Professional Summary:

• Over 8 years of IT experience in Installing, Configuring, Administering, Tuning and troubleshooting of IBM WebSphere Application server 6.x/7.x/8.x/8.5.x , WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.x/7.1 , IBM WebSphere Commerce Server 6.x/7.x and IBM WebSphere Portal Server 6.x/7.0 in clustered and non-clustered environments on AIX, Red hat Linux and WINDOWS 2003/2008 platforms.
• Expertise in installation, administration and support of BEA Web Logic 8.x/9.x/10.x/11g , JBOSS 4.x/5.x and Apache-Tomcat 5.x/ 6.x on AIX and Red Hat Linux.
• Strong technical expertise in WebSphere Application server implementation, support, workload management and performance tuning.
• Expertise in Installing, Configuring and Administrating web servers like IBM HTTP server, Apache server, IIS, iPlanet.
• Expertise in configuration of the plug-ins on the Webserver when it is installed locally and remotely on the DMZ.
• Expertise in Configuration of global security in WAS using LDAP registry for storing the User Credentials.
• Expertise in configuring cells, nodes, clustering, application servers and virtual hosts.
• Expertise in installation, configuration, troubleshooting, applying patches, monitoring and maintenance of IBM WebSphere MQ V6.0/V7.1 on AIX, Linux and Windows.
• Experienced with performance monitoring using tools like Tivoli Performance Viewer and Wily Introscope.
• Involved in Tuning Web Logic Application Server for better performance in the process by varying queue parameters, Message Driven Beans MDBs , and auxiliary resources like JDBC connections, thread pools.
• Wrote Jython scripts to automate WebSphere Application server configuration tasks.
• Worked on certificate management by installing, renewing and validating certificates on IBM HTTP Server and to configure security socket layer SSL .
• Provided 24x7 on-call duties with the WebSphere team including rotating on-call.
• Excellent Communication and interpersonal skills and willing to work independently or part of the team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Work Experience:

Confidential

Role: Sr. WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, administered and troubleshooted WAS ND 6.x/7.x/8.x, IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0/7.1, WebSphere Commerce Suite 6.x/7.x on AIX and Linux. This included the clustering setup.
• Installed, configured and administered BEA Web Logic 10.x/11g on AIX, Linux environments.
• Created IBM WebSphere Application Server profiles, integrated IHS to WAS as unmanaged/managed node using IBM plug-in.
• Configured global security in WAS using LDAP registry for storing the User Credentials.
• Applied fixpacks and featurepacks on Websphere application server and Websphere Commerce server and enabled various featurepack features.
• Applied industry standard release and configuration management techniques for enterprise applications, with focus on build automation using Jython and WSADMIN scripting.
• Configured MQ series queue managers, queue manager objects, queues, topics and channels.
• Performed the administrative tasks by using MQSC commands.
• Enabled triggering on MQ queues and channels.
• Created WebSphere Commerce instance to work with DB2 and post instance Creation tasks like Federated Commerce Server, Created clusters and Configured remote Webserver.
• Installed and maintained multiple IBM HTTP server instances and managed WAS Plug-in configurations.
• Deployed application EARs/WARs on Websphere Application Server 6.x/7.x/8.x ND.
• Deployment in Dev and QA environments on a daily basis and troubleshoot various Configuration and application issues.
• Configured Web Logic Application Server on multiple platforms for both horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Configured multiple Web Logic Domains and Clusters.
• Configured Web Logic Server with iPlanet Web Server via. Web Logic proxy plug-in.
• Upgraded Web Logic Servers with necessary patches and service packs.
• Deployed the web applications and maintained on multiple Web Logic Servers.
• Configured Web Logic resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling and Java Mail sessions.
• Actively monitored server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottlenecks.
• Managed and built the application servers and web servers using VMware vSphere Client.
• Monitored performance using Wily Introscope and created weekly reports.
• Performed routine management of WebSphere Environment like monitoring Disk Space, CPU Utilization.
• Worked independently on operational issues with WebSphere MQ using Error logs, MQRC Codes and FDCs.
• Extensively worked on Remedy and Total View for creating/implementing/closing change tickets and incident tickets.
• Involved in team meetings on behalf of Middleware Team co-ordinate with different teams for task accomplishment and weekly deadlines.
• Gathered requirements from the vendor, developed technical documents and implemented the changes on prod and non-prod environments.
• Worked on problem tickets PMRs with IBM to find effective solutions to various problems and performance issues.
• Provide root cause analysis for production problems and suggest best practices.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7.x/8.x, Websphere MQ 6.x/7.x, WebSphere Commerce Server 6.0/7.x, BEA WebLogic 10.x, LDAP, IBM HTTP Server 6.x/7.x/8.x, IBM Db2/UDB, Linux and Unix AIX .

Confidential

Role: Sr. WebSphere Administrator.

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, administered, troubleshooted and tuned WAS ND 6.x/7.x, IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0/7.1, IBM Websphere Portal 6.x on AIX and Redhat Linux platforms.
• Installed and configured the fix packs.
• Transferred portal server databases from cloudscape to Oracle.
• Implemented Workload Management WLM using vertical clustering and Horizontal Clustering technique for enhanced performance and utilization of resources.
• Experience in XMLAccess command for the portal server like deploying portlets or pages, full XML export, modifying configuration on resources. Experience in installing themes and skins.
• Deployed applications in WAS using admin Console and also through scripts.
• Installed, Configured and Troubleshooting CA Wily Introscope 7.x/8.x.
• Deployed application EARs on Websphere Application Server 5.x/6.x Network Deployment in Dev, Test Stage environments on a daily basis and troubleshoot various configuration and application issues.
• Configured MQ series queue managers, queue manager objects, queues, topics and channels.
• Performed the administrative tasks by using MQSC commands.
• Enabled triggering on MQ queues and channels.
• Involved in monitoring the all Applications at Development, Testing and Production environments.
• Gathered requirements from the vendor, developed technical documents and implemented the changes on prod and non-prod environments.
• Installed and maintained IBM HTTP Server, IIS and Apache web servers.
• Involved in Collection of JVM statistics, garbage collection data for monitoring the heap and physical memory.
• Automated the build and deploy activity by creating shell scripts.
• Troubleshooted various problems in different stages of development using log files.
• Configured SSL for Web Servers.
• Performed WebSphere Configuration backup and restoration using scripts.
• Supported on call schedule for Production Environment.
• Worked on troubleshooting Java applications using WAS logs, traces, Log Analyzer, Resource Analyzer/Tivoli Performance Viewer. Used TPV extensively to determine application bottlenecks to dig-out which modules are consuming excessive resources.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1, WebSphere Portal 6.x, IBM HTTP Server 6.x, AIX, Linux, LDAP, Oracle 9i/10, Tivoli Performance Viewer, J2EE, Jython, Shell.

Confidential

Role: WebSphere Administrator.

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, administered, troubleshooted and tuned IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.x, IBM HTTP Web Server on AIX and Linux environment.
• Installed, configured and administered JBOSS Application Server version 4.x and Apache-Tomcat 6.x on AIX and Linux environments.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server on multiple platforms for both horizontal and vertical clustering.
• Deployed enterprise applications in production and testing environment.
• Automated application deployment, startup, shutdown and enhancements using Jython scripts.
• Installed EARs, JARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings.
• Configured WebSphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, and connection pools.
• Enabled security for the Admin Console and the application components by creating user registry in LDAP.
• Monitored Application core dumps or forced thread dumps to check for system objects using thread analyzer.
• Configured security using SSL.
• Administered various Log files using log analyzer, Product logs, Installation logs, Administer server logs, Application server logs.
• Wrote Shell scripts to Install, configure, administer WebSphere Application Server ND on AIX .
• Configured the Web Server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere Application Servers.
• Extensive hands on WebSphere Administration using command line tools like wsadmin, dump Namespace for JNDI .
• Extensively used Visual configuration explorer VCE tool to compare discrepancies among dev, test, stage and prod environments.
• Deployed, configured and supported the J2EE applications on JBOSS Application Server and Apache-Tomcat.
• Knowledge of Java Servlets, JSP, EJB development and deployment concepts and database skills.
• Configured Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web Resources and JDBC drivers.
• Created IBM Problem Management Records PMR to report WebSphere Application Server problems. Analyzed log files to solve problems using debugging tools like Log Analyzer, First Failure Data Capture Tool and Collector Tool.
• Installed and configured SSL certificates using iKeyman tool and openssl to provide secure data transmission to WebSphere environment.
• Provided on call support by 24x7 shift rotation basis and monitored trouble ticket queues to attend user and system calls.
• Hands on documentation of all procedures and other important issues.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x, IBM HTTP Server 6.x, JBOSS 4.x, AIX, Linux, Tivoli Performance Viewer, J2EE, Jython, Shell.

Confidential

Role: Database Designer

Created the student data base which consists of all the records of the student. This database is targeted to facilitate the business staff to access student related information.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis, design and development of the project.
• Involved in developing student master database.
• Designed and developed required SQL stored procedures, triggers, views and database functions.
• Constructed complex SQL queries to retrieve and manipulate data.
• Involved in creating tables and designed the relationships using Oracle 10g.
• Involved in creating Crystal Reports.

Confidential

Role: Web Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, administered, troubleshooted and tuned IBM WebSphere Application Server V5.x/V6.x on Linux environment.
• Participated in the creation of Use Cases, Class Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams for analysis and design of application.
• Developed front end using JSP, Struts tag library, HTML.
• Involved in Requirement Analysis, Functional Design.
• Designed and developed web flow for JSP and HTML screens.
• Designed and developed the project at server side.
• Analyzed Higher Level Documents and prepared Lower Level Documents
• Implemented Building project using Apache ANT.
• Involved in the development of various modules that were incorporated in this project.
• Performed client side validations.
• Developed Session beans to manage the different modules
• Extensively used SQL to both update and retrieve data from the back end Oracle database.
• Configured JDBC to interact with the database.
• Interpreted log files to locate and solve application server problems.
• Created and managed the data source and database connection pools.
• Configured WAS on multiple platforms for both Horizontal and Vertical Scaling.
• Developed and deployed Java Servlets and JSP for dynamic HTML generation.
• Developed the whole application pertaining to the MVC Model, View and Controller model.
• Configured the Web Server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere Application Servers.
• Worked on installation of IBM HTTP server and generating plug-in files.
• Configured Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web Resources and JDBC drivers.

Environment: IBM WebSphere, IBM Http web server, Oracle 8i, Linux, Windows 2000.