SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience in administration of IBMWebSphereApplication Server and IBM MQ Series
• Experience in administration of other application servers like WebLogic 11g, JBOSS 7.1
• Good experience in monitoring and troubleshooting issues & hands - on experience working with logs, traces and dump files using tools such as Log Analyzer, Heap Analyzer, and Core Analyzer & IBM Support Assistant.
• Extensive experience in configuring the HTTP Server for various clustered application servers using virtual hosting and enabling SSL security.
• Experience in troubleshooting, applying patches and plug-in for WAS 8.x/7.x/
• Performing backup and recovery when new technologies related to Webservers is being installed or upgraded.
• Excellent client relation skills and the drive to complete tasks effectively and efficiently where customer services and technical skills are demanded as well as the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management and the technical community.
• Experience in WebLogic Administration, Configuring and monitoring the domain, deploying applications, Clustering, Webserver Configuration in Test/Production in Linux platforms.
• Experience in Setting up of Data Sources, Virtual Hosts including planning installation and configuration of WEBSPHERE application Server.
• Architected the environment using Horizontal and Vertical clusters for a fault-tolerant, scalable, and highly availableWebSphereenvironment.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration of Sessions and Global Security in WAS.
• Involved in migratingWebSphere7.x to 8.5 on AIX
• Handled deployment of JAR, EAR and WAR files to the respective application server instances.
• Configured Queue Connections Factories, Queue Definitions, and Listener Ports in order to provide connectivity to Enterprise MQ infrastructure and also worked on Service Integration Bus (SIB) configuration in V7.x to 8.5
• Experience in Configuring SSL for Application Server, Web Server and Plug-ins.
• Experience performance tuning at WebLogic domain level and OS level, performance tuned WebLogic heap, threads, JDBC and JMS subsystems.
• Network Deployment Various Operating Systems like AIX and Linux Environments.
• Extensive experience in installation, configuration, and administration of WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, IBM MQ on AIX, Linux, and Windows.
• Hands-on experience in a Clustered environment including deployments, troubleshooting performance issues and especially performance test monitoring, installations, and configuration maintenance.
• Involved in creating and configuring JVM's, profiles, clusters, nodes, node agents forWebSphere Application Server.
• Installed and Configured IBMWebSphereApplication Server 8.x/7.x/
• Installed and Configured IBM MQ 8.0

TECHNICAL SKILLS

WebSphere Family: MQ Series 6/7, Message Broker 6.1/7.0, IIB, Broker Toolkit, Application Server(WAS).

Languages: C, C++, Ant JavaScript, SQL, XML, HTML

IDE tools: WSAD, Visual Studio.NET

Monitoring tools: Q PASA, Tivoli, NASTEL Auto Pilot suite

Version Control Tools: CVS, Rational Clear Case, Harvest

RDBMS: SQL Server, Oracle 10g

Operating Systems: Windows- NT/2K3, Solaris, 7(64-bit), UNIX, Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cary,NC

Sr.Websphere MQ Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration, Trouble-Shooting and performance tuning of IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0/7.5,WAS 8.5.5 on various Operating Systems like Windows, AIX 6.1, RHEL6.
• On boarded 52 applications with Confidential group which currently using Message Gateway Through IBM MQ.
• Created all MQ Objects like MQ Queues, Channels and also Resolved Channel issues and Cluster issues. Diagnosed the problem using AMQ logs.
• Provided Point-to-Point mechanism applications using MQ API.
• Installed MQ Client at the peer application end to connect to gateway Queue Managers using MQ API calls.
• Worked on Inbound and Outbound scenarios for the application connectivity to the gate way queue manager.
• All connectivity’s used MQIPT which acts as the proxy between the internal MQ QM and External MQ QM.
• Implemented SSL based communication as per the company security standards and policies.
• Implemented Fire-and-Forget, Request-Response message patterns.
• Defined max message size and peak volume for high level of capacity requirements.
• Implemented TLS/SSL cipher suites for MQ Channels.
• Worked with peer application team to install, configure and administer the MQ Client and MQ Server.

Confidential, Seneca Falls, NY

Sr. WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in installing, upgrading, configuring and Troubleshooting IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.x/8.x and IBM MQ Series 8.0/7.x on AIX and Linux
• Created and federated profiles to the Deployment Manager using both Profile Management tool and also automated the process using manage profiles and add node command.
• Build, deploy, and administer applications in WAS, at Development, Pre prod and Production Environments
• Configured admin console security on WebSphere and creating users with various roles to access the WEBSPHERE admin console - users and groups in LDAP and added them asWEBSPHEREConsole Groups.
• Worked closely with developers to define and configured application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web resources, Servlets, JDBC drivers and Servlet Engines-as well as deployment of EJBs across multiple instances ofWEBSPHERE.
• Recommended and used hybrid clustering (horizontal and vertical) to make use of efficient resources on a single system and to provide for hardware failover and load-balancing and worked with developers
• Creation of Data sources for the applications involving DB2, Oracle.
• Experience in creating queues, ConfiguringWEBSPHEREJMS settings like Queues, Topics, Activation Specifications, Queue connection Factories and Topic Connection Factories for WAS- MQ connectivity.
• Configured WEBSPHEREresources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources 4/5 and connection pooling and tuning it and monitoring it using Tivoli Performance viewer by enabling PMI
• Monitored and responsible for troubleshooting the WEBSPHEREApplication Server with JVM logs, Process Logs, Service logs.
• Collection of JVM statistics, garbage collection data for monitoring the heap and physical memory.
• Configured JMS support by creating MQ Connection Factories and Destinations and coordinate with MQ Series team.
• Configured the webserver interfaces, session management and transports for WEBSPHERE
• Written and used WS Admin scripting to automate WEBSPHEREbuilds and deployments for all environments leading to huge savings in deployment time for the company and also configuring and testing the environment.
• Actively involved in support of WEBSPHERE MQ & WBI Message Broker infrastructure in Production/QA/Test regions, shared support responsibilities with other members of the team.
• Involved in investigating the problem, troubleshooting and resolving application and configuration issues.

Environment: Application Server V7.0/8.0, WEBSPHERE Portal Servers (v6.x),WEBSPHERE MQ V6.x/7.0/8.0, IHS Web Server 6.0,6.1, Solaris 9,10, windows, Application Server, IBM WEBSPHEREon AIX, Linux, Sun Solaris and Windows Platforms.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Built different environments ( development, UAT, Production) with WAS 6.1 installation
• Experience in deploying and debugging applications on Base and ND.
• Migrated WAS 5.1 applications to WAS 6.0 and WAS 6.1 configuring data sources.
• Installed, configured and administered Apache Http Server, Tomcat server and deployed applications on it
• Configured two cell production environment with 15 nodes, 28 application servers
• Experienced in installation, configuration, administration and deploying applications inside WESB 6.x and secure ESB operations by using J2EE role-based security.
• Experienced in Installation, Configuration and Administration ofWebSphereMQ 5.x,6.x
• Performance estimation and tuning for theWebSphereApplication Server system.
• Worked in building, configuring and setting up Testing and Production Environments and tested and supported the project according to Business Rules and specifications.
• Installed Apache HTTP Server on different nodes and configured them by generating the plug-in from ND Administration Console.
• Experience using VMware and Active Directory in building of ESX hosts and creation of Windows Guests.
• Configured and Enabled the Global Security System for WAS Administration for
• Console users and Console Groups using Active Directory Server as a LDAP User Registry.
• Involved in Creating and Managing the Nodes, Application Server's, Cluster's and Deployed Multiple J2EE Applications
• Profiled all the J2EE Application's and worked with Application Groups in improving performance of application and possible memory leaks in application before deploying.
• Deployment of J2EE Applications involved in Creating Cluster's for Load Balancing and Failover, Configuring Resources like JDBC Provider, Creating Virtual Hosts, Shared Libraries, JNDI Configurations, EJB References, Creating Environment Variables, and Configuring Session Management.
• Involved in Creating Shell Scripts like Automation of Startup and Shutdown Processes
• Interacted and Co-ordinated with different Application Groups for Hot Deployment and Dynamic Reloading of the Applications.
• Involved in troubleshooting and resolving problems encountered when implementing models.
• Regularly updated the servers with the latest Sun recommended software and security patches.
• Provided technical and production support for both online and batch environments of existing systems.

Environment: IBM Web Sphere Application Server 7.0/8.0/8.5, IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0/8.0,Websphere MQ 6.x,.x Windows 8.1/8/7/XP, IBM HTTP Server 7.0/8.0/8.5, 7.1/6.1 AIX, 7.0/6.0 Linux, 11/10 Solaris, DB2, Oracle 11g, Sun One Web Server, Apache Web Server and IIS

Confidential, Lincolnshire, IL

WEBSPHERE MQ Admin

Responsibilities:

• Provided WMQ support to project by performing administrative duties such as installing MQ Series server and client, creating and configuring Queue Managers, Channels, Queues, Process definitions, clustering in all production, test and development environments and ensures functionality on Windows and UNIX systems.
• Installing and configuring Broker components.
• Upgraded MQ, Broker to latest patch levels in all the environments.
• Worked on POC for IIB to install, configure and also prepared broker migration structure.
• Worked with IBM Support on resolving critical problems by creating PMR's.
• Created Execution groups and worked on assigning Soap ports to that newly created EG's using scripts.
• Implementation of two-way SSL and message level authentication for consumer/provider services hosted on Message Broker.
• Worked with WAS team in setting up JNDI, JMS queues and establishing communication with MQ.
• Worked with Data power support in configuring SSL and establishing communication with Data power and WMQ/WMB.
• Involved in performance reviews ofWEBSPHEREMessage Broker message flows and work with application teams to tune the components to achieve the required throughput and response times.
• Installed WTX on AIX machines and helped developers in using the Integration studio.
• Uploading WSDLs and XSDs to the WSRR and managing user access.
• Deploying the bar files and involved in performance testing.
• Creating MQ, MB objects and provided necessary security rules.
• Identified and fixed various production issues related to IBM MQ server on Linux, UNIX and Windows system.
• Responsible for 24/7 production support activities by carrying / responding quickly to on call pager on a rotational basis.

Environment: WEBSPHERE MQ 7.0, WMB 7.0, WEBSPHERE Application server 8.5, WEBSPHERE Transformation Extender 8.3, WSRR 8.5, XML, Tivoli OMEGAMON XE 7, AIX, Sun Solaris.

Confidential

WEBSPHERE Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured of WEBSPHEREapplication server 4.x/5.0.
• Deployed java application on WebSphere Application Server 3.5/4.x.
• Migrated applications from WEBSPHERE4.x to 5.0.
• Worked on general Administrative tasks like starting and stopping the application server, up-grading, installed plug-in for IBM HTTP Web Server.
• Created Server Groups and clones for Web Sphere Application Server V4.0.
• Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
• Configured WEBSPHERELDAP Security using Windows Active Directory Services environment.
• ConfiguredWEBSPHEREresources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, and Java Mail sessions.
• Implemented horizontal and vertical scaling of WEBSPHEREApplication Server (WAS) Advanced edition in a workload managed cluster.
• Guided the project team in designing, developing, and deploying applications on WEBSPHERE
• Designed and developed use cases, sequence, activity and class diagrams of the application with UML using Rational Rose.
• Designed and developed JSP pages.

Environment: WebSphereapplication server 3.x/4.x, IBM HTTP Server, Java, Oracle 8i, Windows 2000, AIX, Linux

Confidential

WEBSPHERE Admin

Responsibilities:

• Setup, installation and administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0 and IBM HTTP Server.
• Involved in migration of WebSphere Application Server 4.0 to WebSphere Application Server 5.0
• Deployed applications (EAR/WAR) files on multiple servers/clusters and maintained load balancing, high availability and failover functionality.
• Troubleshooting and administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0 and IBM HTTP Server.
• Troubleshooting applications, analyzing logs to diagnose problems.
• Monitoring applications and servers.
• Creating PMR's (Problem Management Record) and coordinating with IBM for problems encountered by application teams.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling.
• Implemented creation of server groups and clusters in WebSphere Application Server.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.0, Oracle, Windows XP, Apache, LDAP, IBM HTTP Server, Solaris 5.8, Red Hat.