OBJECTIVE:

• To benefit an organization dat can use a highly motivated professional with expertise in building e - Business Infrastructure using WebSphere Application server, IBM http Web servers.

SUMMARY

• 7 years and 8 months of IT experience with 5 years of experience in building and administering e-business Infrastructure using Web Sphere Application Server, Web Sphere Portal Server & IBM HTTP Server in conjunction with LDAP (SunOne and ADAM), Oracle and MQ.
• Experience Extensive experience in installation, configuration, and administration of WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server,WebSphere MQ on AIX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows and Automation.
• Extensive experience in Planning, Installing, Configuring, Administering, Patching, Tuning, Troubleshooting and Integrating IBM WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere MQSeries, Apache Tomcat, Apache Http Server, IHS & SunOne WebServers, LDAP.
• Experience in deploying J2EE components (EAR/WAR/JAR) on WAS 5.0/5.1/6.0/6.1 using AAT (Application Assembly Tool), WAS Admin Console, shell/wsadmin/JACL/Jython scripting.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server and Portal server using LDAP & local OS registries to enable security, configured Oracle & DB2 JDBC resources to connect to teh backend databases
• Experience in JACL & Jython Scripting to automate routine administrative tasks.
• Extensive experience in optimizing performance of WebSphere Application server using Workload Management at Web Server, Plug-in and Application Server Layers.
• Federated nodes to teh Deployment Manager and configured scalable applications through Vertical & Horizontal Clustering.
• Experience in tuning teh performance at Web Server, plug-in and Application Server layers.
• Configured JDBC & JMS resources, Resource adopters and mail providers.
• Experience in packaging applications using WebSphere Application Assembly Tool and deployed to IST, QA, and Stage and Production environments.
• Configured plug-in between Web & App with one-to-one and crisscross using round robin fashion.
• Experience in problem determination by trace enable, collect & analyze logs using IBM support Assistant.
• Experience to use CA Wily Introscope and Tivoli Performance Viewer to monitor infrastructure performance.
• Experience in using HPSA/HPOO automation tool to build & configure teh environments.
• Experience in requirement analysis and designing development and production infrastructure.
• Providing support to application & testing teams during application development and testing phase. Documenting teh changes if any and migrating teh same to production.
• Experience in migrating applications from WebSphere Application Server V5.X to V6.X and from V6.X to V7.X on UNIX and Windows Platforms.
• Experience in applying fix packs and interim fixes for WAS, Plug-in, JDK and IHS.
• Ability to communicate requirements TEMPeffectively to application development, network, DB and MQ teams.
• Ability to learn new concepts, well versed with group work, strong problem solving skills and good in documentation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Networking Technologies: GSS, CSM, F5 and DNS

Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux 8.0/9.0, Suse Linux 10.X, Solaris 8.0/9.0, AIX5.1/5.2 and Windows NT/2000/2003.

Languages: Java 2.0/1.2/1.3/1.4 , VB 6.0/5.0, PERL, Shell, Jaython, JACL and COBOL 4.0

J2EE Technologies: JDK 1.6/1.5/1.4/1.3 , Servlets 2.3/2.2, EJB 2.1/2.0/1.1/1.0 , JSP 1.2/1.1/1.0, JDBC, JNDI, RMI, XML, HTML, DHTML, JACL, JavaScript, Jython, Perl and shell Scripting.

Middleware Technologies: WebSphere Application Server 8.0/7.0.0.21/6.0.2.29/5.1 / 5.0 , WebSphere Portal 5.1/6.0/6.1.5 , IBM HTTP Server 3.x/6.0/7.0/8.0, iPlanet Server 6.0, Netegrity SiteMinder 5.5/4.5, Apache 2.0.47, WebSphere MQ 7.0/ 5.0, SunOne LDAP, Adam LDAP.

Databases: Oracle 11g/10g/9.0, SQL Server 2000, DB2UDB 9.7/9.5/8.1 / 7.2

Monitoring Tools: CA Wily Introscope 8.1.0/9.x, Tivoli Performance Viewer, BMC Patrol, Remidy

Deployment Tools: BDI (Build, Deploy & Install) and Auto Deploy

Other Tools & Technologies: HPSA, HPOO, GSD, Lotus notes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cherry Hill, NJ

Web Sphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured administered and supported WebSphere Application Server V8.0/7.0/6.1 and Tomcat 7/6 and IBM HTTP server 6.1/7.0 on AIX/Windows platform.
• Configured WebSphere Deployment Manager and Application Server profiles in clustered environment to utilize teh advantages of failover and load balancing in multi-node environment.
• Promoted properties of teh message flow and also to assist in teh design and development of teh message flows in WMB. Working on a generic error handler which was designed to capture teh errors and report them through teh use of a relational database table. This solution utilizes teh MQRFH2 header to hold information and pass it to teh subsequent flows. Teh process reads teh exception list, which was created by teh occurrence of teh error, to capture teh error message and number. Teh process also captures other message broker information to complete teh error reporting.
• Build, deploy, and administer applications in WAS, Websphere MQ and Webserver environments.
• Involved in Migration of 200+ applications from WAS V6.1/V7.0 to WAS V8.0.
• Created, Configured Profiles, Nodes, Node Groups & Clusters for WebSphere Application Server.
• Migrated J2EE Applications, which includes setting up new Development, QA, and Production Environments from WebSphere Application Server 6.1 to 7.0/6.0 to 6.1.
• Experienced in visiting Data Center frequently in case of ZBMR test and reboots incase if server is not reachable.
• Deployed portal applications (wars), setup labels, and pages and created Virtual Portals.
• Responsible for development of integrated enterprise portal applications to support banking accounts on-line processing modules and promoted applications, customizations using XMLAccess, Release Builder.
• Experience in coordinating with Network and DNS teams, firewall team in process of building teh new environments and cutovers at network level.
• Used Tivoli Performance Viewer and ITCAM to monitor teh performance.
• Installed Data Collectors (DC), Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agent (TEMA) and integrated them with Tivoli Enterprise console.
• Configured IBM HTTP Server to load balance between teh clustered portal servers.
• Responsible for support and reliable maintenance of teh applications on different platforms for on-going application development.
• Deployed war files using XMLAccess and Portal admin console.
• Deployed enterprise applications from Admin console.
• Configured resources for JDBC, J2C, and JMS based on teh application requirements and configured Message Listener Ports for an application, which uses MDBs to trigger teh queues
• Worked closely with developers to define and configure application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web resources, Servlets, JDBC drivers and Servlet Engines-as well as deployment of EJBs across multiple instances of WebSphere.
• Used Heap Analyzer and Thread Analyzer to tune teh WebSphere JVMs.
• Providing and maintaining single sign on for users.
• Enabled WebSphere global security using Local OS and LDAP/LTPA mechanisms.
• Tuned teh JVMs by analyzing teh must gather information for Application Server Hangs.
• Created Self Signed and digital certifications using Ikeyman.
• Generated & Propagated plugin-cfg for web servers and troubleshooted plug-in regeneration problems.
• Worked on troubleshooting applications using logs, traces, Log Analyzer and Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Created IBM PMRs and worked closely with IBM for resolving multiple issues.
• Performed routine management of WebSphere Environment like monitoring Disk Space, CPU Utilization and resolved dynamic cache problems.
• Responsible for support and reliable maintenance of teh applications on different platforms for on-going application development.

ENVIRONMENT: Web Sphere Application Server 8.0/7.0/6.1, Portal Server 6.x/7.x, AIX, Sun Solaris, Sun ONE Directory Server 5.1, Tomcat 7/6, IBM HTTP Server 8.0/7.0/V6.1,Apache HTTP Server 2.x,Oracle 11g/10g, LDAP, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Wily Introscope 7.x, Oracle 10g, Sybase, DB2.

Confidential, New Jersey

Web Sphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM Http Server,WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment (ND), 6.0/6.1/7.0
• Installed theRefresh Packsandcumulative fixesto WebSphere ND V6.0 environment, for WebSphere, plugins and IHS.
• Involved indeployingthe applications both from teh command line usingWsadmincommandsand from theadmin console.
• Installed and configured WebSphere Portal Server 6.0/6.1
• Created theClustering Topologyin WebSphere Application Server ND V6.x to achieveWork Load Management (WLM), High availability, Load Balancing and Hardware fail over.
• Installed, configured and Administered WebSphere Commerce Server 6.0 on Windows and Linux platform.
• ConfiguredWeb server plug-into directing dynamic requests to application servers for load balance in clustered environment.
• InstalledEARs, WARsand configured application specificJVM settings,Web containerparameters using teh Admin Console and WSADMIN.
• Updated EARs for both Portal and Commerce servers.
• Involved inPerformance tuningsuch as tuning teh web server by specifying teh parameters for teh maxclient, start servers and maxspareservers. Tuning teh Servlet engine and database connection pools.Tuning teh Java Virtual Machine(JVM) by specifying teh minimum and maximum heap size.
• UsedTivoli Performance Viewerto monitor WebSphere Applications and tuned teh environment accordingly like changing theJVM Heap, andConnection Pool sizes.
• Configured WebSphere resources likeJVM heap settings, JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, Virtual Hosts, Global Security and SSL.
• Involved with theSSL Certificatesmissing issues and installed certificates from teh backup.
• Involved in issues & Stopping/Starting/Restarting Apache HTTP Server using wsadmin account.
• Involved in Stopping/Starting & Monitoring teh logs for Application Server Instances.
• ImplementedHorizontal and Vertical Clustering, Performance tuning and trouble shooting of IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using teh Admin Console and WSCP/WSadmin scripts.
• Migrated existing applications from WebSphere V6.0 to V7.0.
• Involved in issues like Application not responding. Application Deployment Errors, Wrong Database host name, Server Hung due to out of memory or thread hanging, Owner ship issue.
• Created, updated and reviewedPMRs and worked closely with teh IBM PMR team and application teams for teh resolution of teh issues.
• Updated Fixpack for Portal Server 6.0/6.1
• Provided 24x7 support forany issues or impact caused by teh New Changes.

ENVIRONMENT: WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1/7.0,Webspher Portal Server 6.0/6.1, Websphere Commerce Server 6.0, Apache 2.0.47, IHS 6.0/6.1, Tivoli Access Manager, UML, XML, SQL, IBM AIX 5.3, Windows XP, RedHat Linux AS 3.0, TCP/IP

Confidential, Ohio

Middleware Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured IBM Http Server 1.3.x, WebSphere Application Server V5.1 Enterprise Edition for Development, Testing and Production Servers on windows environment.
• Created horizontal clusters for Development & Testing Environments and production environments (one set of nodes for dev & testing, one set for production) to achieve process & Hardware fail over.
• Configured Web server plug-in to directing dynamic requests to application server instances.
• Configured Virtual hosts, HTTP Plug-in, resources and Global security for application deployment.
• Packaged CACSAnywhere application with ANT and Deployed on to application server clusters using JACL script.
• Enabled Security for teh Admin Console using local OS repository.
• Configured Java Mail object on Mid-tier server (WAS) to send mails to credit card customers through SMTP mail server by accessing teh data from CACS Enterprise, which was reside on Mainframe.
• Installed and Configure WebSphere MQ. Created QMGRs, Queues and Channels.
• Analyzed teh performance with Tivoli performance monitoring tool. Tuned Web server and Application Server configuration parameters to improve teh performance.
• Interpreted log files to locate and solved problems with tracing and debugging facilities.
• Responsible for writing Technical Documents which covers end to end build configuration.

Environment: Windows 2000, WebSphere Application Server 5.0, IBM Http Server 2.0.47, WebSphere MQ 5.0, CACS & Recovery 1.0.

Confidential

Web Sphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, administered and supported WebSphere Application Server 6.0/5.0.
• Performed installation, configuration and Administration of MQ Series, WebSphere Application Server on AIX, UNIX and Windows.
• Installed and Configured ITCAM (IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager).
• Monitored Enterprise Applications using ITCAM.
• Worked with all teh teams -- change control, oracle dba, db2 dba, mq team on a regular basis to resolve production issues and also in QA.
• Implemented creation of Server groups and clusters in WebSphere Application server and cloning of servers (vertical and horizontal).
• Created user roles and groups for securing teh resources using LDAP and local operating system autantication.
• Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Tivoli performance viewer and Thread analyzer.
• Created and configured resources for JDBC, J2C, and JMS based on teh application requirements and configured Message Listener Ports for an application, which uses MDBs to trigger teh queues.
• Implemented security using Global Security with IBM Directory Server.
• Installed and configured multiple IBM HTTP Servers to participate in clustering using CSS, with remote WAS plug-in.
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.
• Applying software maintenance, program patches and keeping teh system software releases current.
• TEMPEffectively interacted with teh users on a daily basis, decreasing downtime and increasing user productivity.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software problems, and interact with IT staff or vendors in performing complex testing, support and troubleshooting functions.
• On call 24x7 supports for IHS, WebSphere Production Servers.

Environment: Web Sphere MQ, IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0.x/5.1.x/6.0, LDAP server, ITCAM, ITSM, IBM UDB, UNIX (Solaris, AIX, Linux, Win2000, Apache, Web sphere Portal Server 5.0, IBM HTTP Server, Tivoli, Java, JSP, EJB.

Confidential

Jr. WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring and maintaining IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0/6.0.
• Responsible for Administration of WebSphere in Testing, Pre-Prod and Production environments.
• Developed and maintained shell scripts and WSCP scripts dat facilitate teh Administration of IBM WebSphere.
• Installed and configured WebSphere Process Server with DB2 and MQ Series on Windows, and AIX.
• Worked on teh Migration of teh WebSphere process server 5.0 projects to WebSphere Process server 6.0.1 (WPS).
• Maintaining heap size, Debugging and Deploying Applications.
• Testing of Enterprise Applications and maintaining security for Applications.
• Deploying new enterprise application on SF and configuring server with resources and environment variables.
• Installed fix packs and cumulative fixes for base version and deployment manager.
• Experienced on WebSphere components such as Work Load Management (WLM), Servlet Engine, Session Manager, Admin Client and Http-Web Admin tool (thin client).
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of MQ Series 5.3 (both server and client).
• Expert in Problem resolution in development, test, integration and production environment and worked as 24/7 support for WAS and WPS Apps.
• Packaged ear files and deployed on to testing environments.
• Created resources (JDBC provider, Data Sources and J2C Auth aliases) and tested applications.
• Client side validations using JavaScript.
• Involved in writing and reviewing various documents for client.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 5.0, IHS Webserver 2.0.47.1, MQSI 2.1, MQSeries 5.2.1 & 5.3, Java, JSP, EJB, RUP,UML, XML, SQL, Java Script, DB2/UDB, Visual Age for Java, WSAD, Visio, Window 2000.