SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of experience in Websphere, Portal, Java, IHS, APACHE, Weblogic, JBOSS, Tomcat technologies.
• Extensively worked on AIX, Linux, SunSolaris, Windows servers.
• Good experience with monitoring tools like HP Diagnostics, Tivoli performance viewer, CA Wily Introscope and Performance Monitoring Infrastructure.
• Extensively worked on configuring TAI agent on Portal, websphere and webservers.
• A firm understanding of the entire project development life cycle like Design, build, Testing, Maintenance and Support.
• Extensive experience in using Ikeyman for updating, creating certificates.
• Good working experience with Secured Socket Layer (SSL), creating self signed certificates, Generating certificate requests, Import/Export certificates and creating key databases
• Possess excellent customer service, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Detail - oriented with strong management skills and Perform the tasks of managing and supervising the performance of my team.
• Ambitious and passionate with strong teamwork abilities and excellent communications skills.
• Fast learner and fast accommodation to new environments. High availability to stress, working against tight deadlines and multitasking skill.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: IBM Websphere Application Server 6.x, 6.1.x, 7.x, LDAP, Site Minder Policy Server 5.5, 6.0, wily Introscope 9, JBOSS 4, Weblogic, IBMIHS, Tomcat, Apache, ISALite.

Hardware/OS: IBM AIX, Sun Solaris 2.8/2.10, HP-UX, Linux, Windows, Z/OS.

Languages: Core JAVA, HTML, XML.

Databases: IBM DB2/UDB, IMS DB, SQL Server, Oracle 8i.

Java Technologies: Servlets, JSP, J2EE, JMS, EJB (Including MDB), JDBC, JNDI, RMI, JavaMail.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WebSphere Administrator

Confidential, MI

Responsibilities:

• Administer middleware components including IHS, Apache, Websphere 6.1, 7.0, 8.0,8.5
• Installed IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0.0.12, IBM Http Server 8.0.0.12 using IBM Installation manager in a network deployment environment in UAT, Conversion, Training, Performance and Production environments.
• Responsible to deploy JAVA EAR files in all the environments. Responsible to deploy property files, Application jar files.
• Responsible to create change tickets for any changes in production environment. Responsible to attend in the CAB meetings to get the approvals for the change tickets.
• Responsible for any issues related to WebSphere environment. Worked on creating scripts using Shell and Jython to monitor Environment.
• Developed scripts which monitors JDBC Connection pools, JVM hung threads, Server disk space, MQ Queue depth and generated monitoring alerts through Nagios monitoring tool.
• Automated Application, Property files and application jars deployment using Python and Jython scripting.
• Worked on installation and configuration of JBOSS EAP 6.3 and 7.0.
• Installed and configured Tomcat 9.0.
• Configured TAI agent on Portal, websphere and webservers.
• Configuring Nagios agent to monitor Websphere, JBOSS, Weblogic and portal environments and for trouble shooting performance related issues.
• Administration also including installs, patches, upgrades, configuration, and monitoring, securing, optimizing and application deployments.
• Participate in production on-call rotation.
• Use IBM Support Assistant and the included troubleshooting tools (e.g. thread analyzer, heap analyzer, ISA Lite).
• Update existing wsadmin and shell scripts using jython and ksh.
• Communicate with members of multiple Engineering, Development, solutions and Operations organizations.
• Participate in multiple projects simultaneously.
• Troubleshoot and support 1,2 and 3 tier Application Server environments.
• Worked on Remedy 7.1 to open CRQ’s and incident tickets.
• Create and maintain technology and application documentation for use by peers.

Environment: WebSphere 8.x/7.x, IBM Http Server 8.0.0.12, WebSeal 6.0.x, DB2 10.1, AIX 6.1, Linux, MQ 7.x/6.x, Windows 2003/2008

Websphere Admin, ISD WebServices Support

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration of Websphere application server 7.0.X/6.0.X/6.1.X for clustered environments, creation of data sources, queue destinations, connection managers, listener ports.
• Installation and configuration of IBMIHS 6.1.X/7.0.X.
• Extensively involved in management of the Build and Migration process.
• Migrated WAS application from 6.X to 7.0.
• Deploying applications using deployment scripts and administration console.
• Tune IBM WAS, DB2 parameters to optimize portal performance.
• Deployments of EAR, JAR and WAR files in development, testing, preproduction and production environments in clustered environments.
• Implemented horizontal and vertical clustering, Work Load Management (WLM) to make an application Highly Available.
• Part of the team involved in Performance Monitoring and Tuning of Applications using IBM Tivoli Performance Viewer (TPV).
• Configured Websphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, and connection pools. Creating Version 4 Data Source and Version 5 Data Source depending on the enterprise application needs.
• Coordination with DBA, IPAM, Security, NEHO, teams.
• Worked on support tickets using Remedy.
• Troubleshooting of Websphere application server problems.
• Monitored for Application core dumps, or forced thread dumps to check for system objects using thread analyzer.
• Used HP Performance center to review application load tests on staging environment.
• Enabled security for the Admin Console and the application components by creating user registry in LDAP (IBM Tivoli Directory Server)
• Used Ikeyman to update kdb, trust and key files.
• Enabled Global security at the Application Server level and monitored Operating System level security for Websphere Application Server.
• Administered various Log files using log analyzer, Product logs, Installation logs, Administer server logs, Application server logs.
• Worked as a part of 24/7 on-call support for production environment.
• Used ISALite to submit docs to IBM for problem tickets.
• Used HP diagnostics for troubleshooting JVM memory leaks, hung threads, latency.
• Extensive knowledge in J2EE concepts EJB, Servlets, JSP, JDBC Connection Pooling.
• Good exposure to Testing and Debugging Applications.
• Prepared technical, functional and infrastructure design documents based on application TDD.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.x/6.1.x/6.0.x/5.x, WebSphere Extended Deployment 6.1, IBM WebSphere Process Server 6.2, IBM Http Server 7.x/6.1, Oracle 10g/11g, DB2 8.1/9.1, Informix, AIX 6.1/5.3, Linux, LDAP 5.2.x/6, Java EE6.0, J2EE, JSP, XML, Servlets, WebSphere MQ 7.x/6.x

Websphere Administrator

Confidential, Bloomington, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Installed WebSphere Application server 7.0.x using BEST tool. Deployed applications, property files using the internally developed tools like BEST.
• Involved in meetings with application teams during kicking off a project. My responsibilities were gathering requirements, explaining the process of infrastructure activities.
• Involved in migration process of WAS servers from AIX to Linux. Migrated around 10 critical and medium applications from AIX to Linux environment.
• Installation and configuration of IBMIHS 6.1.X/7.0.X, Apache WebServers.
• Deploying applications using deployment scripts and administration console using Jython scripting. Gained good experience with Jython and Python scripting languages.
• Deployments of EAR, JAR and WAR files in development, testing, preproduction and production environments in clustered environments.
• Part of the team involved in Performance Monitoring and Tuning of Applications using IBM Tivoli Performance Viewer (TPV).
• Configured Websphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, and connection pools. Creating Version 4 Data Source and Version 5 Data Source depending on the enterprise application needs. .
• Worked on support tickets using Remedy.
• Troubleshooting of Websphere application server problems.
• Monitored for Application core dumps, or forced thread dumps to check for system objects using thread analyzer.
• Used HP Performance center to review application load tests on staging environment.
• Worked as a part of 24/7 on-call support for production environment.
• Used ISALite to submit docs to IBM for problem tickets.
• Used HP diagnostics for troubleshooting JVM memory leaks, hung threads, latency.
• Extensive knowledge in J2EE concepts EJB, Servlets, JSP, JDBC Connection Pooling.
• Good exposure to Testing and Debugging Applications.
• Prepared technical, functional and infrastructure design documents based on application TDD.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.x/6.1.x/6.0.x/5.x, WebSphere Extended Deployment 6.1, IBM WebSphere Process Server 6.2, IBM Http Server 7.x/6.1, Oracle 10g/11g, DB2 8.1/9.1, Informix, AIX 6.1/5.3, Linux, LDAP 5.2.x/6, Java EE6.0, J2EE, JSP, XML, Servlets, WebSphere MQ 7.x/6.x

Jr. Software Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Agile Methodology to meet timelines with quality deliverables.
• Create functional and technical specifications for products
• Participated in the design of the Web framework using Struts framework
• Involved in entire life cycle development of the application.
• Reviewing and analysing data model for developing the Presentation layer and Value Objects using the Springs Framework.
• Extensively involved in developing Web interface using JSP, JSP Standard Tag Libraries (JSTL) using Struts Framework.
• Used SAML for overcoming the SSO problem.
• Used Struts & JavaScript for client - side validation.
• Used JSTL in the presentation tier. Job scheduling was done using EJBs.
• Used and configured Struts ValidatorForms, MessageResources, ActionErrors, Validation.xml, Validatorrules.xml.
• Developed Controller using ActionServlet and Action mapping provided by S