SUMMARY

• 13 plus years of professional experience as Architect, System Administrator, Programmer, WebSphere Portal Administrator, WAS Administrator, JBoss Administrator, Build/Release Engineer with Java stack using J2EE technologies including IBM WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Application Server (WAS), IBM Infosphere, WebSphere Process server, WebSphere Commerce server, JBoss EAP, JBoss Enterprise BRMS / Drools, IBM RTC, JSON, Spring, Servlets, Hibernate, JSP, JSF, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, XMLAccess script, XML Messaging, Foglight
• Highly skilled in administering and managing content in IBM Web Content Management (WCM) 6.0, 6.1.0.3, 7.x, 8.x.
• Extensive experience as Lead in Architecture, Administration, Installation, Upgrades, Roll - out of security patches, Configuration (multi-node Cluster and Load Balancing); Deployment of enterprise applications in environments of WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Application Server (WAS), DM, IHS (IBM Http Server), JBoss EAP, JBoss BRMS, Apache, JON, MS CRM Dynamics
• 10 years of experience as Lead Release Engineer and accomplished Deployment of several application code releases in production
• Highly potential in application/infrastructure Configuration and Administration of IBM Portal Server, IBM Web Content Management, WebSphere Application Server (WAS), WebSphere Process Server, ADAM, IBM Tivoli Directory Server, IBM HTTP Server and WebSphere Plug-in
• Proficient in maintaining minimum down time for rolling out Application upgrades and Releases to production system using automated scripts and Load Balancing technologies
• Excellent in troubleshooting skills and bringing up failed mission critical production systems under extreme time constraints
• Strong Experience in identifying and troubleshooting system outages, installation issues, and application code running in WebSphere and JBoss environments
• Extensive experience in planning proactive monitoring and system health checks, patch management and scheduling Cron jobs
• Extensive experience in upgrading, migrating the WebSphere servers, JBoss servers, CRM servers, Foglight and keep the patch level up to date, and configuring JMS messaging in JBoss
• Experience in Disaster Recovery(DR), Back-up/recovery methodology, clustering and high availability strategies, capacity planning, scalability planning, Security configuration and Tuning
• Architecture knowledge and expertise in providing technical solutions for B2C and enterprise class applications
• Excellent Verbal and Documentation skills. Contributed to Documentation of SOPs, SLAs, Application documentation, Resource Release documents and Training manuals
• Excellent communicator, equally comfortable heads-down in a meeting with business users
• Always accomplishes anything and everything that employer requires
• Good leadership skills to mentor and coordinate with other teams

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Technologies: Java, C, C++, .NET, ASP.NET, VBScript, WebSphere Portal 6.0, 6.1, 7.x, 8.x WebSphere Application Server(WAS), Network Deployment, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Message Broker, SAP NetWeaver, IBM HTTP Server, IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT), Apache Tomcat, XML, JSON, Jenkins Build Server, JIRA, SVN, CICS, Foglight Monitoring/Alerting tool, Microsoft LDAP, ADAM, IBM Tivoli Directory Server, Microsoft CRM Dynamics 2011(Sales, Purchasing, Labor Relations), Scribe, IBM Appscan, UML, Virtualization, VMware technology, NetScaler, BIG-IP F5

Databases: Oracle 11g, 10g, 9i, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, JDBC, ODBC, JDBC

Web Technologies: Servlets, EJB, J2EE, XML, JSP, PHP, JMS, JNDI, RMI, SOAP, WSDL, Web Services

Application Servers: IBM HTTP Web Server (IHS), Apache, IIS

Operating System: Red Hat Linux Enterprise, Solaris, Fedora, AIX, Windows

Script Languages: UNIX shell scripts, Perl, Jython, Jacl, wsadmin, XMLAccess script

Network infrastructure: HTTP, FTP, TCP, DNS, Load-balancers, Firewall, DMZ, SSL, SSO

IDE/ Tools: Eclipse, IBM RAD, IBM RTC, Foglight, Wily Introscope, Visio, VSSTivoli performance viewer, JMeter, F5 console viewer

WebSphere skills: Global Security configuration with Microsoft ADAM/LDAPXMLAccess, ConfigEngine, Solution Installer, Release Builder, SSO, SSLWebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR), SOA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Senior Application Administrator & Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implemented a Linux based WebSphere infrastructure solution for Booking, Shipment, Bill of Lading application which is one of the largest IT online services projects ever undertaken by the company
• Designed, installed and implemented fully automated WebSphere Portal Extend, WAS and
• WebSphere ND in VMware instances from sandbox, dev, QA, stage through Production environments. Installation includes but not limited to application code Deployment, Configuration process (LDAP Security, SSL certificates, DMZ, Load Balance, Node Failover, Databases, Foglight Monitoring and Nagios). The Crowley’s Booking/ Shipment Application hosted on the WebSphere environment, serves more than 20,000 customerswith 80,000 contracts in US and South America
• As Technical Lead, migrated Portal environments from Portal Extend 6.1 in 32-bit to Portal Server 6.1 in 64-bit edition across all server environments within a short duration of 6 weeks which resulted in huge Savings of $900 k in IBM License costs
• Contributed to savings of Million dollars in Licensing costs in a time- constraint situation by bringing up new stack of WebSphere Portal Server instances in a distributed architecture across the network including DMZ, migration of code and configuration parameters to new VMware instances
• Upgraded and Fine-Tuned the Portal, WAS environments from 6.0 to 6.1 and 7.0 to stay up-to-date with Security Fixpacks and in Compliance with IBM License policy and also achieved better end-user experience. Significantly reduced Recovery times through automation of tasks
• Achieved significant savings in server license costs by Architecting and Migrating service layer from IBM WebSphere Application Server to Red Hat JBoss, and Rules engine from WebSphere Process Server to JBoss BRMS / Drools
• Redesigned the new architecture for a mass rate change process to run in minutes instead of hours, leveraging the enterprise messaging system to allow a slow single-threaded process to run in parallel in multiple threads on multiple nodes
• 9 plus years of experience in architecting, installing, configuring and administering WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Process server, JBoss EAP and JBoss BRMS in VMware instances
• Installed and configured WebSphere Portal Server versions 6.0, 6.1, 7.x in vertically scaled environment
• Competent in administering and managing content in Web Content Management (WCM) 6.1 and 7.0
• Achieved the user friendly application features by Configuration of LDAP security with Microsoft ADAM
• Contributed end-user time saving with design and configuration of Single-Sign-On (SSO) Portal, WAS and Microsoft ADAM in a business critical environment
• Competent in writing XMLAccess scripts for Migration of Releases and Content between lower Development environments to Production pipeline.
• Configured and maintained secure enterprise WebSphere environments with SSL and Single-Sign-On (SSO) using GSS-API Negotiation (SPNEGO) and Kerberos
• Strong experience as a Middleware administrator for JBoss EAP 5.x, 6 in Linux with LDAP security and databases
• Contributed to Saving resources by quick installation and configuration of JBoss EAP 5, 6 in Multi-Node domain and stand alone mode on Linux x86 servers
• Introduced application enhancements with Performance Tuning which reduced production support time from 100 hours to 20 hours per week
• Managed troubleshooting issues related to connection timeout, ServerIOTimeout, cache size, session persistence, Session Affinity, JSESSIONID cookie, Memory-to-Memory Replication, Data Replication Service(DRS), request routing.
• Provided technical feasibility assessments and proof-of-concept(POC) required for business
• Managed and maintained support documentation of all production and non-production WebSphere Portal Applications and environments. Maintained root cause analysis of identified issues and improved documentation
• Performed Load Balance testing, backup and recovery and scheduled CRON Jobs
• Accomplished reducing of Application Downtime in production from hours to minutes by automated deployments with shell scripts
• Expert in architecting, installing, migrating and support of IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)
• Managed and supervised contract employees working onsite and offshore, and other external vendors/resources to accomplish routine tasks
• Achieved the cut-down of License costs up to $100 k by maintaining the inventory and renewal of software licenses for IBM WebSphere products and Red hat products based on PVUs and cores

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Programmer/Developer

Responsibilities:

• As a Solutions Architect, contributed to the development and implementation of Wide Area Workflow - a secure Web-based system for electronic invoicing, receipt and acceptance. The DoD’s WAWF is a Paperless Contracting prototype application to eliminate paper from the Receipt/Acceptance and Invoice/Payment process of the DoD contracting life cycle.
• It provides the technology for government contractors and authorized DoD personnel to generate, capture, and process receipt and payment-related documentation, via interactive Web-based applications. Implemented code using Servlets, JSP, XML, XSL and JavaScript per the new business requirements of WAWF client. Evaluated the customer requirements, and problems identified in WAWF. Achieved high performance of WAWF application by re-writing many SQL Statements into Prepared Statements in Oracle.
• Designed and developed WEB SERVICES, SOAP and WSDL to make use of the functionality of ADCS application to create Receiving Report in WAWF application. Contributed to the design, development of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) project implemented for validating the X509 certificates (Digital certificates for secure signing) using the security classes of JDK1.4 and Bouncy Castle. Public Key Infrastructure is used to electronically bind the digital signature to provide non-refutable proof that the user (electronically) signed the document with the contents. Designed and implemented a project for modifying the code in WAWF to update the XML Signature in the Oracle database.