SUMMARY:

Over 20 years of extensive experience in insurance and financial fields that involves strong analytical, design, programming, database, middleware and OS administration skills for a variety of business applications. A breadth of experience in managing internet infrastructure implementations, deployments, upgrades, performance tuning and maintenance makes me the right choice for designing, building, and supporting your internet environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris, MS Windows, Linux Red Hat, AIX.

Web Technologies: IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS ND) 3.5 - 6.1, 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, 9.0, IBM HTTP server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, 9.0,Oracle OHS 11.1, IBM Tivoli Provisioning manager (TPM) 7.1, IBM WebSphere Portal 5.1, IPlanet (Sun One) Web Server 3.62, 4.1, 6.0, 6.1, IPlanet (Sun One) Application Server 4.0, 6.0, 6.5

Messaging: IBM WebSphere MQ (MQ Series) 5.1, 6, 7, 7.5, JMS

Middleware: Documentum Server 4.1, 4.2.6, 5.2.3

Distributed Technologies: J2EE, Web Services, SOAP, WSDL, ODBC, JDBC, EJB, JSP, JSF, JMX, SERVLETS, HTML, JAVA SCRIPT

Identity Management: CA SiteMinder WebAgent / TAI agent, IPlanet (Sun One) Directory Server 4.12, 4.16, 5.0, 5.2

Databases: IBM DB2, Oracle, MS-SQL Server, Sybase

Languages: UNIX shell scripts, JACL, JYTHON, wsadmin

Monitoring: CA Wily Introscope v 5.3, 6.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1 HP Sitescope v 7.9, AppDynamics 4.3, ManageEngine 13, Splunk 6.5

Load generators: Mercury Load Runner v 8, WebLoad 5.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

WebSphere Application Server Administrator / Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Creating and managing clustered HA environments for PEGA PRPC and Riptide applications deployed on WAS ND v.8.5.5.9 and v.9.0 including software installation and fix pack upgrades
• Providing 24 x 7 support for WAS ND PEGA PRPC and Riptide production environments
• Performing PEGA PRPC administrative tasks
• Troubleshooting application problems and getting software vendor support.
• Working with Load balancer and DNS teams to create LB / DNS configurations
• Monitoring WAS ND, IBM HTTP and PEGA PRPC using AppDynamics, Splunk and ManageEngine
• Monitoring WebSphere MQ objects using MQ Explorer.
• Requesting and installing SSL certificates for WebSphere and web servers
• Creating UNIX shell and Jython scripts to automate configuration and administrative tasks

Confidential

VP / Infrastructure Specialist / WebSphere SME

Responsibilities:

• Providing 24 x 7 on-call L3 support for production environments. Supporting large web server farm of SunOne and IBM HTTP web servers.
• Performing the WebSphere SME and engineering roles in Confidential . Providing recommendations, guidance and support for new WebSphere version implementations. Making architectural recommendations to development teams, regarding highly available, fault tolerant environments. Participating in problem resolution in different regions around the world.
• Developing and implementing security hardening for WebSphere and IBM HTTP servers.
• Developing automation scripts using UNIX shell, Jython, JACL, wsadmin.
• Monitoring WebSphere and web servers with IBM Tivoli, HP Sitescope and CA Wily Introscope tools.
• Making performance tuning of WebSphere jvms, based on data from Wily Introscope.
• Troubleshooting application problems and getting software vendor support.
• Protecting applications with SSO using CA Siteminder Webagent and TAI agent.
• Providing support to IBM TPM (Tivoli Provisioning Manager, TAD4D (Tivoli Asset Discovery) environments in NAM, EMEA, LATAM and APAC regions.
• Migrating applications to Cloud environment.
• Building environments using CAS, Jenkins and CHEF tools.
• Closely working with network infrastructure teams to create Firewall / Load Balancer / DNS / 3DNS implementations.
• Requesting and installing SSL certificates for WebSphere and web servers.
• Participating in Disaster Recovery tests.

Confidential

VP / Sr. Infrastructure Engineer / Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managing Highly Available clustered WebSphere (v.5.1, 6.1, 7.0, 8.0) and WebSphere Portal environments on two data centers providing 24x7 on-call support. Supporting over 1600 WebSphere JVMs in all regions.
• Supporting large web server farm of SunOne and IBM HTTP web servers. Performing tuning of web server configuration. Managing configuration and SSL certificate updates. Submitting network infrastructure requests (Firewall / Load Balancer / DNS / 3DNS).
• Supporting TPM (Tivoli Provisioning Manager), TAD4D (Tivoli Asset Discovery) in NAM, EMEA, LATAM and APAC regions.
• Performing WebSphere SME role for RECOM environment. Managing and coordinating work with other IT departments to deliver systems and services. Guiding development teams to ensure that standards, policies and procedures are being followed.
• Participating in development and implementation of engineering and architecture solutions for WebSphere infrastructure. Participating in development of WebSphere 6.1 infrastructure procedures, standards and architecture to accommodate different business requirements.
• Developing UNIX Shell, JACL and Jython scripts to automate WebSphere and Portal installation, configuration (clusters, data sources, virtual hosts, JMS and J2C Security, JVM properties), restarts and application deployment.
• Troubleshooting application problems working with development teams and software vendors.
• Monitoring WebSphere and Portal software using CA Wily Introscope and Sitescope.
• Participating in application performance testing, collecting and analyzing performance data.
• Analyzing CA Wily Introscope data collected in production and during performance testing, making performance tuning recommendations for WebSphere JVM and web server parameters.
• Developing scripts to automate web server instances creation, configuration and modification.
• Developing procedures and scripts to automate WebSphere, WebSphere Portal and Sun One web server’s datacenter migration.
• Developing WebSphere v 5.1 to v 6.1 migration procedures and automation scripts.
• Configuring WebSphere, IBM HTTP and SunOne web server security with Siteminder Webagent, Siteminder TAI agent, LDAP, and client certificate authentication (2-way SSL).
• Capacity planning, participation in Disaster Recovery tests.
• Installation, implementation and support of CA Wily Introscope v. 7.2 and v.8.1.

Confidential

Middleware Administrator / Performance Analyst / Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performing administrative tasks including installation, configuration and upgrades of all company middleware components in PME lab environment for over 120 applications.
• Application deployments, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Running various tests utilizing Mercury Load Runner, collecting and documenting metrics from Load Runner and Wily Introscope.
• Performing analysis and preparing performance measurement reports, identifying problems and recommending tuning solutions for middleware products and application code.
• Participating in development of architecture solutions for high-profile projects and testing them in the PME lab.
• Implementing and supporting Wily Introscope products for PME lab and production environments.
• Developing various shell and JACL scripts.

Confidential

Middleware Administrator / Architect

Responsibilities:

• Configuring Netegrity SiteMinder WebAgent v5 and policy server rules for IBM HTTP servers to secure access to the applications.
• Performing installation, upgrades, migration for Documentum EDM server from v. 4.2.6 to v. 5.2.3 for high-profile enterprise applications.
• Developing and implementing Documentum HA environment.