PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• 8+ years of experience in Planning, Installing, Configuring, Administering, Tuning and Troubleshooting IBM WebSphere Application Server. (WAS )
• Experience in configuring & creating components of Data Power appliance such asWeb Service Proxy, Multi - Protocol Gateway, XML Firewall.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and WSADMIN
• Configuring of JDBC Providers, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, Global Security, SSL
• Troubleshooting Production issues, worked on resolving Application Server Hang issues and High memory and CPU issues in WebSphere Application Server.
• Configure Clusters, Load-balancing, High availability and fail-over solutions &WebServer plugins for WebLogic application server.
• Experience in servers like IBM WebSphere Application Server 7 and Portal Server (WAS/WPS) 6/7/8.5, Working experience in database connectivity using Data source and Standalone.
• Excellent Analytical and Problem Solving skills coupled with good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Install/ configure and support of WebSphere Process Server (WPS) environments.
• Used IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) as the IDE for writing code.
• Implemented application level persistence using Hibernate and Spring.
• Configured WebSphere process server (WPS) with Golden Topology in different environments
• Configure Clusters, Load-balancing, High availability and fail-over solutions & Web Server plugins for WebLogic application server.
• Have knowledge on basic Shell scripting.
• Developed automated shell scripts for starting and stopping of the servers.
• Good knowledge in configuring High Availability Manager for failover & recovery techniques.
• Experience in Setting up of Nodes, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, including installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server 6.X/7.x/8. x.
• Creating and managing cells using Network Deployment Manager.
• Experience in monitoring WebSphere logs andWebServer logs during troubleshooting an issue.
• Experienced in WSadmin scripts to manage WebSphere Application Server configuration, Application deployment and server run time operations.
• Configured and managed secure environments like SSL and Digital Certificates.
• Experience in troubleshooting, applying patches and plug-in for WAS 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x
• Configured build environments on Linux machines for building and packaging applications.
• Implemented High Availability MQ on Distributed Systems. Supported enterprise business critical messaging, which exploits MQ Series clustering, and queue sharing.
• Experience in installing Themes and Skins using wsadmin scripts and WAS admin console.
• Hands on experience in collecting requirements and developing design documents.
• Good knowledge of Database design and development that involves ER Modelling, Relational database schema, Functional dependencies, writing queries using SQL.
• Quick learner and ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
• Oracle Fusion Middleware (Oracle ADF 11g, Oracle SOA Suite 11g, Oracle WebCenter Portal and Oracle BPM Suite 11g) developer.
• Strong experience in Oracle Fusion Middleware (Oracle ADF 11g, Oracle SOA Suite 11g).
• Strong analytical skills and problem solving skills. Willingness and ability to quickly adapt to new environments and learn new technologies.
• Experience with configuring and optimizing J2EE app server (preferably WebSphere and JBoss) with knowledge of Server Scripting
• Provided 24x7 production support, best practice trouble shooting, monitoring, capacity planning, performance tuning, naming standards, security and maintenance for J2EE applications deployed on WebSphere and JBOSS application servers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SR. WebSphere Administrator

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured administered and supported WebSphere Application Server V8.0/7.0 and IBM HTTP server 7.0/8.0 on Windows platform, AIX.
• Installing and configuring the WebSphere MQ and MB servers.
• Configured WebSphere Deployment Manager and Application Server profiles in clustered environment to utilize the advantages of failover and load balancing in multi-node environment.
• Implemented creation of Server groups and clusters in WebSphere Application server and cloning of servers and provided extensive support in deployment, change management and application level troubleshooting for the Dev, Test, Pre-Prod & Production environment.
• Federating the WebSphere Application Server to the WebSphere deployment manager and experienced in deploying the EAR's provided by the developers.
• Experience in deploying EAR, WAR and JAR files on WebSphere Application Server V6.x/7.0 and configuring various resources for applications.
• Deploying the applications in the MB servers.
• Involved in the migration of the MQ and MB servers to the higher versions.
• Done clustering for the queue managers to provide high available environment.
• Troubleshooting the issues in the MQ and MB.
• Working with the development team to complete the change requests, troubleshooting the issues.
• Extensively involved in migration of applications from Web Sphere Application Server 6.x to 7.0.
• Experience in installing Web Servers like Apache V2.0.47, IBM HTTP Server V6.x/7.0 and installing corresponding plug-ins on them to communicate with the Application Server.
• Experience in applying Fix Packs, Refresh packs and Cumulative fixes to upgrade the existing WebSphere versions.
• Configured JDBC provider and data source to connect to the Oracle databases for application data.
• Created and configured Replication Domain.
• Enabled SSL and was responsible for installing and updating the certificates and configuring them in the IBM HTTP Server.
• Implemented SSL security between client, Webserver & application server and generated Self Signed and Signed Certificates (Generate CSR and Import Signed Cert to Keystores) through ikeyman and Open SSL.
• Installed and configured CA ESP scheduling agent and manually executed the batches upon necessity.
• Installed and configured the monitoring tool New Relic.
• Used New Relic, Mercury tools to monitor application resources (Enterprise beans, servlets) and WAS runtime resource (JVM memory, application server thread pools, database connection poo1, CPU Starvations).
• Configured IBM HTTP Server to load balance between the clustered Application servers.
• Generated &propagatedplugin.cfg for web servers and troubleshooting plug-in regeneration problems.
• Configure httpd.conf files for SSL communications and also for performance Tuning.
• Performed routine management of WebSphere Environment like monitoring Disk Space, CPU Utilization and resolved dynamic cache problems.
• Experienced in creating and managing WebSphere Environmental variables for Data Sources and JDBC Driver paths connection pooling, JMS and other creating shared libraries and references.
• Responsible in creation and monitoring the MQ Queues for ALIAS product in AIX environment.
• On-call production support (24X7) and troubleshooting problems related to Web Servers, WebSphere Application Server, Plug-ins, and Database.

Environment:IBM WebSphere 6.x/7.x, IBM HTTP Server V6.0/7.0, DB2, Apache HTTP Server 2.x, WebSphere MQ 6.0, Endeca, Load Runner, Tivoli Performance Viewer, JAVA, J2EE, XML, JDBC, LDAP, ANT, Tomcat 6.0.

SR. WebSphere Administrator

Confidential, Madison, WI

Responsibilities:

• Installed WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7.x/8.x, Tomcat Server and WebSphereService Registry and Repository (WSRR)/Business Space, Mule ESB, WebSphere MQ's in Dev/QA/Prod environments, Deployed applications in all the environments.
• Experience in creating Service consumer and provider in WSRR and Business Space.
• Experience in Creating Contract to the Application version and promoting to the PROD environment.
• Experience in Creating Service Provider to Business Service version.
• Experience in creating Service Description and Manual Soap Endpoints and promoting the service to PROD environment.
• Good experience on the configuring the Data power on two different platforms.
• Installing, Configuring, troubleshooting WebSphereApplication server 6.0/7, and installation of fix packs.
• Experience in deploying the Mule ESB flow in Tomcat servers and good knowledge on the developing the mule flows with the different technical flows.
• Experience in troubleshooting the mule ESB flow through the MMC (Mule Management Console).
• Good Experience on the Development Tools like STS (Spring tool Source), SVN Repository, Jenkins, ANT, Maven tools.
• Working Experience on the TRAC defect management and Incident management through the HPSM tool.
• Experience with configuring and optimizing J2EE app server (preferably WebSphere and JBoss) with knowledge of Server Scripting
• Experience in NFR testing (Non-Functional Testing).
• Involved in Change management, Software Configuration Management, Problem management, Incident Management and Service Engineering process.
• Implement the Operational strategies that support Change Management processes, addressing end-to-end process controls.
• Involved in project release engagement and releasing the code management and actively participating on the SOW (Statement of work) meeting to setup the process, creating the process documents and maintains of the code for releases.
• Experience in resolving Channel issues and Cluster issues by the diagnosing the problem from various logs i.e. MQ error logs, JMS logs and trace files.
• Managing the MQ Series messaging environment across multiple environments including installation, configuration, tuning
• Experience in installing and Configuring WebSphereMQ server 5.x/6.x on Linux and Windows platforms.
• Much experienced in providing HA solutions forMQ infrastructure using Queue, Hardware clustering.
• Experience in Setup naming standards for the Queue managers, Queues and Channels.
• Deploying application in WAS using admin Console and through scripts.
• Documented installation procedures, deployment guides, troubleshooting guide for Jboss Administration.
• Configured and administered Connection pools for JDBC connections.
• Developed scripts extensively to automate day to day tasks.
• Created crone jobs for metric collection and booting of the servers on machine reboots.
• Trouble shooting ofWebSphereserver issues in production.
• Supported application teams in fixing the performance issues in production environments.
• Involved in capacity planning of servers in production environment.
• Supporting, monitoring all Applications at Development, Testing and Production environments.
• Configured web server’s ports and virtual host based on network load balanced URL's.
• Installed and maintained multiple IBM HTTP server instances and managed WAS plug-in configurations.
• Troubleshooting various problems in different stages of development using log files and with coordination from development teams.
• Monitoring WAS performance through Tivoli Performance Viewer and tuning the system - caching, queuing, JVM parameters, DB Connection Pooling.
• Troubleshooting applications, analyzing logs to diagnose problems.
• Monitoring applications and servers.
• Creating PMR's (Problem Management Record) and coordinating with IBM for problems encountered by application teams.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling.
• Implemented creation of server groups and clusters in WebSphere Application Server.
• Diagnosis and repair of theWebSphereEnvironment. Assisted developers with the diagnosis and repair ofWebSphereApplications.
• Implemented industry leading Project Management practices to enhance the efficiency.
• Performance tuned the applications by implementing horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Involved in troubleshooting problem-tickets, worked with developers to identify the root cause and resolve the issue or propose a potential work around.
• Responsible for changes in applications across testing and production environments.
• Mentored development and support teams on WAS operation and problem determinationInvolved in preparing documentation and supporting procedures.
• Configure SSL for Web Servers and LDAP Security forWebSphere using IBM Directory server.
• On-call Production Support (24x7), monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications in Development and Test and Production Environments.

Environment:WebSphereServer 5.x/6.x/7.x, Ant 1.5.1, IBM Http Server, Tomcat, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, EJB, LDAP, JDBC, XML, Postgress, DB2, Red Hat Linux, Splunk, MMC. Jboss 6 and 7

WebSphere Administrator

Confidential, woodlands, TX

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and administered IBM's WebContent Management (WCM) component in WebSphere Portal 6.1/7.0 on UNIX, Windows 2003 environments.
• Installed Portal Clusters using horizontal & vertical clustering and deployed Portal Applications, Created Virtual Portals using separate Realms creation.
• Performed Tuning by implementing Workload Management (WLM) and setting up various parameters in Web server.
• Deployed WPS port lets pages and portal applications.
• Administered WebSphere Portal applications, which includes configuration, clustering, administration, performance tuning, deploying port lets/ pages, for portal applications.
• Involved in server log and domain log monitoring and application deployment of WebSphere Application server.
• Installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server V 5.x/6.x, BASE, ND on SUN Solaris platform. Fixing of configuration and installation problems.
• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting IBM, WebSphere Application Server 7.0/8.0/8.5.
• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting IBM, ODM 8.0/8.5 no WAS 8.0/8.5.
• Applied Fix packs/e Fixes/ Refresh packs/ Feature packs for WAS using Update Installer and update.sh and automating it.
• Successfully completed major migrations of BPM, ODM from version 7.x to 8.x environments.
• Created various BPM/WebSphere resources like Shared libraries, WebSphere variables, policy sets and client bindings, Queues, Topics, Activation Specs, Connection factories.
• Experienced in creating Broker, Execution group, checking logs.
• Experienced in deploying bar files in IBM Web SphereMessage Broker.
• Monitoring and tuning using Tivoli Performance Viewer and Wily Introscope and tracing the transactions during Mercury Load Runner load tests.
• Creating jython and ant scripts for automatic deployments of JAR, WAR and EAR files.
• Support to application teams on various issues related to WebSphere Application server, BPM, WODM.
• Developed many WSCP/jacl/jython/shell scripts to automate the maintenance process.
• Problem tracing, log management, scripting to invocate problem-determination actions involving diagnostic traces and thread dumps.
• Deployed application ears on WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment in QA, Staging and Production environments on a daily basis and troubleshoot various configuration and application issues.
• Trouble shooting various problems in different stages of development, QA and production using logs files, JVM Count and JDBC Connections.
• Experienced in configuring WebSphere resources such as JDBC providers, Data sources, MQ Queue connection factories, Queue destinations and MDB listeners.
• Configured Webserver Instances, Session Persistence, Session Management, Virtual hosts, JVM parameters, Shared Libraries, EJB References, Creating Environment Variables for WebSphere Application Server.
• Experienced in full life cycle MDM development including data analysis, database design, data mapping and data load in batch.
• Design and Development of WCC Batch Framework for initial and Delta Load of Supplier data into MDM.
• Responsible for deploying applications on the cluster and setting up the environment
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources and connection pooling and tuning it and monitoring it using Tivoli Performance viewer by enabling PMI.
• Configured admin console security onWebSphereand creating users with various roles to access theWebSphere admin console - users and groups in LDAP and added them asWebSphere Console Groups.
• Installed SSL certificates on the web servers.
• Involved in writing shell scripts to automateWebSphereadmin tasks and application specific syncs / backups and other schedulers.
• Participated in team meetings and management meetings to resolve issues related to the various environments.
• Used Tivoli Performance tools for tuning theWebSphereenvironments (JVM heap size, data base connection pool size, etc).

Environment: IBM MQ 7.0, 7.1 and 7.5, MB 6.1, 7.0, and 8.0, Linux, AIX, Windows, Mainframes.

Web Sphere Administrator

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Responsibilities

• Installed and configured IBM Web Sphere Application Server ND and IHS on Sun Solaris8 and Windows 2008 server in a multi clustered high availability environments.
• Migrated WAS applications from 6.1 to 7.0 in development, test and production environments.
• Implemented horizontal and vertical scaling of WebSphere in a workload managed cluster to avoid failovers.
• Performed the package, build, integrate and deployment of enterprise J2EE applications on Web Sphere 6.1 that involved the creation and editing of EAR, JAR, WAR files.
• Configured WebSphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources and connection pooling.
• Installed plug-ins and worked on issues related with the AppServer and webserver connectivity.
• Troubleshooter for various issues like Heap size, class path, threads pools and port conflicts.
• Log rotation of web and application server.
• Deployed Enterprise applications on clustered Application Servers through admin console and by using automated scripts on UNIX/Windows environment.
• Created users, groups in LDAP (TDS) and mapped them to the enterprise applications running on WAS.
• Generated web plug-in and configured with web servers by doing manual edits.
• Involved in configuration of Web Sphere Application Server resources like JDBC, J2C, JMS and Connection Pooling.
• Integrated Enterprise-wide J2EE applications and deployed using Admin console, automated using wsadmin scripts (JACL & Jython).
• Reviewed Web Server, Application Server Performance Monitoring data using both Wily Introscope and Tivoli Performance Viewer and reviewed historical Tivoli logs for root cause analysis, recurring events and involved in troubleshooting.
• Configured the Websphere Application server and Portal servers to work in the combination of horizontal and vertical clustering.
• Maintained UNIX Shell Scripts, JACL to automate the WebSphere administration (deploying customer applications, logs rotation, monitor applications state etc...).
• Experienced in configuring WebSphere resources such as JDBC providers, Data sources, MQ Queue connection factories, Queue destinations and MDB listeners.
• Configured global security for WebSphere Application Server using Federated Repositories and LDAP user registry.
• Created, renewed and configured SSL certificates by either creating Self-Signed Certificates or by importing new signer certificates into the WebSphere key store and trust store.
• Applied Fix Packs for WAS 7, WAS 8 from Dev, ACPT and Prod environments.
• Worked and solved different of issues with WebSphere and J2EE applications. Provided 24/7 support for critical applications with on-call support on rotation, flexible to work during off hours.
• Configure the Manager context within the host configuration in the Tomcat server.
• Well documented all procedures and any other important issues.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server ND 6.1.x/6.0.x/5.1.x/5.0.x, Sun Solaris 8, Windows 2000, DB2UDB 8.0, IBM HTTP Server 6.x/2.0/1.3, XML, Tivoli Directory Server v5.0(LDAP), Tivoli Performance Viewer, wsadmin, Jacl.

Web LogicAdministrator

Confidenial, Dayton, Ohio

Responsibilities:

• Performed Web Logic Server administration tasks such as installation, configuration, monitoring and performance tuning.
• Provided 24x7 supports for the application servers and Webservers by understanding the business impact of the client's issue.
• Monitoring the Remedy bucket & assigning the tickets as per severity and resolving them based on priority.
• Involved in Performance tuning ofWeb Logic server with respect to heap, threads and connection pools.
• TroubleshootWeb LogicServer connection pooling and connection manager with Oracle, DB2.
• Configured and administered JDBC, JMS, and JNDI inWeb Logic Server 11g and 12c.
• Supported on call schedule for Production support.
• Raising the SRT calls for Root cause when we are not able to handle the issues.
• Performed J2EE application deployment and administration including JAR, WAR, and EAR files on different environments (QA, Stage, and Production).
• Involved in all theWeb Logicand SOA administration activities
• Worked with Data base team to resolve permission issues, connection pool issues on Stage environment.
• Maintained the applications amongWeb Logicrun-time processes in a cluster of application servers.
• Involved in Configuration forWeb LogicServer Console like Connection pools, Data source, Queues and Bridges.
• Develop Perpetual Inventory - Item Cycle Counts and Area Cycle Counts ADF screens.
• Creating Java SOAP Webservices for different types of Movements creations. These Webservices will be consumed by MARS team.
• Analysis of project functionality.
• Involved in design changes from time to time.
• Implementing ADF backend Entity Objects, View Objects and Application module, which is the model layer of the framework.
• Completing successful deployments as per the scheduled time for PROD & UAT
• Performed the Maintenance page activity for production support deployments and provided support to test team and application team.
• Experience in Working with Oracle ERP, Oracle Fusion Middleware applications (Build automation and deployment).
• Build and Release management - GIT, Maven, Jenkins administration, Nexus.
• Extensively involved in build and release management process for multiple applications using ANT, MAVEN, Jenkins
• Responsible for build and deployment automation using VM Ware ESX, Docker containers.
• Install and configuration of Dockers.
• Involved in migration from SVN to GIT repos and worked with Linux sys admins for the same.

Environment: Oracle WebLogic11g/12c, JBoss, Putty, Apache, SOA, AIX/Linux

Middleware Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server (7.0/6.1/6.0/5.1) and apply fix packs on Sun Solaris, Linux, AIX and Windows.
• Actively involved in Transition Process from WAS 6.0 to 7.0
• Installed and configured enterprise applications (J2EE) on IBM WebSphere Application server with IBM Http Server as Web Server on Sun Solaris, Linux, AIX and Windows.
• Installation, configuration and Administration of Apache web server 2.0.
• Effectively interacted with clients to resolve theirWebSphereApplication Server issues in different environments like production/UAT/Dev on Sun Solaris, Linux, AIX and Windows.
• Worked with clients to resolveWebSphereApplication Server install, migration, Centralized Installation Manager, Installation Manager, Flexible Management, stop/start, security, wsadmin scripts, JMS, Data sources, etc., components issues.
• Analyzed the client issues, reviewed the logs and provided solutions within stipulated turnaround time.
• Efficaciously interacted with the clients to resolve theirWebSphere Application Server issues.
• Provided daily support forWebSphereApplication to resolve their issues.
• Worked on severity 1 issues to severity 4 including the critical problems and provided the solutions
• Recreated the client issues on Lab machines based on the client'sWebSphere environment and the problem.
• Excellent analytical, logical, management and trouble shooting skills, ability to work in teams and independently.
• Deployed wars and ears using WebLogic Admin Console as well as running scripts
• Deployed the applications on multiple WebLogic Servers
• Responsible for analyzing and troubleshooting all WebLogic related issues reported by the clients in different environments like Dev, Test, UAT, Pre-Pod and Production
• Involved in monitoring and tuning performance metrics like JVM, execute threads, JDBC connections.
• Supported on call schedule for Production Support.
• Configure Clustering EJB objects, JDBC connections and JMS connection factories
• Developed ANT build scripts, UNIX shell scripts and auto deployment process.

Environment:WebSphere Application Server 7.0/6.1/6.0/5.1/5.0, Apache Web server, Sun-Solaris, Linux, AIX, BEA WebLogic Application Server, Java, JSP, JDBC, JMS, JNDI, EJB, XML, MVC, JavaScript, CVS, UNIX, Linux, IBM AIX, Windows 2000/NT/XP, MySQL

Web Sphere Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of WebSphereapplication server 6.x/7.x, Jboss, Websphere MQ, Novell apache server.
• Creating realms and domain in siteminder, configuring web agent on webserver
• Installed, configured and maintained Apache HTTP and IHS Webserver.
• Attending to tickets through the client proprietary ticketing system (BMC Remedy)
• Installed and Configured LDAP for application server authorization and security
• Configured and maintained redirect rules for URL's on Siteminder for creating
• unprotected access and privileges for users according to the policies and there by securing the resources
• Installed WebSphere Application Server (5.0) on Solaris Platform.
• Installed WebSphere Portal Server 5.0
• Installed and configured the iPlanet (Sun One) Web servers.
• Implemented the functional areas for several product groups on Sun Enterprise servers and setup NFS exports for sharing the file systems.
• Maintained WebSphere 5.0 Application server for web applications development and deployment of JSP and EJB components.
• Maintained the local Apache web server running on a Solaris server.
• Provided 24x7 on-call production support on a rotation basis
• Deployed enterprise J2EE applications that involve EAR, JAR and WAR on variousenvironment including Production, Staging and Testing.
• Analyzed the problems using IBM Support Assistant (and/or interact with IBM support to solve the problems by sending IBM Problem Management Records (PMR).

Environment:IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0, Solaris, IBM AIX, UNIX, Windows 2000, DB2 UDB