Summary:
As IBM Certified Senior Systems Engineer with Eight years of experience in WebSphere Portal Server Administration, WebSphere Application Server Administration, IBM Lotus Connections Administration and Java/J2EE Application Development in areas of Financial, Banking, Insurance, SOA application Integration.

Profile:

• Extensive experience in installation, migration, deployment of enterprise applications and webservices feature pack installation on WebSphere Application server 7.0/6.x/5.x and WebSphere Portal Server 6.x/5.x.
• Demonstrated experience in trouble shooting, performance tuning and performance monitoring of WebSphere Application Server and WebSphereportal Server.
• Experience in Instillation ,configuration and Administration in IBMLotus Connections 2.5 on Windows and Z- Linux environments,
• Extensive experience in implementation of workload Management (WLM) using clustering techniques such as horizontal and vertical scaling for failover and backup/recovery processes.
• Experience in configuring HAManager for high availability of enterprise applications.
• Experience in performance monitoring using HP Business Availability center 7.0.2,Wily Intro scope 8.1.
• Installed and Configured Tivoli Directory Integrator 6.1 to Synchronize data between Directories and Databases.
• Used Log Analyzer, Heap Analyzer, Thread Analyzer to analyze the java core dumps and heap dumps respectively.
• Installed and configured Sun One Web Server, IIS and IBM HTTP Web Server and Integrated with WebSphere Application Server.
• Experience in configuring load balancers like CISCOContent service switch (CSS) and F5Global Traffic manager load balancer.
• Expertise in providing technical support and administration of WebSphereApplication servers (7.0/6.x/5.x), WebSphere Portal Server(6.x,5.x), IBM HTTP Server on different UNIX platforms (Sun-Solaris AIX and Linux) and setting up the development, testing and staging environments.
• Experience in setting up, configuring and implementing authentication and authorization using MS - Active Directory (AD) and Sun One LDAP server.
• Experience in the installation, configuration and administration of IBM's Web Content Management (WCM) component in the WebSphere portal environment.
• Experience in the installation of themes, skins, and integration of Web Content Management using collaboration tools like Quick Place with WebSphere Portal Server.
• Expertise injacl, Jython scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XML Config tool.
• Possess strong leadership, communication (both verbal and written), and exchange information with others clearly and concisely.
• Responsible for creating all necessary documentation to build, administer, and support all dev, TEST, QA and production Portal Environments
• Experience in coordinating, assigning work requests and status check with off-shore team and guide the team.

Certifications:

• IBM Certification: WebSphere Application Server ND Administration V6.0
• Sun Certification(SCJP): Sun Certified Java Programmer V1.5

Technical Skills:

Operating Systems

AIX 5.1/5.2/6.1, Solaris 8, 9 & 10, Linux 9/8/7.x, HP-UX10.20,Windows NT/2000/2003

Application/web Servers

• WebSphere7.0/6.1.x/6.0.x/5.1.x/5.0.x, WebSphere Portal Server 6.1/5.1,
• Lotus Connections 2.5, SiteMinder 5.5/4.5, Tivoli Access Manager 6.0,IIS
• 6.0,SunOne WebServer 6.1.6.0

Scripting Language

JACL, Jython, JavaScript

Languages

Java/J2EE,XML

Database

Oracle 11g,10g,/9i/8.1.7/, SqlServer2000/7.0/6.5/6.0, DB2 UDB 8.2/8.1 /7.2 , and MS-Access 2000

Tools and Utilities

TDI 6.1.1,Tivoli Access Manager, Log4j, Tivoli Performance Viewer, RAD

Professional Experience:

Client : Confidential, Warren, NJ (June'10-Present)
Role : IBM WebSphere Specialist

Responsibilities :

• Installation of WebSphere Portal 6.1.5, WebSphere Application Server 7.0.0.5 on AIX 6.1.
• Migration of WebSphere Application Server 7.0.0.5 to fix pack 11(7.0.0.11).
• Installation of SunOne WebServer 6.1 with sp9, plug-in and integrated with WAS.
• Configured Siteminder webagent on SunOne Web server 6.1.
• Installation and Configuration Tivoli Access Manager V6.0
• Configured WebSphere Portal server 6.1 to use Oracle 11g as Database and migrated Portal Databases (Customization, Community, Release, JCR, and VMM) to Oracle 11g.
• Enabled Global Security between WPS and WAS for SSO.
• Configured SunOne Directory Server as LDAP Server for Portal Server 6.1.
• Configured 2 way SSL between Portal Cell and WAS Cell.
• Performance tuning for Portal server in Dev, IST, UAT and Production Environment.
• Configured VeriSign and Custom Certificates for WebSphere Portal Server to connect external interfaces.
• Identified WebSphere Portal Server connection issues with BEA Weblogic server and fixed
• Created portal pages, labels and Themes and assign the permissions using Access Control.
• Deployed the Portal applications in Portal Server 6.1 and setup the permissions using Access Control.
• Created Application Servers, Clusters and configured Shared Libraries, Web Services, Listener ports, Queues, Queue Connection Factories, JDBC providers, Data Sources, URL Providers, JVM Custom Properties, Environment Variables, etc.
• Integrated IBM WebSphere Portal Server and Application Server with Wily Introscope 8.1 to monitor portlets, thread pools, rendering speeds, cache sizes, session data, JVM heap sizes, and database connections.
• Developed Jython Scripts to deploy Java/J2EE applications and Configuration changes for WebSphere Portal Server and Application Server.
• Documentation of Portal installation process and Configuration.

Environment: WebSphere Portal Server 6.1.5, WebSphere Application Server 7.0.11/7.0.5, SunOne WebServer 6.1, NetegritySiteMinder5.5/4.5, AIX 6.1, Solaris10/9, Site Scope, DB2, Oracle 11g, Wily Introscope 8.1.

Client : Confidential, Boston, MA (Mar'10 - May'10)
Role : Architect

Responsibilities :

Lotus Connections and Web sphere Portal Administration:

• Capacity planning, identifying the resources, feasibility study and documentation.
• Instillation, configuration and Administration the IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 on Windows as a POC and migrated to Z- Linux environment.
• Installed and Configured Tivoli Directory Integrator 6.1 to Synchronize data between Sun OneDirectory server and DB2 Database.
• Installed and integrated the Lotus same time 8.0 with Lotus Connections 2.5.
• Installed and Configured WebSphere Apllication server 6.1.0.23 and IBM Http Server 6.1.0.23 and Plug-in 6.1.0.23
• Configured SSL between I H S, WAS and Plug-in.
• Tuned the DB2 scripts for Lotus Connections.
• Installed WebSphere Portal server 6.1.0 and deployed the Outlook Web Access and M/S Exchange portlet and setup credential Vault for single sign-on.
• Integration of Microsoft Office Communicator and SharePoint with WebSphere Portal 6.1.

Environment: WebSphere Portal Server 6.1.5, WebSphere Application Server 6.1.x/6.0/x, I H S 6.x, NetegritySiteMinder5.5/4.5, AIX 6.1, Site Scope, DB2, Oracle 10g, Wily Introscope 8.1,Tivoli Directory Integrator 6.1, Lotus Connections 2.5.

Client : Confidential, Minneapolis, MN (Mar'09 - Jan'10)
Role : System Administrator

Responsibilities :

Portal Server Administration:

• Extensively involved in installing, configuring, maintaining, and supporting WebSphere Portal Server 6.1, WCM Content Management Server, Personalization Rules Engine, WebSphere Application Server 7.0/6.1, I H S server setup the Portal Environment.
• Automated the deployment of portlets, pages, themes and skins using XMLAccess, ANT Release Builder, wsadmin, wpscript and Unix Shell scripting.
• Responsible for creating all necessary documentation to build, administer, and support all Dev, Test, QA and Production Portal Environments.
• Designed the DB2 database environment for hosting Portal configurations for Member Manager, Java Content Repository, Feedback, Likeminds, Customization, Community and Release content.
• Created multiple virtual portals to manage different look and feel, set up security for virtual portals and administered them in a complex environment
• Deployed portal releases using Release Builder utility from the base test environment to production environment and effective version control of portal changes
• Clustred the portal server environment using horizontal clustering across multiple boxes to facilitate high availability, failover support and load balancing in a production environment
• Used WPSconfig utility to transfer data from cloudscape to IBM DB2 database for optimum performance in the production and staging environments.
• Responsible for Disaster Recovery of the WebSphere Portal environment by taking regular backups of Portal file systems, databases, and configurations.
• Deployed themes and skins using wpsadmin, EAR Expander utilities and registered them using the WebSphere Portal console.
• Integrated IBM WebSphere Portal Server with Mercury Diagnostics and ITCAM to monitor portlets, pages, thread pools, rendering speeds, cache sizes, session data, JVM heap sizes, and database connections.
• Application Server Administrator:
• Installed and configured WebSphere application server 7.0/6.1/6.0 and IBM HTTP Server V6.1 on AIX, Linux, Solaris and Windows platforms.
• Responsible for J2EE Application Deployments, Service Integration Bus Configuration, Plug-in Configuration, Data Source Creation, Virtual Host Creation, Session management, clusters, Deployment Manager Configuration, Queues, QCF in WebSphere 7.0/6.1/6.0 on Linux, AIX and Windows 2003 Server.
• Responsible for Site Minder Application Support, this includes Web Agent Support like how the agents are plugged into the web server, Policy Server like how the policy server will talk to LDAP user store schemas that the policy server uses for authentication, authorization etc.
• Extensively involved in migrating all the J2EE applications from WAS 5.1.1.13 to WAS 6.1.0.27 and WAS 7.0.0.7
• Configured and Enabled the Global Security for WAS Administration Console users and Console Groups using Active Directory Server, SUN One Directory Server as a LDAP User Registry.
• Profiled all the J2EE Applications and worked with Application Groups in improving performance of application and possible memory leaks in application before deploying in Production Servers.
• Involved in Creating Shell Scripts like Automation of Startup and Shutdown Processes and Automated the WAS environment with Jacl and Jython Scripts
• Experience in performance monitoring using Vantage analyzer and Tivoli Performance viewer.
• Capable of successfully manage time, projects, and multiple priorities, provide root cause determination for enterprise-wide issues, and able to work well under pressure and time constraints and be able to adjust to a constantly changing, fast paced environment.
• Extensively involved in Installation of fix packs, Webservices feature pack on WebSphere 6.0/6.1.
• Provided 24 X 7 On Call support for web applications infrastructure.

Environment: WebSphere Portal Server 6.1/5.1, Web Sphere7.0/6.1.0.13/6.0/5.1 IIS5.5/5.0, Apache Web Server2.0, NetegritySiteMinder5.5/4.5,AIX4.3.3/5.1/5.2,Solaris10/9,Linux9/8/7.2/7.1/6.2,WebAgent 5.5/3.5, Citrix ICA Client, Sun Solaris8/9, Site Scope, DB2, Oracle 10g.

Client : Confidential, Jacksonville, FL (Mar'08 - Mar'09)
Role : Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all Administrative Tasks like Installation, Configuration, Deployments, Environment Monitoring, Scripting, and Trouble shooting for WebSphere Application Server 6.1/6.0 on AIX 5.3, Sun Solaris8/9, Linux 9.0 and Windows 2003.
• Extensively involved in Work Load Management, Application High Availability, by creating the Server groups and vertical and Horizontal Clusters.
• Performed all Administrative tasks like WebSphere MQ Queue Connection Factories, Queue Destinations, Listener ports, Resource Adaptors, URL Providers, Data Sources, JDBC Providers for applications teams based on Service Requests.
• Configured and Enabled the Global Security for WAS Administration Console users and Console Groups using Active Directory Server, SUN One Directory Server as a LDAP User Registry.
• Installed WebSphere plug-in and integrated with I H S and WebSphere application server.
• Extensively involved in Installation of fix packs, Webservices feature pack on WebSphere 6.0/6.1.
• Experience in performance monitoring using HP Business Availability center 7.0.2.
• Worked on load balancers like CISCO content service switch (CSS), and defines rules on the firewall where IBM Http Server is in the De Militarized Zone (DMZ).
• Configured and supported web servers like IIS, I H S, Apache and Sun One. and integrated with Websphere application server for Internet and Intranet environments.
• Configured Secured Socket Layer (SSL) between I H S and WebSphere Application server.6.0
• Used web site monitoring and server monitoring tool 'Site Scope' which sends the alerts and gives the reports on the site availability, also used Web Trends for web site usage statistics.
• Good Knowledge of HTTP Server Failover, Session Affinity and Session Persistence.
• Resolved Deployment issues and network issues for Development team and in Production Environment.
• Extensively involved in WebSphere Performance Monitoring and Performance Tuning.
• Used Log Analyzer, Heap Analyzer, Thread Analyzer to analyze the java core dumps and heap dumps respectively.
• Supporting the System Administration Services, Production Support, launching web projects. Worked on AIX, Linux and NT environments for Development, Test, Stage and Production environment, which also includes software installations, backups, memory management, patch installation, disaster recovery processes etc. & Documentation.
• Worked on WebSphere Edge components like WebSphere Edge caching proxy (Proxy server) and WebSphere Edge load balancer (Network Dispatcher). Well-versed with the configuration and maintenance of the Edge components.
• Provided infrastructure support to First Coast Services (FCSO) that includes third party vendor applications
• Provided 24/7 pager support and worked with WebSphere Level2 support in complicated issue resolution.

Environment: Web Sphere6.1.0.13/6.0/5.1/ IIS5.5/5.0, Netegrity Site Minder5.5/4.5, WebAgent5.5/3.5, M/S Active Directory , SunOne Directory Server, J2EE1.3/1.2, Java2.0, JSP1.2, EJB2.0, JDBC2.0, XML, Windows 2003, Sun Solaris 8/9, Site Scope, DB2, Oracle 10g, Jython and JACL scripting.

Client : Confidential, Chicago, IL (Aug'05 - Jan '08)
Role : Information Analyst

Responsibilities :

• Installed, configured and maintaining servers WebSphere Portal Server 5.1, WebSphere Application Server 5.1/5.0 and IBM HTTP Server 2.0/1.3 on UNIX platforms- AIX, Linux and Windows 2003 environment.
• Installed, updated portlets, skins and themes on WebSphere Portal Server 5.1.
• Created portal pages, labels and URLs which includes regular, shared and derived pages.
• Well-experienced in assignment of different role types on WebSphere portal resources to different user groups.
• Used the WSAdmin and XMLAccesstools to deploy and administer WebSphere applications and portal resources.
• Assigned themes to the base portal, virtual portal and to individual pages depending on the requirements of portal applications.
• Demonstrated experience in advanced configuration concepts like Application Servers, Clusters, Shared Libraries, Web Services, Listener ports, Queues, Queue Connection Factories, JDBC providers, Data Sources, URL Providers, JVM Custom Services, Environment Variables, etc.
• Applied WebSphere maintenance fix packs, interim fixes, patches and keeping the system software releases current.
• Deployed Enterprise Applications on highly available vertical and horizontal clusters and troubleshoot the applications.
• Configured and Enabled the Global Security for WAS Administration Console users and Console Groups using Active Directory Server, SUN One Directory Server as a LDAP User Registry.
• Installed WebSphere plug-in and integrated with I H S and WebSphere application server.
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck by enhanced performance ensuring upstream queuing.
• Responsible for Disaster Recovery of the WebSphere Portal environment by taking regular backups of Portal file systems, databases, and configurations.
• Involved in Creating Shell Scripts like Automation of Startup and Shutdown Processes and Automated the WAS environment with Jacl and Jython Scripts
• Used Heap Analyzer, Thread Analyzer to analyze the java core dumps and heap dumps respectively.
• Experience in coordinating, assigning work requests and status check with off-shore team and guide the team.
• Travelled to Amsterdam, The Nederland's to migrate portal applications to off-shore.
• Possess strong leadership, communication skills and exchange information with others clearly and concisely
• Provided 24 X 7 On Call support for web applications infrastructure.

Environment: Web Sphere5.1/5.0.2.5, WebSphere Portal Servers 5.1, WebSphere MQ 5.3, Apache web Server, Netegrity Site Minder5.5/4.5, Microsoft Active Directory Server, J2EE1.3/1.2, Java2.0, JSP1.2, EJB2.0, JDBC2.0, XML, Windows 2000 ,AIX, Linux, Site Scope, WSAD5.0/40, DB2, Oracle8.1.7/9.0.5, Load Director, VSS, Shell Scripts, WsAdmin scripting.

Responsibilities :
WebSphere Administrator

• Installation, Configuring, Upgrading and troubleshooting the WebSphere Application ServerandMigration of WebSphere form 3.5.3 to 4.0.4 and Installation of fix packs.
• Responsible for Web server and Application server installation, support and performance monitoring for all applications running on the company's Website using Resource Analyzer.
• Applied software maintenance, fix packs and interim fixes and keeping the system software releases current.
• Extensively Worked Work Load Management, High Availability, by creating the vertical and Horizontal Clusters.
• Deployed Enterprise Applications on highly available vertical and horizontal clusters and troubleshoot the applications.
• Performed Administrative tasks like WebSphere MQ Queue Connection Factories, Queue Destinations, Listener ports, Resource Adaptors, URL Providers, Data Sources, and JDBC Providers for applications.

Project Name: Confidential, Role: Java Programmer
Project Description:

Confidential, is designed to support the users to identify a particular place along with route and map details. The various modules involved in the Map Quest are GeoCoding, GeoRouting and GeoMapping. Map Quest application is designed based on MVC architecture. It uses HTML and JSPs for Presentation layer, Java Servlets for Controller layer and Enterprise Java Beans and e Java Beans for Model layer. Oracle 9i is used for back-end data storage. The purpose of this project is to provide the various routing details along with the Route map when the user provides address

• Preparation of the functional Specifications and the Software Requirement Specifications.
• Developed the UI pages using Struts, Tiles, HTML, and CSS & JavaScript for search functionality.
• Involved in the Design, Development of the architecture of the web application and web pages in JSP.
• Design, development, registration of many Servlets and JSPs in Web Sphere Server
• Involved in functional documentation.
• Interacting with the onsite client manager for the requirements and modifications.
• Involved in writing the Test Cases.
• Developed various JAVA classes, database queries and procedures to retrieve and manipulate the data in underlying Oracle database through JDBC.
• Involved in developing programs for parsing the XML documents using XML Parser.
• Functional, integration and Unit Testing
• Provided 24 X 7 On Call support for web applications infrastructure.

Environment: Web Sphere4.0, Servlets2.1, EJB1.0, JSP1.0, JDBC1.0, PL/SQL, SQL, XML, HTML, IBM Visual Age 3.5, Windows NT, Solaris 2.x., UML, DHTML, IIS, IBM Visual Age for Java 3.5, Rational Rose, JProbe, Oracle 8.1.7, Clear Case and VSS.