SUMMARY

• Around 8+ years of experience in IT industry in the areas of Analysis, Design, Development, Testing Implementation of business applications with special emphasis on Middleware Technologies IBM Websphere Message Broker/IBM Integration Bus,IBM Websphere Message Queue.
• Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Waterfall, Agile Methodologies.
• Worked as an IBM WMB Tech Consultant and performed on various roles involving solution architecture, design & development and well - versed in all areas of the implementation life-cycle including Planning, Requirements Gathering, Configuration, Message Flow Development, Testing, User Training and Production Support.
• Worked in implementation, Upgrade and Support of Middleware Applications using IBM Message Broker/IBM Integration Bus, IBM WebSphere MQSeries across various interfaces.
• Hands-on experience in Designing/ Development and Testing of Message Broker Flows using WMB v7/v8 and IBM Integration Bus v9 across various Message Broker Interfaces using multiple Transport Protocols like HTTP, MQ, SOAP and FTP.
• Have good Knowledge on middleware/EAI technology and SOA concepts.
• Experience in handling the Messages Sets with MRM, DFDL, XML parsers..
• Worked on HP Quality Center to store all testing results, metrics, created test cases.
• Hands-on involvement in Installations, configurations, security, migrations, and technical support for large enterprise applications.
• Involved in Conducting relevant Proof Of Concepts
• Hand on experience in creating messaging models, including schemas and WSDLs, for middleware layer to back end business partner's APIs.
• Was also involved in the migration of existing system to a new upgraded version which involved in the development of complete integration flows and has also modified existing message broker flows in par with the customer requirements.
• Used RfhUtil to perform different tasks on WMQ.
• Expertise in working with IBM MQ Series and Websphere Message Broker on various platforms like AIX, Linux, and Windows.
• Experience in MQSeries Clustering, MQClient / MQServer setup, MQSeries System Administration and MQ Objects Creation and documentation.
• Developed functional, technical specifications and Mapping Documents for EAI projects based on requirements.
• Experience in creating Message Sets using XSDs, COBOL copybook.
• Comprehensive knowledge in working with RDBMS like DB2, ORACLE and MySQL.
• Experience in Java, j2ee using spring Framework.
• Strong experience in all the phases of software development life cycle including requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, deployment and support.
• Proven ability to lead software development teams and to work on multiple projects with strict deadlines. Has strong problem-solving, work ethics, communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills.
• Strong communication and relationship management skills, enthusiastic and self-driven with a high degree of commitment.
• IBM certified in IBM MQ7 and IBM MB7.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Banking, Retail and Telecom.
• IBM Websphere Message Broker v(6.x/7.x/8.x),IBM Integration
• Bus v9.0, IBM Web Sphere MQSeries v(5.x/6.0/7.x), WMQ Tool, RfhUtil, MQ Visual Edit, Toad, XMLspy, HP Quality Center,
• Oracle 10g, DB2 9.1, Visual Source Safe, SVN and Rational

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Tech Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Creation and configuration of MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Remote queues,
• Local Queues, Queue Aliases, Channels, Clusters, Transmission Queues.
• Troubleshooting and resolving the problem within the entire MQ environment
• Designed and developed XML and MRM based Message flows and Message sets. Used XMLSpy to develop and debug XML and XSLT based applications.
• Experienced with tools like RFHUtil/RFHUTILC to work with WebSphere MQ objects like queue managers,
• Designed and developed XML and DFDL based WMB Message flows and Message sets, coded the ESQL for the Message Flow nodes.
• Coded ESQL for MB Message flow nodes. Analyzed existing code and enhanced the system for better performance.
• Created Message sets using COBOL copybook, XML schema files, WSDL.
• Developed WSDLs and Message sets to expose the message broker flow as a web service.
• Unit testing and end-to-end Integration testing of the message flows..
• Used Message Flow Debugger to identify the bug by recreating the issue in Test environment that was reported in production.
• Maintain/Support existing MQ Environment (MQ /WMB).
• Providing technical and administrative support for Middleware systems in development and production environments
• Assisted in ongoing integration of Web sphere Message Broker with the rest of the legacy network still in operation.

Confidential

Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the requirements and coming up with the Estimation and Plan for releases.
• Designing and Preparing the Technical Specification document from the functional specifications.
• Implemented POC for new applications.
• Designed and developed XML and DFDL based WMB Message flows and Message sets, coded the ESQL for the Message Flow nodes.
• Developed error handling sub-flows to implement the Error handling concepts to handle the failover tasks during the Message transformation.
• Debugged the broker logs and traces to identify the missing messages and eliminating the errors like avoiding the port conflicts and changing the attributes of broker objects and perform the testing again.
• Experience in configuring various message broker nodes - MQ Nodes, File Nodes, SOAP Nodes, HTTP Nodes, Routing, Transformation and Construction nodes.
• Developed SOAP based web services.
• Developed Batch Services using File Nodes, worked on database integration using compute node.
• Setting up WMB and MQ environments for the new application
• Performance tuning for message broker flows.
• Assisted in ongoing integration of Web sphere Message Broker with the rest of the legacy network still in operation
• Participated in design, walkthrough, code review and defect review meetings.
• Solved Critical problems.
• Worked with testing tools that include SOAP UI and Rfhutil to work with WebSphere MQ objects like queue managers, queues, listeners, channels
• Created and/or modified system diagrams and process flows, writes specifications.
• Constructed and unit tests all code, procedures.

Confidential

Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with business users in gathering the business requirements, identifying the relationship within and between the groups of data.
• Created the Functional/Technical specification documents by maintaining standards of the enterprise.
• Coordination and implementing POC for new applications and technologies in to the Environment.
• Created tools to enhance the productivity of existing system.
• Installed, Configured and administered MQSeries on various platforms like Windows, Linux and AIX platforms.
• Managed and maintained the environments by automating systems management and monitoring MQ interfaces - error queues, abnormal volume of data and troubleshooting MQ issues, input and output process count, mq log files.
• Primary point of contact for EAI support, responsible for housekeeping MQ infrastructure and maintenance.
• Root cause analysis and resolution of production MQ and application issues, providing technical support to the team as well.
• Enhancement of BAU interfaces - involved in the high level analysis, design discussion and implementation of change requests per existing services.
• Monitoring of Escalation maintenance with clients and prioritizing the work towards quick resolution.
• Designed the technical document for various jobs, unit test documents with various scenarios and acceptance level of test case results.
• Actively participated in discussions and implementation of Error Handling and Audit management process.