PRANEETH N

Phone: 972-***-****

WebSphere Admin

ac1a4t@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

7+ years of IT experience as an IBM WebSphere Application Server Administrator.

Experience in planning, installing, configuring, administering, tuning and troubleshooting IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.x, 8.x, WebSphere Commerce Server 7.x, IBM HTTP server and Apache Tomcat Webservers on various Operating systems like Windows and UNIX.

Strong understanding of IBM WebSphere Application Server family and architecture basis.

Strong in installation and configuration of JBOSS, Tomcat for intranet applications.

Strong technical knowledge on in installation and configuration of JRules BRMS 7.x (IBM Operational Decision Management/ODM) on windows operating systems in silent mode and GUI installation.

Adept at installation, configuration of IBM HTTP server and Apache Tomcat Webservers.

Configuring the Development and Test environments according to the request from the Development and QA teams through the Release Manager.

Good knowledge in the migration of WAS from version 7.X to 8.X.

Knowledge on upgrading the JRules BRMS 7.x (IBM Operational Decision Management/ODM) on applying the fixpacks.

Well versed with Troubleshooting using Application and jvm log file, log analyzer and by enabling trace.

Working with the application development team, if error related to code in the application log files. Working with Network and Database teams depending upon the issues related to.

Experience in monitoring and maintaining multiple applications in Development, QAT, staging, production.

Experience in WebSphere commerce server (eStore) administration, support and strong knowledge with all sub systems Catalog, Marketing, Pricing, Order Management and Promotion.

Experience in setting up a brand new installation for B2B & B2C in WebSphere Commerce V7 environment integrating with WebSphere MQ & Portal on UNIX environments.

Support WebSphere Commerce Server 7.0 for Dev, QA, Stage, Production.

Good knowledge in MQ v7.0 and MB v7.0.

Experience in creating WebSphere MQ objects, channels and receivers.

Experience in setting up Nodes, Data Sources and Virtual Hosts, Configuring Servlet Engines Session Managers and Environmental Variables.

Involved in store publish and catalog management activities.

Deployment of Enterprise Application that involves EAR(Enterprise archives) and WAR (Web Archives) using shell scripting, Configuration of Enterprise Environment and supporting applications running on WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Commerce Server.

Experienced in setting up DMZ environments with good understanding of TCP/IP concepts, DDNS / DNS requisitions, VIPs, NATd IPs, Firewall requisitions.

Expertise in deploying J2EE applications (partial/full deployment )on the IBM WebSphere application server through the admin console as well as through wcs admin scripts.

Experienced in implementation of Work Load Management (WLM) concepts using clustering techniques including Vertical Clustering for failover and High Availability. Created, configured, administered profiles and Clusters.

Experience in JBoss application server clustering for high availability load balancing.

Working knowledge on clustering of the Rule Team Server (RTS)/Decision Center (DC)( IBM Operational Decision Management/ODM).

Providing production support24X7. Opening the Problem Management Record (PMR) with the IBM if there were any unresolved bugs and resolving problem tickets.

Strong knowledge in creating SIB/JMS database for each node in WAS cluster to improve the application performance as well as Scalability and failover so that if the node goes offline another node takes over any pending JMS messages on the disabled node.

Expertise in configuring WC-Admin Console scheduler jobs, Creating prices rules,Cataloging setup in Management center and creating users in Org-Admin Console.

Expertise in setting up and involving in solving issues related to Staging Propagation, Solr index prop and Stage copy on to staging and Serving environments.

Strong experience of implementing the security by self-signed/ third party signed certificates, using ikeyman tool.

Good working experience in configuring WAS Resources-JDBC providers, Data Sources, JMS Providers, Connection Factories, Service Integration Bus, Shared Libraries and Resource Environmental Providers.

Experience in upgrading WebSphere n different platforms by Fix packs (refresh packs) and cumulative fix packs using WebSphere update installer.

24/7 Production Support.

Professional Certifications:

IBM WebSphere Commerce Server V7 System administration.

IBM Certified Administrator WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V8.5.5 and Liberty Profile.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems

Windows 2000/2003, Unix/Linux( Suse), Windows 7/XP, AIX

Programming Languages

C, C++, Java, J2EE, HTML, XML

Web/Application Servers

IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.x/7.x, IBM Http Server 8.0/7.0, Tomcat 6.0, WebSphere MQ 7.0/6.1, WebSphere Message Broker 7.0/6.1, JBOSS 7.x

Web Technologies/Scripting

HTML, XML, JACL, Jython, XML Config/ANT/Shell, WSCP Scripts.

Commerce

WebSphere Commerce Server, 7.0

Networking Protocols

TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP, SOAP, FTP, SFTP, SSH, SSL, SCP, LDAP.

Databases

DB2 9.5, Oracle 8.x/9i/10g/11g Enterprise Edition.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: T-Mobile, Atlanta, GA OCT 15 – Present

Title: WebSphere Commerce Administrator

Responsibilities:

Installed, configured and maintained WebSphere application server 7.x and WebSphere Commerce Server 7.x and resolved the installation issues and configuration issues with WCS

Installed Fix packs, Refresh Pack for WebSphere commerce server Applied the changes that were suggested by the application support to overcome App server problems APARS to overcome commerce related problems

Working with the Performance Engineers to fine tune the Ecommerce env, involving the IBM WebSphere Commerce Servers and Application servers, Webservers,Plugins

Involved in the daily sync calls with the infrastructure team and production support team offshore

Working with the E- commerce team to implement a B2B (Ellite store) solution using the WebSphere Commerce

Configuring new commerce instances with respective resources

Involved in store publish and Catalog management activities

Create, bulk upload and maintain catalog data and attribute dictionary using CMC and dataload utility

Create and maintain Catalog filters, price rules, customer segments and promotions

Build and Deploy Process within WCS

Configuration of IBM Management Centre

Resolved the Site level, Store level issues to support the online sales

Update the Catalog data to different environments upon requests from the Business

Worked on performance tuning activities

Configured DynaCache and cache monitors with WebSphere

Fine-tuned the caching for searching products on the store website

Work with Solr support for Global navigation issues

Analyzed HTTP Server, Application server & Commerce Server logs problems

Monitored and updated the ssl certificates for the entire environment

Install and maintain Development and Test environments according to the request from the Development and QA teams through the Release Manager

Handling of deployments to different environments

Deployed war’s, jar’s and ear’s using WebSphere Admin Console

Sending Build starting, status, completed emails to communicate to global teams

Verifying the logs for the failed jobs and worked with the development/application support team to resolve the issues

Executing SQL scripts to different environments upon requests

Worked on patching the WebSphere Application server and the Commerce servers

Work with the developers to identify and resolve issues pertaining to the middle ware environment

Worked with the SVN and jenkin servers for build and deployment

Worked with site scope for website performance monitoring

Involved in the weekly maintenance and release management activities

Monitored and updated the ssl certificates for the entire environment

Worked on renewing expired certificates on WebSphere and IHS servers

Placed a CA cert request and imported CA certs into WebSphere

Configured security and SSL connectivity for Http Server, plugin and Application Servers

Environment: WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Commerce server7.x, SOLR, Control-M, Linux, Oracle 11g, Adobe CQ, Mule servers, Apache Tomcat 7.0, WebSphere IHS Servers.

Client: Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN Aug 13 – SEP 15

Title: Middleware - Administrator/WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

Working with the E- commerce team to implement a B2C solution using the WebSphere Commerce

Support WebSphere commerce Server for Production, non-Production environments.

Install fixpacks, feature packs for WebSphere Commerce server.

Analyze the issues with online sales and provide the solution.

Work with IBM, Oracle support teams to resolve the Customer facing issues related to WebSphere commerce server, SEO (Endeca).

Support the eStore environment for Peak season

Deployment of Enterprise Application, Configuration of Enterprise Environment and supporting applications running on WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Commerce Server.

Involved in store publish and catalog management activities.

Performance tuning w.r.t. JDBC Connection Pools.

Creating and installing SSL certificates in Non-Prod and Prod environments i.e. self signed and VeriSign respectively.

Handling of deployments to different environments.

Deployed war’s, jar’s and ear’s using WebSphere Admin Console.

Staging prop schedulers and solving issues for unprocessed records based on STAGLOG table.

Analyzed HTTP Server, Application server & Commerce Server logs problems.

Working on IBM Sterling OMS for Item order issues, purchase issues.

Work with Endeca support for Global navigation issues.

Checked the logs for the failed jobs and worked with the development/application support team to resolve the issues.

Worked with the Akamai team for Site content issues

Work with dynatrace (Compuware) team for transaction performance issues.

Work on IBM Sterling OMS for Item order issues, purchase issues.

Experience in setting up Data load activates.

Experience in setting up WCBD (WebSphere Commerce Build and deploy), setting up scheduler jobs in Jenkins [Hudson] Continuous integration tool and have scheduled the deployments for WCBD to all Environments.

Store Publish, Prices rules, Catalog activities using Management center.

Migrated WebSphere Application server v7 to v8 on RedHat Linux and AIX.

Install latest Fix packs on WebSphere application Server v8.

Configured WebSphere Application server with DB2 database.

Resolved the WebSphere application server integration issues with MQ.

Modified CCDT file to resolve application connection issues with QMGR

Performance tuning and continuous monitoring of the queues to ensure no issues were found.

Performed operations on IBM HTTP server nodes, JMS nodes, MQ server and client nodes for the efficient flow of the data between applications.

Strong knowledge with Apache Solr..

Environment: WebSphere Commerce server v7, WebSphere extreme scale v7, WebSphere Application Sever v8,v7, IBM Sterling OMS 9.2, Oracle Endeca 6.2, Gomez, WebSphere MQ v7, WebSphere Message Broker V7, Akamai, Dynatrace, Tealeaf, Oracle 11g, RedHat Linux 5.7, AIX 6.1.

Client: Burlington Court Factory, Burlington, NJ Jul 12 - Aug 13

Title: WAS Administrator

Description: Burlington Coat Factory is a leading off-price apparel and home product retailer. BCF operate over 470 stores in 44 states and Puerto Rico, where you’ll find a large assortment of current, high-quality, designer and name-brand merchandise.

Responsibilities:

Installation, Configuration and Administration of IBM WAS 7.x and 6.x on Linux Environments.

Installed, configured and propagated IBM HTTP server and its Plugins for managed and unmanaged nodes

Deployed application EARs on IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment in Development, System Test and Performance Test on a daily basis and troubleshoot various configuration and application issues.

Installed Refresh Packs, Fix Packs and Interim Fixes for WebSphere Application Server.

Used Jython scripts for start/stop clusters, servers and for auto deployments

Implemented workload management (WLM) for failover using a horizontal, vertical and a combination of horizontal and vertical clustering.

Configured WebSphere resources such as JDBC Providers, Data Sources and Connection Pools.

Collected Garbage Collection data for monitoring JVM heap sizes.

Set up JVM logs by configuring the log file rotation based on log file size/time parameters.

Configured MQ Objects within the WebSphere Application Environment.

Troubleshoot MQ Connectivity and Application issues.

24x7 support for Production environments

Environment: IBM WebSphere 7.x, 6.x, 5.x WebSphere MQ V6.0, IHS 6.x, RHEL 6.x, Oracle 9i/10g, DB2, Active Directory, Wily Introscope.

Client: Symbiosis Technologies, India May 10 – Jun 12

Title: WebSphere Administrator

Responsibilities:

Installation of WebSphere Application Server and IBMHTTP Server on Linux and Windows Operating Systems.

Configured WebSphere Application Server to IBMHTTP Server.

Deployed EAR & WAR files on WebSphere Application Server and Network Deployment Manger.

Created Data Source in Conjunction with IBM DB2 to configure with WebSphere Application Server.

Created Clusters in Network Deployment Manager.

Involved in creating Clustering for workload balancing and fail over by creating Horizontal and Vertical Clustering.

Applied Fix packs and Cumulative fixes to WebSphere Application server 7.0.x.

Involved in migration of WebSphere Application Server from 6.0 to 7.0.

Created different types of Profiles like Standalone, Custom and Deployment Manager Profiles.

Federated different type of Profiles to the Deployment Manager Profile.

Involved in enabling WebSphere global security using Local OS.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 6.0, WebSphere MB 6.0, WebSphere MQ 6.0, Linux 5, Oracle 8i, WebSphere IHS Servers.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Osmania University.

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