Objective:

Seeking for a IBM WebSphere Admin position / Middleware application server Admin position

Summary:

• Over 8 plus years of IT experience with 6 plus years of experience in Installation, Configuration, Deployment and Management of enterprise applications using IBM WebSphere Application server 8.x/7.0/6.x/5.x, IBM Web Sphere Portal Server 7.x/6.x/5.x and Process Server 6.1, 6.0, IBM HTTP Server, iPlanet, Apache-Tomcat and IIS WebServer on AIX, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX and WINDOWS NT/2000 platforms and setting up the development, testing and production environments.
• Experience in Installing, Configuring and Administering Web Servers like IBM HTTP Server 7.0/6.1/6.0/5.1, Sun One Web Server, Apache HTTP server 2.x, and IIS 6.x/5.x.
• Worked on Generating and deploying server plug-ins for IBM HTTP Server, iPlanet and IIS.
• Having good knowledge on HP Quality Center / Performance Center.
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere MQ and created Queue Managers, remote and local queues, channels, listeners Involved in Tuning of Application Servers by using Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Experience in installation and configuration of Websphere message Broker 7.x/6.x
• Involved in creating the Configuration manager and Message Broker domains.
• Strong technical experience of WebSphere Application server implementation, fail-over support, workload management WLM using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Clustering for failover and backup/recovery processes for high availability, performance tuning, Web server setup, complex secure sockets layer SSL configuration on IBM HTTP Server 8.x/7.0.1/6.1/6.0/5.1 Apache 2.x/1.3.x .
• Involved in managing the Data Power appliances using the Websphere Application Server management tools administrative console, wsadmin .
• Good knowledge and experience with CA Siteminder version R12/R6.0/5.5, TAM Tivoli Access Manager which provides modular authentication and authorization for SSO Single Sign On
• Experience in migrating existing applications from IBM WebSphere application server version 5.x to 6.0.x and from IBM WebSphere application server 6.x to 7.x on UNIX and Windows Platforms.
• Experience in Shell scripting to automate system administration jobs using 'cron' and 'at' utilities.
• Have experience in designing and building WebSphere instances.
• Involved in Installing and Configuration of JBoss Application Server on Linux, Solaris and windows.
• Having good experience in tracking issues related to IBM Http Server, Load Balancer and WAS.
• Good experience in SSH and tunneling to the servers behind the firewall.
• Experience in Administering Performance Tuning in IBM WebSphere 7.0/6.1/6.0/5.1.
• Experience in installing and enabling the LDAP security in WebSphere 8.x/7.0/6.1/6.0/5.1.
• Have knowledge on applying patches and plugins for webprocess servers 7.0/6.1 and for BPM 7.5.
• Experience working on Multi-instance queue managers, setting up High Availability, and Work Load Management for Websphere MQ.
• Used WebSphere Admin Console and WAS Admin/JACL scripting to install enterprise EAR, WAR files or for hot deployment, and also experienced in using Heap Thread Analyzers for troubleshooting.
• Good at troubleshooting using Traces, Logs and Log Analyzer. Good Knowledge in server side technologies like Servlets, RMI, and EJBs.
• Well versed in creating resources, modifying properties, view runtime attributes, commit modifications and securing administrative server using Authentication, Authorization, Certificates, Credentials, Permissions, WebSphere Resources Servlets, JSP files, HTML files .
• Websphere Administrator in all facets of administration, maintenance, and integration including Installation and Configuration of J2EE Application Servers, and Web Servers.
• Independently identified and fixed security vulnerabilities across multiple WebSphere Commerce implementations. Designed and implemented a comprehensive mobile friendly site, scaling to support a wide range of devices.
• Involved in installing, configuring the IBM ODM V7.5/8.x on windows, unix and linux platforms
• Hands on configuring cells, nodes, clustering, application servers, virtual hosts, web server plug-ins, IBM HTTP Server and Sun ONE Directory Server LDAP .
• Highly experienced in deploying and debugging application EARS in Base and ND WebSphere Application Server providing load balancing and highly available clustering solutions.
• Worked in 24x7 environment for production support in an on-call rotation.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Highly motivated, detail oriented and organized with the ability to multi-task projects, maintaining a high degree of proficiency.

Technical Skills:

Professional Experience:

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Role: IBM Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

WAS:

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0.0.1 on RedHat Linux 5.x servers.
• Configured the web-server interfaces plug-in file , session management, virtual hosts, data sources, HTTP transports for Application Server instances and applications.
• Installed and configured Secure Sockets Layers SSL between WAS and IHS for data encryption and client authentication in both Production and Non-production environments.
• Setup Global security for the Admin Console, Single sign-on, and added SSL certificates and signer certs in WebSphere Application Servers.
• Worked on problem tickets PMR with IBM to find effective solutions to various problems and performance issues and applied various WebSphere system related patches, fixes.
• Monitored WebSphere Applications using Tivoli Performance Viewer and Opnet and tuned the environment accordingly by changing the JVM Heap, Connection Pool sizes in SYST, UAT and Production environments.
• Mentored development and support teams on WAS operation and problem determination.

Message Broker:

• Install and set up MQ V7.5 environment including creating and clustering Queue Managers, Queues, and MQ Channels on Windows '03, AIX/UNIX platforms.
• Experience working on Multi-instance queue managers, setting up High Availability, and Work Load
• Management for Websphere MQ.
• Built and deployed Broker Archive files in Non-production and Production environments.
• Involved in trouble shooting the Broker issues. Involved in stopping and starting of Message Flows and execution groups in Multi-instance Message Brokers.
• Implemented the clustering of queue managers to achieve work load balancing and to reduce system administration.

WODM:

• Installed and configured clustered environment for WODM 8.x on RedHat Linux servers.
• Implemented silver Topology. Deployed Decision Server and Decision Center on single cluster. Deployed and Administered Rules Execution Server for deploying the RuleApps.
• Installed and configured RES-XU client on two servers in a clustered environment.

Other:

• Involved in installing and configuring the SAP BO 4.1 and PENTAHO for running the ETL job on LINUX servers.
• Involved in Build Release Management. Delivered and promoted the builds from lower to higher environments using the 'Clear Quest' and 'Clear Case' for different components WMB, WODM and WAS.
• Installed and Configured the Load Runner with Load controller on windows and load Generator on linux for performance Test.
• Installed Symantec anti-virus for web scan on Production and Non-Production servers

Environment: IBM WAS App Server 8.x ND Base, IBM HTTP Server Apache 2.0.47/2.2.8, SAP BO 4.1, Pentaho 4.4, OpNet 8.0.2 , RedHat Linux 5.x,Windows Server 2003/2008, DB2 UDB 8x/9/x, Oracle 11g, Websphere MQ 7.5, Symantec Scan Engine, Tomcat 2.2, Clear Quest and clear Case.

Confidential

Role: WebSphere Application Server and Portal Administrator

Resp onsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, and maintenance of IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7.x/8.5 and Apache server on AIX and Windows 2K platforms.
• Setup the Portal environments Installations, DB transfers, Federation, Cluster setup, Security, virtual portal creation and assign access to virtual resources .

• Enforced logical security application architecture by integrating WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server, IBM WebServer, LDAP Directory Server, Netegrity SiteMinder.
• Setup Global security for the Admin Console, Single sign-on, and added SSL certificates and signer certs in WebSphere.
• Provided support for the entire cycle of application testing from deploying applications, troubleshooting to maintenance.

• Worked in tandem with developers to configure application Servers with Virtual Hosts, Web resources, JDBC providers and deployments of EARs across multiple instances of WebSphere
• Coordinated with Database Administrators to have database and JDBC related issues in WAS resolved.
• Responsible in setting up Infrastructure Design and Automation of JBOSS EAP5.1.
• Involved in installing and the configuring the IBM ODM v8.1 on Unix and Linux platforms
• Provided technical support on Clustering, caching, messaging and transactions to support enterprise Java application deployments in JBOSS EAP.
• Extensively involved in the Development EJB Components and exposing them as interoperable web services on JBOSS-AXIS and WebSphere.
• Monitored alerts for application core dumps and forced thread dumps upon necessitated checking for system objects memory consumption using heap analyzer and MATTING tools.
• Successful execution of Work Load Management and fail over capability by creating Clusters and Cluster Members in WAS 6.0/6.1.
• Worked on problem tickets PMR with IBM to find effective solutions to various problems and performance issues and applied various WebSphere system related patches, fixes.
• Migrated portal artifacts themes, skins, web modules, pages and URL mappings between environments.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration, and administration of web content management WCM , Websphere message broker, WebSphere MQ Resources, Websphere XD, Queue/Queue Manager, Channel, Listener management, and administration of MQ.
• Applied fix packs on both WebSphere Application server and Portal Server environments.
• Performed configurable jobs such as configuring application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console to deploy EARs, WARs.
• Monitored WebSphere Applications using Tivoli Performance Viewer, DynaTrace and Wily Introscope and tuned the environment accordingly by changing the JVM Heap, Connection Pool sizes.
• Involved with SAP Basis support teams in installing and configuring the SAP-WEBI 4.1.
• Integrated and Supported the SAP-WEBI 4.1 with APACHE-TOMCAT Servers 7.0
• Performed troubleshooting for server start-up issues, class path issues Java code defects.

• Mentored development and support teams on WAS operation and problem determination.

Environment: IBM WAS App Server 6.0/6.1/7.0 ND Base, IBM Portal Server 7.x IBM HTTP Server Apache 2.0.47/2.2.8, JBOSS EAP5.1, SAP-WEBI 4.1 Wily Introscope V8.x, DynaTrace 5.0, AIX 5.3/6.1, Windows Server 2003/2008, DB2 UDB 8x/9/x, Oracle 10g, Websphere MQ 6.1/7.0.

Confidential

Role: WebSphere / Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in configuration of WebSphere Application Server resources like JDBC Data Sources, JDBC Providers and Connection Pooling to connect to the Oracle database.
• Implemented different algorithms like round robin, weighted round robin for load balancing using F5 load balancer.
• Installed IBM HTTP Server 7.0/6.x on configured to Application Server through Plugin.
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.x/6.1 on Solaris 10.x/9.x.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration and maintenance of the WebSphere 6.1 /6.1.5 Portal servers
• Configured the web-server interfaces plug-in file , session management, virtual hosts, data sources, HTTP transports for Application Server instances and applications.
• Experience in Installation, configuration and maintenance of the IBM ODM v7.5 on windows 2k and AIX platforms.
• Involved in designing WebSphere Application Server load balancing and fail over by using Workload Management horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Performed an upgrade of WebSphere Portal Server 6.1 to 6.1.0.3 and 6.1.5 for all the environments Dev, Test, and Production .
• Enabled SunOne LDAP and configured DB2 database to WebSphere Portal server 6.1.0.3
• Deploy applications EAR to WebSphere Application Servers and maintained applications.
• Provide support for the entire cycle of application testing including building applications, deploying, and trouble shooting.

Experienced in adding Fix packs and Cumulative Fix packs for the versions of WebSphere application server 7.0/6.1/6.0.

• Managed and administered secure portals for certain groups with dynamical site configuration and reporting facilities
• Strong technical knowledge includes WebSphere Application Server WAS implementation, support, Work Load Management and Performance Tuning. WebServer setup including complex secure socket layer SSL configuration on Sun One and IBM HTTP Servers.
• Configured Web Server Plug-in for request routing plugin-cfg.xml and also configured WebSphere resources like JDBC, J2C and JMS.
• Have knowledge on integrating the Websphere Data Power SOA appliance with the Websphere Application servers.
• Migrated IBM WebSphere Application Server from version 6.1 to 7.0.
• Involved in migration of Sun Solaris operating system from 9 to 10.
• Worked on resolving the slow response time of the applications and worked to minimize the downtime of the servers.
• Performed Analysis of various Log files using log analyzer, Product logs, Installation logs, Administer server logs, Application server logs.
• Involved in migrating WebSphere MQ version 6.1 to 5.1 and experience in MQ upgrades on unix servers.
• Hands on experience with ESB and Message broker as part of my free time activity.
• Used WebSphere Message Broker 7.0 to manage Message Broker and WebSphere MQ artifacts from within a single console.
• Strong technical knowledge includes WebSphere Application Server WAS implementation, support, Work Load Management and Performance Tuning. WebServer setup including complex secure socket layer SSL configuration on IBM HTTP Servers.
• Analyzed the application servers hung and out of memory exceptions using heap and thread analyzers by taking heap dumps.

Environment: IBM WebSphere 7.0/6.1, Websphere MQ 6.1, Websphere Message Broker 7.0, WebSphere Portal Server 7.x/6.x, IBM HTTP Servers 7.x,/6.x, Data Power, Oracle Data Base, Solaris 10/9, JACL, HTML, EJB, JSP, Unix shell scripts, Python, Struts, Wiley, Java/J2SE 1.4, J2EE 1.3, Eclipse, SOAP, UDDI, DMZ.

Confidential

Role: WebSphere/ Middleware Administrator

Responsobilities:

• Rooted IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0/5.x Network Deployment WAS ND on Solaris and AIX platform. Installed IBM HTTP Server 6.0, and configured and integrated with plug-in configuration files.
• Expertise in implementing Content management and Integration and scalability services to the business applications by implementing IBM web content manager.
• Involved in migration of IBM WebSphere Portal Applications IBM WPS from version 5.x to 6.x.
• Extensive experience in design and architectures of n-tier applications using WebSphere Message Broker V6 V5 Applications and MQSeries 5.3/6.0.
• Deployed application EARs on IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment in QA, Pre-Production and Production environments on a Bi-weekly basis and good experience in troubleshooting.
• Configured WAS Global Security using Tivoli Access Manger and SSL for Web Server and Application Server, between LDAP and Application server
• Be gainfully employed with networking team and developers to analyze the critical issues related to server hang ups and resolved the issues.
• Troubleshooted and successfully resolved LDAP, SiteMinder and WAS. And polished problem-tickets, worked with developers to identify the root cause and resolve the issue or propose a potential work around.
• Designed and elevated Trust Association Interceptor TAI for the web servers.
• Managed to minimize the downtime of application servers.
• Nurtured the applications running in the cluster environment and managed backup and restore configurations in DMGR IBM WebSphere Deployment Manager profile.
• Operated multiple high profile, complex projects and implemented with minimal disruption to end-users.
• Escalating Issues to IBM opening the PMRs.
• Figured the application servers hung and out of memory exceptions using heap and thread analyzers by taking heap dumps and thread umps.
• Patterned WPS pages and portlets using Web Service Remote Portlets WSRP as produce and consumer in cluster environments.
• Used Jython and Wsadmin scripts to automate the deployments and configuration.
• Managed on problem tickets PMR with IBM to find effective solutions to various problems and performance issues and applied various WebSphere system related patches, fixes.
• Worked on Windows based Applications ePremis, Automated Report Menu Interface , Building Application, Web and File Servers. Installing IIS, Message Queuing and Certification Authority, Installing Application upgrades. Setting up Linked Server definitions on SQL Server, SQL Server Clustering.
• 24x7 on-site operations support for different environments in project.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 6.0/5.x in Network Deployment, IBM HTTP Server 6.0, Sun Solaris 8, AIX 5.3, Oracle 9i, DB2 8.2, SQL SERVER, IBM WCM, Tivoli, WSRP, JACL, Jython, WSadmin LDAP.

Confidential

Role: WebSphere Admin.

Responsibilities:

• Designated as a WebSphere admin and Application support Help desk analyst for EMAS MW WebSphere group.
• As an admin, involved in installation, migration and configuring the WAS v6.1/6.0 for the customized environment.
• Involved in installing WebSphere portal 6.x/5.x on Windows 2003, Linux, AIX and Solaris Platform with Web Content Management.
• Involved in Installation, configuring, maintaining and deploying portlets, in IBM WebSphere Portal Server 6.0.
• Extensive experience in design and architectures of n-tier applications using WebSphere Message Broker V6 V5 Applications and MQSeries 5.3/6.0.
• As an Analyst, responsible for opening Problem Reports and troubleshooting all reported WebSphere issues from the client's for different environments like PROD, Sat Prod, Sat test, QC and Development.
• Worked in different BIS like AM, RM, BIM which runs on different application servers.
• Provide investigation and correction of error conditions or application discrepancies for supported applications on both Test and Production systems. Communicate daily with Middleware development
• groups and other support groups. Clients who access the application use a myriad of platforms, including AIX, and Windows NT.
• Creating Change Requests for all the Middleware deployments and WebSphere service requests, new patches to BIS applications
• Customized design and development of Themes and Skins of WebSphere Portal 6.1 as per business requirements. Experienced in Adding Fix packs and Cumulative Fix packs and migrate the versions of WebSphere application server 5.0.
• Experience in Installing and Configuration of IBM Http server, Apache-Tomcat.
• Responsible for analyzing the client request and resolving the issues by setting up calls for sevirity1.
• Responsible for providing 24x7 Oncall support in both Production and Non-production environments.
• Responsible for focused problem determination and resolution support for all Middleware developed or utilized services or Technology across the Enterprise.
• Responsible to find out the Root Cause of the different WebSphere issues in PSAP Notifications.
• Responsible for Support process for priority 1 and 2 outages. Investigate all aspects of the event until it is resolved or an escalation is necessary.
• Configuring WebSphere admin console, Deploying new applications .ear files into different application servers, and creating new application servers, and configure virtual hosts and node agents and nodes, cell.
• Configuring and enabling Global Security for the WebSphere Admin Console, and manage WebSphere variables, and tuning the performance.
• Responsible for checking the Introscope messages from pagers, and troubleshooting the problems.
• Monitored and analyzed performance data with Tivoli Performance Analyzer and CA Wily introscope.
• Involved in working on WebSphere DMGR failover procedures with HACMP Failover.
• Automate application install, uninstall and enhancements through Shell scripts and WSCP scripts.
• Experience in Installing and Configuration of IBM Http server and Tomcat.
• Install, configure and maintain Internet, Intranet, Application and Database Servers like WebSphere, HTTP Server, and DB2 on diverse UNIX flavors that includes AIX and Windows Platforms NT/2000 in a multi-clustered high availability environments.
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 6.0/5.0/4.0 that involves EAR Enterprise Archives and WAR Web Archives .
• Involved in troubleshooting and performance tuning using Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer.
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.1/5.0/4.0, JDBC drivers and Servlets engines along with troubleshooting and recovery on AIX.
• Responsible for applications across different platforms - development, testing, QA and production.
• Worked closely with Project manager, development, testing and production teams to align project deliverables, dates and report issues/concerns.

Environment: IBM WebSphere AppServer v6.x/5.0, AIX, Windows 2000, EJB, JDK, J2EE, JNDI, DB2, IBM HTTP Server, IBM Visual Age for Java4.0,Tomcat 5.x.

Confidential

Role: WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/4.x, IHS 1.3.x, and Apache web Server on AIX 4.3 and Linux platforms.
• Migrated applications from WebSphere 4.x to 5.x in development and test environments.
• Maintenance of the WebSphere servers on different platforms and setting up the development and testing and staging environment for the ongoing application development.
• Developed UNIX shell scripts, Jacl scripts that automate the WebSphere Administration
• Developed WSCP scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere.
• Configured WebSphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, and JavaMail sessions. Deployed Session and Entity EJBs in WebSphere.
• Collection of JVM statistics, garbage collection data for monitoring the heap and physical memory.
• Used Tivoli performance viewer and log analyzer for performance and troubleshooting.
• Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
• Configured Workload Management using server groups in WAS 4.x and Server clusters in WAS 5.x.
• Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Resource analyzer and log analyzer.
• Network trouble-shooting using 'ndd', 'traceroute', 'netstat', 'ping', 'ifconfig' and 'snoop' etc.
• Experience in Shell scripting Bash, Csh, ksh to automate system administration jobs using 'cron' and 'at' utilities.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 5.x/4.x, AIX 4.3, Apache Web Server 2.0, Oracle 9i, Windows 2000, J2EE1.3/1.2, Java2.0, JSP1.2, EJB2.0, JDBC2.0 and XML.