SUMMARY:

• 7+years of experience as a Middleware Administrator in increasing levels of responsibility and expertise in a wide range of IT disciplines specializing in Application Server, Web server, adept in all facets of administration, maintenance, Integration including Installation and Configuration.
• Strong experience in administration, maintenance and integration on IBM Web Sphere, TC Server and several other Application Servers like Oracle Web Logic, JBOSS and IIS.
• Knowledge on service - oriented architecture (SOA), workflows and web services using XML, SOAP, and WSDL .
• Components to run java beans, Servlets, JSPs were built and deployed on the WebSphere Application Server.
• Experience in Unix/Linux System Administration in IBM/AIX, Sun/Solaris, Linux
• Expert level knowledge of Web sphere Enterprise Service Bus, Web sphere MQ.
• Managing IIS Web servers and hosted web sites.
• Designed and developed presentation Layer using Apache Tiles Framework.
• Managing the IIS web server and Apache web servers
• Created and configured MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Remote Queues, Local Queues, and Queue Aliases .
• IBM Web Sphere MQ v7.0 IBM Web Sphere Message Broker and IIB 9/10 Installed and configured MQ Series server on Linux and Solaris
• Analyzed business requirements, design and implement solutions that fit within the enterprise standards.
• Experience in providing 24/7 on-call in Production, Quality User-Acceptance, System Test, and Development Integration environments.
• Strong management and administration skills in providing design, installations, migrations, configurations, troubleshooting in multiple servers highlighting IBM WebSphere products.
• Proficient in configuring and managing open source tools like JENKINS, RUNDECK, PUPPET, Cloudera, CHEF and GECS.
• Used the JBoss/WebLogic/ WebSphere application server/Tc Server to deploy the web application using UNIX commands.
• Experience in creating, configuring and administrating profiles, clusters, nodes, node agents and node groups for WebSphere/WebLogic.
• Provided web architecture expertise to assist in delivering solution architectures for web and portal projects.
• Upgradation of WebLogic servers in development, testing and production environment and applying patch and service packs.
• Maintained WebSphere servers on different UNIX platforms , development, testing and staging environments for on-going application development.
• Configuring Web Logic Plug-ins for Apache Web Server and configured load balancing and fail-over solutions.
• Good troubleshooting skills on issues related to WebLogic, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere servers, Networking, Database, UNIX and applications and worked with respective engineers to resolve them and provided RCA.
• Performed root-cause analysis for Production outages and provided management with analysis reports.
• Good Project Management and Inter-personal skills gained through interaction with technical and functional teams.
• Capable of quickly learning and delivering solutions as an individual and as part of a team.
• Self-motivated Team player with excellent interpersonal and communicational skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: : Red Hat Linux 7x, 6x, Sun Solaris 9/ 10, Windows 2017, 2012

Application Servers: IBM Web Sphere Application Server 6.x/7.X/8.5/9.0,TC ServerWeb Sphere MQ, Web Sphere Message Broker, Web logic 12.,pivotal cloud Micro services

Web Servers: IBM HTTP Server, Apache Web Server, IIS, iPlanet Web Server

Access Managers: : Site minder 6.x,Oracle Access Manager OpenSSO

Languages: C, C++, JAVA, HTML.

Databases: DB2 UDB 7.x/8.x/9.x, Oracle MSSQL

Scripting Technologies: : Shell Scripting, python.

Networking Communication Protocols: TCP /IP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP, SOAP, FTP, SFTP, TELNET, SSH, SSL Tools BIP IP F5, Net Scaler, HPSA, Wily Introscope, Jenkins,Appdynamics,Splunk

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

WebSphere/ TC Server Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and administered WebSphere Application Servers 6.x,7.x,8.x and 9.0 across DEV, QA and PROD Environments.
• Wide Experience in deploying, implementing, troubleshooting of various J2EE, Inter/Intranet and distributed Applications.
• Existing Application Migrations from 7.x to 8.5 and 8.5 to 9.0.
• Deployed EARs/WARs and further configured Application based JVM settings using both WAS Admin console and WSADMIN.
• Configuring of JDBC providers, Data Source, Global Security, SSL, and LDAP.
• BUS Member configurations and Heap Usage Monitoring.
• Involved in creating clusters for the application gained by doing horizontal and vertical cloning.
• Involved with other team members in writing scripts to automate deployment process and backup procedures.
• Integration of WebSphere Application Servers using the WAS Plug-in.
• Apache WebServer Installations and configurations in all Environments.
• Installed different Web Servers and configured the communication from Web Servers and App Servers.
• Analyzing Activity log files and diagnosing Application Server problems.
• Worked on day to day ServiceNow Ticketing tool Requests for Lower Environments and on Change Requests for critical Production Environment Issues.
• Worked on Installations, Configurations and upgrades of TC Server 2.9.x, 3.2.x.
• Tc Server Configurations like applying SSL, client mutual authentication configuration and restricting connections to TLS1.2 only.
• Creating Custom Templates in for Tc Server based on application requirements to avoid Manual Changes.
• Worked on Updating the Application for TLS1.2 Compliance.
• Helping the Deployment Teams by troubleshooting Application Deployment Failure issues.
• Updating Automation Management scripts to match up with Latest Tc Server configurations
• Involved in Automation of Server Builds for Tc Server and WebSphere.
• 24X7 on-call production support and troubleshooting problems related to Web Sphere/ TC Server Application Servers and Web Servers.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Servers 6.x/7.x/8.5/9.0, IBM WebSphere MQ, Apache 2.0x/2.2x/2.4, IBM Http Server, TC Server 2.9.x 3.2.x Python /Shell scripting, IBM MQ, AIX, Solaris, Linux, Windows environments

Confidential (Atlanta, GA)

Web Logic/Web Sphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM Web Sphere Application Server 6.1 and IHS 1.3.x/2.0.x on Windows.
• Playing key role in current system engineering team especially in supporting/managing WebSphere stack of products.
• Responsible for Design/Install/Engineer Apache Tomcat middleware platforms on RHEL 7 AWS Cloud servers.
• Worked on environments across DEV, QA, UAT, Production.
• Migrated WebLogic Server applications from existing version 8.1/9. C
• Worked exclusively on Tomcat 7.2.x for managing performance and security optimization for Web Applications.
• Excellent working knowledge in configuring multiple Web logic domains including machines, manage servers, node managers and cluster environments
• Involved in migration of WebSphere Application Server from V5.0 to V6.0.
• Involved in evaluating IBM Edge Server and Network Dispatchers for load balancing .
• Transition knowledge to Middleware Operations and Dev-ops engineers for implementing infrastructure in private cloud environments.
• Successful implementation of Workload Management (WLM) using cloning/clustering techniques including horizontal and vertical clustering.
• Expertise in maintaining runbooks over Confluence apart from managing the same application on middleware end along with JIRA.
• Configured JDBC 2.0 access to the database server using TCP/IP.
• Server Performance Tuning and Thread dump analysis during server failures. Work with team in upgrading Java/Apache/Middleware application servers along with site minder as part of Vulnerability Management and Remediation.
• Good Understanding of deploy tools such as Jenkins (Configuration)
• Efficient in driving and troubleshooting issues through calls (EACO) and determined in working for root cause analysis in case of Production issues.
• Good Understanding of Revision Control Systems (Git, SCM, SVN)
• Familiar with basics and working of GIT.
• Performance and tuning database connection pools, thread pools, JVM Heap Size to required sizes.
• 24/7 on-call production support and troubleshooting problems related to WebSphere Application Servers, Web Servers.

Environment: Pivotal Micro services, GEMFIRE, SPLUNK, AppDynamics, J2ee, Java, JSP, JDBC, Servlets, WebSphere Application Server 7/8, Web logic Application Server, Tomcat, Oracle 11g, CSS, XML, XML Schemas, JavaScript, HTML, Solaris, Linux, AIX, and Windows 2008 Server, Web Services (Apache, IBM HTTPServer, and IIS), UNIX, Ant, Perl, Python, JACL, Unix

Confidential . (Orlando, FL.)

Web Sphere/ MQ Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked as MQ server admin and build several environments on various platforms such as UNIX, Linux, Windows and I series from scratch for different projects.
• Configure LDAP using Netscape directory Server for user authentication.
• Handled the MQ queue managers in clustering for round robin and failover functionality.
• Handled Dead Letter Queue messages.
• Worked with various middleware application teams and helped them setup communication between Middleware Applications & IBM MQ Server .
• Tuned existing MQ Servers in the environment to handle large volume of messages and process large amount
• Worked on reverse Proxy configuration from Oracle I planet webservers to WebLogic application servers.
• Creating user ID's and assigning roles and policies in WebSphere as per project SLA requirements.
• Performing Server Management Tasks, Using Admin Console of data.
• Used config wizard and config builder extensively to create and manage WebSphere domains. Setting up the cluster environment for WebSphere Server integrated with multiple workflows.
• Installed and Configured Apache Http Server Plug-In for the request to be proxied from Apache Http Server to WebSphere Server.
• Installing, Configuring and troubleshooting middleware server in Windows 2003 Server and integrating with Active Directory.
• Involved in automating the system by writing UNIX Shell scripts at the OS and python scripts at WebSphere level to minimize repetitive manual tasks for better system monitoring and problem.
• Linux System Administration skills (Red Hat) Windows Server System Administration.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Server 6, WebSphere Application Server, IBM WebSphere MQ 6.x, Apache 2.0x/2.2x, IBM Http Server V6.1, IIS 6.0, Python /Shell scripting, IBM MQ, AIX, Solaris, Linux, Windows environments.

Confidential

Web Logic/Web Sphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Administration and Configuration of WebLogic and WebSphere Application Servers.
• Managing/Reporting the day to day log listings from the WebLogic 9.2/10.3domains of production environment.
• Involved in migration from WebLogic 9.2 to WebLogic 10.3 .
• Administration and Configuration of WebLogic 9.1 and WebLogic 10.3 in Development and Production environments.
• Maintained Load balancing, high availability and Failover for the servers
• Troubleshoot application and application server issues.
• Implemented and configured WebLogic Portal 10.x .
• Installation and Configuration of Wily Introscope .
• Load and Stress testing using Jmeter Grinder and Load Runner .
• Configuration and Clustering of Tomcat and WebLogic Application Servers.
• Expert in Branching/Tagging and Managing application configuration through SVN using Eclipse.
• Perform vulnerability patching for more than 2500 servers across all the data centers including PROD, DEVand QA for applications as well as Data Base Servers.
• Configuration and Clustering of WebSphere and WebLogic Application Servers.
• Installed fix packs to overcome Application server problems.
• Monitor and analyze data with Resource Analyzer and Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Collection of JVM statistics, garbage collection data for monitoring the heap memory.
• Strong UNIX administration and experience with Solaris.
• Shell scripting to automate the maintenance process of the WebLogic Application Server and recover the backed-up WebLogic configuration.
• Work with on-shore and offshore support teams on 24X7 on call rotation to maintain scalability of applications.
• Administration and Monitoring of WebLogic Admin and Managed servers.
• Application server performance tuning and troubleshoot out of memory exceptions.
• Configured JDBCData source and JMS Queues.
• Experience in Securing Web Servers using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Generating Certificate Signing Request (CSR) through the IBM Key Management (Ikeyman) facility, and installing VeriSign Certificates.
• Configured Synthetic Monitoring scripts and alerts using HP Site Scope .
• Participate in Disaster Recovery planning exercises.
• SSL Certificate installation for web server instances and application server instances.

Environment: WebSphere 6.x/7.x WebLogic Server 10g, JDK1.6/1.7, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, EJB, LDAP, JDBC, XML, Apache 2.2, JBoss EAP 6.3, IIS 6.0, Oracle9i/10g, HP-Open View, Site Minder, SOA, WLST, Python, RHEL 6.1, Windows, Linux.