SUMMARY

• Over 7+ Years of experience in Middleware Administration adept in all facets of administration, maintenance, Deployment, management and migration of IBM WebSphere products(Application Servers and MQ Series) including Installation and Configuration, Pega and WebMethods.
• Provided admin support for BPM Tool Pega rules process commander installed on websphere.
• Involved in pega code deployment activities, validation and Rule set Management.
• Experience in Configuring and updating operator profiles, access groups and application as part of code deployment.
• Experience in Middleware Administration adept in all facets of administration, maintenance, Deployment, management and migration of IBM WebSphere products(Application Servers, MQ Series and Portal) including Installation and Configuration.
• Created and configured MQ Series Objects like Queue Managers, Queues and Channels etc.
• Created, Configured and Administered MQ infrastructure for Point - to-Point communication and Cluster setup in Distributed environment.
• Experienced in installation, configuration, Deployment and management of enterprise applications using IBM Web Sphere Application server 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x, IBM WebSphere MQ 6.x/7.x and IBM WebSphere Portal server 6.0/6.1 on Different platforms Solaris, Red Hat Linux, AIX & Windows2000/2003 Server.
• Experience in Installing and Configuring Web Methods on different environment.
• Expertise in deploying J2EE applications on IBM WebSphere application server through Admin console as well as through WSadmin scripts.
• Experienced in applying fix packs and plug-ins for Web Sphere application server.
• Involvement in writing scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup etc. using shell scripting and CRONJOBS.
• Excellent knowledge on using debugging and performance tools like Clipboard, Tracer, Log files, Performance Analyzer (PAL) and System Management Application (SMA).
• Experience in using SMA portal for monitoring and clearing caches.
• Working knowledge on checking requestor size and status of agents from SMA portal.
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces.
• Experience in design analysis, application development, debugging, testing and documentation of the various phases in a software development life cycle.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux 9/ 8 / 7.2 / 7.1 / 6.2 , RHEL 3/4 and Windows NT/2000/2003 Server

Databases: Oracle 10g/9i/8i, MS SQL Server 2000/2005, SQL Server 6.5/7.0, Mongo DB

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.x/6.x/5.x/4.x/3.x, BEA weblogic 9.0/10.0, Apache Tomcat 6.x/5.x/4.x, Pega 5.5 and JBOSS AS 5.x/4.x

Web Servers: IBM Http Server, Microsoft IIS, Apache Http Server and Sun One Web Server (iPlanet)

Programming Languages: C, C++, HTML, XML, Java(Basic Knowledge)

BPM Tool: Pega 5.5,6.2( Administration)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

System Engineering & Admin/Application Support

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured and Administered Apache Tomcat server 7.0 / WebLogic 10.3.6 and configured Adobe CQ (Content Management ).
• Installed, Configured and Administered WebSphere Application Server ND/XD 6.1/8.0.0.x on Linux platform for all Dev, QA, UAT & Production environments.
• Migrated CQ5 from WebLogic 10.3.6 to Standalone.
• Installing and Configuring Web Methods on Stand Alone Application.
• Involved in patching & migration tomcat server from 5.5 to 6.0.
• Working with web server like Tomcat, Sunone and involved in installing & configuration.
• Knowledge on tomcat servelets to check the flow of the request is Highly Available.
• Configured Apache Tomcat web server to Websphere application and working on Access logs for High Availability & Critical Issues.
• Involved in Pega code deployment activities, validation and Rule set Management.
• Experience in Configuring and updating operator profiles, access groups and application as part of code deployment.
• Created and Managed User roles and Groups for Securing the Resources using local operating system authentication.
• Worked closely with developers to define and configure Application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web resources, Servlets, JDBC Providers, Data Source and Servlet Engines.
• Monitored the health of the JVM by taking Thread Dumps and analyzing the Stack trace which helped in performing Root Cause Analysis to find out the cause of the problem.
• Performed routine management for several environment like monitoring Disk Space and CPU Utilization.
• Used Several Monitoring tools to analysis and monitor the performance of Application on various platforms like WM, pega, CQ Management Administration.
• Involved in Troubleshooting Admin Server start-up issues, Java code defects after deployment, like class path issues and errors in application properties files by checking JVM logs and Plugin-logs.
• Supported applications 24X7 on-call on a rotational basis.

Environment: Pega 6.2, Apache Tomcat 6.0, Oracle DB, WebMethods-8.2, Adobe CQ, Nagios, Hyperic, Toad DBA Suite for Oracle and CQ5.6

Confidential

System Engineering & Admin/Application Support

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured and Administered WebSphere Application Server ND/XD 6.1/8.0.0.x & WebSphere Portal Server 6.0.x/6.1 on Linux platform for all Dev, QA, UAT & Production environments.
• Having Lead-level experience in this project like maintaining and managing WebSphere application server and troubleshooting the issues.
• Experienced in troubleshooting Cloud Resource Management Tool, which is used for deploying applications by using resource bindings from BEST tool.
• Installed and configured the IBM HTTP Server 6.0 and Microsoft IIS (5.0 &6.0).
• Installed, Configured, and Administered IBM WebSphere Portal Server 6.0.x/6.1 & WebSphere Process Server 6.x/6.x/8.0 applications on Linux platform.
• Configured WebSphere Portal LDAP Security with IBM Tivoli Directory Server.
• Backup management and recovery policies using Veritas Net-Backup.
• Installed and configured IBM DB2 database and setup LDAP security to the Applications.
• Expertise in WebSphere Application server & WebSphere MQ.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings (Using WSDG request), Web container parameters using the Admin Console and Jacl scripts, following the change management requests.
• Infrastructure Setup for CQ5.6 & CQ6.1 and Pega BPM tool on tomcat and linux server.
• Involved in extensive scripting to automate the installation and uninstallation of applications using ANT jython and UNIX Shell scripts.
• Performed routine management of WebSphere environment like monitoring Disk Space and CPU Utilization.
• Involved in Troubleshooting Admin Server start-up issues, Java code defects after deployment, like class path issues and errors in application properties files by checking JVM logs and Plugin-logs.
• Involved in Trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Resource analyzer and Log analyzer.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server ND/XD V6.x/7.0.0.x/8.0.0.x, Portal V6.0.x/6.1, Pega 6.2, WebMethods-8.2, Adobe CQ5.6 & CQ6.1,Mongo DB

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installed Configured and Administered Apache Tomcat server 6.0.
• Installing and Configuring JBoss 5.X on AIX/SOlaris environment and applying Security for Jboss.
• Created and configured Queue Mangers, Local Queue, Remote Queue, Transmit Queue and Channels.
• Involved in patching & migration tomcat server from 5.5 to 6.0.
• Working with web server like Tomcat, Sunone and involved in installing & configuration.
• Knowledge on tomcat servelets to check the flow of the request is Highly Available.
• Configured Apache Tomcat web server to Websphere application and working on Access logs for High Availability & Critical Issues.
• Provided admin support for BPM Tool Pega rules process commander installed on websphere.
• Involved in Pega code deployment activities, validation and Rule set Management.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and Jacl scripts, following the change management requests.
• Achieved Workload Management and Failover by Creating and Configuring Clusters and Cluster members for Load Balancing and High availability.
• Created and Managed User roles and Groups for Securing the Resources using local operating system authentication.
• Worked closely with developers to define and configure Application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web resources, Servlets, JDBC Providers, Data Source and Servlet Engines.
• Monitored the health of the JVM by taking Thread Dumps and analyzing the Stack trace which helped in performing Root Cause Analysis to find out the cause of the problem.
• Performed routine management of WebSphere environment like monitoring Disk Space and CPU Utilization.
• Involved in Troubleshooting Admin Server start-up issues, Java code defects after deployment, like class path issues and errors in application properties files by checking JVM logs and Plugin-logs.
• Supported applications 24X7 on-call on a rotational basis.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server ND/XD V6.x/7.0.0.x, WebSphere MQ 5.x/6.x, Oracle10g, WebLogic Server 10.3, DB2, ITCAM, IBM HTTP Server6.0, Site Minder, AIX 5.3, JDK1.6, XML,JACL and Jython scripting.

Confidential, NC

Websphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server V4.5 on SUN Solaris platform. Fixing of configuration and installation problems.
• Involved in setting up an Environment for Application packaging and deploying Enterprise Application Archive (EAR), Web Application Archive (WAR), JSPs and Servlets in staging and production.
• Involved in creating Problem Management Records to report WebSphere Application Server problems.
• Assigned different user roles as MONITOR, OPERATOR, CONFIGURATOR, and ADMINISTRATOR.
• Analyzed Activity log files and diagnosed Application Server problems using Log Analyzer (wslogbr).
• Monitored and analyzed performance with Resource Analyzer and Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Good Knowledge of Edge Components Failover (Active/Standby), HTTP Server Failover (Active/Active), Web Container Failover, EJB Container failover, Session Affinity and Session Persistence.
• Assembled and Deployed the application in staging, in productions, following change management practices and 24/7 support, worked in shifts.

Environment: WAS 4.5 Base, 5.0 ND/EE, SunOne Webserver 6.0, DB2UDB8.1, Oracle, Sun Solaris 8, Windows 2000, J2EE1.3/1.2, Java2.0, JSP1.2, EJB2.0, JDBC2.0, XML, ANT, Shell and CVS.