SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of experience in IT industry inclusive of 5+ years of experience in Middleware Administrator using IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM MQ Series on various platforms like UNIX, AIX, Solaris and Windows NT/2000/2003
• Experience in installation, configuration, deployment and management of Enterprise Applications in a clustered and non - clustered environment using IBMWebSphereApplicationServer 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0.
• Expertise in Trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Resource analyzer and log analyzer using Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Extensive experience in implementation of Workload Management (WLM) using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Scaling for fail over and backup/recovery processes
• Worked as Administrator and On-Call Administrator for the production support and maintenance through out the duration.
• Configured WebSphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, and Java Mail sessions.
• Expertise in JNDI, MQ Series, J2EE, JMS, DB2/UDB on various platforms.
• Worked onserverside technologies like Java, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, EJB, Web Services, XML, and XSL with the Back end RDBMS Tools like SQLServer, Oracle,DB2
• Expert in UNIX Shell scripting for administration, maintenance and troubleshooting. Experience in deploying J2EE components on WAS 6.1/7.0/8.x using WAS Admin Console, wsadmin/Jython/JACL scripting.
• Experience in troubleshooting, applying patches and plug-in for WAS 6.1/7.0/8.x Experience in webserver administration, which includes installation, configuration and troubleshooting of IBM HTTPserver1.3.x/2.0.x/6.0/6.1, iPlanet 5.x, Apache Webserver.
• Experience in planning, installation and administration of IBM MQSeries and websphere Portal server on various platforms like AIX, UNIX, Solaris, HP-UX, and Windows NT/2000
• Configured and Secured Webserver interface, Session management,WebSphere resources, J2C resources, connection factories and JMS resources in IBM WebSphereWAS 6.1/7.0/8.x.
• Experienced in DNS, LDAP, FTP, Remote Access, Security Management and System Troubleshooting skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Middleware: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5.x, 7.x/6.x/5.x, JBoss 4.x/6.4.x, Apache Tomcat.

Languages: Shell, Python, Java, JSP

Web Servers: Apache/IBM HTTP Server

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere 5.x, 6.x. 7.x, 8.x, JBoss 4.x/6.4.x, Tomcat

Operating Systems: AIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP

Monitoring Tools: Tivoli Performance viewer, Wily Introscope

Utility Tools: IBM Web-based System Manager, Ant, PuTTY

Scripting: Jython and Shell

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in Creation of VDC’s,VApp’s, and VM’s in a Production Support Cloud Environment.
• Worked on Bundle bounces, GateWay bounces and Deployments as our daily maintenences.
• Working on handling tickets for various Applicatios using Monitoring tools like Splunk, Nagios,Wily etc and escalating to the heigher levels.
• Working in a 24x7 support team and supporting OffShore teams during peak times.
• Extensively involved in various Change Managements.
• Attending in Priority 1 issues in a timely manner by opening up a bridge and providing the supported teams during the Off-peak hours.
• Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of IBMWebSphereApplicationServer7.0 on Linux 8.0/Windows 2003 Platform and migration to WAS 8.5
• Created and manage data source and database connection pools Managed performance tuning of WebServer, Web Container, EJB Container and database connection pool.
• Configured IBM HTTP Server/Apache for SSL configuration
• Configured clustering through deployment manager for load balancing and fail over functions.
• On-call Support during off-peak hours on production enviornments, using SPLUNK, nagios, wily intrescope, T-leaf tools for monitoring purpose, and to check the logs.
• Using NX tool to logon to Virtual Servsers.
• Working with Team Members to resolve production/non-production environments.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

WebSphere Application Server Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured and Administered IBM WebSphere Application Server ND 8.5 and Websphere MQ on, IBM AIX 6.1.
• MaintainedWebSphereApplicationServer6.0 and HTTP WebServer server on AIX and Solaris.
• Created and managed data source and database connection pools Managed performance tuning of WebServer, Web Container, EJB Container and database connection pool.
• Experience working with Tomcat Application server.
• Extensively worked on subversion SVN.
• Configured the JDBC drivers and Data sources for application servers to test the application against various databases. Responsible for upgrading the JDBC drivers.
• Configured IBM HTTP Server for SSL
• Implementing and maintenance of Workload Management (WLM) using clustering/cloning.
• Java files developed by the Development Team were packaged as JAR, WAR and EAR files, and deployed them to Test and Production environments.
• Implemented and administered Server Clusters on multiple Nodes for workload and fail over management.
• Involved in configuring the Web Directory access protocols like LDAP for different levels of access at the site.
• Have experience working with Tivoli Performance Viewer and Wily Introscope.
• Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Resource analyzer and Log analyzer.
• Worked with Queue Managers(Websphere MQ) .
• Deployed and configured both Horizontal and Vertical Messaging Queues.
• Handled user accounts and groups accounts, disks and file management system Responsible for 24/7 maintenance of J2EEapplicationonWebSphereApplicationServersin development, test and production environments.
• Installed JDBC drivers and created the data sources and configured the parameters of the connection pool
• Installation and Configuration of IBMWebSpherePortalServer5.1/6.x Developed logical security application architecture integrating WebSphere Application Server, Sun ONE WebServer, Netegrity Site minder and implemented Single Sign-On security.
• Wrote shell scripts for automation and scheduling tasks.

Environment: IBMWebSphereApplicationServer8.5,WebSphere Portal 5.1/6.x,IBM DB2 9.7, AIX, Solaris IBM HTTP server6.1, Tivoli, Sun ONE webserver8.5

Confidential, Newark, DE

WebSphereApplicationServerAdministrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of IBMWebSphereApplicationServer7.0 on Linux 8.0/Windows 2003 Platform and migration to WAS 7.0
• Involved in complete infrastructure setup and configuration which included WebSphere ND 7.0,WebSphere MQ 5.1/6.x and SiteMinder 6.0 Install Configuring WebSphere Plugins, Apache Webserver and IBM HttpServer 2.0 in the Linux8.0 and windows 2003 Environment.
• Worked on administering IBM Websphere Data Power appliance.
• Configured Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web Resources and JDBC drivers
• Configured WebSphere Application Server on multiple platforms for both horizontal and vertical scaling
• Configured Clusters and Instances for improved availability and fail over capability
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security for admin console and application components
• Involved in setting up SSL.
• Involved in working with Pure Applications.
• Trouble shooting various issues during mixed cell stress testing.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security using LDAP and LTPA from admin console and application components on both Distributed platforms.
• Prepared documentation to describe support infrastructure build and operations procedure.
• Created IBM Problem Management Records (PMR) to report WebSphere Application Server problems. Analyzed log files to solve problems using debugging tools like Log Analyzer, First Failure Data Capture Tool and Collector Tool.
• Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Wily Introscope.
• Involved in developing complex scripts to automate batch jobs.
• Involved in Load and Integration testing of J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server for distributed platforms.
• Configured clustering through deployment manager for load balancing and fail over functions.
• Configured the web-server interfaces (plug-in file), session management, virtual hosts, sources, HTTP transports for Application Server instances and applications. Implemented creation of Server groups and clusters in WebSphere Application server.
• Configured WebSphere Application server security through Custom Registry and LDAP.
• Installing, Configuring and maintenance of MQSeries applications versions 5.x, Applying the CSD patches, Integrating with WebSphere, Creating Q managers, local queues, Configuring the clustering of Q managers, Channels, Troubleshooting.
• Sound knowledge in configuring JMS Provides using WebSphere MQ. Well versed with Shell Scripts for Unix System backups monthly, yearly and annual.
• Implemented standard backup procedures for both applications DB and WAS Administration DB.
• Involved in working with Pure Applications.
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces.
• Assembled and Deployed the application in staging, in productions, following change management practices and 24/7 support.
• Used SCM tools Clear Case for software versioning and deployments. Written some shell/Jacl /Jython scripts to automate the process like node federation for distributed platforms.

Environment: IBMWebSphereApplicationServer8.0x, IBM WebSphere MQ, IBM DB2, UNIX, Linux, windows 2003, Apache Webserver, Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0, IBM Directory Server, Http webserver6.0, TPV, Java, HTML