SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of IT Professional experience as Sr.IBM Middleware Engineer (WAS) in Installing, Configuring, Deployment, Migration, Performance tuning, Troubleshooting, security, failover and work load management, Production Support and Implementation of Web based applications in IBM WAS ND v8.5.5.x/8.5.x/8.0/7.x/6.x, IBM WebSphere Portal Server 8.x/7.x/6.x, Webservers like IBM HTTP Server, IIS, Apache, Apache Tomcat in IBM AIX, RHEL Linux 5.x/6.x, SUSE Linux 8.x/9.x/10.x, Sun Solaris 9/10 and Windows 2003/2008 Environments.
• Experience in Integrating IBM HTTP Server (6.0/6.1/7.x/8/x/8.5.5.x), Apache (2.x), sun one 6.1 and IIS (6.x/) with WebSphere Application Server on local and remote machines.
• Experience in setting up SOA Architecture.
• Sound Knowledge and implementations of WLM using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Scaling for failover and High Availability.
• Expertise on using “managprofiles” tool in creating, deleting, managing Clusters, Nodes in WAS
• Experience in deployment of portal resources such as portlets and portlet applications, pages/labels, access permissions for authorization, credential vaults, URL Mappings using Portal Admin GUI and XML access.
• Expertise in configuring portal databases and LDAP registry for user authentication and securing portal resources.
• Perform WAS software installation, upgrades/patches, troubleshooting, and maintenance on UNIX servers.
• Analyze and resolve diagnostic problems on Sun, HP - UX, and AIX Operating Systems.
• Experience in UNIX Shell and Perl scripting for administration, maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Experience in installing Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications using IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5.x.x. 8.5/8.1/6.1/6.0 and WebLogic server with wsadmin scripts using JACL and Python.
• Hands on Experience in troubleshooting and bringing up failed mission critical production systems under extreme pressure conditions and time constraints.
• Prepared system requirement specifications, functional and design document specifications.
• Extensive experience on working with Service Management tools like BMC Remedy, Service Now, Jira
• Experience in understanding and aligned with ITIL best practices by working on Incident Management, Change Management and Service Request and Knowledge Management process
• Experience to generate MTTR reports to make sure the key SLA’s are met for the Incidents
• Full SDLC-actively involved in planning, System Analysis, Design, implementation, performance management, benchmarking, testing, validation and maintenance.
• Highly experienced in deploying solutions in High Availability (HA), Load Balancing Configurations eliminating single points of failure.
• Good working experience in all the UNIX flavors like, AIX, Solaris, Red Hat Linux SUSE Linux, HP-UNIX, etc.
• Good knowledge on networking like IP Networking, DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP, Telnet.
• Experienced in working with Akamai, F5 Big-IP load balancer.
• Expertise in using IKEYMAN Tool to create SSL certifications.
• Expertise in DNS, LDAP, FTP, Remote Access, Security Management and System Troubleshooting skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office tools: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint).
• Expertise in using Performance-Monitoring Tools like Tivoli Performance Viewer and Wily Introscope.
• Expertise in monitoring & performing daily health check for WebSphere Application Servers (JVM’s) and System Level resources.
• Worked on server side technologies like Java, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, EJB, Web Services, XML, and XSLwith the Back end RDBMS Tools like SQL Server, Oracle.
• Played an active role in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck by enhanced performance.
• Worked as a System Administrator and On-Call for the production support and maintenance throughout the duration.
• Provided support for the MQ/Broker issues.
• Good understanding on IBM Pureapp patterns (IPAS)
• Analyzing the memory, CPU usage and overall server status with commands and GUI tools.
• Expertise in supporting enterprise based distributed applications over a wide range of production environments on a 24/7 on-call rotation basis for high volume, secure transactions and Web services.
• Good Knowledge and Experience in BPM/ODM.
• Good knowledge in WebSphere Process Server.
• Good knowledge on WebSphere hardware capacity planning as per the environment.
• Excellent client relationship skills and the drive to complete tasks effectively and efficiently where customer services and technical skills are demanded as well as the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management and the client community.
• Implemented various portal database domains for high availability across Production and DR environment in Portal 8.x.
• Experience in configuring and working on External Security Manager such as Siteminder and TAM for external authentication & Configured Portal with external search engines.
• Knowledge of installation and configuration of IBM Web Content Management 6.x/8.x using authoring and rendering techniques and have experience installing it in a clustered environment.
• Installed, Configured and testing of MQ with WebSphere, involved in developing backup and recovery procedure Defined and maintained Queue Managers and MQ Objects on UNIX, Windows platforms.
• Experience working with MQ Queue Managers and its objects using MQ Explorer and MQSC Commands. Experience defining and managing Full Repository Queue Manager Clusters.
• Expertise in editing UNIX shell scripts, Python scripts that automate the WebSphere Administration (recycling the application server, deploying customer applications, logs rotation, monitor applications state, etc.).
• Experience in setting up WebSphere resources, Virtual Hosts, JVM parameters, variables, shared libraries etc.
• Experience in problem tracing, log management, scripting to invocate problem-determination actions involving traces, Thread & Heap dumps
• Excellent client relation skills and the drive to complete tasks effectively and efficiently where customer services and technical skills are demanded as well as the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management and the client community.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: WebSphere Application Server ND v 6.1/ 7.0/8.0/8.5/8.5.5. x, IBM Http Server 6.0, 7.0/8.0/8.5/8.5.5. x, Tivoli Access Manager 6.0, Sun One Directory Server 5.1, WebSphere MQ 6.0/7.x/8.0, IBM BPM/ODM v8.1/8.0.0

Operating Systems: Windows XP/NT/2000/9x, Sun Solaris Sparc 5.8/5.9/5.10/10 , Linux, AIX 5.x/7.x

Databases: Oracle (11g), DB2 UDB/Client 7.1/8.1/8.2/9.0 , Microsoft Access, SQL Server.

Scripting: HTML, XML, JavaScript, UNIX Shell Scripting. Python, JACL

Documentation Package: MS Office (Word, power point presentations, Excel Graphs, Vizio)

J2EE Technologies: Java 5.x, 6.x, J2EE - Java Beans, Servlets, EJB, RMI, JSP, Applets, JNDI, RMI, IIOP, Java Mail API, JDBC/ODBC, SOAP

Other Tools: Admin tool, SMC, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Wily Introscope, Log Analyzer, Resource Analyzer, Microsoft VSS, SecureCRT, Hummingbird (Exceed), SQL Loader, BladeLogic Automation Suite, BMC Remedy, Service Now, Jira

Networking: TCP/IP, SNA, DNS, LAN, WAN, DHCP, SMTP, HTTP, SSH, SunOne LDAP, Active Directory

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr.IBM Middleware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, configuration & maintenance of WebSphere Application Server v8.0/8.5.5. x.
• Cloning, Clustering, Performance Tuning and troubleshooting of WebSphere 8.x
• Installed, upgrades and fix packs to the runtime environment as required to decrease vulnerability to production environment
• Configure & maintain Apache based web servers (IBM Http Server); supported the efforts to consolidate HTTP Server Environment.
• Supporting all the application migration activities in development, QA & production environments (in multi-tier and/or clustered configurations).
• Involved in the integration of OAM through WEBGATE (for IHS)and TOI (for WAS)
• Responsible for setup, installation and ongoing development for WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server, WCM, Forms Experience Builder in both Lower and production Environments.
• Installed WebSphere Portal Server 8.5.0.0 on top of WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5.1.
• Installed WCM and configured it for Authoring and Rendering. installed Forms Experience Builder 8.6.0.x and upgraded it to 8.6.2.x upgraded WAS fix pack to 8.5.5.9 & Applied CF10 to Portal
• Created wp profile and clustered Portal nodes for WLM.
• Database Transfer from Derby to DB2
• Configured Federated LDAP and configured it for SSO using LTPA Cookies
• Configured Syndication between Authoring and rendering env to sync different env.
• Installed Portlets (.war), created pages, applied Themes and skin as per Business requirements
• Used XMLAccess to update and Register themes & skin.
• Created Virtual Portal as per the business requirement
• Involved in planning, administration and configuration of BPM/ODM to Power 8 migration project
• Worked with assigning Resource Permission for Users and Groups based on their Role
• Create and Configure application instances within each of the domains as required.
• Configure Security as required (SSL, single sign-on, administrative, application, etc.).
• Proactively performances tune each environment as well as reactively troubleshoot problems that occur.
• Provide development support to the application development teams
• Participate in load and performance test
• Analyze load test results, optimize and tune infrastructure components
• Create technical recovery and operation support documents.
• Maintain the environment by using the automated start up and shutdown scripts, implement automated monitoring and alerting mechanisms.
• Deploy applications to the Application server as well as define and set up automated application deployment mechanisms.
• Research and troubleshoot problems related to the Application server software, the applications that run on them as well as the external systems that they interact with.
• Communicate regularly and effectively with other team members, clients (application developers) and vendors (other technology teams). Creating regular status reports is one form of communication used.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 8.x/7.x, BPM/ODM, WebSphere ESB 8.x/7.5, IIB 9.x, Message Broker 8.x, IBM Cast-Iron, Wily Introscope, MQ FTE7.5, DB2 8.1, Oracle 11g/10g, Data power, Tivoli Access Manager 5.1, Tivoli Identity Manager, Siebel, AIX

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr.IBM WebSphere SOA Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, administered and supported WebSphere Application Server ND Version 7.0/8.0/8.5 on Linux.
• Installation/Configuration and maintained WebSphere Message Broker V6.1 and MQ V6.0.
• Created MQ Queues and Channels required for the Application.
• Created, Configured and Administered Profiles, Clusters, Nodes and Node Groups for WebSphere Application Server.
• Configured WebSphere Deployment Manager and Application Server profiles in clustered environment to utilize the advantages of failover and load balancing in multi-node environment.
• Created, Configured Profiles, Nodes, Node Groups & Clusters for WebSphere Application Server using “manageprofiles” and pmt tools.
• Involved in monitoring/performing the daily health check of all the Application Servers and Host Servers.
• Involved in performance monitoring and tuning by using the HP Open view and Siteminder v6.
• Involved and supported the performance testing of applications and analyzing the results and decide whether to move the application to production or not.
• Configured Automated thread dumps/Heap Dumps and System Dumps as per Customers demand.
• Monitored and Performed daily health checks for Application Servers (JVM’s) and Host Systems.
• Installed, configured and Managed WebSphere Process Server on AIX.
• Installed, configured and Managed Identity Manager on Red hat Linux.
• Generated HTTP Plug-in and Configured with WebSphere application Sever.
• Involved in Setting up server node, cells, deployment manager and administration, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and change management. Generation of WAS Plug-in for IHS.
• Worked closely with developers to define and configure application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web resources, Servlets, JDBC drivers and Servlet Engines.
• Was involved in monthly Enterprise Releases, where also day to day tasks consisted of taking care of deployments and issues raised during the UAT stage to make environment ready for production.
• Performed routine management of WebSphere Environment like monitoring Disk Space, CPU Utilization.
• Experienced in using both Thread analyzer and Tivoli Performance Viewer for monitoring the performance of the WebSphere application server.
• Involved in accessing various resource utilization (CPU, Memory, and Disk) of servers to determine the threshold of capacity of servers.
• Responsible for readiness of environments for release, building out environments, configurations & assisting developers.
• Involved in bridge calls with other team leads and developers for resolving the High Priority Issues for High Availability Production Systems and also for deploying EAR files into Pre-production and Production Environments.
• Trouble shooting errors both Applications & JVM also analyzed heap and core plus error logs.
• Configured and Enabled the Global Security for WAS Administration Console users.
• Configured & Monitored MQ Connection factories, Listeners, queue.
• Provided 24/7 on call support during the weekend and at night for the Global business users

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 7.0/8.0/8.5, Websphere Portal Server 7.0, WMB 6.0/6.1, IBM Connections 3.0, portlets, WebSphere MQ 6.0, IBM http Server 6.1.0.31, Apache Tomcat 6.0, J2EE 5.x/6.x Java 2.0, JSP1.2, EJB 3.0, JDBC 3.0/4.0, XML, MS-Sal, DB2, Oracle10g/11g, Unix.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

IBM WebSphere Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server 8.5/8.0 WebSphere MQ 7.0/6.0 IBM Http Server and other middleware application on Open Systems (Linux/UNIX) and Windows environments.
• Working on WebSphere Application Server 7.0/6.1/6.0
• Migrated the automated WC fix packs, iFixes, APAR upgrades, deployment process, wsadmin scripts for production/Test/Development from WebSphere Application Server ND 6.x to WebSphere Application Server ND 8.X/7.X.
• Created and Configured Cell, Profiles, Clusters, and Nodes for WebSphere and Jboss servers.
• Worked on Staging Propagation to copy data and manage files from Staging Env to Production. Worked on WCBD WebSphere Commerce Build and Deploy automation process via Jenkins/Hudson tool and made sure all the deployments are error free.
• Installed fix packs on WAS 7.x, Migrated and deployed applications from JBoss and I Planet to WebSphere
• Worked on Site Minder Agent installation and configuration for IBM Http server and apache.
• Created WebSphere configuration for Site Minder application included BUSES data sources and JVM tuning.
• Involved in migration of portlets from WebSphere Portal Server 5.1 to 6.0.
• Installed and configured IBM DB2 database and setup LDAP Security to the Applications.
• Installed and upgraded commerce fix packs to 7.0.0.7 and Feature Pack 6 to enable store enhancements, foundation, and management center.
• Applied fix packs, interim fix packs and patches for different versions of WAS and Web servers in all the environments.
• Deployed and Configured Site Minder applications
• Migrated SIAM to Site Minder for SSO implementation.
• Created shell scripts for sourcing Site Minder configuration in apache.
• Created and configured MQ objects like Queue Managers, Remote queues, Local Queues, Aliases Queues, Transmission queues and performing tuning/ monitoring the MQ objects.
• Installed and configured Apache Server for hosting web pages.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and WSADMIN.
• Working with the different monitoring tools like Tivoli, Nastel and CA Willy Introscope, Configuring the Servers in the monitoring tool.
• Installed and configured resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, and connection pooling.
• Installing the SSL certification for the different version of the application and WebServers.
• Configured Global security for WebSphere Application Server5.1/6.0/6.1 and using LDAP user registry.
• Utilized skills wsadmin/jacl scripting to automate deploying updating, applications, migrating data and automating batch jobs.
• Proposed High Availability Application Server infrastructure.
• Build partnership with the Middleware Engineering team and other IT teams to improve the turnover and automation of Middleware technology administration.
• Understands and follows the Software Development Life Cycle and path-to-production best practices.
• Provide proactive Monitoring and permanent fix for any issues. Take Lead to completion of issues
• Working with IBM Support through PMR.
• Trouble shooting the WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, Webserver and other performance related issues.
• Performance tuning utilizing diagnostic tools and analyze heap dumps and thread dumps. Run MQ traces.

Environment: WebSphere Application 8.5/8.0/7.0/6.1/6.0 , WebSphere Commerce 7.X/6.X,WebSphere MQ 7.5, 7.0/6.0, WebSphere Portal Server 6.1, IBM Http Servers 7.0/6.0, Apache 2.0.27, Tomcat 7.0,tc-server 7.X,SiteMinder, SIAM, Jboss 6.X, Tivoli, Nastel, Ca Wily Introscope, JACL, WSAdmin, Oracle 11g, Linux, Aix and HP-UX.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

IBM WebSphere Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured, Administered and Supported WebSphere Application Servers 6.1/7.0.
• Managing WebSphere Application Server using command line tools and scripts.
• Involved in Upgrading the WebSphere Application Server from V6.x.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 7.0.
• Configured WebSphere Workload Management using horizontal and vertical clustering.
• Deployed various J2EE 1.4 applications on WAS 7.0.
• Configured remote HTTP Server Plug-in to work with WebSphere Application server.
• Deployed the EAR/WAR files and scripted automated deployment of the applications.
• Expertise with Wily Introscope for monitoring application servers.
• Deployed J2EE application Archives (war, ear) on WebSphere Application Servers.
• Automated the deployment process using Lunt Build.
• Involved in editing the ANT scripts to build the EAR files.
• Involved in applying Fix pack to WebSphere Process Server v 6.1.2.0 to 6.1.2.3.
• Involved in designing WebSphere Application Server load balancing, Workload Management (WLM), horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Involved in Building and deploying applications in Tomcat parameter tuning Setting and monitoring Database connection pools JVM tuning in Tomcat.
• Implemented security using LDAP and LTPA for Novell eDirectory.
• Configured Cell and Node level scoped resources for JDBC providers, Data Sources using Jython script.
• Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using LDAP authentication.
• Created WAS 6.x profiles, integrated IHS into WAS as unmanaged node.
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.
• Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for Web Sphere.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x, IBM HTTP Server 6.x,DB2 8.2, LDAP, Oracle 9i/10g, LINUX, Windows 2003, J2EE, Jython, JACL scripts, WAS XD 5,6.X, ND 5,6.X, WebSphere MQ5.x, AIX 5.3, WebSphere Process Server (WPS) 6.x, Windows 2000, Linux, IBM Http server 6.0,6.1,7.0,, Oracle 10g, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Apache HTTP webserver.

Confidential

IBM WebSphere Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed administrative tasks -Installation, Configuration, Deployment, Tuning, Clustering, Work Load Management (WLM), troubleshooting WebSphere Application Server V6.0.2.12 on Solaris, Linux and AIX
• Responsible for installing and configuring development, integration test and production environments of various versions of WebSphere Application Servers.
• Performed Installing fix packs and performing upgrades to non-prod and prod environments.
• Developing Jython and Shell scripts in order to automate the setup of WebSphere application server environment. The scripts create the application servers, deploy the applications and configure several WebSphere resources like JDBC.
• Providing WebSphere application server related support for various application development and application testing teams.
• Deployed J2EE application Archives (war, ear) on WebSphere Application Servers.
• Automated the deployment process using Lunt Build.
• Involved in editing the ANT scripts to build the EAR files.
• Involved in applying Fix pack to WebSphere Process Server v 6.1.2.0 to 6.1.2.3.
• Involved in designing WebSphere Application Server load balancing, Workload Management (WLM), horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Involved in Building and deploying applications in Tomcat parameter tuning Setting and monitoring Database connection pools JVM tuning in Tomcat.
• Deployed enterprise application ears on WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment in DEV, SIT, TEST, Performance and Production environments on a daily basis and troubleshot various configuration and application issues
• Performed WebSphere Configuration backup and restoration using scripts
• Responsible for performance monitoring and performance tuning of the WebSphere environment.
• Working closely with the client’s in order to troubleshoot and resolve mission critical issues on-hand.
• Documenting various WebSphere administration tasks like installation, configuration and deployment procedures for both WebSphere application servers and WebServers.
• Working with IBM by creating PMR’s on resolving issues related to WebSphere and HTTP Server.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server V6.0/6.1,Linux, Solaris, Windows NT/2000, AIX 5.3, DB2 UDB8.0, Oracle 9i, IBM HTTP Server, LDAP Server, Heap Analyzer, Tivoli Performance Viewer and Global Security.