SUMMARY

• 6 Plus years of experience as an WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, JBOSS, Apache Web server WebSphere MQ Administrator on multi platform environments including AIX 6/5.3/5.1, Sun Solaris 10/9/8, Windows 2003 Server, RHEL.
• Strong administrative skills in IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0/7.0/6.1/6.0/5.1/5.0 and Web Servers like IBM HTTP Server 8/7/6.1/6.0/2. x/1.x, Microsoft IIS 7/6, Apache 2.x/1.x and Sunone 6.x.
• Strong knowledge in Web Logic servers on different OS’s like Windows, Linux VM ware and UNIX platforms.
• Experienced in installing, configuring, performance tuning and providing Production Support for Oracle WebLogic Application Server 9.x/ 10.0/10.3/11.
• Migrated applications from WebSphere 6.1 to 8.0
• Involved in the migration of WebLogic 6.x 7.x 8.x 9.x 10.x.
• Expertise in the Installation, Configuration, and Maintenance of application/web servers on AIX/Linux/Solaris and Windows 2003/2008.
• Strong in installing and configuration of JBOSS, Tomcat for intranet applications including cluster environment for JBOSS with all configuration mode.
• Deployments, maintenance, fix upgrades, general administration, troubleshooting and performance tuning of JBOSS.
• Involved in installation, configuration of JBOSS and JVM performance tuning in multi clustered environment.
• Experience in install and configuration of IBM WebSphere BPM Product.
• Experience in integrating WebSphere MQ with WebSphere and JBoss.
• Integrated JBOSS cluster with DB2 and configured JDBC providers, data sources for various applications.
• Configured and Implemented Workload Management (WLM) using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Clustering for failover and backup/recovery processes.
• Experience with WebSphere profiles and administration of web servers as managed and unmanaged Servers in WebSphere ND 8/7/6.1/6/5.1/5.0.
• Configuration of the Queues, Trigger monitoring process, Integration of the WebSphere application server with MQseries, applying patches, configuring Q managers, configuring registry parameters for the Queues.
• Performance analysis using Wily introscope and Tivoli Performance Viewer
• Experience with application deployments using automation tools like Anthill pro, Cruise Control, and manual.
• Experienced in Performance tuning of several J2EE applications. Worked closely with load testing teams in user acceptance test environments to fine tune the applications before production deploy/migration.
• Extensive experience in deployment of J2EE applications and pre - deployment of Production applications on WebSphere Application Servers.
• Involved in configuring WebSphere with LDAP authentication security model and integrating the webserver with Siteminder for single sign-on mechanism.
• Experience in creating CSR’s and implementing SSL certificates and setting up an SSL endpoint communications.
• Utilized the webserver key store and WebSphere Keystore for configuring mutual SSL between webserver and WebSphere Application Server environment.
• Error monitoring and troubleshooting using JVM logs, Process (native) logs, Service logs, IBM Http Server logs, Apache logs
• Maintained back up of WebSphere environment for roll back capabilities.
• Created WSADMIN, and shell scripts to automate WebSphere processes.
• Experienced in developing Shell scripts to automate administration jobs and various other WebSphere monitoring tasks and good experience using Clearcase tools.
• Implemented several enterprise level base line audit requirements to make applications, environments comply with audit.
• Build management and deployment using Apache ANT Integrated with Unix shell and Windows batch scripts
• Installed utilities and setup up cronjobs in AIX/Linux/Solaris.
• Working knowledge on design, implementation, periodic testing and support of Web environments with respect to high availability and Disaster Recovery.
• Experience and Knowledge about hardware load balancer like F5.
• Steady State Support of the Middleware include archiving of logs, restarting the services, troubleshoot, performance monitoring, maintenance and provide root cause analysis (RCA).
• Excellent problem resolution and communication skills with ability to work under pressure in a highly visible role.
• Ability to adopt new skills, technologies learn new systems, applications, processes and techniques.
• Utilized WebSphere Application, IHS/Apache/Sunone/IIS webservers and associated Plugins best practices and implemented the solution based upon application requirements.
• Expertise in supporting wide range of production environments on a 24/7 on-call rotation basis for high volume, secure transactions and Web services.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: RHEL, IBM AIX 5.3/5.1/6, SunSolaris 8/9/10, Windows 95/98/2000/2003/ NT4.0/ XP

Web/Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0/5.1/6.0/6.1/7/8 , IBM BPM 7.0/8.0, WebLogic 6.x/7.x/8.x/9.x/10.x, Tomcat 5.x/6.x, IBM Sunone 61, Strong Hold Apache ATG 6.0/6.2/7.0/2006.3 , Http Server, Apache 2.2, Microsoft IIS 7/6, WSRR 6.x, Data Power, MQ, oracle web servers

Web Technologies/ Languages: JSP, XML, JavaScript, HTML, JAVA, Shell programming (Korn - ksh), ASP, Perl

Databases: Oracle 8.1/9i, MS SQL SERVER 7.0, Sybase.

Web Publishing: Documentum

Other Skills: Wily Introscope, Anthill, HPSA, Samba, CVS, Bugzilla, Cognos 7.1 and 7.4 install, Load Runner 8.1

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured Websphere 8 in Development, Test and Production environments, on Windows 2003/2008 OS, RedHat Linux and Solaris 10.
• Responsible for Installation, Configuration, Administration and Trouble shooting of WebSphere Application Server on various distributed platforms.
• Worked on migrating WebSphere 6.1 environments to 7 and 8 and coordinated with MQ team on WebSphere MQ 5.3 to 6.0
• Worked towards migration process form WebLogic Server 9.x Websphere 8.
• Installed WebSphere Application Server V8.0/V7.0/V6.1 and configured it on Red Hat Linux/ Sun Solaris, Windows Server 2003 platforms.
• As a WebSphere Engineer I was responsible for coordinating with various teams like F5, DMZ, Firewall, Data Base, Application Developers, MQ, Siteminder, OS for successfully completion of the projects.
• Automated Build Process end-to-end for WebSphere 8.0/7.0/6.1 Install and maintenance using Korn shell and Jython scripting. These scripts are being used for installing WebSphere and to install fix packs, ifixes and also to configure WebSphere as per Company enterprise standards.
• Responsibility included build and support of all environments from development to production
• Mentoring new contractors on technical issues and providing support to acclimatize them to the environment
• Worked on numerous projects as part of upgrade encompassing variety of architectures and environments
• Responsible for helping other team members with difficult to solve issues
• Responsibilities included WebSphere 8.0/7.0 install, custom configuration, code deploy, tuning, performance monitoring and security hardening to make the environment complainant and secure
• Installed and configured sunone61/7 and IBM Http Web Servers as part of upgrade.
• Installed, configured and patched WebSphere Feature packs - Web Services and EJB3.0. This process involved profile augmentation
• Installed wily 8/9 agents, configured WebSphere Application servers for performance monitoring.
• Worked on installing/configuring/supporting IBM WebSphere BPM 7.0 and IBM WebSphere Lombardi Process Server.
• Experience in deploying Java/J2EE applications onto IBM WebSphere Application Server and deploying BPM process applications onto the IBM BPM environment.
• Maintained and Managed SSL certificates for WebSphere Application Servers as well as Microsoft IIS, IBM Http Server and Sunone.
• Responsible for creating keystores and CSR's generation for webservers and application servers.
• Configured outbound and inbound end point SSL configurations based upon application requirements.
• Created as well as modified JACL/Jython and Shell scripts to automate WebSphere process.
• Installed and configured anthill agents. This tool is used for deploying WebSphere applications
• Installed and configured siteminder agents on WebServers. Siteminder controls access to applications
• Hardened WebSphere by installing certificates and configuring SSL so that secure transmission of data occurs end to end. This also included securing communication between MQ server/Web Server and WAS application server
• Configured data sources, Queues, Queues Connection factors, Listener ports, Set up admin console security using custom LDAP.
• Used Tivoli Performance Viewer and Wily Introscope to monitor performance data like application resources (enterprise beans, Servlets, JSP’s) and WAS as runtime resource (JVM heap size, JVM thread pools and database connection pools).
• Experience with IBM Thread and Monitor Dump Analyzer for analyzing thread dumps, thread activities.
• Configured Clustering EJB objects, JDBC connections and JMS connection factories.
• Installed, upgraded patches, deployment, monitor, tuning and configuration of Websphere Application Server in multi cluster/server environment. Configured Node Manager for administration of Managed servers.
• Monitored and tuned JVMs, JVM heap size, garbage collections, Java stack and Native thread results in Development, System Test, Staging, Pre-Production and Production.
• Explored and troubleshoot emerging application and run time issues from UNIX server console.
• Experienced in change control procedures and also coordinating technical activities with Security, Network, DBA teams and other IT departments.
• Worked closely with Project managers, application teams, database administrators and network engineers to ensure project deliverables and also high availability of applications.
• Utilized IBM ISA and Java tools to analyze the thread dumps and heap dumps for root cause analysis of performance bottle necks and out of memory related issues.
• Provided 24x7 on-calls Production Support on rotation basis for Middleware Infrastructure.

Environment: s: Sun OS 8/9/10, RHEL, Windows 2003/Windows 2000, AIX 6/5.3, WebSphere Application Server ND 8/7/6.1, Oracle WebLogic 10.x/11, IBM BPM 7.0/8.0, IBM Http Server 8/7/6.1, Sun One 6.1 Web Server, Microsoft IIS 7/6, F5, Wily Introscope 8/9, Anthill, HPSA, Apache 2.2

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, configuration and supporting existing systems for WebSphere Application Server 6.1/7.0.
• Experienced in Service Oriented Architecture understanding of business process choreography terminology
• Design, maintain High Availability(HA) operational model, optimized scalability and capacity planning of the servers that host the process servers and application servers
• Dynamically react to changing business requirements with the ability to install new versions of a process and migrate running processes to a new version.
• Installation of WebLogic 9.x/10.x, Integration / Development, System Test, UAT and Production environments.
• Utilizing Node Manager to start, shut down, suspends and restarts Managed Server instances and clusters by issuing commands.
• Invoking Node Manager supported commands by connecting a running Node Manager instance to WLST.
• Developing applications using HTML, Java, JavaScript, Servlets, J2EE, JDBC, EJB, JSP, JMS and PERL.
• Configuring JNDI server as repository for EJB Home stubs, JDBC data source, JMS connection factories, queues and topics.
• Creating/Configuring the Websphere connection pools to Oracle, IBM Db2 7.0/8.1, and MS SQL Server for the portal application.
• Troubleshooting Websphere Server connection pooling and connection manager with Oracle.
• Configuring the RDBMS realms for the application.
• Creating Data Sources/Transaction Data Sources for the application.
• Configuring JMS Servers and JMS Queues for the application.
• Configured WebSphere MQ queue connection factories& WebSphere MQ queue destinations in WAS console
• Implemented Workload Management(WLM) on z/OS WAS Network Deployment (ND) environment using multi servant cloning and clustering techniques including process server topologies
• Enabled security and configured Secure Socket Layer(SSL) between Web Server, WebSphere Application Server and Process Server .
• Implemented mutual SSL between web and app servers using key stores and certificates.
• Involved in upgrading/migrating WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ components
• Involved in WebSphere Process Server for z/OS installation, validation, performance testing/tuning, failover testing, troubleshooting production issues, isolating issues from process servers and other environments.
• Enabled the security for WebSphere Application server 6.x/7 by configuring it with the LDAP server
• Responsible for establishing Single Sign On(SSO) between the Siteminder &IHS
• Responsible for installation, configuration and supporting IBM Application Server 7.0 on windows environment.
• Empowered basic knowledge to team members on how to use those ITCAM technologies and how does it work in presentations and documents
• Created basic portal workspace for different applications teams based on their requirements
• Configured WebSphere Application Server on multiple platforms for both horizontal and vertical clustering for Work Load Management, fail over and high availability.
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x/7.x along with maintenance, trouble shooting and recovery on several distributed platforms.
• Installed and configured Apache 2.0.x and SunOne 6.1 Web servers and plugins.
• Installed and renewed the SSL certificates for all secure sites on IBM HTTP, Apache and Sunone web servers. Encrypted WebSphere to LDAP communication.
• Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client authentication.
• Experienced in performance tuning by tweaking WebSphere configuration parameters like JVM heap size, jvm web container threads, DB connection pooling etc.
• Experienced in debugging memory problems by analyzing garbage collection, heap dumps.
• Responsible for implementing protocol for peer-to-peer interactions, defining, e.g., the legal sequences of messages exchanged with the purpose of guaranteeing interoperability.
• Responsible for Ensuring that information in multiple systems is kept consistent.
• Worked closely with load testing teams in user acceptance test environments to fine tune the applications before production deploy/migration.
• Configured WebSphere global security with LDAP registry. Created users with various roles to access the WebSphere admin console, users and groups in LDAP and added them as WebSphere Console Groups.
• Involved in opening and working on several PMR’s with IBM support. Worked actively with IBM level 2 & 3 support engineers on several critical issues to isolate the source of problems. Good exposure with troubleshooting tools, enabling a trace, collecting must gathering information and analyzing the data.
• Worked closely with UNIX engineers in fine tuning certain Operating System parameters to make significant performance improvements to WebSphere Application Server.
• Involved in several disaster recovery exercises as part of the quarterly failover process. Failovers were at the Web, Application and database layers.
• Installed SiteMinder agents and fix packs for implementing policy-based authentication as well as single sign-on for Web-based applications.
• Familiarity with ITCAM to monitor key performance indicators for a system like CPU Utilization, Peak Disk Utilization, Active Processes, Run Queue Length, Network Input Packet Rate, Network Output Packet Rate etc.
• Performed Root Cause Analysis and involved in 24/7 production support including change management procedures, troubleshooting and monitoring.

Environment: s: WebSphere Application Server 6.1/7.0, Websphere Process Server 7, Solaris 0, JDK 1.6/1.5, LDAP, UNIX, Red Hat Linux SUSE, AIX, Tomcat 6.x, IBM Http server 6.1/6,, IIS 6,Oracle, Tomcat, SSO, Linux, Site minder, Wily Introscope.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, configuration, tuning, backup, recovery and upgrade of WebSphere Application Server 6.1/6.0, Websphere Portal Server 6.1.0.1,6.1.0.2 in clustered environment on RedHat Linux systems.
• Performed functions and tasks associated with design, development, and operation of WebSphere server.
• Installed IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1.x as Primary and Secondary nodes in clustered Environment and configured with oracle database 10g.
• Administered WebSphere Portal applications, which includes configuration, clustering, administration, performance tuning, deploying portlets/ pages, for portal applications.
• Setting up integrated security access to IBM Websphere and Single Sign-On (SSO) to other applications.
• J2EE Application Deployment, Software installation, maintenance, fixes upgrades, general administration, troubleshooting and performance tuning of Websphere Application server on multiplatform (SUN Solaris, AIX and Linux (RedHat, SuSE and Windows) environment.
• Using shell, JACL and Jython scripts to automate the tasks of WebSphere and TOMCAT.
• Installed and configured the Tomcat and Apache servers in the dev/test and prod environments.
• Designed, developed and tested assigned statement of work.
• Provided support as needed for any Production issues
• Worked on installation, configuration, administration, problem determination of Websphere Application Server 6.1/6.0 on Linux SUSE platform.
• Experience with Inventory management for Software and Hardware along with support during Enterprise Technology Refresh process.
• Implemented standard backup procedures for WebSphere and applications.
• Provided 24x7 operational production support, best practice trouble shooting, monitoring, capacity planning, performance tuning, naming standards, security and maintenance.

Environment: s: WebSphere Application Server 6.1/6.0, Websphere portal server 6.x, F5, Solaris 2.8/10, JDK 1.5, LDAP, UNIX, Linux SUSE, Solaris, Tomcat 6.x,, IBM Http server 6.1/6,, IIS 5.1,Oracle, Sybase, Tomcat, SSO, Linux, Site minder Tivoli Performance Viewer.

Confidential

WebSphere Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Setup, installation and administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 and IBM HTTP Server in a Windows2000/RHEL environment.
• Involved in migration of WebSphere Application Server 5.0 to WebSphere Application Server 6.1.
• Supported existing applications running on WebSphere 5.0/6.0.
• 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 5.0/6.0/6.1 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.
• Expertise in troubleshooting applications by analyzing log files using tools like Log Analyzer and thread dumps.
• Optimized the performance of Enterprise Applications using Tivoli Performance Viewer.
• Involved in backup and recovery of WebSphere configurations using backupConfig and restoreConfig tools.

Environment: s: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1/6.0/5.0, Oracle, Windows 2000, Apache, LDAP, IBM HTTP Server, Solaris, Red Hat Linux.