Rajesh Kumar

DataPower Consultant

Experience Summary:

Over 7 years of experience in Enterprise application Integration includes

providing Architectural Solutions, Design, Development/ Support/Maintenance

using DataPower, WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere MQSeries

administration.

. Extensive experience in installation, configuring and administration of

IBM WebSphere Data Power XS40, XI50 and XI52 SOA appliances.

. Indepth knowledge and Experience in Installation, Configuration and

Maintenance of IBM WebSphere Data Power SOA appliances trough Command Line

Interface (CLI), Web GUI, and XML Management Interface.

. Good experience in develop and implement SOA solutions to Accelerate,

Secure and Integrate XML based web services through WebSphere Data Power

XS40, XI50 and XI52 SOA Appliances .

. Experience in configuring Multiprotocol Gateways,Webservice proxies, XML

Firewalls on IBM SOA Datapower XI50 & XI52 appliances.

. Good experience in design and configuration of DataPower objects like

Network Interfaces, FSHs, Routing Policies, SSL Proxy profiles, WS Proxy

Rules, WSRR subscriptions, Load Balancer Groups, XML Managers, AAA

Policies, User Agents and MQ Objects etc.

. Experience in design and manage Crypto Configuration Objects like Crypto

Certificates, Crypto Keys, Crypto Credentials and Crypto Profiles on

DataPower XS40, XI50 and XI52 appliances.

. Experience in initilize IBM DataPower SOA appliances.

. Experience in dealing with v3.8,v4.0,v5.0 and v6.0 IBM DataPower SOA

appliance firmwares.

. Good experience in trouble shooting and debugging issues in IBM DataPower

SOA appliances.

. Good knowledge and experience in designing the integrations based on SOA

which allows different applications to exchange data with one another.

. Extensive experience in installation, configuration, administration and

troubleshooting of IBM WebSphere Application Server (v8.5/v7.0/v6.x/ND

andv5.0), WASv6.1XD, WPS v6.2,BPM v8.0.

. Experience in planning, development, installation and administration of

IBM MQSeries, and WebSphere Message Broker on various platforms such as

AIX, Solaris and Windows.

. Having Experience in EAI and Web Enabling the Legacy Systems with IBM

Websphere MQSeries, Message Broker and WebSphere Application Server..

. Expertise in JMS configuration on WAS to communicate with MQSeries

systems.

. Experience in troubleshooting Message Flow and traced issues with

database connections for Broker.

. Extensive experience in working with UDB-DB2 along with other RDBMS such

as Oracle and SQL Server.

. Hands on experience in design and implementation of WMQ and WMB in huge

and complex environments using High Availability Clustering.

. Experience using WebSphere Adapter nodes to interact with Siebel

applications.

. Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

. Willingness and ability to quickly adapt to new environments and learn

new technologies.

Education:

Bachelors of Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, INDIA.

Technical Skills:

Languages: Java 2.0, SQL, ESQL, PL/SQL.

Operating Systems: Windows, AIX, LINUX, z/OS

Middleware Skills: WMQ 5.3/6.0/7.0/7.1/7.5, WMB 5.0/6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0, IIB

V9.0, MQIPT V2.1/2.0, Oracle, DB2, SQL server, Clear case, Visual Source

Safe; Eclipse for MB Toolkit, MO71, Qpasa for MQ, Tivoli for WMQ and WMB,

RFHUTIL, SOAPUI and XML SPY, Rational Clear Case, Serena Dimensions.

SOA: Data Power XS40, XI50 and XI52 (firm ware v3.7.2, 3.8.2, 4.0.2.X and

5.0.0.X), WSRR and BPM v8.0.1.

Experience:

Jan 2011 - Present Office for Temporary Disability Assistance -

New York State, Albany, NY

Title: DataPower Consultant

Environment: DataPower XS40,XI50,XI52, WSRR v7.5, WebSphere Application

Server V7.0/8.0, TSO/ISPF panel, z/OS 01.12.00, OC/MQADMIN for MVS/ESA,

XML, ESQL, JSP, Struts, Java, J2EE, EJB, JNDI, JMS, XML, XSLT, Rational

Clear Case, WSRR, Windows 2003/2008, AIX v5.3, SOAP, WebServices, Tivoli

ITM .

Responsibilities:

. Responsible for the design, develop, and deliver Service Oriented

Architectural solutions through the use of IBM's SOA tools, primarily

WebSphere DataPower and WSRR (Websphere Service Registry and Repository).

. Experience in installation, configuration and administration of IBM

WebSphere DataPower XI52 SOA Appliances and WSRR 7.5.

. Performed administrative tasks on DataPower XI52 appliances using the

Command Line Interface (CLI), Web GUI, and XML Management Interface.

Configured WAMC toll to manage Data Power appliances form different

environments.

. Proven experience in configuring schema validations, authorization,

authentication, encode/decode and transformation operations to secure web

requests on XS40, XI50 and XI52 Data Power appliances.

. Good experience in using DataPower security features. Expertise in

creating SSL Proxy (Forward/ Reverse/Tow-Way) Profiles using Crypto

Objects to connect with the web management interfaces.

. Experience in implementation of forward and reverse Authentication,

Encryption and Decryption techniques, Digital signature usage etc.

. Good understanding in firewall updates and management in between

different SOA components in both intranet and extranet environments.

. Created and configured DataPower objects like network interfaces,

Protocol Handlers, Routing Policies, SSL Proxy profiles, WS Proxy

Rules, WSRR subscriptions, Load Balancer groups, XML Managers, AAA

Policies, User Agents and MQ objects etc.

. Responsible for the design and administration of Crypto Configuration

Objects like Crypto Certificates, Crypto Keys, Crypto Credentials and

Crypto Profiles.

. Good experience in design of XML, XSL, XPATH, XSLT Transformations, SOAP

validations and XML schema validations.

. Good knowledge on SOA /ESB and Web services concepts (WSDL, SOAP,

XML) etc.

. Good experience in dealing with XML, XSLT Transformations, Schemas and

Namespaces.

. Successfully applied firmware patches to firmware v4 and Upgrade

firmware to newer major release (from v4.0.2.3 to v5.0.0.4).

. Responsible for the system performance monitoring, digital certificate

maintenance and Crypto certificate monitoring objects.

. Configured MQ objects on Data Power boxes to integrate enterprise web

services with back end systems.

. Good experience in testing and troubleshooting of web services on Data

Power Appliances.

. Experience in open PMRs with IBM and closely work with development teams

to resolve issues with Services, Domains, MPGs, XML FWs, etc.

. Good experience in Data Power RBM/local user access management and access

control.

. Involved in the File Management, Firm ware Rollbacks, System Reboots,

Configuration updates, upgrading firmware, configuration backup and

restore operations. Hands on experience in generate backup off the

appliance. .

. Demonstrated AAA policy to authenticate and authorize against LDAP server

using basic authentication and Identity extracted from WSSE Soap Header

for Retrieve Customer Detail and Retrieve Party Detail Services..

. Configured deployment policy for migrate configuration in between

environments.

. Experience in perform Configuration Export and Import operations in

between different application domains and expertise in comparing

configuration in between domains or environments.

Jan 2009 - Dec 2010 State Farm, Bloomington, IL

Title: WebSphere & DataPower Consultant

Environment: WebSphere DataPower XS40,XI50,XI52, WMB v6.1/6.0, WAS V6.0,

WSRR, WMQ v6.0/V7.0, ESQL, J2EE, AIX, TCP/IP, Linux, Oracle 10g, EDIFECS

Xengine 6.8.1, Windows 2033/2008, Tivoli ITMV 6,1 for MQ and Broker

Agents.

Responsibilities:

. Configured XS40 XI50 and XI52 Data Power appliances to provide URI

routing, WSDL creation and WS-Proxy setup to secure web services.

. Good experience in new Data Power device initialization and new firmware

upgrade.

. Created Multi-protocol gateways, Web Service Proxies, XML firewalls, Web

application firewalls and XSL Proxies to provide secured integration

between different enterprise web applications.

. Good experience in Domain creation, WS-Proxy setup, WSDL uploads, File

management, Cert upload, Access control, load balancing, and End-point

Route creation on Data Power SOA appliances.

. Responsible for the design and implementation of web services processing

policy rules and processing policy actions.

. Configuration of application domains, local User Access Management and

LDAP based RBM Access Management .

. Implemented best practices to Troubleshoot and debug services using the

DataPower appliance's problem determination tools, logs and probes. Hands

on experience in using web service testing tools like SOAP UI, Curl etc.

. Installed WMQ and WMB on Linux and Windows Servers.

. Deployed BAR files to Broker Execution Groups and Created MQ objects,

like queues, channels, listeners in all the environments, including

Production.

. Developed Situations for Tivoli to monitor WMQ and WMB and send alerts by

email to distribution list.

. Configured the Oracle as database for Message Broker runtime environment.

. Configured Broker and configuration manager and created Execution Groups.

. Applied Maintenance patches for WMQ and WMB binaries on Linux, AIX and

Windows servers.

. Configured topics and subscriptions on Queues for Pub/Sub messaging.

. Configured Request-reply with persistence pattern for message correlation

for MQ

. Configured database for Broker on ODBC data source for message flows.

. Configured broker for connecting to Service Registries for accessing

WSRR .

. Configured Queues for JMS messaging and Integrated WMQ with WAS.

. Supported migrating Queue managers to V7.0 and Message Broker to v8.0.

. Provides 24/7 support for WebSphere MQ/Message Broker servers on AIX,

Linux & Windows.

. Configured Queues for WAS Java messaging services and MDBs..

. Supported MQ and MB servers on UAT, Pseudo and Productions environments.

July 2006 - Nov 2008 Client: Systematics/Fidelity National Information

Services, Chennai, India

Title: Software Engineer/ MQ administrator ( Offshore

Support)

Environment: IBM MQSeries 5.3, DB2 8.1, Oracle9i, Windows NT, 2000, Sun

Solaris, AIX, UNIX, Clear case, Tivoli for Omegamon XE for MQ monitoring..

Responsibilities:

. Configured IBM MQ Series V5.3 on UNIX and Windows servers

. Administration support for MQ on UNIX and Windows Servers.

. Configured Queue manager and MQ objects like Queues, Listeners and

Channels.

. Configured Message Channels and MQI channels and managed them

effectively.

. Defined MQ objects including Queue Managers, Remote queues, Local Queues,

Queue Aliases, Channels, Clusters, Transmission Queues, Performance

Events, Triggered Processes, MQ error trapping applications and

performance tuning/monitoring.

. Configured SSL repository for Queue manager on Linux and AIX servers.

. Created certificate request and added signed certs to SSL repository for

Queue manager.

. Supported application team to troubleshoot issues for MQ client to MQ

server connectivity and mentored team members.

. Configured MQ Queue managers in MQ cluster for Queues availability and

work load balancing.

. Supported MQ and MQ high availability configurations and failover testing

. Applied MQ maintenance patches for MQ servers on UNIX and Windows

servers.

. Provided daily support to production-support team members on Web Sphere

MQ operation and problem determination.

. Developed test scenarios and measurement techniques for performance

monitoring.

. Proactively monitoring the production environment to detect symptoms of

potential problems, taking action when required to prevent production

downtime.

. Installed WMQ on Linux, AIX and Windows servers

. Configured Queue managers and MQ Objects on AIX, Linux and windows

servers.

. Installed and Configured MQIPT ( SupportPac MS81 ) on Linux and AIX.

. Configured MQIPT for remote MQ clients to connect with MQ servers.

. Configured scripts for saving MQ objects and linear log maintenance .

. Defining the list of situations to monitored for MQ Series by IBM Tivoli

Monitoring.

. Analysis of load testing results for Websphere MQ Series.

. Configured Queue manager and Broker attributes for Tivoli monitoring.

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