MQ Administrator

Have **+ years of experience in managing Message Oriented Middleware technologies such as

-IBM WebSphere MQ v9.0, 8.0, 7.5 in Mainframes, AIX, Linux, AS400, Windows.

-IBM Integration bus v9.0, MQSI v2.0 and WMB v6.0 in Windows, AIX.

-Valid H1B VISA till Aug2019.

Recent Achievements:

Completed MQ upgrade from MQ v7.5 to IBM MQ v9.0 in Windows and AIX environments.

Completed MQ upgrade form MQ v7.0.1 to WebSphere MQ v8.0 in Mainframe environments.

Build new MQ environments with MQ v8.0 and MQ v 9.0.

Built Multi instance MQ and Multi instance IIB using MQ v7.5 and IIB v9.0

Built MQ servers using HCAMP and MSCS.

Built new MQ queue managers in Mainframe systems.

Fix pack upgrade for IIB v9.0.0.2, to IIB v9.0.0.8 as a pre requisite for MQ v9.0 upgrade

Rolled out maintenance for Mainframe MQ across LPARS.

Participate in Years Disaster recovery Exercise for Mainframes, AIX and Windows environment.

Leading a team of 6 people supporting a leading US insurance company.

Nice to have skills:-

Good knowledge and extensive training in WebSphere application server, IIS.

Having Good exposure in Incident, change and problem management (ITIL Certified)

Completed internal certification on Amazon AWS.

Mainframe Administrator certification with specialized knowledge in CICS.

Technical Skills

-Certifications &Trainings

IBM Certified System Administrator - WebSphere MQ V7.0.

Other Certifications:-

-ITIL V3 certified

-AWS technical certification internal

-CICS and MQ Fundamentals

-CICS Transaction server for z/OS Basic Tailoring (CI20)

-CICS DB2 Interface for System Programmers (CI240)

-MQ Administration training

-Effective Presentation Skills Workshop in IBM premises

-SMPE training from IBM.

-Global English for Business certification Level 10

-WAS and Edge server training

-CICS and DB2 application programming

-WMB v6.0 and v7.0 Class room Training in CSC

-CICS Systems programmer training from Maples ESM technologies.

Operating systems

Z/OS, OS/390,Windows, AS400, AIX, Linux.

Mainframe Subsystem

MQ,WMB,MQSI,JES2, TSO, VTAM, TCP/IP, SMP/E,CICS.

Security tools

RACF.

Languages

JCL, C, JAVA, Shell Scripting.

Back End/Front End

DB2, IMS/ CICS, VSAM, MQ.

Testing Tools

Omegamon, Abendaid, IPCS, and Intertest.

Problem & Change Management Tools

Kintana, Service center, Manage Now, Assyst.

Others

MS Outlook, Lotus Notes, WAS Administration,

Work Profile

Sep 2011 – Till date

Title – Lead Consultant (Professional 2)

Company – CSC India Pvt. Ltd. (DXC Technology)

Project client : Zurich / Farmers Insurance.

Mainframe LPARS : 10+ LPARS with 50+ Queue mangers.

Midrange (Windows/Unix) : 100+ Servers and 200+ Queue managers

Technology : MQ/MB Administrator for mainframes, Windows and Unix

Responsibilities

-Leading a team of 6 people in offshore handling L1 to L5 tasks such as upgrades, fix pact, major application releases.

-Hands on Experience in configuring and setting up PROD, DEV, AIT, AFT, REG and PERF MQ environments

-Expertise in Production Support and Problem (RCA) analysis, in different environment.

-Have hands on in IBM CICS built, RDO definitions and configure CICS-MQ connectivity, Multi region operation(MRO).

-Conducted MQ trainings sessions in the current and previous organizations.

-Administered and configured MQ objects like Queue Mangers, Queues, Channels, Process Definition and Clusters

-Worked on the Clusters and implemented Clustering for High availability to make the administration task easy and for the Workload Balancing of the messages.

-Backup, recovery and trouble shooting for WebSphere MQ..

-Worked with IBM Support on resolving critical problems by creating PMR’s and supplying required traces, dumps and other documentation.

-Provided Oncall / 24X7 Production Support and infrastructure monitoring and Trouble shooting.

-Completed MQ upgrade from MQ v7.5 to IBM MQ v9.0 in Windows and AIX environments.

-Completed MQ upgrade form MQ v7.0.1 to WebSphere MQ v8.0 in Mainframe environments.

-Build new MQ environments with MQ v8.0 and MQ v 9.0.

-Built Multi instance MQ and Multi instance IIB using MQ v7.5 and IIB v9.0

-Built MQ servers using HCAMP and MSCS.

-Built new MQ queue managers in Mainframe systems.

-Fix pack upgrade for IIB v9.0.0.2, to IIB v9.0.0.8 as a pre requisite for MQ v9.0 upgrade

-Rolled out maintenance for Mainframe MQ across LPARS.

-Participate in Years Disaster recovery Exercise for Mainframes, AIX and Windows environment.

-Oncall support during off-hours and weekend.

June2010 - Sep 2011

Title – Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Company – Mphasis Pvt. Ltd.

Project client : AVIVA

Mainframe LPARS : 7 + 10 LPARS with 50+ Queue mangers.

Midrange (Windows/Unix) : 200 Servers and 300+ Queue managers

Technology : Mainframe Online Systems and assisting MQ/MB teams in midrange(Windows/Unix).

-Carrying out specific Project Requests (PRs) to live release with supportive documents as per the defined Project Plan

-Attending weekly Status Call meeting & coordinating to PR listings based on business priority

-Coordinating with Project lead for Resource allocation & planning

-Find problem and change records assigned to our team resolve and preserve documentation and dumps required.

-Implementation of documented, approved changes

-Write change records to request other support groups to do things.

March2010 - June2010

Title - MQ System Programmer

Company – Citi, Malaysis (via Encora Technologies)

Project Client – Citi Infrastructure support team for APAC.

Technology : Websphere MQ in midrange(Windows/Unix) and Mainframes.

-Carrying out specific Project Requests (PRs) to live release with supportive documents as per the defined Project Plan

-Attending weekly Status Call meeting & coordinating to PR listings based on business priority

-Coordinating with Project lead for Resource allocation & planning

-Find problem and change records assigned to our team resolve and preserve documentation and dumps required.

-Implementation of documented, approved changes

-Write change records to request other support groups to do things.

March2007 - March2010

Title – Middleware Administrator

Company – IBM India Pvt. Ltd.

Project client : APMM

Mainframe LPARS : 7 + 10 LPARS with 50+ Queue mangers.

Midrange (Windows/Unix) : 200 Servers and 300+ Queue managers

Technology : Mainframe Online Systems and assisting MQ/MB teams in midrange(Windows/Unix).

-Carrying out specific Project Requests (PRs) to live release with supportive documents as per the defined Project Plan

-Attending weekly Status Call meeting & coordinating to PR listings based on business priority

-Coordinating with Project lead for Resource allocation & planning

-Find problem and change records assigned to our team resolve and preserve documentation and dumps required.

-Implementation of documented, approved changes

-Write change records to request other support groups to do things.

-Worked on QSG in sysplex.

-Support all new projects, including system and product upgrades

-Plan and implement changes to make CICS and MQ resource usage conform to agreed-to values for GSD331. Perform and execute audit readiness and GSD331 compliance

-Performing periodical Health Checks and Disaster Recovery Tests with MVS, Storage and DB2 teams.

-Complete Route Cause Analysis (RCA) for problems

-Solaris system upgrade from MQ version 5.3, 6 to version 7.0.1

-Patch maintenance for Mainframe products

-Upgraded mainframe MQ from version 6.0 to version 7.0

June2006 - March2007

Title - CICS Systems Programmer

Company – IBM India Pvt. Ltd. (via MAPLES ESM Technologies)

Project client : General Electric.

LPARS : 2X LPARS with 2XX Regions.

Technology : Mainframe Online Systems

-Making the RDO in CICS and MQ object changes

-Interfacing CICS/MQ subsystems

-Send dump (and other needed documentation) to Support Center

-Use RACF and ACF/2 to find current values and document them in 'current settings' column in GSD331 documents

-Perform simple IBM and ISV product installs, migrating new releases and maintaining those releases (such as CICS TS, Intertest, AbendAid, McKinney CEMT from Batch, CICS Message, etc.,

-Use Omegamon to find source of multiple-region CICS problems

-Queue sharing group definition in MQ

-MQ clustering administration

-IBM dump reading using AbendAid

-Knowledge of MRO within CICS regions both inter/intra LPAR’s

Education and Achievements

MS in Software Systems with 7.5 CGPA from Birla institute of Technology, Pilani.

Bachelor of Engineering [BE] from Anna University, Chennai in the Year 2006 with 73%.

Personal Details

Fathers name M. Ramalingam

Date of Birth 12th August 1985

Marital status married

Nationality Indian

City Chennai

Personal – ID ****************@*****.***

Personal Traits

Process documentation (Wherever required).

Periodic cleanup activities, which help error-free trouble shooting.

Maintain a common team activity database.

Client satisfaction through process improvement.

Building a room to have all documents and technical books.

Flexible across shifts (US/UK).

Affirmation

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