Professional Summary:

• IT professional with over 8 years of WebSphere and Portal Administrator on Sun Solaris, AIX, Linux and Windows environments.
• Expertise in supporting enterprise based distributed applications over a wide range of operating environments on a 24/7 rotation basis for high volume, secure transactions and Web services.
• Administered IBM WebSphere Application server, WPS on multiple platforms like AIX, Sun Solaris, Linux, and Windows 2000/03/08.
• Experience in OS level Administration in Windows, UNIX, and Linux systems.
• Experience in installation configuration / migration / deployment of Enterprise Applications in WebSphere Application server v 8.0/7.0/6.1/6.0.2/5.x/4.x, WebSphere MQ 6.0/5.0
• Led and configured Portal server with Web Sphere Process Server features, in a way that human tasks be accessed from Portals.
• Created XML Access scripts copy individual Portal resources development to integration environments.
• Solved various problems for distributed platforms by using Traces, Logs and Log analyzer and using AST.
• Responsible for installation, configuration and maintenance of WebSphere Application Server Base and ND , LDAP, MQ, JMS in a heterogeneous environment
• Expertise in installing, configuring, managing and troubleshooting web servers like IBM HTTP Server, Apache Web server, on AIX, Linux and Sun Solaris platforms and IIS / Tomcat in Windows platforms.
• Extensively used JACL, Jython, UNIX shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XML Config tool and restore Config, backup Config.
• Configured global security for WebSphere Application Server using IBM Directory Server as LDAP user registry
• Fine tuning of high transaction Enterprise Application performance and configuring connectivity to the databases using data source connection pooling.
• Migrated and updated application code from JDK 1.4 to 1.5 using WSAD, RAD and redeployed in a clustered environment.
• Worked closely with IBM on problem determination, and resolution - PMRs
• Experience handling Workload Management WLM of Web Sphere Application Server using cloning and clustering, including cloning for failover
• Performance tuning and troubleshooting using Tivoli Performance Viewer - TPV, J2EE monitoring tool, Thread and Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer
• Experience in integrating enterprise-wide J2EE applications using Application Assembly Tool AAT
• Created JDBC Providers, Data sources, and JAAS authentication aliases in order to provide connectivity to Oracle, DB2 mainframe and UDB .
• Experience in creating SSL Certificate using ikey .
• Experienced with Client Server Architecture using backend DB2/UDB, Oracle and SQL Server.
• Well versed in creating resources, modifying properties, view runtime attributes, commit modifications and securing administrative server using Authentication, Authorization, Certificates, Credentials, Permissions, WebSphere Resources Servlets, JSP files, HTML files .
• Involved in all phases of software life cycle with emphasis in maintenance and support of Application Servers, by setting up the environment for development, testing and production stages.
• Good Knowledge on Oracle Weblogic and Fusion Middleware Administration

Technical Skills:

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Role: WebSphere / Portal Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured, WebSphere Application Server 8.0/7.0/6.0 and WebSphere Portal 7.0/6.0 on Windows Platforms, and used Update Installer/Installation Manager to update with fix packs.
• Applied fix packs, refresh packs and patches for different versions of WAS and Web servers in all the environments.
• Used Enhanced Web Content Manager Templating interface for point-and-click creation of rich, engaging and social web experiences in WebSphere Portal 7.0.
• Installed Portal Clusters using horizontal vertical clustering and deployed Portal Applications, Created Virtual Portals using separate Realms creation.
• Worked with Config Engine tasks, transferred data from Local database to external backend databases like Oracle DB2.
• Deployed Themes Skins, Portlets Portlet Applications, created portal pages and assigned portlets to the portal pages.
• Worked with developers and QA team in various stages of development and testing and taking the application from DEV to Test to QA and PROD environments.
• Installed and configured both IIS 6.0 Web Servers and plug-ins and configured SSL for the Web Server and plug-in communications.
• Created and federated profiles to the Deployment Manager using both Profile Management tool and also automated the process using manage profiles and add node command.
• Recommended and used hybrid clustering horizontal and vertical to make use of efficient resources on a single system and to provide hardware failover, load-balancing and worked with developers.
• Responsible for deploying applications on the cluster and setting up the environment.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources and connection pooling.
• Troubleshoot problems on the various environments involving the integrations of WebSphere, IIS Web Server, Web Servers, Site Minder and ldap.
• Configured admin console security on WebSphere by creating users with various roles to access the WebSphere admin console - users and groups in ldap and added them as WebSphere Console Groups.
• Involved in opening and working on PMR's with IBM to solve various issues related to the environment.
• Provided preventive solutions for IBM Websphere Message Broker interfaces like automating configuration management things using Ant script, provided performance monitoring solutions.
• Enabled traces as various traces and taking thread dumps. For ticketing services for the Service, Change and incident ticket we use the SERVICE NOW.
• Used WebSphere plug-in for load balancing across the cluster members and manually updated it for remote Web servers in the DMZ.
• Participated in team meetings and management meetings to resolve issues related to the various environments.
• Was responsible for documenting the various procedures involved in the day to day maintenance of the various environments.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 8.0/7.1/6.1, WebSphere Portal Server 7.0/6.1,IIS Web server 6.0, Message Broker/MQ 6.0, Jdk 1.4, Windows 2008/2003 server,7.1, Oracle 11g/10g.

Confidential

Role: WebSphere/ Portal Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained IBM WebSphere Application Server ND 7.x/6.x/ 5.x, IBM HTTP Server 6.1/6.0On IBM AIX 5.3, Solaris and Windows platform.
• Applied fix packs, refresh packs and patches for different versions of WAS and Web servers in all the environments.
• Installed and configured Apache Server for hosting web pages.
• Automated configuration, deployment using JACL and Jython scripts using AdminConfig, AdminApp, AdminControl and AdminTask tasks.
• Installed, configured and administered IBM's Web Content Management WCM component in WebSphere portal 6.1/7.0 on UNIX, Windows 2003 environments.
• Installed Portal Clusters using horizontal vertical clustering and deployed Portal Applications, Created Virtual Portals using separate Realms creation.
• Performed Tuning by implementing Workload Management WLM and setting up various parameters in Web server.
• Deployed WPS port lets pages and portal applications.
• Administered WebSpherePortal applications, which includes configuration, clustering, administration, performance tuning, deploying port lets/ pages, for portal applications.
• Involved in server log and domain log monitoring and application deployment of WebSphere Application server.
• Implemented the Clustering Topology that meets High Availability and Failover requirement for performance and functionality.
• Integrated and deployed Enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere ND 7.1/6.1/6.0 that involves EAR, JAR, WAR files using Application Assembly Tool.
• Extensively worked with creating projects in SharePoint and implemented source code management using SharePoint.
• Generated and created SSL keys and certificates and configured Apache tomcat server to use the SSL communications.
• Created CSR request to VeriSign and imported the valid certificates required for SSL authentication.
• Managed Security and Performance optimizations for IBM WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server and Apache Web Server.
• Successfully presented a road map and delivered IBM Websphere application server migration project from 6.1 version to 8.0 version for all Java applications.
• Troubleshooting on issues such as out of memory, memory leaks, hung sessions and session replication, federation of nodes and synchronization of nodes with NDM.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling.
• Enabled Global Security feature by configuring LDAP as user registry and LTPA with Single Sign On for authentication and authorization privileges.
• Prepared technical documents related to operations based on enterprise architecture.
• Worked with the IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler.
• Worked on defining and configuring Application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Resources, JDBC Drivers, Web Applications, Servlets, and Servlet Engines-as well as deployment of EJB's across multiple instances of WebSphere.
• Extensive hands on using UNIX shell scripts, Jython and JACL automated scripts for administration.
• Involved in connecting the Oracle 11g/10g, SQL server 2005 databases with various environment servers.
• Involved in opening and working on PMR's with IBM to solve various issues related to the environment.
• Enabled traces as various traces and taking thread dumps.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server ND 7.1/6.1/ 5.1, WebSphere Portal Server 7.1/6.1, IBM HTTP Server 6.x/13.x,Apache Web Server, IBM AIX 5.3, Solaris,Jdk 1.5, IBM Data power, Windows 2003 server,DB2,Tivoli Performance Viewer, Oracle 11g/10g, SQL server 2005, Unix.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator /Support

Responsibilities:

• Designed the topology of WebSphere Application Servers for two data centers in Production, test and development environments.
• Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server ND and base versions in both Linux and Windows.
• Applied fix packs without downtime to production servers with the help of Update Installer and Centralized Installation Manager CIM .
• Worked with several garbage collection mechanisms like gencon, optthruput, optavgpause and balanced.
• Compared the performance of Oracle Application server to WebSphere Application server under similar load of events.
• Developed wsadmin and Jython scripts to automate common administration tasks and configure security in WebSphere Application Server versions.
• Configured stateful session bean failover, dynamic caching and memory-to-memory session replication using the Data Replication Service component of the WebSphere Application Server.
• Used IBM Support Assistant ISA Workbench tools to analyze heap dumps, core dumps and debug resource pool and JVM related issues.
• Worked with several WebSphere performance tools like Tivoli Performance viewer, WebSphere performance advisors and WebSphere request metrics.
• Configured security domains to override global security settings.
• Assigned administrative roles to users and groups to define administrative capabilities for the user or group.
• Installed IBM HTTP Server and configured HTTP plug-in settings. Configured Virtual hosts.
• Created jobs on the Job Manager and pushed it to the stand-alone application servers.
• Worked with the Network team to setup hardware load-balancing by coming up with a port mapping strategy.
• Created Linux aliases for scripts to start and stop clusters of application servers, individual application servers, node agents and deployment managers.
• Responsible for configuring SSL between the browser and IBM HTTP Server IHS and between plugin and application servers. Created and managed certificates using IBM Key Management Utility iKeyman .
• Provided 24x7 Support, co-ordinate bridge calls, used Alarm Point to page out resources as needed.
• Involved in migrating J2EE applications from Oracle Application Server to WebSphere Application Server.
• Converted the Oracle web services to Spring web services using Spring-WS and Spring-MVC.
• Involved in the design and development of an Event management solution with an Event-driven architecture for monitoring the health of two data centers.
• Designed and developed a rules engine using Google Web Toolkit GWT to filter events based on rules.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1,IBM HTTP Server, Apache Web Server 2.0.47/2.0.52, Sun Solaris 10 ,IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler, Red Hat Linux 9.0, Windows SharePoint, Web sphere, WEBSEAL, Jboss 5x Content management, Windows 2003/2000 Server, Oracle 10g ,DB2, Tivoli Performance Viewer, PERL.

Confidential

Role: WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for infrastructure solutions for Java/PEGA applications around IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM Http Server and iPlanet Web Server. Responsible for Designing, installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, iPlanet Webserver on Solaris and Linux operating systems.
• Responsible for setting up the DEV, QAT, TRN and Production Environments which includes Installing the WebSphere, Creating Profiles, nodes, federation of nodes, was instances, Application Server, Applying patches, Creating Clusters, Virtual Host Creation, Deploying the applications, Webserver installations and Plug-in configuration. Providing technical administration and support for java and Pega applications on DEV, QAT, TRN and Production Environments.
• Responsible for setting up the Disaster Recovery environment for the client applications.
• Prepared system requirement specifications, functional and design document specifications.
• Responsible for managing patch levels, building out environments, configurations and assisting developers.
• Responsible for assisting other team members on the use of the WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere Transformation Extender and WebSphere MQ Series products as they pertain to the HIPAA solutions being maintained and developed. This entails relating best practices and knowledge obtained from previous experiences.
• Responsible for troubleshooting and providing solutions in RCA to various WebSphere issues like high cpu usage, hung jvms and server crashes. Responsible for setting up and monitoring the Introscope alerts for client applications. Responsible for day-to-day operational support tasks for other teams like Development, Testing, Production Operations, Network, Data base, etc.
• Responsible for installation, configuration of Autosys application for job automation.
• Performed the migration of the WebSphere Message Broker 5.0 message flows to the new WebSphere Message Broker 6.1 environment. This included the testing of all existing message flows.
• Configured the user groups, various client jobs and security for the autosys application.
• Responsible for managing access, users, groups and application resources with policies.
• Created issue tickets with IBM for WebSphere and Involved in conference calls with IBM and resolved the issues. Providing 24/7 on call Support.

Environment: WebSphere6.1.0.35, IBM Http Server6.0, Sun One Web Server 6.1/6.0, WebSphere Message Broker 6.0, 6.1.0.3, Citrix ICA Client, Pega PRPC5.4SP2/4.2SP6, J2EE1.5/1.4/1.3, Java2.0, JSP1.2, EJB2.0, JDBC2.0, XML, AutosysR11, Windows 2000 Advanced Servers, Sun Solaris10/9, wily Introscope 7.1, Oracle11.2.0.2/10.2.0.4/9.0.2.5.

Confidential

Role: WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for infrastructure solutions for J2EE applications around IBM WebSphere Process Server, IBM HTTP Server, WebSphere Application Server on Unix and Windows platforms.
• Responsible for setting up the Dev, QA, STG and Production Environments which includes Installing the WebSphere, Creating Profiles, nodes, federation of nodes, was instances, Application Server, Clusters, Virtual hosts, Data Sources, MQ Connection factories, Plug-in configuration.
• Provided technical administration and support for web technology to Business unit IT groups during design, development, testing and implementation of business application.
• Involved in migrating the all J2EE Applications, which includes setting up new Dev, QA, STG and Production Environments from Web Sphere 5.0.2.13 to Web Sphere 6.0.2.17.
• Responsible for Documentation of operational environments support procedures, Configuration and management of Application clusters and Application load balancing and Application Server tuning and problem isolation. Responsible for monitoring the Site Scope alerts in High Availability severs in all QA and Production Environments. Involved in providing root cause determination for enterprise-wide issues, and Also able to work well under pressure and time constraints and be able to adjust to a constantly changing, fast paced environment.
• Responsible for managing patch levels, building out environments, configurations, assisting developers.
• Responsible for day-to-day operational support tasks for other teams like Development, Sun Opps, Network, Data base, etc. Responsible for identify source and severity of problems include debugging and diagnosing issues and directing them to the proper client support team and transfer resolution knowledge to other technicians who are having assigned ticket.
• Provided 24/7 on call support on a rotational basis during the weekend and at night.

Environment:WebSphere6.0.2.17/5.0.2.13, IBMhttpServer6.0/2.0.47, WebSphere MQ 5.0, J2EE1.3/1.4, Java 2.0, JSP1.2, EJB 2.0, JDBC 2.0, Windows 2003 Server, Solaris 9, SiteScope6.0, DB2UDB, Oracle 9.0.2.5 / 8.1.7.

Confidential

Role: WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Set up, Installation and Administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0 and IBM HTTP Server1.3.26
• Migration from WebSphere Application Server 4.0 to WebSphere Application Server 5.0.
• Creating and managing the JDBC connection pools of the WebSphere Application Servers and Server clusters.
• Configured Work Load Management WLM using clusters clones.
• Configured WebSphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling.
• Deployed Session and Entity EJB's in WebSphere.
• Involved in securing the J2EE applications by implementing Single Sign-On by using LTPA.
• Configuring and maintaining WebSphere applications in command mode using Wsadmin commands and
• Wrote admin scripts using JACL.
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy Enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 5.0 that involves EAR
• Enterprise Archive and WAR Web Archive files.
• Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers SSL for data encryption and client authentication.
• Developed Shell and Perl scripts for launching applications and to run remote Application Servers.
• Implemented standard backup procedures for Operating System and Web applications.
• Responsible for scheduling the installations and upgrading and maintains them in accordance with established policies and procedures.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0/4.0, Oracle 9i, Windows XP, Apache, LDAP, IBM HTTP Server 1.3.26, Sun Solaris 8.