SUMMARY

• A competent professional with over nine years of experience in administering IBM WebSphere Application server 5.X 6.X 7.X 8.X and Web Sphere Portal 6.1, 7.0,WebSphere Process server 6x 7x, WebSphere Commerce Server 6.x 7.x on multiplatform environments on IBM AIX, Solaris,SuSE Linux, Windows NT platforms and setting up the development testing and production environments.
• Experience in migration of TAM 6.1.1 to ISAM Appliance 8.0.0.4
• Experience in installation, configuration, deployment and management of Enterprise Applications in a clustered and non - clustered environment using IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x/7.x./8.5
• Experience in configuration, tuning and maintenance of WebSphere 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.5 with JDBC, JMS, JNDI and J2EE Services.
• Expertise in migrating existing applications from WAS 5 to WAS 6.x/WAS 6.x to WAS 7 /8.5
• Experience in using Tivoli Performance Viewer, Log Analyzer and Wily for WebSphere 5.x/6.x./7.x/8.5
• Experience in configuration and troubleshooting issues related to Clusters in WebSphere 5.x/6.x/7.x environment.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in upgrading JVM’s, applying patches and recommending necessary security fixes.
• Knowledge of Shell scripting (bash, ksh) and WSADMIN to automate administration batch jobs including backing up WebSphere Admin repository.
• Experience in troubleshooting, applying patches and plug-in for WAS 5.x/6.x/7.x
• Experience in web server administration, which includes installation, configuration and troubleshooting of IBM HTTP server 1.3.x/2.0.x/6.0.x/6.1.x, IIS, Apache server.
• Working experience with relational databases like DB2, ORACLE, and SQL Server.
• Hands on experience in securing administrative server using Authentication, Authorization, User registry, Websphere Resources.
• Excellent organizational and analytical abilities teamed with effective oral and communication skills.
• Experience in setting up of Nodes, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, configuring Servlet Engines, Session Managers including planning installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server Trace Service, Object Level Trace (OLT) and IBM Distributed Debugger.
• Analyze Activity log files and diagnosing Application Server problems using Log Analyzer.
• Enable Performance Monitoring Service ( PMI)
• Monitoring application log files, Application Server Performance, Servlet Status, Active Sessions and DB Pool connections.
• Experience in installation, configuration, deployment and management of JBoss 4.x/5.x/6.x/7
• Experience in setting up, configuring and implementing authentication and authorization using MS - Active Directory (AD) and Sun One LDAP server.
• Experience in the installation, configuration and administration of IBM’s Web Content Management (WCM) component in the WebSphere portal environment.
• Expertise in jacl, Jython scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XML Config tool.
• Possess strong leadership, communication (both verbal and written), and exchange information with others clearly and concisely.
• Responsible for creating all necessary documentation to build, administer, and support all dev, TEST, QA and production Environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: IBM AIX (4.3, 5.2/5.3/6.1/7.1 ) Linux (Red hat 6.2, SUSE 10.1/11.1), Sun Solaris 2.6 /7.0/8.0, HP-UX, Windows NT /2003.

Application/Web Servers: IBM WebSphere 8.x/7.0/6.x, Websphere Process Server 7.0, WebSphere Portal Server 6.1, WEB SEAL .1/6.1 SiteMinder 5.5/4.5, Tivoli Access Manager 6.0, IIS 6.0, IBM HTTP Server 1.2.x/2.0.x/6.x/7.x/8.5, SunOne WebServer 6.1.6.0, WebSphere MQ 5.3

Web Technologies: JSP, Servlets, EJB, RMI,CGI/Perl, XML

RDBMS/DBMS: DB2, Oracle 8.x/9.x, MS SQL Server

Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SSL, HTTP/HTTPS and LAN

Tools: and Utilities: Heap Analyzer, Thread Analyzer, ITCAM, Dynatrace.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Sr.WebSphere Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience working with Appliances in Design, Deployment, Implementation and Administration of Identity and Access Management solutions using IBM Security Access Manager for Mobile and IBM Security Access Manager for Web (TAM/SAM v8.0.0.5).
• Involved in migration of TAM 6.1.1 to ISAM Appliance 8.0.0.5
• Involved in the implementation of a data migration of the customer’s user base from IBM Tivoli Directory Server 6.3 to IBM Tivoli Directory Server 6.3.1
• Setting up Pass-Through Authentication (PTA).
• Configured SSO with TAI++ and ETAI.
• Worked on Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM) and Maximo for Cloud adoption.
• Installed, configured and administered IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1/7.0/8.0 and 8.5 on AIX and SuSE Linux Environment
• Installed, configured and administered IBM HTTP Server 6.1/7.0/8.0 and 8.5.
• Participated in installing and configuring Websphere Process Server 7.1, Websphere Portal Server 6.1 and webseal 6.1
• Configured clustered environment in Web Sphere Application Server V7.0 & V8.5 and deployed applications on Windows, Linux and AIX environment.
• Deployed EAR applications in clustered WebSphere Application Server for Dev, QA and Production environments.
• Setup profiling tools for J2EE Application's and worked with Application Groups in improving performance of application and possible memory leaks in application before deploying.
• Upgraded Applications with various patch files (EJB classes, JSP's, Class files, changing various properties and property files)
• Created Digital Certificates and configured SSL for WebSphere, Http Server.
• Configured and Enabled the Global Security for WAS Administration Console users and Console Groups using Active Directory Server as a LDAP User Registry.
• Hands-on experience in setting up Nodes, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, configuring Servlet Engines and Session Managers and managing WebSphere Environmental variablesforData Sourcesand JDBC Driver paths.
• Configured and administered Connection pools, multi connection pools and Data Source for JDBC connections.
• Applied the maintenance fix pack and fixesto WebSphere Application ServerandHTTP servers.
• Involved in migrating applications from WAS V6.1 to 7.0 to 8.5.
• Involved in migrating applications from Websphere Portal v5.1 to 6.1.
• Involved in Creating Shell Scripts like Automation of Startup and Shutdown Processes and Automated the WAS environment with Jacl and Jython Scripts.
• Performance tuned the WebSphere Environment by configuring caching, queuing, pooling, JVM parameters and Problem determination using Tivoli performance viewer (TPV).
• Involved in Troubleshooting Admin Server start-up issues, Java code defects after deployment, like class path issues and application properties file errors by checking JVM logs and Plugin-logs.
• Involved in Trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Thread Analyzer, Heap Analyzer and ITCAM and Dynatrace.
• Provided 24X7 supports to the clients in production support environment.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.x/7.0/6.1,IBM HTTP Server 8.x/7.0/6.1, LDAP Microsoft Active Directory, DB2 9.7, Oracle 11g, Shell Scripts, wsadmin scripting, JACL, Jython, SuSE LINUX 10.1, 11.1, AIX 7.1 and Windows 2003/2008

Confidential, New York

Sr. WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, and maintained IBM Http Server, WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment (ND), 5.1/6.0/6.1/7.0 Created profiles using Profile Creating Wizard and silent profile creation.
• Experienced in Performance tuning such as tuning the web server by specifying the parameters for the maxclient, start servers and maxspareservers. Tuning the database connection pool settings. Tuning the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) by specifying the minimum and maximum heap size.
• Used Tivoli Performance Viewer to monitor WebSphere Applications and tuned the environment accordingly like changing the JVM Heap, and Connection Pool sizes.
• Knowledge of Wily for monitoring the performance and for troubleshooting of WebSphere environment.
• Troubleshooting Admin Server start-up issues, Memory leaks, Java code defects after deployment, and class path issues.
• Migrated existing applications from WebSphere V6.x to V7.x.
• Installed the Refresh Packs and cumulative fixes to WebSphere ND V6.x environment, for WebSphere, plugins and IHS.
• Experience in deploying the applications both from the command line using Wsadmin commands and from the admin console.
• Created the Clustering Topology in WebSphere Application Server ND V6.x/ 7.x to achieve Work Load Management (WLM), High availability, Load Balancing and Hardware fail over.
• Configured Web server plug-in to directing dynamic requests to application servers for load balance in clustered environment.
• Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the Admin Console and WSADMIN.
• Involved in configuring WAS with Security Appliances such as LDAP.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JVM heap settings, JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, Virtual Hosts, Global Security and SSL.
• Coordinating with various teams to set up databases, set up load balancer (CSS load balancers) rules, and defines rules on the firewall when IBM Http Server is in the De Militarized Zone (DMZ).
• Knowledge of WSADMIN (Jython) scripts using in order to automate the process of WebSphere deployment and configuration. Working Knowledge in using WSADMIN (AdminConfig, AdminApp and AdminsTask) commands.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server V6.1,/7.0, JBoss Application Server v4.2, Apache 2.0.47, IHS 6.0/6.1, AD, ADAM, Cisco PIX 500 Series, Tivoli Access Manager, UML, XML, SQL, Java, DB2/UDB 8.2, Oracle 9i/8i/7i, Korn Shell (KSH) Script, WSCP, JACL and Jython scripts, Perl, CSS Load Balancer, TPV, Wily Introscope 6.x, IBM AIX 5.x/6.x, Windows XP, RedHat Linux AS 3.0, TCP/IP

Confidential, New Jersey

Application Server Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintaining WebSphere Application Server ND 7.0/6.1, WebSphere Portal Server V6.1, IBM HTTP Server 6.1/7.0 and Web seal 6.1 in Solaris and Red hat Linux 6.2.
• Installed, configured and troubleshoot the applications on WebSphere Application Server in clustered environment.
• Applying patches for WebSphere Application Server.
• Installed, configured and administered WebSphere Portal Server on horizontal and vertical scaled environments on LINUX platform.
• Installed and Administered WebSphere Portal Server V5.1/V6.1
• Experienced in using portal update installer to upgrade WebSphere Portal versions.
• Involved in configuration of WebSphere Application Server resources like JDBC Data Sources, JDBC Providers and Connection Pooling to connect to the DB2.
• Integrating enterprise wide J2EE applications and deploying on WebSphere and managing security policies for different applications.
• Utilized wsadmin and XML Access tools to deploy and administer WebSphere applications and portal resources.
• Configured MQ Objects within the WebSphere Application Environment.
• Tuned up the performance of the MQ and the applications.
• Involved in Deployment of portlets and war files on WebSphere Portal.
• Experienced in Deploying Themes and Skins and screens in Portal.
• Used Jacl scripts to automate administration tasks on WebSphere.
• Used web site monitoring and server monitoring tool called “Site Scope” which sends the alerts and gives the reports on the site availability.
• Tuned the JVM, web container, db connection pool, and web server parameters to get the maximum performance for applications.
• Involved in the documentation of Software installations.
• Utilized Log Analyzer for performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Provided 24/7 pager support and worked with WebSphere Level2 support on PMRs in complicated issue resolution.
• Experience in Jython Scripting to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup, system tasks, etc.

Environment: IBM WebSphere App Server 7.0/6.1, WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.1, IBM HTTPServer 7.0/6.1, Oracle 11g, Active Directory, Site Scope,, XML, Shell scripts, wsadmin, JACL scripting, Redhat Enteprise LINUX 6.2, Solaris 10.

Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported an eBusiness Website and provided the development, testing, staging and production environments to the new application development and implementation.
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x, JDBC drivers and Servlets engines on AIX, Linux Sun Solaris and Windows, also created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
• Installed and configured IBM HTTP Server 2.0.47.2/6.0.
• Involved in configuring the WebSphere load balancing utilizing WebSphere Workload Management including horizontal scaling and vertical scaling.
• Involved in trouble shooting and performance tuning using Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer
• Created SSL certification and CA certification using Ikeyman
• Handled the maintenance of the WebSphere Application Servers on different UNIX platforms and setting up the development and testing and staging environment for the ongoing application development.
• Migrated existing applications from WebSphere 5.x versions to 6.x.
• Achieved Work Load Management by creating Clusters in WAS 6.x.
• Followed Support Procedures, received live calls from customers and performed initial PD/PSI by searching databases for rediscovery or similar problems and/or analyzing system problems.
• Assisted customers with setting proper Priority/Severity of problems, work problems to resolution, recorded/documented actions in databases as well as utilized tools and resources.
• Responsible for the debugging of the application problems while developing the application.
• Installed and configured iPlanet Web server and created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
• Troubleshot hardware and software problems, and interacted with IT staff or vendors in performing testing, support and troubleshooting functions.
• Provided recommendations on environment standards, product leveling, performance tuning, new project consulting, recommend broadened usage of WebSphere functionality.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x,, IBM HTTP Server 1.3.x/2.0.x, iPlanet 6.1, AIX 5.x, Siteminder 6.x, Solaris 2.8, Windows 2000, IBM Directory Server 5.1, IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) WTE 5.1.1, MKS, HTML, Java Script, XML, JSP, Servlets, ANT.

Confidential, TX

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the redesign, implementation and daily administration of an AIX/Sun Solaris corporate network.
• Installation, configuration, maintenance and fine - tuning of AIX on IBM RS/6000.
• Integrating enterprise-wide J2EE applications and deploying using IBM WebSphere Application Server, Application Assembly Tool (AAT) and managing security policies for different applications.
• Managed Connection Pooling and registering web applications (Servlets, JSP) on WebSphere.
• Written WSCP scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere configuration using XML Config tool.
• Developed UNIX shell scripts, JACL scripts that automate the WebSphere Administration (recycling the application server, deploying customer applications, logs rotation, monitor applications state, etc.)
• Installed and configured Oracle in a high availability environment, using AIX HACMP for disaster recovery scenario.
• Planning and management of hardware installations and upgrades with AIX hardware.
• Responsible for writing shell scripts for automatic deploying of enterprise applications and maintain log files in WebSphere Application Server.
• Maintained all tape storage units and all tape handling/storage activities, Accounts, printing, security and other system services support.
• Supported network connectivity to Microsoft Windows hosts via Samba.

Environment: IBM AIX, SUN Solaris, Windows 2000/XP/98, IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x., IBM HTTP Server, Apache Web Server, LDAP, XML Config, AAT, Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, EJB, XML, JDBC, JavaScript, ORACLE, DB2/UDB, HTML WSCP scripts.

Confidential, Tulsa, OK

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Deployed large Web-based transaction systems in WebSphere application Server 5.0.
• Responsible for administration, development and implementation of web applications using WebSphere Application Server5.0.
• Worked with various project teams to provide support in performance tuning and issue resolution.
• Provided load/stress and architecture validation testing.
• Also responsible for installing and configuring third party software necessary to test the product such as IBM Http Server
• Installed WebSphere Application Server (5.0) on Solaris Platform.
• Installed WebSphere Portal Server 5.0
• Installed and configured the iPlanet (Sun One) Web servers.
• Implemented the functional areas for several product groups on Sun Enterprise servers and setup NFS exports for sharing the file systems.
• Maintained WebSphere 5.0 Application server for web applications development and deployment of JSP and EJB components.
• Supported a 24X7 production system.
• Maintained the local Apache web server running on a Solaris server.
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0, Solaris, IBM AIX, UNIX, Windows 2000, DB2.