Professional Summary:

• Over 8 years of IT experience including 7 years of experience in Planning, Installing, Configuring, Administering, Tuning and Troubleshooting IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0/5.1/6.0/6.1./7.0/8.0,WebSphere Portal V5.x/6.x/7.x, WebSphere MQ Series V5.x/6.x/7.x, WebSphere datapower SOA on various Operating Systems like AIX, Solaris, Linux and Windows.
• Highly experienced in integrating WebSphere Application Server ND and related software including IBM HTTP Server 2.0.x/6.0/7.0, SunONE Web Server, IBM Directory Server LDAP , DB2, Oracle and SQL Server.
• Experience in monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications in Development, QA, Staging and Production Environments.
• Experience in successful implementation of Work Load Management WLM concepts using clustering techniques for failover/High Availability.
• Experience in deploying J2EE components on WAS 5.0/5.1/6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0 using WAS Admin Console, wsadmin tool using JACL and Jython scripting.
• Created, Configured and Administered Profiles, Clusters, Application Servers for WebSphere Application Server and deployment of applications in highly available, load balanced production environments.
• Extensive experience in problem tracing and WebSphere log file managements.
• Experienced in applying Fix Packs and Migrating to latest versions.
• Experienced in most of the WebSphere admin and Monitoring tools including wsadmin, backupConfig, restoreConfig, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Wily Interscope, Thread Dump Analyzer and partial knowledge of ITCAM.
• Migrated existing applications from WebSphere Application servers 5.x to 6.x on windows and AIX/Linux.
• Experienced in analyzing Java cores, Heap dumps, Hung Threads, Deadlock, and Memory Leak.
• Expert in UNIX Shell scripting for administration, maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Experience with WebSphere Edge Components like Network Dispatcher.
• Involved in installing, configuring and administering WebSphere Portal 5.0/6.0/6.1/7.0 on UNIX, Linux and AIX Platforms with Web Content Management.
• Experienced in configuring Database and LDAP security for WebSphere Portal Server.
• Experience in Deployment of Portlets and war files on WebSphere Portal.
• Experience in installing, configuring and administering WebSphere MQ Series V5.x/6.x/7x
• Created and Configured MQ series objects like Queue Manager, Queue and Channels.
• Experienced in configuring and securing Web Server Interface, Session management, WebSphere resources, J2C, Connection Pools, and JMS resources in IBM WebSphere 5.1/6.0/6.1.
• Handled and resolved the issues in all areas of WebSphere v5.x , 6.x and 7x including installation, applying patches, configuring DB2, Portal, Security, EJBs, Servlets, J2EE application Building and deployment, WSADMIN scripting, work load management, clustering, plug-in, IHS, web servers and Migration.
• Troubleshooting Production issues, Worked on resolving Application Server Hang issues and High memory and CPU issues in WebSphere Application Server 5.0/5.1/6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0
• Excellent Technical Knowledge in Java, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, EJB, Web Services, XML and XSL.
• Strong in installing and configuration of JBoss, Tomcat for intranet applications including cluster environment for JBOSS with all configuration mode.
• Experienced in DNS, LDAP, FTP, Remote Access, Security Management and System Troubleshooting skills.
• Created keystore and generated private keys and certificates for the signing requests.
• Knowledge on SOA Architecture and Web services Technologies
• Excellent client relation skills and the drive to complete tasks effectively and efficiently where customer services and technical skills are demanded as well as the ability to communicate effectively with co-workers and all levels of management.
• 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.

Technical Skills:

Professional Experience:

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed configured and administered IBM WebSphere Application Server ND V6.0/6.1/7.0 on Windows, AIX, Solaris and Linux.
• Responsible for creating Profiles, nodes, federation of nodes, WAS instances, Application Servers, Clusters, Virtual hosts, Data Sources, Plug-in configuration, and Service Integration Bus Configuration.
• Installed and Configured WebSphere Extended Deployment manager XD 6.0.2/6.1./7.0
• Created build definition file to generate customized installation package for WebSphere XD.
• Installed and Configured IBM HTTP Server V6.0/7.0 and Apache Web server V2.2/2.3 with WebSphere Application Server in cluster environment and configured Site minder to work with WAS.
• Applied latest fix pack and Patches to WebSphere Application Server.
• Highly experienced in optimizing performance of WebSphere Application server using Workload Management WLM .
• Transferred default Cloudscape database to DB2 and Oracle in WebSphere Application Server.
• Configured the Webserver Instances, Session Management, Virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere Application Server.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security using LTPA and LDAP for WebSphere Application Server.
• Involved in writing Jython and Jacl scripts to automate the build process for various we based SOA J2EE applications.
• Migrated existing applications from WebSphere Application Server 5.x to 6.x and 6.x to 7.0 using WASPreUpgrade and WASPostUpgrade tools.
• Supported WebSphere Application Server clustering, load balance and failover.
• Configured the extranet Web Servers and intranet application servers using the firewalls between the Web Servers and application servers DMZ model .
• Involved in deploying application code into Production, Training, Staging, and Test Environments.
• Involved in Working with Application teams to tune JVM's, JAR's, property files and application components.
• Experienced with Middleware operations and supporting infrastructure, such as databases, networking, UNIX, Linux and NT servers, network management, security, and monitoring.
• Used log files to help with performance monitoring, accounting and problem determination.
• Installed WebSphere Portal Server 6.0/6.1/7.0 and enabled Web Content Management.
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere portal 6.0/6.1/7.0 with Lotus Web Content Management.
• Configured Security for WebSphere Portal environment using LDAP registry IBM Directory Server.
• Deployed Portlets, themes and skins on WebSphere Portal Server.
• Deployed war files using xml access scripts and portal admin console.
• Involved in configuring Authoring environment and Syndication using WCM.
• Involved in installing configuring and administering WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.0/7.0 on AIX and Linux environments.
• Created and Configured MQ series objects like Queue Manager, Queue, Channels and Transmission Queues for Messaging and Queuing.
• Involved in WebSphere MQ Cluster design, setup, and administration.
• Created Cluster Sender and Receiver Channels for Communications between the applications.
• Involved in configuring JMS Provider using WebSphere MQ Series.
• Analyzed Heap dumps and Core dumps using IBM thread analyzer and heap analyzer.
• Monitored Applications and WAS performance through Tivoli Performance Viewer and Wily Introscope and tuned the system caching, queuing, JVM parameters, DB Connection Pooling.
• Involved in troubleshooting issues using log analyzer.
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces.
• Involved in Creating Configuring SSL for high security of web application.
• Used SCM tools Clear Case for software versioning and deployments.

Environment: WebSphere Application server 6.1/6.0/7/XD, IBM WebSphere Portal Server, IBM MQ Series/MQ Client 6.x/7.0, IHS V6.x, Apache Web Server V2.x, DB2, Oracle, RAD, TPV, Wily Introscope, Windows and UNIX AIX/Solaris/Linux .

Confidential

Websphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured and Administered WebSphere Application Server V5.0/5.1/6.0/6.1.
• Installed Configured of IBM HTTP Server V6.0/6.1 and Apache Web server V2.x, make junction works for the transportation of application through a web server.
• Configured WebSphere Deployment Manager and Application Server profiles in clustered horizontal and vertical environment to utilize the advantages of Failover and load balancing in multi-node environment.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security using LTPA and LDAP for WebSphere Application Server.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources and connection pooling for database connection.
• Transferred default Cloudscape database to DB2 and Oracle in WebSphere Application Server.
• Involved in Migrating WAS V5.0/5.1 to 6.0 in AIX platform.
• Applied Fixes, Patches and ifixes to WebSphere Application Server v6.0/6.1.
• Installed Configured and Supported WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0/6.1 and enabled Web Content Management.
• Configured Security for WebSphere Portal environment using LDAP registry IBM Directory Server.
• Transferred cloudscape to DB2 for WebSphere Portal.
• Enabled Authoring and rendering environments.
• Configured and maintained a number of WebSphere Application Server instances in development, QA and production environment.
• Involved in securing J2EE applications by implementing Single Sign On by using LTPA and Site Minder.
• Involved in installing configuring and administering WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.0 on AIX and Linux environments.
• Created and Configured MQ series objects like Queue Manager, Queue, Channels and Transmission Queues for Messaging and Queuing.
• Installed EARs, WARs to clusters and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and WSCP scripts.
• Used WSINSTANCE to create multiple WebSphere instances from the command line.
• Used Tivoli Performance Viewer to monitor performance data like Application resources enterprise beans, Servlets and WAS runtime resources JVM memory, application server thread pools, and database connection pools.
• Enabled security for the Admin Console and the application components.
• Deploying the applications on clusters, updating the Installed applications and updating Web Server plug-in configuration using administrative console as well as Jython and Jacl scripts.
• Involved in Installing and Configuration of JBOSS Application Server V4.2.0/5.1.0 on Linux, Solaris and windows.
• Occasionally used Resource Analyzer to monitor WebSphere Applications and tuned the environment accordingly like changing the JVM Heap, Connection Pool sizes.
• Used command line tools wsadmin, WSCP and XMLConfig occasionally as an alternative to Admin Console.
• Created the user lists and groups in LDAP Servers and mapped them to the enterprise applications running on the Application Servers.
• Extensively used version control tool ClearCase.
• Troubleshoot Admin Server start-up issues, Java code defects after deployment like class path issues.
• Performed routine management of WebSphere environment like monitoring Disk Space and CPU Utilization.
• Supported applications 24X7 on-call on a rotational basis.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 5.0/5.1/6.06.1/XD, WebSphere Portal Server 5.1, IBM MQ Series V5.x/6.x/7.0, JBoss Application Server, IHS Apache Web Server, Apache web Server, Linux, XML, JDBC, DB2, AIX, RHEL 5.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed Web Sphere 5.0/6.0/6.1 on Windows, AIX and Solaris platform.
• Installed WebSphere Application Server 6.x ND and created dmgr, Application server profiles.
• Responsible for building Application Servers and Web Servers on Windows and Linux.
• Involved in Deployment of J2EE Applications, Creating Clusters for Load Balancing and Failover, Configuring Resources like JDBC Provider, Creating Virtual Hosts, Shared Libraries, JNDI Configurations, EJB References, Creating Environment Variables, and Configuring Session Management.
• Involved in opening and working on PMR's with IBM to solve various issue related to the environment. Enabled traces as part of troubleshooting and used collector tool to submit the logs and traces to IBM.
• Migrated to WAS 5.0 Base on AIX/Windows platforms to WAS 6.0 ND.
• Worked closely with developers to define and configure Application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web resources, Servlets, JDBC drivers and Servlet Engines.
• Separated Web Server and Application Server for better performance and security.
• Wrote scripts for accessing remote Admin Servers, cleaning up logs during back-ups.
• Facilitated Work Load Management by creating Clones and Clusters in WAS 5.0/5.1/6.0.
• Handled deployment of Java Servlets, Session Beans and Entity Beans for modules to the respective application server instances.
• Setup messaging using the integrated JMS Server.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and WSCP scripts. Used wsadmin scripts to invoke Jacl and Jython scripts in WAS
• Used WSINSTANCE to create multiple WebSphere instances from the command line.
• Enabled security for the Admin Console and the application components.
• Occasionally used Resource Analyzer to monitor WebSphere Applications and tuned the environment accordingly like changing the JVM Heap, Connection Pool sizes.
• Used the Tivoli Performance Viewer with WebSphere 5.0/6.0
• Used command line tools wsadmin, WSCP and XMLConfig occasionally as an alternative to Admin Console.
• Created the user lists and groups in LDAP Servers and mapped them to the enterprise applications running on the Application Servers.
• Troubleshoot Admin Server start-up issues, Java code defects after deployment, like classpath issues.
• Supported applications 24X7 on-call on a rotational basis.
• Performed routine management of WebSphere environment like monitoring Disk Space and CPU Utilization.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0/5.1/6.0/6.1, IBM HTTP Server 2.0.42.x and 2.0.47.x, IBM WebSphere MQ 5.3 CSD 08, Solaris SunOS 5.8, Sun ONE Directory Server 5.1, Sun ONE web server 6.0.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and administered of WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1, Network Deployment, Extended Deployment XD on multiple Platform.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server and plug-in in development, staging
• and production environments.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server on multiple platforms for both Horizontal
• and Vertical clustering for Work Load Management.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources,
• connection pooling, JMS, session management, virtual hosts and HTTP transports.
• Deployed e-commerce J2EE applications on multiple WebSphere application server and maintained Load balancing, high availability and fail over functionality.
• Involved in Installing and Configuration of JBoss Application Server on Linux, Solaris and windows.
• Developed UNIX shell scripts, ant, Jython scripts to automate the WebSphere XD Administration recycling the application server, deploying customer applications, creating dynamic clusters, logs rotation, monitor applications state .
• Configured WebSphere Security using LDAP and Implemented SSL between WebSphere and LDAP and IHS and WebSphere.
• Enable global security for application servers and applications using Single Sign On SSO by LTPA mechanism on Secure Way LDAP User Registry.
• Problem determination through the log files JVM Logs and rectified the problems or interacting with IBM support to solve problems.
• Installed V5.1 Cumulative fix for WebSphere HTTP plug-in V5.1.1, SDK 1.4.2 Cumulative fix
• Installed Fixpacks on WebSphere Application Server v6.x and added patches using Update installer.
• Monitoring application log files, Application Server Performance, Servlet Status, Active Sessions and DB Pool connections.
• Troubleshot problems on the various environments involving the integrations of WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server, Apache Web Servers, and CA siteminder, Sunone directory server v5.x.
• Installed and Configured, administered the Webagent in Web server and integrating between policy server and web server using CA siteminder 6.0 and Apache web server 2.0.
• Configured global security on WebSphere using IBM Directory Server, Sun one directory server v5.x and secured the adminconsole using wsadmin Jython script.
• Configured Adminconsole security on WebSphere and creating users with various roles to access the WebSphere admin console users and groups in LDAP and added them as WebSphere Console Groups using both adminconsole and wsadmin Jython.
• Installed SSL certificates on the Web Servers using ikeyman tool.
• Was involved in writing Shell scripts to automate WebSphere Admin tasks and application specific syncs / backups and other schedulers.
• Monitor and analyze data with Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Debugged WebSphere Application Server connection pooling issues using Wily and generating thread dumps.
• Installed Web applications and enterprise applications to Test, QA and Production environments.
• Providing 24/7 support in a High availability environment.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x/xd, WebSphere Portal Server 5.1.0.x,, WebSphere MQ, JBoss Application Server, AIX v5.0, Java, JDK 1.3-1.4, JSP, EJB, UML, XML, SQL, Linux,Solaris, Windows, JavaScript, Jython, and DB2,TeraData,infomix,Oracle.

Confidential

Jr. WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in Installing and Configuration of Application server Websphere 5.0/5.1.
• Experience in Installing and Configuration of Websphere servers like IBM Http server and Tomcat.
• Automate application install, uninstall and application enhancements through Shell scripts and WSCP scripts.
• Responsible for installation configuration and maintenance of J2EE applications on JBOSS Application Server, HTTP Server in a multi clustered high availability environments.
• Assigned different user roles as Monitor, Operator, Configurator, and Administrator.
• Involved in Load balancing/Tuning/Clustering for JBOSS Application Server.
• Developed UNIX shell scripts, JACL scripts to automate the WebSphere Administration recycling the application server, deploying customer applications, logs rotation, monitor applications state, etc .
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 4.0/5.0 that involves EAR Enterprise Archives and WAR Web Archives .
• Involved in trouble shooting and performance tuning using Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer.
• Ensure application dependencies are integrated on system level components such as database, Data Source Name DSN , and Application Server connection pooling DB2 including identification and documentation.
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0/4.0, JDBC drivers and served engines along with trouble shooting and recovery on AIX.
• Involved in monitoring, shutdown and boot up, Network Support and Trouble Shooting.