PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Highly motivated, results-oriented, and innovative seasoned IT/Enterprise Middleware professional with more than 25 years of technical and leadership experience including over 10 years in messaging based middleware in financial, banking, credit card, and retail industries in building system, infrastructure, architecture, design, develop and Large Scale system implementations both distribute and mainframe . Also have high availability, load balancing, and disaster recovery planning and implementation experience both as a technical implementation as well as mobilizing a team to achieve these.
• Extensive experience working closely with functional groups, Application Developers, Quality Assurance and Network/System Engineering providing planning, defining, documenting, configuring, testing, deploying, supporting and troubleshooting middleware issues.
• Furthermore, I am well versed in XML/ESB, SOA, IBM Datapower /SOA appliance, and File Transfer Technologies FTP/SFTP, MQFTE and PM4Data .
• Finally, I have an excellent teamwork along with leadership, mentoring team members, analytical, creative, strategic and lateral thinking, problem solving, inter-personal, and presentation and communication skills applicable in every job situation.

Key Technical Skills

• Operating System AIX, UNIX, Linux Redhat, Suse, Centos Windows 2k/2k3/8k, AS/400, Solaris 9/10/11, and ZOS TSON, ISPF , CentOS, JeOS, Oracle Linux, Suse11/12
• Distributed Comp CORBA, EJB and RMI, RPC, AMQ
• Programming Lang COBOL, C, C , Java, J2EE, SQL, PL/SQL, and ESQL:
• Middleware MQ/MB, WAS, Tomcat, JBOSS, Weblogic, IHS, Apache, and IIS, CICS , Tibco BW, EMS RV, and Hawk
• Scripting Java Script, Perl, Jython, shell script, DOS batch,sed, and awk, and
• Windows Polwershell
• Protocols TCP/IP, FTP, SMTP, SOAP, POP and HTTP/HTTPS
• File Transfer FTP/SFTP, MQFTE, PM4DATA
• Markup Language XML/HTML/DHTML
• DBMS/DWH Oracle, DB2, SQL server, MS Access, Toad, mongodb, Informatica, and DataStage
• Cloud/Virtualization Vmware, Oracle Virtualbox
• Infra/security ITIL 2011, SSL, SAMP, XML threat protection, LDAP, AAA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Confidential

• Major Responsibilities:
• Performs
• i strategic analysis and design of MQ infrastructure and makes recommendations on improvements and/or new systems required to meet business needs and future capacity
• ii software installations and upgrades to WebSphere MQ servers and clients as well as maintains existing systems in accordance with established policies, procedures and service level agreements.
• iii Tuning in various integration environment Dev, test, QA, Prod,DR for avoiding crashing and best performance of the applications, and
• iv various engineering tasks related to the infrastructure, security and complements setup and management of the applications
• Develop, implementation and maintain, standards / governance, best practice, integration / deployment, monitoring, Troubleshoot complex problems, providing root cause analysis and remediation to mitigate future risk with taking appropriate actions escalating the issue in higher management if necessary in order to resolve the operational /connectivity issues
• Evaluates and applies software upgrades and support packs as required to solve production problems and/or ensure compliance and system integrity.
• Ensure systems remain at operational during infrastructure improvements hardware/software upgrades, server migrations/consolidations, application deployment, .
• Works w/application development teams providing support of middleware components like MQI/JMS incl. application development cycles to implement, configure debug app. problems as they relate to messaging.
• Document and discuss lessons learned from previous implementations and update implementation plans to address documented issues.
• Participates in regular on call rotation, providing 24 7 support meeting business SLA's and provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers supporting them to achieve excellence in their fields of interest and responsibility.

Confidential

• Design, develop and Implement infrastructure solutions for middleware applications by engineering and configuring the IBM Websphere MQ, and Message Broker
• Design, implement and maintain integration systems infrastructure including fault tolerance and high availability solutions. Design and develop Integration solutions based on IBM MQ and Message Broker technologies.
• Install and configure IBM Websphere MQ and Message Broker on UNIX and Windows based environments
• Carry out performance tuning for Websphere MQ and Message Broker for high throughput
• Participate in planning, estimating, and reviewing tasks for application designs and development solutions. Evaluate risks/benefits, and prepare implementation plan
• Work closely with the development teams to administer load testing and monitoring. Manage and maintain the environments by automating systems management and monitoring activities.
• Troubleshoot Integration and infrastructure issues. Integrate simple to moderately complex MQ, Message Broker, Java/JEE, WebServices applications into DEV, TEST, QA, UAT and Production environments.
• Carry out application deployment to include MQ Message Broker install, queue configuration, broker configuration, EAR and BAR file deployment, database connectivity, and troubleshooting.
• Participate weekly project meetings and provide input/task updates to project team.
• Identify and resolves technical/production issues moderate to complex in nature, utilizing industry standard tools carry root cause analysis and escalate problems to a higher level if required

Confidential

Job Roles:

• The Primary role of this position is to provide administrative, infrastructure, and operational/production support of middleware environment running mission critical enterprise applications.
• The role involves providing Administrative and production support services build/deploy enterprise applications, setting up performance tuning, and proactive monitoring, and incidence/ticket/alert handle

Major Responsibilities

• Managing the Websphere product across multiple environments including installation product, latest fixes and patches client setup, migration, configuration, tuning analyze and resolve problems or issue in the effort
• Provided full administrative support for both Development and Test for MQ 7/ MB V.7.0/ Was/ HIS and data power XI50/XI52 technologies included object setup, testing, problem determination, load balancing configuration, setting up monitoring, keep alive script, log management
• Configure MQ/MB/WAS/DP including analyzing and setting up security including setting up SSL, setup MQ clients and communicated with the servers by defining the client definition tables setup clustering for load balancing creating Execution Group, log management., properties files federating nods, creating managed server, setting up cluster, jms connection export /import deployable artifacts, and create deployment policy.
• Deployed Bar Files and involved in trouble shooting the Broker issues. Involved in stopping and starting of Message Flows and execution groups troubleshoot problems and errors in WebSphere Message Broker software and applications develop Error handling routines and keep alive flows,
• Interacting with application developer to resolve messaging issues and traces message from origin to destination on a regular basis performs capacity planning for MQ/MB and WAS in UNIX/vm environments Assist in providing pro-active monitoring for MQ/MB in UNIX environment.
• Setup naming standards for the Queue managers, Queues and Channels created installation, configuration, monitoring, and oncall handling documentation, in share Point/Wiki.
• Installation and configuration of Wily for messaging agents to monitor the MQ and Broker components in Dev, QA and Production environments converted script based monitoring to wily created some custom scripts to monitor the middleware infrastructure which were not provided out of box inn wily
• Scripting: develop script for automating various day to day administrative task, installation and configuration tasks, Build and deploy Bar files in Broker, deploy enterprise application in WebSphere application server dmgr, production systems monitoring, routing traffic, deployment, stop/start/restart components, and troubleshooting
• Preformed/ provided 24/7 production support for the MQ and the application issues provide L2 support as part of the on call rotation team to troubleshoot the issues with MQ/MB/ Worked with the IBM support in opening the PMR's and resolving them

System Engineer III middleware- Messaging/Datapower/ Application ServersMajor Responsibilities

• Managed enterprise wide WMQ/MB messaging infrastructure across distributed platforms with architectural designs, implementation, day to day Administration, performance tuning, developing standards / governance, policies and procedure, production support, deployment, monitoring, root cause analysis and mentoring junior engineers,
• Worked with Enterprise Architect and engineered messaging solutions, keeping it manageable, scalable and security conscience which supports and enhances Advance's business operations.
• Defined, develop, execute and maintained standard documentation compliance with Application Integration strategy, architecture, standards, best practices, methodology and processes governance of middleware, current systems configuration, policies and procedures for MQ administration and application Development /integration and production support
• Performed strategic analysis and design of MQ infrastructure and made recommendations on improvements and/or new systems required to meet business needs and future capacity. Also, recommends changes to Advance architecture as it applies to technology driven projects.
• Perform administrative tasks using industry standard technologies and methods to insure the system availability and operability, backup and recovery, and security design, develop and implemented MQ and WMB components as required by message based application
• Manage, enterprise monitoring and performance tuning in production, QA and development environments.
• Install WebSphere MQ servers and clients as well as maintains existing systems in accordance with established policies, procedures and service level agreements evaluate and applied software upgrades' fixes and patches, as required solving production problems and/or ensuring compliance and system integrity.
• Worked with application development teams providing support of middleware components like MQI/JMS throughout application development cycles by configuring required components, debug/troubleshoot complex problems, providing root cause analysis and remediation to mitigate future risk.
• Troubleshoot issues in dev, test, and production, incident handling, established proactive monitoring such issue in future develop script/java utility for helping taster resolution of production issue,
• Proactively assess new technologies capacity planning to meet growing business demands.

WMQ/WAS Systems Administrator

Confidential

Job Roles:

Design, configure, implement, monitor, and support Nordstrom's Middleware /messaging infrastructure comprising WAS, MQ, Tibco BW, EMS, RV, Hawk , Weblogic, tomcat/apache and IIS . Implement software upgrades and changes. Document architecture, system and artifacts design. Manage and lead projects related to these technologies. Keep abreast of, research and advice on new technological developments in these areas along with performs related duties and participates in special projects.

Major Responsibilities

• Participated in the planning and design of the MQ/WAS topology/server architecture to support business goals and in execution of projects and infrastructure deliverables
• Involved in designing application using MQ and work with developers to identify and resolved problems and issues in developing and testing applications in Dev, QA, UAT
• Migrated existing MQ/WAS infrastructure in Production, Test and Development from MQ 5.3 to MQ 6.x and WAS 5.x to 6.x/6.1/7.x
• Carried out day to day MQ/WAS a system administration task: created and deployed various MQ artifacts eg. Queue Manager, Queues, Listener and Channel, Namelist, and setting up Trigger.
• Provided implementation and operational support for integration solutions in high availability and clustered environment, setup monitoring system and performed performance tuning
• Install products/version upgrade, and fixpac/interim fix/ patches as required to overcome software bugs, configure WAS server instances, clusters, connection pools, plug-ins and JDBC drivers
• Developed scripts/utilities to automate repetitive tasks, eg deployment process, backup and restore procedures, resource configuration such as jdbc, jms and jvm configuration such as heapsize, custom properties, thread dump, user and group, LTPA and LDAP,
• Performed administration tasks required supporting application development, Test, integration and deployment, in Dev, QA and production environment including assembling and deploying the debugging application following change management practices.
• Defined and developed common processes and procedures to ensure server stability, performance tuning, load balance and high availability
• Involved in analyzing, designing and implementing integration solutions using WebSphere Application Server WAS , MQ,and Tibco
• Set up High Availability architectures with Work Load Management and Clustering, fault tolerance in MQ, WAS and Tibco
• Responsible for implementing operational best practices, trouble shooting, monitoring, capacity planning
• Defined thresholds for monitoring various metrics of the application server environment
• Provide 24x7 production support respond service tickets and provide timely resolution of problems and liaise with software vendors with regards to problem resolution opening and managing PMR by opening PMR/trouble ticket and provide the necessary documentation and follow up for permanent resolution of the issue