environment. Assist developers with the diagnosis and repair of WebSphere applications.
• Installed PHP 5.3 on UNIX environment.
• Deployed the code on Apache HTTP server, Jboss Application Server, Tomcat and WebSphere application server.
• Involved in trouble shooting and performance tuning.
• On-call support 24x7 , monitor and maintain multiple applications at development and QA phases.

Environment:WebSphere 6.0./6.x, Web Logic 9.2/10.3/11g, Apache Tomcat 6, JBoss Application Server 5.1,IIS5.5/5.0, Apache HTTP 2.2.22, Sun One I-planet web server, PHP 5, J2EE1.5/1.4/1.3, Java2.0, JSP1.2, EJB2.0, JDBC2.0, XML, Windows 2003/2008, Sun Solaris8/9/10, Remedy User, Load Director, Tivoli Access Manger , VSS, Shell Scripts.

Confidential

Sr. WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience working on WebSphere Application serverV6.1, V7.0in a large enterprise environment.
• Responsible for J2EE Application Deployments, Service Integration Bus Configuration, Message Activations, Destinations, Plug-in Configuration, Data Source Creation, Virtual Host Creation, Session management, clusters, Deployment Manager Configuration, Network Deployment Configuration in WebSphere5.1 and WebSphere6.1 on Sun Solaris and Linux Server environments.
• Extensively worked on Global Security for WebSphere environment, SSL Security b/w Web Server and App Server, J2EE application security using Tivoli Access Manager Suite.
• Extensive experience in installing, configuring and administering IBM HTTP Server, Apache Web Servers.
• Worked on securing WebSphere Application server environment and WebSphere Portal Server environment with IBM Tivoli Access Manager and Tivoli Directory Server.
• Clustered WebSphere Application Server in a Multi Cluster Environment using Horizontal Scaling on WebSphere Application Server.
• Worked closely with development and testing teams to implement fixes in Testing and Production environments.
• Used a combination of ANT, XML Access, WASdmin, Jython and shell scripting to automate deployments of portal resources including pages, themes, skins, portlets, security permissions and virtual portals.
• Created multiple Virtual Portals and administered them in an enterprise environment to give different look and feel for the same underlying portal application.
• Managed WebSphere Portal Security by creating multiple users and groups, assigned permissions on portal resources, managed inheritance and propagation of role types on resources, and managed role blocks.
• Deployment tools like Bamboo, Continuum used and SPLUNK has been installed, configured to the portal environments in order to monitor the logs.
• Configured Dynamic cache with WebSphere Application Server JVMs to increase the performance.
• Responsible for upgrading WebSphere Application Server environment from 5.1.0.4 to 6.1.0.2 by applying fix packs, refresh packs and fixes.
• To troubleshoot the issues related to memory, heap size, core dumps, Dump Analyzer, Heap Analyzer, Memory Visualizer, and TMDA were used.
• Enabled LTPA cookies in WebSphere Application Server for single sign on.
• Strong technical knowledge includes WebSphere Application Server implementation, support, workloadmanagement and performance tuning. Web server setup, including complex secure sockets layer SSL configuration on IBM HTTP Server.
• Worked on IBM Tivoli Access Manager TAM for securing applications.
• Experience in working with IBM Tivoli Directory Server LDAP for authentication and authorization.
• Responsible for performance tuning the WebSphere Application Server environment including JVM, connection pooling, web container, EJB container and caching.
• Responsible for providing security for new enterprise applications like creating policy, rules, realms, user provisioning, single sign-on, access control using Siteminder
• Responsible for administering, maintaining and configuring a 24 x 7 highly available, multi-clustered, production environment.
• Extensively involved in migration process of WebSphere6.x.

Environment:WebSphere application server 7.0/6.1.0.39/5.1, WebSphere Portal Servers 6.0/7.0, Web Logic 9.2/10.3/11g, IIS5.5/5.0, IBM Http Server 6.0, Tivoli Access Manager, Tivoli Directory Server, Web Seal, Citrix ICA Client, J2EE1.5/1.4/1.3, Java2.0, JSP1.2, EJB2.0, JDBC2.0, XML, Windows 2000 Advanced Servers, Sun Solaris8/9, Site Scope, WSAD5.0/40, DB2, Oracle10g/9.0.2.5, Remedy User, Load Director, VSS, Shell Scripts,Siteminder,WSAdmin scripting.

Confidential

Lead WebSphere Portal Server/Middleware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, administered and supported WebSphere Application Server 7.0/6.x.
• Maintenance of the WebSphere Application Servers on different UNIX platforms and setting up the development and testing and staging environment for the ongoing application development.
• Debugging of the application problems in deployment time, runtime and in load test.
• Created and configured JDBC providers and data sources to support database backed applications for Oracle and DB2 UDB.
• Implemented clustering of servers in WebSphere Application Server.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server.
• Installed and configured multiple IBM HTTP Servers to participate in clustering, with remote WAS plug-in.
• Responsible for WebSphere Portal Server installation, configuration and deployment, including activating portlets and portlets applications, managing users and groups.
• Responsible for managing pages, layout and content, portlets, portlet applications and portal configurations.
• Worked with Portal developers and designers to install Portal artifacts to the Portal environment.
• Responsible for managing access, users, groups and portal resources with policies.
• Experience in implementing global security using LDAP.
• Experience in load balancing multiple web servers for various projects.
• Migrated existing applications from WebSphere 6.x versions to 7.0.
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance and performance related issues.
• Applying software maintenance, program patches and keeping the system software releases current. Effectively interacted with the users on a daily basis, decreasing downtime and increasing user productivity.
• Well versed with monitoring tools like Netcool, Hp Diagnostics, OEM.
• Well experienced in configuring various LDAP user registries for authentication and authorization and implemented SSO Single Sign On
• Experienced working on ClearCase, CVS version control tools.
• Maintained up to date application configuration and technical documentation for support.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software problems, and interact with IT staff or vendors in performing complex testing, support and troubleshooting functions.
• On call 24x7 support on rotation basis on primary and secondary support for the team.

Environment:WebSphere7.0/6.1.0.13/5.1, WebSphere Portal Servers 6.0, WebLogic 9.2/10.3/11g, IIS5.5/5.0, IBM Http Server 6.0, Tivoli Access Manager, Tivoli Directory Server, WebSeaL, Citrix ICA Client, J2EE1.5/1.4/1.3, Java2.0, JSP1.2, EJB2.0, JDBC2.0, XML, Windows 2000 Advanced Servers, Sun Solaris8/9, Site Scope, WSAD5.0/40, DB2, Oracle10g/9.0.2.5, Remedy User, Load Director, Cisco CSS, VSS, Shell Scripts, WSAdmin scripting.

Confidential

WebSphere Application Server/MiddlewareAdministrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring and maintaining IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0, IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment 5.0, JDBC drivers and Servlets engines on diverse UNIX platforms that include LINUX, Solaris, AIX and windows 2000 and created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
• Responsible for Administration of WebSphere in Testing, Pre-Prod and Production environments.
• Involved in Load balancing and Performance tuning for various projects.
• Implemented migration of WebSphere Application Server from 5.x to 6.0.
• Troubleshoot WebSphere Application Server connection pooling and connection manager with Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2.
• Implemented WebSphere load balancing using WebSphere workload management like horizontal cloning and vertical clustering.
• Responsible for updating patches and installation of JDBC drivers and Servlets engines on Sun Solaris and LINUX environment.
• Involved in assisting QA team in Load and Integration testing of J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server.
• Experienced in creating Queue Mangers using MQSC commands and MQ control commands
• Daily work involved in executing CCRs Change Control Request and resolving TTs Trouble Ticket involving new application installs, upgrades, applying patches, application server installs, resolving outages adherent to the corporate procedures, policies and escalation levels set forth for the Web Hosting team.
• Involved in performing RCA Root Cause Analysis and PDPSI Problem Determination and Problem Source Identification on a daily basis.
• Implemented Global Security for WebSphere environment, SSL Security between Web Server and App Server, J2EE application security using Tivoli Access Manager Suite.
• Co-ordinate with Database Teams/Application Development Teams/Client Managers/End Users/System Administrator Teams/IBM-Project Managers to troubleshoot various severity level outages as per set SLAs.
• Provided 24x7 production support, best practice trouble shooting, monitoring, capacity planning, performance tuning, naming standards, security and maintenance for J2EE applications deployed on WebSphere application servers.

Environment: WebSphere 5.0.2.5/4.0.7, WebSphere MQ 5.3, IIS 5.5/5.0, LDAP iPlanet Directory Server, Citrix ICA Client, J2EE 1.3/1.2, Java 2.0, JSP 1.2, EJB 2.0, JDBC 2.0, XML, Windows 2000 Advanced Servers, Sun Solaris 8/9, SiteScope, Cisco CSS/GSS, WSAD 5.0/40, DB2, Oracle 8.1.7/9.0.5, Remedy User, Shell scripts, Wsadmin scripting.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in Installing WebSphere3.5.3/4.0.4 in both Windows NT/2000 and AIX4.3.3.
• Involved in installing/configuring IBM HTTP 1.3.12.6 Server.
• Worked on various components of WebSphere such as Workload Management WLM , Servlet Engine, Session Manager, AdminClient, and WebSphere administration, configuration, tuning, clustering and troubleshooting WebSphere related problems.
• Supported System Administration Services, Production Support, launched web projects, worked on AIX and NT OS for development, QA and production environments that also include software installations, backups, memory management, patch administration, documentation.
• Monitored the logs after the stress test performed by QA team and made decisions on deploying applications.
• Responsible for documenting operational environments support procedures, configuration and management of application clusters, load balancing, tuning and problem isolation.
• Deployed and configured XML files for various applications running on the WebSphere Server.
• Installed, configured, upgraded and troubleshot the WebSphere Application Server and migrated WebSphere from 3.5.3 to 4.0.4 and installed fix packs.
• Debugged WebSphere Application Server connection pooling issues using Wily and generating thread dumps
• Monitored WebSphere Application Server performance through Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Diagnosis and repair of the WebSphere environment. Assist developers with the diagnosis and repair of WebSphere applications.
• Involved in trouble shooting and performance tuning using Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer.
• On-call support 24x7 , monitor and maintain multiple applications at development and QA phases.

Environment:WebSphere V3.5.3/4.0.4, IBM HTTP Server, Apache 1.3.20, IBM VisualAge 3.5.3, Wily 5.1,Rational Rose, IBM Mainframes, XML, EJB, JSP, JDBC, JavaScript, HTML, DB2, AIX and Windows NT.