SUMMARY

• Senior Systems Engineer with over 9 years of development and support experience
• Including 2 years as team lead delivering client’s best quality experience
• In Education, Healthcare, Financial Services verticals
• Expert skill in developing, maintaining and supporting Middleware technologies using software engineering concepts
• Proficient in IBM WebSphere Message Broker, IBM Integration Bus (IIB), Transformation Extender
• Diverse experience utilizing Java tools in business, Web, and client - server environments including Java Platform and Java database Connectivity (JDBC) technologies.
• Expertise in different nodes of WMB such as Compute, WebSphere MQ nodes, SOAP UI, File and transformation nodes and handling the messages with XML, Cobol copy book etc.
• Experience in analysis, design, development and testing of various projects using software engineering concepts in Middleware Technology.
• Added conditional changes on transformation and translation using Java
• Experienced in developing data maps for EDI and XML using WTX tool.
• Modified WTX map type trees, interfaces for existing maps based on requirements.
• Evaluated data to find errors in X12 EDI transaction sets.
• Knowledge on IBM Data Power Caching Appliance XC10, IBM Data Power Security Appliance XS40 and Integration Appliance XI50 and X152.
• Knowledge on Configuring and Integrating Data Power SOA appliance features with IBM Tivoli Access Manager and Tivoli Directory Server
• Monitored Keys and certification Managements, monitoring and configuring of Web services Proxy and Configuration of Files.
• Good understanding of various Specialized in US healthcare and EDI clearing house and worked on for ICD10, Health Exchange and other Health care transactions.
• Expert Healthcare domain knowledge in lifecycle of Claim processing
• Claim status, Eligibility and Benefits and HIPAA standards and data formats like EDI, HIPAA ANSI X12, XML standards for transactions like 837I/P/D, 270,271,276,277,835,834,820.
• Good documentation skills to keep environment up to date
• Created an automated process to run extracts, validate and sends a status report for each to the client and the support team
• This gave back 120 hours a month back to the supporting team to work and monitor other more critical tasks that arose out of adhoc issues in monitoring
• Expert skills in relational DBMS technologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Middleware: WebSphere MQ V6.x, 7.x, 8.x, IIB 10.0, MQSeries 5.3

Message Broker: V6.x, 7.x, 8.x WebSphere Transformation Extender 8.2/ITX 9.0

Monitoring Tools: Tool Kit, MQ Explorer, Qload, RFHUtil, SOAP UI, WinAuto 6.2,7.0.0

Scripting: Perl, Unix shell

Databases: DB2, SQL, Oracle 9i, 10g

Version Control: Clear Case, VSS, SVN

Languages: C, Java, C++, C#, .NET, ESQL

Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/Windows 7, Unix, Mainframe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior System Engineer/ Middleware Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Worked to determine problems in the Blue Exchange product.
• A basic knowledge of NPS, Blue Exchange, HIPAA, MQSeries
• WMB (WebSphere Message Broker), IBM Integration Bus (IIB),WTX (WebSphere Transformation Extender), IBM Transformation Extender (ITX), WPS (WebSphere Process Server)
• WDP (WebSphere Data Power) and AIX is needed in order to properly support production issues.
• Experienced in developing data maps for EDI and XML using WTX tool.
• Modified WTX map type trees, interfaces for existing maps based on requirements.
• Evaluated data to find errors in X12 EDI transaction sets.
• I worked with industry leading tools and various IBM strategic remediation products such as BluePrism, IPSoft, WinAuto etc.
• Gained knowledge of programming and tool configuration
• Provided support on IBM DataPower Caching Appliance XC10, IBM DataPower Security Appliance XS40 and Integration Appliance XI50 and X152.
• Monitored Keys and certification Managements, monitoring and configuring of Webservices Proxy and Configuration of Files.
• Worked on various TWS job abends/enabling/disabling of scripts.
• Worked on entire Midrange Applications like DataPower, BlueExchange, Benefact, CXT, MWC, MWS, BASS, MBDAP, HCBO Portal and HIPAA.
• Automated Confidential Application Checkouts using Win Automation Tool
• Performed automation on various Applications like BX27X, INTERACT, Accumulation, BXBUI, BlueSquare, Capitation, Benefact, DRS, Actuate, eFDE, ICD10, CARDS, ADR, HCBO, EOB, CXT MI, CXT HZN, CXT MASS, MWS, MWC, PCS, BASS, WAS, DataPower, PMR, Informatica.
• Responsible for setting up multiple WebSphere Commerce scheduler jobs, loading data using dataload utility.
• Worked on applying Feature Packs and enabling various WCS features as per the requirements on WCS v7.0 environment.
• Configuration of IISv7.0 and multiple website creations for all the environments.
• Installation and configuration of IBM WebSphere solr server.
• Setup WCDB for build and deployment automation.
• Automated multiple admin activities using WSADMIN script, jython and shell script.
• Setup index replication configuration and automation of Indexprop utility for search index from staging server to production.
• Installed and configured performance monitoring tools like AppDynamics and IBM health center.
• Day to day Admin activities like trouble shooting, Performance tuning and monitoring.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server7.x ND, WebSphere Commerce Server 7.x, Oracle 10g/11gShell Script, Jython, Window Server 2008, AIX6.1, IIS7.0.

Confidential

System Engineer - WebSphere Message Broker Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Message Flows and Message Sets based on the requirements
• Developed SOAP Message Flows and WSDLs Files for various Business Requirements
• Coding part done in the ESQL and Java Platform
• Configured message sets for the given structures using TDS format.
• Developed Message Sets and Message Definition using WSDLs and Message Flows to convert (XML, CWF, TDS) and route the request and response messages to respective destinations.
• Handled Web Services (consumer / provider) flows using SOAP nodes.
• Developed Message Flow interfaces using different WMB built-in nodes like Compute, Database, Mapping, RouteToLabel, Endpoint Lookup, Registry Lookup, and SOAP nodes.
• Developing message flows as middle-tier.
• Developing ESQL to perform computations and mappings.
• Local Unit testing and debugging of the ESQL Code and Java.
• Reusing the sub-flows in-order to avoid the rewriting of code.
• The various sub-flows include Auditing, Error-handling, Tracing etc.
• Responsible in preparation of Unit Test Cases, Unit Test Reports and XSD’s
• Create BAR files and deployment
• Installation and configuration of IBM WebSphere Application server v6.1/v7.0, Deployment Manager and Application Server Profiles on multiple platforms like AIX, Linux, and Windows.
• Migrated environment from WebSphere Application server 6.1 to 7.0 environment including the war file and ear files.
• Configured WebSphere for messaging by defining Queue Destinations & Queue Connection Factories.
• Installation of Fix packs, Refresh Pack and Interim Fix Pack to overcome App server problems.
• Configuring Global security, SSL and LDAP.
• Automated multiple admin activities using WSADMIN script, jython and shell script.
• Configuring virtual hosts, session management, and transports for WebSphere Application Server.
• Configuring application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and WSADMIN.
• Troubleshoot problems with performance using the Heap Analyzer, GC Analyzer and Thread Analyzer.
• Problem determination through the log files and rectifying the problems by coordinating with AppsDev team/ DB team/ MQ team members.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources and JMS.
• Troubleshooting, Performance Tuning and Capacity Monitoring of Applications Servers using Tivoli Performance Viewer and log analyzer.
• Involved in configuring the WebSphere load balancing utilizing WebSphere Workload Management including Horizontal Scaling and Vertical Scaling.
• Performance tuned WAS by configuring caching, queuing, pooling, heap size and other JVM parameters.
• Configured and enabled PMI (Performance Monitoring Interface), PMI Request Metrics and Dynamic caching for better performance monitoring.
• Was part of IBM PMR support team and involved in resolving multiple customer problem and severity 1 PMR's.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server6.x/7.x ND, IBM WebSphere portal server v6.0/v6.1,IBM HTTP Server 6.x,DB2, Oracle 10g/11g, Shell Script, Jython, Window Server 2008, AIX6.1,IIS7.0.

Confidential

WebSphere Message Broker

Responsibilities:

• Developed Message Flows and Message Sets based on the requirements.
• Handled Web Services (consumer / provider) flows using SOAP nodes.
• Developed Message Flow interfaces using different WMB built-in nodes like Compute, Database, Mapping, RouteToLabel, Endpoint Lookup, Registry Lookup, and SOAP nodes.
• Developing message flows as middle-tier
• Development of Message Sets and Message Flows to convert (XML, CWF, TDS) and route the request and response messages to respective destinations.
• Development of message flows to implement the routing logic.
• Designing layout and coding front-end using Message Broker toolkit
• Development of Message Flow for Inserting, Updating and inquiring a database on server database.
• Designing and developing message flows along with ESQL coding.
• Developing ESQL to perform computations and mappings.
• Local Unit testing and debugging of the ESQL Code.
• Reusing the sub-flows in-order to avoid the rewriting of code.
• The various sub-flows include Auditing, Error-handling, Tracing etc.
• Responsible in preparation of Unit Test Cases, Unit Test Reports and XSD’s
• Create BAR files and deployment.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server6.x/7.x ND, IBM WebSphere portal server v6.0/v6.1,IBM HTTP Server 6.x,DB2, Oracle 10g/11g, Shell Script

Confidential

Title: Software Engineer - WebSphere Message Broker

Responsibilities:

• Developed the Message Flows and Message Sets based on the Business Requirement Documents.
• Handled Web Services flows using HTTP and SOAP nodes.
• Developed the message flows using different nodes like Compute, XSLT, RCD, Filter, File Input, and RouteToLabel Nodes.
• Handled message flows calling user databases (Oracle and DB2) using ESQL.
• Develop flows for functional requirements.
• Add Conditional changes to the existing transformation flow.
• Developed ESQL for mapping and filters applied in compute node.
• Configured message sets for the given structures using TDS format.
• Conducted unit testing for message flow developed with different cases and created a test plan.
• Used flow debugger for observing behavior of message flows