SUMMARY

• Over (6) years of IT industry experience in IBM WebSphere suite of products like WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ.
• Expertise in Installing & Configuring IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.x/7.x/6.x/5.x, on various environments such as Solaris 10/9, Red Hat Linux 5/4/3, AIX 6.0/5.3/5.2/4.3 & Windows NT 2000/2003/2008 Server.
• Experience in installing and configuring IBM HTTP Server 5.x/6.x/7.x,8.x Sunone 6.x/5x, iplanet, Apache and Tomcat web servers wif Local and Remote Plug - in for IBM WebSphere Application Server.
• Worked on Wily Introscope Administration to monitor teh critical business applications.
• Expertise in tracking Issues related to IBM Http Server, DNS, Load Balancer and WAS.
• Expertise in Administering & Performance Tuning in IBM WebSphere.
• Experience in installing and enabling teh LDAP security in WebSphere.
• Expertise in deploying solutions in High Availability (HA), Load Balancing Configurations eliminating single points of failure
• Expertise in creating, deleting, managing Clusters, Nodes in WAS.
• Good noledge in configuring High Availability Manager for failover & recovery techniques.
• Strong Knowledge in Clustering EJB objects, Scalability and Reliability, JDBC connections and JMS connection factories.
• Involved in WebSphere MQ installation on multiple operating systems.
• Well versed wif Migration of WAS from old version to new and higher version.
• Well versed wif planning and implementation and impact of Work Load Management (WLM) using cloning & clustering including horizontal clustering & vertical clusters & creation of nodes.
• Versed wif analyzing of log files using Log Analyzer & threads using Thread Analyzer.
• Analyzing teh memory, CPU usage and overall server status wif commands and GUI tools.
• Experience in writing Bash Shell Scripts, Crontab Scripting for automated recycle of WebSphere applications and log rotations wif respect to teh requirements of teh environment.
• Expertise in supporting enterprise based distributed applications over a wide range of production environments on a 24/7 on-call rotation basis for high volume, secure transactions and Web services.
• Experience in design analysis, application development, debugging, testing and documentation of teh various phases in a software development life cycle (SDLC).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Application/Web Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0/5.1/6.0/6.1/7.0/8. x, Oracle WebLogic 9.x/10.x, Apache Web Server 1.2.2/1.3/2.0, IBM HTTP Server 5.0/6.0/7.0/8. x, IIS 6.0, Apache-Tomcat 5.0/6.0.32, JBOSS, Netscape Enterprise Server, WebSphere Portal 5.x/6.x, WebSphere Commerce Server 7.x, WebSphere Process Server 6.x/7.x,WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.0/7.0.

Languages: C, C++, Java/J2EE, SQL, PL/SQL.

Scripting Languages: JavaScript, jython, perl and shell scripting.

Operating Systems: Solaris, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, IBM-AIX, Windows 98/2000/NT/XP/2003.

Databases: Oracle 10g/9i, MS Access 2000, MYSQL, DB2.

J2EE Technology: Servlets, JSP, JDBC, RMI, JMS, JTA, JNDI, JMX, EJB, Applets

Networking & Communication Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Roanoke, VA

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in installing and configuring a complete IBM WebSphere Commerce Environment including IBM WebSphere Application server 7, Commerce Server 7, DB2, IBM HTTP server.
• Administration of IBM HTTP Server from WebSphere Admin Console.
• Responsible for building and maintaining Development, QA, Staging, PreProd and Production environment infrastructure.
• Involved in teh migration of IBM WebSphere from 6.1 to 7.0 and installed teh fix packs and cumulative fixes to WebSphere 7, plugging and IHS.
• Installed, configured and maintained JBOSS EAP 6 and Tomcat 5.
• Performance monitoring, tuning, troubleshooting WebSphere, Jboss and Tomcat servers.
• Created clusters and deployed enterprise applications on teh Jboss clusters.
• Administration of working application starting and stopping application servers, regenerating/updating plug-in for IBM HTTP server.
• Involved in securing teh J2EE applications by implementing single sign on by using LDAP.
• Troubleshooting on issues such as out of memory, memory leaks, hung sessions and session replication.
• Troubleshooting on issues such as federation of nodes and synchronization of nodes wif WebSphere Application Server NDM.
• Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client autantication.
• Worked on tuning teh JVM parameters as per teh application requirements
• Developed shell scripts to automate teh WebSphere administration, deploying customer applications, log rotations, monitor applications state.
• Configured IBM WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling and java mail sessions.
• Used Cache Monitor web application in process of DynaCache invalidation and reset/clear cache instances when requested.
• Monitored for Application core dumps, or forced thread dumps to check for system objects using thread analyzer.
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces.
• Extensively worked on performance tuning and log analyzer to analyze various logs and traces.
• Developed scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup, everyday system tasks, etc.
• 24/7 support in troubleshooting problems for WebSphere applications.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 7.x/8.x, WebSphere Process Server (WPS) 7.x, WebSphere Commerce Server 7.0.x, Apache-Tomcat 6.0.32 WebSphere MQ 7.x, AIX 7.1, IBM Http server 7.x, UNIX, Linux, Oracle 10g, Wily Introscope, Quality Center 10.00, F5 load balancer, Windows 2008, Windows Active Directory server 2007, Microsoft SQL SERVER 2005, Red Hat Linux 5.0 Microsoft Visio 2007, Tivoli Performance Viewer, J2EE, Jython/ Shell scripting.

Confidential, Wayne, NJ

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, configuration, administration of applications using WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment 8.x/ 7.x/6.x.
• Administered applications in Java and performed configurations on them via teh administrative console by using teh JMS connected to WebSphere MQ (Series)
• Configured WebSphere MQ for some of teh applications by defining Queues and QCF (QueueConnectionFactories) at WebSphere Level.
• Configured and administered JDBC Connection Pools/Data Sources on WebSphere Application Server
• Updated applications by presenting teh portion of application code to teh system dat actually changed and wifout stopping any portion of teh running application.
• Configured WebSphere wif Wily Introscope for high volume applications.
• Used Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) to monitor teh overall health of WebSphere Application Server and used Tivoli Performance Viewer to analyze teh PMI data.
• Configured Enterprise Service Bus, Service Integration Bus and connected applications to it.
• Deployed large Web-based transaction systems in WebSphere Application Server 6.1/5.1
• Managed teh Security and Performance optimizations for EJB containers and web applications in IBM WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server and Apache WebServer.
• Deployed Servlets, Session and Entity Beans on teh WebSphere Application Server.
• Used Tivoli Performance Monitoring tool to monitor application resources (Enterprise Beans, Servlets) and WAS runtime resources (JVM memory, application server thread pools, database connection pool).
• Troubleshooting on issues such as out of memory, memory leaks, hung sessions and session replication.
• Troubleshooting on issues such as federation of nodes and synchronization of nodes wif WebSphere Application Server NDM.
• Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client autantication.
• Configured teh WebSphere Application Server web server plug-in for multiple web sites in IIS 7.x
• Used WebSphere Application Server key management utility (iKeyman), for managing keys and certificates.
• Effectively interacted wif teh users on a daily basis, decreasing downtime and increasing user productivity.
• Created Environment wif teh help of JACL scripts.
• Configured teh extranet Web Servers and intranet application servers using teh firewalls between teh Web Servers and application servers.
• Monitored for Application core dumps, or forced thread dumps to check for system objects using thread analyzer.
• Configured plug-in for WebSphere Application Server 5.1/6.0.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment 8.x/7.x/6.x, Apache tomcat, 2.0.47 WebSphere Portal 6.x, iPlanet 6.1 WebServer, IHS WebServer 6.0/6.1, Netegrity Site Minder 5.X, JBoss, Red Hat Linux 5.0, HP-UX, Solaris, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris 9,10, Oracle, DB2.

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured, Administered and Supported WebSphere Application Servers 6.1/7.0.
• Managing WebSphere Application Server using command line tools and scripts.
• Involved in Upgrading teh WebSphere Application Server from V6.x.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 7.0.
• Configured WebSphere Workload Management using horizontal and vertical clustering.
• Deployed various J2EE 1.4 applications on WAS 7.0.
• Configured remote HTTP Server Plug-in to work wif WebSphere Application server.
• Deployed teh EAR/WAR files and scripted automated deployment of teh applications.
• Experienced wif Wily Introscope for monitoring application servers.
• Implemented security using LDAP and LTPA for Novell eDirectory.
• Configure SSL for Web Servers and LDAP Security for WebSphere using IBM Directory server.
• Configured Cell and Node level scoped resources for JDBC providers, Data Sources using Jython script.
• Created user roles and groups for securing teh resources using LDAP autantication.
• Created WAS 6.x profiles, integrated IHS into WAS as unmanaged node.
• Performed software maintenance by installing AppServer and WebServer fix packs to keep teh system software up to date.
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.
• Generated and configured keys in IBM HTTP Server and plug-in for enabling SSL.
• Configured teh web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for Web Sphere.
• Debugged WebSphere Application Server connection pooling issues using Wily and generating thread dumps.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x, IBM HTTP Server 6.x,DB2 8.2, LDAP, Oracle 9i/10g, LINUX, Windows 2003, Tivoli Performance Viewer, J2EE, Jython, JACL scripts, WAS Portal Server 5.x,6.x, Web Content Manager, WAS XD 5,6.X, ND 5,6.X, WebSphere MQ5.x, AIX 5.3, WebSphere Process Server (WPS) 6.x, Windows 2000, Linux, Netegrity SiteMinder, IBM Http server 6.0,6.1,7.0, IBM DB2 UDB Enterprise edition 8.1, Oracle 10g, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Apache HTTP webserver.

Confidential

WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Performed administrative tasks -Installation, Configuration, Deployment, Tuning, Clustering, Work Load Management (WLM), troubleshooting WebSphere Application Server V6.0.2.12 on Solaris, Linux and AIX
• Responsible for installing and configuring development, integration test and production environments of various versions of WebSphere Application Servers.
• Performed Installing fix packs and performing upgrades to non-prod and prod environments.
• Developing Jython and Shell scripts in order to automate teh setup of WebSphere application server environment. Teh scripts create teh application servers, deploy teh applications and configure several WebSphere resources like JDBC.
• Providing WebSphere application server related support for various application development and application testing teams.
• Experienced wif Wily Introscope for monitoring application servers.
• Configuring Single Sign on (SSO) solutions using different Autantication Methods to back end Servers.
• Responsible for performance monitoring and performance tuning of teh WebSphere environment.
• Deploying in High Availability (HA) and Load Balancing configurations eliminating single points of failure.
• Using Tivoli Performance tools (TPV and TPA) for monitoring and tuning teh WebSphere environment (JVM heap size, data base connection pool size, etc.).
• Working closely wif teh client’s WebSphere administration team in order to troubleshoot and resolve I issues on-hand.
• Documenting various WebSphere administration tasks like installation, configuration and deployment procedures for both WebSphere application servers and WebServers.
• Working wif IBM on resolving issues related to WebSphere and HTTP Server.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server V6.0/6.1,Linux, Solaris, Windows NT/2000, AIX 5.3, DB2 UDB8.0, Oracle 9i, IBM HTTP Server, LDAP Server, Heap Analyzer, Tivoli Performance Viewer and Global Security.

Confidential

WebLogic Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed configured and administered WebLogic Server 8.1/9.x/10.x in Red Hat Linux and Sun Solaris environments.
• Involved in setting up multiple domains, including machines, managed servers, node managers and cluster environments.
• Integrated WebLogic Application Server wif Proxy servers (Apache and iplanet) and Autantication policy servers (Siteminder 5.5 and 6.0).
• Installed and configured Websphere Application Server 6.
• Worked on Tuning teh Weblogic Application Server, Applications and WebServers by changing teh Heap Size parameters and tuning JVM’s Garbage Collector.
• Involved in teh migration of applications from WebLogic 8.1 to WebLogic 9.2.
• Configured Node manager for administering teh managed servers in WebLogic.
• Deployed teh applications on multiple WebLogic Server instances and maintained Load balancing, high availability and Fail over for teh servers.
• Configured and administered JDBC, JMS, JNDI, and objects in WebLogic Server 8.1, 9.x, and 10.x.
• Created SSL and Digital Certificates for requesting, generating and implementation for teh communication between web server and teh Application Server.
• Involved in documentation of environment.
• Worked on monitoring tools like HP Openview, wily introscope.
• Modified existing scripts for automating deployment and administration tasks for recycling teh application server, deploying customer applications, logs rotation, monitor applications.
• Upgradation of WebLogic servers in development, testing and production environment and applying patches.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software problems, and interact wif IT staff or vendors in performing complex testing, support and troubleshooting functions.

Environment: JDK,JRocket,J2EE,JMS,MBeans(JMX),BEAWebLogic8.1,9.2,10,WebSphere6.0,Jython,HpOV,SiteMinder 5.5/6.0,Tomcat 5.5,Sun One 6.0(iplanet), Apache,RedHatLinux 5, Sun Solaris 9.