SUMMARY

• 7.9 years of Experience in Planning, Installing, Configuring, Administering, Tuning and Troubleshooting IBM WebSphere Application Server (Base & ND),Websphere MQ (v6.x,7.x),IBM IHS and Apache WebServers.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration, and Administration of IBM WebSphere Application server v 8.5/8.0/7.0/6.1 on AIX, Solaris, Linux and Windows Platforms.
• Experience in installing, configuring and administration of IBM websphere MQ in Linux and windows environments.
• Experience in deploying, maintaining and troubleshooting of applications in highly available, load balanced production environments.
• Experienced in Secured Socket Layer (SSL) configuration, creating self - signed s, generating requests, Import/Export s and creating key databases.
• Implemented Workload Management (WLM) methodology and fail over mechanisms including horizontal and vertical clustering, HTTP server fail over, and Deployment Manager and Node agent fail over.
• Implemented clustering in WebSphere Application Server 6.1/7.0/8.0 using horizontal and vertical clustering to provide scalable and highly available WebSphere environment.
• Proficient in developing Scripts using Jython, JACL, and ANT to automate WAS administration and deployment tasks such as JVM configuration, J2EE application deployment, ear/war installation, and backups.
• Experience in writing scripts to create clusters, deploy applications and restart teh servers.
• Expertise in working wif logs, trace and messages using tools such as Log Analyzer, Resource Analyzer and Admin Console.
• Created and configured MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Local Queues, Alias Queues, Remote queues, Transmission Queues, Dead Letter Queues, Clustered Queues, Channels, Listeners, Clusters, Triggers, Processes and Namelists.
• Experience wif testing tools MQ such as RFHUTIL, MQMON and BMC Admin 7 .
• Good noledge of WebSphere MQ and involved in configuring MDB listeners, JMS resources, and queues and integrating wif teh WebSphere Application Server.
• Experience in installing and creating Virtual Portals and assigning user populations.
• Experienced in migrating teh applications from WebSphere 6.x to WebSphere 7.0.x.
• Familiarity wif network protocols and applications involving TCP/IP, NFS, DFS, SNMP, SMTP, POP, Telnet, Rlogin, SSH, FTP, HTTP, DNS.
• Recent experience includes hands on expertise in Single Sign-On domain using Oracle Access Manager, Oracle WebGate, Tivoli Access Manager, Site Minder, Identity Management and LDAP.
• Experienced in Configuring and administering Citrix Netscaler for load balancing teh applications.
• Installed and Administered IBM WebSphere Portal Server 5.1.0.1/6.0.1.4/6.1.0.1.
• Experience in setting up of Nodes, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts and Session Management for WebSphere Application Servers.
• Involved in streamline development and testing using TIBCO in websphere application server.
• Experienced in providing intergation to Application server wif TIBCO as jms resource provider allocation wif teh queue messaging
• Troubleshooting Admin Server start-up issues, Java code defects after deployment and class path issues by checking teh JVM logs, plug-in logs and teh web server logs.
• Experience in using GC Collector and analyzed GC verbose logs to monitor and assess teh JVM runtime Heap usage.
• Experienced in Configuring of JDBC Providers, JDBC data sources, connection pool, Virtual Hosting, JNDI, Global Security, SSL, SSO, and Open SSH, Open SSL, LDAP.
• Proficient in configuring WebSphere Application Server wif monitoring tools like Tivoli Performance Viewer, ITCAM and Wily Interscope.
• Strong experience in Administration and Maintenance of WAS ND clusters (vertical, horizontal) and deployment of applications in highly available, load balanced production environments.
• Experience in design & implementation of both internet, intranet applications - DMZ and non DMZ.
• Good noledge of Firewall configuration and Network protocols, DNS, Network Dispatchers and SSL s.
• On-call Production Support (24x7), monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications in Development, TEST, QA, Staging and Production Environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.x, 5.x and Network Deployment 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, Websphere MQ 7.x,6.x, Apache Tomcat, JBOSS

Web Servers: IBM HTTP Server 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, Apache and IIS.

Operating System: Red Hat Linux 4/3, AIX 5.2/5.3, Windows NT/2003/2008, Solaris 7/8/9

Languages: C, C++, Java, Servlets, JSP, EJB, XML.

Databases: Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server 2000, MS Access.

Scripting: UNIX Shell Script, Wsadmin, JACL, JYTHON

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI, SOAP, SSL

Tools: Tivoli Performance Viewer, Resource Analyzer, Heap Analyzer, Thread Analyzer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

WebSphere Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in Planning, Design, Installation and Integration of WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment v6.0/8.5 and IBM Http Server on diverse UNIX flavours that includes AIX, Linux and Windows Platforms (2003/2008) in a multi clustered high availability environments.
• Handled teh maintenance of teh WebSphere Application Servers on AIX/Windows platforms and setting up of teh developing, staging and production environments for teh ongoing application development.
• Worked wif 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.
• Installed, Configured & regenerated teh Patches and Web Service Plug-in on Application servers and Web servers.
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere that involves EAR (Enterprise Archives) and WAR (Web Archives).
• Configured GC parameters, monitoring teh heap sizes by setting verbose GC, fine tuning and fixing memory issues.
• Involved in MQ upgrades wif teh halp of scripts and Bouncing teh Queue managers .
• Monitored Log files of clusters, queues and queue managers.
• Monitored MQ objects using Rfhutil and BMC admin 7.
• Problem determination using Queue Manager Error logs. Cleared Queues using MQ Commands and teh BMC monitoring tool.
• Checked for and Set MQ Authorities for different Applications Teams.
• Set Authorities on Queue Managers, Channels, and Queues.
• Implemented security using LTPA and LDAP for WebSphere Application Server, Portal Server.
• Involved in managing releases of products from development to QA to Pre-Production and Production.
• Performed troubleshooting on Java applications using WAS logs, traces, Log Analyzer, Resource Analyzer/Tivoli Performance Viewer, HP Diagnostics in production environment.
• Experienced in using ITCAM to no health of teh Applications and JVMS
• Regularly attended status & CR meetings on behalf of Team & coordinate wif different teams for task .
• Provided 24/7 on call support for critical applications, flexible to work during off hours & in shift rotation.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server ND 6.1/8.x, AIX 5.3, Red hat Enterprise Linux 7.x, IBM HTTP SERVER v8.x/7.0, Oracle 10g,11g,12c, Java JDK 1.5.0, IBM ISA 4.1.

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Sr. WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of WebSphere application server V7.0/V8.x and administration of teh environments built on WebSphere application server
• Preparing middleware design/architecture as per teh application functionality to provide teh efficient middleware solution for teh project and document them.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server on multiple platforms for both Horizontal and Vertical clustering for Work Load Management.
• Working on teh SSL & mSSL configuration at teh application level on Glassfish application server.
• Developed UNIX based tool using shell script, JACL, jython scripting utility to automate teh environment creation (creating Domain Manager, creating nodes, configuring clusters, adding JVM arguments, configuring JDBC connection pool & data source, configuring MQ connection pool and QCF, defining JNDI definition of teh MQ queues and deploying application) process on Web Sphere Application Server.
• Managed teh security and performance optimizations for EJB containers and web applications in IBM WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server and Apache web server.
• Highly experienced working wif generation / manual updating / propagation of plug-in both in teh internal and external DMZ HTTP/Web server for troubleshooting and improving performance.
• Created shell script to automate teh regular maintenance activities like: File System cleanup, JVM restart, heap dump analyze, capturing teh thread pool, JDBC connection usage for a JVM etc.
• Designing, creating and maintaining teh WebSphere MQ objects like, queue managers, listeners, local queues, alias queues, remote queues, SVRCONN channel, sender/receiver channel, MQ clusters, MQ binding files etc.
• Creating message flow application in message broker toolkit using teh ESQL, creating BAR file and deploy teh BAR file onto broker.
• Creating execution group, maintaining message flows in all teh environments, troubleshooting and fixing teh issues related to message flow/message delivery.
• Created a script using jython to automate teh environment creation process in WebSphere(Creating clusters, JVMs, add custom properties, create virtual hosts, create JDBC providers, data source, Queue connection factory, Queues, listeners etc.)
• Creation of Multi instance Queue Manager, Message Brokers, and Failover functionalities.
• Troubleshooting teh issues in production and lower environments, opening teh service request wif Oracle in case of unnon issues and lead them until teh issue is resolved.
• Maintaining teh whole middleware architecture, working on issues, co-ordinate wif offshore team and teh client, planning and applying teh new fix packs for teh application server/web server and resource adapter.
• On-call support (24x7), Monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications at Development and Production.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 7.0/8.0, Windows 2003 Advanced Server, AIX 6.1, Websphere MQ 7.x,6.x, DB2, Wily Introscope, Oracle 9i/10g, SEAS, Silk Central, Shell Scripts, Jython, Windows XP, IBM HTTP Server 7.0/8.0.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Installation, Configuration, Administration and troubleshooting WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0 and IBM HTTP Server.
• Installed and configured IBM DB2 database and setup LDAP security to teh Applications.
• Deployed teh applications in Testing, Staging and Production Environments, following change management practices.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using teh Admin Console and Jacl scripts, following teh change management requests.
• Managed teh Security and Performance Optimization for EJB containers and Web Applications in WebSphere, IHS web server.
• Administered and Experience in installing and configuring teh Citrix Netscalar platforms.
• Experienced in load balancing teh applications in Citrix Netscaler platforms.
• Achieved Workload Configuring Queue Connection Factories, Queues & MDB Listener ports for different enterprise applications running in WebSphere Application Servers.
• Experienced in configuring TIBCO which acts as a JMS provider for WAS.
• Involved in Creating and Managing teh Nodes, Application Server and Clusters, Deployed Multiple J2EE Applications.
• Responsible for testing of applications at various levels before deploying them to production. Teh test phases include development, UIT, ST, SIT, PT, finally to production.
• Profiled all teh J2EE Application’s and worked wif Application Groups in improving performance of application and possible memory leaks in application before production.
• Involved in creating Resources like JDBC Provider for DB2, Creating Virtual Hosts, Shared Libraries, JNDI Configurations, EJB s, Creating Environment Variables, and Configuring Session Management.
• Several MQ Series Servers are integrated using teh Point to point channels and Cluster Channels.
• Configured Websphere for messaging by defining Queue Destinations & Queue Connection Factories.
• Involved in Monitoring, Capacity Planning, High Availability and Systems Scalability.
• Coordinated wif various teams like Development, OS, Database and Networking to Deploy teh J2EE Applications in Development, QA, Staging and Production Environments.
• Involved in Tuning of WebSphere Application Server for performance improvements.
• Worked wif QA Team for Load Tests and Performance tests and identified teh bottlenecks of teh applications.
• Involved in configuring SSL b/w Web Browser, Web Server & Application server and Worked wif Key stores and Trust stores if any of teh s are expired.
• Configured Websphere for messaging by defining Queue Destinations & Queue Connection Factories.
• Worked wif Application groups in troubleshooting and fine-tuning teh application Performance.
• Extensively used teh Command line tools for Administration and Maintenance of teh Applications.
• Worked closely wif developers to define and configure Application Servers, Web Applications, and Web Resources, Servlets and JDBC drivers-as well as deployment of EJB's on teh WebSphere Application Server.
• On-call support (24x7), Monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications at Development and Production.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 7.0/8.0, Windows 2003 Advanced Server, AIX 6.1, Websphere MQ 7.x,6.x, DB2,, Shell Scripts, Jython, Windows XP, Adobe Live Cycle ES3, IBM MDM 10.0, IBM File Net 5.1, InfoSphere Information Server (Data Stage) 8.7, SAP BO 3.1,4.0, PRPC 6.1/6.2, Oracle WebGate, IBM HTTP Server 7.0/8.0.

Confidential

MiddlewareAdministrator

Responsibilities:

• Developed many WSCP scripts and shell scripts to automate teh maintenance process of teh WebSphere and recovered teh backed up WebSphere configuration using XMLConfig tool.
• Automate application install, uninstall and application enhancements through Shell scripts and WSCP scripts.
• Experienced in Installing and Configuration of Application server Websphere 7.0/6.0.
• Experience in Installing and Configuration of Websphere servers like IBM Http server and Tomcat.
• Install, configure and maintain Internet, Intranet, Application and Database Servers like WebSphere, HTTP Server, DB2 on diverse UNIX flavors that includes AIX and Windows Platforms (NT/2000) in a multi clustered high availability environments.
• Developed UNIX shell scripts, JACL scripts to automate teh WebSphere Administration (recycling teh application server, deploying customer applications, logs rotation, monitor applications state, etc).
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere 7.0/6.0 that involves EAR (Enterprise Archives) and WAR (Web Archives).
• Configured Health care applications to connect MQ Series Objects like Queue Manager, Queue, and Channels, Queue Destinations & Queue Connection Factories.
• Deploy on WAS and maintain teh CCDR environment, work wif developers and QA in troubleshooting problems related to teh applications and works wif IBM on resolving complex websphere issues.
• Involved in trouble shooting and performance tuning using Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer.
• Managed teh security and performance optimizations for EJB containers and web applications in IBM WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server and Apache web server.
• Experienced in using TIBCO for messaging service which is integrated wif message queues.
• Ensure application dependencies are integrated on system level components such as database, Data Source Name (DSN), and Application Server connection pooling (DB2) including identification and documentation.
• Created and configured MQ Series Objects like Queue Manager, Queue, and Channels etc.
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0/6.0, JDBC drivers and Served engines along wif trouble shooting and recovery.
• Responsible for application changes across different platforms- development, testing and production.
• Involved in monitoring, shutdown and boot up, Network Support and Trouble Shooting.
• Used import/export LDIF commands and changed user passwords and activate/deactivate accounts using LDAP modify Worked closely wif Project manager, development, testing and production team to align project deliverables, dates and report issues/concerns.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 7.0,s6.x, Solaris 8,9 AIX, Websphere MQ 7.x,6.x, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Sun-one webserver, Sun-one Directory Server, Netegrity Siteminder.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in Planning, Design, Installation and Integration of WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment v6.0/7.0 and IBM Http Server on diverse UNIX flavours that includes AIX, Linux and Windows Platforms (2003/2008) in a multi clustered high availability environments.
• Handled teh maintenance of teh WebSphere Application Servers on AIX/Windows platforms and setting up of teh developing, staging and production environments for teh ongoing application development.
• Worked wif 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.
• Installed, Configured & regenerated teh Patches and Web Service Plug-in on Application servers and Web servers.
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere that involves EAR (Enterprise Archives) and WAR (Web Archives).
• Configured GC parameters, monitoring teh heap sizes by setting verbose GC, fine tuning and fixing memory issues.
• Implemented security using LTPA and LDAP for WebSphere Application Server, Portal Server.
• Involved in managing releases of products from development to QA to Pre-Production and Production.
• Performed troubleshooting on Java applications using WAS logs, traces, Log Analyzer, Resource Analyzer/Tivoli Performance Viewer in production environment.
• Experienced in using ITCAM to no health of teh Applications and JVMS
• Regularly attended status & CR meetings on behalf of Team & coordinate wif different teams for task .
• Provided 24/7 on call support for critical applications, flexible to work during off hours & in shift rotation.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server ND 6.1/7.0, AIX 5.3, Red hat Enterprise Linux 4, IBM HTTP SERVER v6.1/7.0, Oracle 9i/10g,11g, Java JDK 1.5.0, IBM ISA 4.1.