PROFESSONAL SUMMARY:

• 7 years of professional experience in Analysis, Design, Programming, Implementation, Administration and testing .Around 5 years of experience in configuring, installing, performance tuning, Deployment and Administration of IBMWebSphere MQ series 5.x, WMQ 6.x/7.x, WMB 6.x/7.x on UNIX, AIX, and Windows.
• Extensive Experience in Multi-Tier and Web Enabling the Legacy Systems with IBMWebSphere MQseries and WebSphere Message Broker.
• Extensive Experience in Pub/sub messaging feature.
• Strong Knowledge of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Well versed with XML related technologies like XML Schema, XPath and XSL.
• Strong knowledge of Web services including HTTP, SOAP, WSDL and XML concepts.
• Experience in Application Development with a solid understanding of the following concepts: HTML, XML, J2EE, SSL, load balancing, Application / JVM Tuning, TCP/IP, DNS, LDAP, firewalls and multi-tiered architectures.
• Expertise in writing shell scripts on various platforms like AIX, Linux and Solaris to monitor WMQ and WMB.
• Expertise in design and implementation of WMQ and WMB in huge and complex environments using High Availability Clustering.
• Worked in Creating Best practice guidelines for development and deployment of Message Broker components.
• Experience in creating Tables, Views, Stored Procedures, Functionsand Triggers such as in Oracle and DB2.
• 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.
• Excellent understanding of the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and IT Production Control process & procedure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Have worked on all the phases of SDLC right from requirements gathering to post production support [DEVELOPMENT, SIT,UAT,PRODUCTION]
• Involved in discussions with the front , back end & BA\'s to understand the business requirement and prepare the mapping specifications.
• Provide concept solutions using IBM WMB &IBMWMQ.
• Have worked extensively on design and development for Banking & Finance solutions.
• Expertise in handling protocols like (MQ, Http, SOAP, TCP/IP, FILES, Email etc)
• Have extensively worked on the following message formats - SWIFT, XML, COBOL COPY BOOK, FLAT FILES etc
• Worked on WMQ V7.0 administration and WMB development V7.0 ( worked on majority of the nodes available).
• Good at designing of EAI solutions to complex business scenarios.
• Interact closely with the interfacing teams and track the requirements / CR\'S ,
• Excellent debugging and trouble shooting skills.

TOOLS:

• EAI Tools: IBMWebSphere Message Broker, IBMMessage Queue.
• Other Tools: RFHUtil, SOAP UI, HP SM7, HP Quality, Rational Clear case.
• Database: Oracle 10i
• O/S: Unix, Linux
• Programming Skills: Core Java,J2ee,ESQL,PL/SQL,XSL,WSDL etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

July 2012 – Till Date

Confidential, Eagan, MN
Role:Lead Technical Analyst/Developer

Description: Confidential is one of the leading Health Insurance Company. Confidential of Minnesota, with headquarters in the St. Paul suburb of Eagan, was chartered in 1933 as Minnesota’s first health plan and continues to carry out its charter mission today: to promote a wider, more economical and timely availability of health services for the people of Minnesota. A not-for-profit, taxable organization, Confidential is the largest health plan based in Minnesota, covering 2.7 million members in Minnesota and nationally through its health plans or plans administered by its affiliated companies. Confidential of Minnesota is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, headquartered in Chicago.

Responsibilities:

• Communicated with the clients for requirement analysis, layout design, theme and budget
• Designed custom components for data integration and encryption in the software
• Provided offsite maintenance through remote access to server
• Worked with most of the nodes like SOAP, HTTP, Email, MQ, Filter, Route, Label etc.
• Extensively used Mapping and Compute Nodes for converting message formats fromXMLtoCOBOLCopybooksandCOBOL CopybookstoXML.
• Developed message flow using Compute Node, Java Compute Node, XML Transformation Node, Filter Node,Routeto Label, Label,Flow order, File node and Database Nodes.
• Developed messageflowsusingHTTP Request, HTTP Input NodeandHTTP Reply Nodefor hosting and calling aWeb Service.
• Involved in tuning the MQ nodesfor the optimal performance of themessaging applications
• Involved in Integrating JMS based systems.
• Developed and designedmessage flowsandmessage setsusing ESQL to validate the XML messages
• Worked on Data Power projects for creating Web Service Proxy and Created some rules in Multi-Protocol Gatewayby connecting to Alineo portal.
• Electronic Claims Project: HIPPA compliance, worked on 27X project
• working onJDBC adaptersfor connecting with java based applications
• Performed user acceptance tests, debugging and alterations as per the clients convenience
• Performed onsite installation and trained the users on advancedtroubleshooting
• Performed by I Want This\">performance reviewsand updates as per business requirement

Environment: WebSphereMQ 6.0/7.0, WebSphereMessage Broker 7.0/8.0, WebSphere Information Tivoli Enterprise, UNIX, Oracle9i/10g, DB2, J2EE, XML,ESQL, Web Service.

Confidential, Wayne,PA Aug 2010 –July 2012
Integration Developer

Description: Confidential is a global provider of leasing, business and consumer finance solutions, including vendor finance and factoring. Our asset-based financing problems help our customers grow market share, enhance profitability and achieve strategic goals.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the design of the Integrated Solutions between multiple Applications
• Support the existing Message Broker and MQ 6.0 Environments on AIX.
• Debug issues and remediate defects quickly in existing Message Broker message flows.
• Support test process, create test cases, and execute regression testing.
• Advise and assist in developing message flows.
• Assist in tracking messages through logging.
• Interact with front-end and back-end systems for Business requirement gathering,CR,issue resolution etc.
• Prepare high level and low level design document and maintain the project artifacts.
• Have worked with IBMWebSphere Message Broker V6.0.
• Worked in Web Services development using Message Flows.
• Worked on XML,XSLT,WSDL and Web-Service.
• Developed message flow using Compute Node, Java Compute Node, XML Transformation Node, Filter Node, Route to Label, Label, Reset Content Descriptor, Flow order, File node and Database Nodes.
• Developed message flows using HTTP Request, HTTP Input Node and HTTP Reply Node for hosting and calling a Web Service.
• Have worked with different services by playing a key role as aMiddleware Developer.
• Have worked on UNIX Operating System.
• Have used Curl commend to test xml messages.
• Wrote SQL scripts to connect to a database.
• Created a script called Connectivity test which is mainly used for the connections between all the services.
• Have supported with IWAY adapter which is connected to the back-end system.

Environment: WebSphere MQ 6.0, WebSphere Message Broker 6.0/6.1, IWAY Adapter, UNIX, ESQL, J2EE, File Handlers, ORACLE, XML, Web-Services, SOAP UI,HP Quality Center.

Confidential,NJ Jun 2009- Aug 2010
Sr. WMQ/Message Broker Developer

Description: Implemented a standards-based service enabled platform that integrates diverse Metro Channel Partner (consumer) applications with backend applications like the Amdocs Billing System, Network Provisioning elements and other core vendor service provider applications. The platform will provide services to support the following business functions to be developed in three phases: Activations (including new customer on-boarding and payment), Account & Service Management and Service Payments.

Responsibilities:

• Designed the integrations based on SOA as they are loosely coupled with operating systems, programminglanguage and other applications which underlie applications.
• Developed message flows for transforming data from CWF data formats into XML message formats on MRM.
• Domain and XML message formats to CWF to work with mainframes legacy data.
• Developed the scripts for creating and maintaining Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Processes andother WMQ objects.
• Implemented the IDOC parser to validate the SAP messages and translated into the required data format.
• Used File handling nodes to do batch updates using File and FTP Systems.
• Involved in design and development of Publish/Subscribe message flow Architectures
• Configured the Oracle and DB2 as the database connections for WBI Message Broker runtime environment.
• Provided performance tuning to the queue managers and queues for optimal performance and applied tuning to all connected queue managers.
• Improving the Message processing performance by restructuring Broker domain, number of EGs andappropriate additional instance invocation and restructuring message-conversion and ESQL code change.
• Experience in monitoring the variousWMQseries objects like queues, channels, listeners etc using QPASA.
• Technical documentation of all the developed flows.
• Integration testing and Performance testing on AIX using Tivoli Omegamon.

Environment: WebSphereMQ 6.0/7.0, WebSphereMessage Broker 6.1/7.0, WebSphere Information Tivoli Enterprise, UNIX, Oracle9i/10g, DB2, J2EE, XML,ESQL.

Confidential,Bentonville,Arkansas May 2008-Apr 2009
Sr. WMQ/Message Broker Developer

Description: Confidential is a largest retail company in the world. This project is aimed at integrating the new and existing vendor management applications and bringing all them under one common EAI platform using MQ series, WMB, ICS and Java. Also responsible for Integrating Different Applications coming from SAP Environment, Legacy Systems etc by using WBI and creating Message Flows and Message Sets to Handle Different Data From Above Systems.
Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the existing Vendor applications and created a road map for their integration to EIP ( Enterprise Integration platform)
• Created Functional and technical design documents and for the EIP platform Phase I.
• Designed and developed message flow for integrating java based Query Management System (QMS) and Mainframe based Corporate System (CORP). This interface transforms XML messages from QMS to COBOL Copybooks format messages for CORP.
• Developed and designed message flows and message sets using ESQL to validate the XML messages.
• Extensively used Mapping and Compute Nodes for converting message formats from XML to COBOL Copybooks and COBOL Copybooks to XML.
• Involved in design and development of Publish/Subscribe message flow Architectures.
• Provided Naming Conventions, Backup & Recovery and Problem Determination Strategies for the project.
• Designed and developed reusable sub flows for error checking, Business exception handling and logging.
• Demonstrated experience in Web services development using Message Flow, the flow act as service provider as well as requestor to consume the services, using HTTP and SOAP messages.
• Developed Shell Scripts to perform Volume and Performance test on AIX machine using IHO3 tools MQPUTS and MQTIMES.
• Experience working on JDBC adapters for connecting with java based applications.
• Involved in Designing of Cluster environment and then creating cluster Queues and Channels for work load distribution.
• Worked closely with application developers on various aspects of MQand Message Brokers.
• Developed test scenarios and measurement techniques for performance monitoring.

Environment: WebSphere MQ (WMQ) 6.0/7.0, WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) 6.1/7.0, AIX, Oracle9i/10g, DB2, J2EE, XML, SoapUI.

Confidential,IL May 2007-Apr 2008
WMB Developer

Description: This project demonstrates reusable services in a WebSphere based enterprise service bus as an approach to reduce development cycle time and empower IT to rapid develop/deploy mission critical functionality. The Proof of concept project creates a new data route by changing the existing PO sender program to route the update data stream to the enterprise service bus (ESB). The ESB allows enterprise wide data enrichment and data routing via a set of shared and re-usable services. This feature will be demonstrated in the proof of concept project by creating the reusable services like purchase order update service, data distribution service and also data warehouse service to hold in-flight data for short term reference, recovery, and resubmit (creates Activity Log).

Responsibilities:

• Meeting with system analysts to finalize mapping documents for interfaces and design requirements.
• Performed administration tasks in development and test environments on MQ and Message Broker.
• Installed WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere MQ in development and test environments.
• WebSphere Message Broker was used to route, transform and data enrichment.
• Designed and developed WMB Message flows and Message sets using toolkit.
• Developed SOA, EAI, Web Services and Workflow based solutions for quick response time, integration with disparate systems and efficiency improvements.
• Involved in a team that administered MQ, Message Broker in Development and test environments.
• DB2 was used as broker database and Oracle was used for inbound and outbound message auditing.
• Developed ESQL code for various message flow nodes like Compute, database And try/catch
• Used Java compute nodes for some of the complicated flows that involved sales for processing the JAR files that were created using servlets and JDBC Connections.
• Deploying the message flows in WMB by creating the broker archive file/bar file.
• Problem identification and resolution on development, test and acceptance.
• Used ESQL to execute database stored procedures, to get information from database tables, views.
• Involved in setting up ODBC client connections in broker, SSL certificate registration with broker.
• Written some java classes with methods to complement broker functionality and called those java methods from ESQL.
• Involved in migrating message flow and message set projects from Message Broker version 5.0 to Version 6.0.
• Written database stored procedures to build XML out of a database and write to a directory.MQ adapter was developed to take the XML file and write to MQ Queue using MQ java API.

Environment: Applications on IBM AIX, HP-UX, OS390, Windows 2003 server, WebSphere MQ Versions 6.0, Message Broker Versions 6.0, Databases - DB2 & Oracle, J2EE, XML/SOA/Web Services.

Confidential June 2005- April 2007
Java/MQ Consultant
Project: Vendor Management Administration

The Vendor Management Administration System (VMA) enabled Circuit City to create and maintain Vendor/Product level deals and agreements. Member of the Support team for MQseries, involved with the team of design, identify process flow, infrastructure and procedures documentation, layout plans for better performance, and implementation of WMQ Workflow Best Practices.

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured MQseries in AIX, and Windows NT environment.
• Planned and Administered MQ environments for all stages of development as well as production.
• Designed and developed a part of the data model of the system.
• Provide support for applications utilizing MQ series, MQ Workflow and MQSI products for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI).
• Developed the scripts for creating and maintaining Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Processes and other WMQobjects.
• Experience on MQ Clustering.
• Designed, implemented and deployed web based MQ Workflow applications using Servlets , JSPs and EJBs.
• Designed UI using JSP, HTML and validated with JavaScript for providing the User Interface.
• Created new queue managers and Configured into MQ clustered environment.
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces.
• Involved in the Configuration Management and Version Control.
• Identifying the need for and defining Queue Managers, Clusters, Channels, queues, triggers and monitoring them on various platforms Windows, AIX.
• Wrote SQL scripts and PL/SQL procedures that perform some of the database tasks.
• Involved in the code-merge, and integration in the system environment.
• Involved in preparing Test Cases, Code Review, Deployment and Documentation.
• Involved in the load testing and Integration testing.

Environment: MQseries, DB2, Windows, AIX, Struts, Servlets, JSP, EJB, XML, JavaScript.