SUMMARY

• 8+ years of experience in installation, configuration, administration and architecture of WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Portal, Datapower, Siteminder, Web Tomcat, IHS, Apache
• 2 years of experience in J2EE enterprise applications development MVC Framework Struts, EJB, JSP, Servlets, SOAP and JMS.
• Proficient in installation, configuration, and administration of WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, IBM HTTP Server, Tomcat, and Apache on AIX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows.
• 7 years of IT experience in Administration and Production Support of various systems on AIX5L, Unix, Linux and Windows environments.
• Knowledge of installing and configuring Websphere Portal, deploying WPS portlets, pages, and portal applications in a clustered environment
• Highly experienced in Websphere MQ infrastructure design and implementations
• Knowledge of Networking concepts, Firewalls and TCP/IP concepts
• Proficient in Websphere MQ Administration
• Experienced in installation, configuration, and administration of JBOSS EAP, EWS and JON on Linux
• Monitoring WebSphere and MQ using CA Wily Introscope and QPASA monitoring tool.
• Experience in Anthill Pro tool for Automation of Build, Deploy, test and Release.
• Adept at writing wsadmin, JACL, JYTHON and ANT scripts to automate various WAS administration and deployment tasks such as JVM configuration, J2EE application deployment, ear/war installation, backups, JVM export/import
• Proficient in performance tuning and monitoring using various tools like Tivoli Performance Viewer
• Experienced in maintaining large number of WebSphere applications running on several AIX, SOLARIS, and Windows servers.
• Created WebSphere cells, Horizontal and Vertical clusters, and added cluster members to clusters in effort to create fault - tolerant, scalable, and highly available WebSphere environment.
• Installed and configured remote WebSphere plug-in for IBM HTTP Server. Manually updated plug-in files for IHS servers located in DMZ
• Automated daily backups, log archival, and other tasks using shell scripts
• Configured Queue Connections Factories, Queue Definitions, and Listener Ports in order to provide connectivity to Enterprise MQ infrastructure.
• Successful implementations of Workload Management (WLM) using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Clustering for failover and backup/recovery processes.
• Expertise in supporting enterprise based distributed applications over a wide range of operating environments on a 24/7 rotation basis for high volume, secure transactions and Web services.
• Experience in setting up of Nodes, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, configuring Servlet Engines, Session Managers including planning installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server Trace Service.
• Well versed in creating resources, modifying properties, view runtime attributes, commit modifications and securing administrative server using Authentication, Authorization, Certificates, Permissions, WebSphere Resources (Servlets, JSP files, HTML files).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: Java, C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL

Java/J2EE Technologies: JSP, JDBC, EJB, JMS, JNDI, Servlets, Log4J, Struts Web Application Framework, JSF

Software Methodologies: OOA/OOD/OOP, UML, Design Patterns, Rational Unified Process (RUP)

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Solaris, UNIX, XP, Linux

Database/Tools: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MS Access, SQL Developer, TOAD

Application Servers: Websphere, JBoss

Web Servers / Servlet Engine: Apache Web Server, Tomcat, EWS

Enterprise Middleware: IBM MQ Series

Scripting Languages: Ant, Shell and Batch

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, XML, XSL/XSLT, CSS, Java Script, SOAP and Java Web Services

Development Tools (IDEs): Eclipse, IBM RAD, MyEclipse, Weblogic

Other Tools: CCC Harvest, CVS, MATLAB

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Duluth, GA

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install/Configure/Maintain WebSphere Application Server 7.0
• Migrated the applications from WebSphere 6.1 to WebSphere 7.0
• Apply patches to WebSphere Application Server 7.0 on all environments.
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 6.1/7.0
• Experience with DataPower Web Services Proxy and Multiprotocol Gateway
• Experience on installing JBOSS EAP and EWS for applications.
• Integrating the enterprise applications with JBOSS JON for managing the servers.
• Migrated Applications from WebSphere to JBOSS
• Installed and configured the Anthill and Udeploy agent for doing the automation of the application on the servers.
• Used Anthill Pro and uDeploy for build, deploy and updating the applications.
• Ran automation jobs for WebSphere and JBOSS install and configurations from Jenkins
• Update load balancer with new IPs/VIPSs for the new infrastructure setup at F5 level.
• Verify applications functionality after operating system patches/upgrades.
• Built cookbooks using Chef for the continuous deployments.
• Providing support in AD, QA, ST and Production environments
• Handled multiple applications for WebSphere migration simultaneously.
• Documenting the issues/tickets for all the projects and providing the updates to management.
• Maintaining the ownership of the issues until resolved.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 7.0/6.1, Apache/IBM HTTP Server, J2EE, JDBC, SOLARIS, LINUX, IBM DataPower, Windows XP, Oracle, Anthill Pro, JBOSS, uDeploy, Jenkins, Chef, Groovy

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install/Configure/Maintain Web Sphere Application Server 7.0
• Applying SSL and Digital Certificates by requesting, generating and implementation for the communication between webserver and the Application Server.
• Automate shell scripts for application install, uninstall and server restart.
• Apply patches to WebSphere Application Server 7.0 on all environments.
• Configured and administered JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, Connection pools, in WebSphere 7.0
• Setup Java Performance Tuning parameters on WebSphere Application Servers to sustain end-user loads.
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 6.1
• Monitoring application log files, Application Server Performance, Servlet Status, Active Sessions and DB Pool connections.
• Implemented Secure LDAP communication between LDAP and WebSphere Application Server.
• Experience with DataPower Web Services Proxy and Multiprotocol Gateway
• Install/Configure/maintain Siteminder for SSO
• Used BuildForge in building the projects for the deployment.
• Installed and configured the Wily monitoring tool on the application servers.
• Implemented Wily monitoring to capture all metrics for application server and webserver.
• Created scripts to implement wily monitoring for the application functionality.
• Verify applications functionality after operating system patches/upgrades.
• Providing support in AD, QA, ST and Production environments
• Handled multiple projects simultaneously.
• Documenting the annual reports, outage reports, issues/tickets and providing the updates to management.
• Maintaining the ownership of the issues until resolved.
• Provide on-call support on rotational basis.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 7.0/6.1, WSAD/RAD, IBM HTTP Server, J2EE, JDBC, SOLARIS, LINUX, WebSphere MQ 7.0, IBM DataPower, Siteminder, BuildForge, Windows XP, Oracle, Wily Introscope

Confidential, Fargo, ND

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install/Configure/Maintain Web Sphere Application Server 6.1
• Configuring Vertical and horizontal clustering for Work Load Management.
• Applying SSL and Digital Certificates by requesting, generating and implementation for the communication between webserver and the Application Server.
• Automate application install, uninstall and application enhancements by executing and monitoring Shell scripts
• Configured and administered JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, Connection pools, in WebSphere 6.1
• Federate IBM WebSphere Application servers with the Network Deployment
• Applying the fix packs and cumulative packs to the WebSphere 6.1 on all environments with the releases for security vulnerabilities.
• Setup Java Performance Tuning parameters on WebSphere Application Servers to sustain end-user loads.
• Implemented WebSphere automatic startup when the server reboots
• Providing support in AD, QA, ST and Production environments
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 6.1
• Monitoring application log files, Application Server Performance, Servlet Status, Active Sessions and DB Pool connections.
• Implemented Secure LDAP communication between LDAP and WebSphere.
• Maintaining the ownership of the issues until resolved.
• Identify improvements to project standards to achieve high quality services / products.
• Install/Configure/maintain WebSphere MQ 6.0/7.0
• Apply patches to WebSphere MQ 6.0/7.0 on all environments.
• Monitored the MQ messages and WebSphere servers using QPASA monitoring tool.
• Conduct performance testing, identify and resolve the root cause of all performance bottlenecks.
• Verify applications functionality after operating system patches/upgrades.
• Handled multiple projects simultaneously.
• Maintain the ownership of the issues until resolved.
• Documenting the project worked and hand off to operation team and support until warranty period ends.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 6.1, WSAD/RAD, IBM HTTP Server, J2EE, JDBC, SOLARIS, LINUX, AIX, WebSphere MQ 6.0/7.0, Windows XP, Oracle, QPASA

Confidential, Newtown Square, PA

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.0, IBM HTTP Web Server on UNIX servers.
• Install/upgrade Apache HTTP Servers
• Implemented Clustering, Performance tuning and trouble shooting of IBM WebSphere Application Server
• Creating JDBC Drivers and Data Sources in WAS and troubleshooting issues.
• Package, build, integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere that involves EAR, JAR, WAR on LINUX servers.
• Integrated J2EE Web application with Tivoli Directory Server (LDAP) for authentication and authorization
• Configure Apache HTTP Server for Load Balancing.
• Managed the security and performance optimizations for EJB containers and web applications in IBM WebSphere, IHS and Apache web server
• Federate IBM WebSphere Application servers with the Network Deployment
• Interface with the user reported problem; provide Application support, migration support and tech support.
• Analyzing the design and review of the high level infrastructure designs and start working on assigned projects.
• Integrating MQseries server with the application server for message queuing.
• Install/Configure/maintain WebSphere MQ 6.0
• Apply patches to WebSphere MQ 6.0 on all environments.
• Set up Monitoring for WebSphere Application Server instances using Tivoli Performance Viewer
• Develop appropriate work programs / budgets and use to effectively schedule tasks / assignments.
• Provided 24/7 on call support

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.0, WSAD/RAD, IBM HTTP Server, J2EE, EJB 2.0, JDBC, OOA/D, UML, UNIX, WebSphere MQ, Struts Web Application Framework, Windows XP, DB2, Tivoli, CCC Harvest

Confidential

J2EE Developer

Responsibilities:

• Used MVC Level One architecture to develop the web application using JSPs and JavaBeans.
• Developed Data Access Objects (DAOs) using JDBC API.
• Developed the User Interface using HTML, JSPs, Servlets and JavaBeans
• Identified common behavior and encapsulated it as reusable custom tags while generating/maintaining tag libraries.
• Developed Stateless session beans
• Implemented client side validation using JavaScript
• Implemented unit test cases using JUnit
• Developed utility classes for Date manipulation
• Developed an import batch job to load the data from flat files to database
• Involved in bug fixing and production support
• Prepared Integration test

Environment: JAVA, JSP, Java Beans, JUNIT, JavaScript, Servlets, JDBC API, JUnit, HTML