SUMMARY:

• A Specialist in WebSphere Administration with 7 years of IT industry experience and extensively worked on installation, configuration, and administration of WebSphere Application Server, Tomcat, JBOSS, WebSphere MQ, IBM HTTP Server, Apache Web Server, IIS Web Server, WebSphere Process Server, Sun One Directory Server, CA SiteMinder on AIX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration and maintenance of the Websphere 4.0/5.0/5.1/6.0/6.1/7.0 application servers.
• Configuring the Websphere as application server on the Solaris/NT/Linux platform, Upgrading from 4.0à5.0à6.0à6.1à7.0, Migration, Deployment of the Web applications, Performance tuning, Clustering, Troubleshooting of Enterprise applications, Designing and Architecture of New Enterprise applications.
• Configuring the Security using LTPA Token and Single SignOn Authentication Challenge, configuring Datasources for Oracle, Sybase, SQL server databases, JACL scripting, plugins (external, internal, dmz webservers).
• Configuring the startup scripts for appservers using sudo command, configuring the system startup scripts for appservers, nodeagent, deployment manager, webservers.
• Experience in developing Perl, Jython, JACL and UNIX shell scripts for automating WebSphere application deployments and configuration at enterprise level.
• Experienced in wsadmin scripting and troubleshooting the middleware product related issues on different UNIX flavors (Solaris, Linux, HP - UX and AIX) and Windows environments.
• Involved in new environment setup including creating DMGR, Cell, Profiles, custom nodes (federating to DMGR), resource configurations including JDBC and data source.
• Proficient in installation, configuration and maintenance of WebSphere Application Server, ND and XD, WebSphere MQ, ATG Dynamo Server, Sun One Directory Server in a heterogeneous environment.
• Installation and configuration of WebSphere plug-in for IBM HTTP Server, IIS and Sun ONE web server and managing the plug-in files on web servers.
• Experience in developing, deploying .Net applications on IIS 5/6/7 server.
• Experience in integrating other middleware products like CA SiteMinder, LDAP, JMS, WebSphere MQ and DataPower with WebSphere and JBoss.
• Experience working with MSI for application packaging and deployment on window servers.
• Responsible for taking thread, heap dumps and opening up PMRs with IBM to resolve critical issues.
• Monitoring and tuning using Tivoli Performance Viewer and Wily Introscope and tracing the transactions during Mercury Load Runner load tests.
• Strong in install and configuration of JBOSS, Tomcat for intranet applications including cluster environment for JBOSS with all configuration mode.
• Deployments, maintenance, fix upgrades, general administration, troubleshooting and performance tuning of JBOSS.
• Involved in installation, configuration of JBOSS and JVM performance tuning in multi clustered environment.
• Supported more than 150 instances of IIS on windows 2008/2003/2000/ NT.
• Integrated JBOSS cluster with DB2 and configured JDBC providers, data sources for various applications.
• Involved in Load balancing/Tuning/Clustering for JBOSS Application Server using mod jk.
• Proficient experience of IBM WMB and Websphere Application/MQseries on Zseries platform.
• Proficient in construct WMB Message Flow development environment.
• Configuration of the Queues, Trigger monitoring process, Integration of the WebSphere application server with MQseries, applying patches, Configuring the Q managers, Configuring the registry parameters for the Queues.
• Proficient experience of IBM WMB and Websphere Application/MQseries on Zseries platform
• Created and configure Websphere MQ objects like Queue managers, Queues, Channels and receivers.
• Maintained complex WebSphere infrastructure with more than 250 WebSphere applications hosted on several platforms like AIX, Solaris, Linux and Windows.
• Sound knowledge in J2EE technologies, JNDI, JMS, JDBC, Servlets, JSP and EJB.
• Worked closely with IBM on problem determination, and resolution - PMRs.
• Provided 24x7 production support, best practice trouble shooting, monitoring, capacity planning, performance tuning, naming standards, security and maintenance for J2EE applications deployed on WebSphere and JBoss application servers.
• Specialized in SSO (Single-Sign On) implementation using CA SiteMinder.
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server, JBoss that involves EAR and WAR.
• Skillful at troubleshooting, performance tuning and resolutions effort for Application Server ND and J2EE applications using Resource analyzer and Log analyzer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 98/NT/ 2000/2003/2008 , Solaris 8/9/10, Linux(Red Hat, Su SE), AIX 4.3/5.1/5.2/5.3

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, Java Swing, EJBApplets, Servlets

Web/Application Servers: WebSphere 4.0/5.x/6.x/7.x, IBMHTTP Server 2.0/6.0,WebSphere Portal Server 4.0/5.x, ATG Dynamo Server,Sun ONE Web server, IIS, Tomcat, JBOSS, Sun ONE Directory Server, CA e-trust SiteMinder

Scripting Languages: UNIX Shell Scripting, Java Script, CGI(PERL), LDAP, XML, XML Config.

Networking: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP, SMTP, SSH, FTP,Telnet, SOAP

Databases: IBM DB2, Oracle 9i/10g, MS SQL Server, MS Access.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irving, TX

Web Sphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and administered the WebSphere Application Server 7.0/6.1, ND, XD on multiple Platforms.
• Installed and configured 6.1/6.0 version of IHS, IIS and plug-in in development, staging and production environments.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server on multiple platforms for both Horizontal and Vertical clustering for Work Load Management.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, JMS, session management, virtual hosts and HTTP transports.
• Experience in Installing and Configuration of Websphere servers like IBM Http server and Tomcat.
• Worked with developers and QA team in various stages of development and testing and taking the application from DEV to Test to QA and PROD environments.
• Installed .NET frame work and configured IIS on windows server 2008/2003.
• Supported 100 instances of IIS on Windows 2008/2003.
• Involved in opening and working on PMR’s with IBM to solve various issues related to the environment. Enabled traces as part of troubleshooting and used collector tool to submit the logs and traces to IBM after running the must gather scripts and enabling various traces and taking thread dumps.
• Used MSI for roll back the installation and cleanup.
• Deployed around 70 applications on websphere application server.
• Experienced in Installing and Configuration of JBOSS Application Server.
• Installed, configured and customized WSRR.
• Developed UNIX shell scripts, ant, Jython scripts to automate the WebSphere XD Administration (recycling the application server, deploying customer applications, creating dynamic clusters, logs rotation, monitor applications state).
• Deployments, maintenance, fix upgrades, general administration, troubleshooting and performance tuning of JBOSS.
• Integrated JBOSS cluster with DB2 and configured JDBC providers, data sources for various applications.
• Configured WebSphere Security using LDAP and Implemented SSL between WebSphere and LDAP and IHS and WebSphere.
• Involved in creation of MQ resource objects like Queue, Listeners, Channels etc.
• Involved in major migrations like WAS 6.0 & 6.1 and WebSphere MQ 5.3 to 6.0
• Enabled global security for application servers and applications using Single Sign on (SSO) by LTPA mechanism on Secure way LDAP User Registry.
• Automated configuration, troubleshooting, deployments using JACL and Jython scripts - usedAdminConfig, AdminApp, AdminControl and AdminTask.
• Installed Fixpacks on WebSphere Application Server v6.x and added patches using Update installer.
• Installed and Configured, administered the Web agent in Web server and integrating between policy server and web server using CA SiteMinder 6.0 and Apache web server 2.0.
• Configured global security on WebSphere using IBM Directory Server, Sun one directory server v5.x and secured the adminconsole using wsadmin Jython script.
• Configured Adminconsole security on WebSphere and creating users with various roles to access the WebSphere admin console - users and groups in LDAP and added them as WebSphere Console Groups using both adminconsole and wasadmin jython.
• Installed SSL certificates on the Web Servers using iKeyman tool.
• Was involved in writing Shell scripts to automate WebSphere Admin tasks and application specific syncs / backups and other schedulers.
• Monitor and analyze data with Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Debugged WebSphere Application Server connection pooling issues using Wily and generating thread dumps.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 7.0/6.1/6.0, WebSphere MQ,, J boss, JSP, EJB, UML, XML, SQL, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Solaris, Windows server 2008/2003, JavaScript, Jython, DB2, TeraData, infomix,Oracle.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Web Sphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, configuration and maintenance of J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server, Tomcat, HTTP Server in a multi clustered high availability environments
• Highly involved in deploying, troubleshooting, maintaining and configuring J2EE applications in various environments like Dev, Integration, QA, Stress, UAT and Prod.
• Responsible for the administration of WebSphere MQ
• Excellent Migration skills from WAS 6.x to JBOSS 4.x and ATG Dynamo Server
• Responsible for application changes across different platforms- development, testing, UAT and production.
• Involved in writing perl scripts and Unix shell scripts for the restart of JBOSS and ATG instances
• Involved in Load balancing/Tuning/Clustering for IBM WebSphere Application Server using Deployment Manager (Network Deployment)
• Managed the security and performance optimizations for EJB containers and web applications in IBM WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server and Apache web server.
• Administration and troubleshooting of working Application - starting and stopping the application Server - Regenerating/updating plug-in for Apache Web Server.
• Involved in Application integration for Customer Trouble Ticket Tracking System, a web-based system using EJB Architecture deployed in Tomcat Application Server.
• Developed many JACL, Jython, Perl, WSCP scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XMLConfig tool.
• Involved in troubleshooting and performance tuning using Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer.
• Maintaining updated documentation of all the Servers, installed applications and updates.
• Security, users, groups administration and daily backup and restore operations.
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 6.1.0.9/6.0.2.13/5. x that involves EAR (Enterprise Archives) and WAR (Web Archives).
• Configured Server Groups and Clones for High availability and Fail over capability.
• Installed upgrades and fix packs to the runtime environment as required decreasing vulnerability to production environment.

Environment: Java2EE, Tomcat Application Server 6.0/6.1, WAS CE, Apache HTTP Server v6.0, v5.5, CA SiteMinder 5.x, Sun One directory Server v5.x, DB2, Windows 2003/2000 and Solaris, AIX, z/OS.

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Excellent working knowledge of JBOSS Application Server, middleware and other JBOSS Components.
• Involved in writing perl scripts and UNIX shell scripts for the restart of JBOSS and ATG instances.
• Implemented load balancing mechanisms in ATG Servers with the configuration file obj.conf.
• Expertise in configuring JBOSS with apache using mod jk.
• Installed and configured Sun One LDAP server and secured the application server using both LDAP server and Local OS authentication.
• Extensive experience in configuring the HTTP Server for various clustered application servers using virtual hosting and enabling SSL security.
• Implemented clusters in JBOSS for load balancing and failover.
• Created SSL keyStores, certificates & trustStores for browsers to access Tomcat through HTTPS. Set up openSSH by using Local/Remote Port forwarding with private/public key authentication. Enabled server-to-server data exchanges through Java JSSE SSL or openSSH
• Exporting a public key to a CSR (Certificate Request File) to be sent to a CA (Certification Authority) for signing.
• Involved in SSO implementations using CA SiteMinder and Sun ONE LDAP Server.
• Managed the Security and Performance optimizations for EJB containers and web applications in WAS, Tomcat, JBOSS, IBM HTTP Server and Apache Web Server and Tomcat Server

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 6.1/6.0, WebSphere MQ,, J boss, JSP, EJB, UML, XML, SQL, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Solaris, Windows 2000, JavaScript, Jython, and DB2, TeraData, infomix, Oracle.

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

Sr. WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in Installing and Configuration of Application server Websphere 5.0.
• Experience in Installing and Configuration of Websphere servers like IBM Http server and Tomcat.
• Automate application install, uninstall and application enhancements through Shell scripts and WSCP scripts.
• Responsible for installation configuration and maintenance of J2EE applications on JBOSS Application Server, HTTP Server in a multi clustered high availability environments.
• Involved in Load balancing/Tuning/Clustering for JBOSS Application Server.
• Involved in writing perl scripts and Unix shell scripts for the Starting and Stopping of JBOSS instances.
• Developed UNIX shell scripts, JACL scripts to automate the WebSphere Administration (recycling the application server, deploying customer applications, logs rotation, monitor applications state, etc).
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 4.0/5.0 that involves EAR (Enterprise Archives) and WAR (Web Archives).
• Involved in trouble shooting and performance tuning using Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer.
• Ensure application dependencies are integrated on system level components such as database, Data Source Name (DSN), and Application Server connection pooling (DB2) including identification and documentation.
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0/4.0, JDBC drivers and served engines along with trouble shooting and recovery on AIX.
• Involved in monitoring, shutdown and boot up, Network Support and Trouble Shooting.

Environment: IBM WebSphere AppServer5.0/4.0/3.5, AIX, Windows 2000/NT, EJB, JDK, J2EE, JNDI, DB2, IBM HTTP Server, WSAD, IBM Visual Age for Java4.0,Tomcat 5.x.

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed the front end using HTML, JavaScript, Java Swing (AWT) and JSP.
• Used JDBC to retrieve the member related information from Oracle back-end.
• Developed the application using PHP and Written CGI scripts using PERL.
• Involved in the testing phase of the product and performed quality assurance.
• Implemented session management to create the dynamic application using Action Servlets.
• Created XML files to store the menu related information.

Environment: Java, JDBC, JSP, Servlets, XML, SQL Server, WebSphere Application Server, HTTP Server, Sun Solaris and Windows NT.