SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of Combined IT experience.
• Extensive system administration experience combined with 6 years of experience using WebSphere Commerce Server and IBM WebSphere Application Sever (v4.x/v5.x/v6.x/v7.0)and Websphere Process Server, WPG, WTX, as Technical Consultant and Infrastructure Architect.
• Worked with Websphere ESB mediation modules exports to reference by external services.
• Monitoring successful transactions and error out transactions in Exceptions tables, Audit log tables using SQL developer.
• Monitoring Websphere MQ queues, topics, subscriptions using MQ visual edit and MQ Explorer.
• Monitoring Installed applications, JVMs, Listeners pertaining to the applications, System Out logs in the WESB environment in both Production and QA.
• Manage messages remaining in the system Dead Letter Queue after DLQ Handler processing.
• Expertise in Installing, Configuring and Trouble - Shooting Application Servers like IBM WebSphere 7.0/6.1/6.0/5.0/4.0/3.5/3.0 and Web Servers like IBM HTTP Server, SunOne, Apache Web server, NES on Windows, Linux, AIX and Sun Solaris platforms.
• Experienced in build and deployment of J2EE applications (jar, war, and ear) on WebSphere Application Servers. Publish/subscribe requirements supported by WebSphere ESB 6.1/7.0 to meet Integration needs.
• Monitoring application log files, Application Server Performance and tuning for DB Pool connections and other automated scripts.
• Acquaintance and expertise with JBOSS, Wily Introscope and Netegrity Siteminder.
• Secure ESB operation by using J2EE role-based security Common Event Infrastructure component application is installed with access control.
• Experienced in deploying EAR, WAR and JAR, Portlets on to WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0.
• Worked with Websphere ESB mediation modules flow components Routing, Database lookup, Database logging and Structure transformation
• Expertise with the database such as Oracle, JDE and also with Oracle Identity, Oracle Directory Suite, IBM IDS.
• Worked on Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Business Objects with WebSphere Process Server. SOA experience with multiple frameworks including WebSphere.
• Experience working with multiple servers and about 300,000 users on various configurations of WebSphere Application servers.
• Experience with Installation and deployment of J2EE based web applications withinWAS, WCS.
• Strong expertise deploying and configuring the Web Applications on multiple Servers, using command line and admin console as well as shell scripts.
• Worked with Websphere ESB mediation modules flow components Routing, Database lookup, Database logging and Structure transformation.
• Integrated the WebSphere MQ 6.0 server with the web sphere application server for message queuing.
• Planned and implemented the installation of fix packs, hot fixes, and upgrades.
• Experience using Windows 2000/NT, Solaris, Linux and AIX platforms.
• Experience with IBM HTTP and Tomcat and Apache Web servers
• Experience in setting up custom DB for the managing server and installing data collectors for WAS.
• Worked on memory diagnosis for JVM heap statistics and installing the managed servers.
• Extensive experience in problem tracing and WebSphere log file managements and implementing the Workload Management (WLM) using cloning and clustering.
• Experience in Administering the DB2 data base like bringing the server down and starting the server and creating backups and restoring the backups.
• System Administration experience with UNIX for more than 4 years.
• Excellent Logical and Physical integration design skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Middleware: WebSphere Network Deployment v 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.0, Weblogic 7.x/8.x/9.x, WebSphere Portal v5.1, WebSphere MQ v5.3/6.0, WebSphere Process Server v6.x, WebLogic Portal v8.1, Websphere ESB, SaaS/Cloud Computing, ESB.

Databases: DB2 UDB, MS-SQL Server and MySQL, Oracle

Directory Servers: Active Directory, Site Minder, Sun One Directory Server, IBM Directory Server.

Web Servers: Apache 1.2.2/1.3/2.0 , IBM HTTP Server 1.3, 2.0, 6.0, IIS 5.0/6.0 Sun One iPlanet 4.x/5.1/6.1

Others: WID FileNet, WSAD, JACL, Jython, WLST, ITCAM, Introscope

Tools: Load Runner, Ant, CVS, PVCS, Clear case, SVN and Kofax

Languages: JAVA, PERL, PHP, BASH Shell

Technologies: Java 2 Enterprise Edition JDBC, RMI, Servlet, JSP Tag Libraries, Beans, BPEL, EJB, XML, XML, Parsers, XSL, WebSphere MQ (IBM MQSeries)

OS: AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, Sun Solaris, Windows and VMWare

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, VA

Websphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring WebSphere Application Server v7.0 on Windows 2008 and Linux server platform.
• Monitoring Installed applications, JVMs, Listeners pertaining to the applications, System Out logs in the Websphere application server environment in both development and Lab environments.
• Developed shell scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup, everyday system tasks, log rotation etc.
• Debugging the problem using the system out logs and system error logs in for applications deployed in Websphere application server 7.0 environment.
• Troubleshooting issues related to SSO, authentication and authorization, as well as troubleshooting LDAP issues.
• Configuring IBM HTTP Server within the Admin Console on v6.1/7.0 as a web server.
• Manage and administer workloads and clones in WebSphere, create, configure and administer profiles, several clusters and nodes for WebSphere Application Server.
• Deploying the application code, Change working directory, process definition to verify log directory changes etc.
• Configuring Web Server interfaces, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere Application Server
• Monitoring application log files, Application Server Performance, and tuning for DB Pool connections.
• Monitoring successful transactions and errored out transactions in Exceptions tablesand other schemas using SQL developer.
• Worked on Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Business Objects with WebSphere Process Server. Strong SOA experience with multiple frameworks including WebSphere.
• Daily activities include building EAR’s, WAR’s, JAR’s, with the latest application code, deploying the builds to test/prod boxes, validating, updating and troubleshooting errors.
• Manage active logs, archived MQ logs, and other systems datasets.
• 24/7 on call Support / Hot pager support for several accounts.

Confidential, Morresville, NC

Middleware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring Microsoft IIS server, WebSphere Application Server v6.1 on Windows 2008 server platform.
• Daily activities include building EAR’s, WAR’s, JAR’s, Portlets with the latest application code, deploying the builds to test/prod boxes, validating and troubleshooting errors.
• Installing and Configuring Middleware software (Service Power, Psychlo, Click Software) on Windows Server 2008 environment.
• Working with IBM support to open PMRs for several issues, outages and installation of patches during offshore timings.
• Publish/subscribe requirements supported by WebSphere ESB to meet Application Integration needs.
• Worked with ESB mediation modules exports to reference by external services.
• Worked on Canonical Model and Business object Documents for the middleware
• Worked with various teams of different technology on integration of various modules through the Webmethods ESB and Data Power .
• Define and maintain WMQ application objects in the production environment including SSL parameters as requested.
• Was part of the team and actively involved in developing BSDs and BRDsfor the middleware software.
• Was part of the team and actively involved in infrastructure development of various environments (Dev, SIT, UAT, QA and Production).
• Worked on automation scripts on Windows Server 2008 involving the middleware applications.
• Monitoring application log files, Application Server Performance, and tuning for DB Pool connections.
• Monitored the Oracle DB2/ DBA database such as starting the server, bringing down the server, restoring the backups and maintaining them under the absence of the Database architect lead/ Database administrator.
• Manage active logs, archived MQ logs, and other systems datasets.
• Worked on XML editor for developing various XSDs for the Canonical model required for the middleware.
• Administrative knowledge on the selling channels Websphere Sterling DOM, Lowes.com.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Websphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Configuring WebSphere v6.1 in Multi-tier Environment at Level 2 and 3.
• Implemented Workload Management on Websphere ESB servers through Horizontal and Vertical clustering, cloning and also clustered MQ Queue Managers for failover
• Daily activities include building EAR’s, WAR’s, JAR’s, Portlets with the latest application code, deploying the builds to test/prod boxes, validating and troubleshooting errors and outages in an ESB environment.
• Montoring Websphere MQ queues, topics, subscriptions using MQ visual edit and MQ Explorer.
• Monitoring Installed applications, JVMs, Listeners pertaining to the applications, System Out logs in the Websphere ESB environment in both Production and QA.
• Troubleshooting issues related to SSO, authentication and authorization, as well as troubleshooting Websphere/WXS issues.
• Carried out change requests on various applications on QA and production level.
• Monitoring successful transactions and errored out transactions in Exceptions tables, Audit log tables using SQL developer.
• Define and maintain WMQ application objects in test and development environments including SSL parameters as requested (Note: Application Objects include processes, namelists, local queues (excluding xmit queues and system cluster queues), remote queues, and model queues).
• Developed WSADMIN (AdminConfig, AdminApp and AdminConfig) commands and also used scripts using tcl and ksh in order to automate the process of WebSphere deployment, configuration and start/stop Websphere ESB Processes.
• Responsible for performance tuning of HTTP server, Web Container, EJB Container, and database Connection Pool in the Websphere ESB console.
• Experience in configuring Service Integration Technologies by configuring SIB by creating buses and adding servers/clusters to buses links, messaging engines that application using message-based and service-oriented architectures.
• Publish/subscribe requirements supported by WebSphere ESB to meet Application Integration needs.
• Install, configure and perform monitoring and tuning using Wily Introscope.
• Manage messages remaining in the system Dead Letter Queue after DLQ Handler processing.
• Monitoring application log files, Application Server Performance and tuning for DB Pool connections and other automated scripts.
• Designed a proactive mediation module on WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus v6.1/7.0.
• Deployed applications for WebSphere ESB using WID ( WebSphere Integration Developer).
• Configured WebSphere Portal 5.1.0.1 with Microsoft Active Directory for security.
• Deployed and managed Application Programming Interfaces.
• Administrative knowledge ofWebSphereMQ 6.0 or above.
• Maintained and supported IBMWebSphereMQalong with infrastructure applications utilizing this technology.
• Deployed enterprise applications through the command line, using wsadmin scripting tool.
• Created all high level design documentation for new Websphere ESB infrastructure.
• Moving WTX maps related to various EDI transactions in QA and production environments in an Websphere ESB.
• Installed IBM WebSphere MQClient 5.3 on Solaris 5.8 to allow for the usage of Messaging Gateway in ESB environment to monitor queues and topics within Oracle.
• Generate the Self-Signed Certificate as requested for the distributed platform queue managers only.
• Working with IBM support to open PMRs for several issues, outages and installation of patches during offshore timings.
• Manage active logs, archived MQ logs, and other systems datasets.
• 24/7 on call Support / Hot pager support for several accounts.

Confidential, Charlottesville, VA

Websphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring IBM HTTP server, WebSphere Application Server v6.1 and v7.0 and Websphere MQ on UNIX platform.
• Involved in migration of the applications from WebSphere 6.x to 6.1 and 7.0 and worked closely with development team. Applied Refresh packs, fix packs and cumulative fixes for WebSphere, IHS and plug-in.
• Installed, Configured and supported web servers (IBM HTTP Server 6.0/6.1, IIS, iPlanet, Apache) for Internet and Intranet environments on AIX, Solaris and Linux.
• Worked on python scripts to administrate WebSphere configuration.
• Configure WMQ System and system resources for test/development/production.
• Daily activities include building EAR’s, WAR’s, JAR’s, Portlets with the latest application code, deploying the builds to test/prod boxes, validating and troubleshooting errors and outages.
• Provided solutions for clustering at Web Server and WebSphere areas. Worked on Horizontal and Vertical clustering methods providing fail over, effective load balance scenarios and efficient utilization of system resources. Worked closely with other teams providing WebServer load balancing mechanisms.
• Worked with Websphere ESB mediation modules exports to reference by external services.
• Developed shell scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup, everyday system tasks, log rotation etc.
• Created all high level design documentation for new Websphere ESB infrastructure.
• Responsible for performance tuning of HTTP server, Web Container, EJB Container, and database Connection Pool
• Debugging the problem using the system out logs and system error logs in for applications deployed in Websphere ESB environment.
• Monitoring the applications deployed in Websphere ESB environment in production environment.
• Experienced in managing security and performance optimizations for WebSphere Application Server 5.0/6.0.
• Manage messages remaining in the system Dead Letter Queue after DLQ Handler processing.
• Generate the Self-Signed Certificate as requested for the distributed platform queue managers only.
• Integrated the WebSphere MQ 6.0 server with the web sphere application server for message queuing and also configured MQ Queue Managers and its objects through MQ Explorer and MQSC commands.
• Worked closely with developers to define and configured application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web resources, Servlets, JDBC drivers and Servlet Engines-as well as deployment of EJBs across multiple instances of WebSphere..
• Configuring Web Server interfaces, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere Application Server
• Monitoring application log files, Application Server Performance, and tuning for DB Pool connections.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Websphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and maintained the WebSphere Application Server v6.0, v7.0, WebSphere Commerce Server v6.0 and ODE Server environment on an UNIX/AIX platform.
• Developed Shell scripts in UNIX to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere.
• Involved in migration of the applications from WebSphere 6.x to 6.0 and 7.0 and worked closely with development team.
• Applied Refresh packs, fix packs and cumulative fixes for WebSphere, IHS and plug-in.
• Developed Shell scripts to automate the backup of configurations.
• Managed CRON jobs, batch processing and job scheduling.
• Troubleshooting Websphere Commerce/WXS issues.
• Configured the Web Content Manager for Websphere Commerce Server.
• Installed Fixes and Cumulative Fix Packs for WebSphere Application Server.
• Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere.
• Effectively interacted with the users on a daily basis, decreasing downtime and increasing user productivity.
• Involved in load balancing of WebSphere and had to change the performance monitoring values at runtime.
• Used Tivoli Performance Viewer during the load test to monitor thread pools, JDBC connection pools etc.
• Improvised on the current process of the RSYNC images by suggesting inclusion of exclusion lists.
• Worked with IBM on PMRs for any unsolved bugs.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, and Java Mail sessions.
• Implemented WebSphere Global Security using LTPA and Netscape LDAP Server.
• Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Tivoli Performance Viewer and log analyzer.
• Monitored the DB2/ DBA database such as starting the server, bringing down the server, restoring the backups and maintaining them under the absence of the Database architect lead/ Database administrator.
• 24/7 on call Support / Hot pager support for several accounts.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Middleware System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring IBM HTTP server, WebSphere Application Server v6.1 on UNIX platform
• Upgrading IBM HTTP server from 2.0 to 6.0 and manually editing the httpd.conf file and installing fixes for IHS.
• Help debug and resolve various issues with the application as it relates to the deployment onto WebSphere Portal Server and WebSphere Integration Developer (WID).
• Worked with application servers such as JBOSS, and have acquaintance with Struts, Spring Web Flow.
• Experienced in deploying EAR, WAR and JAR, Portlets on to both Websphere Application Server V5.0/6.0 and WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0.
• Worked on Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Business Objects with WebSphere Process Server. Strong SOA experience with multiple frameworks including WebSphere.
• Real time Heap monitoring using in-flight search request.
• Help design and implement a Service Oriented Architecture using custom designed components. These components are designed to use various protocols, like SOAP, EJB and Java Objects.
• Experienced in most of the WebSphere admin tools including wsadmin, backupconfig, JACL Scripts, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Thread Dump Analyzer and ample expertise of ITCAM.
• Involved in complete infrastructure setup and configuration of WebSphere ND 6.1, Apache and CSM.
• ESB implementations and POC from DataPower, Websphere ESB and Websphere Message Broker.
• Configuring IBM HTTP Server within the Admin Console on v6.1 as a web server.
• Installing patches and cumulative fixes for WebSphere application servers.
• Helped to find long lived objects on heap to look for memory leaks (when JVM heap size increases with no increase in user load - sorted requests by response time - identified methods in the code causing the problem in real time)
• Manage and administer workloads and clones in WebSphere, create, configure and administer profiles, several clusters and nodes for WebSphere Application Server.
• Deploying the application code, Change working directory, process definition to verify log directory changes etc.
• Configuring Web Server interfaces, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere Application Server
• Monitoring application log files, Application Server Performance, and tuning for DB Pool connections.
• Installing and Configuring WebSphere Portal Server.
• Work with Operations and Helpdesk to set up monitoring and alerts.
• Edit mapping files to put in URL rewrites or redirect statements.
• Working on SEV1s for several servers for problem determination
• Troubleshooting issues related to SSO, authentication and authorization, as well as troubleshooting LDAP issues.
• Experience with IBM IDS.
• Wrote scripts to perform remote deployment of J2EE application in various environments.
• Working with IBM support to open PMRs for several issues
• 24/7 on call Support / Hot pager support for several accounts.

Confidential, Champaign, IL

Web Hosting System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Configuring WebSphere v6.0 in Multi-tier Environment.
• Installing new fix packs, fixes.
• Developing the shell, JACL scripts to automate the Deployment process.
• Experience in configuring Workload Management (WLM) of WebSphere Application Server, and also in performance tuning using Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Defining the Best Practices for WebSphere Application deployment, backup and performance.
• Experienced in deploying EAR, WAR and JAR, Portlets on to both Websphere Application Server V5.0/6.0 .
• Was able to learn Tomcat and have gained a lot of acquaintance.
• Helped with Memory diagnosis for JVM heap statistics
• Installed the Managing server and data collectors for WAS.
• Wrote scripts to perform remote deployment of J2EE application and Operation Models in various environments.
• Implemented standard backup procedures for WAS administration on an AIX platform.
• Wrote shell scripts to run the backup and recovery process
• Provided application support in Testing, analyzing the error messages, tracking the bugs and fixing configuration issues.
• Setting up clusters - both horizontal and vertical for HA.
• Work Load Management and Cloning.
• Experience in Setting up of Nodes, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, including panning installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server
• Configuring JDBC resources, JMS resources, virtual hosts etc. as required by applications.
• Responsible for performance tuning of HTTP server, Web Container, EJB Container, and database Connection Pool
• Set predefined thresholds to alert us about problems with resource monitoring and connection pools
• Experience withRSA Access Manager.
• Experience with Oracle BPEL and Oracle Directory
• Hands on experience with Oracle Directory server.
• Support for third party installs like Web Focus for reports and other business logic.
• Heavily interacted with IBM support teams to troubleshoot and delegate WebSphere based severity 1 and 2 support issues and also interfacing with BEA, PeopleSoft, HP and other IBM Teams.
• Effectively communicate with the development team and others involved in any change or tickets involving Problem determination.
• Worked closely with development team and support to resolve various issues.

Confidential, Columbus

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Configuring WebSphere v5.1 in Multi-tier Environment.
• Installing new fix packs, individual fixes, SDK fix packs etc.
• Developing the shell, JACL scripts to automate the Deployment process.
• Helping Integrate the MQ series server with the application server for message queuing.
• Defining the Best Practices for WebSphere such as Deployment, Backup and Performance
• Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Tivoli Performance Viewer and log analyzer.
• Supporting the development team with the issues of WSAD
• Helped with Memory diagnosis for JVM heap statistics.
• Providing production support and on call rotation assistance.
• Changed log file locations to client specifications for data collectors
• Resolved multiple severity 1 issues and provided Root Cause Analysis for ensuring such errors would not occur again.
• Documented every process and shared with the team on a common team folder all documents related to installs, configuration and troubleshooting.
• Helped maintain high availability at all times.
• Helped to find long lived objects on heap to look for memory leaks (when JVM heapsize increases with no increase in user load - sorted requests by response time - identified methods in the code causing the problem in real time)
• Helped setup architecture aimed at improving the performance, scalability and reliability using Workload management.
• Defining organization Standards for WebSphere and Supporting on call issues for a 24x7 performance.
• 24/7 on call Support