SUMMARY

• Having over 8 years of experience in Information technology industry on IBM Websphere Message Queueing, IBM Integration Bus (previously called as Websphere message broker).
• Professional strengths includes team leadership, management, strong oral and written communication skills, proven ability to design and implement IT support infrastructures and ability to achieve corporate objectives in challenging work environments.
• Experience in Planning, Installation, Configuration, Administration and Maintenance of IBM MQ series 6.0,7.0,7.5 and Message Broker 7,8, & IIB v9 on various platforms like LINUX, AIX and Windows.
• Expert in configuring Distributed Queuing Mechanism (DQM), Clustering and Triggering in WebSphere MQ.
• Extensive work experience in administration of WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker on various platforms.
• Strong working experience in Windows, IBM AIX and various Unix flavored environments.
• Experience in using different Message Broker Message Flow Nodes like, Compute, Mapping, Database, and Java Compute Node etc.
• Providing Leadership, Assignments and monitoring progress of the Team.
• Manage operational support services for oracle Applications in the enterprise including a 24x7 on - call support rotation and off-hours maintenance support. Having excellent understanding of SLA’s and Managed Services.
• Possesses exceptional personal strengths including excellent customer supporting skills, good logical experience in demonstrating problems, excellent troubleshooting skills and a great team player. Experienced in creating queues, queue managers and other MQ objects using mqsc commands.
• Hands on experience in resolving critical problems in ESB, WMQ, WBMB and WTX on various platforms like AIX and Windows.
• At ease in high stress environments requiring superior ability to effectively handle multi-task levels of responsibility. A very good team player with the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• A competent, co-operative and result driven IT consultant possessing excellent interpersonal, written and oral communicational skills.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Willingness and ability to quickly adapt to new environments and learn new technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

EAI Tools: WMQ 6.0/7.0, WMB ... 8.x, IIB and Data Power XI50/XI52

RDBMS: MS SQL Server ... R2, Oracle 10g

Methodologies: RUP, UML, Agile, Waterfall.

Version Control Systems: CVS, TFS, SVN

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Visio, Rational Clear Quest, Requisite Pro

Other Application and Testing Tools: XML, HTML, DHTML, Visual Basic, Soap UI

Operating Systems: MS Windows, AIX, Linux, UNIX, MAC OS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NC

MQ Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Planning, Installation, Configuration, Administration and Maintenance of IBM MQ series 6.0,7.0,7.5 and Message Broker 7,8, & IIB v9 on various platforms like LINUX, AIX and Windows.
• Created MQ objects such as Local Queues, Remote queues, Alias Queues, Sender and Receiver Channels etc. using mqsc script commands.
• Experience on MQ Clustering.
• Creation of the WMQv7 Cluster Full Repository (CFR) queue managers & various MQ.
• Co-ordination with various teams across the globe to make the servers and services active & ready to use.
• Decommissioning of old unused AIX servers that were no longer used.
• Decommissioning of MBv6 Broker queue managers, brokers and cluster full repositories in sequential and smooth manner.
• Providing consultation support to various application teams on WebSphere Message Queue (WMQ), WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) & other HUB infrastructure related queries.
• Regular continuous discussion with the client, gathering the requirements & then pass it on to the offshore team.
• Involved in several brainstorming sessions to finalize the plan & various action items required for the actual migration.
• Testing & validating the environment after migration
• Implementing Distribution Communication over different platforms.
• Enabling Triggering on MQ queues based on the requirement of various interfaces.
• Handled the MQ and Broker Clustered environment.
• Experience in High availability and multi instance setup of queue manager and broker.
• Handled Broker administrative activities and production issues.
• Experience on automation of bar file deployment scripts.
• Strong Server and network trouble shooting skills with excellent Team work
• Troubleshooting and Managing IBM WebSphere MQ queues, channels, listeners, intercommunications (TCP/IP) and triggering.
• Performed tasks in accordance with Publisher and subscriber.
• Strong experience in Performing and supporting problem determination and resolution, production changes, and maintenance following Problem and Change Management processes.
• MQ error logs, JMS logs and trace files
• Worked on ITIL process.
• Prepared health check scripts for production MQ and IIB servers.
• Implemented Global Caching with IIB.
• Good experience in handling administrative tasks in IIB.
• Resolved incidents based on severity level.
• Raised Production changes using Remedy tool and implemented.
• Performed MQ Series administrative functions and 24X7 production support.
• Configured resources such as Queue Definitions, Queue Connections Factories and Listeners in order to provide connectivity to Enterprise MQ infrastructure.
• Worked closely with IBM on problem determination and resolution.
• Performed root-cause analysis for Production outages and provided management with root-cause analysis report.
• Planned and Administered MQ environments for all stages of development as well as production.
• Provide support for applications utilizing MQ series, MQ Workflow and MQSI products for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI).

Environment: IBM WebSphere MQ 7.0, 7.5, IIB 9, IBM WebSphere Message Broker 7.1, Oracle 10g, UNIX, Windows servers, Rhfutil, JIRA, Oracle Linux with MQ and Jboss Stacks, Oracle VM Virtual Box Manager, IBM Sametime and Lotus Notes, Websphere Application Server.

Confidential, NC

IBM Message Queue Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Handled IBM MQ Series messages
• Dead Letter Queue Handling
• Analyzing the errors using MQ logs, and System logs
• Involved in Monitors Start/Stop Listeners, Trigger in various Environments
• Troubleshooting and fixing MQSeries problems in both Cluster and Distributed environments
• Involved in Deploy/Remove Message Flows to and from Broker
• Managing Appwatch and Qpasa monitoring systems.
• Support activities for different environments like Dev, INT, QA and PROD
• Supporting the application team during the testing process, like increasing the queue depth, removing the queue from cluster, stopping and starting of applications instances
• Configuring Data Sources and JMS Messaging.
• Upgrade of Websphere message queue servers in development, testing and production environment and applying fix packs.
• Deploying Application bar and jar files on AIX servers.
• Creating users accounts, assigning responsibilities and roles based upon the user/business requirement.
• Creation of new execution groups as per business requirement.
• Running the service and user traces on Execution groups.
• Providing debug access to AD team members only in DEV environment
• Providing ACL entries for the users and AD team members
• Configuring HTTP and HTTPS port to the execution groups
• Provided Broker Toolkit admin access to team on the brokers in all environments.
• Involved in managing releases of products from development to QA to Pre-Production and Production.
• Supporting 24/7 data center consisting of various Enterprise Production Applications.

Environment: WMQ V6, V7, WebSphere Message Broker V6, V7, V8, Message Broker Toolkit V6, V7, AppWatch, Qpasa, Remedy ticketing tool, MQ Explorer, Putty, WebSphere Application Server.

Confidential, MN

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuring and administering interfaces for WebSphere MQ.
• Involved in a team that administered MQ, Message Broker in development and test environments.
• Building Queue managers, Queues, Channels required for the applications.
• Problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces.
• Participate in daily and weekly test and status calls.
• Required to understand the historical data and analyze user requirements.
• Deploying the message flows in WBIMB by creating the broker archive file/bar file.
• Web sphere message broker was used to route, transform and data enrichment.
• DB2 was used as broker database.
• SVN was used as version control system.
• Creating and managing various Queues like Local Qs, Remote Queue Definitions, Transmission Queue, Dead Letter Queue, Back up Queue etc.
• Establishing Distributed communication between Queue Managers
• Established Clustering for Queue managers - mechanism where Qs can be accesses in a cluster without referring to specific QManager improving the performance.
• Building BAR (Broker archive files).
• Deploying BAR files to different broker environments.
• Resolving any performance related issues related to Broker and Job Flows.

Environment: WebSphere Message Broker 7.0/6.1, WebSphere MQ 6.0, XML SPY 2007, MS Office Suite.

Confidential, PA

WMQ Admin

Responsibilities:

• IBM MQ Series message handling
• Creating and managing Queue Managers, Channels, Listeners
• Dead Letter Queue Handling
• Analyzing the errors using MQ logs, and System logs
• Involved in Start/Stop Listeners, Trigger Monitors in various Environments
• Support activities for different environments like Dev, INT, QA and PROD
• Providing debug access to AD team members only in DEV environment
• Providing ACL entries for the users and AD team members
• Provided Broker Toolkit admin access to team on the brokers in all environments.
• Worked on ITIL process.

Environment: Applications on IBM, Windows XP, WebSphere MQ 6.0/7.0, Message Broker Versions6.0/ 7.0. Message Broker Developer