SUMMARY

• Eight years nine months of overall professional experience in IT industry with hand on experience in different middleware technologies.
• More than six years of strong work experience in IBM DataPower XI50, XI52 Integration appliance Administration, Development and Support.
• Three years experience in IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0,7.0. Two years experience in WTX.
• Experience in DataPower Admin related activities such as hardware and firmware upgrade, monitor, backup/restore, create domains, manage accounts and automation.
• Having experience in full software development life cycle of major projects roll outs.
• Creation complex XML, XPATH and XSLTs having complex logic Like merging profile information, scoring, Parsing BLOB etc..
• Knowledge for troubleshooting TCP/IP, SSL, HTTP connections.
• Knowledge in handling cryptography functions in DataPower such as SSL, AAA & encryption/decryption, SNMP.
• Ability to handle administration and application support and troubleshooting.
• Experienced in creating and supporting different DataPower Services like XML Firewall, Web Services and Multi Protocol Gateway.
• Strong experience in Performing and supporting problem determination and resolution, production changes, and maintenance following Problem and Change Management processes.
• Have the knowledge and capabilities to produce and provide documentation and skills transfer to existing staff.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Having experience in consulting and coordinating with the customers regarding specific technical and business needs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Perl 5.16.3, Mod Perl UNIX Shell Scripting, PL/SQL PHP, Java script, XSLT, XPATH, XML Microsoft.NetFrame Work 4.0

Middleware: DataPower XI50, XI52 Administration, Development and Support IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0, 7.0 Administration WTX

Certifications: Microsoft .Net Frame work 4.0 Certified Oracle Certified Administrator 11g ITIL V3 Certified

Operating Systems: Red hat LINUX 5.0 HP - UX 11.23 Solaris 5.10 AIX Firmware 3.8, 5.0

Databases: Oracle 11g, My SQL

Tools: and Utilities: People Soft (CRM) Sales Force (CRM) Remedy 7 Toad 9.1

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Columbus

DataPower Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participating in all complex administrative activities like legacy appliance replacements, new appliance additions.
• Installing and configuring the XI52 Virtual Appliance on Hypervisor.
• Initializing the appliance.
• Participating in design and planning activities.
• Preparing DataPower architecture to integrate with external systems.
• Domain creation, Role Based Management, Aceess management and LDAP integration.
• Configuration and migration of DataPower Objects to different environments.
• Writing deployment Policies.
• Creation of reusable xslt templates for dynamic exception handling, encryption/decryption and reporting service invocations.
• Working on Firmware upgrades.
• Creation of customized the error logging to identify the required data to enable Route cause analysis.
• Implementing the weekly changes by deploying the packages.
• Creating different DataPower services using Multi Protocol Gateway, Web services.

Environment: IBM DataPower XI50, XI52, XI52 Virtual Appliance, Firmware 7.1, WTX

Confidential, Philadelphia

Sr. DataPower Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Participating in design and mapping activities
• Involved in creating Process flows, design document, migration documents.
• Mentoring offshore development team.
• Participating in all complex administrative activities like legacy appliance replacements, new appliance additions.
• On time Firmware upgrades as suggested by IBM.
• Export/Import, package preparation, verification and deployment.
• Role based management, Access Management.
• Creation complex XSLTs having complex logic Like merging profile information, scoring, Parsing BLOB etc..
• Configuration and migration of DataPower Objects for client/server/database interactions.
• Implemented AAA, SSL, Digital Signatures and string Encryption/Decryption.
• Implemented dynamic parsing and mapping of non-XML using regular expressions
• UTC creation and execution.
• Performing service level/XSLT level Profiling and Tuning.
• Stored Procedure, Types creation in Oracle DB.
• Experimented on ffds to transform binary content.
• Involved in designing Data aggregation logic to aggregate profiles from various sources.
• Creation of reusable xslt templates for dynamic exception handling, encryption/decryption and reporting service invocations.
• Creation of pilot services involving SOAP Attachment processing, batch processing proxy, merging profiles, binary transformation, SAML Authentication, etc.
• Defect analysis and fixing during SIT and UAT
• Pre production planning and creation of code migration documents.
• Working on Service Improvement Plans.

Environment: IBM DataPower XI50, XI52, Firmware 3.8, 5.0, WTX

Confidential, New Jersey

DataPower Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement gathering, design and mapping activities.
• Experience in all DataPower Admin related activities such as hardware and firmware upgrade, monitor, backup/restore, create domains, manage accounts and automation.
• WSDL, XSD creation using advanced models like Garden of Eden and venetian blind.
• Created transformation for approx 46 services using XSLT.
• Configuration and migration of required DataPower objects.
• Implemented transport Layer security using SSL.
• UTC creation and execution.
• Configuration Management using PVCS and PPM.
• Intelligent transformation and routing using variables and XSLT.
• Certification creation and crypto configuration using DataPower.
• Base64 encoding/decoding of http headers to enable Basic Authentication.
• Creation of customized the error logging to identify the required data to enable Route cause analysis.
• Defect analysis and fixing during SIT and UAT
• Pre production planning and creation of code migration documents.

Environment: IBM DataPower XI50, IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0

Confidential

ESB DataPower Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed Firmware Upgrade in DataPower from version 3.8 to 5.0
• Implementing the weekly changes by deploying the packages.
• Creating different DataPower services using Multi Protocol Gateway, Web services.
• Participated in Load Balancer migration from Alteon to F5.
• Created and configured Local Queues, Remote Queues and Queue Managers.
• Performing service level/XSLT level Profiling and Tuning.
• Stored Procedure, Types creation in Oracle DB.
• Preparing Application Installation Guides and Packages.
• Designing and implementation of Channels and Queues in distributed environments.
• Involved in the activities of replacement and addition of new DataPower boxes to the existing environment.
• Performance Testing,XSLT development to integrate different applications with DataPower.
• Creating objects, package deployment, configuring SNMP traps.
• Leading a team of 5 people to provide the support within the SLA.
• Preparing Quarterly audit reports.
• Involving in Pre-CAB and CABs to ensure the changes happening in DataPower and production stability.

Environment: IBM DataPower XI50, IBMWebSphere MQ 6.0,AIX, Unix

Confidential

DataPower Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Developing the DataPower packages to deploy in production after successful connectivity, Performance and unit level testing.
• Monitoring the appliances using different tools like ITRS works with SNMP traps.
• Managing payload transactions in day to day business to find out the errors and to troubleshoot the failed transactions.
• Creating required objects like QMGRS, Queues and channels to establish the connectivity in distributed environment.
• Trouble shooting the end user application connectivity issues in production as level3
• Work on the transaction failures and system stability.
• Developing the automatic deployment packages.
• Working on Service Improvement Plans.
• Creating Data Load scripts using PERL and UNIX.
• Monitoring DataPower box memory and CPU usage.
• Preparing Weekly and monthly status reports.

Environment: DataPower XI50, WebSphere MQ 5.2, 6.0, Oracle 11g, Unix, Sun Solaris, AIX