SUMMARY

• Almost 9.5 years on design, implementation and maintenance of enterprise applications experience in IBM WebSphere MQ & Message Broker Administration.
• Worked over 2 years on devops tools like Ansible, Jenkins, BitBucket, JIRA, Docker, Jfrog Artifactory, Nexus, SonarCube, and Junit.
• Working experience is setting up CI/CD Pipelines in Jenkins Onsite & Cloud (AWS).
• Working experience in configuring Maven/Gradle/Npm builds on Jenkins for various application types
• Worked over 4½ years on Weblogic Server administration on various versions WebLogic 8, 10, 10.3.4.
• Expertise in Administration of IBM WebSphere MQ (6/7.1/8.x & WMB 5.3 / 7.0 / IIB 8 on AIX, Linux and Windows 2003/2008 environments.
• Certified professional in ITIL v2011.
• Installed and Configured the WebSphere MQ 6.x / 7.x./ 8.x.
• Installed and Configured the Websphere Message Broker 6.x / 7.0 / 8.0
• Defined the WebSphere MQ queue managers, queues, channels, channel initiator, trigger monitors etc.
• Worked with WebSphere MQ clusters for implementing the ease of administration and work load balancing.
• Worked with hardware clustering (Veritias) for WebSphere MQ.
• Hands on experience in migrating the existing configuration and applications from WebSphere MQ 6.0 to 6.x and 7.0 on Sun Solaris, AIX, Linux operating system environments.
• Experience in installing, configuring and administering IBM HTTP Server, Apache Server, Tomcat Server & TC Server.
• Defined and managed access to OAM Permissions to different groups for authentication.
• Set up the MQ security for users and groups using setmqaut utility.
• Implemented high availability and work load balancing solutions for Websphere MQ using RHCS, Veritas Clustering (VCS) and MSCS.
• Worked with WebSphere MQ explorer 6/7and MB explorer 7 for administrating through Windows environment.
• Worked with runmqsc and control commands on WebSphere MQ.
• Worked with Qpasa v3,v5 & Omegamon monitoring tool for administration of WebSphere MQ on different platforms.
• Developed Shell scripts scripts to automate the deployment and maintenance of various administrative tasks.
• Experience in Defining cron jobs for monitoring, alert notifications and log cleanup.
• Worked on shell scripting to automate the deployment process through build Forge on various environments.
• Experienced in setting up various WebSphere MQ Development / Testing Staging / Production environments.
• Experience in opening PMRs with IBM for the vendor related issues.
• Excellent Technical, Analytical, Problem Solving, Oral and Written Communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

DevOps Tool: Ansible, Jenkins, BitBucket, Docker, Jfrog Artifactory, Nexus, SonarcubeJunit, Xray, JIRA.

Middleware Tools: WMQ6.0/7.0,MQSeries 5.3, WMB 6.1/7.0, WBIMB5.0, Weblogic 8.0/10.3/10.3.4

Languages: C, C++, JAVA, XML, HTML, PL/SQL

Databases: Oracle8.1.x/7.x, SQL server.

Web/Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Message Broker7.x/6.x,Tomcat 5.x, Apache, Oracle Weblogic V8/11c/12.x

Case Tools & Utilities: MS Visio, Remedy, Build Forge

Version Controls: HP OpenView, Clear Case, CVS.

Monitoring tool: QPASA, BMC Patrol, Omegamon

Operating Systems: AIX, Sun Solaris, Linux, and Windows 2000/NT/XP/2003

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

DevOps Engineer, WebSphere MQ/WMB Administrator / WebLogic Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Ansible: Installed, configured and written playbooks for Infrastructure setup, configuration and deployments.
• Ansible: Automated manual and repetitive tasks saved quality amount of time spent on them.
• Ansible: Using ansible vault for storing passwords and other secure files.
• Jenkins: Installed, configured and controlled Jenkins plugins and other orchestrator functionalities.
• Jenkins: Implemented delivery pipelines and multi - branch pipelines for various CICD activities.
• Jenkins: Implemented scheduled, automatic or custom builds from BitBucket via Webhooks and chedulers.
• Jenkins: Setup Master/Slave configuration model and the masters are setup in active/passive.
• Jenkins: Implemented build strategies like Maven, Gradle, Npm for various application within pipelines.
• Jenkins: Worked on groovy scripting, plugins and tool installations.
• Bitbucket: Worked hands on the source control tool by pushing, pulling, cloning, merging the branches etc.
• Bitbucket: Successfully integrated bitbucket with Jenkins, setup web hooks and polling the SCM.
• Bitbucket: Configured as the source repository for all the application related variables used in the pipelines.
• Other: Sonar, a code quality scanning tool. Junit, is a plugin for running the code through pre-defined test cases for each application. Jfrog Artifactory/Nexus, both these are used as release build repositories and Source binaries.
• JIRA is used as the ticketing tool for the CICD process and automatic creation and resolutions are done via hooks.
• Docker: Experience in creating pulling, pushing, deploying docker images.
• Experience in AWS build & deployments via docker.
• Installed and Configured WebSphere MQ 6.x/7.0, and IBM Http server 6.0 on Solaris and Windows 2000/2003.
• Created MQ objects for the communication between the MQ Servers and bindings to communicate with Application servers.
• Implemented PUBSUB Implementation using MQ Broker as a global architecture.
• Upgraded QPASA Monitoring for MQ and Message Broker from V3.3 to V5.0.
• Performed Weblogic support like Domain setup, deployments, performance monitoring Troubleshooting etc
• Configure domains with various components such as DataSources, Connection Pools, Configuring the Security Realm.
• Performed tasks like troubleshooting, deployments and Involved in Monitoring WebLogic resources.
• Gathering runtime files like thread dumps core dumps then analyze them and identifying the problem.
• Built WMB 6.1 brokers by creating execution groups, deploying message flows, message sets to the broker.
• Providing MQ Support for almost 22 applications, timely backup and servicing the CQ tickets.
• Extensively worked on High Availability of MQ with MSCS Clustering on an active-passive setup and also responsible for providing the necessary flowchart during maintenance of these servers.
• Created Users and Groups and administered QPASA and enabled monitoring Services on the Servers.
• Used RFHUTIL to read/browse/put messages in different formats like XML and TXT from/to a queue.
• Created and Setup Mirror Queues on all the Environments.
• Implementation of Channel exits on the Channels using Support-Pac ME71.
• Written PERL and Batch Scripts for the start, stop and other administrative scripts of the QMGR objects and their functionality.
• Implemented windows scheduler tasks for log cleanup, restarting services etc .

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

WebSphere MQ/WMB Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured WebSphere MQ 6.x/7.0, Websphere Message Broker 6.x/7.0, and IBM Http server 6.0 on Linux, AIX.
• 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.
• Installed fix packs and cumulative fixes and Support packs for Websphere MQ and MB.
• Performed administration tasks using MQSC commands.
• Involved in designing the architecture of VCS in the system.
• Responsible for the message broker process automation through build forge, which picks the data from Clear case server and deploys the file.
• Worked with Web Services and deployed the test flow in broker environment
• 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
• Worked with WebSphere MQ Clustering for ease of administration and workload balancing
• Configured WebSphere MQ channels to SSL for secured transmission of messages.
• Installed and configured Tivoli for monitoring MQ and Message Broker.
• Worked with developers with the issues they are having while connecting to MQSeries.
• Worked with architecture team for naming conventions and design of Websphere MQ and Websphere MB .
• Effectively used Data Power to transfer and process and to increase the speed of transformation for the XML messages.
• 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.
• Provided 24/7- production support(primary) for WMB, WMQ infrastructure monitoring.

Environment: WMQ 6.0/7.0, WMB6.0,DB2, Remedy, MO71,MC91 Solaris 10, ESQL, MQMON, IBM Http Server 6.1/6.0, AIX 5.3, Linux, Windows 2003/NT.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

WebSphere MQ/WMB Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed Configured and WebSphere MQ 6.0 Server, WebSphere Message Broker 6.3 on Solaris, AIX and Linux .
• Upgraded the WebSphere MQ 5.3 to WebSphere MQ 6.0., and Message Broker from 5.3 to 6.0
• Worked with WebSphere MQ Clustering for ease of administration and work load balancing.
• Configured BMC Patrol for monitoring MQ and Message Broker.
• Configured WebSphere MQ channels for SSL for secured transmission of messages.
• Supported MQ environments using command line (control commands and runmqsc commands).
• Provided MQ Series Workflow admin production support to redirect messages.
• Worked with IBM by opening the PMR’s for issues which needed assistance from IBM.
• Developed and documented all the processes for the migration
• Trained and made the developers use Clear Case with ease
• Worked on projects that extend MQ Series infrastructure, MQ Clustering, SSL channels support, Publish/Subscribe, OAM permissions and MQ object creation.
• Written scripts to automate administration tasks using shell scripting.
• Followed problem and change management processes in performing and supporting problem determination and resolution, production changes, and maintenance for application and offshore teams.
• Coordinated with developers and architecture team with implementation, architecture and development of MQ.
• Recommended and implemented the naming conventions of queue managers, queues, channels etc.
• Documented the process and procedures of WebSphere MQ support.
• Provided 24X7 support for production environments.
• Created queues, channels, queue managers and listeners as per the requirement.
• Resolved application issues on SQL databases. Configured DB2 with Message Broker and authorized permissions.
• Produced and provided installation and configuration documentation for MQ on various UNIX platforms.

Environment: WMQ 6.0,MQ 5.3, WMB6.0, QPASA, SQL, MO71, Solaris10, ESQL, mqmon, HIS, AIX 5.3, Windows 2003/NT.