PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 11 years of experience in IT industry, including system administration experience in IBM WebSphere Application Server, Tomcat, Jboss, Adobe AEM and IBM WebSphere Portal Server, over the full life cycle including analysis, development, maintenance, testing, documentation, implementation and user training/support.
• Experience in DevOps, Configuration Management, Cloud Infrastructure, Automation, Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• IBM WebSphere Application Server and Portal administration expert, with primary expertise in installing, Upgrading, and configuration of Websphere Application Server 9.0/8.5/7.x/6.x and WebSphere Portal Server 8.x/7.x/6.x, JBoss 7.x/6.x, Tomcat 7.x, Adobe AEM 6.2 on Linux, Solaris and Windows Platform.
• Experience in integration IBM WAS Servers with Business integration tools like Websphere DataPower, WebSphere MQ V8.x/7.x/6.x, WebSphere Message Broker 7.x and Tibco Business Works.
• Experience including AWS Cloud Engineering, related technologies that includes extensive work experience with AWS (EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, RDS, SES, ELB, CloudFront, CloudFormation, Elasticache, CloudWatch, Lambda, SNS, DynamoDB).
• Involved in setting up builds using Chef/Ansible as a configuration management tool and managed the configurations of chef servers
• Experienced in implementing AWS cloud models for Infrastructure - as- a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as- a-Service(PaaS).
• Experienced in Configuration Management, Cloud Infrastructure, and Automation utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ant, Maven, Jenkins,, SVN, Git, GitHub, Clear Case and Tomcat.
• Adept in Packaging, Deployment of Applications, Migration, Performance Tuning, Troubleshooting, Security Management, Workload Management and Wsadmin Scripting using Jython in WebSphere application Servers and Portal Server administration.
• Expert in WebSphere cluster Management including horizontal and vertical scaling and creation of nodes to avoid single point of failure and distribute user load for maximum availability.
• Experienced in installation, configuration of IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM Websphere Portal v6.x/7.x/8.x through custom and Application server profiles and implementing WLM clusters and Portal clusters
• Configured WebSphere Portal with backend database DB2, Oracle and transfer for portal databases from Derby to DB2.
• Excel in Configuring Portal with LDAP for user authentication and securing Portal resources.
• Expertise in installing and setting up Portal WCM and Setting up WCM and Web Content Management cluster.
• Performed WCM Authoring and rendering Server installation and created syndication between WCM servers.
• In-depth Knowledge in configuring and enabling Portals Search, WCM, Document, Management and other functionalities.
• Expert level knowledge in creating and managing Portal resources like Pages, labels, and URLs.
• Experienced in using external security manager ISAM for user authentication and global sign on. Installed, Configured and enabled TAI on WebSphere.
• Proficient in configuring, installing the extend Multiplatform Portal Server for Collaboration.
• Configured IHS/Apache Web Server V2.0/8.x and created Web Server definition in WAS V8.x admin console for web server management, Plug-in generation and Propagation.
• Experience in Digital certificates, installation and CSR generation for implementing SSL secure communication using ikeyman utility and GSkit. Performed Name based and IP based virtual hosts for setting up multiple domains for different applications.
• Experienced in maintenance of the Web sphere servers on different UNIX platforms (AIX, Linux and Solaris), Windows environment and setting up the development, testing, staging, and Production environments.
• Experience in installing and administering IBM WCM content Management v8.x, authoring and rendering techniques in a clustered environment.
• Participated and created the Software Architecture documents, policies, procedures and technical documentation
• Configured and installed self-signed and commercial certs for mutual authentication between different appservers.
• Installed Fix packs, Cumulative Fixes and interim fixes for WebSphere and Portal Servers.
• Experience in installing Dynacache, Foglight and Gomez monitoring tools for infrastructure operational readiness.
• Versatile team player with excellent analytical, communication and interPersonal Skills.
• Provided Expert level WebSphere Portal administration, Performance tuning, Monitoring in a 24x7 production environment

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Servers 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x/9.x, WebSphere Portal Server 5.x/6.0/7.x/8.x, Jboss 5.x/6.x, Tomcat.

Web Servers: Apache 1.3x/2.0x, IIS 5.0/6.0, IBM Http Server V2.x/6.0/8.5, Sun One WebServer 6.x

Web Technologies: JSP servlets, Portlets JSR 168 & 286, EJB, JDBC, RMI, JMS, WebServices, Java Beans, JNDI, AWT, Swing, XmlAccess.

Tools: Wsadmin, Ephox, Rational BuildForge 7.x, RAFW 3.0, RAD 8.x, TFS 2010, Udeploy, Bamboo, GIT, Jenkins.

Databases: DB2 9.x, Oracle (10g, 9i,8i, 7.3.4 and 7.1), MS Access, MS SQL Server 2005/2008.

Operating System: SUN Solaris, IBM AIX, RHEL, WIN 2008, OS/400, Suse Linux, VmWare

Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, VPN, SSH, Ethernet, DHCP, RMI, SOAP, Http, Https.

Languages: SQL, Pl/SQL, C, C++, Java, UNIX, Shell Scripts, ILE RPG, ILE CL, Ruby, Perl.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Senior L3 Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Infrastructure Design and Implementation of Jboss EAP & Tomcat Application Servers, Apache WebServers on Redhat Linux Operating Systems in multi data center setup.
• Involved in administering, troubleshooting, configuring WebSphere Application Server 9.0/8.5 in various environments.
• Performed Performance Tuning and monitoring application response times, JVM heap utilization, GC, Thread pools, Database connection pools.
• Installed IBM WebSphere MQ Server 8.x and configured communication between Application server and MQ Queue Manager.
• Configured web sphere resources such as JDBC providers & data sources, JMS Resources, shared libraries, virtual hosts.
• Installed, Configured, Administered and Supported WebSphere Portal Server 8.x/7.x environments.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server v8.x and WebSphere Portal Server 8.x with Tivoli Access Manager/WebSeal to perform authentication and SSO.
• Deployed the portal resources such as pages, labels, portlet applications, themes and skins into WebSphere Portal.
• Configured Web Sphere Portal Server V8.5 with DB2 and Tivoli Directory Server
• Installation, Configuration, Administration, Tuning, Troubleshooting, Upgrade and Migration of Adobe CQ5 content management environments.
• Experienced in Performance tuning of the Application servers & Web servers.
• Worked with Development and Quality Assurance teams for application releases in production and stage environments.
• Experience in instrumenting, monitoring tool like AppDynamics to receive the alerts from different application tiers.
• Performed Tomcat Application Server Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing and Maintenance in a Multi-tier environment.
• Setup and build AWS infrastructure various resources, VPC EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS in Cloudformation JSON templates.
• Experience in building and migrating applications from On Premise data center to AWS Cloud.
• Configured Chef and wrote cookbooks, for automation deployment, repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications, environment configuration. Developed build and deployment script using Ruby and shell scripting.
• Enabling customers to better manage software development, deployments and infrastructure with tools such as Chef, Jenkins, and Github.
• Developed Bash, Powershell and shell scripts for automation of the build and release process.
• Implemented and maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using AWS resources.
• Experience in clearing the Website cache using Akamai CP codes.
• Experience in uploading the Keys, Certs and also setting up the Irules in BigIP F5.
• Installed self-signed certificates and configured with external services with secure https protocol.
• Performed Performance Tuning and monitoring application response times, JVM heap utilization, GC, Thread pools, Database connection pools.
• Provided Expert level Middleware administration, Performance tuning, Monitoring in a 24x7 production environment.
• Solved and debug hardware, Software and configuration issues, and interacted with various teams to perform complex testing, Support and troubleshooting functions.

Environment: WebSphere Portal 8.x, WebSphere App Server 8.5.x, Jboss EAP v7, Tomcat 7.x, Apache Web Server 2.4.x, Adobe AEM 6.2, Oracle 11g with Golden Gate, Cassandra DB, Chef, Ansible, Akamai, AWS, AppDynamics, Keynote, Redhat Linux 7.x, Windows Server 2012.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Senior Middleware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Infrastructure Design and Implementation of WebSphere Application Server 8.5/7.x/6.x on Redhat Linux. and creating, cloning, and migration of Virtual Machines in ESX servers.
• Successfully Implemented and Managed WebSphere Application Server 8.5/7.x for supporting business related applications and provided the support to development, testing, staging, and production environments to the new application development and implementation.
• 24/7 on call Support for production environments for mission critical applications.
• Administration, migration and infrastructure setup of WebSphere Application Server ND Edition V8.5 /7.x in a clustered environment using multiple cells configuration.
• Involved in installing, administering, troubleshooting, configuring WebSphere Portal 8.x/7.x/6.x in a clustered based environment.
• Implemented the Clusters, Cluster Members (using Vertical and Horizontal Scaling) in order to recover from a single point of failure.
• Installed and configured WCM 8.0 in a clustered environment. Experience setting up syndication between authoring and rendering servers and working with libraries.
• Configured WebSphere Portal Server with Oracle 10.2.0.4 and DB2 9.1.x and was involved in transferring the portal databases from cloudscape to Oracle and DB2.
• Installed and Configured IBM Tivoli Directory Server 7.0 with WebSphere Portal 7.x
• Configured WebSphere Portal V8 with Tivoli Access Manager for single sign on.
• Expertise in setting WCM Authoring Server and pushing the content to target Servers with Syndication and Subscription Process.
• Experienced with Portlet Build and Deployments. Performed Portal related activities such as deploying portlets, create page, adding portlets to page, deploying themes and skins, URL Mappings through Portal Admin GUI and XMLAccess directly into the portal server.
• Experience setting up Portal remote Search collections using Crawlers and indexing in a cluster.
• Exporting and Importing the Portal artifacts using Xml Access tool scripting.
• Involved in the Tuning and monitoring applications deployed on WAS using IBM TPV and Dyna Cache.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP server 8.5 and Sun One Webserver 6.x.
• Experience in installation configuration and administration of VMWare vFabric tc Server for POCs for developers in Sandbox and Development env.
• Experience in writing Jython scripts for deployment and configuration changes in WebSphere and portal platforms.
• Experience in ITIL V3 Change Management for implementing changes, policies, process and procedure documentation and performed associated knowledge transfer.
• Experience working with third party for DNS servers and worked worked with cross functional teams for end-end project implementation.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.x/8.5, WebSphere Portal Server 7.0/8.x, IHS V8.5, DB2 9.1, Redhat Linux 7.x, ESX 4.x, Oracle 11g, UNIX (Solaris, AIX,HP-UX,Linux), Jboss 5.x Java 1.5/1.6.

Confidential, El Dorado Hills, CA

WebSphere Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Successfully Implemented and Managed WebSphere Application Server 7.x for supporting business related applications and provided the support to development, testing, staging, and production environments to the new application development and implementation.
• Primary contact for all the Portal Servers and various application Servers in case of failure.
• Coordinate, Plan and Analyze business requirements, Procedures to improve existing Application systems and implement new systems.
• Responsible for Installation, configuration and administration of Web Sphere Portal Server 7.x/6.0 and IBM Web sphere Application server 6.x/7.x.
• Responsible for maintaining Unix infrastructure and Operating Systems patches.
• Automated the regular and maintenance tasks by unix shell scripts.
• Experience in shell scripting for deployments, installations and for getting alerts from the logs.
• Installed Portal V6.0.11 on AIX V5.3 in a clustered environment.
• Involved in Portal V6.0 configuration and administration activities.
• Experience in Websphere Portal Server Framework attaching applications and services for customers
• Build Portlets to add to the portal catalog of functions for customers
• Responsible for loading the portlet code, rendering the portlet display and notifying portlets of various events.
• Configured WPS V6.0 with Multiple Ldap registries including registries including Sunone directory and Active directory Server 2003.
• Accountable for Configuring Web Sphere Portal Server with DB2 database, transferring Portal databases from Cloudscape to DB2
• Contribute to team efforts in reviewing existing systems, workflow/scheduling limitations, taking corrective measures and Providing expert technical assistance and support.
• Involved in Deploying and configuring portlets using Portal GUI and Xml Access.
• Administered and Configured the Global Settings, Managed themes and Skins, Search Index, enabled tracing, site logging and analysis.
• Successfully exported and imported Portlets.
• Configured IBM Tivoli Access Manager with Portal Server for single sign on.
• Worked with Tivoli Performance Viewer and Log Analyzer for Performance and troubleshooting.
• Install and configure Dynacache and Foglight V5 to monitor WebSphere JVMs and Applications.
• Experience in reviewing general health and performance of Java and portal applications using DynaCache and Foglight.
• Implemented the best practices for monitoring WebSphere Application server applications with ITCAM.
• Setup Credential vault for Portal single sign on realms using active and passive credentials.
• Recommended and implemented Various Fix Packs and Cumulative Fixes as per the IBM specification.
• Responsible for configuring JDBC, Connection Pool, data source with DB2 and Oracle database.
• Generated Plug-in configuration file and swapped it to Web Servers.
• Proactively Participated with different teams to ensure high Performance in the complex business environment.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.x, Web Sphere Portal Server 6.0, IHS V6.0, DB2 9.x, Red-hat 4.5, Tivoli directory Server 6.0, ESX 3.x, Oracle 9i/10g, IBM MQ Series 6.0, UNIX (Solaris, AIX,HP-UX,Linux)

Confidential, Duluth, GA

WebSphere Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured, Administered and Supported IBM Web Sphere Application Server 5.1/6.x and IBM Web Sphere Portal Server V5.1.0.3 in Development, Staging, and QA and Production environments on Sun Solaris platform.
• Performed Horizontal and Vertical Clustering for Portal 5.x and installed portlet applications on the cluster.
• Installed Deployment Manager V5.1 with WBISF 5.1.
• Configured clusters (both horizontal and vertical scaling) for improved application performance and to recover from single point of failure
• Installed, Configured, registered and administered Siteminder webagent and appagent.
• Configured Web Sphere Portal Server with IBM Tivoli Directory Server to authenticate users using form based authentication.
• Expertise using Portal GUI and XMLaccess for deploying Portlets and portlet applications, creating pages, adding portlets to page, access control lists.
• Created channels to connect from Websphere MQ Client to Websphere MQ Server
• Monitoring and maintenance of Queue Managers, Queues, Channels and Listeners
• Proficient in Deploying themes and skins to improve the look and feel of Portal.
• Responsible for installing Fix packs and cumulative fixes for all Portal and Web sphere versions.
• Created Portal users and groups, exercised access control options to manage their usage of portal resources.
• Worked with various teams for setting up clustered Web Sphere application Server 5.0 for maximum Availability Architecture.
• Support Production implementations and resolve any production problems. Support application production releases, monitor Production environment, tune production environment, Participate in production problem calls, resolved any problems related to Middleware.
• Created wsadmin (JACL) scripts to automate server startup and shutdown.
• Experience in problem tracing, log management, Problem determination actions involving traces and thread dumps.

Environment: IBM Web Sphere Portal Server 5.1, IHS V6.0, DB2 8.2, AIX V5.3, EJB, Sunone directory and Active directory Server 2003.

Confidential

WebSphere Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured, Administered and Supported IBM Web Sphere Application Server 5.1/6.x and IBM Web Sphere Portal Server V5.1.0.3 in Development, Staging, QA and Production environments on Sun Solaris platform.
• Performed Horizontal and Vertical Clustering for Portal 5.x and installed portlet applications on the cluster.
• Installed Deployment Manager V5.1 with WBISF 5.1.
• Configured clusters (both horizontal and vertical scaling) for improved application performance and to recover from single point of failure
• Installed, Configured, registered and administered Siteminder webagent and appagent.
• Configured Web Sphere Portal Server with IBM Tivoli Directory Server to authenticate users using form based authentication.
• Expertise using Portal GUI and XMLaccess for deploying Portlets and portlet applications, creating pages, adding portlets to page, access control lists.
• Created channels to connect from Websphere MQ Client to Websphere MQ Server
• Monitoring and maintenance of Queue Managers, Queues, Channels and Listeners
• Proficient in Deploying themes and skins to improve the look and feel of Portal.
• Responsible for installing Fix packs and cumulative fixes for all Portal and Web sphere versions.
• Created Portal users and groups, exercised access control options to manage their usage of portal resources.
• Worked with various teams for setting up clustered Web Sphere application Server 5.0 for maximum Availability Architecture.
• Support Production implementations and resolve any production problems. Support application production releases, monitor Production environment, tune production environment, Participate in production problem calls, resolved any problems related to Middleware.
• Created wsadmin (JACL) scripts to automate server startup and shutdown.
• Experience in problem tracing, log management, Problem determination actions involving traces and thread dumps.

Environment: IBM Web Sphere Portal Server 5.1, IHS V6.0, DB2 8.2, AIX V5.3, EJB, Sunone directory and Active directory Server 2003.

Confidential, Menlo Park, CA

WebSphere Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Server 6.x and IBM HTTP Web Server in a Clustered environment on Linux 2.4
• Involved in the deployment of various J2EE components using WebSphere Application Server
• Installed and Configured Apache Web server and Web server plug-in
• Configured session management and used database for distributed sessions to persist session data
• Configured the JDBC resources and created connection pools with respect to the database
• Configured the WebSphere load balancing utilizing WebSphere workload management including horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Configured WebSphere JDBC providers with Oracle 8i and DB2 8.x.
• Maintained database connection pools and defined data source for JNDI lookup.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 2.0 and web server plug-in to communicate with Application Server and fine tuned plug-in for better WLM.
• Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using LDAP and local OS repositories.
• Deployed Session and Entity EJBs in WebSphere.
• Applied software maintenance, program fixes and keeping the system software releases current
• Troubleshoot hardware and software problems, and interacted with IT staff or vendors in performing complex testing, support and troubleshooting functions.

Environment: IBM Web Sphere Portal Server 5.0, IBM Web Sphere Application Server 5.1.x/6.0.x, IBM HTTP Server 2.0.47 (Apache), Solaris 5.x, DB2 8.2, Oracle 9i, IBM Tivoli Directory Server 6.0

Confidential, Downey, CA

Middleware Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured Web Sphere Application Server 4.0 on multiple-tier architecture
• Configured HTTP Plug-Ins and Open Servlet Engine (OSE) protocol, used to communicate from the web server plug-in to a remote servlet engine
• Monitored servers in a cluster using the cluster node of administration console
• Configuration, Tuning, Cloning and troubleshooting Web Sphere related problems
• Familiar with Web Sphere Resource Analyzer for performance tuning
• Used Deployment wizard to deploy all Entity and Session EJB's
• Used server node of WebSphere administration console monitoring all web application components
• Installed and configured Iplanet Web server
• Deploying applications using WebSphere Application Assembly Tool (AAT), implementing and maintenance of Workload Management (WLM) using clustering/cloning
• Configured a virtual host for Development and Test environments
• Configured databases separate from the WebSphere administrative repository database
• Using WebSphere Advanced Administrative Console configured JDBC driver and data source
• Keeping Backups of deployed Applications
• Moving WebSphere Applications to Production
• Solving Deployment issues and Network issues for the development Team and in the Production Environment

Environment: IBM WebSphere 4.0.x/5.x, WSAD, DB2 6.1/7.2, MS SQL Server, JDBC 2.0,JMS, HTML, JavaScript, JSP1.0/1.1, Servlet, Sessions, EJB, AIX 5.0,Win 2000, Apache, iPlanet.

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration, migration and infrastructure setup of Web Sphere Application Server 5.x in a clustered environment using multiple cells configuration.
• Expertise in the architecture of Workload Management utilizing WebSphere AppServer clusters management (Vertical and Horizontal Scaling) in order to recover from a single point of failure.
• Installation of WAS 6.1 cluster from DM and custom profiles in RHEL 4 environment.
• Experience deploying J2ee applications (WAR, JAR, and EAR) on various clusters and appservers.
• Configured session persistence using database for distributed sessions to persist session data.
• Installed IBM HTTP Server 7.0/6.1 and WebSphere Plug-in components. Created definition on Admin console to manage web servers and perform generation and propagation of plug-in.
• Created Name Based virtual hosts for multiple domains for different applications. Implemented SSL for secure communication between client and webserver using ikeyman utility.
• Worked closely with developers to define and configure application servers, web resources, JDBC as well as deployment of EJBs across multiple instances of websphere.
• Configured web sphere resources such as JDBC providers & data sources, JMS, shared libraries, virtual hosts.
• Involved in writing scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as log rotation, backup and recovery, server start/shutdown tasks.
• Experience using Tivoli Performance Viewer for performance monitoring and tuned database connection pooling parameters, thread pools, JVM Heap parameters and GC cycles.
• Installed refresh packs and cumulative fixes to runtime production environment to overcome various issues.

Environment: IBM WebSphere 5.x, WSAD, DB2 6.x, MS SQL Server, JDBC 2.0,JMS, HTML, JavaScript, JSP1.0, Servlet, Sessions, AIX 5.0,Win 2000, Apache.

Confidential, Columbus, GA

DB IT Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed a project as part of a team for this premier financial guarantee company where growth created dynamic need for new databases covering client related information, investment data, and production support databases.
• Accountable for Life Cycle deliverables including gathering/analyzing information, defining system requirements over client interactions for manufacturing, accounts receivables and other modules, designing changes to system using D2K, change management, development, testing, support and roll-out.
• Contributed to development by configuring listeners, tnsnames and UNIX environment for Oracle work group server databases on production sites.
• Implemented Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) strategy, and query optimization with tools like Explain Plan.
• Participated in the setup and management of database replications among development and production databases, wrote UNIX shell scripts (creation, statistics gathering, security administration) to automate database administration, and prepared system test plan and performed integrated testing.
• Introduced Configuration Management using SCCS, analyzed tables/indexes to generate statistics for tuning, implemented Conventional Hot backup, Cold Backup and logical Backup.
• Provided database management including performance tuning, support, logical & physical design and managing Oracle utilities (SQL Loader, Export, Import), and utilized Schema building and physical database design to OFA standard in the design of the Oracle databases.

Environment: Sun Solaris 5, Oracle 7.x, TOAD, SCCS, VSS, Designer 2000, SQL, PL/SQL, Shell Scripts, AIX 4.3, TKPROF, Erwin Tools 4.5