OVERVIEW

Confidential is a Senior Web Infrastructure Architect professional with over 8 years progressive experience in Web - Tier Application Administration and over 20 years experience in IT. He has excellent communications skills and outstanding web architectural knowledge, encompassing all areas of web server administration, networking and security. With his extensive web-tier knowledge, excellent analytical skills and strong communication ability, Confidential will be an asset to any Web Administration team.

SUMMARY:

• A strong web infrastructure middleware WebSphere/ I.H.S. (App/Web servers) tech lead support in development, test, and production environments delivering the best practice for monitoring, configuring, operating, and administering all the web infrastructure middleware components. 24x7 administration of very large-scale geographically dispersed UNIX based (AIX 5.3, Sun Solaris, on Virtualized LPARs zones, and Red Hat) WebSphere ND Clusters for Confidential .
• Responsibilities included creation and maintenance of web based application development issues, QA, and Test environments. Weekly Production 24x7 on-call duties including major application deployments issues within off hour’s maintenance windows.
• Information technology professional skilled in I.T. assessments, selection of best-of-breed technologies, and implementation of eCommerce/enterprise infrastructure support systems in multi-platform environments with strong network, operations, PKI and security background.
• Extensive expertise in ensuring delivery of all aspects of the PKI system.
• WebSphere and WAS Portals (V5.0.2.X, 6.0.2.X and 6.1) applications (6 years), Weblogic, RAD, SiteMinder, SUN One web and application servers in Enterprise environment solutions (in J2EE environment).
• High Availability engineering solutions (Clustering, Failover mechanisms, Redundancy, Single point of failures on Sun Solaris/ UNIX/ LPAR/Zones “IBM Virtualized servers) and Windows platforms in production and preproduction environments).
• Web technology of AIX® 5.3 and Sun ONE® products (IBM HHTP SERVER - IHS- Java web server 6.1iPlanet Web Server 4/4.1-6, iPlanet application V6.0, Netscape Enterprise Server, Lotus Notes and Domino servers).
• System security experience includes dealing with security system tightening, Checkpoint Firewall-1, Directory Services, Microsoft Active Directory Service, Novell Directory Service, Authentication, Authorization, SSO, SSL VeriSign, SiteMinder 5-6 and LDAP Directory, and encryption technologies got applied and used with or without GWH/ GM security portals like Webseal, GPLD and the other security portals.
• Extensive expertise enterprise security systems insuring delivery of all aspects of the PKI (Analyzing, designing, and implementing) in UNIX AIX, SUN One, and Windows platforms including SSL, client certificates, key management processes and controls, 2-factor Authentication, CP/CPS, SSO and B2B Portals in an Entrust Environment. An expert in the areas of security concepts, cryptography, and key management.
• (GPLD in HA and JES directory environment, LDAP, SSL, Active directory, ACLs, SSO).
• Problem solving, help Desk, Root cause Analysis (RCA), and troubleshooting oriented.
• Sun ONE Java System Messaging Server along with the Sun Java System Calendar Server and Sun Java System Instant Messaging.
• An advanced troubleshooter in the web-tier using his expertise skills with UNIX line commands that enable him to further recognize performance issues and troubleshoot problems on the server hardware resources and software availability, and quantify various aspects of server usage.
• Evaluate new web-tier technologies and supporting software and make recommendations that will enhance the capabilities of the existing infrastructure.
• Manage and provide high-availability support for web-tier systems ensuring uptime.
• Recommend best-practice solutions for web-tier server technologies.
• End-to-end monitoring of web-tier performance and availability.
• Analysis reporting for the purpose of capacity planning.
• Maintain technical documentation that supports the web tier.
• Participate in the software deployment processes.
• Provide on-call and after hours support for production environments on a rotation basis.
• Provide technical leadership and cross-training to peers in areas of expertise.
• In-depth web server skill set, with a thorough understanding of load balancers, single sign-on solutions, and HTTPS/SSL communications.
• Experience with monitoring solutions across multiple systems is preferred (specific experience with HP Sitescope and HP OpenView are strong pluses).
• Strong understanding of how LDAP systems work and are leveraged by web-tier server components.
• Proven problem-solving, change management, and technical planning skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work with and lead other administrators.
• Excellent oral/written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Shares relevant or useful information in a timely manner.
• Demonstrates strong initiative to learn with minimal direction.
• Strong leadership and management skills:
• Leverage understanding of business and application requirements to advise service owners on modifications to service designs and implementation to better enable use of these services by application teams.
• Work with vendors to evaluate and recommend tools and platforms for improved management and delivery of infrastructure services; understand advantages and disadvantages provided by each
• Lead integration of new technologies: requirements analysis, proof of concept, design, implementation
• Assist senior technology and architecture staff in developing future technology direction
• Identify and communicate technology issues and risks to senior IT management; develop risk mitigation plans and drive issue resolution,
• Coordination of complex activities involving multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to engage across organizational boundaries to raise and resolve issues
• Effective problem solving skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization to both business and technology stakeholders
• Self-motivated / work independently and as part of a team
• Self-developing; quick learner.
• I involve others in decision-making, listen and explain. And encourage the others and maintain their support.
• Sets the directions, states the overall timeframes, clarifies the amount of resource available, determines what is "in scope" and "out of scope", Identify the benefits and costs in delivering the project, and any milestones and constraints.
• Plans identify the groups of tasks, breakdown those tasks into sub-tasks to create what is known as a "Work Breakdown Structure" (WBS). Always add a little extra time (e.g. 10%) to your durations, providing you with contingency. Next add Milestones to your plan. These are tasks that represent major achievements along the way.
• Links dependencies between projects selected tasks.
• Records the actual progress against the plan. Every day.
• Report on progress as they go. By regularly updating the project plan with your progress, he can control the delivery of the project tasks and meet those critical goals set.
• Establishes the vision and set direction with very high standards and high expectations for himself and the other involved parties.
• Acts confirming and clarifying the values.
• Serves as a role model, by taking the responsibility of any blame may happen for any reason, motivating to excel and achieve the unity between the team members as team and other parties to act as a united teamwork.
• Expand my team’s members, application owner’s knowledge and experiences.

EXPERIENCE:

Lead Infrastructure Architect (Consultant)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Define and document infrastructure requirements for an application development/ production projects.
• Determine server capacity planning requirements for an application in IBM AIX and SUN Solaris.
• Create logical/ physical infrastructure design using Visio application.
• Translate capacity (Stress/load testing models) requirements into physical infrastructure design.
• Develop disaster and backup recovery plan.
• Design and implement a virtualized infrastructure environment.
• Architect server consolidation.
• Responsible for application/web servers middleware software/ hardware (Solaris, IBM LPARs, HP Platforms) solutions engineering.
• Web and infrastructure troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis during the technical support in development, testing (Pre-production), and production environments in a dynamic 24x7 support mechanism. Responsibilities included and not limited to:
• Monitor the Web (I.H.S.)/App (WebSphere portal and clustered applications) servers performance by Viewing the Web and WebSphere Application Servers configuration. And Viewing the current state of the Web/Application Servers
• Day-to-day configuration tasks to configure and change the Web/WebSphere Application Servers configuration to complete the following tasks:
• Create a resource.
• Map an application server.
• Install and uninstall an application.
• Deploy an application and troubleshoot all the deployment issues in all environments.
• Assign users and groups-to-role mapping for applications.
• Set up Java 2 security permissions for applications.
• Customize the Common Secure Interoperability Version 2 (CSIv2), Security Authentication Service (SAS), and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) configurations.
• Operate installing I.H.S. Web/ WebSphere App servers and change the run time state to complete the following tasks:
• Stop and start the servers and monitor the server status in the administrative console.
• Administer to grant completing the following tasks:
• Modify the server user ID and password.
• Map users and groups to the administrator role.
• Configure authentication and authorization mechanisms.
• Enable or disable global security.
• Enable or disable Java 2 security.
• Change the Lightweight Third Party Authentication (LTPA) password and generate keys.
• Primary Technical lead to control migrating 23 SUN Solaris servers to AIX 5.3 Virtualized LPARs zones and 56 web applications from WAS 5.02.X to WAS 6.0, 6.1 and WAS portals.
• Key member of the Web Administration team working to deploy an LDAP Solaris SunOne LDAP authentication implementation for Middle-Tier Java Application Servers.
• Development of best practices for implementation of WebSphere J2C and Java Security to better secure not only HTTP to java application layer, but also encrypt and secure JDBC database streams.
• Daily ITIL adherence to reporting practice’s related to Problem and Incident management. Part of an ongoing 2008 fiscal year implementation of ITIL methodologies.
• WebSphere wsadmin (JACL and Jython) automation scripts to automate creation of disaster recovery environments.
• Creation of HA (Highly Available) geographically dispersed Co-location Websphere cluster utilizing F5 Big IP Networks GTM and LTM with WebSphere database session persistence replication.
• Advanced IBM I.H.S. Apache configuration to provision new websites as needed.
• JVM tuning utilizing WebSphere PMI and Heap Analyzer tool, and JDBC connectivity issues.
• Work with Portal Development team to manage WebSphere application server and deploy web Portlets.
• Part of ongoing multi-phased J2EE WebSphere Application Server Collocation Cluster and Disaster Recovery Infrastructure project.
• Integral part in proof of concept migration evaluations of Open Source middle-tier java application server products (Tomcat/ JBoss / Phurnace Clustering Solution).
• Act as a liaison between ITN/PD application developers and ITI/N for functionality of applications within the ITI/N infrastructure.
• Validated, qualified, and approved the change management requests (change/ Add/ New) for WIENG/WIDP account.
• Project Requirements gathering, planning, designing and measure of applying the new web technology issues in all different environments with the environment standards.
• Project Management duties to comply needed technical resources to achieve the completeness of the project within or before the client targeted dates.
• Identify improvements in internal service delivery processes, development of automated build process and document all the play books are necessary for to establish the support polices standards, and roles.
• Plan and coordinate upgrades to new releases of these standards.
• Stay abreast of related product directions.
• Deliverable quality assurance of the project lifecycle. Install, administer, troubleshoot application servers (WebSphere 6.X.XX and WebSphere 6, 6.1 portal/WEMP with WEMP tool), webs servers I.H.S. 2.47.1-6.0, XX, IIS, etc ) And keep updating within environments like DB2 UDB, WebSphere, SiteMinder, WebLogic, IIS, and J2EE technology. PAI, AIX UNIX.
• Integrate WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances with WebSphere MQ and other ESB services.
• Work in a multi-tier eCommerce environment to supporting code testing, maintaining test environments in tuning, problem isolation and performance monitoring to achieve the best practice, process and automation methods for performing deployments.
• Lead the support team(s) for the migration projects and exercised the team leadership responsibilities.
• Planning/ designing the monitoring tools strategy all over the engineering applications area and maintain the highest level of availability SLAs.
• Expand the team members, developers, and application owners knowledge and experiences.

Infrastructure Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathered customer requirements and generating a detail estimate “BPAs”
• Developed and communicated Infrastructure Standards to the Application Developers, vendors, and the GM Customer.
• Engineered custom Web Infrastructure solutions.
• Designed and engineered custom Web Infrastructure solutions.
• Integrated custom software components into the environment.
• Designed and engineered Template/Standard solutions that are used as is without modifications. Example: A standard Weblogic build that can be deployed as is for all sites within the environment.
• Provided support for a Development Environment that allows customers the ability to develop and test their applications before they are moved into production
• Provided operational support for the Pre-Production and Production Environments and Infrastructure support.
• Planned, designed, and operated engineering solutions for Web site hosting in GWH, GWH2, and GM LAN/WAN environments. The entire GM Global Web Hosting environment resides on two clustered of Sun Enterprise servers (Solaris 2.6 and higher) and uses Netscape Enterprise Server, Oracle database and iPlanet product family as standard components. This includes integrating Internet, Intranet, and Extranet applications in Intel, Sun Solaris, and UNIX environments.

System Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed analysis and troubleshooting of technical problems in the UNIX/Network C4LAN environment, supporting approximately 250 users in all the C4Lans’ groups like CAM/CAD applications’ support.
• Administered servers, performed set up, maintained software applications, integrated application software for networked PC and UNIX workstations, maintains LAN security systems, performed back up and restores management, and maintained network directories for work groups.
• Participated in a temporary assignment with GM Online as a systems administrator for a Y2K project. In this assignment, coordinated operational designs and implementations, and provided level two supports for Confidential local area and campus area networks.
• Evaluated, tested, and recommended hardware, software, and network configurations; supported a large number of network user applications running under Novell Netware 4.11; established and maintained security and integrity standards and controls; and analyzed user requirements and statistics to identify trends and resolve performance issues.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for system analysis and design in support of all administrative activities for the payroll, personnel, and stock control, advertising, and press departments.
• Planned, designed, and administered the LAN in Novell and Token-Ring topology environments; and hardware/software configuration; developed, implemented, and maintained software and hardware configurations; maintained and handled data file systems; performed network troubleshooting; evaluated performance levels; maintained vendor relationships; and conducted systems training programs for staff trainees.
• Conducted a feasibility study for all applications software systems, hardware, and work force requirements.

Consultant/Information Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for information systems analysis and design activities. This included database software development, data management system design, and computer center management and setup.
• Planned and designed computer staff training programs, and provided follow-up to evaluate project performances levels.