SUMMARY

• Around 8 years of experience in administrating IBM WebSphere Application Server on Windows, UNIX
• Expertise in installation, configuration, clustering and administration of WebSphere Application Servers on UNIX, Windows servers operating systems
• Experienced in installation, configuration, deployment and management of enterprise applications using WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x/7.x in Windows server operating systems and UNIX
• Experienced in installation and configuration. IBM HTTP Server 6.0 and 7.0
• Good knowledge in administration of IBM WebSphere MQ V 5.X/6.X, created the cluster members and channels, queues
• Experienced in migration of application from WebSphere 5.1 to WebSphere 6.1
• Knowledge in Clustering EJB objects, Scalability and Reliability, JDBC connections and JMS connection factories
• Configure the Listener ports with Connection factor JNDI name and Destination JNDI name in EJB Message Driven Beans
• Strong technical knowledge including WebSphere Application Server implementation, support, workload management and performance tuning
• Configured global security with LDAP registry and generated self signed certificates (SSL) using Ikeyman
• Extensive experience in optimizing the performance of WebSphere Application Server using Work Load Management (WLM) with cloning and clustering techniques
• Deployed applications on multiple Web Sphere Servers and maintained Load balancing, High availability and Failover functionality
• Efficient on Synthetic monitoring tools Gomez /BAC, Real user monitoring tools Coradiant, tealeaf etc, CDN like akamai .
• Involvement in performance monitoring and tuning by using the Tivoli Performance Viewer and Wily Introscope on IBM Web Sphere Application Server 4.x/5.x/6.x
• Well experienced in performance tuning, trouble shooting using Resource analyzer, log analyzer
• Knowledge of Site Minder, Policy Server, creating Realms and Rules
• Well experienced on Dynacache, Commerce Scheduler, Registries etc. Production support experience participating in crisis calls.
• Experience with WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Library, Jython and Jacl script - used automating application deployments, environment installation and configuration and creating custom scripting used by Rational Application Framework for Websphere (RAFW) and Build Forge.
• Experience with Ant, Maven scripting, used for application compilation.
• Extensively worked on Hardware and Network PCs and Servers, LAN/WAN concepts
• Development experience using XMLAccess and Release Builder used for Portal application configuration and deployment.
• Programming experience in Java, J2EE, EJB (Enterprise Java Beans), JSP (Java Server Pages),? WSDL (Web Services Description Language), XML (eXtensible Markup Language), Web Services, Spring, Hibernate and Oracle and J2EE integration points with external or third party products.
• Strong understanding and knowledge of the WebSphere/J2EE architecture, UML (Unified Modeling Language), Patterns/Frameworks, JDBC/ODBC (Oracle Database Connectivity) and OOD (Object-Oriented Design / Development) skills.
• Experience with Rich Internet Application Development tools such as ADOBE Flex, LCDS
• Strong Experience with testing tools and methodologies and using version control software.
• Experience in applying fix packs and plug-in’s for WebSphere Application Server
• Good understanding of Unix Scripting, Perl, PMI tools TPV, ITCAM etc
• Extensive experience in providing 24/7 on-call support for applications servers
• Web sphere application server Administration, Web server Administration(IBM HTTP Server), Web sphere commerce Server Administration
• Documentation of all procedures to resolve critical issues and any other important issues
• Experience with ant scripting to build ear/ear modules and deploy.
• Well versed in writing shell scripts in Jacl, Jython scripts to automate the administrative tasks
• Extensive understanding in all phases of software life cycle with emphasis in Designing, Developing, Implementation, Deployment and Support of distributed enterprise scalable, secure and transactional J2EE applications in both production and development environment

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.x, 5.x, 6.x,7.x

Web Servers: Apache, SunOne Web Server, IBM HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat v6.x

Messaging Server: IBM WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.0

Languages: C, C++, Java, C#, VB, JSP, Servlets, EJBs, HTML, XML

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/2003/2007, AIX, Solaris,Windows XP, 7, Server 2003/2008, Solaris 10 or other Unix OS

Scripting: JACL, Jython, Java scripts, Python, UNIX shell Scripts

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, DB2 8.x/9.x, SQL Server 2000/2005, MS-Access2000/2003

LDAP Servers: IBM Tivoli Directory Server, SunOne Directory Server, OpenLDAP Server

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SOAP

Tools: Tivoli Performance Viewer, Resource Analyzer, Thread Analyzer Introscope Wily, OpenMake.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bentonville,Arkansas

Sr. WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server V 6.0/ 6.1/7.0 on UNIX & Windows
• Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x on UNIX and Windows Environments by creating multiple profiles, application servers by configuring Node Manager and Network Deployment Manager including JDBC connection pool configuration
• Involved providing support to wide variety of applications in a diverse setup which included WAS ND v6.1/6.0/7.0 and MQ 6.0 & Documented on UNIX & Windows platform
• Creating Clusters & configuring various application servers
• Performing daily maintenance like Deploying, Builds & troubleshooting applications
• Involved in Load balancing and Performance tuning for various WebSphere Instances
• Configured global security with LDAP registry and configured users for authentication
• Enables user authentication and auditing of access to Web applications and portals using Site Minder
• Generated SSL Certificate using Ikeyman
• Configured workload management using clusters and server groups
• Setting JVM heap sizes for Application server to manage memory effectively
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC resources, J2C and JMS providers
• Configured JNDI server as repository for EJB Home stubs, JDBC data source, JMS connection factories, queues and topics
• Involved in tuning the Application Server
• Created deployment scripts using the wsadmin (JACL scripts, Jython)
• Enabled Different Components of Trace for problem determination
• Used Tivoli performance viewer to monitor various resource usage in server
• Worked with test and Development teams to meet their needs for configure various environments
• Deploying J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server
• Enabling Logs and Traces for application servers, Dmgr and Node Agent for analyzing logs
• Working with JACL Scripts for installation, configuration deploying application on WebSphere Application Server

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1/6.0/7.0, Oracle 8i, DB2 8.1,Sun Solaris 8/9, RMI/IIOP, Tivoli Performance Viewer, UNIX shell Scripts, Windows, AIX, EJB, JSP, XML, JDBC 2.0, Servlet.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, Administered and supported WebSphere Application Servers 6.0/6.1 on Windows and UNIX environment using GUI as well as silent install
• Created and federated profiles to the Deployment manager using Profile Management tool and also automated the process using manageprofiles and addnode command
• Implementation of horizontal and vertical scaling of WebSphere Application Server for workload management in a cluster
• Involved in Migration for many applications from 5.1 to 6.0/6.1 in development environments
• Integrated Websphere applications with Websphere MQ Series using JMS Admin
• Configured global security with LDAP registry and configured users for authentication
• Configured workload management (WLM) using clusters and server groups
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC, J2C and JMS
• Performance tuning by configuring, caching, queuing, pooling, JVM parameters and problem determination using Tivoli Performance Viewer (TPV)
• Recommended and implemented Various Fix Packs and Cumulative Fixes as per the IBM specification
• Experienced in installation and configuration. IBM HTTP Server 6.0 and 7.0 on UNIX and Windows
• Installation of Apache Tomcat v6.x; Data base connection pool, Catalina and Jasper 2 JSP Engine
• Worked on troubleshooting Java applications using logs, traces, log analyzer, resource analyzer
• Worked with a Team for Stress tests, Performance tests and identified the bottlenecks of the applications, and set up various monitoring alerts using Wily Introscope
• Knowledge in WebSphere automation using Jacl for deployment and configuration of WebSphere application servers
• Created environment specific reference document for managing various operations
• Provide 24/7 support for assigned applications

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0.x/6.1, WebSphere MQ 6.0,, DB2, LDAP, SQL Server, Windows, UNIX, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Jacl, Jython scripting, J2EE diagnostics, Log Analyzer, Apache Tomcat v6.x, Resource Analyzer."

Confidential, Roseville, CA

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0/5.x in Network Deployment
• Migrated WAS from 5.x to 6.0 in development, test and production environments
• Configured response files for silent install of WebSphere Base and Network Deployment Manager
• Configured WebSphere Application Server in a vertical and horizontal clustered environment
• Configured WAS Global Security using Tivoli Directory Server and SSL for Web Server and Application Server, between LDAP and Application server
• Worked on WebSphere automation using Jython and Ant for deployment and configuration of all WAS environments that help in minimizing the manual efforts
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC, J2C and JMS
• Configured resource permission to the users and groups
• Involved in load balancing and performance tuning for various WebSphere instances.
• Worked on problem tickets (PMR) with IBM to find effective solutions to various problems and performance issues and applied various WebSphere system related patches, fixes
• Created environment specific reference documents for managing various operations

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0/5.x, UNIX, Windows, LDAP, DB2 8.1, SQL Server, Tivoli Directory Server, Jython scripting

Confidential, Stamford, CT

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0 on UNIX and Windows and created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication
• Worked on WebSphere components such as Work Load Management.
• Worked on general Administrative tasks like starting and stopping the application server, up - grading
• Maintained WebSphere Application server for web applications development and deployment JSP and EJB components on WAS
• Knowledge in scripting to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup, etc
• Implemented horizontal and vertical scaling of WebSphere Application Server advanced edition in a workload managed cluster
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, and Java Mail sessions
• Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Resource analyzer and log analyzer

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0/5.1, DB2, Oracle 8.x/7.x, Log Analyzer, Resource Analyzer, UNIX and Windows.

Confidential - Cypress, CA

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved extensively in all stages of project development life cycle such as logical/ physical data modeling, design, creating use cases, ER Diagrams, development, testing and implementation
• Analyzed the functional requirements and prepared technical design documents
• Expertise in Java, Java Servlets, JSP, EJB, JDBC, and XML
• Expertise in developing WEB compatible products using JSP, XML, XSLT, PL/SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and DHTML with Various databases like DB2, Oracle
• Handled major development at presentation layer (JSP), Business Logic (Servlets, EJBs)
• Expertise in Designing Internet and Intranet based Database Applications using DB2, Oracle8i, Sybase, SQL and PL/SQL
• Used Oracle database for insertions, update and retrieval of records by writing stored procedures
• Designed templates and screens in HTML and JavaScript
• Deployed the application using WebSphere Application server 5.0

Environment: Java Beans, IBM WebSphere Application Server 5, JSP, Servlets, Apache, HTML, DHTML, XML, Java Script, Oracle 8i, JDK1.2, EJB 2.0, UNIX and Windows.