SUMMARY

• IBM Certified WebSphere Administrator wif ever increasing levels of responsibility and expertise in wide range of disciplines which include Application Servers, ESB, Messaging, Webservers, Transportation & Security Protocols, J2EE framework.
• Over TEN years of IT experience on Middleware administration handling huge environments.
• As a Middleware Admin, collaborate wif solution architects and project teams to gather design requirements, ensure requirements are well documented, architected for high availability wif minimum maintenance overhead and follow industry best practices.
• Mentor both Onshore & Offshore middleware GR teams in troubleshooting, issue resolution and providing 24X7 support for multiple key Projects.
• Expertise in Installation, Configuring, Integrating and administration of IBM Websphere Application server 8.x/7.x/6.x both network and standard, IBM MQ 8.x/7.x/6.x, IBM MB 7.x/8.x, IIB 9, IBM Http Server in various platforms (RHEL 4.x/5.x/6.x, Sun Solaris 8/9, IBM AIX 5.1/6.1/7.x, Windows 2003/2008/2012, Amazon Cloud)
• Installed SAS 9.0 on IBM Websphere 8.5 Network Deployment on IBM AIX 7.1.
• Proficient in deploying applications in WAR, JAR and EAR formats in Domain and Clustered environments of Websphere application servers 7.x, 8.5.x.
• Configured and administered JDBC and JMS in IBM WebSphere Server.
• Efficient in installation and configuration of IIS & Apache web servers in various environments.
• Deployed applications on multiple WebSphere Servers and maintained Load balancing, high availability and Fail over functionality.
• Designed use case and plan for proof of Concept for Software Evaluation of various IBM Websphere suite of products.
• Experience in gathering Thread Dumps and Heap Dumps; analyzing using IBM Thread Analyzer & IBM Heap Analyzer, ISA.
• Expertise in installing configuring other middleware technologies - Oracle Weblogic 9.x/10.x/11g/12c in both clustered and SOA architectures, JBOSS 5.x/6/x/7x, IIS 6.x/7.x/8.x, Apache 2.x, Tomcat 5.5.x/6.0.x/7.0.x, Sun One Webserver, IBM HTTP Server.
• Strong noledge in Clustering EJB objects, JDBC connections and JMS connection factories.
• Expertise in administration of Apache HTTP 2.2.x Web Server and IIS Web Server
• Provided 24x7 on-call support for critical business applications.
• Working noledge of IBM MQ & MB Series on AIX environment and exposure to distributed queuing architectures.
• Hands on Experience in deploying, troubleshooting, tuning enterprise based distributed applications over wide range of operating environments across several web farms.
• Good noledge on F5 load balancing concepts, firewalls, iRules, Web Browsers, TCP/IP, SSL, HTTP and troubleshooting Network related issues.
• Experience in applying Verisign SSL & Microsoft SSL Certificates across different locations including VMS, App Server, Web Servers, Load balancers & troubleshooting.
• Experienced in working wif change management tools like HP Service Manager, Remedy.
• Experienced in Installing Service Packs and migrating to latest versions.
• Experience in deployment and management of ASP.NET applications running on IIS.
• Configure and administered Connection pools for JDBC connections and JMS Connections.
• Performance Tuning: Analysis of garbage collection data, gather and analyze JVM performance statistics, CPU statistics, memory usage and performance tune plugin, webcontainer, EJBcontainer, heap for improved response times. Analysis of heap dumps and thread dumps using ISA.
• Core JAVA experience in support for break fixes.
• Experienced wif UNIX Shell scripts and auto deployment process.
• Extensive noledge of Web Technologies like SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, JMS etc.
• Batch job maintenance & monitoring experience wif CA Unicenter Desktop Admin Tool, Control - M.
• Configured monitoring tools like Wily Introscope and used it for teh performance monitoring and tuning for applications.
• Extensive noledge on monitoring tools like HP Site-Scope for application monitoring, HP Operations Manager, HP BSM, BMC Control - M
• Working noledge of RDBMS’s like Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server and database query languages like SQL, PL/SQL.
• Proven experience in troubleshooting by analyzing log files for errors.
• In depth noledge of UNIX and expertise in using Crontab jobs & log4j.
• Vast noledge in ITIL process and implementing.
• Experience in implementing Change Management, Incident Management, Problem Management & Knowledge Management
• Very good domain noledge in BFSI and Health Care.
• A proven record in identifying operational problems and providing innovative solutions.
• Excellent Communication skills and ability to work as a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Middleware Products: Websphere Application Server 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, IBM MQ / MB 7.x & IBM Information BUS, IBM HTTP Server, WebLogic 8.1/9.2/10.3. x/11g/12c, JBOSS 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, IIS 6.x/7/x/8/x

Operating systems: Sun Solaris 8/9,Red hat Linux 4.x,5.x,6.x, AIX 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, Windows XP/ 2000/2003/2008 R2 server

Web Servers: Apache 2.2.x,IPLANET 4.x/5.x, Microsoft IIS 6.0, 7.x

Script Languages: Shell scripts, PERL 5.0,Jhyton, Phyton, WLST scripting

Packages: J2EE, JDK1.4/1.5/1.6, JSDK2.0

Third-party Software / Monitoring Tools: LDAP, FTP, SSL, MS Visio, MS Project, Control - M, BPM, Star Team, HP Sitescope monitoring, HP BPM tool, Load Runner scripts, Ultraseek Search engine, Java Mission Control Tool.

Java Technologies: J2EE, JSP, Servlet, EJB, JMS, JDBC, JNDI, RMI.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Lead Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Currently supporting 500+ Middleware servers
• Installed IBM Websphere MQ / MB 7.x and IBM Information BUS (MQ 9.0) for various applications as per architect requirements.
• Installed, configured and supported weblogic in SOA architecture projects.
• Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5 on AIX 7.1 OS
• Setting up clustered environment for both weblogic, Jboss & Websphere application servers.
• Support for Websphere application server dat is hosting SAS.
• Maintained as required by applications such as - JMS, Work Load Managers / Timers, SiBus, Connection Factories, MQ Connection Factories, JDBC providers & datasources.
• Deployed teh applications in Development, QA, staging and production, following teh HP Service manager change management protocols for providing 24/7 support for critical applications which include dat are running as per PCI standards & for Clinical trails.
• Enforcing Application wide Authentication and Authorization Services and used Symantec Versign & Microsoft to manage teh SSL certificates and key pairs.
• Installing, configuring Web Servers like Apache V2.2.x, IIS installing corresponding plug-ins on teh Web Servers to communicate wif teh application Servers.
• Worked on DR recovery scripts, building DR environment and ran a mock DR exercise to combat real DR situation.
• Experience in documentation of day-to-day support activities, Build documents, Kit/Code sustainment documents, DR recovery documents, IQ documents.
• Lead KT sessions for noledge learnt on technologies by conducing periodic training sessions.
• Co-ordinate wif Vendors and partners to report and resolving teh issues wif products like LabVantage for clinical trials.
• Deployed enterprise applications from teh admin console, Silent mode and defined virtual hosts.
• Worked on setting up DR environment using V-Block.
• Diagnosed teh problems caused in teh applications through teh log files and rectified
• Installed JDBC drivers and created teh data sources and configured teh parameters of teh connection pools and multi pools for Oracle configurations.
• Created JMS servers & Modules, users & groups on both Weblogic, Websphere
• Worked on security vulnerabilities for JBOSS, Apache & IIS.
• Provided active support for Load/Stress Testing, troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Performed WebSphere/Weblogic/JBOSS process tuning, JVM optimization, Java memory tuning and dealt wif various issues on out of memory, memory leaks, hung sessions using tools like Wily Introscope.
• Wrote Jhyton scripts and shell scripts for automation and scheduling WebSphere Admin Tasks.

Confidential 

Sr. Subject Matter Expert (WebSphere)

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration and Administration of Websphere Application Server 6 & 7 QA, Production & DR environments as per teh architecture for Bank Teller systems.
• Maintained and configured IIS web server in teh environment.
• Knowledge on installing, configuring ARGO teller systems since I worked on setting up production, DR environments from teh scratch as per ARGO technical documentation.
• Application Deployment (WAR, JAR, EAR) in Domain and Clustered environments.
• Configured LDAP and worked on resolving SSL issues.
• Automated teh build process using ANT and Shell scripts.
• Configured and administered Websphere server wif Oracle9i /10g database which includes their RAC servers.
• Maintained as required by applications such as - JMS, Work Load Managers / Timers, SiBus, Connection Factories, MQ Connection Factories, JDBC providers & datasources
• Configure and monitor MQ connectivity wif mainframe.
• Worked on building Windows 2008 R2 servers for installed ARGO Teller application.
• Developed scripts to monitor teh threads and teh JVM Heap Size in teh production environment.
• Manually update teh database and perform teh data config tasks during teh deployment window.
• Provided active support for Load/Stress Testing, troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Involved in assisting QA team in Load and Integration testing of J2EE applications on Websphere / IIS servers.
• Deployed applications on multiple WebLogic Servers and maintained Load balancing, High availability and Fail over functionality.
• Installed & configured LDAP for application server security and SSL for client authorization using Open SSL.
• Analyzed application performance by taking heap and thread dumps and analyzing wif halp of IBM Heap analyzer and Thread analyzer tools.
• Configured and created JDBC connections and datasources for applications to teh back-end database systems, and monitored connection pools for database.
• Administrative documentation for Installation/Configuration Procedures for future reference.
• Managed a team of 12, provided technical solutions for queries raised by them.
• Worked on 24X7 On-Call support for both application availability and Batch job control.

Confidential 

Senior Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Played as a Subject Matter Expert for 20 + Mortgage Applications.
• Installation, Configuration & up-gradation Mortgage LO & CS applications on Weblogic 8.1/9.2
• Configuration and Maintenance of JDBC, JMS and other J2EE Services wif WebLogic 8.1/9.2
• Requirements gathering of teh existing mortgage environment which includes Technologies and existing environment.
• Application maintenance - Identifying green zone for teh applications, recycling them for better performance, providing update to business stakeholders.
• Deploying code in teh system - Deployment of filenet code in Windows environment, fine tuning Loan originations applications dat run on IIS, deploying 3rd party applications wif Vendor.
• Data extraction from old systems for migration - Extraction completed from Oracle & SQL legacy database. Wrote SQL queries for data extraction.
• Automated monitoring setup for legacy and existing mortgage environment using HP BPM & HP sitescope tools
• Documentation of all teh activities done as part of document management.
• End User support provided for all mortgage consultants who work on Loan originations and Customer support for both legacy and new systems.
• Sharing Knowledge and leading KT sessions

Confidential 

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration & up-gradation Banking applications on IIS 6.0, Weblogic 8.1/9.2
• Configuration and Maintenance of JDBC, JMS and other J2EE Services wif WebLogic 8.1/9.2
• Requirements gathering of teh existing Bank Teller environment which includes Technologies and existing environment.
• Batch Job Maintenance using CA Uni-Center Desktop Admin tool & Control - M
• Automated Monitoring Setup
• Making sure all teh files delivered to every branch wifout any issues.
• Documentation of teh activities
• Sharing Knowledge and leading KT sessions.

Confidential

Senior Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration & Up gradation Auto Finance applications on IIS 6.0, Weblogic 8.1/9.2
• Configuration and Maintenance of JDBC, JMS and other J2EE Services wif WebLogic 8.1/9.2
• Configuring Savvion, Picaaso Loan Origination 3rd party s/w wif Weblogic 8.1/9.2.
• Troubleshooting applications dat are running on weblogic.
• Configuration and Maintenance of JDBC, JMS and other J2EE Services wif WebLogic 8.1/9.1.
• Performing DR exercise for existing environments including writing DR recovery scripts, testing environment in par wif existing Production environment.
• Preparing monitoring requirements documentation for existing systems, providing them to monitoring team, coordinating wif them to get teh monitoring setup done.
• Configuring Titan Customer Servicing systems which is developed on .NET on Windows 2003 servers and let it run as a service.
• Production L2 support including batch job monitoring and maintenance
• Incident, Change & service Management activities as part of ITIL process
• Configuring Apache 2.0.x, Iplanet webservers and maintenance.

Confidential 

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported an environment of nearly 300+ Servers.
• Provided 24X7 On-Call support for nearly 40+ Business critical applications working Rotation shifts.
• Installation, Configuration & Up gradation applications dat are running on WebSphere 5.x, Weblogic 6.x/8.1/9.2
• Configuration and Maintenance of JDBC, JMS and other J2EE Services wif WebLogic 8.1/9.2
• Configuring Account management, online banking, In-house built and 3rd party s/w wif Weblogic 8.1/9.2.
• Troubleshooting applications dat are running on Weblogic & IIS (Windows based online banking applications).
• Configuration and Maintenance of JDBC, JMS and other J2EE Services wif WebLogic 8.1/9.2.
• Performing DR exercise for existing environments including writing DR recovery scripts, testing environment in par wif existing Production environment.
• Performed code patching for teh defects dat are identified during code releases.
• Performed Access Control reports maintenance every quarterly.
• Preparing monitoring requirements documentation for existing systems, providing them to monitoring team, coordinating wif them to get teh monitoring setup done.
• Installed & configured LDAP for application server security and SSL for client authorization using Open SSL.
• Analyzed application performance by taking heap and thread dumps and analyzing wif halp of IBM Heap analyzer and Thread analyzer tools.
• Configured and created JDBC connections and datasources for applications to teh back-end database systems, and monitored connection pools for database
• Production L2 support including batch job monitoring and maintenance
• Incident, Change & service Management activities as part of ITIL process
• Configuring Apache 2.0.x, IPlanet, Netscape navigation webservers and maintenance.
• Worked on LDAP, Access Control, Single Sign On applications dat run on Weblogic 8.1
• Lead KT sessions for noledge learnt on technologies by conducing periodic training sessions.