PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 7 years of IT experience in Planning, Configuring, Administering, Tuning and Troubleshooting IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere MQ.
• IBM WebSphere Application Sever
• Experience in Installing, migrating and upgrading WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere MQ.
• Experiece in Installing and configuring IBM Integration bus (IIB v10.0.0.4).
• Experience in IBM integration bus (IIB v10.0.0.4) administration.
• Experience in monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications in Development, QA, Staging and Production Environments.
• Worked with IBM as maintenance lead managing OS/Firmware patching, DB Patching, ISEC remediation for more than 300 servers which incudes development, Stage and Prod.
• Responsible for planning and executing periodic patching of more 300 servers during maintenance.
• Experience in configuring and maintaining IBM WAS6.0.x/6.1/7.0/8.0 and IBM WESB 6.2.x and Web Servers like Sun one Web server 6.1 on UNIX/Linux/Solaris/AIX and WINDOWS NT/2000 platforms and setting up the development, testing and production environments.
• Experience in Administration and Maintenance of WAS ND clusters (vertical, horizontal, hybrid) and deployment of applications in highly available, load balanced production environments.
• Experience in Installing Fix Packs and Migrating to latest versions. Configuring of JDBC Providers, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, Global Security and LDAP.
• Worked on scripts for automated deployment of Enterprise applications, creation of WebSphere artifacts and troubleshooting issues with the deployments.
• Configure JMS providers, QCF's and Queues to enable messaging and to create connections for JMS destinations.
• Experience in creation and configuration of JDBC data sources, JMS Queues.
• Experience on configuring various data source types - DB2, SQL, ORACLE, OS400 and tune them for high availability.
• Installation of signer and personal certificates on WebSphere environment.
• Experience in working on various WebSphere components such as Workload Management (WLM), Clustering and troubleshooting WebSphere related problems.
• Extensive experience in Webserver Troubleshooting and SSL configurations.
• Expertise in Firewall Access Requests and Network troubleshooting.
• Trouble-shooting servers to analyze Root Cause in case of failures/problems with servers.
• Troubleshooting alerts from monitoring system for system error conditions
• Deployed application ears on WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment in QA, Staging and given support to Production environments on a Trouble ticket system, and troubleshoot various configuration and application issues.
• Trouble shooting various problems in different stages of development, QA and production using logs files, JVM Count and JDBC Connections
• Experience in providing 24 X 7 on call support for Production environment.
• Experience in designing High availability mode for the clusters to be created on WebSphere environment.
• Open PMR's with IBM and co-ordinate with on various issues and work on the resolutions.
• Experience on Sun One Webserver (iplanet) and involved in the creation of websites, load balancing the traffic.
• Experience in generating self-signed and verisgin certificates for websites.
• Experience on managing webservers and troubleshoot logs for errors based on traffic.
• Experience in writing Python/Jython scripts for automation of various WebSphere tasks.
• Experience on troubleshooting for plug-in regeneration problems with WebSphere Application Server.
• Used Python, Jython and UNIX shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere Application Servers and other related tasks which maintains the integrity and performance of the system.
• Knowledge in implementing LDAP security models and IBM secure way (LTPA).
• Assign roles to users and groups for administrative work.
• IBM WebSphere MQ (on AIX/Solaris/Linux/)
• Experience in Installing and configuring MQ Server and MQ clients.
• Experience in creation and configuration of Queue Managers.
• Experience in configuring and monitoring Queues, Channels, Name lists, Process, Topics and Subscriptions etc.,
• Experience in end-to-end trouble shouting in both Distributed queue management and clusters.
• Experience in creation and monitoring of Multi-instance Queue Managers.
• Enabled Triggering on the Queues for monitoring and automation.
• Experience in qmgr aliases and request response architecture.
• Experience in Clustering Queue.
• Pro-actively monitor the middleware servers and Perform daily on call tasks (checking error logs, Back-out/Dead letter queues, System Logs).
• Provided support by 24x7 shift rotation basis and monitored trouble ticket queues to attend user and system calls.
• Experience supporting more than 200 servers .
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to interact with all levels of personnel.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0, IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus 6.2.0

Web Servers: Sun one Webserver 6.1

Messaging: IBM MQ 6.0/7.0.1

Operating Systems:, AIX, SUN Solaris,Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install and configure WebSphere Application Server 8.x, 7.X and Sun ONE webserver 6.x, for Development, system test, test and pre-production and Production environments
• Install,configure and administration of IBM Integration bus (IIB) in Linux.
• Deployment of applications in IIB servers using Jenkins.
• Deploy application ears on IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment in Development, System Test and Performance Test on a daily basis and troubleshoot various configuration and application issues.
• Install RefreshPacks, FixPacks and Interim Fixes.
• Implement workload management (WLM) for failover using a horizontal, vertical and a combination of horizontal and vertical clustering.
• Configure WebSphere resources such as JDBC Providers, Data Sources, Connection Pooling and administered performance tuning.
• Install and configure the WebSphere plug-in for remote web servers
• Create/configure web-instances; generate/propagate plug-ins.
• Collect garbage collection data for monitoring JVM heap sizes.
• Analyze logs, Head Dumps and Thread dumps generation and analyze the same using ISA.
• Configured admin console security on WebSphere and creating users with various roles to access the WebSphere admin console - users and groups and added them in LDAP Console Groups using Admin console.
• Creating queue managers, configuring and tuning the queue managers.
• Configuring and monitoring Queues, Channels, Name lists, Process, Topics and Subscriptions etc.,
• End-to-end trouble shooting in Distributed queue management, cluster environments and in hybrid environments.
• Creating channel tab files and configuring server connection channels.
• Enabling Triggering on the Queues for monitoring and automation.
• Experience in qmgr aliases and request response architecture.
• Creating cluster environment and monitoring queues.
• Configuring multi-instance queue managers and monitoring multi instance queue managers.
• Configuring topic subscription using cluster.
• Worked on problem tickets and found effective solutions to various problems and performance issues. Worked on WebSphere system related system work (patches, fixes).
• Troubleshooted memory,CPU issues. Involved in troubleshooting technical issues.
• Worked on more than 200+ servers.

Technical Environment: IBM WESB 6.1, IBM WebSphere 8.0/7.0/6.1, Sun ONE webserver 6.1, WebSphere MQ 6.x/7.0. IIB v10.