SUMMARY

• Over 9 years of experience in IBM Websphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ and Message Broker.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration, and Administration of IBM Websphere Application server 8.5/8.0/7.0/6.1/6.0/5. 1 on AIX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows Platform.
• Experienced in installing and Configuration WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.0/7.0 on Distributed Platforms (AIX, Solaris, UNIX, Linux, and Windows)
• Expertise in J2EE Application Deployments, monitoring, troubleshooting, migrations and performance tuning Web sphere Application servers.
• Extensive experience with MQSeries Clustering, MQClient/MQServer setup and Administration.
• Experience in Performance monitoring of J2EE Applications using HP Diagnostics, BMC Patrol, Performance Assurance & Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Analyze Performance results & assist in Tuning WebSphere Application Server & J2EE Applications for Optimum Performance.
• Analyzed & tuned Heap, GC, Thread Pools, DB Connection pools for improving the application performance.
• Good experience in monitoring and troubleshooting issues & hands - on experience working with logs, traces and dump files using tools such as Log Analyzer, Heap Analyzer, and Core Analyzer & IBM Support Assistant.
• Experience in Performance estimations & Capacity planning/projections to meet the growing demands of the enterprise applications.
• Expertise in problem determination & troubleshooting of J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server.
• Extensive experience in Planning, Installing, Configuring, Administering, Tuning, and Troubleshooting in Multi cell HA environment and Integrating IBM WebSphere Application Server, Websphere Portal, Websphere MQSeries.
• Experience in WebSphere MQ and involved in configuring MDB listeners, JMS resources, and queues and integrating with the WebSphere Application Server
• Extensive experience in migrating large scale applications from WebSphere 5.x to 6.x, 6.0 to 6.1 and 6.1 to 7.0.
• Deployed portal artifacts (Web Applications, Portlets, Pages) using XML Access and Portal admin console.
• Experience in installing and creating Virtual Portals and assigning user populations (multiple realms).
• Experience on interoperability of Weblogic client and WebSphere server with IIOP/RMI.
• Experienced in applying Patches and Fixes for WebSphere Application Server & Portal Server.
• Experienced in configuration of cells, nodes, application servers, virtual hosts, session management & configuring IBM HTTP Server plug-ins
• Expert in WebSphere cluster Management including horizontal and vertical scaling and creation of nodes to avoid single point of failure and distribute user load for maximum availability.
• Configured Workload Management (WLM) for scalable applications through Server groups, Cloning, Clustering optimizing the performance of WAS Network Deployment architecture.
• Supported large scale three tier applications through the complete application life cycle getting involved in planning the application architecture as well as the middleware components architecture.
• Good Experience and knowledge of Capacity Management and Availability of infrastructure by assigning, reclaiming WebSphere Application Servers.
• Extensive, in-depth and hands on expertise in configuring environments by using WAS in testing, development and production.
• Expertise in implementing load balancing and fail-over using clustering (horizontal and vertical) methodologies
• Well experienced in using wsadmin for configuration management.
• Developed Unix Shell Scripts for automating the configurations of WebSphere Application Server.
• Expertise in creating and installing SSL certificates on Apache, IBM http server, and IBM WebSphere.
• Experience in security configuration for server-side application resources.
• Experienced in setting up, configuring and implementing various authorization and authentication models including LDAP and LTPA
• Install, Configure & Administer IBM HTTP Server.
• Experience working with IBM by creating Problem Management Record (PMR) & fixing bugs & issues.
• Experienced in solving tickets/issues for the users using ticketing system.
• Proven ability to define System requirements, recommending solutions, analyze capacity and makes appropriate modifications.
• On-call Production Support (24x7), monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications in Development, TEST, QA and Production Environments.
• Experienced in migration of applications from WebSphere application server v6.1 to v 8.5 Cloud.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

WebSphere Application Server: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5/8.0/7.0/6.1/6.0/5. x, Web Sphere MQ (IBM MQSeries), WebSphere Portal Server 6.0, IBM Http Server 6.0/6.1, Tomcat 4.0, JBOSS 4.x/5.x, Weblogic8.1/9.2

Hardware/OS: UNIX, IBM AIX, Linux, Windows 95/98, NT / 2000/2003.

Monitoring Tools: Heap Analyzer, Thread Analyzer, Wily Introscope, Tivoli Performance Viewer, HP Diagnostics, BMC Performance Assurance, BMC Patrol, Splunk, vSphere

Databases: Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server 2000, MS Access

Java Technologies: J2EE, JSP, JSF, Servlets, EJB, Beans, Swing, JDBC, JMS, JNDI, JAXP, JavaMail, RMI

Web Technologies: J2EE, JSP, JSF, Servlets, EJB, Beans, Swing, JDBC, JMS, JNDI, JAXP, JavaMail, RMI

Ms Office Tools: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment for WAS 6.1 on Linux.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Web Server 6.0 and 6.1 on Linux.
• Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server Standalone for WAS 8.5 Cloud on Linux.
• Supported applications those are migrating from WAS 6.1 to WAS 8.5 Cloud.
• Involved in infrastructure design phase of WebSphere in Cloud Technology.
• Involved in analyzing the application current infrastructure business requirements for WAS 6.1 and new features available in WAS 8.5 Cloud.
• Involved in the Initial state of environment setup meetings WAS 8.5 Cloud.
• Analyze new system with respect to system level performance and load balancing opportunities.
• Plan and implement collection tools to gather performance measurements on distributed cache appliances and application servers.
• Participated in Capacity Planning and High level Capacity Design for new implementation of Websphere 8.5 and cloud portal
• Provide decision support information to projects with respect to migration of application to new version.
• Solving complex business requirements which includes application build, configuration, deployment and available to end users.
• Worked on trouble shooting the class loader issue that caused during launch of applications.
• Performed Monitoring WebSphere & Application performance using HP Diagnostics & fine-tuned Heap, GC, thread pool & DB Connection pool settings to improve performance of the application.
• Involved in investigating the problem, troubleshooting and resolving application and configuration issues.
• Trouble shooting errors both Application & JVM also analyzed heap/core plus error logs - configured JVM for optimum performance.
• Performed Application and JVM performance monitoring using HP Diagnostics
• Analyzed Heap dumps & Thread dumps to resolve Out of Memory issues & Memory Leak issues in Production.
• Performed day to day Monitoring and troubleshooting of Linux Virtual Machines and resolve the troubleshooting issues.
• Monitored and responsible for troubleshooting the WebSphere Application Server with JVM logs, Process Logs, Service logs.
• Closely working with Implementation Coordinators and Release Coordinators for installing cumulative fixpacks for WAS6.1 and WAS 8.5 Cloud.
• Participated in PIR (Post Implementation Review) meetings after every implementation.
• Worked with Release Coordinators on the documenting the implementation issues during implementation.
• Troubleshot application issues and documented the problem resolutions for future reference. Created PMRs and worked with IBM personnel for the unusual issues that were found in the environment.
• Attended change management meetings for approval for the applications that were supposed to go live. Provided the Minutes of Meeting, on change management to the team for review.
• Attended bridge calls for production issues and non-production issues. Performed root cause analysis for the issues encountered. Involved application, database, or networking teams to resolve the issues.
• Documented best practices, Troubleshooting Tips and maintained them on sharepoint.
• Provided 24/7 support for systems and resolved most critical tickets using HP Service Manager.
• Provided 24/7 Support for the following environments Infrastructure, Dev, Performance, Implementation and Production (ISC E/CE/W).

Environment: IBM Web Sphere Application Server 6.1/8.0/8.5, IBM HTTP Servers, HP Diagnostics, BMC Patrol, VMWare vSphere, Splunk, CMP, Maven, Jenkins, BEST, AIX, Linux.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Senior WebSphere System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Effectively interacted with the users on a daily basis, decreasing downtime and increasing user productivity and documented all procedures and any other important issues
• Managed documentation of application configurations, business impact, deployment standards and procedures, and installation standards.
• Installation, configuration, deployment, scripting, troubleshooting of WebSphere Application Server 6.1 on Linux and Windows Environments.
• Responsible for development of business process and work flow for development and testing of Web Sphere components and ensure transition to operations groups for production delivery and post-production support.
• Coordinated the monthly release processes by reviewing and editing deployment documents, creating zip/tar packages and setting up staging environment for production implementation.
• Worked closely with various teams like Project management, development, testing and production team to align project deliverables, dates and report issues/concerns.
• Worked on various JDBC providers like DB2,Oracle,Sybase and MS SQL Server
• Extensive knowledge of configuration of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and SIB in WebSphere 6.1 Daily operation and management of the ESB, support and participate in the design, analysis, development, maintenance and enhancement of existing integrations and applications.
• Experienced in automating the portal deployment process using XML Access for web applications of the WebSphere Portal.
• Experience in migrating all the J2EE Applications, which includes setting up new Research, DEV, TEST, Production environment.
• Installed Fixpacks, eFixes, and cumulative fixes to the existing infrastructure and new environment
• Troubleshooting on issues such as out of memory, memory leaks, hung sessions and session replication, federation of nodes and synchronization of nodes with NDM
• Developed scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system clean-up, rotating logs, creating system alerts and other everyday system tasks.
• Responsible for SiteMinder Application Support, this includes Web Agent Support like how the agents are plugged into the web server, Policy Server like how the policy server will talk to LDAP user store schemas that the policy server uses for authentication, authorization etc., LDAP user store like configuring the user store, modifying the user profiles etc.
• Responsible for Managing, Monitoring and Creating Change Management Records (CMR), Critical System Support, to Install Web Applications. Clearing the problem and ticket queues, solving problems and reassigning to concerned groups by end of the day if required.
• Responsible for conduction bridge calls for situations like escalating issues, high priority issues, tasks involving many teams, and project integration.
• Experience in migrating applications from JBoss 4.0 to WebSphere Application Server v6.1.
• Responsible for automation of installation, deployments using JYTHON/JACL scripts on WebSphere Application Server.
• Assisting team members in trouble shooting of Web Sphere environment related issues and pro-viding presentation on the Support procedures and knowledge sharing sessions on CMR process.
• Supported MQ teams when they conduct stress testing to calculate message throughput and performance tuning on WMQ & WMQSI application components to meet up the SLA requirements.
• Documented the daily activity of the WebSphere Application Server 6.1 in the middleware environment.
• Assist teams 24x7 on call supports.

Environment: WebSphere 6.1, IBM HTTP Server, Linux, Windows, JACL, Jython, JBoss, MQ, Service Manager, Oracle, DB2.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

WebSphere System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Administered, configured, tuned, clustered and troubleshot WebSphere in a clustered environment consisting of Solaris and AIX platforms.
• Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere.
• Migrated applications from WAS5.1 to WAS 6.1.
• Configure IBM HTTP Webserver to work with Websphere, deployed Servlet and JSP, EJB.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling and JAAS security.
• Configured JMS support by creating MQ Connection Factories and Destinations and coordinate with MQSeries team.
• Involved in installation and configuration/implementation of WebSphere Portal on WebSphere Application Server in all stages including database transfer from Cloudscape to DB2.Did regular updates to portlets,WAR Modules, pages, URLs,schema and skins.
• Implemented creation of Server groups and clusters in Websphere Application server.
• Created Virtual Hosts, Shared Libraries, JNDI Configurations, Environment Variables, and Configured Session Management
• Supported the whole environment configuration and also applications deployed.
• Worked on establishing testing environments for various projects and set up the testing processes. Coordinated with various team while testing.
• Used WebSphere Admin Console and wsadmin/JACL scripting to install enterprise EAR, WAR files or for hot deployment.
• Upgraded Applications with various patch files (JSPs, Class files, changing various properties and property files and other configurations)
• Troubleshot various problems at QA and Production stages.
• Expert’s knowledge of J2EE Application development, able to figure out the application problems at deployment and communicate effectively with the development team.
• Monitoring WAS performance through Wily Intorscope and tuning the system - caching, queuing, JVM parameters, DB Connection Pooling.
• Establishment of Application-specific parameters and definitions (having knowledge of Java Servlets, JSPs and EJB development and deployment concepts and database skills).
• Performed Application-data backup and recovery by Local backup / restoration of the WebSphere Environment - configurations and applications
• On-call Production Support (24x7), monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications in Development and QA and Production Environments.

Environment: WebSphere 5.x/6.x, WebSphere Process Server 6.1, Weblogic 8.2/9/1, IHS 1.3, 2.0, 6.x, AIX, Oracle 9i, 10g, DB2 7,8.1, JACL, Jython, TPV, Wily 7.0,7.1P8, IBM Directory Server, MQ 5.3,6.0 and IBM DB2 7,8.1.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

WebSphere System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, deployment, scripting, troubleshooting of WebSphere Application Server 6.1 on Linux and Windows Environments.
• Experience in deploying and configuring the J2EE and Web Applications on multiple Servers using Jython/Jacl and shell scripts in QA, Development and Production environments.
• Responsible for development of business process and work flow for development and testing of Web Sphere components and ensure transition to Operations groups for production delivery and post-production support.
• Coordinated the monthly release processes by reviewing and editing deployment documents, creating zip/tar packages and setting up staging environment for production implementation.
• Responsible for enabling the security for enterprise applications using External Security Manager (ESM) SiteMinder.
• Involved in new application installs, upgrades, applying patches, application server installs, resolving outages adherent to the corporate procedures, policies and escalation levels set forth for the e-Business team.
• Experienced in automating the portal deployment process using XMLAccess for web applications of the WebSphere Portal.
• Experience in migrating all the J2EE Applications, which includes setting up new Research, DEV, TEST, QA environment.
• Responsible for SiteMinder Application Support, this includes Web Agent Support like how the agents are plugged into the web server, Policy Server like how the policy server will talk to LDAP user store schemas that the policy server uses for authentication, authorization etc., LDAP user store like configuring the user store, modifying the user profiles etc.
• Responsible for Managing, Monitoring and Creating Change Management Records (CMR), Critical System Support, to Install Web Applications. Clearing the problem and ticket queues, solving problems and reassigning to concerned groups by end of the day if required.
• Responsible for conduction bridge calls for situations like escalating issues, high priority issues, tasks involving many teams, and project integration.
• Experience in migrating applications from JBoss 4.0 to WebSphere Application Server v6.1.
• Responsible for automation of installation, deployments using JYTHON/JACL scripts on WebSphere Application Server.
• Assisting team members in trouble shooting of Web Sphere environment related issues and pro-viding presentation on the Support procedures and knowledge sharing sessions on CMR process.
• Supported MQ teams when they conduct stress testing to calculate message throughput and performance tuning on WMQ & WMQSI application components to meet up the SLA requirements.
• Documented the daily activity of the WebSphere Application Server 6.1/6.0 in the middleware environment.
• Assist teams 24x7 on call supports.

Environment: WebSphere 6.1, IBM HTTP Server, Linux, Windows, JACL, Jython, MQ, Service Manager, Oracle, DB2.

Confidential, Portsmouth, NH

WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for configuring infrastructure solutions for J2EE applications around IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.1, IBM HTTP Server on Linux and Windows platforms using silent and console methods.
• Upgraded and configured Clustering for WebSphere Application Server 5.1.
• Responsible for providing Security for applications in the environments using External Security Manager like SiteMinder.
• Responsible for configuring JDBC providers and data sources to support backend applications on DB2.
• Responsible for troubleshooting the issues with the help of logs like Process logs, JVM logs.
• Took active participation in deploying new applications on WebSphere Application Server5.1.
• Good experienced in Production Release process.
• Configured and set up Secure Socket Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client authentication.
• Worked in various Software Development Life Cycle with rational unified process (rup)/AJILE.
• Responsible for configuring Data Replication Services for session management on WebSphere Application Server.
• Responsible for creating Realms from different kinds of repositories using Virtual Member Manager (VMM).
• Monitored the performance of WebSphere Application Server using Wily Introscope.
• Analyzed the heap/thread dumps with Heap/Thread Dump Analyzer (Alpha Work) for resolving memory issues of Application Server.
• Configured the tuning parameters like JVM heap size, Connection Pool Settings, Web Container threads, log sizes, caching for optimized Performance of WebSphere Application Server.
• Experienced in collecting IBM must gather documents manually and also using ISA WORK BENCH/ISALITE.
• Responsible for documentation of operational environments support procedures.

Environment: WebSphere 5.1, IBM HTTP Server, Linux, Windows, JACL, Jython, SiteMind, Wily Introscope.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured Installing and Configuring WebSphere Application Server 5.1.1.13, WebSphere Portal Servers5.1, WebSphere MQ 5.3, and IBM Http Server on multiple-tier architecture on Linux, Windows 2000 advanced Server and Window 2003 Server environments.
• Responsible for J2EE Application Deployments, Plug-in Configuration, Data Source Creation, Virtual Host Creation, Session management, clusters, Deployment Manager Configuration, Network Deployment Configuration in WebSphere5.1.1.3 on Linux and Windows 2003 Server environments.
• Responsible for configuring shared environment (clustering) for the WebSphere Application Server.
• Responsible for resolving heap and thread dump issues using Heap dump Analyzer and thread dump analyzer for the WebSphere Application Server v5.1 environments.
• Configured the deployment including portlet applications, active portlets and managing users and groups for WebSphere Portal 5.1.
• Responsible for monitoring the health of the WebSphere Application server v5.1.
• Used Mercury Load Runner for load testing the WebSphere Application Server v5.1.
• Monitored the Web Server/App Server/Portal error reports and log files and responsible for resolving various distributed application issues in order to maintain efficient operations.
• Responsible for troubleshooting the issues using first failure data capture (ffdc) by feeding data to analysis engine for solutions.
• Responsible for enabling the security with Tivoli Access Manager for the WAS environment.
• Developed Jacl and Jython scripts to automate the WebSphere environment.
• Interfaced WebSphere MQ with WebSphere Application Serverv5.1.
• Documented day to day activity of the application server and supported the team with 24/7 on call support.

Environment: WebSphere 5.1, IBM HTTP Servers 1.3, 2.0, 6.x, Linux, Windows, JACL, Jython, TPV, IBM Directory Server, MQ .