SUMMARY

• 8 Years of experience in Enterprise Application Integration using IBM WebSphere DataPower (XI52), IBM WebSphere MQ and IBM Integration Bus (WebSphere Message Broker).
• Experience in development, installation, configuration, maintenance, upgrades, remote technical support, patch management, troubleshooting, monitoring and supporting of WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker environments.
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) using Web Services, Messaging, Governance, monitoring and ESB Database System Architecture and Design
• Worked on DataPower Appliances XI52 and XB62. Experienced in DataPower appliance firmware versions 4.x, 5.x and 6.x
• Implemented Best Practices for Middleware solutions in WID, WESB, WSRR and DataPower.
• Developed XSL stylesheets using DataPower Variables, DataPower XSLT functions, XSLT functions and XPath.
• Experienced in developing Web Services using WSDL, SOAP, REST and XML.
• Good hands - on experience in development of message flows and message sets to enrich and transform the messages using WebSphere Message Broker toolkit.
• Experience with using Web Services in Message Broker.
• Experience with working with Message Sets/WSDLs/ SOAP nodes.
• Extensively used WebSphere MQ Explorer for configuring Queue Managers, Queues and Topics and also published and subscribed messages.
• Experienced in design, development and administer of integrating enterprise applications.
• Highly experienced in designing messaging architectures including developing, deployment and administration of WebSphere MQ.
• Provided support, to resolve issues in IBM Integration Bus, DataPower and WSRR.
• Expertise in SQL, PL/SQL - cursors, triggers and stored procedures with Oracle, DB2.
• Expertise in writing MQ Script Commands for defining queues, process definitions communication channels, designing clusters, developing middleware modules and converting the business rules into message interfaces. Created message flows /sub flow using IBM primitive nodes and sets using WMB tool kit.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Willingness and ability to quickly adapt to new environments and learn new technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Middleware: IBM DataPower XI50/XI52, XB62, MQ Series, WMQ 7,8, WMB 7, 8, IIB v9.0, IBM WebSphere, 5.1/6.0, WAS,MQSI, WSRR.

Languages: COBOL, C, C++, JAVA, JDBC, ODBC, JSP/SERVLETS, XML, XSLT, ESQL, SQL.

Databases: IBM DB2/UDB, Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access

Version Control: Visual Source safe, Rational ClearCase, Subversion, (SVN), QuickBuild, Jenkins.

Defect Tracking Tools: Test Director 8.0, Rational ClearQuest, Remedy.

QCOperating Systems: SunOS, AIX, Z/OS, HP UNIX, Linux, Windows, NT/2000, 2003 Server

Monitoring: Tivoli (ITCAM), Splunk

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. WebSphere DataPower/IIB Consultant

Confidential, Philadelphia

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Architecture, Design and implementations of DataPower solution for services that are exposed by IBC to external vendors.
• Provided support, to resolve issues in IBM Integration Bus (IIB), DataPower and WSRR.
• Designed and implemented Crypto solutions using WS-Sec encryption/decryption, WS-Sec Singing and used crypto maps to implement the crypto functions at SOAP header, body and element level.
• Designed and implemented WS-Trust by creating SAML assertion using authentication and attribute statements (collection of realm and role data associated with the user).
• Handled enhanced DataPower system level and message level logging.
• Implemented services to handle MQ backend by creating MQ Queue Manager Group and MQ Queue Manager.
• Written stylesheets to perform authentication, and audit at different levels, instead of using the AAA action, based on the source, transport and content of incoming message.
• Developed custom style sheets for message transformation including Error handling and well versed with Data Power extensions.
• Evaluating different SOA tools. Working with different product vendors to find the feasible product for the client environment.
• Extensively worked on aggregate control, aggregate request and aggregate reply nodes.
• Performed Installation, testing, implementation, maintenance and documentation of MQ Series and Message broker.
• Developed common flows for Error handling, logging and for Email notifications.
• Implementing the naming standards for the Message Broker objects such as Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Process definitions, Adapters etc.
• Worked with XML, XMLNS, X12 and XMLNSC message formats.
• Created Message Flows and Message Sets using Toolkit and deployed to broker runtime.
• Worked on installing and configuring Message broker toolkit and MQ.
• Worked on Wily and Tivoli alerting system.
• Written a shell script which includes SOMA and CLI calls to Enable/Disable a particular service so that only one device processes the requests at any given time.
• Performed Troubleshooting and 24*7 production support in both testing and production environment.

Environment: IBM DataPower Appliances XI52, XB62, IIB v9.0, IBM API Management2.0, OAuth2.0, WebSphere Application Server, WSDL, SOMA, SOAP UI, API, XML, MS Visual Studio, XML and XSLT.

Sr. Message Broker & Datapower Consultant

Confidential, Jersey City, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured Message Broker Toolkit for enabling design, development, build and deploy Message Flows supporting message broker applications on windows platform.
• Tested end-to-end using external tools like Jmeter, SOAPUI by enabling security on DataPower appliance.
• Configured different services MPGW and XML Firewall to support SSL communication with mutual authentication with both internal and external systems.
• Configured Multi-Protocol Gateway to expose service as a RESTful service.
• Written stylesheets to perform HMAC authentication using SHA256 algorithm, and validating using the AAA policies, based on the headers and content of incoming message.
• Written stylesheets to set and suppress HTTP Headers for inbound and outbound transactions.
• Configured front side handlers (MQ, HTTPS) to implement Multi-Protocol Gateway service in XI52 for protocol transformation.
• Written Stylesheets to filter messages and perform content based routing.
• Worked with Compute, HTTP Nodes and MQ nodes.
• Exposed different Webservices using HTTP Nodes to support SOA.
• Experience in using different Message Broker Message Flow Nodes like Compute, Mapping, Database, and Java Compute Node, MQ Input node, MQ Output Node etc.
• Worked on Message Flows to use DB Nodes to write SQL calls to SQL Server Database.
• Configured Deployment Policy to deploy the configuration in various environments.
• Created Message Flows and Message Sets using Toolkit and deployed to broker runtime.
• Used Email nodes for sending email notifications from message broker.
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces in WebSphere Message Broker. Worked in transformations of XML and TDS format messages.
• Worked with CWF, TDS and XML, XMLNS, XMLNSC message formats.
• Participated in team meetings and management meetings to resolve issues related to the various environments.

Environment: IBM WebSphere DataPower XI52, IBM WebSphere DataPower XB62, IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0, IBM WebSphere Message Broker 8.0, AIX, IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1

DataPower Developer

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Provide design, development, testing and support services and governance for DataPower XI50 and lifecycle activities, and ensure uniform implementation of standards and best practices.
• Configured Multi-Protocol Gateway to convert Non XML to XML and Stylesheets to modify, add and delete elements from XML data and replicate it to multiple (MQ) destinations
• Integrated web applications with the DataPower Web Application Firewall (WAF) service.
• Upgraded firmware on DataPower XI50 and worked on 3.8.1.15, 3.8.2.7, 4.0.2.7 and 5.0.0.6 firmware versions.
• Used MQOD header to send messages to multiple MQ destinations of a queue manager which makes single network connection to the Queue Manager instead of making multiple connections based on number of destinations.
• Tuned MQ Front Side Handler to avoid MQ Exceptions (2017) while connecting to Queue Manager and worked on transactional integrity. Also configured Backout queues to handle the poison messages.
• Tuned DataPower appliance to avoid unnecessary locking of resources.
• Profiling of Stylesheets to calculate the processing time of each stylesheet.
• Worked with developers and QA team in various stages of development and testing and taking the application from DEV through PROD environments.

Environment: WebSphere Process Server 6.1/7.0, WebSphere Application Server 6.1/7.0, WebSphere MQ 6.x,7.0, IBM WebSphere Message Broker 7.0, LDAP(Sun One directory server v5.x), RH Linux, Sun Solaris 10, IBM DataPower XI50.

Message Broker Consultant

Confidential, NY 

Responsibilities:

• Developed and designed the reusable sub flows for error checking, business exception handling and logging.
• Developed ESQL for calling stored procedures and external Java interfaces from Compute Nodes.
• Involved in the design and development of Webservices.
• Exposed different Webservices using HTTP Nodes to support SOA.
• Built an Error Module using TryCatch nodes to catch the exceptions and later logging erred messages and Exception List on to the Queue.
• Worked in transformations of XML, CWF, and TDS format messages.
• Using Clear Case to keep track of which versions of which files were used to build each internal & external release of a software product.
• Worked with Compute, HTTP Nodes and MQ nodes.
• Exposed and invoked different Web Services using HTTP Input, HTTP request and HTTP reply Nodes to support SOA.
• Developed test scenarios and measurement techniques for performance monitoring.
• Providing technical and administrative support for Middleware systems in development, quality assurance and production environments.
• Tested various existing WBMB interfaces for the production roll over.
• Debugging existing message flows and message flows in current development.
• Servicing, debugging and monitoring critical apps using gateway scripts

Environment: WebSphere Message Broker 7.0/6.1, WebSphere MQ 6.0, XML SPY 2007, MS Office Suite.

WebSphere Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server/ MQ 5.0/6.0, Deployment Manager, JDBC drivers, Data sources on Solaris.
• Installed, Configured and Administered IPlanetV6.0, IBM HTTP Web Servers V1.3, Apache V2.0 web servers.
• Applied Fix Packs, Refresh packs and Cumulative fixes to the already existing WebSphere versions.
• Supported Servers in heterogeneous environment including Sun Sparc servers V8, IBM-AIX V5.1.
• Secured application server and Admin repository in DMZ topology.
• Worked with WebSphere caching proxy (WCP) server and Network Dispatchers for load balancing.
• Configured Workload Management (WLM) using Clusters/Server Groups and clones.
• Developed WSADMIN scripts using in order to automate the process of WebSphere deployment and configuration.
• Worked using WSADMIN (Admin Config, Admin App) commands.
• Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Tivoli Performance Viewer/Resource analyzer and Log analyzer.
• Provided 24x7 supports on a weekly basis for mission critical applications.

Environment: AIX 5.1, Solaris V8, IBM WebSphere 5.1/6.0, IBM HTTP Server 1.3/2.0, iPlanet 4.1/6, DB2, Oracle 7i/8i/9i, Windows XP/NT/2000