PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Confidential Certified Specialist in WebSphere MQ/MB Administration with over 10+ years of IT industry experience in Confidential WebSphere suite of products (MQ,WBIMB and WAS)
• Exposure to major Production Environments running E - Business applications using WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker
• Expertise in Installing & Configuring Confidential WebSphere MQ 7.5/7.0.1.7/6.0/5.3 , WSRR and WebSphere Message Broker 8.0/7.0/6.1/6.0/5.0 on various environments such as Windows 2003/NT/XP, AIX, Sun Solaris, Linux, HP-UX and AS/400
• Experienced in Setting up High availability clusters for WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker servers using HACMP, VERITAS and MSCS.
• Expertise in troubleshooting the critical production issues and getting them resolved quickly
• Involved in Perform analysis of automating the conversion of legacy transformations by WTX.
• Expertise in setting up the databases and configuring the odbc files for the broker connection
• Expert on working with Broker servers on Versions 5.0/ 6.0/ 6.1 and 7.1.
• Expertise in FTP’s like MQ FTE, PM4data and Connect direct.
• Expertise in Administering & Performance Tuning in Confidential WebSphere MQ and Broker
• More than 2 years of experience in WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
• Well versed in installing and using monitoring tools like Tivoli Omegamon and Qpasa
• Expert in setting up security in MQ and Broker using OAM and Access control lists
• Experienced in setting up SSL across the MQ and Broker environments and maintaining the certificates
• Experience in writing Bash Shell Scripts, Crontab Scripting for automated recycle of WebSphere MQ and Broker servers and day to day tasks

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Windows 2000/NT/2003/XP, HP-UX, z/OS, Linux, Solaris, LinuxAIX, AS400, HP-UX

Software: WebSphere MQ 7.5/7.1, 6.x, 5.x, WebSphere Message Broker 8.0, 7.0, 6.16.0, 5.0MQSI, WAS, Tivoli Omegamon XE, Qpasa.

Database: MS SQL Server 2000/2005, MySql, Oracle 8i/9i, MS-Access, DB2.

Languages: T-SQL, PL/SQL, XML, Java, C, C++, VB, VC++, FoxPro.

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, XML, ASP.Net with C#, VB Script.

SOA Registry & Repository: WSRR

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Strongsville, Ohio

Sr. WebSphere MQ/MB Admin

Responsibilities:

• Defining MQ/MB objects on Solaris, Linux, Z/OS and Windows servers using the scripts
• Setup OAM and SSL security among the MQ infrastructure
• Monitoring queues and channels using AppWatch and Qpasa
• Setup and exercising disaster recovery and failover process.
• Deploying BAR file, applying monitoring profile when needed in WBIMB.
• Deploying Maps and Trees in WTX environment.
• Created Clusters of Queue Managers to achieve Load balancing and also to simplify overall administration process
• Creating and configuring Confidential MQ series objects like Queue Managers, Queues, channels, Message Brokers, Execution Groups etc. Deploying Message flows, Message sets to interact with applications running on Distributed systems (Windows, Linus, HP-UX).
• Setup AppWatch monitoring tool and managing access users
• Participating in problem identification and resolution on development, test acceptance and production environment
• Tune-up for better optimization
• Writing scripts to upgrade the MQ and FTE migrations.
• Deploy, administer and troubleshoot Message Broker flows.
• Setup Message Broker on Linux and AIX servers.
• Adding or deleting queue manager from MQ clusters depending on infrastructure need to simplify the administrating and also for high availability
• Work with the Confidential support for MQ related problems.
• Installing the latest patches for MQ from Confidential .
• Providing 24/7 support for the MQ issues in distributed as well as z/OS servers

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

WebSphere MQ Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installing MQ, on Aix, Solaris and Linux servers
• Defining MQ objects on Solaris, Linux, and Windows servers using the scripts
• Setup WebSphere MQ clusters for simplifying the administration and also for high availability
• Setup OAM and SSL security among the MQ infrastructure
• Monitoring queues and channels
• Installed the latest fixes and patches from Confidential
• Setup and exercising disaster recovery and high availability Queue managers
• Creating new execution group, setting up the HTTP port
• Setup remote administration for all the queue managers
• Created Clusters of Queue Managers to achieve Load balancing and also to simplify the overall administration process
• Participating in problem identification and resolution on development, test acceptance and production environment
• Worked with the Confidential support
• Installing the latest patches for MQ from Confidential .
• Providing 24/7 support for the MQ issues in distributed as well as z/OS servers
• Provided 24x7 technical administration services to WMQ/Message Broker server environments in multiple platforms.

Confidential, Omaha, NE

WebSphere MQ/Broker Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installing MQ, WBIMB on Solaris server.
• Developed Message flows using SWIFT messages
• Defining MQ objects on Solaris, Windows etc using the scripts.
• Setup the broker and designed the pub/sub.
• Designed and developed message flows using the toolkit for data transformation.
• Created message sets by importing the COBOL copybooks.
• Coded the ESQL for the message flow nodes.
• Monitoring queues and channels.
• Setup remote administration for all the queue managers.
• Writing API’s using C, Java.
• Setting up the SSL on the channels.
• Setup the trigger’s and channel initiators.
• Setup security using the Object Authority Manager.
• Deploying the Message flows and sets in the broker.
• Troubleshooting and debugging Message Flows using trace nodes and error handling nodes.
• Tuning up performance of the applications.
• Installing the latest patches for MQ and WBIMB from Confidential .
• Providing 24/7 support for the MQ and WBIMB issues.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

WebSphere MQ/Broker Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Installed WMQ/Broker in many servers like Solaris, AIX, Linux and windows.
• Worked with internal and external clients in EAI projects. Verified the configuration by exchanging messages from both ends
• Designed message routing using MQIPT.
• Deployed the Bar files in broker using Toolkit and the command lines.
• Performed system test with project team, trouble shoot and analyzed messaging errors.
• Upgraded Unix/Intel servers in WQM group.
• Installed monitoring tools like Candle and Qpasa for monitoring alerts.
• Setup MQ Clustering for high availability and administration purposes.
• Designed failover handling, HA (high Availability) using MSCS (Microsoft Cluster Server) and HACMP by using MQ series support Pac.
• Configured Queues, channels for project teams. Configured WMQ Queue managers cluster to handle work load balancing.
• Backed up the MQ servers using the MS03 support Pac.
• Upgraded MQ servers from 5.3 to 6.0.
• Setup security using OAM and SSL.
• Setup MQ clients and used client connection table for the access.
• Automated the day to day tasks in MQ/Broker by writing Shell scripts.
• Reviewed, Code-walk through client’s Interface programs in .NET.
• Set up backup and recovery procedures.
• Provided technical support on WMQ/Broker related issues to the project teams on new and existing production environments.
• Provided 24/7 support for MQ/Broker.
• Setup Security using the OAM.
• Setup remote administration for all the Queue managers.
• Setup disaster recovery procedures.
• Setup automatic backup of the MQ definitions.
• Provided the 24/7 production support for MQ series and application issues.
• Setup Omegamon Monitoring for the OS and MQ series objects.
• Setup hardware clustering for MQ servers.
• Tuned up the performance of the applications.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Defining and maintaining Queue Managers and MQ Objects on various platforms
• Identifying the need for and defining channels and queues and monitoring them.
• Identifying and implementing security exits.
• Installing and configuring MQSI on various platforms.
• Defining message flows using control center.
• Constructing custom nodes and terminals to compliment Confidential primitives.
• Converting business rules into pure WMQI flows using DB nodes and computational nodes.
• Writing effective rules for data interchange (say XML to am MRM Template, COBOL copybook to DB2 Schema)
• Writing message parsers to work with existing message processing nodes.
• Writing rules and ESQL for message content enrichment (usually adding data from a database lookup)
• Application design and programming: We used PTP (point-to-point) communication model.
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces.