OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging position as a WebSphere Admin/Infrastructure Engineer where I can administer my skills and experience to contribute to the success of a project and support production/non-production env's along with developing my professional skills. Special emphasis of my professional experience has been on WebSphere,Object Oriented Design concepts, Java, and J2EE.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• 8 years of experience in WebSphere Administration providing support for development, testing, Staging and production environments and enhancement of business applications in java j2ee and worked extensively on JAVA, JSP, EJB's.
• Experience in operational 24x7 On-Call support on weekly rotation basis, best practice trouble shooting, monitoring and maintenance, emergency change orders/deployments. Incident tickets resolution within the SLA.
• Extensive experience with Administration of WebSphere Application Servers 6.1, 7.0 and 8.0,IHS, Iplanet Application Server, Iplanet Directory Server LDAP , Iplanet Web Servers, Apache web Servers, Microsoft IIS Web Servers5.0/6.0, and Site Minder Administration.
• Solid experience in deploying the applications on clustered and standalone WebSphere Servers and maintaining Load balancing, failover, high availability and session replication.
• Deploying Enterprise Java Beans EJB's and monitoring the Application servers and Web servers, troubleshooting performance issues using the Log messages and Log files.
• Expertise in managing JNDI, Managing Security, Configuring and monitoring JMS.
• Experience in configuring F5 Load Balancer and Big IP Load Balancer.
• Expertise in developing Shell scripts including sh, ksh, bash to administer and automate batch job scheduling including Server Start/Shutdown, backup and recovery processes.
• Database knowledge using SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle and MS SQL Server, IBM DB2.
• Expertise in executing Stored Procedures and quering for backend Data availability.
• Experience in developing web based applications using HTML, Java, JavaScript, Servlets, J2EE, JDBC, EJB, JSP, JMS and PERL.
• Good Experience in Middleware Services JMS, JDBC , SSL certificates in WebSphere.
• Worked closely with WebSphere Technical Support Team in resolving the WebSphere critical issues, and followed up on the opened tickets by analyzing the respective thread dumps and config files.
• Extensive experience with WebSphere Clusters and the JMS Clusters. Configured the Distributed Topics, Queues and Message Bridges in JMS Clusters and MQ Series.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, self-starter, good team player and highly self-motivated.
• Good Experience in applying the WebSphere patches.
• Good Team Player with excellent Technical, Communication, Multi Tasking, Leading and Interpersonal Skills.
• Analyze and resolve escalated problems within target.
• Ability to implement new concepts and applications.
• Quickly adapting to newer technologies.
• Work effectively under pressure and handle changing priorities to keep within deadlines.

IT SKILL SET

• Operating Systems : AIX 5.1, Solaris 8/10, UNIX, LINUX, Win 2000
• Web App/ : IBM Websphere, Bea Web Logic, iPlanet, IHS, Apache Java Web Server
• Databases : Oracle- 10g/11g, SQL, and PL/SQL, IBM DB2
• Monitor : PerformaSure, Wily Introscope, JProbe, Optimizeit, ClearApp
• Languages : C, C , Java, J2EE, UNIX Shell Korn, bash
• Sun Technologies : Servlets Jsp
• Web Technologies : HTML and Java Script

EXPERIENCES:

Confidential

Role: Websphere Admin

Confidential based bank holding company specializing in credit cards, home loans, auto loans, banking and savings products. A member of the Fortune 500, and it is now the fourth-largest customer of the United States and has the sixth-largest deposit portfolio in the Confidential.

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Enterprise environment management team which provides webservices for various applications.
• Configured database connectivity using JDBC and Connection pools. Oracle Application server 10g/11g was used in the backend.
• Automated and scheduled backups on all UNIX Machines using shell scripts.
• Performance tuning was done with respect to system, connection pools. Execute threads and JVM heap size.
• Develop domain monitoring java class using JMX to collect JDBC, JVM, and Execute Queue statistics for Managed Servers.
• Document and establish standard processes to ensure repeatability for J2EE administrators.
• Troubleshoot environment and application issues using WebSphere support patterns as the standard methodology and provide root cause summary to application stakeholders.
• Was responsible for overall architecture of a deployment, using Portal, Integration and WebSphere Server.
• Provided Migration configuration for transactions, security, services, JMS servers and services while transitioning from development to production environment.
• Installed Oracle 10g/11g client software on the application server and configuring the connectivity using JDBC drivers for the database.
• Deployment and Troubleshooting of JAR, WAR and EAR applications in clustered environment with WebSphere.
• Implemented Load balancing of web applications by configuring WebSphere proxy plug-in.
• Performance tuning by Managing and Monitoring the JVM performance by WebSphere Heap size, garbage collection, execute threads, EJB Cache size, JDBC pools and multi pools.
• Actively involved in upgrading to various new Service packs regarding WebSphere, Sun ONE, iPlanet, Apache/Tomcat.
• Expertise in writing WebSphere scripts using Jython/Python for starting, stopping servers, Node managers and deploying applications.
• Performed extensive trouble shooting experience including stack trace analysis and JVM tuning experience by changing to heap sizes according to the requirement.
• Wrote scripts start, stop ping for web application server administration. .
• Configured and monitored JNDI, security realms. Configured Apache web server and WebSphere plug-in.
• Worked on securing Web Applications. Applied patches service packs for security, performance, bugs etc.
• Worked with IBM support and Verizon teams in troubleshooting issues in dev, test, stage and production environments.
• Monitored free space, disk usage, locating files, checking clearing log files, administration monitoring of file systems, network virtual memory statistics

Environment: WebSphere Server 6.1/7.0/8.0, SUN Solaris 8.0/10.0, Linux, Oracle 10g/11g, JDK 1.4/1.5/1.6, JDBC 2.0, Servlets, EJB 2.0, Apache

Confidential

Role: Websphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Installation, Configuration and maintenance of the Websphere 6.0/6.1/7.x application servers and Portal Servers 5.x/6.x installation.
• Involved in upgrade of portal from 6.0.1.2 to 6.0.1.6 in clustered environment.
• Managed Users, Groups and Roles to control access to the applications and resources available on a Portal Server.
• Created and managed various portal applications, portals and portal components.
• Involved in upgrade of WebSphere Application Server 6.1/7.x on AIX platform.
• Configuring the Virtual hosts for all the clients in the web servers.
• Configuring the URL'S in load balancing mode through CSS, GSS and coordinating with Firewall, DNS, CSS, GSS teams in implementing high traffic load balanced URL's. Configuring the SSL for the clients as per the client request.
• Deployed themes and skins using ear expander for WebSphere Portal Server.
• Involved in setting up user permissions and deploying Portlets on IBM Portal Server
• Responsible for application changes across different platforms- development, testing and production environments.
• Creating the documentation for the installation and configuration of the applications in the entire four environments dev, test, stage and prod .
• Create and configuring a cluster of Application Server with Network Deployment
• Prominent member of IBM products License management, maintenance contracts with Vendors. Involved in meetings with IBM regarding the migration of the WebSphere application servers and MQseries products from windows platform to the Linux platform.
• Proficient experience of IBM Websphere Application/MQseries on Linux platform.
• Good understanding of messaging concepts as they relate to IBM WebSphere MQ with Hands-on experience installing and configuring IBM WebSphere MQ
• Performance tuning of the web application using the Tivoli performance monitor and the turning on the garbage collector parameters. Worked closely with the development team in resolving the memory leakage issues in the web apps.
• Worked with Ant scripts in creating the ear files, JAR files and deploying the JAR files. Worked on performance tools like Wily, Tivoli performance viewer.
• Possess excellent communication, interpersonal and analytical skills along with can do attitude.
• Experienced at helping the business teams understand the company's technical capabilities as well as explaining business requirements to technical teams.

Environment: IBM Websphere Application Server v6.1/6.0.x/7.0, WebSphere Portal server 6.x, Linux, Sun Solaris 8, Windows 2000, Oracle, Web sphere MQ 5.3, J2EE, JSP1.2, EJB and JDBC.

Confidential

Role: Middleware Admin

The purpose of this project is to create Nationwide Financials an ability to sell private label Retirement Resource program. This will also involve changes to Nationwide web based New Case Automation to support proprietary deals like MSDW, American Express, Waddell Reed, Northwestern Mutual etc., Updating Custom Print, Investment and Multiple profile applications to include the special sales deals.

Responsibilities:

• Developed User interfaces using WebSphere portals using workshop.
• Involved in the design of application using UML methodology Clear Cases.
• Developed parsers using Java for parsing XML documents.
• Incorporated various standard J2EE design patterns Data Access Object, Intercepting Filter, Service to worker, Business Delegate, Service Locator, Session Fa ade, Value Object and guidelines suggested by Sun Microsystems.
• Was involved in unit testing and integration testing of the system.
• Designed and developed JSP pages based on Struts Framework.
• Involved in web designing using HTML, Dreamweaver and JavaScript.
• Developed server side Struts Action java classes following MVC architectural pattern, Servlets that control the behavior of the application depending on the inputs from the GUI and the user's role.
• Developed Session Beans to encapsulate the business logic and Entity beans as the persistence objects.
• Involved in transforming XML to HTML using XSLT
• Created dynamic and interactive screens using JSP and Servlets.
• Created data access objects using JDBC to access the database.

Environment: J2EE, EJB, XML,MDB, Servlets, Swings, JDBC, XML-RPC, ASP, JNDI, XSLT, DOM, SAX , WebSphere , page flows, Apache HTTP Server, JavaScript, Dreamweaver, UML, JUnit, DB2, Linux and Windows 2000.

Confidential

Registry Management System is used to automate the process of all activities related to the incorporation and regulation of the companies, through appointed Agents all over the world.

Responsibilities:

• Coding java classes which carry out the main business process.
• Developed back end procedures, functions, triggers and java objects on Oracle 8i.
• Coded JSP's, Java beans and managing sessions.
• Coded JSP and HTML user interfaces.
• Coded Servlets, API's for connectivity using JDBC.
• Conversion of PL/SQL packages to Java classes
• Responsible for Security implementation and integration testing of the system.

Environment: Java, J2EE1.2, Oracle8i, JRun, Windows NT 4.0, JDBC, JSP, Servlets, JavaScript, JBuilder, JUnit