SUMMARY

• Certified IBM Websphere MQ7.0 with 8+ years of experience in the IT Industry on design, implementation and maintenance of enterprise applications experience in IBM WebSphere MQ and Message Broker Administration.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration, Administration and Trouble Shooting of IBM WebSphere MQSeries 6.0/7.0, WBIMB 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0 , IIB v9 and WebServers like IBM HTTP Server, Apache WebServer on several environments including Windows (NT, 2000 and XP), Linux, AIX, Solaris, HP - UX, AS/400 and OS/390.
• Experience working with DataPower applicances, domain configurations and backup strategies.
• Experience in developing client/server architecture using MQSeries for Java and MQSeries for JMS.
• Experience in installing, configuring, patching, and tuning WebSphere MQ 7.5, 8.0.
• Experience in configuration of MQ Clustering on various platforms.
• Installed and Configured the WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker.
• Hands-On experiance in design and development of message flows, messages sets using Message Broker Toolkit.
• Worked with WebSphere MQ clusters for implementing the ease of administration and work load balancing.
• Knowledge on websphere deployment with wsadmin scripts.
• Hands on experience in migrating the existing configuration and applications from WebSphere 5.1 to 7.0 on Sun Solaris, AIX operating system environments.
• Implemented and operated Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) on UNIX & Windows.
• Define OAM Permissions to different groups for authentication purpose.
• Manage access to different groups & Authorization using OAM.
• Set up the MQ security for users and groups using setmqaut utility.
• Worked with runmqsc and control commands on WebSphere MQ.
• Strong Experience in Database Configuration.
• Worked with QPASA, Tivoli & Omegamon monitoring tool for administration of WebSphere MQ on different platforms.
• Supported different environments like Development, QA and production.
• Good knowledge of WebSphere/HTTP load balancing
• Good knowledge in any-to-any message transformation with advanced level of understanding/experience in Web Services (XML, XSD, XSLT/XPath, SOAP, WSDL, and WS-Policy) Web Services Security (WS-Security, XML encryption and XML digital signature) Web Services Management (UDDI and Service Level Management)
• Knowledge on SAP integration in WMB.
• Worked on projects that extend MQ Series infrastructure, MQ Clustering, SSL channels support, Publish/Subscribe, OAM permissions.
• Worked with application software development and testing group during development project life cycles and after deployment to resolve issues mainly related to message flows.
• Developed Shell scripts to automate the deployment and maintenance of various administrative tasks.
• Worked with shell scripting to automate the WebSphere MQ and Message Broker environment.
• Experienced in setting up various WebSphere MQ Development / Testing Staging / Production environments.
• Experience in opening PMRs with IBM for the vendor related issues.
• Developed programs for accessing the database using JDBC thin driver to execute queries, Prepared statements, Stored Procedures and to manipulate the data in the database
• Installed, configured and Administrated the WebSphere Application Server
• Excellent Technical, Analytical, Problem Solving, Oral and Written Communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java/J2EE, SQL/PL-SQL, ESQL.

WebSphere Technologies: WMB 6.x, 7.x, 8.x and 9, WebSphere MQ 6.0/7.0/7.5, WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker (WBIMB 6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0 & MQSI),WMQ FTE, MQ Series Java, MQ Series for JMS, Qpasa & Tivoli

Application Server: IBM WebSphere 6.0/6.1, Weblogic 8.x

Web Server: IBM HTTP Server, IIS, Apache

Operating Systems: AIX 5.2/5.3, UNIX, LINUX, Windows.

J2EE Technologies: Servlets, Beans, EJB, JMS, Swing, Networking, JDBC/ODBC, JNDI, RMI

Database: DB2/UDB, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 ISeries, MY SQL

Scripting Language: JACL, Shell Script, ANT, Java script, Perl

Web Technologies: HTML, JavaScript, Microsoft FrontPage, JSP, and XML.

WebSphere Administrative Tool: Administrative Console, Tivoli Performance Viewer and Application Assembly Tool (AAT)

Version Control: Clear Case, CVS, Starteam, Subversion.

Monitoring Tools: BMC patrol, Candle, Qpasa, Tivoli, AppWatch

Case Tools & Utilities: MS Visio, Power Designer, HP Service Desk, Remedy, MQ Visual Edit, MQ MON, MQPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEWebSphere MQ/WMB Engineer

Confidential - Portland, ME

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured WebSphere MQ 7.0/7.5, WebSphere Message Broker 8.0 with multi instance queue manager on Power HA.
• Implemented High Availability MQ on Distributed Systems. Supported enterprise business critical messaging which exploits MQ Series clustering and queue sharing
• Administered the MQSeries Objects like Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Process Definition, and Clusters.
• Worked on installing, configuring, patching, and tuning WebSphere MQ7.5 and 8.0
• Supported MQ environments using command line (control commands and runmqsc commands).
• Worked with Web Services and deployed the test flow in broker environment
• Worked on setting up and configuring IBM HTTP Server.
• Followed problem and change management processes in performing and supporting problem determination and resolution, production changes, and maintenance for the offshore team.
• Responsible for documentation on every request/task related issues
• Worked with the Development team in testing the connection and functionality
• Implemented and maintained security exits.
• Created JMS binding files for web method to use in MQ with JMSAdmin tool.
• Configured WebSphere MQ channels to SSL for secured transmission of messages.
• Worked with developers with the issues they are having while connecting to MQSeries.
• Backup, recovery and trouble shooting for WMQ and WMB.
• Worked with architecture team for naming conventions and design of MQSeries.
• Supported different environments like Development, QA and production.
• Configured DB2 with Message Broker and authorized permissions for accessing database.
• Worked with IBM Support on resolving critical problems by creating PMR's.
• Worked with application software development and testing group during development project life cycles and after deployment to resolve issues mainly related to message flows.
• Coordinated with developers and architecture team with implementation, architecture and development of MQ.

Environment: WebSphere Message Broker 6.2/8.0, WMQ 7.0 / 7.5, WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1 DB2, Remedy, MO71, Solaris 10, ESQL, Qpasa, IBM Http Server7.0/6.1/6.0 AIX 6.0/7.0, Linux, z/OS, Windows.

WebSphere MQ/MB Administrator

Confidential - Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained WMQ, WMB products on AIX, Windows, and Sun Solaris platforms.
• Migrated MQ 7.0 on Linux, AIX and Windows and Sun SolarisF
• Involved in the upgrade of HACMP 5.5 to PowerHA 6.1 with SP07.
• 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.
• Enabled security on MQ objects and message flows to restrict unauthorized access.
• Configured websphere MQ channels to SSL for secured transmission of messages.
• Worked with developers with the issues they are having while connecting to MQSeries
• Implemented channel exits for enabling security on MQ channels.
• Configured MQ and MB environment for HA fail over using, HACMP for high availability
• 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.
• Experience in creating queues, Configuring JMS settings like Queues, Topics, Activation Specifications, Queue connection Factories and Topic Connection Factories for WAS-MQ connectivity.
• Implemented various Support Packs for MQ and MB administration like MS0E (Admin wrapper) MS03 (Save Queuemanager).
• 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.
• Assigned Message Flows to appropriate Execution Groups in Broker Runtime Environment.
• Involved in discussions to setup monitoring alerts for MQ and MB component using Tivoli Omegamon.

Environment: WebSphere Message Broker 6.0/6.1, WMQ 7.0, WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1, WebSphere Portal 6.1, Oracle 10.2, Tivoli Omegamon, SVN, Quick Place, Windows, Sun Solaris, AIX 6.0/7.0

Websphere Administrator

Confidential, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured websphere application server 5.1, Appache HTT Server and administered the process of deploying the Enterprise Components of Solaris Environment.
• Configured Apache webserver to proxy requests to WebSphere Application Server.
• Providing deployment support for WebSphere.
• Respond to production and pre-production issues within standard SLA.
• Providing deploy support for shell scripting for deployment automation.
• Providing deploy support for network structuring of web servers.
• Configured and administered JDBC Connection Pools/Multi Pools/Data Sources on WebSphere Application Server.
• Troubleshooting WebSphere Application Server connection pool issues with Oracle9i &10g.
• Created, configured and managed JMS servers, Connection Factories, destinations and Stores.
• Administered performance tuning capabilities in solving environmental/configuration issues that customers have in web server plug-ins, Cluster setups, JMS configurations, Connection Pools setup etc., these involve third party products' interaction with the WebSphere Application Server.
• Performance tuning of JVM heap size, garbage collections, java stack and Native thread & production performance.
• Developed Startup, Shutdown and bounce the WebSphere server scripts.
• Upgraded all Production and Non Production systems to WebSphere 6.0 from WebSphere 5.1 and also successfully and installed DST patches.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 6.0/5.1, Siteminder, Oracle, Apache HTTP Server 2.X, Sun One Directory Server, Solaris.

MQ Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Administration of MQ Series Client and Server on AIX, Windows 2000 and OS/390
• Defined and Maintained MO objects using MQSC commands.
• Worked on clustering and high availability cluster multi-processing (HACMP) on AIX by reducing the administrative task and balancing the work load
• Implemented MQ security using SSL certificates.
• Experience in monitoring the various MQ Series objects like queues, channels, listeners etc using QPASA.
• Perform business transactions among business allies using FIX format.
• Used Rational Clear Quest for defect tracking on various levels of development of test environments.
• Experience as 24 x 7 administrator on the production environment for MQ Series/WMQ.
• Created self-styled applications that generate messages dynamically and evaluates the queue depth on the HACMP environment for AIX.
• Developed and maintained test plan design and implementation to verify accuracy of solutions. Developed scalable and reliable messaging/queue managers needed to model, integrate, automate, and manage efficient and flexible business processes at the enterprise level.
• Participated in problem identification and resolution on development, test, acceptance, and production servers.
• Developed setup scripts to backup Queue Manager, its object definitions and authorizations.

Environment: Applications on IBM, Windows XP, WebSphere MQ 6.0, Message Broker Version 6.0, XML, QPASA, DB2