SUMMARY:

• Over 9 years of IT experience primarily focused in Operations, Administration and Support of IBM WebSphere family products, Oracle Suite of products, RedHat JBoss and Open Source Implementations.
• Experience with product delivery and supporting applications on a 24*7 basis; supporting Test, Staging and production environment as part of the team on - call rotation.
• Subject matter expert on WebSphere Application Server, JBoss EAP, WebLogic Application Server, JBoss Fuse, JBoss AMQ, Tomcat, Apache/IBM WebServers.
• Expertise in migration of Applications that are running on WebSphere Application Server and JBoss EAP.
• Have very good scripting experience on Unix Shell and Jython scripting.
• Supported & optimized business processes and applications using a combination of system testing, technical best-practices; identifying and resolving traffic bottlenecks through system tuning and application refinement on WebSphere Application Server, WebLogic, JBoss and Apache front-end platforms
• Expertise in troubleshooting and Performance tuning using embedded Tivoli Performance Viewer (TPV), Wily Introscope and DynaTrace.
• Experience in setting up Single-Sign-On for J2EE applications on WebSphere and JBoss EAP using Tivoli Access Manager and Web Seal functions.
• Expertise in troubleshooting issues using logs, traces and messages using tools such as Log Analyzer, Kibana, Resource Analyzer and install patches/fixes for WebSphere Application Server
• Expertise in automation of deployment process using Jython, Jacl, Shell Scripts and also with tools like Rundeck,Jenkins,Puppet,Nolio.
• Involved in Tuning of Application Servers by Tivoli Performance Viewer like setting the dynamic cache size and setting the JVM heap size using collected Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) data.
• Involved in assisting QA team for Load and Stress testing of J2EE applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server ND 6.x/7.x/8.x, IBM Business Process Manager v8.5, JBoss EAP 7.x/6.x, Apache Tomcat Server v6.x, WebLogic Application server v10.3/11g, JBoss Fuse 6.2/6.3, JBoss AMQ 6.2.1, Geronimo Application server 2.1.x, WebSphere MQ 5.x/6.x.

Web Servers: Apache, IBM HTTP Server (IHS), IIS, Tomcat 5.x/6.x.

Operating Systems: UNIX, Solaris 2.3/7/8/9, AIX 5.2, Linux, Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/2003.

Scripting: Jacl, Jython, Perl, Java script, Shell scripts, PHP.

Databases: Oracle 9i/10g/11g/12c, Informix, DB2, SQL Server 6.5/7.0, MS-Access.

ConfigurationTools: Puppet, Bitbucket, Jenkins, DynaTrace, Nolio, Splunk, Kibana, Rundeck, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Resource Analyzer, Wily Introscope

Version Control Tools: GIT, Maven, Subversion, power program, Team Forge, Anthill Pro.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Part of the middleware tier-3 operations team supporting the Confidential business applications and Web Services in production environment on a 24*7 basis.
• Installed, Configured and Supported WebSphere Application Server v7/8.x, JBoss EAP 6/7, JBoss Fuse 6.2/6.3, JBoss AMQ 6.2.1, in Development, QA, UAT& production environments in AIX, Linux servers.
• Migrated Applications that are running from IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 to V8.5.5.11.
• Migrated Applications that are running on WebSphere Application Server to JBoss EAP.
• Migrated bundles from RedHat Fuse 6.2 to 6.3 on DEV, QA, UAT and Production environments.
• Used Puppet for JBoss configuration management.
• Deployed and managed J2EE applications on clustered, standalone WebSphere Platforms on test, staging and production environments.
• Performed tuning of the JVM, Unix Server, Data Base Connections to optimize performance, stabilize and improve JVM performance.
• Utilized the monitoring and automation tools like Dynatrace, Jenkins, Nolio, Autosys for Application Statistics monitoring, Deployment automation and transaction monitoring.
• Automated Server configuration items using Run deck tool.
• Log Management, indexing, generating reports and setting up alerts using Splunk.
• Monitoring the overall health of J2EE applications, JVMs, server level parameters and end to end transaction flow using HP SiteScope, Wily Introscope.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server v8.5.5, RedHat JBoss EAP, JBoss EWS, JBoss Fuse, JBoss AMQ, Apache/IBM Http Server, Puppet, GIT, Bitbucket, Splunk, Dynatrace, Jenkins, Nolio, Autosys, Wily Introscope, Service Now, Linux, Aix, Shell, Jython.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured and supported WebSphere Application Server v7/8.x, WebLogic Application server v11g/10.3 in development, testing, QA & production environments (in multi-tier and/or clustered configurations) in AIX, Linux environments.
• Installed various IBM Application products suites and Web Services such as BPM, MDM, BRMS/WODM/ILOG, Data Stage, WSRR.
• Installation, configuration of WebSphere Operational Decision Manager (WODM) v8.5 and its components - Decision Server and Decision Center.
• Migrated MDM from version 10 to 11.4 on WebSphere Application Server v8.5.5.10 hosting on AIX servers.
• Configured and Administered Batch applications that are running on tomcat application server.
• Performed tuning of the JVM, Unix Server, Data Base Connections to optimize performance, stabilize and improve JVM performance.
• Automated disaster recovery exercise for WebSphere and WebLogic tasks which includes switching of traffic between sites, switch Data Sources and WebSphere MQ Queues.
• Automation of the Web Services deployment, administrative and deployment tasks using shell scripting.
• Utilized the monitoring and automation tools like Dynatrace, Jenkins, Nolio, Autosys for Application Statistics monitoring, Deployment automation and transaction monitoring.
• Log Management, indexing, generating reports and setting up alerts using Splunk.
• Monitoring the overall health of J2EE applications, JVMs, server level parameters and end to end transaction flow using Wily Introscope.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server v8.x/7,Tomcat,WebLogic Application Server v12c, WebSphere MQ, Apache Http Server, Splunk, Dynatrace, Jenkins, Nolio, Autosys, Wily Introscope, Service Now, Linux, Aix, Shell, Jython.

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Operational Support, Installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server ND 5.x/6.x, WebSphere Process Server v6.1, JBoss EAP v5.1, Apache Http Server 2.1.3 on Linux and Windows Platforms.
• Responsible in support of infrastructure, design and automation of WAS v7.0 and JBoss EAP v5.1.
• Worked on Subversion/Maven for version control and installing fix packs for Geronimo 2.1.3 /2.1.4.
• Build, complied and packaged WebSphere Application Server Community Edition using Power, Subversion, AnthillPro.
• Installed and automated WebSphere Application Server Community Edition around 4000 Stores and 250 Distribution Centers using Distributing Services.
• Deployed J2EE applications using JMS, Web Services on the test, development and production environments
• Proficient with Shell scripting and Wsadmin scripts using Jython for deployment of applications, data sources and for automating the WebSphere application server.
• Worked in a 24*7 production support environment supporting business applications for the stores and distribution center.
• Worked on different PMRs with IBM premium support for the resolution of client issues for WebSphere and Geronimo application servers
• Trained on site and off site resources to help understand the Store environments.
• Worked on Change Control / management process Remedy for creating tickets, change controls required for the production environment.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server - ND/Community Edition, JBoss EAP 5.1, WebSphere Process Server v6.1, Apache Geronimo Server 2.1.3/2.1.4/2.1.5/2.1.6, Apache Http Server, Maven, Subversion, Power Program, Remedy, Linux, AIX, Shell, Jython.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Part of a product delivery team which includes Installation, Configuration and Administration of WebSphere Application Servers ND 6.1/6.0/5.1 on AIX, Windows, Linux and Solaris environments.
• Worked in an environment supporting applications in production on a 24*7 on-call basis.
• Installed, configured and supported IBM HTTP Server (IHS) 6.0/6.1/5.1/4.0 and Apache web server 2.2.11.
• Migrated the WebSphere Application Server from V5.x. to 6.x
• Configured WebSphere Workload Management using horizontal and vertical clustering.
• Developed JACL, Jython scripts using Wsadmin to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere Application servers and managed the backup/restore of Deployment Manager Configurations.
• Deployed various applications on WAS 6.x/5.x/4.x. using Admin console and also by self-designed tool called AMT.
• Configure SSL for Web Servers (IHS) and LDAP Security for WebSphere using IBM Directory server.
• Configured WebSphere security using Local OS and Custom registry; Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using LDAP authentication.
• Performed software maintenance by installing App Server and Webserver (IHS) fix packs to keep the system software up to date.
• Used JProbe to find the java memory leaks and other dead locks in java based applications
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.

Environment: IBM Web Sphere Application Server 6.x/5.x, IBM HTTP Server 6.x, Apache web server, DB2 8.2, LDAP, Oracle 9i/10g, Linux, Windows 2003, Solaris, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Wily Introscope 7.x,8.x, SiteMinder, Jython, JACL scripts.