Professional Summary:

• IBM Certified Engineer of WebSphere AppServer, MQ administration with 7 years of IT experience and 6 years of strong experience in IBM WebSphere, MQ Series, Portal Server, and Middleware Administration.
• Extensive experience in installation, configuration, deployment, management of Web/ J2EE enterprise applications and third party applications using WebSphere Application Server 5.1/6.0/6.1& WebSphere Portal Server 5.0/5.1/6.0.
• Extensive experience in installation and configuration of IBM WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.0 and WebSphere Message Broker 6.1.
• Good experience in installation, configuration and deployment of enterprise applications on Apache Tomcat Application Server 5.5.x/6.0.x and JBoss Application Server 4.2.3/5.0.1.
• Strong Experience in Administration and Maintenance of WAS ND Clusters and deployment of applications in highly available, load balanced production environments.
• Experience with Web administration, which includes Installation and Configuration of Apache, IBM HTTP Server, Sun one web server, Microsoft IIS.
• Strong Experience in migration of WebSphere from WAS 5.0/5.1 to WAS6.1, MQ 5.3 to MQ 6.0 and also fix pack upgrades.
• Experience in Configuring Web Server interfaces, Session management, Virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere Application Server.
• Experienced in setting up various Development/Testing/Staging/Production environments.
• Strong experience with monitoring tools such as Wily Introscope, Tivoli Performance Viewer for Web Infrastructure.
• Well versed in automating administrative tasks using shell, Jacl & Jython scripting.
• Superlative communication and teamwork skills to manage multi-tasks in a high priority and pressing environment with excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Certifications:
IBM Certified System Administrator - WebSphere Application Server ND, V6.
IBM Certified System Administrator - WebSphere MQ, V6.

Education:
BE in Computer Science

Technical Skills:

Application Servers/Portal Server:

IBM WebSphere 4.0/5.1/6.0/6.1 ND, Apache Tomcat 5.5/6.0, JBoss 4.x, 5.x, IBM WebSphere Portal Server 5.0/5.1/6.0.

Messaging Servers :

IBM WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.0, WebSphere Message Broker 6.1.

Web Servers:

IBM Http Server 6.x/2.x/1.x, Apache 2.2/2.0//1.x, Sun one WebServer 6.1/6.0, Microsoft IIS 5.x/6.x.

Operating Systems:

RHEL 3/4/5, Sun Solaris 8/9/10, IBM AIX 4.x/5.x, HP-UX 10.x/11.x, Redhat Linux 6/7/9, Fedora 9/10, CentOS 5.3, SUSE linux 9/10, Windows NT/2000/XP.

Databases:

Oracle 9i/10g, DB2 8.2/9.2, SQL Server 2005, MySQL.

Languages:

C, C++, Java, VB, VC++, SQL, CSS, PL/SQL, HTML, XML.

Scripting Languages:

JACL, Jython, shell and Perl.

Monitoring Tools:

Tivoli, Nagios 2.x/3.0/3/1, ITCAM, Wily Introscope, HP Site Scope, BMC Patrol.

Virtualization Tools:

VMWare Server 2.0, ESX 3.5, Sun Virtual Server.

Protocols:

TCP/IP, DNS, SSH, FTP, SMTP, SOAP and HTTP.

Other Tools/ Software:

Service Center, VISIO, Jive ClearSpace 1.10/2.5.x, Adobe LiveCycle ES 8.0/8.2, Resource Analyzer, log Analyzer, SQL Server Studio, LAMP, MySQL Administrator, Microsoft SharePoint 2007, load runner, SiteMinder, SSL, DNS, Firewall.

Professional Work Experience:

Confidential,Moline, IL
IBM Middleware Administrator
Nov 07 – Till Date.

Deere & Company is the largest agricultural and construction equipment manufacturer in the world, founded in 1837.

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1.0.19/ 6.1.0.11/6.0.2.23/5.1 on diverse platforms that includes LINUX, AIX, Solaris and Windows.
• Involved in Web/J2EE Application Deployments, Plug-in Configuration, Data Source Creation, Virtual Host Creation, Session management & clusters, Deployment Manager Configuration.
• Administration and fine tuning of different web servers – Sun one, iPlanet, IHS. Installation of plug-ins and merging of plug-ins for different versions of Application Servers 5.x and 6.x.
• Involved in installing Load Balancer Edge component and configured the dispatcher component of the Load Balancer for web load balancing and failover of web servers.
• Involved in upgrade of WebSphere from 5.1/6.0 to 6.1 ND.
• Installed Fix packs to bring WebSphere from 6.1.0.0 to 6.1.0.11 and then later to 6.1.0.19 ND.
• Implemented horizontal and vertical clustering, Work Load Management (WLM) to make the WebSphere environment Highly Available and deployed applications on to clusters.
• Involved in migration of the applications from WAS 5.1 to 6.0/ 6.1, assisted developers with the changes needed to be made from application perspective to accomplish the new J2EE standards in WebSphere 6.x version.
• Installed and configured WebSphere MQ v 5.3, later upgraded to 6.0.23 on AIX.
• Monitored, maintained and customized existing MQ 5.3/6.0 objects such as Queue Mangers, Queues (local, remote, alias and model), process definitions, channels and listeners.
• Installed JBoss AS 4.2.3/5.0.1 on RHEL 5 and configured Apache WebServer with mod_jk connector to talk with JBoss AS.
• Installed and supported third party application called Adobe LiveCycle ES 8.0 in our Deere Environment, later upgraded that to 8.2 SP2 in JBoss and Redhat Environment.
• Installed and supported Tomcat 5.5.28/ 6.0.18 versions and responsible for deploying another third party application named Jive ClearSpace, a collaboration tool on to it and maintained all the upgrades and fix packs of the product in the Tomcat infrastructure.
• Configured Database Connection pools for different J2EE components, which are part of the Application Implementation, Configured MQ with WebSphere.
• Configured Site Minder web agent 5.5 in IBM http server 6.0 for (SSO) for specific application.
• Monitoring application log files, Application Server Performance, Servlet Status, Active Sessions and DB Pool connections, setting up Nagios monitoring on the Jvms for alerting.
• Enabled global security for application servers using LDAP registry.
• Used the iKeyman management utility for managing keys and certificates, created self-signed certificates, configured IBM Http server to enable SSL using the WebServer plugin.
• Helped the Server Services team in migrating all WebSphere Servers to VMWare 3.5 ESX.
• Managed all the Dev/Staging/Production WebSphere environments on different platforms.
• Very good Documentation skills preparing the install docs, support docs, recovery docs.
• Used Service Center and followed problem and change management to create tasks at enterprise level for any production deployments or for any maintenance activities.
• Opened Problem Management Records (PMR) with IBM customer support for all critical issues unresolved by the team.
• Involved in 24/7 On-Call support for all the Critical applications supported by the team.

Environment: WebSphere v6.1.0.19/6.1/6.0/5.1, WebSphere MQ5.3/6.0.2.3, JBoss 4.2.3/5.0.1, Apache Tomcat 5.5.28/6.0.18, IBM Http Server 2.x/6.x, WebSphere Edge Component, Sun Web Server 6.0/6.1, RHEL 4/5, AIX 5.1/5.2 and Sun Solaris v9/10, Windows NT/2000, Shell Scripting, Nagios, LAMP, Netegrity SiteMinder, LDAP, DNS, Firewall, F5 BIGIP, Service Center, Wily Introscope, Tivoli, DB2/UDB v8.2/9.2, MS SQL Server 2005, MySQL, JMS, JDBC, JNDI, HTML, XML.

Confidential,Lawrence, KS
WebSphere / Portal Administrator
Jan 06 – Oct 07.

Pearson is an International Media Company with World leading businesses in education, business information and consumer publishing.

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration of WebSphere Application Server 5.1.1.3/5.1.1.6/6.0.X for clustered environments, creation of data sources, queue destinations, connection managers, listener ports.
• Installation and configuration of IBM WebSphere Portal 5.0 / 5.1 in both full installation and custom installation modes (for 5.1).
• Installation, Administration and fine tuning of different web servers – Sun one, iPlanet, IHS.
• Involved in installing Load Balancer Edge component and configured the dispatcher component of the Load Balancer for web load balancing and failover of web servers.
• Involved in migration of applications from WAS 5.1 to 6.0.
• Installation and configuration of IBM WPS 5.1 to utilize LDAP, DB2 as user registries and portal data storages.
• Deploying applications/ portlets using deployment scripts and administration console.
• Deployed portlets / skins / themes in WebSphere Portal 5.0 /5.1.
• Tune IBM WAS, WPS, LDAP and DB2 parameters to optimize portal performance.
• Deployments of ear and war files in development, testing, preproduction and production environments in clustered environments.
• Maintaining applications which are deployed in JBoss and Apache Tomcat Servers.
• 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).
• Managing keys and certificates using iKeyman utility.
• 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, Application server logs.
• Worked on procurement of WebSphere family and db2 licenses for new environment.

Environment: WAS 5.1.1.6, WAS 6.0, JBoss 4.0, Apache Tomcat 5.5, RHEL 4, AIX 5.2, HP_UX 10.x / 11.x ML 5, IHS 2.0.47, WebSphere Edge Component, DNS, HTML, XML, JMS, JNDI, JDBC, Firewall, Shell Scripting, RTI server, Windows 2000 SP 4, DB2 UDB 8.2, and Clearcase.

Confidential,Dallas, TX
WebSphere Administrator
May 04 – Dec 05.

Provides leading voice, data and Internet, VoIP and managed services for businesses and carriers who need a proven, responsive, and cost-effective alternative.

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and maintenance of WebSphere Application Server 5.0/5.1.
• Installed Apache & IBM HTTP Servers and configured the web server plug-ins to work with the application server.
• Created and setup new WebSphere Application Servers in a clustered environment.
• Deployment new enterprise J2EE applications in the distributed WAS production and testing environment.
• Configured workload management with WAS 5.1 ND Version.
• Interpreted log files to locate and solve application server problems.
• Creation and management of data source and database connection pools.
• Applied fix packs, cumulative fixes and upgraded WAS V5.0 and V5.1.
• Troubleshooting Web Sphere Application Server problems using log analyzer and tracing
• Application Server performance monitoring of resources like web container connections, JDBC connection pools, thread pools, system load like CPU utilization and Memory utilization, garbage collection and JVM heap size.
• Used shell scripts for automation purposes, starting & stopping application servers using wsadmin tool.
• Performed routine management of WebSphere environment like monitoring disk space, CPU utilization.
• Fine-tuning of Application Servers for different load requirements.
• Used Collector Tool to gather information about installation and packages.
• Optimized the performance of Enterprise Applications using Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Performance and tuning database connection pools, thread pools, JVM Heap Size to required sizes using admin console.
• Configuring of JDBC providers, data Sources, virtual hosting, global security, SSL, LDAP.

Environment: WAS V4.0/V5.0/V5.1.1.X, AIX 5L V5.2, Windows 2000, Linux, SiteMinder, IBM Http server 2.0.47, Apache, JMS, JDBC, IBM DB2 UDB Enterprise edition 8.1, Oracle, Tivoli Performance Viewer.

Confidential,San Diego, CA
WebSphere Administrator
Nov 03 – April 04.

Manufacturer of wireless telephone handsets, and also designs and sells wireless network infrastructure equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers.

Responsibilities:

• Installed IBM WebSphere Application Server V5.0.X, IBM HTTP Web Server in AIX, Linux environment. Deployed enterprise applications in production and testing environment.
• Migrated applications from WebSphere Application 4.0 to WebSphere Application Server 5.0 Network Deployment.
• 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).
• Implemented session persistence using session database, WebSphere internal messaging (Peer-Peer and Client/Server topologies).
• Automated application deployment, startup, shutdown and enhancements using JACL scripts for (recycling the application server, deploying customer applications, logs rotation, monitor applications state, etc.).
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings.
• Configured WebSphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, and connection pools. Creating Version 4 Data Source and Version 5 Data Source depending on the enterprise application needs.
• Enabled security for the Admin Console and the application components by creating user registry in LDAP (IBM Tivoli Directory Server)
• Monitored for Application core dumps, or forced thread dumps to check for system objects using thread analyzer.
• Configured security using SiteMinder 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, Application server logs.

Environment: IBM AIX, Linux, Windows 2000, WebSphere Application Server 4.0.X/5.0.X, IBM HTTP Server, Site minder, Apache Web Server, JMS, JDBC, LDAP, ORACLE, DB2, JACL scripts.

Confidential,Bangalore, INDIA
Software Engineer
Sep 02- Jul 03.

Responsibilities:

• Study the function requirements and prepare the application requirements word document.
• Provided Guidelines for best practices of Software Management, Coding Standards and Code Commenting for better understandability.
• Handled major development at presentation layer (JSP), Business Logic (Servlets, EJBs).
• Developed the whole application pertaining to the MVC (Model, View & Controller) model.
• Designed templates and screens in HTML and JavaScript.
• Developed JSP, Servlets for the presentation and controlling part of the application.
• Used Oracle database for insertions, update and retrieval of records by writing stored procedures.
• Developed front end using JSP, Servlets, and HTML and custom tags.
• Implemented JDBC API to access data from the database.
• Deployed the application using WebSphere Application Server 3.5.
• Developed ant scripts for automated build and deployment process.
• Debugged various defects related to the implementation of business logic.
• Communicating with the users and resolving complaints.

Environment: Java Beans, JDBC, JSP1.2, Servlets, IBM WebSphere Application Server 3.5.4/3.5.6, Apache, HTML, DHTML, XML, Java Script, Oracle 8i, JDK1.2, EJB 2.0 and Windows 2000.