Middleware Administrator Resume
St Louis, MO
SUMMARY
- 10+ years of IT experience in Planning, installing, configuring, administering, tuning and troubleshooting IBM WebSphere Application Server Base and ND, WebLogic application server,IBM WebSphere Portal Server, Jboss EAP,Wildfly, EAI Tibco BW,BE,EMS,Hawk,Tra,admin and adapters,Tableau,Webfocus,Jira on various Operating Systems like Linux,AIX, SUN Solaris, and Windows.
- Installations of IBM WebSphere Application Server V5.x,6.x,7.x,8.x and 9.x Base & Network Deployment and IBM WebSphere Portal Server and process server,MQ V5.x, 6.X and 7.x.
- Installing and Configuring IHS, generating and Configuring WebSphere Plug - ins, HTTP Transports and Virtual Hosts for the Product.
- Installing and configuring iPlanet Sun one Webserver.
- Experience in SSL configuration for IBM HTTP Server, IIS, and iPlanet Sun one Webserver and WebSphere.
- Experience in Oracle WebLogic Application Server 9g,10.g, 11.g and 12.c installation and migration of various operating systems like AIX, LINUX and Windows.
- Extensively worked on BEA WebLogic 9.x, 10.x, 11 Server, Apache http Server, Apache Tomcat Server as administrator for Server Installations, Configuration, Application components deployment, performance tuning including troubleshooting and maintenance.
- Experience in Jboss EAP 5.x,6.x and 7.x installation and migration of various operating systems like AIX, LINUX and Windows.
- Experience in setup Jboss in standalone and domain mode in various operating systems.
- Experience in deploying J2EE application on Jboss application server.
- Experience in configuration and trouble shooting on Jboss application server.
- Experience in SSO installation&configuration for SiteMinder Webagent and TAI.
- Experience in deploying J2EE application on WAS 5, 6, 7 and 8 Versions using WAS admin console and wasadmin scripting tool.
- Well-experienced in the migration tasks of WebSphere from V 5.x to 6.x & V 6.x to 7.x & v 7.x to 8.x and 8.x to 9.x.
- Experienced in applying Fix Packs, refresh pack and Cumulative Fixes for WebSphere application server, portal server and MQ.
- Experienced in installation, configuration, managing and trouble-shooting of WebSphere Portal Server 5.x/6.1.x and 7.x on AIX, LINUX and Windows.
- Installing and configuring Tibco BW 5.x, EMS 7.x 8.x, TRA 5.x, Hawk 5.x, RV 8.x, Admin 5.x and Adapters in various operating systems.
- Experience in Migration of the Tibco BW, EMS, Admin, TRA, Hawk and Adapters in various versions.
- TIBCO EMS servers for newly created environment were installed and configured.
- Implemented and managed TIBCO domains including Resource Management and Application management.
- Created Multiple Tibco EMS server Instances.
- Configured, deployed and migrated Tibco projects across different life cycle environments using TIBCO Admin GUI and scripted deployments.
- Created Factories, Queues, Topics, Bridges, Users, Groups, Durable and Permission.
- Involved in creating hawk rule bases to manage and monitor the deployed services.
- Applying hot fixes for Tibco products.
- Trouble shoots and identifies the bottlenecks in performance and error sources and helped the developers to fix them.
- Involved in creation of deployment documents for deployment of processes across various environments.
- Develops, improves, and documents the processes for maintaining and administrating the TIBCO environment.
- Orchestrates application management, Service Instances, and resource allocation in the TIBCO environments.
- Provides guidance and technical expertise for research efforts involving TIBCO technologies.
- Performs application deployments (Scripted/Batch/Ant based) to test, integration, and production environments per established change management procedures.
- Provides support in the configuring and troubleshooting solutions and developing hands on solutions.
- Design and develop performance monitoring and administration tools for the integrated products suites, including dashboards to properly enable the visibility of operational data within the platform.
- Provides guidance and technical expertise during development and testing of applications.
- Facilitates and coordinates between the various stakeholders.
- Provide support and troubleshooting issues on existing TIBCO implementation in Production.
- Maintaining TIBCO servers for different environments.
- Deploying the Tibco BW applications using Appmanage scripting tool.
- Trouble shooting the issues in Tibco applications and helping the developers to resolve the issues in development end.
- Experience in installation of themes, skins and screens, and also in the integration of Web Content Management application and collaboration tools like Sametime, QuickPlace with WebSphere Portal Server.
- Creating and Maintaining Procedures and documentation for ongoing support and upgrades.
- Experienced in automation administrative tasks using Jython Scripting Developed that automates WebSphere Administration.
- Configured and Enabled the Global Security System for WAS Administration for Console users and Console Groups.
- Used IBM thread and monitor dump analyzer, IBM heap analyzer and IBM memory dump tools to analyze javacores & heap dumps.
- Experienced in performance tuning using Wily Introscope, ITCAM and Tivoli Performance Viewer.
- Participation in on-call rotation supporting 24x7 critical production applications.
- Have extensive experience in working on OOAD with MVC, J2EE Server side Technologies (JDBC, JSP and Servlets), IBM WebSphere Application Servers.
- Having knowledge on TCP/IP, DNS, LDAP, SOAP, HTTPS protocols.
- Worked with the Application Development team from the very beginning phases of a project to insure that all proposed technologies and solutions are met the business requirements.
- Experience in monitoring and maintaining multiple applications in Development, QA, Staging and Production environments.
- Having good Knowledge in WebSphere ESB and WebSphere MQ and Broker admin.
- Experience in troubleshooting and bringing up failed mission critical production systems under extreme pressure conditions and time constraints.
- Excellent problem resolving interpersonal & communication skills with ability to work under pressure in a highly visible role in a team and individually.
- Good Knowledge in Struts Framework and EJB.
- Experience installation of tableau server 7.x, 8.x, 9.x and 10.x in windows environment.
- Deploying the reports in tableau server.
- Well-experienced in the migration tasks of Tableau from V 7.x to 8.x & V 8.x to 9.x and v 9.x to 10.x.
- Trouble shooting and resolving the issues in Tableau server.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Middleware: IBM WebSphere Application Server V5.x,6.x,7.x & 8.x and 9.xOracle WebLogic 9.x,10.x and 11.x Jboss EAP 5.x,6.X and Wildfly 8.xTibco BW 5.x,EMS 7.x 8.x,RVD 8.x,TRA 5.x,Hawk 5.x and Adapters(SAP,ADB and Custom) IBM WebSphere Portal Server 5.x,6.x,7.x & 8.x IBM MQ V6.x,7.x
Languages: JAVA,J2EE and HTML
Monitoring Tool: Wily Introscope, HP diagnostics,ITCAM,Tivoli Performance Viewer Thread and Log Analyzer
Hardware/OS: AIX,LINUX,Zlinux,SOLARIS and Windows
Databases: Oracle8i,9i,10g and 11g,DB2
WebServer: IBM Http Server V 6.x,7.x,8.x iPlanet Sun one Webserver 6.1,tomcat, IIS server 7.x 8.x and Apache Web Server
SSO: SiteMinder Webagnet,TAI,API Gateway and SAML
Ticketing Tools: BMC Remedy,vantive,Services Now and Jira
Development Tools: Rational Application Developer 6.0,7.0
IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer 4.x/5.x: Eclipse
Protocols: TCP/IP, DNS, LDAP, SOAP, HTTPS
Scripting: Jacl /Jython Script and WSADMIN,Shell
Reporting: Tableau 7.x,8.x,9.x, 10.x Webfocus,Quantifi,SAS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, St Louis,MO
Middleware Administrator
Environment: WebSphere Application server 7.x,8.x,9.x Base and ND, WebLogic Application Server 10.x,11.x, Tibco BW 5.x,EMS 7.x 8.x,RVD 8.x,TRA 5.x,Hawk 5.x and Adapters, Jboss EAP 5.x,6.x,7.x wildfly 8.x,IIS 7.x,8.xTableau 7.x,8.x and 9.x,API Gateway UNIX (AIX, ZLINUX) and WINDOWS.
Responsibilities:
- Installed, configured and troubleshooted servers like WebSphere Application Server 7.x,8.x and IBM HTTP Server 7.x,8.x UNIX platforms AIX, Linux and Windows.
- Created profiles as part of WebSphere installation installed and configured websphere webserver plugin and administered the certificate key stores using iKeyman utility.
- Involved in migration websphere 6.x to 7.x and 7.x to 8.x in UNIX and Windows.
- Installing the IIS webserver and configuring the webservers.
- Involved to integrating the IIS webserver with Application server.
- Trouble shooting and supporting giving for IIS webserver.
- Involved in migration IBM HTTP Server 6.x to 7.x and 7.x to 8.x in UNIX and Windows.
- Involved in number of installations of websphere instances from test environments to production.
- Enabled websphere global security with IBM Tivoli Directory Server (ITDS).
- Worked closely with developers to define and configure application servers, virtual hosts, web applications, web resources, back-end resources as well as deployment of EJB’s across multiple instances of websphere.
- Installed, configured and administered WebLogic Server 10.x/11.x on Red hat Linux 5/6, and Sun Solaris 9/10 in various environment including dev, QA, Stage (UAT), and prod environments.
- Used the BEA WebLogic Server Administration Console to control product-specific deployment details.
- Expertise in installing, configuring and administration of Apache HTTP Web Server and Sun Web Server (iPlanet ).
- Deployed the applications in formats WAR, JAR, and EAR in WebLogic server.
- Installed, configured and troubleshooted WebSphere Portal Server 6.x and the portal applications on it in clustered environment.
- Configured WebSphere Portal Server 6.x,7.x to use remote DB2 database as portal configuration data repository.
- Used Portal Update Installer to upgrade WebSphere Portal Server Versions.
- Configured the Portal Server to use external Security Manager ‘TAM’ for access and identity management.
- Installed, updated portlets, skins and themes on WebSphere Portal Server.
- Created portal pages, labels and URLs which includes regular, shared and derived pages.
- Integrated WebSphere portal with external security manager ‘TAM’ for setting up SSO and also integrated portal with collaboration applications like Sametime, Quick Place and Web Access using WebSphere Portal Configuration tasks.
- Configured WebSphere Portal Server 6.x to use remote DB2 database as portal configuration data repository.
- Installing, configuring, and testing TIBCO EMS, Rendezvous, TRA, Administrator, Business works, Hawk, Adapters, etc.
- Tibco implementation and deployment with Various OS.
- Designed, implemented, and managed TIBCO domains including resource management, security policy management, and application management
- Configured TIBCO EMS highly available/fault tolerant servers, queues, topics, routes, zones, users and groups.
- Configured, deployed, and migrated TIBCO projects across different lifecycle environments using TIBCO Administrator GUI and scripted deployments.
- Developed and manage Hawk rule bases and Work with technical support.
- Experience TIBCO EMS JMS /BW and Adapters, as well as TIBCO administrator
- Troubleshooting and tuning Tibco installations, Business works processes and other processes
- Maintain, test, and execute disaster recovery procedures for TIBCO environment.
- Provided technical expertise and guidance on TIBCO administration approaches, process re-engineering and design.
- Experience project from initiation and requirements-gathering stage all the way to completion.
- Design, implementation, and manage TIBCO domains including resource management, security policy management, and application management
- Generation of the TIBCO Hawk Rule Bases for monitoring the TIBCO Business Works engines, TIBCO Adapters, EMS Server and Log files.
- Set up the Load Balancing and Fault Tolerance for the TIBCO BW Engines Confidential runtime
- Installing, configuring, and testing TIBCO EMS, TRA, Administrator, Business works, Hawk, Adapters, etc.
- Configuration of TIBCO EMS highly available/fault tolerant servers, queues, topics, routes, zones, users and groups
- Troubleshooting and tuning TIBCO installations, Business works processes, TIBCO Spot fire applications and support for the Endeca search engine processes.
- Providing technical expertise and guidance on TIBCO administration approaches process re-engineering and design.
- Delivered expertise and support in resolving application issues.
- Provided a continual example of high level of service to all co-workers and customers.
- Provided on-call support 24/7 for TIBCO environment and Working Experience independently and within the team.
- Deploying the Tibco BW applications using Appmanage scripting tool.
- New Tibco domains creating using Domainutility.
- Trouble shooting the issues in Tibco applications and helping the developers to resolve the issues in development end
- Used application environment monitoring tools like Wily, ITCAM tool which is used to gather all metrics related to JVMs, database connections and response times etc.
- Tuned the JVM, web container, db connection pool, web server parameters to get the maximum performance for applications. worked closely with developers in the development of themes, skins and portlets.
- Familiarity and experience with various procedures and policies required for escalation and outage resolution with Strong documentation skills.
Confidential
Middleware Administrator
Environment: WebSphere 6.x,7.x Base and ND, WebSphere Portal 6.x,7.x,weblogic 9.X, Tibco BW 5.x,EMS 7.x,RVD 6.x,TRA 5.x,Hawk 4.x and Adapters UNIX (AIX, ZLINUX, SOLARIS) and WINDOWS
Responsibilities:
- Set up of Application environment which includes installation of products like IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, sun one Iplanet webserver on UNIX, LINUX and Windows platform.
- Installed, configured and troubleshooted WebSphere Portal Server 6.x and the portal applications on it in clustered environment.
- Involved in migration websphere 6.0 to 6.1 and 6.1 to 7.x in UNIX and Windows.
- Involved in migration IBM HTTP Server 6.0 to 6.1 and 6.1 to 7.x in UNIX and Windows.
- Responsible for applying Refresh packs, fix packs and Interim packs to WebSphere Application server and IHS web server.
- Worked with developers and QA team in various stages of development and testing and taking the application from DEV to Test to QA and PROD environments.
- Involved in opening and working on PMR’s with IBM to solve various issues related to the environment. 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.
- Configured WebSphere Application Server on multiple platforms for both Horizontal and Vertical clustering for Work Load Management..
- Configuring Websphere env as per application requirement which includes J2C resources, JMS resources.etc
- Deploying J2EE enterprise applications on websphere.
- Improving application performance by monitoring application with TIVOLI PERFORMANCE VIEWER and tuning the websphere environment based on load testing results.
- Worked closely with development teams for preparing deployment plans, configuring the application specific resources, resolving the issues faced during deployment.
- Ensuring security by implementing SSL b/w Webserver and Application server.
- Trouble-shoot the Application Server issues by analyzing logs, trace, Dumps (Thread) and using ISA (IBM Support Assistance Tool)
- Implementing Patch on IBM WebSphere and IBM HTTP server.
- Well versed with Industry standard Change Management and Incident Management process using BMC Software’s Remedy Tool
- Providing support to Datacenter team during the migration / maintenance activities.
- Developing scripts for various maintenance tasks of Application server.
- Preparing the SOP, System Implementation, Change artifact documents.
- Installing and configuring Tibco Products in various operating systems.
- Migrated and upgraded the Tibco BW, EMS, Admin, TRA, Hawk and Adapters in various versions.
- TIBCO EMS servers for newly created environment were installed and configured.
- Implemented and managed TIBCO domains including Resource Management and Application management.
- Created Multiple Tibco EMS server Instances.
- Configured, deployed and migrated Tibco projects across different life cycle environments using TIBCO Admin GUI and scripted deployments.
- Created Factories, Queues, Topics, Bridges, Users, Groups, Durable and Permission.
- Involved in creating hawk rule bases to manage and monitor the deployed services.
- Applying hot fixes for Tibco products.
- Trouble shoots and identifies the bottlenecks in performance and error sources and helped the developers to fix them.
- Involved in creation of deployment documents for deployment of processes across various environments
- Deploying the Tibco BW applications using Appmanage scripting tool.
- Trouble shooting the issues in Tibco applications and helping the developers to resolve the issues in development end
Confidential
Middleware Admin
Environment: WebSphere 6.x Base and ND, Websphere Portal 6.0, Websphere MQ,Jboss in UNIX (AIX,LINUX,SOLARIS) and WINDOWS
Responsibilities:
- Set up of Application environment which includes installation of products like IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, Apache Webserver on UNIX, LINUX and Windows platform.
- Ensuring High availability, Workload management by implementing clustering for WAS.
- Configuring Websphere env as per application requirement which includes J2C resources, JMS resources.etc
- Deploying J2EE enterprise applications on websphere.
- Improving application performance by monitoring application with TIVOLI PERFORMANCE VIEWER and tuning the websphere environment based on load testing results.
- Worked closely with development teams for preparing deployment plans, configuring the application specific resources, resolving the issues faced during deployment.
- Ensuring security by implementing SSL b/w Webserver and Application server.
- Trouble-shoot the Application Server issues by analyzing logs, trace, Dumps (Thread) and using ISA (IBM Support Assistance Tool)
- Implementing Patch on IBM WebSphere and IBM HTTP server.
- Well versed with Industry standard Change Management and Incident Management process using BMC Software’s Remedy Tool
- Providing support to Datacenter team during the migration / maintenance activities.
- Developing scripts for various maintenance tasks of Application server.
- Preparing the SOP, System Implementation, Change artifact documents.
Confidential
WebSphere Admin
Environment: WebSphere5.x, 6.x (ND), Websphere MQ, WebLogic and java,j2ee, UNIX (AIX.SOLARIS) and WINDOWS
Responsibilities:
- Configuring UWAS websphere Distributed Applications (Creating libraries,JNDI Resources, Resource reference, mapping virtual host, mapping libraries, uninstalling and installing applications, running jython scripts, synchronization, Mapping modules to webservers)
- Involved in migration websphere 5.x to 6.x in UNIX and Windows.
- Involved in migration IBM HTTP Server 5.x to 6.x in UNIX and Windows.
- Deploying web and Enterprise Application to DEV, TEST, QA, PREPROD and Production environments in WebSphere and Websphere Portal.
- Understanding and resolving issues related to the J2EE application and communicating to the development team for the fixes.
- Monitoring the JVM performance by WebSphere Heap Size, garbage collection,JDBC Pools Responsible for Architectural Design
- On-call support for UWAS production release
- Change Request Creations( Confidential &T Vantive too) for each production release
- Troubleshooting and monitoring all Websphere logs
- Copying jar’s, tar and untarring on AIX environment
- Applied Fix packs/e Fixes /Refresh packs / Cumulative fix packs for WAS using update installer and automating it
- Debugging applications in Base and ND of Websphere Application Server providing load balancing and clustering solutions
- Experience in writing scripts such as shell scripting,JACL and Python scripting, scripting for compiling and automated deployment
- Monitoring and maintaining multiple applications in development, QA, staging and production environments.
Confidential
Application maintenance and Support
Environment: java, j2ee, HTML and UNIX
Responsibilities:
- Involving in development of JSP pages for the dynamic representation on client side.
- Developing Action Forms and Action Classes using Struts Framework.
- Developed web tier by using Struts Framework, JSPs, and Servlets.