SUMMARY

• 10+ years of IT experience with strong experience in IBM websphere suite of products like websphere application server, Websphere Portal Server and WebSphere process server.
• Experienced in migrating the Medical Management Information Systems enterprise portal from existing data centers to the AWS Cloud infrastructure.
• Experience in building the enterprise portal infrastructure in AWS cloud using EC2, CloudFront, ELB, IAM, S3, EBS, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch, Cloud formation, Autoscaling and Route53.
• Extensively used cloud formation templates for building the new environments in AWS cloud.
• Implemented CICD pipelines for the containerized solutions using existing DevOps tools like Git Lab, Ansible, Maven, Docker.
• Configured and Maintained Jenkins to implement the CICD process and integrated the tool with ANT and MAVEN.
• Experience in working with ansible modules like Copy, File, Shell, Command Get URL, BlockinFile, Line in file...etc.
• Experienced in configuring logs monitoring tools like Splunk to monitor logs of enterprise applications in Non - Prod and PROD environments.
• Installed and configured OpenShift containerized platform in the lower environments and deployed applications in the form of docker images.
• Strong experience in IBM websphere application server with versions 8.0/7.0/6.1.0.21/5.1. x/5.0.x/4/0 and IBM WebSphere Portal Server with versions 7.0.0.2/6.x/5.x. Extensively involved in Design, Architecture, installation Configuration, Migration, Scripting, Deployment and troubleshooting of enterprise applications on various operating systems like Solaris 10/9/8,AIX 5.3/5.2, Linux, Windows 2000 server.
• Experienced in administering various webservers like IHS 6.0/2.0.47, IIS 6.0/5.0, and iplanet, Apache Webservers on different OS like AIX, Solaris, and Windows.
• Administered complex SOA based WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Application Server applications in various Environments.
• Experienced in Configuring WebSphere Process Server Golden Topology with Oracle, DB2 on z/os as its backend database and WAS v6.1
• Strong experience in migrating the enterprise applications from websphere 4.0 to 5.0, 5.0 to 6.0 and 5.1 to 6.1 ; 6.0 to 7.0 and also experienced in migrating the applications from one OS to another.
• Extensive experience in integrating vertical applications using WAB and WSRP.
• Extensive experienced in supporting all enterprise applications in the business hours and also in the Non-business hours as part of the on-call process. Provided on-call support for all applications 24/7 on rotation basis.
• Experienced in administering WebSphere Process Server cluster configurations in v6.1,6.2/7.0 in different topologies on different platforms (UNIX, Windows) and providing Core functionality for implementing Service oriented Architecture. Experienced in resolving the production and non-prod issues and brought back the applications online. Experienced in conducting and joining the bridge calls with other team members and to narrow down the issue and to resolve it.
• Experience in handling tickets according to the priority and severity and also the SLA of the tickets and provide the updates on the ticket to the requester by entering comments in the ticket.
• Strong Experience in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for all the issues we have encountered and update the same in the ticket and try to find the permanent resolution for the issues.
• Experienced in opening PMRs and worked with the IBM support team to resolve issues and documented all solutions for the issues in a shared server.
• Strong experience in advanced administration concepts like Service Integration Bus configuration, WebServices configuration, Message activations, Listener ports, queue connection factories, Queue, Application Servers, Clusters, Shared libraries, profiles, JDBC providers, Data sources, URL providers, urls, Environment variables etc.
• Extensively experienced with websphere portal 6.1 topologies and installation procedures and creation of portal clusters and deployment of the portlets, skins and themes to cluster.
• Experienced in working with WCM and updating web content data in portal consoles.
• Experienced in Creating Junctions for our applications using Tivoli Access Manager (TAM), and also created users and groups and granted roles to the users and removed the roles as and when necessary. Modified user roles and groups using PDadmin shell.
• Established and maintained effective working relationships with managers, peers and staff along with the other teams, internal customers, external customers and external vendors.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Application Servers: IBM websphere application server 7.0/6.1.0.21/6.0.2.19/5.1/5.0/4.0 , WMQ 6.0/5.0 Websphere portal server 7.0/6.1/ 6.0.1.6/ 5.1 and WPS 7/6,1/6.2

Web Servers: IHS 7.0/6.0/2.0.47 , IIS 6.0/5.0, iplanet, ApacheCloud/DevOps Tools: AWS, Jenkins, Maven, GitLab, Docker, Ansible, Selenium, Eslint, ANT

Operating Systems: AIX 5.3/5.2/5.1/4.3.3 , Solaris 10/9.0/8.x,Linux 7.2/7.1/6.2,Windows XP/ NT/2003

Databases: Oracle 10g/9.x/8.x/7.x, DB2/UDB, SqlServer 7.0/6.5/6.0,AS400

GUI Front end tools: Java server pages, Swing, Visual Basic 5.0/6.0, XML, HTML

Monitoring Tools/Ticketing tools: Wily 7.0/6.0/5.0/Candle/Tivoli Performance Viewer, Splunk HPSC, Remedy,USD,ExtraHop

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in understanding the requirement to move the existing environment from the current data center to AWS infrastructure.
• Experienced in the creating cloud formation templates and nested templates to build infrastructure in AWS environment.
• Created cloud formation templates for all the components like VPC, IAM, Web server (HIS), WPS, DB, LDAP….etc.
• Implemented CICD pipeline for all the shared services like Helpdesk, User Profile, File upload and file download using DevOps tools and AWS services Jenkins, GitLab, Maven, Docker, sellinium, ECR, ECS
• Developed deployment scripts for all shared services for all Non-PROD and PROD environments.
• Automated web server configurations by defining re-write rules in the plugin-cfg.xml.
• Created cloud formation template for IAM to create users, groups, and policies and attach policies.
• Created docker file for all the shared services
• Generated Route53 to control the traffic between different availability zones.
• Monitored enterprise applications performance in real-time using ExtraHop.
• Automated the deployments of the vertical applications in the enterprise portal using ANT, Maven (pom.xml), Nexus and puppet scripts.
• Created SQS queues for Fileupload and Filestatus shared services.
• Created S3 bucket policies for vertical application buckets like purging files after 90 days of upload.
• Scheduled batch jobs using Control-M and monitored the progress of the job and troubleshooted when the job fails.
• Created S3 mounts on scanning server for the file scanning shared service.
• Implemented Application Load Balancer (ELB) for all shared services.
• Optimized EBS volumes and EC2 instances, created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 Hosts.
• Used AWS IAM to grant fine-grained access to AWS resources to users and also managed roles and permissions of users.
• Created Ansible palybooks using Ansible modules like copy, File, shell, command, Get URL.
• Responsible for supporting regular deployments in both Non-Prod and Prod environments.
• Experienced in attending the bridge calls for production issues and non prod issues and involved application teams or database teams or networking teams to resolve the issues and involved in Root cause analysis for the issues encountered. Also provided 24/7 on call support for all the production applications.
• Monitored health of the applications using Extrahop and also involved in load tests and analysed the load test results. Experienced in doing POC when new products are to be implemented.
• Experienced in working with Quickr for WebSphere portal on places and its backup, archive and restore procedures and resolved issues while doing the backup and restoration of the places.

Environment: AWS, Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, Splunk, Docker, Openshift, Kubernetes, ANT, Sellinium ExtroHop, Websphere application server 7.0/ 6.1/6.0, WebSphere portal 7.0.02/6.1, Websphere process server 7.0/ 6.1/6.0,IHS 7/6.0, Solaris, Linux,, LDAP, Oracle 10/9.0.2/8.1. x, DB2, MainframeWily7, HPSC,HTML, EJB, JSP, JDBC, ISA, WCM 7.0,Lotus quickr v8.5.1

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

WebSphere Portal Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured and administered WebSphere application server 7.0.0.17/ 6.1.0.21 , and WebSphere portal 7.0.02/6.1 on Linux.
• Migrated application from WebSphere portal server version 6.0 to WebSphere portal server version 7.0. In the process of migration we have configured pages, assigned portlets to the pages. Some of the applications are integrated through WAB and some of them are integrated through WSRP.
• Responsible for maintaining the Pre-Dev, Dev, Test, VAL, and Prod environments and troubleshott any issues while integrating the verticals or after the application or vertical went live.
• Configured portal vertical applications through wsrp. Created labels, pages and added portlets.
• Experienced in uploading the content for the vertical applications with WCM content using the portal console.
• Install/ configure and support of WebSphere Process Server v7.0 environments.
• Performed regular deployments on WebSphere Process Server v7.0 both using deployment script and Admin Console in Dev, QA and PROD environments.
• Configured WebSphere process server with Golden Topology in different environments.
• Responsible for maintenance and support of internet and intranet applications running on Linux and servers in PreDev, Dev, Test, VAL and prod environments.
• Extensively involved in creating pages, deploying web modules, assigning appropriate groups to as per the client requirement and assigned themes and skin to the portlets, Involved in end to end portal administration tasks.
• Worked on Performance tuning of WebSphere Process Server, especially of Garbage collection phenomenon, heap sizing and upgrades for high performance of applications.
• Involved in coordinating the monthly implementation plans (Releases) for the migration part of the project for the applications running on 5.x to 6.x. and audited the application migration process as and when completed by the other team members.
• Extensively involved in working with other teams to replicate the infrastructure i.e datacenter migration.
• Successfully implemented portal releases in all environments DEV, VAL and PROD and resolved any issues that were encountered.
• Experienced in attending the bridge calls for production issues and non prod issues and involved application teams or database teams or networking teams to resolve the issues and involved in Root cause analysis for the issues encountered. Also provided 24/7 on call support for all the production applications.
• Monitored health of the applications using WILY and also involved in load tests and analysed the load test results. Experienced in doing POC when new products are to be implemented.
• Experienced in working with Quickr for WebSphere portal on places and its backup, archive and restore procedures and resolved issues while doing the backup and restoration of the places.

Environment: Websphere application server 7.0/ 6.1/6.0, WebSphere portal 7.0.02/6.1, Websphere process server 7.0/ 6.1/6.0,IHS 7/6.0, Solaris, Linux,, LDAP, Oracle 10/9.0.2/8.1. x, DB2, MainframeWily7, HPSC,HTML, EJB, JSP, JDBC, ISA, WCM 7.0,Lotus quickr v8.5.1

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

WebSphere Portal Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Migrated applications running on AIX to Solaris and also migrated the applications from version 6.1 to version 7. Responsible for maintenance and support of internet and intranet applications running on AIX, Solaris and Windows operating system. Configured and deployed web applications on multiple servers.
• Responsible for building the Dev, Test, QA, and Prod environments by installing the WAS and creating the profiles, nodes, federation of nodes, Application Servers, Clusters, Virtual hosts, data sources, MQ connections, Plug-in Configuration.
• Experienced in configuring WebSphere security for new applications like Administrative security application security, SSL certificates, Global security, and also J2EE security.
• Responsible for maintenance and support of internet and intranet applications running on AIX and Solaris servers in Dev, Test, QA and prod environments. Installed and applied fix packs, refresh packs and e-fixes for the WebSphere application server in all environments.
• Used siteminder for single signon for our applications and automated access to all authorized enterprise applications through a single login using SSO.
• Involved in coordinating the monthly implementation plan for the migration part of the project for the applications running on 6.x to 7.x. and audited the application migration process as and when completed by the other team members.
• Installed, Configured and administered WebSphere application server 7.0.0.17/ 6.1.0.21 , and WebSphere portal 7.0.02/6.1, IBM http server 6.0 on Windows 2000, AIX, and Linux and on Solaris 10 systems.
• Experienced in executing the configengine tasks and xmlaccess for various portal tasks. Installed websphere portal on sandbox for POC purposes.
• Trouble shooted the applications and worked on performance tuning especially with cache instances.
• Extensively involved in troubleshooting the issues and document the problem resolutions for future references. Created PMRs and worked with IBM personnel for the peculiar issues that were found in the environment. Attended Change management meetings for approval for the applications which are suppose to go live and provided the MOM of CM meetings to the team.
• Experienced in attending the bridge calls for production issues and non prod issues and involved application teams or database teams or networking teams to resolve the issues and involved in Root cause analysis for the issues encountered. Also provided 24/7 on call support for all the production applications.
• Troubleshooted the issues that were encountered while installing the websphere portal and also while applying the fix packs.
• Monitored health of the applications using WILY and also used WILY for load tests and send the load test results to the testing and application teams.

Environment: Websphere application server 7.0/ 6.1/6.0/5.1/5.0 , WebSphere portal 7.0.02/6.1, web sphere, MQ 6/5.3, IHS 6/2.0.47, AIX, Solaris, Linux, windows 2003, IIS, LDAP, WMB 5.0,Oracle 10/9.0.2/8.1. x, DB2, Mainframe, TAM, jacl, jython, XML, Wily7, HPSC,HTML, EJB, JSP, JDBC, ISA.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.x/5.x/6.x, JDBC drivers and Servlet engines along with trouble shooting and recovery on UNIX and Windows machines.
• Responsible for application changes across different platforms- development, testing and production environments.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 1.3.6, iPlanet 4.1,
• Worked on Blue Squared Project and With Blue Squared version 2.1.
• Configured WebSphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, and JavaMail sessions. Deployed Session and Entity EJBs.
• Experience with WebSphere MQ 5.3 and 6.0 and Created MQ queue and Channels
• Configured MQ Objects within the Websphere Application Environment.

Environment: IBM WebSphere 4.0/5.x/6.x,,IBM MQSeries, IBM HTTP server, iPlanet, Netscape Enterprise Server, EJB, JSPs, Servlets, XML, JDBC, Java Script,TAM, HTML, DB2/UDB v 7.2, DFS, Sun Solaris v 2.8, Linux, AIX and Windows2000/NT.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured WebSphere 4.0/5.0 and IBM HTTP Server on IBM AIX and Solaris platforms.
• Involved in designing WebSphere Application Server load balancing and fail over by using Workload Management (WLM), horizontal and vertical scaling. Responsible for Web server and Application server installation, support and performance monitoring for all applications running on the company’s Website.
• Developed WebSphere Application Server regular administration tasks automated by using WSCP and XMLConfig scripts. Implemented security policies that protect Web applications and resources using the Netegrity SiteMinder.
• Played an active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck by enhanced performance ensuring upstream queuing. Configured and tested the data sources for the databases, i.e. Oracle and DB2

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.0, HTML, UNIX (AIX, Solaris) and Windows 2000,Siteminder, Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB, XML, JDBC, t, DB2, IBM HTTP Server, Apache Web Server.