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Application Server

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Minneapolis, MN, 55402
Posted:
November 02, 2011

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Vigneswara Kattekota

***********@************.***

512-***-****

Vigneswara Kattekota

Professional Summary:

Over Seven years of Extensive experience in Installation, Administration,

Configuration, Monitoring, Troubleshooting of WebSphere Application

server(7.0/6.1/6.0/5.1), WebSphere MQ Series(6.0/5.3), IBM HTTP Server,

Apache, Version Control tools, open Source technologies on AIX, Linux,

Solaris and Windows.

. Installed and Configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x/7.x

Network Deployment on various Operating Systems like Windows, AIX,

Linux, Sun Solaris, Environments.

. Expertise in different UNIX platforms such as AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3, Sun

Solaris 8/9/10 and Red hat 3.x/ Suse 9.x and Linux.

. Expertise in Installation, Configuration and Administration of IBM

WebSphere Application Server 5.1/6.0/6.1, IBM HTTP Server

1.3.19/1.3.26/2.0.42.2/2.0.47.1 on different flavours of UNIX and

Windows.

. Experience in requirement analysis, scope, design analysis,

application development, debugging, testing and documentation of the

various phases in a SDLC.

. Expertise in cluster management implemented horizontal clusters,

vertical clusters and hybrid. Troubleshoot application related issues,

and interact with Development staff in performing complex testing.

Excellent knowledge on TCP/IP, RMI and HTTP protocols.

. Experience in Creating Heap dumps and Core dumps and analyze those

dumps using Heap Analyzer. Involved in creating and maintaining

WebSphere Network Deployment in WebSphere Application Server. Created

new Virtual Hosts and configured Host Aliases.

. Experienced in implementing High-Availability, fail over topology

using clusters and load balancers. Extensive experience in optimizing

performance of WebSphere Application server using Workload Management.

Experienced in migrating WAS 6.1 to 7.0.

. Experience in Performance Tuning, Load Balancing and Work Load

Management on IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.0/6.1

. Experienced in upgrading WebSphere with Refresh packs, fixpacks and

fixes using update installer. Experienced in configuration of the plug-

ins on the WebServer when it is installed locally and remotely on the

DMZ.

. Expertise in writing JACL/Jython, UNIX scripts and shell scripts to

automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere. Excellent working

knowledge in implementing LDAP security models using Sun One LDAP.

. Worked on server side technologies like JSP, Servlets, EJB, JNDI,

JDBC, JMS and RMI, CORBA, XML, HTML, Java Beans on IBM WAS.

. Excellent knowledge in Setting up of Nodes, Profiles, Data Sources,

Virtual Hosts, configuring Servlet Engines, and Session Managers.

. Experience in requirement analysis, scope, design analysis,

application development, debugging, testing and documentation of the

various phases in a s/w development life cycle.

. Provided support in a demanding 24/7 on-call support.

. Configured resources like J2C resources, connection factories and JMS

resources, JDBC Providers and Data sources, connection pooling in IBM

WebSphere 5.x/6.x

. Analyzed log files to solve problems using debugging tools like Log

Analyzer, Tivoli Performance Viewer Tool and Collector Tool.

. Excellent problem resolving interpersonal & communication skills with

ability to work under pressure in a highly visible role in a team and

individually. Having knowledge to work with offshore team and

coordinate with them.

Skills:

Languages C, C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, SQL, PL/SQL,

Shell Scripts, JDBC.

Database DB2/UDB 7.2/8.x, ORACLE 11g/10g/9i/8.0/7.x,

SQLServer6.5/7.0.

Scripting Languages Shell Script, JACL/Jython Script and WSADMIN

Operating Systems AIX 5.x, Solaris 9.0/8.x, Red Hat/ Suse 9/Linux

8.0/7.x,Window 2003/2000/NT,MS-DOS

Web/Application WebSphere 7.x/6.x/5.x/4.x, IBM HTTP Server

Servers 1.3.26/2.0.47.1, I Planet, IIS, Tomcat 5.5, 4.1,

Apache 2.x, Weblogic

Web Technologies HTML,DHTML,XML,ASP

Version Control CVS, Clear Case, Clear Quest, pvcs

Tools

Monitoring Tools Tivoli Performance Viewer, Thread Analyzer, Log

Analyzer, Wiley Introscope 7.x, 8.x.

Education:

. Bachelor of Information Technology (B.IT). Hyderabad, AP, India.

Professional Experience:

Ameriprise Financials, Minneapolis, MN

Sept 10 - Present

Sr. Web Sphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

. Installed, configured, administered WebSphere Application Server BASE, ND

on AIX for multiple high profile projects.

. Created Deployment manager and Application Server profiles and federated

to create cells.

. Administered, configured, tuned, and troubleshoot WebSphere in a

clustered environment on AIX

. Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console

and enabled security using LTPA and LDAP for admin console and

application components on AIX.

. Installation & Configuration of IBM HTTP Server 2.x, IBM IHS 5.X AND 6.X

on AIX.

. Installed, configured and administered IBM WebSphere Application Server

6.1/6.0,7.x on AIX. Created new Virtual Hosts and configured Host

Aliases.

. Involved in configuration and setup of WebSphere Application Server

security using LTPA and LDAP.

. Enabled Global security for the Admin Console and application components

. Creating Heap dumps and Core dumps and analyze those dumps using Heap

Analyzer.

. Experience in migrating WAS 6.1 to 7.0.

. Configured IHS Web server, Creating and configured WebServer instances

Site minder to work with WAS.

. Installed, Configured and maintained LDAP (Sun one) Directory server.

. Used Resource Analyzer/ Tivoli Performance Viewer to monitor WebSphere

Applications and tuned the environment accordingly like changing the JVM

Heap, Connection Pool sizes

. Used Websphere Admin Console and wasadmin/JACL scripting to install

enterprise EAR, WAR files or for hot deployment.

. Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources,

connection pooling, Implemented creation of Server groups and clusters in

WebSphere Application server.

. Provided 24/7 on-call support on rotation basis.

Environment: Application Server 5.1.x/6.x/7.x,AIX, Red Hat Linux 5.x,

Solaris 9.0, IBM DB2 9.5, Windows XP/2000/NT, Apache, IBM 6.X, Oracle

10.x/9.x/8.x, JBOSS, Tivoli performance viewer.

NetApp Inc, Sunnyvale, CA

Mar 09 - Aug 10

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

. Installed, configured, administered WebSphere Application Server BASE,ND

on AIX for multiple high profile projects.

. Created Deployment manager and Application Server profiles and federated

to create cells.

. Administered, configured, tuned and troubleshoot WebSphere in a

clustered environment on AIX

. Responsible for deploying enterprise applications from Admin console

and enabled security using LTPA and LDAP for admin console and

application components on AIX.

. Installation & Configuration of IBM HTTP Server 2.x on AIX. Installed,

configured and administered IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1/6.0,7.x

on AIX

. Involved in configuration and setup of WebSphere Application Server

security using LTPA and LDAP. Creating Webserver instances by using

Scripts. Creating Heap dumps and Core dumps and analyze those dumps

using Heap Analyzer.

. Experience in migrating WAS 6.1 to 7.0. Involved in installing

WebSphere portal 6.0.x on UNIX and AIX Platform with Web Content

Management. Configured IHS Web server, Site minder to work with WAS.

Installed, Configured and maintained LDAP Directory server.

. knowledge in configuring JMS Provides using WebSphere MQ

. Used WebSphere Admin Console and wasadmin/JACL scripting to install

enterprise EAR, WAR files or for hot deployment. Configured WebSphere

resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling,

Implemented creation of Server groups and clusters in WAS.

. Provided 24/7 on-call support on rotation basis.

Environment: Application Server 5.1.x/6.x/7.x,AIX, Red Hat Linux,

Solaris, IBM DB2,Windows XP/2000/NT, Apache, Oracle 10.x/9.x/8.x, JBOSS,

Tivoli performance viewer, WebSphere Portal 6.0.

Monsanto, St. Louis, MO

Nov 07 - Feb 09 WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

. Installation and configuration of number of WebSphere Application Servers

6.0 instances on development, QA and production environment on Solaris.

Administration and Maintenance of IBM HTTP Server and WebSphere

Application Server for various production environments.

. Configuring Resources like JDBC Provider for Oracle, creating Virtual

Hosts, Shared Libraries, JNDI Configurations, EJB References, Environment

Variables, and Configuring Session Management. Deployment of J2EE

Applications involved in Creating Clusters for Load Balancing and Fail

over.

. Profiled all the J2EE Applications and worked with Application Groups in

improving performance of application and possible memory leaks in

application before deploying in Production.

. Wrote Perl and Shell scripts to monitor installed enterprise applications

and to get information from the logs and database in the required format.

. Developing WSCP scripts, JACL Scripts. Backup and Recovery of WebSphere

configuration using XML Config tool.

. Monitoring WAS performance through Tivoli Performance Viewer and tuning

the system caching, queuing, JVM parameters, DB Connection Pooling.

. Daily WebSphere Application Server task were deploying application and

troubleshooting QA and Productions problems using log files and

coordinating with development teams.

. Implemented various mediation primitives (Database Lookup, Filter, XSLT,

and Message Logger). Implement the Shared Libraries (code reusability).

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1/6.0,IBM HTTP SERVER v6.0,

WebSphere MQ 5.3,IBM DB2, Sun Solaris 10.0/9.0, WebSeal, TAM, Oracle

10g,UNIX shell scripts, RAD 7.0, Wily Introscope 7.0, Perl, JACL and

Jython scripts, Sitescope.

General Insurance Corporation, Hyderabad, India

Dec 05 - Oct 07

WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

. Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x, IHS 1.3.x,

and Apache web server on various platforms including AIX 4.3.

. Migrated applications from WebSphere version 4.0 to version 5.x.

. Configured WebSphere Application Server V4 to use Integrity Site Minder

V5.5.

. Excellent knowledge in Setting up of Nodes, Profiles, Data Sources,

Virtual Hosts, configuring Servlet Engines, and Session Managers

. Worked on server side technologies like JSP, Servlets, EJB, JNDI, JDBC,

JMS and RMI, CORBA, XML, HTML, Java Beans.

. Maintenance of the WebSphere servers on different platforms, setting up

the development, testing, staging and production environment for the

ongoing application development.

. Developed UNIX shell scripts and Jacl scripts that automate the WebSphere

Administration (recycling the application server, deploying customer

applications, logs rotation, monitor applications state, etc,).

. Configured web servers in the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) and SSL between

web server & browser.

. Developed WSCP scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance

process of the WebSphere and recovered the backed up WebSphere

configuration using XMLConfig tool.

. Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local

operating system authentication and custom user registry.

. Configured Big-IP rules for load balancing of web servers. Configured

Workload Management (WLM) using server groups in WAS 4.x and Server

clusters in WAS 5.x.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 4.x/5.x, AIX 4.3, IIS Web server

2.0, Linux, Oracle 9i, Windows 2000, Jacl/Jython,Siteminder,J2EE1.3/1.2,

Java2.0, JSP1.2, EJB2.0, JDBC2.0 and XML.

Minvesta InfoTech, Hyderabad, India

July 04 - Nov 05

Web Sphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

. Support of about 50 applications in the environments of

DEV/Test/QA/PROD

. Involved in the day to day IBM WebSphere, WebSphere Portal deployment and

configuration. Used command line scripting tools for WebSphere/Portal

environment for automating the tasks. Requesting firewall rules for port

openings for Internet applications.

. Wording with developers to deploy their EAR files into the pre-production

and production environments. Strong Unix (AIX / Solaris) and windows

NT/2000 administration skills.

. Experience with Interwoven (Open Deploy) for static content

management

. Installation and Configuration of Trizetto eBill /eEnroll software

on Web Sphere.

. Maintenance and the configuration of IBM Http Server /Apache as

the Web Server instances

. Build and troubleshoot the various environments such as dev, system test

QA and the production environments. Configure the http servers (IHS

/Apache) for the communication over SSL /non-SSL and to accept the

traffic via a Cisco content switch and firewall.

. Update and migrating the LDAP (TIVOLI directory server) with the

fix packs.

. Involved in the migration of MQ v5.2 to v5.3 in the WebSphere

environment. Involved in the DR (disaster recovery) plan for the

WebSphere environment. On call production support for the environment.

Environment: AIX 5.1, Web Sphere 5.0.x/5.1 and 4.0.6, HIS

v1.3.x/2.0.47.1, Apache 2.0.56, ChangemanDS, BMCPatrol, Site minder

v5.x/6.0, UDB DB2v7.2.9/8.1, Oracle 8i/9i, MQ v5.2/5.3, Cisco Content

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