SUMMARY:

• Over 9 years of IT experience in the areas of support, hosting, application integration, development, implementation and user training for various intranet/internet applications.
• Over 9 years of extensive experience in IBM WebSphere and middleware administration.
• Highly experienced in optimization of enterprise applications using IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.0.x/5.x/6.x/7.0/8.0/8.5.
• Responsible for WebSphere Commerce installation 7.0/6.0/5.x , Configuration of Websphere Commerce, deployment and Support
• Installed and Configured WebSphere Extreme Scale and Virtual Enterprise 7.0 for WCS and WAS environments.
• Involved in installation configuration and support of JBoss Application server and Tomcat Server.
• Migrated from a WebSphere ND environment to WebSphere XD Virtual Enterprise version 6.x.
• Deployed applications within ND 6.1/7.0 with XD Data Grid on top of it.
• Experience in automating silent installations, EAR/WAR deployments and common operations.
• Experienced in installation and maintenance of the WebSphere Application Servers on different UNIX platforms and setting up the development, testing and Production environments.
• Experience in analyzing the JVM resources and issues using several tools including, Log Analyzer, Thread Analyzer, Heap Analyzer, Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Responsible for WebSphere Portal installation, Configuration of WebSphere Portal Server, Portal deployment and testing.
• Defined and participated in the Disaster Recovery plans.
• Installed, configured, managed and supported Apache Web Server, IBM HTTP Server, SunOne Webserver, Oracle 9i/10g/11g, Sybase, SQL Server on UNIX and Windows.
• Configured Portal primary and secondary nodes and created horizontal cluster
• Applied interim fixes and fix packs to Portal Server and WCM.
• Experienced in Development and Deployment of J2EE application Archives jar, war, ear on WebSphere Application Servers.
• Expertise in troubleshooting and monitoring tools, including Tivoli Performance Viewer, Wily Introscope 9.0 and DynaTrace.
• Experienced in most of the WebSphere admin tools including wsadmin, backupconfig, JACL Scripts, jyhton,
• Thorough knowledge in J2EE technologies, JNDI, JMS, JDBC, Servlets, JSP and EJB..
• Experience in installation, configuration, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of IBM AIX, Linux RedHat SuSE and expertise in writing shell scripts using different shells like bourne shell, c shell and k shell .
• Experienced in DNS, NIS, NFS, LDAP, sendmail, ftp, remote access, security management, system troubleshooting skills.
• Extensive experience in problem tracing and WebSphere log file managements and implementing the workload Management WLM using cloning and clustering.
• Configured and Secured Web server interface, Session management, WebSphere resources, J2C resources, connection factories and JMS resources.
• Experience in JMS, MQ Series and monitored, maintained and customized existing MQSeries objects such as Queue Managers, Queues local, remote, alias and model , process definitions, channels, and listeners.
• Implemented processes and procedures related to MQSeries security, administration, and triggering.
• Experience in Managing security, organization and remote computing issues.

Technical Skills:

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Sr. WebSphere Administrator

• Installed, Configured, administered and supported WebSphere Application Servers 6.1/7.0/8.0/8.5 on AIX, Linux and Windows and Extensively involved in upgrade project for WAS 8.5.5.
• Created internal repositories for installing Websphere over the network and created various install packages using Packaging utility and Installation Manager.
• Installed configured and supported Jboss on Linux environment for Mobile banking applications.
• Installed Fixpacks, Interim fixes and Cumulative fixes for WebSphere Application Server, BPM and ODM.
• Supported WebSphere Extended Deployment manager XD 6.0.2/6.1 and Websphere Virtual Enterprise 7.0
• Created dynamic clustering using WebSphere Virtual Enterprise 7.0.
• Installed, Configured and administered WebSphere MQ on Solaris, AIX and Windows NT/2000 platforms.
• Setup WebSphere MQ clusters for load balancing the messages and high availability of the queues.
• Sound knowledge in Configuring JMS using WebSphere MQ.
• Created build definition file to generate customized installation package for WebSphere XD.
• Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers SSL for data encryption and client authentication one way SSL and Mutual SSL
• Generated and configured keys in IBM Http Server and Plug-in.
• Involved in Migration of CSS Switch to Netscalar.
• Provided 24x7 on-call support on a rotational basis during the weekend and at night.
• Building up jacl, jython , shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere, and managed the backup/restore of DM configurations.
• Configured JMS, JDBC and Resource Adapters for WebSphere Application Server.
• Configured global security in WAS using LDAP, custom and local repositories
• Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using LDAP.
• Debugging the application problems working by very closely with development teams
• Designed horizontal and vertical scaling of WebSphere through Clustering of multiple JVMs with independent Java Virtual Machine JVM , for each clone.
• Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere.
• Building up jacl, jython, shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere, and managed the backup/restore of DM configurations.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator/Commerce Admin

• Installed, Configured, administered and supported WebSphere Application Servers 6.1.x/7.0 on AIX.
• Extensively involved in Installation, Configuration and Administration of IBM WebSphere Commerce Server 5.6 and 7.0.
• Installed Fixpacks, Interim fixes and Cumulative fixes for WebSphere Application Server and Commerce Server Environments.
• Expertise in migrating WAS 5.0/5.1/6.0 to 6.1/7.0 and involved in the migration of WCS 5.6 to WCS 7 environment.
• Involved in Configuration and Support of Extreme Scale 7.1 for caching in WCS environment.
• Skilled in configuration and support of Endeca Servers and their maintenance.
• Provided day to day Support and configured Akamai servers for edge caching. Also involved in clearing the cached content, blocking the suspect IPs and working with akamai for resolving edge caching issues
• Very good knowledge in debugging and monitoring tools like DynaTrace 3.5.2, ITCAM and Tivoli Performace viewer and session monitoring tool TrueSight.
• Good knowledge of synthetic monitoring tools like Splunk, BAC, monitis and Gomez.
• Installed, Configured and supported IBM HTTPServer for WAS and WCS environments. Good knowledge in writing the rewrite rules and shortcuts on WebServer.
• Extensively worked on WebSphere Plugin for modifying the weights and updating the servers that need to be active. Involved in tuning the plugin for optimal performance.
• Added several shell, jacl and jython scripts for monitoring and automation purposes.
• Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers SSL for data encryption and client authentication
• Configured JMS, JDBC and Resource Adapters for WebSphere Application Server and WCS environment.
• Debugged issues with Connection pooling of DB and JMS.
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.
• Working with IBM for resolving issues through the PMRs.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

• Installed, Configured, administered and supported WebSphere Application Servers 5.x/6.0.x/6.1.x/7.0 on AIX, Solaris and Windows.
• Extensively involved in Installation, Configuration and Administration of IBM WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0/6.1 in a clustered Environment.
• Installed Fixpacks, Interim fixes and Cumulative fixes for WebSphere Application Server and Portal Server.
• Responsible for supporting the existing portal Applications like Member portal and Group Portal, Managing the themes and skins along with Deploying the portlets.
• Provided access control for portal resources to users and groups.
• Deployed Themes and Skins on Portal Server using GUI and XML access scripts.
• Extensive deployment of portlets and WAR files on WebSphere Portal Server.
• Configured WebSphere Portal Server using LDAP Security and transferred default cloudscape/derby database to DB2 in portal.
• Integrated SiteMinder with application server and portal solutions from IBM and Microsoft
• Configured subscriber and syndicators using Portal admin console
• Syndicated WCM content between TEST and PROD Portal environments..
• Creating Dynamic Clusters in WebSphere Extended Deployment XD for the execution environment and long-running applications.
• Installed and Configured WebSphere Extended Deployment manager XD 6.0.2/6.1.
• Created dynamic clustering using WebSphere XD.
• Installed, Configured and administered WebSphere MQ on Solaris, AIX and Windows NT/2000 platforms.
• Configure, manage and as well as automate WebSphere MQ channels.
• Setup WebSphere MQ clusters for load balancing the messages and high availability of the queues.
• Setup OAM authority for the users/groups on MQ queue managers
• Defining and maintaining Queue Managers and MQ Objects on various platforms Windows, AIX.
• Involved in configuring, managing and as well as automation WebSphere MQ channels and adding and modifying WebSphere MQ resource definitions.
• Developed WMQI message flow using compute, filter, database, route and label nodes to route the messages to appropriate back end legacy applications.
• Coded in ESQL for MQSI message flow nodes.
• Sound knowledge in Configuring JMS using WebSphere MQ.
• Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers SSL for data encryption and client authentication one way SSL and Mutual SSL
• Generated and configured keys in IBM Http Server and Plug-in.
• Involved in Migration of CSS Switch to Netscalar.
• Deployed the EAR files and scripting automated deployment of the applications.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed configured, administered and supported WebSphere Application Servers 4.x/5.x/6.0.x/6.1.x.
• Involved in migration of WebSphere Application Server from V4.x, V5.x to V6.x.
• Deployed the EAR files and scripting automated deployment of the applications.
• Involved in installation, configuration of WebSphere Virtual Enterprise 6.1
• Created and managed modular, WebSphere Business Services Fabric dynamically assembled, extensible business processes.
• Creating Dynamic Clusters in WebSphere Extended Deployment XD for the execution environment and long-running applications in the dotcom project.
• Installed and Configured WebSphere Extended Deployment manager XD 6.0.2.
• Created dynamic clustering using WebSphere XD.
• Created build definition file to generate customized installation package for WebSphere XD.
• Involved in trouble shooting and performance tuning using Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer.
• Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere.
• Building up jacl, jython, shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere, and managed the backup/restore of DM configurations.
• Developed AMT Application Management Tool scripts to make the deployment easy for various environments.
• Providing Mentoring and Guidance to team members on WebSphere XD and Other new releases.
• Creating the Problem Management Record PMR with the IBM.
• Created SSL certificates and CA certificates using IKEYMAN.
• Configured Single Signon SSO for authentication and authorization.
• Configured the web-server interfaces plug-in file , session management, virtual hosts, Data sources, HTTP transports for Application Server Instances and Applications
• Installed and configured iPlanet Web server and created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
• Implemented a Migration from Web Sphere Application Serve Base to Network Deployment as well as a 5.0 to 6.1 upgrade.
• Provided recommendations on environment standards, product leveling, performance tuning, new project consulting, recommend broadened usage of WebSphere functionality.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured, Administered and Supported WebSphere Application Servers4.x/ 5.0.x/6.0 on AIX environment.
• Installed, Configured and Supported WCS 5.6 for Hallmark.
• Administered, configured, tuned, and troubleshot WebSphere in a clustered environment on LINUX.
• Involved in migration of WebSphere Application Server from V3.5, V4.0 to V5.0 and V5.0 to V6.x
• Configured WebSphere Workload Management WLM using horizontal and vertical scaling of WebSphere through a mechanism called as Clustering of multiple JVMs with independent Java Virtual Machine JVM , for each clone
• Developed many Jacl scripts and Shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and managed the backup/restore of DM configurations
• Configured the web-server interfaces plug-in file , session management, virtual hosts, Data sources, HTTP transports for Application Server Instances and Applications.
• Configured IHS Web server, Site minder to work with WAS.
• Configured global security in WAS using LDAP, custom and local repositories
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, administered, troubleshooted and supported WebSphere Application Servers 4.x.
• Maintenance of the WebSphere Application Servers on different UNIX platforms and setting up the development and testing and staging environment for the on going application development.
• Debugging of the application problems while developing the application.
• Developed many Jacl scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and managed the backup/restore of DM configurations.
• Installed and configured IBM Http Server and iPlanet web server.
• Troubleshooted application WAS product issues using Thread Analyzer, Heap Analyzer, Eclipse Java Debugger and TPV.
• Implemented security using LTPA, TAI with Netscape LDAP Server.
• Used Tivoli Performance Viewer and Log Analyzer for performance and troubleshooting.
• Involved in configuring the WebSphere load balancing utilizing WebSphere Workload Management WLM including horizontal scaling and vertical scaling.