SUMMARY

• IT professional with 9+ years of experience in Middleware Engineering related technologies application administration, design, development, testing using SOA appliances like IBM Datapower XS40, XI50/52, ESB, Messaging, WebSphere MQ & Message Broker, Application Servers TIM/TAM, Kerberos, OAuth, Web Servers Apache, IHS, AIX5L, Z/OS, Linux (Red Hat, SUSE) and Windows environments.
• Experience in configuring & creating components of datapower appliance such as Web Service Proxy, Multi - Protocol Gateway, XML Firewall.
• Extremely strong in XML/XSL, XPath, XQuery, XSLT Transformations, WSDL, WSRR, XML Schema, SOAP & REST validations.
• Extensive experience using WebGUI, CLI including XML Management Interface for datapower admin tasks.
• Solid experience in implementing Web service proxy for filtering, routing, transforming and securing various messages.
• Proficient in developing message transformations using XSL including custom XSLs for various policies inDataPowerincluding routing, protocol mediation and message enrichment.
• Experience in configuring & creating components ofDatapowerappliance such as Web Service Proxy, Multi-ProtocolGateway, XML Firewall Implemented security policies like Authentication, Authorization & Auditing in a Multi-protocolGateway.
• Have worked on connecting withDatapowerfrom Message Broker.
• Experience in Integration ofDatapowerwith WSRR
• Extensive experience in developing POC's and executed negative, positive and load test cases prior to developing interfaces.
• Experience in integrating various applications using WebSphere Datapower XI50, XI52, XS40, Layer 7appliances and WebSphere MQ, Message Broker, Business Events.
• Strong in troubleshooting by enabling probe, debug and migrating configurations into various environments including upgrading firm ware images for Datapower.
• Good at installation, configuration, administration & supporting JBoss, WAS, WebLogic, Tomcat, HIS, Apache, Sun Java Web Server, WMQ and WMB including installing plug-in and mod jk.
• Strong knowledge in WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment (DMGR, Cell, Node Federation) in distributed environments.
• Experience in applying security polices, certificates, encryption and SAML in variousDataPower devices.
• Good knowledge in implementing Web-Service Security using LDAP, Site Minder and Data Power.
• Experience in configuring SSL security for the HTTP servers and the plug-in.
• Proficient in configuring resources including JDBC providers, data sources for Oracle, DB2, MQ and JMS.
• Strong experience in infrastructure support for highly scalable environments including horizontal & vertical scaling, capacity planning and third-party tools.
• Experience in performance tuning with specialized knowledge in analyzing thread, core, GC using ISA support and opening PMR's with IBM.
• Created and configured WebSphere MQ objects like Queue Managers, Remote queues, Local Queues, Queue Aliases, Channels, Clusters, Transmission Queues.
• Valuable experience in configuring AAA policies.
• Good experience in configuring resources in JBOSS including JDBC, MQ, Oracle, DB2, MySQL and JVM parameters.
• Expert in migrating applications from WebSphere to JBOSS including custom configurations in JBOSS.
• Provided 24x7 production support, best practice trouble shooting, monitoring, capacity planning, performance tuning, naming standards, and maintenance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Servers/Tools: IBMWebSphereData power(XI50, XI52, XB62, XG45),IBMWebSphere Application Server Apache Tomcat, JBOSS,IBMSecurity Access Manager (ISAM), Tivoli Access Manager (TAM), Tivoli Identity Management (TIM), Tivoli Storage Manager, Clear Case (Version Control Software), SSO (Single Sign On), SSH.

Databases: ORACLE SQL Server, MS-Access.

Languages and Scripts: Java, J2EE, C++, C, SQL/PL SQL, HTML, Shell scripting, Perl

Web Servers: IIS IBMHTTP Server, Apache HTTP Server, Sun One/ iPlanet Web Server.

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, IBMAIX (V4.3.3 and 5L V5.1, HACMP) and Windows T/2000/XP.

Network /Protocol: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH, Telnet, FTP, RMI/IIOP and WAP (WTP/WSP).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Canton, Michigan

Sr. IBM DataPower Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis, design and development of Interfaces by usingDataPowerAppliancesXI52.
• Involved in configuring objects like WS-Proxy, MPGW, and XML Firewall using WebSphere Data Power XI52appliance.
• Designed and developed various XSL's for message transformations including XML to XML, XML to Binary formats which also includes content based routing and schema validation for message well format.
• Involved in understanding the infrastructure design documents and use them to develop necessary policies, scripts, and code on data power.
• Worked in debug, troubleshooting various issues by using logs, probes and problem determination tools which are available inDataPowerdevice.
• Worked on modifying the Data Power configurations to change the user authentication method from local access to LDAP.
• Handling the Web Service calls to the domain layer through Parallel calls to minimize the impacts to the SLA.
• Mediation flows are created in IBM WebSphere Integration Developer to mediate or intervenes between an export and import to provide functions such as message logging, and data transformation.
• Encrypt and Decrypt incoming data depending on application requirements.
• Active in handling TLS migration between the application layers and its release cycle.
• Involved in Development techniques for building Policies, Matching rules for request-response Mode of Operations, Error Handling, Auditing, and Service Utilization.
• Understanding the clients to make use and onboard services to the APIgateway.
• Developed and tested various policies for governance, management and runtime execution of APIs.
• Developed several polices like AAA for securing various Web Services including service virtualization inDataPowerdevices.
• Created various front side handlers (HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP) to implement Multi-ProtocolGatewayservice in XI50/52 for protocol transformation.
• Creating manifest and promoting the developed code/deployment policies from one lower environment to another using SOMA Scripts.
• Proficient in executing CLI commands along with Web GUI and XML Management Interface for IBMDataPoweradministrative tasks.
• Energetically involved in production release management cycle and provided support whenever necessary.
• Involved in trouble shooting & performance tuning using Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer.
• Integrated MQ withDataPowerfor routing data to queues.
• Involved in developing Client Server Communication and Clustering using MQ.
• Synching up with Offshore-Onsite resources to discuss on new designs/projects and assigning the tasks based on their work load.
• Worked on MQ Backup and administration tasks using MQSC Commands. Installed and configured MQ fix packs on UNIX.
• Experienced in configuring JMS Provider using WebSphere MQ.
• Expert in taking Import & Export of domain files and backing up them securely.
• Knowledge transfer to end users.
• Experience in problem investigation/determination and monitoring onDataPower.
• Provided production support and maintenance.

Environment: IBM WebSphereDataPowerXI52 & XI 50, SoapUI, REST, JSONX, XML, XSLT, IBM WebSphere MQ 7.5.0.1, WAS V8.0.0.12/WXS 8.5.0.3, JMS, VMWare, Splunk, ITCAM, XML Spy, SSH, TLS 1.2, Windows 2008.

Confidential, Louisville, Kentucky

IBM DataPower Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed services (Multi-Protocol Gateway, Web Service Proxy and XML Firewall) using assorted flavors of SOADatapowerappliances (XI50/XI52/XG45/IDG).
• Developed web services to send/receive XML, SOAP and EDI request/response messages on TCP/UDP ports.
• Integrated Tibco EMS,IBMMQ and WebSphere JMS to process SOAP and EDI messages.
• Developed WSDLs and XSDs for web services which handled XML and SOAP request/response messages.
• Integrated WSRR (WebSphere Service Registry & Repository) withDatapowerappliances to fetch WSDLs and XSDs.
• Developed XSLT transformations for XML request/response handling using XML Spy editor.
• Utilized Putty and Filezilla tools to manage file system of backend systems, analyzed packet capture of network flow by using Wireshark tool to troubleshoot Connection and SSL issues.
• Created and installed SSL certificates and keys withinDatapowerfor HTTPS communication. Extracted Vendor certificate and keys using OpenSSL tool.
• Integrated SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) withDatapowerto monitor health of appliance and to monitor application level errors.
• Integrated Syslog withDatapowerto store logs of appliance and application level logs.
• Developed SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) components inDatapowerto integrate with SFG (Sterling File Gateway) to send/receive files & documents via secure channel.
• Developed test cases to validate web service functionality, configured & executed test cases by using SoapUI tool.
• IntegratedDataPowerXI52 with IBMAPIManagement2.0 and createdManagementnode, Analytics node, Gateway node and Assembly node in IBMAPIManagementenvironment.
• Designed and developed framework to support RESTAPIusingDataPowerMulti-Protocol Gateway component to validate, authenticate and transform.
• InitializedDatapowerappliances and configured Web user interface by using Putty tool.
• UpgradedDatapowerappliance Firmware to latest & compatible versions.
• Managed and Tracked change requests and issues using BMC Remedy tool, the knowledge on Remedy tool gained during this assignment.
• Managed and Tracked defects/bugs by using Clear Quest tool, the knowledge on this tool acquired in this assignment.

Environment: DataPowerappliances (XI50/XI52/XG45/IDG), SOAP, EDI, SoapUI, TibcoEMS,IBMMQ, WebSphere JMS, WSDL, XSD, Visio, UML, WSRR, XML, XSLT, XML Spy, Wireshark, Putty, Fielzilla, BMC Remedy, Clear Case, SNMP, Syslog, LDAP, SSL, TCP, UDP, SFTP, OpenSSL, SFG.

Confidential

IBM DataPower Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis, design and development of Interfaces by usingDataPowerAppliances XI50.
• Responsible for developing technical design documents for various Interfaces based on functional designs.
• ConfiguredDataPowerdevices after they delivered to data centers including SSH, management console.
• Developed several polices like AAA for securing various Web Services including service virtualization inDataPowerdevices.
• Designed and developed various XSL's for message transformation including XML to XML, XML to Binary formats including content based routing and schema validation for message well format.
• Proficient in executing CLI commands along with Web GUI and XML Management Interface forIBMDataPoweradministrative tasks.
• Involved in configuring the load balancer groups atDataPowerdevice clustering and provided high availability solutions.
• Worked in debug, troubleshooting various issues by using logs, probes and problem determination tools which are available inDataPowerdevice.
• Created and managed log targets including user management, device configurations including domain creation, updating latest firmware versions.
• Developed several proofs of concepts prior finalizing architecture and design of various interfaces inDataPower.
• Created and configured MQ Objects like queue managers, remote queues, local queues, queue aliases, channels, clusters, transmission queues.
• Good in monitoring the MQ objects with configuration tools like ITM, OMEX.
• Responsible for Configuration Management and delivery management activities from middleware engineering team.
• Installed upgrades and fix packs to the runtime environment as required decreasing vulnerability to production environment.
• Created the diagrams using UML to represent the system use cases, objects components etc. and to know the relationships between them.
• Provided 24x7 production support, best practice trouble shooting, monitoring, capacity planning, performance tuning, naming standards, security and maintenance.

Environment: DataPowerXI50 & XS40, WMQ6.1/7.0, WMB 6.1/7.0 Linux, Windows 7

Confidential

IBM DataPower Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the definition, planning and execution of all infrastructure activities required to support theDatapowerenvironment.
• Worked withIBMDatapowerdevices to secure and integrate the web services.
• Developed XML Firewalls and Webservice Proxy along with the required objects.
• Creating network routes and configuring Ethernet interfaces on the device as part of the device deployment.
• Implemented Crypto profiles, SSL proxy profiles as part of SSL implementation.
• Developed Load Balancer Groups to load balance the requests to multiple back end points.
• Developed AAA policies to authenticate and authorize user requests using LDAP.
• Developed and configured WSDL and XML proxies.
• Experience in working with multiple development and infrastructure teams.
• Performed general operation tasks such as Firmware upgrade, User management etc.
• Worked on XSLT and used XML Transformation node to transform an XML message to another form of XML message.
• Developed Subscriptions which make use of WSDLs deployed in WebSphere Service Registry & Repository(WSRR).
• IntegratedDatapowerwith LDAP for User authentication & authorization.
• Implemented Syslog to store log files to external server.
• Implemented SNMP to monitorDatapowerdevice alerts/traps.
• Worked onDatapowerCLI, XML Management and Web Management.
• Implemented Certificate Monitoring alerts to notify on Certificates nearing expiry dates.
• Developed Log Targets to capture application level critical alerts.
• Troubleshot potential problems during message flows by verifying logs & probes.

Environment: DatapowerXI50/XI52/XG45/IDG, Firmware 3.8/5.0/6.0, SOAP, Web Services, WSDL, XSD, Visio, UML, WSRR, XML, XSLT, Syslog, LDAP.