PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Highly motivated, results-oriented, and innovative seasoned IT/Enterprise Middleware professional with more than 22 years of technical and leadership experience including over 8 years in messaging based middleware in financial, banking, credit card, and retail industries in building system, infrastructure, architecture, design, develop and Large Scale system implementations both distribute and mainframe . Also have high availability, load balancing, and disaster recovery planning and implementation experience both as a technical implementation as well as mobilizing a team to achieve these.
• Extensive experience working closely with functional groups, Application Developers, Quality Assurance and Network/System Engineering providing planning, defining, documenting, configuring, testing, deploying, supporting and troubleshooting middleware issues
• Also have an excellent teamwork along with leadership, mentoring team members, analytical, creative, strategic and lateral thinking, problem solving, inter-personal, presentation and communication skills applicable in every job situation.

Key Technical Skills

• Operating System : AIX, UNIX, Linux, Windows 2k/2k3, AS/400, Solaris 9/10, and Mainframe
• Dist. Computing : CORBA, EJB and RMI
• Prog. Language : COBOL, C, C , Java, J2EE, SQL, PL/SQL, and ESQL:
• Middleware : MQ/MB, WAS, Tomcat, JBOSS, Weblogic, IHS, Apache, and IIS, CICS
• DBMS : Oracle, DB2, SQL server, MS Access:
• Scripting : XM, D/HTML, Java Script, Perl, Jython, shell script, DOS batch,sed, and awk
• Protocols : TCP/IP, FTP, SMTP, SOAP, POP and HTTP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Sr. Senior WebSphere MQ and MB Administrator

Confidential

• Design, develop and Implement infrastructure solutions for middleware applications by engineering and configuring the IBM Websphere MQ, and Message Broker
• Design, implement and maintain integration systems infrastructure including fault tolerance and high availability solutions. Design and develop Integration solutions based on IBM MQ and Message Broker technologies.
• Install and configure IBM Websphere MQ and Message Broker on UNIX and Windows based environments
• Carry out performance tuning for Websphere MQ and Message Broker for high throughput
• Participate in planning, estimating, and reviewing tasks for application designs and development solutions. Evaluate risks/benefits, and prepare implementation plan
• Work closely with the development teams to administer load testing and monitoring. Manage and maintain the environments by automating systems management and monitoring activities.
• Troubleshoot Integration and infrastructure issues. Integrate simple to moderately complex MQ, Message Broker, Java/JEE, WebServices applications into DEV, TEST, QA, UAT and Production environments.
• Carry out application deployment to include MQ Message Broker install, queue configuration, broker configuration, EAR and BAR file deployment, database connectivity, and troubleshooting. Participate weekly project meetings and provide input/task updates to project team.
• Identify and resolves technical/production issues moderate to complex in nature, utilizing industry standard tools carry root cause analysis and escalate problems to a higher level if required

Middleware Administrator/ Support/Engineer

Confidential

Job Roles:

• The Primary role of this position is to provide operational/production support of middleware environment running mission critical enterprise applications.
• The role involves providing Administrative and production support verizonwireless's middleware environment deploy enterprise applications, setting up performance tuning and proactive monitoring, handle incidence ticket/alert, in IBM technology suite: WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Websphere Message Broker. WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server IHS and Datapower on Solaris environment. This role also shares a rotation oncall.

Major Responsibilities

• Set up automated proactive monitoring using industry standard monitoring tool such as Wily or in some cases where Wily does not have facility, write shell script
• As a Change control implementation, carry out a regular, and enterprise application build, Deploy and provide after go live /change environment including but not limited to problem analysis and take corrective action which sometime could be even backing out the applications
• Set up application performance tuning and proactive problem monitoring using APM tools
• Alert for incident in production systems, work to bring up the system up and running and carry out an investigation in order to find out root cause
• Evaluate, install, upgrade, configure and maintain middleware components to support the business requirements in handset and customer communication areas
• Develop various scripts using different scripting languages eg shell/perl /python for automating production tasks such as automated restart of queue listener, app servers, app cluster, moving poisonous messages, upload/download message to/from queues, stop/start queue manager, broker, execution group, and monitoring various components and automate execution of these scripts as much possible
• Create necessary documentation to build/deploy enterprise applications, administer them, and provide after production support
• Create and maintain support documentation for on-call and support personnel to monitor and troubleshoot production issues in MQ, MB, WAS, IHS, Data Power and LDAP.
• provide occasional support in other tasks, deploying SMS to customers, create /update SMS/Email templates, handle customer ticket related to cces and handset, coordinate ER deployment with various teams like database administrators, system administrators, and other IT teams
• Provide on-call support on rotational basis once in 6 weeks or as required