SUMMARY

• Over around 7 plus years of IT experience primarily focused in administration of WebSphere Application Server.
• Expertise in installation, configuration and administration of WebSphere Application Server 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x on AIX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows operating systems.
• Experience in installing, configuring, administering and supporting Web Servers like IBM HTTP Server 2.0.x/5.x/6.x/7.x , SunOne Web Server 6.x , Apache 1.3.x/2.x and IIS.
• Experience in setting up LDAP security for applications deployed in WebSphere Application Server.
• Expertise in identifying components causing problems and monitoring performance using Tivoli Performance Viewer, Wily Introscope 7.x/8.x, Tivoli Composite Application Manager ITCAM .
• Successful implementations of Work Load Management WLM using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Clustering for failover and backup/recovery processes.
• Good experience in Installing Fix Packs and migrating the existing configuration and applications from WebSphere and 5.x to 6.x and 7.x to 8.x using both command line Waspreupgrade and Waspostupgrade tools and using the GUI migration wizard provided with the WebSphere.
• Have a good knowledge and Experience in Websphere MQ.
• Experience in setting up Single-Sign-On for J2EE applications running on WebSphere Application server by installing and integrating the web servers with Netegrity SiteMinder.
• Experience in writing shell scripts and Jython/JACL to automate the administrative tasks.
• Expertise in troubleshooting issues using logs, traces and messages using tools such as Log Analyzer, Resource Analyzer, Heap Analyzer, Thread Dump Analyzer, PMAT.
• Expertise in deploying J2EE components on WebSphere Application Server and configuring resources like JDBC, JMS, SIBus, and URL providers.
• Worked on WebSphere MQ/MB explorer to monitor queues and brokers
• Worked on MQ visual edit tool for the taking a backup messages and arrange backup out message in queue.
• Involved in assisting Application team for Load and Stress testing of J2EE applications.
• Excellent Communication skills and problem handling with ability to work under pressure in a highly visible role.
• Expertise in 24/7 on-call production support troubleshooting problems related to WebSphere Application Server, Web Servers, Database, BigIP and other network related issues on a daily basis.
• Good team player, self-starter and self motivated and ability to quickly adopt and work under minimal supervision.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x, BEA, WebLogic 9.3.x/10.0.x.
• Web Servers: IBM HTTP Server 2.x/6.x/7.x, SunOne Web Server 6.x, Apache Web Server, IIS Web Server.
• Platforms: IBM AIX 5.x/6.1, Sun Solaris 7.x/8.x/9.x/10.x, Linux RHEL and SUSE , Windows 2008 R2/2003/2000 .
• Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, DB2/UDB, SQL Server 6.5/7.0, Data Direct, Informix, MS-Access.
• Tools: Wily Introscope 7.x/8.x, ITCAM, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Heap Analyzer, Serena Dimensions, Thread dump analyzer, PMAT, IBM Support Assistant, IKeyMan, MQ, Netegrity Siteminder.
• Load Balancers: F5 BigIP, 3DNS, IBM Edge Server.
• Languages: C, C , Java.
• Scripting: Shell Scripts, JACL, and Jython.
• Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SOAP.

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Middleware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience in configuring, installing and administering WebSphere Application Server 8.0 and IBM HTTP web server on Solaris and AIX.
• Provided WebSphere analysis, design and consulting services during the design phase of the project.
• Monitoring and resolving trouble tickets within appropriate time frame.
• Provided technical support for IBM HTTP server and WebSphere Application Servers.
• Involved in a number of installations of IBM WebSphere instances from development to production.
• Provided 24X7 on-Call supports for WebSphere, IHS, Pega, JCAPS, ICAN, SRE, Message Broker, MQ Production servers.
• Deployed EARs in QA, Pre production, production regions manually and automatically and provided support for any issues in all the regions.
• Worked on WebSphere MQ/MB explorer to monitor queues and brokers
• Worked on MQ visual edit tool for the taking a backup messages and arrange backup out message in queue.
• Supported DBAs for data base upgrade project by installing and configuring drivers and datasources on WebSphere Application Servers.
• Used Wily Introscope to monitor applications and servers in Production and PStage regions.
• VCS VERITAS cluster services for operating the Pstage and production groups.
• Configured Cloud Monitoring to page the middleware team when there is an issue with the web servers using RBMs and JMeter scripts.
• Worked with IBM support through PMR's and development teams in resolving issues related to application memory leaks, analyzing java cores and heap dumps using Thread and Heap analyzer tools.
• Configured CEM transaction alerts for business applications in production
• Application support in testing, tracking bugs and solving the problems.
• Maintenance and monitoring of web site or logs with respect to downtimes.
• Perform an application import and export in Pega environment.
• Configured Apache/iPlanet web server PlugIn to work with Websphere Application server.
• Platform maintenance/environment support and troubleshooting, internal and external web servers on various platforms and application troubleshooting using Java stack trace analysis
• Automated application install, uninstall and application enhancements through shell scripts, WSADMIN scripts.
• Managed the security and performance optimizations for EJB containers and web applications in IBM WebSphere, IHS and iPlanet web server.
• Installed fix packs on WAS 7.0 and worked on migration to WebSphere 8.0
• Tuning of WebSphere environment for availability, scalability, maintainability and WLM Work Load Management using cloning and clustering including horizontal and vertical cloning.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.x/7.0.x, IBM HTTP Server 7.0/6.x, Solaris 9.x/10.x, AIX 7.x/6.x, Apache Web Server, Wily Introscope 9.x/8.x, Windows Server 2008 R2/7, MQ Explorer 7.0/7.1/7.5.1, WinSCP 3.8.2, MQ Visual Edit v1.4.1A, Serena Dimension Tool v2009 R1.0, Visionapp Remote Desktop v 1.5, Veritas Cluster Server v5.0.

Confidential

Middleware/Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installing, configuring, maintaining, Performance tuning and troubleshooting WebSphere Application Servers 7.0/6.1/6.0 on AIX, LINUX and Solaris and Windows environments.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 7.0/6.0/6.1, SunOne Web Server.
• Designed application architecture and server infrastructure layouts for the ongoing WebSphere 7.0 upgrade project for all the applications.
• Involved in DATA Center Move/Migration which involved planning, managing from the middleware perspective. There were total of 100 environments.
• Managing Web Sphere Application Server using command line tools and scripts.
• Engineered and documented standard web and application server middleware component builds and the application deployment process on standard platforms.
• Involved in migration of all existing applications running on WebSphere 5.1.x and 6.0.x to 6.1.x.
• Troubleshooting and fixing problems on Web Server Application Server and other related components and also network related problems.
• Applying fixpacks, iFix to the current versions as needed and keep the system software releases current.
• Worked on replacing the existing SSL certificates for various applications that are using 1024-bit certificate with a 2048-bit SSL certificate.
• Good working experience in enabling WebSphere global security using Standalone LDAP Repository, SSL configuration, Ordering digital certs, creating key database using IKeyMan, import/export certs and create self signed certs.
• Worked on UNIX shell scripts for log rotation for WebSphere and Web Server processes.
• Provided solutions for clustering on WebSphere. Worked on Horizontal and Vertical clustering methods providing fail over, effective load balance scenarios and efficient utilization of system resources at the WebSphere level and also providing Web Server load balancing mechanisms. Worked with other teams that provide global load balancing through 3DNS and BigIP.
• Adept at deploying and configuring of J2EE applications ears/war/jars on WebSphere. Worked closely with developers in deploying applications, configuring necessary database resources JDBC Providers, data sources , MQ/JMS resources Queue Managers, Queue destinations, Queue Connection Factories, Message driven bean listener ports, SIBus, Activation Specifications .
• Worked on Session Management, creating replication domains for session persistence Memory to Memory replication .
• Worked with IBM support through PMR's and development teams in resolving issues related to application memory leaks, analyzing java cores and heap dumps using Thread and Heap analyzer tools.
• Involved in all phases of application move from development to production, stress testing, monitoring the application resources using Wily Introscope and analyzing JVM during runtime and tuning accordingly.
• Helped application teams for monitoring application performance using Wily Introscope during load testing/performance testing.
• Worked on JACL/Jython scripts used to automate configuration of WebSphere, and Deployment of applications.
• Following change management procedures in executing changes as per the schedule.
• Supported few applications running on BEA WebLogic Application Server 9.3.x/10.0.x as part of On-call support.
• Provided 24/7 on-call support.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.x/7.0.x/6.x/5.x, BEA WebLogic Application Server 9.3.x/10.0.x, IBM HTTP Server 7.0.x/6.x, Apache Web Server, SunOne Web Server 6.x, DB2 8.2, Oracle 9i/10g, AIX 5.x/6.1, Solaris 9.x/10.x, Red Hat Linux 7.x/8.x, Windows 2003, Wily Introscope 7.x/8.x, Netegrity SiteMinder, 3DNS, F5 BigIP.

Confidential

Websphere Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured the WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment 5.1/6.0/6.1 in different environments like Dev, Test, UAT and Production on AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, Windows platforms using GUI as well silent Installation.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 6.0/6.1 and Apache Web Server 1.3.41/2.0.63.
• Involved in migrating applications running on WebSphere 5.1 to 6.x.
• Migrated a project from J2EE 1.3 to 1.4 using J2EE Migration Wizard and deployed the code from WAS6.0 to WAS6.1, deal with the issues that seen in the Code Migration.
• Managing WebSphere Application Server using command line tools and scripts.
• Installed Site Minder client on AIX servers and configured with the web server. Worked on the issues regarding Authentication and Authorization.
• Configured SIBus for JMS messaging in WebSphere 6.x in single server and Clustered environment.
• Responsible for configuring end-to-end SSL including installation and renewal of certificates.
• Responsible for installing and upgrading ITCAM for monitoring of the applications for troubleshooting and performance issues.
• Monitor system performance and capacity and make recommendations.
• Installed Refresh Packs, Fixpacks, Cumulative Fixes and Fixes on WebSphere Application Server.
• Configured WebSphere Workload Management using horizontal and vertical clustering.
• Developed JACL, Jython scripts using wsadmin to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere Application servers and managed the backup/restore of Deployment Manager Configurations.
• Deployed various J2EE 1.4 applications on WAS 6.0/6.1.
• Created WAS 6.x profiles, integrated IHS into WAS as unmanaged node.
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.
• Involved in Tuning of Application Servers by using ITCAM such as setting the dynamic cache size and setting the JVM heap size using collected Performance Monitoring Infrastructure PMI data.
• Configured Cell and Node level scoped resources for JDBC providers, Data Sources using Jython script.
• Configured remote HTTP Server Plug-in to work with WebSphere Application server.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JVM heap settings, JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, Global Security and SSL.
• Configured the Web Server Interfaces, Session Management, Virtual Hosts and Transports for Web Sphere.
• Debugged WebSphere Application Server connection pooling issues using ITCAM.
• Used tools for WAS profiling and tuning which included Tivoli performance viewer, ITCAM, Heap Analyzer, Thread Analyzer, Log Analyzer and Resource Analyzer.
• Interpreted with log files to locate and solve application server problems.
• Monitoring and Administration of applications using SiteScope.
• Participated in 24x7 On-call support.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.1/6.x, IBM HTTP Server 6.x, Apache Web Server, IBM AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, RHEL, DB2 8.2, LDAP, Oracle 9i/10g, Tivoli Performance Viewer, ITCAM, Netegrity Siteminder.

Confidential

Websphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured, Administered and Supported WebSphere Application Servers 5.x/6.x on all UNIX variants.
• Installed and configured the IBM HTTP Server IHS to load balance the requests to the WebSphere Application Server cells.
• Involved in migrations of WebSphere 5.x to 6.0, and helping migration of all the applications from the previous version.
• Configured and managed WebSphere MQ 6.0 on AIX and Solaris platform.
• Installed, configured and managed Sun One Web Server 6.x.
• Designed the highly available, fail safe infrastructure for WebSphere Application Server 6.x environment.
• Created profiles and federated all profiles to deployment manager for central Administration.
• Deployed the EAR, WAR files, and scripted automated deployment of the applications using Jython and UNIX Shell scripting.
• Created and managed clusters for work load management and high availability.
• Worked with App Dev and Database Teams to support day to day Websphere tasks.
• Helped customer in managing high volume of requests by configuring IBM Edge Components and created redundancy for Web Server and Application Server to serve the requests.
• Highly experienced in 3-Tier Web applications.
• Configured WebSphere global Security using Novell eDirectory.
• Monitored the applications running in production using Wily Introscope.
• Setting up Single-Sign-On for J2EE applications Web Sphere Application server using Tivoli Access Manager and WebSeal functions
• Helped Customer debug WebSphere Application Server issues by reviewing various logs files.
• Involved in supporting load testing team during various testing phases for performance tuning the environment and monitoring through Wily Introscope.
• Working with IBM in opening a PMR for inconclusive root causes, and coordinating the proposed changes with the respective teams.
• Handling 24/7 on call rotation for production issues, perform root cause analysis, managing incident ticket queue system for the web related issues as per the SLA's.

Environment: IBM WAS 6.x/5.x, IHS 6.x/2.x, Netegrity Site Minder, DB2 UDB 8.1, Oracle 8i/9i, SQL Server, AIX, Solaris 8.0/9.0, ZLinux s390x, Windows 2003, LDAP Server, Wily Introscope.

Confidential

Role: Jr.Websphere. Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and administration of WebSphere Application Server 6.0 Network Deployment.

• Installed, configured and administration of IBM HTTP Server V6.0.
• Federated stand-alone nodes to CELL of Deployment Manager.
• Created multiple Profiles on Web Sphere Application server 6.0.
• Configuring WebSphere Application Server on multiple platforms for both horizontal and vertical scaling for Work Load Management.
• Deployed J2EE Enterprise applications on WebSphere 6.0 that involves EAR, JAR, and WAR files.
• Collection of JVM statistics, garbage collection data for monitoring the heap and physical memory.
• Creating and Managing the Nodes, Application Server's, Cluster's, Virtual Hosts, Data source, and generating and propagating plug-in.
• Enabled security for the Admin Console and application components.
• Deployed Enterprise Applications in a clustered environment with fail over support.
• Installed fix packs to overcome Application server problems.
• Configured the Web Server plug-in to connect to WebSphere Application Server.
• Handled all related tasks and incidents which related to project.
• Experienced in providing 24/7 administrative support.

Environment: Tools: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0, IBM HTTP Server 6.0, Linux, and AIX Plugins 6.0.