SUMMARY

• Over 6+ years of experience in Planning, Installation, Configuration, Administering, Deployment, Troubleshooting and Management of enterprise applications using IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5/8.0/7.0/6. x, WebLogic Application Server, JBOSS application server, WebSphere Portal Server 6.1.5/6.x and Process Server 6.1, 6.0, IBM HTTP Server 7.0/6.1/6.0, iPlanet, Apache - Tomcat and IIS Web Servers on AIX, Solaris, UNIX, Linux, HP-UX and WINDOWS NT/2000 platforms and setting up the development, testing and production environments.
• Specializing in IBM platforms including WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server and MQ.
• Experience in installation, configuration, deployment and administration of BEA/ORACLE WebLogic Application server 10.x/9.x/8.x and IBM WebSphere Application Server and Portal Server 6.x/5.x/4.x.
• Experience in Installing, Configuring and Administering Web Servers like IBM HTTP Server 7.0/6.1/6.0/5.1 , Sun One Web Server, Apache HTTP server 2.x, and IIS 6.x/5.x.
• Extensive experience in configuration of cells, nodes, clustering, application servers, Process Servers, session management, configuring web server plug-ins, IBM HTTP Server 7.0/6.1/6.0, Apache, Sun ONE Directory Server (LDAP), IBM Edge Server.
• Experience in installation and configuration of IBM HTTP Server 1.3.x/2.x/6.x, IBM Plugins and Apache 2.0 as reverse proxy server and proxy server for loading balancing the request to the backend.
• Expertise in Installation, Configuration, Administration of Web Content Management (WCM), WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere MQ Resources, WebSphere XD, Queue/Queue Manager, Channel, Listener management, and Administration of MQ.
• Involved in installation of fix packs, eFixes, and cumulative fixes and in configuring WebSphere MQ queues, channels, listeners Involved in Tuning of Application Servers by using Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Experience in Implemented security and configuration of SITEMINDER “Single Sign-On” configurations and replications for Active Directory server, and proficient in creating queue managers, local queues and connection.
• Used WebSphere Admin Console and WAS Admin/JACL scripting to install enterprise EAR, WAR files or for hot deployment, and also experienced in using Heap & Thread Analyzers for troubleshooting.
• Good at troubleshooting using Traces, Logs and Log Analyzer. Good Knowledge in server side technologies like Servlets, RMI, and EJBs.
• Worked in 24x7 environments for production support in an on-call rotation.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Highly motivated, detail oriented and organized with the ability to multi-task projects, maintaining a high degree of proficiency.
• Excellent client relation skills and the drive to complete tasks effectively and efficiently where customer services and technical skills are demanded as well as the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management and the client community.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: IBM AIX, Solaris, UNIX, Linux, HP-UX and WINDOWS NT/2000 platforms.

Programming Languages: C, J2EE, and SQL

Middleware: IBM WebSphere Application Server and process server 5.x/6.x/7.0/8.0/8.5, IBM HTTP Server 7.0/6.1/6.0, WebSphere MQ V 5.x/6.0/7.0,Message Broker, IIS, Apache-Tomcat, JBOSS, Glassfish, Sun ONE Web Server, iPlanet, SiteMinder, WebSphere XD, WebSphere Portal 5.x/6.x/6.1.5, WebLogic, JBoss Application Server 4.x, 5.x, 6.0.

Monitoring Tools: Tivoli Performance Viewer, Heap and Thread Analyzer, Wily Introscope.

Database: DB2 8.x/9.x, Oracle 11g/10g/9.i/8.i,Sybase, JDBC/ODBC, SQL Server and Microsoft Access.

Network Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SOAP, SSL, DNS, DHCP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Sr. WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured, and Administered Apache Tomcat 5.x/6.x, IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0/7.0 base and Network deployment (WAS ND) for clustered environments, creation of data sources, queue destinations, connection managers, listener ports, custom JVM tuning configurations and etc.
• Expertise in Applying the ifixes and fixpacks in Production and Non-production Environments and monitored during application testing.
• Documentation done for all the configuration changes.
• Experience in integrating WebSphere Application Server and Deployment Manager with IBM HTTP server, SQL servers.
• Knowledge on execution of Shell scripts for Monitoring JVMs, heap dumps, CPU usage and disk usages.
• Migrated existing applications from IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0 to 8.0, Red Hat JBOSS 5.x to 6.x and 6.x to 7.x, Tomcat Application server from 5.x to 6.x on windows, Linux, UNIX platforms.
• Well Experienced in deploying .ear .jar files.
• Supported WebSphere application server clustering, Load balancing and Failover.
• Configuring of resources like JDBC, configuring MQ Server and connection pooling for the database.
• Installed and Configured IBM HTTP Server 7.0 on LINUX.
• Generated Http Plug-in configuration and moved it to the Web servers.
• Expertise in using the collector, backup Config and restore Config tools.
• Installed and configured Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) between WAS and IHS for data encryption and client authentication in both Production and Non-production environments.
• Created Open SSL Certificates and used them to maintain confidentiality and two-way authentication while integrating with third party applications. Installed created SSL certificates on WebSphere, JBOSS, Tomcat Application servers and updated WebSphere Portal database schema entities in all environments.
• Installed and Configured App Dynamics Monitoring tool on Red Hat Linux Platform.
• Written Shell Scripts to automate the day-to-day activities to complete sooner.
• Worked with IBM technicians in regards to several PMR’s opened by me to resolve issues.
• Carried out heap dump analysis using Heap Analyzer.

Environment: IBM WebSphere7.0/8.0, Tomcat 5.x/6.x, IBM WebSphere, IBM Http Server 7.0, Red hat Linux 6, Windows 2003/2008 JACL, HTML, EJB, JSP, Unix shell scripts, Python, Struts, Wiley, Java/J2SE 1.4, J2EE 1.3, Eclipse, SOAP, DMZ.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Planned, Installed, configured and administered WebSphere application serverV6.x/7.0/8.x network deployment, IBM HTTP Server 8.5, Plugin 8.5.5.1 on Red Hat Linux 6.0 and Sun Solaris 5.3
• Applied fix packs such as WAS 8.5.5.1, Plugin 8.5.5.1 and IHS to overcome problems with the application server and web servers.
• Configured JDBC providers, data sources, JAAS-J2C authentication data, resource adapters and J2C connection factories.
• Established global security, LDAP authentication, virtual host, WebSphere variables and shared libraries.
• Upgraded WebSphere application server from version 6.1/7.0 to 8.5.
• Installed and upgraded IHS server v6.x/7.x to 8.5.
• Migrated WebSphere application server V7.0 to 8.5 using running on Sun Solaris.
• Installed WebSphere MQ V7.x and created MQ objects like queue managers, queues, channels, process, and definitions.
• Instituted enterprise service bus and service integration bus that communicates with WebSphere MQ.
• Set up global security, managed users and groups and generated LTPA tokens in WAS.
• Carried out enterprise level capacity planning while changing the design of the WebSphere server architecture and performed WebSphere license management and consolidation of application servers.
• Worked on SSO and flexible access management for applications using CA Site Minder.
• Monitored applications using Tivoli Performance Viewer (TPV) and Wily monitoring tool.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining SSL certs across multiple applications and domains.
• Performed in design and implementation planning stage for data center and migrating applications.
• Set up secure communications between applications with inter-plan communications (IPC).
• Collaborated with DNS and network team to setup standards and operating procedures.
• Cooperated with users in the transaction monitoring using DynaTrace for claim processing.
• Interfaced with DBAs to support application processing the claims.
• Opened PMRs and worked with IBM to resolve issues at quick pace.
• Worked with IBM thread and monitor dump analyzer, analyzing dumps and working with IBM to resolve issue and along with app team to change the code logic for session objects and large object allocation.
• Partnered with team members and business partners through all phases of the project life cycle to ensure business requirements were met within established project schedules.
• Written Shell Scripts to automate the day-to-day activities to complete sooner.
• Provided analysis, coding, testing, debugging, documenting, maintaining programs and interfaces.
• Verified the accuracy and validity of software developed, including preparations of sample test data and execution of program, job stream, and system testing.
• Configured WebSphere application server on multiple platforms for both horizontal and vertical scaling for work load management.
• Produced logical bill of materials for applications and created physical diagrams using Visio for all environments, both current and future state.
• Managed releases of products from development to stage and stage to production.
• Worked in change management practices and 24x7 supports and worked in shifts.

Environment: WebSphere Application server 7/8.x, DB2, SQL, WebSphere MQ 7.1, Tomcat 6.0, Sun Solaris 5.3 RHEL 6, IBM HTTP V6/7/8.5, Windows 2003/2005, App Dynamics, DynaTrace.

Confidential, Westborough, MA

WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured, and Administered IBM WebSphere Application Server 7/6.1 base and Network deployment (WAS ND), Tomcat 5/6 for clustered environments, creation of data sources, queue destinations, connection managers, listener ports, custom JVM tuning configurations and etc.
• Installed, Configured and Administered IBM WebSphere Portal Server 6.1.x and IBM WebSphere Application server 6.x/7.x on AIX 6.1 and Red Hat Linux platforms.
• Expertise in migrating IBM WebSphere Application Server from 6.1 to 7.0 and Web Sphere Portal server from 6.0 to 6.1.5 on new infrastructure hardware for both Production and Non-Production environments
• Providing 24/7 on-call supports on high volume Application Production systems and Responsible for maintenance and support of all applications running on Solaris and Linux servers.
• Expertise in integrating Sun One Directory Server version 6.3 with IBM WebSphere version 6.x/7.x
• Experience in supporting existing portal Applications like IBM WebSphere Member portal and Group Portal and Managing the themes and skins, Deploying the port lets and virtual portals.
• Installed and configured Web Content Management (WCM) and activated port lets using activate-port lets
• Created server instances, horizontal and vertical clustered environments in JBOSS, Tomcat, WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Application Servers for high availability, fail over and workload management.
• Involved in troubleshooting and performance tuning using Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer andcreated an extensive monitoring/diagnostic setup using Wily Introscope.
• Troubleshooted the issues working with logs and by running user traces and service traces.
• Made root cause analysis on an ongoing serious production issue.
• Analyzed the application servers hung and out of memory exceptions using heap and thread analyzers by taking heap dumps and thread dumps.
• Explored different ways to replicate the problem and tried to give an exact fix to the issue.
• Involved in Load balancing/Tuning/Clustering for JBOSS, Web logic Application Servers
• Written Shell Scripts to automate the day-to-day activities to complete sooner.
• Worked with different components of JBOSS server to accomplish in mailing, security, transactions and persistence purposes.
• Application Code deployment, up gradation of components and Day-to-Day problem solving in WAS IHS and Apache Web Servers in WebSphere ND Environment.
• Written WSADMIN scripts using JYTHON & JACL for administrative tasks in WebSphere v6.1.
• Installed and configured Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) between WAS and IHS for data encryption and client authentication in both Production and Non-production environments. Involved in securing the J2EE applications by implementing Single Sign On by using LTPA.

Environment: IBM WebSphere 6.1/7.0, IBM Portal Server 6.0/6.1, Sun Web Servers 7.x, IBM DB2, IBM MQ Series, IBM Http Server 6.1.x, Tomcat 5/6 AIX 6.1, Solaris 10, Windows XP, JACL, HTML, EJB, JSP, Unix shell scripts, Python, Struts, Wiley, Java/J2SE 1.4, J2EE 1.3, Eclipse, SOAP.