SUMMARY

• IBM Certified Specialist in WebSphere MQ and Message Broker Administration with over 8+ years of IT industry experience.
• 3 years of experience in IBM DataPower Admin and Development.
• More TEMPthan 2 years of experience in WebSphere MQ FTE 7.0.2.1, 7.0.3
• Design and articulate application integration architecture based on SOA principals.
• Good Experience in Scalability and Streamlining teh EAI (MQ, WBI MB) Test and Production Environment.
• Ability to analyze, design, develops, test and implement system or procedures dat optimize time, effort and resources.
• Provided 24x7 On - call support for both Test and Production servers.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining DataPower appliances XI-50 and XI-52 as XML security gateways and XML Integrators.
• Through knowledge on XML and XSLT.
• Exposure to major Production Environments running E-Business applications using WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker
• Expertise in Installing & Configuring IBM WebSphere MQ 7.5/7.1/7.0.1.7/6.0/5.3, and WebSphere Message Broker 9/7/6.1/6.0 on various environments such as Windows 2003/NT/XP, AIX, Sun Solaris, Linux, HP-UX and AS/400.
• Experienced in Setting up High availability clusters for WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker servers using HACMP.
• Expertise in troubleshooting teh critical production issues and getting them resolved quickly
• Expertise in setting up teh databases and configuring teh odbc files for teh broker connection
• Expert on working with Broker servers on Versions 5.0/ 6.0/ 7.1 and 9.0
• Expertise in Administering & Performance Tuning in IBM WebSphere MQ and Broker
• Well versed in installing and using monitoring tools like Tivoli Omegamon and Qpasa
• Expert in setting up security in MQ and Broker using OAM and Access control lists
• Experienced in setting up SSL across teh MQ and Broker environments and maintaining teh certificates
• Experience in writing Bash Shell Scripts, Crontab Scripting for automated recycle of WebSphere MQ and Broker servers and day to day tasks

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: WebSphere 6.x/7.0/7.1/7.5, MB 5.x/6.x/7.0/9.0WebSphere MQ FTE 7.0.2.1, 7.0.3

Hardware/OS: IBM AIX (Including HACMP), Sun Solaris, HP-UX (Including Service Guard), Linux, Windows 95/NT/98/2K/XP, MVS, z/OS.

Languages: JAVA, C, C++, COBOL, CICS, PL/SQL, Visual C++, VB, HTML, XMLASP, PERL and Shell scripting.

Databases: DB2/UDB, SQL SERVER, Oracle 8i.

Tools: Candle, Tivoli, Qpasa, VISIO, WSAD, Wily, Optier, HP Service Desk/Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

IBM WebSphere DataPower XI52 Admin/Development

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, administration and monitoring teh DataPower Appliances XI50 and XI52
• Responsible for teh definition, planning and execution of all infrastructure activities required to support teh DataPower environment.
• Worked with IBM DataPower devices to secure and integrate teh web services.
• Configuring XML Firewalls and Web Service Proxy along with teh required objects
• Creating network routes and configuring Ethernet interfaces on teh device as part of teh device deployment.
• Creating Application Domains, objects like Web Service proxies, Multi-Protocol Gateways as per teh requirements.
• Generated keys, CSRs and self-signed certificates using Crypto tool.
• Created Crypto profiles, SSL proxy profiles as part of SSL implementation.
• Created Load Balancer Groups to load balance teh requests to multiple back end points.
• Created AAA policies to autanticate and authorize user requests using LDAP.
• Developed and configured WSDL and XML proxies.
• Experience in working with multiple development and infrastructure teams.
• Performed general operation tasks such as Firmware upgrade, User management, capacity planning etc.
• Developed Message flows to transform messages from XML to COBOL copybook format.
• Worked on XSLT and used XML Transformation node to transform an XML message to another form of XML message.

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

IBM WebSphere MQ/ Message Broker/MQ FTE Admin

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement complex business integration rules and process flows, assist customers with migration of business applications.
• Systems performance tuning, clustering, WMQ&JMS implementation.
• Installation, Configuration and administration of WebSphere MQ V 7.0.1.7,MQ V 7.1,MQ V 7.5 and WMB V 7.0.0.2, WMB v 9 on most of teh supported platforms.
• Migration of MQ V 6.0.2.3 to MQ v 7.0.1.7, MQ v 7.1 to MQ v 7.5
• Migration of WMB V 6.0.2.3 to WMB v 7.0.0.2 and WMB V7.0.0.2 to IIB V 9.0.0.0
• Multi instance QMGR setup and Multi Instance Message broker setup on Linux.
• Installing & Configuring MQ FTE on Client servers.
• Applying fix packs for MQ FTE.
• Installing & Configuring MQ on Servers & Installing MQ FTE Server.
• Creating Queue managers, FTE agents.
• Creating MQ FTE transfers & Monitors
• Prepared operational guidelines for administering and configuring broker on various platforms like AIX, Linux and Windows.
• Provided 24x7 On-Call support for all environments (System Test, Assembly Test, Training, Break Fix, and Production).
• Perform incident and problem resolution for Websphere MQ, WebSphere MB.
• Coordinated with IBM to resolve all PMR's related to MQ Series.
• Provided daily support to production-support team members on WebSphere MQ Operation and problem determination.
• Provide technical leadership with architectural design and implementation of WebSphere MQ, WMQ Message Broker.
• Set up MQ Clustering and security using OAM
• Full repository services move to teh new QMGR’s.
• Created teh individual DLQ central server for each cluster. All DLQ messages are end up on teh central server by changing teh default DLQ for all teh qmgr’s and creating teh queue setup to route teh messages to central server.
• Worked with performance team to install and configure Qpasa/Optier/Wily on servers to monitor QMGR and MQ objects and generate reports.
• Assist costumers with developing procedures for migrating existing applications into WMQ messaging environment.
• Provide systems architecture planning, application testing & deployment.
• Develop training course materials and deliver training and technical discussions in teh areas of messaging and middleware technologies
• Coordinated with System admin and Supported installation of Websphere MQ 6.0
• Upgrade of Websphere MQ 5.3 to 6.0 and Websphere MQ 6.0.2.3 to 7.0.1.3 on AIX/LINUX.
• Install and Configure WBI MB 5.x, WBI MB 6.0 and WBI MB 7.0 on multiple platforms on AIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows in cluster and High availability environments.
• Install and configure WBI MB Toolkit and MB Explorer and Runtime on Windows XP and Windows 7.
• Developed UNIX script to customize brokers and user name servers.
• Design and Develop Complex message flows to route messages between different destinations.
• Provided solutions including PUB-SUB, Message Transformation, Message Enrichment and Intelligent routing kind of message flows and various transformation message sets.
• Define brokers and execution groups using Message Broker tool kit and deploy to teh configuration manager.
• Tuned teh message broker http listener to handle teh HTTP/HTTPS requests.
• Configured broker runtime to setup external resources like JDBC Providers, JMS Providers, Email Servers, IMS Connect, SAP Connection.
• To increase teh performance of message flows increased teh number of threads of flows and increased teh heap size of Execution groups to prevent teh slow processing of messages.
• Installed and configured Qpasa Message Broker extension to monitor teh message flows.
• Installed and configured Optier performance to tool to monitor teh end to end transactions.
• Enabled User-exits for Message Broker.
• Collected MQ and Message Broker logs and user traces to troubleshoot teh problems.
• Assigning java debug ports to teh execution groups.
• Used Debugger in toolkit to find teh root cause of teh message flow issues.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

MQ/WMB Admin

Responsibilities:

• Assisted customers with developing procedures for migrating existing applications in to WBI.
• Recommended and implemented teh system Architecture for teh production.
• Implementation of teh systems for High Availability and Hot Failover
• Installation, Configuring and administering interfaces for WebSphere MQ.
• Designed MQ applications supporting application level security and delivering MQ infrastructural solutions using link level security.
• Develop MQ infrastructure in enterprise level with distributed and mainframe queuing and clustering on AIX, Solaris, Z/OS, OS/390, VMS, NCR and Windows 2000
• Setup Gateway QMGR solutions, Clustering solutions and Queue Sharing Groups.
• Coordinated with application teams to develop system's business function and connect to EAI transport layer using teh API's.
• Point of Contact for teh Business, Testing and Application teams.
• Create interface design specification documents and MQ objects as per teh EAI Development Standards.
• Setting up, monitoring and troubleshooting WBI adapters (JDBC.JTEXT, TX /HL7, Web Services and SAP).
• Upgrading WebSphere MQ 5.3 to 6.0 on Windows, Solaris, AIX, Linux platforms.
• Installing and Configuring WebSphere MQ 5.3 on Windows, Solaris, AIX, Linux platforms.
• Applying fix packs (formerly known as CSD).
• Architected of WMQ Cluster environment.
• Architected Workload Balancing within WMQ Cluster.
• Define channels using SSL Security
• Architected and implemented SSL certificates (Self-Signed and CA Signed) for WMQ Channels.
• Provided 24/7 on call support in both testing and production environment.
• Maintained security exits.
• To provide recommendations for teh integration of applications.
• Install Configure and administer interfaces for MQSI.
• Handled maintenance of entire MQ environment.
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces.
• Automate WMQ Queue Managers startup and shutdown procedures using Scripts.
• Mentoring Programmers and Application Developers with WMQ basics and API.
• Used WBI monitor tool for teh administration and process management
• Experience in using WBI simulation tools for checking teh validity of teh process installation.
• Coded teh ESQL for MQSI message flow nodes (IBM primitives) like Compute, Filter and Database related nodes.
• Troubleshooting and debugging MQSI message flows using Trace nodes and error handler nodes.
• Established teh collective group of brokers and designed channels between them in WMQ and started teh various instances of message flows in teh execution group.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

WebSphere MQ/Broker Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuring and administering interfaces for WBI MB, MQ series various releases on AIX, HP-UX, servers.
• Troubleshoot and Manage critical High volume MQ Series environment.
• Provide 24/7 on call support in both testing and production environment.
• Coordinated with MQ developers assisting with design, implementation, architecture and development.
• Analyzing FDC's cut during application level and MQ internal errors.
• Administering in multiple operating systems which included clearing queues, modifying object attributes, restarting channel and supporting application development by resolving programming problems with MQI (WebSphere MQ Application Programming Interface).
• Troubleshooting and Managing MQ queues, channels, listeners and triggering.
• Configuring and managing and as well as automation WebSphere MQ channels and adding and modifying WebSphere MQ resource definitions.
• Gather and Analyze Business Requirements
• Preparing comprehensive test cases for validating teh migration.
• Troubleshoot, optimize performance and health check teh solutions.
• Wrote scripts to automate administration tasks using shell and Perl scripts.
• Defining channels usingSSL(Secure socket layer) certificates. Designed MQ applications supporting application level security and delivering MQ infrastructural solutions using link level security.
• Worked underDQMandClustering environment
• Configured repositoryQueue ManagersinClustering environment
• Convert an existing network ofQueue Managersinto aCluster environment
• Involved in developing backup and recovery procedures.
• ApplyingCSDs,hot fixes,PTFs. Upgrading MQ versions by manual process or automated processes writing scripts.
• Wrote scripts to uninstall older versions of MQ and install new version of MQ.
• Used Qpasa Monitoring tool for administration of WebSphere MQ on distributed platforms.
• Wrote Qpasa business rules for monitoring teh queue’s and channels of WebSphere MQ.
• Installed Qpasa agents on different platforms (AS400, Windows, Solaris, HP/UX and AIX).
• Worked with channel triggering and application triggering.