SUMMARY

• 8+ years of IT experience in Design, Developing, Planning, Administering and Troubleshooting of Middleware products primarily using IBM WebSphere MQ Server, IBM WebSphere Message Broker, IBM Websphere Application Server, IBM Websphere Portal.
• Experienced in Installing Fix Packs and Migrating to latest version and maintenance of the Application Servers on different UNIX platforms and setting up the development, testing and Production environments.
• Hands - on experience developing portal applications (e.g. JSR 168 / 286 portlet development) using WebSphere Portal Server and strong knowledge of WebSphere Portal Architecture
• Have good hands on CMS tools - AEM 6.0, Adobe CQ5, and Day Communiqué 4.2.
• Experience in installation and configuration of Apache Tomcat Server, IBM HTTP Server and Iplanet Web Server and also configuration of Virtual Hosts for Apache HTTP Server, IBM HTTP Server.
• Well versed with tools/technologies like Tomcat 5.0, JBoss Application Server 4.2.0, JCR, and Day Communiqué.
• Sound understanding of the Concepts of Web Content Management and fundamental functional knowledge on Banking and Insurance Domain.
• Experience in finding Root Cause for WebSphere Problems and handling Problem Management Records (PMR) with the IBM and working with them on various issues related to Updating unresolved bugs or issues
• Good knowledge of various other WebSphere servers such as WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Commerce server, WebSphere Process Server.
• Good knowledge of various other application servers such as WebLogic, Tomcat, iPlanet Server, Sonic MQ, VMWARE
• Experience in 24X7 on-call production support and troubleshooting problems related to Web Servers, WebSphere Application Server, Plug-ins, and Database related issues. Also Detect problems in early development stage and utilizing effective troubleshooting skills
• Possess good work ethics with fluent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to drive a team.
• Good interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner and a team player.
• Have worked on all the phases of Software development life cycle involving requirement gathering, design, development, documentation, testing and maintenance. Have mostly worked on Agile based projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Application Servers/Web: WebSphere MQ 5.x 6.x/7.x, WebSphere Application Server5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x, WebSphere Message broker 6.x/7x, WebLogic server 10.x/9.x/8.1, Apache Tomcat 5.x/6.x, Apache Web Server 1.x/2.x, WebSphere portal 5.x/6. IBM HTTP Server 1.3.x/2.0.x/6.x/7

Programming Languages: Cobol, Java, JMS, Jython, Perl, SQL,XML,Java/J2EE, Web Content Management( AEM 6.O, Adobe Day 5.4 and 5.6.1)

Networking & Communication Protocols: TCP/ICP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP, SOAP, SSL, SMPT, ICMP, IMAP, POP3, NIS, NIS+, NFS, DNS, DHCP

Scripts: JavaScript, CSS

Web Technologies: HTML, Java Script, DHTML, XML, XSL, XSD, CSS, Applets, AWT, JFC (Swing),Struts, J2EE 1.2/1.3, JDBC Servlets, JSP, Java Beans, RMI, JNDI, JMS, Java Web Services using JAXM, JAXP, SOAP, WSDL, UDDL, EJB (including MDB).

Mainframe Skills & Tools: JCL, TSO, ISPF, CICS, IMS, VTAM, DB2, SQL, REXX, VSAM

Development Methodologies & tools: WSAD, ANT, RAD, VSS, CVS and Remedy, Eclipse IDE

Database and tools: Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server 2000

Operating Systems: OS/390,MVS, HP-UX,RHEL3/4/5/5.5/6.1, Linux, Solaris, IBMAIX 5.1/5.2/5.3/6.1 and Windows NT/2000/XP

LDAP: Microsoft Active Directory Server, IBM Tivoli Directory Server

Domain Knowledge: Insurance, Banking & Finance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Newark, DE

Senior Sr. Middleware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in Portal design, development and deployment using IBM® Rational™ Application Developer and IBM® WebSphere™ Portal Server
• Worked on WebSphere admin console functions such as page definitions, Portlet definitions, URL mapping
• Worked on knowledge Themes, Skins in Websphere Portal server
• Have experience working with layout templates, dynamic spot, Portal tags and was Involved in page building and modular theme development
• Have good knowledge on IBM Portal API and JSR-168 Portal API
• Configured WebSphere Portal with Microsoft Active Directory for security
• Experienced in configuring Database and LDAP security for WebSphere Portal.
• Extensive experience in deploying Portlets, Themes and Skins using GUI and XML access scripts
• Installed, configured, administered and supported WebSphere Application Server 7.0/6.1/6.0, Tomcat 6.x.
• Installed, configured, administered and supported WebSphere Portal Server 6.1/6.0 and WebSphere Process Server 7.0/6.2.
• Installed and configured SSL support so that the Apache Tomcat servers requests using the https protocol.
• Maintaining, designing, testing and deploying Business Processes.
• Involved in configuring the WebSphere load balancing utilizing WebSphere Workload Management including horizontal scaling and vertical scaling.
• Configured and deployed VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware.
• Installed WebSphere plugins on WebServer to enable configuration between WebServer and AppServer.
• Support for migration to WebSphere Application Server V7.0 using Migration Wizard Tool.
• Handled the maintenance of the WebSphere and Tomcat Application Servers on different UNIX platforms like Solaris, Linux and setting up the development, testing and staging environment for the ongoing application development.
• Supported WebSphere Application Server clustering, load balance and failover.
• Created, tested & deployed J2EE applications on WebSphere and Tomcat Application Servers.
• Involved in deploying the EAR files and scripting automated deployment of the applications onto WebSphere and Tomcat environments.
• Installed fix pack for WebSphere Process Server 6.2 to resolve some of the known issues.
• Configured the Web Server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere Application Servers.
• Configured resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling for WebSphere and Tomcat application server environment.
• Deployed Session and Entity EJB applications in WebSphere.
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Portal Server in HA clustered environment.
• Installed fix packs and fixes for IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Portal Server.
• Created Role based Administration (Monitor, Operator, Configurator and Administrator) for users in a WebSphere environment.
• Configured horizontal scalability of WebSphere through a mechanism called as Cloning of multiple JVM’s with independent Java Virtual Machines-JVMs, for each clone.
• Installed and configured MQ Series on Solaris.
• Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Heap analyzer and Thread analyzer
• Experience in installation, configuration and operations of distributed & zos platforms
• MQ Queue Manager creation and configuration on Windows, AIX, Zos platforms
• Configuring the MQ Objects using DQM,Worked with WebSphere MQ clusters.
• Configuration of WebSphere MQ objects like Queue Managers, Queues, and Channels etc and MQ clustering of Queue Managers running on platforms - Windows, z O/S, AS/400, Aix
• MQ SSL implementation on Windows and AIX, Z O/S
• Capturing messages from queues using tools
• Involved in installing, and configuring WebSphere Message Broker V6.0, V7.0
• Involved in administering, maintaining and deploying WebSphere Message Broker V 6.0,7.0
• Design for the coexistence and migration from earlier versions/releases to WebSphere Message Broker V7.0
• Performed basic problem determination tasks for WebSphere Message Broker V7.0
• Understand high availability configuration including multi-instancing of WebSphere Message Broker
• Install and Configure WebSphere MQ, Broker, DataPower, WSRR and FTE servers and agents, apply patches, manage middleware infrastructure and monitor performance/troubleshooting alerts from commercial and locally developed monitoring tools.
• Deployment and automation experience for example Deployment of Bar files in AIX.

Confidential, NY

Middleware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server(ND) v7.0 and WebSphere Portal Enable v6.1 on AIX and Linux platforms using silent and console methods.
• Created, Configured Profiles, Nodes, Node Groups &Clusters for WebSphere Application Server.
• Responsible for supporting 300 instances in Dev, Test, UAT and Prod Environment.
• Applied Fixes, Patches and ifixes to WebSphere Application Server v7.0/6.1.
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere portal 6.0/6.1 with Web Content Management.
• Deployed applications on WebSphere Application Servers deployed on .Net framework.
• Transferred default Cloudspace database to DB2 and Oracle in WebSphere Portal.
• Configured WebSphere Portal Server Security using LDAP Server.
• Installed and Configured IBM HTTP Server 7.0/6.1.
• Migrated WebSphere application server WAS 5.0 to WAS 6.1.
• Involved in Deployment of Portlets and WAR files on WebSphere Portal Server.
• Deployed Themes and Skins on WebSphere Portal Server using XML access scripts.
• Configured MQ series objects like Queue Manager, Queue and Channels.
• Configured runtime topology of an Extended Deployment environment.
• Used log files to help with performance monitoring, accounting and problem determination.
• Updated Application Server & WebSphere Portal server with latest Refresh packs, Fix packs.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security using LTPA and LDAP for WebSphere Application Server.
• Installed &Configured Http server 6.1 interfaces (plug-in file), Site minder to work with WAS.
• Expertise in using Visual Studio IDE for .NET development environment.
• Experience Installation, tuning, troubleshooting, configuration, maintenance and upgrading IIS server.
• Deployed, configured and supported .NET applications in IIS server in Dev, Test, Stage, UAT, Prod.
• Developed many WSCP scripts and Shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XML Config tool.
• Maintained the WebSphere Application Servers on different UNIX platforms
• Responsible for Setting up the DEV, UA and Staging environments for the ongoing application development. Supported WebSphere Application Server clustering, load balance and failover.
• Configured the extranet Web Servers and intranet application servers using the firewalls between the Web Servers and application servers (DMZ model).
• Tested &deployed J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server.
• Tested and deployed portal applications on WebSphere Portal Server using portal toolkit.
• Analyzed Heap dumps and Core dumps using IBM thread analyzer and heap analyzer.
• Experience in building the application using ANT scripts automated deployment of the applications using Scripts.
• Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere.
• Monitored Applications and WAS performance through Tivoli Performance Viewer and Wily Introscope and tuned the system - caching, queuing, JVM parameters, DB Connection Pooling.
• Experienced in troubleshooting issues using log analyzer.
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces.
• Involved in Creating & Configuring SSL for high security of web application.

Confidential, NY

Middleware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration, troubleshooting and configuration of MQ and Message Broker.
• MQ Series channel and queue configuration, queue manager administration, and testing.
• Modify Java programs that utilize messaging via MQ. - Using the message Flow Debugger
• Message Broker administration and support. Troubleshooting problems with message flows.
• Deploying message flow applications - Diagnosing and fixing problems Installed MQ, Create Queue Manager, setup Channels, Create WAS QCF, MDB Listener, Create Crontab entry, Create Scripts to start/stop Message Driven Bean processing On AIX, Linux, Solaris, zLinux, z/OS, and Windows.
• WebSphere Message Broker Administration in - creation of message broker archives, Control, maintenance, and deletion of objects in the runtime, including deployed Message flow applications and message broker archive file.
• Creating Configuration Manager, broker domain, broker database, broker and domain connection
• Installed WebSphere70 and IHS70 - Installed JBOSS, Tomcat and JVM's.
• Installed MQ and WMB on AIX, Red Hat Linux and Solaris.
• Created Architectural diagrams of Environments with MS Office Visio 2010.
• Responsible for setup, Installation, configuration and Administration of IBM Web Sphere Application server 6.x/7.x/ &IBM HTTP Server 2.0.x/6.X on AIX 4.3/5.1 and UNIX.
• Installed, configured remote Web Sphere plug-in for IBM HTTP Server and manually updated plug-in files for IHS servers located in DMZ.
• Involved in Load balancing/Tuning/Clustering for IBM WebSphere Application Server using Deployment Manager (Network Deployment).
• Resolve issues on timely manner and follow change control process in SOA env