SUMMARY

• 8 years of IT experience including 7 years of proven experience in providing Configuration, Administration, Disaster Recovery, Implementation, Integration and Backup related responsibilities involving multiple architectures highlighting Web and E - Commerce Solutions with emphasis on customer satisfaction.
• Seven years of IT experience in design, development and administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server, JBOSS, Sun ONE and IBM IHS, iPlanet Web server and Apache Web server and IDS LDAP on UNIX (Solaris/AIX/Linux) and Windows NT/2000/XP environments.
• Expertise in Installing, Configuring, Administering, Tuning, Patching and Troubleshooting IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.x/7.x/8.x, JBOSS, Apache Http Server, IHS &Sun One Web Servers, TAM &Site minder Policy Servers, LDAP.
• Highly experienced in Installation, Configuration, and Administration of IBM WebSphere Portal Server 6.0/6.1/7.0 on different platforms (AIX, Solaris, and Linux) and Windows.
• Configured SSL using Self-Signed certificates and CA certificates between Application Server and Web Server, Web Server and browser, Application Server and LDAP Server.
• Experience in deployment applications on WebSphere Portal environments using WP Admin Portlets, XML Access, wsadmin and ANT.
• Experience in installing and creating virtual portals and assigning user populations (multiple realms).
• Well versed in performing various Portal configuration tasks like db transfer, enabling global security, federation/clustering using WPSConfig / Config Engine tasks.
• Secured WAS/Portal infrastructure including External Security Manager(ESM) setup, Single Sign-On (SSO)setup, LDAP setup and configuring SSL between components.
• Expertise in setting up enterprise-scale highly available WAS/Portal infrastructure by implementing High Availability (HA), Workload Management(WLM), Node Groups, JVM cloning and disaster recovery mechanisms.
• Experience in Deploying portal artefacts such as Web Applications, Portlets, Pages using XML Access and Portal admin console.
• Experienced in configuration of cells, nodes, clustering, application servers, virtual hosts, and session management, configuring web server plug-ins, IBM HTTP Server, Apache, Sun ONE Directory Server (LDAP), and IBM Edge Server.
• Experience in implementation of Workload Management (WLM) of WebSphere Application Server using vertical and horizontal clustering, and also in performance tuning usingTivoli Performance Viewer.
• Strong experience in Administration and Maintenance of WASND clusters (vertical, horizontal, hybrid) and deploying applications in highly available, load balanced production environments.
• Experienced in deploying J2EE components in Base and ND WebSphere Application Servers V6.x/7.x using AAT (Application Assembly Tool), WAS Admin Console, shell/wsadmin/JACL/Jython scripting.
• Expertise in developing WSCP scripts and Shell scripts to administer and automate batch job scheduling including backup and recovery processes.
• Highly experienced in utilizing Shell, JACL and Jython scripts for administration, maintenance, troubleshooting and for ALL day-to-day activities.
• Experience in installing patches and fixes for WebSphere Application Server.
• Excellent working knowledge of JBOSS Application Server, middleware and other JBOSS Components.
• Installation, Maintenance, Fixes upgrades, general Administration, Deployment, Troubleshooting and Performance tuning of JBOSS.
• Experience in working with logs, traces and messages using tools such as Log Analyzer, Resource Analyzer and Admin Console.
• Experience in working with I Series (AS/400) server.
• Used Wily Performance tools for monitoring and tuning the WebSphere environment like configuring Heap size, Thread pool size, Session Management, connection pool size.
• Expertise in Single Sign-On domain using Tivoli Access Manager, Site Minder, Identity Management and LDAP.
• Ability to pickup new technologies, solve complex technical/runtime problems and multitask between different projects and having knowledge on SOX.
• Provided on-call Production Support (24x7), monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications in Development, TEST, QA, Staging and Production Environments.
• Excellent Communication and Interpersonal skills, ability to lead bridge calls during production issues.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5.x/8.0,7.0/6.1/6.0, IBM WebSphere Portal Server8.X/7.X/6.X,IBM MQ Series 6.0

Operating Systems: IBM AIX 6.x, 5.x/4.x, Sun Solaris 8.0/7.x, Linux 8.0/7.x, HP-UX 11.x,Windows 95/98/NT/2K/2003 and 2008 R2

Languages and Scripts: Java, J2EE, C++, C, SQL/PL SQL, HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, JACL, Jython, ANT, TCL, WSCP, wsadmin, Shell scripting, Perl, JavaScript

Web Servers: IIS 4.0/5.0/6.0, IBM HTTP Server, Apache HTTP Server, Sun One/ iPlanet Web Server, Tomcat 5.x/6.x.

Network /Protocol: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH, Telnet, FTP, RMI/IIOP and WAP (WTP/WSP)

Tools: SOAP-UI, Tivoli Storage Manager, Rational Application Developer, Clear Case (Version Control Software), SSH

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Lisle, IL

Senior WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, configuration and supporting existing systems for WebSphere Application Server 6.1/7.0/8.0 on AIX, Linux and Windows platforms using silent and console methods.
• Experienced in Service Oriented Architecture understanding of business process choreography terminology
• Design, maintain High Availability(HA) operational model, optimized scalability and capacity planning of the servers that host the process servers and application servers
• Dynamically react to changing business requirements with the ability to install new versions of a process and Migrate running processes to a new version.
• Administered Portal environments using admin Portlets (Portal console), Config Engine tasks and WP Scripting tool.
• Deployed portal artefacts (Web Applications, Portlets {JSR and IBM API}, Pages) using XML Access and Portal console
• Implemented Workload Management(WLM) on WAS Network Deployment (ND) and Portal environments using multi servant cloning and clustering techniques including process server topologies
• Used Workload Management. (WLM) for optimizing the performance of WebSphere Application server.
• Configured scalable applications through Server Groups, Profiling (Cloning) and Clusters.
• Enabled security and configured Secure Socket Layer(SSL) between Web Server, WebSphere Application Server and Process Server
• Enabled the security for WebSphere Application server 6.x/7.x/8.x by configuring it with the LDAP server
• Responsible for establishing Single Sign On(SSO) between the Site minder &IHS
• Configured WebSphere global security with LDAP registry. Created users with various roles to access the WebSphere admin console, users and groups in LDAP and added them as WebSphere Console Groups.
• Created basic portal workspace for different applications teams based on their requirements
• Performed Root Cause Analysis and involved in 24/7 production support including change management procedures, troubleshooting and monitoring
• Configured WebSphere Application Server on multiple platforms for both horizontal and vertical clustering for Work Load Management, fail over and high availability
• Experienced in performance tuning by tweaking WebSphere configuration parameters like JVM heap size, jvm web container threads, DB connection pooling etc.
• Experienced in debugging memory problems by analysing garbage collection, heap dumps.
• Worked closely with load testing teams in user acceptance test environments to fine tune the applications before production deploy/migration.
• Involved in opening and working on several PMR’s with IBM support. Worked actively with IBM level 2 & 3 support engineers on several critical issues to isolate the source of problems. Good exposure with troubleshooting tools, enabling a trace, collecting must gathering information and analyzing the data.
• Worked closely with UNIX engineers in fine tuning certain Operating System parameters to make significant performance improvements to WebSphere Application Server.
• Involved in several disaster recovery exercises as part of the quarterly failover process. Failovers were at the Web, Application and database layers.
• Administered the WMQ Queue manager, Queues and Channels, Debugging the day to day problems.
• Experienced in defining synchronized and persistent IBM MQ Series Queue Manager, Channel Mangers and Queues.
• Familiarity with Introscope to monitor key performance indicators for a system like CPU Utilization, Peak Disk Utilization, Active Processes, Run Queue Length, Network Input Packet Rate, Network Output Packet Rate etc.
• Experienced in change control procedures and also coordinating technical activities with Security, Network, DBA teams and other IT departments.
• Worked closely with Project managers, application teams, database administrators to ensure project deliverables and also high availability of applications.

Environment: IBM Web sphere Application Server 8.5.5/8.0/7.0 , IBM Portal Server 8.x/7.x, IBM MQSeries 6.0/7.0, IBM HTTP Server 8.x/7.x/6.x, CA Introscope Wily, Site minder Policy Server 6.0, DB2, AIX and Linux Windows 2008.

Confidential, Washington DC

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provided Infrastructure solutions for J2EE applications around IBM WebSphere Application Server v6.1/6.0/5.1, IBM HTTP Server v6.0, IBM WebSphere Portal v6.0/5.1, on UNIX, AIX, Solaris and Windows platforms.
• Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, Express, 6.1/6.0 on Sun Solaris, Linux.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP WEB SERVER 6.0 and 6.1 on Sun Solaris, Linux.
• Upgraded IBM HTTP WEBSERVER and PLUGINS from 6.1 to 6.1.0.11.
• Upgraded WebSphere Application Server 6.0.0.0 to 6.0.2.17 and 6.1 to 6.1.0.11.
• Responsible for installation, configuration and maintenance of J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server in a multi clustered high availability environments.
• Responsible for administering WebSphere Application Servers and IHS Web Servers.
• Implemented horizontal and vertical clustering of application servers for achieving work load management (WLM) and avoiding single point failure and making all the application servers highly available.
• Experience in working at various data centres.
• Knowledge of Dynamic Clustering Enabled by Virtualized resource pool and On Demand Router.
• Knowledge on WebSphere Extended Deployment(XD)
• Having Knowledge on Dynamic Clustering controllers Application Placement Controller (APC) enables dynamic Resource allocation.
• Conceptual knowledge of installing and Configuring WebSphere MQ server 5.x/6.x on Linux and Windows platforms.
• Much experienced in providing HA solutions for WebSphere MQ infrastructure using Queue, Hardware clustering.
• Knowledge of installation and configuration of HTTP servers, DB2, and WebSphere Edge Components and good understanding of how WebSphere Portal and WebSphere application server fits into an overall SOA architecture.
• Administered a complex SOA based WAS and WebSphere portal Server environment and responsible for maintenance, configuration, performance tuning, deployment and troubleshooting of WAS and Java Code Issues WebSphere Portal Server on Linux platform.
• Enabling SSL over IHS Web Server to make URLs secure.
• Worked on I-key man for generating digital certificates for authentication purposes.
• Used Jython Scripting for automating various tasks.
• Configured and administered JDBC providers, JMS providers, Connection Pooling and also defining scope level from Admin console.
• Worked closely with developers to define and configure Application Servers, Virtual Hosts, web applications, Servlets, JDBC drivers and Servlet Engines.
• Monitored and Configured WAS servers, diagnosed and resolved WAS issues and failures.
• Monitored for Application core dumps, or forced thread dumps to check for system objects using thread analyzer.
• Installed cumulative fix packs for Web Sphere Application Server Network Deployment.
• Configured LDAP Servers and various LDAP tools are used to manage data in LDAP.
• Used Site minder for single sign-on. Policy Servers and Web agent servers are configured to authenticate and authorize users.
• Enabled Security for Admin Console and the application components through LDAP (IBM Tivoli Directory Server).
• Integrated IBM WebSphere Portal 6.x clusters with Sun One Directory Server for authentication.
• Trouble shooting errors both Application & JVM also analyzed heap/core plus error logs - configured tuned JVM for optimum performance.
• Performed application and JVM performance monitoring using Wily, Snappimon, IBM Tivoli Performance monitoring tool.
• Involved in writing build scripts for J2EE application deployment on various environments for IBM WebSphere Application Server.
• Used Log Analyzer to monitor WebSphere Applications and tuned the environment accordingly like changing the JVM Heap, Connection Pool sizes.
• Enabled applications for federated single sign-on utilizing the Tivoli Federated Identity Manager.
• Involved in writing scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup, everyday system tasks etc.
• Defined and managed central authentication and enabled flexible SSO by Tivoli Access Manager.
• Involved in investigating the problem, troubleshooting and resolving application and configuration issues.
• Enabled Security features using LDAP user registry and LTPA for authentication and authorization privileges for Admin console and application components on both UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Provided 24/7 support for systems and resolved most critical tickets using the iHEAT Software.

Environment: IBM Web Sphere Application Server 6.x, Web sphere MQ server 5.x/6.x, Site minder 6.x, Sun One LDAP, Sun One Mail Servers, IBM HTTP Servers, SSO, Sun Solaris, Oracle 10g, DB2, SQL Server 2005, Solaris 8.0, Advanced Query tool, Message Broker v6, Windows 2003 Server,zLinux, Netbackup51

Confidential - Medina, OH

WebSphere Portal Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrade of Web sphere Portal Server 5.1.0.3 /6.0/ 6.1.0.2 in clustered environment on Linux and Linux SUSE systems.
• Good understanding of various Database Domains in Web sphere Portal Server 5.1.0.3/6.0/6.1.0.2 , including connection and transfer of databases like Cloudscape (Development) to larger databases like DB2 (Production).
• Administered WebSphere Portal applications, which includes configuration, clustering, administration, performance tuning, deploying portlets/ pages, for portal applications.
• Installed and Configured Load Balancer to remove SPOF on Web Server.
• Worked on installation, configuration, administration, problem determination of WebSphere Application Server 6.0 on Linux SUSE platform.
• J2EE Application Deployment, software installation, maintenance, fixes upgrades, general administration, troubleshooting and performance tuning of WebSphere Application server on multiplatform (SUN Solaris, AIX, Linux (RedHat, SuSE) and Windows) environment.
• Used Integration test client to test various modules.
• Involved in migrating portal database configuration.
• Developed JSR-168 compliant portlets using RAD
• Built pre JSR-168 content blocks. Later called portlets
• Setting up integrated security access to IBM WebSphere Portal and Single Sign-On to other applications (such as Lotus Same time or Lotus Notes).
• Configured IBM WebSphere Portal credential vault.
• Authorized and customized WebSphere Portal themes and skins, author and deploy templates and provided 24x7 tier III support for IBM middleware applications.
• Provided support for Product Evaluation and Proof of Concept activities.
• Implementing the Compensation/ Fault Handling in scope/process level.
• Installed and configured the Process server in the development environment
• Applied the different type of security (LDAP/User Registry) using Admin Console
• Configured the Resource Adapters (CTG, File Adapter).
• Used ESB and WPS to test Mediation Modules.
• Designed, developed and tested assigned statement of work.
• Understood and worked per the defined Boeing SDLC process.
• Provided support for different test cycles like IUT/IFT & STL Unit Test, Functional Test and Scalability Test .
• Provided support as needed for any Production issues.
• Participated in Process Improvement activities.
• Provided 24x7 production support, best practice trouble shooting, monitoring, capacity planning, performance tuning, naming standards, security and maintenance.

Environment: Web Sphere portal server 5.1.0.3 /6.0/ 6.1.0.2 , WAS 6.0.2.x/6.1.x, Solaris 2.8/10, JDK 1.5, LDAP, UNIX, Linux SUSE, Solaris,, IBM Http server 6.1, IBM DB2 UDB Enterprise edition 8.1, Oracle, Sybase, Tomcat, Linux, Site minder Tivoli Performance Viewer.

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server ND and IHS on Sun Solaris8 and Windows 2003 server in a multi clustered high availability environments.
• Migrated WAS application’s from 5.1 to 6.0 in development, test and production environments.
• Implemented horizontal and vertical scaling of WebSphere in a workload managed cluster to avoid failovers.
• Performed the package, build, integrate and deployment of enterprise J2EE applications on Web Sphere 4.0/5.0 that involved the creation and editing of EAR, JAR, WAR files using AAT.
• Configured WebSphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources and connection pooling.
• Installed plug-ins and worked on issues related with the AppServer and Web Server connectivity.
• Troubleshooting various issues like Heap size, class path, thread pools and port conflicts.
• Log rotation of web and application server logs on a daily basis.
• Deployed Enterprise applications on clustered Application Servers through admin console and by using automated scripts on UNIX/Windows environment.
• Created users, groups in LDAP (TDS) and mapped them to the enterprise applications running on WAS.
• Generated web plug-in and configured with web servers by doing manual edits.
• Involved in configuration of WebSphere Application Server resources like JDBC, J2C, JMS and Connection Pooling.
• Integrated Enterprise-wide J2EE applications and deployed using Admin console, automated using wasadmin scripts (JACL &Jython).
• Reviewed Web Server, Application Server Performance Monitoring data using both Wily Introscope and Tivoli Performance Viewer and reviewed historical Tivoli logs for root cause analysis, recurring events and involved in troubleshooting.
• Maintained UNIX Shell Scripts, JACL to automate the WebSphere administration (deploying customer applications, logs rotation, monitor applications state etc...).
• Worked on Problem tickets (PMR’s) with IBM to find effective solutions to various problems and performance issues.
• Well documented all procedures and any other important issues.
• Provided 24/7 on call support on rotation basis.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server ND 6.1.x/6.0.x/5.1.x/5.0.x, Sun Solaris 8, Windows 2000, DB2UDB 8.0, IBM HTTP Server 6.x/2.0/1.3, XML, Tivoli Directory Server v5.0 (LDAP), Tivoli Performance Viewer, wsadmin, Jacl.

Confidential

System Admin/WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP server on AIX, Linux and Sun Solaris.
• Supported Load Balancing and WebSphere Application Server clustering for failover.
• Used WebSphere Control Program (WSCP) to define, configure and manage database objects.
• Configured virtual host for development and test environments.
• Defined WebSphere MQ queue managers, channels and queues.
• Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
• Developed WebSphere Control Program (WSCP) scripts and Shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XML Config tool.
• Installed and configured IBM Edge Server and Network Dispatchers for load balancing.
• Implemented security using IBM Tivoli Directory Server.
• Configured Work Load Management (WLM) using horizontal and vertical cloning.
• Deployed Session and Entity EJBs in Web Sphere.

Environment: Web Sphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, Apache Web Server, UNIX (Solaris, AIX, Linux), Shell Scripts, Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB, XML, JDOM, JDBC, JavaScript, DB2, HTML.