SUMMARY

• Over 10+ years of experience with infrastructure system administration on Linux, AIX and Sun platforms performing installation, configuration, tuning and troubleshooting on various Application server technologies (WebSphere, Weblogic, Jboss, Tomcat etc).
• Expertise on IBM technologies includes WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile, WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere MQ and DataPower etc.
• Ability to adapt and work on any Middleware technologies of proven ability to successfully direct Information Technology and support services operations including experience in project management.
• Expertise in overseeing technology improvement initiatives and aligning technology services with business goals.
• IBM Certified System Administrator on multiple WebSphere technologies. Also experienced with Apache / IHS webserver, SunOne, IIS, SiteMinder, F5 Netowrk’s and BigIP administration. Basic Programming and scripting languages include Python/Jython, Jacl and WSADMIN.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware / Platforms: RHEL, Solaris, AIX, z/OS, Windows.

WebSphere Technologies: IBM Websphere Application Server v5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x Liberty Profile, IBM Websphere Portal Server 6.x/7.x, IBM WebSphere MQ Series V5.x/6.x/7.x, IBM WebSphere Process Server 7.x, IBM BPM 8.x, WebSphere Operational Decision Manager v8.x.

Technologies: WebLogic Server 8.x & 9.x, JBoss 4.x, 5.x, Tomcat.

WebServers: Apache, IBM HTTP Server, Sun One Web Server and IIS

Databases: IBM DB2 V8.x/9.x, Oracle9i

Scripting Languages: Jacl, Jython and Shell.

Other Tools: IBM DataPower Gateway XG45, X152.x, IBM Tivoli Directory Server, Sun One Directory Server, IBM Log Analyzer, HP Service Desk, HP Service Manager 7.0.1, Tivoli Object Management 1.34,Secure CRT, Putty, Cygwin, Service Now, Manage Now, Keynote, Pulse, BMC Patrol, BMC Bladelogic Server Automation Console, BMC RemedyIT Service Management, XL Deploy.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Tech Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Install middleware tier products - WebSphere Application Server, Process Server, Portal, and MQ as well as Tuxedo, IHS, Introscope, Siteminder, UDB.
• Keep abreast of product updates for fixpacks and major releases which may address security issues, product bugs, improve performance or extend EOL (End-Of-Life) support.
• Maintain product fixpacks and major update installations. This includes impact analysis, package automation scripting and coordination of updates to non-production and production environments and application testing and signoff.
• Maintain and install product interim fixes to address defects. Coordinate the rollout of these interim fixes to non-production and production environments, including application testing and signoff.
• Responsible for Tier III (Application) configuration once middleware tier product installation is complete
• While Tier III configuration is application specific and highly variable, some common configurations include:
• Datasource setup and configuration.
• Scripting post-installation deployment configurations. This includes web client bindings, timeout values, shared library settings and SCA module component settings.
• JVM arguments and custom properties.
• MQ and JMS resources.
• Work Managers.
• Thread and WebContainer Pools.
• Dynamic Caching and WebContainer Caching.
• Driver and adapter installation and setup.
• Web instance creation and setup.
• Webserver instance and plugin configuration.
• Write and maintain deployment scripts for new products or applications. Configure existing deployment scripts for new domains or applications where applicable. Conduct initial application deployment
• Request additional resources where necessary from Hosting Services. Examples include F5/Big-IP, DNS or Firewall configurations, Memory and CPU allocations and OS settings and upgrades.
• EBC acts as L3 Support for each application and product in the domain they support
• While all support issues are first handled by PMIT Support Ops(L2), common issues that are escalated to EBC are:
• Production and Non-Production slowdowns and outages.
• Deployment problems. Includes an application or resource being misconfigured or missing from the code build, resource (LPAR, OS, server, etc.) constraints causing deployment failures or script problems.
• Product bugs - either introduced with new application functionality or a product defect encountered during runtime.
• Runtime application failures which are not code related.
• General L2 escalation and knowledge sharing. When the L2 team encounters an issue that is new or that they are unfamiliar with it is escalated to EBC. In addition to working the issue, if EBC determines it is typically something that could be handled by L2 then additional details, including identification and resolution steps, are documented and communicated to the L2 team for future reference.
• Support for all major monthly releases, weekly releases and Emergency Change’s.
• Collect IBM “must gather” information for the PMIT Performance Engineering Team or IBM. This includes generating of heap-dumps, thread-dumps and system dumps.
• Analyze IBM “must gather” information via IBM Support Assistant.
• Perform regular, ongoing analysis of Production and Non-Production JVM memory logs.
• Participate in weekly application and product tuning meetings.
• Provide input on analysis conducted by the Performance Engineers and Performance Test team
• Provide input on recommended tuning changes.
• Perform ad hoc review and tuning of Non-Production environments in response to developer or business feedback.
• As a takeaway, coordinate any configuration changes that will increase application performance or more appropriately tune an environment.
• Working with ATS Engineers or lead developers during project inception; provide input on expected middleware products and versions (including any new fixpacks, product enhancements, drivers or adapters necessary in order to support the application) and assist with impact analysis.
• Provide detailed task lists and summaries to Project Managers for EBC related tasks including work estimates in order to drive the project delivery schedule.
• Attend project meetings, update project managers on environment build and delivery progress.
• Coordinate product or application rollouts with project managers and environment planners.
• Client Interaction.
• Onsite-Offshore co-ordination.

Environment: z/OS, RedHat Linux, AIX & Windows platforms, IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x/v7.x/8.x Liberty Profile, IBM MQ v7.x,8.x, IBM IHS v7.x/8.x. WebSphere Process Server v7.x, Business Process Management v8.x, WebSphere Operational Decision Manager v8.x, IBM DataPower X152.x, XG45, JavaBatch.

Confidential

Tech Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Providing Middleware L3 & L2 - Support - Incident analysis/resolution and Root cause analysis.
• Providing Infrastructure Support - New Infrastructure / Application Set Up and configuration changes.
• Change & Release Management - Reviewing, approving and validating the change requests in higher (QA/PROD) regions.
• Performance & Capacity Management - Troubleshooting issues, finding RCA’s and any sever level changes that would improve the performance.
• Troubleshooting and Monitoring the applications health through various tools like Pulse, Keynote and Site scope with the help of auto generated alerts.
• Setting up WebSphere Application Server Application Server V6.x & V8.x environments on AIX/Linux/Windows platforms.
• Configured WebSphere Application Servers and IBM HTTP Servers.
• Writing build scripts for WebSphere Application server V6.1 for silent installation and implementation.
• Handling technical escalation at the site to ensure application/system uptime.
• Applying WebSphere fix packs.
• Application deployment / Management via NDM & Application Server.
• Backup & restoration of IBM WebSphere Application Servers successfully at application level & File system level.
• Installation and configuration of IBM HTTP server web server with WebSphere Application Server.
• Established database connectivity with DB2, Oracle on IBM WebSphere.
• Configured the Security for WebSphere Application servers.
• Worked in the migration from WebSphere Application Server 6.x to WebSphere Application Server 8.x.
• Tuned the performance of WebSphere Application Server (configure caching, queuing and pooling parameters, tune JVM heap size).
• Provided 24 x 7 support to production applications.
• Installed Digital Certificates in different web servers for secure transaction (SSL).
• Analyzing Core and heap dumps.
• Worked with IBM support for Sev1 and Sev2 PMRs, get the product bug fixes and, root cause analysis.
• Participation in Severity 1 / Severity 2 Bridge / Technical Bridge calls to drive the issues towards Service restoration within the SLA.

Environment: RedHat Linux, AIX & Windows platform, IBM WebSphere v5.x/6.x, IBM MQ Series V5.x/6.x, IBM IHS v5.x/6.x.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Setting up WebSphere Application Server & Jboss Application Server environment on AIX/Linux/Windows platforms.
• Configured WebSphere Application Servers and IBM HTTP Servers.
• Writing build scripts for Websphere Application server V6.1 for silent installation and implementation.
• Handle technical escalation at the site to ensure application/system uptime.
• Installation & Up gradation of IBM WebSphere Application servers & NDM.
• Applying Websphere and Jboss patches.
• Application deployment / Management via NDM & Application Server.
• Backup & restoration of IBM Websphere Application & NDM successfully at application level & File system level.
• Installation and configuration of IIS web server and IBM HTTP server with WebSphere Application Server.
• Established database connectivity with DB2, Oracle on IBM WebSphere.
• Configured the Global security for WebSphere Application servers.
• Created and executed change tickets/tasks related to WebSphere/JBoss administration on QA/PROD regions.
• Implemented new cluster based architecture to improve the Performance and maintain high availability of different Staples websites.
• Performed Websphere backup/restoration tasks (using backupConfig, restoreConfig).
• Worked in the migration from WebSphere Application Server 6.x to JBoss 4.x & 5.x.
• Decommissioned WAS & JBoss Server environments after migration.
• Tuned the performance of WebSphere Application Server (configure caching, queuing and pooling parameters, tune JVM heap size).
• Provided 24 x 7 support to production applications.
• Installed Digital Certificates in different web servers for secure transaction (SSL).
• Analyzing Core and heap dumps.
• Worked with IBM support for Sev1 and Sev2 PMRs get the product bug fixes and, root cause analysis.
• Load Balancing on IBM WebSphere Application Server & JBoss Servers.

Environment: RedHat Linux, AIX & Windows platform, IBM Websphere v5.x/6.x, IBM MQ Series V5.x/6.x, IBM HTTP V2.x, IBM IHS v5.x/6.x, IIS WebServer, IBM Directory Server 6.1.

Confidential

WAS Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Providing On Call support for Production and Non-Production issues.
• Setting up WebSphere Application Server & WebLogic Application Server environment on Sun OS and Linux platforms.
• Troubleshoot and solve issues during implementation.
• Configured WebSphere Application Servers with IBM HTTP Servers and WebLogic with Apache Webserver.
• Writing build scripts for Websphere Application server V6.1 & WebLogic Server 8.x, 9.X for silent installation and implementation.
• Handle technical escalation at the site to ensure application/system uptime.
• Installation & Up gradation of IBM WebSphere Application servers, WebLogic Server & NDMs.
• Applying Websphere & WebLogic fixes.
• Application deployment / Management via NDM & Application Server.
• Backup & restoration of IBM Websphere Application & NDM successfully at application level & File system level.
• Established database connectivity with DB2, Oracle on IBM WebSphere.
• Configured the Global security for WebSphere Application servers.
• Created and executed change tickets/tasks related to WebSphere administration on QA/PROD regions.
• Implemented new cluster based architecture to improve the Performance and maintain high availability of different Staples websites.
• Performed Websphere backup/restoration tasks (using backupConfig, restoreConfig).
• Tuned the performance of WebSphere Application Server (configure caching, queuing and pooling parameters, tune JVM heap size).
• Provide 24 x 7 support of production applications.
• Installed Digital Certificates in different web servers for secure transaction (SSL).
• Analyzing Core and heap dumps.
• Worked with IBM support for Sev1 and Sev2 PMRs, get the product bug fixes and, root cause analysis.
• Load Balancing on IBM WebSphere Application Server & WebLogic Servers.

Environment: RedHat Linux, SunOS & Windows platform, IBM Websphere v5.x/6.x, WebLogic Server 8.x,9.x, IBM MQ Series V5.x/6.x, IBM HTTP V2.x, IBM IHS v5.x/6.x, Apache, IBM Directory Server v6.1, SunOne Directory Server

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Setting up WebSphere Application Server environment on Linux/Windows platforms by performing Installation & Up-gradation of IBM WebSphere Application servers & NDM.
• Applying IBM WebSphere Application servers fixes.
• EAR/WAR deployments.
• Configured WebSphere Application Servers and IBM HTTP Server v 1.3.28.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, connection pooling and Sessions.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server v 5.x/6.x to WebSphere MQ v 5.3.
• Configured the Global security for WebSphere Application servers.
• Involved Trouble shooting the application using Websphere system logs, plug-in logs, trace logs and HTTP logs.
• Configuring APACHE & IBM HTTP server with virtual host configuration.

Environment: RedHat Linux, SunOS & Windows platform, IBM Websphere v5.x/6.x, IBM MQ Series V5.x/6.x, IBM HTTP V2.x, IBM IHS v5.x/6.x, Apache, IBM Directory Server v6.1