SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of professional experience in Enterprise Application Integration using IBM WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker (IIB). Involved in Installation, configuration, upgrading, development, remote technical support, troubleshooting and system administration of WebSphere MQ, WebSphere portal server and WebSphere application server.
• Experience in Planning, Installation and Administration of WebSphere MQ, Message Broker, WTX on various platforms like Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, AS/400, HP - UX and Windows NT/2000, 2003 server, XP platforms.
• Installing and configuring MQ 5.3, 6.0, 7.0, 7.1, 7.5 & MB V6.0, V7.0, V8.0 on various platforms.
• Involved in Planning, Migrating MQ& MB in various platforms.
• Expertise in installing and setting up Q/Process monitoring tools such as Qpasa, Candle, Appwatch.
• Expertise in FTP’s like FTE and Connect direct.
• Experience in developing client-server applications to understand application point of view of EAI.
• Resolved Deployment, configuration, installation and upgrading issues for Development, Test and in Production Environment.
• Experienced in creating Broker, Execution group, checking logs etc.
• Experienced in deploying Bar files in IBM WebSphere Message Broker.
• Involved in applying fixpack and migration activities.
• Installing, configuring and testing WMB V6.1 on various platforms.
• Experience in working with RDBMS like, DB2, ORACLE and SQL Server.
• Experience in application design using Unified Modeling language (UML), Sequence diagrams, Case diagrams, Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD), Data Flow Diagrams (DFD).
• Expertise in working with XML, DTD, XSL, XPATH, XSD.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Willingness and ability to quickly adapt to new environments and learn new technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, AS/400, OS/390, Windows NT/2000, 2003, XP

Programming: C, C++, Java, .net

MQ Series Family: WMQ, WMB, WTX, Workflow

Databases: Oracle, DB2, SQL server, MS Access

Scripting Languages: XML, HTML, DHTML, Java Script

Application Servers: WebSphere, Apache

File Transfers: Connect Direct, PM4data

Monitoring tools: Candle, Qpasa, Autopilot M6, Tivoli, BMC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Auburn Hills, MI

MQ web sphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured MQ Series on Solaris, AIX, Z/OS and Windows.
• Installed, Configured and Administered WebSphere Application Server ND 7.0/8.5.5.x on AIX and Windows platform for all Test, Dev, Load & Production environments.
• Installed MQ client on Tandem servers.
• Performed monitoring and configuring Queues and channels on Tandem servers.
• Installed/upgraded and configured applications within a Microsoft Server IIS environment.
• Installed and configured IBM DB2 database and setup LDAP security to the Application.
• Created the bindings file in MQ for the JMS applications.
• Installed and administered Apache Web servers 2.2.1 on Red Hat Linux 5.0 and Solaris.
• Extensively worked with DB2 Z/OS 6.x/7.x/ 8.x/9.x on Z/OS system on mainframes .
• Support and Administer Db2 Queue replication between DB2 Z/OS and distributed environments.
• Administered DB2 Z/OS for v 9.x/8.x/7.x/6.x on IBM mainframe and AIX DB2 environments.
• Installed and configured Message Broker on AIX, Solaris and Linux.
• Performed Administration tasks using MQSC commands.
• Created and deployed bar files in the broker.
• Setup Broker domains and execution groups.
• Setup security in broker by using access control lists.
• Setup security in MQ using OAM and SSL.
• Setup Veritas clustering for the high availability of the MQ servers.
• Integrated files and databases on distributed and legacy systems across the enterprise.
• Developed procedures for daily operation of MQ Series on OS/390, Sun Solaris, HP UNIX, AIX, and Window 2003 and HP Nonstop .
• Highly experienced in administering Unix/Linux Shell scripts to monitor installed J2EE applications and to get information from the logs and database in the required format and other daily activities.
• Experience in managing applications and deployed EARs, WARs on WAS.
• Implemented the clustering environment to achieve Workload balancing and to make the administrative task easy.
• Configured MQ Series network using clustering, distributed queuing and remote administration.
• Preparing automated scripts for queue manager setup.
• Updating and migrating queue manager attributes from MQ V5.3 to V6.0.
• Coordinating and documenting software installation/upgrades, production configuration changes and implementation of security updates.
• Developed shell scripts in UNIX.
• Developed automation and monitoring Scripts in conjunction with QPASA for MQ Fail over, Disaster recovery, backup and error handling.
• Assign the message flows to appropriate Execution Groups in Broker Runtime Environment.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0,8.5/8.5.5, web sphere commerce WebSphere Portal Server6.1.x/6.0IBM MQ 7.0, 7.1 and 7.5, MB 6.1, 7.0, and 8.0, Linux, AIX, Windows, Mainframes, Nastel, HP Autopilot M6.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Web sphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured and administrated IBM WebSphere Application server (WAS) 8.0/7.0, IBM HTTP Server, WebSphere MQ and IIS on IBMAIX, Solaris and Windows environments.
• Installed, configured and administrated WAS ND in various software development life cycles.
• Created server start up scripts and application deployment scripts for WebSphere.
• Trouble shooting various issues which arise in the WebSphere Commerce environment.
• Extensively worked with DB2 Z/OS 6.x/7.x/ 8.x/9.x on Z/OS system on mainframes .
• Support and Administer Db2 Queue replication between DB2 Z/OS and distributed environments.
• Administered DB2 Z/OS for v 9.x/8.x/7.x/6.x on IBM mainframe and AIX DB2 environments.
• Experience in managing applications and deployed EARs, WARs on WAS.
• Deployed, maintained automated scripts for the business processes using Jython/Jacl scripts.
• Configured cluster environments to provide Scalability, Reliability and High Availability for various environments on VMWare.
• Performed migration tasks from WAS 7.1 to 8.0 on AIX and WAS 7.0 to 8.0 on Windows.
• Configured plugins for WebSphere Application Server 7.0/8.0
• Worked on Data grid Expansion Implementation, Data grid services API layer deployment and grid provisioning implementation.
• Experience in WAS Administration Support and Troubleshooting, Deploy, configure, tune and monitor API Gateways
• Used Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) to monitor overall health of WAS.
• Worked on Updates, Fix Packs, e-Fixes and Refresh Packs for WAS 7.0
• Installed and configured WMQ on Solaris and windows platforms.
• Configured MQ Series Objects (Queues, Queue Managers, listener ports, channels) for providing the interface between various server environments.
• Deployed the Bar files using toolkit and by writing scripts in UNIX.
• Applied Monitoring and Property profiles to the flows.
• Created execution groups and deployed the Bar files.
• Setup remote administration of all the Queue managers.
• Performed system tests with project teams, troubleshooting, analyzing messaging errors, upgrading Unix/Intel servers in WMQ groups.
• Applied MQ fix packs 7.0.1.6 on UNIX platforms.
• Worked with the IBM support in opening PMR’s and troubleshooting the issues.
• Setup API’s for the applications to talk to MQ.
• Provided 24x7 technical administration services to WMQ/Message Broker server environments in multiple platforms.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0,8.5/8.5.5, WebSphere Portal Server6.1.x/6.0IBM MQ 7.0, 7.1 and 7.5, MB 6.1, 7.0, and 8.0, Linux, AIX, Windows, Mainframes, Nastel, HP Autopilot M6.

Confidential

MQ Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked as MQ architecture in cluster environments, which have MQ, installed on more than 2500 UNIX servers.
• Installed and administered Apache Web servers 2.2.1 & iplanet 6.1 on Red Hat Linux 5.0 and Solaris.
• Trouble shooting issues when the files are not reaching the destination or stuck.
• Setup MQ Pub/Sub topologies across the environment.
• Setting up the SSL on the channels.
• Defining MQ objects by writing shell scripts.
• Implemented the clustering environment to achieve Workload balancing and to make the administrative task easy.
• Configured MQ Series network using clustering, distributed queuing and remote administration.
• Preparing automated scripts for queue manager setup.
• Updating and migrating queue manager attributes from MQ V5.3 to V6.0, V6.0 to V7.0.
• Coordinating and documenting software installation/upgrades, production configuration changes and implementation of security updates.
• Worked closely with the application team in designing the new cluster environment and deploying them in DEV, QA and PROD.
• Developed REST web services API's supporting both XML and JSON implementing Spring MVC
• Installing the latest patches for MQ from IBM.
• Worked POC of Multi Instance on Solaris using NSF V4.
• Developed shell scripts in UNIX for checking the health status of the WMQ.
• Provide security by using Object Authority Manager.
• Backup, recovery and troubleshooting for IBM MQ.
• Developed automation scripts and Recovery procedures for MQ fail over and disaster recovery.
• Provided Guidelines and procedure for sys admin for installing and testing MQ HA using VERITAS.
• Providing 24/7 on call support for all MQ/MB related issues.

Environment: IBM MQ Series 6.0 & 7.0, AIX, Linux, Z/OS, Windows 2008.