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Professional Summary

  • Senior Administrator having over 11 years of experience in Middleware Administration and 2 years in Application Development.
  • Has 9 years of experience in installing, configuring, troubleshooting and supporting WebSphere
  • Application Server 4.0/ 5.0/5.X/6.X/7.0 on AIX, Windows, Linux.
  • Experience on Installation and Configuration of IBM WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.0/7.0
  • Experience on Installation and Configuration of IBM WebSphere Message broker 6.0/6.1/7.0.
  • Expertise on Installation and Configuration of IBM WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0/6.1.
  • Experience on Installation and Configuration of APACHE Tomcat 5.0/6.0.29
  • Expertise on Installation and Configuration of JBOSS EAP 4.3/5.1.
  • Certified ITIL V3.
  • Deploying Java/J2EE application on Google Cloud App Engine.
  • Extensive experience with Web administration, which includes Installation and configuration of
  • Apache, IIS, IPlanet, IBM HTTP Servers and JBOSS EWS.
  • Has 4 years experience with Java, J2EE concepts EJB, Servlets, RMI, JSP, and JDBC Connection
  • Pooling. Good exposure to Testing and Debugging Applications Perspective.
  • Ability to rapidly learn new concepts together with excellent interpersonal skills. Ability
  • To communicate requirements effectively to team members and manage applications.
  • Providing Production Support 7X24 .
  • Expertise in automating administrative tasks using UNIX, Perl scripting. Expertise in LDAP
  • configuration and setting up security policies.
  • Has 3 years of systems administration on Enterprise Red Linux, VMWare and Windows NT/2000.
  • Has 4 years experience with UNIX shell scripting in Korn / Bourne flavors, JACL, JYTHON, Python and s/w application packaging.
  • Has Good Exposure to JYTHON Scripting for automation of Administration Tasks.
  • Excellent communication skills. Can work in modules independently or as an active team member.

Technical Summary

Web/App Servers

4.0,5.1.16,6.0.2.39,6.1.27,7.0.0.19/8.0 Beta , IBM WebSphere MQ 5.3,6.0.0.5,7.0.0.2, IBM WebSphere Portal Server 5.1.1.13/6.0.2.17/6.1.1.13, IBM WebSphere Message Broker 6.0.0.2,6.1,7.0.0.7, REDHAT Enterprise JBOSS Application Server 4.3/5.1/6.0,BEA WebLogic 9.2.3, 8.1,

7.0, 6.1, iPlanet Web Server 6.0, Apache Tomcat

5.0,6.0.029, IBM HTTP Server 6.0,6.1,7.0,JBOSS EWS 1.2, Apache WebServer 2.2.15.

Languages

Java 2.0 JDK 1.5 , XML, XSL, C/C , PL/SQL, HTML/ DHTML, Perl 5.0, Java Script, VB 6.0, Java Swings, Excel VBA

Distributed Computing

EJB 2.0, JSP, Servlets, JDBC, JMS, JNDI, Struts

1.2.8, log4j, J2EE Design Patterns, Apache OJB, Hibernate

3.0, GOF patterns.

Web Tech. Tools

XML, DOM, JDOM, JaxP, Xerces, XML Spy, XSL, XSLT, XSL-FO, Xalan, CSS, PSFTP, and HTTP protocols, ILog JRules, AutoSys

RDBMS and tools

Oracle 9i / 8i/ 7.x, IBM DB2 OS/Z, DB2 UDB, Sybase SQL Server 12.5, SQL Server, MS Access, Rapid SQL, TOAD.

Design tools IDEs

JBuilder 2007, Rational Rose, Visio 2000, Visual Caf , WSAD, Eclipse, Object Web Lomboz, MS Front page.

SCM Tools

PVCS Version Manager, IBM Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, Visual Source Safe, Win CVS, JUnit 1.0.2.

Testing tools

WinRunner 7.0, LoadRunner 7.0

Operating Systems

Windows 2000/NT/98/95, Sun Solaris 2.x, HP 9000

Series HP-UX, Red Hat Linux 7.2/7.3, Ms-Dos, RedHat

Enterprise Linux 4,5 6, SUN Solaris2.8, AIX 5.3/5.1.

Authentication/Authoriza tion tools

SiteMinder Single Sign-on, iPlanet LDAP Server

5.1, TivoliAccessmanger, TivoliIdentitymanager.

Reporting Tools

Business Objects

Professional Experience

Confidential

Sr. Middleware Administrator

  • Worked infrastructure solutions for J2EE applications around IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, Cisco CSS, Site Minder, IBM WebSphere Portal Server and IBM MQ/MB on AIX Windows and Linux platforms.
  • Study current Architecture and suggest enhancements to meet Business Requirements
  • Responsible for setting up the Dev,SIT,FQT, Preproduction and Production Environments which includes Installing the WebSphere, Creating Profiles, nodes, federation of nodes, was instances, Application Server, Clusters, Virtual hosts, Data Sources, MQ Connection factories, Plug-in
  • configuration, and Service Integration Bus Configuration.
  • Provided Technical Administration and support for web technology to Business unit IT groups during design, development, testing and implementation of business application.
  • Extensively involved in Migrating the all J2EE Applications, which includes setting up new Research SIT , FQT and Production Environments from Web Sphere 5.1.1.19 6.0.2.37 to Web Sphere 6.1.0.27 to 7.0.0.13
  • Migrated IBM WebSphere Portal from 5.1 to 6.1.
  • Tuning and Monitoring the overall applications and system health with the statistics Average response time, Number of requests transactions and number of live http sessions, web server thread pools, Web and Enterprise JavaBeans thread pools, database and connections pools, java virtual memory, CPU, I/O and System Paging.
  • Clustered WebSphere Portal Server in a multi cluster environment using horizontal scaling on both WebSphere Portal Server V5.1 and V6.1.
  • Engineered, configured, and installed WebSphere MQ MQSeries 5.3/ 6.0/7.0 to all Production environments and Non Production Environments.
  • Created and configured MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Remote queues, Local Queues, Queue Aliases, Channels, Clusters, Transmission Queues, Performance Events, Triggers, Processes, MQ error trapping application and performance tuning/monitoring the MQ objects.
  • Migrated WMQ 5.3 to WMQ 6.0 on Solaris, AIX and Windows2000
  • Migrated WBIMB 5.0 to WBIMB 6.0 on Solaris, AIX and Windows2000.
  • Developed Shell Scripts on various UNIX platforms for monitoring WMQ.

Confidential

Sr. Middleware Administrator

  • Developed shell scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup, everyday system tasks, log rotation etc.
  • Backup, recovery and trouble shooting for MQSeries/WBIMB.
  • Provided performance tuning to the queue managers and queues for optimal performance and applied tuning to all connected queue managers.
  • Configured the Configuration Manager, Message Repository Database, broker database for
  • WBIMB.
  • Worked on korn shell scripts to administrate Websphere message broker configuration.
  • Installation Tomcat 6.0.29 and apache 2.2.15 on the RHEL
  • installation of JK module for apache
  • Configuring Apache Tomcat connectors talking to Tomcat WebContainer.
  • Defining workers lists that will be used for mapping requests
  • upgrading apache
  • setting up the crons for installed services websphere/tomcat
  • Worked on Migrating lighter applications from WebSphere to JBOSS.
  • Responsible in setting up Infrastructure Design and Automation of JBOSS EAP5.1.
  • Working with Application Support to setup JBOSS environment in SIT/FQT/PROD.
  • Provided technical support on Clustering, caching, messaging and transactions to support enterprise Java application deployments in JBOSS EAP.
  • Provided solutions for clustering at WebServer and Websphere areas
  • Worked on problem tickets PMR with IBM to find effective solutions to various problems and performance issues and applied various WebSphere system related patches, fixes.
  • Created environment specific reference documents for managing various operations.
  • Provided 24/7 on call support for assigned applications.

Confidential

Senior WebSphere Administrator

  • Responsible for setup, installation of WebSphere Application Server 6.0
  • Configuring IBM HTTP Server IIS 6.0 webservers in DMZ
  • Migrating Application from Websphere 4.0 to Websphere 5.1 6.0
  • Migrating MQ5.3 to MQ 6.0
  • Installation of Database Clients and Creation of Datasources for Applications which use
  • Databases like Oracle, DB2, SQLSERVER.
  • Writing ANT Scripts for the Automatic Packaging of EAR and WAR.
  • Writing Scripts in Jython for Automatic Deployment.
  • Production support of Investment management Apps 24/7 on a weekly rotation basis.
  • Involved in the build and support of DEV, QA and UAT WAS 6.1 and WAS 5.1 environments.
  • Production Support of Websphere MQ Version 5.3, creating local queues, remote queues, creating channels, listeners and installed client software on AIX, Z/OS, RHEL, Solaris and Windows AIX and Windows platforms.
  • Developed and built applications around IBM Websphere Portal Server and used Portlet Factory
  • Involved in designing the infrastructure Platforms.

Sr. Middleware Administrator

  • Responsible for the installation and configuration of IBM Websphere Portal Server V6.1.0.2 on
  • For hosting portal applications to support development testing, UAT and production environments.
  • Work on deployment of Websphere Message Broker flows across different environments. Dev, QA, Performance, Stage, Production and Production Fix .
  • Used ESQL to execute database stored procedures, to get information from database tables, views.
  • Written database stored procedures to build XML out of a database and write to a directory.
  • Then a MQ adapter was developed to take the XML file and write to MQ Queue using MQ java
  • API.
  • DB2 was used as broker database and Oracle was used for inbound and outbound message auditing.
  • Exposed and invoked different Web Services using HTTP and SOAP Nodes to support SOA.
  • HTTP Built in nodes in combination with SSL certificates were used to send and receive http service requests from bank vendors.
  • Developed XML Schema using XML Spy.
  • Created Message set using XML Schema Definition File XSD and WSDL File.
  • Interconnected a variety of different requesters and providers using standard protocols such as JMS, SOAP over HTTP Web Services and SOAP over JMS Web services using IBM Websphere Adapters as well as other industry-standard J2C Adapters.
  • Designed, developed Message Sets, Message Flows and deployed to broker on WBIMB
  • environment.
  • Setup and configured WSRR to store the web services.
  • Followed the standards and guidelines in naming message flows, message sets, and broker and adapter queues.
  • Installed WMB 6.1, WMQ 6 in development and test environments.
  • Migrated of Message Broker WBIMB 5.1 to WBIMB 6.0.
  • Involved in administration tasks using MQSC commands like creating Queue Managers, Queue, Channels, Process Definition, Name Lists, backup and recovery.
  • Involved in a team that administered MQ, Message Broker in Development and test environments
  • Implemented the clustering of queue managers to achieve work load balancing and to reduce system administration.

Environment: WAS 5.1.8/6.0, Windows 2003, AIX 5.3 PSeries, IIS WebServer 6.0, IBM HTTPServer, WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.0, IBM DB2 7.9, Interscope 4.0/5.0, SQLSERVER2000, Sybase, Tomcat5.0, SQL Server2005, RAD, JBOSS 4.02.

Confidential

Sr. Middleware Administrator

  • Responsible for setup and Installation of AIX 5.3 pseries and RedHatLinux 4 OS.
  • Installing and Configuring IBM Web Sphere Network Deployment 6.0, 6.1 and BEA Web Logic
  • 8.1 with sp5 and 9.0 Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1 in a
  • Network Deployment fashion on AIX 5.3, Linux and ZLinux platforms.
  • Installed and Administered MQ objects like Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Process
  • Definition, Clusters, and Name Lists.
  • Experienced in installing/migrating Web Servers like IBM Http Server V6.0.2.3/2.0, Apache V2.0.47, IPlanet V6.0, and installing corresponding plug-ins on the Web Servers to communicate with the Application Server.
  • Experienced in deploying EAR, WAR and JAR on Websphere Application Server V5.0/6.0.
  • Wrote scripts for Process definitions to trigger the applications.
  • Experience in the Performance Tuning for application optimal performance
  • Provided performance tuning to the queue managers and queues for optimal performance and applied tuning to all connected queue managers.
  • Monitored for Application core dumps, or forced thread dumps to check for system objects using thread analyzer.
  • Developed shell scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup, everyday system tasks, log rotation etc.
  • Migrated WBIMB 5.0 to WMB6.1 on AIX, HP UX, z/OS, Linux and Windows2000
  • Built WMB 6.1 brokers by creating execution groups, deploying message flows, message sets to the broker.
  • Administered the WMB 6.1 Broker on AIX,HP UX, Linux
  • Installed the latest fix packs for WMQ and WMB.
  • Checked in all the developed flows in PVCS for versioning.
  • Created error reports on daily basis and emailed to the concerned teams to resolve the issues.
  • Assigned message flows and message sets to appropriate Execution Groups in Broker Runtime

Environment: IBM AIX 5.3 pseries,IBM WebSphere App Server6.0,6.1,BEA WebLogic 8.1 with sp5 RedHatLinux 2.4.21-37.0.1,solaris 10,RAD 6.0, MQ-Series5.3, DB2 UDB 8.1,VSS, JDK 1.4, JDBC2.0, Servlets, EJB1.1, XML1.0 and HTML, Apache, IBM HTTP Server,JBOSS 4.0.2.

Confidential

Sr. Middleware Administrator

Senior Websphere MQ Administrator

  • Responsible for setup, installation of WebSphere Application Server 6.0 on Linux platforms in
  • Test, DEV, PROD.
  • Configuring IHS Web Servers and WebSphere Application Servers in ND Environment.
  • Implementation and support of applications on Websphere ESB.
  • Installation of Clients and Creation of Datasources for Applications using Databases like Oracle, DB2, SQLSERVER.
  • Responsible for Installing, configuring, administering and documenting WebSphere MQ and
  • MQSI WMQI on various platforms.
  • Defining and maintaining Queue Managers, Queues, Channels and other MQ Objects on various platforms.
  • Applying CSDs and Program Temporary Fixes to provide consistency for the WebSphere MQ
  • environment.
  • Working in the LDAP Security Configuration.
  • Created deploy scripts for Dev/UAT/Stage and Production.
  • Installation and configure the Blaze rules Engine
  • Day-to-Day problem solving in WAS 6.0, IHS WebServers in WebSphere ND Environment.
  • Interpreting log files to locate and solve problems such as tracing and debugging facilities
  • Used Resource Analyzer to analyze the resources utilized by the App Server
  • Escalating Issues to IBM opening the PMRs.
  • Running Stress and Performance to know throughoutput and response time by using Jmeter.
  • Running Tests on Failover for Websphere DM
  • Running Tests with Different Scenarios to know the behavior of applications.
  • Monitoring the Server performance using Resource Analyzer, Thread Analyzer.
  • Monitoring WebContainers, Sessions, Dynamic Cache, JVM HeapSizes, Connectionpoolsize.
  • Through TPV
  • Experience in operational 24x7 support, best practice trouble shooting, monitoring, capacity planning and maintenance
  • Scripting in order to automate the application builds and deployments within these environments.
  • Responsible for monitoring applications and other MQ objects using Qpasa, Candle, Tivoli.
  • Defining, maintaining and monitoring message flows, message sets and message definitions using WBIMB Toolkit.
  • Implementing different message flows using Destination List, Aggregate nodes, and
  • RouteToLabel nodes depending on the situation.
  • Provided support to production and development teams in problem determination and recommending efficient solutions to solve the problems.
  • Version control techniques for moving message flows and message sets between brokers in different environments broker domains .
  • Trouble shooting using MQ and MQSI error logs.
  • Responsible for converting business rules into message flows using built-in nodes as well as custom nodes.
  • Implementing ESQL procedures for data interchange eg. XML to COBOL copybook, COBOL

Confidential

Sr. Middleware Administrator

  • Developed different environments for production, development and testing teams.
  • Implemented design using Rational Rose and UML.
  • Involved in adding and removing a user from an authentication group to access to different services in MQ and MQSI environment

Environment: IBM WebsphereMQ 6.0, WMQI 2.1, Websphere6.1/7.0,HIS, WBIMB 5.0, AIX 5.0, Windows 2000, Solaris 5.0 XML, DB2, RfhUtil, DB2, Java 2.0, ESQL, HTML, XML.

Confidential

Senior WebSphere Administrator

  • Responsible for setup, installation and ongoing development of WebSphere Application Server
  • Enterprise on AIX platforms
  • Configuring Application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web Resources, Servlets, JDBC drivers and Servlets Engines-as well as deployment of EJBs across multiple instances of WebSphere Server
  • As a WebSphere Admin created and managed the connection pools of the WebSphere and clusters
  • Setting up IBM DB2 UDB6.1 Server and its troubleshooting
  • Extensively involved in management of the Build and Migration Process
  • Involved in Workload Scalability, Performance testing Management, Performance tuning and
  • Build Process.
  • Maintained and Administered middleware MQ Series Queues connecting to mainframe, AIX and
  • Windows NT System
  • Interpreted log files to locate and solve problems such as tracing and debugging facilities
  • Responsible for developing UNIX Shell scripts to execute the programs
  • User interaction to extract detailed information needed for developed and designed the system
  • Used Resource Analyzer to analyze the resources utilized by the App Server
  • As an Admin analyzed the number of instances of the servlets created by the App server and the resources used by it
  • Responsible for web based security
  • Troubleshooting and Administration of WebSphere Admin Server and HTTP Server
  • Analyzed the number of instances of the EJBs created by the App server and the resources used by it
  • Based on CPU Utilization by the App Server managed the resources utilized
  • Lock-Down the Access to the Application using Site Minder, Web Agents and policies

Environment: IBM WebSphere App Server 4.0/5.0, WSAD, MQ-Series, DB2 UDB 7.1, AIX 4.1, ClearCase, Java 1.2, JDBC2.0, Servlets, EJB1.1, XML1.0 and HTML, Apache, IBM HTTP Server

Confidential

Sr. Middleware Administrator

  • Involved in Installation and Configuration, Application Monitoring, Code Reviewing, Troubleshooting and Problem Evaluation, Performance Analysis, Web Tier Migration
  • Installation ,Configuration and Maintainance of WAS 5.1.1 ,IIS Http Server 4.5,and MQ 5.3
  • Creating the Sandbox Environment, having Network Deployment Architecture and Nodes.
  • Setting Up the Security for the Admin Console with Custom Based Registry
  • Configuring new Enterprise J2EE applications in the shared WAS environment.
  • Setting Up Jms Client and MQ clients which are used in the Ears Internally
  • Lock-Down the access to the Application using SiteMinder Web Agents and policies.
  • Creation of Data sources for the applications involving DB2, Sybase and Oracle.
  • Applied fix packs and upgraded WAS5, MQ and WAS Databases.
  • Installing Database Clients to Support the Data sources.
  • Setup of the new Application work area. Creating WAS Services on the Node agents. Monitored the App Servers for errors and troubleshooting.
  • Monitoring the Connection pools for the database
  • Managing the Heap sizes and GC in the Thin application client architecture
  • Reviewing the code during the migration. Making the changes in the code. Standardization of
  • EJB with java: comp/env. Using the CorbaLoc for the EJB lookup
  • Making the Resource ENV reference entries. Changing the service locator lookup in the jar files
  • Day-to-Day problem solving involving WAS 5.1.1, IIS WebServers, Interscope Monitoring and
  • WebSphere MQ.
  • Issues involving to Bindings, External Client Authentication. Problems with the Data sources and Database Connections. Problems with the CorbaLoc and Failover support.
  • Creating new Architecture of Java/comp/env. Converting Spec J2ee 1.2 to J2ee1.3
  • Installation and setup of performance monitoring tool LoadRunner
  • Integrated and ran test runs on the WebSphere Application Server
  • Monitored the Server performance using Heap Analyzer, Thread Analyzer
  • Involved in the migration of J2ee 1.2 spec to j2ee 1.3
  • Converted Servlets and JSP 1.1 to 1.2
  • Making Way for the Resource Environment Entries.
  • EJB references which are outside the applications and in the cell structure
  • Specially Created new WebServers to use Verisign certificates and IBM IKEYMAN
  • Experience of providing production support and monitor the team Mailbox for Issues 24x7
  • Application support for the development issues
  • DB2 and SQL Server configuration for WebSphere nodes. Creation and setup of DB2 Alias

Environment: WAS 5.1.1, Windows 2003, IIS WebServer, WebSphere MQ5.1, IBM DB27.9, Interscope 4.0/5.0, SQLSERVER2000, Sybase, Tomcat, SQL Server, WSAD, and JBOSS 4.02.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

  • Involved in Installation and Configuration, Server Administration, Workload Management, Clustering, Load Balancing, Backup and Recovery, Performance Tuning
  • Analyzed WebSphere environment, installation and configuration WebSphere Application
  • Server. Diagnosis and fixing of Configuration and Installation Problems
  • Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server 5.0 on Unix and on Windows 2000
  • Prerequisites were installed before installing WebSphere. Installed and configured WSAD 5.0 in Windows 2000 environment for developers. WebSphere was installed remotely using x- windows, Telnet . Fixpack4 for WebSphere 5.0 was installed
  • Migrated WAS Applications from V4.0 to V5.X and higher. Enforcing Application wide Authentication and Authorization Services. Setting up Environment for Application packaging and deploying
  • Diagnosed the problems caused in the applications through the log files and rectified the problems
  • Ensuring consistent communication between WebSphere Clients, Oracle, Web Server and WAS
  • Configured Web Sphere Advanced Server on multiple platforms for both horizontal and vertical scaling
  • Implemented Workload Management of Administration Server by creating and administering
  • Server
  • Setup Cells, Nodes and Clusters
  • Workload management of EJBs and Servlets using Enterprise Java Services workload management
  • Implemented standard backup procedures for both application database and WAS administration database. Backup of config file HTTP.conf, admin.conf , Application backup using XMLConfig tool Written shell scripts to run the backup and recovery process
  • Performed WebSphere process tuning, Administrative Repository tuning, JVM optimization, Java memory tuning. Used WebSphere Resource Analyzer
  • Deployed perfServletApp.ear in WebSphere and used Performance Servlets for performance tuning
  • Installation and Configuration of Solaris/Linux Servers and Windows NT/2000 Servers.
  • Configure groups and users, enable high-end security based secure Ids for all users, to log on to the server at various clients
  • Configuration and maintenance of Iplanet SUN ONE , Apache and IBM HTTP Servers on
  • Solaris/AIX and 2000 environments
  • Fine-tuned both Web Servers and Application Servers for different load requirements.
  • Installation and Configuration of Apache Tomcat 5.X
  • Testing and debugging the applications installed on Linux and WebSphere.
  • Used Resource Analyzer to analyze the resources utilized by the App Server
  • As an Admin analyzed the number of instances of the servlets created by the App server and the resources used by it
  • Used Resource Analyzer to analyze the resources utilized by the App Server
  • Based on CPU Utilization by the App Server managed the resources utilized
  • Analyzed the number of instances of the EJBs created by the App server and the resources used by it
  • Troubleshooting and Administration of WebSphere Admin Server and HTTP Server
  • Responsible for web based security
  • As an Admin analyzed the number of instances of the servlets created by the App server and the resources used by it
  • Responsible for web based security
  • Troubleshooting and Administration of WebSphere Admin Server and HTTP Server
  • Analyzed the number of instances of the EJBs created by the App server and the resources
  • Utilization by the App Server managed the resources utilized

Environment: IBM WebSphere 4.X/5.X, Solaris 8.0, Solaris 450, AIX 4.3, Windows 2000, Lotus

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