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SUMMARY:

• Over 8+ years of experience in Systems Administration, IBM WebSphere 6.x/7.x/8.x Administration, IBM HTTP
• Server integrating with all the J2EE components. Technical abilities include installations, configurations, security, migrations, and technical support.
• Experience of system administration on Sun - Solaris 10/9/8/7/2.x, Linux, AIX, Windows NT/2003/2008.
• Experience in Configuring of JDBC Providers, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, Global Security, SSL, LDAP.
• Hands on experience in deploying implementing, testing and support of full life cycle implementations of various J2EE/Internet/Intranet and distributed applications.
• Resolved Deployment issues and network issues for Development team and in Production Environment. Created Data Sources to a variety of Databases, including DB2, SQLand Oracle.
• Experience in migrating existing applications from WAS 7.0.0.7 to WAS 8.0.0.8 using was pre-upgrade and was post-upgrade.
• Experience in configuring Cluster server groups for improved availability and fail over redundancy and Installing Fix Packs and Cumulative fix packs and Migrating to latest versions.
• Troubleshooting Production issues, Worked on resolving Application Server Hang issues and High memory and CPU issues in WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7.x/8.x.
• Tuned the JVMs by analyzing the Must Gather information for Application Server Hangs on AIX, Linux and Solaris.
• Hands on experience in using CA Willy Introscope Workstation, Investigator for monitoring and management module editor to set the introscope monitoring configuration information alerts, actions and dashboard.
• Experience in Siteminder cacti tool for monitoring all the parameters and Involved in resolving the SSO issue by interacting with the different domains.
• Business process modeling and process implementation using BPM for order manager process orchestration and different process of B2B and B2C verticals in telecom industry.
• Involved in Implementation of security for BPM exposed services using the Data power.
• IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and WebSphere Registry and Repository (WSRR) Installation Services
• Install and Configure IIB on W&R development and production environments Document the configuration details and installation verification, Install and Configure WSRR on W&R development and Production environments
• Expertise 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.
• Worked with IBM on problem determination, troubleshooting, and resolution - PMRs, running and submitting, gather scripts and log info, turning, trace, verbose-gc, taking thread and heap dump.
• Tuning the Prepared Statement Cache for WebSphere Application Server which resulted in very large Application Server memory footprints, Out Of Memory errors or crashes of the Java process.
• Well experienced in writing shell scripts in Bourne and korn shells, wrote JACL, python, jython scripts to automate most of the WebSphere administrative tasks via the wsadmin util.
• Expertise in capacity planning, administering, monitoring, tuning and maintaining both production and development environment.
• Gathering accurate performance requirements for the Websphere applications to achieve High availability.
• Experienced in Highly skilled in updating plug-in configuration file for troubleshooting and improving performance.
• Worked with IBM on problem determination, troubleshooting, and resolution - PMRs, running and submitting, gather scripts and log info, turning, trace, verbose-gc, taking thread and heap dump.
• Good at troubleshooting using Traces, Logs and Log Analyzer.
• Collaborated with operating system, network and database administrators to define platform requirements and measure performance.
• Responsible for 7.0 WebSphere MQ environments including z/OS, AIX, and Windows(XP, NT, 2000) (Only MQ resource for Confidential ).
• Built out MQ Clustered environments and assisted in the support of the Siebel 7 migration.
• Environment: WebSphere Portal Server V6, WebSphere Application Server V6, AIX, Struts, XML, WSAD, DB2 Enterprise.
• Experience in following support procedures, receiving live calls from customers and taking on -call shifts.
• Opened PMRs with IBM to resolve mission critical problems.
• Supported L1/L2 and offshore teams for problem Determination through the log files and rectified the problems or interacting with IBM support to solve problems.
• Created IBM Problem Management Records (PMR) to report WebSphere Application Server problems.
• Extensive experience in providing 24/7 on-call support for applications running on IBM WebSphere Application servers.
• Worked on websphere application server 7.0/6.x/8.5, WebSphere Portal 5.1/6.x/7.0/8.0, IBM Http Server6.x/7.0/8.5, Weblogic, JBoss

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Administration: IBM WebSphere 6.0/6.1/7.0, /8.x,IBM HTTP server(IHS), WebSphere MQ Series 6.x/7.x, Apache, Tomcat, Win 2K, Win NT, IBM-AIX5L, Unix, Sun Solaris8/7/2.x, Linux, Oracle, DB2, Lotus Go Webserver, IIS.

Operating Systems: Win 2000,2003,2008 HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7/8/9, AIX, IBM AS/400, iSeries, Linux.

Programming: Java, XML, XSLT, JNI, MQ Series, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, LDAP, JDBC, Perl, IIS, ASP, NetObjects Fusion.

J2EE Technologies: EJB 2.0, Servlets, JSP 1.1 (tag libraries), JMS, Struts 1.0.2/1.1.

Scripting Languages: UNIX, Perl, JavaScript, Bourne/Korn, Jacl, Jython.

Tools: MS Office, Visual Café, Visual Age, JProbe, Resource Analyzer, Log Analyzer.

Web Servers: Apache, iPlanet, IBM HTTP Server.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Websphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed,configured,administeredWebSphereApplicationServerBASE,NDonAIX/Windows/Linux/solaris for multiple high profile projects.
• Created Deployment manager and Application Server profiles and federated to create cells.
• Maintenance of the WebSphere Application Servers on AIX platforms and setting up the development, testing and staging environment for the ongoing application development.
• Administered, configured, tuned and troubleshoot WebSphere in a clustered environment on AIX /Linux.
• Configured global security for WebSphere Application Server using IBM Directory Server as LDAP user registry.
• Experience in Middleware administration specializing in Apache-Tomcat 5.5/6.0 and JBOSS 4.x/5/x.
• Excellent working knowledge of JBOSS Application Server and other JBOSS components
• Deployment,Software installation, maintenance, fixes upgrades, general administration, troubleshooting and performance tuning of JBOSS
• Worked on WebSphere application server 7.0/6.x/8.0/8.5, WebSphere MQ6.x/7.x/7.5, IBM Http Server6.x/7.0/8.5, WebSpherePortalServer8.x, WCM, JbossEAP, Weblogic11g/12c
• Created user roles, policies and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
• Experienced in WebSphere Portal Theme development.
• Experienced working interacting with content management like WCM, Team site in portal environment.
• Involved in Performance tuning of WebLogic/Jboss/Tomcat servers with respect to heap, threads and connection pools.
• Troubleshoot WebLogic Server/Jboss/Tomcat connection pooling and connection manager with Oracle, netezza, TimesTen.
• Business process modeling and process implementation using BPM for order manager process orchestration and different process of B2B and B2C verticals in telecom industry.
• Involved in Implementation of security for BPM exposed services using the Data power
• Expertise in configuring CA Siteminder and integrating with IHS using WebAgent and configuring realms, policies, rules, domains, etc.
• Experienced in installing and configuring SSL certificates using Ikeyman tool to provide secure data transmission to websphere environment
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabled security using LTPA and LDAP for admin console and application components on AIX/Linux/Solaris/Windows.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and handle multiple tasks and projects utilizing IT process knowledge and full system Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Mentor WebSphere MQ Admins from external Confidential customers and assist with their configurations and problems.
• Responsible for the implementation of Candle agents to monitor WebSphere MQ on mainframe and Unix systems.
• Responsible for maintaining all PMR's with IBM
• Installation & Configuration of IBM HTTP Server 6.x/7.x/8.5.0.0. on AIX/Linux/Windows.
• Involved in technical discussion with Architects for websphere capacity and sizing recommendations.
• Gathering accurate performance requirements for the Websphere applications to achieve High availability.
• Configured IHS Web server, Site minder to work with WAS.
• Analyzed log files to solve problems using debugging tools like Log Analyzer, Tivoli Performance Viewer Tool and Collector Tool.
• IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and WebSphere Registry and Repository (WSRR) Installation Services
• Install and Configure IIB on W&R development and production environments
• Document the configuration details and installation verification, Install and Configure WSRR on W&R development and Production environments
• Generated core dumps/heap dumps to check for the system objects using IBM Heap analyzer
• Troubleshooting and performance tuning of JVMs using Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer
• Used a variety of monitoring tools to monitor and asses the health of applications in a production environment. Primarily used Wily Introscope 7.x/8.x.
• Configured JVMs to use Wily Introscope. Also upgraded JVMs using Wily Introscope 7.x to use Introscope 8.x/9.x
• Played a very active role in the WebSphere Automation project and spreadsheet creation of a batch
• Deploy script to install all applications for a release after appropriate prerequisite check is done in an automated fashion
• Expert at using the automation tool BMC BladeLogic to handle the very large middleware environment at Bank of America
• Setting up websphere environments integration with Adobe and Wenspgere in DMZ environment.
• Analyzed heap dumps and java cores using IBM Support Assistant 4.x/5.x
• Ordered and created certificate requests and keystore files.
• Worked on service requests on a daily basis to troubleshoot and help developers/app teams move forward with their testing.
• Took part in escalating and triaging Sev1 defects.
• Configured Siteminder 6.x to attain authentication and authorization.
• Configured and administered JMS resources for WebSphereMQ on WAS. Defined connection factories &JMS Queue destinations and used JNDI to bind them.
• Very efficient at maintaining large environments with hundreds/thousands of servers/machines
• Hands on experience with Adobe Live Cycle ES2 installation and Acrobat Pro Extended 9.2.0 and 11.0
• Good working experience on integrating 3rd party vendor software/applications with Websphere Application server 8.x
• Expertise in Object Oriented Programming using Java and J2EE technologies EJBs, Servlets, JSP, Java Beans, JMS and JNDI.
• Good at Performance monitoring using Tivoli Performance Viewer and monitored JVM parameters
• Monitored Applications and WAS performance through Tivoli Performance Viewer and tuned the system - caching, queuing, JVM parameters, DB Connection Pooling
• Configured the web-server interfaces (plug-in file), session management, virtual hosts, data sources, HTTP transports for Application Server instances and applications
• Interacting with the Application teams and DB team to trouble shoot Application related issues.
• Coordinating different teams on application, network and data base issues.
• Used WebSphere Admin Console and wsadmin/JACL scripting to install enterprise EAR, WAR files or for hot deployment.
• Experience on configuring MQ channels and message Queues
• Installed jdbc drivers on Linux, Windows servers to configure data sources.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, Implemented creation of Server groups and clusters in WebSphere Application server.
• Support RFCs during every month applications release.
• Coordinate with offshore team on the issues reported by different teams.
• Provided 24/7 on-call support on rotation basis.

Environment: Websphere Application Server 6.x/7.x,8.x/AIX,Red Hat Linux,Solaris, Oracle 10g,MicroSoft SQL Server 2008,Windows XP/2000/NT, Apache, Oracle 10.x/9.x/8.x, Tivoli performance viewer,Windows 2003/2008 R2.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Websphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, administered, troubleshot, tuned WAS ND 6.x/7.x on AIX, Solaris platforms for multiple high profile projects.
• Deployed application ears on WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment in QA, Staging and Production environments on a daily basis and troubleshot various configuration and application issues
• Configuration of Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web Resources and JDBC drivers.
• Administered, configured, tuned, and troubleshot WebSphere in a clustered environment on Solaris/Aix.
• Installed and configured IHS 6.x on windows 2003 and 2008 servers.
• Generated core dumps/heap dumps to check for the system objects using IBM Heap analyzer
• Applied Fix packs for IBM WebSphere Application server, IBM IHS.
• Administered and configured portal resources using portal administration Portlets and portal XML configuration interface.
• Configured and build portlets using Websphere Portlet Factory and deployed Themes and Skins in portal
• Installed and activated porlets and migrated the contents from one environment to other using XMLAccess scripts.
• Deployed Portlets and war files on WebSphere Portal using xml access scripting client.Administration of connection between WebSphere and WebServer using WebServer plugin.
• Implemented a migration from WebSphere Application Serve Base to Network Deployment as well as a 6.0 to 6.1 upgrade.
• Used Log Analyzer and Tracing to troubleshoot WebSphere Application Server.
• Performed WebSphere Configuration backup and restoration using scripts.
• Experienced in WebSphere Portal Theme development.
• • Experienced working interacting with content management like WCM, Team site in portal environment.
• Used Resource Analyzer to measure the performance and efficiency of the application resources and WebSphere runtime resources.
• Managed and Administered Workloads, Server Groups and Clones in WebSphere Application Server.
• Environment: WebSphere Portal Server V6, WebSphere Application Server V6, AIX, Struts, XML, WSAD, DB2 Enterprise.
• Excellent knowledge on TCP/IP, RMI/IIOP and HTTP protocols.
• Worked as J2EE/WebSphere Portal Developer. Also worked with WebSphere Application Server (WAS)/AIX development and deployment admin for a consumer wired and wireless portal application for Sprint. Worked on the Consumer Wireless Application. Developed JSR 168 Portlets to access from wireless devices like Cell phones.
• Environment: WebSphere Portal Server V6, WebSphere Application Server V6, AIX, Struts, XML, WSAD, DB2 Enterprise.
• Experienced in DNS, FTP, Remote Access, Security Management and System Troubleshooting skills.
• Troubleshooted and successfully resolved LDAP, Siteminder, WAS, code, data issues.
• Configured clustering through deployment manager for load balancing and failover functions
• 24x7 on-site operations support in an environment with over 100 Servers.
• Environment: HTML/CSS, Dreamweaver CS6, Photoshop CS6, IBM Web Content Management (WCM 8.5)/IBM WebSphere Portal, Web Content Management (SDL-Tridion), and Email Newsletters

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0, 6.1,7.x, JBoss, Apache, IBM DB2,Aix, Solaris SunOS 5.8, Windows XP, JDBC2.0, EJB1.1, XML1.0, HTML, Apache, LDAP.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, and maintained Websphere Application Server 6.x.
• Responsible for administration, development and implementation of web applications using WebSphere Application Server 6.x
• Managed connection pooling and registering web applications (Servlets, JSP) on WebSphere.
• Configured WebSphere load balancing utilizing WebSphere Workload Management including horizontal and vertical clustering.
• Deployment and upgrade of application EARs.
• Configured and managed EJBs, JMS connection factories, JMS listeners, JDBC connections,Data sources, JNDI and JDBC providers.
• Bourne Shell scripts for High Availability and for user management across the platform.
• Implemented creation of Server groups and clusters in Websphere Application server.
• Experience in the installation of Netscape Enterprise Server including running multiple instances of theserver, removal of the servers and migration of servers from previous versions.
• Experience with the formation and management of clusters using Netscape Enterprise Server.
• Implemented standard backup procedures for both application DB and WAS administration DB.
• Backup of configuration files.
• Involved in Configuring SSL for high security of web application
• Involved in installing WebSphere portal 6.1.x on UNIX, Linux and AIX Platforms with Web Content Management
• Typical communication models involved were PTP (point to point) and pub/sub.
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces.
• Used Log Analyzer and Tracing to troubleshoot WebSphere Application Server.
• Configuration of Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web Resources and JDBC drivers.
• Involved in day-to-day Sun Solaris administration and using shell scripting

Environment: IBM AIX 5.x, UNIX, Windows 2000, IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x, Solaris, DB2, HP-UX,Solaris,WebSphere Portal 6.1.