PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• IBM Certified Specialist in WebSphere MQ Administration with over Seven 7 years of IT industry experience in IBM WebSphere suite of products MQ,WBIMB and WAS
• Exposure to major Production Environments running E-Business applications using WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker
• Expertise in Installing Configuring IBM WebSphere MQ 7.0.1.7/6.0/5.3, WSRR and WebSphere Message Broker 6.1/6.0/5.0 on various environments such as Windows 2003/NT/XP, AIX, Sun Solaris, Linux, HP-UX and AS/400
• Experienced in Setting up High availability clusters for WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker servers using HACMP, VERITAS and MSCS.
• Expertise in troubleshooting the critical production issues and getting them resolved quickly
• Proficient in DataPower Web GUI, CLI interfaces.
• Expertise in setting up the databases and configuring the odbc files for the broker connection
• Expert on working with Broker servers on Versions 5.0/ 6.0/ 6.1 and 7.1.
• Expertise in Administering Performance Tuning in IBM WebSphere MQ and Broker
• More than 2 years of experience in WebSphere Application Server WAS
• Well versed in installing and using monitoring tools like Tivoli Omegamon and Qpasa
• Expert in setting up security in MQ and Broker using OAM and Access control lists
• Experienced in setting up SSL across the MQ and Broker environments and maintaining the certificates
• Experience in writing Bash Shell Scripts, Crontab Scripting for automated recycle of WebSphere MQ and Broker servers and day to day tasks

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Operating System : Windows 2000/NT/2003/XP, HP-UX, z/OS, Linux, Solaris, Linux,
• AIX, AS400, HP-UX
• Software : WebSphere MQ 6.x, 5.x, WebSphere Message Broker 6.1, 6.0, 5.0,
• MQSI, WAS, Tivoli Omegamon XE, Qpasa.
• Database : MS SQL Server 2000/2005, MySql, Oracle 8i/9i, MS-Access, DB2.
• Languages : T-SQL, PL/SQL, XML, Java, C, C , VB, VC , FoxPro.
• Web Technologies : HTML, DHTML, XML, ASP.Net with C , VB Script.
• SOA Appliances : IBM Datapower XS40 XI50
• SOA Registry Repository: WSRR

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

WebSphere MQ/Broker Admin

Responsibilities:

• Worked on MQ 7.0. , 7.1 and WMB 6.1, 7.0. on LINUX, WINDOWS, AIX, Sun Solaris and MAINFRAMES.
• Created objects for MQ on MAINFRAMES, LINUX and WINDOWS servers.
• Worked on DISASTER RECOVERY in QA and PRODUCTION environments.
• Supported FRAME MAINTAINANCES and SAN migration activities in the environment.
• Supported many Applications in QA environment during CFP testings and created reports for the queue depth and message ages to analyze the test from MQ and WMB side.
• Migrated MB from V6.1.0.5 to 7.0.0.2.
• Documented all the installations and maintenances organized and provided documents for the offshore team.
• Implemented XA on MQ queue manager configured MB to use external databases like Oracle and DB2.
• Configured and created queue managers, message queues, channels, process definitions and triggers.
• Developed and configured firewall policies for DataPower
• Configured DataPower XML components, document processing rules, document processing actions, XPath Routing Map, Duration Monitor, Log targets.
• Configured JMS applications to connect to MQ by creating bindings files
• Setup MQ and Message Broker Pub/Sub environments
• Setup Message Broker domains and collectives.
• Implemented high availability in MQ V7 multi instance qmgr
• Implemented QPASA monitoring on test and prod queue managers and the message flows.
• Deployed the Bar files using toolkit and by writing scripts in UNIX.
• Applied Monitoring and Property profiles to the flows.
• Created execution groups and deployed the Bar files.
• Setup remote administration of all the Queue managers.
• Setup SSL and OAM security of the MQ environment.
• Performed system tests with project teams, troubleshooting, analyzing messaging errors, upgrading Unix/Intel servers in WMQ groups.
• Applied MQ fix packs 7.0.1.6 on UNIX platforms
• Worked with the IBM support in opening PMR's and troubleshooting the issues
• Setup API's for the applications to talk to MQ
• Provided 24x7 technical administration services to WMQ/Message Broker server environments in multiple platforms.

Confidential

WebSphere MQ/Broker Admin

Responsibilities:

• Applied MQ fix packs 7.0.1.3 on UNIX.
• Migrated MB from V6.1.0.5 to 7.0 and applied MB fix pack 7.0.0.2 on all servers.
• Documented all the installations and maintenances.
• Implemented XA on MQ queue manager, configured MB to use external databases like
• Orcale and DB2
• Configured and created queue managers, message queues, channels, process definitions
• and triggers.
• Configured JMS applications to connect to MQ by creating bindings files
• Performed on-call duties on a rotational basis, resolved problems in MQ, Message Brokers
• and WAS.
• Setup MQ and Message Broker Pub/Sub environments
• Setup Message Broker domains and collectives.
• Implemented high availability in MQ V7 multi instance qmgr
• Implemented CA wily monitoring on test and prod queue managers and the message
• flows.
• Created and deployed the Bar files using toolkit and by writing scripts in UNIX.
• Created execution groups and deployed the Bar files.
• Setup remote administration of all the Queue managers.
• Setup SSL and OAM security of the MQ environment.
• Performed system tests with project teams, troubleshooting, analyzing messaging errors, upgrading Unix/Intel servers in WMQ groups.
• Provided support to project teams in system development in an object-oriented
• Setup API's for the applications to talk to MQ
• Provided 24x7 technical administration services to WMQ/Message Broker server
• environments in multiple platforms.

Confidential

WebSphere MQ/Broker Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installing MQ, WBIMB on Solaris server.
• Developed Message flows using SWIFT messages
• Defining MQ objects on Solaris, Windows etc using the scripts.
• Setup the broker and designed the pub/sub.
• Designed and developed message flows using the toolkit for data transformation.
• Created message sets by importing the COBOL copybooks.
• Coded the ESQL for the message flow nodes.
• Monitoring queues and channels.
• Setup remote administration for all the queue managers.
• Writing API's using C, Java.
• Setting up the SSL on the channels.
• Setup the trigger's and channel initiators.
• Setup security using the Object Authority Manager.
• Deploying the Message flows and sets in the broker.
• Troubleshooting and debugging Message Flows using trace nodes and error handling
• nodes.
• Tuning up performance of the applications.
• Installing the latest patches for MQ and WBIMB from IBM.
• Providing 24/7 support for the MQ and WBIMB issues.

Confidential

WebSphere MQ/Broker Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Installed WMQ/Broker in many servers like Solaris, AIX, Linux and windows.
• Worked with internal and external clients in EAI projects. Verified the configuration by
• exchanging messages from both ends.
• Designed message routing using MQIPT.
• Deployed the Bar files in broker using Toolkit and the command lines.
• Performed system test with project team, trouble shoot and analyzed messaging errors.
• Upgraded Unix/Intel servers in WQM group.
• Installed monitoring tools like Candle and Qpasa for monitoring alerts.
• Setup MQ Clustering for high availability and administration purposes.
• Designed failover handling, HA high Availability using MSCS Microsoft Cluster Server
• and HACMP by using MQ series support Pac.
• Configured Queues, channels for project teams. Configured WMQ Queue managers
• cluster to handle work load balancing.
• Backed up the MQ servers using the MS03 support Pac.
• Upgraded MQ servers from 5.3 to 6.0.
• Setup security using OAM and SSL.
• Setup MQ clients and used client connection table for the access.
• Automated the day to day tasks in MQ/Broker by writing Shell scripts.
• Reviewed, Code-walk through client's Interface programs in .NET.
• Set up backup and recovery procedures.
• Provided technical support on WMQ/Broker related issues to the project teams on new
• and existing production environments.
• Provided 24/7 support for MQ/Broker.
• Setup Security using the OAM.
• Setup remote administration for all the Queue managers.
• Setup disaster recovery procedures.
• Setup automatic backup of the MQ definitions.
• Provided the 24/7 production support for MQ series and application issues.
• Setup Omegamon Monitoring for the OS and MQ series objects.
• Setup hardware clustering for MQ servers.
• Tuned up the performance of the applications.