SUMMARY

• Experienced IBM Certified WebSphere Application Server Administrator V 6.1/7.0/8.0/8.5 , with current experience leading, Technical focal lead SME for ITCAM for AD 7.2/7.1/6.1,/Transactions/SOA/WPS/ESB/Datapower/WSRR/MQ & ITM 6.30.03/6.23.
• Certified ITIL® Foundation in IT Service Management
• Over twelve plus years of experience in System Administration and Application Development with 10 years plus of IBM WebSphere Application Server Administration.
• Expertise in installation, configuration and troubleshooting WebSphere Application Server 4.X/5.X/6.X/7.X /8.5 on zLinux 2.6 - s390x,Sun Solaris 10g/9.0/8.0, AIX 4.3/5.1, Linux 5.2 to 8.0 and Windows NT 4.0/2000 Servers
• Proficiency in Architecture, Installation, Setup and Configuration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.x/7.x/6.x/5.x/4.x
• Experience administering DataPower Security Gateway appliance infrastructure
• Worked on Guardium virtual appliance V10 for data encryption for backend data.
• Experience in ISAM v9.0 virtual Appliance installation, viewing the network traffic & configured dashboard.
• Worked on ISAM v9.0 administration Domains, ACL polices, Certificates & Password Management.
• Worked as a Tech Lead & co-ordinate with Architects to Designed the Infrastructure for Websphere/ITCAM & ITM Environment.
• Experience in configuring WSAM - older version for WAS DC & ITCAMfAD6.1 / 7.1 for performance tuning for WAS 8.5/7.0/6.1/6.0 /5.2.
• Installed & configured WebSphere Process Server (WPS 6.1) with WAS ND6.1/7.0/8.5 on zLinux 2.6-s390x, Sun Solaris 10g & AIX 5.x
• Installation and configuration of Data Collectors agents (DCA) & Management Server (MS) on WebSphere Application Server 6.1/7.1/8.0.
• Experience in development of monitoring reports, Configuration of Traps & Alerts for performance issues.
• Worked on DataPower cryptographic tools & SSL setup.
• Good Knowledge in DataPower AAA policies, LDAP, SMAL, LTPA & OAuth.
• Monitored the Enterprise applications on ITCAM for J2EE to generate the reports for different administration levels of access. (eg: L1, L2 & L3).
• Experience on Siteminder, TAM, WebSeal servers.
• Experience creating and managing User accounts and Domains on IBM Websphere DataPower
• Installed & Configured ITCAM Agent for WebSphere DataPower Appliance (bn) 7.10.
• Installed & Configured ITCAM for SOA (d4) agent v7.2/7.1
• Worked on Netcool Omnibus/Impact for Operational View.
• Good Experience in ITCAM for Response Time Tracking (RTT) monitoring J2EE & Web Response monitoring
• Migration done from ITCAM for RTT to ITCAM for Transactions. Created new RPT scripts from recording station using RPT v8.1/8.2/8.3
• Installed ITM V 6.30.3/6.23.0.1 on zlinux s390 & Worked on Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agents (TEMA), Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server (TEMS) & Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server (TEPS).
• Extensive experience with Java, J2EE concepts EJB, Servlets, RMI, JSP, JDBC Connection Pooling & Worked on PMI to enable Configuration Statics.
• Good Knowledge/Experience in ITM Infrastructure TEPS, RTEMS, TEMS & TDW.
• Good experience on PMR & CMR on Production Applications.
• Good exposure to Testing and Debugging Applications
• Providing Production & Development support (24X7).
• Expertise in automating administrative tasks using Shell scripting.
• Knowledge in Tivoli Access Manage (TAM), Oracle Access manager (OAM), Oracle Unified Directory (OUD)
• Knowledge in change and defect tracking tools such as Rational ClearQuest, ClearCase.
• Experience in understanding of Network concepts, WAN, DNS & load balancing devices such as F5 BigIp & Network dispatcher.
• Written Jacl scripts for automating administrative tasks eg (deploying EAR applications).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: Java, C, C++,JAVA script, HTML,XML,JSP, WSADMIN scripts, shell scripts, XSL, XSLT, Unix Shell Scripts, AWK, SED, TCSH, BASH, KSH, TCL, Perl, SQL, PL/SQL, CGI/Perl, JACL Script.

Software/Databases: IBM HTTP Server, IIS, Apache Server, Jakarta-Tomcat server, iPlanet Web Server, SUN One Server, IBM Directory Servers, JDK, Oracle 10g/9i/8i, DB2, MySQL, MS SQL Server, MS Access, WSAD, JACL, WSCP, WSADMIN scripts, iPlanet Directory server, RSA7.0/6.0, Rational Clear Case.

Operating Systems: UNIX, AIX, zlinux, Solaris, Linux, Windows NT/2000/2003, HP UXProtocols TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, LDAP, SOAP, RMI/IIOP.

Appliances: Datapower XI52, Guardium v10

Application/Middleware servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Process Server,ESB, WebSphere XD,WebSphere MQ, Weblogic, JBoss.

Tivoli: ITCAM6.1/7.1/7.2 for AD, ITCAM for Transactions 7.3/7.4, ITCAM for SOA, ITCAM for DataPower/WSSR, ITM 6.30.30/6.23/6.1 , TEMA, TEMS, TEPS, Netcool Omnibus/Impact,TDW.

Web Applications: IBM WebSphere, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Commerce, Web Logic, J2EE, Servlets, Applets, EJB, WebService.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, PA

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and maintenance of WAS 8.5/ 7.0/6.1/6.0/ 5. x, WebSphere Process Server 6.0/6.1, ESB, IBM IHS 6.0/2.0.47,ITCAM 6.1/7.1//8.5.
• Installed IBM HTTP Server and configured the Web Server plug-in to work with the web server and the application server
• Experience integrating DataPower devices with webservice applications into the system to provide security and transformation services.
• Worked on Data power Services using MPGW, WS Proxy services.
• Worked on Data Power SOA Appliance using CLI, WebGUI & SOMA/AMP.
• Experience setting up webservice security in Data Power appliance.
• Installed Guardium Virtual appliance v10 for Master aggregator & Collector.
• Configured Activity Monitoring & Data Management on Guardium Appliance
• Configured STAP Control, SSH public key management using Guardium Appliance
• Worked on FAM, DAM, Protect & Reports.
• Worked on DataPower cryptographic tools & SSL setup.
• Experience in Data Power XI52 Integration with WebSphere MQ
• Experience integrating DataPower with Identity and Access manager
• Good experience & Knowledge in DataPower integration with WAS ND, IIB & WSSR.
• Created and setup new WebSphere Application Servers in a clustered environment.
• Deployed Enterprise J2EE applications & configured ITCAM for J2EE in the shared WAS environment.
• Installed & Configured on Production Environment for ITCAM Management Server (MS) & Data Collector Agents (DC) for generating Reports, Server Activity Display, Availability Monitoring, Server Statistics, System Resources.
• Worked on Application Problem Determination on Production, Pre-Prod, Performance, Development Servers in ITCAM for WebSphere & RTT.
• Installed Data Collectors agents (DCA) and Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agents TEMA integrated to TEPS, RTEMS & TEMS.
• Experience in administering IBM MQ and MB
• Data collector agents are configured for multithreaded process using Command agent, Event agent, & Monitoring agent.
• Generated few reports for Problem Determination mode (L2) & Trace Mode (L3).
• Enabled L3 + Method profiling & L2 + Method profiling (MP) to get one single transaction report from ITCAM Console.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from the admin console & scripts.
• Installed Fix packs for ITCAM 6.1/7.0/7.2 for WebSphere & ITM v6.1/23.01.
• Worked on Byte code Instrumentation (BCI) in ITCAMfWAS.
• Uploading the Robot Scripts using Multi File Uploader using the ITCAMforRTT Admin Console.
• Configured ITCAM for Transactions Reporter (To) & Collector (Tu).
• Installed & configured AMC (t3 agent) & RRT (T6 agent)
• Installed & configured ITCAM for SOA integrated with TEPS.
• Installed & Configured WPS/BPM 6.2 data collectors & Agents.
• Worked on sample canned reports using TCR for Lz agents.
• Worked on WSRR configurations for SOA agents v7.2 integrations.
• Installed DataPower Agent configured Add instances for MQ.
• Worked on Log Agent Adapters for scraping logs for WAS systemOut.log.
• Worked on Workaround for MQ & MQ broker agents installed & configured.
• Adding the Instances for MQFTE to configure remote mq servers.
• Created situations for ITCAM for Websphere/Transactions/SOA & Web Resources.
• Installed & configure ITCAM for Microsoft Applications eg: Windows Os agent, MS .Net, MS cluster, MS Sql server.
• Experience in Tivoli Netcool Omnibus & Impact.
• Installed RPT v 7.0/8.1/8.2/8.3 on Windows machine. Created scripts using automated recording features. Uploaded the scripts to AMC to view on TEPS workspaces
• Created situations for itcam for transactions reporter & Collector & Changed the sample rate on TEPS for ITCAM for Transactions performance.
• Fine-tuned both WebServers and Application Servers for different load requirements.
• Configuring of JDBC Providers, Data Source, Virtual Hosting, Global Security, SSL, LDAP.
• Installed IBM InfoSphere & Configured upon client request.
• Creation and management of data source and database connection pools
• Applied fixpacks, cumulative fixes and upgraded WAS 6.0/6.1/7/0/8.5 & ITCAM 6.0/6.1/7.1/7.2.
• Troubleshooting WebSphere Application Server problems using Log Analyzer, Tracing & Enabled PMI & configured ‘All’ Statics to get the Data to TEPS Console.
• Tuned Database connection pools, Thread pools, JVM Heap Size to required sizes using Admin Console.

Environment: WAS 8.5/ 7.0/6.1&6.0.2.23, IBM HTTP Server 8.5/7.0/6.0, Windows 7.0/ Xp, zLinux 2.6-s390x, WebSphere Process Server 8/6.2/6.0, ESB, WebSphere MQ & MB, DB2 8.0 J2EE, Load Balancer,Siteminder, ITCAMfAD, WRT,Transactions,SOA, IBM Websphere Data Power XI52 and XI50,IBM Guardium Appliance V10, WSSR, RTT, ITM v6.2, TEMA, TEPS, TEMS, Netcool OminBus & Impact & WebServices.

Confidential, IL

IBM WebSphere & ITCAM Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and maintenance of WAS 6.1/6.0/ 5.0.2 , IBM IHS 6.0/2.0.47,ITCAM 6.1.
• Installed IBM HTTP Server and configured the Web Server plug-in to work with the web server and the application server
• Created and setup new WebSphere Application Servers in a clustered environment.
• Deployed Enterprise J2EE applications & configured ITCAM for J2EE in the shared WAS environment.
• Installed Data Collectors agents (DCA) and Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agents (TEMA).
• Data collectors agents are configured for multithreaded process using Command agent, Event agent, & Monitoring agent..
• Generated few reports for Problem Determination mode (L2) & Trace Mode (L3).
• Enabled L3 + Method profiling & L2 + Method profiling (MP) to get one single transaction report from ITCAM Console.
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from the admin console & scripts.
• Deployed the web services in POCs to achieve 360 transactions per/sec.
• Fine tuned the WAS servers and Hibernate cashing for high throughput.
• Fine-tuned both WebServers and Application Servers for different load requirements
• Created shared libraries & configured web services bindings for Application security.
• Interpreted log files to locate and solve application server problems.
• Creation and management of data source and database connection pools
• Applied fixpacks, cumulative fixes and upgraded WAS 6.0/6.1 & ITCAM6.0/6.1.
• Troubleshooting Web Sphere Application Server problems using Log Analyzer and Tracing.
• Good knowledge in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
• Managed backups and restoration, process scheduling, file systems.
• Escalating Issues with IBM involving WAS 6.0 & 6.1 ND Version & DB2
• Optimized the performance of Enterprise Applications using Tivoli Performance Viewer & ITCAM
• Tuned Database connection pools, Thread pools, JVM Heap Size to required sizes using Admin Console.
• Configuring of JDBC Providers, Data Source, Virtual Hosting, Global Security, SSL, LDAP.
• Developed shell scripts for creating data source, starting & stopping application servers using JACL scripts.
• Performed routine management of Websphere environment like monitoring Disk space,CPU utilization
• Worked on DNS & load balancing devices such as F5 BigIp.
• Used Collector Tool to gather information about installation and packages

Environment: WAS 6.1 &6.0.2.23, IBM HTTP Server 6.0, Windows Xp, Sun Solaris 10.0, Tibco, DB2 8.0 J2EE, RSA 6.0/7.0, ClearCase, F5 BigIP Load Balancer, ITCAM 6.1 for J2EE & Tivoli Performance,WebService SOAP over JMS and HTTP.

Confidential, Southbury, CT

IBM Websphere/Portal Administrator/Support on AIX

Responsibilities:

• Installed both IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.0/5.0 and Web Sphere Application Server Network Deployment V6/5.0 and configured on Unix & Windows
• Deployed, Installation, Configuration and maintenance for Portal Applications.
• Developed many WebSphere Control Program (WSCP) scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up Developed many WebSphere Control Program (WSCP) scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XMLConfig tool
• Setting up performance tuning and runtime options in WebSphere Application Server specific to WS Portal configuration using XMLConfig tool.
• Tested and deployed portal applications on Websphere Portal Server using portal toolkit
• Involved in configuring the WebSphere load balancing using WebSphere workload management like horizontal cloning and vertical cloning
• Setting up horizontal clusters for Work Load Management (WLM) and Failover Support
• Enforcing Application wide Authentication and Authorization Services
• Deployed enterprise applications from the admin console and defined virtual hosts and environment variables
• Installed WebSphere Commerce servers & configured on Unix
• Deployment,fixpacks,cumulative fixes & Drivers are installed on WebSphere Commerce Servers
• Diagnosed the problems caused in the applications through the log files and rectified
• Deployed the application in staging, in production, following change management practices and 24/7 support, worked in shifts
• Analyzing Error and Event log files and diagnosing Application Server problems
• Responsible for performance tuning of HTTP server, Web Container, EJB Container, and database Connection Pool
• Installed JDBC drivers and created the data sources and configured the parameters of the connection pool
• Defined synchronized and persistent IBM MQSeries Queue Manager, Channel Managers and Queues.
• Workload management of EJBs and Servlets using Enterprise Java Services workload management
• Worked on WebSphere Broker JMS Transport for connection protocol for sending & receiving messages.
• Configured & optimized the performance of Enterprise Applications using Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Worked on setup the configurations setting on WSAM
• Creating junctions, applying acls to the junctions to Webseal servers.
• Performed WebSphere process tuning,JVM optimization, Java memory tuning
• Used WebSphere Resource Analyzer
• Wrote shell scripts for automation and scheduling tasks

Environment: IBM WebSphere 4.X/5.X, 6.x, Aix 5.1, Linux 8.0,Lotus, proxy servers, Netcache, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Commerce, WebSphere MQ,Websphere XD, Windows XP, 2000, Webseal servers.