SUMMARY

• Over 9 years of IT Experience with 8 years IBM WebSphere Administrator for IBM WebSphere Application server
• 8 years of experience in setup, installation and administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x
• 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
• 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 , JBosss Application server 5.x/6.x, Apache Tomcat 5.x/6.x deploying, configuring, tuning, performance monitoring and troubleshooting WebSphere, JBosss and Tomcat related issues.
• Strong technical knowledge of WebSphere Application Server, JBoss Application server and Apache Tomcat, 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
• Experienced in Planning, Installation configuration and Administration of IBM MQSerles, WMQl Broker and WTX on various platforms like AIX, Solaris, Z/OS and windows NT/2OOO
• 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
• Experience in Load testing using Apache Tomcat JMeter/LoadRunner

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

Web Servers: IBM HTTP Server, IIS, Sun One Web Server, iplanet

Messaging Server: IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0/7.0, WebSphere Message Broker 6.1/7.x, IBM WTX 8.x, IBM Data Power

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

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Installing, Configuring and Administrating JBOSS 6.X, Apache Tomcat 6.x, IBM WebSphere servers and Web Servers such as Apache2.x and IBM HTTP Server.
• Deployed applications like WAR, JAR, and EAR on multiple clustered JBoss Servers.
• Responsible for deploying the code in various environments from development, staging and Production servers.
• Involved in Migrating existing Applications to new Datacenter with all new infrastructure by determining the needs of our large web environment for migrating from WebLogic to JBoss and Tomcat. Standardized installation procedures for J2EE application servers (namely JBoss,Tomcat and Weblogic).
• Performed Production releases of application packages, server and application configuration changes and patches to the middleware components.
• Involved in System Integration, Quality Assurance, application Load Testing and performance monitoring.
• Provided 24x7 production support for applications on systems running the fore mentioned middleware products on Linux and Solaris OS.
• Interacted with development teams and third party support personnel for quick and effective issue/case resolution and patch implementations.
• Creation of SSL and Digital s which include requesting, generating and implementation for the communication between Web server and the Application Server.
• Monitoring and Managing the JVM performance by JBoss and Tomcat Heap size, garbage collection, JDBC Pools and taking Heap and Thread dumps analyzing to find the problems in application.
• Performance tuning of JVM heap size, garbage collections, Java stack and Native thread and production performance.
• Configure Clustering EJB objects, JDBC connections and JMS connection factories.
• Monitoring the error logs, server logs and fixing the problems and Performance tuning of JBoss and Tomcat servers.
• Created Cron Tab Scripts for timely running jobs.
• Developed ANT build scripts, UNIX shell scripts, Perl scripts, SQL/PLSQL and auto deployment process.
• Collaborating with other teams to get a full picture of the application environment and any bottlenecks or issues in that environment, including networking (firewalls, load balancers, routers), storage (NAS and SAN), VM administrators and systems administrators.

ENVIRONMENT: JBoss 6.x/7.1 Tomcat 6.0, Apache 2.x, IHS 7.0, SUN Solaris 8/9/10, RedHat Linux 4.0/5.0/6.x, Sun JDK, Siteminder, F5 Load Balancers, SQL Server, SQL, Shell scripting, Perl scripting.

WebSphere Administrator

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Responsibilities:

• Installed WebSphere Application Server 7.0/8.0 ND and created Dmgr, Application server profiles onUNIX, Linux and windows.
• Maintenance of the WebSphere Application Servers on different UNIX (AIX and SOLARIS), Windows and LINUX platforms and setting up the development, testing and staging environment for the ongoing application development.
• Migrated applications from WAS 5.x to 7.0 and 6.x to 8.x.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 7.0/8.0, Apache Tomcat and Sun One Web Server.
• Responsible for updating refresh packs, fix packs and interim fix packs to WebSphere.
• Achieved Work Load Management by creating Clusters in WAS 8.X.
• Involved in monitoring, shutdown and boot up net work support and trouble shooting.
• Handled Staging and production environments as part of the application deployment.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and wsadmin scripts.
• Enabled global security for the Admin Console and application components.
• Utilized skills in shell, perl and wsadmin/JACL scripting to automate deploying, updating applications, migrating data and automating batch jobs.
• Managed the security and performance optimization for EJB containers and web applications in IBM WebSphere, IBM IHS web server.
• Involved in trouble shooting and performance tuning using Resource Analyzer, Thread Analyzers and log Analyzer.
• 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.
• Created users and groups in LDAP Servers and mapping them to the enterprise applications running on WebSphere Application Server.
• Used LTPA for authentication for enable the global security.
• Wrote scripts for accessing remote Admin Servers, cleaning up logs during back-ups.
• Provided Naming Standards, Backup & Recovery and Problem Determination Strategies for the project.
• Assembled and deployed the applications in staging, in productions, following change management practices.
• Supported production tier1 and tier2 for 24/7 and also worked in shifts.
• Troubleshot Admin Server start-up issues, Java code defects after deployment, and class path issues by checking the JVM logs, plug-in logs and the Web server logs.
• Involved in the migration of Web-Tier from Two-Tier to Three-Tier architecture and Created new Web Servers to use VeriSign s.
• Performed routine management of WebSphere Environment like monitoring Disk Space, CPU Utilization.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.3, JBoss Application server 6.x/7.1 SUSE LINUX 10, 11, UNIX, AIX, IBM Data Power, Apache Tomcat

WebSphere Administrator

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Installing WebSphere Application server 7.0 on AIX 6.2 and Windows XP Professional
• Managing and implementing SSL for WAS 7.0
• Involved in Configuration and installation of RAD 7.5.5 and WebSphere Application Server 7 on AIX 6.2.
• Upgrading Enterprise application, implementing new JRE and JDK to suite WebSphere 7 environment.
• Evaluated, installed and migrated IBM WebSphere MQ series versions.
• Installing MQseries / WBIMB/ WTX/ DB2 on Windows Servers and coordinating with the UNIX Team to get it installed on Solaris, Designed and Coded message flows, involving Compute node, Database node and Filter node using ESQL,and deployed message flow to broker
• Applied CSDs, hot fixes, PTFs, Upgrading MQ versions by manual process or automated process writing scripts.
• Integrated WebSphere applications with WebSphere MQ Series using JMS Admin
• Modifying and replacing jar’s with new suitable jar for the struts and spring framework
• Creating Jython, Python and Perl scripts for the new application architecture
• Creating security roles for EJB containers, Web-Application and Application Server level
• Deploying applications for the staging, Live environment using AMP(Application Management Platform, an internally developed tool )
• Creating database connections and providing security roles for the JDBC connections
• Developing Technical documents for support, and internal use for RAD 7.5 and AMP tool

Environment: IBM RAD 7.5.5, PVCS, WebSphere Application Server 7.0, IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0/7.0, WebSphere Message Broker 6.1/7.x, IBM WTX 8.x,, AMP (Application Management Platform), AIX 6.2, JDK 1.6

WebSphere Administrator

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1(ND, XD) on AIX, SUN Solaris operating platform for development and production environments
• Worked with MQ development team, creating queue managers, defining queues, channels, listeners and adding queue managers to clusters
• Worked on Administrative Tasks like Configuration, Deployment, Trouble shooting and Scripting, of WebSphere Application Server 5/6
• Actively involved in Creation of Node groups, clusters and deploying application, monitoring environment using WebSphere Application Server 6.1 and 6.0
• Experienced in implementing and managing server clustering and maintenance of connections pools and EJBs
• Involved in creation of shell scripts for managing servers
• Involved in creating a High Availability clustered Environment and working with management of applications using Deployment Manager for load balancing and failover functions.
• Expertise in working and configurations of Webservers - IHS (IBM HTTP Server), IISand Apache Web servers
• Configured Portal Cluster with Process Server and transferred portal content to backend DB2 database
• Applying patches and plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server 6.0/ 6.1
• Expertise in deploying various types of application packages including WAR and EAR files.
• Assisted the production and development teams throughout life cycle on engineering application architectures and standards as well as interacting and assisting through application changes/deployments.
• Created and maintained technical documentation for the IBM WebSphere environment, including network diagrams, installation and configuration procedures, troubleshooting guidelines, and operational procedures.
• Implemented SSL s both internal and external for secure iPlanet instances and IBM Web server (IHS/Apache).
• Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to methodically identify research and resolve complex issues in the web environment.
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck
• Responsible for 24/7 on call and Production Support on rotation basis.
• Worked on problem tickets (PMRs) with IBM to find effective solutions to various problems and performance issues

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0 and 6.1, WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0, IBM WebSphere Process Server, AIX, Sun Solaris 9, SiteMinder, J2EE (JSP, Servlets, JDBC 2.0, JMS, EJB 1.1), IBM HTTP Server 6.1, JBOSS, DB2 and Windows 2000/2003 server.

Web Sphere System Administrator

Confidential, Germantown, MD

Responsibilities:

• Worked on installing, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting the IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0, 6.0 (ND) on Solaris 10, RHEL (RedHat Enterprise Linux).
• Involved in day-to-day administration tasks including deployments, monitoring of systems and troubleshooting the issues.
• Responsible for performance tuning of IBM HTTP server (IHS) 6.1, Application server, Web Container, EJB Container, and database Connection Pool.
• Worked closely with Network, security, operations, database and developer team to troubleshoot and resolve the issue related to application and application server.
• Worked in a 24/7 call and production support.
• Utilized Tivoli Performance Viewer, wily and Log Analyzer for performance and troubleshooting
• Installed JDBC drivers, created the data sources and configured the parameters of the connection pool.
• Creation of Shell Scripts for managing remote, local servers and other automation tasks
• Installing and Configuring and maintaining IBM WebSphere MQ V 5.3 on Solaris 10
• Provided JMS configuration on WebSphere MQ 5.3
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Portal 5.1 on RHEL 9.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and WSCP scripts. Used wsadmin scripts to invoke JACL and Jython scripts in WAS 5.0/6.0.
• Used WSINSTANCE to create multiple WebSphere instances from the command line.
• Automate application install, uninstall and application enhancements by executing and monitoring Shell scripts and JACL scripts.
• Created PMR and worked with IBM support team to resolve the issue and troubleshoot the ongoing problems.
• Involved in configuring the WebSphere load balancing utilizing WebSphere Workload Management including horizontal scaling and vertical scaling.
• Executed and monitored many JACL scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using command line tools in WAS.

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).

WebSphere Administrator

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, Administered and supported WebSphere Application Servers 6.0/6.1 on Windows and UNIX environment using GUI as well as silent install
• Involved with Migration of applications from WebSphere 5.x to 6.0 environment
• Installed and configured the IBM HTTP Server 6.0/6.1 created web server definition and re-generated web server plug-in on Portal and Application Server to redirect request from Web Server to IBM WebSphere application server
• Created and federated profiles to the Deployment manager using Profile Management tool and also automated the process using manage profiles and addnode command
• Worked closely with developers to define and configure Application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web resources, Servlets, JDBC drivers
• Separated Web Server and Application Server for better performance and security.
• Implementation of horizontal and vertical scaling of WebSphere Application Server for workload management in a cluster.
• Created JDBC resources, various data sources and J2C aliases. Tuned database connection pools, thread pools, JVM Heap size to required sizes using admin console
• Handled deployment of Java Servlets, Session Beans and Entity Beans for modules to the respective application server instances.
• Enabled security for the Admin Console and the application components.
• Used command line tools wsadmin, WSCP and XMLConfig occasionally as an alternative to Admin Console.
• Used automated scripts to perform routine management tasks on WebSphere environments like monitoring Disk Space, CPU & Memory Utilization.
• Worked closely with Database administrators to resolve database and JDBC related is-sues in WebSphere Application Server Migrated to WAS 5.0 Network Deployment and Base on AIX/Windows platforms to WAS 5.1 ND
• Supported applications 24X7 on-call on a rotational basis.
• Performed routine management of WebSphere environment like monitoring Disk Space and CPU Utilization

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x, JMS Server, Tivoli Performance Analyzer, IBM HTTP Server (IHS) 2, Netegrity SiteMinder, AIX 5.2, Windows 2000,, Java Script, XML, JACL scripting JSP, Servlets.

WebSphere Administrator

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, administered and supported IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.x on SUN Solaris and Windows 2000.
• Implemented the Clusters / Server Groups and Cluster Members /clones (Vertical scaling & horizontal scaling) for fail over and distribute the workload on WAS.
• Integrating enterprise-wide J2EE applications and deploying them on WebSphere Application Server and managing them through WebSphere administrative console.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and WSCP scripts. Used wasdmin scripts to invoke Jacl and Jython scripts in WAS 5.0.
• Created user roles and groups using Local OS registry and secured WebSphere resources.
• Involved in configuring JDBC drivers, Data sources on WebSphere Application Server 4.0.
• Used Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer for performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Installed fix packs and cumulative fixes to upgrade the version of WebSphere Application Server 5.0, Netegrity SiteMinder.
• Provided technical assistance for Web Hosting team on various Application servers and Web Servers including IBM HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat Web Server, and iplanet Server.
• Monitoring all Servers, shutdown and startup, Network Support and Troubleshooting.

Environment: WebSphere 4.0.x/5.x, Apache Tomcat, IBM HTTP Server (IHS) 1.3, iplanet, EJB, Java Servlets, JSP, EJB, iPlanet Solaris 8, Windows NT/2000.

WebSphere Administrator

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.1on AIX 5.3 Platform
• Implementation of horizontal and vertical scaling of WebSphere Application Server (WAS) in a workload-managed cluster. This has involved modeling and cloning (now called server groups and cloning) services in WAS 5.x
• Applying patches and plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server
• Involvement in performance monitoring and tuning by using the Tivoli Performance Viewer
• Performing Troubleshooting by analyzing log files using the Log Analyzer tool and also by running traces
• Responsible for installing and configuring third party software necessary to test the product such as IBM HTTP Server 2.0.
• Maintenance of the local Apache Tomcat and IBM HTTP web server (IHS).
• Documentation of all procedures and any other important issues

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.1, Apache Tomcat, AIX, Windows 2000, IHS (IBM HTTP Server), Tivoli Performance Viewer, JACL Solaris, Linux, Windows 2000.

Java Developer

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Used UML notation and Rational Rose for designing.
• Developed the application using Struts framework based on MVC architecture.
• Designed and developed rich user interface using JSP and used JavaScript for validation of page data.
• Developed and deployed the application on WebSphere application server.
• Implemented database interactions using JDBC with backend as Sybase.
• Designed and implemented PL/SQL stored procedures.
• Involved in Production Support and minor enhancements as per application requirements.

Environment: Java, J2EE, JSP, EJB, Servlets, Struts, MVC, JDBC, Eclipse, WebSphere Application Server V4, Sybase, Web Services, PL/SQL, SVN, HTML, JavaScript, Rational Rose, UNIX and Windows NT