PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of professional IT experience in CA Siteminder, Sun one Directory Server for secure Single Sign-On solution on heterogeneous platforms.
• Proficient in installation, performance design and configuration of SiteMinder policy server and agents in a SSO Environment.
• Good knowledge of creating policy domains, realms, policies and rules, configuring access to User directories, setting up response attributes and cookie variables, defining authentication schemes in a SSO Environment.
• Ability to create and execute an upgrade plan for various SiteMinder versions
• Good knowledge in maintaining, troubleshooting SiteMinder environment
• Sound Knowledge in installation, configuration & administration of directory servers (Sun One/iPlanet Directory Server)
• Experience with setting up Sun Directory server Replication and support to include patching, tuning, maintenance, troubleshooting and use of Directory Server tool.
• Experience in upgrading and migratingSun DirectoryServer (LDAP) from 5.x to 6.x.
• Experience in LDAP server Replication Management to make sure the directory services in the enterprise are accessible in highly available mode
• Good understanding of LDAP protocol, designing of schema secure for system architecture, planning the directory data according to the enterprise needs.
• Sound knowledge in LDAP v3 commands/ search strings to manage and troubleshooting user issues.
• Experience in creation of LDIF files to change attributes or bulk-add/delete users from User store manually.
• Sound Knowledge in installing & configuring Active Directory.
• Experience in Maintenance, Support and Administering SiteMinder, Sun One LDAP, Web Servers (IIS, Apache, Sun One, IBM http) and Applications servers (IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic).
• Excellent in Troubleshooting & Debugging using log files from policy server logs, web agent logs, directory server logs.
• Good troubleshooting skills, ability to learn fast with technical and analytical skills.
• Goal-oriented and a highly motivated team player

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SSO Management: CA SiteMinder, Sun Access Manager, ADFS
Directory Servers: Sun/ oracle Directory Server, Active Directory
Operating Systems: Windows, Solaris, Linux, AIX
Web Servers: Sun one, Apache, Microsoft IIS, IBM HTTP
Application Servers: WebLogic, WebSphere, JBOSS, Sun one, Tomcat
Languages: C, JAVA, JavaScript, VB script, XML, pearl, Unix scripting
Networking: TCP/IP networking, Firewalls, Load balancers, Bigip, 3DNS

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

B-Tech in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

WORK EXPERIENCE\

Tampa, FL Mar 09 - Present
Confidential

• Supporting SiteMinder agents on over 4000 applications.
• Configured and wrote scripts to upgrade SiteMinder environment.
• Involved in resolving technical issues and technical assistance to teams by analysis of the log files from the Policy Server and Web Agent.
• Expertise in integrating and protecting web applications and other resources with SiteMinder Policy Server and its components.
• Defining the Realms, Rules, Responses, setting up response attributes as Cookie variables or HTTP variables, Defining User directories, Policies, configure them to the given set of user DNs.
• Configured SmWalker to integrate with policy server and created responses.
• Can design and document the first level support to be given to help desk team to improve efficiency
• Provided support for the maintenance of SiteMinder infrastructure/architecture and security framework, API and application integration for authentication, authorization/entitlement and data encryption
• Install and configure Siteminder Federation security services on Jboss and Tomcat servers on various platforms.
• Configure applications with ADFS & SiteMinder to achieve desktop SSO
• Supporting Sun one LDAP server 5.1 with known 500 bugs
• Involved in team for migrating directive server from 5.1 to 6.3
• Troubleshooting day-to-day issues on LDAP servers and monitoring replication problems.
• Troubleshooting Siteminder R12 issues and worked with CA to resolve them.

Environment:

SiteMinder policy server 6.0/R12, Siteminder Web agent R12/6x, Sun ONE Directory Server 5.2, ADFS 2.0,Jboss 4.x, Tomcat 6x, windows 2003/2008, IIS 6.0/IIS 7.0 Web servers, Web Sphere 6.1/7.0,Red Hat 4/5,AIX 6.1

Portsmouth, NH
Confidential, Administrator Sept 08 - Dec 08

• Integrated various web based applications with CA Siteminder
• Managed the SSO administration, testing and troubleshooting in development, staging and production environments.
• Created and managed configuration and policy domain objects.
• Installed and troubleshooting SiteMinder application agent installation on weblogic & WebSphere application server
• Involved in Upgrading directory server 6.1 to 6.3 in native/zip distribution
• Configured mixed-mode replication between directory server 5.x and 6.x
• Designed and analyzed migration plan for Sun One Directory (LDAP) from 5.x to 6.x
• Involved in troubleshooting directory server related issues when implementing migration from dir 5.2 to dir 6.3
• Assisted in architecting LDAP schema designs and directory tree structures from Siteminder perspective to merge and migrate the authorization groups and external users.
• Built Sun one server and siteminder new environment by migrating to new hardware.
• Provided 24x7 Siteminder & LDAP 2nd level support and maintenance of all environments.
• Documented all design, development and upgrade efforts in testing and production environments.
• Key player ofthe A & A team doing the pre-Audit review and follow up with the AS team to fix important security holes in the configurations and hence reduce the number of exception/findings from the Audit.
• Design the LDAP DIT/structure for storing application roles and access control policies
• Good knowledge in siteminder 12 upgrade plans.

Env:
CA siteminder 6.0, Sun One Directory Server 5.x & 6.x, F5 Load balancer, windows 2003, Solaris 9/10, RHL 3/4 , HP UX 11.0/11i, AIX 4.3.3/5.1, weblogic application server

Englewood, NJ
Confidential, Administrator Feb 08 - July 08

• Member of team that designed the migration plan and its activities for the SiteMinder Migration from 5.x to 6.x.
• Installation of SiteMinder Policy server, importing and exporting data from 5.5 to 6.0.
• Installation and configuration of Web agent for Web Servers 5QMR and 6QMR (Apache and IIS).
• Migrated existing web agents from 5.5 to 6.0 for Apache 2.0 web server on Red Hat Linux (AS).
• Migrated application agents on web sphere and web logic server.
• Configured Web servers with SiteMinder Single Sign on (SSO).
• Deployed and configured Directory Server 6.x as User Store and Policy Store in different environments.
• Involved in designing the directory server architecture according to requirement.
• Installed and configured Sun Directory proxy Server 6.x in different environments.
• Specifying Proxy Rules for the Secure Proxy Server.
• Involved in resolving the mix-mode replication issues between directory server 5.x and 6.x
• Involved in developing the day-to-day backup scripts for directory server
• Assisted in architecting LDAP schema designs and directory tree structures from Site Minder perspective to merge and migrate authorization groups and external users.
• Involved in upgrade of directory server 5.x to 6.x
• Designed the LDAP schema and replication to support SiteMinder Policy, User store and Key Store in highly available mode.
• Configured the Replication for user directories on Sun One LDAP servers.
• Revised LDAP directory and security architecture for J2EE applications.
• Migrated user store and policy store data from Active Directory to LDAP
• Used ILM to manage identities through a SharePoint-based policy and workflow management console
• Provided support for the maintenance of Siteminder infrastructure/architecture and security framework, API and application integration for authentication, authorization/entitlement and data encryption
• Worked with Sun in resolving the replication and high CPU issues after upgrading to directory server 6.x
• Analyzed system problems to determine their root cause and then develop solutions including, potentially new configurations, advice for software or scripts and documentation as required mitigating future occurrences in SiteMinder.
• Developed documentations for the upgrades and installation of the SiteMinder environment

Environment:
Sun ONE Directory Server 5.x & 6.x, Windows 2003, Red hat Linux 2.1AS, Solaris 9, Apache 2.0, JBOSS3.x

Aug 07- Dec 07
Pittsburgh, PA
Confidential, Administrator

• Strong knowledge in installing, configuring Netegrity SiteMinder 6.0, 5.x Policy Servers and Web Agents in windows and Unix environments.
• Defining the Realms, Rules, Responses, setting up response attributes as Cookie variables or HTTP variables, Defining User directories, Policies, configure them to the given set of user DNs.
• Setup the Policy store and key stores with SiteMinder tools.
• Configured the SiteMinder Policy server for failover to multiple user directories and policy stores.
• Deployed secure login to applications in development, testing and Production environments with SiteMinder policy servers 6.0 and 5.x.
• Troubleshooted login, Authorization problems using Trace Files in 6.0 or (Log files in 4.51/6) and solve them on timely basis.
• Configured and setting up Sun Directory server Replication, Load balancing and fail over.
• Designed the migration plan and its activities for the sun one directory server upgrading from 5.x to 6.x applied required patches.
• Coordinated with Directory Server Admin team to resolve user directory issues.
• Involved in writing scripts to Setting up Sun One LDAP Importing and Exporting data.
• Coordinated with Directory Server Admin team to resolve user directory issues.
• Extended existing schema as required by creating custom object classes and attributes, and building on existing object classes and attributes.
• Generated reports and made changes for specific users as per business rules in SunOne Directory "User Store" using Softerra LDAP Administrator and LDIF import.
• Provided support to application developers to help integrate applications with SiteMinder Single Sign-On.
• Can design and document the first level support to given to help desk team to improve efficiency.
• Working on troubleshooting for LDAP and SiteMinder issues with Support Teams for newer initiatives at organization level.
• Managed LDAP policy stores using policy server tools like smobjexport & smobjimport.
• Working on projects for different teams for setting up of new Environments. Installing and configuring Web and App servers in different combinations.
• Involved in migration of directory server 5.2 p2 to 5.2p4 in native distribution.

Environment:
CA SiteMinder, Sun One LDAP server 5.2, sun one webserver, Apache 1.3, Solaris 8.0, Win 2000 & 2003 server, IIS 5.0 /6.0.

Confidential, Jun 06 to Nov 06
Hyderabad, India
Confidential, Consultant

• Involved with the team in installing SiteMinder Web Agents
• Involved with the team in installing SiteMinder policy server 5.5 on Windows 2003 and responsible for the performance tuning of the system
• Responsible for the design of the rules, realms, policies and responses, domains etc for the daily maintenance of the system.
• Worked with the application owners to design the rules, responses and policies for each application.
• Managed and implemented multiple security projects at the same time using custom authentication schemes include RSA SecureID scheme.
• Configured Policy Server objects for Impersonation.
• Was involved in resolving login issues in coordination with the LDAP team.
• Assisted the team in developing documentation for the installation and management of the SiteMinder environment.
• Planning and preparation of proposals, document business requirements and system requirements.
• Trained and consulted with various client areas (business, systems administrators and developers) on how to use and configure SiteMinder, Web server installation and configuration (IIS, Apache).
• Documenting business and functional issues such as security roles and accesses required contributing the design of an Identity and access management solution.
• Designed SiteMinder & LDAP maintenance framework for all support levels. Implemented SiteMinder knowledge base for all support levels. Provided 24x7 SiteMinder support and maintenance.

Environment:
Netegrity SiteMinder 4.5/5.0, Sun One LDAP server 5.1, iPlanet 5.1, Apache 1.3, Solaris 8.0, Win 2000 server, IIS 5.0.