SUMMARY

• 8+ years of overall experience in IT, of Configuration, Administering, Performance Tuning, Installing IBM, WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x, WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.0/7.0. Experience in Installation, Deployment and Administration Server 5.x, 6.x & 7.x.
• Sound background in configuration,Planning, Installation and Administration of IBM WAS, IBM WebSphere Application server.
• Extensive experience in design and architectures of n - tier applications using Application Server 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x, on, Linux, and Windows.
• IBM WebSphere Portal V6.x/V5.x Administraton Experience in Installation, Configuration, deployments using xmlaccess, Performance Tuning, Troubleshooting.
• Experience in writing scripts to automate administration tasks.
• Experience in Object Oriented Methodology and tools with proven ability to design, develop, test and implement technical solutions
• Familiarity with Jboss EAP 4.3 and 5.0
• Extensive experience in deployments and management of enterprise applications using WebSphere Application Server 5.0/6.0.2/6.1/7.
• Involved in migration of applications from WebSphere Application Server 5.x to 6.x, 7.x.
• Experience in working with RDBMS like Oracle, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server
• Troubleshooting experience of Java run time issues in the WebSphere Application Server environment.
• Monitoring experience of WebSphere environment using built-in and third party tools like Resource Analyzer, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Sitescope, Introscope, HP Open View, and Ethereal Network Sniffer.
• Tuning experience of WebSphere components such as WebSphere plug-in, web container thread pool, jvm heap and database connection pool
• Developed Unix Shell Scripts (JACL and JYTHON) for the automatic configuration of the project and deployment of files into the WebSphere App Server.
• Worked closely with IBM support on resolving issues through PMRs
• Successfully set up disaster recovery environments and created Technical Recovery Guides providing instructions needed at the time of recovery.
• Experience with administration of various industry standard web servers including Apache 1.3/2.2, IBM HTTP Server 5.x,6.x and 7.x and iPlanet 4.1/6.0
• Experience in 24/7 support and Applications troubleshooting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Middleware: WAS 5.1/6.0/6.1/7/8.0

Web Servers: Apache 1.3/2.2, IBM HTTP Server 5.x,6.x and 7.x, iPlanet 4.1/6.0, IIS 5.0/6.0

Databases: Oracle 8/9/10/11, DB2 UDB 7.2/8.1, MS SQL Server, Sybase

Operating Systems: Windows NT/ 98/2000/2003/ XP, Red Hat Linux ES ¾

Web Technologies: JSP, Servlets, EJB, XML, HTML, Java Script

Tools: WsAdmin, Jacl, Jython, VMWare, Tivoli Performance, Willy Introscope, Splunk, Tea leaf

Networking Technologies: TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, BigIP (load balancer), Sun One LDAP

Other: CWS,Remedy, SQL Navigator, WSAD, Netegrity, Siteminder, RSA, Site scope, Ethereal, MS Web Application Stress Tool, MS Office, Vantive Ticketing Tool, HP service center.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irvine, CA

System Engineer (Websphere Adminstrator)

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Responsible for Installing, configuring, administering and documenting WebSphere WAS 6.1/7.0/8.0 on Windows Platform.
• Developed different environments for production, development and testing teams.
• Worked on SPNEGO and KERBERO’s Set up with the AD-ENT domain to add complex authentication for the existing application.
• IBMWebSphere Portal V6.x/V5.xAdministration Experience in Installation, Configuration, deployments using xml access, Performance Tuning, Troubleshooting.
• Worked on all WebSphere and Portal migrations.
• Mentored, provided guidance and was part of building the NY WebSphere/Portal team.Migrated existing application from windows 2003 server to windows server.
• Upgraded the existing Websphere application server from 6.1 to V8, as the support for V6 will soon to be discontinued by IBM.
• Worked on setting up Basic authentication with SSL configuration for the application in Dev and tested with successful results which let to apply in Production environments.
• Installed Fix packs for the application server to improve and fix the issues which are existing.
• Administered, configured, tuned, and troubleshoot WebSphere in a clustered environment.
• Closely worked with Development team to troubleshoot the production Issues.
• Deployment of J2EE Applications involved in Creating Cluster’s for Load Balancing and Failover, Configuring Resources like JDBC Provider, Creating Virtual Hosts, Shared Libraries, JNDI Configurations, EJB References, Creating Environment Variables, and Configuring Session Management.
• Provided assistance during load testing and troubleshooting on issues such as Out of Memory, 100% CPU Usage, hung Thread sessions, session replication, JVM Crashes.
• Configured Websphere authentication and authorization with Active Directory and legacy LDAP servers.
• Extensive usage of Omni center 7.1 which can help in showing the status of Applications.
• Provided 24x7 production support, best practice troubleshooting, monitoring, capacity planning, performance tuning, naming standards, security and maintenance.
• Environment: IBM Websphere Application Server 6.1/7.0/8.0, IBM HTTP Server 6.x, Windows 2003 Windows 2k8R2, IBM DB2 V9.x, SPNEGO with KERBERO’s, Omni Center 7.1, WebEx, Remedy BMP Help Desk 7.2, LDAP, Tivoli Directory server.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Application Support Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Responsible for Installing, configuring, administering and documenting WebSphere WAS 6.1/7.0/8.0 on, Linux and Windows Platform.
• Involved providing support to wide variety of applications in a diverse set up which included WAS ND/XD v7.0/6.1/6.0 on UNIX, Redhat Linux & Windows 2K platform.
• Developed different environments for production, development and testing teams.
• Intensively involved in IBM WebSphere Application Server troubleshooting scenarios like Outofmemory, Java hangs, crashes, and debugging bottlenecks in resource pools by taking Heap Dump, Java Core dump using IBM tools like Heap Analyzer, Thread Analyzer, and Memory Diagnostic Tool (MDD4J).
• Administered, configured, tuned, and troubleshoot WebSphere in a clustered environment.
• Perform remote installation, configuration and support tasks.
• Evaluated new releases and involved in migration of WebSphere Application Servers from V6.1 to V7.0.
• Enabled Security features using CWS user registry and LTPA for authentication and authorization privileges for Admin console, and managed ADAM for private directory services.
• Used Siteminder for single sign-on, Policy Servers and Web agent servers are configured to authenticate and authorize users.
• Deployed applications create a data source, Configured and administered JDBC providers, JMS providers, resource adapters, Connection Pooling and also defining scope level from Admin console. Setup.
• Generated plug-ins for IBM HTTP Server.
• Implemented horizontal, vertical & multiple clustering of application servers for achieving workload management (WLM), HA Manager, Scalability and avoiding single point failure and Expertise in handling EARs, WARs, JARs modules.
• Involved in Debugging WebSphere Application Server, connection pooling and connection manager with Oracle 10g/11g.
• Installed the fix packs for the problems to get solved with the Application Server.
• Used Tivoli Performance Viewer to check the performance of the server.
• 24X7 on call production support and troubleshooting problems related to WebSphere Application Server.

Environment: IBM Websphere Application Server 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0 , IBM HTTP Server 5.x,6.x and 7.x, Linux, Windows 2003, AIX-UNIX, Orcale 10g/11g,, XML, Siteminder 6.x,Jython, Tivoli Performance Viewer, WebEx, Remedy BMP 7.2, HP service center 6.2, RDCM.

Confidential, FL

MiddleWare Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, configuration, administration and maintenance of tuned WAS ND, WebSphere MQ and on windows, UNIX for multiple high profile projects.
• Handled a Team of 6 as a Lead Administrator in guiding the Day to day activities and Helping them to Configuration, Support, and any escalated cases.
• Used Tivoli Performance Monitoring tool monitor application resources (Enterprise beans, servlets) and WAS a runtime resource (JVM memory, application server thread pools, database connection poo1, CPU Starvations).
• Provided assistance during load testing and troubleshooting on issues such as Out of Memory, 100% CPU Usage, hung Thread sessions, session replication, JVM Crashes.
• Troubleshooting on issues such as federation of nodes and synchronization of nodes with Deployment Manager.
• Developed shell scripts to automate everyday Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup, everyday system tasks, log rotation etc.
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues and provided 24x7 on-call support of middleware applications as part of rotating team coverage.
• Provided 24x7 production support, best practice troubleshooting, monitoring, capacity planning, performance tuning, naming standards, security and maintenance.

Environment: IBM Websphere Application Server 6.0/6.1, Linux, Windows 2003, JACL/Jython, SiteMinder, Sun One (LDAP), Tivoli Performance viewer, Wily Introscope and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager (ITCAM),EJB, Splunk, Tea leaf

Confidential, Richmond, VA

IT Support Engineer 

Responsibilities:

• Installed WebSphere MQ, Websphere Application Server 5.1/6.1 on Linux, Windows 2003
• Configuration of WMQ for the application requirements.
• Responsible for Installing, configuring, administering and documenting WebSphere MQ
• Created WMQ Cluster to provide the high availability and for workload balancing.
• Worked on Client Channel Tables. Provide the Client Channel Tables to the Applications to provide the failover Technology.
• Extensive use of WMQ and Hardware cluster for workload balancing and HA
• Actively participate in the functional, performance, HA and DR tests of applications/systems ensure that new systems are thoroughly tested before making recommendations for production migration.
• Developed MQ scripts to stop, start, and create Qmgrs and to create Other Qmgr Objects and to monitor the Qmgrs, and other Objects.
• Installation of Omegamon Tool Components like TEPS,TEMS and monitoring the Qmgrs from TEPS
• Created Omegamon situations to monitor the Queues, Channels, Qmgr Status.
• Working with IBM to resolve the issues by opening PMRs.
• Providing Security to the WMQ Objects with the OAM, SSL and Password Server Support Pack. .
• Defining and maintaining Queue Managers, Queues, Channels and other MQ Objects on various platforms.
• Setup MQ connections to establish connections between various MB components
• Troubleshooting using MQ error logs.
• Performed the administration in a Virtual Enterprise Environment.
• Experienced with ApacheHTTPServer to configure the web servers
• Involved in connection pooling and connection manager with Oracle 9i/10g.
• Used JACL Scripting for automating various tasks.
• Enabled the performance monitoring service and to monitor and analyze the data with Wily IntroScope.
• Supported a 24X7 production system consisting of over 40 enterprise class production systems.
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues.
• Conducted weekly meetings with team members to get project updates.
• Supported the role only by working Remote.

Environment: IBM Websphere Application Server 5.1/6.1, Linux, Windows 2003, IBM Websphere MQ 6.0/7.0, Oracle 9i/10g, Wily IntroScope 5.x,6.x,7.x, JACL, Apache 1.3/2.2, VMWare.

Confidential

IT System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installing, troubleshooting, configuration, Administration for Websphere Application Server 5.x
• Performance estimation and tuning for the Websphere Application Server system.
• Worked in building, configuring and setting up Testing and Production Environments and tested and supported the project according to Business Rules and specifications.
• Monitoring, Administrating WebSphere Commerce Server 6.0
• Creating URL Re - directs.
• Installed IBM HTTP Server 1.3.26 on different nodes and configured them by generating the plug-in.
• Configured and Enabled the Global Security System for WAS Administration for Console users and Console Groups using Active Directory Server as a LDAP User Registry.
• Involved in Creating and Managing the Nodes, Application Server’s, Cluster’s and Deployed Multiple J2EE Applications
• Setting up horizontal clusters for Workload Management (WLM) and Failover support
• Profiled all the J2EE Applications and worked with Application Groups in improving performance of application and possible memory leaks in application before deploying.
• Deployment of J2EE Applications involved in Creating Cluster’s for Load Balancing and Failover, Configuring Resources like JDBC Provider, Creating Virtual Hosts, Shared Libraries, JNDI Configurations, EJB References, Creating Environment Variables, and Configuring Session Management.
• Involved in creating database connectivity by using IBM Db2/UDB, Oracle 9i
• Involved in Creating Shell Scripts like Automation of Startup and Shutdown Processes
• Interacted and Co-ordinate with different Application Groups for Hot Deployment and Dynamic Reloading of the Applications.
• Involved in troubleshooting and resolving problems encountered when implementing models.
• 24x7 on-site operations support in an environment with over 200 Servers.
• Created Tickets Using Vantive to resolve issues.

Environment: IBM Websphere Application Server 5.x,, IBM HTTP 1.3.26 Server, Apache, IBM Db2/UDB, Oracle 9i, AIX, Solaris and Windows 2000, JACL, Vative Ticketing Tool.