Years Experience Development

Madhan Dhanikachalam IBM Certified System Administrator (Websphere MQ

V6.0)

** ***** ** **** *** Certified System

Administrator(WebSphere Message Broker V6.1)

Pine Brook, NJ 07058 USA 614-***-****

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

Around 6 years of Experience with IBM MQSeries, Message Broker. Have worked

as consultant at Statefarm Insurance Company, Bloomington IL USA from Jan

2005 - present supporting their middleware infrastructure and also

application development support and project support. I am seeking a

position as an Integration specialist.

Skill Set:

. Highly qualified in design of n-tier applications using Message

Broker WMB/WBIMB, MQSeries and other SOA components.

. 5+ years experience with IBM MQ series, Websphere Message Broker in

the Business Integration/Middleware/EAI realm.

. Excellent track record in integrating solutions using MQ, WMB message

broker.

. 5 years strong experience in installation, configuration and

administration of MQ, Broker on AIX, HP-UX,Windows.

. Hands on experience with MQ clustering as a HA solution.

. Experience in developing integration application using service

oriented architecture (SOA).

. Hands on experience with Web Services and using Message Broker with

Web Service architecture.(SOAP over http)

. Expertise in Monitoring the Message Transaction Process using tools

like, QPASA, APPWatch, rfhutil.

. Proficient in using ESQL and java coding.

. Excellent background in application development, shell scripting and

testing middleware systems.

. Experience in working with RDBMS like DB2, ORACLE.

. Proficient in XML related technologies like DTDs, XML Schema, XSL and

XPATH.

. Experience with efficient data modeling.

. Experience designing and developing monitoring tool.

. Excellent command in Broker/MQ development.

. Experienced in Object Oriented programming JAVA/J2EE technologies.

. 5+ years experience with MQ Series/Broker Product support, problem

determination administration and development.

. Excellent communication skills and a team player.

Technical Skills:

Operating Systems : Sun Solaris, AIX, HP UX, Windows NT/2000

Languages : C, Java, SQL, ESQL, shell scripting.

IBM tool suite : IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7,WMQI 2.1, WBIMB 5.0, WMB 6.0,

WMB 6.1,

WMBV7, WAS

Databases : Oracle, DB2, Sybase, SQL server,

Java Technologies : JSP, Servlets, EJB, JDBC and JMS, Java Script

Protocols : TCP/IP, FTP, SOAP and HTTP

Tools : Rational ClearCase, Qpasa,rfhutil, mainview

Educational Background:

Master of Science in Engineering Jan 2002- March 2004

Wright State University - Dayton, OH

Bachelor of Engineering May 1997 - April 2001

Madras University - India

Work experience:

As EAI product support - 24/7 support for MQ series/Message Broker on AIX,

HP-UX, and windows.

. Problem determination, root cause analysis, documentation of recovery

steps.

. Knowledge transfers among other team members.

. Scripting issuances for Broker toolkit on Windows. MQ and Broker on

UNIX.

. Installation, configuration, administration and maintenance of MQ,

WBIMB 5.0, WMB 6.0 and WMB 6.1

. Applying fixpacks and supportpacks for the above products.

. Creating Queue Managers, MQ objects, clusters, SSLs

. Creating Brokers.

. Setting up user access controls.

. Handling support tickets and calls.

As EAI developer - Highly qualified with MQ 6.x / Message Broker 5.0,6.x,7

development

. Identifying interface requirements.

. Developing design documents based on requirements which includes

decisions on the Queue names, max message lengths, identifying the

frequency of messages, whether the messages need to be groups etc.,

. Designing message flows, coding with ESQL and JAVA. Worked with CWF,

TDS message models.

. Gathering Project requirements

. Data modeling

. Designing Error handling routines, error detection and correction

. Highly skillful with MQ message manipulation and transformation and

routing using Message Broker

. Applying concepts of ESB, re-usability and ease of use.

. Excellent command with V2.1, V5 and V6.1 of Broker. MQ V5.3 and V6 and

also earlier versions.

. Develop MQ APIs for applications

. Worked with JMS, WAS with Message Broker Publish/Subscribe

architecture.

. Development, testing, performance tuning of developed code.

. Managing version and source code.

. Documenting messages flow definitions, unit test plans and system test

plans.

Clients:

. State Farm Insurance, Bloomington IL

Jan 2005 - Present

Environment: IBM MQSeries WMQ 6.0,7.0 WBIMB 6.1,7 Qpasa,DB2,

AIX5.3,Websphere Application Server(WAS) 24/7 support team for incident

management and problem management

. Part of IBM support team that offers 24/7 support of infrastructure.

Handling support tickets and everyday product related issues.

Currently supporting broker at version 6.1.04 and MQ at 6.0.2.3.

. Was involved with Broker V7 beta program.

. Product maintenance, applying fixes and maintenance levels

. Work on PMRs, IBM second/third levels to fix product related issues.

. Shell scripting of Broker issuances and maintenance scripts on AIX.

. Maintenance of project related artificats, odbc entries, jar files,

flow stop/starts. Flow Deployments.

. Designed and developed monitoring tools.

. Part of the direction team for message broker setting guidelines for

product usage.

. Perform code reviews for projects because I have extensive development

experience in previous projects.

. Assisted with designing a new AIX MQ and Broker topology.

. Migration from V5 to V6 of MQ and Broker.

. Part of the Message Broker developer support team that assists with

flow development, testing and source control.

. Developed Monitoring solutions for MQ and Broker on AIX

. Worked with JMS and J2EE application integrating them with Broker.

. Worked with webservices SOAP over HTTP.

. Installed and configured MQSeries, Message Broker on AIX and windows

. Add and modify WebSphere MQ resource definitions.

. Supporting of developed interfaces till they move to Production

environment.

. Involved in achieving Higher Availability of MQ, Message Broker and

other Gateways components using Clustering..

. Control Various version of Codes using Versioning tools like

Dimensions, clearcase

. Experience working with DB2 and Oracle.

. Creation of Technical design documents and Unit test Plans for Message

broker message flows.

. Unit and Integration Testing of all message Flows developed.

. Involved in the design and development of common services like Error

Handling sub flow, Message Routing Sub flow etc.

. Writing ESQL for calling stored procedures, Transforming messages,

database transactions from the Compute Nodes.

. Used Java compute nodes to make use of existing Java programs in the

message flows

. Troubleshooting and debugging WMB messages flows using Trace nodes,

flow debugger and error handling nodes.

. Ameren IP, St.Louis MO Aug 2004 -

Dec 2004

Tasks and Accomplishments:

. Migration from V2.1 to V5 of Message broker.

. Designing and developing interfaces

. Installed and configured MQSeries, Message Broker on AIX and Windows

2000.

. Performed Administration tasks using MQSC commands.

. Created and configured MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Remote queues,

Local Queues, Queue

. Define channels using SSL certificates

. Creation of Technical design documents for Message broker interfaces.

. Designing the message sets, message flows to encapsulate the business

logic using IBM nodes and ESQL.

. Developed message sets for COBOL copybooks using CWF physical format

and also using TDS physical format fixed width messages.

. Coded ESQL in message flow nodes for transforming and routing the

messages.

. Performing regression and performance testing and providing Go-Live

support for interfaces

. Coordinating with the client sub system leads on the deployment of the

interfaces and configuration and setup of the sub system test

environments

. Nodes to develop message flows for web services.

. Responsible for creation of reusable message flows for error logging

and validations.

. Working extensively on the database node for the database

manipulations.

. Controlling the various versions of codes using Visual Source Safe and

CVS.

. Writing Test Cases for the message flows using various set of inputs.

. Developed trigger applications using JMS Java.

. Troubleshooting and debugging MQSI messages flows using trace nodes,

visual debugger

. And error handling nodes.

. Assigned the message flows to appropriate Execution Groups in Broker

Runtime Environment.

. Hexaware Technologies, India Jan 2001 -

Dec 2001

Tasks and Accomplishments:

. C, C++ and JAVA programming

. Project code development, testing and deployment.

. Worked on the application side of MQ projects.

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