Middleware Administrator

JAYA MULAGADA 513-***-****)

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

SUMMARY:

• 4 years of expertise in installation, configuration, and administration of Weblogic 10.x/11.x/12.x, WebSphere Application Server ND (Network Deployment) 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x WebSphere Process server 5.x/6.x/7.x, WebSphere MQ 7.x/6.x, IBM HTTP Server 2.x/6.0/7.0 on HP-Unix, Linux, AIX and Windows.

• Expertise in Administration, maintenance and Production Support of various J2EE applications on HP-Unix, Linux, AIX and Windows environments including on-call production support.

• Configuring Weblogic Servers for optimal performance.

• Extensively supported for Backend Systems, which includes Databases DB2 9.1/8.2/8.1/7.2/7.1, Oracle 10g/9i.

• Experience in Cluster Management, setting up Node Managers, Admin Servers in Weblogic server.

• Experience in Installation, Configuration, administration of WebSphere MQ Resources, Queue/Queue Manager, Channel, Listener, administration of MQ.

• Installed and Configured Apache Http Server, IBM HTTP Server Plug-In in order for the request to be routed from web servers to application servers.

• Involved and expertise in design, implementation and configuration of Horizontal, Vertical Clustering for Work Load Management.

• Configuring Global Security for WAS Administration Console users and Console Groups.

• Extensively involved in advanced configuration concepts like JDBC providers, Data Sources, Service integration Bus, Web Services, Destinations, Message Activations, Listener ports, Queue Connection Factories, Application Servers, Profiles, JVM settings, Environment Variables, etc

• Responsible for applying fix packs for various versions of Websphere Servers.

• Expertise in developing WSLT, Jython, JACL, Shell scripts for automating Weblogic and WebSphere application deployments and configuration at enterprise level.

• Expertise in automating the migration of applications using ANT and Lunt build tools.

• Troubleshooting on various issues, out of memory, memory leaks, hung sessions, federation of nodes and synchronization of nodes with NDM.

• Experienced in handling multiple applications as well as being responsible for Weblogic and WebSphere configuration, load balancing, performance tuning, disaster recovery, high availability, problem determination and providing technical support in Production and Test environment.

• Responsible for creating necessary documentation to build, administer and support all DEV, QA, PSTAGE and Production Weblogic and WebSphere Environments.

• Responsible for support mail folder for all help desk tickets and day to day operational support for other teams like Development, Unix team, Network, Database teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems HP-UNIX 11.x, Linux 7.2/7.1/6.2, AIX 5.3/5.2/5.1/4.3.3, Solaris 10/9/2.8/2.7, Win NT/2003/2000 Advanced Server, VMware.

Databases Oracle 10g/9i/8i, DB2 9.1/8.2/8.1/7.2/7.1, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, MS-Access,

Application Servers Websphere7.0.0.17/6.1.0.31/6.1.0.15/6.0.2.1/5.1.1.16/5.0.2,

Weblogic 7.x/8.x/9.x/10.x/11.x/12.x

Process Servers 6.2.0.3/6.1.2.3/6.0.2.2/5.1

Web Servers IBM HTTP Server 7.0/6.0/2.0.47/1.3,Microsoft IIS 6.0/5.0/4.0, Apache Server 2.0.47/1.3.28 and Tomcat

Messaging Servers IBM Websphere MQ 7.0/6.0.

Scripting JACL, Jython, Shell,Ant,batch scripts

Programming Languages C, C++, Java, Java script, J2EE, JSP, HTML, XML

Tools Lunt build,ANT, IBM Tivoli Monitor, Serena Dimensions, Wily Introscope, Hudson

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Project - BlueCross BlueShield Nov ‘13 to present

Role - Sr.WebSphere Administrator

Project Description: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is a leading health services company, delivers quality products, information, and services to help our customers improve their health and well-being. BCBSNC is a not-for-profit, fully taxed company. It is the largest health insurer in the state, with over 4,000 employees serving more than 3.6 million customers. It uses technologies like Weblogic, Websphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Web server, Websphere MQ, DB2 and even most advanced technologies like SOA architecture- Web Services, Data Power application Integration for supporting their java applications.

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained Weblogic 10.x/11.x/12.x, IBM WebSphere Application server Network Deployment (ND) 6.1.x/7.x, MQ 6.x/7.x, IBM HTTP Server 6.x/7.x, DB2 8.x/9.x on HP-Unix, Linux, AIX and Windows.

• Responsible for setting up the Dev, QA, Pstage and Production Environments which includes Installing the WebSphere, Creating Profiles, nodes, federation of nodes, was instances, Application Server, Clusters, Virtual hosts, Data Sources, MQ Connection factories, Plug-in configuration, and Service Integration Bus Configuration.

• Extensive experience in troubleshooting the deployment and other application problems, applying WebLogic patches, Service Packs, and working closely with development teams in solving issues.

• Worked closely with BEA WebLogic Technical Support Team in resolving the WebLogic critical issues, and followed up on the opened tickets by analyzing the respective thread dumps and config files.

• Extensive experience with WebLogic Clusters and the JMS Clusters. Configured the Distributed Topics, Queues and Message Bridges in JMS Clusters and MQ Series.

• Expertise in managing JNDI, LDAP, Managing Security, Configuring and monitoring.

• Highly involved in deploying, troubleshooting, maintaining and configuring J2EE applications in various environments like Dev, QA, Pstage and Prod.

• Configured and Enabled the Global Security for WAS Administration Console users and Console Groups, configuration of LDAP server.

• Expertise in managing JNDI, LDAP, Managing Security, Configuring and monitoring.

• Experience in Installation, Configuration, administration of WebSphere MQ Resources, Queue/Queue Manager, Channel, Listener, administration of MQ.

• Installation and configuration of Web Server Plug-in for Apache HTTP server and IBM HTTP Server and managing the Plug-in files on Web Server.

• Managed security and performance optimizations for Weblogic and WebSphere Application Server on HP-Unix, Linux, AIX and Windows platforms.

• Involved in Load balancing, Tuning, and Clustering for Weblogic and IBM WebSphere Application Server

• Created Weblogic and WebSphere cells, Horizontal and Vertical clusters, and added new cluster members

• Responsible for applying different fix packs and JDK upgrades for various versions of Weblogic, Websphere Application Server and process server.

• Involved in installation, configuration, and deployment and troubleshooting of more than 20 applications.

• Created JDBC Providers, Data sources, and JAAS authentication aliases in order to provide connectivity to Oracle, DB2 databases.

• Creating queue managers, queues, listeners and channels in MQ and monitoring them all on daily basis.

• Performed root-cause analysis for Productions outages and provided management with root-cause analysis report.

• Expertise in developing UNIX shell scripts, WLST, JACL, Perl and Jython for automating Weblogic, WebSphere application deployments and configuration at enterprise level.

• Troubleshooting on issues such as out of memory, memory leaks, hung sessions and session replication, federation of nodes and synchronization of nodes with NDM.

• Deploying and migrating the application from DEV, QA, Pstage, PROD and providing 24/7 on-call production support.

• Troubleshooting applied by setting the logging and tracing using changing the log detail levels. And monitoring all the failed events using failed event manager.

• Responsible for Support mail folder where we get all the help desk tickets and day-to-day operational support tasks for other teams like Development, UNIX team, Network, Data base, Business etc.

• Responsible for identify source and severity of problems include debugging and diagnosing issues and directing them to the proper client support team and transfer resolution knowledge to other technicians who are having assigned ticket.

• Worked closely with IBM on problem determination, and resolution.

• Extensive experience in solving the client’s production issues and worked with BEA’s support team to provide the solutions for client’s production critical issues

Environment: Application server 7.0.0.17/6.1.0.31/6.1.0.15/6.0.2.1/5.1.1.16/5.0.2/4.0.7, Weblogic 10.x/11.x/12.x, IBM HTTP Server7.0/6.0, MQ 7.0/6.0, DB2 9.1/8.2/8.1, HP-UNIX 11.x, Linux 7.1/6.2, Windows 2000 Advanced Servers, IBM Tivoli Monitor, Luntbuild, Udeploy, JCAPS, JACADA, Websphere Message Broker, Data power, WILY Introscope 9.X, Tivoli Access Manager (WebSEAL) 6.1 environments, J2EE1.5/1.4/1.3, Java2.0, JSP1.2, EJB2.0, JDBC2.0, XML, HP OpenView ServiceCenter, TFS, Shell Scripts, WSAdmin scripting.

Project - GMR Hyderabad International Airport, INDIA (Hyderabad) Jun’07 to Mar’11

Role - WebSphere Administrator/Database Admin

Project Description: The GMR Group is a leading global infrastructure major. The core businesses of the Group comprise of Airports, Energy, Highways and Urban Infrastructure. Having established its credentials as a leading infrastructure conglomerate in India, the Group has expanded its presence globally. It has technologies like Websphere Application Server, Websphere process server, IBM HTTP Web server, Websphere MQ, and even the most advanced technologies like SOA architecture- Web Services, Data Power application Integration for supporting their java applications.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Designing, installation and configuration of Websphere Application, Weblogic, Process Servers and websphere MQ on HP-UNIX, Linux, and Windows Server Environments.

• Responsible for J2EE Application Deployments, Applying patches, Service Integration Bus Configuration, Message Activations, Destinations, Data Source Creation, Virtual Host Creation, Session management, clusters, Deployment Manager Configuration in WebSphere6.1 and WebSphere6.0 on UNIX, Linux, and Windows Server Environments.

• Configured and Enabled the Global Security for WAS Administration Console users and Console Groups using Tivoli Directory Server as a LDAP User Registry

• Maintained Queues, Topics, in WebLogic JMS Server and MQ Series.Configured the Message Bridges between JMS Server and MQ Series.

• Configured and administered JDBC Connection Pools/Multi Pools/Data Sources on Web Logic Server 7.0.1.0/6.1.

• Involved in trouble shooting and fixing day-to-day problems of the applications in production, production-Fix and testing environment.

• Profiled all the J2EE Applications and worked with Application Groups in improving performance of application and possible memory leaks in applications.

• Configuring resources like JDBC Provider, JNDI Configurations, EJB References creating Environment Variables and Configuring Session Management.

• Configuring common event infrastructure and creating event database for same.

• Troubleshooting applied by setting the logging and tracing using changing the log detail levels. And monitoring the events through common event browser.

• Extensively involved in building the J2EE Vendor Applications in dedicated server WebSphere 6.1 environments in DEV, QA, STG and Prod on HP-UNIX, Linux, and Windows Server Environments.

• Responsible for Documentation of operational environments support procedures, Configuration and management of Application clusters and Application load balancing and Application Server tuning and problem isolation.

• Extensively involved in migrating all the J2EE Applications, which includes setting up new Research, Dev, QA, STG, and Production Environments from Web Sphere 6.0 to Web Sphere 6.1.

• Responsible for identify source and severity of problems include debugging and diagnosing issues and directing them to the proper client support team and transfer resolution knowledge to other technicians who are having assigned ticket

• Responsible for managing patch levels, building out environments, configurations, assisting developers.

• Extensively involved in analyzing the java Thread dumps and Heap dumps for addressing the application issues like Out of Memory, Heap leaks, high CPU usage and hung situations etc.

• Monitoring the applications through systemOut.log file and errors monitoring by SystemErr.log files.

• Handled most critical/revenue impacting situations during regular business hours and on also on call shift.

• Installation of Oracle 10g, DB2 8.1.x, 8.2, DB2 9.1 on HP-UX and Windows

• Creation of databases, Table space management, cloning database from production to development server

• Performing both hot and cold backup activities on production database.

• Performed routine management of database like monitoring and maintaining disk space, alert log file, fix pack installation and log files.

Environment: WebSphere Application Server 6.0.2/5.1,Process server 6.0.2.23/5.x, on Web Logic Server 7.0.1.0/6.1, JBOSS, Web Sphere MQ 6.0, WebSphere Portal Server 5.1.0.1, Apache Server 2.0.47, JDK1.3/1.4, Remedy user6.0, Dimensions 2.9.4.0, HP-UNIX 11.x, Linux 7.1/6.2, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, oracle 10g,DB2 8.1.

EDUCATION:

Bachelors of Technology in Computer Science and Information Technology.

CERTIFICATION:

• IBM Certified Administrator - WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V7.0

• Oracle Certified Specialist – 10g Oracle certified associate.

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