SUMMARY:

• with 9 years of IT experience in the areas of design, development, implementation, support and user training for various internet/intranet applications. 5 years of strong experience in Confidential WebSphere and middleware administration.
• Extensive experience in deployments and management of enterprise applications using WebSphere Application server 5.0.x/6.0.x,7.0.x, JACL, TCL, XMLConfig, Workload Management (WLM), Tivoli Performance Viewer, JMS, DB2/UDB (7.2.x/8.0.x), Oracle 9i/8i/7.x on UNIX(AIX, Solaris, LINUX, HP), z/OS and Windows NT/2000 environment.
• Expertise in Installing, Configuring and Trouble - Shooting Application Servers like Confidential WebSphere 6.0/5.0/4.0/3.5 and Web Servers like Confidential HTTP Server, Apache, NES, iPlanet Web Server, IIS Web Server, Oracle 8i/9i Application Server, SQL Server on Windows and different UNIX flavors.
• Provided technical assistance in Monitoring, Tuning, backup/restore, upgrades, failover and recovery and upgrades of WebSphere Environment for Availability, Scalability, Maintainability and WLM(Work Load Management) using cloning and clustering including horizontal and vertical cloning.
• Experience in using Confidential Thread Analyzer to detect JVM thread related issues. Used Tivoli Performance Viewer and Log Analyzer for performance and troubleshooting.
• Experience in Websphere MQ 5.3, JMS, MQ Series and monitored, maintained and customized existing MQSeries objects such as Queue Managers, Queues (local, remote, alias and model), process definitions, channels, and listeners.
• Installing SSL certificates, configuring Single Sign On (thru TAI module of Siteminder), configuring Siteminder Web Agent to implement Security, and enabling Global Security for the Application Server.
• Experienced in most of the WebSphere trouble-shooting tools including wsadmin, backupconfig, JACL Scripts/Jython Scripts, TPV, Resource analyzer, Log Viewer and AAT.
• Strong experience with UNIX network commands, netstat, ftp, scp, tops, vmstat, prstat and telnet.
• Hands on experience with DNS, LDAP, send mail, ftp, remote access, security management, remote computing issues and system troubleshooting skills.
• Well Versed in development of JACL, TCL scripts and shell scripts using WSAdmin, WSCP and XMLConfig tools to automate the WebSphere regular maintenance tasks.
• Experience in using AAT (Application Assembly Tool) for packaging and modifying J2EE Applications on Confidential Web Sphere Application Server.
• Experience in 24X7 on-call production support and trouble shooting problems related to Web Servers, Web sphere Application Server and Database, in Managing security, organization and remote computing issues.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Web/App Servers: WebSphere Application Server 5.0/6.0/7.0, Confidential Http Server 6.0/2.0.47/2.0.42/1.3.26/1.3.19, IIS, Apache Web Server, Tomcat, SunOne,iPlanet,WebSpherePortal Server(WPS) 5.0.2, Web Logic 6.0.

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 8/9, Confidential AIX (5.1/5.2),WIN 2K, HP-UNIX, MS-DOS.

Programming: Java, J2EE, C++, C, VB, SQL/PL SQL, HTML, DHTML, XML, ABAP.

Scripting: JACL, Jython, TCL, WSCP, WSADMIN, Korn Shell Script, Perl, JavaScript, VBScript, CSS.

Databases: Oracle (8i/9i), UDB/DB2, Sybase, MS SQL Server.

Networking: TCP/IP Protocols, Socket Programming, DNS.

Framework: MVC, J2EE Design Patterns, Struts. IDE Eclipse, WSAD, NetBeans, Jbuilder, Editplus, OracleJDeveloper

Security & Others: Site Minder, ikeyman, LDAP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Southbury CT

Websphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Working in Innovation Systems Team Confidential Southbury Data center which manages IHE and THE.
• Innovation Systems Team deals with all kinds of Internal Confidential applications and hosting offering.
• Responsible for Administration and Configuration of WebSphere Application Server 7.x/6.x
• Worked closely with developers to Define and Configure Application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web Resources, Servlets, JDBC drivers and Servlet Engines and Deployment of EJBs across multiple instances of WebSphere.
• Deployed application ears on Web Sphere Application Server Network Deployment in QA, Staging and Production environments on a daily basis and troubleshoot various configuration and application issues
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security using LTPA and LDAP for admin console and application components on both UNIX and WINDOWS
• Configured the web-server interfaces (plug-in file), session management, virtual hosts, datasources, HTTP transports for Application Server instances and applications.
• Configuration of Network Dispatcher for Work Load Management.
• Migrated existing applications from Web Sphere 5.1 versions to 6.0.
• Managed the Application Server remotely using WSCP (WebSphere Control Program) on AIX.
• Responsible for developing UNIX Shell scripts to automate.
• User interaction to extract detailed information needed for developed and designed the system
• Integrated Messaging service with the App Server.
• Used Resource Analyzer to analyze the resources utilized by the App Server.
• Interpreted log files to locate and solve problems using Tracing and Debugging facilities.
• Based on CPU Utilization by the Appserver managed the resources utilized.
• Development using Confidential WebSphere Application Server and Visual Age Java (JSP, Servlets, Java Beans) and development with DB2.
• Integrated the Personalization server with WebSphere app server.
• Configured the app server for different databases.
• Provided 24x7 supported in shift rotation basis and monitored trouble ticket queues to attend user and system calls.

Environment: Confidential WebSphere Application Server 6.0.x,7.0.x,8.5, DB2, UNIX (Solaris, AIX, Linux),, Apache,Zabbix, Confidential HTTP Server, ITCAM, Jenkins, uDeploy. Site scope and CA Introscope. Robocopy and team site.

Confidential, PA

Websphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, administered and supported WebSphere Application Server 6.0/5.0/4.0.
• Maintenance of the WebSphere Application Servers on different UNIX platforms and setting up the development and testing and staging environment for the on going application development.
• Debugging of the application problems in deployment time, runtime and in load test.
• Developed 25+ Jacl scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XMLConfig tool.
• Created and configured JDBC providers and data sources to support database backed applications for Oracle and DB2/UDB.
• Installed and configured Confidential HTTP Server and iPlanet web server.
• Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using LDAP and local operating system authentication.
• Created and configured resources for JDBC, J2C, and JMS based on the application requirements and configured Message Listener Ports for an application, which uses MDBs to trigger the queues.
• Installed and configured multiple Confidential HTTP Servers to participate in clustering using CSS, with remote WAS plug-in.
• Implemented security using Global Security with Confidential Directory Server .
• Migrated existing applications from WebSphere 4.0/5.x versions to 6.0 using waspreupgrade and waspostupgrade tools, Used Application Assembly Tool (AAT) in deploying J2EE Application archives (JAR, WAR, and EAR) on Confidential Websphere Application Server.
• Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Tivoli performance viewer and Thread analyzer.
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck
• Applying software maintenance, program patches and keeping the system software releases current. Effectively interacted with the users on a daily basis, decreasing downtime and increasing user productivity.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software problems, and interact with IT staff or vendors in performing complex testing, support and troubleshooting functions.
• On call 24x7 supports for HIS, Websphere and WebSphere MQ Production Servers.

Environment: Confidential WebSphere Application Server 5.0.x/5.1.x/6.0.x, LDAP server, Confidential WebSphere MQ, UDB, UNIX (Solaris, AIX, Linux), z/OS, Win2000, Apache, Websphere Portal Server 5.0, Confidential HTTP Server, Tivoli, Java, JSP, EJB.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• WebSphere administrator supporting Servers in heterogeneous environment including Sun Sparc servers, Confidential RS-6000 servers, Linux and HP-9000 Servers. Installing, configuring and maintaining Web and Database servers like WebSphere, iPlanet, Apache, Oracle, DB2 on a diverse UNIX platforms that includes AIX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows 2000.
• Responsible for Websphere Portal installation, Configuration of Websphere Portal Server, Portal deployment and testing.
• Migrated applications from WAS 3.5 to 5.0 on new boxes.
• Installed fix packs and fixes, federating node to Deployment Manager.
• Managed Connection pooling and registering web applications (Servlets, JSP) on Websphere Application Server.
• Used Application Assembly Tool (AAT) was used in deploying J2EE applications on the Websphere Application Server and managing security policies for different applications.
• Integrated build servers with WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.0 for J2EE application development, deployment, debugging and testing.
• Configured horizontal scalability of WebSphere through a mechanism called as “Cloning of multiple JVMs” to participate in the WLM to handle the requests from high- availability applications.
• Install active portlets and portlet applications including User and group profiling and authentication. Managed the security and performance optimizations for EJB containers and web applications in WebSphere.
• Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication. Developed many JACL and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XMLConfig tool.
• Experienced in configuring and maintain the SSL (HTTPS) sites by using third party and self-signed SSL cert. on various Web Servers.
• Installed and configured Confidential WebSphere Application Server 5.0/4.0/3.5, Netscape Enterprise Server, iPlanet 4.1, JDBC drivers and Servlet engines along with trouble shooting and recovery on Solaris and AIX.
• Provided level2 support for application and web servers.
• Extensive use of XML. All the data exchange/acknowledge messages/error messages defined in XML.

Environment: Confidential WebSphere Application Server 5.0, Apache 2.0, I H S 2.x, iPlanet, IIS, MQ Series 5.2, UDB, Oracle 9i, AIX 5.1, Sun Solaris 8.0, LDAP and Windows 2000.