SUMMARY:

• Over thirteen years of IT experience in software development, testing, implementation and administration with over seven years of experience in WebSphere administration using IBM WebSphere Application Server, IHS Server and IIS on AIX, Solaris, Linux and Windows platforms.
• Experience in installation, configuration, deployment and administration of web applications using IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.x/7.x/6.x, Weblogic 10, IHS Server 8/7/6.x, Tomcat 7, IIS 4
• Involved in configuring multi protocol gate way and webservices on DataPower appliances.
• Involved in DataPower configuration backups and firmware updates.
• Experience in web administration and setting up of environments in Development, QA, PreProd and Production environments.
• Involved in setting up and configuration of JDBC Providers, Data Sources, J2C authentication alias and Connection Pools in Deployment Manager.
• Actively involved in gathering requirements for an assigned project and creating clusters, cluster members, data sources, virtual hosts in different environments such as Development, QA, PreProd and Production.
• Creating and managing cells using Network Deployment Manager.
• Experience in monitoring WebSphere logs and Web Server logs during troubleshooting an issue.
• Involved in WebSphere implementation, support, workload management, horizontal and vertical clustering for PreProd and Production environments.
• Involved in generation and propagation of Plug - ins for IBM HTTP Server.
• Involved in applying patches for WebSphere Application Server v8/7/6.x.
• Involved in planning, migrating the WAS6.1 to 8.5.
• Involved in installation, configuration, deployment and administration of Weblogic on Unix.
• Involved in 24/7 on-call to support Production web applications.
• Experience in creating run book, support guide for each enterprise application.
• Used SCM tools like clear case bug tracking tools like clear quest.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware & Operating Systems: IBM pSeries & RS/6000, Sun station and IBM PCs,IBM MVS (z/OS), Unix, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux3, Windows 2000

Middleware: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.x/7/6.x/5.x/4.0, JBoss 8, Weblogic 10, Tomcat, Apache, IBM HTTP Server 8/7/6.x/2.0, IIS, Netegrity SiteMinder Web Agent 6, DataPower appliance

Java/Web Tech: JDBC, Servlets, XML, JSP, ASP, HTML, RMI, EJB, JNDI, JMS, SOAP, JavaScript

Database: SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9i/8i, IBM DB2 UDB 8.2/7.1, MS Access

Web Servers: IBM HTTP Server 7/6.x/2.0/1.3, IIS 4

Languages: SQL, XML, HTML, C, Perl, PL/SQL, Shell Scripts

Tools: MS Visio 2000, Introscope Wily 6.x/7.x, IBM Tivoli Performance Viewer, SiteScope v6, Service Center v5

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Middleware Administrator

Confidential,Champaign, IL

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 8.5/7.0/6.x, Weblogic 10, WebSphere MQ v7, Oracle 11i, DB2 8.2, Apache 2.2, HTTP Server 8.5/7.0//6.x/2.0, Tomcat 7, DataPower, SiteMinder WebAgent 6, AIX 5.3, Linux5, Windows

• Involved in providing support to wide variety of applications in a diverse setup which included WebSphere Application Server v8.5/7/6.x, IHS v8/7/6.x, Tomcat v7 on AIX, Linux, Windows platforms.
• Involved in planning, migrating the WAS6.1 to 8.5.
• Involved in installation, configuration, deployment and administration of Tomcat 7.
• Involved in configuring multi protocol gate way and webservices on DataPower appliances.
• Involved in DataPower configuration backups and firmware updates.
• Involved in attending meetings on behalf of Middleware Team & co-ordinate with different teams for task accomplishment.
• Experience in creating and configuring application servers, clusters, cluster members on different environments on WebSphere Application Server.
• Performed 24/7 on-call support on rotation & mentored new-comers during team expansion.
• Involved in setting up, configuring and implementing work load management (WLM), session management, and virtual hosts.
• Experience in configuring WebSphere resources such as data sources, connection pooling in different scopes to connect to the database on WebSphere Application Server.
• Experience in generating and propagating plug-in to IHS Web Servers.
• Involved in creating self-signed SSL certificates and requesting SSL certificates for production applications on IHS Web Server using iKeyman utility.
• Experience in performance testing of an application in testing environment and analyze components such as JVM heap size, CPU utilization, data sources and thread usage.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security using LTPA and LDAP for admin console.
• Experience in deploying enterprise apps using WebSphere Admin Console on clustered environment.
• Experience in requesting firewall rules to open ports from Web Server to Application Servers to the database.
• Involved in installation, configuration and administration of Weblogic as per project requirement.
• Involved in configuration changes in QA, PreProd, Production and following change management practices.
• Involved in preparing procedures, run book and support documentation.

WebSphere Administrator

Confidential,Houston,TX

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 5.1, Oracle 9i, SQL Server 2000, DB2, IBM HTTP Server 6/2.0, Visio, Wily Introscope 6.0, Linux, Solaris, Windows

• Installation, Configuration, Implementation and Administration of a WebSphere Application Server 5.1/6.0 on Solaris, Linux platforms.
• Involved in complete infrastructure setup and configuration which includes WebSphere ND 5.1 and 6.0.
• Involved in configuration of Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web Resources and JDBC drivers.
• Experience in configuration of WebSphere Application Server on multiple platforms for both horizontal and vertical clustering.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications using console and jacl scripts.
• Involved in using Wily Introscope 6.0 to correct performance problems while improving the overall end-user experience with web applications.
• Created and managed data source and database connection pools.
• Involved in managing web application releases on QA, PreProd and Production and coordinating with development team and management.
• Experience in configuring WebSphere resources such as JDBC providers, data sources, connection pools.
• Troubleshooting WAS problems using Heap Analyzer for tuning and application performance and Tracing.
• Involved in requesting firewall rules to open ports to access enterprise applications.
• Deploy J2EE applications onto WebSphere managed servers for QA, Pre-Production and Production environments
• Involved in requesting firewall rules to open ports to access the enterprise applications.
• Involved in updating with latest fix-packs on WebSphere Application Server, Plug-ins and IHS Web Server.
• Involved in monitoring an applications using Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Involved in implementing procedures and support documentation.
• Experience in providing 24x7 supports for an enterprise applications.

WebSphere Administrator

Confidential,Phoenix,AZ

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 5.0/5.1, iPlanet, IHS Server 1.3, IBM DB2, Oracle 8i, AIX, Netegrity Sitemider 5.5, Solaris, Windows 2000

• Involved in installation, configuration, implementation and administration of WebSphere Application Server on AIX, Solaris and Windows platforms.
• Experience in creating and managing cells using Network Deployment Manager. Multiple nodes were federated into deployment manager.
• Involved in deploying application ears on WebSphere in QA, Staging and Production environments on a daily basis and troubleshot various configuration and application issues.
• Regenerated and configured Web Server plug-in for the IBM HTTP server 2.0.
• Configured JDBC drivers and datasource on WebSphere.
• Performed WebSphere configuration backup and restoration using scripts
• Administered, configured, tuned, and troubleshot WebSphere in a clustered environment.
• Involved in configuring web-server interfaces (plugin file), session management, virtual hosts, data sources, HTTP transports for application server instances.
• Involved in building, configuring and setting up Testing and Production Environments and tested and supported the project according to business rules and specifications.
• Involved in configuring and enabling the global security for WebSphere ND for console users and console groups using Active Directory Server as a LDAP User Registry.
• Experience in configuring enterprise applications and corrected performance problems by monitoring server availability and resource utilization analysis
• Experience in applying latest fix-packs in WebSphere and vendor supplied applications.
• Experience in installing IBM HTTP Server 1.3 on different nodes and configured them by generating the plug-in from Deployment Manager Console.
• Server plug-in has been generated and propagated to Web Servers.
• Involved in troubleshooting problem-tickets, worked with developers to identify the root cause and resolve the issue or propose a potential work around.
• Responsible for changes in applications across testing and production environments.
• Mentored development and support teams on WAS operation and problem determination.
• Involved in preparing documentation and supporting procedures.
• 24x7 on-site operations support in an environment with over 120 Servers.