Professional Summary:

• Over 7 years of experience in Planning, Installing, Configuring, Administering, Tuning and Troubleshooting IBM Web Sphere Application Server 7.x/6.x/5.x.
• Expertise in installing, configuring and trouble-Shooting Application Server like IBM WebSphere7.0/6.1/6.0/5.0 and Web Servers like IBM HTTP Server 7.0/6.1/6.0, Iplanet/Sun One Web Server 6.1/6.0 on various platforms.
• Installing, configuring and administering of Web Sphere portal 6.1/6.0 on UNIX, Linux and windows Platforms.
• Migrated existing applications from Web Sphere Application servers 5.0 to 6.0 and from 5.1 to 6.1 on windows and UNIX platform.
• Expertise in installing and configuring WebSphere plug-ins, fix packs and fixes.
• Expertise deploying the J2EE applications on multiple IBM WebSphere application servers as business logic and maintaining Load balancing and High availability.
• Experience in installing, configuring SiteMinder policy server, Webagents, SunOne / Oracle Directory server LDAP and various Web Application servers on Multiple platforms like windows, Unix Solaris , Linux.
• Experience in installing and configuring software like IBM DB2 to WebSphere Application Servers.
• Excellent Technical Knowledge in Java, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, EJB, Web Services, XML and XSL with the Back end RDBMS Tools like SQL Server, Oracle.
• Experience in automation of the WebSphere administrative tasks such as recycling the application server, deploying customer applications, log rotation, monitor application state by using UNIX Shell, JACL and Jython scripts
• Hands on experience in designing, deployment, disaster recovery, fine tuning, replication and maintenance of Sun One Directory Servers on Red hat Linux and Windows platforms.
• Quickly adaptive to new environment and has the capability of completing complex tasks independently
• Supported applications 24X7 on-call on a rotational basis.

Skill Set:

• Servers suites: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0/6.1/6.0/5.x, WebSphere Portal 6.1/6.0/5.1/5.0, WebSphere MQ 6.0/5.3, Tomcat 6/5.5 JBoss 4.2/4.0. IBM HTTP Server 1.3.28/1.3.26.2/2.0.42/2.0.47/6.0/7.0, Apache Web Server 2.0/1.3/1.2.2, IIS 5/6, Edge Servers
• Platforms: IBM AIX 5.2/5.1/4.5, Solaris 10/9/8, LINUX REDHAT, SUSE , Windows XP, MS-DOS, IBM MVS, IBM-VM/ESA, Windows NT/2003/2007, Z/OS.
• Security: CA SiteMinder Web Agent TAI Agent , Tivoli Access Manager TAM , Symphony Web Access Manager WAM , Web Enforcement agent WEA
• Network Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP, SOAP.
• RDBMS: Oracle 11i/10i/9i, DB2/UDB 7.2/8.x/9.x, SQL Server 7.0/2000/2005, MS-Access 2000 And Sybase.
• Testing Tools: QTP, Win Runner, Test Director, and Load Runner.
• Version Control: Clear case, Remedy, CVS, PVCS.
• Scripting: ANT apache ws ant , Jython python , Jacl, UNIX Shell ksh, bash and Perl.
• Development Utilities: IBM WSAD 5.x/4.5, RAD 6.0/6.1, RSA 7.5, Eclipse, JBuider X, NetBeans, Portlets JSR 168 IBM API , Servlets, JSP, JSTL, EJB, JNDI, JDBC and Struts.
• LDAP: SunOne 5.x,10g,11g, IBM Tivoli Directory Server, Sun IPlanet Directory Server, Novell E-Directory Server.

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Role: Sr. WebSphere Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in Designing, Administering, Maintaining, Supporting, and implementing WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server and Web Servers.
• Performed multiple installations of IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0/6.1 base/ ND using profiles on UNIX platform using the silent and GUI mode.
• Performed multiple installations of IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1/6.0 on UNIX in a clustered environment and transferred default cloudscape database in portal to DB2.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 6.1 and generated IHS plugin-cfg.xml file, Mapped Web Apps to IHS Plug-in, Reviewed IHS Plug-in entries and propagated IHS Plug-in Manually.
• Installed fix packs to overcome Application server problems.
• Configured Portal 6.1 with Microsoft Active Directory as LDAP
• Enabled Security for Admin and application components
• Administering and maintaining IBM WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal Server 6.1 in various environments including INT, QA and PROD
• Migrated applications from development environments to staging, QA and Production environment.
• Created and managed high available environment by implementing clusters across multiple machines.
• Configured the WebSphere load balancing utilizing WebSphere Workload Management including horizontal scaling and vertical scaling.
• Managed web servers on managed and unmanaged node.
• Developed shell scripts to automate startup and stop processes and automated the WebSphere environment deploying the customer applications, logs rotation, monitoring application server status, recycling the application server with Jacl and Jython scripts.
• Created and configured JDBC providers and data sources to support backend database applications for Oracle and DB2/UDB.
• Created Custom installation packages CIP using Installation factory for WAS 6.1 environments.
• Configured and maintained Class loader parameters.
• Managed, Monitored and Created Change Management Records CMR , Critical System Support, to Install Web Applications. Cleared the problem and ticket queues, solved problems and reassigned to concerned groups by end of the day if required.
• Used iKeyman for adding the certificate authority CA roots to the key database as a signer certificate.
• Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers SSL for data encryption and client authentication.
• Mutual SSL is configured between Web client and Web server, web server and WebSphere, Java client and the WebSphere.
• Provided security for new enterprise applications like single-sign on, application access control using Tivoli Access Manager 6.1 and SPNEGO TAI.
• Documented operational environments support procedures, Configured and managed Application clusters, application load balancing, application Server tuning and problem isolation.
• Supported applications 24X7 on-call on a rotational basis.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0/6.1, IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1/6.0, IBM HTTP Server 6.1, Sun Solaris 2.6, LDAP directory server, CA Siteminder Policy Server 6.0.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed configuration, maintenance, installation by silent and GUI mode of IBM Web Sphere Application Server 6.1/6.0/5.1 Base and Network Deployment variants on Linux, Windows 2000 and Solaris platform.
• Provided Infrastructure solutions for J2EE applications around IBM WebSphere Application Server v6.1/6.0/5.1, IBM HTTP Server, and IBM WebSphere Portal v5.1 on AIX and Windows platforms.
• Worked closely with Architecture and Engineering teams in setting up Dev, Test, QA, staging and Production Environments and responsible for migration of applications across the environments.
• Responsible for creating profiles, federation, WAS instances, application server, clusters, cluster members, virtual hosts, data Sources, MQ connection factories, Plug-in configuration, and Service Integration Bus Configuration.
• In a multi cluster environment of WebSphere Portal V5.1, performed Clustering of WebSphere Portal using horizontal scaling.
• Data Replication Service DRS domains are created and configured.
• Configured and maintained session management facilities thru Database persistence and memory-to-memory session replication.
• Using Virtual Member Manager VMM federated repositories are described.
• Created multiple Virtual Portals and administered them in an enterprise environment to give different look and feel for the same underlying portal application.
• Web server setup, Plug in installation including complex secure sockets layer SSL configuration on IBM HTTP Server Apache based .
• Transferred WebSphere Portal configuration data from Cloudscape to DB2 and Oracle databases using command line interface and configuration wizard.
• Security is provided for new enterprise applications like creating policy, rules, realms, user provisioning, single sign-on, Application access control using SiteMinder.
• Used eTrust SiteMinder to perform authentication or to perform both authentication and authorization for the portal.
• Access control is provided among portal resources to users and groups.
• Provided root cause determination for enterprise-wide issues.
• Maintained Datawatch application running on Apache tomcat server.
• Documented operational environments support procedures, Configured and managed Application clusters, application load balancing, application Server tuning and problem isolation.

Environment: IBM Web Sphere Application Server 6.1/6.0/5.1, IBM WebSphere Portal v5.1, Red Hat Linux, Windows 2003 server, CA Netegrity SiteMinder Policy Server 5.5/6.0/6.x SP4/ SP5, , IBM HTTP server 6.0.23.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed WebSphere Application Server 6.0/5.1 using the silent, GUI and console modes.
• Installed and configured the IBM HTTP Server 6.1 and 6.0.
• Installed the Refresh Packs and cumulative fixes to WebSphere 6.x environment, for WebSphere, plug-ins and IHS.
• Implemented horizontal and vertical scaling of WebSphere Application Server WAS for workload managed cluster.
• Configured and maintained Deployment Manager and Application Server Profiles of the installation.
• Deploy and managed Enterprise Applications by using Websphere Portal 6.0.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and WSADMIN.
• Experience in deploying J2EE components on WAS 5.x/6.x using WAS Admin Console, WAS Admin tool using JACL and Jython scripting.
• Migrated applications from development environments to staging, QA and Production environment.
• Administered and maintained production, test and development environment
• Problem Determination through the log files JVM Logs and rectified the problems or interacting with IBM support to solve problems.
• Worked closely with Database Administrators to resolve database and JDBC related issues in WebSphere Application Server.
• Used Tivoli Performance Viewer to monitor WebSphere Applications and tuned the environment accordingly like changing the JVM Heap, Connection Pool sizes.
• Resolved Deployment issues and network issues for Development team and in Production environment.
• Troubleshooting Admin Server start-up issues, Java code defects after deployment, class path issues.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 6.0/5.1, IBM HTTP Server 6.1 and 6.0, Websphere Portal 6.0, Solaris, Apache HTTP Server 2.2.6, SunOne LDAP.

Confidential

Websphere Administrator

• Installed Deployment Manager and WebSphere Application Server Profiles using the silent, GUI and console modes.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 6.1 on UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Implemented horizontal and vertical scaling of WebSphere Application Server WAS for workload managed cluster.
• Migrated applications from development environments to staging, QA and Production environment.
• Administered and maintained production, test and development environment.
• Problem Determination through the log files JVM Logs and rectified the problems or interacting with IBM support to solve problems.
• Worked closely with Database Administrators to resolve database and JDBC related issues in WebSphere Application Server.
• Used Tivoli Performance Viewer to monitor WebSphere Applications and tuned the environment accordingly like changing the JVM Heap, Connection Pool sizes.
• Troubleshooting Admin Server start-up issues, Java code defects after deployment, class path issues.
• Involved in designing WebSphere Application Server load balancing and failover by using Workload Management WLM , horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Configured the Web Server interfaces, session management, replication domains, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere Application Servers.
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.
• Automated deploying of enterprise applications and maintain log files in WebSphere by writing shell scripts.
• Backup/Restore the application server configuration when making any critical changes in the production environment.
• Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers SSL for data encryption and client authentication.
• Provided support for System Integration and application flow in a production environment.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 5.0, IBM HTTP Server 6.1, Windows 2003, IIS 6.0, HTML and PERL Scripts, Sun One Directory Server 5.1/5.2.

Confidential

WebSphere Admin

• Installed WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.0 using the silent, GUI and console modes.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 2.0.13.x, 2.0.42.x and 2.0.47.x on UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Implemented horizontal and vertical scaling of WebSphere Application Server WAS for workload managed cluster.
• Configured and maintained Deployment Manager and Application Server Profiles of the installation.
• Deploy and managed Enterprise Applications by using WebSphere Portal5.0.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and WSADMIN.
• Migrated applications from development environments to staging, QA and Production environment.
• Administered and maintained production, test and development environment
• Automated various administrative tasks for WebSphere application server by developing WSADMIN scripts.
• Kept the track of the latest release of fixes and Installed fix packs up to date.
• Implemented the skills of Load balancing for edge components using F5's BigIP load sprayer.
• WebSphere MQ Administrator for Transactions, and several other application programs using WMQ.
• Problem Determination through the log files JVM Logs and rectified the problems or interacting with IBM support to solve problems.
• Configured HACMP cluster to keep applications running, restrain it on a backup server.
• Wrote Korn and Bourne Shell scripts for High Availability and for user management across the platform.
• Implemented creation of Server groups and clusters in WebSphere Application server.
• Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers SSL for data encryption and client authentication.
• Provided support for System Integration and application flow in a production environment.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.0, IBM HTTP Server 2.0.13.x, 2.0.42.x and 2.0.47.x, Websphere Portal 5.0, Sun Solaris, Windows 2003.