SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of IT experience in design and administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server(WAS), IIB, Message Broker Server, WebSphere Portal Server, Apache Tomcat, Sun ONE and IBM IHS, iPlanet Web server and Apache Web server and IDS LDAP on UNIX (Solaris/AIX/Linux) and Windows NT/2000/XP environments.
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) using Web Services, Messaging, Governance, monitoring and ESB Database System Architecture and Design.
• Worked on IIB and implemented new features like DFDL and global caching.
• IIB development best practices; performance testing and re - engineering.
• Modeling Driven Architecture using IBM Business Modeler, Web sphere Integration Developer, Web sphere Process Server and Web sphere MQ. Product Expertise -IBM DataPower XI50/XS40, IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender, Oracle OWSM 3.5.4, 10g, Oracle BPEL 10g and HP Systinet Registry 6.5.
• Involved in DataPower architecture and designed message translation using DataPower from ACORD xml to AL3/Cobol and vice versa.
• Experience in setting High Availability and clustering for SOA suite.
• Installed JDK, WebLogic, SOA suite, in GUI, Console and Silent mode.
• Expertise in Installing, Configuring, Administering, Tuning, Patching and Troubleshooting IBM WebSphere Application Server V5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x, IBM Message Queue 6.x/7.x, Apache Tomcat, Apache Http Server, IHS & Sun One Web Servers, TAM & Site minder Policy Servers, LDAP.
• Expertise in handling Web sphere MQ, Message Broker and Portal issues.
• Web server setup, Configured SSL using Self-Signed certificates and CA certificates between Application Server and Web Server, Web Server and browser, Application Server and LDAP Server.
• Experience in Configuration, Installation and Maintenance of network services such as DNS, DHCP, NIS and NFS on Red Hat Linux.
• Expertise in WebSphere MQ and Message Broker clustering to Create Highly Available Environment using any software.
• Experienced in deploying J2EE components in Base and ND WebSphere Application Servers V5.x/6.x/7.x /8.x using AAT (Application Assembly Tool), WAS Admin Console, shell/wsadmin/JACL/Jython scripting.
• Expertise in developing WSCP scripts and Shell scripts to administer and automate batch job scheduling including backup and recovery processes.
• Highly experienced in utilizing Shell, JACL and Jython scripts for administration, maintenance, troubleshooting and for ALL day-to-day activities.
• Experience with BigIP F5 Load Balancer administration, shell scripting for alerting and alarming on applications.
• Experience in implementation of Workload Management (WLM) of WebSphere Application Server (WAS) using vertical and horizontal clustering, and also in performance tuning using Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Experienced in Configuration of Workstation to view performance data in Wily Introscope7.0.
• Good Understanding of Java and J2EE technologies which involves JDBC, Servlets, JSP, Java Script, Struts, Hibernate3.x, EJB(Session Bean), JMS, Web Services, SOAP, Unit test cases and various configuration tools like CVS and SVN.
• Used Wily Performance tools for monitoring and tuning the WebSphere environment like configuring Heap size, Thread pool size, Session Management, connection pool size.
• Modified Coding Variables to reduce Garbage Collection.
• Provided on-call Production Support (24x7), monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications in Development, TEST, QA, Staging and Production Environments.
• Excellent Communication and Interpersonal skills, ability to lead bridge calls during production issues.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Conway, AR

WebSphere Administrator/Application Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.1, 7.0, 8.5 ND on Sun Solaris, Message Broker Servers 9.0, IBM AIX and Linux Servers.
• Worked on WBI adapter features.
• Provided subject matter expertise, training and tutoring for new IIB v9 and MQ v8 implementation.
• Developed IIB SOAP web service to interact with z/OS MQ-based interface MQ.
• Managed File Transfer (MFT) solution with IIB.
• Architecture, Design and implementations of DataPower solution for the Enterprise Service Layer.
• Hands on experience on the Data power XI52 Services such as MPGW, WSP & XML Firewall.
• Created SOAP UI Projects for the WSDL on the DataPower file system using the HTTP service on the data power.
• Designed data power request, response and error policies with Route, Transform, Match, Convert to XML, Result, Set Variable, Log, AAA actions.
• Implemented Web services message flow using SOAP nodes in IBM Integration Bus. Developed message flows for content based routing of messages. Responsible for aggregation and http nodes in calling external web services.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server (WAS) on multiple platforms for both Horizontal and Vertical clustering for Work Load Management.
• Created Message Broker objects on local and remote Message Broker servers.
• Using security exists and channel exists for providing security to MQ Objects.
• Created and configured MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Remote Queues, Local Queues, and Queue Aliases.
• Designed distributed queuing client server architectures and configured MQ.
• Enabled triggering on queues and was involved in the Clustering of Message Brokers, MQ Backup & Recovery process.
• Installed and configured MQ Series server on Windows 2000, Windows 2003, and Linux.
• Upgraded Web sphere Application Server (WAS) V6.1 by using refresh packs and fix packs on AIX and Linux platforms.
• Involved in Installation and configuration of DynaTrace.
• Configured WebSphere Resources including JMS, JDBC, Work Managers, Connection pooling and many Resources for WebSphere Environments.
• Involved in writing scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as startup, shutdown, backup procedure, system cleanup using ANT, Jacl, Jython, shell scripting and CRONJOBS.
• Monitoring application log files, Application Server Performance, and tuning for DB Pool connections.
• Install and Configured IBM HTTP Server 8.0 and configured plugins to work with WAS.
• Involved in Fraud applications (Detica).
• Significant experience with BigIP F5 Load Balancer administration, shell scripting for alerting and alarming on applications.
• Involved in creating the Scenarios to the business rules.
• Writing Auto deployment scripts using WSadmin.
• Configured GC parameters, monitoring the heap sizes by setting verbose GC, fine tuning and fixing memory issues.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server (6.1, 7.0, 8.5) ND, IIB v9, DataPower Xi50, Oracle SOA 10g/11g WebSphere Portal 6.0/6.1, WCM 6.x.,Message BrokerServers 9.0, Solaris 8/9, AIX 5.3, Site minder, Apache Webserver v2.0, IBM HTTP SERVER v6.1, Wily Introscope, DB2, Java/J2SE 1.4, J2EE 1.3, IBM Directory Server.

Confidential, Miramar, FL

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured and Administered WebSphere Application Server (WAS) ND/XD 6.1/7.0 on Red Hat Linux platform.
• Performance re-engineering: refactored complex high-volume IIB middleware application resulting in smaller footprint, increased throughput, with fewer resources enterprise caching solution proposal and demonstration; integration with IIB, IIB to WSRR integration.
• Architecture, Design and implementations of DataPower solution for services that are exposed by BCBS to external vendors.
• Implemented Web services message flow using SOAP nodes in IBM Integration Bus 9.0.
• Extensively worked on Oracle SOA suite administration, installation, configuration, tuning and customization.
• Backup and recovery of Oracle SOA suite dehydration store.
• Deployed and proactively monitored Oracle WebLogic Applications and SOA Composites using EM as well as ANT scripts.
• Hands on experience on SAML open standards and X.509 certificate management.
• Handled enhanced DataPower system level and message level logging.
• Created DataPower deployment policies to automate environmental changes for the services.
• Configured WebSphere LDAP Security with IBM Directory Server 6.0.
• Installed and configured the IBM HTTP Server 6.0 and Microsoft IIS (5.0 &6.0)
• Installed and configured WebSphere Message Broker 8.0.
• Created Primary and secondary MQ Cluster repositories on Linux systems and made the existing QMGR in all the different environments as a part of cluster.
• Installed and maintenance of Enterprise Applications in a clustered environment with failover support with the interaction of the developers.
• Identified for the need of Queue managers, Queues, Channels, and other MQ Objects, defined, administered and maintained the same.
• Worked as Message Queue architect and build several environments on various platforms such as UNIX, Linux, & Windows for different projects.
• Identified and fixed various production issues related to IBM MQ on Linux, UNIX and Windows system.
• Tuned existing Message Broker Servers in the environment to handle large volume of messages and process large amount of data.
• Experience in backup and recovery of Oracle SOA suite dehydration.
• Involved in Configuring Single Sign On (SSO) with Tivoli Access Manager for WebSphere Application Server.
• Involved in migrating applications from WAS V6.x to 7.0.
• Wrote several Shell scripts to perform day-to-day operations for Message Broker deployments Broker restarts and monitoring.
• Used WSINSTANCE to create multiple WebSphere instances from the command line.
• Used Tivoli Performance Viewer/Wily Introscope to monitor WebSphere Applications and tuned the environment accordingly like changing the JVM Heap and Connection Pool settings.
• Performed routine management of WebSphere environment like monitoring Disk Space and CPU Utilization.
• Achieved Workload Management and Failover by Creating and Configuring Clusters and Cluster members for Load Balancing and High availability.
• Responsible for applying Refresh packs, fix packs and Interim packs to WebSphere Application server and IHS web server.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server ND V6.x/7.0, IIB, Message Broker 8.0, Oracle SOA 10g, IBM DataPower Xi50,Xi52, DB2, IBM HTTP Server 6, Site Minder, AIX 5.3/6.0, Red hat Linux 4/5,IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer RAD6.0/ (WSAD) 4.0/5.0, JDK1.6, Peregrine Change Management tool, XML, JACL and Jython scripting.

Confidential, Rancho Cordova, CA

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.x/7.x on UNIX Platforms and used Update Installer to update with fix packs.
• Securing SOA Implementations and integrating Heterogeneous systems using IBM Data Power, IIB.
• Implemented Global Caching with IIB.
• Have used DataPower mostly as Gateway between IIB and outside applications using Web Service Proxy and Multi-Protocol Gateway services.
• MQ Managed File Transfer (MFT) solution with IIB.
• Designed and implemented DataPower Authentication solution for RTR application.
• Customized DataPower functionalities using various Extension Functions including Cryptographic, Metadata and XSLT.
• Designed DataPower request, response and error policies with Route, Transform, Match, Convert to XML, Result, Set Variable, Log, AAA actions.
• Configured data sources, connection pools for the application users for Oracle SOA Suite.
• Backing up the SOA Applications and upgraded Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA Suite 10g to 11g.
• Involved in DataPower architecture and designed message translation using DataPower from ACORD xml to AL3/Cobol and vice versa.
• Managed production support and troubleshooting for various SOA Applications.
• Involved in maintenance of production SOA instances.
• Maintained WebSphere Application Servers (WAS) on different UNIX (AIX, Solaris, Linux) platforms, development, testing and staging environments for on-going application development.
• Installed and configured Web sphere MQ 7.0
• Worked as MQ server admin and build several environments on various platforms such as UNIX, Linux & Windows for different projects.
• Tuned existing Message Broker Servers in the environment to handle large volume of messages and process large amount of data.
• Created Queue Managers, define Objects, channels, SSL, Clustering, shared channels, shared objects.
• Developed the scripts for creating and maintaining Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Processes and other WMQ objects.
• Handled the Message Broker managers in clustering for round robin and failover functionality.
• Responsible for identifying and creating the Message Broker objects required for the interfaces.
• Highly experienced in administering Unix/Linux Shell scripts to monitor installed J2EE applications and to get information from the logs and database in the required format and other daily activities.
• Managed the security and performance optimizations for EJB containers and Web applications in IBM WebSphere, IHS and Apache Webserver.
• Migrated existing applications from WAS 7.x to 8.x using WAS pre-upgrade and WAS post-upgrade tools on Sun Solaris, AIX.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources and connection pooling and tuning it and monitoring it using Tivoli Performance Viewer by enabling PMI.
• Involved in developing JACL, Jython, ANT and Shell scripts to administer and automate batch job scheduling including backup and recovery processes.
• Coordinated with various teams like Development, OS, Middleware group (WebSphere MQ Group), SAN, Database and Networking to Deploy the J2EE Applications in Development, QA, Staging and Production Environments.
• On-call production support (24X7) and troubleshooting problems related to Web Servers, WebSphere Application Server, Plug-ins, and Database.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7.x, Message Broker 7.0, IIB, Oracle SOA 10g, IBM DataPower Xi50, Xi52, Portal Server 6/7, IBM WebSphere MQ 5/6/7, IBM DB2, Linux, AIX, Sun Solaris, Sun ONE Directory Server 5.1, IHS Web Server 6.1, Tivoli Performance Viewer, DB2.

Confidential, Springdale, AR

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) ND 7.x/6.x/ 5.x, IBM HTTP Server 6.1/6.0/2.x On IBM AIX 5.3, Solaris and Windows platform.
• Applied fix packs, refresh packs and patches for different versions of WAS and Web servers in all the environments.
• Installed and configured Apache Server for hosting web pages.
• Performed Tuning by implementing Workload Management (WLM) and setting up various parameters in Web server.
• Defining and maintaining MQ and Message Broker Objects on various platforms.
• Identifying the need for and defining channels and queues and monitoring them.
• Installing and configuring MQ, WMB/MQSI, on various platforms.
• Provide support for applications utilizing Message Broker Series and MQSI products for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI).
• Installing and configuring WMB on various platforms.
• Writing effective rules for data interchange (say XML to MRM Template, COBOL copybook to DB2 Schema)
• Writing message parsers to work with existing message processing nodes.
• Writing rules and ESQL for message content enrichment (usually adding data from a database lookup).
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces.
• Installation, Configuring and administering interfaces for WebSphere Message Broker.
• Coded the ESQL for MQSI message flow nodes (IBM primitives) like Compute, Filter and Database related nodes.
• Integrated and deployed Enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere ND 7.1/6.1/6.0 that involves EAR, JAR, WAR files using Application Assembly Tool.
• Extensively worked with creating projects in SharePoint and implemented source code management using SharePoint.
• Worked with BizTalk to integrate data using adaptors from various data sources.
• Generated and created SSL keys and certificates and configured Apache tomcat server to use the SSL communications.
• Created CSR request to VeriSign and imported the valid certificates required for SSL authentication.
• Managed Security and Performance optimizations for IBM WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server and Apache Web Server.

Environment: WebSphereApplication Server ND 7.1/6.1/ 5.1,WebSpherePortal Server 7.0, IBM HTTP Server 6./2.0.4.7/13. x, Apache Web Server, IBM AIX 5.3, Solaris, Jdk 1.5, IBM Data power, Windows 2003 server, DB2

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0(WAS) on AIX, Linux and Solaris and created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
• Maintained WebSphere Application server for web applications development and deployment of JSP and EJB components on WAS.
• Involved in deploying the EAR files and scripting automated deployment of the applications.
• Administration of Working Application, Application performance monitoring, starting and stopping the application server.
• Installed plug-in for IBM HTTP WebServer, coordinated with Database Admin Team to create databases for storing the WebSphere application repository.
• Configured WebSphere domains in the administration console and Setting up WebSphere server instance for Windows services.
• Worked with Application groups in troubleshooting and fine-tuning the application Performance.
• Trouble shooting various problems in different stages of development using log files.
• Worked on WebSphere components such as Work Load Management (WLM), Session Management.
• Deployed J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server using WSAD tools.
• Installation, Upgrades, and patch maintenance for WebSphere Server.
• Monitoring tools/scripts to get important information from all of department’s server’s operating system and application patch level, disk space and memory usage, user’s activities on day-to-day basis.
• Configuring individual servers for different environments.
• Monitor servers and applications for errors and performance problems with server monitoring tools.
• Tune application and operating system and hardware for optimal performance and general JVM tuning.
• Responsible for application changes across different platforms - development, testing and production environments.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0, Apache, MQ Series, IBM HTTP Server, AAT, DB2, Oracle 8.x/7.x, J2EE, Clear Case, AIX 5.1, Sun Solaris 8.0,Tomcat 3.x, J2EE, JDK1.2/1.3, JNDI, JDBC, JSPs, HTML, SQL.