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Portal Operations Specialist / Infrastructure Team Lead Resume

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Albany, NY

SUMMARY:

  • 9+ years of IT experience with 8+ years of IBM WebSphere Administration.
  • About 8+ years of experience in setup, installation and administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal, FileNet Content Engine, Content Navigator IBM Connections and IBM forms on Dev, Test, Preproduction and Production environments.
  • Expertise in Administering IBM WebSphere Application Server Base/ND 6.1/7.0/8.0 and 8.5 on various Operation Systems like Solaris 8/9/10, AIX 5.3/6.1/7.1, Suse Linux Enterprise server, and Windows 2003 Server.
  • Installed EARs, WARs and Configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console on WebSphere Application Server.
  • Expertise in Installing Configuring and Administering WebSphere Portal 6.1/7.0 and 8.5 in vertical and horizontal scaled environments and clustering WebSphere Portal nodes.
  • Hands on experience in planning and executing the migration of WebSphere portal from version 6.1 to 7.0 and 8.5
  • Exported and imported pages, portlets, theme and other portal artifacts using xmlaccess scripts.
  • Experience creating virtual portal using ConfigEngine scripts and portal admin console.
  • Knowledge on automating portal deployments using various automation scripts like Urbancode.
  • Experience in setting up cross version syndication across various Portal environments.
  • Transferred default cloudscape database to DB2 and Oracle 10g in WebSphere Portal.
  • Configured WebSphere Portal Server using SunOne and Domnio LDAP Security.
  • Involved in Deployment of portlets and war files on WebSphere Portal.
  • Installed and configured IBM FileNet Content Engine 5.2/5.5, Content Navigator 2.0.3/3.0.3, Case Manager and WorkPlace XT applications
  • Created multiple object stores in FileNet environment as per business requirements.
  • Migrated FileNet Content engine from 5.2 to 5.5 version and Content Navigator from 2.0.3 to 3.0.3 versions
  • Configured and Administered IBM connections 2.5, 3.0, 4.5 and 5.0
  • Experience installing IBM connections content manager and configuring object stores.
  • Migrated IBM connections from version 4.5 to 5.0 in Prod and pre - prod environments.
  • Installed and administered IBM Forms as a standalone application as well as an add-on to IBM connections.
  • Configuring of JDBC Providers, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, Global Security, SSL, and LDAP.
  • Experience in Installing, Configuring and Administering Web Servers like IBM HTTP Server and Apache web server.
  • Responsible for installation of Fixpacks for IBM HTTP Server and Plugins.
  • Monitored, maintained and customized existing WebSphere MQ objects such as Queue Mangers, Queues (local, remote, alias and model), process definitions, channels and listeners.
  • Maintained AIX and SUSE Linux Operating systems including upgrading and patching to the latest fix levels.
  • Extensive experience working with IBM on PMR’s relating to IBM portal, FileNet, Forms and Connections environments.
  • Knowledge on installing SSL and managing certificates on WebSphere environments for inbound and outbound communications
  • Troubleshooting Production issues, Worked on resolving Application Server Hang issues and High memory and CPU issues in WebSphere Application Server.
  • Good at Performance monitoring using Resource Analyzer and Tivoli Performance Viewer.
  • Managing and performance monitoring the JVM setting appropriate Heap Size, garbage collection, JDBC Pools
  • Problem Determination through the log files and rectified the problems or interacting with IBM support to solve problems.
  • Implement Security using Role based Administration (Monitor, Operator, Configuration, and Administrator).
  • Tuned the JVMs by analyzing the Must Gather information for Application Server Hangs on AIX, Linux and Solaris.
  • Used Heap Analyzer and thread Analyzer to tune the WebSphere JVMs.
  • Used Tivoli Performance Viewer and CA Wily to monitor the performance.
  • Tuning the Prepared Statement Cache for WebSphere Application Server, this resulted in very large Application Server memory footprints, Out Of Memory errors or crashes of the Java process.
  • Experience in configuring Cluster server groups for improved availability and fail over redundancy
  • Experienced in Installing Fix Packs and Cumulative fix packs and Migrating to latest versions of IBM WebSphere application server.
  • Good at troubleshooting using Traces, Logs and Log Analyzer.
  • Experience in generating and propagating the plug-in configuration file from IBM WAS to IBM HTTP Server.
  • Responsible for creating Key Databases, trust files, installing certificates on IBM HTTP Server.
  • Expert in documenting the installation, configuration changes made to the WebSphere environment.
  • Expertise in installing, configuring third party application on WebSphere application server 6.x/7.x and supporting them
  • Used change control tool HP Service Center
  • Prepared best practice documents for external customers.
  • Worked as a liaison between system administrators and developers.
  • Ability to work independently, and with minimum supervision.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: IBM AIX5.0/6.1/7.1, SUSE Linux enterprise edition, Windows 2003/2008 server edition

Application/Web Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1/7.0/8.0 and 8.5,, IBM WebSphere Portal Server 6.1/7.0/8.5, IBM FileNet Content Engine, CA Wily, IBM connections, IBM Cognos, Apache Web Server 2.2.23, IBM OEE 9.1.2, IBM content Analytics, IBM HTTP Server 7.0/8.0.

Database: ORACLE8i/9i/10g/11g, DB2/UDB 7.2/8.0/9.0, SQL Server .5/7.0/2000

Java/J2EE/Web Technologies: HTML, Java Script, XML, CSS, JDBC, Servlets, JSP, Java Beans, EJB, JNDI, JMS, Java Web Services

Programming Languages: Python, C/C++, JavaScript, SQL, Shell Scripts, Jacl, Jython.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Portal Operations Specialist / Infrastructure Team lead

Responsibilities:

  • Expertise in Administering IBM WebSphere Application Server Base/ND 6.1/7.0/8.0 and 8.5 on various Operation Systems like AIX 5.3/6.1/7.1, Suse Linux Enterprise server, and Windows 2003 Server.
  • Installed EARs, WARs and Configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console on WebSphere Application Server.
  • Expertise in Installing Configuring and Administering WebSphere Portal 6.1/7.0 and 8.5 in vertical and horizontal scaled environments and clustering WebSphere Portal nodes.
  • Install and upgrade IBM Installation Manager for administering IBM stack applications.
  • Installing Fixpacks, cumulative fixes and ifixes on top of IBM WAS and Portal applications
  • Hands on experience in planning and executing the migration of WebSphere portal from version 6.1 to 7.0 and from 7 to 8.5
  • Worked as SME and point person to work with IBM and development team leads in planning and executing the portal migration.
  • Knowledge on various approaches used for portal migration to V8.5 from lower versions.
  • Setup cross version syndication from portal V7 CF29 to portal 8.5 CF8 for migrating web content.
  • Worked with development team lead in planning and migrating portal pages from V7 to V8.5
  • Hands on knowledge using release builder tool to extract deltas of portal artifacts which are used during various phases of portal migration
  • Exported and imported pages, portlets, theme and other portal artifacts using xmlaccess scripts.
  • Experience creating virtual portals using ConfigEngine scripts and portal admin console.
  • Experience in planning and installing portal cumulative fixpacks and ifixes in mission critical portal environment without causing any downtime to the site.
  • Experience running the empty portal and migrating the portal artifacts from one environment to other using xmlaccess full portal export and imports commands
  • Installed Urbancode server and urban code agents on WebSphere servers for automating application upgrades.
  • Knowledge on automating portal deployments using various automation tools like Urbancode and wsadmin scripts.
  • Experience in setting up cross version syndication across various Portal environments.
  • Transferred default cloudscape database to DB2 and Oracle 10g in WebSphere Portal.
  • Configured WebSphere Portal Server using SunOne and Domino LDAP Security.
  • Installed Sitemider TAI agents and ISAM webagents on IBM WebSphere Application servers.
  • Created policies and realms on Siteminder policy servers for protecting portal URLs.
  • Worked with enterprise SSO team to implement IWA login for enterprise portal.
  • Involved in Deployment of PAA packages, portlets and war files on WebSphere Portal.
  • Created Remote search collections in portal cluster environment for searching WCM/JCR content.
  • Experience setting up look aside or property extension database on portal to support custom user attributes
  • Worked with network team to create and configure F5 Big IP instances on LTM and GTM and created pool members and irules.
  • Planned and executed multiple Disaster Recovery (DR) exercises on enterprise portal application in coordination with other infrastructure teams to simulate and verify the data center failover scenarios.
  • Installed and configured IBM FileNet Content Engine, Content Navigator, Case Manager and WorkPlace XT applications
  • Created multiple object stores in FileNet environment as per business requirements.
  • Installed and configured IBM CMIS application for third party clients to access and manage files stored in IBM FileNet
  • Installed and Configured CA Wily Enterprise server in high availability configuration
  • Installed CA Wily agents on various WebSphere application servers including portal JVMs
  • Configured and Administered IBM connections 2.5, 3.0, 4.5 and 5.0
  • Experience installing IBM connections content manager and configuring object stores.
  • Migrated IBM connections from version 4.5 to 5.0 in Prod and pre-prod environments.
  • Installed and Configured IBM Cognos and created power cubes to display key metrics for IBM connections application
  • Configuration of Network Deployment for Centralized Management of Applications.
  • Configuring of JDBC Providers, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, Global Security, SSL, and LDAP.
  • Experience in Installing, Configuring and Administering Web Servers like IBM HTTP Server and Apache web server.
  • Responsible for installation of Fixpacks for IBM HTTP Server and Plugins.
  • Installed and Administered IBM content Analytics (ICA) and setup search collections to crawl and index portal content.
  • Created portal search collections on Google Analytics server (GSA).
  • Maintained AIX and SUSE Linux Operating systems including upgrading and patching to the latest fix levels.
  • Knowledge on tuning Portal JVM to speed up server restart and portal pages response times.
  • Experience using portal cache viewer and adjusted portal cache settings in WebSphere ISC console.
  • Extensive experience working with IBM on PMR’s relating to IBM portal, FileNet and Connections environments
  • Knowledge on installing SSL and managing certificates on WebSphere environments for inbound and outbound communications
  • Experience using HP Service Manager for tracking incident, request and change management tickets
  • Worked on 24X7 on call rotation for providing end to end support for Enterprise portal and other applications in IBM stack.

Environment: WebSphere application Server 6.1/7.0/8.5, WebSphere Portal Server 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.5, IBM connections 4.5/5.0, IBM FileNet Engine 5.2, IBM CMIS, IBM Cognos, IBM Content Analytics, CA Wily, IBM HTTP Server 6.1/7.0 Apache Web Server V2.0.47/6.0, IBM OEE 9.1.2, LDAP, Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, EJB, XML, JDBC, JavaScript, ORACLE 10g, DB2 V9.1, 10.1 and 10.5, HTML, AIX 6.1/7.1,F5 BigIP, Siteminder, JYTHON Scripting.

Confidential, Albany, NY

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

  • Installed WAS 6.0 base/ ND and created cell, Dmgr and AppServer profiles on AIX 5.2 and Red Hat Linux platforms.
  • Installed and Configured WebSphere Application Server 6.0 and applied the fix packs and DB2 V8.1 on several Lab Machines.
  • Installed and Configured WebSphere Portal 6.0.
  • Transferred cloudscape database to DB2 database.
  • Configured WebSphere Portal Server with LDAP security.
  • Deployed Themes, skins and Portlets on WebSphere Portal Server.
  • Worked on WebSphere components such as Work Load Management (WLM), Servlet Engine, Session Manager, Admin Client and Http-Web Admin tool (thin client).
  • Monitored, maintained and customized existing WebSphere MQ objects such as Queue Mangers, Queues (local, remote, alias and model), process definitions, channels and listeners.
  • Configured WebSphere Variables, Virtual hosts, Data Sources, URL providers, MQ Connection factories, Plug-in configuration, and Service Integration Bus Configuration.
  • Developed many WSadmin scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration.
  • Used JACL scripting extensively for managing production environments
  • Created, tested & deployed J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server using WSAD tools.
  • Administration of Working Application, Application performance monitoring - starting and stopping the application server, - Installed plug-in for IBM HTTP Web server, co-ordinate with Database Admin Team to create databases for storing the WebSphere application repository.
  • Involved in deploying the EAR files and scripting automated deployment of the applications.
  • Used IBM Edge Server and Network Dispatchers for load balancing.
  • Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere.
  • Occasionally used Resource Analyzer/ Tivoli Performance Viewer to monitor WebSphere Applications and tuned the environment accordingly like changing the JVM Heap, Connection Pool sizes.
  • Creating the users and groups in LDAP Servers and mapping them to the enterprise applications running on WebSphere Application Server.
  • Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, and Java Mail sessions.
  • Implemented creation of Server groups and clusters in WebSphere Application server
  • Configured horizontal scalability of WebSphere through a mechanism called as “Cloning of multiple JVMs” with independent Java Virtual Machines-JVMs, for each clone.
  • Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Resource analyzer and log analyzer.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x,IBM WebSphere Portal Server 6.0, DB2 7.x/8.x, IBM HTTP Server, AIX 5.2/5.3, Solaris 2.8, Siteminder6.x, Windows 2000, IBM Directory Server 5.1, HTML, Java Script, XML, JSP, Servlets, ANT.

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