SUMMARY

• Around 9 + years of overall experience in application development using Java/J2EE, XML and other Open Source tools and technologies, Software Design, Development and Testing with expertise in Java, Servlets, EJB, JSP, JSF, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, SQL, Client/Server Programming, Multi - threaded programming, HTML.
• 8+ years of experience in building Portal applications using IBM WebSphere Portal Server (6.0 and 6.1). Other Portal related tools and technologies include: WebSphere Application Server, IBM Workplace Web Content Management (WCM), WebSphere Portlet Factory, JSR 168/286 API based Portlet development.
• Experience in Websphere Portal server 6.0 & 6.1, 7.0,8.0, 8.5& WebSphere Application servers 7,8.0.0.5, 8.5.5.9
• Hands-on experience in developing server side applications using Thymeleaf, Hibernate, and Servlets.
• Experience in developing Web Application using Spring MVC, Web services using REST api.
• Experience in WebSphere Portal Server setup and configuration, customization of themes and skins
• IBM Webcontent Management (WCM) Setup, Configuration, Development and Deployment.
• Hands-on Experience in designing intranet and internet websites on IBM Web Content Manager 6.1.5 and 8.0, and 8.5 versions, using various WCM items like Menu, navigation, HTML components and Authoring and Presentation templates where ever applicable with front end web technologies like Javascript, Jquery
• Hands-on Experience in Websphere Portal Migration from 6.1.0.5, 6.1.5 to latest versions 8.0.0.1 and 8.5
• Experience in Web Based Technologies including HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, XML, Dojo & jQuery
• Hands-on experience in Websphere Portal administration tasks like troubleshooting the server installation issues, memory leaks in the web apps, Database connectivity issues, LDAP connections, HTTP server related errors etc.
• XML access for Deploying Portlets, Deploying themes and skins, exporting/importing the pages Exporting/importing the server configuration, Releasebuilder, and several other admin related activities.
• Proficient in developing Multi-Tier Enterprise applications using Java, JSP, Servlets and JDBC.
• Thorough in J2EE technologies like Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, Design Patterns, SOA, SOAP, Struts, MVC, JSP, Servlets.
• Expertise in building struts and Spring MVC portlets for WebSphere Portal.
• Experienced in Oracle WebCenter Portal 11.1.1.4 setup and configuration
• Previous experience includes developing web-based applications using Java, J2EE Technologies on various platforms like WebSphere, Apache and WebLogic among others.
• Experience in Agile (Scrum) software development methodology.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Middleware: Web Sphere Application Server 6.x/7.x/8.0/8.5, WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0/6.1/8.0 ,8.5

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 8/9/10, AIX (5.1/5.2/5.3), WINDOWS 2000/2003, RHEL 3/4, HP-UNIX, MS-DOS.

Directory Servers: Active Directory, SiteMinder, Sun One Directory Server, IBM Directory Server.

Scripting: JACL, Jython, TCL, WSCP, WSADMIN, Korn Shell Script, Perl, JavaScript, VBScript, CSS.

Databases: Oracle (8i/9i/10g), UDB/DB2, Sybase, MS SQL Server 2005.

Networking: TCP/IP Protocols, Socket Programming, DNS.

Frame work: MVC, J2EE Design Patterns, Struts.

IDE: Eclipse, Edit plus, TOAD, Oracle Developer.

Security & Others: ikeyman, LDAP.

Web Servers: Apache 1.2.2/1.3/2.0 , IBM HTTP Server 1.3/2.0/6.0/6.1 , IIS 5.0/6.0 Sun One iPlanet 4.x/5.1/6.1.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

IBM Websphere Portal Developer

Responsibilities:

• Use Rational Application developer Software IDE to create and deploy JSR 286 compliant portlets on the portal server.
• Leverage new features provided in the latest Portal version.
• Upgrade Websphere Portal version from 8.0.0.1 to 8.5.
• Assist client in designing the solution to reduce the IT dependency for creating/publishing the content to the websites themeselves with little effort
• Design and development including JSR 168/286 Portlets, WSRP, JSPs and Servlets, SOAP-based Web Services.
• Create new themes and skins for the intranet and internet websites using Web Content manager tool
• Create Virtual portals for different departments within the firm so that the inter dependencies and conflicts between the departments could be minimized.
• Upgrade the Web Content Manager Libraries on the latest version.
• Build JAVA/J2EE web applications using Rational Application Developer.
• Design and develop WebSphere Portal components, services and frameworks.
• Configure and design WMM/PUMA, Personalization, Themes/Skins, Portlet Wiring, Access Control.
• Use source code control GIT HUB, SourceTree UI for checking in the code to the Bit Bucket server.
• Installed and configured SonarQube 4.5.5 software for detecting the security issues and fix as per the PDF report generated from the above tool.
• Interact with Business Systems Analysts, users, business leads and vendor teams to understand Business needs.
• Design and implement Portal components and suggest best solutions in Portal architecture based on the business, data and functional requirements.
• Deliver the Portlet high level design document for program and development team to review.
• Deployment and integration testing of developed components in Development and Test environments.
• Support QA (resolve issues and release fixes) UAT and production support when required.
• Partner directly with other Portal developers, Portal architects, clients, other technical Portal team members and Portal administrators to design and develop high performing Portal and maintain consistent development functions.
• Ensure solution designs address performance requirements, reusability, availability, integrity, security challenges, and business functional requirements.
• Performance tune Portal packages and solutions to improve the overall execution time.
• Provide estimates of work to be done.
• Designed the code as per the 508 standards for accessibility using JAWS software.

Environment: Rational Application Developer(RAD), Spring Tools Suite (STS 3.8.2), Tomcat Application server 8.6, Team Foundation Server, WebSphere Portal V8.x, JSP, Servlets, Portlets 168/286, T-SQL, SOAP/REST Web Services, Spring, ESB, XML, JSON, JavaScript, Bootstrap, JQUERY, MS Office 2010, BitBucket, JIRA, JAWS18.7, SonarQube 4.5.5

Confidential

IBM Websphere Middleware (IBM Webcontent Manager)

Responsibilities:

• Architecured the Migration plan for the new environment.
• Developed three virtual portals as per the client requirement to manage the portal independently from the earlier version of portal that had only the base portal.
• Migrating the earlier version of Websphere Portal 8.0.0.1 to Websphere Portal 8.5.
• Developed three custom themes for Marketing, Employee and Partner intranet portals using Modularized framework and dynamic content spot mappings.
• Installation of Websphere portal 8.5 Out of the box on the Linux servers, patching the servers with fixpacks.
• Installation of IBM Web content Manager on top of Websphere Portal servers.
• Preparing the source environment for upgrade including adding any fix packs to the environment before initiating the migration effort.
• Transferring the databases from derby to DB2.
• Migrating the Websphere Application servers and DB2 databases.
• Syndicating the Web content Libraries from 8.0 to the newly created virtual portals.
• Code Migration from Websphere Portal 8.0 to Websphere Portal 8.5
• Installation and configuration of HTTP servers on Portal 8.5.
• Planning the UAT and PROD environment infrastructures including the Clustering and load balancing.
• Providing 24X7 support to the existing environment. Priority 1 issues, code deployment and maintenance operations etc.
• Documenting the steps for upgrades, installations.
• Communicating with the IBM PMR team for any product related issues during the upgrade and migration, and Syndication.
• Updating the code to Accurev repository

Environment: IBM Websphere Application server 8.0.0.5, Websphere Application server 8.5.5.10, Websphere Portal server 8.0.0.1, Websphere Portal server 8.5 CF10, IBM WCM. DB2, CVS repository Red Hat LINUX Rational Application developer. DXsync, Accurev repository.

Confidential

WebSphere Portal/WCM Developer

Responsibilities:

• Migrated the websites from previous version of WebSphere portal 8.0.0.1 to Websphere portal 8.5
• Installed Fix packs for the migrated version of the portal CF12
• Supported the other version of the portal that are on 6.5, and 8.0.0.1
• Installed the WebSphere portal cluster environment, migrated and configured the portal databases that are running on SQL and Oracle databases.
• Configured multiple LDAP servers in the deployment manager and setup the Global security.
• Primary contact with the IBM PMR team for resolving any issues or challenges in the current environment.
• Worked on the IBM Web content manager (IBM WCM) setup, configuration and security on WebSphere portal
• Configured Multi lingual solution for the above Web Content Manager Portlet so as to access the website across different languages
• Configured several Virtual portals with the newly created environment that can server several internal department of the company like Dental division, Sales division etc
• Deployed EAR and WAR files to the server using XML access, WAS admin console and wsadmin scripts.
• Provided 24X7 support to the WebSphere Application/Portal servers during deployments, maintenance, and DR tests.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5.9, IBM WebSphere Portal 8.5 CF12, 8.0.0.1, 6.5, AIX, IBM HTTP server 8.5, Oracle DB, SQL DB, XML access, wsadmin,Teamforge SVN, Tortoise SVN.