Professional Strengths

• Over 7 years of experience in the maintenance of the IBM WebSphere Application Server on IBM AIX, Solaris, Redhat Linux, Windows NT platforms and setting up the development testing and production environments.
• Experience in installation, configuration, deployment and management of Enterprise Applications in a clustered and non-clustered environment using IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x/7.x.
• Expertise in Installing, Configuration, Performance Tuning and Administration of WebSphere Application Server.
• Experience in configuration, tuning and maintenance of WebSphere 5.x/6.x/7.x with JDBC, JMS, JNDI and J2EE Services.
• Extensive experience in implementation of Workload Management WLM using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Scaling for failover.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in upgrading JVM's, applying patches and recommending necessary security fixes.
• Knowledge of Shell scripting bash, ksh and WSADMIN to automate administration batch jobs including backing up WebSphere Admin repository.
• Experience in troubleshooting, applying patches and plug-in for WAS 5.x/6.x/7.x.
• Experience in web server administration, which includes installation, configuration and troubleshooting of IBM HTTP server 1.3.x/2.0.x/6.0.x/6.1.x, IIS, Apache server.
• Working experience with relational databases like DB2, ORACLE, and SQL Server.
• Extensive working knowledge in J2EE JSP, EJB, JDBC, JNDI, JMS, Servlets , JDBC, Generated plug-ins for IBM HTTP Server, iPlanet and IIS.
• Experience in trouble shooting, Websphere log file managements and implementing the workload Management WLM using cloning and clustering.
• Supported WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.0/5.1 clustering, load balance and failover.
• Experience in deploying J2EE components on IBM WebSphere application server 5.0/5.1/6.0.
• Experience in developing applications using WebSphere Application Server with J2EE and integration with MQ Series/WebSphere MQ.
• Worked with iPlanet and Apache-Tomcat web server administration.
• Experience in applying fix packs and plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server.
• Experienced in the installation, support, configuration and maintenance of Websphere Application Servers 4.0/5.1/6.0/6.1/7.0.
• Experience in configuring LDAP and local OS repositories for WebSphere security.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Web Sphere System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed/configure WebSphere Application Server 7.0 and IBM HTTP Server on Aix, Linux, and Solaris.
• Configured JVM for purpose of serving EJBs and webservices.
• Automated the log file re-cycling for all the servers across the cells.
• Worked with Apache Tomcat, IIS, iPlanet, IHS and HTTP Web Server.
• Implemented WebSphere Application Server clustering, load balance and failover.
• Deployed applications, implementing and maintenance of Workload Management WLM using clustering/cloning.
• Involved in troubleshooting and performance tuning of WebSphere.
• Setting up Nodes, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, and Configuring Servlet Engines.
• Maintained standalone order management systems for the eCommerce information flow of the backend applications.
• Provide support to development teams in testing, implementation and versioning application on various versions of the Web infrastructure.
• Provided 24x7 ongoing supports and troubleshooting for installed technical solutions.
• Configured Workload Management WLM using horizontal and vertical cloning.
• Provide leadership and unique insights in the analysis of customer/business requirements.
• Sound knowledge in configuring JMS Providers using WebSphere MQ.
• Provides technical mentoring to more junior resources, raising the bar of technical expertise within the organization.

Confidential

Web Sphere System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation/configuration of hardware and software, migrating systems to current OS releases, upgrading software and tools.
• Involved in installing Websphere Application Server 6.x on Solaris v10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL with Web Content Management.
• Involved in IBM WebSphere Edge Components Load Balancer to distribute load among multiple Web servers
• Installed and configured Tivoli Workload Scheduler on AIX 5.2.
• Worked with Apache Tomcat, iPlanet, and HTTP Web Server.
• Developed JACL and Shell scripts for managing the servers and configurations, creating resources like JDBC, JDK, JSP, JMS and J2C.
• Configured JDBC connections and data sources with backend databases like Oracle.
• Monitored error logs, resolved problems and tuned parameters in WebSphere environment.
• Involved with troubleshooting and fixing of problems on Websphere Application Server.
• Involved in configuration management, software deployment, change management, performance monitoring, and application maintenance.
• Monitored Websphere Application using Wily Introscope.
• Handled the installation, support, configuration and maintenance of Websphere servers 5.0/6.0.
• Proficient in architecture, installation, setup and configuration of IBM Websphere Application Server 6.0.
• Expert level skills in Designing and Implementing web server solutions and deploying Java Application Servers like WebSphere, configuring Apache Web Server and configuring various Servlet engines.
• Implemented and configured SSL, requested digital certificates, created self signed certificates and imported/ exported public/private keys
• Handled the performance tuning of WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x.
• Maintained, upgraded essential hardware, system patches and software.
• Monitored Applications and WAS performance through Tivoli Performance Viewer and tuned the system caching, queuing, JVM parameters, DB Connection Pooling.

Confidential

Web Sphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• 24/7 on call support for production environments of various enterprise applications.
• Installed and configured WAS V6.1, 7.0 production environments on AIX 5L, Linux and Windows 2003 operating system.
• Installed and configured IBM Web Sphere Business Integration Server Foundation V5.1 on Windows 2003.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 2.x and Sun One Web Server 6.1
• Installed and configured WAS Plug-in for IBM HTTP Server, Sun One Web Server, and MS IIS.
• Applied patches and fixes for WAS V6.x, WAS Plug-in and IBM HTTP Server.
• Involved in the upgrade projects of various applications from WAS V5.1 environments to WAS V6.x.
• Involved in daily support tasks for middleware environment like application deployments, web content and configuration management.
• Involved in daily administration tasks like file system management, server reboot, system performance and scheduling of cronjobs.
• Involved in troubleshooting and providing technical assistance for I.T Help Desk during various application outages and other issues.
• Implemented horizontal and vertical clustering for High Availability HA , Workload Management WLM and load balancing.
• Implemented system monitoring of WebSphere servers using Tivoli Performance Viewer and ITCAM.
• Configured user registry to use LDAP Site minder 5.5 Policy Server to implement security.
• Configured Web Sphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, and connection pooling.
• Configured and managed Plug-in for Seibel Server on Sun One web server.
• Configured and provided WAS support for IBM File Net based applications.
• Configured and provided WAS support for IBM ITIM based applications.
• Developed and modified existing scripts for day to day WAS administrative tasks using Jython and JACL.
• Automated the administrative tasks using shell and cron scripts.

Confidential

Web Sphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Handled Web server / Application server 6.1 installations, support and performance monitoring for all applications running on the company's Website.
• Involved in Migration of WAS 5.1 to 6.1 UNIX base Environment.
• Administered Web Sphere MQ with Web Sphere MQ explorer/Services.
• Designed and implemented a migration from a Single Server to Network Deployment environment as well as a 5.0 to 5.1 upgrade.
• Planned and viewed web sphere Application Server applying patches and plug-ins for Web Sphere Application Server.
• Involved in designing Web Sphere Application Server load balancing, Workload Management WLM , horizontal and vertical scaling.
• IBM Edge Server for reverse proxy in DMZ and Network Dispatchers for load balancing.
• Handled the installation and design of Web Sphere MQ/Broker in complex environment.
• Involved in troubleshooting of Web Sphere App server and IHS Web Server.
• Implemented horizontal and vertical scaling of Web Sphere Application Server WAS Advanced edition in a workload managed cluster.
• Defined channels using SSL Secure socket layer certificates.

Confidential

Web Sphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, tested, implemented, maintained and documented MQ Series/WebSphere MQ and Web Sphere Application server.
• Implemented horizontal and vertical scaling of Web Sphere Application Server WAS Advanced edition in a workload managed cluster. Involved in advanced performance monitoring and tuning on Web Sphere application server.
• Installed and configured third party software necessary to test the product such as IBM Http Server, IBM Web Sphere Application Server and DB2.
• Installed IBM AIX 4.0 on IBM RS 6000 machines and Web Sphere Application Server 5.0 on Solaris Platform.
• Developed Web Sphere backup scripts using WSCP and TCL.
• Installed and configured the iPlanet Sun One Web servers setup firewall filtering with Squid Proxy server for web caching on Sun Solaris.