SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of experience in supporting 3rd party applications including development, testing, UAT on BEA Weblogic Server v 6.1/7.0/8.1/9. x/10.x,Jboss v3x/v4x/v5x/v6x, Websphere App Server v5/6/7/8 server family & production for customer client applications.
• Strong knowledge and background of several industries including financial, automotive, energy, communications sectors with 6+ years experience and in - depth understanding of deployment, sustain and development standards.
• Proven skill sets over Websphere Application server environments including configuration of SSL, wsadmin scripting, cluster configuration, adding new JDBC connection pools, datasources, JMS Queue/Topics & Connection factories, session replication, handling EAR/WAR/JAR deployments including build scripts, creating/modifying cells, servers, nodes, external LDAP configuration for applications, monitoring WAS using PMI & other 3rd party tools such as Sitescope, BMC Patrol, HP-OM etc.
• Highly experienced integrating WAS-ND and related software including WMQ, SunONE Web Server, IBM IHS, IBM TAM, IIS, iPlanet, Netegrity SiteMinder, LDAP, IDS, JProbe, Wily Introscope.
• Well versed in creating SSL using iKEYMAN, Console and command line tools like gsk7cmd and keytool.
• RHCE certified for RHEL 5,Excellent knowledge and background in Linux, Unix such as Redhat Linux, SuSE Linux, HP-UX, IBM-AIX etc including proven expertise in shell scripting including korn, Bash etc.
• Proficient in test planning, performance testing criteria, scripts, defect tracking and test documentation of legacy 3rd party middleware & client applications.
• Effective implementation & deep knowledge of Application Server&O/S Server performance tuning bottlenecks including insight in Garbage Collection/ JVM tuning for Oracle/Sun & IBM JDKs
• Expertise in Tuning of Application Servers by using IBM PerformanceTuningToolKit, Garbage Collection & Memory Visualizer (GCMV), Eclipse Memory Analyzer,Tivoli Performance Viewer like setting the dynamic cache size and setting the JVM heap size using collected Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) data.
• Expertise in configuring a domain, deploying applications, configuring data sources, logging and web subsystems in Jboss5 and EAP 6.2.
• Deep understanding and experience in implementing SSL in enterprise level applications including 1-way, 2-way SSL and NLS, TLS, MLS protocols.
• Experience in using wide variety of tools for sustaining customer environments such as PuTTY, WinSCP, Hummning Bird Exceed, Xming, Tarantella including several type of protocol transfers such as telnet, ssh, scp, rcp, ftp, sftp etc.
• Experience in BMC performance and avialibility, Qpasa tools, Appwatch for WebsphereApplication server.
• Well-versed knowledge of JBOSS Application Server, middleware and other JBOSS components.
• Expertise& 3+ years experience of working with several databases including coding SQL scripts in PL/SQL, MySQL, MS SQL/TSQL.
• Expertise in Development & Deployment for B2B, B2C,SOA applications including middleware products such as Websphere Application Server v4.0/5/6/7/8,Jboss v3x/4x/5x/6x,MQ Series/Websphere MQ v5.x/v6.x/v7.x, Sun Java System Portal Server, Sun One Directory Server, Apache/Tomcat/Sun Java System Webserver/IIS Web Servers and Databases including Oracle RDBMS 8i/9i/10g/11i and other RDBMS such as DB2, Informix, MS SQL Server 2003/2005/2008.
• Experienced in error logging subsystem and performance monitoring tools like vmstat, iostat, netstat on AIX.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Architecture: HP EDGE Platform

Middleware: BEA Weblogic Server v 6.1/7.0/8.1/9. x/10.x, Oracle WLS 11g, Jboss v3x/v4x/v5x/v6x, Websphere App Server v5/6/7/8, WMQ v5.3/6.0/7.2, Apache Webserver v1x/2x, Microsoft IIS, Sun One webserver, Iplanet

Virtualization Technologies: VMWare Vsphere/VCenter/Workstation, Citrix Xenapp server/desktopDatabase Systems: DB2, Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11i including RAC, Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2007/2010, Informix dB

Enterprise solutions: Sun Java Enterprise System, Sun One LDAP Directory/Identity Server, SOA, OOAD, Oracle SOA Suite

J2EETechnologies: Servlets, EJBs, JDBC, JNDI, LDAP, JMS. JDK v6/v6/1.4.x/1.3.x, JAAS, Javascripts, JNI, Applets/Java Plug-in, JMX,JVM, Jython, ANT, Json, JSP, Servlets

Operating Systems: HPUX 11.11ii/11.23, Solaris v8/9/10, RedHat Linux v4/5/6/7(RHEL), Fedora Linux, WindowsServer 2000/2003, Wintel, Suse Enterprise Linux, WinCE v5/v6, WES7/9

Network Architecture & Protocols: LAN, WAN, IPv4/v6, TCP, UDP, UML, XML, HTML, t3, RFC, SNAPerformance Monitoring Tools: BMC Patrol, HP-OM, Custom SPIs for HP-OM for Websphere MQ, Sitescope,Tivoli Performance monitor.

Performance Testing & Other Tools: Glassfish,GCMV, IBM Performance Tuning Toolkit, Load Runner, HP ALM for defect & test tracking.

Development tools: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008, SQL Developer, Eclipse Indigo, SQL Server Management Studio 2005/2008, SQL Server Reporting Studio, Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle SQL Developer

Plant Floor Systems Software/Hardware: Allen-Bradley Interface(ABI), RSLinx, RSLogix5000, PLCs, Control Logix 5(CL5K), OPC, RF Pendants, Tiger Pendants, PDAs, Ackerstorm terminals, HMI, CIMPLICITYOther tools: Microsoft Platform Builder v5/v6, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008, Starteam, SVN CodeVault, Sonar, Jenkins

Ticketing Systems: HP-ITSM, TrackIT, BMC Remed.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Websphere/Jboss Admin

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured JBoss Application server (EAP) 6.4 on AIX and Linux servers, Implemented clusters in JBoss using domain and standalone mode for load balancing and failover capabilities.
• Used wsadmin to create deployment scripts to create new application servers, virtual hosts, clusters, jdbc connection pools, JMS connection factories etc
• Installed, configured and administrated JBoss Operations Network (JON) 2.4/3.1.2 for monitoring the performance, applying security patches and content management.
• Implemented vertical and horizontal clustering on JBoss servers for load balancing and high availability.
• Analysing and resolving performance issues related to Websphere Application Server using Garbage Collection analysis of different algorithms including OptThroughput, GenCon by using several tools such as IBM PerformanceTuningToolKit, Garbage Collection & Memory Visualizer (GCMV), Eclipse Memory Analyzer
• Worked with solution architects in analyzing and tuning websphere resource configurations such as JDBC connection pool timeouts, session time outs, session counts, JMS queue connection factory timeouts etc
• Configured IBM IHS7 to serve as proxy & load balancing for around 64 application servers via round-robin algorithm.
• Modified httpd.conf & plugin-cfg.xml to serve static content for the application including error pages, JPG/PNG files etc.
• Used build scripts to deploy new applications to Development, UAT, SIT & Production environments
• Assisted the solution architects in building a DR solution for the customer for their complete production environment including oracle data transfer and VM replication
• Maintained Security, Tuning and Clustering on JBoss and websphere application servers.
• Used vSphere/vCenter v5.x to monitor VMs running on 30 ESXi hosts for the customerCreated custom scripts for monitoring Websphere MQ, URLs, Database monitoring alerts in Sitescope
• Used Sitescope JMX monitoring to create and configure monitoring for Java heap, JDBC Connection pool sizes, active session counts, Thread pool counts, Production version checks for the application
• Wrote SQL scripts and coordinated with the DBA team to monitor and assist during system outages
• Used Auto-sys & cron jobs for batch processing and other jobs required to support Websphere & database server environments.
• Managed security and performance optimizations for JBOSS, WebSphere ND 6.1 Application Servers by analyzing process dumps, logs and Heap Analyzer.
• Created, Configured & Deployed Development, SIT & Production environments from scratch coordinating with the Development, DBA & Hosting teams.
• Migrated Websphere v7.x to v8.5 using IBM pre-upgrade/post-upgrade scripts as part of Websphere upgrades in Development & Test environments including UAT, Performance & SIT environments
• Involved in designing JBoss Application Server load balancing and fail over by using Workload Management (WLM), horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Configured Queue Connection factories & Queues to connect to Websphere MQ via Websphere Console

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1/7.0/8. x,Websphere Portal Server 6.0/6.1, Jboss 4/5/6,Vsphere v5.x,,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

Websphere Admin/Deployment Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for setup, Installation and Administration of JBoss Application server 6.0/ 5.1/4.2.2 on RedHat Linux and AIX operating systems.
• Developed several key tools including UNIX scripting to monitor applications & reduced deployment time delivery for several applications.
• Created profiles for Websphere standalone using Websphere base profile templates in silent mode using response file.
• Installed & configured Websphere binaries including WAS ND, WAS SDK, WAS Plugins, IHS7 etc using Silent response xml files including Installation Manager.
• Installing SSL s, configuring Single Sign On, configuring Siteminder, WebAgent to implement Security, and enabling Global Security for the Application Server.
• Use HP ITSM for ticketing system and worked on simultaneous projects coordinating with the UNIX SA, DBAs, Network engineers etc to help resolve critical production issues.
• Optimized performance by Slimming JBoss instances to enhance the performance of business critical applications.
• Automated JBoss Application Server regular administration tasks by using shell scripting.
• Performance tuning of the web application using the Tivoli performance monitor and the turning on the garbage collector parameters. Worked closely with the development team in resolving the memory leakage issues in the web apps.
• Configured 1-way & 2-way SSL for customer applications running on Websphere Application Server environment.
• ConfiguredJBOSSApplication server and setup JDBC connection pooling with Oracle. Setup Apache web server with configuration to hook intoJBOSSthrough connector.
• Involved in upgrading JBoss Operations Network (JON) from 2.4.2 to 3.1.2.
• Used wsadmin to monitor performance, create new nodes, cells, servers including cluster configuration, JDBC connection pools etc.
• Used xml access tool to export & import portal configuration between development environments and between staging & production
• Migrated all Admin server consoles to use SSL ports for secure communication instead of using non-secure communication.
• Configured Websphere MQ to communicate with Websphere & Weblogic application servers including using MQSC scripts to create Queues, Topics, Qmanagers & other objects for MQ.
• Created Websphere Clustering environments for each application in production and conducted regular quarterly analysis for requirements for capacity growth in terms of increasing JVM heapsizes, addition of Memory/CPU etc.
• Excellent working knowledge of JBOSS Application Server, middleware and other JBOSS components.
• Resolve any critical issues that affect deployment and potentially go-live/production for the customer
• Configuration and hands on knowledge on IBM Directory Services, Vitria/ Businessware, and WebLogic
• Generate new ideas & tools to cut-short deployment process during the Change management.Work closely with the Sustain teams during transition-to-sustain(T2S) & customer warranty period and provide appropriate activities & resolve any critical production issues.
• Configured IHSv7 for proxying requests of IHS7 to Websphere application server using httpd.conf and plugin-cfg.xml for standalone & clustered Websphere application servers.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1/7.0,Jboss 3/4/5,Websphere Portal Server 6.0/6.1, Websphere Commerce Server 6.0, Apache 2.0.47, IHS 6.0/6.1, Tivoli Access Manager,Tivoli performance monitor,Siteminder,UML, XML, SQL, IBM AIX 5.3, Windows XP, RedHat Linux AS 3.0, TCP/IP

Middleware Admin/Application Support Specialist

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Building and maintaining both in standalone and virtual environments on UNIX and Windows Platforms
• Configured the Global Security on Websphereusing IBM Directory Server and created Users and Groups, assigned different authorization roles for each user and secured the admin console.
• Led application migration with development team on client J2EE application upgrade from running on Weblogicv8.1 to Weblogic v9.2/ v10.3 including configuring db connection pools, JNDI, JAAS etc
• Monitor Weblogic server performance by monitoring verbose garbage collection statistics and suggest improvements on application & server performance by adjusting operating system kernel parameters, heap sizes, tuning work manager, execute queues
• Business migration & client system support for legacy client applications running on IBM Mainframe to J2EE environments,Implement client systems integration/ data transfer protocols & data sharing agreements.
• Create Jboss domains with central management and multiple instances across different physical servers.
• Define HP-OM requirements & Smart Plug-ins(SPI) for Oracle Weblogic Server & Websphere MQ custom SPI for client application(s).
• Installed middle-ware/Reporting Clients like PeopleSoft BussniessObjects, Documentum, Staffware, Clarity, Actuate, Crystal Resports, MQ Series to integrate with Websphere environment.
• Created clustered/non-clustered WMQ environments to integrate with J2EE applications. Created customized MQ Configuration scripts using MQSC command interface
• Integration & trouble shooting support of IBM-AIX servers including backups, dB maintenance, network support, sys admin, token ring network architecture & SNA software management
• Performance analysis/Trouble shooting of client J2EE & custom client applications using tools such BMC Patrol & HP Operations Management 8.x on HP-UX, Red Hat Linux and Operations Infrastructure Smart-Plugins(SPIs) v7.0 for Weblogic Server, Websphere MQ
• Wrote custom programs for PL/SQL& SQL Server Statements/Procedures/Views using SQL developer tools such as SQL Developer, SQL Plus, SQL Server Integration studio etc
• Created customizedscripts for starting/stopping/monitoring/deployingapplications & domain creation/modification on Weblogic server using WLST & Python
• Successfully deployed virtualization of client custom applications from Physical PCs to virtual environments running on VMWare.
• Involved in creating Resources like JDBC Provider for DB2, SQL, Oracle 9, Creating Virtual Hosts, Shared Libraries, JNDI Configurations, EJB s, Creating Environment Variables, and Configuring Session Management.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 5.X/6.X,Weblogic 8.x/9.x/10.xIBM HTTP Server 2.0, WebSphere Process Server 6.0, Tivoli Performance Viewer,PLSQL server,MYSQL server,DB2 server, Patrol & HP Operations Management.

Middleware Specialist

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Responsibilities:

• Implemented custom Weblogic Diagnostic Framework(WLDF) tool for monitoring application performance
• Successfully installed, configured and provided support for Development, SIT, Production Support environmentson BEA WLS, MQ Series, Webservers, and Oracle RDBMS
• Configuration/Troubleshooting of Strategic-Front End(SFE), SFE2ABI, Rockwell’s RSLinx, RSLogix5/5000, CL5K/PLC5
• Installed WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) Offline/Online for Weblogic 7.0 and WebLogic 8.1. Used WLST offline/online for Staring/Stopping Admin Server/Managed Servers, Checking Server Status, Deployments and Configuring/Monitoring WebLogic resources.
• Created automatedscripts for starting/stopping/monitoring/deployingapplications & domain creation/modification on Weblogic server using WLST & Python.
• Used Load Runner, Jprobe, and Tivoli Performance Viewer to identify performance bottlenecks.
• Provided support for Sun Java Enterprise System including Sun Java System Portal Server v6 2004Q2, Sun Java System Directory Server, Sun Java System Identity Server, Sun Java System WebServer v6.1 SP2
• Medium level system Administrator support such as system monitoring scripts, adding/deleting users, Physical/Virtual Memory monitoring, CPU Utilization, regularly monitoring user level activity, checking System logs on HP-UX/RHEL/Windows 2K/2003
• Configured 3rd Party security authentication/authorization modules into Weblogic Server 7.0/8.1/9.0 such as LDAP etc.
• Involved in major migrations like WebSphere Application Server and WebLogic Application Server to JBoss Application Server 5.0.1.
• Configured, tested and applied security update patches and service packs for Weblogic Server environment for versions 7.0, 8.1, 9.0 and 10.0.
• Analyzed requirements, created and executed system test cases and prepared test summary reports; maintained traceability matrix and monitored day-to-day progress of testing
• Installed middle-ware/Reporting Clients like PeopleSoft Bussniess Objects, Documentum, Staffware, Clarity, Actuate, Crystal Resports, MQ Series to integrate with Websphere environment.
• Configuration of Clustering Technology for high availability and Session State Replication.
• Configuration and integration of JDBC, JMS server, Messaging bridges, JNDI, Virtual Hosts, Network Channels, Startup/ Shutdown classes, Session State replication, Debug/ Server/Access log control and roll-over, Load Balancing (Software & Hardware), High availability, Clustering Tecnology, Web/ Enterprise Application deployments, customized server startup/ shutdown/monitoring scripts, Weblogic Scripting Tool(WLST), Domain Configuration using scripts and domain configuration tool, command line interface of monitoring/startup/shut down of servers.
• Implemented Weblogic console Extension modules such as Weblogic Diagnostic Framework(WLDF).
• Installed WMQ on new servers, migrated Queue Manager and all objects including queues, processes and channels to newly added servers to make production ready.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0.2/5.1/6.0/6.1, WebSphere Portal Server 6.0,WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1/7.0,Weblogic 7.x/8.x,Jboss 4.x/5.x,IBM HTTP Server 2.0/6.0/6.1, UNIX (AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3 & HP-UX B 11.11), Sun Java Enterprise System.

WebLogic Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Application groups in troubleshooting and fine-tuning the application Performance.
• Provided WebLogic server instances into WebLogic clusters for high availability.
• Worked on WebLogic server that includes jdbc, security and apache server configuration.
• Worked on migration from Weblogic 8.x to Weblogic 10.x.
• Worked with the Portal team to integrate InfoView into a BEA WebLogic Portlet.
• Worked on web application and portal development on a large Oracle data warehouse, and administration of a middle tier application server.
• Worked on performing systems monitoring using Sitescope, OEM (Oracle Enterprise Monitoring) tools.
• Installed and configured Apache HTTP Server 2.0, Tomcat 6.0, Active MQ, IIS 6 and Sun One Web Servers in various environments.
• Installation and configuration of NDM (Network Data Mover) for file transfer from Weblogic server to Mainframe servers.
• Made use of WLST, Jython and ANT scripting to automate and monitor the WebLogic routine tasks.
• Worked in WebLogic Administration with expertise in Installation, Configuration, Tuning, and Deploying applications on a Windows platform.
• Experience in configuring SSL for web servers, requesting and installing secure s, enabling global security using LDAP registry and single sign on.
• Using JBoss Profiler to monitor clustered JBoss Performance like memory usage, CPU utilization.Worked in Oracle/Weblogic Application Server, Portlet and Content Management Administration (UCM) and Site Studio.
• Solved server hang issues such as Deadlock, Application and Database level lock by taking thread dump and analyzed to get the root cause of the hang.
• Participated in the on call rotation for 24x7 production support.

Environment: Weblogic 7.x/8.x/10.x,Jboss 3.x/4.x,Sun one web serversLDAP Registry,Network Data Mover,Apache HTTP Server 2.0, Sitescope monitoring tool,Tivoli monitoring tool,Tomcat 6.0, Active MQ, IIS 6TECHNICAL SKILLS