SUMMARY

• Over 10+ years of experience in the maintenance of the IBM WebSphere Application Server on AIX, Solaris, UNIX, WINDOWS NT platforms and setting up the development, stage and production environments.
• Experience in installation, configuration, deployment and management of Enterprise Applications in a clustered and non - clustered environment using IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x/8.5.
• Installed, configured, and maintained Apache Http Server, Geronimo Application Server 2.1.3/2.1.7 .
• Expertise in monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications Servers in Development, Staging and Production Environments.
• Experience in deploying J2EE components on WAS Servers using WAS Admin Console, wsadmin tool using JACL and Jython scripting.
• Involved in configuration of Cells, Nodes, Clustering, Tuning Application Servers, Virtual Hosts, configuring Web Server Plug-ins, IBM HTTP Server, Apache and troubleshooting WebSphere related issues.
• Worked on multiple projects migrating applications to newer versions of WebSphere Application Server.
• Experience in using JACL, Jython, Shell and Perl Scripting languages to automate various processes and daily tasks
• Strong troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to work with development teams during various staged of a project and automate everything they need to be functional in production environment.
• Experience in managing applications in a J2EE environment and thorough understanding of all components that comprise a J2EE environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: UNIX (Sun/AIX/HP), Linux, Windows2003 Advanced Server /NT, Windows 95/98.

J2EE Technologies: J2EE1.3, Java2.0, Servlet2.3, EJB2.0, JSP1.2, Java Beans, RMI, CORBA, Java Swing /AWT, XML, HTML, DHTML, VBScript, JavaScript, ANT Scripting, Unix Shell Programming, PL/SQL, C, C++, COBOL, VB 6.0, PERL

Application Servers: Web Sphere 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x, Geronimo Application Server 2.1.3/2.1.7

Web Servers: IBM HTTP Server, Apache Webserver.

Server Provisioning Tools: IWD and Pureapp.

Scripting Languages: Jacl, Jython, Shell and Perl

Network Protocols/Services: TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP, SOAP, SSL, SMTP, DNS.

Version Control Tools: StarTeam and RTC

Programming Languages: Java, C and C++

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Web Sphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, and maintained IBM Http Server, WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment (ND), 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.5. Created profiles using Profile Creating Wizard and silent profile creation.
• Co-ordinate maintenances like fixpack updates, ifix upgrades, security keys renewals and hardware upgrades for WebSphere servers test and production environments with various teams.
• Work with development teams and automate deployment of all their application components and WebSphere configurations they need in production environment.
• Support build, deploy and configuration management processes for JAVA and J2EE applications
• Troubleshoot automated workflows and WebSphere related issues on servers in production and test environment
• Worked with various teams in automating all StarTeam related activities like view creation, build process and merge to root process.
• Assist application teams in various migration projects when Confidential started using newer version of WAS.
• Install WebSphere, MQ, IHS and Apache web serves to using HPSA.
• Worked in on call rotation for Production Environment and Test environment as well. On call is responsible for monitoring various dashboards and joining/assisting any outage calls going on.
• Implemented AWC (custom deploy tool used at Confidential ) project where code and configuration dependencies of each application were identified and added to a custom XML used by AWC which is unique for each.
• Troubleshoot various issues related to WebSphere, IHS, Apache, build tools, StarTeam, RTC and custom tools used at Confidential .
• Basic troubleshooting with MQ series like checking status of qmgr, local queues, alias queues and adding local queues to appropriate clusters.
• Experience in deploying the applications both from the command line using Wsadmin commands and from the admin console.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and WSADMIN.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JVM heap settings, JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, Virtual Hosts, Global Security and SSL.
• Troubleshooting APP Server start-up issues, Memory leaks, Java code defects after deployment, and class path issues.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 7.x/8.x, WebSphere MQ 6.x/7.x, JBoss Application Server 7.x, Apache 2.x, IHS 6.0/6.1/7.x, AD, ADAM, Cisco PIX 500 Series, Tivoli Access Manager, UML, XML, SQL, Java, DB2/UDB 8.2, Oracle 9i/8i/7i, Korn Shell (KSH) Script, WSCP, JACL and Jython scripts, Perl, CSS Load Balancer, TPV, Wily Introscope 6.x, IBM AIX 5.x/6.x/7.x, Windows XP, RedHat Linux AS 3.0/4.x, TCP/IP

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Web Sphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, and maintained Apache Http Server, Geronimo Application Server 2.1.3/2.1.7 .
• Involved in trouble shooting with the issues of Web Server/App Server and DB Server for the production environment for Confidential Stores and Distribution Centers.
• Involved in deployment issues and assisted Application teams for successful deployments.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and Wsadmin.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JVM heap settings, JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, Virtual Hosts, Global Security and SSL.
• Involved in issues & Stopping/Starting/Restarting Apache HTTP Server using wsadmin account.
• Involved in Stopping/Starting & Monitoring the logs for Application Server Instances.
• Involved in Troubleshooting APP Server start-up issues, Memory leaks, Java code defects after deployment and class path issues.
• Involved in issues like Application not responding. Application Deployment Errors, Wrong Database host name, Server Hung due to out of memory or thread hanging. Owner ship issue.
• Created, updated and reviewed PMRs and worked closely with the IBM PMR team and application teams for the resolution of the issues.
• Worked on Remedy tool for creating, scheduling, modifying and updating the Change Controls.
• Worked with different application teams to get the approval on Change Controls for implementation of New Changes.
• Involved in Creating, submitting and tracking the required Change Controls for implementation in tandem with in house teams as per Confidential standards.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0.2/5.1/6.0/6.1 , IBM HTTP Server 2.0.x/6.0.x/6.1.x, UNIX (AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3 & HP-UX B 11.11).

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Web Sphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x on Linux, AIX, HP, Windows Platforms.
• Implemented horizontal and vertical scaling of WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Advanced Edition in a workload-managed cluster.
• Installed, Configured and Administered IBM HTTP Web Servers, Apache V2.0 and IPlanet web servers.
• Responsible for maintenance of the WebSphere Application Servers and Web Servers on different AIX platforms and setting up the development, testing and staging environments for the ongoing application development.
• Installation of Fix Packs, cumulative fixes and interim fixes to overcome the WebSphere application servers problems, based on the recommendation of IBM.
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 5.0/5.1/ that involves EAR (Enterprise Archives) and WAR (Web Archives).
• Performed the daily system administration tasks like managing system resources, writing scripts, and end users support, operations and security.
• Coordinated with the system vendor/IBM for any system upgrades, releases, software fixes
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 5.0/5.1, WebSphere Portal Server 5.x, IBM WebSphere MQ 5.x, Microsoft IIS 5.x, IBM HTTP Web Servers V1.3, Apache V2.0 and IPlanet web servers, Big IP sprayer, Solaris 9/8, IBM AIX 5.1/5.2, Windows NT, 2000/2003, Qpasa 2.x, BMC-Patrol 4.x, Java, JMS, JDBC, XML, SQL, TCP/IP, SOAP, Sybase and MS-Access 2000.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Web Sphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported an eBusiness Website and provided the development, testing, staging and production environments to the new application development and implementation.
• Installed, configured, administered and supported WebSphere Application Server 5.0/6.0.
• Involved in configuring the WebSphere load balancing utilizing WebSphere Workload Management including horizontal scaling and vertical scaling.
• Developed many WSCP scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XMLConfig tool.
• 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).
• Created, tested & deployed J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server using WSAD tools.
• Involved in deploying the EAR files and scripting automated deployment of the applications.
• Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere.
• Involved in number of installation of WebSphere instances from development to production.
• Configured horizontal scalability of WebSphere through a mechanism called as “Cloning of multiple JVMs” with independent Java Virtual Machines-JVMs, for each clone.
• Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Resource analyzer and log analyzer.
• Assisted customers with setting proper Priority/Severity of problems, work problems to resolution, recorded/documented actions in databases as well as utilized tools and resources.
• Provided call center support by 24x7 shift rotation basis and monitored trouble ticket queues to attend user and system calls.
• Provided recommendations on environment standards, product leveling, performance tuning, new project consulting, recommend broadened usage of WebSphere functionality.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0.2/5.1/6.0/6.1 , IBM HTTP Server 2.0.x/6.0.x/6.1.x, UNIX (AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3 & HP-UX B 11.11).