Websphere Technologies

IBM WebSphere Application Server v5.x, v6.x, 7.x, 8.5, IBM Websphere Portal Server v6.x, IBM WebSphere Process Server 6.x, 7.5, IBM WebSphere Service Registry6.x, 7.x, IBM WebSphere Message Broker v6.x, v7.x, v8, IBM WebSphere MQ v6.x, v7.x, IBM WebSphere MQ 7.0,CA Wily Interscope Monitoring J2EE - SQL, PL/SQL, CGI/Perl, JDBC/ODBC, SOAP, Struts, MVC.

• Messaging and JMS
• JMS, IBM WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker
• Application Servers
• Cosminexus Application Server, WebLogic.
• Languages
• JAVA, C, COBOL, HTML.
• Back End
• HiRDB, Oracle,DB2
• Ticketing Tools
• Vantive, BMC Remedy, HP Quality Center,JIRA.
• IDE's
• WebSphere Studio Application Developer,RAD 6.0
• Scripting Languages
• Shell Script, awk, ANT,JACL/Jython Script and WSADMIN
• Version control
• Clearcase 7.x teamsite content management server 5.x, Visual Source safe, CVS
• Monitoring tools
• Wily Introscope server 7.5.x,8.x,9.x,SiteScope,KeyNote,splunk
• Tools
• TOAD 7.x,Vantive,Junit,AVK sun ,Documentum EMC ,Hummingbird Exceed, Blade Logic BMC ,Maven,Autosys, Build Forge,NDM,CFI,FTP.

Confidential

Sr WebSphere/MQ Architect.

Confidential is a centralized service oriented platform in Verizon wireless responsible for sending all the customer delivery through SMS, EMS, WAP, E-MAIL, MMS, VVM and Letters. Communication to customer is based on their preferences maintained handled by CCES as part of their Centralized repository. CCES handles around 800 million transactions per day at very high turn around transaction times and excellent response times with the robust Middleware Infrastructure spread across different zones in the United States. As part of the Middleware Infrastructure team our responsibilities include involve in analysis, design, building maintaining of the Websphere Middleware environment.

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured Websphere Network Deployment ND 7.x and 8.x, IBM HTTP Server 7.x and iPlanet web server 7.x,Websphere MQ 6.x/7.x,MessageBroker 7.X.
• Installed, configured and upgraded CA-Wily Introscope 8.x and 9.x for all Websphere applications servers, MQ QMGRs, Message Brokers
• Worked on Migration of the Websphere Application Server v7.x to v8.5, Websphere Message Broker v7.x to v8.0 and Websphere MQ Series v7.0.13 to v7.5 and setting up all the apps on the new Websphere Software by effectively working with the Development Testing teams across all the environments.
• Experienced in performance tuning by tweaking Websphere configuration parameters like JVM heap size, JVM Web Container threads, DB connection pooling etc.
• Experienced in debugging memory problems by analyzing garbage collection, heap dumps and thread dumps using JMAP, JHAT, and MDD4J
• Installed and renewed the two-way SSL certificates for all secure sites on web servers.
• Configured websphere environment using Jython scripting like creating JVM args, class path, custom properties, Listener ports, Activation Specs, Queues etc.
• Configured SSO agent for the management of individual identifiers, authentication, authorization and privileges within or across system and enterprise boundaries
• Involved in the introduction of the Cisco GSS Geographic Site Selector network appliance for load balancing the requests across the different zones in the United States for high turnaround times and decreasing any network latencies.
• Worked Participated in Migration of the Network Load balancers from Cisco CSS to Citrix NetScaler for best optimal performance of the Failover load-balancing features.
• Delivered a major Websphere MQ Infrastructure addressing the issues of Websphere MQ Security, Queue Manager Topology, application architecture, and backup recovery.
• Created and configured MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Remote queues, Local Queues, Queue Aliases, Channels, Clusters, Transmission Queues, Performance Events, Triggers, and Processes.
• Setup Websphere MQ Clustering between the Queue Managers Within the different team in Verizon including Mainframe MQ QMGR for the Messaging Communication.
• Setup High Availability for MQ servers using VCS.
• Implemented the clustering of queue managers to achieve work load balancing and to reduce system administration.
• Created Brokers, EG and created scripts to automate different tasks of WMB like Broker EG Startup, Monitoring, deployments and log management.
• Provided secure communication by configuring the CA Signed SSL Cert on Websphere environments and implanted Root Certs on all the environments to avoid any issues with the Cert renewals.
• White-listed the vendor IP's to allow access and make use of the Verizon Wireless applications through Data Power XI52 devices
• Troubleshot issues with the problem determination tools, logs, and probes provided with the Data Power appliance
• Developed Customized JYTHON JACL Scripts to automate different tasks of Websphere like creating run time environments, configurations deployments.
• Developed Scripts in shell bash for Monitoring Production environments and collecting the Traffic Stats to present the Metrics to the Senior Management.
• Configured and created actions, alerts, calculators, metric groupings and tuned Wily recordings for all the applications as desired
• Created Dashboards in Wily for easy and quick look of the servers and applications performance
• Involved in opening and working on PMR's with IBM support.
• Worked with several vendors Comverse, seniverse, motive, Moxie etc to setup and access of Verizon Wireless applications based on desired requirement and approvals
• Worked and involved closely with business, developers, testers, firewall, network, security and system administrators for application and environment setup for small and large projects.
• Documented for all the applications on individual and group projects.
• Used defect tracking and logging tools like JIRA and ACSR proprietary tool .
• Applying CSDs patches and fix packs to Websphere MQ, WMB, WAS as prescribed by IBM to keep the systems stable.
• Responsible for project documentation, status reporting and presentation.
• Root-cause analysis for production outages preparing reports for Senior Management.
• Acted as a mentor to other junior team members and gave the training on websphere within the team.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server ND 7.x/8.x, WebSphere MQ 6.x/7.x, WebSphere Extreme Scale WXS 7.x, CA-Wily Introscope 8.x,9.x, IBM HTTP Server, iPlanet web server, MQ Visual Edit, IBM MQ Explorer, MQSC, Jython, IBM Datapower XI52, CISCO CSS GSS load balancers , Citrix NetScaler load balancer , JMAP, JHAT, Eclipse MAT, JRebel, Java/J2EE, Oracle 10g/11g, Linux RHEL , SunOS Solaris 10

Confidential

Sr Websphere Administrator.

Production support of Transaction management Apps 24/7 on a weekly rotation basis. Participate effectively in execution of projects to support development, test, integration, production and infrastructure deliverables.

Responsibilities:

• Worked on automated the web sphere Application server installation tasks with shell scripts using silent response files.
• Automated configuration, troubleshooting, deployments using JACL and Jython scripts used AdminConig, AdminApp, AdminControl and AdminTask.
• Installed and configured iPlanet 6.1 Web servers and plugins and configured SSL for the webserver and plugin communications.Enabled SSO by installing webagent and registering with the policy servers.
• Troubleshoot problems on the various environments involving the integrations of WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server, iPlanet web Servers.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources and connection pooling and tuning it and monitoring it using Tivoli Performance viewer by enabling PMI.
• Enabled traces as part of troubleshooting and used collector tool to submit the logs and traces to IBM after running the must gather scripts and enabling various traces and taking thread dumps.
• Participated in team meetings and management meetings to resolve issues related to the various environments.
• Configued adminconsole security on WebSphere and creating users with various roles to access the WebSphere admin console users and groups in ldap and added them as WebSphere Console Groups.
• Was responsible for documenting the various procedures involved in the day to day maintenance of the various environments.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7.x extended XD deployment, IBM HTTP Server, SunOne iPlanet, AIX, Solaris, Wily, J2EE, Jacl/Jython, Shell script, SiteScope, Maven, Message Broker,MQ6.0.

Confidential

Middleware Engineer.

Confidential is an Prestigious Integration project being performed at the Morgan Stanley group , The Objective and the efforts of the Project is to Integrate the legacy Confidential applications into the Morgan Stanley Environments. This involves in entire requirement gathering, analysis, design and building of the entire hardware and the software. As part of the Architecture and Framework team our roles involve in analysis, design and building of the WebSphere Middleware environment and defining the standards for the Support and the development teams.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement analysis, Design and Implementation of the all the environments and defining the Middleware standards for high availability environment.
• Documenting and setting process for every technical related activity within the organization.
• Communicating across with different teams and considering the design parameters for both the Hardware and the Software.
• Responsible for project documentation, status reporting and presentation.
• Implement best practices including high availability.
• Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements.
• Installation, configuration and administration of WebSphere Application Server V7.x,6.x WebSphere Process Server 6 on AIX and Red-Hat Linux.
• Installing IBM Http Server and WebSphere Plug-in and configuring the same with WebSphere Application Server.
• Creating Deployment Manager and Application Server profiles.
• Creating Horizontal and Vertical clusters.
• Involved in Migrating the WebSphere 5.x environments to WebSphere 6.x
• Upgrading WebSphere environment with latest fix packs.
• Managing shared libraries of applications being deployed on WebSphere Application and Process servers.
• Creating various resources like data source and JMS resources at Cell Node and Server levels.
• Creating virtual hosts and generating and propagating plug-in.
• Enabling global security on WebSphere environment using LDAP.
• Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements
• Monitoring of the Logs and disk space with the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Server.
• Setting up the cron jobs, developing the Shell Scripts to automate several process of the WebSphere Application Server
• Root-cause analysis for production outages preparing reports for Senior Management.
• Provide 3rd level escalation and rotating on-call support.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server XD/ND 6.0, 6.1 and 7.0, IBM MQSeries 5.x/6.0, web services, IIS 6.0, Netegrity Siteminder Policy Server 6.0, HP Service Manager, Quality Center,Wily Introscope, SPNEGO, TCP/IP, IBM HTTP Server, Fiddler, Heap Analyzer, TPV Tivoli Performance Viewer , Java/J2EE, .Net, DB2, Oracle 9i/10g, SQL, RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux , WinSCP and Windows 2003.

Confidential

WebSphere Administrator

• Installed, configured and administration of WebSphere Application Server 6.0 Network Deployment on Windows Server and AIX Servers.
• Responsible for maintenance and support of Internet and Intranet applications running on AIX servers in production environment
• Migrated existing applications in Websphere Application Server 5.1.x to 6.x using WASPreUpgrade and WASPostUpgrade tools
• Installation Configuration of IBM HTTP Server 2.x and Sun One Web server
• Hands-on experience in configuring Web Server interfaces, session management, Nodes, Data Sources, Virtual hosts and transports for WAS.
• Configured Workload Management WLM using models and clones
• Configured horizontal scalability of Websphere through a mechanism called as Cloning of multiple JVMs with independent Java Virtual Machines-JVMs, for each clone.
• Configured MQ Objects within the Websphere Application Environment.
• Developed UNIX shell scripts, JACL scripts to automate the Websphere deployment process with Developers given access to deploy test and stage applications.
• Experience in Configuring connectivity to the databases using Data source, MQ, MDBs and fine tuning high transaction Enterprise Applications performance using connection pooling resources.
• Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using LDAP authentication.
• Experience in automating access to all authorized Enterprise -wide applications through a single login using Single Sign on SSO .
• Implemented/deployed applications containing server side technologies such Servlets, RMI and EJBs on IBM Websphere Application Server.
• Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Wily IntroScope v7.0/6.x, and Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Provided 24/7 on-call support on rotation basis for applications running in production on Websphere Application servers through VPN /ROVA connection.
• Engineer and document standard web and application server middleware component builds.
• Engineer and document the application deployment process on standard platforms.

Environment:IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x/5.x,IBM HTTP Server, Webspher MQ,Wily, J2EE, SiteScope, AVK, AutoSys,keynote, Sun One iPlanet IIS, AIX Linux, Windows 2003, Wily, J2EE, Jython, Shell script,GemFire,ITCAM.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Confidential Application Server Version 6, which is developed by Hitachi includes HTTP server program named Hitachi Web Server based on Apache 1.3. HTTP server is located as front end process of application server to accept users' request, and respond result to users. In the upcoming version of Cosminexus, Hitachi Web Server program will be based on Apache 2.0 thereby in this project we ported the Apache 2.0 product to work on IPF Itanium Processor Family Platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Creating and Testing Integration test cases to check the whole features of the Cosminexus Application server
• Prepare the relevant test data for Integration Testing.
• Test cases involved below tasks
• Install the Cosminexus Application server to various Operating systems.
• Create the application servers, Cluster and deploy the sample applications and check the basic URLs.
• Check the application server functionality by setting the different JVM parameters.
• Involved Server Load testing with the help of Jmeter.
• Deploy the Web Application, EJBs, and Web Services and test the functionality.

Environment: Cosminexus Application Server, HBase Webserver, AIX, UNIX,IPF Platforms, Windows 2003, Wily, J2EE, Jython, Shell script, SiteScope, HiRDB, Oracle, Cosminexus Reliable Messaging Engine.

Confidential

Associate Programmer

With a strong presence on every continent, the Danzas Group is the world's leading provider of IT-supported logistics solution. Danzas deals with air, ocean and land freight operations. The existing Exception Management XM application has been rapidly constructed to meet increasing demands from customers for the facility to manage their consignment traffic on an exception basis. The existing application is implemented in J2EE technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in project planning sessions with team members to analyze business requirements and translate business requirements into working model.
• Involve in Initial designing and creating Use case diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and class diagrams using the MS Visio Tool.
• Develop web application using Struts Framework
• Develop user interfaces using JSP, HTML and CSS
• Used JavaScript and struts validation framework for performing front end validations.
• Use Eclipse as IDE tool to develop the application and JIRA for bug and issue tracking
• Use CVS for software configuration management and version control
• Installed configured Websphere application server along with IHS web server
• Deploy and troubleshoot J2EE applications on Websphere across DEV/SIT/UAT/PreProd/PROD environments
• Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console and enabling security using LTPA and LDAP for admin console and application components
• Created and managed data source and database connection pools
• Documented all code and infrastructure setup
• Worked independently and as a team member to meet the deadlines

Environment: Websphere/Weblogic Application server, Java1.4, J2EE, Windows 2003,Junit, Oracle.