PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, implementing, supporting various internet/intranet applications, and over 6 years of strong experience in IBM WebSphere administration.
• Expertise in installation, configuration and maintenance of IBM WebSphere 5.0/5.1/6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0/8.5 application server, IBM HTTP V2.0/6.0/6.1/7.0, Apache V2.0.47, Sun One Web Servers, IPlanet and IIS.
• Successfully implemented WLM using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Cloning for fail over and backup/recovery processes.
• Experience in creating, configuring and administrating profiles, clusters, nodes, node agents and node groups for WebSphere Application Server.
• Installed and Administered IBM WebSphere Portal Server 5.1 and 6.0/7.0.
• Experience in integrating WebSphere Application Server and Deployment manager with IBM Http server, IIS, IBM Directory Server, Sun ONE Web Server, Oracle, Sybase, DB2 and SQL servers.
• Experience in debugging applications in Base and ND of WebSphere Application Server providing load balancing and clustering solutions.
• Experience in configuring work load management and performance tuning using Tivoli performance viewer for WebSphere Application Server.
• Hands on experience in deploying, implementing, testing and support of full life cycle implementations of various J2EE/Internet/Intranet and distributed applications
• Experienced in configuring IBM Tivoli Access Manager Web SEAL on AIX, UNIX and Linux.
• Experienced in applying Refresh packs, Fix packs, Cumulative Fix packs for all versions of WebSphere application server.
• Experienced in migrating the applications from WebSphere V5.x to V6.x and from WebSphere V6.x to V7.0.
• Working knowledge of industry standard development practices and concepts. J2EE, EJB, JDBC JMS, Java, JavaScript, Servlets/JSP, XML, XSLT, SOA, Web Services .
• Excellent working skills in optimization and analyzing of Enterprise Applications using tools like Wily Introscope, ITCAM, Tivoli Performance Monitor/WAS Resource analyzer, Garbage Collector Tool and Memory Dump Diagnostic Tool.
• Experience in configuring and installation of Websphere process server6.x
• Good knowledge in Bladelogic automation tools
• Good experience in BMC Automation tool.
• Also installed IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite 4.1 on an NT Server and configured it for test purposes. Generated a CRM Information site and an e-Commerce Site for product exploration purposes.
• Experienced in working with change management tools like Remedy, Peregrine and Infrastructure Work request, HP Service Desk Tool.
• Expertise in developing JACL, Jython, Python and UNIX Cron shell scripts for auto deployment process and for performance tuning and also for Auto start of WebSphere/Web server process.
• Experience in writing ANT scripts for compile and deployment.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and wsadmin scripts.
• Experience in Implementing and configuring SSL, requesting digital certificates, creating self-signed certificates and imported/exported public/private keys on Web Servers.
• Experience in Maintaining BEA WebLogic Server on different UNIX platforms and setting up the Development, Testing, Staging and Production environments.
• Expertise in Installation, Configuration, Trouble-Shooting and Maintenance of BEA WebLogic Server 7.0/8.1/9.x/10.x, iplanet Web Server, Apache Web Server on different UNIX flavors and environments.
• Involved in Installation and Configuration of Netegrity Site Minder and installing the Web Agent and configuring the Web Agent on Web Server instances.
• Knowledge of key Internet protocols to include TCP/IP, HTTP/S, SSH, FTP, SFTP, DNS, NTP, NFS, etc.
• Experience in WLST, Perl, and Shell scripting.
• 24x7 on-call production support and troubleshooting problems related to BEA WebLogic Server, iPlanet, Apache Web Servers.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, self-starter, good team player and highly self-motivated with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems : IBM AIX 4.3/5.3/6.0, Sun Solaris 9/10, Linux Red Hat 7.0 5.3/6.0, Linux,

Windows NT/2000/2003 server, Windows XP, Windows 7

Database : Oracle 8i/9i,11g, DB2/UDB 7.2/8.0/9.0, SQL Server 7.0/2000, Sybase

Application Servers / Web Servers : WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0, Apache Web Server 1.3,

IBM HTTP Server 1.3.19/28,2.0.42.x,2.0.47.x,6.x,7.0, WebSphere Portal server,6.0/6.1,7.07.1,8.0,8.1 WebLogic Server 12c WebSphere Commerce Server 7.0

JBOSS EAP 6.0, JBOSS Community Edition 5.1, 7.1.1, Oracle HTTP Server 11g

Programming Languages : C, C , Java1.4, 5, 6,7 Servlets, EJB, JSP, JDBC, JMS, JNDI, DHTML, XML,

UNIX Shell Scripts

Development Tools : Application Assembly Tool AAT , Eclipse IDE

Network Protocol / Services : TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP, SOAP, SSL, SMTP, ICMP, POP3,

NFS, DNS, DHCP

Version Control : SVN, CVS

LDAP : SunOne Directory Server, IBM Tivoli LDAP Server, Novell eDirectory

Server

Access Control : Tivoli Access Manager WebSeal, Policy Server, Authorization Server

Version 6.1

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities

• Installed Configured and maintained IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0//7.0/8.5 ND on

AIX /Linux/Windows2003.

• Installed and configured Tomcat 7.0.39 and Apache 2.2.23 on Redhat Linux and Aix servers
• Involved in continuous deployment of War and ear files in tomcat and WebSphere Application Servers.
• Worked extensively on deployment of new J2EE applications, creating clusters, managed servers, JMS queues, bridges JDBC connections pools, managing JNDI, managing security, configuring and monitoring JMS in websphere application server 8/8.5
• Worked on Apache worker and preforn configurations and also configured database resources and connection pools.
• Created Automation Unix Shell scripts for tomcat and WebSphere installation purposes over cluster environment.
• Involved in automating the system by writing UNIX Shell scripts at the OS and to minimize repetitive manual tasks for better system monitoring and problem resolution and troubleshooting.
• Analyze and make tuning recommendations for JVM, JMS, Threading, and load balancing algorithms.
• Responsible for recording/documenting information concerning failures outages in Production and the measures taken to resolve them.
• Responsible for installation and maintenance of Liferay portal 6.1.2 on multiple UNIX servers.
• Worked on Production support for 24X7 on pager rotation procedure.
• Worked with different ops groups to implement the comprehensive application monitoring strategy and Patch management.
• Worked on ITCAM and Site minder monitoring tool setup for all applications in production environment.
• Worked Extensively with offshore team for troubleshot and productions issues.

Environment: IBM Websphere Application Server 6.0./7.1/8.5, SP4, JDK 1.4/2.4, J2EE, JSPs, JMS, Perl 5.0, EJBs3.0., Red Hat Linux 4.0 , Shell Scripting bash , Apache Tomcat 6.0.33/7.0.39, Apache Webserver 2.2.23,Liferay Portal.IIS Webserver, JBoss 4.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities

• Installation, Configuration and maintenance of WAS 5.1/6.0, IBM IHS 2.0 and IPlanet6.X on Unix and Linux environments.
• Installed WebSphere 6.0, IHS 6.0 and upgraded WebSphere 6.0 to refresh pack 2 6.0.2 and fix packs 7 and 9 6.0.2.7 and 6.0.2.9 .
• Migrated all the applications on WebSphere 5.x to 6.x.
• Installed IPlanet 6.0 and configured Such that Servlets can be served by web server.
• Installed IBM WebSphere MQClient 5.3 on Solaris 5.8 to allow for the usage of Messaging Gateway within Oracle.
• Implemented the Clustering Topology that meets clients' requirement for performance and functionality.
• Deployed Enterprise applications in AT, Staging and Production environment.
• Administration of Working Applications- starting and stopping the application servers Regenerating/updating plug-in for IBMHTTP Server and iPlanet Web server.
• Created Self-Signed certificate for IHS 2.0.47 using ikeyman tool Utility.
• Configured IBM HTTP Server for SSL
• Worked closely with Code Deployment Team to resolve application deployment issues
• Worked with SA Team to resolve Operating System issues during installation
• Analyzed log files to detect and troubleshoot server and application problems. Used the Trace feature to resolve issues.
• Configure Tivoli ITCAM monitoring for ESB Infrastructure and setting up performance reports, thresholds for alerts, and monitoring.
• Design XML schemas, WSDL and canonical models for integration, development of XSL and non XML transformations, routing, service enablement and governance using Datapower and WSRR.
• Create ESB technology deployment strategy,scripts and operations management strategy and plan.Optimized the performance of Enterprise Applications using Tivoli Performance Viewer
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling

Environment: WAS 5.1/6.0,AIX5.1,Sun Solaris 5.8, RedHat Linux AS 3.0, HIS 1.3.X/2.0.47,IPlanet 6.0/6.1,IBM MQ Series, J2EE 1.3, Oracle9i

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator.

Responsibilities

• Involved in complete infrastructure setup and configuration, which included WebSphere ND 6.1, 7.0, WebSphere MQ 6.1.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 and7.0, WebSphere Portal 6.1.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server on multiple platforms for both horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of JBOSS
• Implemented Cloning, Clustering, Performance tuning and trouble shooting of IBM WebSphere MQ Server 6.0
• Designed and created the EAI automated deployment process when using the WebSphere Business Integrator Message Broker Installation, configuration performance tuning and security analysis of the WMQ, Websphere message broker Websphere business integration adapters.
• Managing Releases of product from Development to QA and Production.
• Deploying and Monitoring J2EE applications onto WebSphere managed servers such as QA and Production.
• Used Jython which provides an interactive interpreter that can be used to interact with Java packages or with running Java applications
• Enforcing Application wide Authentication and Authorization Services.
• Setting up Environment for Application packaging and deploying.
• Involved in Configuration of WebSphere Application Server resources like JDBC Data Sources, JDBC Providers and Connection Pooling to connect to the Oracle.
• Analyzing the scalability of applications with the help of tools like IBM Tivoli Site Analyzer.
• Adding the LDAP certificates through ikeyman.
• Diagnosed the problems caused in the applications through the log files and rectified the problems.
• Application support in testing, identifying issues and tracking bugs and solving the problems.
• Analyzing Error and Event log files and diagnosing Application Server problems.
• Performance monitoring and tuning of all the WAS 5.1 servers. Performed WebSphere process tuning, JVM optimization, Java memory tuning.
• Writing Deployment Scripts.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security using LTPA and LDAP for admin console and application components on AIX.
• Worked on CMS tools like IBM Web Content Management and TeamSite Open deploy
• Updating with the Latest Fix-packs.
• Involved in Installation and Configuration of IBM WebSphere Portal Server 5.1.
• Involved in Installation and Configuration of Netigrity Site Minder.
• Analyzed log files to solve problems using debugging tools like Log Analyzer, Tivoli Performance Viewer Tool and Collector Tool.
• Communicating with IBM for resolving the critical problems.

Environment

WebSphere Application Server 6.1, 7.0, WebSphere MQ Series, AIX 5.1, 5.2, JBOSS 4.x, Oracle 9i, Internet Information Services IIS 5.0, XML, WebSphere Portal Server 5.1, MQSeries5.3, LDAP, Site Minder 6.0. Visio, Lotus Notes 6.5

Confidential

Web Administrator

Responsibilities

• Installed WAS 6.1 base/ ND and created cell, dmgr and appserver profiles on AIX 5.2 and Red Hat Linux and z-Linux platforms.
• Installed and configured WebSphere 6.1 7.0and applied the fix packs 6.0.0.1 and 6.0.1.1 jdk refresh 1.4.2.1 and DB2 V8.1 on several Lab Machines.
• Created multiple configuration instances of WAS base and federated them to multiple configuration instances of WAS-ND, Base and ND on different platforms with security enabled and verified installation, Application Server instance creation, node federation, enterprise application installation and execution work correctly.
• Installed and configured WebSphere Portal
• Transferred cloudscape database to MS SQL Server database.
• Configured Security using MS ADAM.
• Hands on experience in administering and supporting Websphere Message Queue 6 .0 .2. 2
• Tested the coexistence of two installations of the BASE WebSphere Application Server on a single node with Trade3 application on both installs and verified that there are no conflicts and able to run applications in an isolated manner.
• Worked on WebSphere components such as Work Load Management WLM , Servlet Engine, Session Manager, Admin Client and Http-Web Admin tool thin client .
• Developed many WSadmin scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration.
• Used JACL scripting extensively for managing production environments
• Created, tested deployed J2EE applications on Websphere Application Server using WSAD tools.
• Administration of Working Application, Application performance monitoring - starting and stopping the application server, Installed plug-in for IBM HTTP Web server, co-ordinate with Database Admin Team to create databases for storing the Websphere application repository.
• Involved in deploying the EAR files and scripting automated deployment of the applications.
• Used IBM Edge Server and Network Dispatchers for load balancing.
• Configured Workload Management WLM
• Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere.
• Configured Wily Introscope to all lower environments and also to the production environment.
• Occasionally used Resource Analyzer/ Tivoli Performance Viewer to monitor WebSphere Applications and tuned the environment accordingly like changing the JVM Heap, Connection Pool sizes.
• Perform advanced Site Minder / LDAP and Web Infrastructure troubleshooting and interfaces directly with various IT teams to resolve technical issues in production environment
• Creating the users and groups in LDAP Servers and mapping them to the enterprise applications running on WebSphere Application Server.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, and Java Mail sessions.
• Implemented creation of Server groups and clusters in Websphere Application server
• Configured horizontal scalability of WebSphere through a mechanism called as Cloning of multiple JVMs with independent Java Virtual Machines-JVMs, for each clone.
• Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Resource analyzer and log analyzer.

Environment

IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0/7.0, IWWCM 6.0, DB2 7.x/8.x, IBM HTTP Server 1.3.x/2.0.x.x, AIX 5.2/5.3, z-Linux, Solaris 2.8, Siteminder6.x, Windows 2000, IBM Directory Server 5.1, HTML, Java Script, XML, JSP, Servlets, ANT.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities

• Installed Configured and Administered WebSphere Application Server ND 6.x on UNIX, Linux and Windows environment.
• Configured Deployment Manager and Application server profiles on single LPAR using profiles creation wizard.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 6.0.2.19 web server remotely as well as local.
• Responsible for updating refresh packs, fix packs and interim fix packs to WebSphere Application server and IBMIHS web server 6.0.
• Installed and Configured WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0/6.1 on Solaris, AIX, Linux and Windows with Oracle and DB2 as its backend databases.
• Configured Database and Security for WebSphere Portal in a clustered environment.
• Transferred cloudscape to DB2 Database and security for WebSphere Portal Server.
• Administrating IBM Lotus Web Content management 2.5/5.1/6.0 versions.
• Deployed portlets, themes and Skins in WebSphere Portal Server.
• Achieved Work Load Management by creating Clusters in WAS 6.0
• Installed, configured and Administered IBM WebSphere Process server 6.0/6.1.
• Experience in to create the databases required by WebSphere process serer
• Experience creating the deployment profile and custom profiles in WebSphere process Server.
• Configured IBM Tivoli Access Manager Web SEAL on AIX, UNIX and Linux.
• Configured the WebSphere load balancing utilizing WebSphere workload Management including horizontal and vertical topology.
• Installed and configuration of WebSphere Network Deployment application server 6.0 for test environment.
• Involved in monitoring, shutdown and boot up net work support and trouble shooting.
• Experience in Installing Configuring and Administering JBoss Application Server 5.x/4.3.x.
• Configured mod jk worker configuration and installed JBoss production profile.
• Handled Staging and production environments as part of the application deployment
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and wsadmin scripts.
• Enabled security for the Admin Console and application components
• Used Resource Analyzer/ Tivoli Performance Viewer to monitor WebSphere Applications and tuned the environment accordingly like changing the JVM Heap, Connection Pool sizes.
• Used command line tools WSCP and XML Config occasionally as an alternative to the Admin Console.
• Managed the security and performance optimization for EJB containers and web applications in IBM WebSphere, IBMIHS web server.
• Involved in trouble shooting and performance tuning using Resource Analyzer, Thread Analyzers and log Analyzer.
• Developed logical security application architecture integrating WebSphere Application Server, Sun ONE Web Server, iPlanet LDAP Directory Server, and Netegrity Site minder and implemented Single Sign-On security.
• Worked closely with developers to define and configured application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web resources, Servlets, JDBC drivers and Servlet Engines-as well as deployment of EJBs across multiple instances of WebSphere
• Utilized skills in shell, and wsadmin/JACL scripting to automate deploying, updating applications, migrating data and automating batch jobs.
• Wrote scripts for accessing remote Admin Servers, cleaning up logs during back-ups.
• Troubleshot Admin Server start-up issues, Java code defects after deployment, and class path issues by checking the JVM logs, plug-in logs and the Web server logs.
• Elevate performance and monitor tools, includes IBM Tivoli Performance and Monitoring tool, BMC tools.
• Performed routine management of WebSphere Environment like monitoring Disk Space and CPU Utilization.
• Assembled and Deployed the application in staging, in productions, following change management practices and 24/7 support, worked in shifts.

Environment

IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0.2.19, IBM HTTP Server 6.0.2.19, WebSphere Portal Server 6.1, JBoss Application Server 5.x/4.3.x, AIX 5.3, Windows 2000, IBM WebSphere Studio

Confidential

Jr. Websphere Administrator

Responsibilities

• Responsible for installation, configuration and administration of different versions of IBM Websphere Application server on Sun Solaris and windows 2000 servers.
• Installed and configured IBM Http Server 1.2.x with remote plugin
• Installed and upgraded the fix pack and migrated to latest version of IBM Websphere application server.
• Installed J2EE applications using IBM Websphere application server and wsadmin jython and jacl scripts.
• Working with developers to configure virtual hosts, plug-ins, JDBC drivers, data sources, JVM's and application deployments across multiple instances of WebSphere.
• Involved in migration of applications from WebSphere 5.x to 6.x
• Integrated J2EE Web Application Infrastructures IIS, iPlanet Web Server, and BEA Web Logic with Netegrity Site Minder.
• Involved in supporting load testing team during various testing phases for performance tuning the environment and monitoring through resource analyzer.
• Handling 24/7 on call rotation for production issues, perform root cause analysis.
• Working with IBM in opening a PMR for inconclusive root causes, and coordinating the proposed changes with the respective teams.
• Writing scripts to automate application deployments in wscp and configuring crontab entries.
• Performed Backup Recovery for WebSphere.
• Configured Session Persistence using different RDBMS Databases.

Environment

IBM Websphere Application server ,IBM HTTP Server 1.2.x, Site Minder QMR5/6/7, DB2 UDB 5.1, Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, SUN Solaris, Windows 2000 and Work Flow Management Tools.