SUMMARY

• Websphere Administrator with 7 years of focused expertise in Administering, Installing, Configuring, Performance and Tuning IBM Websphere MQ and IBM WebSphere Application Server
• An effective team player with good communication, interpersonal skills. Well - organized, inquisitive problem solver who enjoys challenges.
• Focused Expertise in Installing, Configuring, Performance Tuning and Administration of IBM WebSphere Application ND 6.1.x/7.0.x, MQ 5.3.x/6.0.x/7.0.x, IBM HTTP Server 6.1.x/7.0.x on different platforms like AIX, Solaris, Linux and Windows 2003/2008 Servers.
• Extensive Experience in creating MQ Objects like Queues, Listeners, Process Definitions and Channels using Command line and MQ Explorer.
• Extensive hands on setting up MQ Triggering.
• Experience in Creating Queue Managers Cluster in MQ and creating Clusters and managing cells using Network Deployment Manager.
• Hands on experience in creating, configuring and administrating profiles, clusters, nodes, node agents and node groups forWebSphereApplication Server
• Installed and maintained WebSphere Application Servers in Network Deployment Topology and Integrated WebSphere MQ with the application server for message queuing.
• Experience in Generating and Installing SSL certificates on WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Servers.
• Hands on experience in Migrating the existing configuration and applications from WAS 5.x and 6.x/6.1.x on Sun Solaris, AIX operating system environments.
• Successful implementation of Workload Management (WLM) using clustering techniques including horizontal and vertical clustering for fail over processes, backup and recovery processes on Websphere application server.
• Experienced creating Users, Groups, ACL’s and POP’s on Tivoli Access Manager.
• Experienced with using tools such as Tivoli Performance Viewer, Log Analyzer and Thread Analyzer for performance monitoring and tuning.
• Experience using Wily introscope for application performance monitoring.
• Expertise setting JVM Heap sizes, connection pooling, thread pools on Web Sphere Application Server.
• Experience in deploying applications using Web Admin Console and Command Line.
• Developer JACL scripts to automate the Day to Day deployment activities.
• Involved in writing Shell Scripts for automating Monitoring Process.
• Extensive Experience in upgrading WMQ and WebSphere Applications including application migrations.
• Very good at mentoring new middleware support resources.
• Involved in the documentation of deployment and configuration procedures.
• Provided 24x7 supports for Production and Development Environments.
• Ability to rapidly learn new concepts together with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to function in Team as well as independently on multiple tasks or projects as a technical resource and contribute to successful implementations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Middleware: IBM MQ Series7.0/6.0/5.3, WebSphere Application Server 7.x/6.x/5.x

Operating Systems: UNIX, IBM AIX 5.3, HP-UX 8.0, Z/OS, Red Hat LinuxWindows 95/98/NT/2K/2003/2008, z/VM, z/Linux

Monitoring Tools: Tivoli Performance Viewer, Thread Analyzer, Log Analyzer, Wily Introscope, Tivoli Federated Identity Manager, Tivoli Access Manager.

Tools: Visio, TOAD, Data loader, SQL plus

Java/J2EE Tech: XML, XSL, Applets, AWT, J2EE 1.2/1.3, JDBC, Servlets, JSP, RMI, EJB, AJAX, JNDI, JMS, SOAP

Scripting: Shell Script, BPEL, JACL Script and WSADMIN

Web Servers: iPlanet, IBM HTTP, IIS

Web Tech: HTML, JavaScript, JSP, XML, XSL and DTD

Network Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SOAP, SSL, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, DNS, Telnet and DHCP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Irving, Texas

Middleware Admin Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured WebSphere Application server ND 7.0.x/8.0.x & MQ 7.0.x/8.0.x.
• Responsible for setting up connectivity between WAS and IBM MQ Server
• 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.
• Set up point to Point communication between Middleware MQ to Mainframe MQ Queue Managers.
• Installed WebSphere Application Server binaries, nodes, federation of nodes, Creating Profiles, Application Server, Clusters.
• Identified for the need of Queue managers, Queues, Channels, and other MQ Objects, defined, administered and maintained the same.
• Worked as MQ server architect and build several environments on various platforms such as UNIX, Linux, & Windows for different projects.
• Identified and fixed various production issues related to IBM MQ server on Linux, UNIX and Windows system.
• Created Process Definitions and set up Triggering for multiple applications.
• Enabled SSL security between Websphere Application server and IBM HTTP Server. Monitor the Expiration on Certificates and update them before they expire.
• Tuned existing MQ Servers in the environment to handle large volume of messages and process large amount of data.
• Created Firewall Rules and Load Balancing Rules and submitted those requests to Network group.
• Working on high priority, critical tickets in pre-production environments to determine investigate diagnose and find out the root cause of the issues.
• Strictly followed the change control procedures for production environment changes. Handling the On call Pager rotation for Production issues.
• Trouble shooting errors both Application & JVM also analyzed heap/core plus error logs - configured tuned JVM for optimum performance.
• Worked on various Websphere & MQ Migrations.
• Experience using Wily introscope, Tivoli Performance viewer for application performance monitoring.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications & written extensive JACL scripts for auto deployment.
• Developed extensive scripts using JACL/Python to automate various day to day activities such as taking up scheduled backups, auto deployment, monitoring scripts.
• Worked as an Interface between the users and the team involved in the application development for the better understanding of the business processes.
• Worked with various different middleware application teams and halped them setup communication between Middleware Applications & IBM MQ Server.
• Involved in regular reports, feedback and communication with the management.
• Provided 24/7 on call support on a rotational basis during the weekend and at night.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application server ND 7.0.x/8.0.x & MQ 7.0.x/8.0.x, IBM DB2, IBM Http Server 6.0.x/6.1.x,IBM AIX 5.3, Solaris 10, Linux, Windows 2003, Wily7.1/7.0,DB2UDB, MSSQL Server, Load Director, Remedy, Jacl, Jython Scripts.

Confidential - Houston, Texas

Middleware Admin Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured, administered and supported Websphere MQ 7.0.x and WebSphere Application Server on AIX, Solaris & windows.
• Provided infrastructure solutions for J2EE applications around IBM WebSphere Application Server Extended Deployment (XD 6.0 and XD6.1), Websphere Network Deployment on Windows and AIX platforms.
• Worked as MQ server admin and build several environments on various platforms such as UNIX, Linux & Windows for different projects.
• Identified and fixed various production issues related to IBM MQ server on Linux, UNIX and Windows system.
• Created Primary and secondary MQ Cluster repositories on Windows and Linux systems and made the existing QMGR in all the different environments as a part of cluster.
• Tuned existing MQ Servers in the environment to handle large volume of messages and process large amount of data.
• Created Queue Managers, define Objects, channels, SSL, Clustering, shared channels, shared objects.
• Developed the scripts for creating and maintaining Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Processes and other WMQ objects.
• Handled the MQ queue managers in clustering for round robin and failover functionality.
• Handled Dead Letter Queue messages.
• Responsible for identifying and creating the MQ objects required for the interfaces.
• Created Configuration manager, Queue Managers, define Objects, channels, SSL, Clustering, shared channels, shared objects.
• Implemented ESQL logic for database lookups, Metadata-Driven Processing, Message Validation/ Translation/Transformation, Exception Handling and Stored Procedures for batched code set lookups.
• Trouble shooting errors both Application & JVM also analyzed heap/core plus error logs - configured tuned JVM for optimum performance.
• Worked on various Websphere MQ Migrations.
• Generated http plug-in config and updated webserver plug-in after deploying applications in a clustered environment.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications & written extensive JACL scripts for auto deployment.
• Developed extensive scripts using JACL/Python to automate various day-to-day activities such as taking up scheduled backups, auto deployment, monitoring scripts.
• Responsible for migration from Websphere Application Server 6.1 to Websphere Application Server 7.0
• Responsible for finding out any issues dat arise on the web servers by analyzing access logs, error logs and plug-in logs located on the same.
• Responsible for managing patch levels, building out environments, configurations, assisting developers.
• Worked as an Interface between the users and the team involved in the application development for the better understanding of the business processes.
• Worked with various different middleware application teams and halped them setup communication between Middleware Applications & IBM MQ Server.
• Involved in regular reports, feedback and communication with the management.
• Provided 24/7 on-call supports on rotation basis for applications running in production on MQ Server through VPN connection.

Environment: IBM Websphere 8.0/7.0/6.1/6.0.1.5/6.0.2.13/5.1.1.13/5.0.2/4.0.7, IBM HTTP Server 6.0/7.0, Webserver, Websphere MQ 7.0.x Windows 2003 Server, Solaris 10/9, Wily7.1/7.0,DB2UDB, MSSQL Server, Remedy User, Load Director, ClearCase, Shell Scripts.

Confidential - Mooresville, NC

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured WebSphere Application Server and Websphere MQ.
• Involved in Installing WebSphere Portal Server 6.0.1.1/5.1.0.4 on AIX, Solaris and Windows operating systems
• Migrated existing applications in WebSphere Application Server 5.1 and 6.1 using WAS Pre Upgrade and WAS Post Upgrade tools.
• Configured Web Content management 6.0 using WPSconfig authoring task.
• Installed, Configured and Administered IBM WebSphere Process server 6.0/6.1.
• Configured IBM WebSphere Process Server with Open DS as an LDAP user registry.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server and Sun One Web server.
• Configured the Web Server interfaces, session management, nodes, data sources, virtual hosts and transports for WAS.
• Implemented Workload Management (WLM) using cloning and clustering techniques including horizontal and vertical cloning for failover and backup/recovery processes.
• Configured horizontal scalability of WebSphere through the Cloning of multiple JVMs mechanism with independent Java Virtual Machines (JVM), for each clone.
• Developed UNIX shell scripts and JACL scripts to automate the WebSphere deployment process and provided access to developers to deploy test and stage applications.
• Deployed J2EE applications, configured JDBC, JMS, and JNDI for integration with WebSphere and Web logic servers.
• Maintained security, tuning and clustering on Web Sphere Application Server.
• Automated access to all authorized enterprise-wide applications through a single login using Single Sign on (SSO).
• Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using LDAP authentication.
• Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Wily Introscope 7.0/6.x, Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Troubleshot Admin Server start-up issues, Java code defects after deployment, and class path issues by checking the JVM logs, plug-in logs and the Web Server logs.
• Assisted customers with setting proper Priority/Severity of problems, work problems to resolution, recorded/documented actions in databases as well as utilized tools and resources.
• Provided 24/7 on-call support on rotation basis for applications running in production on WebSphere Application servers through VPN /ROVA connection.

Environment: Websphere Application Server 6.0/6.1/7.0, WebSphere MQ 7.0/6.1, IBM HTTP Server 5.1/6.0, IBM AIX, Windows 2003/2008 Server, Wily introscope 6.0, Load Director.

Confidential - St. Louis, MO

Websphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in High-level design Documentation me.e. Gathering requirements from clients and preparing technical specifications according to client requirements for Establishing Advanced ESB over the MQSeries to integrate applications.
• Prepared the MQ software architecture document (SAD) documents based on the requirement.
• Installation and Configuration of WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Application Server on UNIX, Linux, AIX and Windows environments.
• Involved in Installing WebSphere Portal Server on AIX, Solaris and Windows operating systems
• Created Queue Managers, define Objects, channels, SSL, Clustering, shared channels, shared objects.
• Developed the scripts for creating and maintaining Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Processes and other WMQ objects.
• Trouble shooting errors both Application & JVM also analyzed heap/core plus error logs - configured tuned JVM for optimum performance.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server on multiple platforms for both horizontal and vertical clustering.
• Involved in setting up JVM tuning parameters after extensive R&D on trial & hit basis - specifically parameters to enable inter core-group communication (for effective WLM) such as (cluster preload, xgcthread) garbage collection.
• Handled the MQ queue managers in clustering for round robin and failover functionality.
• Handled Dead Letter Queue messages.
• Followed the IBM standard procedures in keeping the cluster objects secured.
• Worked with IBM Support on resolving critical problems by creating PMR’s
• Provided Naming Standards, Backup & Recovery, and Problem Determination Strategies for the project.
• Provided 24/7 on-call support on rotation basis for applications running in production on WebSphere Application servers through VPN connection.

Environment: IBM Websphere Application Server 6.0.x/7.0.x, IBM Websphere MQ 6.0.x/7.0.x, IBM DB2, IBM-AIX, IBM Http Server 6.0.x. IBM AIX, Solaris.

Confidential

MQ Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installation and Configuration of MQ 5.1/6.0 on UNIX, Linux, AIX and Windows environments.
• Created Queue Managers, define Objects, channels, SSL, Clustering, shared channels, shared objects.
• Handled the MQ queue managers in clustering for round robin and failover functionality.
• Handled Dead Letter Queue messages.
• Developed the scripts for creating and maintaining Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Processes and other WMQ objects.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications & written extensive JACL scripts for auto deployment.
• Followed the IBM standard procedures in keeping the cluster objects secured.
• Worked with IBM Support on resolving critical problems by creating PMR’s
• Provided Naming Standards, Backup & Recovery, and Problem Determination Strategies for the project.
• Worked with different application teams in resolving the issues related to MQ and partially worked with Message broker team.
• Provided Trouble shooting and Integration Maintenance Support on 24x7 basis for MQ Systems.

Environment: IBM Websphere MQ 5.1/6.0, IBM HTTP Server 5.1/6.0, IBM AIX, Windows 2003/2008 Server, Wily introscope, Load Director, Remedy, Jython Scripts.