OBJECTIVE:

• Seeking a carrier as IBM Middleware Administrator to leverage a company’s investment as well as provide an opportunity for advancement

SUMMARY

• Over 6+ years IT Experience as IBM Middleware Administrator for IBM WebSphere MQ, Message Broker and IBM WebSphere Application server in different platforms.
• Highly experienced in designing messaging architectures including deployment and administration of WebSphere MQ and IIB.
• Created and configured MQ objects such as Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Triggers.
• Hands - on experience in Installation, Creation, Configuration and management of MQ Series/WMQI/WBIMB objects like Queue Managers, Brokers, Configuration manager, user name server, Queues, Channels, Processes, trigger monitors etc in MQ V5.3,6.2,7.5,8.0,9.0,IIB 9/10,WAS 8.5,8.5.5.
• Experienced in scripting languages like Shell, Perl etc to automate and improve the maintenance and administration of MQ/ MB
• Extensive Expertise in installing, Configuring and Administrating IBM WebSphere application server 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.0 on different platforms Solaris, Red Hat Linux, AIX & Windows2000/2003 Server.
• Experience in installing and configuring IBM HTTP Server 1.2.x/1.3.x/5.x/6.x with Local and Remote Plug-in for IBM WebSphere Application Server and Jboss EAP6 and EAP7.
• Experienced in troubleshooting, applying patches and plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server 4.x/5.x/6.0
• Experienced in deploying Web Applications on Apache Tomcat and JBOSS application servers.
• Expert in configuring and installing Datapower Appliances X150 and X152.
• Configured Multi-Protocol Gateways and Front side handlers in Datapower Appliances
• Experienced in installing Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications using IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1/6.0/5.0. x/4.0.x with wsadmin scripts using jacl and jython.
• Expertise in configuring JDBC providers, Data Sources, Virtual Host, SSL and Global security LDAP for IBM WebSphere Application Server.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

EAI/Messaging Tools: IBM MQ Series 7/7.5/8/9, IBM Message Broker 6.X/7.X, IIB 9.0/10.0

Web Servers: Apache Tomcat, IBM HTTP Server, JBoss.

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.0

Monitoring tools: New Relic, IBM Tivoli Products, BMC TrueSight, Patrol, Grafana

Languages: C, C++, Java, C#, JSP, Servlets, HTML, XML.

Operating Systems: UNIX, Solaris 2.6/5.x/10, Linux, Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/2003.

Scripting: JACL, Java scripts, Ant, Python, UNIX shell Scripts, PERL.

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, SQL Server 2000/2005, MS-Access2000/2003.

Version Control: Github, SVN

LDAP Servers: IBM Tivoli Directory Server.

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SOAP.

Tools: Akamai Tera Alta, Puppet Automation, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Resource Analyzer, Heap Analyzer, Thread Analyzer, Wily Introscope, Verilog XL, VHDL, Cadence IC Design Env.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dublin, OH

IIB/MQ Middleware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Design and architect WebSphere MQ Queue Managers per IBM standards.
• Write Custom UNIX scripts.
• Configure queues and channels on new Queue Managers and associated existing Queue Managers per application requirements in accordance with IBM standards.
• Design and architect Message Broker per Middleware/ESB developers’ standards to communicate on Related Projects.
• Installations of WebSphere MQ Ver. 8.0 & 9.0, related tools, support packs, scripts, etc.
• Configure and secure Queue Managers per IBM standards.
• Setup Monitoring and alerting for new Queue Managers and associated Queue Managers.
• Development and documentation of Operational procedures (including scripts) as necessary to support day to day processing.
• Provide general guidance and best practices as appropriate to IBM MQ
• Administrators and application developers.
• Support application testing requirements

Environment: IBM WebSphere MQ 7.1/7.5/8.0/9.0 , IBM Message Broker7, IBM Integration Bus 9/10, WBI ICS,Datapower Appliance X152,Jboss EAP6 and 7, IBM Mercator, PERL, Shell, Akamai, Tivoli Omegamon,ITAM6,Tivoli Enterprise Portal, Grafana. ELK Stack, BMC TrueSight,WAS 6.1/7.0/8.0, IBM HTTP Server, AIX 5.x, Sun Solaris 10, Red Hat Linux OS, Windows, Oracle 10g/11g, SQL 9.0/10.0, DB2 8.x/9.x, BMC REMEDY(ITSM/SRM), Puppet, Github,SVN

Confidential, San Diego, CA

IBM Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked on multiple migration scenarios in MQ and IIB.
• Upgraded MQ from V7.5 to V8.0.0.7 and B8 to V9 for few applications.
• Performed In-Place and Parallel migrations when moving from MB7 to IIB9 and then to IIB10.
• Used Perl and SHELL to write various scripts to help simplify the above project.
• Lead the team in the Message Broker migration from Version IIB V9 to V10.
• Was responsible for the drawing up the optimum way to migrate the John Deere Infrastructure without any major disruptions to the Production environment.
• Also worked to migrate from AIX operating system to a more cost effective RedHat Linux OS
• As a part of the migration, was responsible to research, gather know how, create Brokers, broker queue managers, queue manager objects etc.
• Helped developers design and alter their code for the Message Flows which already existed on MB V6.
• Use MB Explorer, MQ Explorer extensively to administer the Broker objects like inspecting the message flows, setting up debug ports, setting user traces and service traces to resolve the issues in the Broker infrastructure.
• Specifying and populating WebSphere Message Broker Execution Groups needed to develop and test new or modified code
• Work with the Server teams to create new servers with the specifications best suited to Message Broker and WebSphere MQ to ensure the smooth running of the infrastructure.
• Designing and integrating loosely coupled applications in Publish Subscribe architecture using Web Sphere MQ.
• Worked extensively in automation and ease of use of various MQ and Message Broker processes by scripting various tasks like Message Broker flow deploys, lists SSL certificate generation, offload, reload messages from high traffic Message Queues using the MQ SupportPack MO03 using PERL, Shell and bash.
• Use JMeter Load test plans to load test IBM MQ Queue and Channel performance and IIB Flow response times paired with IIB Node Debuggers.
• Created scripts using PERL and SHELL scripting languages to create scripts to move cluster queues on and off the clusters to help with the migration of MQ and Message Broker.

Environment: IBM WebSphere MQ 7.1/7.5/8.0/9.0 , IBM Message Broker7, IBM Integration Bus 9/10, WBI ICS,Datapower Appliance X152,Jboss EAP6 and 7, IBM Mercator, PERL, Shell, Akamai, Tivoli Omegamon,ITAM6,Tivoli Enterprise Portal, Grafana. ELK Stack, BMC TrueSight,WAS 6.1/7.0/8.0, IBM HTTP Server, AIX 5.x.

Confidential

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing project BRD/Project charter and providing project testing estimation efforts for the on shore and offshore testing team through estimation tool.
• Performed administration tasks using MQSC commands to create Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Process Definition, NameLists, Remote queues, Local Queues, Queue Aliases, Channels, Cluster queues, Transmission Queues etc.
• Creating Test strategy document.
• Developing test plans, Reports, designing test scenarios and scripts.
• Identifying testing risks and writing mitigation plans in test plan document.
• Peer reviews for Requirements, Designing, coding and testing.
• Test case/scripts/scenario execution through Quality Center bug tracking tool.
• Confirms program operation by conducting tests; modifying program sequence and/or codes.
• Develops and maintains applications and databases by evaluating client needs; analyzing requirements; developing software systems.

Environment: IBM MQ 7.0/6.1, WAS 6.0/6.1/7.0, IHS 6.1/7.0, LDAP Sun Directory Server 5.2, Tivoli Access Manager 4.1/5.1, BMC Remedy ITSM, Siteminder 5.x/6.x, AIX 5.x, Sun Solaris 10, Linux, Windows, Oracle 10g/11g, SQL 9.0/10.0, DB2 8.x/9.x