SUMMARY

• 10 years of experience areas of infrastructure as web administration in various environments and architectures which involves planning, design, implementation, maintenance, support, monitoring and user training for various intranet/internet applications.
• Experience in installation, configuration and maintenance of IBM WebSphere application server 8.x/7.x/6.x, BEA/Oracle Weblogic Server 12c/11g/ 10.3/8.1/7.0, Oracle ATG Web commerce 10.x on various Windows Servers and UNIX based (Linux, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX) platform, both on physical and virtual machines.
• Experience in installation, configuration and maintenance of apache HTTP server, apache tomcat, IBM HTTP Server, iPlanet/Sun One and MicroSoft IIS.
• Expertise on server architecture design and product selection to optimize the infrastructure efficiency with lower cost.
• Adapting to new requirement and new products quickly. Also learning new products/tools and implementing them efficiently in a maximum given time.
• Experience in administration of, IBM Websphere Portal Server, IBM Websphere MQ, IBM Connections, Websphere application server CE, Oracle Coherence, Websphere DataPower, Red Hat JBoss Application server, Cordys, Adobe CQ.
• Hands on load balancers like Cisco ACE load balancer, ACE WAF, Citrix Netscaler
• Have deep knowledge and expertise on CA siteminder, Oracle Access Manager, CA Arcot, Day Software CQ, EMC Documentum, Akamai, Verizon EdgeCast, Actuate billing indexing and their integration with web based applications.
• Extensive knowledge about J2EE, networking, database connections, operating systems, messaging services, cloud computing, Vmware.
• Experience on web security like reverse proxy, SSL, Single Sign on and LDAP etc.
• Experience in Shell Script, XML, WLST, HTML, jython, and Ant scripting.
• Extensive experience in various monitoring tools like AWStats, HP Sitescope monitoring, HP diagnostics, PRTG monitoring tool, Wily Introscope.
• Very good experience on tools like CVS, SVN, Borland Star Team, Remedy, JIRA, Clarify Client, Anthill, Citrix, VERITAS cluster server, ADK monitoring tool, etc.
• Experience in building and deployment of web applications.
• Experience with monitoring the JVM performance by WebSphere Heap Size, garbage collection, JDBC Pools, session management, periodic testing and support of Web Environments with respect to High Availability and Disaster Recovery.
• Experience in 24*7hr support team with on call support, and experience providing support in a SLA.
• Working closely customers and at customer location, team management and coordinating with offshore team. working closely with vendors consultants (IBM, Oracle, MS, Red Hat, Day software, Citrix, Cisco, F5, etc) and solving issues with raising and following tickets.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere application server v 8.x/7.x/6.x, WebLogic Server 12c/11g/10.3/8.1, IBM Websphere Portal Server v8.x/7.x/6.1, Websphere Community Edition, Tomcat application Server v7.x/6.x/5.x, Red Hat JBoss, Geronimo, Oracle ATG web commerce 10.x.

Middleware software: IBM websphere MQ 7.x/6.x/5.x

Web Servers: Apache web server, IBM HTTP Server, Sun One/iPlanet and IIS

Software: IBM Connections 4.0, IBM MQ 6.x/5.x, Cordys, Day Software CQ, CA site minder, CA Arcot, EMC Documentum, Oracle coherence, Akamai, edgecast, Actuate billing indexing, MS excel, MS word

Hardware/OS: UNIX, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, HP - UX Windows 2008/2003/2000, SAN storage, NAS storage

Scritping/Languages: Shell Script, XML, HTML, Jython, WLST and Ant scripting

Databases: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MS Access

Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP, VPN, SSH, SSL, UDP, Ethernet, DHCP, Firewalls, DMZ

Appliances: IBM WebSphere DataPower XI50/XI52 and

Load Balancers: Cisco ACE load balancer, ACE WAF, Citrix Netscaler

Tools: CVS, SVN, Borland Star Team, Remedy, JIRA, Clarify Client, Anthill, Citrix, VERITAS cluster server, ADK monitoring tool, AWStats, HP Sitescope monitoring, HP diagnostics, PRTG monitoring tool, Wily Introscope.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

Senior WebSphere and Weblogic administrator

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Working with both IBM websphere and oracle weblogic and other products as required and migrate from one to another form with effectively in very limited time as required by management.
• Installing, configuring, applying fix pack and troubleshooting Websphere Application Server 7.x/8.x and Weblogic 12c/10.x Application server using shell script, WLST, Jython and Python automated scripts and Silent installation methods.
• Installing, configuring and managing Oracle ATG web commerce 10.x
• Setup and configure iPlanet and IHS Webserver along with either Siteminder Agent installation or Oracle Access Manger for any SSO related applications.
• Installing and managing sitminder TAI or access manager j2ee agent and configuring them with WAS and WLS.
• Migrating application from websphere application server 10 to weblogic application server 12c.
• Migrating from IHS and sunone servers to iPlanet 7 servers.
• Install ODWEK and Actuate billing system tools and configure them on Weblogic application server for bill related functionality and pdf generation applications.
• Involved in writing shell, WLST and jython scripts for automated deployments for Websphere application servers and Shell Scripts for Exploded deployments format for WebLogic application server.
• Involved in L1, L2, L3 On call support and resolving Production issues.
• Highly involved in Application support redesign architecture calls.
• Configuring bridges and bindings for weblogic and WebSphere application server MQ JMS properties. configuration JDBC connection(Data source) from weblogic and WebSphere application server with different Database.
• Worked on Coherence Cache servers and configured them for the application cache usage eliminating the expensive calls to database.
• Coherence configured in Clustered environment and supported coherence grid environment with Multicast protocol using each application clusters.
• Involved in managing crontab batch jobs for Shell Scripts on Solaris 10 servers and Task Schedulers on Windows 2008 R2 servers.
• Lead offshore teams with Task and project Management and delivered projects to business teams with minimum resources and at scheduled time.
• 24/7 support with the Operations Team and solving application issues and maintenance related to IBM Websphere Application Server and Weblogic Application server
• Worked with IBM Websphere MQ extensively and configured JMS with Websphere and Weblogic application servers. Performed MQ bridge configuration for Weblogic to overcome high volume and grid lock issues.
• Configuring Wily 8.0/9.5.0, Tivoli Performance Analyser or HP diagnostic for Application Server/web servers and Application monitoring and making application servers to be Highly Available and to identify performance bottlenecks including application memory leaks, server process degradation, database connections, http threads, etc.
• Involving load test, failover test and monitoring the performance and providing sign off before the code goes to production.
• Essential in working and delivering high performance projects and provide multiple solutions to make the infrastructure automation better.
• Involved in automation scripts to handle disk space issues due to high logging verbiage of applications and files created by the system.
• Handling infrastructure issues like CPU, memory, data leak, etc and tuning the performance
• Installed SYMSCAN engine for virus scan application, with the clients submitting documents to scan on the Solaris Server.
• Extensively involved Environment setup by coordinating between Network, Firewall and Operating System Admin teams. Requesting new hardware/VM, opening firewall, updating Netscalar and GSS rules, etc as per the project requirement.
• Involved in Load Balancing and configurations for application analysis to validate request response for each calls.
• Worked on Web Content Management Adobe CQ5 deployed Static Packages on Publishers and Authors and managed and supported applications using CQ5 for web content management.
• Configured Access Manager Policy Agent for all the redirect rules and
• Requesting, acquiring and managing the certificate for SSL and Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client authentication.
• Documenting procedures and environment details using MS word and MS excel.
• Help junior members of the team when they themselves not able to solve technical issues and guide them when required.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Technical lead and on-site coordinator

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Involved in Installing, configuring, applying fix pack and troubleshooting, Application Servers, Websphere Portal server, WebSphere Process Server, MQ, Web servers on different plat forms
• Involved in developing deployment atomization of scripts, Application deployment and maintenance
• Providing support to Application Servers, Web servers, Applications deployed on IBM Web Sphere Application Server and Oracle Weblogic server.
• Migrating Data Base of Portal server and configuring with LDAP Server and clustering the Websphere Portal Servers.
• Taking part in product selection, design and architecture of the server infrastructure.
• Providing support to Websphere Portal Servers and administration of application (portlets, themes, skins, etc) on WPS Server 6.1
• Migration to web sphere Portal 8 from WPS 6.1 and migration to web sphere application server 8 from WAS 7
• Migrating from 32 bit Physical machine to 64 bit Virtual Machine.
• Integration and implementation of IBM connection and CA arcot.
• Validated and provided various technical resolutions of various production issues
• Securing the web sites through global security, LDAP, SSL, policy server, reverse proxy, application fire wall, etc
• Connecting to back end system like mainframe, documentum, people soft, SAP, oracle, sql, etc from Websphere Spplication Server and Weblogis Server.
• Application Server and web server integration with CA siteminder using TAI and webagent and also proving single sign on to the application.
• Installing, configuring and maintainingDataPower appliances XI-50/XI-52as XML security gateways and XML Integrators. experience in providing solutions in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) using IBM DataPower devices
• Making horizontal and vertical clustering, scaling for Work Load Management, session management and fail over.
• Collection of JVM statistics, garbage collection data for monitoring the heap and physical memory.
• Assembled and Deployed the application in staging, in productions, following change management practices and 24/7 support, worked in shifts.
• Using health monitoring tools, analyzing Activity log files and diagnosing Application Server problems.
• Setting up monitors and monitoring the availability system and supporting in case of issue
• Handling infrastructure issues like CPU, memory, data leak, etc and tuning the performance
• Scripting and automating server maintenance processes and deployment process
• Acting as CMDB coordinator for Confidential web team of IT department.
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues.
• Help other junior members of team while any issue they not resolve themselves
• Assign task to offshore team and follow up and help them to complete their task on time.
• Ensure team is following the process of functioning and be a bridge between other teams.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Senior Web sphere administrator

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintenance of WAA platforms and underlying Web sphere Application Server domains including Production, Pre Production, XUAT (extended User Acceptance Testing), UAT (User Acceptance Testing), Development platforms.
• Installing, configuring, applying fix pack and troubleshooting, Application Servers and Portal servers
• Migrating WAS 5 to WAS 6 and migrating WPS 5 to WPS 6.1
• Supporting legacy Weblogic Server 8.1 applications and migrating them to websphere application server.
• Migrating Data Base of Portal server and configuring with LDAP Server and clustering the Websphere Portal Servers.
• Involving in architecture design and documentation.
• Connecting the applications to Data Base and optimizing DB connections.
• Deployment of new application versions, patches in Production, Pre Production, XUAT, UAT and in Development Environments.
• Providing solution to Confidential for product selection, problem management, and migration of products, enhancements and efficiency issues.
• Housekeeping of data for each application.
• Housekeeping of space in the UNIX file systems and Database tables.
• Daily reports on problem volumes and transaction volumes for Operational Integrity reports.
• Developed deployment scripts and doing deployment.
• Load balancing and failover configuration and support
• Automation of deployment and installs using ANT, WLST and JACL scripts
• Configuration of IHS, apache and Sunone Web Servers and plugins.
• Change and configuration management by using Remedy and Merant tracker tools.
• System administration tasks, scheduling cron jobs, managing disk space and servers.
• Collection of JVM statistics, garbage collection data for monitoring the heap and physical memory and analyzing to tune the system to have better performance.
• Securing web applications by integrating it with Oracle Access Manager.
• Acquiring certificates from Certificate Authority and providing SSL.
• Installing, configuring and managing IIS server and deploying .Net applications on IIS server
• 24x7 application and infrastructure support by proving on call support

Confidential

Web sphere administrator

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Installing, configuring and managing Weblogic Server and websphere application server.
• Apply BEA WLS/WLI application patches as appropriate.
• Apply fixpacks for websphere application server.
• Managing apache web server/IHS and intergrating with application servers.
• Maintenance of BT Wholesale platforms and underlying WLS/WLI domains
• Deployment of new application versions, patches in Production and Disaster Recovery environment.
• Work on the production problem as reported by the BT Service desk.
• Management of problems through Bridge and assigning it to appropriate teams.
• Interacting with external vendors like BEA and IBM for resolution of problems.
• Maintenance of Application Servers through VERITAS console or outside of it.
• Housekeeping of data for each application.
• Housekeeping of space in the UNIX file systems and Database tables.
• Maintenance of MQ managers and connectivity between MQ to Application Server through JMS and bridges.
• Daily reports on problem volumes and transaction volumes for Operational Integrity reports.
• Attend Service Improvement Boards, Release Deployment and Post Deployment meetings and providing suitable solutions.
• Setting up alerts and monitoring applications.
• Write UNIX scripts to automate the monitoring processes or repeated report generations.
• Providing On call support for End-to-End Testing and resolving live issues.
• Tracking any loss of message and the root cause and solving these issues.