SUMMARY:

Over 20 years of extensive experience in insurance and financial fields that involves strong analytical, design, programming, database, middleware and OS administration skills for a variety of business applications. A breadth of experience in managing internet infrastructure implementations, deployments, upgrades, performance tuning and maintenance makes me the right choice for designing, building, and supporting your internet environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris, MS Windows, Linux Red Hat, AIX.

Web Technologies: Confidential WebSphere Application Server (WAS ND) 3.5 - 6.1, 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, 9.0, Confidential HTTP server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, 9.0, Oracle OHS 11.1, Confidential Tivoli Provisioning manager (TPM) 7.1

Confidential WebSphere Portal 5. 1, IPlanet (Sun One) Web Server 3.62, 4.1, 6.0, 6.1, IPlanet (Sun One) Application Server 4.0, 6.0, 6.5:

Messaging: Confidential WebSphere MQ (MQ Series) 5.1, 6, 7, 7.5, JMS

Middleware: Documentum Server 4.1, 4.2.6, 5.2.3

Distributed Technologies: J2EE, Web Services, SOAP, WSDL, ODBC, JDBC, EJB, JSP, JSF, JMX, SERVLETS, HTML, JAVA SCRIPT

Identity Management: CA SiteMinder WebAgent / TAI agent, IPlanet (Sun One) Directory Server 4.12, 4.16, 5.0, 5.2

Databases: Confidential DB2, Oracle, MS-SQL Server, Sybase

Languages: UNIX s hell scripts, Confidential, JYTHON, wsadmin

Monitoring: CA Confidential v 5.3, 6.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1

Load generators: Confidential v 8, WebLoad 5.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

WebSphere Application Server Administrator / Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Creating and managing clustered HA environments for PEGA PRPC and Riptide applications deployed on WAS ND v.8.5.5.9 and v.9.0 including software installation and fix pack upgrades
• Providing 24 x 7 support for WAS ND PEGA PRPC and Riptide production environments
• Performing PEGA PRPC administrative tasks
• Troubleshooting application problems and getting software vendor support.
• Working with Load balancer and DNS teams to create LB / DNS configurations
• Monitoring WAS ND, Confidential HTTP and PEGA PRPC using AppDynamics, Splunk and ManageEngine
• Monitoring WebSphere MQ objects using MQ Explorer.
• Requesting and installing SSL certificates for WebSphere and web servers
• Creating UNIX shell and Jython scripts to automate configuration and administrative tasks

Confidential

VP / Infrastructure Specialist / WebSphere SME

Responsibilities:

• Creating and managing highly available clustered WebSphere ND (v.7.0, 8.0 and 8.5) and Confidential HTTP /SunOne/Oracle OHS environments in North and Latin America on several data centers.
• Providing 24 x 7 on-call L3 support for production environments. Supporting large web server farm of SunOne and Confidential HTTP web servers.
• Performing the WebSphere SME and engineering roles in Confidential . Providing recommendations, guidance and support for new WebSphere version implementations. Making architectural recommendations to development teams, regarding highly available, fault tolerant environments. Participating in problem resolution in different regions around the world.
• Developing and implementing security hardening for WebSphere and Confidential HTTP servers.
• Developing automation scripts using UNIX shell, Jython, Confidential, wsadmin.
• Monitoring WebSphere and web servers with Confidential Tivoli, HP Sitescope and CA Confidential tools.
• Making performance tuning of WebSphere jvms, based on data from Confidential .
• Troubleshooting application problems and getting software vendor support.
• Protecting applications with SSO using CA Siteminder Webagent and TAI agent.
• Providing support to Confidential TPM (Tivoli Provisioning Manager, TAD4D (Tivoli Asset Discovery) environments in NAM, EMEA, LATAM and APAC regions.
• Migrating applications to Cloud environment.
• Building environments using CAS, Jenkins and CHEF tools.
• Closely working with network infrastructure teams to create Firewall / Load Balancer / DNS / 3DNS implementations.
• Requesting and installing SSL certificates for WebSphere and web servers.
• Participating in Disaster Recovery tests.

Confidential

VP / Sr. Infrastructure Engineer / Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managing Highly Available clustered WebSphere (v.5.1, 6.1, 7.0, 8.0) and WebSphere Portal environments on two data centers providing 24x7 on-call support. Supporting over 1600 WebSphere JVMs in all regions.
• Supporting large web server farm of SunOne and Confidential HTTP web servers. Performing tuning of web server configuration. Managing configuration and SSL certificate updates. Submitting network infrastructure requests (Firewall / Load Balancer / DNS / 3DNS).
• Supporting TPM (Tivoli Provisioning Manager), TAD4D (Tivoli Asset Discovery) in NAM, EMEA, LATAM and APAC regions .
• Performing WebSphere SME role for RECOM environment. Managing and coordinating work with other IT departments to deliver systems and services. Guiding development teams to ensure that standards, policies and procedures are being followed.
• Participating in development and implementation of engineering and architecture solutions for WebSphere infrastructure. Participating in development of WebSphere 6.1 infrastructure procedures, standards and architecture to accommodate different business requirements.
• Developing UNIX Shell, Confidential and Jython scripts to automate WebSphere and Portal installation, configuration (clusters, data sources, virtual hosts, JMS and J2C Security, JVM properties), restarts and application deployment.
• Troubleshooting application problems working with development teams and software vendors.
• Monitoring WebSphere and Portal software using CA Confidential and Sitescope.
• Participating in application performance testing, collecting and analyzing performance data.
• Analyzing CA Confidential data collected in production and during performance testing, making performance tuning recommendations for WebSphere JVM and web server parameters.
• Developing scripts to automate web server instances creation, configuration and modification.
• Developing procedures and scripts to automate WebSphere, WebSphere Portal and Sun One web server’s datacenter migration.
• Developing WebSphere v 5.1 to v 6.1 migration procedures and automation scripts.
• Configuring WebSphere, Confidential HTTP and SunOne web server security with Siteminder Webagent, Siteminder TAI agent, LDAP, and client certificate authentication (2-way SSL).
• Capacity planning, participation in Disaster Recovery tests.
• Installation, implementation and support of CA Confidential v. 7.2 and v.8.1.

Confidential

Middleware Administrator / Performance Analyst / Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performing administrative tasks including installation, configuration and upgrades of all company middleware components in PME lab environment for over 120 applications.
• Application deployments, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Running various tests utilizing Confidential , collecting and documenting metrics from Load Runner and Confidential .
• Performing analysis and preparing performance measurement reports, identifying problems and recommending tuning solutions for middleware products and application code.
• Participating in development of architecture solutions for high-profile projects and testing them in the PME lab.
• Implementing and supporting Confidential products for PME lab and production environments.
• Developing various shell and Confidential scripts.

Confidential

Middleware Administrator / Architect

Responsibilities:

• As a leading Confidential WebSphere MQ (MQSeries) administrator performing analysis of application requirements, providing technical expertise to development teams and participating in application architecture design to implement messaging software on different platforms.
• Performing administration tasks such as installation, configuration, upgrade, tuning, monitoring, providing 24/7 support and troubleshooting for all MQSeries installations on WinTel and Sun Solaris platforms in the company
• As a WebSphere Application Server (v. 3.5, 4.0, 5.0, 5.1) administrator/architect performing 24x7 support for over 120 enterprise applications in 3-tier Confidential environments for all regions. Responsibilities included installation, configuration and upgrades of WAS software, as well as application deployments, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting and capacity planning. Developing architecture solutions for high-profile projects.
• Developing company WebSphere installation, configuration and naming standards. Developing various shell and Confidential scripts.