Summary

• Over 10 years of IT experience with 7 years of IBM WebSphere Administration.
• About 7 years of experience in setup, installation and administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.0, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0 and 6.1 Base, Network Deployment and Websphere Portal Server 5.x, 6.x .
• Installed and Configured WebSphere Extended Deployment manager XD 5.1/6.0.2.
• Created dynamic clustering using WebSphere XD.
• Created build definition file to generate customized installation package for WebSphere XD.
• Configured and monitored database tier.
• Expertise in installing WebSphere Portal 5.1/6.0/6.1 in vertical and horizontal scaled environments and clustering WebSphere Portal nodes.
• Expertise in installing WebSphere Portal fix packs.
• Installed and configured WebSphere Process Server 6.0.
• Administered a complex SOA based WAS, Portal, and WebSphere Process Server environments.
• Expertise in Administering IBM WAS 5.0, 5.1,6.0 and 6.1, Network Deployment and Portal Server on various Operation Systems like SUN Solaris 2.8,solaris 9, AIX 5.1/5.2, RedHat Linux9.1, and Windows 2000/2003 Server.
• Installed and configured WebSphere MQ version 6 and 7.
• Administration and Configuration of MQ Series product on AIX, HP-UNIX and Windows.
• Experience on Message broker Tool Kit.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining Web and Database servers like WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server, Oracle, and DB2 on diverse UNIX platforms that includes AIX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows 2000.
• Redhat Enterprise Server 7/8/9/2.1/3.0/4.0/5.0, , SUSE Linux 8/9, Fedora 3./4.0 and Solaris 8/9/10
• Thorough knowledge of Network protocols/Storage Protocols and OS Internals
• Experienced in designing and implementing network based installs in Redhat Linux operating system environment using and Kickstart.
• Experience in installation, configuration of Linux virtual server using VMWare Infrastructure.
• Tasks include Message Broker Administration, checking Message Flows, Transforming different types of data to target systems.
• Troubleshoot WebSphere Application Server connection pooling and connection manager with Oracle, DB2
• Configured and setup SSL repository for the Queue Managers.
• Created and configured MQ Series Objects like Queue Manager, Queue, and Channels etc.
• Several MQ Series Servers are integrated using the Point to point channels and Cluster Channels.
• Provided Naming Standards, Backup Recovery and Problem Determination Strategies for the project.
• Solid experience in Administration of BEA Weblogic Server 5.1/6.1/7.0/8.1/9.0/10.0/10.3
• Solid experience in developing and deploying the applications on multiple Weblogic Servers and maintaining Load balancing and High availability.
• Configured Web Logic domains for various environments like Development, Testing, Pre-Prod and Production
• Configure and monitor JMS server in Weblogic.
• Developed UNIX and Perl Scripts for maintenance of MQ systems.
• Worked on Web Middleware Server builds such as Websphere Application Server/Portal server, Weblogic and Commerce server.
• Configuration of Network Deployment for Centralized Management of Applications.
• Configuring of JDBC Providers, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, Global Security, SSL, and LDAP.
• Expertise in Configuring IBM Web Content Management 6.0/6.1.
• Installed and Configured IIS 6.
• Troubleshooting Production issues, Worked on resolving Application Server Hang issues and High memory and CPU issues in WebSphere Application Server 5.0/5.1/6.0/6.1.
• Tuned the JVMs by analyzing the Must Gather information for Application Server Hangs on AIX, Linux and Solaris.
• Used Heap Analyzer and thread Analyzer to tune the WebSphere JVMs.
• Used Tivoli Performance Viewer and IT CAM to monitor the performance.
• Tuning the Prepared Statement Cache for WebSphere Application Server, which resulted in very large Application Server memory footprints, OutOfMemory errors or crashes of the Java process.
• Involved in Installing, Administrating and Maintaining Jboss Application server 4.0.
• Experience in performing horizontal and vertical scaling in WebSphere Portal Server environment.
• Well versed in creating portal users and groups and exercise access control options to manage their usage of portal resources.
• Experience in setting up Role based administration including hierarchical admin access control and granular admin roles.
• Responsible for building an extensible portal framework featuring plug-in services via portlets and plug-in content via portlets.
• Experience with Deployment of portlets and installing through Portal Admin GUI and Remote Server Attach Debug directly into the portal server.
• Experience with Portlet Development Wizard for adding new Portlet to existing Portlet application or creating new portlet application or creating web service client portlet.
• Well versed in designing portals with an extensible framework that supports breaking the different portal components into portlets.
• Well versed with high technical knowledge in different Portlet Modes including View , Edit , Configure , and Help modes based on the user authentication and authorization roles and groups.
• Proficient in developing applications using J2EE standard based architecture achieving database connectivity using JDBC.
• Expertise in administering and maintaining both production and development environment.
• Implement Security using Role based Administration Monitor, Operator, Configuration, and Administrator .
• Experience in configuring Cluster server groups for improved availability and fail over redundancy
• Experienced in Installing Fix Packs and Cumulative fix packs and Migrating to latest versions.
• Worked as a SiteMinder, LDAP and Webserver administrator for more than 3 years. Worked exclusively on the end-to-end implementation and maintenance of Single Sign ON.
• Experienced in Installing the security certificates and installing Siteminder for single sign on SSO .
• Good at troubleshooting using Traces, Logs and Log Analyzer.
• Worked on Apache Ant 1.6.5 and Apache Ant 1.7.0 tool to build ear and jar files
• Experienced in working with databases such as Oracle,DB2,Siebel,Telmar and MS SQL Server
• Problem Determination through the log files and rectified the problems or interacting with IBM support to solve problems.
• Used change control tool like Remedy and Service Center
• Prepared best practice documents for external customers.
• Ability to work independently, and with minimum supervision.

Technical Skills:

• Operating Systems IBM AIX 4.5/5.1/5.2/5.3, SUN Solaris 8/9/10, LINUX REDHAT, Suse , Windows NT/2000/2003 server.
• Application/Web Servers IBM Web Sphere Application Server 4.0/5.0/5.1/6.0/6.1, Apache WebServer 1.2.2/1.3/2.0, IBM WCM 5.1/6.0/6.1, IBM HTTP Server 1.3.28/1.3.26.2/2.0.42/2.0.47/6.0, iPlanet Directory Server, Netscape Enterprise Server, Websphere portal 5.x,6.x, IBM MQ Series 5.X,WPS 6.0.2.4.
• Database ORACLE8i/9i,DB2/UDB7.2/8.0, 9 ,SQL Server .5/7.0/2000, MS-Access 2000, and Sybase
• Java/J2EE/Web Technologies HTML, Java Script, DHTML, XML, XSL, XSD, CSS, Applets, AWT, JFC Swing , J2EE 1.2/1.3, JDBC, Servlets, JSP, Java Beans, RMI, EJB, JNDI, JAXP, JMS, Java Web Services using JAXM, JAXP, SOAP, WSDL, UDDL
• Programming Languages Perl, C/C , JavaScript, COBOL, SQL, UNIX Shell Scripts, Jacal
• Development Tools IBM WSAD 4.5/5.x, RAD, AAT, Apache ANT
• Network Protocols/Services TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP, SOAP, SSL, SMTP, ICMP, IMAP, POP3, NIS, NIS , NFS, DNS, DHCP.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Role: Websphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed Configured and Administered WebSphere Portal Server 6.0/6.1 on AIX environment.
• Enabled Lotus Web Content Management 6.0/6.1.
• Installed WebSphere Application Server Network deployment Manager 6.0/6.1/7.0.
• Installed and Configured WebSphere Extended Deployment manager XD 6.0.2/6.1.
• Created dynamic clustering using WebSphere XD.
• Created build definition file to generate customized installation package for WebSphere XD.
• Configured and monitored database tier.
• Transferred Default cloudscape/Derby database to DB2 database.
• Configured WebSphere Portal Server using LDAP Security.
• Installed, configured and administered BEA WebLogic Server 9.0/10.3 on Linux, Solaris and AIX.
• Used Configengine.bat/sh and WPSconfig.bat/sh for administrating Portal.
• Configured Web Content management 6.0 using WPSconfig authoring task.
• Deployed Portlets themes and skins on WebSphere portal Server.
• Involved in Installing, Administrating and Maintaining Jboss Application server 4.0.
• Configured Syndication for WCM servers.
• Performance tuning of Portal and WCM environments.
• Deployed war files using xmlaccess scripts and Portal admin console.
• Automated skins and themes deployment.
• Used releasebulider for content push.
• On call 24/7.
• Worked on Load testing of WebSphere Environments.
• Automated administration tasks using jacl/jython scripts.

Environment:

WebSphere application Server 5.x/6.0, WebSphere XD 6.0/6.1, MQ,BEA WebLogic Server 9.0/10.3, JBoss Application Server, Apache Web Server V2.0.47/6.0, LDAP, Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, EJB, XML, JDBC, JavaScript, ORACLE 8i/9i/10g, DB2 V7.1/8.1, HTML, z/OS, AIX 5.3/5.2, RHL 4/5 ,Solaris V8/9/10, BigIP, JACL Scripting.

Confidential

Role: Websphere Portal Architect/Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Architecture design, build, configure WebSphere environment for Active, Failover, Disaster Recovery situations for deploying Client side Applications
• Installed Configured and maintained IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x on AIX /Linux/Windows2003/Sun Solaris platforms.
• Involved in configuring the WebSphere load balancing utilizing WebSphere Workload Management including horizontal scaling and vertical scaling.
• Installed, configured, administered and supported WebSphere Portal Server 6.0/6.1, IBM Workplace Web Content Management for WebSphere Portal 5.1/6.0 and WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1 in Linux / Windows environment.
• Installed WAS 5.1 base on AIX/Windows 2000 platforms and upgraded to fix pack 1 cumulative fix level 8. Installed and Configured IBM HTTP Server 6.1 and IIS 6.0.
• Installed WebSphere Application Server 6.1 ND and created dmgr, Application server profiles.
• Installed WebSphere Application Server 6.0 XD and created dynamic clusters and Configured ODRs.Applied iFixes on ODR.
• Installed and configured WebSphere MQ version 6 and 7.
• Administration and Configuration of MQ Series product on AIX and Windows.
• Experience on Message broker Tool Kit.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining Web and Database servers like WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server, Oracle, and DB2 on diverse UNIX platforms that includes AIX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows 2000.
• Installed, configured and administered Apache web servers.
• Configured and administered WebLogic server with database.
• Configured WebLogic Integration server 10.x.
• Deployed the applications on multiple WebLogic Server instances and maintained Load balancing, high availability and Fail over for the servers.
• Tasks include Message Broker Administration, checking Message Flows, Transforming different types of data to target systems.
• Troubleshoot WebSphere Application Server connection pooling and connection manager with Oracle, DB2
• Configured and setup SSL repository for the Queue Managers.
• Created and configured MQ Series Objects like Queue Manager, Queue, and Channels etc.
• Several MQ Series Servers are integrated using the Point to point channels and Cluster Channels.
• Provided Naming Standards, Backup Recovery and Problem Determination Strategies for the project.
• technical knowledge in different Portlet Modes including View, Edit, Configure, and Help modes based on the user authentication and authorization roles and groups.
• Performed Horizontal and Vertical Clustering and installed portlet application on the cluster.
• Well versed with high
• Configured WebSphere Portal Server with Novell eDirectory server to authenticate users using form based authentication.
• Experience with Portlet Development Wizard for adding new Portlet to existing Portlet application or creating new portlet application or creating web service client portlet.
• Tested and deployed the portlet applications into WebSphere Portal.
• Worked extensively on configuring a third party authentication proxy server Netegrity SiteMinder 5.5 for performing external authentication for WebSphere Portal.
• Configured WebSphere Portal Server with DB2 and was involved in transferring the portal databases from cloudscape to DB2.
• Involved in migrating from WebSphere Portal version 5.1 to 6.0
• Developed UNIX and Perl Scripts for maintenance of MQ systems.
• Experience with Deployment of portlets and installing through Portal Admin GUI and XMLAccess directly into the portal server.
• Analyzed existing Themes and Skins and proposed modifications to improve feel and look of the portlets.
• Provided 24/7 support on this project.
• Installed and configured IHS WebServer and created user roles and groups for securing the resources using SiteMinder authentication.
• Utilized Tivoli Performance Viewer and Log Analyzer for performance and troubleshooting.
• Troubleshooting hardware and software problems, and interacted with IT staff or vendors in performing complex testing, support and troubleshooting functions

Environment:

WebSphere application Server 5.x/6.0, WebSphere ND/XD 5.1/6.0, , MQ, BEA Weblogic, JBoss Application Server, Apache Web Server V2.0.47/6.0, LDAP, Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, EJB, XML, JDBC, JavaScript, ORACLE 8i/9i/10g, DB2 V7.1/8.1, HTML, z/OS, AIX 5.3/5.2, RHL 4 /5 ,Solaris V8/9/10, BigIP, JACL Scripting.

Confidential

Role: WebSphere Portal Administrator

• Experience in configuring WebSphere Portal with different databases and transferring portal database from cloudscape to Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2003, and DB2 9.1.
• Installed and Administered WebSphere Portal 5.0/5.1 version.
• Developed UNIX and Perl Scripts for maintenance of MQ systems.
• Provided Naming Standards, Backup Recovery and Problem Determination Strategies for the project.
• Several MQ Series Servers are integrated using the Point to point channels and Cluster Channels.
• Created and configured MQ Series Objects like Queue Manager, Queue, and Channels etc.
• Tasks include Message Broker Administration, checking Message Flows, Transforming different types of data to target systems.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining Web and Database servers like WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server, Oracle, and DB2 on diverse UNIX platforms that includes AIX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows 2000.
• Expert in Portal Administration, creating pages, deploying and configuring portlets, resource permissions, search administration using GUI and Xmlaccess. Expert in wsadmin, Shell Scripting.
• Installed and Configured with IBM Web Content Management WCM v6.x and involved in WCM Administration activities like setting up authoring and rendering portlets, Syndication setup, managing content libraries.
• Install, configure WebServers IBM Http Server v6.x, IIS 6 , WebSphere Plugins
• Configured WebSphere Portal with LDAP Active Directory to authenticate users with Realm support.
• Experience in using Wiley Introscope tool for performance monitoring.
• Used mValent software for provisioning tracking changes to the WebSphere configuration in the production environments so as to ensure backup prior to changes, and transparency track of changes.
• Experience in troubleshooting day-to-day application issues by working with development team and also getting assistance with IBM through PMR's.
• Create configure Queues, Queue Connection Factories, Queue Destinations, Activation Specifications, Service Integraton Bus.
• Configure WebSphere MQ/ Default Messaging with WebSphere Application Server.
• Configured WebSphere Portal with Netegrity SiteMinder for external authentication, experience installing and managing webagents and appagents.
• Experience in XMLAccess for deploying themes and skins, exporting and importing portlets and portlet applications, pages etc, accessing control lists.
• Experience on Message broker Tool Kit.
• Installed, configured and administered of BEA WebLogic Server 9.0/9.1/9.2 and JBoss4.0.1/4.0.3 in multi-node federated environments.
• Administration and Configuration of MQ Series product on AIX,HP-UNIX and Windows.
• Installed WAS 5.1 base on AIX/Windows 2000 platforms and upgraded to fix pack 1 cumulative fix level 8. Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 6.1 and IIS 6.0.
• Installed WebSphere Application Server 6.1 ND and created dmgr, Application server profiles.
• Installed Websphere Application Server 6.0 XD and created dynamic clusters and configured ODRs.Applied iFixes on ODR.
• Used Wiley Introscope Change Detector to detect diagnose the application issues related to new changes in production environment.
• Experience in using ITCAM Tivoli Performance Viewer for performance monitoring of database connection pooling, JVM Heaps, web container threads under load.
• Provided 24x7 supports for this financial application.
• WAS 5.0 Network Deployment and Base on AIX 5.3/Windows platforms and installed fix packs 2 and cumulative fix 8.Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 2.0.42.2. Using Deployment Manager implemented load balancing through clustering. Migrated all the applications and tested them successfully.
• Tuned the JVMs by analyzing the Must Gather information for Application Server Hangs on AIX, Linux and Solaris.
• Used IBM rational ClearCase, ANT and CrusieControl to automate the build process
• Used Heap Analyzer and thread Analyzer to tune the WebSphere JVMs.
• Used Tivoli Performance Viewer and IT CAM to monitor the performance.
• Upgraded to JDK 1.3.1 SR6 / JDK 1.4.2 SR 7 or higher to resolve memory leaks.
• Designed the Single-Sign ON functionalities using SiteMinder
• Own SiteMinder / LDAP and Web Infrastructure related production issues, incident reports Streamline SiteMinder policy migration using SiteMinder Java SDK.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.x/5.x/6.x,IBM WebSphere Portal Server , IIS 5/6, DB2 7.x/8.x, IWWCM 6.0, IBM HTTP Server 1.3.x/2.0.x/6.0, Netegrity SiteMinder Policy Server 5.5, 6.0, iPlanet 6.1, AIX 5.3, Solaris 2.8, Windows 2000, IBM Directory Server 5.1, WTE 5.1.1, IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer WSAD 4.0, MKS, HTML, Java Script, XML, JSP, Servlets, ANT.

Confidential

Role: Web Administrator

• Installed WAS 5.0/5.1 base/ ND and created cell, dmgr and appserver profiles on AIX 5.1 and Red Hat Linux platforms.
• Installed and configured WebSphere 5.1 and applied the fix packs 5.1.1 and 5.1.1.1, jdk refresh 1.4.2.1 and DB2 V8.1 on several Lab Machines.
• Created multiple configuration instances of WAS base and federated them to multiple configuration instances of WAS-ND, Base and ND on different platforms with security enabled and verified installation, Application Server instance creation, node federation, enterprise application installation and execution work correctly.
• Installed and configured WebSphere Portal 5.1.0.2.
• Transferred cloudscape database to MS SQL Server database.
• Configured Security using MS ADAM.
• Hands on experience in administering and supporting Websphere Message Queue 5.x
• Tested the coexistence of two installations of the BASE WebSphere Application Server on a single node with Trade3 application on both installs and verified that there are no conflicts and able to run applications in an isolated manner.
• Worked on WebSphere components such as Work Load Management WLM , Servlet Engine, Session Manager, Admin Client and Http-Web Admin tool thin client .
• Developed many WSadmin scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration.
• Used JACL scripting extensively for managing production environments
• Created, tested deployed J2EE applications on Websphere Application Server using WSAD tools.
• Administration of Working Application, Application performance monitoring - starting and stopping the application server, - Installed plug-in for IBM HTTP Web server, co-ordinate with Database Admin Team to create databases for storing the Websphere application repository.
• Configured horizontal scalability of WebSphere through a mechanism called as Cloning of multiple JVMs with independent Java Virtual Machines-JVMs, for each clone.
• Implemented creation of Server groups and clusters in Websphere Application server
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, and Java Mail sessions.
• Creating the users and groups in LDAP Servers and mapping them to the enterprise applications running on WebSphere Application Server.
• Provide proactive SiteMinder and LDAP systems monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Perform advanced SiteMinder / LDAP and Web Infrastructure troubleshooting and interfaces directly with various IT teams to resolve technical issues in production environment
• Occasionally used Resource Analyzer/ Tivoli Performance Viewer to monitor WebSphere Applications and tuned the environment accordingly like changing the JVM Heap, Connection Pool sizes.
• Configured Wily Introscope to all lower environments and also to the production environment.
• Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere.
• Configured Workload Management WLM
• Used IBM Edge Server and Network Dispatchers for load balancing.
• Involved in deploying the EAR files and scripting automated deployment of the applications.
• Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Resource analyzer and log analyzer.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x, IWWCM 5.0, WPS 5.0,DB2 7.x/8.x, IBM HTTP Server 1.3.x/2.0.x.x, AIX 5.1/5.2, Solaris 2.8, Siteminder6.x, Windows 2000, IBM Directory Server 5.1, WTE 5.1.1, IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer WSAD 4.0, MKS, HTML, Java Script, XML, JSP, Servlets, ANT.

Confidential

Role: System Administrator

• Linux server administration, Patching, troubleshooting and tuning.
• Maintaining Redhat Linux 7.3, Redhat 9.00 and Redhat ES 3.0 on Intel based servers.
• Installation and Configuration of Web servers like Apache, Jakarta Tomcat
• Performance optimization of Redhat and Databases like Postgres 7.3.2 and mysql.
• Used Webalizer for monitoring webserver logs.
• Installed Fedora core 2 having kernel 2.6.
• Used utilities like VNC, Nessus and Port Monitors.
• Wrote Scripts for software Deployment in Bash and Ksh.
• Installed and Configured Version Control Software CVS ver 1.11.13. Have the knowledge of Committing and Checkout through command line commands. Used LinCVS for accessing CVS server from the client end.
• Did installation of Bugzilla on Intel 86 for bug tracking which is being used by software testing group.
• Handled MRTG multiple router traffic graph
• Used Etheral and Nessus.
• Used Mono for running .net applications on linux
• Extensively used CXoffice and wine for running windows and vb applications on Linux

Environment: Redhat Linux 7.3, Redhat 9, Fedora Core 1, 2 and RHEL ES 3.0