SUMMARY:

• Over 6+ years of IT industry experience in IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0/6.1/6.0 administration integrating for all the J2EE components. Technical abilities include installations, configurations, security, migrations, and support.
• Extensive experience of WebSphere Application Sever (7.x/6.x) Network Deployment (ND) and Base Installation, Configuration and Troubleshoot complex installation issues related to WebSphere fix - packs and refresh packs
• Experience in deploying J2EE applications (EAR/WAR/JAR) on WAS 7.0/6.1/6.0/ using AAT (Application Assembly Tool), WAS Admin Console, shell/ wsadmin/ JACL/Jython scripting and ClearCase Auto deployment scripts
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server MQ series in 7.x/6.x on AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, and Windows Environments.
• Created and Configured MQ series objects like Queue Manager, Queue and Channels.
• Set up also includes testing the connectivity and also upgrading the MQ series
• Expertise in Wily administration in getting GC usage, Thread usage and CPU usage and based on that deciding JVM for new J2EE application.
• Responsible for Migration of Websphere Application server 6.x to 7.x and web services, and Websphere Application Development tool suite
• Excellent understanding of Workload Management, Scalability and High-Availability strategies (Application Clusters, Load Balancing, session state management etc)
• Experienced in taking up new projects, rebranding of resources, incorporating new process, analyzing the deadlines and driving it up till closure.
• Highly experienced integrating WAS-ND and related software including WMQ, Sun ONE Web Server, IBM IHS, IBM TAM, Netegrity Site Minder, iPlanet Directory Server (LDAP) and Wily Introscope.
• Strong Understanding in Tuning and performance monitoring of Application Servers by Tivoli Performance Viewer & Wily like setting the dynamic cache size and setting the JVM heap size using collected Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) data.
• Performed Systems/Applications Management using Administrative Interfaces Systems Management (Admin Console, Command Line).
• Experience working with Web server applications using IBM HTTP, Apache and Tomcat and Databases like Oracle, DB2, Sybase and SQL Server, besides integrating them with applications.
• Experience in creating and managing profile Webtrends
• Hands on experience in Migrating the existing configuration and applications of IBM WebSphere using WAS PreUpgrade and WAS PostUpgrade tools on Sun Solaris, AIX, Windows. Automated administration, maintenance and troubleshooting through Perl, Shell, JACL and Jython scripting.
• Experience in applying fix packs and generating plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server.
• Strong experience on Web based customer support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Solaris 7.0/8.0/9.0/10 , RedHat Linux, HP-UNIX, AIX5.3/6.1, MS-DOS, WindowsNT/2000/95/98/XP.

Application Servers: WebSphere Application Server 5.1/6.X/7.x, WebSphere XD 6.1,WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.0

Webservers: Apache, IHS 6.0/7.0 iPlanet, IIS, Netscape Enterprise server,

Web/Java Technologies: Servlets, JSP, EJB, Struts, Applets, JFC/Swing, JDBC, ODBC, RMI, JMS, Web Services, Java Beans, JNDI, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, VB Script, CORBA, CGI, Perl and XML.

Languages: JAVA, C, C++, PL/SQL, UNIX Shell (Korn, bash), PERL, WLST, Python.

RDBMS: Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11g, DB2, MS-SQL server.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

Sr.Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured and Administered Web Sphere Application Server Network Deployment (ND) and Extended Deployment (XD)7.0/6.1/6.0 on AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and Windows platform for all Test, Dev, Load & Production environments.
• Installed and configured WebSphere Extended Deployment Manager (XD) 6.1 on various platforms.
• Created Dynamic clustering using WebSphere extended deployment XD.
• Worked with WebSphere extended Deployment XD and implemented the virtualization capabilities that can dynamically match available resources to changing work load demands.
• Maintenance of the WebSphere servers on different UNIX platforms and setting up the development and testing and staging environment for the on going application development
• Involved in setting up connection pool for the hung threads to set back the servers to normal state.
• Responsible for writing and developing shell scripts to automate various tasks like installation & management of log file monitoring, log rotation, and performance monitoring working with JACL files. Managed cron jobs to execute WebSphere clear cache syslogs.
• Exposure to enterprise class system monitoring tools. Experience with the best in class site monitoring tools such as Tivoli & Wily. ITM for MQ and Wily for WAS.
• Installed Configured and Administered WebSphere MQ series 6.0/7.0.
• Creation and configuration of MQ objects-Queue Manager, Queues, Clusters in AIX and Solaris.
• Creating Dynamic Clusters in WebSphere Extended Deployment (XD) for the execution environment and long-running applications.
• Used WILY Performance tools for monitoring and tuning the WebSphere environment (JVM heap size, data base connection pool size, Thread Usage etc).
• Was responsible for creating users with various roles to access the WebSphere admin console .
• Installed & configured the SSL’s on Web Server instances.
• Responsible for writing and executing UNIX shell Scripts for automated build and deployment of applications.
• Experience in Setting up of Nodes, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, configuring Servlets Engines, Session Managers including planning installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server Trace Service (info to finest), Object Level Trace (OLT) and IBM Distributed Debugger.
• Used WebSphere plug-in for load balancing across the cluster members
• Configured Web Sphere Application Server with LDAP Security using ORACLE OBLIX.
• Installed and Configured WebSphere Application Server with IBM HTTP Server 6.1.
• 24/7 on-call production support and troubleshooting issues related to Sun One, IHS & WebSphere.
• Worked closely with different groups as the application was integrated with other products like Actuate, WebFOCUS, OAM, MQ, etc.
• Documented all the project work done as a project report and sent out weekly reports to the manager.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server ND 6.0/6.1/7.0, IBM WebSphere XD 6.0/6.1, IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0/7.0, LDAP,IBM DB2, ORACLE OBLIX, JProbe, IHS, Oracle 9.i, 10g,11g, AIX 5.1/6.1, HP-UX, Agile, Visio, UML,

Confidential, Springfield, OR

WebSphere and MQ Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, administered WebSphere Application Server ND on UNIX, HP-UX, Windows for multiple projects.
• Experience in deploying J2EE components on WAS 7.0/6.1/6.0 using WAS Admin Console.
• Configuration of cells, nodes, clustering, application servers, virtual hosts, and session management.
• Experience with web administration, which includes installation of Sun One/IPlanet Web Servers and configuration of Web Server Plug-ins.
• Installation of IHS & Plug-in configuration with WebSphere server.
• Configuration of WebSphere Application server clusters and deploying J2EE applications to the Cluster.
• Enabling security by integrating LDAP servers with WebSphere.
• Experience in installing configuring and administering MQ 6.0/5.3 on different environments like AIX, Solaris, HP-Unix and z/os.
• Interacted with the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes and gather Business Requirements.
• Provided Naming Standards, Backup & Recovery and Problem Determination Strategies for the project.
• Transferred Default cloudscape database to MS SQL Server database.
• Configured WebSphere Application Server with LDAP Security.
• Collection of JVM statistics, garbage collection data for monitoring the heap and physical memory.
• Enabling Java Virtual Machine profiler Interface (JVMPI) for more comprehensive performance analysis.
• Expertise in deploying and migrating to staging areas and production.
• Successful implementation of Workload Management (WLM) using cloning/clustering techniques including horizontal and vertical clustering for fail over processes.
• Setup and managed Cron jobs, batch processing and job scheduling using shell scripts.
• Monitored the health of the JVM taking Thread Dumps and analyzing the stack trace these helped in performing Root Cause Analysis to find the cause of the problem.
• Platform Maintenance/Environment support and troubleshooting, Internal and external web servers on various platforms.
• Involved in troubleshooting and performance tuning using Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer .
• Hands on WebSphere administration using command line tools.
• Good Knowledge of Application Packaging (jar, war, ear) & deploying the applications.
• Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, and Java Mail sessions.
• Created, tested & deployed J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server using WSAD tools.
• Used CVS, SUB-VERSIONS, CLEAR CASE and ANT for creating builds.
• Provided call center support by 24x7 shift rotation basis and monitored trouble ticket queues to attend user and system calls.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0/6.1, IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0/5.3, IBM DB2, SQL Server, AIX, LINUX, HP-UX, Tivoli Access Manager 4.1/5.1,Sun ONE Directory Server 5.1, Sun ONE Web Server 6.1, IHS 6.0/6.1, Netegrity Site minder Policy Server 6.0,Clear Case 7.0