PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of diversified experience in information technology and a sound background in Administration, design, Implementation and Performance Monitoring of Message Based Business Systems using IBM WebSphere Application server, IBM WebSphere MQ and Message Broker, IIB in different platforms.
• Excellent experience in planning, installing, and administering IBM’s middleware products like WMQ5.3, 6.0&7.0,7.5 WBI Message Broker5.0,6&7.0, 8.0
• Extensive experience with MQSeries Clustering, MQClient / MQServer setup, MQSeries System Administration, user and documentation.
• Hands on experience with messaging availability using HACMP clustering technology.
• Highly experience in designing messaging architectures including deployment and administration of WebSphere MQ.
• Experience with the installation, migration, configuration and administration of WebSphere MQ v7.5 in a highly - available, clustered environment includes channel and queue creation and maintenance.
• Provide product support for MQSeries and WebSphere software on Z/OS /As400, Solaris, and NT Servers.
• Highly experienced in designing and developing Workflow Management solutions using MQ Workflow.
• Hands-on experience in Creation, Configuration and management of MQ Series/WMQI/WBIMB objects like Queue Managers, Brokers, Configuration manager, user name server, Queues, Channels,Processes,triggermonitor..etc
• Experience with UNIX system administration includes command line execution and shell scripting.
• MQSI/WBIMB experience includes planning, installation, configuration, deployment and ESQL development for MQ Input, MQ Output, Filter, Compute nodes, Database nodes, Check, Extract.
• Experience with FTP setup, data exchange and security.
• Experience in web server administration, which includes installation, configuration, troubleshooting of Apache and IIS and their integration with websphere application server.
• Experience in troubleshooting, applying patches and plug-ins for Websphere Application Server.
• Expertise in configuring JDBC providers, Data Sources, Virtual Host, SSL and Global security LDAP for IBM WebSphere Application Server.
• Created Role based Administration (Monitor, Operator, Configurator and Administrator).
• Developed Enterprise Applications using Java, XML, EAI and J2EE Technologies.
• Excellent working knowledge in implementing LDAP security models using Netscape LDAP and IBM secure way (LTPA).
• Proficient in BMC Remedy IT Service Management (ITSM) Out Of Box Application and Customization.
• Proficient in BMC Remedy Service Request Management (SRM) Development and Customization
• Expertise in Web Development using Java, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Servlets, Java Web Server, JDBC/ODBC, Java Beans, JSP and EJB.
• Experience in modifying ANT build scripts which are being used extensively for the builds.
• Expertise in backup and recovery, working with logs traces and analyzes the problems using Tivoli Performance viewer and/or interact with IBM support to solve the problems by sending IBM Problem Management Records (PMR).
• Expertise in implementing Work Load Management (WLM) in horizontal and vertical clustering and cloning in IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment.
• Working experience with relational databases like DB2, ORACLE, and SQL Server
• Extensive experience in providing 24/7 on call support for applications running on IBMWebSphere Application Server
• Worked closely with Project manager, Development, Testing, Pre-Production and Production teams to align project deliverables within due dates and reporting issues
• Excellent communication skills, hardworking and good team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x, 6.x, 7.x.8.5

EAI/Messaging Tools: IBM MQ Series 6.x/7.x, Message Broker 6.1,7.x,8.x, IBM HACMP, Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), IBM Datapower X150, X152

Monitoring tools: OMEGAMON XE(OMXE),Tivoli Endpoint Portal

Web Servers: Apache, IBM HTTP Server, IIS.

Languages: C, C++, Java, C#, VB, JSP, Servlets, EJBs, HTML, XML.

Operating Systems: UNIX, Solaris 2.6/5.x/10, Linux, Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/2003.

Scripting: JACL, Jython, Java scripts, Ant, Python, UNIX shell Scripts.

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, SQL Server 2000/2005, MS-Access2000/2003.

LDAP Servers: IBM Tivoli Directory Server.

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SOAP.

Tools: Tivoli Performance Viewer, Resource Analyzer, Heap Analyzer, Thread Analyzer, Wily Introscope.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Albany, NY

Sr. WebSphere MQ/Message Broker Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained WMQ, WMB products on AIX, Windows, and Sun Solaris platforms.
• Involved in the design of the infrastructure.
• Created MQ queue managers, queues, channels, and listeners to communicate with other applications.
• Configured Queue Managers in MQ cluster for enabling load balancing.
• Configured MQ and MB environment for HA failover using, HACMP for high availability.
• Enabled security on MQ objects and message flows to restrict unauthorized access.
• Implemented channel exits for enabling security on MQ channels.
• Developed shell scripts for various MQ administrative tasks like backing up MQ and MB components.
• Worked on upgrade of WMB 8.0.0.4 to IIB V9 in Linux.
• Support development teams in troubleshooting MQ and MB related problems in their application.
• Enabled user and service level trace for troubleshooting and debugging message flows.
• Acted as a key person while resolving MQ and MB related issues by working with IBM through PMRs.
• Implemented various Support Packs for MQ and MB administration like MS0E (Admin wrapper), MS62 (Linear Log Clean-up Script), MS03 (Save Queue manager), MS0B (MQ java classes).
• Involved in Load and Performance testing of applications.
• Involved in the design of message flows and message sets.
• Designed and developed common message flows for error handling and reprocessing of messages.
• Developed message flows using HTTP Nodes and also implemented WS-Security.
• Assigned Message Flows to appropriate Execution Groups in Broker Runtime Environment.
• Involved in discussions to setup monitoring alerts for MQ an MB component using Tivoli Omegamon.
• Administration of IBM WebSphere MQ version 7.0, 7.5 v and Message Broker version 7.0, 8.0. Provide support for these products in a clustered, high-availability, dual-data center environment.
• Perform MQ queue manager, channel and queue configuration, and administration, testing and troubleshooting in the Integration, Test, Staging and Production environments.
• Deploy, administer and troubleshoot Message Broker flows.
• Work closely with application development, quality assurance and enterprise architecture teams to troubleshoot and resolve messaging issues in all environments.
• Perform WebSphere MQ 7.0 to 7.5 and MB 7.0 to 8.0 product upgrades and migrations.
• Work off-hours occasionally to support maintenance, system migrations, upgrades, deployments and other initiatives.
• Participate in rotational on-call support to maintain 24x7 coverage of the Integrated Justice Portal.

Environment: WebSphere Message Broker 6.1,7.0, 8.0 and IIB 9 WMQ 6.0,7.0 and 7.5 WebSphere Application Server 8.5, WebSphere Portal 8, Oracle 10.2,11.2 Tivoli Omegamon, SVN, Quick Place, Windows, Sun Solaris, AIX 6.1,7.1.

Confidential, Houston, TX

SR. MQ/Message Broker Admin

Responsibilities:

• Worked on various versions of IBM Websphere MQ like MQ5.3,MQ6.0/7.0 and Message Broker 6.1, 7.0
• Use of various types of security exit options and SSL enabled channels for the security of the queue managers used to connect to the external customers of the bank.
• Responsible for building various projects from the development state and up to the Production environment (SDLC) and to provide support for the production environment queue managers.
• Worked on different platforms like Windows, Linux, UNIX, AIX, and Sun Solaris to troubleshoot issues and to help the customers to ensure the smooth running of the day to day business of the bank.
• Worked with the installation, migration, configuration and administration of Websphere Message Broker V6.1 and 7.0 in a highly-available, cluster environment; includes MB flow deployments and maintenance
• 24/7 Follow the Sun production support to help with production servers and to maintain the production queue managers to foresee and prevent any kind of issues. Oncall support 24/7 including weekends to help customers trouble shoot issues with Websphere MQ.
• Used TEPS, TECS, ITAM, OMXE and various other Tivoli Management tools to monitor the general health of the queue managers and their objects in the bank’s infrastructure.
• Generate the queue manager and the queue performance statics (MQI statistics) using TEPS and use of OMXE scripts to run continued monitoring to ensure the general good health of the queue managers.
• Messaging availability using HACMP clustering technology.
• Use of Fine Grain Queue Alerting(FGQA) technology to enable queue level alerting depending on different criteria like message age, queue depth etc.
• Generated Netstat, VMStat files for production queue managers etc to trouble shoot complex issues to be submitted to the IBM. Generated PMR tickets to the IBM Customer Service Provider to find and research fixes for issues impacting the financial projects of the bank.
• Applied fix packs and performed patching provided by the IBM to resolve the various bugs in Websphere MQ.
• Performed SSL renewals using various tools like the GSK7 commands and IKEY management on different platforms like Windows, AIX, and Solaris etc.
• Deployed s, database files, P12 and jks files to various client servers depending on the environments.
• Helped the clients with setting up queue managers using various internal tools like Ubiquitous Messaging on different platforms. Provide support to the clients in the above mentioned tools.
• Designing and integrated loosely coupled applications in Publish Subscribe architecture using Web Sphere MQ Series Integrator WMQI/WBI.
• Implemented Publish/Subscribe messaging model using MQSI/WBI message flows Predefine or import legacy message in the Message Repository Manager (MRM)
• Perform healthchecks on all the queue managers in the bank to ensure the smooth running of the queue managers.
• Strong skills in BMC Remedy Tools like ITSM/SRM to implement and customize the Best Practices as per the company's requirement.
• Well versed with BMC's Best Practices to be used for the implementation of ITSM suite.
• Administered IBM’s Data Power (XI50) to accept messages, translate and translate them into Canonical XML messages based on the banks Business Area Model.
• The messages processed include Trades (Buys/Sells/FX) and cashprocessing requests (Wires/Check Requests/External Account Transfers).
• Worked on renewal and deployment of SSL s for Datapower to ensure secure communication between the bank and external clients.
• Responsible for configuration, installation and administration of WebSphere Application Server 6.1, and IBM HTTP Server on AIX.
• Administration of IBM HTTP Server from WebSphere Admin Console
• Deploy applications (EAR) to WebSphere Application Servers and maintained applications.
• Used Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) to monitor the overall health of WebSphere Application Server.
• Used Tivoli Performance Viewer to analyze the PMI data.

Environment: Websphere MQ 5.3/6.0/7/0, IBM Message Broker 6.1/7.0, IBM Datapower, Tivoli Omegamon,ITAM6,Tivoli Enterprise Portal, WAS 6.0/6.1/7.0, IBM HTTP Server, LDAP Sun Directory Server 5.2, Siteminder 5.x/6.x, AIX 5.x, Sun Solaris 10, Linux, Windows, Oracle 10g/11g, SQL 9.0/10.0, DB2 8.x/9.x

Confidential, Eagan, MN

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building number of new projects starting from design and architecture phase, provided customers with varied solutions for WAS6.x/7.0 (clustered topology, fail over capabilities, load balancing methodologies(active/active, active/stand-by), session replications etc) based on the business units on the platforms like AIX and Windows.
• Defining and maintaining Queue Managers and MQ Objects on various platforms Windows, AIX (HACMP), Solaris, HP-UX (Service Guard), Linux).
• Provide product support for MQSeries V7 and WebSphere 6.1 on NT,HP-UNIX,LINUX,Solaris and Z/OS platforms to include Product installation, configuration, and related documentation for all Development, test and production systems
• Installation, configuration and production support of MQ Series on UNIX, Windows.
• Create new Queue Managers; perform Queue Manager Customizations.
• WebSphere MQSeries, WBIMB Administration and configuration in distributed messaging environments.
• Set up JMS queue and queue connection factory and create .binding to connect with MQ.
• MQSeries Clustering for Load balancing and high availability.
• Managing server and application in case of environment outage or server failover/server startup.
• Configuration of high availability of MQ queue managers using Veritas Clustering.
• Responsible to install, configure and deploy J2EE applications (.war, .ear) for large/fragmented enterprise environments and hand it over to the clients in time (dev, test, uat, perf, stage and prod).
• Supported bulk LPAR migrations and coordinated with various teams to set up new ip’s (network), set up load balancer (F5) rules, and define rules on the firewall when IBM Http Server is in the De Militarized Zone (DMZ), re-register the Siteminder webagents.
• Installed and configured remote/local IBM Http Server and manually updated plug-in files for IHS servers located in DMZ.
• Worked with BackupConfig, RestoreConfig commands for backup and restore the configuration of nodes and cell.
• Installed and configured XML Accelerator to speed up the validation and transformations on XML messages coming from different clients using SOAP protocols.
• Responsible for Migration of Client Software from MQSeries 5.1 and 5.2 to MQSeries 7 on multiple platforms.
• Applied fixpacks and security packs on Websphere Application Server 6. x/7.0 and successfully resolved patch hang by filesystems clean up.
• Communicated with the venders from higher level managements to the application teams and provided solutions in WAS builds.
• Responsible for the performance testing and tuning the applications performance emphasizing on JVM heap size, CPU utilization, JDBC connection pools, Garbage Collector, Web container threads, Servlets performance, response time alerts and thresholds.
• Developed WSadmin scripts using Jacl, Jython to automate WebSphere processes including start/stop, creating and configuring servers, JDBC and deploying applications on stand-alone and clustered environments.
• Worked on UNIX shell scripts for log rotation, init scripts for websphere processes, cronjobs, and shell wrappers for wsadmin scripts. Wrote scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, accessing for remote Admin servers, System Cleanup and Scheduled Jobs.
• Installed and federated repositories within SOA systems to expand business projects to large networks of Web services with number of applications and process models.
• Performed troubleshooting on Java applications using WAS logs, traces, Log Analyzer, Resource Analyzer in production environments.

Environment: IBM MQ 7.0/6.1, WAS 6.0/6.1/7.0, IHS 6.1/7.0, LDAP Sun Directory Server 5.2, Tivoli Access Manager 4.1/5.1, BMC Remedy ITSM, Siteminder 5.x/6.x, AIX 5.x, Sun Solaris 10, Linux, Windows, Oracle 10g/11g, SQL 9.0/10.0, DB2 8.x/9.x.

Confidential, Schenectady, NY

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured WebSphere Application Server 6.1/7.0, IBM WebSphere MQ and Apache Web Server 2.0 on AIX and SUN Solaris for use in the development and testing environment.
• Involved in installation, configuration, migration, and clustering and user management on AIX/Solaris.
• Performed administration tasks using MQSC commands to create Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Process Definition, NameLists, Remote queues, Local Queues, Queue Aliases, Channels, Cluster queues, Transmission Queues etc.
• Created shell scripts to start, stop and perform other functions on Queues and Queue Managers.
• Experience in the WebSphere 6.x/7.0 installation and configuration in Clustered Environment.
• Applied industry best practices solutions using WBI Message Broker to Service Oriented Architectures and system modeling in order to satisfy business and technical requirements by developing a reusable, manageable, and cost-effective integration framework.
• Designed aSOAarchitecture using WBI Message Broker, extending the reach of business beyond the firewall by using a broad range of multiple transport protocols and data formats.
• Reduced point-to-point interconnections by using WBI Message Broker and simplified application programming through separation of integration logic from the applications and from process logic.
• Distributed information across and between multiple diverse systems and applications using Message Broker and provided delivery of the right information in the right format at the right time.
• Responsible for J2EE Application Deployments, Plug-in Configuration, Data Source Creation, Virtual Host Creation, Session management, server groups & clusters, Deployment Manager Configuration, Network Deployment Configuration in WebSphere 6.1
• Created a testing environment to run applications on WAS 6.0/7.0.
• Deployed and configured an EJB and Web Application to run on WAS 6.0/7.0.
• Deployed large Web-based transaction systems in WebSphere application Server 6.1.
• Responsible for administration, development and implementation of web applications using WebSphere Application Server6.1
• Worked with various project teams to provide support in performance tuning and issue resolution.
• Provided load/stress and architecture validation testing.
• Developed WebSphere backup scripts using WSADMIN and JACL scripts.
• Installed and configured the iPlanet (Sun One) Web servers & setup firewall filtering with Squid Proxy server for web caching on Sun Solaris.
• Implemented the functional areas for several product groups on Sun Enterprise servers and setup NFS exports for sharing the file systems.
• Maintained WebSphere 6.1/7.0 Application server for web applications development and deployment of JSP and EJB components.
• As a WebSphere Admin created and managed the connection pools of the WebSphere and clusters.
• Wrote scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup, everyday system tasks, troubleshooting etc.
• Maintained the local Apache web server running on a Solaris server.
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues.

Environment: IBM Websphere Application Server 6.1/7.0, IBM Websphere MQ, WMB 6.1.03 WBI-MB5.0, Solaris, IBM AIX, UNIX, DB2 UDB, Apache Web Server 2.0, HTML, Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

MQ/MB Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Created requirements and design documents for eContracting as per Confidential MDS standards.
• Installed Websphere MQ 6.0 on multiple platforms.
• Upgraded websphere MQ from 5.3 to 6.0 on windows and UNIX environments.
• Setup MQ clustering across the multiple platforms
• Responsible for identifying and designing the MQ objects required and involved in capacity planning for the MQ objects.
• Configured and created communication channels between Queue Managers.
• Implemented clusters and their corresponding repository queue managers, cluster queues and cluster SDR/RCVR channels.
• Worked on clustering and high availability clustering to achieve work load balancing and to make the administration task easy.
• Designed and created brokers and configuration manager on SunOS and Windows.
• Prepared mapping documents for each individual interfaces.
• Created message sets with added messages as per design in dev environment.
• Designed message flows / sub flows and mapped the code as per inbound and outbound layouts.
• Deployed message sets and flows on DEV and QA brokers.
• Resolved assigned defects and changed defect status using TestDirector.
• Exported message flows/sets from QA ENV.
• Backup WMQI message flows/sets on different servers.
• Imported message flows/sets to PROD Configuration Mgr.
• Deployed message flows and sets on PROD broker.
• Prepared MQSeries, WMQI and Project Overview/Support manual for eContract
• Installed IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0/5.x in Network Deployment.
• Installed IBM HTTP Server 6.1 and configured with plug-in.
• Configured response files for silent install of WebSphere Base and ND.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server in a vertical and horizontal clustered environment.
• Configured WAS Global Security using Tivoli Directory Server and SSL for WebServer and Application Server, between LDAP and Application server
• Worked on problem tickets (PMR) with IBM to find effective solutions to various problems and performance issues and applied various WebSphere system related patches, fixes.
• Created environment specific documents for managing various operations.
• Provided 24/7 on call support for assigned applications.

Environment: IBM MQ Series, Message Broker, Oracle, J2EE, XML, WebSphere Application Server, AIX, Linux, IBM HTTP Server, IIS.