Career Summary

• With Nine years of strong experience in Middleware Administration using IBM WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Process Server. Extensive experience in Planning, Designing, Installing, Configuring and Administering IBM WebSphere Suite of Products on various platforms like AIX, Linux, Solaris and Windows.
• Strong Experience in Installation and Configuration of IBM WebSphere Application server V 3.5/4.0/5.0/5.1/ 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0/8.5 , IBM HTTP Server 1.3.x/ 2.0.47.1/6.0/6.1/7.0 /8.0 , WebSphere Portal 5.0/5.1.0.x/6.1.x.x/7.x/8.0. on AIX, Solaris, Linux and Windows platforms in dev, test and production environments.
• Thorough knowledge of setting up the Portal Clusters in both horizontal and vertical clustered environments on WAS5.1.1.x/6.0.2.x/6.1.x.x./7.0.0.x/8.0 for Work Load Management WLM which involved various steps like database migration on the primary node, connecting the database on the secondary node, federation and enabling security, configuring Portal to use web servers, Mapping the Enterprise Applications to the web servers etc and configuring Web Content Management WCM for publishing the website content dynamically.
• Experience in migrating portal applications from Portal 6.1/7.0 to Portal 8.0.
• Installed and Configured the POC servers for WAS, Portal and Process Server and documented the whole process to be used by RAFW.
• Thorough experience in installing WebSphere Servers both manually and through RAFW.
• Integrated IBM WebSphere Portal 5.1/6.1/7.0/8.0 clusters with Novell e - directory and Tivoli Access Manger TIM/TAM for authorization/authentication and SSO Single Sign On .
• Experienced in administering and configuring portal resource using Portal Administration Portlets, XML Configuration Interface, Portal Scripting Interface wpscript, Release Builder
• Used Portal Enable, Portal Extend for personalization, content publishing, document management, productivity functions along with the scalable portal framework.
• Well experienced in managing intranet/internet applications in SOA service Oriented Architecture environment.
• Strong experience in Analyzing, Trouble shooting and taking appropriate actions for Application/Web server/App Server/Portal Server errors and logs using WebSphere Log Analyzer tool.
• Well versed in integrating IBM HTTP Server 1.3.x/ 2.0.47.1/6.0/6.1/7.0 /8.0 , i Planet 4.0, Apache 1.3.x/2.0.x, LDAP, DB2/UDB 7.2.x/8.0.x, Sybase, Oracle 11/10g/9i/8i/7.x with IBM WebSphere Application server/WebSphere Portal Server/WebSphere Process Server on AIX, Solaris, Linux and Windows NT/2000/2003 platforms.
• Maintained WebSphere Portal 5.1.0.x/6.1.x.x/7.0/8.0 performance to maximize server uptime via monitoring and analysis performance tuning troubleshooting system hardware, software and operating system issues and escalating application problems to the vendor and server issues to the server support team.
• Security implementation using secured socket layer SSL, LDAP, LTPA tokens and firewalls in Portal and Application Server which includes installing GSKit, Creating CMS key database files, create, extract, and import certs into key files, configuring the plug-in to use the SSL key certs.
• Experience in J2EE JSP, Servlets, EJB, JNDI, JMS, Java2.0, JDBC, Java Beans, RMI, CORBA, JavaScript, XML, HTML, SQL.
• Expertise in UNIX based servers AIX 4.3/4.5/5.1L/5.3L/6.1, Sun Solaris 8/9/10/11, Linux RedHat SuSE and Windows NT 4.0/2000/2003 Servers.
• Experienced in installation, configuration, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of Sun Solaris, Linux RedHat SuSE .
• Well versed and hands on experience in securing administrative server using Authentication, Authorization, Single Signon, User registry, WebSphere Resources Servlets, JSP files, HTML files .
• Experienced in implementing Work Load Management WLM methodology and Fail Over mechanisms using cloning and clustering including horizontal and vertical cloning/clustering.
• Experience in BEA/Oracle Weblogic Servers 10.x/11.x installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Experience in Cluster Management, setting up Node Managers, Admin Servers expert in configuring JBoss application server on Linux/Unix environment
• Experienced in configuring JBoss and automating installations
• Expert in setting up application server cluster, web server-app server communications and deployments to cluster
• Experience in Shell scripting Perl, Csh, sh, ksh to automate system administration jobs using 'cron' and 'at' utilities.
• Excellent client relation skills and the drive to complete tasks effectively and efficiently where customer services and technical skills are demanded as well as the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management and the client community.
• Knowledge of WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.
• Experience in developing, and maintaining standard operational procedures establishing and testing disaster recovery policies and procedures and supported the design and execution of system load/stress testing.
• Proactively monitor and resolve assigned customer trouble tickets within appropriate time frames and escalate tickets as necessary.
• Respond to calls for service and customer requests and solved the issues working with them without disrupting the customer/business requirements.
• Cultivate relationships with customer and establish self as technical expert on the WebSphere Portal servers.
• Maintain relevant and current knowledge within assigned technical fields.
• Prioritize all related work efforts.
• Submit weekly status reports and project status meetings as required.
• Provide technical consultations and presentation to IT and external customers as needed

Technical Skills

Operating Systems: IBM AIX 4.3.3/4.5/5.1 L/5.3L/6.1/, SUN Solaris 8/9/10/11, LINUX SUSE REDHAT, Windows NT/2000/2003 server, Windows XP/98/95.

Application/Web Servers: IBM WebSphere Portal Server 5.0/5.1.0.x/6.1.x.x/, IBM WebSphere Application Server 3.5/4.0/5.0/5.1/ 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0/8.5 , BEA Web Logic Application Server 4.5/5.1/6.0/8.1 , JBOSS, Silver Stream, Apache Web Server 1.2.2/1.3/2.0 , IBM HTTP Server 1.3.28/1.3.26.2/ 2.0.47.1/6.0/6.1/7.0 /8.0 /8.5, Lotus Domino Web Server, iPlanet Directory Server, Netscape Enterprise Server, IBM MQ Series 5.x.

Database: ORACLE 8i/9i/10g, DB2/UDB 7.2/8.0, SQL Server 6.5/7.0/2000 , MS-Access 2000, Sybase.

Programming Languages: J2EE EJB, JSP, Servlets, JDBC, JMS, JNDI, Perl, C/C, JavaScript, COBOL, SQL, HTML, XML, UNIX Shell Scripts.

Development Tools: IBM WSAD 4.5/5.x, RAD6.0/7.0, CVS, AAT, ANT, Web Conferencing, Lotus Notes.

Network Protocols/Services: TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP, SOAP, SSL, SMTP, ICMP, IMAP, POP3, NIS, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP.

Hardware: IBM RS/6000, IBM p-Series p650, p655, p690, SUN ULTRA E250, E450, E3500, E6000, E10K, SUN Sparc Workstations, EMC Symmetrix 3000/5000 series, Storage arrays A1000/D1000, A5000/D5000, IBM SSA, Tape Drives DLT, CISCO Switches, HP/Compaq servers, SCSI, IDE, PCI, ISA architectures, SAN Technologies.

Professional Experience

Senior WebSphere Administrator

Confidential

• Installed and configured PEGA RULEs commander on WebSphere Application Server 6.1
• Installed and configured WASCE WebSphere Community Edition and configured it to use the databases oracle, SQL Server, ADABAS
• Installed, configured and managed Primavera P6 on WebSphere Application Server 7.0
• Deployed and Managed third party applications like Compass from AgileAssets on WASCE environments
• Deployed and managed the in-house applications on the WASCE
• Worked with the architects to develop a solution for migrating existing applications to a different platform.
• Proactively monitored and resolved assigned remedy tickets Service Now and BMC remedy within appropriate time frames and escalate tickets as necessary and provided the Root Cause of the problems and take the actions to prevent them happening again.

WebSphere Portal/Application Server Administrator

Confidential

• Installed and configured, WebSphere Application Server 5.1/6.0/7.0/8.0/8.5 , WebSphere Portal Server 5.1.0.x/6.x/7.x/8.x, IBM Http Server 1.3.28/2.0.47/6.0/7. x/8.x in SOA environment on Sun Solaris, Linux SUSE/RedHat, AIX and Windows
• Managed java, portal and web services intranet/internet applications in a high availability environment in dev/test/prod.
• Installed, configured WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server in a horizontal clustered environment and upgraded it to compliant with IBM latest releases.
• Installed and configured the Portal Clusters in both horizontal and vertical clustered environments on WAS for Work Load Management WLM which involved various steps like database migration on the primary node, connecting the database on the secondary node, federation and enabling security, configuring Portal to use web servers, Mapping the Enterprise Applications to the web servers etc.
• Configured the Portal to use Oracle Database and DB2 using ConfigEngine tasks.
• Integrated the Portal to use Remote IBM Http Web Servers.
• Experienced in setting up integrated security access to the portal and Single Sign-On to other applications with Novell and Tivoli Access Manager.
• Deployed Portlets using Manage Web Modules Portlet and XMLAccess XML Configuration Interface . Deployed customized Themes and Skins in Development and Production environments.
• Extensively used XMLAccess and ReleaseBuilder tools to release the new versions of Portal.
• Administered and configured portal resource using Portal Administration Portlets, XML Configuration Interface, Release Builder. Created the pages, added portlets to the pages and assign permissions by access control ACL administration with the use of use the Resource Permissions, User and Group Permissions, and Manage Users and Groups portlets.
• Created the Virtual Portals for different customers to have their own portal look and feel.
• Installed and configured WCM with Portal .Created the Web Content Management Portal pages and installed the Web Content Management Authoring Portlet Web Content Authoring and Local Rendering Portlets using Web Content Authoring configuration task.
• Deployed and Administered WebServices which connects and uses the data from TIERS.
• Installed and Configured WebSphere Portal Server v6.0/7.0/8.0 in a clustered environment.
• Installed Weblogic 10.x/11.x Servers on UNIX, Linux, Windows and Solaris environments.
• Setup Node Managers and Admin Servers for Horizontal and Vertical Clustering.
• Managed java, portal and web services intranet/internet applications in a high availability environment in dev/test/prod.
• Installed JBoss AS 5.1 on Red Hat Linux and Windows
• Created the JDBC Datasources and Messaging Queues using Jboss admin console.
• Worked as a WebSphere focal supporting multiple state agencies in highly challenged environments and provided 24/7 On Call Support as per customer needs. Extensive experience in monitoring the Portal Servers using wily and hobbit. Knowledge in analyzing the performance bottle necks in Portal in wily and tuned the Portal Servers based on that information.
• Proactively monitored and resolved assigned remedy tickets within appropriate time frames and escalate tickets as necessary and provided the Root Cause of the problems and take the actions to prevent them happening again.

Environment: WAS 5.1.1.x/6.1.1.x/7.0.0.x/8.x, WPS 5.1.0.x/6.1.5/7.x/8.x, Oracle 10g/11, IBM Http Server 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0/8.5 , SLES 11 SP2, Tivoli Access Manager, Tivoli Directory Server 6.1, AIX,Windows, Solaris, Linux SUSE and RedHAT, DB2, Weblogic, JBoss.

WebSphere Portal/Process Server Administrator

Confidential

• Responsible for setup and administration of the Portal/WCM Servers for Online Customer Care, Rate Review and Green Building .
• Considerable experience performing day-to-day operations like deploying portlets, creating pages, exporting configurations, and configuring access control using XMLAccess utility.
• Created multiple Virtual Portals and administered them in an enterprise environment to give different look and feel for the same underlying portal application.
• Used a combination of xmlaccess, wsadmin and shell scripting to automate deployments of portal resources including pages, themes, skins, portlets, security permissions and virtual portals.
• Managed Web Sphere Portal Security by creating multiple users and groups, assigned permissions on portal resources, managed inheritance and propagation of role types on resources, and managed role blocks.
• Configured Portal security with LDAP directory server and configured external security with Tivoli Access Manager, which includes creating AMJRTE properties, TAI interceptors, Authentication, Authorization and credential vault
• Extensively involved in IBM Web Content Management WCM administrative tasks like creating the libraries and templates, Defining Work flow items, Creating Syndicators and Subscribers.
• Installed the WebSphere Process Server in a horizontal clustered environment, configured it with Oracle and deployed the Enterprise Web Services in the SOA environment.
• Extensively involved in create/modify personalization Business Rules and configured to use this rules to all other Portal regions like DEV, TEST, QA and Production regions.
• Responsible for creating all necessary documentation to build, administer, and support all dev, TEST and production Portal Environments.
• Dealt with constant pressure and respond to frequent demands of multiple customers
• Extensive experience in performance tuning of the portal servers, applications servers meeting the business and application requirements.
• Extensive experience in monitoring the Portal Servers using wily and hobbit. Knowledge in analyzing the performance bottle necks in Portal in wily and tuned the Portal Servers based on that information.
• Co-ordinate with Database Teams/Application Development Teams/Client Managers/End Users/System Administrator Teams to troubleshoot various severity level outages as per set SLAs.
• Involved in performing RCA Root Cause Analysis and PDPSI Problem Determination and Problem Source Identification on a daily basis.

Environment: WAS 6.1.1.x/7.0.0.x, WPS 5.1.0.x/6.1.5, WebSphere Process Server 6.1/6.2, WCM v6.1.5, Oracle 9i/10g, IBM Http Server 6.0/6.1/7.0, IBM AIX 6.1/7.1, Linux Tivoli Access Manager, Tivoli Directory Server, Data power.

Confidential

• Responsible for setup and administration of the Portal Servers for Self Service Portal and State Portal used by TIERS application and the HHSC Enterprise Applications Services.
• Responsible for Migrating existing WebSphere 5.1 applications to WebSphere 6.1/7.0. This involves installing and configuring WebSphere Portal Server 6.0/6.1 and WebSphere Application Server 6.1/7.0.
• Responsible for setting up and maintaining the new WebSphere Process Server 6.1/6.2 servers in a clustered environment SOA and help the developers to deploy the web services into this environment.
• Installed and configured, WebSphere Application Server 5.1/6.0/6.1/7.0 , WebSphere Portal Server 5.1.0.x/6.0/6.1, WebSphere Process Server 6.1/6.2, IBM Http Server 2.0.47.1/6.0/6.1/7.0 in SOA environment on Sun Solaris Systems.
• Implemented horizontal clustering, vertical clustering and mixed clustering environments of WebSphere Application Server 5.1/6.0/6.1/7.0 , WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0/6.1 and WebSphere Process Server 6.1/6.2.
• Created the WebSphere Portal Server 6.0/6.1 Test Environments POC in a horizontal clustered pattern, configured them to use Oracle database, enabled the security with Tivoli Access Manager/Tivoli Directory Server, configured portal to use web servers and upgraded them to the latest version of IBM releases in order to enable the developers to use these systems for the application migration.
• Deployed the Portlets, Themes, Skins, Portal Services and Enterprise Services using BuildForge, PBAD Portal Build and Deployment and RAFW tools.
• Staged the Portal releases between the various environments using XMLAccess and Release Builder.
• Administered and configured portal resource using Portal Administration Portlets, XML Configuration Interface, Portal Scripting Interface, and Release Builder. Created the pages, added portlets to the pages and assign permissions by access control ACL administration with the use of use the Resource Permissions, User and Group Permissions, and Manage Users and Groups portlets.
• Worked closely with the Oracle DBAs to setup the databases for Portal Server and Process Servers.
• Installed the WebSphere Process Server 6.1 in a horizontal clustered environment, configured it with Oracle 9i and Oracle 10g and deployed the Enterprise Web Services in the SOA environment.
• Installed the Business Process applications using the scripting, and modified the imports endpoints in the SCA modules.
• Administered the IBM SOA Data Power boxes to accelerate the Web Services, setup the XML Firewall and set up the Proxy for Web Services.
• Work closely with the Team Lead and Team to architect the different solutions, Create/identify performance test scenarios, analyze test results and fine-tune environments.
• Proactive in assessing the risks involved with the new releases and finding the work arounds by with the help from IBM support.
• Expert in trouble shooting the problems occur in WebSphere Application Server, Portal Server and Process Server and monitored the applications using HOBBIT, I3 and Wily.

Environment: WAS 5.1.1.xx/6.0.2.x/6.1.1.x/7.0.0.x, WPS 5.1.0.x/6.0/6.1, WebSphere Process Server 6.1/6.2, WCM v5.1, Lotus Web Content Management 6.1, Oracle 9i/10g, RAD 6.0/7.0, WID 7.1, WSAD 5.1, Novell eDirectory 8.7, IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business 5.1, IBM Http Server 1.3.28.1/ 2.0.47.1/6.0/6.1/7.0 , Sun Solaris 9/10, IBM WBISF 5.1.1, Hobbit, I3.