SUMMARY:

• Over 9+ years of IT hands on experience with Analysis, Design, Development and Administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server and Tomcat on both UNIX and Windows platforms and Java/J2EE technologies with Message Queue and Message Broker Administration.
• Proficient in Architecture, Installation, Setup, Configuration, Production Support, Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting of IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0/7.0/8.0.
• Experience in Deploying and Administering J2EE Applications in Development, QA, Staging and Production environments.
• Expertise in Installing Fix Packs, Feature packs and Migration.
• Manages team and handled onsite offshore model activities.
• Experience in Federated multiple nodes to the Deployment Manager.
• Expertise in migrating existing applications from WebSphere7.0 to 8.0 on Linux Servers.
• Experience in implementation of WebSphere Work Load Management (WLM) using techniques Horizontal and Vertical Clustering for failover and backup/recovery processes.
• Extensive hands on WebSphere Administration using command line tool WSADMIN.
• Experience in Monitoring and Tuning of WebSphere Environment for Availability, Scalability, Maintainability and WLM.
• Well versed at enabling Global Security for WebSphere environment using LDAP server.
• Enabled SSL by creating the key database using, IKEYMAN tool at WebServer.
• Interacted closely with application developers, database administrators, UNIX administrators, Security team for resolving issues related to applications.
• Installing, maintaining and administration of WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server on Linux servers.
• Experience working with MQ Queue Managers and its objects using MQ Explorer and MQSC Commands.
• Expertise in Deploying and troubleshooting the J2EE Applications (WAR & EAR) inIBM WebSphere Application Server.
• Expert level proficiency in troubleshooting issues using various IBM tools, such as IBM Support Assistant (Heap analyzer and IBM core analyzer).
• Proficient in root cause analysis related to Web Servers, WebSphere Application Server, Plug - in and Database related issues.
• Experienced on Cutover and Go-Live activities.
• Have good experience on Garbage collection policies and Heap space allocations
• Sound knowledge on WebLogic and Tomcat 7.
• Having the knowledge on AS400 server for running scheduled batches.
• Understanding of automation & monitoring concepts and tools.
• Hand on experience on UNIX Shell Scripting.
• Efficient in building RPM’s on LINUX.
• Good knowledge on CA SiteMinder Single Sign-On (SSO).
• Good understanding of processes like ITIL Incident, Problem, Change & Release Management. Personal Skills, Strong Collaboration and Co-ordination skills.
• Well organized and proficient with details.
• Strong problem solving & technical skills coupled with confident decision make for enabling effective solutions lead to the high customer satisfaction.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Middleware: IBM WebSphere Administration, HIS, IBM WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker v6.1/v7,IIB

Web Servers: IBM HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat Server

App Servers: WebSphere Application Server

Operating Systems: UNIX, LINUX, AIX, Windows, Solaris

Languages: Shell Scripting

Database: Oracle 9i/10g/11g, DB2, SQL Server, SQL, PL/SQL

Tools: WSADMIN, CA SiteMinder, WinScp, Putty, Remedy, UDeploy, Jenkins, HPQC

Networking/Protocol: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL, SSH

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Lead Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Handled entire migration from WebSphere Application Server 7.x to 8.5.5 on AIX, Linux, Solaris and Window 2012 systems.
• Installed (GUI, Silent mode) configured and maintained IBM WebSphere Network Deployment Server V8.5.5.0/v8.x/V7.x/V6.x, IBM HTTP Server V8.5.5.x/V8.0.x/v7.x/6.x,Apache Server V2.0.47, IIS V6.x, Red Hat Linux 5.0 and Windows 2003 platform.
• Installing and configuring SingleSignOn software (Web Agent and Application Server Agent).
• Integrated and deployed Enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere ND V8.5.5/V8.0.x/7.0/V6.x that involves EAR, JAR, WAR files using Admin Console and automated scripts.
• Deployed application using Automated Build Deployments using deployment tools like UDeploy, Jenkins etc.
• Created and supported MQ Queue Managers, Remote Queues, Local Queues, Queue Aliases, Channels, Clusters, Transmission Queues, Performance Events, Triggers, Processes and MQ error trapping applications.
• Created Jobs for auto deployments and Involved in writing and onboard scripts for Deployments, JMS configurations and JDBC configurations etc.
• Used ticketing tools like Ehelpline for day to day incidents management and completing day to day configuration tasks. Raised and completed change tickets for first time Deployments in Production Environments.
• Implemented SSL security between client, WebServer & application server and generated Self Signed and Signed s (Generate CSR and Import Signed Cert to Key stores) through IKEYMAN and Open SSL.
• Installed and configured TAM Tivoli Access Manager.
• Optimized the performance of Enterprise Applications using Tivoli Performance Viewer and Willy Introscope.
• Managed and Monitored JVM Performance by adjusting WebLogic heap size and garbage collection parameters.
• Expert level proficiency in troubleshooting issues using various IBM tools, such as IBM Support Assistant (Heap analyzer and IBM core analyzer).
• Built Enterprise Applications, EJB modules, Web modules and Web services.
• Implementing and maintenance of Workload Management (WLM) using clustering.
• Analyzed Heap dumps and Core dumps using IBM Heap analyzer and thread analyzer.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling.
• Monitored and tuned application infrastructure for better performance, availability and utilization of resources using ITCAM.
• Enabled Performance Monitoring services through admin console then monitored and analyzed the performance data using Tivoli Performance Viewer.

Environment: IBM WebSphere App Server 8.0,7.0,6.1,6.0, WebSphere portal 6.1, WebSphere MQ 6/5.3, HIS 8/6/2.0.47, Linux (Red Hat, OpenSuse), AIX, Windows 2012, DB2, IBM HTTP Server, Sun One, Solaris 10, VMware ESX Server, Wily Introscope, Tivoli Directory Server, MQ 5.3,6.0, Ehelpline, HTML, EJB, JSP, JDBC, ISA, DB2, TAM, Jacl, Jython, XML.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Assembled and deployed the application in Dev, QA staging, in productions, following change management practices and 24/7 support.
• Effectively interacted with the users daily, decreasing downtime and increasing user productivity and documented all procedures and any other important issues
• Managed documentation of application configurations, business impact, deployment standards and procedures, and installation standards.
• Installation, configuration, deployment, scripting, troubleshooting of WebSphere Application Server 6.1 on Linux and Windows Environments.
• Responsible for development of business process and work flow for development and testing of WebSphere components and ensure transition to operations groups for production delivery and post-production support.
• Worked on various JDBC providers like DB2, Oracle, Sybase and MS SQL Server
• Experience in migrating all the J2EE Applications, which includes setting up new Research, DEV, TEST, Production environment.
• Installed Fixpack, eFixes, and cumulative fixes to the existing infrastructure and new environment.
• Troubleshooting on issues such as out of memory, memory leaks, hung sessions and session replication, federation of nodes and synchronization of nodes with NDM.
• Responsible for Managing, Monitoring and Creating Change Management Records (CMR), System Support, to Install Web Application. Clearing problem and ticket queues, solving problems and reassigning to concerned groups by end of the day if required.
• Responsible for conduction bridge calls for situations like escalating issues, high priority issues, tasks involving many teams, and project integration.

Environment: IBM WebSphere App Server 7.0,6.1,6.0, WebSphere portal 6.1, WebSphere MQ 6/5.3, HIS 8/6/2.0.47, Linux (Red Hat), AIX, Windows 2008, DB2, IBM HTTP Server, Sun One, Solaris 10, VMware ESX Server, Wily Introscope, Tivoli Directory Server, MQ 5.3,6.0, Ehelpline, HTML, EJB, JSP, JDBC, ISA, DB2, TAM, Jacl, Jython, XML.

Confidential, Austin,TX

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in environment build and setup like Development, testing, pre-production, production and migration from WAS V6 to WAS7.
• Experience on installation and Configuration of WebServers like IBM HTTP Server, and Apache, and generated plug-in with WebServer.
• Experience on configuration of WebServer (IBM HTTP Server, Apache) with application server (WebSphere application server)
• Primary responsibility for Escalations to provide technically rich responses.
• Actively monitoring of all the servers in production and staging environments and fixing any issues with the servers.
• Effective in handling Incident Management (IM) and Change Management (CM).
• Coordinated application development teams, and other technical teams to meet the needs of the project.
• Responsible for requirement gathering and analysis, development, support, maintenance and implementation.
• Participate in knowledge sharing sessions and impart the to fellow team members
• Prepare PMR status reports like "Daily, weekly, monthly service delivery report".
• Reviewed all major changes and projects affecting areas of responsibility, checking the impacts of each change and making the site lead aware of the work.

Environment: IBM WebSphere App Server 7.0,6.1,6.0, WebSphere portal 6.1, WebSphere MQ 6/5.3, HIS 8/6/2.0.47, Linux (Red Hat, OpenSuse), AIX, Windows 2008, DB2, IBM HTTP Server, Sun One, Solaris 10, VMware ESX Server, Wily Introscope, Tivoli Directory Server, MQ 5.3,6.0, BMC Remedy Action Request System 7.0, HTML, EJB, JSP, JDBC, ISA, DB2, Mainframe, TAM, Jacl, Jython, XML.

Confidential

WebSphere/MQ Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installed WebSphere FIXPACK using update installer, installation of Centralized installation manager, setting up of OSGI/JPA2.0 and augmentation of JPA in WAS.
• Created Application server and Dmgr profiles, adding nodes to the Application Server.
• Install and configuration of WebSphere application servers in AIX and Linux environments.
• Configuring the environments such as setting up data-source, configure resource adapter and connection factories, setting up heap size.
• Deploy application using manual & scripted deployment, map modules for application server, generating & propagation of plug-in files.
• Configuring security such as Adding users to WAS using Ldap and configures user access to application.
• Diagnose issues on application servers, checking log files for errors, stopping and restarting Appservers.
• Installation and configuration of WebSphere MQ cluster using Veritas Cluster service, creating queue managers, local queues, remote queues, xmit queues and dead letter queues, creating channels both sender and listener.
• Create triggers for application and process definition, setup MQ initiation queues and triggers, setup MQ security for the environment. Familiar with message broker configuration, MQ explorer and JMS messaging, troubleshoot issues on queue managers, queue depth, channel s, checking Dead Letter Queues. Restart channels, checking queues and clearing DLQ.
• Managed and used QPASA to monitor application such as WebSphere application server and MQ.
• Adding network for MQ and distributing agents, installing agents on servers, stopping and restarting agents if the process stopped, restart channels and queues.
• Experienced in 2-tier and 3-tier architecture environments.
• Administered, configured, tuned & troubleshoot WebSphere Application Server in a Horizontal & Vertical clustered on Linux environments.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security using LDAP for WAS and WVE and also expertise in setting up security for single sign on and SSL.
• Installed and Configured IBM Http Server and IHS web server interfaces (plug-in file), session management, virtual hosts, data sources, HTTP transports for Application Server instances and applications.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, Data sources, connection pooling.
• Involved in migration projects as well like WebSphere Application Server 6.1 to 7.0.
• Experience in troubleshooting issues using Traces, Logs and Log Analyzer.
• Wrote Shell scripts to monitor installed enterprise applications and to get information from the logs and database in the required format and other daily activities and jobs.
• Used WebSphere Admin Console and wsadmin scripting to install enterprise EAR, WAR files for hot deployment.
• Experience in troubleshooting various issues in production environment.
• Configured queues through JMS and WebSphere MQ.
• Monitored Applications and WAS performance through Tivoli Performance Viewer and tuned the system caching, queuing, JVM parameters, DB Connection Pooling.
• Created Run books to keep information regarding configuration and troubleshooting information.

Environment: IBM WebSphere App Server 7.0,6.1,6.0, WebSphere portal 6.1, WebSphere MQ 6/5.3, HIS 8/6/2.0.47, Linux (Red Hat, OpenSuse), AIX, Windows 2008, DB2, IBM HTTP Server, Sun One, Solaris 10, VMware ESX Server, Wily Introscope, Tivoli Directory Server, MQ 5.3,6.0, site minder, HPQC, HTML, EJB, JSP, JDBC, DB2, TAM, Jacl, Jython, XML.

Confidential

WebSphere Adminstrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed WebSphere version 6.0.
• Installed WebSphere FIXPACK using update installer.
• Created Application server and Dmgr profiles, adding nodes to the Application Server.
• Install and configuration of WebSphere application servers in AIX and Linux environments.
• Configuring the environments such as setting up data-source, configure resource adapter and connection factories, setting up heap size.
• Deploy application using manual & scripted deployment, map modules for application server, generating & propagation of plug-in files.
• Configuring security such as Adding users to WAS using Ldap and configures user access to application.
• Diagnose issues on application servers, checking log files for errors, stopping and restarting Appservers.
• Worked on 2-tier and 3-tier architecture environments.
• Administered, configured, tuned & troubleshoot WebSphere Application Server in a Horizontal & Vertical clustered on Linux environments.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security using LDAP.
• Installed and Configured IBM http Server and IHS web server interfaces (plug-in file), session management, virtual hosts, data sources, http transports for Application Server instances and applications.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, Data sources, connection pooling.
• Experience in troubleshooting issues using Traces, Logs and Log Analyzer.
• Wrote Shell scripts to installed enterprise applications and to get information from the logs and database in the required format and other daily activities and jobs.
• Experience in troubleshooting various issues in production environment.
• Monitored Applications and WAS performance through Tivoli Performance Viewer and JVM parameters, DB Connection Pooling.
• Created Run books to keep information regarding configuration and troubleshooting information.

Environment: IBM WebSphere App Server 6.0, HIS 6/2.0.47, Linux (Red Hat), AIX, Windows 2003, DB2, IBM HTTP Server, Tivoli Directory Server, HTML, EJB, JSP, JDBC, DB2, TAM, Jacl, Jython, XML.