PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of experience in Middleware Architecture for e-business primarily focusing on Web Sphere Application Server Administration.
• Experience in installation, configuration, deployment and Administration of WebSphere Application server 7.0/6.x/5.x on various platforms like AIX, Solaris, Linux and Windows.
• Extensive experience in migrating large scale applications from WebSphere 5.x to 6.x, 6.0 to 6.1 and 6.1 to 7.0.
• Experience in deploying J2EE components on WAS using WAS Admin Console, wsadmin/Jacl and Jython scripting.
• Expert in UNIX Shell scripting for administration, maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Have hands on experience on Middle-Tier administration and configuration and tier TCR requests and also iFixes and PMR fixes.
• Have hands-on experience in JBoss
• Highly experienced in integrating WebSphere Application Server ND and webservers including IBM HTTP Server, SUNONE Web Server.
• Configured Workload Management WLM for scalable applications through Server groups, Cloning, Clustering optimizing the performance of WAS Network Deployment architecture.
• Configured and Secured Web server interface, Session management, WebSphere resources, J2C resources, connection factories and JMS resources in IBM WebSphere 7.0/6.x.
• Significant experience on JMS and MQ
• Excellent Technical Knowledge in Java, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, EJB, Web Services, XML, XSL, and with the RDBMS databases like SQL Server, Oracle and Sybase.
• Familiar with ANT scripts for compile and deployment.
• Hands on experience in SQL PL/SQL programming.
• Experienced in DNS, LDAP, FTP, Remote Access, Security Management and System Troubleshooting skills.
• Good at Performance tuning on different environments by using Tivoli Performance Viewer, Resource Analyzer and troubleshooting using Log Analyzer.
• Closely worked with business users at various stages of the project lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, development, and testing and post-production support.
• Excellent analytical and logical programming skills with a good understanding at the conceptual
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TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot and resolve middleware issues across development, testing, and production environments.
• Perform deployments of custom and commercial off the Shelf COTS code/software.
• Deploy the ETL application code to the Info Sphere cell on Development and Test environments. ETL is short for extract, transform and load three database functions that are combined into one tool to pull data out of one database and place it into another database.
• Perform hot fix deployments, deployments of the batch scripts, Curam application code deployments to IBM Curam Social Program Management in all environments.
• Deploy Web sphere Portal applications in CMIPS II Test and Development environments and copy training documents.
• Transfer files between different environments using SAP Business Objects.
• Install, configure, and manage middleware applications located in HP Data Centers, working with internal service groups as required to ensure system availability and uptime meet project requirements.
• Install, configure, and manage middleware applications located in State Data Centers, working with State service groups O Tech as required to ensure system availability and uptime meet project requirements.
• Generate LTPA keys in Web sphere Application Server and export them to Web sphere Portal.
• Develop scripts to automate systems administration and monitoring activities.
• Analyze monitoring results to produce recommendations for improving performance and operational efficiency of middleware components.
• Got trained in IBM Info sphere Optim for Test Data Management and data archival.
• Work with CMIPS II Sr. Systems Engineer and Architect on issues related to middleware infrastructure design and architecture, and assists with Proof Of Concept testing.
• Work with peers within and beyond the Operations team to define and characterize complex technology or process problems and develop implement new solutions.
• As needed, assist with the development of Operations white papers, proposals, deliverables, and other documentation.

Environment: IBM Web Sphere Application Server 6, IBM Web sphere Portal, IBM DB2, AIX, UNIX, Linux, IBM Directory Server, SAP Business Objects, IBM Info sphere, IBM Curam, IBM Info sphere Optim, TPV.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and administered various applications on WebSphere Application Server ND on Distributed platforms.
• Involved in creating the clustered Environment and setting up SSL.
• Trouble shooting various issues during mixed cell stress testing.
• Configured IHS and its plug-in to work with WAS ND environment.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security using LDAP and LTPA from admin console and application components on both Distributed platforms.
• Involved in developing complex scripts to automate batch jobs.
• Involved in Load and Integration testing of J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server for distributed platforms.
• Configured clustering through deployment manager for load balancing and failover functions.
• Monitored Applications and WAS performance through Tivoli Performance Viewer and tuned the system caching, queuing, JVM parameters, DB Connection Pooling.
• Configured the web-server interfaces plug-in file , session management, virtual hosts, data sources, HTTP transports for Application Server instances and applications.
• Implemented creation of Server groups and clusters in WebSphere Application server.
• Mapped JMS provider to the WebSphere MQ messaging system.
• Configured WebSphere Application server security through Custom Registry and LDAP.
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces.
• Deployed the application in staging, in productions, following change management practices and 24/7 support.
• Prepare documentation for the team members and communicate with management, team and with IBM regarding issues, solutions and recommendations.
• Written some shell/Jython scripts to automate the process like node federation for distributed platforms.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7, IBM DB2, AIX, UNIX, Linux, IBM Directory Server, IHS 6.1, TPV.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator/ Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Installed IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V6.0, WebSphere Portal and did the authorization and authentication process in security processes.
• Analyzing and Troubleshooting installations and Configuration problems
• Implemented horizontal and vertical scaling of WebSphere Application Server Advanced Edition in a workload managed cluster. This involved modeling and cloning also called server groups and cloning services in WAS V6.1.
• Performed advanced performance monitoring and tuning of both WebSphere and the Solaris operating system. Experience with performance monitoring of J2EE applications using products like Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Experienced in setting up integrated security access to the portal and Single Sign-On to other applications.
• Worked on Advanced middle-tier configurations, Tier production incident responses, Tier Engineering Incident Responses.
• Worked with administering JBoss
• Server plug-ins were generated and deployed in IBM HTTP Server.
• Gained experience in implementing LDAP security models. Utilized Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer for performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Involved in configuration of WebSphere Application Server resources like JDBC Data Sources, JDBC Providers and Connection Pooling to connect to the DB2.
• Maintained WebSphere Application Server 6.0 for web applications development and deployment JSP and EJB components on WAS.
• Written Shell Scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere.
• Write scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup, everyday system tasks, etc.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 6.1, Solaris, Windows 20003, DB2 UDB, IBM HTTP Server 6.1, WebSphere Portal Server 5.0, LDAP, Tivoli, J2EE 1.