PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of IT experience in the area of Middleware MQ Admin and Developer.
• Experience in installing, configuring, patching, tuning and troubleshooting of the WebSphere MQ 6.0/7.0/7.5 and setting up the Development, Test and Production environments on Unix Sun Solaris, Linux, AIX and Windows servers.
• Experience administering Unix/Solaris/AIX production server environment including installing OS, patching and performance tuning.
• Working as a Module Lead at Eli Lilly Company.
• Extensive experience in analysing defining requirements, performing data analysis and developing Technical feasibility documentation.
• Experience in installing the WebSphere MQ and configured MQSeries objects such as Queue Managers, Listeners, Channels and Queues enable the security.
• Installing secure socket layer SSL Certificates Clustered Environment maintaining High Availability.
• Actively involved in the full project life cycle from gathering user requirements to implementation.
• Experience in migration of existing applications from versions older to new versions and update the fix packs.
• Strong UNIX admin skills including host setups, WinSCP, profiles setup, crontabs and security.
• Experience in setting up, configuring and implementing various authorization and authentication including LDAP and map the users and groups.
• Coordinated with domain experts from different teams to resolve the critical issues on production environment.
• Strong capacity to learn new technologies rapidly and achieve deep vertical knowledge.
• Experience in 24X7 on-call production support/troubleshooting problems related to Websphere MQ and Security issues.
• Work closely with Project manager, development, testing and production team to align project deliverables, dates and report issues/concerns.
• Excellent problem determination and resolution, Root Cause Analysis RCA and communication skills with ability to work under pressure in a highly visible role.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator- Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developing modules based on the Requirement and Design specifications.
• Analyzing requirements and creating detailed specifications for development of new modules.
• Customizing the tool as per the client's requirement.
• Designing the Data Movement and Transformation architecture for Eli Lilly similar to the existing system for minimum impact and change at the end user level.
• Changing business logic in existing programs as per the client requirements.
• Impact analysis of a change.
• Participating in Knowledge transfer/acquisition sessions with client for various modules to be able to carry out Designing and Support Maintenance activities.
• Suggesting client to go for best possible technological solution based on technical expertise and knowledge.
• Creating documents such as Requirements and Design, Traceability Matrix of Requirement and Design, Test case and test case summary report, Installation and Verification Instructions, Operational System Instructions, Standard Operation Procedures, Troubleshooting guide and User manual.
• Testing of the developed solution and documenting the test results.
• Providing process improvement features both technically and functionally so that client can achieve financial targets with the usage of developed software applications and also achieve customer satisfaction.
• Installation of MQ server based on license cost and MQ Client and further support of the above for any MQ related issues.
• PMR co-ordination with IBM for vendor support scenarios.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Messaging and Queuing, IBM WebSphere MQ Series

Integration, IBM WebSphere MQ V7.5, IBM WebSphere MQ V7.0, Axway Interchange 5.10.1, AIX, Linux, AS400 Windows

Confidential

Module Lead and Configuration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible as Configuration Manager for QA and Prod environment.
• Responsible as Test lead for a team of 5 members for testing of various scenarios and updating the test cases in HP QC.
• Prepared the test cases for the testing of the sharepoint team-site used in the migration for NextGen and executed them successfully raising the defects at early point of testing thereby saving cost.
• Developing, updating and modifying codes according to client requirement as part of minor major enhancements or new product launch for QA and Prod environments.
• Deployment of bar files, creation of Execution groups, DSN's.
• Installation of MQ server based on license cost and MQ Client and further support of the above for any MQ related issues.
• PMR co-ordination with IBM for vendor support scenarios.
• Coordinating System Integration and User Acceptance Testing of the developed code.
• Post Implementation Validation and review of product integrity after production launch.
• Prepare design documents for a project and develop/execute test cases and upload in Corporate Document Management System CDMS and ALM RTC.
• Participating in Analysis Phase to understand scope of the requirement and assisting rollout support of business applications for testing and aligning with different groups.
• Responsible for providing the scripts for any changes in the architecture of GSK.
• Responsible for creating the change control forms and taking the appropriate approvals from the Service Owner.
• Responsible to maintain the QA environment and ensure all the changes are rolled out effectively and smoothly.
• Responsible for ensuring that the GSK Infrastructure is up and running high availability by monitoring scheduled script alerts and production logs.
• Responsible for all the version controls for each script and maintain all the change records in CDMS, ALM and PVCS.

Environment : IBM WebSphere Messaging and Queuing, IBM WebSphere MQ Series Integration, IBM WebSphere MQ V7.5, IBM WebSphere MQ V7.0, BMC Patrol, Remedy Tool, Chameleon, PVCS, CDMS, Oracle PLSQL, ALM, RTC, Putty, Rumba, HP-QC v10

Confidential

WebSphere/System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Integrated Lifecycle Metrics Reporting.
• Installation of necessary software's, tools as per project needs.
• Automation and Maintenance of UNIX scripts shell programming to be run on the UNIX machines for the movement of files.
• Daily support to user offshore, onsite, QA teams problems and maintaining the environment.
• Responsible for ensuring that the American Express Messaging Infrastructure is up and running high availability by monitoring scheduled script alerts and production logs.
• Responsible for taking immediate action as per problem management process.
• Prepared reports on the weekly availability of the various messaging environments and presented it to American Express Business and Technologies Clients.
• Prepared the test documents and business justification for a production rollout.
• Was responsible for testing the production fix before the application was launched and give sign off by doing Business As Usual BAU validations.
• Prepared the test cases for the migration of Lotus Notes Database to Sharepoint Infopath.
• Involved in all production install calls ensuring smooth rollout.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Messaging and Queuing, IBM WebSphere MQ Series Integration, IBM WebSphere Message Broker V6, Java, Windows 2000, AIX, Mainframe, DB2.