SUMMARY

• 7 years IT Experience as Confidential WebSphere Administrator for Confidential WebSphere Application server, Confidential WebSphere MQ, Confidential WebSphere Message Broker/Integration Bus, Apache Tomcat
• Extensive Expertise in installing, Configuring and Administrating Confidential WebSphere application server 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x/8.5.5.x, WebSphere MQ 7.5/7.0, Message Broker/Integration Bus 6.x/7.x/8.x/9.x, Apache Tomcat 7.0.x,6.0.x,5.0.x on Different platforms Solaris, Red Hat Linux, AIX & Windows 2000/2003 Server
• Experience in installing and configuring Confidential HTTP Server 1.2.x/1.3.x/5.x/6.x with Local and Remote Plug - in for Confidential WebSphere Application Server
• Maintaining and managing TIBCO middleware products like RV, EMS, BW
• Start/Stop processes of Adapters, BW, Hawk, Administration domains
• Experience in installing Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications using Confidential WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5.x/7.x/6.x/5.0.x with WSADMIN scripts using JACL and JYTHON
• Expertise in configuring JDBC providers, Data Sources, Virtual Host, SSL and Global security LDAP for Confidential WebSphere Application Server and Apache Tomcat
• Implemented a very large MQ cluster with more than 2500 QMANAGERS
• Experienced in designing, administering, developing and deploying message infrastructure/architectures using WebSphere MQ and WebSphere MESSAGEBROKER
• Experience in setting up the servers in a High Available environment
• Proficient in developing scripts using JYTHON, JACL and ANT to automate WAS Administration and deployment tasks such as JVM configuration, J2EE application deployment, ear/war installation and backups
• Installed and Configured WEBSPHERE MQ on Red Hat Linux platform
• Experience in Confidential WebSphere MQ V6.1/7.0/7.5 Administration which involves installation, configuration, troubleshooting, upgrade and update, applying patches and fixes, tracing, monitoring, fixing and maintenance of MQ Series on Windows, AIX, Solaris and possibly other platforms
• Created MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Remote queues, Local queues, channels
• Hands on experience in Problem determination and Trouble shooting
• Worked extensively on creating and configuring Local Queue mangers and Remote Queue Managers
• Expertise in Installing, Upgrading Fix packs and migrating to latest versions for Confidential WEBSPHERE Application server and Confidential WebSphere products
• Experience in working with Message Broker in deploying the bar files and troubleshooting of any issues.
• Extensive experience in design and architectures of enterprise applications using, MQ Workflow, MQ Series
• Experience in working with BMC Monitoring Tools like QPASA/Middleware Transaction Management, APPWATCH
• Expertise in backup and recovery, working with logs traces and analyzes the problems using Tivoli Performance viewer and/or interact with Confidential support to solve the problems by sending Confidential Problem Management Records (PMR)
• Extensive experience in providing 24/7 on call support for applications running on Confidential
• WebSphere Application Server, Confidential WebSphere MQ, Confidential WebSphere Message Broker

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Application Servers: Confidential WebSphere Application Server 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.5.5.x, Apache Tomcat 7.0.x/6.0.x/5.0.x, EAI

Tools: Portal Confidential WebSphere Application Server Portal 5.x,6.x

Web Servers: Apache, Confidential HTTP Server, IIS.

Messaging Server: Confidential WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.0/7.0/7.1/7.5 Confidential WebSphere Message Broker/ Integration Bus 6.0/7.0/8.0/9.0

Languages: C, C++, Java, C#, VB, JSP, Servlets, EJBs, HTML, XML.

Operating Systems: UNIX, Solaris 2.6/5.x, Red hat Linux, Linux on Power, Confidential AS400 Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/2003.

Scripting: JACL, JYTHON, Java scripts, Ant, Python, UNIX shell Scripts.

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, DB2 8.x/9.x, SQL Server 2000/2005, MS-Access2000/2003.

LDAP Servers: Confidential Tivoli Directory Server, Novell e directory, Microsoft Active Directory

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SOAP, REST.

Tools: Tivoli Performance Viewer, Heap Analyzer, Thread Analyzer, BMC QPASA/ Middleware Transaction Monitoring, APPWATCH/ Middleware Administration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

ESB Administrator

Responsibilities:

• As part of the ESB team, was involved in support of the ESB application and the connectivity to its interfacing applications.
• Was actively involved in applying fix packs, installation and upgrade of Confidential Integration Bus software on the test and production systems.
• Actively participated in setting up SSL and security aspects for MQ QMANAGERS and Integration Brokers.
• Involved in setting up and testing failover of HACMP on Production servers.
• Responsible for creating various MQ objects on the MQ QMANAGERS and broker objects on IIB.
• Involved in day to day deployments of message flows on IIB in test and Production systems.
• Involved in on call rotation with other team members.
• Involved in installation of IIB v9.0 on test/production systems.
• Created and configured pub/sub configurations on test/production systems.
• Involved in creation of multi-instance QMANAGERS and brokers in Test/Production systems.
• Created automation scripts for day to day admin activities.
• Worked on setting up security exits for MQ QMANAGERS.
• Involved in architecture meetings when on boarding new interfaces and configurations to the present ESB infrastructure.
• Worked on problem tickets and the day to day activities using PMR and KANBANIZE.
• Worked on performance related to the issues related to the WEBSPHERE adapters.
• Involved in doing root cause analysis for various MQ/IIB related issues.
• Worked on coordinating operating system related fixes with the AIX team to avoid any vulnerability.
• Experience in working with Tivoli Workload Scheduler(TWS) and shell scripting.

Environment: WEBSPHERE MQ, Confidential Integration Bus, TWS, KANBANIZE, RTC, AIX.

Confidential, IL

Senior Middleware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As part of the Middleware Engineering team, was involved in designing the event flows for the card authorizations and payments.
• Was an active contributor in the governance committee responsible in boarding new Publishers and Subscribers to the Event bus.
• Responsible for the design of the MQ infrastructure and the MQ configurations of the Event bus in pre-production and production environments.
• Involved in deployment and support of enterprise applications on WebSphere Application Server.
• Involved in setting up the infrastructure for complex Event Handling using TIBCO’S CEP and LIVEVIEW Server.
• Involved in JMS Configurations for applications to connect via client connections to reduce the licensing costs involved.
• Worked on several shell scripts to automate the creation of MQ objects.
• Performed installation and configuration of WebSphere Message Broker v8.0.
• Involved in upgrading MQ from version 7.0 to 7.5 and Message Broker 7.0 to 8.0
• Involved in automating creation, backup and deployment of various objects related to MQ and Message Broker.
• Experience setting up client connections to QMANAGERS using CCDT.
• Worked on setting up security exits using Block IP security exits.
• Worked on installing MQ clients on Linux servers for setting up client connections to MQ Hub QMANAGERS.
• Involved in doing root cause analysis for various cluster related issues in MQ.
• Expertise working with Wily INTROSCOPE for monitoring the health of the Event Bus.
• Worked with WebSphere MQ and MB on various platforms like AIX, Solaris, Linux and ZLINUX.
• Involved in creation of dataflow diagrams for various infrastructure components involving WebSphere MQ and Message Broker.
• Worked on projects extending MQ Series infrastructure, MQ Clustering, Publish/Subscribe.
• Worked on issues related to MQ v7.5 compatibilities with App servers.
• Experience working with shell scripting.

Environment: WebSphere MQ, WebSphere MB, AIX, Solaris, Windows, Linux, Wily INTROSCOPE, Service Now, TIBCO CEP and Live View

Confidential, NJ

Sr Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation of WebSphere ND 8.5.5 on the primary and secondary instances on AS 400.
• Configuration of clustering, failover, load balancing and affinity.
• Configuration of Confidential HTTP Server with the WebSphere cluster.
• Configuration of the server properties and resources.
• Optimization of the resources.
• Provide configuration parameters like memory, I/O and CPU requirements.
• Creation of the Admin scripts to deploy the application, configuration of the server properties and managing resources using the script.
• Made recommendations on WebSphere 8.5.5 features for the near continuous availability, memory leakage/ high CPU detection along with notifications.
• Documented best practices/ guides for the production support.

Environment: AS 400, Confidential WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5. Confidential HTTP Server 8.5, Shell Scripting

Confidential, Mellon, NYC

Sr MQ/MB Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in deployment and support of enterprise applications on WebSphere Application Server
• Involved in design and creation of WebSphere MQ objects in Linux environments.
• Worked on installing MQ clients on Linux servers for setting up client connections to MQ Hub QMANAGERS.
• Perform problem diagnosis and research the issue.
• Involved in configuration of several JVM parameters, end point URL’s in WebSphere Application Server.
• Involved in setting up monitoring using HP Open View.
• Expertise in working with version control tool “Harvest” for automating the deployments in WebSphere.
• Worked on several shell scripts to automate the creation of MQ objects.
• Performed installation and configuration of WebSphere Message Broker v8.0.
• Involved in upgrading MQ from version 7.0 to 7.5 and Message Broker 7.0 to 8.0
• Involved in automating creation, backup and deployment of various objects related to MQ and Message Broker.
• Involved in doing root cause analysis for various cluster related issues in MQ.
• Worked on Plugin configuration, Generating and Propagating.
• Worked on WSADMIN JYTHION scripts to install ear files with no down time in High Availability environment

Environment: Linux, WebSphere MQ 7.0, Message Broker 7.0, WebSphere Application Server 8.0, HP Open View, Harvest.

Confidential, NC

Sr MQ Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked on installing MQ clients on Linux servers for setting up client connections to MQ Hub QMANAGERS.
• Involved in JMS Configurations for applications to connect via client connections to reduce the licensing costs involved.
• Worked on installation of MQ client software on Linux servers.
• Involved in setting up MQ projects, users using APPWATCH.
• Provided 24X7 on call support.
• Worked on several shell scripts to automate the creation of MQ objects.
• Performed installation and configuration of WebSphere Message Broker v8.0.
• Involved in upgrading MQ from version 7.0 to 7.5 and Message Broker 7.0 to 8.0
• Involved in setting up global cache, working with record and replay features of WebSphere Message Broker v8.0.
• Involved in automating creation, backup and deployment of various objects related to MQ and Message Broker.
• Experience setting up client connections to QMANAGERS using CCDT.
• Worked on setting up security exits using Block IP security exits.
• Worked on installing MQ clients on Linux servers for setting up client connections to MQ Hub QMANAGERS.
• Involved in doing root cause analysis for various cluster related issues in MQ.
• Expertise working with monitoring tools like QPASA and APPWATCH.
• Worked with WebSphere MQ and MB on various platforms like AIX, Solaris, Linux and ZLINUX.
• Involved in creation of dataflow diagrams for various infrastructure components involving WebSphere MQ and Message Broker.
• Proficient in working with both XA and non-XA clients
• Worked on projects extending MQ Series infrastructure, MQ Clustering, Publish/Subscribe.
• Worked on issues related to MQ v7.5 compatibilities with APPSERVERS.
• Experience working with shell scripting.
• Performed installation, configuration, and maintenance of WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5.x on Confidential I Series AS400 servers
• Configured Confidential HTTP servers to communicate with WAS 8.5.5.x on AS400
• Worked on Plugin configuration, Generating and Propagating.
• Worked on WSADMIN JYTHION scripts to install ear files with no down time in High Availability environment

Environment: Linux, MQ 7.0, MB 6.0/7.0, WAS 7.0/8.0, Solaris, QPASA, APPWATCH

Confidential, IA

Sr. Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed installation, configuration, and maintenance of WebSphere MQ 7.1/7.5 on AIX and Windows platforms.
• Performed installation, configuration and maintenance of Advanced Messaging Security 7.0.1.2 on AIX and Windows.
• Installed, Configured, and Administered Confidential WEBSPHERE Application Server 8.0 and Apache Tomcat 7.0.x on AIX and Linux.
• Involved in upgrading the existing environment to WEBSPHERE MQ 7.5 in prod and non-prod environments.
• Involved in scripting the installation and configuration process in WebSphere Application Server and Apache Tomcat.
• Involved in architectural and design review meetings for deciding on the filesystem sizes, performance aspects of MQ and MB.
• Involved in creating multi-instance Managers and brokers on AIX.
• Experience working with MQ monitoring tools like QPASA and APPWATCH.
• Experience in automating Middleware tasks using BMC BLADELOGIC and PHURNACE.
• Expertise in working with Confidential service packs like QLOAD and SAVEQMGR.
• Proficient in working with both XA and non-XA clients
• Proficient in working with MQ Resource Adapters.
• Worked on projects extending MQ Series infrastructure, MQ Clustering, Publish/Subscribe.
• Worked on issues related to MQ v7.5 compatibilities with APPSERVERS.
• Experience in working with Shell scripts.
• Worked on automating tasks in WebSphere Application Server.
• Worked on Problem Tickets (PMR’s) with Confidential to find effective solutions to various problems and performance issues.
• Worked on 24X7 on call support.

Environment: AIX, Windows, WebSphere MQ 7.0/7.1/7.5, WebSphere MB 7.0/8.0, WebSphere Application Server 7.0.x and 8.x, APPWATCH, BLADELOGIC, PHURNACE, Advanced Messaging Security(AMS), Apache Tomcat.

Confidential, WI

Sr. Infrastructure Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed installation, configuration and maintenance of WEBSPHERE MQ 7.x, WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere Application Server in UNIX, Linux and Windows Environment.
• Involved in upgrading over 1500 QMANAGERS from Version 6.x to 7.x in Windows, Linux and Unix environments.
• Involved in setting up a very large cluster consisting of 1500 stores in a High Available environment using HACMP.
• Responsible for designing and architecting the disk space requirements for the QMANAGERS in a clustered environment.
• Involved in configuring JMS connections from the app server to the QMANAGER using JMS Admin tool.
• Proficient in working with both XA and non-XA clients.
• Involved in setting up Hub/ Spoke model for migrating from individual QMANAGERS to a centralized QMANAGERS for a particular business area.
• Expertise in working with Confidential service packs like QLOAD and SAVEQMGR.
• Deployed the EAR, WAR files and scripted automated deployment of the applications including JDBC Data source configuration using scripts JACL and JYTHON.
• Involved in setting up alerts and monitoring using BMC QPASA monitoring tool and also worked with APPWATCH.
• Involved in installation, upgrade of WebSphere Application server and Confidential HTTP Plugin.
• Worked with installation and configuration of Advanced Messaging Security(AMS) on AIX, Linux and Windows.
• Configured data provider using JDBC drivers and data sources in Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server for WebSphere Application Server.
• Installed, Configured, and Administered Confidential WEBSPHERE Application Server 8.0 and Apache Tomcat 7.0.x on AIX and Linux.
• Configured global security in Confidential WEBSPHERE application server using LDAP using Confidential Tivoli Directory Server, custom and local repositories.
• Worked on Problem Tickets (PMR’s) with Confidential to find effective solutions to various problems and performance issues.
• Involved in scripting the installation and configuration process in WebSphere Application Server and Apache Tomcat.
• Worked on projects extending MQ Series infrastructure, MQ Clustering, SSL Channels support, Publish/Subscribe.
• Experience working with configuring interceptors for AMS for working with MQ
• Involved in installing, configuring and administering WebSphere MQ/WBI Message Brokers on various platforms, installed and configured WBI CONFIG Manager and Message Brokers on Windows & AIX.
• Automated creating of MQ Objects for MQ users and also actively involved in support of WebSphere MQ and WBI Message Broker infrastructure in Production/QA/Test regions, shared support responsibilities with other members of the team.
• Involved in maintaining a SHAREPOINT site used a repository for documenting and troubleshooting.

Environment: AIX, Linux, Windows, WEBSPHERE MQ 6.x/7.x, JMS, WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere Application Server, AMS, QPASA, APPWATCH, Java, Oracle, DB2, Shell, JYTHON, Apache Tomcat, WEBLOGIC

Confidential, NY

Web Sphere MQ Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured, and Administered Confidential WEBSPHERE Application Server 6.1 & WEBSPHERE Portal Server 6.0.x, and WebSphere MQ V6.1/7.0.
• Migrated portal content from Confidential WebSphere Portal Server 5.1.0.3 to 6.0.0.1.
• Installed Confidential HTTP Server 6.0/6.1 and configured with remote plug-in and configured with portal server in cluster environment.
• Installed Confidential WebSphere Portal 6.0.0 as primary and secondary nodes in clustered environment and configured with DB2 Database.
• Configured WebSphere Portal LDAP Security with Confidential Directory Server.
• Configured Workload Management using horizontal and vertical clustering in WEBSPHERE Application Server.
• Installed the WMQ and WMB on different AIX, and Windows servers.
• Designed and developed WMB 6.0 Message flows and Message sets to transform and route different kinds of wire formats like XML, CWF and TDS wire formats.
• Configured the queue managers, different queues, message flows and message sets.
• Experience in Confidential Web Sphere MQ V6.1/7.0 Administration which involves installation, configuration, troubleshooting, upgrade and update, applying patches and fixes, tracing, monitoring, fixing and maintenance of MQ Series on Windows, AIX, Solaris and possibly other platforms
• Debugging messages flows using debugger, error handling message flows, Trace nodes and SQL queries and stored procedures
• Involved in scripting the installation and configuration process in WebSphere Application Server and Apache Tomcat.
• Created MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Remote queues, Local queues, channels
• Configured global security in Confidential WEBSPHERE application server using LDAP using Confidential Tivoli Directory Server, custom and local repositories.
• Configured Portal Cluster with process server and transferred portal content to backend DB2 database; configured portal Work Load management using Horizontal Clustering and Security using LDAP user registry in Confidential WEBSPHERE Portal 6.0.
• Managed the backup/restore of Application, Deployment Manager Configurations.
• Configured SSL between Web server and Application server.
• Deployed themes and skins, portlet resources in a clustered environment.
• Configured portal search using remote search service in cluster environment.
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.

Environment: Confidential WebSphere Application Server 6.1/6.0, Confidential HTTP Server 6.1, Confidential WEBSPHERE MQ 6.1/7.0, WebSphere Portal 6.1, SSO, Confidential Tivoli Directory server, AMS, DB2UDB 8.1, AIX, Linux, Tivoli Performance Viewer, J2EE, JYTHON, Shell script, Apache Tomcat.

Confidential, IRVINE, CA

WebSphere Administrator / Support

Responsibilities:

• Installed Confidential WebSphere Application Server 6.0/5.x in Network Deployment.
• Installed Confidential HTTP Server 6.0 and configured with plug-in.
• Installed Confidential WEBSPHERE Portal Server 6.0 in cluster environment with process server.
• Installed and configured portal server 5.1.x in a cluster environment.
• Migrated WAS from 5.x to 6.0 in development, test and production environments.
• Configured response files for silent install of WebSphere Base and ND.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server in a vertical and horizontal clustered environment.
• Configured WAS Global Security using Tivoli Directory Server and SSL for Web Server and Application Server, between LDAP and Application server
• Worked on WebSphere automation using JYTHON and Ant for deployment and configuration of all WAS environments that help in minimizing the manual efforts.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC, J2C and JMS.
• Configured and Upgraded Trust Association Interceptor (TAI) for the web servers.
• Transferred Portal content to DB2UDB 8.0 database, configured Security using Tivoli Directory Server in WebSphere Portal Server for primary and secondary nodes
• Installed and configured PORLETS, themes and skins.
• Configured resource permission to the users and groups.
• Configured WPS pages and PORLETS using Web Service Remote Portlets (WSRP) as produce and consumer in cluster environments
• Troubleshoot WSRP communication between Producer and consumer.
• Installed and configured WCM personalization Server cluster and configured with DB2 database using WPSCONFIG file
• Worked on problem tickets (PMR) with Confidential to find effective solutions to various problems and performance issues and applied various WebSphere system related patches, fixes.
• Created environment specific reference documents for managing various operations.
• Provided 24/7 on call support for assigned applications.

Environment: Confidential WebSphere Application Server 6.0/5.x, Confidential WebSphere Portal Server 6.0/5.x, Confidential HTTP Server 6.0.x, AIX, Windows 2003, DB2UDB 8.1, SQL Server 2000, Tivoli Directory Server, JYTHON scripting.

Confidential

JR. WEBSPHERE ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, configuration and administration of different versions of
• Confidential WEBSPHERE Application server 3.5/4.0.x on Sun Solaris and windows 2000 servers.
• Installed and configured Confidential Http Server 1.2.x with remote plugin
• Installed and upgraded the fix pack and migrated to latest version of Confidential WEBSPHERE application server.
• Installed J2EE applications using Confidential WEBSPHERE application server and WSADMIN JYTHON and JACL scripts.
• Working with developers to configure virtual hosts, plug-ins, JDBC drivers, data sources, JVM’s and application deployments across multiple instances of WebSphere.
• Installed and configured application server 3.5/4.0.
• Involved in migration of applications from WebSphere 3.5.x to 40.x
• Integrated J2EE Web Application Infrastructures (IIS, IPLANET Web Server, and BEA WebLogic) with NETEGRITY SITEMINDER.
• Involved in supporting load testing team during various testing phases for performance tuning the environment and monitoring through resource analyzer.
• Handling 24/7 on call rotation for production issues, perform root cause analysis.
• Working with Confidential in opening a PMR for inconclusive root causes, and coordinating the proposed changes with the respective teams.
• Writing scripts to automate application deployments in WSCP and configuring CRONTAB entries.
• Performed Backup & Recovery for WebSphere.
• Configured Session Persistence using different RDBMS Databases.

Environment: Confidential WEBSPHERE Application server 3.5/4.0, Confidential HTTP Server 1.2.x, Site Minder QMR5/6/7, DB2 UDB 5.1, Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, SUN Solaris, Windows 2000 and Work Flow Management Tools.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Development of HTML pages using HTML and JavaScript for front-end validation.
• Extensively worked on Servlets, JSP, Java Beans, RMI, JDBC and Common Utilities E-Mail Service Framework.
• Development of SQL/PL/SQL scripts for stored procedures, functions and database triggers for Oracle Database. Development of JDBC Connection Pool API
• Preparation of deployment and migration documents and scripts for deployment and backup the application.
• Developed Enterprise Applications using Java, XML, EAI and J2EE Technologies.
• Working with database tables, create, alter, and insert date in to table.
• Connected to Oracle 9i from the front end applications

Environment: Java, JDK 1.3, Servlets, SWING, WebSphere, Jakarta Tomcat 4.1, HTML, JavaScript (1.3), JDBC, Oracle 8i and Windows NT server and Windows 2000 server.