SUMMARY

• Around 8 years of experience in Installation, Configuration, Migration of WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Process Server IBM HTTP Server and involved in technical support on various platforms like Windows, AIX, and Linux.
• Good experience in Installations of IBM WebSphere Portal Server5.x/6.x, IBM WebSphere Application Server5.x/6.x, IBM HTTP Server1.x/2.x.
• Configured the Websphere Application server and Portal servers to work in the combination of horizontal and vertical clustering.
• Strong Administrative skills for IBM WebSphere Portal Server, IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, IBM Tivoli Directory Server LDAP .
• Installed and configured Deployment Manager to create clusters and manage the Application servers and Portal Servers
• Configured Portal server with the DB2 server and migrated the cloudscape databases to external databases like Db2 and Oracle.
• Configured the Portal servers to work in a clustered environment.
• Have complete hands-on working in production and support environments.
• Experienced in supporting enterprise based Websphere Application Server and Websphere Portal implementation over a wide range of operating systems across several server farms on a 24/7 365 days
• Configured WebSphere Application Server/WebSphere Portal Server to LDAP.
• Involved in Migration process of IBM WebSphere Portal V 5.x/6.x WebSphere Application Server V 5.x/6.x.
• Applied Fix packs and Cumulative fixes to WebSphere Application server and Websphere Portal Servers
• Generating and updating WebServer Plugins
• Configured data source in WebSphere Application Server in conjunction to IBM DB2 and oracle
• Experience in deploying J2EE components on WAS 5.0/5.1/6.x using WAS Admin Console.
• Deployed applications WAR and EAR in various environments like Development, QAand Production on multiple WebSphere Servers.
• Created administrative tasks like creating Pages for particular portlets, groups and assigning the access control based on the privileges and deployment of portlets using XML Access.
• Experience in installing Themes and Skins using was admin scripts and WAS admin console.
• Written Batch files and shell scripts for Administrative purposes.
• Had experience working with the vendor support teams like IBM PMR team.
• Expertise in IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0/5.1/6.0 administration.
• Expertise in IBM WebSphere Portal 5.0/5.1/6.0/6.1 administration.
• Worked on URL redirection and rewrite modules in the Web Server.
• Developed automated shell scripts for starting and stopping of the servers.
• Configured and Enabled the Global Security System to WAS Administration for console users and console Groups using Directory Server as a LDAP User Registry.
• Configured the WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal Server for enabling security.
• Configured WebSphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources and connection pooling. Deployed Session and Entity EJBs in WebSphere.
• Good knowledge and work experience on AIX and LINUX commands.
• Highly motivated individual with proven ability to learn fast and work well under pressure.

TECHNICAL SKILL SET

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Role: Sr. WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured and administered WebSphere application server 7.0.0.5/ 6.1.0.21, and WebSphere Portal 6.1, IBM http server 6.0 on Windows 2000, AIX, and Linux and on Solaris 10 systems.
• Migrated applications running on AIX to Solaris and also migrated the applications from version 5.1 to version 6. Responsible for maintenance and support of internet and intranet applications running on AIX, Solaris and Windows operating system. Configured and deployed web applications on multiple servers.
• Responsible for building the Dev, Test, QA, and Prod environments by installing the WAS and creating the profiles, nodes, federation of nodes, Application Servers, Clusters, Virtual hosts, data sources, MQ connections, Plug-in Configuration and Service Integration Bus Config..Etc.
• Experienced in configuring websphere security for new applications like Administrative security application security, SSL certificates, Global security, and also J2EE security.
• Involved in MQ series administration which include creation and administration of MQ objects, Restating Qmgrs, Channnels and backing up and purging the messages that are in DLQs, BOQs.etc. And troubleshooted issues related to MQ by looking at the appropriate log files.
• Responsible for applications which are using message broker, involved in bouncing the broker and restarting the execution groups, deployment of bar files, restarting of execution groups.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of JBoss 4.0.3 in Linux. Create and manage data source and database connection pools for JBoss Applications.
• Install EARs, WARs and configure application specific JVM settings in JBoss. Setup Wily V7 8 for the pre-production and production environments. Hot-deployment in JBoss clusters.
• Created JBoss clusters in prod environments and configured SSL across various channels.
• Responsible for maintenance and support of internet and intranet applications running on AIX and solaris servers in Dev, Test, QA and prod environments. Installed and applied fix packs, refresh packs and e-fixes for the websphere application server in all environments.
• Used siteminder for single signon for our applications and automated access to all authorized enterprise applications through a single login using SSO.
• Involved in the installation, deployment, administration and troubleshooting of WSRR and upgrading the WSRR to a new fix pack and integrating it with ESB, ITCAM and WMB.
• Involved in coordinating the monthly implementation plan for the migration part of the project for the applications running on 5.x to 6.x. and audited the application migration process as and when completed by the other team members.
• Extensively involved in troubleshooting the issues and document the problem resolutions for future references. Created PMRs and worked with IBM personnel for the peculiar issues that were found in the environment. Attended Change management meetings for approval for the applications which are supposed to go live and provided the MOM of CM meetings to the team.
• Extensively involved in writing scripts for automating the administering applications, managing deployed applications, creating clusters, configuring security, configuring data access, configuring intermediately services using Jython, Jacl and shell scripts
• Experienced in attending the bridge calls for production issues and non-prod issues and involved application teams or database teams or networking teams to resolve the issues and involved in Root cause analysis for the issues encountered. Also provided 24/7 on call support for all the production applications.
• Monitored health of the applications using WILY and also used WILY for load tests and send the load test results to the testing and application teams.

Environment:

Websphere application server 7.0/ 6.1/6.0/5.1/5.0, Websphere portal 6.1, web sphere, MQ 6/5.3, IHS 6/2.0.47, AIX, Solaris, Linux, windows 2003, IIS, LDAP, WMB 5.0, Oracle10/9.0.2/8.1.x, DB2, Mainframe, TAM, jacl, jython, XML, Wily7, HTML, EJB, JSP, JDBC, ISA, JBoss5.1/4.3, Tomcat 3.0.

Confidential

Role: WebSphere Portal Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance of the WebSphere and Portal servers on different UNIX platforms and setting up the development and testing and staging environment for the ongoing application development.
• Responsible for upgrading WebSphere Portal Server environment from 5.1.0.4 to 6.0.1.1 by applying fix packs, refresh packs and fixes
• Installed and configured JBoss 4.3 in AIX and UNIX. Troubleshooted JVM related issues and analyzed heap and core plus error logs.
• Configured Security for JBoss and proficient in JBoss logging tools.
• Middleware Engineering Lead for Regular Maintenance Updates OS Patches, Security Patches, Middleware Patches, and OS/Middleware Upgrades.
• Clustered WebSphere Portal Server in a multi cluster environment using horizontal scaling on both WebSphere Portal Server V5.1 and V6.0
• Used WebSphere Process Server to evaluate its capabilities in a WebSphere Portal environment.
• Configured Dynacache with WebSphere Portal Server JVMs to increase the performance on WPS V5.1
• Integrated WebSphere Portal Server with Siteminder TAI Trust Association Interceptor to perform authentication and authorization to portal.
• Configured Web Content Management to manage the creation, approval and publication of web content.
• Configured custom login and logout pages for the WebSphere Portal Server environment.
• Configured WebSphere Portal Server with portal, likeminds, feedback, member manager, release, and customization and community databases.
• Responsible for administering, maintaining and configuring a 24 x 7 highly available, multi-clustered, production portal environment
• Implemented security policies, Enabled security on components and configured LDAP and SSL.
• Provided third level technical escalation for problem resolution or circumvention of application deployment issues and Middleware component issues in Web Hosting environments.
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0.x/4.0.x, JDBC drivers and Servlets engines on LINUX.
• Configured IBM HTTP Server by creating DNS alias names, assigning ports, transporting and pointing multiple plug-in files to serve various instances in same node.
• Efficiently handled Work Load Management for load balancing and failover, improving performance, reliability and scalability.
• Successfully resolved issues with the DB2 data sources and connection pooling.
• Involved in monitoring, trouble shooting and performance tuning using Wily 5.x monitor, Tivoli performance viewer, and Thread Analyzer.
• Installed and applied fix packs, patches and e-fixes for WebSphere Application Servers.
• Provide architectural and design assistance to WMQI team to migrate applications from WebSphere Application Server to WMQI.
• Provide inputs to the Database, Diamond and Quest teams to resolve WebSphere and database communication issues.
• Provide architectural and design inputs to support Enterprise Data Center migration and Disaster Recovery efforts.
• Designed and implemented J2EE application monitoring solutions using Candle and Sitescope.
• Designed and architected solutions around IBM HTTP Server and iPlanet Web Server.
• Worked on capacity planning, performance tuning, sizing, and automation of WebSphere6.1, WebSphere 6.0 and WebSphere 5.1 Application Servers.
• Significant experience with design, administration, installation and configuration of around 200 J2EE applications on WebSphere 5.1.1.13, WebSphere 6.0 and WebSphere 6.1 Application Servers.
• Worked on migrating application configurations from WebSphere 5.1.x and WebSphere 6.1.x
• Worked on the administration, installation and configuration of IBM WebSphere Portal Server 5.1 and 6.0 in a clustered environment.
• Worked on WebSphere Security and Trust Association Interceptors for WebSphere Portal Server and Netegrity Siteminder.
• Designed performance monitoring solutions using Wily's Introscope tool, HP Diagnostics, Tonic and Quest.
• Automation of administration using WSAdmin, WSCP, XMLConfig, XMLAccess and WPscript utilities.

Environment:

WebSphere6.1/5.1, WebSphere Portal Server6.0/5.1, AIX 5.x/4.x, Netscape Enterprise Server, Iplanet, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.x/2.x, AIX5L, IBM WebSphere 5.0/4.x/3.x, JBoss4.3, Tomcat 3.0, IBM MQ Series, IBM HTTP Server, MQ 5.X/6.X WMB5.3DB2/UDB 7.2, J2EE, Wily Introscope v5.x

Confidential

Role: WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.0, JDBC drivers and Servlet engines along with trouble shooting and recovery on UNIX and Windows machines.
• Responsible for application changes across different platforms- development, testing and production environments.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 1.3.6, iPlanet 4.1, JDBC drivers and Servlet engines on UNIX and Windows machines.
• Worked on Blue Squared Project and With Blue Squared version 2.1.
• Implemented Cloning, Clustering, Performance tuning and trouble shooting of IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.0.
• Configured the Web Server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere Application Servers.
• Configured WebSphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, and JavaMail sessions. Deployed Session and Entity EJBs in WebSphere
• Experience with WebSphere MQ 5.3 and 6.0 and Created MQ queue and Channels
• Configured MQ Objects within the Websphere Application Environment.
• Created and Modified queue managers and created and modified queue manager objects as queue, channels, Name lists, etc.
• Set up the Triggering and set up the security for Users/Groups
• Resolved Channel issues and Cluster issues look and diagnose the problem from various logs i.e. MQ error logs.
• Deployed the Bar Files and involved in trouble shooting the Broker issues. Involved in stopping and starting of Broker Flows and execution groups.
• Worked on Blue squared project
• Involved in securing the J2EE applications by implementing Single Sign On by using LTPA.
• Using WSADMIN commands configuring and maintaining websphere applications on command mode and wrote admin scripts using Tcl.
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy Enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 3.5/4.0/5.0 that involves EAR Enterprise Archives and WAR Web Archives files.

Environment:

IBM WebSphere 4.0/5.0.2/5.1.1.13, MQ, MB, IBM MQSeries, IBM HTTP server, iPlanet, Netscape Enterprise Server, EJB, JSPs, Servlets, XML, JDBC, Java Script, HTML, DB2/UDB v 7.2, DFS, Sun Solaris v 2.8, Linux, AIX and Windows2000/NT

Confidential

Role: WebSphere Administrator/J2EE Developer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured WebSphere4.0 and IBM HTTP Server on IBM AIX and Solaris platforms.
• Installed and configured IBM Edge Server and Network Dispatchers for load balancing. Handled high availability and recoverability planning and implementation.
• Involved in designing WebSphere Application Server load balancing and fail over by using Workload Management WLM , horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Responsible for Web server and Application server installation, support and performance monitoring for all applications running on the company's Website.
• Developed WebSphere Application Server regular administration tasks automated by using WSCP and XMLConfig scripts.
• Implemented security policies that protect Web applications and resources using the Netegrity SiteMinder.
• Played an active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck by enhanced performance ensuring upstream queuing.
• Configured and tested the data sources for the databases, i.e. Oracle and DB2
• Used Siteminder for Single sign on for our applications. Automated access to all authorized enterprise-wide applications through a single login using SSO
• Configured the Web Server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere Application Servers.
• Applied software maintenance, program fixes and keeping the system software releases current.
• Configured WebSphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, and JavaMail sessions. Deployed Session and Entity EJBs in WebSphere.
• Implemented WebSphere Global Security using LTPA and Netscape LDAP Server.

Environment:

Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB, XML, JDOM, JDBC, JavaScript, DB2, IBM HTTP Server, Apache Web Server and WebSphere Application Server 4.0, HTML, Visual Age for Java, Rational Rose 2000 on UNIX AIX, Linux and Solaris and Windows 2000, Siteminder.

Confidential

Role: Tester

Description:

• Confidential is ranked as Confidential company the nation's leading pharmacy benefit manager, employing more than 13, 000 people nationwide, including approximately 2,000 pharmacists. On behalf of health plan and employer clients throughout the country, we provide pharmaceutical care for nearly one in four Confidential. Confidential is the nation's largest mail order pharmacy operations.
• Confidential assists its customers to moderate the cost and enhance the quality of prescription drug benefits provided to members nationwide. Ensuring that millions of Confidential have access to affordable, high quality prescription healthcare is more than our business - it's our calling. Every day, our employees dedicate themselves to bring better value, better care and better service.
• Client Profile holds all the specific plan configuration information for Confidential Health clients. The term Client Profile refers to the repository as well as the information held in the repository. This information contains flags and indicators that point to other related files or program code that must be referenced during claims processing and all other plan management processes.

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of test plan and execution of Test cases Manual and automation.
• Updating the status to clients on daily basis.
• Defect tracking through Rational Clear Quest.

Environment: IBM S 390 using VS-COBOL II, DB2 and CICS