SUMMARY

• 5+ years of experience in supporting 3rd party applications on Websphere Application Server: v 6/6.1/7/8.0/8.5 ; Jboss Enterprise Application Platform (Jboss EAP): v5x/v6x;BEAWeblogic Server: v8.1/9.x/10.xserverfamily
• Proven skill sets over Websphere Application Server Environment including configuration of SSL, wsadmin scripting, cluster configuration, adding new JDBC connection pools, data sources, Queue/Topics & Connection factories, session replica­tion, handling EAR/WAR/JAR deployments including build scripts, creating/modifying cells, servers, nodes, external LDAP configuration for applications, monitoringWAS using PMI & other 3rd party tools such as Sitescope, BMC Patrol and HP - OM
• Highly experienced in integrating WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment and related software including MQ, SunONE Web Server, IBM IHS,
• Expertise in tuning of Application Servers using IBM Performance Tuning ToolKit, Garbage Collection & Memory Visual- izer(GCMV), AppDynamics and Eclipse Memory Analyzer
• Expertise in configuring a domain, deploying applications, configuring data sources, logging and web subsystems in Jboss EAP5 and EAP 6.2
• Experience in implementing Secure Sockets Layer(SSL) in enterprise level applications including 1-way and 2-way SSL
• Proficient in test planning, performance testing criteria, scripts, defect tracking and test documentation of legacy 3rd party middleware & client applications
• Experience in using wide variety of tools for sustaining customer environments such as PuTTY, WinSCP and Xming and pro­tocol transfer including Secure File Transfer Protocol(SFTP), Secure Copy(SCP) and File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
• Experience in BMC performance and availability, Qpasa tools and Appwatch for Websphere Application server
• Worked on Amazon Web Services (AWS) including a broad portfolio of AWS infrastructure tools (EBS, S3, EC2, Elastic IP, Route 53, VPC) and experience with cloud infrastructure configuration and management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MIDDLEWARE: BEAWeblogic Server v7.0/8.1/9.x/10.x,Oracle WLS 11g, Jboss v4.x/5.x/6.x,Websphere AppServerv6/7/8,WMQ v5.3/6.0/7.2, Apache Webserver v1x/2x, Microsoft IIS, Sun One webserver, Iplanet

VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES: VMWare/Vsphere/VCenter/Workstation, CitrixXenapp server/desktop

DATABASE SYSTEMS: DB2, Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11i including RAC, Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2007/2010 , Informix dB

ENTERPRIZE SOLUTIONS: Sun Java Enterprise System, SunOne LDAP Directory/Identity Server, SOA,OOAD,Oracle SOA Suite

J2EETECHNOLOGIES: JDBC,JNDI,LDAP, JMSJDKv6/v6/1.4.x/1.3.x, JAAS, Javascripts, JNI,Applets/Java Plug-in, JMX,JVM, Jython, ANT, Json, JSP, Servlets

OPERATING SYSTEMS: HPUX11.11ii/11.23, Solaris v8/9/10,RedHat Linuxv4/5/6/7(RHEL), Fedora Linux, Windows Server 2000/2003, Wintel, Suse Enterprise Linux, WinCE v5/v6, WES7/9

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE & PROTOCOLS: LAN, WAN, IPv4/v6,TCP, UDP, UML,XML, HTML, t3

PERFORMANCE MONITORING TOOLS: BMC Patrol, HP-OM, Custom SPIsfor HP-OM for Websphere MQ, Sitescope

PERFORMANCE TESTING TOOLS: Glassfish, Garbage Collection and Memory Visualizer(GCMV), IBM Performance Tun­ing Toolkit

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cranston, RI

WEBSPHERE-JBOSS ADMINISTRATION CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and administered WebSphere Application Server 7.0,8.0,8.5 and IBM HTTP Server on Windows, AIX, Linux, and Solaris 10
• Used wsadmin to create deployment scripts for new application servers, virtual hosts, clusters, JDBC connection pools and JMS connection factories
• Analyzed and resolved performance issues related to WebSphere Application Server using Garbage Collection Analysis, WebSphere ApplicationServerPerformanceTuningToolkit, GarbageCollection&MemoryVisualizer(GCMV)and Eclipse Memory Analyzer
• Worked with solution architects in analyzingand tuning WebSphere resource configurations such as JDBC connection pool timeouts, session time outs, session counts, JMS queue connection factory timeouts etc
• Migrated J2EE applications running on AIX to Solaris and migrated all the WAS applications from WAS 6.1 to version 7.0 and later 8.0/8.5.
• Responsible for maintenance and support of Internet and Intranet applications running on AIX, Solaris, and Windows Operating Systems.
• Configured and deployed web applications on WAS servers.
• Responsiblefor building the Development, QA, Training and Production Environments by installing WebSphere Application Server and creating the Profiles, Nodes, Federation of Nodes, Application Servers, Clusters, Virtual Hosts, Data Sources, MQ connections, Plug-in configurations, and Service Integration Bus configuration
• Configured WebSphere Security for new applications including Administrative security,Applicationsecurity, SSL certificates, Global security, and J2EE security
• Administered MQ series, which included creation and administration of MQ objects,restating Qmgrs, channels and backing up and purging of the messages in DLQs, BOQs etc.
• Troubleshot issues related to MQ by looking at the appropriate log files.
• Installed and configured JBoss Application server6.4on AIX and Linux servers, Implemented clusters in JBoss using domain and standalone modeforload balancing and failover capabilities.
• Installed, configured and administrated JBoss Operations Network (JON) 2.4/3.1.2for monitoring the performance, apply­ing security patches and content management.
• Implemented vertical and horizontal clustering on serversfor load balancingand high availability.
• Installed, deployed, administered, and troubleshot WSRR v7.0 and upgraded the WSRR to a new fix pack. Integrated it with WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, ITCAM and WebSphere Message Broker.
• Wrote Jython, JACL and Shell scripts to automate the administration of applications, manage deployed applications, create clusters, configure security, data access and intermediately services.
• Coordinated the monthly implementation plan for the migration part of the project, for the applications running on Web­Sphere Application Server, and audited the application migration process as and when completed by the other team members.
• Troubleshot application issues and documented the problem resolutions for future reference.
• Created PMRs and worked with IBM personnel for the unusual issues that were found in the environment.
• Attended change management meetings for approval of the applications that were supposed to go live.
• Attended bridge calls for production issues and non-production issues.
• Performed root cause analysis for the issues en­countered. Involved application, database, or networking teams to resolve the issues.
• Provided 24/7 on call support for all production applications.
• Monitored the health of the applications using Wily and AppDynamics. Also utilized Wily Introscope for load tests & perfor­mance test of applications in build state.
• Environment: IBM Websphere Application Server 7.x/8.0/8.5,WSRRv7.0, Borland StarTeam 2008, Slick Edit, Beyond Com­pare 2.5.2,Oracle SQL developer 1.5.1, Norkom6.1.1,6.1.2,WPS 6.0/6.1, IBM HTTP server, SunOneWebServer 6.1,Apache tomcat6, WBIMB, WebSphere Process Server 6.1, EJB, JSPs, Servlets, XML, JDBC, DB2, Sql Server 2000/2005,Sun Solaris v 2.8,z/OSv1.8, Wily 7.2, WebLogic 8.x/10.x,Solaris 10,AIX, Linux and Windows2000/NT,TAM6.1, SunOne Directory Server 5.3, SiteMinder V6.0.

Confidential

Middleware Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server, JDBC drivers, and Servlet engines on Linux Provided third leveltechnical escalation for problem resolution or circumvention of application deploymentissues, and middleware compo­nent issues in Web Hosting environments
• Configured IBM HTTP Server by creating DNS alias names, assigning ports, transporting and pointing multiple plug-in files to serve various instances in the same node.
• Efficiently handled Work Load Management for load balancing and fail-over, improving performance,reliability, and scalability
• Monitored,troubleshot, and performance tuned applications using Wily Introscope5, xMonitor, Tivoli Performance Viewer and Thread Analyzer
• Provided architectural and design assistance to the WebSphere MQI team to migrate applications from WebSphere Applica­tion Server to WebSphere MQI.
• Provided inputs to the database teams to resolve WebSphere and database communication issues.
• Provided architectural and design inputs to support the Enterprise Data Center migration and Disaster Recovery efforts
• Designed and implemented J2EE application monitoring solutions using Candle and Sitescope.
• Designed and architected solutions around IBM HTTP Server and iPlanet Web Server.
• Worked on capacity planning, performance tuning, sizing, and automation of WebSphere Application Server 6.1, 7.0, 8.0 and 8.5. Designed, administered, installed, and configured around 200 J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server 7.0, and 8.0
• Maintained the WebSphere and Portal Servers on different UNIX platforms and setup the development, testing, and staging environments for application development
• Configured Web Content Management to manage the creation, approval, and publication of webcontent.
• Configured cus­tom login and logout pages for WebSphere Portal Server.
• Configured WebSphere Portal Server with portal, likeminds, feed­back, member manager,release, customization, and community databases
• Designed and implemented J2EE application monitoring solutions using Candle and Sitescope.
• Designed and architected solutions around IBM HTTP Server and iPlanet Web Server. Worked on capacity planning, performance tuning, sizing, and automation of WebSphere Application Server 6.1, 7.0, 8.0 and 8.5. Designed, administered, installed, and configured around 200 J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server 7.0, and 8.0
• Maintained the WebSphere Servers on different UNIX platforms and setup the development, testing, and staging environ­ments for application development

Confidential

Middleware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBMWebSphereApplicationServer5.0, JDBC drivers, and Servlet engines along with troubleshoot­ing and recovery on UNIX and Windows machines.
• Responsible for application changes across different platforms, develop­ment, testing, and production environments
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 1.3.6, iPlanet 4.1, JDBC drivers, and Servlet engines on UNIX and Windows ma­chines
• Created and modified queue managers, and created and modified queue manager objects including queue, channels, Name lists, etc. Set up triggering and security for Users/Groups.
• Resolved channel and cluster issues.
• Diagnosed the problem from various logs i.e.
• MQ error logs.
• Deployed Bar Files and troubleshot Broker issues.
• Stopped and started Broker flows and execution groups. Secured J2EE applications by implementing Single Sign On using LTPA
• Configured and maintained WebSphere applications using WSAdmin commands on command mode and wrote admin scripts usingTCL
• Migrated to WAS 5.0 Network Deployment and Base on Windows platforms to WAS 6.0 ND.
• Worked closely with developers to define and configure Application Servers,Virtual Hosts,Web Applications, Web resources, Servlets, JDBC drivers and Servlet Engines.
• Wrote scripts for accessing remote Admin Servers, cleaning up logs during back-ups.
• Facilitated Work Load Management by creating Clones in WAS 4.0 and Clusters in WAS 5.0 and 5.1 and 6.x.
• Handled deployment of Java Servlets, Session Beans and Entity Beans for modules to the respective application server in­stances.
• Setup messaging using the integrated JMS Server.
• Created and configured business modeling projects using Websphere Business Modeler.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and WSCP scripts.
• Used wsadmin scripts to invoke Jacl and Jython scripts in WAS 5.0.
• Used WSINSTANCE to create multiple WebSphere instances from the command line.