SUMMARY

• Have 8 years of experience in administration of WebSphere Application Server,WebSphere Portal,IBM MQ, Unix Administration, Backup and Recovery, Security Management and pre, post Installation troubleshooting experience along with ongoing challenges and continuous learning of new systems and software.
• Have IT experience in providing Configuration, Administration, Disaster Recovery, Implementation, Integration and Backup related responsibilities involving multiple architectures highlighting WebSolutions with emphasis on customer satisfaction.
• Expert in providing technical support and administration of WebSphere Application servers ( 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0/8.5 ), WebSphere MQ (6.0/7.5), WebSphere Portal Server(6.x,7.x),IBM HTTP Server, ESB, IIS, iPlanet, Apache, on different Windows and UNIX platforms (Sun - Solaris AIX and Linux) and setting up the development, testing and staging environments.
• Configured and managed Portal Applications that use WCM, Portal themes.
• Experience in performing day-to-day operations like deploying portlets, creating pages, exporting configurations, and configuring access control using XMLAccess utility.
• Experience in transferring WebSpherePortal Server configuration data from cloudscape to DB2 and Oracle databases using command line interface and configuration wizard.
• Experience in Sun One (iPlanet), IBM HIS, Tomcat and Apache web servers.
• Worked extensively on installation and configuration of Apache Webserver, SunOneiPlanet Webserver, Netscape Enterprise server and IIS Webserver.
• Configured SSL via Apache HTTP server fronting JBoss. Developed and documented the build and deployment process.
• Experience in UNIX Shell scripting for administration, maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Installed, administered and configuredJBoss Application Server V 4.0.2/4.2.3/5.0.1.
• Expertise with Application Servers (JBOSS) configuration using UNIX commands and shell scripts.
• Hands on Experience in troubleshooting and bringing up failed mission critical production systems under extreme pressure conditions and time constraints.
• Highly experienced in deploying solutions in High Availability (HA), Load Balancing Configurations eliminating single points of failure.
• Created SSL certificates using IKEYMAN.
• Used ITCAM for performance tuning of Application server.
• Well versed with extensive hands on experience in creating resources, modifying WebSphere configuration properties, view runtime attributes.
• Experience in writing ANT scripts for compile and deployment.
• Played an active role in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck by enhanced performance.
• Installed and administered IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.1.x/ 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0/8.5 Network Deployment on various Operation Systems like IBM AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3, SUN Solaris 7.0/8.0/9.0/10 , Red Hat Linux 9.1, RHEL 3/4, and Windows 2000/2003 Server.
• Extensive experience in optimization of enterprise applications using IBM WebSphere Application server 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.0/8.5, WSCP Script, wsadmin scripting client, XMLConfig, Workload Management (WLM), Resource analyzer, JNDI, LDAP, Site Minder, J2EE, WSAD, JMS, Oracle 9i/8i,Sun Solaris, AIX and LINUX.
• Experience in installing configuring and administering MQ 6.0/7.5 on different environments.
• Had worked on securing WebSpherePortal Server with IBM Tivoli Directory Server and Sun One Directory Server on both WPS V6.1.0.2 and WPS V5.1.0.4.
• Experience in setting up Single Sign On for J2EE applications in WebSphere Portaland WebSphere Application Server using Tivoli Access Manager and WebSeal junctions.
• Created and Configured MQ series objects like Queue Manager, Queue and Channels.
• Experienced in configuring JMS Provider using WebSphere MQ.
• Experienced in Configuring WebSphere Message Broker 6.0.
• Experienced in Installing Upgrade Fix Packs and Migrating to latest versions.
• Highly experienced integrating WebSphere Application Server ND and related software including IBM HTTP Server, IIS 6.0, Apache and SunONE Web Server.
• Installed and Configured Tivoli Access Manager.
• Experienced in using both Thread analyzer and Tivoli Performance Viewer for monitoring the performance of theWebSphere application server.
• Experience in writing JACL and JYTHON scripts.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: IBM AIX 4.5/5.1/5.2/5.3 , SUN Solaris 8/9/10, LINUX (REDHAT, Suse), Windows NT/2000 server, Windows XP/98/95

Web Servers: IHS 7.0/6.0, IIS 6.0/5.0, Apache, iPlanet

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere application server 8.5.5, 7.0/6.1.0.21/6.0.2.19/5.1 , WebSphere portal server 7.0/6.1/ 6.0.1.6 and WebSphere MQ 6.0/5.0

Databases: DB2 7.1/UDB, Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11g, MS- Access, MS-SQL.

Monitoring Tools/Ticketing tools: Wily 7.0/6.0/5.0/Candle/Tivoli Performance ViewerHPSC, Remedy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. WebSphere Application Server/Portal Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, configuration and administration of WAS 6.1, 7.0, 8.0 and 8.5 on Windows, AIX and Redhat for highly available environments.
• Migrated applications running on AIX to Solaris and also migrated the applications from version 5.1 to 6.1 and 7.0 to v8.5. Responsible for maintenance and support of Internet and Intranet applications running on AIX, Solaris and Windows operating system. Configured and deployed web applications on multiple servers.
• Configured custom login and logout pages for the WebSphere Portal Server environment.
• Configured WebSphere Portal Server with portal, like minds, feedback, member manager, release, and customization and community databases.
• Involved in coordinating the monthly implementation plans for the migration part of the project for the applications and audited the application migration process as and when completed by the other team members.
• Responsible for building the Dev, Test, QA, and Prod environments by installing the WAS and creating the profiles, nodes, federation of nodes, Application Servers, Clusters, Virtual hosts, data sources, MQ connections, Plug-in Configuration and Service Integration Bus Configuration etc.
• Installed and Configured Introscope Wily EM and Agent to monitor JVMs on WAS 7.0, 6.1.
• Worked with networking team for creation of VIP’s and registration of DNS for accessing applications for high availability environments.
• Developed WSADMIN scripts for updating of data sources, log path details for jvm’s and MQ resources.
• Developed Startup and Shutdown scripts for jvm process automation during server reboot process.
• Created J2C authentication data entries for configured data source to test database connection from WebSphere administrative console.
• Provided load/stress and architecture validation testing and trouble shooting on issues such as Out of Memory, 100% CPU Usage, hung Thread sessions, session replication, and JVM Crashes issues.
• Configured Service Integration Technologies by configuring SIB by creating buses and adding servers/clusters to buses links, messaging engines that application using message-based and service-oriented architectures.
• Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using Local OS Registries.
• Worked on performance tuning of application server using Wily Introscope by setting optimal values for timeouts, connection pools, JVM heap size and tuning garbage collector.
• Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client authentication. Used WebSphere Application Server key management utility (iKeyman), for managing keys and certificates.
• Defined synchronized and persistent IBM MQ Series Queue manager, Channel Managers and Queues.
• Monitored health of the applications using WILY and also used WILY for load tests and send the load test results to the testing and application teams.
• Highly involved in SSO portal implementation using Sun One Directory Server and CA Site minder.
• Experienced in attending the bridge calls for production issues and non-prod issues and involved application teams or database teams or networking teams to resolve the issues and involved in Root cause analysis for the issues encountered. Also provided 24/7 on call support for all the production applications.

Environment: IBM WebSphere App Server 8.5,8.0,7.0,6.1,5.1,4.0,AIX,Windows2000,DB2,Oracle, IBM HTTP Server,IBM Support Assistant(ISA)4.1, 5.0, SunOne6.1, Windows Server2008, Solaris10,VMwareESX server, Tivoli directory server, MQ 7.0,6.0,site minder, F5 Big-IP Load Balancers, BMC Remedy Action Request System 7.0, veritas, Wily/CA Introscope7.2Apache, iPlanet,SunOne LDAP 5.2.4, LDAP v 2/3, Netegrity, Site Minder, Policy Server 5.5/6.0,Microsoft Active Directory.

Confidential, Miami, FL

Sr. WebSphere Application Server/Portal Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance of the WebSphere and Portal servers on different UNIX platforms and setting up the development and testing and staging environment for the ongoing application development.
• Responsible for upgrading WebSphere Portal Server environment from 5.1.0.4 to 6.0.1.1 by applying fix packs, refresh packs and fixes.
• Middleware Engineering Lead for Regular Maintenance Updates - OS Patches, Security Patches, Middleware Patches, and OS/Middleware Upgrades.
• Clustered WebSphere Portal Server in a multi cluster environment using horizontal scaling on both WebSphere Portal Server V5.1 and V6.0
• Used WebSphere Process Server to evaluate its capabilities in a WebSphere Portal environment.
• Configured Dynacache with WebSphere Portal Server JVMs to increase the performance on WPS V5.1
• Integrated WebSphere Portal Server with Site minder TAI (Trust Association Interceptor) to perform authentication and authorization to portal.
• Responsible for administering, maintaining and configuring a 24x7 highly available, multi-clustered, production portal environment
• Implemented security policies, Enabled security on components and configured LDAP and SSL.
• Provided third level technical escalation for problem resolution or circumvention of application deployment issues and Middleware component issues in Web Hosting environments.
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0.x/4.0.x, JDBC drivers and Servlets engines on LINUX.
• Configured IBM HTTP Server by creating DNS alias names, assigning ports, transporting and pointing multiple plug-in files to serve various instances in same node.
• Efficiently handled Work Load Management for load balancing and failover, improving performance, reliability and scalability.
• Successfully resolved issues with the DB2 data sources and connection pooling.
• Involved in monitoring, trouble shooting and performance tuning using Wily 5.x monitor, Tivoli performance viewer, and Thread Analyzer.
• Installed and applied fix packs, patches and e-fixes for WebSphere Application Servers.
• Provide inputs to the Database, Diamond and Quest teams to resolve WebSphere and database communication issues.
• Provide architectural and design inputs to support Enterprise Data Center migration and Disaster Recovery efforts.
• Designed and architected solutions around IBM HTTP Server and iPlanet Web Server.
• Worked on capacity planning, performance tuning, sizing, and automation of WebSphere6.1, WebSphere 6.0 and WebSphere 5.1 Application Servers.
• Worked on migrating application configurations from WebSphere 5.1.x and WebSphere 6.1.x
• Worked on the administration, installation and configuration of IBM WebSphere Portal Server 5.1 and 6.0 in a clustered environment.
• Worked on WebSphere Security and Trust Association Interceptors for WebSphere Portal Server and Netegrity Site minder.
• Designed performance-monitoring solutions using Wily’sIntroscope tool, HP Diagnostics, Tonic and Quest.
• Automation of administration using WSAdmin, WSCP, XMLConfig, XML Access and WP script utilities.

Environment: IBM WebSphere App Server 7.0,6.1,6.0, WebSphere portal 6.1, WebSphere MQ 6/5.3, IHS 8/6/2.0.47, Linux (Red Hat, SuSE), AIX, Windows 2000, DB2, IBM HTTP Server, SunOne, Solaris 10,vmware ESX server, BIG-IP V9, Wily Introscope, Tivoli directory server, MQ 5.3,6.0,site minder, BMC Remedy Action Request System 7.0,sum,emc,veritas,visio, HTML, EJB, JSP, JDBC, ISA, DB2, Mainframe, TAM, jacl, jython, XML.

Confidential, Hartford, CT.

WebSphereMQ Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install and configuration of WebSphere application servers in Solaris and Linux environments
• Installation of WebSpherefixpack using updiinstaller, installation of Centralized installation manager, setting up of OSGI/JPA2.0and augmentation of JPA in WAS
• CreateApplication server and Dmgr profiles, adding nodes to the Application Server, Configuring the environments such as setting up data-source, configure resource adapter and connection factories, setting up heap size,
• Deploy application using manual and scripted deployment, map modules for application server, generating and propagation of plugin files.
• Configuring security such as Adding users to WAS using Ldap andconfigure user access to application.
• Diagnose issues on application servers, checking log files for errors, stopping and restarting appservers.
• Installation and configuration of WebSphere MQ cluster using Veritas Cluster service, creating queuemanagers, local queues, remote queues, xmit queues and dead letter queues, creating channels both sender and listener.
• Create triggers for application and process definition, setup MQ initiation queues and triggers, setup MQ security for the environment. Familiar with message broker configuration, MQ explorer and JMS messaging, Troubleshoot issues on queue managers, queue depth, channel s, checking Dead letter Queues. Restart channels, checking queues and clearing DLQ
• Manage and use QPASA to monitor application such as WebSphere application server and MQ
• Adding network for MQ and distributing agents, installing agents on servers, stopping and restarting agents if the process stopped, restart channels and queues.
• Experienced in 2-tier and 3-tier architecture environments.
• Administered, configured, tuned, and troubleshoot WebSphere Application Server in a Horizontal and Vertical clustered on Linux environments.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security using LDAP for WAS and WVE and also expertise in setting up security for single sign on and SSL.
• Installed and Configured IBM Http Server and IHS web server interfaces (plug-in file), session management, virtual hosts, data sources, HTTP transports for Application Server instances and applications.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, Data sources, connection pooling.
• Involved in migration projects as well like WebSphere Application Server 6.1 to 7.0.
• Experience in troubleshooting issues using Traces, Logs and Log Analyzer.
• Wrote Shell scripts to monitor installed enterprise applications and to get information from the logs and database in the required format and other daily activities and jobs.
• Used WebSphere Admin Console and wsadmin scripting to install enterprise EAR, WAR files for hot deployment.
• Experience in troubleshooting various issues in production environment.
• Sound knowledge in configuring queues through JMS and WebSphere MQ.
• Monitored Applications and WAS performance through Tivoli Performance Viewer and tuned the system - caching, queuing, JVM parameters, DB Connection Pooling.
• Created Run books to keep information regarding configuration and troubleshooting information.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1/7.0, WebSphere Virtual Enterprise (WebSphere XD), IBM Http Server, Sun One webserver DB2, RHEL, Windows 2003, Sun ONE Directory Server 5.1, Unix Shell Scripting, wsadmin Scripting.

Confidential, Wilsonville, OR

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, administered and supported WebSphere Application Server 5.0 on Solaris and Windows.
• Implemented the Clusters/Server Groups and Cluster Members /clones (Vertical scaling & horizontal scaling) for fail over and distribute the workload on WAS.
• Integrating enterprise-wide J2EE applications and deploying them on WebSphere Application Server and managing them through WebSphere administrative console.
• Worked with Remedy ticketing system.
• Created user roles and groups using Local OS registry and secured WebSphere resources.
• Configured JDBC drivers, Data sources on WebSphere Application Server 5.0.
• Involved in creating UNIX shell scripts, JACL scripts which automates the WebSphere Administration (bouncing the application server, deploying enterprise applications, logs rotation, monitor applications state, etc).
• Used Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer for performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Installed fix packs and cumulative fixes to upgrade the version of the WebSphere Application Server 5.0.
• Monitoring all Servers, shutdown and startup, Network Support and Troubleshooting.
• Responsible for tuning the JVM to suit the specific application needs.
• Installation of SSL certificates for the WebLogic clustered environment.
• Designing and implementing the Application, Database Fail-Over strategies.
• Providing 24x7 production support in a Java environment including management of SLA’s and following escalation procedures.
• Involved in applying patches for application Server, SUN Solaris, and Apache Web Servers.
• Provided application support in all environments (ITE/DEV, QA/UAT, Training, and Production).
• Deployment of various application packages including JAR, WAR, EAR and properties using custom scripts in Development.
• Involved in performance and regression testing of the application in the testing environment.

Environment: WebSphere 4.0.x/5.0.x, IBM HTTP Server 1.3.x, iPlanet 4.x, Java, EJB, Java Servlets, JSP 1.0, Solaris 8, Windows NT/2000, Oracle 8i,SUN Solaris 8/9,IBM AIX 5.2, Apache Web Server 2.0, Oracle 8i/9i, Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003 Server, Microsoft Active Directory Services, DNS, DHCP, NIS, NIS+, NFS, Wily Introscope 4.0, IBM MQ Series.