SUMMARY

• 7+ years of IT experience as an IBM WebSphere Application Server Administrator.
• Experience in planning, installing, configuring, administering, tuning and troubleshooting IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x, 7.x, 8.x on various Operating systems like Windows and UNIX.
• Strong understanding of IBM WebSphere Application Server family and architecture basis.
• Adept Confidential installation, configuration of IBM HTTP server and Apache Tomcat WebServers.
• Configuring the Development and Test environments according to the request from the Development and QA teams through the Release Manager.
• Migration of the application server from the previous versions.
• Has a good knowledge in the migration of WAS from version 7.X to 8.X.
• Well versed with Troubleshooting using Application and jvm log file, log analyzer and by enabling trace. Working or Forwarding the issue to the application development tea m, if error related to code in the application log files. Working with Network and Database teams depending upon the issues related to.
• Deploying enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere that involves EAR(Enterprise archives) and WAR (Web Archives) using Deployment scripts and via Admin console.
• Experience in monitoring and maintaining multiple applications in Development, QA staging production and DR Environments.
• Knowledge on WebSphere MQ objects, channels and receivers.
• Experience in setting up Nodes, Data Sources and Virtual Hosts, Configuring Servlet Engines Session Managers and Environmental Variables.
• Experienced in setting up DMZ environments with good understanding of TCP/IP concepts, DDNS / DNS requisitions, VIPs, NATd IPs, Firewall requisitions.
• Experience in creating resources, modify properties, view runtime attributes, commit modifications and securing administrative server using Authentication Authorization Certificates, User Credentials and WebSphere Resources.
• Experienced in most of the WebSphere admin and Monitoring tools including wsadmin, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Quick Build, winscp, putty, BMC Remedy, HP Sitescope and Thread Dump Analyzers.
• Implementation of Work Load Management(WLM) concepts using clustering techniques including Horizontal clustering and Vertical Clustering for failover and High Availability. Created, configured, administered profiles and Clusters.
• Providing production support24X7. Opening the Problem Management Record(PMR) with the IBM if there were any unresolved bugs and resolving problem tickets.
• Responsible for taking Thread and Heap dumps and sharing them with the development team for further analysis and investigation. strong experience of implementing the security by self - signed/ third party signed certificates, using ikeyman tool.
• Troubleshooting issues like jvm Hung, 40X and 50X HTTP error code issues, High memory, CPU utilization and various other issues of Web Sphere Application Server 6.x/8.x.
• Good working experience in configuring WAS Resources-JDBC providers, Data Sources, JMS Providers, Connection Factories, Service Integration Bus, Shared Libraries and Resource Environmental Providers.
• Experience in upgrading WebSphere n different platforms by Fix packs (refresh packs) and cumulative fix packs using WebSphere update installer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.x,8.x.

Web Servers: IBM HTTP Server 7.x,8.x, Apache Server.

Languages: C,C++,HTML,XML

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows XP/2007/2008

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, DNS, LAN, WAN,, RMI, SOAP, SSL, HTTP, SSH, LDAP.

Databases: DB2 9.5, Oracle 8.x/9i/10g Enterprise Edition.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Middleware - Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Technology Expert with IBM WAS, WCS, MQ, MB and IHS Web server setup, configuration and capacity planning.
• Applied the changes that were suggested by the application support.
• Installing and configuring the WebSphere MQ and MB servers.
• Installed and configured the WebSphere application server 7.x
• Migrated the WebSphere application server from 6.x to 7.x
• Worked with the testing team in performance tuning.
• Deploying the applications in the MB servers.
• Involved in the migration of the MQ and MB servers to the higher versions.
• Done clustering for the queue managers to provide high available environment.
• Troubleshooting the issues in the MQ and MB
• Working with the development team to complete the change requests, troubleshooting the issues.
• Performance tuning and continuous monitoring of the queues to ensure no issues were found.
• Maintained WebSphere Application Server (WAS) on different UNIX and Windows platforms and have development, testing and production environments for the ongoing application development.
• Performance tuning w.r.t. JDBC Connection Pools.
• Creating and installing SSL certificates in Non-Prod and Prod environments i.e. self signed and VeriSign respectively.
• Creating and Maintenance of Deployment Manual and automation scripts.
• Handling of deployments to different environments.
• Deployed war’s, jar’s and ear’s using WebSphere Admin Console.
• Getting fix from responsible teams in case of build breaks by following build escalation process.
• Sending Build starting, status, completed emails to communicate to global teams
• Assigning defects to the respective developers.
• Checked the logs for the failed jobs and worked with the development/application support team to resolve the issues.
• Applying file Patch deployments to different environments on both Application and Web servers.
• Executing SQL scripts to different environments upon requests.
• Publishing the content form DAM using Adobe CQ.
• Deployed and configured the applications in the Adobe CQ as per the requirements.
• Worked with the development team to troubleshoot the issues in the Adobe CQ.
• Supporting the application & giving the solutions to meet client requirements.
• Timely investigating, diagnosing & correcting the Environment related problems (working according to priority agreed service levels).
• Applying Releases for various Application related change requests.
• Troubleshooting the Incidents, change requests.
• Has a good knowledge in the JACL/JYTHON scripting.
• Worked with the 3rd party vendors for the troubleshooting of the various issues.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MB, WebSphere MQ, ENDECA, Control-M, Linux, Oracle 11g, Adobe CQ, Mule servers, WXS, WebSphere Sterling Servers, WebSphere IHS Servers.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured administered and supported WebSphere Application ServerV8.0/7.0/6.x and IBM HTTP server 6.x/7.0/8.0 on Windows platform.
• Configured WebSphere Deployment Manager and Application Server profiles in clustered environment to utilize the advantages of failover and load balancing in multi-node environment.
• Implemented creation of Server groups and clusters in WebSphere Application server and cloning of servers and provided extensive support in deployment, change management and application level troubleshooting for the Dev, Test, Pre-Prod & Production environment.
• Experience in deploying EAR, WAR and JAR files onWebSphereApplication Server V6.x/7.0 and configuring various resources for applications.
• Extensively involved in migration of applications fromWebSphereApplication Server 6.x to 7.0.
• Experience in installing Web Servers like Apache V2.0.47, IBM HTTP Server V6.x/7.0 and installing corresponding plug-ins on them to communicate with the Application Server.
• Experience in applying Fix Packs, Refresh packs and Cumulative fixes to upgrade the existing WebSphereversions.
• Experience in installing configuring and creating IBM ESB golden and bronze topologies.
• Deployed the application and configured IBM ESB 7.5.
• Configured JDBC provider and data source to connect to the DB2 and Oracle databases for application data.
• Created SIB/JMS database for each node in WAS cluster to improve the application performance as well as Scalability and failover so that if the node goes offline another node takes over any pending JMS messages on the disabled node.
• Created and configured Replication Domain.
• Enabled SSL and was responsible for installing the certificates and configuring them in the IBM HTTP Server.
• Implemented SSL security between client, Webserver & application server and generated Self Signed and Signed Certificates (Generate CSR and Import Signed Cert to Keystores) through ikeyman and Open SSL.
• Worked on the different modules of ESB applications.
• Installed and configured Adobe live-cycle. Deployed, imported, updated LCA files.
• Installed and configured Corticon rules engine. Deployed and updated EDS files.
• Installed and configured CA ESP scheduling agent and manually executed the batches upon necessity.
• Installed and configured the monitoring tool New Relic.
• Used New Relic, Mercury tools to monitor application resources (Enterprise beans, servlets) and WAS runtime resources (JVM memory, application server thread pools, database connection poo1, CPU Starvations).
• Configured IBM HTTP Server to load balance between the clustered Application servers.
• Generated & Propagated plugin.cfg for web servers and troubleshooted plug-in regeneration problems.
• Configure httpd.conf files for SSL communications and also for performance Tuning.
• Performed routine management of WebSphere Environment like monitoring Disk Space, CPU Utilization and resolved dynamic cache problems.
• Experienced in creating and managing WebSphere Environmental variables forData Sources and JDBC Driverpaths connection pooling, JMS and other creatingshared librariesand references.
• Responsible in creation and monitoring the MQ Queues for ALIAS product.
• On-call production support (24X7) and troubleshooting problems related to Web Servers, WebSphere Application Server, Plug-ins, and Database.

Environment: IBM WebSphere 6.x/7.x, IBM HTTP Server V6.0/7.0, DB2, Apache HTTP Server 2.x, WebSphere MQ 6.0, Load Runner, Tivoli Performance Viewer, JAVA, J2EE, XML, JDBC, LDAP, ANT.

Confidential, Burlington, NJ

WAS Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Administration of IBM WAS 7.x and 6.x on Linux Environments.
• Installed, configured and propagated IBM HTTP server and its Plugins for managed and unmanaged nodes
• Deployed application EARs on IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment in Development, System Test and Performance Test on a daily basis and troubleshoot various configuration and application issues.
• Installed Refresh Packs, Fix Packs and Interim Fixes for WAS.
• Wrote Jython scripts for start/stop clusters, servers and for auto deployments
• Implemented workload management (WLM) for failover using a horizontal, vertical and a combination of horizontal and vertical clustering.
• Configured WebSphere resources such as JDBC Providers, Data Sources and Connection Pools.
• Collected Garbage Collection data for monitoring JVM heap sizes.
• Set up JVM logs by configuring the log file rotation based on log file size/time parameters.
• ConfiguredMQ Objectswithin theWebSphere Application Environment.
• Troubleshoot MQ Connectivity and Application issues.
• 24x7 support for Production environments

Environment: IBM WebSphere 7.x, 6.x, 5.x WebSphere MQ V6.0, IHS 6.x, RHEL 6.x, Oracle 9i/10g, DB2, Active Directory, Wily Introscope.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation of WebSphere Application Server and IBMHTTP Server on Linux and Windows Operating Systems.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server to IBMHTTP Server.
• Deployed EAR & WAR files on WebSphere Application Server and Network Deployment Manger.
• Created Data Source in Conjunction with IBM DB2 to configure with WebSphere Application Server.
• Created Clusters in Network Deployment Manager.
• Involved in creating Clustering for workload balancing and fail over by creating Horizontal and Vertical Clustering.
• Applied Fix packs and Cumulative fixes to WebSphere Application server 7.0.x.
• Involved in migration of WebSphere Application Server from 6.0 to 7.0.
• Created different types of Profiles like Standalone, Custom and Deployment Manager Profiles.
• Federated different type of Profiles to the Deployment Manager Profile.
• Involved in enabling WebSphere global security using Local OS.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 6.0, WebSphere MB 6.0, WebSphere MQ 6.0, Linux 5, Oracle 8i, WebSphere IHS Servers.