SUMMARY:

• Extensive experience installing, configuring, administrating, planning upgrades and migrating WebSphere MQ, and WebSphere Message Broker, on distributed computer environments.
• Excellent skills Configuring and supporting WebSphere MQ clusters, Multi Instance WebSphere MQ queue managers, WebSphere Message Broker, multi instance WebSphere Message Broker and monitoring computer resources on Unix Aix, Linux and Windows platforms.
• Significant experience administrating WebSphere MQ v5, v6 and v7.5, WebSphere Message Broker v5, v6 and v8, DataPower Appliances XI50, ICS Wics Servers, Vitria BusinessWare Servers and Unix Systems.
• Have a proven track record troubleshooting applications, operating systems and networks, performing MQ security health checks, monitoring systems and applying upgrades and fix packs.
• Performed several disaster and recovery exercises and developed clear and concise disaster recovery and System Administration procedures.
• Thirty four years of computer experience, administrating Unix Systems and WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker and DataPower Appliances on IBM commercial accounts.

• Planned and configured new mq cluster full repository queue managers, migrated old mq cluster queue managers to the new mq cluster and decommissioned old cluster full repository queue managers.
• Supported WebSphere MQ daily tasks, like creation of new MQ objects, queue managers and cluster queue managers, troubleshooting connectivity issues with MQ clients and maintaining shell mq housekeeping scripts and providing on call support, etc..
• WebSphere MQ Support - Analyzing WebSphere MQ configurations
• Analyzing queue managers, and corresponding objects and gave recommendations for improvements on performance and security.
• Analyzed incident process and advised on improvements for restoration of services.
• Participated on incidents bridge calls, providing recommendations to identify and resolve the issues.
• Created instructions on how to resolve uncommon MQ issues like how to recover a corrupted queue manager, how to rebuild a corrupted MQ object, how to resize MQ objects and more.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

WebSphere MQ Systems Administrator

WebSphere Message Broker Systems Administrator

WebSphere DataPower Systems Administrator

Unix Systems Administrator

Certified Solaris Systems Administrator

Certified Vitria BusinessWare Administrator

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

WebSphere MQ & Message Broker Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed Systems Administrator activities associated with WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker, ICS Wics Servers and DataPower Appliances on an IBM commercial account.
• Installed, upgraded and migrated WebSphere MQ v7 from Aix platform to Linux platform,
• Configured WebSphere MQ and Message Broker queue managers, implemented project changes, deployed bar files and executed applications restarts as requested by developers.
• Defined Message Broker and MQ objects such as Execution groups, Message flows, Channels and Queues, etc.
• Supported the Developers with their projects, responding to their requests with a sense of urgency, fulfilling requests and providing problem resolution in a timely manner.
• Ran quarterly health checks on WebSphere MQ and WMB. Provided technical support to all team members, customers, vendors and ensured my availability as schedule.
• Participated on several MQ disaster and recovery exercises and developed clear and concise MQ Administration procedures.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

WebSphere MQ & Message Broker Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed Systems Administrator activities associated with WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker on several commercial accounts.
• Supported Developers with their projects, responding to their requests with a sense of urgency, fulfilling requests and providing problem resolution in a timely manner.
• Installed and upgraded WebSphere MQ & WMB, Configured WebSphere MQ and WMB queue managers, implemented project changes, deployed bar files and executed applications restarts as requested by developers.
• Provided technical support to all team members, customers, vendors and ensured my availability as schedule.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported the developers with their projects, deploying and executing project(s) restarts as requested by developers.
• Developed procedures to apply patches to Vitria BusinessWare and patched the Dev/QA/STG and Production servers.
• Investigated, documented and tested procedures to run Vitria BusinessWare Deployments on the Windows Platform.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Unix Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administrated several computer environments, which consisted of 30 servers and 380 Sun workstations.
• Principal activities ranged from hardware and software installations, systems reconfigurations, systems upgrades, consolidations of servers and applications, data migrations, troubleshooting computer systems and networks.
• Researched and documented procedures to upgrade NetApp filers and upgraded disks and motherboard firmware and operating systems on 8 NetApp filers.

Confidential, Naperville, IL

Unix Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported 30 servers and 380 Sun workstations, performing daily System Administration tasks.
• Reengineered and reconfigured the Technical Publications computer environment, consisting of 4 servers and 50 Sun workstations.
• Participated in the planning and migration of 18 servers and 380 Sun workstations to a new building.
• Deployed BudTool backups software and converted backups to BudTool backups software.
• Created and maintained backup schedules and data bases and monitored performance of backups on clients and servers.
• Developed technical and administrative procedures as well as backup and restore procedures and trained Operators and System Administrators.
• Supported System Administrators performing backups, troubleshooting problems affecting the Networks and Automatic Tape Libraries and recovering systems from crashes.