SUMMARY

• Over 7 Years of IT with six plus years experience as IBM WebSphere Application server V 5.x, V 6.x/V7.0 and V 8.0/8.5 administrator, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Portal Server and Security Administrator on various Operating Systems.
• Experienced in Architecture, Installing, configuring, deploying and troubleshooting of WebSphere Application Server Environment on AIX, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux, and Windows 2000/2003/2008 Server Operating Systems in development, staging and production environment.
• Expertise in the installation and configuration of web servers like IBM HTTP server, iPlanet web server, Apache HTTP server, IIS.
• Experienced with Client Server Architecture using backend IBM DB2 V 9/8/V7.2, Oracle 9i/10g/11, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Informix, Sybase 12/15 - V2/V3 and Teradata V12.
• Hands on experience in Migrating the existing configuration and applications from WebSphere 5.1 to 6.1 to 8.0 on Sun Solaris, AIX, Linux and Windows operating system environments.
• Experienced in Installing Fix Packs and Cumulative fixes with the help of Update Installer and Installation Manager(IM) also in creating profiles like Dmgr profile, Application Server profile, Custom profile and Cell profiles.
• Experience in working with logs, traces and messages using tools such as Log Analyzer, Resource Analyzer and Admin Console for troubleshooting.
• Worked on various components of WebSphere such as Workload Management (WLM), Websphere Administration, Configuration, Tuning, cloning, Clustering and Troubleshooting WebSphere related problems and provided 24X7 support in troubleshooting application problems to help systems stability and integrity, which results in customer’s utmost satisfaction.
• Experience in implementing Workload Management (WLM) solution using horizontal, vertical clustering and a combination of horizontal and vertical clustering in a WAS-ND environment.
• Experience in enabling Global Security with Local OS, Custom and LDAP user registries.
• Experience in configuring SSL communication between WebServer and Application Server tier.
• Expertise in creating Certification requests through Ikeyman and deploying the new Certificates on the environment which was received from VeriSign, Thwate.
• Experience in Setting up of Nodes, Virtual Hosts and configuration of Core Group settings, Messaging Engines, WebServers on Managed and Unmanaged nodes.
• Experience in Administration of WebSphere Application Server with the help of administrative console and scripting like JACL, Jython, and Shell Scripting.
• Experience in Shell scripting (bash, ksh) and in writing automation scripts jobs including backing up WebSphere administration repository.
• Experience in the use of performance tools such as WebSphere Thread Analyzer, Tivoli Performance Viewer and Runtime Performance Advisor.
• Experience in configuring database for use with IBM Tivoli Directory Server, managing suffixes, importing LDIF data, backing up and restoring database using the IBM Tivoli Directory Server Configuration tool and implementing security using IBM Tivoli Directory Server.
• Experience in searching, modifying, adding or deleting LDAP entries using an LDAP browser or from the command prompt.
• Excellent application development and interfacing experience with LDAP using Netscape directory Server.
• Experience in creating Queue connection factories, Topic connection factories and JMS Activation Specification’s for MDB’s in coordination with WebSphere MQ.
• Proficient in deploying J2EE components on WebSphere Application Server using deployment tools such as AAT and ANT.
• Experience in J2EE (Servlets, JSP, EJB, JNDI), RMI, CORBA, XML, SQL, PL/SQL and HTML.
• Excellent client relation skills 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.
• Experience in computing LPARS on virtualized environment (VM Ware).
• Support for IBM WebSphere Application Servers maintenance and troubleshooting on 24x7.
• Ability to learn new concepts together with excellent interpersonal skills. Ability to communicate requirements effectively to team members and manage applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: IBM-AIX, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Windows 2000 Server, z/OS, Windows 2003/2008 64 bit Server Operating Systems

Languages: C, Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, UML, HDML, WML, COBOL, SQL, PL/SQL, Shell Scripts.

Databases: IBM DB2/UDB, ORACLE 9i/10g, MySQL, MS SQLServer 2005/2000/8.0 ,Informix, Sybase 15/12 and Teradata V12.

Web/Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM WebSphere Process Server WebSphere Portal, WebSphere MQ, BEA Weblogic, Apache Web Server, Tomcat 7/6, Netscape Enterprise Server (3.6.3/iPlanet), IBM HTTP Server, iPlanet mail server.

Tools: /IDE’s: J2EE, WSAD, JBuilder, JDeveloper, VisualAge, EditPlus, Home Site, FFDC, VSS, CVS, IBM Rational Rose, IBM Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL, TogetherSoft/ TogetherJ.

Networking/Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP, DNS and WAP (WTP/WSP)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, TX

WebSphere Application Server Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all Administrative Tasks including WebSphere Application Server and Web Server Maintenance, Support, System Maintenance, System Administration for Application.
• Responsible for the installation and configuration of IBM WebSphere Portal Server V7.0 on AIX and Windows platforms.
• Responsible for upgrading and migrating to IBM WebSphere Portal Server V 8.0 from V 7.0.
• Responsible for setting up Tomcat 7 and configure with Apache webserver.
• Involved in installing/configuring IBM HTTP Server. Working on various components of WebSphere such as Work Load Management (WLM), Servlet Engine, Session Manager AdminClient, and WebSphere Administration, Configuration, Tuning, Clustering and troubleshooting WebSphere related problems.
• Supporting System Administration Services, Production Support, launching web projects, Working on AIX, Red Hat Linux and Windows 2003/2008 64/32 bit server environments for Development, Testing and Production environment, which also includes software installations, backups, memory management, patch administration, disaster recovery processes etc. & Documentation.
• Installed and configured IBM MQ Series on AIX.
• Monitoring the Logs after the stress test performed by QA team and made decision for hosting the Application into Production.
• Worked in implementing a business integration loan application workflow in a Clustered WebSphere environment.
• Worked with developers in troubleshooting and problem determination of SOA applications running in a WebSphere Application Server/WID environment.
• Configuring HTTP Plug-in and OSE Protocol which is used for Web server Plug-in to communicate with the remote servlet engine.
• Responsible for Planning, Backup, laying out proper steps and getting approval for the upgrades of all server software, client software, and drivers.
• Responsible for Configuring and Maintenance of WebSphere Application server.
• Deployed and Configured the XML files for various Applications running on the WebSphere Server.
• Installation, Configuring, Upgrading and troubleshooting the WebSphere Application Server and Migration of WebSphere from 6.1 to 7.0 and 8.0 as well as Installation of fix packs.
• Involved in Code Push deployments of EAR files through scripts and Console.
• Involved in advanced performance monitoring and tuning of WebSphere and J2EE applications running on Solaris/Linux/AIX operating system using tools including Tivoli Performance Viewer, Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer.
• Monitoring Multiple Applications on QA, Prod,DR Environments and also involved in running QTP scripts for testing purpose.
• Involved in configuration of WebSphere Application Server resources like JDBC Data Sources, JDBC provider and Connection pooling to connect to the databases.
• Trouble shooting various problems in different stages of development using logs files and enabling traces.
• Used Jython/Jacl Scripts (Start, Stop, Health checks, and Push plugins)
• Configured load balancing using Big IP(F5), Workload Management techniques like Clustering, horizontal and vertical clustering and web container Cluster and EJB container cluster.
• Workload management using WebSphere Modeling and Cloning on Application Servers.
• WebSphere Performance Monitoring and Tuning at Application level-specific load balancing.
• Application data backup and recovery provided by Local backup / restoration of the WebSphere environment Local backup / restoration of WebSphere applications.
• Defined Queue connection factories, Topic connection factories and JMS Activation Specification’s for MDB’s in coordination with WebSphere MQ.
• Diagnosis and repair of the WebSphere environment. Assist developers with the diagnosis and repair of WebSphere applications.
• Implemented Disaster Recovery environment pre work, test, validate on a quarterly testing basis.
• Prepared documentation for DR testing.
• Worked on Defect tickets in case of critical issues and worked closely with them in troubleshooting and root cause analysis and solution
• On-call support (24x7), Monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications at Development and QA phases.

Environment: WebSphere Application server 8.5/8.0/7.x/6.x, WebSphere Portal server 8.0/7.0, WebSphere MQ 6.x/5.x,IBM HTTP Web server, Windows 2008/2003 64/32 bit server, AIX, z/OS, Linux, J2EE 1.2, Java2.0, JSP,EJB 2.0, Servlet 2.2,IBM DB2, Oracle 11/10, Sybase 15, WSAD, Quest JProbe, IBM Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL, Rational Rose Enterprise Edition, Clear case, Wily Introscope, Tomcat 7, Clear quest, XMLSpy, XSLT

Confidential, DALLAS

WebSphere Administrator/WebSphere Portal Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administer the WebSphere development, QA,Production and DR environments, deploy WebSphere applications to QA and production for all TEIS development, and support teams utilizing WebSphere technologies. Provide and enforce controls to ensure stable QA and production environments. Assist developers/application owners with problem resolution as necessary.
• Responsible for the installation and configuration of IBM WebSphere Portal Server V6.1.5 on AIX and Windows platforms.
• Involved in designing the infrastructure for hosting portal applications to support development testing, UAT and production environments.
• Automated the deployment of portlets, pages, themes and skins using XMLAccess, ANT Release Builder, wsadmin, wpscript and Unix Shell scripting.
• Designed the DB2 database environment for hosting Portal configurations for Member Manager, Java Content Repository, Feedback, Likeminds, Customization, Community and Release content.
• Configured Portal Server and Application Server security by integrating Portal Server environment with Tivoli Access Manager and Tivoli Directory Server.
• Deployed portal releases using Release Builder utility from the base test environment to production environment and effective version control of portal changes.
• Clustered the Portal Server environment using horizontal clustering across multiple boxes to facilitate high availability, failover support and load balancing in a production environment.
• Responsible for Disaster Recovery of the WebSphere Portal environment by taking regular backups of Portal file systems, databases, and configurations.
• Integrated IBM WebSphere Portal Server with Mercury Diagnostics and ITCAM to monitor portlets, pages, thread pools, rendering speeds, cache sizes, session data, JVM heap sizes, and database connections.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server and Apache Web Server to transfer HTTP requests to the WebSphere Portal Server through the WebSphere Application Server plugin in a clustered environment.
• Responsible for day to day troubleshooting with portlet applications hosted on IBM WebSphere Portal Server environment.
• Responsible for J2EE Application Deployments, Service Integration Bus Configuration, Message Activations, Destinations, Plug-in Configuration, Data Source Creation, Virtual Host Creation, Session management, clusters, Deployment Manager Configuration, Network Deployment Configuration in WebSphere5.1 and WebSphere6.1 on Sun Solaris and Windows 2003 64 bit Server environments.
• Responsible for Site Minder Application Support, this includes Web Agent Support like how the agents are plugged into the web server, Policy Server like how the policy server will talk to LDAP user store schemas that the policy server uses for authentication, authorization etc, LDAP user store like configuring the user store, modifying the user profiles etc.
• Extensively involved in migrating all the eCommerce applications from WAS 5.1.1.13 to WAS 6.1.0.13
• Configured and Enabled the Global Security for WAS Administration Console users and Console Groups using Active Directory Server as a LDAP User Registry.
• Involved in Creating and Managing the Nodes, Application Server’s, Cluster’s and Deployed Multiple J2EE Applications.
• Profiled all the J2EE Application has and worked with Application Groups in improving performance of application and possible memory leaks in application before deploying.
• Involved in Creating Shell Scripts like Automation of Startup and Shutdown Processes and Automated the WAS environment with Jacl and Jython Scripts.
• Responsible for preparing documentation and operation guides for Production and DR environment.
• Provide 24 X 7 second level help desk support for web application infrastructure.

Environment: WebSphere Portal Server 6.x/5.x, WebSphere Application Server 6.1/6.x/5.x, 6,IIS 6, Iplanet web Server6.0, LDAP Iplanet Directory Server, J2EE1.3/1.2, Java2.0, JSP1.2, EJB2.0, JDBC2.0, XML, Windows 2000 Advanced Servers, RHE Linux, Sun Solaris8/9,Windows 2003 64/32 bit server, Site Scope, RAD 6.x,IBM DB2, Oracle 10/9, WsAdmin scripting, IBM Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL.

Confidential, West Lake, TX

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured WebSphere ND, Application Server 5.0/5.1/6.0/6.1 and HTTP WebServer Server on Windows NT, Aix, Linux and Solaris.
• Federated multiple nodes to a deployment manager and involved in migrate the applications from WebSphere Application Server 5.x to 6.0 and 6.1.
• Changed the current working directory to the log directory for the application using Admin Console.
• Applied Fix packs and Cumulative fixes to WebSphere Application server.
• Deployed applications (WAR, JAR and EAR) in various environments like QA and Production on multiple WebSphere Application Servers.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server Data Source, Virtual Hosts, Global Cookies, WebSphere plugins, Heap Size, JVM settings and monitoring Thread Pools Time, Thread Creates, Thread Destroys, and Active threads information using Admin Console.
• Regenerate the plug-in for the Webservers and propagate the plug-in using the admin console and command line.
• Trouble shooting various problems in different stages of development using logs files.
• On-call production support and troubleshooting problems related to Websphere Application Server.
• Enabling SSL Security in Web Environments for IBM HTTP Server,Apache & WebSphere application Server.
• Modified WebSphere Application Server regular administration tasks automated by using WSCP and XMLConfig scripts.
• Profiled all the J2EE Application’s and worked with Application Groups in improving performance of application before deploying.
• Modified Shell Scripts like Automation of Startup, Shutdown, and deployment process.
• Involved in Tuning of WebSphere Application Server for performance improvements.
• Responsible for configuring Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, LDAP, MQSeries, JMS, MDBs, Global Security, Tuning, MQ etc.
• Extensively used the Command line tools for Administration and Maintenance of the Applications.
• Closely worked with Application groups in troubleshooting and fine-tuning the application Performance.
• Modified shell scripts for log handling and rotation of logs.
• Communicate and cooperative project team memberand able to document administrative processes and procedures
• Interacted and Co-ordinate with different Application Groups for Hot Deployment and Dynamic Reloading of the Applications.
• Worked on PD, root cause analysis and documentation of the analysis for future reference of know issues and resolution.
• Worked in creating documentation by working with various teams.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 6.1/6.0, WebSphere Message Broker 5.x, Websphere Network Deployment Manager 6.1/6.0, Tomcat 6, J2EE1.4, EJB 1.2/2.0, JDBC, Servlets, XML, JMS, HTML, Windows XP,RHE Linux, Sun Solaris 8.0, AIX, Red Hat Linux, Oracle, IBM DB2.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured WebSphere Application Server 5.1/6.0 on Windows and Linux.
• Configured and maintained WebSphere Application Server 5.1/6.0 on Linux.
• Helped the team in migrating the applications from WebSphere Application Server 4.0 to WebSphere Application Server 5.1 and 6.0.
• Defined Servers and Server Clusters in networked PC’s
• Provided WebSphere Application Server Administration, Configured Global Security and Administrative Security
• Installed ITDS, Configured users and Mapped the administrative roles to the user groups
• Installed and Configured IBM HTTP Server on managed and unmanaged nodes, and installed plugin to route the request the to application server cluster environment
• Secured the communication channel between Client and WebServer, WebServer Plug-in and WebContainer.
• Configured the Dynamic Cache services on the web container
• Installed and Configured Load Balancer to remove SPOF on WebServer.
• Used JDBC adaptor to connect to ORACLE 10.
• Designed and Developed Entity Beans to extract data from the database
• Deployed and Tested Enterprise Application Archive files on WebSphere Application Server
• Defined JMS resources, Mapped web modules to the Web Servers, defined Deployment Descriptors
• Mentored users on various aspects of WebSphere administration.
• Worked with internal teams and IBM support during troubleshooting and problem determination.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 6.0/5.1, Web Sphere Studio, Visual age, Apache Axis, DB2 9, IBM HTTP Server, EJB, Java, Servlets, JSP, XML, JNDI, Load runner, SOAP, JNI, MQ Series, MQ Integrator (MQSI), J2EE, JMS, MVS, JCL, JavaScript, Windows NT, Linux, SUN Solaris 9(UNIX).