EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Over 15 years experience in IT with 10 years of IBM WebSphere Administration on ZOS, Solaris, AIX and windows Platforms.
• Extensive Experience in installation/migration/deployment of Enterprise Applications using WebSphere Application server 8.x/7.0/6.x/5.x/4.x.
• Expertise in configuring, installing, managing and trouble-shooting WebSphere Application Server 8.x7.0/6.x/5.x/4.x, Apache Server on ZOS/AIX/Windows environments.
• Expert level knowledge in IBM WebSphere Application Server, WSAD, IRAD, XML and J2EE Technologies.
• Proficient in integrating enterprise-wide J2EE applications and deploying using WebSphere Application Server Application Assembly Tool AAT and ANT.
• Experience in implementing Load Balancing to support high availability and scalable web farms involving large-scale enterprise applications.
• Experience in Setting up of Nodes, Clusters, Data Sources, and Virtual Hosts, configuring Servlets Engines.
• Experience in SSL and single sign on
• Experience in configuring Workload Management WLM of WebSphere Application Server
• Good knowledge on Siteminder.
• Expert in Performance tuning using WILY and Tivoli Performance viewer
• Experience in WLM using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Cloning for fail over and backup/recovery processes.
• Expertise in WSCP, JACL scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XML Config tool.
• Experience in integrating IBM MQ server with WebSphere Application Server.
• Experience in integrating IBM HTTP Server, Apache, LDAP, DB2/UDB 7.2.x/8.0.x , and Oracle 11/10/9i/8i/7.x with IBM WebSphere Application Server on Solaris/AIX/Windows platforms.
• Experience in setting up, configuring and implementing various authorization and authentication models including LDAP and LTPA in e-commerce applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Operating Systems: ZOS,Solaris, AIX, Windows NT/2000.
• IDEs: IRAD,WSAD 5.0, JBuilder, Intellij Idea.
• J2EE Technologies: JSP, Servlets, EJB, RMI.
• Asynchronous Message Servers: IBM MQ, IBM Websphere,Tomcat.
• Database Servers: DB2, Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, Sybase
• Scripts: UNIX Shell Scripts, Perl, and Java Script.
• Version Control: Rational Clear Case, Visual SourceSafe

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Position: WebSphere Administrator Lead

• Part of the WIDP team responsible for design and planning for Web applications and 24/7 operational support.Atteneding for IPR meetings for migrations and for new enhancements for applications. Collaborate with other infrastructure teams to define best practices and solutions
• Involved in migrating all ZOS websphere applications to AIX
• Responsible for Install and configuring WebSphere and Web Servers
• Responsible for configuring DNS and load balancers.
• Responsible for configuring applications for extranet access
• Responsible for configuring Net. data applications to external access
• Responsible for installing SSL
• Responsible for all applications from development to production
• Responsible for all migrating applications from WAS5 to WAS6 and WAS6 to WAS7
• Planning for migration to WebAPhere8.x
• Responsible for Level 1, 2 and 3 support for all applications
• Responsible for 24/7 operational support and configurations support.
• Responsible for supporting 150 J2EE and 50 Net. Data applications 24/7.
• Responsible for architecting and configuring the applications
• Responsible for implementing change controls.
• Responsible for RCA's

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 8.07.0/6.02/5.0.2, IRAD, WSAD 5.0, IBM HTTP Server, WILY, J2EE, ZOS, Solaris 8.0

Position: WebSphere Administrator

Designed and implemented Websphere to run a File Exchange Server FES for file transfer. Responsible for designing the system architecture, configuring, and trouble shooting initial application in move from development to production environment. The overall infrastructure included IBM WebSphere v5.0.2 server with an Oracle backend and IBM Websphere MQ as the messaging server.

• Involved in topology planning, installation and configuration of WebSphere 5.0.2, J2EE methodologies EJB, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, JNDI, and JMS , in a Struts 1.1 compatible architecture in a Solaris environment.
• Involved in WebSphere installation, environment setup and configuration of managed servers, nodes for the applications.
• Configured multiple WebSphere 5.0.2 application server instances to function within a WAS clustered Network Deployment environment.
• Involved in troubleshoot and diagnose error conditions includes identifying whether the unexpected Exceptions from Application or WebSphere Exceptions.
• Developed WSCP scripts and Shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XMLConfig tool.
• Installed, Configured regenerated the Web Server Plug-in for IBM HTTP Server.
• Involved in configuring JDBC drivers and Data Sources on WebSphere 5.0.2.
• Developed UNIX shell scripts to automate the WebSphere Administration recycling the application server, deploying customer applications, logs rotation, monitor applications state, etc .
• Involve in configuring the Web Directory access protocols like LDAP for different levels of access at the site.
• To share requests across multiple servers, implemented the BIGIP Load Balancer in front of the Web Servers.
• Involved in Tivoli Performance Monitor to evaluate the EJB response time and the memory usages, Thread pool. IBM trouble tickes PMR
• Performance tuning
• Closely worked with application development team with day-to-day issues.
• Replicated production configuration on disaster recovery DR location.
• Tested 3rd party monitoring tools candle
• Involved in creating security constraints, method permission for EJB's.
• Created Run Book documentation for WebSphere.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 5.0.2, WSAD 5.0, IBM HTTP Server, BIGIP, XML, Oracle 9i, Solaris 8.0, J2EE 1.2 i.e. Java Servlets, EJB JSP, JDBC, and JNDI , PVCS, Struts 1.1, HTML, Java Script, UNIX Script, IBM MQ Series v5.2, Windows NT v4.0, Info vista, Net cool Tools.

Position: WebSphere Administrator

Designed and implemented Websphere to run a portfolio management system. Responsible for designing the system architecture, configuring, and trouble shooting initial application in move from development to production environment. Final design also called for monitoring application to determine feature usage for future improvements and for trouble shooting purposes. Design called for implementing Websphere application server with an Oracle backend and IBM Websphere MQ as the messaging tool

• Install, configure and maintain WebSphere 4.0, HTTP Server on Solaris in a multi clustered high availability environment.
• Migrated WebSphere 4.0.6 to WebSphere 5.0.1.
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 5.0.1 that involves EAR Enterprise Archives and WAR Web Archives .
• Configured EJB/ Web container to meet client requirements for server uptime and performance standards.
• Developed WSCP scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XMLConfig tool.
• Automate application install, uninstall and application enhancements through Shell scripts and WSCP scripts.
• Configured virtual host and regenerated web server plug-in settings from WebSphere admin console and copied configuration file on to Http Server.
• Monitoring Tivoli Performance service to monitor memory usage in the EJB container and HTTP thread counts in the web container.
• Extensive modification of load balancing to ensure equal performance on all servers.
• Created security constraints, method permission for EJB's by using AAT.