Summary:

• I have 13 years of IT Infrastructure design and support experience in Banking, Insurance, and Retail industries with results-driven management skills and exceptional communication skills.
• Provisioning of application support and administration services to enable client to optimize their current investment and implement new technologies where and when appropriate to maximize business.
• Architect Infrastructure solutions with no single points of failure, including architecting failover solutions across multiple data centers.
• Working with solutions architecture team in new project initiatives, client's infrastructure assessment and solution roadmaps.
• Experience in Websphere 7.0 upgrade at Elavon Inc .
• Migration of 350 applications from Websphere 4.x / 5.x to Websphere 6.0 at Caterpillar .
• Extensive experience in migration of Sun Webserver iPlanet 4.0 to Sun ONE 6.1 and migration of Sun LDAP 4.0 to 5.2 at GE Consumer Finance .
• Worked on integrating 3 different banking applications into single look and feel. And also worked on HP SM7, Clear quest tool for monitoring and Clearcase for SCM at Lloyds, LBG-UK .
• Hands-on experience on Webserver and associated middleware components administration which includes installation, configuration and troubleshooting of IBM HTTP Server, Sun ONE / iPlanet server, LDAP Server and SiteMinder in a Unix environment at Caterpillar and GE Consumer Finance
• Administration Configuration experience on Siteminder Webagents, rules and realms .
• Extensively worked on UNIX administration DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS and automount Backup and restoration using Shell script and Crontab.
• Experienced in UNIX user management, high-end Server troubleshooting and maintenance with over 8000 end users.
• Knowledge on RAID, Veritas Clustering and Veritas Netbackup.
• Experienced as a Risk assessment specialist for various J2EE/.NET Applications to identify potential problem areas related to Infrastructure, Application Configuration, Operational Security risk and Process. at WMC Wellington Management Company .
• Strong analytical, technical and leadership skills, and involved in all phases of the development life cycle - from analysis to implementation. Understanding of project management principles, systems integration, and testing / deployment principles.
• Involved in project management activities including estimation, requirement gathering, project execution and project management etc. Managed and supported projects worth 2 million.
• Highly experienced with Incident, Change and Release Management processes part of Service Management disciplines ITIL .
• Good communication skills, analytic ability, and the ability to work effectively with IT management and other groups throughout the organization.
• Experienced in conducting technical training programs and also involved in recruiting activities.

Technical Skills:

• Hardware Platforms - IBM P570 series, IBM HMC, Sun Fire V880/440, Sun E450/E250, Dell PE2650, Dell 1850, Net App and VERITAS Clusters, Loadbalancers DNS .
• Operating Systems - Sun Solaris, Redhat and SUSE Linux, AIX and Windows
• Application Servers - WAS 7.0/6.1/6.0/5.1/4.0, Websphere MQ, Websphere Portal Server, Websphere Process server,Weblogic 9.x/8/7, Sun ONE, Jboss-4.x, JBoss EAP6
• Web Servers - Apache 2 / IHS, Sun ONE iPlanet Sun LDAP 5.2, Netegrity Siteminder
• Rational tools - Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest Cruise control
• Scripting Language - Shell, Jython
• Tools and Utilities - Informatica i2 , Unix Sysadmiral Agent, ACI BASE24-es for FPS

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Senior Websphere Admin/Architect

• VM Virtual Merchant is payment gateway, in order to process transactions. It estimated about 2 billion transactions per month.
• It provides Virtual Terminal which allows merchants to configure and manage their account, process and review transactions, and much more. It's having Mobile app too.
• HIMMS - Highly Integrated Merchant Management System is the Elavon tool that is used to board new merchant applications and service existing merchant accounts. It is used by multiple departments across the organization but mainly Sales, Operations and Customer Service.
• All the pertinent merchant data is captured in HIMMs and feeds to all the downstream systems for new merchant boarding and maintenance. They can view all historic authorization and settlement details specific to the merchant account.

Confidential

Senior WebSphere Admin/Architect

Responsibilities:

• This project is an 'Integration' of Lloyds TSB, Halifax BoS banks LBG Integration . I involved in planning, design, build and test / implement the projects.
• Worked on requirement gathering and tech screening the resources for this project.
• Involved in Web Infrastructure design and operations including IP, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, load balancing, clustering, failover, monitoring, diagnostics, performance tuning, etc.
• Extensively worked on WAS 7 implementation with fail-over support, workload management WLM using horizontal and vertical scaling, security implementation.
• Involved in Websphere Portal Server and Websphere MQ servers administration and support.
• Worked on IHS 7 implementation which includes planning and designing the layout of Webservers in DMZ and internal networks SSL implementation, tuning and troubleshooting etc.
• Possess extensive knowledge of IBM SOA Tools and have experience and skills in prevailing industry architecture and engineering methodologies such as ITIL.
• Worked on Enterprise Change Control System and automated change management tools Rational ClearCase ClearQuest for code deployments.
• Used Clearquest, Service Manager 7 HP SM7 and Peregrine Problem monitoring reporting tool.
• Worked on various components and third party products such as GPP, DOC1 and Chordiant.
• Actively participated and Implemented Lean process improvement - Looking for ways to cut operational costs through process improvement and automation.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Risk assessment for 35 different Applications to identify potential problem areas related to Infrastructure, Application Configuration and Process.
• Involved in Planning, Fact finding, Risk classification and Reporting. Study and analyze all the applications and preparing the check list, fact sheets for each application.
• Configuration management and High level recommendation.

Confidential

Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing client's Web Infrastructure projects which involved Monitoring of the key infrastructure services and application components.
• Level 3 issue resolution involving various UNIX, Middleware technologies and databases worth 60 billion transactions .
• Involved in Western Union Payment processing system enhancements implementation
• Working on PCI compliance analyzing and recommending the WebServers and Appservers configuration changes to meet PCI audit requirements.
• Very strong experience in complete life cycle of WebSphere 6.x/5.x/4.0, Jboss Application and IHS Web Servers design, installation, configuration, deployment, migration, and trouble shooting.
• Responsible for maintaining the web servers like JBOSS EWS ,IHS, Sun one Web server including the IHS plugin, mod-jk, mod-cluster installation and configurations.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Portal Servers.
• Planning and implementation of De-commissioning the servers.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis RCA on failing Infrastructure components and implement corrective measures to rectify problems and Opening PMR with IBM as needed.
• Implemented ITIL compliant Incident, Change, Release and Problem Management processes resulting in effective management of incidents and Root Cause Analysis.

Confidential

Architect

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project management activities, client coordination and coordination among various Client Managers.
• Administration and Configuration of WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment in QA, Staging and Production environments and troubleshoot various configuration and application issues.
• Involved in WebSphere Portal Server and WebSphere MQ servers administration and support.
• Troubleshooting routine product issues independently Incident Tracking and Resolution .
• Act as the primary business liaison to the business segment, through facilitating communication between Development, QA, Product Management, Technical Operations and Segment business leaders on new product releases, technical outages and routine maintenances.
• Update and maintaining project implementation process, written procedures and work instructions.

Confidential

Web sphere Architect

Responsibilities:

• WAS migration Project Worked on migration of 350 applications from version 4.0 to 6.0.
• Installation, Configuration, Administration and Performance tuning of WebSphere Application Servers 6.x Apache/IHS.
• Worked closely with enterprise architects and other functional area architects to ensure adequate solutions are in place to meet business objectives.
• Involved in project management activities, client coordination and coordination among various groups like Unix admins, DCS, TUF-Ops, J2EE and QA team leads.
• Informatica installation which includes Power center, Repository Server and Repository creation. Sysadmiral Agent installation in AIX.

Confidential

Middleware Architect

Responsibilities:

• New Domain Configuration and maintenance of GE Consumer websites. And moving all the data into new GE Websites / Domains.
• Migration of Bow Street Applications to Sunone Application Server.
• Sun LDAP migration from version 4.0 to 5.2.
• Web Infra migration Project Sun Webserver migration from version 4.0 to 6.1 including transferring data into new GE Websites / new Domains .
• Writing shell scripts for migration load testing tasks.

Confidential

Admin/Support

Responsibilities:

• Performed Weblogic Server administration tasks such as installing, configuring, monitoring and performance tuning.
• Developed and maintained Shell scripts that facilitate the Administration of BEA Weblogic .
• Involved in Performance tuning of Weblogic server with respect to heap, threads and connection pools. Installation and Configuration of Apache and Sun one Web server.
• LDAP Siteminder Webagent and Policy Server installation, configuration and maintenance.
• Contribute to design enhancements of application infrastructure architecture to support business growth.

Confidential

UNIX Admin/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Support 150 solaris Linux servers and 50 windows servers. And managing 2000 unix windows user accounts.
• Involved in installation and configuration of Solaris Linux servers, User and Group accounts administration.
• Configured NFS and Auto mount for mounting user home directories in Solaris and Linux.
• Took backups on Solaris, windows filesystems using Veritas Netbackup.
• Took UNIX native backups and restore using ufsdump, ufsrestore tar commands.
• Developed automated processes that run daily to check disk usage and perform clean up of file systems on UNIX environments using shell scripting and CRON.
• Performance Optimization and Performance tuning of the Servers and the network with the help of the tools available with Solaris.
• Installation and testing of all upgrades, patches, and maintenance updates at the Operating System level.
• Maintaining User accounts Backup management using shell scripts.
• Clearcase installation in UNIX windows.

Confidential

UNIX Admin

Responsibilities:

• Solaris Linux servers support administration and client coordination.
• Installation and configuration of Solaris Linux servers.
• Configured NFS and Auto mount for mounting user home directories in Solaris and Linux.
• User and Group accounts administration.
• Implementing RAID 0/1 using solstice.
• Formatting, Creation and mounting of file systems in Solaris and Linux.
• Administration of software packages like adding, removing packages from the system with admintool and command line using pkgadd, pkgrm in Solaris.
• Ensure security of the system by changing root password, access control of users, files.
• DNS, NIS configuration and maintenance.

Confidential

UNIX Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation configuration of Solaris and Linux servers including backups and restorations, Jumpstart server configuration.
• Creation and maintenance of user accounts. File system creation, mounting maintenance.
• NFS and NIS Configuration. Job scheduling through crontab.
• System performance Analysis, Devices addition removal.