SUMMARY

• Seeking a challenging and responsible position with over 7 years of overall results driven experience in WebSphere Administration, I am looking for an opportunity that utilizes my technical expertise, architectural and design skills in Integration using IBM WebSphere Application Server, Portal Server and BPM on various platforms.
• Experienced in installation, configuration, deployment and management of enterprise applications using WebSphere Application server 8.x/7.x/6.x/, WebSphere Portal Server 8.0/7.0/6.1 and WebSphere Process Server (BPM) 8.5/7.0 on various platforms like AIX, Linux and Windows 2003.
• Strong technical knowledge includes WebSphere Application server implementation, fail - over support, workload management (WLM) using horizontal scaling and vertical scaling and performance tuning, Web server setup, complex secure socket layer (SSL) configuration on IBM HTTP Server 8.5/7.x/6.x
• IBM Certified expert on Application Administration, Systems administration, Trouble shooting and support of highly mission critical e-Commerce Applications using IBM WebSphere Application server 8.5/7.0/6.0, IBM HTTP Server 8.5/7.0/6.0/2. x/1.3x, Oracle 11g, 10.x, 9.x, UDB/DB 2 10.1/9.5/8. 2/7.2 , Firewalls and Internet.
• Experienced in deploying BPEL and SCA modules for BPM.
• Experienced in creating deployment environments and profiles for BPM using db2.
• Experienced in trouble shooting issues with BPEL processes for BPM.
• Experienced in Web Content Management (WCM) and Syndication using Portal Server 8.0/6.1.
• Experienced in database transfer from derby to db2 during installation of Portal Server 8.0/6.1.
• Experienced in configuring Portal cluster.
• Experienced in configuring the Portal cluster for a federated LDAP repository.
• Experienced in creating pages and mapping portlets to pages using WebSphere Portal Server 7.0/6.1.
• Experienced in configuring Portal light mode which will improve the performance.
• Experienced in deploying Pages and Portlets using release builder across the environments.
• Experienced in configuring SSL certificates.
• Experienced in creating users and groups and assigning roles and permissions to the groups/users.
• Strong Experience in migrating WAS from 7.0 to 8.5 on various operating systems of UNIX (AIX/Linux) and Windows. Good hands on experience in configuring the horizontal-vertical clustering, Session persistence and application migration.
• Working knowledge of JDBC connectivity from WebSphere to Oracle, SQL Server, and IBM DB2.
• Strong experience to work on RCA (root cause analysis) and adopt best practices to reduce mean time to recovery per the SLAs. And practical experience on Scripts writing, debugging, automating admin tasks and executing using ANT, JACL, Jython and UNIX shell scripts.
• Extensive experience with Web administration, which includes installation and configuration of IBM HTTP Servers 8.5/7.0/6.0, Apache 2.x, Tomcat 4.1, IIS 6.0 on AIX/Linux and Windows environments.
• Implemented LDAP Server security using Windows 2003 Active directory and Tivoli Directory Server.
• Worked with various Incident management tools and issue tracking tools.
• Experienced in configuring horizontal clusters and vertical clusters on WebSphere Application server.
• Experienced in deploying various EJB and Web Applications on the Clusters.
• Experienced using BigIP (F5) Sprayer to Load Balance the applications traffic to different servers.
• Experienced in applying patches and plug-ins for WebSphere application server 8.5/7.x/6.x.
• Proficient in using Tivoli performance viewer, Log Analyzer and IBM Edge components
• Provided many JACL, Jython, ANT and Shell scripts to automate the administration of enterprise application resources.
• Experienced to work with IBM technical support team to resolve the WebSphere problems.
• Experience in supporting applications in a 24/7, Excellent Troubleshooting and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5/7.0/6.1, WebSphere Portal Server 8.0/6.1, WebSphere Process Server (BPM) 8.5/7.0, IBM HTTP Server 8.5/7.0/6.1, Apache 2.2, BigIP (F5),Tivoli Performance Viewer, Log Analyzer, Core Dump Analyzer.

OS: AIX, Linux, Red Hat Linux and Windows 2003.

Scripting: JACL, Jython, ANT, JavaScript and Shell script.

Hardware: IBM Blade Centers, DELL Power Edge Servers, COMPAQ, HP.

Languages: JAVA, PL/SQL, VB, HTML.

Java/J2EE/Web: HTML, DHTML, XML, J2EE, JDBC, Servlets, JSP, Java Beans, RMI, EJB, JNDI, JMS.

Databases: DB 2 10.1/9.5/8. x, Oracle 9i/10g/11g and SQL Server 2005/2000.

Tools: PowerPoint, Word, Access, Outlook, Excel, VISIO, Active directory 2003, TDS 5.2.

Virtualization: VMware ESX Server 3.X, VMotion, VMware Converter.

Unix Tools: WinSCP, MTPutty, FTP, SSH

Monitoring Tools: App Dynamics, Wily, ITCAM.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas Texas

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured, Maintained, Tuned and Supported Websphere Application Server 8.5/7.0, WebSphere Portal Server 8.0/7.0/6.1 and WebSphere Process Server (BPM) 8.5/7.0.
• Administer a complex cluster based load balanced Websphere application server, WebSphere Portal Server and WebSphere Process Server environment.
• Deployed, Installed and Maintained several Enterprise Applications in a clustered environment.
• Experienced in deploying SCA modules on WebSphere Process Server.
• Experienced in trouble shooting the RMI call failures and CORBA exceptions.
• Configured WebSphere MQ for WebSphere Process Server 8.5/7.0.
• Designed, Configured and Maintained Big-IP (F5), CISCO configurations for all WAS applications.
• Experienced in installing, configuring, tuning, deploying, troubleshooting WebSphere applications. (More than 180 web apps running on WAS, WPS and Portal servers)
• Actively involved in production support for debugging the issues.
• Configured IHS (WebServer) on WebSphere Portal Server.
• Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere apps.
• Provided various techniques to Architects and Project Managers in designing E-Business system with features like high-availability, disaster recovery and application fail-over.
• Worked with product vendors for resolving issues and problems related to products.
• Designed, configured and maintained automatic build and deploy (ANT, JACL, Shell Scripting) process for WAS 8.5/7.0, WPS 8.5/7.0 and Portal 8.0/6.1 on Dev and Prod servers using Phurnace .
• Experienced in installing Update Installer and applied 7.0.0.25/7.0.0.21 patches for WebSphere application server 7.0. And 7.0.0.5 for WebSphere Process Server.
• Supported Dev, Test, Training, UAT and production environments for WAS7, WPS7 and Portal 6.1 environments.
• Implemented LDAP security on WAS using TDS.
• Regularly coordinate with developers, network engineers and security teams to improve the application availability and performance.
• Performed troubleshooting for WebSphere, IHS Servers, Load balanced servers (F5)
• Managed and configured up to fifteen third party tools and integrated them with WebSphere.
• Experienced in Troubleshooting by analyzing log files using the Log Analyzer tool
• Involved in designing WebSphere Application Server load balancing and fail over by using Workload Management (WLM) horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Experienced in deploying applications manually and using automated scripts.
• Provided support to migrate the applications from WAS 6.1 to WAS7.0
• Configured and maintained the Rules Management, this is the home page for Developers which is used to check the Websphere Logs, Code Deployments, Framework files and URL’s.
• Design, configure and maintain the ANT build process to deploy the application code changes to WAS 6.1 servers.
• 24x7 application/infrastructure support.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5/7.0, IBM WebSphere Portal Server 8.0/6.1, WebSphere Process Server 8.5/7.0, AIX 6.1, Windows 2003, DB2 10.1/9.5, UDB, Oracle 10g 11g, SQL Server, Active Directory 2003, TDS 5.2, IBM HTTP Server 8.5/7.0, Shell Scripting, JACL and Jython, BIG IP (F5), ANT, COGNOS.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured, Maintained, Tuned and Supported WebSphere Application Server 7.0/6.1.
• Administer a complex cluster based load balanced WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal Server environment
• Deployed, Installed and Maintained several Enterprise Applications in a clustered environment.
• Designed, Configured and Maintained Big-IP (F5) configurations for all WAS applications.
• Experienced in installing, configuring, tuning, deploying, troubleshooting Websphere applications. (More than 60 web apps running on WAS servers)
• Configured Portal cluster and did the database transfer to use db2.
• Configured LDAP for the user registry.
• Deployed WAR files on portal cluster using XML access script.
• Installed WCM and configured Syndicators and subscribers for Web Content Management.
• Deployed portlets and mapped web content to the portlets.
• Applied Portal fix packs and cumulative fixes using Update Portal.
• Actively involved in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottlenecks.
• Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere apps.
• Provided various techniques to Architects and Project Managers in designing E-Business system with features like high-availability, disaster recovery and application fail-over.
• Worked with product vendors for resolving issues and problems related to products.
• Successfully Migrated Websphere Application Servers from 6.1 to 7.0 .
• Designed, configured and maintained automatic build and deploy (ANT, JACL, Shell Scripting) process for WAS6.1 on Dev and Prod servers and we are using automation process to promote the code changes.
• Experienced in installing Update Installer and applied 6.0.2.25 and 6.1.0.9/6.1.0.15 patches for WebSphere application server 6.1
• Supported Dev, Test, Training, Uat and production environments for WAS7/6 environments.
• Implemented LDAP security on WAS using Windows 2003 Active Directory server and TDS.
• Configured WebSphere security using LDAP server to support multiple windows 2003 AD domain controllers. (Federated Repositories)
• Regularly coordinate with developers, network engineers and security teams to improve the application availability and performance.
• Performed troubleshooting for WebSphere, IHS Servers, Load balanced servers (F5)
• Maintenance of Websphere backup scripts using JACL
• Performing Troubleshooting by analyzing log files using the Log Analyzer tool
• Involved in designing WebSphere Application Server load balancing and fail over by using Workload Management (WLM) horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Provided support to the Developers to Install and Maintain the Rational Software Architect 7 (RSA) installation package.
• Provided support to migrate the applications from WAS 6.1 to WAS7.0
• Configured and maintained the Developer Resources, this is the home page for Developers use to check the Websphere Logs, Code Deployments, Framework files and URL’s.
• Design, configure and maintain the ANT build process to deploy the application code changes to WAS 6.1 servers.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0/6.1, AIX, Windows 2003, DB2 UDB, Oracle, SQL Server, Active Directory 2003, TDS 5.2, IBM HTTP Server 6.x, Shell Scripting, JACL and Jython, BIG IP (F5), IIS 6.0/5.0, ANT.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1/6.0 on Linux and Windows 2003 Platforms.
• Implementation of horizontal and vertical scaling of WebSphere Application Server (WAS) in a workload-managed cluster. This has involved modeling and cloning (now called server groups and cloning) services in WAS 6.x
• Installed Fix packs, Cumulative Fixes and Refresh Packs on the Base and ND Versions.
• Developed Deployment Automation for automatic installation of applications and modules on to a running Websphere server.
• Experience in creating self-signed certificates using ikeyman and keytool and installing SSL certificates and Web Sphere plugin configuration.
• Research, analyze and evaluate new technologies and make recommendations for their deployment based on the Project Management Guidelines and Resource.
• Ensuring consistent communication between WebSphere Clients, DB2, and IHS.
• Implemented security using LDAP Server and Tivoli Access Manager (TAM).
• WebSphere process tuning, Administrative Repository tuning, JVM optimization, Java memory tuning.
• Configuring horizontal Clusters in WebSphere
• Deployment, Installation and maintenance of several Enterprise Applications in a clustered environment with fail-over support with the interaction of the Developers
• Applying patches and plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server
• Experience using of F5 load-balancers Tool to check the load on each application.
• Involvement in performance monitoring and tuning by using the Tivoli Performance Viewer
• Performing Troubleshooting by analyzing log files using the Log Analyzer tool and also by running traces
• Responsible for scheduled and emergency software changes, problem determination and implementation of corrective measures.
• Responsible for installing and configuring third party software necessary to test the product such as IBM HTTP Server 2.0, and DB2 8.2
• Supported Web Sphere Application Server load balance and failover.
• Documentation of all procedures and any other important issues

Environment: IBM Web sphere Application Server 6.1/6.0, Linux, Windows 2003, DB2 UDB, Oracle, Active Directory 2003, TDS 5.2, TAM, IBM HTTP Server 2.0, Apache 2.2, Shell Scripting, JACL and Jython.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0/5.1.
• Implementation of horizontal and vertical scaling of WebSphere Application Server (WAS) in a workload-managed cluster. This has involved modeling and cloning (now called server groups and cloning) services in WAS 5.x
• Supported Web Sphere Application Server, load balance and failover.
• Installed Fix packs, Cumulative Fixes and Refresh Packs on the Base and ND Versions.
• Developed Deployment Automation for automatic installation of applications and modules on to a running Websphere server.
• Experience in creating self-signed certificates using ikeyman and installing SSL certificates and Web Sphere plugin configuration.
• Research, analyze and evaluate new technologies and make recommendations for their deployment based on the Project Management Guidelines and Resource.
• Ensuring consistent communication between WebSphere Clients, Oracle, and IHS.
• Implemented security using LDAP Server and Win Active Directory.
• WebSphere process tuning, Administrative Repository tuning, JVM optimization, Java memory tuning.
• Configuring horizontal Clusters in WebSphere
• Deployment, Installation and maintenance of several Enterprise Applications in a clustered environment with fail-over support with the interaction of the Developers
• Applying patches and plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server
• Involvement in performance monitoring and tuning by using the Tivoli Performance Viewer
• Performing Troubleshooting by analyzing log files using the Log Analyzer tool and also by running traces
• Responsible for scheduled and emergency software changes, problem determination and implementation of corrective measures.
• Documentation of all procedures and any other important issues

Environment: IBM Web sphere Application Server 6.0/5.1, Linux, Oracle, IBM HTTP Server 2.0, Apache 2.2, Shell Scripting, JACL and Jython.