SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of extensive experience as a Middleware Administrator in the administration configuration and management of WebSphere Application Servers providing support for Production, Development, Testing and Staging environment.
• Experience in Analysis, Administration, Installation, Configuration, Tuning, Troubleshooting and Maintenance of IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM WebSphere Portal Server, MQ, LDAP, Siteminder, Webseal,, Jboss, Jboss Portal, Glassfish, BEA WebLogic, Datapower.
• Worked on UNIX (AIX, Sun Solaris), Redhat Linux and Windows environments.
• Installed and configured various WebServers which includes IBM HTTP Server, Apache, iPlanet, and integrated with WebSphere Application Server.
• Generated Plug - ins for IBM HTTP Server, iPlanet and Apache.
• Experience on WebSphere Application Server Implementation, Support, Workload Management and Performance Tuning using TPV.
• Strong experience in Administration and Maintenance of WAS ND Clusters (vertical, horizontal and hybrid) and deployment of applications in Highly Available, Load Balanced production environments.
• Experience with WebSeal in designing authentication and authorization solutions.
• With over 4 plus years of experience in providing monitoring solutions to different clients on tools like CA Wily, BMC Portal, Splunk.
• Involved in integrating Wily Introscope & profiling tools with WebSphere application and troubleshooting issues using Wily.
• Involved in Installation and Configuration of IBM WebSphere Portal Server (WPS) 5.x/6.x.
• Deployed portlets and portal applications.
• Deployed Applications in WAR, JAR and EAR formats in Domain and Clustered environments of BEA WebLogic 8.x/9.x/10.x.
• Configured Node manager for administration of Managed servers.
• Configured JNDI server as repository for JDBC data sources, JMS connection factories, Connection Pooling, queues and topics.
• Experienced in integrating WAS with DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Cloudscape and Sybase.
• Used both WebSphere Admin Console and wsadmin/Jython scripting to install enterprise EAR, WAR files or for hot deployment.
• Experience in setting up configuring and implementing various authorization and authentication models by defining security realms including SSL, LDAP and LTPA in e-commerce applications.
• Expert in, Jython, UNIX Shell scripting for administration, maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Provided technical assistance in monitoring, tuning, backup/restore, upgrades, failover and recovery and upgrades of WebSphere Environment for availability, scalability, maintainability and WLM (Work Load Management) using cloning and clustering including horizontal and vertical cloning.
• Troubleshooted issues analyzed the root causes and resolved those problems using monitoring tools Tivoli Performance Viewer and Wily.
• Was part of the 24/7 On-call team for troubleshooting outages/ issues.
• Regularly attended meetings on behalf of Middleware Team & co-ordinate with different teams for task accomplishment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Application Servers/Web Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x/7.x, WebSphere Portal Server 6.x, WebLogic 8.x/9.x/10.x, JBoss 4.x/5.x, Siteminder 6.0, IBM HTTP Server(IHS) 6.x/7.x, Apache 2.2.x, Sun one WebServer6.x/7.x

Data Bases: DB2 8.x9.x, ORACLE 8i/9i/10g, Sybase, MS-Access 2000, SQL-Server 2005/2008.

Directory Servers: Microsoft AD, IBM TDS 7.x, LDAP

Access Management: WebSeal 6.x,Siteminder

Languages and Web technologies: C, C++,JAVA, JSP, EJB, JNDI, SOAP, JMS, HTML, XML, ASP, PERL, JACL, Python, Jython, Struts, Springs, Servet, XML, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript, J2EE, RMI, JDBC.

EAI/Middleware/Messaging Tools: IBM Data Interchange, TIBCO, WebSphere MQ Series 5.x/6.x.

Operating Systems: Win 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Z/OS, Linux, Solaris AIX and Unix.

Monitoring Tools/IDE: Wily 7.x/8.x,ITCAM, Tivoli, Eclipse, Net Beans, Macromedia Dreamweaver, XML SPY, JBuilder, RAD 7.0/6.0, UML (Rational Rose)VSS, CVS .

Connectors & Adapters: FTP, SFTP, FILE, SOAP, T3, TCP/IP, RMI/IIOP, SQL Server, EDI, HTTP, HTTPS, Web Services, MSMQ.

Scripting Languages: UNIX Shell, Perl Scripting.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Monterey Park, CA

Sr. Internet Application Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Configuring IBM Websphere Application Server 7.0.0.27/8.5 and Jboss Application Server 5.2.2, Jboss Portal 5.2.2 and Tomcat 6.x on AIX and Linux.
• Working with Network Engineering team in setting up VIP’s, Aliases and creating public and intranet site urls.
• Mapping new servers as per the Technical Architectural Design and assigning IP’s by locating appropriate segment in Infoblox.
• Knowledge on F5 pool configurations.
• Updating Fix-pack for WAS in AIX/Linux.
• Provisioning Jboss Portal using Puppet.
• Migrating applications from Websphere 6.x to Websphere 7.x, Jboss 5.x and Jboss 4.x to Jboss 5.x.
• Configuring SAML 2.0 for Siteminder for single sign on/authentication and authorization between different domains.
• Installing Web agents on web servers and Registering Host with Policy Servers in all environments.
• Defining agents, agent groups and agent configuration object as per the application.
• Creating Realms, Rules, Responses and Policies in Siteminder for internal and external applications.
• Administration and Support of Tomcat 6.x on Unix/Windows Platforms.
• Defining virtual hosts, environmental variables, JDBC resources and Data sources in Websphere Application Sever.
• Deploying webservices in Datapower XI50.
• Exporting/Importing configurations in Datapower.
• Configured websites, web applications and virtual directories by assigning bindings to them such as hostname, IP address and port numbers.
• Administration and Support of Apache 2.x and IIS web server on Unix/Windows Platforms.
• Generating and Propagating Plug-in from HTTP server to Application server.
• Install, configure apache and customize mod proxies as per the need.
• Created Queues and Queue Managers, listeners in WebSphere MQ 7.
• Work closely with app team to resolve the issues.
• Monitoring health checks using smc tool.
• Troubleshooting, performance tuning using Wily Introscope, BMC Portal.
• Using Splunk queries for identifying issues.
• Assign and work on OTRS tickets on a daily basis.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.x/8.x, JBoss 5.x, Tomcat 6.x,Oracle, Apache 2.2.x, HTTP Server, IIS 6.x,AIX 6.1,Linux, Solaris 10, JACL, Siteminder 6.x, CA Wily 8.x.

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Sr. Internet Application Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administered and managed IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7.x,Glassfish Server 2.x/3.x on AIX and Linux platform.
• Configured Apache Web server and generated mod - Proxies, mod jk, jk mount and ajp ports.
• Built new infrastructure as per the Logical diagrams.
• Defined and Setted up Alerts for thresh hold values given for Queues and Queue mangers in Hyperic.
• Created and Configured Profiles, DAS, Clusters and Nodes through console or asadmin scripts.
• Migrated IBM WebSphere Application Server from 6.0 to 6.1 .7.0.0.13 and WebSphere Applications to Glassfish 3.1.1servers.
• Migrated Glassfish servers from 2.1 to 3.1.1 and all applications on it.
• Set up cluster config, jvm settings and mapping ajp ports according to worker. Properties.
• Configured Glassfish/WebSphere Server resources like JDBC Data Sources, JDBC Providers and Connection Pooling to connect to the DB2, Oracle.
• Troubleshooted various Middleware issues by analyzing JVM logs and traces.
• Troubleshooting issues like slow performance using wily for applications deployed on application server.
• Creating WebSphere MQ objects like Queues, Queue Managers and Channels.
• Integrated WebSphere application server with wily.
• Involved in setting up production environments, like determining the server needs, tuning the JVMS and GC parameters with the help of wily.
• Expertise in writing custom PBD’s & custom Alerts.
• Installed and Configured Wily agents 8.x to monitor patient records.
• Analyzed java cores and heap dumps with thread and heap analyzer.
• Setting up JVM tuning parameters for garbage collection and monitoring through Hyperic.
• Created Queues and Queue Managers using IBM WebSphere MQ V7.
• Deployed and troubleshoot applications in Dev, Stage, UAT and Prod.
• Migrated data-center applications, web services from WebSphere to Glassfish.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7.x, Glassfish Server 2.x/3.x, Hyperic 4.x, CA Wily 8.x, IBM DB2, Oracle Tomcat Apache 2.2.16, IBM AIX 5.3, Linux.

Confidential, St Louis, MO

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed configured and managed IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1./7.0.0.17 on Solaris and Linux platforms in all Environments.
• Migrated Applications from WebSphere 6.x to Jboss 5.1 and Web Sphere 7.x.
• Installed and managed Apache Web server and generated mod - Proxies.
• Built new environments/infrastructure for on boarding new applications as per the Technical Architecture Design given by Architects.
• Created and managed Profiles, Clusters, Nodes, and Nodeagents for WebSphere Application Server.
• Configured Proxy pass statements in apache to load balance request against backend Servers.
• Created Data sources, Security Domains and configured SSL certificates for JBoss 5.1 on Linux/Windows Platforms.
• Migrated Jboss servers/Applications from 4.x to 5.x.
• Used JBoss JMX console/Admin Console for Jboss configuration updates.
• Defined class paths and application specific configurations as per the specifications in Jboss.
• Worked closely with developers to define and configure Application Servers, Virtual Hosts, web applications and JDBC drivers.
• Resolve issues working with cross-departmental teams; customer support, application developers, vendor IT contacts, network and database administrators.
• Involved in installation and upgrading different versions of Wily Introscope version 7.x & 8.x.
• Troubleshooting issues like slow performance /memory/leak/deadlocks on distributed operating systems using wily.
• Created standard and custom E-mail/Pager Alerts / e-mail alerts using Wily Introscope.
• Involved in tuning applications related performance issues using Introscope 8.x java and .Net applications and Solid experience in creating standard and custom dashboards.
• Configured Dynamic end points to integrate with third party Servers.
• Configured WebSeal for application Authentication and Authorization purposes.
• Created, Updated and managed WebSeal instances, Junctions and objects.
• Created and attached ACL's for the Web seal objects and configured them to Backend Servers
• Generated LTPA keys and propagated LTPA2, TAI++ from Web seal to WebSphere
• Configured clustering through deployment manager for Load Balancing and Failover functions in WebSphere Application Server ND.
• Renewed and managed SSL certificates for Web Server and WebSphere using Ikeyman Utility.
• Applied Fix-pack for WAS/IHS in AIX and Solaris.
• Configured WebSphere to communicate to Oracle Database servers by creating Data sources using console.
• Responsible for managing the TAM components.
• Responsible for federating the TFIM for service provider(SP) and Identity provider(IP)
• Configured cross domain Single sign-on (CDSSO) between different domains(.com and .net)
• Written and modified JACL scripts to automate application deployments.
• Analyzed head dumps, Java cores generated in PROD with IBM Heap Analyzer and IBM PMAT and determined the root cause.
• Resolving web seal issues by enabling pdweb.debug, pdweb.snoop traces.
• Involved in investigating the problem, troubleshooting and resolving application and configuration issues.
• Enabled security at the Application Server level and monitoring Operating System level security for WebSphere Application Server.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7.x. JBoss 5.x, Oracle, Apache 2.2.x, AIX 6.1, Solaris 10, JACL, Webseal 6.x, CA Wily 8.x.

Confidential, Fishkill, NY

WebSphere Middleware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7.x on AIX and Solaris platform.
• Configured IBM HTTP Web server and generated Plug-ins.
• Created, Configured and Administered Profiles, Clusters, Nodes and Node Groups for WebSphere Application Server.
• Migrating IBM WebSphere Application Server from 6.0 to 6.1.0.31and to 7.x.
• Configured clustering through deployment manager for Load Balancing and Failover functions in WebSphere Application Server ND.
• Updated Latest Fix-pack for WAS in AIX and Solaris.
• Involved in configuration of WebSphere Application Server resources like JDBC Data Sources, JDBC Providers and Connection Pooling to connect to the DB2, Oracle.
• Involved in implementing JACL scripts for automating EAR files.
• Troubleshooting errors both Application & JVM logs and traces.
• Opened IBM Problem Management Records (PMR) to report WebSphere Application Server problems.
• Resolving IMR’s and attending CMR’s using Maximo.
• Monitored metrics and performance with Tivoli monitoring tool.
• Worked on Deployment Suite of scripts for the installations and configurations of WebSphere.
• Analyzing java cores and heap dumps with thread and heap analyzer.
• Deployed the application in production, staging for following change management practices.
• Used Oracle and DB2 for the configuration of JDBC resources.
• Enabling Global security at the Application Server level and monitoring Operating System level security for WebSphere Application Server.
• Used IBM Lotus notes and Sametime as communicator and interacted with client.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x/7.x. Tivoli, IBM DB2,Oracle 9i/10g, IBM Http Server 5.x/6.x, IBM AIX 5.3, Linux, Windows XP, Solaris 10, JACL,ITIM.

Confidential, St.Louis, MO

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x on AIX and Linux platform.
• Migrated IBM WebSphere Application Server from 5.x to 6.x.
• Configured IBM HTTP Web server, Site Minder to work with WAS and generated Plug-ins.
• Created, Configured and Administered Profiles, Clusters, Nodes and Node Groups for WebSphere Application Server.
• Integrating enterprise-wide J2EE applications and deploying them using IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0, Application Assembly Tool (AAT) and managing security policies for different applications.
• Involved in maintaining and deploying portlets, themes, and skins in IBM WebSphere Portal Server 6.x and Web Content Management.
• Installed, configured and maintained Wily Introscope Enterprise Manager 7.x/8.x.
• Integrating WebSphere application server with wily.
• Upgraded Wily Introscope from 7.x to 8.x versions.
• Expertise in writing custom PBD in Wily Introscope.
• Installed and configured Jboss 4.x.
• Involved in building Dashboards for production support and enabling Alerts on needed basis.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security using LTPA, LDAP for admin console and application components and Single Sign-On to other applications.
• Configured clustering through deployment manager for Load Balancing and Failover functions in WebSphere Application Server ND.
• Configured SSL for WebSphere Application Server for security reasons.
• Updated Latest Fix-pack 6.1.0.13 for AIX.
• Involved in the installation of WebSphere MQ 6.x.
• Involved in configuration of WebSphere Application Server resources like JDBC Data Sources, JDBC Providers and Connection Pooling to connect to the DB2, Oracle.
• Written extensive JACL & JYTHON scripts for automating EAR files.
• Troubleshooted errors both Application & JVM also analyzed heap/core plus error logs and traces.
• Created IBM Problem Management Records (PMR) to report WebSphere Application Server problems.
• Involved in setting up JVM tuning parameters for garbage collection.
• Assembled and deployed the application in production, staging for following change management practices.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x, IBM WebSphere Portal server 5.x/6.xWeblogic Server 9.x/10.x, Tivoli, Wily Introscope7.x/8.x, IBM DB2,Oracle IBM Http Server 5.x/6.x, IBM AIX 5.3, Linux, Windows XP, ANT, JACL, ITCAM, Unix shell scripts, Jython, IBM Rational Clear Case.

Confidential, Omaha, Nebraska

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and administered various versions of WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x on Windows and Linux platforms.
• Configured Node manager for administration of Managed servers for Weblogic Server.
• Deployed applications on multiple WebLogic Servers.
• Experienced in configuring Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, JMS, MDBs, Global Security and tuning in IBM WebSphere 5.x/6.x and BEA WebLogic8.x.
• Involved in developing complex scripts to automate batch jobs.
• Configured clustering through deployment manager for Load Balancing and Failover functions in WebSphere Application Server ND.
• Monitored Applications and WAS performance through Tivoli Performance Viewer and tuned the system - caching, queuing, JVM parameters, DB Connection Pooling.
• Configured WebSphere Application server security through Custom Registry and LDAP.
• Experience in monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications in Development, QA, Staging and Production Environments.
• Involved in writing scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup, everyday system tasks etc.
• Implemented standard backup procedures for both application DB and WAS administrations.
• Used SCM tools Clear Case for software versioning and deployments.
• Written some shell/Jacl scripts to automate the process like node federation for distributed platforms.
• Troubleshooted various issues like slow performance, memory leaks using Heap Analyzer, Thread Analyzer and wily.

Environment: IBM WebSphere application Server 5.x/6.x, BEA WebLogic8.x, IBM DB2, Unix, Linux, IBM Directory Server, IBM Http Server 6.0, TPV, TAM, RAD, ANT, HTML, CSS.

Confidential, Madison, WI

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and maintenance of WebSphere application server 4.0.x/ 5.1.1 on Windows.
• Installed IBM HTTP Server 2.0.47, Apache, Sun one, Microsoft IIS and configured the web server plug-in to work with the application server.
• Created and setup new WebSphere application servers in a clustered environment.
• Deployment new enterprise J2EE applications in the distributed WAS production and testing environment.
• Configured workload management with WAS 5.1 ND Version.
• Migrated WAS application from 4.x to 5.x.
• Applied fix packs, cumulative fixes and upgraded WAS V5.0 and V5.1.
• Developed logical security application architecture integrating WebSphere Application Server, iPlanet LDAP Directory Server, Netegrity Siteminder and implemented Single Sign-On security.
• Troubleshooting Web Sphere Application Server problems using Log Analyzer and tracing.
• Used shell scripts for automation purposes, starting & stopping application servers using wsadmin tool.
• Performed routine management of WebSphere environment like monitoring disk space, CPU utilization.
• Optimized the performance of Enterprise Applications using Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Application Server performance monitoring of resources like web container connections, JDBC connection pools, thread pools, system load like CPU utilization and Memory utilization, garbage collection and JVM heap size and tuning to required sizes using admin console.

Environment: WAS V4.0/V5.0/V5.1.1.X, AIX 5L V5.2,Windows 2000, Site minder, IBM Http server 2.0.47, SQL, Cloudscape, TPV, LDAP, Perl, Shell Scripting, XML, CVS, Windows XP.

Confidential, NY

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed IBM WebSphere Application Server V4.x/5.x, IBM HTTP Web Server on Windows and AIX.
• Deployed enterprise applications in production and testing environment.
• Involved in Performance Monitoring and Tuning of Applications using IBM Tivoli Performance Viewer (TPV).
• Implemented session persistence using session database, Websphere internal messaging (Peer-Peer and Client/Server topologies).
• Automated application deployment, startup, shutdown and enhancements using JACL.
• Installed EARs, JARs, and WARs and configured application specific JVM settings.
• Configured WebSphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, and
• Monitored for Application core dumps or forced thread dumps to check for system objects using Thread analyzer.
• Configured security using Siteminder and SSL.
• Enabled Global security at the Application Server level and monitored Operating System level security for WebSphere Application Server and also by creating user registries.
• Administered various Log files using log analyzer, Product logs, Installation logs, Administer server logs, Application server logs.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.0.X, 5.x,AIX, Windows 2000, IBM HTTP Server, Apache, Apache, ORACLE, DB2.