SUMMARY:

• 9 years of experience in Information Technology working in IBM technologies. Experience with Systems Administration, IBM WebSphere 5.x/ 6.0/6.1/7.0 Administration.
• Technical abilities include installations, configurations, security, migrations, and technical support.
• Configured MQ series objects like Queue Manager, Queue .and Channels.
• Experience in Configuring of JDBC Providers, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, Global Security, SSL, LDAP.
• Hands on experience in deploying implementing, testing and support of full life cycle implementations of various J2EE/Internet/Intranet and distributed applications.
• Resolved Deployment issues and network issues for Development team and in Production Environment.
• Experience in migrating existing applications from WAS 6.1to WAS 7.0 using was pre-upgrade and was post-upgrade.
• Experience in configuring Cluster server groups for improved availability and fail over redundancy and Installing Fix Packs and Cumulative fix packs and Migrating to latest versions.
• Worked with IBM on problem determination, troubleshooting, and resolution PMRs, running and submitting, gather scripts and log info, turning, trace, verbose-gc, taking thread and heap dump.
• Well experienced in writing shell scripts in Bourne and korn shells, Perl Scripting.
• Experienced in automating the build and deployment using IBM Build Forge tool.
• Providing infrastructure services to Development team.
• Supported L1/L2 and offshore teams for problem Determination through the log files and rectified the problems or interacting with IBM support to solve problems.
• Extensive experience in providing 24/7 on-call support for applications running on IBM
• Involved in Planning, Writing SOP and participated in the DR exercise
• Worked with third party vendor like Geotrust and VeriSign on purchasing the certificates and renewal the certificates on the IBM Http server.
• Creation of website on webcondo, assigning the IP address on the webcondo.
• Worked with DNS team to assign name for site created in the webcondo.
• Worked with Network team to create site of high availability and Load balanced.
• Worked with Network team to open the firewall ports between the DMZ and Intranet server
• CreatedAgents, Agent groups, domains,Realms,Response in CA siteminder r12.5
• Setting the Authentication schemes and polices in CA siteminder r12.5
• Enabling the SSO between the applications
• Installing the siteminder web agents on Unix and windows environment
• Setting the User directory with LDAP.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr.WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing Websphere 8.5.
• Upgrading the Java Infrastructure for Client application to WAS 8.5.
• Administration of Java applications.
• Working with SQL drivers and configuration of Data sources for connectivity.
• Created and managed data source and database connection pools.
• Involved in performance tuning of Application Server,
• Coordination between Application Support Team Team supporting the application , Testing team, Release Management Team responsible for releasing application in Production Environment , Compliance Team, Infrastructure Team, Capacity Management Team, Architecture Board, License Management for streamlined successful application release in Production Live environment.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security using LTPA and LDAP for admin console and application components on AIX, Solaris and Linux.
• Configured Clusters and Instances for improved availability and failover capability

Confidential

Sr.WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing Websphere 8.5.
• Upgrading the Java Infrastructure for Client application to WAS 8.5.
• Administration of Java applications.
• Configuring the queues, channels and provider in websphere console.
• Working with SQL drivers and configuration of Data sources for connectivity.
• Planning, Design, Installation and Integration of WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment 8.5.0.0, IBM Http Server 6.1/1.3.28 and Apache 2.0.47/2.2.1/2.2.17.
• Worked with IBM Support and development teams in resolving issues related to application memoryleaks, analyzing java cores and heap dumps using Thread and Heap analyzer tools.
• Migration of Websphere 6.1 Infrastructure to Websphere 8.5
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.1/6.0.x, and Websphere Portal Server 5.1.0.4 on AIX/Linux platform
• Experienced in coordinating with various infrastructure teams for Websphere upgrades within State Street for WAS 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 across regions globally and provide technical support for any issues related to upgrade being an escalation point of contact for Websphere.
• Trouble shooting errors both Application JVM also analyzed heap/core plus error logs coordinate with vendor and configured tuned JVM for optimum performance.
• Created and managed data source and database connection pools.
• Involved in performance tuning of Application Server,
• Coordination between Application Support Team Team supporting the application , Testing team, Release Management Team responsible for releasing application in Production Environment , Compliance Team, Infrastructure Team, Capacity Management Team, Architecture Board, License Management for streamlined successful application release in Production Live environment.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security using LTPA and LDAP for admin console and application components on AIX, Solaris and Linux.
• Configured Clusters and Instances for improved availability and failover capability
• Basic troubleshooting on the MQ side on need basis with the understanding of basic MQ concepts.
• Regularly attended meetings on behalf of Middleware Team co-ordinate with different teams for task accomplishment.
• 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.
• Involved in architecting core-groups in the environment their by logically separating related application JVM into single core group to enhance performance.
• Experience in problem tracing, Websphere log file managements and trouble shooting of problems related to the applications deployed on WebSphere Application Server.
• Generate, update and customize Webserver plug-in, configuring Virtual Hosts in Websphere Application Server and Webserver.
• Enable security, configure standalone LDAP, and map internal roles to admin/monitor/operator roles of Websphere.
• Experienced in managing security and performance optimizations for Websphere Application Server.
• Performed 24/7 on-call support on rotation mentored new-comers during team expansion.
• Involving in Disaster Recovery Activity
• Involved in Planning, Writing SOP and participated in the DR exercise
• Worked with third party vendor like Geotrust and VeriSign on purchasing the certificates and renewal the certificates on the IBM Http server.
• Creation of website on webcondo, assigning the IP address on the webcondo.
• Worked with DNS team to assign name for site created in the webcondo.
• Worked with Network team to create site of high availability and Load balanced.
• Worked with Network team to open the firewall ports between the DMZ and Intranet server
• Created Agents and Agent groups in CA Siteminder.
• Created domains,Realms,Response in CA Siteminder
• Setting the Authentication schemes
• Setting the policies
• Enabling the SSO between the applications
• Installing the webagents on Unix and windows environment
• Setting the User directory with LDAP.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator: Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Install, configure and maintain Internet and Intranet Applications on WebSphere Application Server6.0/6.1/7.0, HTTP Server on diverse UNIX flavours that includes AIX, Solaris, and Linux in a multi clustered high availability environments.
• Configured IBM MQ objects like Queue Manager, Queue and Channels.
• Handled the maintenance of the WebSphere Application Servers on AIX/Windows platforms and setting up of the developing, test, uat, staging and production environments for the ongoing application development.
• Planning, Design, Installation and Integration of WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment 6.1.0.3, IBM Http Server 6.1/1.3.28 and Apache 2.0.47/2.2.1/2.2.17.
• Worked with IBM Support and development teams in resolving issues related to application memoryleaks, analyzing java cores and heap dumps using Thread and Heap analyzer tools.
• Extensively used all the internal tools to monitor closely and troubleshooting the issues accordingly.
• Applied Fix Packs for WebSphere Application Server 6.1 and hot fixes to various applications and multiple environments as per the change management system request to overcome the functionality and performance issues.
• Troubleshoot problems on the various environments involving the integrations of WebSphere, IBM Http server, iPlanetWebServersand LDAP.
• Good knowledge in trouble shooting basic network related issues using ping, telnet, netstat, trace route commands and pbrun, umask, soft links commands.
• Expertise in AutoSys standards to produce job definitions that can be migrated from environment to environment with little or no change to the job definition.
• Lead role in performance testing and tuning the applications performance emphasizing on JVM heap size, CPU utilization, JDBC connection pools, Garbage Collector, Web container threads, Servlets performance, response time alerts and thresholds.
• Assisted in several thread dumps and heap dumps analysis using IBM Thread analyzer and IBM Heap Analyzer.
• Implemented security using LTPA and LDAP for WebSphere Application Server.
• Experience in problem tracing, Websphere log file managements and trouble shooting of problems related to the applications deployed on WebSphere Application Server.
• Created WebSphere environment variables, virtual hosts, JDBC provider, data sources, and J2C authentication
• Well-versed in the syntax of Apache HTTP Server configuration files, URL rewriting rules, setup and configure user-specific directories
• Worked on automation, scheduling and file cleaning of logs for different webservers like IHS and Apache.
• Implemented port communication infrastructure required for securing external applications through firewalls for distributed HTTP server and WebSphere Application server.
• Enabled fine-grained administrative security for websphere at various levels of Enterprise LDAP tree using role based Administration Monitor, Operator, Configuration, and Administrator .
• Configured the Session Manager to enable persistent session management using memory-to-memory session replication.
• Provided on call support by 24x7 shift rotation basis and monitored trouble ticket queues to attend user and system calls.

Technical Project Manager Responsibility/Skills

• Managed team of 21 members as an onshore Technical Manager in an offshore-onsite 24/7 support model
• Handle escalations round the clock for global support
• Prepare management reports for client on a weekly/monthly basis including Incident, Problem, change Management.
• Conducting Technical Interviews for recruiting people for the project/organizations
• Doing the Annual Appraisal / Rating to the co-workers who reports to me.
• Ability to thrive in a team-oriented, fast-paced environment
• Excellent technical written and verbal communication skills