SUMMARY:

• 9 years of experience in setup, installation and administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x
• Experience in installation, configuration and migration of applications on IBM WebSphere Portal Server 5.x/6.x on AIX, Linux, Solaris, and Windows servers
• Hands - on experience in a clustered environment including deployments, troubleshooting performance issues and especially performance test monitoring, installations, and configuration maintenance
• WebSphere Portal Server Administrator - Role extensively involved in installing, configuring, maintaining, and supporting WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Deployment Manager, IHS server etc. to setup the portal environment
• Involved in working WebSphere Process Server.
• Experience in Installing, Configuring and Administering Web Servers like IBM Http Server (IHS) 1.3.x, IIS 5/6, SunOne 5/6, and iPlanet 4.x Webserver and configuration of Web Server Plug-ins.
• Expertise in administration and implementation of web base enterprise applications on IBM WebSphere application server 4.x/5.x/6.0/6.1/7.1/8.3 deploying, configuring, tuning, performance monitoring and troubleshooting WebSphere related issues
• Strong technical knowledge of WebSphere Application Server Implementation, Support, Workload Management and Performance Tuning
• Expertise in configuring Cells, Nodes, clustering, JDBC Providers, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, session management
• Experienced in Installing Upgrade Fix Packs and Migrating to latest versions.
• Experience in using IBM Thread Analyzer to detect JVM thread related issues. Used Tivoli Performance Viewer and Log Analyzer for performance and troubleshooting
• Configured LDAP Plugins over SSL with Active Directory
• Experience with tuning of ESB adapters
• In-depth understanding of J2EE Architecture (JSP, Servlets, JNDI, JMS), Java2.0, JDBC, Java Beans, RMI, CORBA, JavaScript, HTML, SQL
• Experience of working closely with Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2, MS-Access
• Good knowledge in administration of IBM WebSphere MQ V 6.0/7.0, created the cluster members and channels, queues
• Experience in design and architectures of enterprise applications using MQ Workflow, MQ Series.
• Experienced with using tools such as Tivoli Performance Viewer and Log Analyzer for performance monitoring and tuning
• Worked with the firewall team to finding glitches and getting access across firewalls
• Expertise in deploying and migrating to staging areas and production.
• Successful implementation of Workload Management (WLM) using cloning/clustering techniques including horizontal and vertical clustering for fail over processes
• In depth understanding of network protocols and applications involving TCP/IP, NFS, DFS, SNMP, SMTP, POP, Telnet, rlogin, SSH, FTP, HTTP, DNS Expertise in UNIX Shell, Jython, Perl,
• JACL and Ant scripting to automate administrative tasks
• Experienced in trouble shooting using Traces, Logs and Log Analyzer

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.x,5.x, 6.0, 6.1(ND), 7.0(ND & XD), 8.3(ND) IBM WebSphere Application Server Portal 5.x,6.x, IBM WebSphere Process Server, Tomcat.

Web Servers: Apache Tomcat, IBM HTTP Server, IIS, Sun One Web Server, iplanet and JBOSS

Messaging Server: IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0/7.0

Languages: C, C++, Java, JSP, Servlets, EJBs, HTML, XML

Operating Systems: IBM AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3, SUN Solaris 8/9, HP-UX, LINUX (REDHAT), Windows NT/2000 server, Windows XP/98/95

Scripting: JACL, Jython, Perl, AJAX, Java scripts, Python, UNIX shell Scripts

Databases: Oracle8i/9i/10g (RAC),DB28.x/9.x,SQLServer2000/2005,MSAccess2003

LDAP Servers: IBM Tivoli Directory Server

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SOAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Websphere Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented the websphere portion of the enterprise E commerce server build.
• Implemented and configured a clustered enterprise server solution on IBM WebSphere Application Server V7.x, IBM HTTP Web Server, IIS Web Server on Aix, Linux environments
• Extensive experience in installation, configuration, deployment and management of portal applications using WebSphere Portal Server 6.1 on, Red Hat Linux and AIX.
• Performed Apache web server administration and configuration, Apache Tomcat and HTTP Server installation, configuration, administration and debugging
• Having the production experience in supporting and deploying to web application server Apache Tomcat and Apache HTTPD web server.
• Responsible for creating all necessary documentation to build, administer, and support all dev, TEST, QA and production Portal Environments
• Responsible for installing, configuring, deploying and managing enterprise applications on WebSphere server and continuous monitoring the health of environments and applications.
• Successfully migrated all the environments of WebSphereND from 6.1 to 7.0
• Built the SOA Foundational Infrastructure for Costco along with IBM.
• Effectively interacted with the users/Testers on a daily basis, decreasing downtime and increasing user productivity by tuning of the WebSphere application server for better performance
• Installed and maintained ITCAM for monitoring the health of environments and applications.
• Extensively used Tivoli performance viewer and ITCAM application diagnostics to deep dive at transaction level.
• Responsible for creation and maintenance of the core Subversion repository.
• Maintained Subversion repository to automate code management between the Dev, QA, and Prod environments.
• Experience in tuning of WebSphere and webserver to increase productivity of the response time.
• Analyze heap dumps/java core for any flaws in the code or memory leaks.
• Monitoring the health of PROD environments using dynaTrace.
• Provided daily support 24/7 to production applications.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0 and 6.1, WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0, Tivoli ITCAM, Dynatrace, AIX, J2EE (JSP, Servlets, JDBC 2.0, JMS, EJB 1.1), WSCP Scripts, JACL, Jython, IBM HTTP Server 6.1, SVN, JBOSS, DB2 and Windows 2000/2003 server.

Software Engineer / WebSphere administrator

Confidential, CO

Responsibilities:

• Identified key performance bottlenecks and rectified problem areas resulting in more than 80% faster response time.
• Analyzed and designed the hosting of static content on Webserver in order to eliminate an additional database layer resulting in faster response time for customer facing application.
• Implemented migration of all environments from Websphere 6.0 to 7.0.
• Responsible for maintaining WebSphere on 300 Servers running on Linux and Windows.
• Implemented and deployed database entity configurations like JDBC Providers, Data sources and Connection Pooling, components like Session and Entity EJBs.
• Automated daily builds, application install, uninstall and application enhancements through shell scripts WSCP, JACL scripts.
• Responsible for configuring the WebSphere load balancing utilizing WebSphere Workload Management (WLM) including horizontal scaling and vertical scaling thereby decreasing downtime and increasing user productivity.
• Implemented Clustering, Performance tuning and trouble shooting of IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x,6.x .
• Excellent troubleshooting skills related to configuration and downtimes.
• Implemented Tuning of the Web Servers to increase the performance such as disabling file serving on the application.
• Provided daily support 24/7 to production applications.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 5.x,6.0,6.1, WebSphere Portal Server, IBM HTTP Server (IHS), JDBC, WSCP Scripts, JACL, Jython and Perl scripts, Tivoli Performance, IBM AIX, Windows 2000 SP 4, UNIX, Solaris, RHEL (RedHat Enterprise Linux)

WebSphere Administrator

Confidential, Foster City, CA

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured enterprise applications on IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.1,6.x, IBM HTTP Web Server in AIX, Sun Solaris, Linux and Windows NT/2000/98/95 environment.
• Implemented Clustering, Performance tuning and trouble shooting of IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x, 6.x.
• Involved with Migration of applications from WebSphere 5.x to 6.0 environment
• Package, build, integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications on WebSphere that involves EAR, JAR, WAR files using AAT.
• Experience in configuring the WebSphere load balancing utilizing WebSphere Workload Management (WLM) including horizontal scaling and vertical scaling.
• Migrated existing applications from WebSphere 4.0 versions to 5.0 and 5.1 to 6.0 using Waspreupgrade and Waspostupgrade tools.
• Separated Web Server and Application Server for better performance and security.
• Configured WebSphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, and JavaMail sessions. Deployed Session and Entity EJBs in WebSphere.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 5.x,6.0,6.1, WebSphere Portal Server, IBM HTTP Server (IHS), JDBC, WSCP Scripts, JACL, Jython and Perl scripts, Trivoli Performance, IBM AIX, Windows 2000 SP 4, UNIX, Solaris, RHEL (RedHat Enterprise Linux).

Software Programmer / Websphere Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.0 and IBM HTTP Server 1.3 on AIX and SUN Solaris.
• Involved in installation, configuration and user management of WebSphere Application server on AIX/Solaris.
• Responsible for Web server and Application server installation, support and performance monitoring for all applications running on the company’s Website.
• Developed WebSphere Application Server regular administration tasks using XMLConfig scripts.
• Played an active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck by enhanced performance ensuring upstream queuing.
• Worked with software developers for software maintenance, program fixes and keeping the system software releases current.
• Developed front end usingJSP, Struts tag library, HTML.
• Developed Action classes and ActionForm classes associated with JSP pages
• Experience in GUI development withHTML,DHTML,JavaScript.

Environment: IBM HTTP Server, AIX, Sun Solaris, Clear Case, Java1.2, JDBC2.0, Servlets, Struts,XML1.0 and HTML, Apache, and Windows NT.