Professional Summary

Skills:

WebSphere Application Server v5.x, v6.x, v7.0.
WebSphere Portal Server v5.x, v6.x.
Lotus Web Content Management v5.1, v6.x.
LDAP Servers ITDS, Novell eDirectory.
IBM Tivoli Composite App Manager.
Wily Introscope.

Summary:

• Seven plus years of IT experience, with more than six years of experience in Administration of J2EE applications on Web Sphere Application Server 4.x/5.x/6.x.
• Expertise in Administering, configuring, Performance tuning, installation of IBM WAS 4.x/5.x/6.x Network Deployment Manager on various Operating Systems like AIX, Sun Solaris, Windows 2000/NT/XP.
• Extensive Experience of installing and administering IBM WebSphere Portal 5.x/6.x.
• Good experience with Portal Site management and complete understanding of Portal Structure.
• Installation, Maintenance and Support of Apache Web Server, IBM HTTP Server 2.0.47.1/2.0.42.2/1.3.26/1.3.19,IIS 6.0 Web Servers on Solaris, AIX, LINUX and Windows Server environment.
• Experienced in Planning and Installation of IBM Websphere MQ, MQSeries, on various platforms like AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Z/OS and Windows NT/2000.
• Experience in configuring WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ with monitoring tools like Tivoli, Wily Introscope and Candle (Omegamon).
• Hands on experience with Tivoli Access Manager (TAM).
• Developed JACL, TCL, Ant and Shell scripts to automate the Administration, Maintenance and Deployment tasks.
• Expertise in identifying components causing problems in performance using Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Experience in trouble shooting, WebSphere log file managements and implementing the workload Management (WLM) using cloning and clustering.
• Experience in design, analysis, maintenance and implementation of Relational Database Management Systems and Applications using Oracle, DB2, Sybase and SQL Server2000.
• Extensive experience in configuring application security using LDAP repositories and authorization services like SiteMinder.
• Implemented and configured SSL, requested digital certificates, created self signed certificates and imported/exported public/private keys.
• Managed and administered workloads, server groups and clones in WebSphere Application Server. Created, configured and administered Profiles, several Clusters, Nodes and Node Groups for WebSphere Application Server.
• Experienced in DNS, LDAP, FTP, Remote Access, Security Management and system troubleshooting skills.

Technical Skills

Application servers: IBM WebSphere 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, WP 5.x, 6.x WebSphere extended Deployment 5.x/6.x, Weblogic, Tomcat, JBoss 5.0.
Web Servers: IBM HTTP Server, Apache, iPlanet, IIS.
LDAP Servers : ITDS, Novell E-Directory, MSAD,
Databases: Oracle 8i/9i,/10g, DB2, SQL Server, MS-Access.
Protocols: TCP/UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, RMI/IIOP,SOAP, SSL.
Scripts/Languages: C, C++, Java, Korn Shell, Jacl, Jython, Perl, ANT
Operating Systems: Windows 2003/NT/2008, Solaris 2.3/7/8, AIX 5.3, Red Hat Linux.
Version Control Software: CVS, Rational ClearCase.
Tools: Ant 1.4.1, Humming Bird

Work Experience:

Confidential,Greenville, SC Oct 2008 to till now
Middleware Integration Specialist

Resposibilities
Confidential,are B2B Portal Project and WAS 4 to 6 implementation projects.
B2B Portal project was implementing a new Portal 6.0 environment for legacy B2B
Portal applications. WAS 4 to 6 is a migration project for WAS 4.1 to WAS 6.0.

• Responsible for the administration and implementation of web applications using WebSphere Application Server 6.0, and Web Sphere Portal Server 6.0
• Configured WebSphere Portal 6.0 multi node cluster environment for Dev, QA, Prod environments.
• Installation, configuration and Administering Web Sphere Process Server 6.0 on AIX 5.3.
• Configured WAS 6.0 Application Servers for QA and Prod.
• Configured DB2 and Oracle Databases for Portal data and Portal application databases respectively.
• Configured Oracle databases for WAS applications such as creating JDBC providers and data sources.
• Configured Novell E-Directory Server for Security.
• Configured Portal Global Settings, Portal Server Configuration, Portlet Filters, HTTP Proxy Configuration and URL Mappings as part of Post Portal Administration configurations.
• Configured WCM Authoring Portlet and User preference options as per the customer requirement.
• As part of Portal Search Engine configuration, we have installed and configured Remote Search Service to enable Search on a Portal Cluster.
• Creating Search Collections and managing Content Sources of a Search Collection.
• Responsible for configuring Delivery Server Local Rendering Portlet, enabling session handling and Web Content Cache configurations.
• Setting up and managing Portal Document Manager to enable Portal Users to work with Documents, Folders and Views.
• Responsible for Portal Performance tuning for good response times and Portal login times and page retrievals.
• Creating and managing Portal pages, Access control, Virtual portals, Themes and Skins.
• Creating Users and Groups and manage User access on Portal resources. Setting User and Group Permissions, Resource Permissions.
• Responsible for configuring WAS/Portal Security.
• Responsible for application files deployment on WAS environments and Protlet WAR files deployment on clustered Portal environment using XML Access.
• Performing health checking for all WebSphere and WebSphere Portal server environments
• Participating in stress testing and make application tuning recommendations based on the outcome of the stress tests.
• Documenting all web middleware product installations.
• Conducted Knowledge Transfer sessions to offshore team.

Environment: WebSphere Portal 5.1.0.4, 6.0.1.5, WAS ND 5.1.1.14, 6.0.2.29, 4.x, IHS 6.0.2.25
Load Balancer 6.0.2.87, Ascential DataStage 7.5, IBM Information Server 8.x, WCM 6.0. Novell eDirectory, DB2, Oracle, ITCAM, Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.4. Platform AIX 5.3.

Confidential,Tempe, AZ Jan 2008 to Sep 2008
WebSphere Engineer

Responsibilities
My Primary Role with Honeywell assignment, I have designed, implemented and documented WebSphere Application serving 6.1 Environments for Production and QA. And deployed 3 node portal 6.0 cluster for Industrial environment and implemented standalone WebSphere Portal 6.1
environment for Development.

• Installed and configured Was V6.1 for various Environments on RHEL ES 4 and AIX 5.3
• Applied Fix Pack 17 for 6.1.0 Environment and upgraded to 6.1.0.17
• Created Clusters of Servers that are managed together and participate in workload management
• Installed and Configured WebSphere Portal Server 6.0.
• Installed and configured WebSphere Portal 6.1 for Dev and configured Lotus Web Content Management.
• Used iframe portlet to integrate backend web applications into portal page.
• Installed ITCAM for WebSphere Portal Servers and configured Data collectors ITCAM managing servers.
• Configured dynamic cache service for performance by caching the output of servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP) files.
• Configured IBM HTTP Server by creating DNS alias names, assigning ports, transporting and pointing multiple plug-in files to serve various instances
• Configured Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client authentication.
• Involved in Load balancing/Clustering for IBM WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal Servers using WAS ND.
• Migrated WebSphere application server V4.0 to v 6.1.
• Widely used Tivoli Performance Monitoring tool to monitor application resources (Enterprise beans, Servlets) and WAS runtime resources (JVM memory, application server thread pools, database connection pool, CPU Starvations).
• Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Resource analyzer and log analyzer.
• Configured Web Server interfaces/definitions, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere Application Servers
• Developed Jython scripts to automate the WAS administration tasks.
• Configured WebSphere application server with Novell eDirectory 8.8
• Documented WebSphere admin tasks.

Environment: WAS V6.1, WP 6.0, 6.1, Linux, AIX 5.3, Windows 2003, Oracle 10g, SQL, DB2, Novell eDirectory, Resource Analyzer, AST, ITCAM.

WebSphere Portal Admin/Server Support.

• Administering IBM WAS 4.0.x/5.0.2.x/5.1.x.x/6.0/6.1, Network Deployment Manager on various Operating Systems like AIX, Sun Solaris, Windows 2000/NT/XP.
• Installed WebSphere Portal Server 5.0, 5.1 and 6.0.
• Administrating WebSphere Portal 5.0/5.1/6.0 version.
• Created Oracle database users and schemas and migrated Portal database to Oracle
• Created users for LDAP and configured Portal with Sun Java Directory Server 5.2
• Collaborated Lotus Quick Place with Portal .
• Configured WCM in clustered environment
• Configured RAD 6.0 with Portal 5.1 for development environment
• Extensively worked with the Process server configuration
• Installed, configured, administered and supported Application Servers 6.0/6.1.
• Maintenance of the WebSphere Application Servers on AIX platforms and setting up the development and testing and staging environment for the on going application development.
• Debugging of the application problems working by very closely with development teams.
• Developed many Jacl scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and managed the backup/restore of DM configurations.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP web server, which are remote in front of Firewall.
• Implemented security-using LTPA for IBM Directory LDAP Server.
• Used Tivoli Performance Viewer, Log Analyzer, and Thread Analyzer for performance and troubleshooting.
• Migrated existing applications from WebSphere 5.0.x versions to 6.0 using waspreupgrade and waspostupgrade tools.
• Involved in configuring the WebSphere Load Balancing utilizing WebSphere Workload Management (WLM) including horizontal scaling and vertical scaling.
• Package, Build, Integrate and Deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 5.0/6.0 that involves EAR, JAR, WAR files using AAT.
• Active involvement in monitoring Server Performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.
• Supported Web Sphere Application Server Clustering, load balance and failover.
• Involved in transitioning J2EE applications from Quality Assurance to production environment on AIX environments.
• Configured the Web Server Interfaces, Session Management, Virtual Hosts and Transports for WebSphere.
• Effectively interacted with the users on a daily basis, decreasing Downtime and increasing user productivity.
• Managing CRON jobs, batch processing and job scheduling.
• Debugged WebSphere Application Server Connection Pooling and connection manager with Oracle.
• Involved in Load Balancing of WebSphere and have to change the performance monitoring values at runtime.
• Automate application install, uninstall and application enhancements through shell scripts WSCP, JACL, Jython scripts using ‘Cron’ and ‘at’ job scheduling utilities.
• Creating the Problem Management Record (PMR) with the IBM if they are any unsolved bugs.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software problems, and interact with IT staff or vendors in performing complex testing, support and troubleshooting functions.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 5.x, 6.0,6.1.WebSphere portal Server 5.x/6.0, IBM HTTP Server 2.0.42.2, IBM Edge Server, Sunone LDAP server, ,Oracle 10.0.1.2,UDB 8.2, Oracle 9i, zLinux, AIX 5.X, Tivoli, J2EE, WSAD, ClearCase

Confidential,Appleton, WI May 2006 to Mar 2007
WebSphere Administrator

• Responsible for configuring and maintenance of WebSphere Application server 5.1.x 6.0.2.17/6.1
• Configured WebSphere Portal 5.0 and 5.1.
• Creating and managing Portal pages, Access control, Virtual portals, Themes and Skins.
• Installed and configured IBM Http server, apache and configured plugin for web servers

for communicating with WebSphere.

• Installed Fix pack 8 on WebSphere MQ 5.2.
• Setting up MQ Series for WebSphere application server.
• Defined synchronized and persistent IBM MQSeries Queue Manager, Channel Managers and Queues
• Involved in setting up a new QA environment by creating and managing the Nodes, Application Servers, and Clusters for Load Balancing and Fail Over.
• Trouble shooting various problems in different stages of development, QA, and production using logs files, JVM Count and JDBC Connections.
• Responsible for configuring a monitoring tool Wily Introscope 7.0.
• Responsible for generating Load test reports using Introscope.
• Responsible for performance tuning of HTTP server, Web Container, EJB Container, and database Connection Pool.
• Installed JDBC drivers and created the data sources and configured the parameters of the connection pool.
• Workload management of EJBs and Servlets using Enterprise Java Services workload management.
• Set up SSL between Web Server plug-in and Web Container using Self-signed Client-side Certificate
• Responsible for generating Java core & Heap dumps to analyze the runtime memory issues with the development team.
• Involved in installing and configuring the Active Directory Service as the LDAP server and enabled Global Security system for console users console groups.
• Responsible for configuring and setup of WAS server security with LTPA and LDAP.
• Developed JACL scripts to automate the WAS administration tasks
• Involved in migrating WebSphere application server 5.x to 6.0.
• Created tested and deployed J2EE applications on WAS using WSAD tools.
• Involved in configuring and setting up of network involving Virtual Hosts, TCP/IP and integration of COM components in a Windows environment.

Environment: AIX 5.3, Red Hat Linux, IBM WebSphere 5.1/6.0/6.1, WP 5.x, IBM HTTP Server 2.0.x, iPlanet4.1/6, DB2, Oracle 8i/9i, Windows XP/NT/2000, Introscope 7.0. WMQ 5.2.

Role: WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administering IBM WAS 5.0.2.x/5.1.x.x/6.0 Network Deployment Manager on various Operating Systems like AIX, Sun Solaris, Windows 2000/NT/XP
• Installed, configured, administered and supported Application Servers 5.1/6.0.
• Maintenance of the WebSphere Application Servers on AIX platforms and setting up the development and testing and staging environment for the ongoing application development.
• Migrated WebSphere Application server V4.0 to WebSphere Application server V6.0.
• Debugging of the application problems working by very closely with development teams.
• Developed many Jacl scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and managed the backup/restore of DM configurations.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP web server, which are remote in front of Firewall.
• Implemented security-using LTPA for IBM Directory LDAP Server.
• Used Tivoli Performance Viewer, Log Analyzer, and Thread Analyzer for performance and troubleshooting.
• Migrated existing applications from WebSphere 5.0.x versions to 6.0 using waspreupgrade and waspostupgrade tools.
• Involved in configuring the WebSphere Load Balancing utilizing WebSphere Workload Management (WLM) including horizontal scaling and vertical scaling.
• Package, Build, Integrate and Deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 5.0/6.0 that involves EAR, JAR, WAR files using AAT.
• Active involvement in monitoring Server Performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.
• Supported Web Sphere Application Server Clustering, load balance and failover.
• Involved in transitioning J2EE applications from Quality Assurance to production environment on AIX environments.
• Configured the Web Server Interfaces, Session Management, Virtual Hosts and Transports for WebSphere.
• Effectively interacted with the users on a daily basis, decreasing Downtime and increasing user productivity.
• Managing CRON jobs, batch processing and job scheduling.
• Debugged WebSphere Application Server Connection Pooling and connection manager with Oracle.
• Involved in Load Balancing of WebSphere and have to change the performance monitoring values at runtime.
• Automate application install, uninstall and application enhancements through shell scripts WSCP, JACL, Jython scripts using ‘Cron’ and ‘at’ job scheduling utilities.
• Creating the Problem Management Record (PMR) with the IBM if they are any unsolved bugs.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software problems, and interact with IT staff or vendors in performing complex testing, support and troubleshooting functions.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 4.0.x, 5.0.x, 6.0, IBM HTTP Server 2.0.42.2, IBM Edge Server, LDAP server, UDB 8.2, Oracle 9i, zLinux, AIX 5.X, HP-UX, Tivoli, J2EE, WSAD, ClearCase

Confidential,Pleasanton (CA) Jan 2003 to Oct 2004
Role: WebSphere Administrator/Support

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration of WebSphere application server 5.0.1/ 5.1.1.3/5.1.1.6/ for clustered environments, creation of data sources, queue destinations, connection managers, listener ports.
• Deployments of ear and war files in development, testing, preproduction and production environments in clustered environments.
• Extensively involved in management of the Build and Migration process.
• Implemented horizontal and vertical clustering, Work Load Management (WLM) to make an application Highly Available. Part of the team involved in Performance Monitoring and Tuning of Applications using IBM Tivoli Performance Viewer (TPV).
• Configured WebSphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, and connection pools.
• Coordination with DBA, OSS, Security, Web server teams. Worked on generation of tickets using Remedy.
• Troubleshooting of WebSphere application server problems.
• Worked as a part of 24/7 on-call support for production environment.
• Monitored for Application core dumps, or forced thread dumps to check for system objects using thread analyzer.
• Enabled security for the Admin Console and the application components by creating user registry in LDAP (IBM Tivoli Directory Server)
• Configured security using Site minder and SSL.
• Enabled Global security at the Application Server level and monitored Operating System level security for WebSphere Application Server.
• Administered various Log files using log analyzer, Product logs, Installation logs, Administer server logs, and Application server logs.

Environment: WAS 5.0, 5.1.1.6, AIX 5.2, HP-UX 10.x / 11.x ML 5, Obllix, IHS 2.0.47, Accentual DataStage, RTI server, Windows 2000 SP 4, DB2 UDB 8.2, ClearCase.