SUMMARY

• Experienced Middleware Engineer with over 7+ Years of experience in Enterprise Application Integration with IBM WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere Transformation Extender
• Developed enterprise solutions for clients in Telecommunications and healthcare sectors utilizing WebSphere Message Broker technologies
• Experienced in Design, Development, Implementation and Performance Monitoring of Message Based Business Systems using ESB products like IBM WebSphere MQ 5.3, 6.0 and 7.0, MQSI/ WMQI 2.x and WMB 5.x, 6.x, 7.x on various platforms Windows NT/2000, 2003 server, AIX, SUN OS, and Z/OS
• Developed automation process for operations and deployment of application in a WMB environment
• Highly experienced in the upgradation of MQ Series and Message Broker
• Extensive experience with MQSeries Clustering, MQ Client / Server setup, MQSeries System Administration, user training and documentation
• Highly experienced in designing messaging architectures including developing, deployment and administration of WebSphere MQ
• Integrated files, Mainframes and databases on distributed and legacy systems across the enterprise
• Programming experience in developing MQ Adapters using MQSeries for Java and MQSeries JMS
• Experienced in deploying solutions in High Availability (HA), Load Balancing Configurations eliminating single points of failure
• Created and maintained customer - facing full-stack healthcare analytics tools
• Extremely Experienced in architectural Development, Installation, configuration, maintenance, up-gradation, remote technical support, patch management, troubleshooting, repair, monitoring and supporting of WebSphere technologies including MQ, WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere Application Server
• Developed and Maintained critical WebServices with Message Broker
• Performed End-To-End flow testing for the ESB services using WMB toolkit
• Highly experienced in installing and configuring WMQ, WMQI, WMB and WAS on Windows NT/2000, 2003 server, AIX, SUN OS, and Z/OS
• Highly experienced and trained professional in utilizing Message Domains MRM, XMLNSC, SOAP, BLOB, IDOC
• Sound Knowledge in UNIX Shell Scripting and Job automations and Scheduling on AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and Linux
• Experience on WBI Adapters including SAP, JDBC, JText and File Extender
• Expertise in working with XML, DFDL, DTD, COBOL, XSL, XPATH, XSD
• Experienced in design and architecture of integrating enterprise applications
• Expertise in writing MQScript Commands for defining queues, process definitions, communication channels, designing clusters, developing middleware modules and converting the business rules into message interfaces.
• Created message flows /sub flow using IBM primitive nodes and sets using WMQI control center / WMB Eclipse tool kit
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Willingness and ability to quickly adapt to new environments and learn new technologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Middleware Products: MQ Series, WMB, WTX, WAS, MQSI, WMQI 2.1, MQWF, WSAD

Languages: ESQL, SQL, PL/SQL, JAVA.

Scripting: VB Script, JAVA Script, DHTML, and HTML

Databases: IBM DB2/UDB, Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access

Version Control: Rational Clear Case, Visual Source Safe, PVCS, MK Source Integrity

Operating Systems: SunOS, AIX, Z/OS, HP UNIX, Windows NT/2000, 2003, 2008 Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

MB/MQ Administrator

Environment: IBM WebSphere Message Broker 8.0/7.0/6.1/6.0 , WebSphere MQ 5.0/6.0/7.0, WebSphere Application server6.1, 7.0, ESQL, DB2/UDB, SQL server,DB2, Windows NT/2K/XP, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Remedy, Clear case, Visual source safe, Z/OS and Web Methods.

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured WebSphere MQ 7.5, WebSphere Message Broker 8.0 with multi instance queue manager
• Transformation, Connectivity and Mediation capabilities using WMB
• Installation, configuration, up-gradation, development and trouble-shooting of WebSphere MQ, WMB and Application Server
• Implemented High Availability MQ on Distributed Systems. Supported enterprise business critical messaging which exploits MQ Series clustering and queue sharing
• Administered the MQSeries Objects like Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Process Definition, and Clusters
• Configured DB2 with Message Broker and authorized permissions for accessing database
• Supported MQ environments using command line (control commands and runmqsc commands)
• Worked with Web Services and deployed the test flow in broker environment
• Created XSD, WSDL files using Message Broker toolkit
• Setup MQ/MB Environments in DEV, QA and PROD to deploy the Message and halped application Team to test the End-to-End functionality
• Worked with Message Broker Nodes including SOAP, Routing, HTTP, JMS, Database, Transformation, Construction and File Nodes
• Worked on various types of input systems including MQ, SAP, Database, SOAP, HTTP, Files, etc
• Installed and configured MQSeries on AIX, Solaris, Z/OS and Windows 2003
• Performed Administration tasks using MQSC commands
• Designed and developed ESB message flow process using Oracle Workflow
• Configured SSL in MQ/MB and WAS to accommodate Secure connectivity between the Datacenters across the World
• Integrated files and databases on distributed and legacy systems across the enterprise
• Setup Tivoli Monitoring for the OS and MQ series objects
• Implemented flows File-to-Queue, Queue-to-File using file nodes
• Monitored the WMQ objects using the MQ Explorer and WMQ Tool
• Implemented the clustering environment to achieve Workload balancing and to make the administrative task easy
• Monitored the MQ Series queuing system, the memory utilization of the WebSphere Application Server and error/application queues for the WMB / WMQI message flows
• Configured MQSeries Network using clustering distributed queuing and remote administration
• Preparing automated scripts for queue manager setup
• Migrated WebSphere Message Queue from V 6.0 to v 7.0
• Configured WebSphere MQ channels to SSL for secured transmission of messages
• Backup, recovery and troubleshooting for WMQ and WMB
• Supported different environments like Development, QA and production
• Worked with IBM Support on resolving critical problems by creating PMR's
• Worked with application software development and testing group during development project life cycles and after deployment to resolve issues mainly related to message flows
• Coordinated with developers and architecture team with implementation, architecture and development of MQ

Confidential, Greensboro, NC

WMB Admin

Environment: IBM WebSphere Message Broker 8.0/7.0/6.1/6.0 , WTX 8.4.0.3, WebSphere MQ 5.0/6.0/7.0, WebSphere Application server6.1, 7.0, ESQL, DB2/UDB, SQL server,DB2, Windows NT/2K/XP, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Remedy, Clear case, Visual source safe, Z/OS and Web Methods

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured WebSphere MQ 7.x.
• Created Primary and secondary MQ Cluster repositories on Linux systems and made the existing QMGR in all the different environments as a part of cluster
• Transformation, Connectivity and Mediation capabilities using WMB
• Involved in Installation, configuration, up-gradation, development, remote technical support, trouble-shooting and system administration of WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere Application Server
• Created XSD, WSDL files using Message Broker toolkit
• Identified for the need of Queue managers, Queues, Channels, and other MQ Objects, defined, administered and maintained the same
• Tuned existing MQ Servers in the environment to handle large volume of messages and process large amount of data
• Involved in new infrastructure Project development used to replace the existing system
• Worked closely with Business team to understand the requirements
• Trouble shooting errors both Application & JVM also analyzed heap/core plus error logs - configured tuned JVM for optimum performance
• Customization of EDI type trees
• Performed unit level and End-to-End testing for the Inbound and outbound scenarios
• Provided support to integration test between WTX and WMB
• Worked closely with System testing team and resolved defects related to project
• Setup MQ/MB Environments in DEV, QA and PROD to deploy the Message and halped application Team to test the End-to-End functionality
• Performed the migration of the WebSphere Message Broker 5.0 message flows to the new WebSphere Message Broker 6.1 environment. dis included the testing of all existing message flows
• Extremely experienced in working with the Message Broker Nodes including SOAP, Routing, HTTP, JMS, Database, Transformation, Construction and File Nodes
• Worked on various types of input systems including MQ, SAP, Database, SOAP, HTTP, Files, etc
• Created Message Flows and Message Sets using Toolkit and deployed to broker runtime
• Checked in the developed flows to Version control tools
• Developed common flows for Error handling, logging and for Email notifications
• Did performance testing using MQ Visual Edit, RFHUTIL and Jmeter
• Integrated Mainframe Applications with Java Applications and with SAP Financial/Material systems
• Used Email adapters for sending email notifications from message broker
• Monitored all MQ Objects using MQ supplied utilities
• Performed problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces
• Programmed Java Activity implementations
• Performed Troubleshooting and 24*7 production support in both testing and production environment

Confidential

Message Broker Developer

Environment: Applications on IBM AIX, Z/OS, HP-UX, OS390, Windows 2003 server, WebSphere MQ Versions 5.3 and 6.0, Message Broker Versions 5.0 and 6.0. MySAP adapter V5.0, WAS Versions 5.0 and 6.0

Responsibilities:

• Developed, Documented and Deployed Message Flow Interfaces utilizing various Nodes including Database and SOAP
• Installed WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere MQ in development and test environments.
• Developed Message Flows to Transform SWIFT Messages including Data Validation
• Performed administration tasks in development and test environments on WebSphere MQ and Message Broker
• Implemented the clustering of queue managers to achieve work load balancing and to reduce system administration
• Developed Shell Scripts to kick in adapters to read or write to Q from or to a file for some of the interfaces
• Meeting with system analysts to finalize mapping documents for interfaces and design requirements
• WebSphere message broker was used to route, transform and data enrichment
• Upgraded the current WebSphere MQ Environment from 5.3 to 6.0
• Designed and developed WMB Message flows and Message sets using toolkit
• Developed message sets in CWF, TDS, EDI, Name-Value pair MRM formats
• Involved in a team that administered WebSphere MQ, Message Broker in Development and test environments
• DB2 was used as broker database and Oracle was used for inbound and outbound message auditing
• ESQL was used extensively for message transformation
• HTTP Built in nodes in combination with SSL certificates were used to send and receive http service requests from bank vendors
• Used ESQL to execute database stored procedures, to get information from database tables, views
• Involved in Production Broker Application Support
• Harvest was used as source control system.
• Moved new partner profiles from QA to Production and testing connection with Partners.
• Moved Production to failover, Production to DR (disaster recovery) and vice versa during maintenance.
• Migrated from IBM MQ V5.3 to IBM MQ V6.0
• Created Queue Managers, Queues, Channels and Clusters and Triggering.
• As MQSI developer created flows using ESQL and Built-in nodes of MQSI in control center
• Deployed the flows in test, QA, production and DR (Disaster Recovery)
• Provided support on 24/7 for Global Hub
• Written Java programs to pick messages from error or dead letter queue and process the messages according to the regional hub requirement
• Performed Troubleshooting of MQ Issues, such as cluster refreshes, dead letter and error queue checking, channel status and triggering condition checking etc. Message flows and messages sets running after weekly backups and unexpected situations. Check all three environments and up and running (QA, Production and DR)
• Responsible for opening problem tickets (PMR) with IBM