SUMMARY:

• Result - driven IT Professional with referable experience in Web Sphere Administration, architectural and design skills in Integration using IBM Web Sphere Application Server, Portal Server and Web Sphere MQ on various platforms.
• Experience in installation, configuration, deployment and management of enterprise applications using WebSphere Application server 8.x/7.x/6.x/, WebSphere Portal Server 8.0/7.0/, WebSphere Process Server (BPM) 8.5/7.0 and WebSphere MQ 7.x/8.x on various platforms like AIX, Linux and Windows 2003.
• Experience in Build and Release Management, DevOps, Experience in Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Ubuntu, RedHat Linux, AIX and Windows 2012 on various hardware platforms and AWS Cloud.
• Strong technical knowledge includes WebSphere Application server implementation, fail-over support, workload management (WLM) using horizontal scaling and vertical scaling and performance tuning, Web server setup, IBM Direct connect, complex secure socket layer (SSL) configuration on IBM HTTP Server 8.5/7.x/6.x
• IBM Certified expert on Application Administration, Systems administration, Trouble shooting and support of highly mission critical e-Commerce Applications using IBM WebSphere Application server 8.5/7.0/6.0, IBM HTTP Server 8.5/7.0/6.0/2. x/1.3x, Oracle 11g, 10.x, 9.x, UDB/DB 2 10.1/9.5/8. 2/7.2, Firewalls and Internet.
• Experience in deploying applications through HP Operations Orchestration.
• Experience in deploying applications through BMC BladeLogic server.
• Experience in integration on HPOO to BladeLogic server.
• Strong work experience in Splunk Administration.
• Experience as a Splunk Admin for Creating and managing app, Creating users, role, Permissions to Knowledge objects.
• Experience in managing the performance of Applications using monitoring tools like AppDynamics
• Strong experience in Continuous Integration with Jenkins, Hudson and integrated Jenkins with Maven, SVN, SonarQube, Nexus and Chef.
• Hands-on experience on installing and configuring IBM WebSphere MQ, Message Broker and MQ MFT.
• Experience in Managing SIB bus, message stores & Data stores.
• Good experience in database transfer from derby to db2 during installation of Portal Server 8.0/6.1.
• Experienced in creating pages and mapping portlets to pages using WebSphere Portal Server 7.0/6.1.
• Strong Experience in Migrating WAS from 7.0 to 8.5 on various operating systems of UNIX (AIX/Linux) and Windows.
• Good hands on experience in configuring the horizontal-vertical clustering, Session persistence and application migration.
• Strong experience to work on RCA (root cause analysis) and adopt best practices to reduce mean time to recovery per the SLAs.
• Practical experience on Scripts writing, debugging, automating admin tasks and executing using ANT, JACL, Jython, Python and UNIX shell scripts (on BASH, KORN and PERL).
• Extensive experience with Web administration, which includes installation and configuration of IBM HTTP Servers 8.5/7.0/6.0, Apache 2.x, Tomcat 4.1, IIS 6.0 on AIX/Linux and Windows Environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SOFTWARE: IBM Web Sphere Application Server 8.5/7.0/6.1, Web Sphere Portal Server 8.0/6.1, Web Sphere Process Server (BPM) 8.5/7.0, IBM HTTP Server 8.5/7.0/6.1, Apache 2.2, BIG IP (F5), Tivoli Performance Viewer, Log Analyzer, Core Dump Analyzer, TIBCO

OS: AIX, Linux, Red Hat Linux and Windows 2003

SCRIPTING: JACL, Jython, Python, ANT, JavaScript and Shell Script

HARDWARE: IBM Blade Centers, DELL Power Edge Servers, COMPAQ, HP

LANGUAGES: JAVA, PL/SQL, VB, HTML,JAVA/J2EE/WEB TECHNOLOGIES: HTML, DHTML, XML, J2EE, JDBC, Servlets, JSP, Java Beans, RMI, EJB, JNDI, and JMS

DATABASES: DB 2 10.1/9.5/8. x, Oracle 9i/10g/11g and SQL Server 2005/2000

TOOLS: PowerPoint, Word, Access, Outlook, Excel, VISIO, Active directory 2003, TDS 5.2

VIRTUALIZATION: VMware ESX Server 3.X, VMotion, VMware Converter

UNIX TOOLS: WinSCP, MTPutty, FTP, SSH

MONITORING TOOLS: App Dynamics, Wily, ITCAM, Splunk, SiteScope

VERSIONING TOOLS: GIT, Bitbucket, SVN (SUB VERSION)

DEPLOYMENT TOOLS: HPOO, BMC BladeLogic, Rundeck, Docker, UDeploy, Ansible

BUILD TOOLS: Jenkin, Maven, ANT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

WebSphere Administrator / DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Architected, Implemented and Documented centralized deployment automation for Web Sphere Application server, Web Sphere Portal Server and Web Sphere Process Server and Batch Deployments.
• Improved around 60% of deployment time and provided access to various teams around the world to perform around 60 deployments per day.
• This saved around 2 man powers. Used ANT, Jython, XML, XSLT and HTML.
• Architected and Implemented Near Zero Down time environment, within 3 min SLA downtime; the system will be available to end users with new version of the code.
• Identified unused/less-used disks to resolve IO issue and response time issues in production.
• This improved response time by eliminating IO issues in production.
• Proposed and implemented Core group separation in prod which reduced around 100K TCP connections.
• Designed and implemented Job Manager and Centralized repository for WebSphere installation process.
• Identified the issue related to http connection pooling as the server was sending closed packet for each and every request, identified this issue by using the WireShark.
• This improved connection reusability which in turn improved 3% of setup time.
• Created Wily transaction monitor for overall CICS transactions.
• Designed and implemented the consolidated dash board for the data center by using calculator in Wily and designed report creation in Wily to generate the reports for management which was used as a port of iconic launch, this saved man power for manual report creation and correlation between different components to identify the issue in quickly
• Deployed, Installed and Maintained several Enterprise Applications in a clustered Environment.
• Designed, Configured and Maintained Big-IP (F5) configurations for all WAS applications.
• Involved in Installing, configuring, tuning, deploying, troubleshooting Web sphere applications. (More than 60 web apps running on WAS servers)
• Configured LDAP for the user registry.
• Involved in migrating physical Linux/Windows servers to cloud (AWS).
• Implemented, deployed and maintained cloud infrastructure using AWS.
• Used GITHUB and Bitbucket as source code repositories.
• Managed GIT repositories for branching, merging, and tagging.
• Creating alarms in Cloud watch service for monitoring the servers performance, CPU Utilization, disk usage etc.
• Wrote ANT, Maven and PowerShell scripts to automate the build process.
• Worked on infrastructure with Docker containerization.
• Creating and maintaining the Docker containers.
• Deployed Applications using the BMC BladeLogic Server through HP Operations Orchestration.
• Administration and Maintenance of BMC BladeLogic servers.
• Deployed WAR files on portal cluster using XML access script.
• Involved in Implementing Searches with Job Scheduling and Created HTML dashboards with third party java scripts and CSS to create beautiful visualizations in Splunk.
• Created many of the proof-of-concept dashboards for IT operations, and service owners which are used to monitor application and server health.
• Optimized the search performance of Splunk queries and reduced the time for loading the dashboards.
• Actively involved in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottlenecks.
• Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere apps.
• Provided various techniques to Architects and Project Managers in designing E-Business system with features like high-availability, disaster recovery and application fail-over.
• Successfully Migrated WebSphere Application Servers from 7.0 to 8.5.
• Installed WebSphere MQ (WMQ) on windows platform and created queue manager, queues, channels and cluster in queue mangers via WebSphere MQ Explorer.
• Configured IBM HTTP Server v6.0 and IIS v6 and Web Server Plugins for internal and external applications.
• Responsible for troubleshooting the issues on web servers (IHS, IIS) by monitoring logs like error logs and access logs.
• Deployed new Enterprise J2EE applications in the shared WAS Environment.
• Installed and Configured IBM HTTP Web Server and Plug-Ins and configured Plug-in.xml files.
• Managing SIB owner Table, Rules Table and Dead letter Handler.
• Develops server scripts to automate MQ, Message Broker and MQ MFT administrative task.
• Branching, tagging and maintaining the version across the Environments using SCM tools like GIT and Subversion (SVN) on Linux and windows platforms.
• Installing and configuring the Ansible.
• Deploying applications using Ansible on all servers through SSH.
• Gathering required configurations of all servers and maintain the playbooks updated using Ansible.
• Designed, configured and maintained automatic build and deploy (ANT, JACL, Shell Scripting) process for WAS8.5 on Dev and Prod servers and we are using automation process to promote the code changes.
• Supported Dev, Test, Training, Lat, Uat and production Environments for WAS7/8.5 Environments.
• Implemented LDAP security on WAS using Windows 2003 Active Directory server and TDS.
• Configured WebSphere security using LDAP server to support multiple windows 2003 AD domain controllers. (Federated Repositories)
• Regularly coordinate with developers, network engineers and security teams to improve the application availability and performance.
• Performed troubleshooting for Web Sphere, IHS Servers, Load balanced servers (F5)
• Maintenance of WebSphere backup scripts using JACL
• Performing Troubleshooting by analyzing log files using the Log Analyzer tool
• Involved in designing WebSphere Application Server load balancing and fail over by using Workload Management (WLM) horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Provided support to the Developers to Install and Maintain the Rational Software Architect 7 (RSA) installation package.
• Provided support to migrate the applications from WAS 7.0 to WAS8.5
• Configured and maintained the Developer Resources, this is the home page for Developers use to check the WebSphere Logs, Code Deployments, Framework files and URL’s.
• Design, configure and maintain the ANT build process to deploy the application code changes to WAS 7.0 servers.

Environment: IBM Web Sphere Application Server 7.0/6.1, AIX, Windows 2003, DB2 UDB, Oracle, SQL Server, Active Directory 2003, TDS 5.2, IBM HTTP Server 6.x, Shell Scripting, JACL and Jython, BIG IP (F5), IIS 6.0/5.0, ANT

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured, Maintained, Tuned and Supported Web sphere Application Server 8.5/7.0, Web Sphere Portal Server 8.0/7.0/6.1 and Web Sphere Process Server (BPM) 8.5/7.0.
• Administer a complex cluster based load balanced Web sphere application server, Web Sphere Portal Server and Web Sphere Process Server Environment.
• Deployed, Installed and Maintained several Enterprise Applications in a clustered Environment.
• Deploying SCA modules on Web Sphere Process Server.
• Trouble shooting the RMI call failures and CORBA exceptions.
• Configured Web Sphere MQ for Web Sphere Process Server 8.5/7.0.
• Designed, Configured and Maintained Big-IP (F5), CISCO configurations for all WAS applications.
• Installing, configuring, tuning, deploying, troubleshooting Web Sphere applications. (More than 180 web apps running on WAS, WPS and Portal servers)
• Actively involved in production support for debugging the issues.
• Configured IHS (Web Server) on Web Sphere Portal Server.
• Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for Web Sphere apps.
• Provided various techniques to Architects and Project Managers in designing E-Business system with features like high-availability, disaster recovery and application fail-over.
• Worked with product vendors for resolving issues and problems related to products.
• Designed, configured and maintained automatic build and deploy (ANT, JACL, Shell Scripting) process for WAS 8.5/7.0, WPS 8.5/7.0 and Portal 8.0/6.1 on Dev and Prod servers using Phurnace.
• Installing Update Installer and applied 7.0.0.25/7.0.0.21 patches for Web Sphere application server 7.0. And 7.0.0.5 for Web Sphere Process Server.
• Supported Dev, Test, Training, UAT and production Environments for WAS7, WPS7 and Portal 6.1 Environments.
• Implemented LDAP security on WAS using TDS.
• Deploying BPEL and SCA modules for BPM.
• Creating deployment Environments and profiles for BPM using db2.
• Trouble shooting issues with BPEL processes for BPM.
• Regularly coordinate with developers, network engineers and security teams to improve the application availability and performance.
• Performed troubleshooting for WebSphere, IHS Servers, Load balanced servers (F5)
• Managed and configured up to fifteen third party tools and integrated them with WebSphere.
• Troubleshooting by analyzing log files using the Log Analyzer tool.
• Configuring TAI (Trust Association Interceptor) agents with WebSphere Portal.
• Responsible for administering Portal Environments using admin portlets (Portal console), WPSconfig tasks and WP scripting tool.
• Configured and Multi-server Single Sign-On (MSSO) between TAM, Lotus Domino and Portal servers.
• Created and configured JDBC Providers and Data Sources at various scope levels to support backend data base applications using DB2 and Oracle databases.
• Responsible for troubleshooting of application server issues using JVM logs, Process logs and service logs.
• Closely worked with load testing teams during load/stress/certification tests.
• Performed tuning and monitoring the performance of Web Sphere Application Server with Wily IntroScope 7.1.
• 24x7 application/infrastructure support.

Environment: IBM Web Sphere Application Server 8.5/7.0, IBM Web Sphere Portal Server 8.0/6.1, WebSphere Process Server 8.5/7.0, AIX 6.1, Windows 2003, DB2 10.1/9.5, UDB, Oracle 10g 11g, SQL Server, Active Directory 2003, TDS 5.2, IBM HTTP Server 8.5/7.0, Shell Scripting, JACL and Jython, BIG IP (F5), ANT, Cognos

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of IBM Web Sphere Application Server 6.1/6.0 on Linux and Windows 2003 Platforms.
• Implementation of horizontal and vertical scaling of WebSphere Application Server (WAS) in a workload managed cluster which involved modeling and cloning (now called server groups and cloning) services in WAS 6.x
• Installed Fix packs, Cumulative Fixes and Refresh Packs on the Base and ND Versions.
• Developed Deployment Automation for automatic installation of applications and modules on to a running Web sphere server.
• Creating self-signed certificates using iKeyman and keytool and installing SSL certificates and Web Sphere plugin configuration.
• Research, analyze and evaluate new technologies and make recommendations for their deployment based on the Project Management Guidelines and Resource.
• Ensuring consistent communication between Web Sphere Clients, DB2, and IHS.
• Implemented security using LDAP Server and Tivoli Access Manager (TAM).
• Web Sphere process tuning, Administrative Repository tuning, JVM optimization, Java memory tuning.
• Configuring horizontal Clusters in Web Sphere
• Deployment, Installation and maintenance of several Enterprise Applications in a clustered Environment with fail-over support with the interaction of the Developers
• Applying patches and plug-ins for Web Sphere Application Server
• Used F5 load-balancers Tool to check the load on each application.
• Involvement in performance monitoring and tuning by using the Tivoli Performance Viewer
• Performing Troubleshooting by analyzing log files using the Log Analyzer tool and also by running traces
• Responsible for scheduled and emergency software changes, problem determination and implementation of corrective measures.
• Responsible for installing and configuring third party software necessary to test the product such as IBM HTTP Server 2.0, and DB2 8.2
• Supported Web Sphere Application Server load balance and failover.
• Documentation of all procedures and any other important issues

Environment: IBM Web sphere Application Server 6.1/6.0, Linux, Windows 2003, DB2 UDB, Oracle, Active Directory 2003, TDS 5.2, TAM, IBM HTTP Server 2.0, Apache 2.2, Shell Scripting, JACL and Jython

Confidential

Developer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the full life cycle implementation of the project including analysis, design, and development.
• Installed and configured Web Sphere Application Server 5.x/6.x on different AIX 5.x, Sun Solaris 7.x/8.x, Linux and Windows servers on Dev, Stage and prod Environments.
• Installation, configuration, deployment and management of Enterprise Applications in a clustered and non-clustered Environment using IBM Web Sphere Application Server.
• Driving the effort for major migrations.
• Configuring and managing resources like JDBC, JMS, SIB, and Web Sphere Variables.
• Involved in the project during development, testing and implementation.
• Understanding the system requirements: Interacted with the end users to understand their requirements and expectations from the system being developed.
• Based on clients input, prepared a Software Requirement Specification (SRS) document.
• Involved in developing UNIX Shell and PERL scripts to web server logs and print out the number of time each URL presents.
• Setup Web Sphere MQ clusters for load balancing the messages and high availability of the queues.
• Generating Self Signed Certificates/ requesting certificates from CA.
• Implemented SSL security between client and web server and also between web server and application server.
• Log File was managed for troubleshooting and probable errors.
• Performed Web Sphere tuning, Administrative Repository tuning, JVM optimization, Java memory tuning.
• Supported Web Sphere application server clustering, Load balancing and Failover.
• Deployed Applications in Web Sphere Application Server.
• Coded Servlets and JSP to process requests.
• Wrote Action classes and Form beans for Model that calls a Java business Object (EJB) and generate results.
• Wrote Custom tags using Tag Library Descriptor (TLD).
• Data stored and retrieved in Oracle 8.0 database.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Servlets, JSP, Custom Tags, EJB, XML, JDBC, Java Script, HTML, Oracle 8.0, Windows NT, Sun Solaris, UML and Web Sphere application server 5