SUMMARY

• 12+ Years of extensive experience in Middleware Administration adept in all facets of administration, maintenance, deployment, management, troubleshooting, performance tuning, load testing and migration of IBM WebSphere products (Application Server, Commerce Server, Process Server) including Installation and Configuration.
• Excellence in Design, Implementation and Management of IBM WAS ND, WCS, WPS products in a clustered (high available) environments on distributed OS platforms.
• Extensive experience in Product Migrations, hardware migrations, and version upgrades for all IBM middleware platforms.
• Experienced in installation, configuration, Deployment and management of enterprise applications using IBM Web Sphere Application server 6.x/7.x/8.x/8.5.5.x and WebSphere Commerce Server 6.x/7.x on AIX/Linux/Windows and IBM HTTP Server 6.x/7.x/8.5.5.x on distributed OS.
• Maintain & troubleshoot Storage Disks from IBM, HITACHI, and EMC Disk arrays.
• Experience in design analysis, application development, debugging, testing and documentation of the various phases in a software development life cycle.
• Experienced in Administration Concepts such as Virtualization and logical partitioning (LPAR) of CPU, HMC usage and Workload Partitioning WPAR
• Experience in Installing, Configuring, Administering and maintaining webservers like (IBM Http Server v8.5.x/8.x/7.x/6.x, Apache 2.x, Sun Java webservers IIS etc) also configured of webserver Plug - ins, proxy servers and F5 load balancers.
• Worked on Adobe Experience Manager/CQ5 installation and configuration in WINDOW/UNIX/LINUX platform and dispatcher configuring on apache and apache configurations, deploying modules, configuration updates, including monitoring of website servers front end and back end performance and functionality
• Experienced on the Adobe Experience Manager/CQ5 administration activities such as Automatic deployment, User permissions/creations with LDAP synchronization.
• Used Tivoli performance viewer, Resource Analyzer, and WILY intro-scope Performance tools for monitoring and tuning the WebSphere environment (JVM heap size, data base connection pool size, etc).
• Hands on experience in JACL / JYTHON and ANT Scripting for WebSphere application server Administration.
• Highly skilled in creating SSL using iKEYMAN, Console and command line tools like gsk7cmd and keytool.
• Experience in writing scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup etc. using shell scripting, Perl scripting and CRONJOBS and automate the process.
• Expertise in deploying J2EE applications on IBM WebSphere application server through Admin console as well as through wsadmin scripts.
• Experienced in creating data sources and setting up connection pools as well as creation of J2C Authentication aliases.
• Well versed in implementing Web server environment and configuring secure sockets layer (SSL) on IBM HTTP Server and Apache Server.
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces for Application Server and Commerce Servers.
• Developed WSadmin scripts and shell scripts to carry out the administration and maintenance process of the WebSphere Application Server
• Experienced in Installing, Configuring and Administering of WCBD Websphere Commerce Build and Deploy tool on AIX/Linux.
• Strong technical experience in WebSphere Application server and Commerce Server implementation, fail-over, workload management (WLM) using horizontal scaling, vertical scaling and performance tuning.
• Experience in WebSphere Commerce Application performance testing, recommendations and fine tuning.
• Expertise in handling and execution of WC-Admin Console, Management Center and Org-Admin Console.
• Installed and Reverted latest WCS-Fix Packs FP9 and Feature Packs FEP8 including enablement of foundation center SOLR and management center on version 6.x and 7.x.
• Expertise in Staging Propagation and Stage copy on to staging and Serving environments.
• Experience in migrating/rotating the encrypted WebSphere Commerce Merchant Key for more TEMPthan 30K records for sensitive data.
• Experience on WebSphere Commerce Search Engine Endeca and SOLR Server Preprocess and buildindex
• Experience in configuration of Cybersource payment option and Avalara.
• Experience in BODL Business Object Data Load and Dataload for WCS-V7.
• Experience in Web Analytics tools such as Coremetrics, Bloomreach and GoogleFeeds.
• Implemented Jenkins Hudson Continuous integration tool and have scheduled the deployments for WCBD to all Environments.
• Experience in IBM DB2 administration involving db2 backups, restore, snapshots and DB2 transactional logging.
• Experience in DB2 replication process. Capture and Apply .
• Experienced in applying fix packs and plug-ins for Web Sphere application server and WebSphere Commerce Server.
• Experience in CA7 scheduler to run the daily basis automated jobs.
• Experience in opening PMRs with IBM for the vendor related issues.
• Extensive use of Resolved Application Startup problems, PATH problems, Name conflicts, TCP/IP and Networking Problems in AIX
• Knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, Ethernet), NIS, DNS, NFS, DHCP, SMTP and RAID.
• Experienced in disaster recovery from TSM and net backup
• Installed and configured a Tivoli Storage Management server on UNIX machines
• Conducted technical s to various teams and built a team of WebSphere administrators
• Provided production support in an on-call rotation in a 24x7 environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: IBM AIX 7.1/6.1/5.3/, Solaris 10/9/8, Red Hat Linux 9/ 8 / 7.2 / 7.1 / 6.2 , RHEL 3/4 and Windows NT/2000/2003 Server

Databases: Oracle 11g,10g/9i/8i, MS SQL Server 2000/2005, SQL Server 6.5/7.0, MS-Access, and DB 2 10.1/9.7/8.2.

Application Servers Commerce Server: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.x/6.x/5.x/4.x/3.x, weblogic 9.0/10.0, Apache Tomcat 6.x/5.x/4.x and JBOSS AS 5.x/4.x IBM WCS 6.x/7.x, IBM Coremetrics, WCBD, KLF, Solr Server, Endeca.

Web Servers: IBM Http Server, Microsoft IIS, Apache Http Server and Sun One Web Server (iPlanet)

Performance Tools: CA Wily, CA7 Scheduler, Tivoli ITCAM

Hardware: IBM X3850, X3950, X3250 Blade Enclosures H,S and Eseries, Blades HS22,HS21,JS43,JS23, WPAR.

Messaging Servers: IBM WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.0.

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, J2EE, VB, JSP, HTML, XML, Servlets, EJB S.

Scripting: JACL, Jython, Perl, Java script, Shell scripts.Technical Skill Set for WebSphere Commerce

WCBD: Implementation Setup and Automated the process for WebSphere Commerce Build and Deploy 7, BANDD

SOLR Server: Architecture setup, configure, deploy and replicate SOLR Search Server from DEV to PROD Env.

Endeca: Maintain, troubleshoot Endeca Server.

StageProp and StageCopy: Configure stagingprop utility, Stage Copy and Improving Stagingprop performance.

IBM DB2: Backup, Restore, Rollforward, troubleshoot, maintenance upgrade of IBM DB2 V9 and 10.1

Merchant Key: Rotated 36+ Million records using KLF framework.

FEP, FP: Installed, configured, enabled foundation and management features for FeaturePacks FEP 3,4,5,6,7,8 FixPack 7.0.0.5,7,8,9

WCS Tools: Configured, maintained and troubleshoot for WCA, CMC, Org-Admin Console, WC-Admin Console.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Mooresville, NC

Sr. WebSphere Commerce Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, Installed, Configured and Administered WebSphere Application Server ND 6.x/7.x/8.x/ and WebSphere Commerce Server V7.x, on AIX and RHEL platform for all Dev, QA, SIT, Staging & Production environments.
• Worked on setting up two data centers for Lowes from scratch where WCS 7 has been installed and configured on FP9/FEP8 with DB2 10.5, Endeca as search engine, IDG Datapower appliances, IBMIHS WebServers, Puppet, Open Stack, Docker and HADR, HACMP setup for DB2.
• Worked on upgrading WCS Feaure Pack 5 to FEP8 with complete lifecycle of environments level-up.
• Lead a team of 6 on administering WAS/WCS Infrastructure setup for V6/V7 on Unix Platforms.
• Configured and Installed IBM Websphere Commerce Server 6.x & 7.x on AIX platforms.
• Worked on upgrading WCS-FeaturePack 5 to FEP8 (latest) with minimal downtime to the site which includes WCS-FixPack 9 upgrade and custom APAR’s, Promotional APAR’s and attribute APAR’s.
• Worked on configuring and build WCS Env for DR(Disaster Recovery) project setup and Data Center migration.
• Worked on configuring multiple instances (active/in-active) for production setup to avoid downtime to the site for regular maintenance.
• Worked on Commerce 7.x instance creation with workflows and DB setup.
• Worked on DB Migration, enable foundation and management-center with and without SOLR search engine.
• Experienced in Troubleshooting, Performance Tuning/Monitoring, Applying Maintenance, Upgrade, Migration, Networking, OS Administration, Database Administration, Automating Scripts, Health Check and Production Support 24*7 .
• Experienced in Load testing using silk performer and Soasta cloud services for setting up the baseline results and tweaking the configuration parameters for better performance.
• Implemented 1000 active users and virtual users during the load testing from PDP pages to the shopping cart pages.
• Worked on Staging Propagation to copy data and manage files from Staging Env to Production.
• Expert in federating Commerce (stage and live) instance and nodes for 7.x.
• Worked on WCBD WebSphere Commerce Build and Deploy automation process via Jenkins/Hudson tool and made sure all the deployments are error free.
• Create Workflows, and maintain AEM/CQ5 Servers.
• Applied patches, service packs and upgrading to latest version of AEM.
• Dispatcher configuration for better performance of application code.
• Deploying older AEM applications to latest AEM server and communicate problems with development teams.
• Experienced in Dynacache configurations cache-instance.properties and cache spec.xml and involved in clearing the cache through shell script and Extended cache monitors.
• Installed and configured IBM DB2 database and setup LDAP security to the Applications.
• Upgraded the db2 fixpack successfully from v9.7.0.4 to v9.7.0.5
• Worked with source control applications SVN (SubVersion) and Git with experience of branching, trunk and integrating Source Code checkout process to WebSphere Commerce Build and Deploy WCBD .
• Installed and enabled solrServer for all the environments successfully via FeaturePack5/fep8 by enabling foundation center.
• Created and Managed User roles and Groups for Business group using the ManagementConsole CMC .
• Successful installed and renewed SSL certs for App and Web servers.
• Worked on Content Management to Stage and Publish the Web Content data for all environments.
• Worked on Stage Copy down to lower environments from Prod-Stage using stagecopy-cursors and also have automated the process to run on daily basis.
• Worked on Stage Copy to copy the special characters Chinese and Japanese down to the lower environments and troubleshoot any DB issues during the process.
• Involved in writing/executing database scripts and troubleshooting the SQL issues via DB2 client for WebSphere Commerce Server.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and Jacl scripts, following the change management requests.
• Worked closely with developers to define and configure Application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, and Web resources, Servlets, JDBC Providers, Data Source and Servlet Engines.
• Monitored the health of the JVM by taking Thread Dumps and analyzing the Stack trace which halped in performing Root Cause Analysis to find out the cause of the problem.
• Performed routine management of WebSphere environment like monitoring Disk Space and CPU Utilization.
• Installed, monitored and tuned system performance using Wily Introscope for Webspher Commerce Server
• Re-indexed Endecca search Engine after the data load and stage propagation.
• Involved in Trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Resource analyzer and Log analyzer.
• Working with IBM in opening a PMR for inconclusive root causes, and coordinating the proposed changes with the respective teams.
• Ensuring consistent communication between WebSphere Clients, Edge Components, Web Server, Commerce Server, Application Server(s), and Database.
• Supported applications 24X7 on-call on a rotational basis.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server ND V.7.0.0.x, IBM Websphere Commerce Server 7.x, IBM-WCBD, AEM/CQ5, JBOSS V6.3.3, Node JS, Puppet, Docker, Akamai, SOLR Server, Endeca, Staging Prop, Stage Copy, Merchant Key Rotation, WC-Fix Packs, Feature Packs Offline and Online, Dataload, CA WILY, DB2 10.1/9.7, Hudson, Jenkins, Git, IBM HTTP Server6.0, AIX 7.1/6.1, SVN subversion, F5 LB, Soasta, Shell and Jacl scripting, Mantis, Splunk, DynaTrace, Omniture, IBM Coremetrics, Nagios, Adobe CQ, VMWare, SAN, RHEL 6.x.

Confidential - Charlotte, NC

Architect Specialty Senior - Middleware

Responsibilities:

• Designed, Installed, Configured and Administered WebSphere Application Server ND 7.x/8.x/8.5.5.x, WebSphere MQ 7.x/8.x and WebSphere Portal Server on AIX, Sun Solaris, RHEL, SUSE Linux and Windows platform for all Dev, QA, Staging & Production environments.
• Worked with globally distributed infrastructure teams with regards to Confidential GDS projects spread across EMEA, Europe and North America.
• Production Support for more TEMPthan 200+ applications and resolving the issues on time.
• Worked on creating Virtual machines rom VMware Vsphere and allocated memory, disk and cpu to the vm client.
• Worked on Installing/Administrating and maintaining VM clients from VMware Vsphere client software.
• Maintained WebSphere Application Servers on AIX/Linux/windows 2003/2008 server platforms, development, testing and staging environments for on-going application development.
• Implemented creation of Server groups and clusters in WebSphere Application server and cloning of servers and provided extensive support in deployment, change management and application level troubleshooting for the Dev, Test, Pre-Prod & Production environment.
• Highly experienced in administering Unix/Linux Shell scripts to monitor installed J2EE applications and to get information from the logs and database in the required format and other daily activities.
• Installed and configured both IBM HTTP Server 8.x and Apache Web Servers, plugins, configured the web-server interfaces (plugin file), session management, virtual hosts, Data Sources, HTTP transports for Application Server instances and applications.
• Experience in configuring SSL for web servers, requesting and installing secure s, enabling global security using LDAP registry and single sign on.
• Managed the security and performance optimizations for EJB containers and Web applications in IBM WebSphere, IHS and Apache Webserver.
• Configured the Global Security on WebSphere using IBM Directory Server and created Users and Groups, assigned different authorization roles for each user and secured the admin console.
• Migrated existing applications from WAS 7.x to 8.x using WAS pre-upgrade and WAS post-upgrade tools on Sun Solaris, AIX
• Installed Fix packs, Cumulative Fixes and Refresh Packs on the Base and ND Versions.
• Used Wily Performance tools for monitoring and tuning the WebSphere environment. worked on enabling WebSphere global security using Local OS and TDS LDAP(LTPA mechanism), SSL configuration, ordering digital certs, creating key database using ikeyman and keytool tools, import/export certs and create self-signed certs.
• Used Tivoli Performance Viewer, Log Analyzer, and Thread Analyzer for performance and troubleshooting.
• Migrated existing applications from WebSphere 6.0/6.1.x to 7.x/8.0/8.5
• Involved in configuring the WebSphere load balancing utilizing WebSphere Workload Management (WLM) including horizontal scaling and vertical scaling.
• Package, build, integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 5.x/6.x dat involves EAR, JAR, WAR files using ANT scripts.
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.
• Supported WebSphere Application Server clustering, load balance and failover.
• Worked with IBM Support and development teams in resolving issues related to application memory leaks, analyzing java cores and heap dumps using Thread and Heap analyzer tools.
• Involved in transitioning J2EE applications from quality assurance to production environment on AIX & RHL Platforms.
• Installed MQ on new servers, transferred Queue Manager and all objects including queues (with existing messages in them), processes and channels to newly added servers and flawlessly reproduced the Production environment.
• Administered MQ which included clearing queues, modifying object attributes, start/stop Queue Managers, Channels, Listener Ports, halped resolve programming problems.
• Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere.
• Automate application install, uninstall and application enhancements through shell scripts WSCP, JACL, Jython scripts using ‘Cron’ and ‘at’ job scheduling utilities.
• Experience in deploying J2EE components (EAR/WAR/JAR) on WAS 6.0/6.1/7.0/7.1/8.0/8.5 using WAS Admin Console, shell/wsadmin/JACL/Jython scripts.
• Install multipathing software such as EMC powerpath on Redhat Linux and performed firmware upgrade on HBA's.
• Expertise in administration of Linux/UNIX platforms such as Red-Hat Linux, AIX, and Sun Solaris: Kick-Start, LVM, Storage and Process Management
• Automation for administration, maintenance and troubleshooting through Perl, Shell, PowerShell, JACL and Jython scripting.
• Optimized various performance parameters based on the outcome of various test results and made decision on tweaking various configurations based on business needs.
• Experience in creating necessary documentation to build, administer and support all DEV, TEST, QA and production WebSphere Environments.
• Experience in troubleshooting using Traces, Logs and Log Analyzer & Strong Server and network Troubleshooting skills with excellent Team work capabilities.
• Strong foundation in configuring and installing IBM HTTP Server and Apache WebServers.
• Hands on experience in WebSphere Application Server integration with Oracle, DB2 and SQL Servers.
• Highly skilled in Administration and Maintenance of WebSphere ND Clusters and deployment of applications on high available/load balanced test and production environments.
• Hands on experience in updating fix packs for WebSphere, IHS and Plugins.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate strategies and processes to cross functional groups.
• Created internal self-signed s for IBM HTTP server
• Handled staging of file systems during performance review and troubleshooting sessions
• Worked closely with solution architects, application owner, DB admins and security team during troubleshooting sessions
• Monitored application using Performance Monitoring Tools like Tivoli Performance viewer
• Mapped and compared Middleware configurations using HP Configuration Management Tool
• Created Middleware support documentation for operation’s team
• Provided Middleware support during the entire lifecycle of dis project.
• Installed, Configured and Managed IBM BPM v8.0, WESB v8.0, and WSRR v8.0 on Red hat Linux
• Administering the SCA modules, BPMN Workflows, Business Process and enterprise applications deployed on server.
• Integrated Business Monitor environment with WPS environment to receive events using Queue-Based mechanism with CEI enabled at WPS.
• Configuration of BPM Widgets on Business Monitor’s Business Space
• Worked with Networking, LB and DNS teams on a regular basis to identify the issues and nail down the root cause of the sev1 issues.

Environment: IBM WAS ND 7.x, 8.x,8.5.5.x, WPS V7, JBOSS 6.x, BPM, WMQ, WCS 7.x, IBM DataPower XI50/52, IBMIHS 7.x/8.x, Apache, tomcat, AIX 7.x/6.x, WPAR, RHEL, SUSE, Sun Solaris, Jenkins, Wily Introscope, ITCAM, Service Now, ikeyman, Change Management, Silk performer, SOASTA, Logviewer, Splunk, Cisco LB, Verisign and Geotrust CA, ServiceNow, HP-PPM.

Confidential - Dallas, TX

Sr. WebSphere Commerce Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, Installed, Configured and Administered WebSphere Application Server ND 6.1/7.0.0.x and WCS V6.x/7.x on AIX, Linux and Windows platform for all Dev, QA, Staging & Production environments.
• Configured and Installed IBM Websphere Commerce Server 6.x & 7.x on AIX platforms.
• Lead a team of 6 on administering WAS/WCS Infrastructure setup.
• Configuring Virtual Machines under VMWare ESX 4.0 servers to install Linux guests.
• Experienced and involved in technical review of client software architectures
• Capacity Planning and implemented cost efficient mechanisms for the WCS software’s.
• Experienced in WCS Application performance testing, recommendations and fine tuning.
• Experienced in Troubleshooting, Performance Tuning/Monitoring, Applying Maintenance, Upgrade, Migration, Networking, OS Administration, Database Administration, Automating Scripts, Health Check and Production Support 24*7 .
• Experienced in Load testing using silk performer and Soasta cloud services for setting up the baseline results and tweaking the configuration parameters for better performance.
• Implemented 1000 active users and virtual users during the load testing from PDP pages to the shopping cart pages.
• Worked on Staging Propagation to copy data and manage files from Staging Env to Production.
• Worked on WCBD WebSphere Commerce Build and Deploy automation process via Jenkins/Hudson tool and made sure all the deployments are error free.
• Experienced in Dynacache configurations cache-instance.properties and cache spec.xml and involved in clearing the cache through shell script and Extended cache monitors.
• Installed and configured IBM DB2 database and setup LDAP security to the Applications.
• Upgraded the db2 fixpack successfully from v9.7.0.4 to v9.7.0.5
• Worked with source control applications SVN (SubVersion) and Git with experience of branching, trunk and integrating Source Code checkout process to WebSphere Commerce Build and Deploy WCBD .
• Installed and upgraded commerce fixpacks to 7.0.0.7 and Feature Pack 5 to enable solrServer.
• Installed and enabled solrServer for all the environments successfully via FeaturePack5 by enabling foundation center.
• Successfully scheduled the Preprocess and BuildIndex Indexing for Solr Server.
• Enabled and configured SOLR Server remotely on production.
• Successfully rotated WC-MerchantKey online using Feature pack4 without downtime to migrate 22M records.
• Experienced in cloud-based products for Avalara Tax Calculation, AliPay and CompuTop
• Worked with UI-Web Content group and have scheduled the scripts involving Stage Content and Publish Content deploying static content on to the IBMIHS webservers.
• Created and Managed User roles and Groups for Business group using the ManagementConsole CMC .
• Experience in working/troubleshoot acp load access control policies
• Successful installed and renewed SSL certs Veri Sign and DigiCert for App and Web servers.
• Experience in Installing and configuration of the Ambassador s/w for FiftyOne/BorderFree Global E-commerce International Checkout.
• Involved in catalog pull feed and delta feed load from SAP on a regular basis.
• Worked on Content Management to Stage and Publish the Web Content data for all environments.
• Worked on Stage Copy down to lower environments from Prod-Stage using stagecopy-cursors and also have automated the process to run on daily basis.
• Worked on Stage Copy to copy the special characters Chinese and Japanese down to the lower environments and troubleshoot any DB issues during the process.
• Involved in writing/executing database scripts and troubleshooting the SQL issues via DB2 client for WebSphere Commerce Server.
• Created DMGR, application server and custom profiles in Linux platform for Dev, QA, Staging and production and federated application server and custom profile to DMGR using addNode.sh command.
• Installed and configured the IBM HTTP Server 6.0 and Apache webservers.
• Involved in setting up connection pool for the hung threads to set back the servers to normal state.
• F5 is used heavily as a load balancer to serve all web requests at NW layer.
• Deployed the applications in Testing, Staging and Production Environments, following change management practices.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and Jacl scripts, following the change management requests.
• Managed the Security and Performance Optimization for EJB containers and Web Applications in WebSphere, IHS web server.
• Achieved Workload Management and Failover by Creating and Configuring Clusters and Cluster members for Load Balancing and High availability.
• Created the user lists and groups in LDAP Servers and mapped them to the enterprise applications running on the Application Servers and Commerce Servers.
• Involved in Configuring Single Sign On (SSO) with Site Minder for Websphere Application Server.
• Worked closely with developers to define and configure Application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, and Web resources, Servlets, JDBC Providers, Data Source and Servlet Engines.
• Monitored the health of the JVM by taking Thread Dumps and analyzing the Stack trace which halped in performing Root Cause Analysis to find out the cause of the problem.
• Performed routine management of WebSphere environment like monitoring Disk Space and CPU Utilization.
• Installed, monitored and tuned system performance using Wily Introscope for Webspher Commerce Server
• Involved in Troubleshooting Admin Server start-up issues, Java code defects after deployment, like class path issues and errors in application properties files by checking JVM logs and Plugin-logs. successfully enabled and configured payments framework using Websphere Commerce Server
• Successfully configured WebSphere Commerce messaging transports.
• Experience in BODL loading, store/catalog data into WebSphere Commerce server.
• Worked on Stage-Propagation to Serving environment on a daily basis and successfully propagated the BODL load and e-marketing data.
• Re-indexed Endecca search Engine after the data load and stage propagation.
• Involved in Trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Resource analyzer and Log analyzer.
• Working with IBM in opening a PMR for inconclusive root causes, and coordinating the proposed changes with the respective teams.
• Ensuring consistent communication between WebSphere Clients, Edge Components, Web Server, Commerce Server, Application Server(s), and Database.
• Supported applications 24X7 on-call on a rotational basis.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server ND V.7.0.0.x, IBM Websphere Commerce Server 7.x, IBM-WCBD, SOLR Server, Endeca, Staging Prop, Stage Copy, Merchant Key Rotation, WC-Fix Packs, Feature Packs Offline and Online, BORDERFREE, BODL, Dataload, CA WILY, CA7 Scheduler, DB2 10.1/9.7, Hudson, Jenkins, Git, IBM HTTP Server6.0, AIX 7.1/6.1, SVN subversion, FiftyOne-Ambassador, F5 LB, DigiCert, Silk Performer, Soasta, JDK1.6, SQL, XML, Shell and Jacl scripting, Mantis, Splunk, DynaTrace, Omniture, IBM Coremetrics.

Confidential

Sr. WebSphere Commerce Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured and Administered WebSphere Application Server ND/XD 6.1/7.0.0.x on AIX and Windows platform for all Dev, QA, UAT & Production environments.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server with LDAP Security using ORACLE OBLIX.
• Created Dynamic Clusters in WebSphere Network Deployment (ND) and Commerce Server for the execution environment and long-running applications.
• Involved in setting up connection pool for the hung threads to set back the servers to normal state.
• F5 is used heavily as a load balancer to serve all web requests at NW layer.
• Configured and Installed IBM Websphere Commerce 6 & 7.0 on AIX platforms. successfully enabled and configured payments framework using Websphere Commerce Server
• Successfully configured WebSphere Commerce messaging transports.
• Experience in BODL loading, store/catalog data into WebSphere Commerce server.
• Worked on Stage-Propagation to Serving environment on a daily basis and successfully propagated the BODL load and e-marketing data.
• Re-indexed Endecca search Engine after the data load and stage propagation.
• Experienced in cloud-based products for Avalara Tax Calcualtion .
• Involved in catalog pull feed and delta feed load from DSCM DrugStore on a regular basis.
• Experienced in Dynacache configurations and involved in clearing the cache through cache monitors and refreshing registries via admin console on all environments.
• Involved in executing database scripts and trouble shooting the SQL issues via SQLPLUS for WebSphere Commerce Server.
• Created DMGR, application server and custom profiles in Linux platform for dev, test, preprod and production and federated application server and custom profile to DMGR using addNode.sh command.
• Installed and configured the IBM HTTP Server 6.0 and Microsoft IIS (5.0 &6.0).
• Installed and configured IBM DB2 database and setup LDAP security to the Applications.
• Deployed the applications in Testing, Staging and Production Environments, following change management practices.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and Jacl scripts, following the change management requests.
• Managed the Security and Performance Optimization for EJB containers and Web Applications in WebSphere, IHS web server.
• Achieved Workload Management and Failover by Creating and Configuring Clusters and Cluster members for Load Balancing and High availability.
• Responsible for applying APAR’s, Fix packs and Feature pack to WebSphere Commerce server.
• Created and Managed User roles and Groups for Business group using the ChangeManagementConsole CMC .
• Created the user lists and groups in LDAP Servers and mapped them to the enterprise applications running on the Application Servers and Commerce Servers.
• Involved in Configuring Single Sign On (SSO) with Site Minder for Websphere Application Server.
• Worked closely with developers to define and configure Application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, and Web resources, Servlets, JDBC Providers, Data Source and Servlet Engines.
• Monitored the health of the JVM by taking Thread Dumps and analyzing the Stack trace which halped in performing Root Cause Analysis to find out the cause of the problem.
• Performed routine management of WebSphere environment like monitoring Disk Space and CPU Utilization.
• Involved in Troubleshooting Admin Server start-up issues, Java code defects after deployment, like class path issues and errors in application properties files by checking JVM logs and Plugin-logs.
• Involved in Trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Resource analyzer and Log analyzer.
• Working with IBM in opening a PMR for inconclusive root causes, and coordinating the proposed changes with the respective teams.
• Ensuring consistent communication between WebSphere Clients, Edge Components, Web Server, Commerce Server, Application Server(s), and Database.
• Supported applications 24X7 on-call on a rotational basis.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server ND/XD V6.x/7.0.0.x, IBM Websphere Commerce Server 6.0/7.0, CA7 Scheduler, BODL, Oracle11g, SQLPLUS, WCBD, BMC Remedy, Harvest, StageProp, IBM HTTP Server6.0, AIX 5.3, Windows NT/2000, JDK1.6, XML, Shell and Jacl scripting.

Confidential, Irving, TX

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x, 6.x, IBM HTTP Server on AIX and Linux and upgraded to 6.1.0.17 including WebSphere feature pack for benefits of web services.
• Installed, Configured and Administered WebSphere Commerce Server 6.x on UNIX and Windows Platform. successfully installed and enabled feature pack for Websphere Commerce server on all environments. configured payments framework using Webshere Commerce Server.
• Ran WebSphere Commerce report on a weekly basis for the healthiness check of servers on all environments.
• Experience in applying fixes, APAR’s and feature packs for Websphere Commerce Server.
• Experience in set up and control WebSphere Commerce site security.
• Experience in loading, store/catalog data and Business Objects Data Load.
• Worked on Stage-Propagation to Serving environment on a daily basis and successfully propagated the BODL load and e-marketing data.
• Re-indexed Endecca search Engine after the data load and stage propagation.
• Experienced in cloud-based products for Avalara Tax Calcualtion .
• Involved in catalog pull feed and delta feed load from DSCM DrugStore on a regular basis.
• Migrated existing applications in WebSphere Application Server 4.0.7 to 5.1.x and 6.x using WAS PreUpgrade and WAS PostUpgrade tools.
• Provide support for the entire cycle of application testing including building applications, deploying, and trouble shooting.
• Coordinated with Database Admin Team to create databases for storing the WebSphere application repository and WebSphere Commerce Server.
• Migrated and updated application code from JDK 1.3 to 1.4 using WSAD, RAD and redeployed in a clustered environment.
• High availability and Recoverability planning and implementation.
• Configured and integrated Netegrity Site minder with WebSphere to provide Authentication for client requests.
• Involved in designing WebSphere Application Server load balancing and failover by using Workload Management (WLM), horizontal and vertical clustering/scaling.
• Configured the Web Server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere Application Servers.
• Created HTTPS s for global security using Ikeyman.
• Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using LDAP authentication.
• Involved in troubleshooting of applications and Performance tuning using Tivoli performance viewer, WILY intro-scope, Resource analyzer and log analyzer.
• Implemented creation of Server groups in WebSphere Application server.
• Used scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup etc.
• Scheduling the Cron jobs and log maintenance.
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling and JavaMail sessions.
• Configured and Managed WebSphere Security by implementing WebSphere Global Security and SSL on applications and resources.
• Performed Application data backup and recovery by Local backup/restoration of the WebSphere Environment configurations and applications.
• Assisted customers by setting proper Priority/Severity of problems, working on problems for resolution, and using recorded/documented actions in databases as well as utilizing tools and resources.
• Configured EJB/ Web container to meet environment requirements for server uptime and performance standards.
• 24x7 application/infrastructure support and working in Rotation Basis.

Environment: IBM WAS 5.x/6.x ND, IBM Websphere Commerce Server 6.0, WCBD, IBM HTTP Server, BO, BODL, UNIX, AIX 5.2, Windows 2003 advanced server, LDAP, IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) 5.0, Oracle9.x, J2EE 1.3/1.4, JDBC2.0.

Confidential, New York, NY

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Installation, configuration and administration of enterprise applications on IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1 Network deployment and IBM HTTP Web Server 6.0/6.1, Apache Web Server 2.0 on AIX, Sun Solaris, Linux and Windows NT/2000/2003 environment.
• Implemented Clustering, Performance tuning and troubleshooting of IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1.
• Deployed enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 6.0/6.1 dat involves EAR, JAR, and WAR files.
• Involved in configuration of WebSphere Application Server resources like JDBC Data Sources, JDBC Providers and Connection Pooling to connect to the DB2 and Oracle.
• Responsible for troubleshooting networking issues, opening tickets for DNS changes, firewall requests.
• Worked with the Application Development team from the very beginning phase of a project to ensure dat all proposed technologies and solutions have met the business requirements.
• Experience in developing and using JACL, JYTHON, ANT scripts for starting, stopping, deploying applications and configuring WebSphere Server.
• Developed scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure and system cleanup.
• Migrated alot of applications from WebSphere 5.x to 6.0/6.1 environment.
• Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client authentication. Used WebSphere Application Server key management utility, for managing keys and s.
• Secured the application by using Sun One LDAP, Local OS authentication and SOA.
• Associated with the full life cycle of the application.
• Deployed java applications on Apache-Tomcat 6.x in the cluster environment.
• Also responsible for installing and configuring third party software necessary to test the product such as IBM Http Server, IBM WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, DB2 etc.
• Involved in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI).
• Installation of Versata Logic Suite / Studio for Web Sphere Application Server.
• Developed integration tier using CORBA interface using Java IDL, RMI-IIOP.
• Worked with Ant Build scripts, Perl Scripts and Unix Shell Scripts for the automatic configuration of the project and deployment of jar files into the WebSphere App. Server.
• Maintained the local Apache web server running on a Solaris server.
• Documented all procedures and other important issues.
• 24 x 7 infrastructure support to all clients in testing and production environment.

Environment: IBM AIX, SUN Solaris, UNIX and Windows NT/2000/2003, WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x ND, IBM HTTP Server 6.0/6.1, Apache Web Server 2.0, Apache-Tomcat 6.x, LDAP, Java 1.3/1.4, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, EJB, XML, JDBC, JavaScript, Oracle 9i/10g.

Confidential

Java Developer/Admin

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the full life cycle implementation of the project including analysis, design, and development.
• Developed Client screens using HTML, JSPs and Java Script for validations.
• Deployed applications using the Admin Console.
• Involved in the project during development, testing and implementation.
• Developed the User Interface using Java Server Pages (JSP).
• Designed and developed Error Pages in JSP.
• Used Java Servlets to service the http requests.
• Used JDBC to connect to the Oracle Database.

Environment: Java 1.1, J2EE, JDK, JavaBeans, EJB 2.0, JNDI, JDBC, JSP 1.1, Java Mail, HTML, Java Scripts, Eclipse and Oracle 8.