SUMMARY

• Around 7 years of Experience in Planning, Installation, Administration and support of WMQ, WMB on various platforms like UNIX, AIX, Solaris, Linux, HP UX and Windows, z/OS and Main Frames.
• Experience with the installation, migration, configuration and administration of WebSphere MQ in a highly - available, clustered environment includes channel and queue creation and maintenance.
• Experience setting up the WebSphere MQ Objects like queue managers, queues, channels, channel initiator, processes, trigger monitors etc.
• Expertise in installing and setting up MQ monitoring tools such as BMM, IBM TIVOLI Monitoring, Omegamon XE for messaging.
• Experience in MQ clusters for implementing the ease of administration and work load balancing.
• Experience in monitoring the health state and availability of all WMQ Objects and take corrective actions to maintain health and, capacity plan for growth.
• Extensive experience in Data Center move/migration, application migration/deployment.
• Set up the MQ security for users and groups using setmqaut utility.
• Providing real time problem determination support for all dependent business applications. Analyze dumps, traces, and logs in order to determine root cause of specific problem.
• Acting as a key liaison for Middleware Services and provide on call support around the clock for all business critical issues.
• Designed & Implemented Backup/Disaster recovery environment & procedures for Critical Systems, SAVE Queue Manager.
• Hands on experience in design and implementation of WMQ, WMB in large and complex environments using High Availability Clustering.
• Hands on experience in resolving critical problems in WMQ, WMB and IIB on various platforms like Linux, UNIX, AIX, Solaris and Windows.
• IBM MQ series related troubleshooting and bug fixing.
• Enable and disable Trace logs as per user requirements.
• Expertise in setting up the SSL Security.
• Implemented the security using SSL for MQ Channels on various platforms, provided SSL support and management of digital certificates and key repositories.
• Primary Involved in problem analysis using MQ errors logs, performance tuning, monitoring behaviour of MQ infrastructure and providing 24x7 on-call support for production team.
• Experience in mentoring/grooming other team members.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Willingness and ability to quickly adapt to new environments and learn new technologies.
• Hands on experience in the Performance Tuning for application optimal performance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Windows 7, Windows8, Sun Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, IBM Mainframes, Windows 2003/XP/Vista
• MQ Series Family: WMQ 5/6/7/7.5, WMB 5/6/7/8, IIBV9.0, Data Power, WTX.
• Databases: Oracle 11g, DB2, SQL, MySQL, MS Access
• Version Control Tools: CVS, Rational ClearCase
• Other tools: Putty, winscp,TOAD, ANT, VSS, PVCS, Clear Case, Team viewer, BMM, Tivoli Omegamon XE Candle, rfhutil and SOAPUI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured WMQ, WMB on Windows, AIX, HP UX, Linux and Solaris.
• Created all the required MQ objects for the communication between the MQ Servers.
• Administered MQ objects like Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Process Definition, Clusters, and Name Lists.
• Created Clusters of queue managers to simplify the overall administration process, to achieve workload balancing and to make the administration task easy.
• Installed the latest fix packs for WMQ and WMB.
• Well experienced in setting up CA and SSL Security certificates.
• Set up the MQ security for users and groups using setmqaut utility.
• Well experienced in Administering MQ objects using Tivoli Candle, MQMON.
• Created Brokers, Execution Groups and Deploy bar files to Brokers.
• Hands on experience in design and implementation of WMQ and WBIMB in huge and complex environments using High Availability Clustering.
• Performed Administration tasks using MQSC commands.
• Configured MQ Series network using clustering, distributed queuing and remote administration.
• Backup, recovery and trouble shooting for MQ Series/WMB.
• Configured the Configuration Manager, Message Repository Database, broker database for WMB.
• Worked with IBM Support on resolving critical problems by creating PMR’s.
• Provided 24/7 production support for WMQ and Broker issues.

Environment: Linux, AIX, UNIX, HP-UX, Windows, Web sphere MQ 7.x/6.x, WAS 6/7/8.x, Apache, Tomcat, Web logic, FAST, HP Service Manager, Omega Mon, TAMS, Jython, F5 etc.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA,

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained WMQ, WMB products on AIX, Windows, and Sun Solaris platforms.
• Involved in the design of the infrastructure.
• Created MQ queue managers, queues, channels, and listeners to communicate with other applications.
• Configured Queue Managers in MQ cluster for enabling load balancing.
• Enabled security on MQ objects and message flows to restrict unauthorized access.
• Implemented channel exits for enabling security on MQ channels.
• Developed shell scripts for various MQ administrative tasks like backing up MQ and MB components.
• Support development teams in troubleshooting MQ and MB related problems in their application.
• Enabled user and service level trace for troubleshooting and debugging message flows.
• Acted as a key person while resolving MQ and MB related issues by working with IBM through PMRs.
• Implemented various Support Packs for MQ and MB administration like MS03 (Save Queue manager).
• Involved in Load and Performance testing of applications.
• Designed and developed common message flows for error handling and reprocessing of messages.

Environment: AIX, Linux, Windows, Web sphere MQ 6.x/7.x, Web Sphere Message Broker 6.x/7.x, Web Sphere Application Server 6/7.x, Jython,F5, Tivoli Candle/MQMON, Oracle 8i/9i/10g

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Worked on capacity planning and naming standards for the MQ objects
• Involved in installing, configuring and administering WebSphere MQ/WBI Message Brokers on various platforms, installed and configured WBI Config Manager and Message Brokers on Windows & AIX
• Created Clusters of queue managers to simplify the overall administration process and achieve workload balancing
• Administered the MQSeries Objects like Queue Manager, Queues, Channels and Process Definitions
• Administered the different components of WBI like Work-Bench, Configuration Manager, Broker and Agent Controller
• Monitored Queue Managers, message queues using Tivoli
• Setup Microsoft and Veritas hardware clustering for high availability of the Queue Managers
• Designed & Implemented Backup/Disaster recovery environment & procedures for Mission Critical Systems, SAVE Queue Manager
• Setup Security using the OAM
• Setup remote administration for all the Queue managers
• Actively involved in support of WebSphere MQ & WBI Message Broker infrastructure in Production/QA/Test regions, shared support responsibilities with other members of the team
• Worked closely with DB2, AIX, Windows support teams during WebSphere MQ and WBI Message Broker builds Setup automatic backup of the MQ definitions
• Provided the 24/7 production support for MQ series and application issues
• Setup Omegamon Monitoring for the OS and MQ series objects
• Setup hardware clustering for MQ servers
• Tuned up the performance of the applications

Environment: AIX, Linux, Windows, WebSphere MQ 6.x/7.x, WMB 6.x/7.x, Web Sphere Application Server 6/7.x, Jython, F5, Tivoli Omegamon, Oracle 8i/9i/10g

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured WMQ 6.0.2.4, WMB 6.1 on AIX, Linux and Windows Servers.
• Created all the required MQ objects for the communication between the MQ Servers.
• Administered MQ objects like Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Process Definition, Clusters, and Name Lists.
• Experience in the Performance Tuning for application optimal performance
• Rerun shell scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup, everyday system tasks, log rotation etc.
• Migrated WBIMB 5.0 to WMB6.1 on AIX, HP UX, Linux and Windows
• Built WMB 6.1 brokers by creating execution groups, deploying message flows, message sets to the broker.
• Administered the WMB 6.1 Broker on AIX,HP UX, Linux
• Installed the latest fix packs for WMQ and WMB.
• Created error reports on daily basis and emailed to the concerned teams to resolve the issues.
• Assigned message flows and message sets to appropriate Execution Groups in Broker Runtime Environment
• Developed test cases and test plans. Performed end-to-end testing, resolved problems and validated the test results. Performed unit testing and unit Integration testing.

Environment: IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0, Websphere Application Server 6.1/7.0, IHS, WMB 5.0/6.1, AIX 5.0, Windows, Solaris 5.0 XML, DB2, RfhUtil, DB2, Java 2.0, ESQL, HTML, XML.