SUMMARY

• IBM Certified Specialist in WebSphere MQ Administration and Message Broker Administration With over 7 years of IT industry experience in IBM WebSphere suite of products (MQ, WMB)
• Exposure to major Production Environments running E - Business applications using WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker
• Expertise in Installing & Configuring IBM WebSphere MQ 7.x/6.x/5.3 and WebSphere Message Broker 8.0/7.0/6.1 on various environments such as Windows 2003/NT/XP, AIX, Sun Solaris, Linux, HP-UX and AS/400
• Expertise in troubleshooting the critical production issues and getting them resolved quickly.
• Expertise in setting up the databases and configuring the ODBC files for the broker connection.
• Setup MQHA using Multi-Instance queue managers and MQ clustering.
• Expertise in Administering & Performance Tuning in IBM WebSphere MQ and Broker
• Well versed in installing and using monitoring tools like Tivoli, Q Pasa and Nastel Autopilot, MQ Explorer, RfhUtil
• Experienced in setting up SSL across the MQ and Broker environments and maintaining the certificates.
• Installed MQ clients on application servers and created new MQ objects according to the requirements of the project teams.
• Worked on the MQ/Broker virtualization project.
• Hands on experience with upgrading MQ/WMB and applying new patches.
• Experience in writing Bash Shell Scripts, Crontab Scripting for automated recycle of WebSphere MQ and Broker servers and day to day tasks
• Designed and Implemented Web Services in WebSphere Message Broker to implement SOA.
• Experienced in collecting and documenting system, functional, design requirements and specifications.
• Providing 24/7 on-call support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technologies: J2EE, JDBC, Web Services.

Middleware: WMB 6.1,7.0, 8.0

Messaging: IBM WebSphere MQ V5.3 to V7.5

Database: DB2,Oracle,SQL Server

OS: AIX,HP-UX, Solaris, Linux,Unix,Windows2000/NT/2003/XP

Monitoring/Reporting: Nastel Auto-Pilot, Tivoli, Q Pasa

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MN

WebSphere MQ/Broker Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installing MQ, WBIMB on Linux and windows servers.
• Defining MQ objects on Linux, Windows using the scripts/Command line
• Setup the broker and designed the pub/sub model.
• Designed and developed message flows using the toolkit for data transformation.
• Coded the ESQL for the message flow nodes.
• Troubleshooting and debugging Message Flows using trace nodes and error handling nodes.
• Installing the latest patches for MQ and WBIMB from IBM.
• Deployed the Bar files in broker using Toolkit and the command lines.
• Installed MQ clients on application servers and created new MQ objects according to the requirements of the project teams.
• Writing ESQL for calling stored procedures from the Compute Nodes. Used Database Node for updating database tables.
• Performed system test with project team, trouble shoot and analyzed messaging errors.
• Upgraded Unix/Intel servers in WQM group.
• Installed monitoring tools like Nastel Autopilot for monitoring alerts and setting up alerts to application teams.
• Designed failover handling, HA (high Availability) using HP Service guard clustering.
• Setup MQHA using Multi-Instance queue managers and migrated the existing critical applications to new MQHA environment.
• Backed up the MQ servers using the MS03 support Pac.
• Upgraded MQ servers from 7.0 to 7.5.
• Worked on virtualization projects to move the Brokers from physical to virtual servers.
• Setup security using OAM and SSL and generate SSL certificates.
• Setup MQ clients and used client connection table for the access.
• Automated the day to day tasks in MQ/Broker by writing Shell scripts.
• Set up backup and recovery procedures.
• Provided 24/7 support for MQ/Broker.

Confidential, GA

WebSphere MQ Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installing MQ on Aix, Solaris and Linux servers
• Defining MQ objects on Solaris, Linux, and using the scripts
• Worked on the clusters and High availability to achieve the workload balancing of the messages.
• Setup SSL security among the MQ infrastructure
• Monitoring queues and channels
• Setup and exercising disaster recovery and high availability Queue managers
• Creating new execution group, setting up the HTTP port
• Installed and implemented In-House Certification Authority Server using EJBCA Boss to implement link level security using SSL for MQ Channels.
• Setup remote administration for all the queue managers
• Created Clusters of Queue Managers to achieve Load balancing and also to simplify the overall administration process
• Participating in problem identification and resolution on development, test and production environment
• Worked with the IBM support
• Installing the latest patches for MQ from IBM.
• Configured the Configuration Manager, Message Repository and MQSI Broker.
• Exported all the message flows from Development Box to Production Box.
• Worked on Tivoli middleware monitoring tool to detect problems before they occur.
• Configured Oracle as the database for MQSI Broker runtime environment.
• Provided 24x7 technical administration services to WMQ/Message Broker server environments in multiple platforms.

Confidential, CA

WebSphere MQ/Broker Admin

Responsibilities:

• Involved in migration MQ from V6.0 to V7.0 and MQSI to V7.0.
• Involved in the maintenance of the WebSphere MQ/Message Broker/ Workflow on different platforms and setting up the development, testing and production environments.
• Creating MQ objects (queues, queue managers, channels) .
• Recommended and implemented cross cluster communication solution with very minimal dependency on fail over MQ objects.
• Installed and implemented In-House Certification Server to implement link level security using SSL for MQ channels.
• Installing WebSphere MQ / Broker on Linux Servers and coordinating with the UNIX Team to get it installed on Solaris.
• Writing ESQL for calling stored procedures from Compute Nodes.
• Designing the Message Sets, Message Flows to encapsulate the business logic using IBM Nodes and ESQL. Business Logic includes Data Transformation.
• Used Database Node from Message flows to perform lookup and make the code scalable.
• Maintain/Support existing MQ Environment (MQ /WMB).
• Developed test scenarios and measurement techniques for performance monitoring.
• Troubleshooting and debugging MQSI messages flows using trace nodes and error handling nodes.
• Worked with various IBM primitive nodes and ESQL for message routing and transformations
• Designed, developed Message Sets, Message Flows and deployed to broker on WMB environment.
• Used Destination List to send transformed messages from one Input Queue to multiple output Queues.
• Writing effective rules for data interchange (say XML to an MRM Template, COBOL copybook to DB2 Schema)
• Worked extensively on Q Pasa middleware monitoring tool to detect problems before they occur. Increase responsiveness and deliver optimized message flow performance by providing real time visibility.

Confidential, CA

WebSphere MQ/Broker Admin

Responsibilities:

• Defining and maintaining Queue Managers and MQ Objects on various platforms
• Installing and configuring MQ, WMB/MQSI, on various platforms. Provide support for applications utilizing MQ Series and MQSI products for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI).
• Defined and deployed message flows using Toolkit.
• Converting business rules into pure WMQI flows using DB nodes and computational nodes.
• Writing message parsers to work with existing message processing nodes.
• Installation, Configuring and administering interfaces for WebSphere MQ
• Identifying and implementing security exits.
• Making recommendations for the infrastructure design and implementation considering the IBM's limitations on support.
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces.
• Administering in multiple operating systems which included clearing queues, modifying object attributes, restarting channel and supporting application development by resolving programming problems with MQI (WebSphere MQ Application Programming Interface).
• Troubleshooting and Managing MQ queues, channels, listeners and triggering.
• Preparing comprehensive test cases for validating the migration.
• Wrote scripts to automate administration tasks using shell and Perl scripts.
• Implemented backup and recovery procedures for production systems.
• Actively involved in support of WebSphere MQ & WBI Message Broker infrastructure in Production/QA/Test regions, shared support responsibilities with other members of the team.
• Wrote various administration procedures for MQ Support team to use.
• Worked closely with DB2, AIX, Sybase, Windows support teams during WebSphere MQ and WBI Message Broker builds.
• Worked closely with application developers on various aspects of MQ and Message Brokers.