PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• I have 8 years of total experience, in Web sphere products, Middleware products and Operating Systems including Confidential Websphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, Linux, UNIX, Confidential Integration Bus.
• Expertise in Installing, Configuring, monitoring and Administering Websphere Application server, Web sphere MQ, Confidential Integration Bus and Websphere Message Broker on Linux, UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Expertise in deployment, Administering, Troubleshooting and Performance tuning of Applications on WebSphere Application server.
• Experience on installing Fix packs for WebSphere Application Server.
• Integrating Web sphere application server with LDAP .
• Have written scripts using Shell for creating JDBC resources in web sphere, recycle JVM s, backup logs, adding firewall rule to open the ports, porting and executing db scripts, installation of web sphere application server and applying fix packs.
• Created and configured Queue Managers, Queues, SSL Channels and Listeners for MQ series on AIX/Linux, Continuous Monitoring and MQ Queues Managers, MQ Objects including different channels, queues using MQ Explorer.
• Experience with most common MQ errors with versions and how to resolve.
• Manage the SSL certificates using GUI , use Confidential Key Management (iKeymen).
• Experience in configuring SSL security for the HTTP servers and the plugin.
• Extensive experience in working with UDB - DB2 along with other RDBMS such as Oracle and SQL Server.
• Expertise in implementing different monitoring setups using various monitoring tools like CANDLE, QPASA and TIVOLI OmegamonXE.
• Strong understanding on JAVA/J2EE technology. 
• Exceptional knowledge in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Webservices and various Enterprise Application frameworks. 
• Profound knowledge in web services like SOAP, REST, WSDL, UML and XML concepts. 
• Experience in creating, performing tuning, security and troubleshooting message flows.
• Coding experience in developing MQ adapters using MQ series for Java and MQ series JMS. 
• Proficiency in writing scripts to deploy message flows and message sets. 
• Experienced in executing the WebSphere JMS messaging components and APIs utilized as a part of accomplishing the availability 
• Gained strong knowledge in WebSphere Service Registry and Repository for manipulating the data like storing and managing. 
• Hands-on-involvement in Creation, Configuration and management of MQ Series/WMQI/WBIMB objects like Queue Managers, Brokers, Configuration manager, user name server, Queues, Channels, Processes. 
• Excellent knowledge in JAVA for transforming input information content to another format in Java compute node.
• Experience with Confidential  WebSphere Transformation Extender (WTX), Data Stage TX, and Mercator to develop X12 HIPAA processes. 
• Experience with WTX plug-in into Message Broker Tool. 
• Experience with MQ clustering and MQ Destination Lists. 
• Expertise in developing and working with XML Schemas, good understanding of XLST and XPATH. 
• Awareness on testing tools like QC, SOAP UI, Rhfutil.
• Hands-on-experience in developing software using Agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Excellent Communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent Technical, analytical, problem solving, interpersonal, written and communication skills with ability to work under pressure in a highly visible role in a team and individually. 
• Experienced in implementing Full life cycle of software development process with proper documentation

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Middleware Technologies: Confidential WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker, MQSI/MQI, WMQI, WMB.

Web Servers: Confidential HTTP Server, Apache Server.

App Servers: WebSphere Application Server, Weblogic.

Languages: C/C++, Java /J2EE, XSL, Shell Scripting, Javascript, Perl, and XML.

Database: Oracle, SQL Server and DB2.

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, XML, JSP, Java Servlets and JDBC, JSP, JMS and SOAP.

Operating Systems: Windows, RED HAT LINUX, SOLARIS and AIX.

Networking/Protocol: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL, SSH.

Monitoring Tools: Tivoli, Qpasa and Candle Omegamon.

Other Tools: IR360, MSP01 (plugin), Informatica, SAP, BMC.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. WebSphere MQ Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided integration solutions for large content management systems like Sterling. 
• Expertise in implementing projects which involve distributed systems and wide range of OS like UNIX, Linux, AIX, Windows and Mainframes. 
• Excellent Communication skills in working with other team members, DEV, QA, Environments for problem determination, solving, troubleshooting capabilities. 
• Experience in Installing and Configuration, administration of WebSphere MQ Series. 
• Setup monitoring using BMC MTM monitoring tool.
• Used Tools like MQ Visual Edit, Visual Browse and MO71. 
• Responsible for requirement gathering for new projects, designs interfaces and implement the project coordinating with application teams. 
• Responsible for sending Msgs from Z/os DLQ to Destination queue by DLQ Handler. 
• Experienced in setting up new MQ clusters for new project implementations. 
• 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 applications and performance tuning/monitoring. 
• Develop automated scripts for administration tasks to reduce rework and manual involvement for resolving reoccurring issues. 
• Conducted RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for Problems reoccurring and provide solutions and Workarounds. 
• Good understanding of Bundle process to implement changes on the Stores. 
• Involved in understanding the client requirements and determining the scope of each Interface. 
• Supported the Disaster Recovery Exercise. 
• Very good understanding of clusters and distributed environment in MQ Series. 
• Good understanding of Gateway Queue Managers. 
• Familiar with Security concepts like BlockIP and CHLAUTH. 
• Experienced as Onsite Coordinator in getting work done from offshore, training and Knowledge Transfer. 

Environment: MQ 5.x/6.x/7.x,7.5 and 8.0.0.5, BMC MTM, Web Sphere Application Server 8.0/8.5, Linux, AIX, MQ Visual Edit, Visual Browse.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server 6.x and 6.1 and Confidential HTTP Server 6.x/7.x on Aix and Linux platform.
• Developed WebSphere Infrastructure in enterprise level with Clustering, Session persistence and Performance tuning.
• Troubleshooting and managing the Websphere Infrastructure of Websphere Application Server 5.x/6.x on various platforms.
• Setup automation of deployment for JBOSS Application Servers Using Jenkins.
• Deployed applications (WAR, JAR and EAR) using Jenkins.
• Configured the Web Server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere Application Servers.
• Responsible for Web server and Application server installation, support and performance monitoring for all running applications.
• Created MQ Connection factory to connect WebSphere Applications to WMQ Qmgrs.
• Involved in migration, and user management on Linux platform.
• Responsible for installing and configuring third party software necessary to test the product such as Confidential HTTP Server 6.x/7.x.
• Involved in designing WebSphere Application Server load balancing and fail over by using Workload Management (WLM) horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Install, configure and manage WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Commerce Server, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, LAMP Stack, and other web-oriented applications as necessary.
• Developed WebSphere Application Server regular administration tasks automated by using JACL scripts.
• Configured Websphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling with Oracle 9i/10i database.
• Developed scripts to handle System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup, everyday system tasks, Websphere application restart and troubleshooting etc.
• Systems administrator providing 24/7 support for production and development systems.
• Created Change Requests for all the deployments and WebSphere service requests.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 7.x/6.1.x/6.0.x, Confidential HTTP Server 7.x/6.x, Sun Solaris, AIX 6,5.3, JACL scripts, Solaris, JDBC, JMS, Oracle.

Confidential, GA

Senior Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, configuration, administration and support of various middleware products like WebSphere application server, Confidential HTTP Server and WebSphere MQ running on AIX and Linux.
• Expertise installing SSL certificates on different layers like Webserver (IHS) and App server (WAS) to enable the communication between F5 and webserver and appserver and webserver.
• Expertise installing IHS severs as reverse proxy servers to enable additional layer of security and improve SSL performance.
• Use to configure uDeploy workflows to deploy EAR files on WebSphere application servers.
• Use to configure Queue Connection Factories (QCF), Queues and Activation specs.
• Use to work with development teams close to configure the MDB’s to consume the transactions.
• Use to work with DBA’s to get the data base credential to configure the JDBC drivers, Data sources.
• Use to work with F5/Network team to get the VIP, register DNS and create f5 rules.
• Use to work with application support teams closely and monitor the performance.
• Configure the IHS by following best practices and tune the httpd parameters.
• Involved to find the performance bottlenecks while IHS communicating with application server and tune the plug-in parameters.
• Responsible for creation of shell scripts to stop/start severs and deploy the applications.
• Responsible for Install and configured WebSphere MQ 7.0 on AIX & Linux. Created and Managed Queue Managers including MQ Objects (local/remote queues, channels), Integrated WebSphere applications with MQ by using JMS configurations.
• Responsible for Deploying Enterprise applications from Admin console and through deploy scripts by using wsadmin .
• Use to take Java cores and heap dumps and analyse them using various tools like Heap Analyser, Java Analyser and Confidential Support Assistant.

Environment: Websphere Base/ND and Confidential HTTP Server(IHS), Websphere MQ, JBoss Standalone/Domain and Apache HTTP Server, Oracle, Linux, AIX, Jenkins, SVN, Chef, uDeploy, ConnectShip, Fedex, Windows 2008/2012 and IIS.

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Sr. WebSphere MQ/Message Broker Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Design, Development, Migration, Unit Testing, Warranty Support phases of the project. 
• Installed and configured Confidential Websphere Message Broker v8.0 and Websphere MQ v7.0 on Windows. 
• Developed Applications using SOAP nodes to invoke the Web Services 
• Extensively used SOAP Nodes, Database nodes, MQ nodes and HTTP nodes. 
• Implemented SAML security features in calling webservices using Security PEP Node. 
• Extensively used DFDL parser in handling fixed length and binary text formats from different source systems. 
• Implemented the Web services security by using SOAP and HTTP nodes to make secured requests to exposed web services. 
• Developed WSDLs for consuming the Web Service exposed by external applications. 
• Used Timer nodes to handle retry mechanisms and trigger scheduled message flows. 
• Integrated Message flows with front end Java and .Net applications using MQ and FTP protocols. 
• Developed message flows using Java Compute node to meet the client needs. 
• Developed applications using IIB as Service provider and Service consumer by hosting web services and calling Web Services using SOAP Nodes. 
• Created message models for mainframes applications using COBOL copybook structures. 
• Used ESQL for routing and enrichment of incoming message in compute and filter nodes. 
• Used ESQL to execute database stored procedures, to get information from database tables, views. 
• Developed subflows to process web service responses and generate emails using email nodes to project production support team. 
• Involved in setting up ODBC client connections in broker, SSL certificate registration with broker. 
• Debugged the broker logs and traces to identify the missing messages and eliminating the errors like avoiding the port conflicts and changing the attributes of broker objects and perform the testing again. 
• Involved in integrating the Message Broker with the back end databases that include Oracle and DB2 using the Data base nodes in WebSphere message broker. 
• Developed Ant scripts that automate the creation of broker bar files and deploying the bar files in different environments. 
• Developed error handling sub flows to implement the Error handling concepts to handle the failover tasks during the Message transformation. 
• Designed and developed applications and libraries and deployed in integration runtime. 
• Developed Message flows without message models which used custom XSD/XSLT transformations to XML and Fixed Length Message(TDS). 
• Implemented common error handling for all message flows. 
• Participated in design, walkthrough, code review and defect review meetings. 
• Developed message flows involving data flow using Environment variables, UDPs for dynamic DB parameters. 
• Conducted System, Integration, Functional and Regression Tests in test and quality assurance environments.
• Worked with testing tools that include SOAP UI and Rfhutil to work with WebSphere MQ objects like queue managers, queues, listeners, channels. 
• Providing solutions to the application teams for MQ setup and Integration Bus flows. 
• Strong technical analysis, analytical and critical thinking, decision making ability, troubleshooting skills. 

Environment: WebSphere Message Broker V7.0, Confidential Integration Bus V9.0.0.1, WebSphere MQ V7.2/7.0, Confidential WebSphere Data power XI52, Oracle11g/10g, Data power XI50, Tivoli, XML, COBOL, XSLT, RFHUTIL, AIX V6.2, Web Services, Oracle, Tivoli, SOAPUI.

Confidential

WebSphere MQ/MB admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed WebSphere MQ/MB on Linux and Windows Platform.
• Troubleshoot and fix issues, as well as provide day-to-day support to the WebSphere MQ WebSphere Message Broker.
• Created and configured MQ Series Objects like Queue Manager, Queue, and Channels etc.
• Configuration of WMQ/WMB for the application requirements.
• Involved in WMQ migration projects from v 6.0/7.0 to v 7.1.
• According to the requirements of new clients installed WMQ7.5 and also involved in PUB/SUB creation for testing phase.
• Created WMQ Cluster to provide the high availability and for workload balancing.
• Created Message Broker Components like Broker, Configmgr, Broker domains in Toolkit.
• Deployed bar files to the Broker and troubleshooted issues using BIP codes.
• Worked on Client Channel Tables. Provide the Client Channel Tables to the Applications to provide the failover Technology.
• Developed MQ scripts to stop, start, and create Qmgrs and to create Other Qmgr Objects and to monitor the Qmgrs, Brokers and other Objects.
• Created Omegamon situations to monitor the Queues, Channels, Qmgr Status.
• Worked with Confidential to resolve the issues by opening PMRs.
• ProvidingSecurity to the WMQ Objects with the OAM, SSL and Password Server Support Pack.
• Setup MQ connections to establish connections between various MB components
• Troubleshooting using MQ and MB error logs, event viewer, etc.
• Administered message broker components like configuration manager, broker run time and Message Broker tool kit.
• Developed different environments for production, development and testing teams.
• Assisted MB developers with problems in MQ networks.
• Provided 24x 7 supports to production-support team members on MQ and Message Broker
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues.
• Conducted weekly meetings with team members to get project updates.

Environment: Linux, Windows,  Confidential  WebSphere MQ 6.0/7.0/7.1,7.5,  Confidential  WebSphere Message Broker 6.0/7.0.

Confidential

WebSphere MQ Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured WMQ&WMB 
• Applied fix packs to WMQ and WMB 
• Worked with L2 team to get the ifixes for issues. 
• Configured Cluster load balancing for WMQ. 
• Administering and Monitoring MQ with Confidential TIVOLI tool 
• Decommission of Qmgrs and MQ objects 
• Working in 24/7 shifts. 
• Handling all the Requests like incidents through BMC remedy tool and change requests. 
• Provided weekly matrix to the management.

Enviornment: WMQ, WMB, Confidential Tivoli, BMC.