Web Sphere Administrator Resume Profile
Dearborn, MI
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
- Adept at installation, Configuration, of IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBMHttp Server, Apache and iplanet web server.
- Experienced in installing, configuring and maintaining WebSphere Application Server ND 5.1.1.3, 6.0 on various platforms AIX, Sun Solaris, Windows 2003/XP, Linux . Worked on both manual and silent installation mechanisms.
- Over 8 years of IT experience that includes 6 years of proven experience in IBM WebSphere Administration on UNIX Aix/Linux/Solaris and Windows platforms with System admin skills.
- Hands on experience in performance monitoring and tuning J2EE1.2/1.3/1.4 applications Web EJB modules on multiple platforms with WebSphere Application Server WAS /5.0/6.0/6.1/8.0 with the help of WebSphere RA/TPV and Introscope client
- Extensive experience in Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting of WebLogic, iPlanet Application servers in a domain and migration of applications Weblogic 8.1/9.2 10 and IBM Websphere 5.1/6.1.
- Experienced in Websphere Infrastructure, architecture and standards, including support for business continuity and disaster recovery.
- Provided 24X7 supports to troubleshoot Sev1 problems to help systems stability and integrity which results in customer's utmost satisfaction.
- Managed the security of application by using different processes.
- Good knowledge of websphere MQ and involved in creating, configuring JDBC resources, MDB listeneners. Jms resources, queues and MDB listeners from WebSphere point of view.
- Hands on experience in deploying, implementing, testing and support of full life cycle implementations of various J2EE/Internet/Intranet and distributed applications.
- Experienced in migrating the existing configuration and applications from WebSphere 4.0 to 5.x interacting with Development team.
- Experience developing and/or deploying portlets for WebSphere Portal Server.
- Sound knowledge in implementing the workload management WLM high availability using cloning and clustering horizontal and vertical methodologies
- Worked on automation of Application Deployment and Configuration using WAS scripting client wscp/wsadmin, with the help of Tcl/Jacl scripting languages.
- Experienced with Basic System Administration skills of All Unix flavors AIX, Solaris and Linux along with networking features.
- Proficient in using websphere 6.1, Web logic 10.2,Oracle 9iAS, JBOSS, Tomcat-Apache
- Worked on various UNIX scripts using Ksh and bash which helps the team to save/minimize the time in performing system tasks.
- Experienced in applying patches for WebSphere application server and JDK. Worked on Plug-in management extensively to leverage various native advantages that are available.
- Worked in environments where IP sprayers like Network Dispatcher and BigIP have been used ,which helps in high availability and Load Balancing of WebSphere App Servers and Web Servers
- Solid experience in analysis, optimization and tuning of Enterprise Applications. Experience in SSL related work.
- Experienced in Backup and Recovery of WebSphere configuration using backup and restore scripts.
- Hands on installation, configuration, and administration of WebSphere DataPower and WebSphere Application Server ND
- Expertise in Object oriented design and J2EE architecture, supporting n-tier systems and working with various development, networking, database and middleware teams.
- Troubleshooting applications by providing 3rd tier support, including support for business continuity and disaster recovery.
- Adaptive to team environment and capability of completing complex tasks independently.
- Highly motivated to learn new developments in technology with strong analytical problem solving skills and a flair for creativity.
TECHNICAL SUMMARY
LANGUAGES : C, C , Java, J2EE SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, DHTML
DATABASE : DB2, ORACLE 8.0, LDAP, SYBASE, and SQL SERVER 2000.
SCRIPT : JAVASCRIPT, VB SCRIPT, .Net, UNIX SHELL.
GUI : POWERBUILDER 6.0, VISUAL BASIC 6.0.
APPLICATION SERVERS : WEBSPHERE 7.0/6.0/5.0, WEBSPHERE HOST ON DEMAND
NETWORK PROTOCOLS : HTTP/HTTPS, TCP/IP, SSL, SMPP, FTP, Web Seal
OPERATING SYSTEMS : Z/OS, AIX 5.1/6.1, UNIX, SUNSOLARIS, WINDOWS 9x / NT 4.0 / 200x, SS /XP, IBM VIO Server.
TESTING TOOLS : LOADRUNNER
OTHER : MICROSOFT OFFICE, MICROSOFT OUTLOOK.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND PROJECT SUMMARY
Web sphere Administrator
Confidential
Responsibilities
- Responsible for Installation, Configuration and support existing systems for Websphere Application Server 8.0/7.x. /6.1
- Installed IBM Http servers 2.x/6.0/8.0 , Edge servers, Websphere Application servers on all Environments namely TDL, New loads, Load Fail over, Third party and production environments.
- Responsible for maintenance and Systems administration of many Linux systems.
- Installed and Configured Edge proxy servers for Load Balancing.
- Maintain message oriented middleware configuration and documentation
- Extensively involved in Deploying J2EE Applications and configuring various websphere resources as required by J2EE applications.
- Typically involved in deploying and unpackaging the EAR file, making necessary configuration changes to the files and then repackage it, and then deploy/ install the EAR on the WAS server.
- Extensively involved design, planning and architecture.
- Supported 24/7 on call support for critical production applications.
- Installed, Configured, upgraded IBM AIX 6.1 on IBM RS 6000 machines.
- Involved in executing basic DBA queries to monitor the DB2 server.
- Involved in installation of various other scripts required for the project.
- Responsible for monitoring the application and all the servers on a daily basis.
- Responsible for installation and maintenance of the IBM Edge Servers for load balancing the servers.
- Troubleshoot problems with Websphere websites in all environments including Production using knowledge of the end-to-end architecture, log files IHS plug-in and Websphere log files .
- Responsible for maintaining the webservers like IHS, Sun ONE Web Server including the webagent, HTTP plug in installation and configurations.
- Involved in Installing, integrating, tuning, and troubleshooting. WebSphere DataPower and Application Server ND.
- Found, debugged and tested fixes for many security-related defects.
- Involved in writing and executing UNIX scripts using shell
- Extensively involved in Load Testing with Load Runner
- Involved extensively in trouble shooting the issues and finding out root cause analysis.
- Worked closely different groups as the application was integrated with other products.
- Worked closely with vendors during trouble tickets and also in coming to a solution.
- Involved in testing of the web URL's and software installed and versions migrated.
- Involved in integrating and testing the third party application.
- 24/7 on-call production support and troubleshooting problems related to Linux and Websphere
Environment: Websphere8.0/6.1, HIS 8.0/6.1, IBM Edge Server, DB2, AIX, Tomcat, JBoss, ESB,IBM VIO Server, AIX 6.1,windows 2008, Apache, IBM HMC, J2EE, LDAP, SWSS, CDPM, SS7, Access Manager, .Net, JCL, HLR, XML, UML, JavaScript, UNIX shell, Utilities suite 7.0, Web Seal,
Websphere Application Server Administrator
Confidential
Responsibilities
- Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1/5.1/, IHS 1.3/2.0 on IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, Linux and windows.
- Migrated many applications from 4.0 to 5.1 in development and test environments.
- Supported 100 Servers in heterogeneous environment including IBM RS-6000/p-Series servers, Sun Sparc and windows 2008 servers.
- Established appropriate environment and project lifecycle for Development, Testing and Deployment on WebSphere 5.x.
- Created all high level design documentation for new ESB infrastructure.
- Configured WAS Global Security using Sun Directory Server and SSL for WebServer.
- Configured Workload Management WLM using clusters and server groups.
- Configured horizontal and vertical scalability of WebSphere to support failover mechanism and to utilize system resources to the maximum extent.
- Worked on WebSphere automation using Jacl and Ksh for deployment and configuration of all WAS environments which help in minimizing the manual efforts.
- Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC, J2C and JMS.
- Performance tuning by configuring caching, queuing, pooling, JVM parameters and Problem determination using TPV and Introscope dashboards.
- Worked on problem tickets PMRs with IBM to find effective solutions to various problems and performance issues. Worked on WebSphere system related system work patches, fixes .
- Worked on troubleshooting Java applications using WAS logs, traces, Log Analyzer, Resource Analyzer/Tivoli Performance Viewer. Used Introscope extensively to determine application bottle necks to dig-out which modules are consuming excessive resources.
- Involved in assisting QA team for Load and Stress testing of J2EE applications.
- Responsible for Support and reliable maintenance of the applications on different platforms for on-going application development.
- Created environment specific reference document for managing various operations.
Environment: J2EE1.3, WSAD6.1/5.1, WebSphere Application Server 5.0, Network Deployment Manager 5.0, JBoss, Tomcat, Web Services SOAP2.3.1, ESB,UDDI, WSDL , EJB 1.2/2.0, JDBC, Servlets, XML, CSS, JMS, CVS,P5-570,p6-590,P6 Servers Oracle8i/9.2.0, PL/SQL, HTML, IBM HMC, Windows 2008, Linux, Sun Solaris 8.0, IBM VIO Server., Access Manager, Blade Servers.
Web sphere Administrator
Responsibilities
- Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.0, IHS 1.3.x, Apache web server on various platforms including AIX 4.3 and Solaris 8.x.
- Maintenance of the WebSphere servers on different platforms and setting up the development and testing and staging environment for the ongoing application development.
- Developed UNIX shell scripts, Jacl scripts which automates the Websphere Administration recycling the application server, deploying customer applications, logs rotation, monitor applications state, etc, .
- Developed WSCP scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XML Config tool.
- Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
- Used IBM Edge Server and Network Dispatchers for load balancing.
- Configured Workload Management WLM using server groups in WAS 4.x and clusters in WAS 5.x.
- Configured horizontal scalability of WebSphere through a mechanism called as Cloning of multiple WebApps with independent Java Virtual Machines-JVMs, for each clone.
- Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Resource analyzer and log analyzer.
- Network trouble shooting using 'ndd', 'traceroute', 'netstat', 'ping', 'ifconfig' and 'snoop' etc.
- Experience in Shell scripting Perl, Csh, sh, ksh to automate system administration jobs using 'cron' and 'at' utilities.
- Experience in Installation and configuration of TCP/IP for LAN/WAN on AIX/Linux and Windows NT/2000/XP clients and servers
Environment: IBM WebSphere 4.0, IBM HTTP Server, Netscape, Apache 1.3.20, IBM MQSeries, Solaris 8/7.x, Windows NT/2000
System Administrator:
Responsibilities
- Migrated Applications, which were in C to Java. Object oriented programming was used to create business modules.
- Implemented using Java technologies such as JDBC and swing for GUI development for desk Top Application.
- JDBC was used to call SQL statements/Prepared statements and PL/SQL callable statements with minimum number of collections.
- Developed HTML, JSPs for front end using Visual Age.
- Handled several Exceptions using Java API.
Environment: JDK 1.2.2 Java 2 , Visual Age 3.0, JDBC, Java Swing, SQL, PL/SQL, under Windows NT, Apache Tomcat With Oracle 8, JSP, HTML, DHTML, XML and C