SUMMARY:

• Installation, configuration, upgrade, development, remote technical support, troubleshooting and system administration of WebSphere MQ, WBIMB/IIB, WTX and Datapower. Planning, architecting, and problem resolution of the middleware applications.
• IBM Certified Specialist in WebSphere MQ and IIB (Message Broker Administration) with over 12+ years of IT industry experience.
• More than 12 years of experience in IBM WebSphere MQ and WMB/IIB.
• More than 2 years of experience in WebSphere MQ FTE 7.0.2.1, 7.0.3
• Design and articulate application integration architecture based on SOA principles.
• Good Experience in Scalability and Streamlining the EAI (MQ, WBI MB) Test and Production Environment.
• Ability to analyze, design, develops, test and implement system or procedures that optimize time, effort and resources.
• Provided 24x7 On - call support for both Test and Production servers.
• Exposure to major Production Environments running E-Business applications using WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker
• Expertise in Installing & Configuring IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0/7.5/7.1/7.0.1.7/6.0/5.3, and IIB 10/9, WebSphere Message Broker 8/7/6.1/6.0 on various environments such as Windows 2003/NT/XP, AIX, Sun Solaris, Linux, HP-UX and AS/400.
• Experienced in Setting up High availability clusters for WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker servers using HACMP.
• Expertise in troubleshooting the critical production issues and getting them resolved quickly
• Expertise in setting up the databases and configuring the odbc files for the broker connection
• Expertise in Administering & Performance Tuning in IBM WebSphere MQ and Broker
• Well versed in installing and using monitoring tools like Tivoli Omegamon and Qpasa
• Expert in setting up security in MQ and Broker using OAM and Access control lists
• Experienced in setting up SSL across the MQ and Broker environments and maintaining the certificates
• Experience in writing Bash Shell Scripts, Crontab Scripting for automated recycle of WebSphere MQ and Broker servers and day to day tasks

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: WebSphere MQ 6.x/ 7.0/7.1/7.5/8, MB 5.x/6.x/7.0/9.0/10, WebSphere MQ FTE 7.0.2.1, 7.0.3

Hardware: IBM AIX (Including HACMP), Sun Solaris, HP-UX (Including Service Guard), Linux, Windows 95/NT/98/2K/XP, MVS, z/OS.

Languages: JAVA, C, C++, COBOL, CICS, PL/SQL, Visual C++, VB, HTML, XML, ASP, PERL and Shell scripting.

Databases: DB2/UDB, SQL SERVER, Oracle 8i.

Tools: Candle, Tivoli, Qpasa, VISIO, WSAD, Wily, Optier, HP Service Desk/Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

IBM WebSphere MQ/ Message Broker Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked on AIX to LINUX migration of MQ /MB components
• Worked on moving of the Full repositories from one queue manger to other queue manger.
• Worked on setting up the individual Cluster transmissions queues for clusters to separate out the Cluster traffic.
• Worked on setting up the Dead Letter Queue qmgr’s to route all the failed messages to central DLQ servers.
• Worked on moving the MQ/IIB components from one Data center servers to other Data center servers.
• Worked on Role Based Security setup in IIB to control the access to the users.
• Worked on SSLv3 and TLS V1.0 disablement in MQ and IIB.
• Performed Datapower firmware upgrades whenever we have new version from IBM.
• Supported Datapower appliances, like setting up security for users and other administrative tasks.
• Systems performance tuning, clustering, WMQ&JMS implementation.
• Installation, Configuration and administration of WebSphere MQ V 7.0.1.7,MQ V 7.1,MQ V 7.5 and MQ v8.0 and WMB V 7.0.0.2, WMB v 8, IIB V10 and V9 on most of the supported platforms.
• Migration of MQ V 6.0.2.3 to MQ v 7.0.1.7, MQ v 7.1 to MQ v 7.5 to MQ v 8
• Migration of WMB V 6.0.2.3 to WMB v 7.0.0.2 and WMB V7.0.0.2 to IIB V 9.0.0.0/IIB v10.0.0.0
• Multi instance QMGR setup and Multi Instance Message broker setup on Linux.
• Installing & Configuring MQ FTE on Client servers.
• Applying fix packs for MQ FTE.
• Installing & Configuring MQ on Servers & Installing MQ FTE Server.
• Creating Queue managers, FTE agents.
• Creating MQ FTE transfers & Monitors
• Prepared operational guidelines for administering and configuring broker on various platforms like AIX, Linux and Windows.
• Provided 24x7 On-Call support for all environments (System Test, Assembly Test, Training, Break Fix, and Production).
• Perform incident and problem resolution for Websphere MQ, WebSphere MB.
• Coordinated with IBM to resolve all PMR's related to MQ Series.
• Integrated MQ, Message broker, WTX and Datapower with Splunk for a centralized error logging mechanism.
• Meet with different teams finding out ideas on how to better administer our products with minimal personnel involvement.
• Provided daily support to production-support team members on WebSphere MQ Operation and problem determination.
• Provide technical leadership with architectural design and implementation of WebSphere MQ, WMQ Message Broker.
• Set up MQ Clustering and security using OAM
• Configured SSL communications in MQ.
• Full repository services move to the new QMGR’s.
• Created the individual DLQ central server for each cluster. All DLQ messages are end up on the central server by changing the default DLQ for all the qmgr’s and creating the queue setup to route the messages to central server.
• Worked with performance team to install and configure Qpasa/Optier/Wily on servers to monitor QMGR and MQ objects and generate reports.
• Assist customers with developing procedures for migrating existing applications into WMQ messaging environment.
• Provide systems architecture planning, application testing & deployment.
• Develop training course materials and deliver training and technical discussions in the areas of messaging and middleware technologies
• Coordinated with System admin and Supported installation of Websphere MQ 6.0
• Upgrade of Websphere MQ 5.3 to 6.0 and Websphere MQ 6.0.2.3 to 7.0.1.3 on AIX/LINUX.
• Install and Configure WBI MB 5.x, WBI MB 6.0 and WBI MB 7.0 on multiple platforms on AIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows in cluster and High availability environments.
• Install and configure WBI MB Toolkit and MB Explorer and Runtime on Windows XP and Windows 7.
• Developed UNIX script to customize brokers and user name servers.
• Design and Develop Complex message flows to route messages between different destinations.
• Provided solutions including PUB-SUB, Message Transformation, Message Enrichment and Intelligent routing kind of message flows and various transformation message sets.
• Define brokers and execution groups using Message Broker tool kit and deploy to the configuration manager.
• Tuned the message broker http listener to handle the HTTP/HTTPS requests.
• Configured broker runtime to setup external resources like JDBC Providers, JMS Providers, Email Servers, IMS Connect, Policy Sets, Policy Bindings, SAP Connection.
• To increase the performance of message flows increased the number of threads of flows and increased the heap size of Execution groups to prevent the slow processing of messages.
• Installed and configured Qpasa Message Broker extension to monitor the message flows.
• Installed and configured Optier performance to tool to monitor the end to end transactions.
• Enabled User-exits for Message Broker.
• Collected MQ and Message Broker logs and user traces to troubleshoot the problems.
• Assigning java debug ports to the execution groups.
• Used Debugger in toolkit to find the root cause of the message flow issues.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

MQ/WMB Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Assisted customers with developing procedures for migrating existing applications in to WBI.
• Recommended and implemented the system Architecture for the production.
• Implementation of the systems for High Availability and Hot Failover
• Installation, Configuring and administering interfaces for WebSphere MQ.
• Designed MQ applications supporting application level security and delivering MQ infrastructural solutions using link level security.
• Develop MQ infrastructure in enterprise level with distributed and mainframe queuing and clustering on AIX, Solaris, Z/OS, OS/390, VMS, NCR and Windows 2000
• Setup Gateway QMGR solutions, Clustering solutions and Queue Sharing Groups.
• Coordinated with application teams to develop system's business function and connect to EAI transport layer using the API's.
• Point of Contact for the Business, Testing and Application teams.
• Create interface design specification documents and MQ objects as per the EAI Development Standards.
• Setting up, monitoring and troubleshooting WBI adapters (JDBC.JTEXT, TX /HL7, Web Services and SAP).
• Upgrading WebSphere MQ 5.3 to 6.0 on Windows, Solaris, AIX, Linux platforms.
• Installing and Configuring WebSphere MQ 5.3 on Windows, Solaris, AIX, Linux platforms.
• Applying fix packs (formerly known as CSD).
• Architected of WMQ Cluster environment.
• Architected Workload Balancing within WMQ Cluster.
• Define channels using SSL Security
• Architected and implemented SSL certificates (Self-Signed and CA Signed) for WMQ Channels.
• Provided 24/7 on call support in both testing and production environment.
• Install Configure and administer interfaces for MQSI.
• Handled maintenance of entire MQ environment.
• Automate WMQ Queue Managers startup and shutdown procedures using Scripts.
• Mentoring Programmers and Application Developers with WMQ basics and API.
• Used WBI monitor tool for the administration and process management
• Experience in using WBI simulation tools for checking the validity of the process installation.
• Coded the ESQL for MQSI message flow nodes (IBM primitives) like Compute, Filter and Database related nodes.
• Troubleshooting and debugging MQSI message flows using Trace nodes and error handler nodes.
• Established the collective group of brokers and designed channels between them in WMQ and started the various instances of message flows in the execution group.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

WebSphere MQ/Broker Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuring and administering interfaces for WBI MB, MQ series various releases on AIX, HP-UX, servers.
• Troubleshoot and Manage critical High volume MQ Series environment.
• Provide 24/7 on call support in both testing and production environment.
• Coordinated with MQ developers assisting with design, implementation, architecture and development.
• Analyzing FDC's cut during application level and MQ internal errors.
• Administering in multiple operating systems which included clearing queues, modifying object attributes, restarting channel and supporting application development by resolving programming problems with MQI (WebSphere MQ Application Programming Interface).
• Troubleshooting and Managing MQ queues, channels, listeners and triggering.
• Configuring and managing and as well as automation WebSphere MQ channels and adding and modifying WebSphere MQ resource definitions.
• Preparing comprehensive test cases for validating the migration.
• Troubleshoot, optimize performance and health check the solutions.
• Wrote scripts to automate administration tasks using shell and Perl scripts.
• Defining channels using SSL (Secure socket layer) certificates. Designed MQ applications supporting application level security and delivering MQ infrastructural solutions using link level security.
• Worked under DQM and Clustering environment
• Configured repository Queue Managers in Clustering environment
• Convert an existing network of Queue Managers into a Cluster environment
• Involved in developing backup and recovery procedures.
• Applying CSDs, hot fixes, PTFs. Upgrading MQ versions by manual process or automated processes writing scripts.
• Wrote scripts to uninstall older versions of MQ and install new version of MQ.
• Used Qpasa Monitoring tool for administration of WebSphere MQ on distributed platforms.
• Wrote Qpasa business rules for monitoring the queue’s and channels of WebSphere MQ.
• Installed Qpasa agents on different platforms (AS400, Windows, Solaris, HP/UX and AIX).