Summary

• Over 7 years in Planning, Installing, Configuring, Administrating, Tuning and Troubleshooting various IBM Web Sphere Products, Open source JRE environments.
• Extensive experience in installation, maintenance and configuration of WebSphere Application server version 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0, WebSphere Portal Server 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0, WebSphere Process Server 6.1/7.0 and WebSphere MQ 6.0/6.1/7.0.
• Experience in Administration of WebSphere Product Center v5.3.
• Experience in Installing Fix packs on WAS/Portal/Process/Product center servers.
• Experience in deploying applications on all versions of WAS/Portal/Commerce/WPS using WAS Admin Console and wsadmin scripting.
• Very good experience with migrating/upgrading WAS v6.0/6.1 to 7.0 and v8.5
• Excellent knowledge in Installing and configuring JBOSS and Tomcat Application Servers.
• Proficient in deploying .ear/.war files in Web Logic, JBOSS and Tomcat Application Servers.
• Well versed with system resource Capacity Planning, High Availability and Disaster recovery for creating new java based environments.
• Experience in working with Tivoli tools like TAM, performance viewer, work load manager, etc.
• Strong experience in Administration and Maintenance of WAS ND clusters vertical and horizontal and deployment of applications in highly available, load balanced production environments
• Knowledge in Web Server administration, which includes installation, configuration and troubleshooting of IBM HTTP Servers, IIS , Apache and Tomcat. Better understanding AIX, Linux and windows System.
• Configured global security with LDAP registry and generated self signed certificates using Secure Socket Layer SSL .
• Expertise in Application Platform projects focused primarily on Single sign-on platform and Web platforms.
• Expertise in working with various logs, trace and messages using tools such as Log Analyzer.
• Proficiency in administration, maintenance and application support of e-commerce J2EE applications.
• On-call Production Support 24x7 for monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications in different Environments.
• Excellent understanding of SDLC and configuration management.
• Experience in troubleshooting TCP/IP and packet transmission among servers.
• Having technical knowledge in RDBMS tools like DB2, Oracle and SQL server.
• Excellent knowledge working on Service Oriented Architecture.
• Ability to communicate requirements effectively to team members and manage applications providing Production Development support.
• Ability to train new team members on the WebSphere products.
• Project Co-ordination Offshore Onsite , Project Monitoring, Status Reporting, Resource Management, Documentation and Level III Support and Experience in Production on call support for 24X7.
• Opening Service Requests PMR and Working with IBM software support in troubleshooting issues prioritizing with the severity.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, ability to quickly adapt to new environments and learn new technologies.
• Coordinate daily activities with long range goals, quick learner, and self starter, can work well independently or as a team member, good communications and excellent technical problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Middleware :WebSphere Application Server 5/6/6.1/7.0/8.0, WebSphere Portal Server 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0, WebSphere Process Server v 6.1/7.0, WebSphere Product Center 5.3, WebSphere Content Manager, WebSphere MQ 6.1/7.0, Web logic 8.x/ 9.x/ 10.x, Web Logic Portal, JBoss v5/6, Tomcat v5/6/7.
• Web Servers : IBM HTTP, SunOne, Apache.
• Hardware/OS :Linux RedHat, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, Windows 00/03/05/08 server editions.
• Databases : DB2 8.x 9.x, Oracle 7.x/8/8i/9i,10g, SQL Server, MS-Access.
• Languages : SQL, PL/SQL, VB, HTML, XML, Shell scripting, Jython, Jacal, Java Script.

PROJECTS

Confidential

Responsibility : Sr. WebSphere Administrator

• Single point of contact for WAS support for various revenue generating identity management application teams.
• Installed, Configured, Administered and Supported IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0/6.1 in Development, Testing, Staging and Production Environment.
• Configure MQ on WAS v7.0.
• Migrated v6.1 WAS to v7.0 and applied fixpack 13.
• Standardized all application environments from WebLogic/JBoss/Tomcat to WebSphere
• Planned Scalability, High Availability and Disaster Recovery for new application environments.
• Installed, Configured and Administrated WebSphere Portal Server 6.1.
• Created multi-node horizontal and vertical clusters in WAS and WPS environments.
• Involved in planning and actively supported the Data center migration of all WebSphere servers in development, test, staging and production environments various application teams.
• Awarded PROJECT EXCELLENCE for active support in server migration.
• Involved in capacity planning with development teams and higher management for setting up environments for new applications.
• Actively co-ordinate project in preparing pre and post-migration test plan and server acceptance.
• Provided 24x7 365 days WAS WPS support for various application teams.
• Configured SSO on WAS.
• Proficient in installing new and renewal of SSL certificates.
• Installed multi node WebSphere Portal Server 6.1 environment on Solaris and Windows.
• Deployed and managed portlets in WPS 6.1
• Performed horizontal clustering on WPS 6.1.
• Optimized the java settings includes JVM arguments, Garbage Collection and Heap size dynamics and fine tuned the memory management using Wily Introscope.
• Configured Websphere Portal Server with DB2 and IBM Tivoli Directory LDAP to authenticate users from the based authentication.
• Proficiency in deploying applications using WebSphere, WebLogic and JBoss.
• Performed Horizontal and Vertical Clustering for Servers and installed portlet applications on the cluster for improved performance and to recover from single point of failure.
• Troubleshoot all network, TCP/IP related issues.
• Involved in troubleshooting OOM issues and Performance tuning.
• Configured new environments to monitor performance on CA Wily.
• Generated custom reports on CA Wily as per management request.
• Maintained and Validated Wily services during system/network upgrades.
• Involved in migration of WebSphere application server environment from version 6.0 to 6.1 and migration of portal applications from version 6.0 to 6.1.
• Users and groups administration in LDAP Servers like adding/removing a user, working with attributes and configuring them with applications.
• Deployed applications on multiple WebSphere application server and maintained Load balancing, high availability and fail over functionality.
• Installed and Configured the IBM Http Server V6.0 and V7.0, created web server definition and regenerated web server plug in on Portal and Application Server to redirect request from web server to Appserver.

24x7 support

Environment: : IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.1/6.0/6.1/7.0, IBM WebSphere Portal Server 6.0/6.1, Content Manager, WebSphere MQ v6.0, IBM HTTP Server V7.0/6.0, WebLogic 9.x/10.x, JBoss5.x,Orac10g, DB2 9.5, Sun Solaris 10, Windows 2003 Microsoft Active Directory, Sun One server , Sun One directory server , Cygwin, F5, TAM.

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Responsibility :Web sphere Administrator

• Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server V6.1 on AIX systems.
• Installed and configured WebSphere Process server v6.1.
• Created golden topology cluster distributed vertically in servers located in different global locations.
• Installed latest fix pack on WAS.
• Migrated v6.0 application servers to 6.1.
• Configured JMS and JDBC resources.
• Federated AD and enable global security.
• Managed users and roles via console for Access to Console and applications.
• Deployed .ear/.war files with SCA modules.
• Installed/updated Process server modules.
• Developed and deployed Archive log shell scripts to recycle Process server logs.
• Supported go-live of application on new v6.1 application servers.
• Worked with Jacl scripts to automate administrative tasks such as deploying the application.
• Installed and administrated IBM HTTPS Server v6.1 and installed plugin.
• Enabled secured ports on IHS server.
• Renewed internal and external certificates on Process server via console and ikeyman tool.
• Deployed certs from LDAP in WAS truststore for a handshake between WAS and LDAP.
• Optimized the java settings includes JVM arguments, Garbage Collection and Heap size dynamics and fine tuned the memory management using Wily Introscope.
• Added members to existing cluster for increased scalability.
• Monitored system performance via PMI.
• Deployed static content on HTTP server.
• Maintained large number of e-commerce applications running on several AIX, Solaris and Windows servers
• Installed TOMCAT v5 and deployed applications for development team.
• Worked with Database and Development teams to troubleshoot errors.
• Supported all middleware environments while the system and network upgrades.
• Configured session management and used database for distributed sessions to persist session data.
• Involved in 24 x 7 support in rotational on-call schedule and during application releases.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1 ND,, IBM WebSphere Process Server v6.1, IBM HTTP Server V6.1, MS SQL server, Web sphere commerce 6.x, Tomcat v5, ITCAM, Active Directory, AIX, Windows '05 Server.

Confidential

Responsibility :Web sphere Administrator

• Installed, Configured, Administered and Supported IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.0/6.1 ND in Development, Testing and Production Environment.
• Involved in Planning, Design and implementation of Infrastructure setup, hardware and software requirements for Web projects.
• Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server V5.0/6.0/6.1 on AIX systems.
• Worked with Jacl scripts to automate administrative tasks such as deploying the application.
• Worked on performance tuning and optimization of various configuration settings such as thread pools, JMS queues, Messaging Engines, Data sources, EJB container, Web container.
• Installed, configured and administrated Web sphere Commerce 6.0.
• Deployed e-commerce applications on web sphere commerce servers.
• Configure WebSphere Commerce instance to use a remote IHS Web server and DB2 database.
• Optimized the java settings includes JVM arguments, Garbage Collection and Heap size dynamics and fine tuned the memory management using Wily Introscope.
• Configured Web sphere Portal Server with DB2 and IBM Tivoli Directory LDAP to authenticate users from the based authentication.
• Involved in transferring databases from Cloudscape to DB2.
• Proficiency in deploying applications using WebSphere and JBoss.
• Performed Horizontal and Vertical Clustering for Portal Server and installed portlet applications on the cluster for improved performance and to recover from single point of failure.
• Maintained large number of e-commerce applications running on several AIX, Solaris and Windows servers
• Involved in migration of WebSphere application server environment from version 5.0 to 6.1 and migration of portal applications from version 5.0 to 6.0.
• Deployed portlets and portlet applications using Portal GUI and XMLaccess
• Experienced in exporting and importing portlets and portal configuration in various environments using XMLaccess tool.
• Well versed with high technical knowledge in different Portlet Modes including View , Edit , Configure and Help modes based on the user authentication and authorization roles and groups.
• Users and groups administration in LDAP Servers like adding/removing a user, working with attributes and configuring them with applications.
• Configured IBM Tivoli Access Manager with Portal Server for Single Sign On. Knowledge in administering an ITCAM for Response Time Tracking RTT in support of a production WAS environment. Knowledge of development of reports, configuration of Traps and Alerts and performance problem resolution.
• Configured session management and used database for distributed sessions to persist session data.
• Installed and Configured the IBM Http Server V6.0, created web server definition and regenerated web server plug in on Portal and Application Server to redirect request from web server to Appserver.
• Configured JDBC resources and used connection pooling by creating data source object with respect to the database Oracle 9i.
• Involved in troubleshooting and performance tuning using Tivoli Performance Viewer and Log Analyzer.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0/6.0/6.1 ND,, IBM WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0, IBM HTTP Server V6.0, Oracle 10g, Web sphere commerce 6.x, JBOSS 4.x, Web logic 10.0, ITCAM, IBM Tivoli Directory Server 6.0, AIX 5.3, JBoss, Sun Solaris, Tivoli Performance viewer.

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Responsibility :Web sphere Administrator

• Installed and configured WebSphere 5.x and IBM HTTP Server on Solaris.
• Installed and configured IBM Edge Server and Network Dispatchers for load balancing. Handled high availability and recoverability planning and implementation.
• Involved in designing WebSphere Application Server load balancing and fail over by using Workload Management WLM , horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Involved in administration and configuration of Database and Security for WebSphere Portal.
• Responsible for Web server and Application server installation, support and performance monitoring for all applications running on the company's Website.
• Developed WebSphere Application Server regular administration tasks automated by using WSCP and XML Config scripts.
• Involved in migration from 4.0 to 5.0
• Played an active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck by enhanced performance ensuring upstream queuing.
• Configured the Web Server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere Application Servers.
• Applied software maintenance, program fixes and keeping the system software releases current.
• Configured WebSphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, and Java Mail sessions. Deployed Session and Entity EJBs in WebSphere.
• Implemented WebSphere Global Security using LTPA and Netscape LDAP Server.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0,Websphere Portal v5.0, IBM HTTP server, Netscape Enterprise Server, Oracle 9i, AIX, Linux and Windows2000/NT.

Confidential

Responsibility :Web sphere Administrator

• Installed, configured, and maintained IBM Web Sphere Application Server ND 6.1/6.0/5.1, IBM HTTP Server 6.1/6.0/2.x, iPlanet 6.0/4.1 on Sun Solaris, LINUX and Windows platform.
• Upgraded Web Sphere ND 6.0 and 6.1 with refresh packs and fix packs. Implemented the Vertical and Horizontal clustering that meets High Availability and Failover requirement for performance and functionality
• Integrated and deployed Enterprise J2EE applications on Web Sphere ND 6.1/6.0 that involves EAR, JAR, WAR files using Application Assembly Tool
• Installed DST fixes for Web Sphere Application Server 6.0.2/5.0.2.x.
• Managed Security and Performance optimizations for IBM Web Sphere, IBM HTTP Server and Apache Web Server
• Experience in evaluating session state failover options memory-to-memory, database persistence and create and configures DRS Data Replication Service replication domains
• Configured Web Sphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling.
• Enabled Global Security feature by configuring LDAP as user registry and LTPA for authentication and authorization privileges
• Installed and Configured Tivoli Access Manager e-business for Securing Applications
• Monitored for Application core dumps, or forced thread dumps to check for system objects using thread analyzer and other IBM tools.
• Enabled Performance Monitoring services through admin console then monitored and analyzed the performance data using Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces.

Environment: IBM Web Sphere Application Server ND v7, 6.1.x/6.0.x/5.1.x/5.0.x, IWeb Server, IBM Process Server v5.0, IBM Web Sphere Publishing Server v6.2, Sun Solaris 10/9, Oracle 10g, IBM DB2 9.7/9.5/9.1,Tivoli Performance Viewer, Wily Introscope, Tivoli Directory Server v6.0 LDAP , TAM.v6.0.

Confidential

Responsibility: Jr. Web sphere Admin

• Provided support to different projects related to Philips and its vendors.
• Provide corporate wide L1 support for Unix, Windows WAS.
• Responsible for User access on all Unix, Windows WAS servers.
• Involved in patch installations on WAS Unix servers.
• Create manage user groups and users on windows active directory.
• Configure system security using the AD.
• Responsible for managing the security on files folders on windows servers.
• Installation, configuration and administration of Web Sphere Application Server, IBM http server.
• Troubleshoot system, application application server level errors.
• Worked with Application Development Team to help migration and integration of their applications.
• Testing and deployment of scripts to the different environments.
• Configuring of JDBC providers, virtual hosting, global security, SSL, LDAP.
• Installing patches and fix packs for various components of the software.
• Evaluating new releases and managing migration to new releases.
• Performed routine management of Web Sphere environment like monitoring Disk space, CPU utilization.
• Trouble shooting the deployment issue, and fixing them.
• Load balancing the application by creating Server Groups / models and clones.
• Worked as a part of 24/7 on-call support for production environment.

Environment: Web Sphere Application Server V5.0, Oracle 7i, DB2, IBM HTTP web server 2.0.47, Solaris, Apache, Java, J2EE, XML, HTML, Humming Bird Exceed Tool etc.,