SUMMARY

• Over 7 year’s professional experience in the I.T. industry.
• Over 6 year’s experience in Middleware WebSphere Administrator on Windows and Linux environment.
• Expertise in installation, configuration, maintenance and administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x/7.0, JBoss, IBM HTTP Server, Apache, WebSphere MQ, LDAP.
• Troubleshooting, security, failover and work load management of WebSphere Application Server 5.0 /5.1/6.0, WebServers like IBM HTTP WebServer, Apache Webserver.
• Deployment, software installation, maintenance, fixes upgrades, general administration, troubleshooting and performance tuning of IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x/7.0, JBOSS.
• Adept at writing wsadmin, JACL and Jython scripts to automate various WAS administration and deployment tasks such as JVM configuration, J2EE application deployment, ear/war installation, backups, JVM export/import.
• Responsible for installation, configuration and maintenance of WebSphere Application Server (Base and ND), WebSphere MQ, LDAP in a heterogeneous environment.
• Created WebSphere cells, Horizontal and Vertical clusters, and created cluster members in effort to create fault - tolerant, scalable, and highly available WebSphere environment.
• Configured global security for WebSphere Application Server using IBM Directory Server as LDAP user registry.
• Proficiency in identifying bottlenecks and troubleshooting network/application problems quickly.
• Automated FixPack/eFixes installations, daily backups, log archival, and other tasks using scripts.
• Installed and configured remote WebSphere plug-in for IBM HTTP Server. Manually updated plug-in files for IHS servers located in DMZ .
• Created JDBC Providers and Data sources authentication aliases in order to provide connectivity to Oracle, DB2 databases.
• Successful implementations of Workload Management (WLM) using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Clustering for failover and backup/recovery processes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: C,C++,C#.NET,VB.NET,ASP,SQL, Shell Scripting.

Operating Systems: Linux, Windows 95/98/2000/2003/2008 , I- series

Database: Oracle 11G/10G/9i DB2, SQL Server, MS Access 97/2000

Web Technologies: EJB, HTML, Servlet, JSP, XML.

Middleware: IBM WebSphere Application Server7.x/6.x/5.x, WebLogic Server 8.1/9.2/10.0 , JBoss 4.x/5.x

Scripting Languages: Shell Scripting, Jacl /Jython Script and WSADMIN.

Monitoring Tool: Tivoli Performance Viewer, Load Runner, Thread Analyzer, Log Analyzer.

Web Servers: Apache Tomcat, IBM HTTP Servers, IIS, iPlanet.

Protocols: TCP/IP, DNS, LDAP, SOAP, HTTPS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta,GA

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 6.1, 6.0, 5.1 versions on Windows Environments.
• Used WebSphere Admin Console and wsadmin - Jython scripting to install and update enterprise EAR.
• Wrote Jython scripting for start/stop clusters, servers and for auto deployments.
• Installed, configured and propagated IBM HTTP server and its Plugins for managed and unmanaged nodes .
• Maintaining updated documentation of all the Servers and the installed applications and patches.
• Monitoring Application log files, Application Server Performance.
• Involved in configuring the Web Directory access protocols like LDAP for different levels of access at the site.
• Configured a virtual host for Development and Test environments.
• Configured databases separate from the Websphere administrative repository database.
• Creating profiles for deployment manager and node agents.
• Using Websphere Advanced Administrative Console configured JDBC driver and data source.
• Keeping Backups of deployed Applications.
• Workload management using WebSphere Modeling and Clustering on Application Servers.
• Writing Shell scripts for automating Tasks in Sun Solaris and UNIX and Linux environment
• Diagnosis and repair of the WebSphere Environment.
• Responsible for scheduling the installations and upgradation, and maintains them in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Created scripts for Automatic deployment of new WAR files in to the Environment.
• Configured Virtual hosts and associated them with web modules.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing the Websphere Liberty, JDK and Mobile first platform in Various environment.
• Installation and Configured Websphere Application server version 6.0/6.1 ND.
• Administered, configured, tuned, and troubleshoot Websphere in a clustered environment on Windows.
• Implemented horizontal and vertical clustering, Work Load Management (WLM) to make an application Highly Available.
• Part of the team involved in Performance Monitoring and Tuning of Applications using IBM Tivoli Performance Viewer (TPV).
• Configured WebSphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, and connection pools. Creating Version 4 Data Source and Version 5 Data Source depending on the enterprise application needs.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings.
• Involved in installation, configuration of Web Sphere Application server 5.1/6.0.X for clustered environments, creation of data sources, connection managers and listener ports .
• Installed IBM HTTP Server on different nodes and configured them by generating the plug-in Installed fix packs on WAS and Involved in WAS Upgradation.
• Configured Workload Management (WLM) using clusters and cluster members in production environment.
• Diagnosis and fixing of Configuration and Installation Problems.
• Configured Web Server Plug-in to work with Websphere Application server Implemented security using LDAP.
• Tuning the applications by monitoring the JVM memory usage, garbage collection, thread usage, response times etc,
• Worked as a part of 24x7 on call support for production team

Confidential, Santa-Ana, CA

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration of Websphere application server 5.x/6.x for clustered environments and creation of data sources.
• Administer websphere 5.x and 6.x in production environment .
• Troubleshooting various problems in different stages of development using log files and with coordination from development teams.
• Supported application teams in fixing the performance issues in production environments.
• Involved in capacity planning of servers in production environment.
• Implemented standard backup procedures for both application DB and WebSphere backup of configuration files.
• Writing provisioning scripts to automate the build of new environments using shell and Jython scripts to use wsadmin commands.
• Created clones/cluster members on different nodes and configured them on respective Server Group.
• Created and managed the connection pools for Data sources.
• Configured Data Source for application on different scopes (cell, node, server and cluster).
• Configured Virtual hosts for host aliases for each cluster member.
• Enabling security and setting Single Sign on.
• Monitored and Troubleshot the App Servers for errors .
• Deploying application in WAS using admin Console and also through scripts.
• Proven experience in production support for WAS.
• Configuration of Security, Network, Namespace binding and JDBC resources .
• WAS Admin scripting.
• Federation with multiple profiles

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed WebSphere 5.x/6.x, Jboss 4.0.2 and deployed applications in Linux and Windows environments.
• Deployed the applications in formats of WAR, JAR, and EAR.
• Installed and configured Apache Web server in various environments.
• Developed Jython scripts for deploying the applications on Application servers.
• Configuring, Installing and Administering of Websphere Application Server 6.0/6.1.
• Installed upgrades and fix packs to the runtime environment as required decreasing vulnerability to production environment .
• Responsible to regularly take backup of all the Servers.
• Responsible for application changes across different platforms in development, testing and production environments.
• Configured Work Load Management (WLM) using clusters & clones.
• Configured WebSphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling.
• Writing provisioning scripts to automate the build of new environments using shell and Jython scripts to use wsadmin commands.
• Deployed Session and Entity EJB's in WebSphere.
• Involved in securing the J2EE applications by implementing Single Sign On by using LTPA.
• Experienced in Adding Fix packs and Cumulative Fix packs and migrate the versions of WebSphere application server 5.0 to 5.1.
• Responsible for analyzing the client request and resolving the issues by setting up conference calls in severity1 prod issues .
• Responsible Team Member providing timely and accurate 24X7 support.

Confidential 

WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Providing support from Offshore and onsite for Web Sphere Application support involved in administering different environments like Test, Stage and Production
• Installation of product binaries, creating profiles
• Federation of nodes, creation of clusters as per the client standards
• Enterprise application deployments & upgrades.
• Creation of Data sources, Queue connection factories, listener ports
• Writing Shell scripts for automating Tasks in Sun Solaris and UNIX and Linux environment
• Coordinating with development, build and testing teams to meet the time lines of the project
• Administrating PVCS(Version control system)
• Creating repositories for the applications in PVCS, administrating and restricting the User access level, managing different version of codes by Version Labeling
• Reviewing the load test results of the application to make sure the application is bug free before moving to production
• Creation of Web server instances
• Monitor system and application resource utilization - Memory, Disk, I/O, etc..
• Deploying and configuring war, ear, lib files.
• Accept WAS related Trouble tickets in Remedy and completion within Deadlines Time in Coordination with Project
• Creating PMR and working with IBM to fix issues in time.
• Mentoring new resources joining the team and helping them understand the process and procedures of the client.