SUMMARY:

• Having around 8 years of strong experience in IBM WebSphere Middleware Integration Development.
• Extensive experience in deployment and management of enterprise applications using IBM Integration Bus v10.0, WebSphere Message Broker v6.x/8.0/9.0, IBM WebSphere MQ, in different environments, Linux, Solaris, AIX, Windows, Troubleshooting, PMR Management, JMS, IBM DB2 8.2.x,9.1, SQL Server and strong knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Strongly skilled in agile development methodologies, Software Development Life Cycle SDLC.
• Strong expertise with various IBM SOA Technology which includes Rational Application Developer (RAD), WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere Integration developer, IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (IBM WESB), Rational Software Architect (RSA 7.0), WebSphere Process Server.
• Experienced in planning, development IBM MQSeries and WebSphere Message Broker on various platforms such as AIX, Solaris and Windows.
• Hands - on-experience with message domains like DFDL, XMLNSC, JSON, MIME, MRM, JMS Map, JMS, XMLNS, BLOB, DataObject, and XLS.
• Experience in Developing Web Services using SOAP and HTTP Nodes.
• Implemented Datapower SOA solution to accommodate the XML data validation and Security.
• Well versed with XML related technologies like XML Schema, XPath and XSL.
• Experienced in interacting with vendors, gathering the requirements and building WebSphere environments and deploying the services as per their project needs.
• Extensive experience in Troubleshooting, RCA and Performance Optimization.
• Experienced in providing 24x7 production supports for few ad-hoc projects.
• Extensively worked on Creating Horizontal Cluster Configurations in Production environments and deploying applications for high Availability.
• Strong leadership skills working with Executive Management, Technical Architects and Business End-Users working through change management and new technology deployments.
• Experienced in handling and designing the applications that run on critical high-volume databases.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of DNS servers, Mail servers, FTP servers, NFS, Samba servers, NIS, NIS+ and Web servers on AIX, Solaris and Linux platforms.
• Experienced in configuring work load management.
• Experience in Java, J2EE, Web Services, SOAP, WSDL, REST, XML, JavaScript and RDBMS.
• Experience in creating Tables, Views, Stored Procedures, Functions and Triggers such as in Oracle and DB2, SQL and db2.
• Experience in migrating existing applications from WMB6 toWMB8 to IIB10.
• Experienced in designing the integrations based on SOA, which allows different applications to exchange data with one another.
• Experienced in developing Sub Flows and Message Flows using different Message Broker Message Flow Nodes.
• Experienced with implementation of Middleware and Security Solutions using IBM WebSphere Datapower.
• Experience in developing Message Models, Message Flows using Integration Bus 10.
• Hands on experience designing and implementing WMQ and WMB in huge and complex environments using high availability clustering.
• Maintaining CRM and ERP, Files, Database, Messaging systems using App Connect Enterprise.
• Experience using WSRR (WebSphere Service Registry and Repository) as a service registry and repository and developed message flow to access the services stored in WSRR.
• Expertise in writing scripts to deploy Message Flows and Message Sets.
• Hands on experience with DevOps tools like Jenkins.
• Extensive Programming experience in ESQL and SQL.
• Experience working on version controls like SVN & GIT.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Willingness and ability to quickly adapt to new environments and learn new technologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

WebSphere Family: IIB10.0, IIB9.0, IIB8.0, IBM WebSphere MessageBroker, IBM Web sphere MQ 7.5/6.0, MQ, WTX, IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE), API Connect v5.x, DataPower, JSM, And WSRR.

Operating Systems: UNIX (IBM-AIX), Linux and Windows 7/ NT/2000/XP.

Database: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata.

Message Standards: DFDL, CWF, TDS, XML, HIPAA.

Scripting Languages: SQL, ESQL, Web servers (SOAP, WSDL), XML, HTML, DHTML and Shell Script, RESTful API, Swagger API

Tools & IDE: MB Toolkit, Microsoft VISIO, WASD, XML Spy, RFHUtil,SOAPUI, SQL Servers, Dreamweaver, Eclipse, Quality Center, SVN, GIT, Kafka.

Version Control Tools: CVS, PVCS, SVN, Clear Case, TFS, GIT.

Modeling: UML, Visio, Rational Rose

Application Servers: Web Sphere, Apache.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential . White Plains, NY

Senior IIB Develope

Responsibilities:

• Developed Message Flows to process Leads received from various sources using IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and WebSphere MQ (WMQ).
• Modified ESQL within Message Flow Compute and Filter nodes to simplify processes.
• Developed test harness to test the web services which helps test teams to test web service components independently using various request and response xml.
• Responsible for Designing, developing, unit test and integrated Message Broker flows in IIB10.
• Worked on Defining and maintaining Queue Managers, Queues, Channels and other MQ Objects on various platforms.
• Designed different components of the transition including Validation, Worked with TDS and XMLNS, XMLNSC, JSON, BLOB, CSV message formats.
• Implemented ESQL logic for database lookups, Message Validation/ Translation/Transformation, Exception Handling and Stored Procedures for batched code set lookups.
• Experience in creating customized bar files when using file nodes (SFTP).
• Supporting various client insurance projects that are cloud based using ACE.
• Maintaining CRM and ERP, Files, Database, Messaging systems using App Connect Enterprise.
• Worked in Agile environment.
• Built XSDs, WSDLs for implementing Web services in Message Broker.
• Developed complete integration flows for first phase of customer payment system.
• Tuned the message flows for better throughput and performance and tested the application.
• Responsible for 24X7 support of Web Sphere MQ and Message broker environment.
• Developed message flow interfaces using WMQ to transform messages between different clients to meet their business needs with the help of IBM Primitive nodes i.e. Compute Node, Filter Node, Route, Mapping, Trace, and Database Nodes.
• Involved in creating and developing test cases, test messages for Unit, Integration and QA testing.
• Coordinated with test team in resolving defects/ enhancements throughout testing cycle.
• Responsible for resolving the problems that came while doing the end-to-end testing.
• Experience in creating and assembling API’s, Products, Catalogues and deployment of API components using API manager to API runtime (Datapower and microservices gateway).
• Experience in assembling APIs using various inbuilt components, policies, actions and data sources.
• Good understanding and experience in various API connect components such as API designer, API Manager, API developer portal, API Cloud manager etc.
• Created MQ objects such as Local Queues, Remote queues, Alias Queues, Transmission Queues, Sender and Receiver Channels etc. using mqsc script commands.

Environment: WebSphere Message Broker V10.0.0.6, IBM WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker V8.0, API Connect v5.x, IBM IIB RFHUtil, Soap UI, ESQL, Java, AS/400, SQL, Oracle, Z/OS, WebSphere MQ / IIB Developer, Bitbucket, Bamboo.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

IIB/WMB/WebSphere Integration Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in migration of all message broker services from WMB 8 to IIB10.
• Migration of IIB v10 applications to IBM App connect enterprise in AWS Cloud.
• Developed new message flows and message models using applications and library concepts of IIB10.
• Worked in Agile environment.
• Creating the message sets for various message domains such as TDS, XML and extracting web-service definition files (WSDL) from the schemas created.
• SOA Developer, Architect and Mentor, WebSphere Middleware Support, Development, Administration, Training MOBILE, HTML5, JavaScript.
• Involved in High-level Design Documentation I.e. Gathering requirements from clients and preparing technical specifications according to client requirements for Establishing Advanced ESB over the MQSeries to integrate applications.
• In IIB10, worked on developing the message models by creating the DFDL schemas, XML schemas.
• Developed message flows to call stored procedures using Compute Node and set the configurations to connect to Oracle, DB2 database.
• Worked with the MQ and CICS team to setup the environment.
• Involved in load balancing activity using A10.
• For security, assigned key stores to the execution groups, setup client authentication configurations to each execution groups on the servers.
• Working knowledge in ESQL, Java and developed error handling message flow using Java Compute and Compute nodes.
• Developed Enterprise wide Naming standards and convention for the use of MQSeries.
• Delivered a major MQSeries Infrastructure document addressing the issues of MQSeries security, application architecture, and backup and recovery. This served as a blue print for the actual implementation.
• Installation, Configuring and administering interfaces for WebSphere MQ.
• Worked on scripts to perform various actions like start/stop/deploy and get flow information residing on the servers.
• Developed Datapower services to do routing filtering and transformation (XML - JSON, XML-Copybook (WTX) in Data Power.
• Used several of Data Power features such as AAA, Front Side Handlers, Load Balancer Groups, mpgw's, wsp's, crypto objects, extension functions, dynamic routing, and encryption/decryption.
• Create Open API (Swagger) specification document for RESTful interfaces.
• Lifecycle Management, API Promotion, API Security, API versioning, and API virtualization.
• Designed, developed and managed API’s as per business specifications using various components of API Connect such as API designer, API Manager, API Dev Portal and API runtime with API’s deployed on API runtime running on Docker containers
• Installed and configured the Broker (IIB) environment for ESB applications.
• Involved in High-level Design Documentation I.e. Gathering requirements and preparing technical specifications according to client requirements for Establishing Advanced ESB over the MQSeries to integrate applications.
• Promoting the code migration in all the environments up-to production.
• Performed unit testing of the developed flows using test client editor and passing mock data.
• Coordinated with the consumers in performing an end to end test of the developed services.
• Provide production support and troubleshooting to determine the root cause and resolve the exceptions in production.
• Implemented Web services message flow using SOAP nodes in WebSphere Message Broker 8.0.
• Developed message flows for content-based routing of messages.
• Configured web services with HTTP/HTTPs, SSL (by creating key and certificate, crypto profile) and AAA with LDAP configuration in Datapower SOA Appliance.
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces.

Environment: WMQ v7.0.1/7.5.0.6, IIB10, Message Broker v8.0/v6.x, API Connect v5.x, LINUX, UNIX, CICS/Mainframes, Windows, RFHUtil, WinSCP, Soap UI, Beyond Compare, Rational Clear case.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

IIB Developer

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated the existing message flows including the message sets and the ESQL code of V5 and older and used the evaluated version to migrate to V8.
• Developed a workshop lab using WMB and WESB to show a federated ESB. The WESB Mediation Module invoked a WMB message flow as a SOAP/HTTP web service. The flow transformed the SOAP request message to a COBOL format, invoked a backend program via a WMQ request message, received the WMQ reply message, transformed the COBOL format to SOAP reply format, and returned the SOAP reply message to the WESB Mediation Module.
• Developed message flows using the evaluated pattern as per the requirement of the current project.
• Deployment of App Connect Enterprise (ACE) that can enable clients to achieve a balance between control and management overhead.
• Installed IIB/WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere MQ in development and test environments.
• Involving in Low-level design of message flows and message models. Coding in ESQL to implement the routing rules and transformation rules for mapping the messages.
• Authored the test plan for the installation and configuration of WMB and WMQ in a new hardware/software SOA ESB.
• Worked on developing the message models by creating the DFDL schemas, XML schemas.
• Developed and documented the creation of message flows and message models.
• Handled Message Transformation between XML, COBOL Copybook and C Structures.
• Wrote ESQL Codes implementing Business Logic for all types of message flows.
• Developed and test Pub/Sub Message flows.
• Build API definitions using Swagger API.
• Conducted approximately 20 WMB, WMQ, WID, WPS, WESB, and WSRR workshops during my IBM Channel Works tenure.
• Participate in daily and weekly test and status calls.
• Involved in integrating WTX Maps in to Message Broker (IIB) and Datapower.
• Worked with different Datapower advanced actions, variables and extension functions
• Worked on version control and build management of Datapower objects.
• Developed Enterprise wide Naming standards and convention for the use of MQSeries.
• Created a deployable broker archive (BAR) file. Configured and deployed the BAR files to Brokers on test environment on Linux and Windows servers.
• Delivered a major MQSeries Infrastructure document addressing the issues of MQSeries.

Environment: WMQ v7.0.1, Message Broker v6.x/8.0, XML, ESQL, AIX, UNIX, Windows, Soap UI.

Confidential, Beaverton, OR

Message Broker Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed a message flow to invoke the web service and map the retrieved response from the web service call to the Client Server. These flows were developed using Soap Nodes and Compute Nodes.
• Developed ESQL code using PASSTHRU statements to connect with the databases from Compute Nodes.
• Developed sub flow to be incorporated into the main Message Flows for Error handling and directing the errors to the appropriate queue. This was achieved using Try Catch Node, Compute Node and MQ Output Nodes.
• Discovered how to set the WMQ MQMD Encoding and CCSID fields in WESB to cause WMQ to auto-convert String data between machines of different code pages and published my finding to IBM's WESB wiki.
• Created a comprehensive Modeler demo for a Business Partner to show them many of Modeler's capabilities.
• Monthly co-taught Introduction to SOA Modeler/WID/WPS or Introduction to ESB WESB/WSRR/WPS workshops for two years.
• Worked extensively on Mapping Node using the Custom ESQL property for transformation purpose and also configured the Database.
• Developed and designed message flows and message sets using ESQL to validate the XML message and parse from blob to MRM domain.
• Developed message flows for transforming data from one format of XML to another format of XML using XSLT node.
• Debugging of Message flows using the Live Debugging tools of Message Broker Toolkit.
• Developed message flows using File Input Node, File Read Node, File Output Node and Routing Nodes such as Sequence Node and Collector Node.
• Created a deployable broker archive (BAR) file. Configured and deployed the BAR files to Brokers on test environment on Linux and Windows servers.
• Made enhancements and changes as per business Requirements to a number of message flows and message sets for various types of message transformations.
• Configured the monitor and audit events for message flows using the new features of IBM message broker.
• Participate in daily and weekly test and status calls.
• Installed WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere MQ in development and test environments.
• WebSphere message broker was used for routing, transformation and data enrichment.
• Developing Message Flows using ESQL and Message mapping nodes.
• Provided Message Broker administration including creating Broker Topology, Deploying broker archives etc.
• Performed administration tasks in development and test environments on MQ and Message Broker.
• Installed WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere MQ in development and test environments.
• Handled Message Transformation between XML, COBOL Copybook and C Structures.
• Developed message flow interfaces using Aggregate Family nodes, Compute Node, Java Compute Node, Filter Node, Route to Label, Label, Reset Content Descriptor, and Database Nodes.
• Developed Sub flows for error handling.
• Developed message flows using HTTP Request, HTTP Input Node and HTTP Reply Node for hosting and calling a Web Service.
• Developed message flows for Transformations from XML to TDS.
• Wrote ESQL Codes implementing Business Logic for all types of message flows.
• Developed and test Pub/Sub Message flows.
• Developed SOA, EAI, Web Services and Workflow based solutions for quick response time, integration with disparate systems and efficiency improvements.
• Involved in a team that administered MQ, Message Broker in Development and test environments.
• DB2 was used as broker database and Oracle was used for inbound and outbound message auditing.
• ESQL was used extensively for message transformation.
• Developed ESQL code for various message flow nodes like Compute and database.
• Developed Publish and Subscribe flows.
• Deploying the message flows in WBIMB by creating the broker archive file/bar file.
• Debugging message flows.
• Creating data sets and unit testing.
• Problem identification and resolution on development, test and acceptance.
• Used ESQL to execute database stored procedures, to get information from database tables, views.
• Built message flows to audit every incoming and outgoing message from and to broker. i.e., before and after transformation of each transaction.
• Written database stored procedures to build XML out of a database and write to a directory. Then a MQ adapter was developed to take the XML file and write to MQ Queue using MQ java API.
• Involved in Production Broker Application Support.

Environment: WMQ 6.1/7.0, Message Broker 6.1/7.0/8.0, DB2 8.2, Oracle 10g/11g, UNIX, z/OS, Linux and Windows, XML, ESQL, AIX, Soap UI

Confidential

Message Broker Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with client gatherings and business clients in characterizing their necessities. Accumulated necessities from business experts and business clients. Creating Message Flows utilizing ESQL and Message mapping hubs.
• Developed CSF application Common Service Framework on WMB for Error taking care of over the space.
• Deployed BAR documents to Broker Execution Groups and Created MQ objects, similar to lines, channels in every one of the situations, including Production.
• Involved in triaging and solving of Sev1, Sev2 and Sev3 tickets according to SLA.
• Used HPSM tool for working on the tickets.
• Solved more than 50 tickets by debugging message flows and coordinating with other application team.
• Solved many issues by replicating in the lower environments.
• Involved in daily status call with onshore team.
• Strong logical and critical thinking abilities. Eagerness and capacity to rapidly adjust to new situations.
• Worked utilizing SOAPUI to test web services.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Message Broker 6, WebSphere MQ 6, ESQL, XML, Oracle DB, Windows 2003, SOAP UI.