SUMMARY

• Well Qualified Consultant with Seven years of experience in administration, development, testing, support and implementation of enterprise applications using IBM Datapower, WebSphere Application Server (WAS) & MQ.
• Extensive knowledge in SOA, Web Services, SOAP WSDL, WS Security and UDDI.
• Expertise in XML, XSD, XSLT, WSDL, SOAP and XPATH.
• Expertise in configuring & creating components of DataPower appliance such as Web Service Proxy, Multi Protocol Gateway, XML and Web Firewall.
• Message transformations using XSL including custom XSLs for routing, protocol mediation and message enrichment.
• Strong in creation of Protocol gateways in DataPower for providing end to end business integration
• Expertise in implementation of security and transformations solutions using DataPower appliance
• Expertise in SOA Appliances like IBM Datapower XA 35, XS 40 and XI 50.
• Experience in AAA policies for Web Services publishing.
• Technical specs for the configuration, interfaces and deploying the configurations in production.
• Applying security polices certificates, encryption and SAML.
• Transformations for XML to XML, XML to Binary, Binary to XML with exception handling.
• Integration to enable seamless data flow between applications in enterprise and e - commerce B2B applications.
• Developing message transformations using custom XSL’s for routing, protocol mediation and message enrichment policies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris, HP, AIX, Linux, Windows 98/NT/2000/XP

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.x/6.x, JBoss AS

Messaging: IBM WebSphere MQ

Databases: Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, Sybase

Appliances: DataPower XI50, XS40, XA35

Web Servers: IBM Http Server, Apache, Tomcat, and Sunone

Protocols: TCP/IP, SMTP, SSL, SOAP, LDAP and HTTP/HTTPS.

Other Tools: MS Project 2000, MS Visio, SOAP UI, XML SPY, Wire Shark.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta

DataPower Consultant

Environment: UsedData Power XI52, SoapUI, Wire Shark, WebSphere Transformation Extender, WebSphere MQ, XML, SOAP, WSDL, XSL.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis, design and development of Interfaces by using DataPower XI52 Appliance.
• Designed and developed various XSL’s for message transformation including XML to XML, XML to Binary formats including content based routing and schema validation for message well format.
• Proficient in executing CLI commands along with Web GUI and XML Management Interface for IBM DataPower administrative tasks.
• Successfully configured DataPower components including WS Proxy, XML Firewall, Multiprotocol Gateway (MPGW) and Web Firewall.
• Implemented securing external Web services using several authentication schemes in DataPower WS-Security, Digitally Signing SOAP message and SSL mutual authentication.
• Developed various XSL’s for dynamic routing based on context, error handling in various processing rules.
• Administered IBM WebSphere DataPower using management interfaces, such as command-line interface (CLI), Web GUI, SOMA to upgrade DP firmware, to monitor system performance and to configure user accounts.
• Configured various objects like Crypto Profiles, Load Balancer groups, Websphere MQ objects, HTTPS, HTTP, MQ and FTP Handlers.
• Configured various actions in processing rules like AAA, SLM and Transform including available functions in advanced actions.
• Experience in establishing various security policies in DataPower like Mutual Authentication, sign, verify, encryption and decryption.
• Developed and configured firewall policies for DataPower.
• Configured DataPower XML components, document processing rules, document processing actions, XPath Routing Map, Duration Monitor, Log targets.
• Strong in configuring SLM including shape, notify, throttle for maintaining service level agreements between partners.
• Strong knowledge in DataPower extensions including developing custom XSL’s for transformation, routing.
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues. Monitoring the server logs, error logs and resolved production issues.
• Involved in opening and working on PMR’s with IBM to solve issue related to the environment. Enabled traces as part of troubleshooting and used collector tool to submit the logs and traces to IBM enabling various traces and taking packet captures.
• Providing documentation support and best practices.
• Providing production deployment guidelines and execution plan.

Confidential, Atlanta

DataPower Consultant

Environment: DataPower XI52 & XS40, SoapUI, cURL, XML Spy, WebSphere Transformation Extender, WebSphere MQ

Responsibilities:

• Configured Web services proxy (WSP) to provide service virtualization.
• Use the multi-protocol gateway (MPG) to support message types with different protocols.
• Configured Front side Protocol Handlers.
• Configured Cryptographic keys and SSL Policies.
• Involved in configuring load balancer groups on DataPower appliance for providing high availability solutions
• Worked in debug, troubleshooting various issues by using logs, probes and problem determination tools which are available in DataPower appliance
• Created and managed log targets including user management, device configurations including domain creation, updating latest firmware versions
• Developed several proof of concepts prior finalizing architecture and design of various interfaces in DataPower
• Developed error policies within DataPower to handle errors returned by backend applications.
• Strong knowledge in DataPower extensions including developing custom XSL’s for transformation, routing.
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues. Monitoring the server logs, error logs and resolved production issues.
• Configured DataPower XML components, document processing rules, document processing actions, XPath Routing Map, Duration Monitor, Log targets
• 24x7 production support, Debugging and troubleshooting issues by using logs, probes, monitoring, performance tuning, security and maintenance.

Confidential, Chicago

DataPower Consultant

Environment: DataPower XI50, SoapUI, WebSphere MQ, XSLT

Responsibilities:

• Creation and administration of users and roles on the appliance
• Implementation of SSL Profile
• Configuring service-wide SLM on WS-Proxy Service to enforce basic service levels
• Debugging message flow’s using diagnostic Probe configuration
• Trouble shooting Network connectivity issues
• Performing binary to XML mapping using WebSphere Transformation Extender
• Configuration of MQ-Front side handler to communicate with WebSphere MQ
• Created AAA policy to authenticate and authorize using LDAP server
• Worked on Web Services encryption and digital signatures
• Configured a multi-protocol gateway service to provide both HTTP and HTTPS connections for the Web Services
• Configured XI50 to WSRR (Web Service Registry and repository) for access all core Web services.
• Created XSLT’s for transformation of XML
• Configures a service level monitoring policy to monitor the network traffic to the back end Web Services

Confidential

Software Engineer

Environment: IBM Web Sphere Application Server, Message Broker, IBM HTTP Server, Tomcat

Responsibilities:

• Upgrading WebSphere application server from version 6.0 to 6.1 along with custom configurations and IBM Http Server upgrade.
• Installing, Configuration & administration of IBM Http Server, WebSphere Message Broker.
• Involved in monitoring solution setup with Tivoli for the middle ware tools like WAS, MQ, WMB.
• Involved in capacity planning including horizontal and vertical cluster configuration using WAS ND for high availability and scalability
• New environment setups for creating DMGR, Cell, Profiles, custom nodes (federating to DMGR), resource configurations including JDBC and data source.
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications to involves EAR and WAR.
• Configuring MQ objects like Queue managers, Queues, Channels and receivers.
• Configure WebSphere message broker including Queue manager cluster for high availability.
• Enabling the required trace using Tivoli performance viewer while performing the load test.
• Installing IBM Http server, plug-ins, Apache, mod jk including generating plug in for required clusters.

Confidential

Java Consultant

Environment: Web Services, SQL, Java Stored Procedures, XML, Java, JSP, XML, XSL, Oracle, HTML and CSS.

Responsibilities:

• Developed Business layer using Message Driven Beans, Hibernate 3.0, Websphere 6.1, XML, on both Unix and windows environment
• Developed business layer using EJB's and Java Design patterns
• Created mapping and configuration files for hibernate
• Configured the Web sphere application server for deployment
• Developed Web services for clients
• Involved in changing the XML schema with ongoing modification in DB side
• Developed ant build scripts to automate the build and deployment process
• Worked on a continuous integration environment.
• Involved in System and Integration testing. Implemented extensive logging and error handling

Confidential

Java Consultant

Environment: Java, JSP, XML, XSL, Oracle, HTML, CSS

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating a set of JSP’s (Java server Pages) and Servlets
• Developed Bean components for connecting to the AppServer and retrieving data from it.
• Developed Validations rules for the User Interface forms using JavaScript
• Developed Components for Data Manipulation and Database Connections
• Configuration and Administration of Web Logic server.
• Design and Development using EJB components like Session Bean tracking the session and Entity Bean for Database Operation.
• Involved with Design of test plan for Unit Testing and System Testing.