SUMMARY

• 11 years of experience in designing, developing and administering the Front - End and middleware applications using IBM products WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Application Server and HTTP Server.
• Experience in installing, configuring and administering the WebSphere Application server, WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Content Management (WCM),WebSphere Network Deployment Manager and IBM HTTP Server on various Operating Systems UNIX, Linux and Windows.
• Experience on creating Horizontal, Vertical clustering and Portal Farming to achieve the load balancing and scalability.
• Experience in configuring the Application server with external security systems like Tivoli Directory Server, Tivoli Access manager and WebSeal servers.
• Experience in Performance tuning.
• Experience in implementing the Caching Strategies for Portal and WCM sites.
• Experience in automation process for administration and configuration activities using JACL, JYTHON WSADMIN and XMLACCESS scripting.
• Experience in SSL certificate management for WebSphere suite (Application/Portal/HTTP Servers).
• Experience in administering and configuring the IBM Lotus Web Content Management.
• Experience in Syndication pair process and troubleshooting.
• Good understanding of the SOA architecture.
• Experience in Systems Integration with expertise in leading integration efforts spread over cross functional groups.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, interpersonal skills and communication skills.
• Excellent team player with problem-solving and trouble-shooting capabilities

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IBM WebSphere Portal Administrator

Confidential

Environment: AIX 6.1,7.0,WebSphere Portal Server 6.1,7.0.0.2,8.0,8.5 WebSphere Content Management 8.0, 8.5,WebSphere Application Server 6.1,8.0,8.5.5.6 and DB2.

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured WebSphere Portal servers, WebSphere Application Servers, Network Deployment Manager and content Management servers on AIX and RHEL Linux environments using Installation Manager Software.
• Migrated WebSphere Portal infrastructure to latest version
• Installed and Configured HTTP Server, Plugins.
• Built portal infrastructure for various environments like DEV, QA, UAT and PRD.
• Configured Federated Repositories and used LTPA for authentication.
• Configured External Security Managers (Tivoli Access Manager, Web seal).
• Created and maintained SSL configurations and managed SSL certificates.
• Implemented SSO.
• Assisted Performance teams on load tests and tuned the system accordingly.
• Implemented Caching Strategies on WCM, Portal and HTTP Servers.
• Implemented Portal Farm mode for High Scalability.
• Configured Caching on HTTP Server for better performance
• Supported productions applications and worked with Developers for the resolutions.
• Automated the deployment process.

WebSphere Admin

Confidential

Environment: AIX 5.3, Linux, Solaris, WebSphere Portal Server 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 WebSphere Application Server 5.1.X, 6.0, 7.0, DB2 9.X, Oracle 10 Tivoli Access Manger, Tivoli Identity Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Installed WebSphere suite (Application server, Portal server), and Web Content Manager) on AIX, Linux, Solaris and Windows Operating systems.
• Installed WebSphere Portal software and Webservers for various environments (DEV, QA, UAT and PROD).
• Performed GUI and Silent Installation.
• Installed WebSphere Network Deployment Manger (NDM) and applied the necessary fixes.
• Migrated different versions of WebSphere Portal and Application Servers in various environments like System Test, Regression (Load test environment), Staging (Pre-Production) and Production.
• Created the clusters and added nodes using addNode script.
• Implemented high availability and work load balancing solutions using vertical and horizontal scaling.
• Coordinated Portal specific database tasks with DB admin.
• Configured WebSphere Portal Server and Application server for High Availability - Clustering.
• Configured the HTTP server by modifying the plugin-cfg file.
• Configured the security for portal server using LDAP user authentication.
• Configured SSL and TAI (Trust Associated Interceptors).
• Configured Data-Sources in WebSphere Application Server.
• Used the ConfigEngine.sh/wpsconfig.sh script to configure LDAP and other components.
• Enabled and disabled the security with ConfigEngine /WPSConfig utility.
• Transferred Portal databases to DB2, Oracle to meet Production standards With ConfigEngine/WPSConfig utility.
• Coordinated activities with Security team to enable Tivoli Access Manager Security
• Identified/Submitted User Access requirements for all Portal server environments.
• Configured Wily Introscope Monitoring tool on Portal and Application server JVMs.
• Installed and updated the applications using Customized XML's.
• Deployed Themes and Skins and added them through WebSphere Portal GUI.
• Created Virtual Portals, which will be accessed by different URL’s and user roles.
• Wrote scripts automate the administrative tasks like creating pages, updating access permissions and updating the Unique Names etc.
• Given unique names to portlets, portlet applications, web modules and URL mapping contexts by using XMLACCESS and from WebSphere Portal GUI.
• Managed and developed automated scripts for the deployment of WebSphere Portal Applications from QA to Production using XMLACCESS script.
• Exported the Virtual Portals, Pages and Portlets to XML files using XMLACCESS utility.
• Created Syndication pairs.
• Installed Cache monitor to manage the cached content.
• Automated the production procedures to install and update the WAR files.
• Provided backup procedures for WebSphere Portal server.
• Hands on with setting up Environment for Application packaging and deploying Enterprise Application Archive (EAR), Web Application Archive (WAR), JSP’s, and Servlets in staging, production.
• Created Clusters and added cluster members for high availability in Horizontal Clustering and vertical clustering.
• Writing scripts to automate the builds process using ANT and WSADMIN scripts.
• Configuring of JDBC Providers, Data Source, Virtual Hosting, Global Security, SSL, and LADP.
• Downloaded necessary Upgrade Installers and fix packs and applied in various test and Production environments.
• Assisted Testing team in addressing server related problems.
• Documented the procedures and process used for the Installation and Configuration.
• Provided 24*7 support for WebSphere suite (Portal/Application server) applications.
• Performance tuning of Portal based on clustering requirements and infrastructure setup.
• Extensively used WILY Introscope Monitoring tools for WebSphere Portal servers and application servers in detecting Memory Issues, Hung Threads, Stalled Method Counts, Slow responses and High CPU usage.
• Performed JVM tuning for the better performance of the application.
• Implemented logging function for portal server using site analysis logging.
• Ability to read and understand the portal logs and traces and trouble shoot.
• Worked with IBM on PMR’s for different production issues.
• Used IBM Assistance Lite tool to generate and collects the logs when a problem occurred.
• Mentored other team members in supporting and administering the application and product.

WebSphere Consultant

Confidential

Environment: AIX 5.3, WebSphere Portal Server 5.1.0.4, WebSphere Application Server 5.1.11, JDK 1.4.2, WebSphere Portal Server 6.0, WebSphere MQ 6.X, IBM Lotus Web Content Management 6.0 and WAS 6.0, DB2 8.1.X, Tivoli Access Manger, Tivoli Identity Manager and Siebel.

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured WebSphere Portal, Application Server 5.x on AIX, Solaris, and Linux.
• Installed fix packs and cumulative fixes for base version and deployment manager.
• Configured clustering through deployment manager for load balancing and failover functions.
• Administered the applications with wsadmin utility.
• Configured SSL (using third party cert) for Web Server and WebSphere Application server.
• Configuring of JDBC Providers, Data Source, Virtual Hosting, Global Security, SSL, LADP.
• Installation, Configuration and administration of WebSphere MQ on most of the supported platforms.
• Identifying for the need of Queue managers, Queues, Channels, and other MQ Objects, defining, administering and maintaining the same.
• Developing MQ infrastructure in enterprise level with distributed queuing and clustering.
• Configuring, managing and as well as automation WebSphere MQ channels and adding and modifying WebSphere MQ resource definitions.
• Defining channels using SSL certificates. Designed MQ applications supporting application level security and delivering MQ infrastructural solutions using link level security.
• Administering in multiple operating systems which included clearing queues, modifying object attributes, restarting channel and supporting application development by resolving programming problems with MQI (WebSphere MQ Application Programming Interface).
• Troubleshooting and Managing MQ queues, channels, listeners and triggering.
• MQ System Reviews, Document and Implement recommendations to improve performance, availability and Security.
• Recommended and implemented the system Architecture for the production implementation of the systems for High Availability and Hot Failover.
• Wrote scripts to automate administration tasks using shell and perl scripts.
• Provided 24/7 on call support in both testing and production environment.