Technical summary:
Worked as Web sphere Administrator with Web Sphere Process Server, Application Server, Message Broker, and MQ. With seven years of experience in architecture, design and administration of Middleware solutions has played critical role in many EAI initiatives in Retail, Banking, Supply chain and Insurance industries. I have a proven expertise in Business Integration architecture, infrastructure deployment and in identifying operational problems and providing innovative solutions in EAI implementations using Web sphere Technologies.

Professional Experience:

WAS/Process Server Admin/SupportJan 08 – Till Date
Confidential,Indianapolis, Indiana

WAS

• Installed and configured Web Sphere Application Server 5.x/6.x on AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, z/OS, iSeries, Linux and on Windows 2000/2003 Server.
• Create and test the performance of MQ SSL channels for their impact on the operational synchronous applications. Implemented the SSL channels between AIX and Z/OS
• Installed fix packs and cumulative fixes for base version and deployment manager.
• Installed and configured deployment manager (NDM) for web sphere.
• Configured clustering through deployment manager for load balancing and failover functions.
• Configured SSL (using third party cert) for Web Server and Web Sphere Application server.
• Configuring of JDBC Providers, Data Source, Virtual Hosting, Global Security, SSL, LADP.
• Written ANT scripts to build JAR, WAR and EAR files.
• Configured Web Sphere Application server security through Custom Registry and LDAP.
• Well versed with Shell Scripts for Unix System backups monthly, yearly and annual.
• Wrote Korn and Bourne Shell scripts for High Availability and for user management across the platform.
• Implemented creation of Server groups and clusters in Web Sphere Application server.
• Good Knowledge of Edge Components Failover (Active/Standby), HTTP Server Failover (Active/Active), Web Container Failover, EJB Container failover, Session Affinity, Session Persistence
• Implemented standard backup procedures for both application DB and WAS administration DB.
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces.
• Assembled and Deployed the application in staging, in productions, following change management practices and 24/7 support.

WPS

• Expertin Planning, designing, Installation and Configuration of Process Server on

Windows, Linux, AIX in cluster and non cluster environments.

• Install Web Sphere Runtime for both Stand-alone and NDM on ZOS using Customization

Tool and ISPF Panels

• Configured various WPS topologies like Gold (Separate Cluster),Silver and Bronze(Single cluster) in environments like Prod, QA/UAT, Dev respectively
• As part of Performance Engineering on WPS, Switched default JMS based navigation to Work manager based Navigation
• Tweaked ORB Thread pools, DB Pools, EJB pools for better throughput
• Adjusted Timeout settings on Web Container, Container Services (Transaction time outs).
• Sound knowledge of the interoperability between default messaging and Web sphere MQ.
• Good understanding of Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) environment, CEI enablement, CEI monitoring event generation and event consumption.
• Have successfully setup event stores for CEI.
• Successful implementation of Business Process Choreographer involving Human Tasks in a clustered Highly Available production environment.
• Very good understanding of state machines, relationships, the role of relationship manager and ability to administer relationships.
• In depth knowledge of failed events, reprocessing of failed events etc.
• Configured the adapter for Event processing that can be synchronous or asynchronous, and listeners within the adapter to provide support for SOAP over HTTP, HTTPS, and JMS transports.
• Expert in setting up Inbound, Outbound, Mutual SSL for Browser and Web Server. Web Server and WAS, WAS to external clients.
• Well versed with Certificate management tools like Ikeyman, SSKYMAN,RACDCERT (Specific for ZOS for 6.x versions) for setting up SSL

Environment:IBM Web sphere Application Server 5,6.x,7 Web Sphere Process Server 6.x,7,MQ 5.x / 6.x, Web sphere Business Monitor, Legacy Mainframes, ZOS 1.9,1.10 IHS, I planet, BIG IP,IBM Edge Server,TAM,WID6.0, DB2/UDB, Window NT/2K, AIX5.1,6.0

Web sphere/Web sphere Portal Server AdministratorJan 06 – Nov 07
Confidential,Columbus Ohio

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Installation and Configuration plan and design for WAS 6.0 / N Production,Development and testing environments on AIX, Z/OS, Windows and Linux.
• Worked with Web Sphere Performance Analysis and Performance Report and Proactive Monitoring and Tuning
• Worked with Heap Analyzer, Thread Analyzer in analyzing heap dumps and java cores.
• Successful implementations of Workload Management (WLM) using cloning and clustering, techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Cloning for failover and backup/recovery processes.
• Designed and Developed WSADMIN scripts and Shell scripts to administer and automate batch job scheduling including backup and recovery processes .
• Well experienced in packaging applications to build platform independent applications using WSAD / Web Sphere Application Assembly Tool (AAT).
• Hands on experience in development and deployment of J2EE applications on Web Sphere Application Servers.
• Using JACL/Jython(V2.1) scripting Written Scripts for Deployments Automation, Configuring new Web Sphere topic connection factories, data sources, Disabling components, JVM and new URL providers.
• Installed/configured the Web Sphere Portal Server 6.0.
• Configured the Web sphere portal server to database, LDAP and TivoliAccessManager.
• Worked withxml accessutility for deploying and uninstalling the portal application in web sphere portal server.
• Worked with web sphere portal administration console for deploying the applications.
• Installed theweb sphereportal Serverfix packsand refresh packs.
• Clustered the web sphere portal servers.
• Worked with skins and themes for web sphere portal server.
• Providing mentoring and guidance to team members on Web sphere XD and Other new releases.
• WAS administration using customizingwsadminJACL /JythonScript.
• Defined Queues, channels, listeners, Queue Managers, Channel initiators.
• Planning, designing, Installation and Configuration of Process Server on Windows, Linux, AIX and Z/OS in cluster and non cluster environments.
• Worked on creating and administering Process Server instances of business process containers.
• Tested the migrated projects in Process Server.
• Setting Service Integration Buses and JMS Activation Specifications using both default messaging and Web sphere MQ messaging providers.
• Responsible for administration tasks including building, installing, configuring, deploying, and maintaining middleware and applications onWeb SphereandWeb Logicplatforms.
• Installing fix packs and fixes, federating Node to the Deployment Manager
• 24x7 production support in off shift and including on-call pager.
• Experienced in maintaining middleware applications in Development, Staging, and Production.
• Working on full life cycle of hosting service including project initiation, transition and, steady state support on tailor made customer requirements.
• Holding customer-facing position at regular work and responsible for Problem Determination, RCA and solutions/recommendations.
• Work with an understanding of interaction between teams involved and the support offerings. Work with customer application developers and other support teams during troubleshooting or change window.
• Responsible for setup, installation and ongoing development of Web Sphere Application Server 6.0/5.1 Worked closely with developers to define and configure Application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web Resources, JDBC drivers and deployment of EJBs across multiple instances of Web Sphere
• Implementing changes as per change control board. Attendingserver1,server2 problems.
• Experience in high availability solutions and process monitoring techniques.
• Used shell scripting for automating deployment/middleware processes.

Environment: Web Sphere Application Server 6.0/5.x/4.0.x, Web Sphere XD, Web sphere MQ IBM Directory Server LDAP, Web Logic Application Sever6.1/8.1, IHS/Apache/iPlanet/IIS Web Servers, DB2, IBM Network dispatchers, Cisco content switches, Tivoli access manager.

MQSeries/ MQSI AnalystFeb 05 – Dec 06
Confidential,Kansas City, KS
Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured Web Sphere MQ 6.1 Server.
• Defined Queues, channels, listeners, Queue Managers, Channel initiators.
• Troubles hootedthe problems in Web Sphere MQ6.1.
• Worked withQpasamonitoring tool.
• Good Experience in Scalability and Streamlining the EAI (MQ, WBI MB) Production Environment.
• Configured WMQ , WMQI & Message broker for high availability using Service Guard High Availability clusters on HPUX , HACMP clusters on AIX and VERITAS Clusters on Solaris
• Playedainstrumental role in analyzing, designing & implementing Queue sharing group to provide a highly available robust environment for grocery applications on Z/OS.
• Defining Clusters using SSL certificates. Designed MQ applications supporting application level security and delivering MQ infrastructural solutions using link level security.
• Accumulated experience & knowledge of working on wide scale deployment ofMQseries& Message broker applications - 10,000MQseriesqueue managers.
• Automate manual processes in distributed and provided production support for 3000 UNIX (Solaris and HP-UX) and 500 OS/390 (z/OS) v5.3 queue managers, including 50 clustered UNIX-OS/390 environments.
• Installed Web Sphere MQ, MQSI, Message broker toolkit and DB2 UDB on AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and Z/OS servers and was involved in the complete setup of these components.
• Helping in setting up LDAP servers, working with Key repositories, Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs), etc.
• Provide 24X7 on-call support for Web sphere MQ based enterprise messaging platform running on both distributed & Mainframe operating systems.

Environment: MQSeries, 5.1, 6.x Neon Formatter, MQSI 2.1, WMB 5 AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Main Frame, AS400.

Educational qualification:

Bachelors in computer science and engineering