PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Confidential has over 10 years of total experience in Information Technology and out of which he has 8 years of experience
• He has through knowledge with IT Infrastructure,ITIL Service Management,Security and IBM Websphere products inlcuding IBM Websphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, IBM HTTP Server, Business Process Manager (IBM BPM), Tomcat and Weblogic on AIX,LINUX,UNIX Operating Systems.
• Expertise in Installing, Configuring and Administering Websphere Application server v 6.X/7.0/8.5.5, Websphere MQ v 6.0/7.0/7.5, IBM HTTPServer(IHS) v 7.0/6.1/6.0, IBM Integration Bus v 9, IBM Business Process Manager v 7.5/8.5.6,Tomcat 7.0/8.0 on AIX, Linux, UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Expertise in deployment,Administerting,Troubleshooting and Performance tuning of Applications on Websphere Application server 5.1/6.1/7.0/8.5.5, Business Process Manager 7.5 and Webspere Process Server 6.1, IBM HTTP Server, Apache.
• Installed Websphere Application Server,IBM BPM Fixpacks,Refresh packs and ifixes on AIX and Linux Operating Systems.
• Have good knowledge about Infrastructure Design,Capacity planning and Hardware Suggestions based on Performance reports.
• Created JDBC Providers and Data sources,JMS Resources such as Queus,Topics,Connection factories in order to provide connectivity to Oracle, DB2 databases and MQ servers
• Expertise in optimizing and fine tuning Java Virtual Machine (JVM) parameters.
• Trouble shooting the Websphere Applications and fix the issues.
• Strong experience in Optimization and Fine Tuning of Enterprise Applications
• Performed migration tasks from WAS 7.1,WAS 8.0 to 8.5.5.0 on RHEL
• Handled Memory leaks, Hung sessions, out of memory issues.
• Experience in configuring SSL security for the HTTP servers and the plugin.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings.
• Created the Shell scripts to mainitain daily activities of Infrastructure.
• Provided support, oversight, governance and tactical direction related to the infrastructure services that are required to enable the delivery of IT services.
• Extensively used HP Diagnostics,BMC,QPASA,NMON and Dynatrace 4.X/5.X/6.X for monitoring Applications and Servers.
• Expertise In Creating accurate and Detailed performance Analysis report for Websphere Applications,J2EE Appliactions,Database Servers and Websphere Servers on AIX,LINUX,UNIX Operating Systems using NMON,HP Diagnostics and Dynatrace.
• Have experience on Continuously monitoring the performance of Applications and servers while Load and Stress tesing being performed.
• Creating and analyzing performance reports from Dev,QA,Staging and production environments to fine tune the Application performance.
• Understands and provides the work effort on projects using expertise of service management processes based on ITIL V3.
• Have knowledge about Load balancing Websphere Application servers with F5 Big IP.
• Have experience and knowledge about DMZ,Firewall,Webseal,Networking concepts,IPv6,IPv4,TCP/IP,DNS,HTTPS,HTTP,Routers and switches.
• Updated the firmware on Datapower Appliance XI52 throught GUI and CLI.
• Configured Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client authentication and used iKeyman key utility to manage keys and s.
• Extensively worked and co ordinated on Disaster Recovery planning,executing,monitoring and trouble shooting.
• Coordinates and schedules key change to production activities. This includes the tracking of all elements with team leads as the project moves through testing regions into production. Accommodates a flexible schedule as most releases occur outside of regular business hours.
• Created change records and coordinates with the Change Advisory Board (CAB) to seek approval of changes before being deployed
• Ability to quickly assess issues and plan course of action for resolution.
• Experience on setting up the Application environments for Development,QA,Staging and Production Environments.
• ITIL Service Management knowledge and experience
• Have worked extensively on technologies like J2EE, Java, Servlets, JSP, EJB,XML,DB2,Oracle and SQL Server.
• Excellent Communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: AIX, UNIX, LINUX, Windows

Runtime: IBM Websphere Application server 5.X/6.X/7.0/8.0/8.5, Websphere MQ 6.0/7.0/7.5, IBM Integration Bus v9(IIB),IBM Business Process Manager V7.5,Weblogic,Tomcat 7.0/8.0

Service Management: ServiceNow, HP Service Manager, Remedy Action Request System

Databases: DB2,Oracle,SQL Server

Scripting: Shell scripting, JACL, JYTHON

Languages and Components: Java,J2EE,ESQL,SQL

Web Servers: IBM HTTP Server 6.0, Apache, IIS

Monitoring tools: BMC,Dynatrace, HP Diagnostic, QPASA,NMON

Defect Tracking Tools: IT Service Management Suite, ClearQuest, TRAC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Websphere/Middleware Adminsitrator

Environment: IT Service Management Suite,IBM Websphere Application Server 7.0/8.5.5, Websphere MQ v7.0/7.5, IBM Integration Bus v9 (IIB), IBM Business Process Manager V 8.5.6,Oracle, LINUX, J2EE, BMC, Dynatrace, IBM HTTP Server, LDAP,XML

Responsibilities:

• Installation,Configuration and Administration of IBM Websphere Application Server 7.0/8.5.5, IBM HTTPServer(IHS) v 7.0,Websphere MQ v 7.0/7.5, IBM Integration Bus v9, IBM Business Process Manager 8.5.6,Tomcat 7.0/8.0 on AIX/LINUX platforms.
• Deployment,Configuration and Administration of Enterprise Applications on IBM Websphere Application server 8.0/8.5.5, IBM Business Process Manager 8.5.6.
• Deploying J2EE applications on Websphere managed environments such as Dev, QA, Staging and Prodcution.
• Involved in design,capacity planning and Created Dev,QA,Staging and Production environments for the Websphere Application Server,IBM MQ and IBM BPM environment.
• Involved in Infrastructure Design,Capacity Planning .
• Installed Fix packs, Cumulative Fixes and Refresh Packs on Websphere Application Server ND Versions.
• Troubleshooting,Maintaining and Performance tuning Enterprise Applications deployed on Linux Operating Systems.
• Creating Profiles,JVMs,Resources to add more Java J2EE applications on the Websphere Environment.
• Working as a bridge between Development team,Middleware team,QA team and Database team to improve the Change and service management process to attain the complete IT service deliveries.
• Worked with Change Requests,Problem Requests,Incidents,RFC’s using IT Service Management suite product.
• Worked with Release team to update the existing issues on Dev,QA,Staging and Production Environments.
• Facilitated release meetings and develops the release recommendation and release deployment plan based on input from multiple stakeholders within various portfolio teams.
• Defines and documents the release recommendation for each release and/or change to production. Includes release scope, schedule, deliverables, and roll back plan.
• Troubleshooting the issues related to the deployed Applications and performance.
• Creating Detailed report of Websphere Applications performance and Server(AIX,LINUX,UNIX) performance using NMON,HP Diagnostics and Dynatrace.
• Involved in Migrating Websphere Application Server environment v8.0 to 8.5.5 on Dev,QA,Staging and Production Environment. Prepared Pre - Migration Check list,Post Migration Check list and migration plan to complete the successful Migration.
• Responsible for Administration of Datapower Appliance XB62
• Using BMC,NMON and Dynatrace 4.X/5.X/6.X for monitoring Applications and Servers on Dev,QA,Staging and Production Servers.
• Created and configured MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Remote queues, Local Queues, Queue Aliases, Channels, Clusters, Transmission Queues, Performance Events, Triggers, and Processes.
• Continuous Monitoring and MQ Queues Managers, MQ Objects include different channels, queues using MQ Explorer.
• Setting up of MQ infrastructure by creating queue managers
• Worked with various queues like Local / Remote / Alias
• Implemented basic distributed queuing for queue manager setup

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Test Environment Analyst/Websphere Administrator

Environment: IBM Websphere Application Server 6.X, IBM Websphere MQ v6.0/7.0, IBM Webspere Process Server 6.1, IBM BPM 7.5,DB2,AIX, LINUX, J2EE, HP Service Manager, TRAC, ClearQuest, MQ, IBM HTTP Server, LDAP, HP Diagnotstic tool.

Responsibilities:

• Installation,Configuration and Administration of Enterprise Applications on IBM Websphere Application server 6.X/Websphere Process Server 6.1
• Administration of IBM HTTP Server 6.0 on different nodes and configured them by generating the plug-in.
• Deploying J2EE applications on Websphere managed environments such as Dev, System, Performance, Implementation Environment using In house tools.
• Creating JVMs using WSDG request and map the context roots.
• Worked with Development team periodically to get the requirement and build the Test environment setup.
• Setting up the Test environments for Multiple application on B2C,B2B and B2E realms.
• Creating the JVMs,Map the context root for Dev,system, Performance and Implementation Environments.
• Worked on B2C and B2B Applications on Dev,System,Performance and Implementation Environments.
• Troubleshooting the issues related to the deployed Applications.
• Analysing the Websphere Server logs to trouble shoot the Application issues.
• Used HP Diagnostics to monitor the Performance of J2EE Applications and servers.
• Worked with QA team to resolve the Environment related issues.
• Applied Fix Packs and Cumulative Fixes to Webspere Application Server.
• Assisted the DBA in creating the BPEDB, Deployment, Mainitaining and troubleshooting WPS apps,Created listener ports,Configured Garbage collection policy setting to Gencon.
• Monitored perfomrnace using HP Diagnostic Tool.

Confidential, NJ

J2EE Developer /Onsite Application lead/Websphere Administrator

Environment: IBM Websphere Application Server 6.X, UNIX, IBM MQ, J2EE, Oracle, IBM http Server, Apache, Remedy, LDAP, Tivoli Performance Viewer.

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Administration of IBM Websphere Application Server6.X.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Enterprise Applications on IBM Websphere Application server 6.X/Websphere Process Server on UNIX/LINUX platforms.
• Applied Fix Packs and Cumulative Fixes to Webspere Application Server.
• Developed user interfaces using JSP, HTML and CSS.
• Closely worked with Test Team to identify bugs in application.
• 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, CPU Starvations).
• Coordinated between Application Support Team,Testing team,Release management team.

Confidential

J2EE Developer

Environment: Java, J2EE, Servlets, JSP, Struts, JDBC, Tomcat 5.5, Postgre SQL, XML

Responsibilities:

• Gathering requirements from business people,analyzing and recommending changes.
• Developoing Front end using Java Technologies.
• Team meeting and User interaction meeting on periodical basis.
• Testing.

Confidential

J2EE Developer

Environment: Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB, JDBC, Oracle 8i and Weblogic5.1, Apache

Responsibilities:

• Development and Design of the Presentation and Business Layer.
• Front End Design and Database Connectivity.
• Code Testing and Debugging, Maintenance and support.
• Ticket analysis and Stability improvement. Involved in Change Request for System application and deployment activities.