SUMMARY

• Web SphereMQ, IIB and Data Power professional having 5+ years ofexperiencein IBM Web sphere Middleware Development and Administration skills.
• Experiencein Planning, Installation, Configuration, Administration and Maintenance of IBMMQseries x/7.x/8.x/9.x, MQ FTE v8.x/9.x and various message broker, various SOA ESB tools such as WebSphere Message Broker, DataPower and Process Server on various platforms like LINUX, Windows and Mainframe
• Experienced in upgrading WebSphere MQ on different platforms by applying Fix Packs and installed Support Packs.
• Configure and develop features related to enterprise service bus (ESB) in conjunction with IBM SOA solutions.
• Expertise in different nodes of WMB such as HTTP, Web services, Web sphere MQ, File, Transformation and Database.
• Extensive experience in securing SOA Implementations and integrating Heterogeneous systems using IBM Data power, Integration Bus (Message Broker).
• Responsible for Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Review & deliveries.
• Experience in BMC Remedy tool for tickets and Venafi.
• Expertise in setting and configuring MQ monitoring tools like IBM Tivoli Enterprise portal.
• Knowledge on Shell scripting, ANT scripting, scheduling jobs using crontab.
• Hands on experience with DevOps tools like Jenkins, Big data tools like Splunk.
• Set up IBM MQ high - available platform and create all related MQ objects for high available messaging needs Troubleshoot MQ and other platform issues
• Equipped, initiative-taking with strong analytical, reasoning, and interpersonal skills with extensive IT experience.
• Experience in development of both Rest and Soap web services using IIB and DataPower
• Developed XSL, XPATH code to process the in-flight XML and developed many XSLT, Xpath queries at the policy level to log, route, operation level authorization, and route messages to MQ
• Enabling Triggering onMQqueues based on the requirement of various interfaces.
• Performedadmintasks using MQSC scripts.
• Strong Server and network trouble shooting skills with excellent teamwork skills.
• Troubleshooting and managing IBM WebSphereMQqueues, channels, listeners, intercommunications (TCP/IP) and triggering.
• Experience in Kafka and Confluent Platforms
• Implemented Multi Instance high availability.
• Involved in creating topics, subscriptions, and subscription queues as part of PUB/SUB implementation.
• Performedadmintasks using MQSC scripts
• MQ error logs, JMS logs and trace files

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: WebSphere MQ (MQ Series) v7, 7.5, 8 and 9.x, WebSphere Message Broker v8/9, IIB V10, Kafka

Databases: Oracle, SQL

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, AIX, Main Frame

Servers: Apache, Tomcat, WAS, DNET, Java, JBOS, Mule, Web Logic

Software Development Methodologies: Waterfall Model, Agile.

Tools: Tivoli, VISIO, Lotus Notes, Remedy, Service Now, TSRM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr Middleware Consultant (MQ/IIB)

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implemented, and maintained integration systems infrastructure including fault tolerance and high availability solutions. Design and develop Integration solutions based on IBM MQ and Message Broker technologies.
• Experience in Planning, Installation, Configuration, Administration and Maintenance of IBM WebSphere MQ series 7.x/8.x/9.x and WebSphere Message Broker 7, 8 & IIB v9/v10 and ACE on various platforms like LINUX, AIX and Windows.
• Created MQ objects such as Local Queues, Remote queues, Alias Queues, Sender and
• Receiver Channels etc. using mqsc script commands.
• Experience on MQ Clustering.
• Leading a team of 5 members with Onshore and offshore co-ordination.
• Monitored system using triage.
• Experience on MQ Explorer and Rfhutil
• Co-ordination with various teams across the globe to make the servers and services active & ready to use.
• Decommissioning of old unused MQ series objects on AIX servers that were no longer used.
• Providing consultation support to various application teams on WebSphere Message Queue (WMQ), WebSphere Message Broker & other HUB infrastructure related queries.
• Experience in High availability and multi-instance setup of queue manager.
• Installed and configured MQ Version 9.2 in Unix and Windows Servers
• Setup and exercising disaster recovery and failover process for MQ and Kafka servers
• Enabling Triggering on MQ queues based on the requirement of various interfaces.
• Regular continuous discussion with the client, gathering the requirements & then pass it on to the offshore team.
• Involved in several brainstorming sessions to finalize the plan & various action items required for the actual migration.
• Handled MQ error logging Mechanism.
• Testing & validating the environment after migration
• Performed MQ Series administrative functions and 24X7 production support.
• Configured resources such as Queue Definitions, Queue Connections Factories and Listeners in order to provide connectivity to Enterprise MQ infrastructure.
• Resolved incidents based on severity level.
• Installing the latest security patches for MQ from IBM.
• Raised Production changes using BMC Remedy tool and implemented.
• Worked closely with IBM on problem determination and resolution.
• Performed root-cause analysis for Production outages and provided management with root-cause analysis report.
• TLS implementation across the MQ and Kafka internal communication.
• Experienced in setting Kafka.
• More than 2 years of experience in WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
• Well versed in installing and using monitoring tools like Tivoli Omegamon.
• Expert in setting up security in MQ and Broker using OAM and Access control lists.
• Experienced in setting up SSL across the MQ and Broker environments and maintaining the certificates.
• Created Clusters of Queue Managers and Kafka cluster to achieve Load balancing and also to simplify overall administration process
• Experience in writing Bash Shell Scripts, Crontab Scripting for automated recycle of WebSphere MQ and Broker servers and day to day tasks.

Confidential

WebSphere Middleware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created Mapping documents and Technical Design documents in implementing the solutions.
• Extensively used Transformation and Construction nodes in developing interfaces.
• Designed Pattern based implementation in IIB to simplify the implementation approach.
• Deployed message flows and troubleshooting error flows on IBM Integration Bus toolkit.
• Developed message modeling libraries using DFDL and SOAP domain.
• Involved in creating topics, subscriptions and subscription queues as part of PUB/SUB implementation.
• Developed interfaces using the SOAP nodes for calling the external web services from IIB.
• Involved in creating WSDLs and testing SOAP using SOAP UI tool.
• Implemented message modeling concepts by creating various libraries in order to deal with Binary data and CSV data formats using DFDL parser.
• Used DFDL parser for parsing mainframes messages and custom format messages.
• Created MQ Subscriptions to subscribe to topic and created subscription queues and subscription points for subscriber needs.
• Involved in creating and configuring data sources in IIB to interact with Databases.
• Integrated IIB with DB2 Database using Compute Node to execute SQL queries.
• Extensively implemented ESQL by using compute node and filter node for developing the message flows in WebSphere message broker.
• Created message flows using MQ nodes and Publication node to implement the Pub/Sub features.
• Involved in creating SAP inbound and outbound adapters to retrieve and send IDOCS to SAP systems.
• Extensively used SAP and MQ Nodes in developing message flows.
• Developed lot of sub flows in order to perform exception handling and auditing of message.
• Worked with File nodes, Compute node, Timer and Filter Node.
• Worked with the Administration team in implementing solution designs for setting up the MQ clustered environment.
• Involved in performing load testing of the message broker services to meet the transactional volumes of the client.
• Worked with different message formats like Binary, XML and TDS.
• Worked with testing tools like MQ Mon, RFHUtil, MQ Spy and XMP SPY.
• Software Development Life Cycle, Quality Assurance and Testing practices.
• Provided development-oriented support for the MQ/WBIMB issues critical production applications.

Confidential

Integration Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed integrations solutions based IBM Integration Bus and Message Broker and MQ technologies.
• Determined requirements to provide estimate designs and solutions.
• Identified integration requirements and created high level and low-level design.
• Reported status and participated in Daily meetings and calls.
• Involved in design, development, and testing of the application.
• Extensively worked on developing WSDL, XML, XSD schemas for web service components and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
• Developed message flows using HTTP, SOAP, Routing and Transformation for hosting and calling web service.
• Designed security and processing policies and rules for Web services components.
• Extensively used Trace nodes for tracing purposes to debug the flow while development.
• Involved in Conducting relevant Proof of Concepts and Proof of Technologies.
• Developed message flows which done XML/XSLT transformations and conversions from one format to another, SOAP/HTTP, XML, DFDL to IMS(MRM) mappings and transformations.
• Involved in Debugging ESQL and Java code.
• Created bar file and deployed on execution group.
• Reported issues to the project manager and tracked deliverables of the team.
• Monitor logs and queue depths to proactively find potential problems.
• Filter node, Route to Label, ResetContentDescriptor, Trace and Database nodes. Message flows and the sub flows will process all requests.
• Monitoring and maintenance of Queue Managers, Queues, Channels and Listeners.
• Using MQSC Commands performed administration tasks.
• Enabled Triggering on MQ queues. Created and deployed bar files.
• MQ Administration like Queue creation, QM creation, Channel creation And Monitoring all
• Post-production support activities. Support activity for the deployment project.
• Working with the business and coordinating meetings for the next release of the application.
• Maintaining and managing our Incident, Problem, Change and Configuration Item tool with accurate operational metrics.
• Manage and conduct High Availability testing to ensure effectiveness of the HA strategy while identifying and facilitating a fix on identified failure points.
• Plan, co-ordinate, and test Disaster Recovery tests during the year for each of the supported applications, ensuring a well-oiled wing to wing DR strategy.
• Facilitate outage management with the various application teams along with Tracking and Trend Analysis to identify patterns and problem areas.
• Coordinating with application teams on different business requirements.