Project Engineer

Professional Summary

. *+ years of quality working experience in customer facing roles in

Middleware products Administration and Integration using Java, Oracle,

WebSphere Apps Server Weblogic, JBOSS, Websphere Portal, Websphere MQ and

other middleware standard products.

. Good experience on technical consulting, infrastructure design,

application Design consultancy, project implementation and business

transitions. Has ability to work independently or cooperatively as part

of team to meet project deadlines.

. Expertise in Weblogic (11.x) & Websphere Application configuration and

administration using Websphere 7.X & 6.X and higher versions.

. Having strong analytical, reasoning and interpersonal skills with

experience in handling big infrastructure and performance tuning.

. Successfully transitioned the T-Systems project from onsite (Bielefeld-

Germany) to offshore (Noida, Chennai) India. Transition involved a team

of 17 for L2 & L3 application supports.

. Worked as Onsite Coordinator (USA and Europe) for client support and

implementation.

Professional Certifications & Highlights:

1) Websphere Application server V7.0 & V6.1 ND core administration

2) ITIL V3 foundation certified professional

3) Played Onsite co-ordinator role during my onsite visits in USA &

Germany

Tools & Technologies Used

Middleware Weblogic 8.x,9.x, Websphere App Server 8.x,7.x6.x ND,

Technologies MQ,Websphere Portal 8.0, JBOSS 5.1, Tomcat 7.x & 6.x

Operating Systems AIX, Solaris, Unix and Linux

Database Tools Oracle 10g,PL/SQL,DB2,Toad

Other tools Putty Connection Manager, Toad, Blade Logic

provisioning

Monitoring Tools Wily Introscope 8.x, AppManager, Appwatch, QPasa,

Nagios

Academic Details

. Masters in Information Technology, Mumbai University, 2006

. Bachelors in Information Technology, Mumbai University, 2004

Professional Work Experience

PROJECT-5

Employer: Cognizant Technology Solutions, USA

Aug'13-Till Date

Client: Wellington Management LLP,MA

Role: IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

. Implementing, managing and troubleshooting Weblogic, Tomcat, Websphere,

Apache, MQ, Active MQ, WMB application software hosted on AIX, Linux

and Solaris platforms.

. Responsible for handling build releases, Incident and Request

Fulfillment related tickets raised by users and resolve it within

SLA/ETA.

. Handling critical service alerts, patching, weekly change tasks and

provide on call support during weekends and holidays

. Setting up active monitors for business critical applications to

monitor status and health of web services using AppManager

. Install and configure MQ infrastructure with active monitors set up for

Investments and Trading applications using Appwatch and QPasa

monitoring applications.

. Troubleshooting issues in Prod and Non-Prod environments and fix it

with planned change tasks/control and emergency change control with CAB

meeting approvals

. Working as Technical Lead primarily specialist in Middleware products

for different technology partners such as IBM, SUN, Oracle, Open Logic,

AppManager, Alfresco

. Perform health checks of infrastructure and applications using system

level operational commands.

. Troubleshooting memory, cpu & file system issues using relevant

diagnostic logs and dump files.

. Preparing build document and run books for prior to every release in

Prod and Pre-Production environments

. Participate in Playbook review and CAB meetings for change approvals

and discussions.

. Deployment of applications (WAR, JAR and EAR) in different environments

like Development, Production in co-ordination with Application team on

multiple Weblogic App Servers.

. Building SOP for each and every operational activities and share it

with Architect and design team for reviews and feedback

. Participate in enterprise level maintenance and DR activities and

representing Middleware specific points.

. Planning On-Call rotation and Escalation matrix for US business hours

and Out of business hours support.

. Proactively providing updates about project level activities to Senior

Management and conducting QBR for any operational improvements.

. Drive operational efficiency and innovation drill through brainstorming

and brainwriting processes.

. Opening tickets (PMR, SR) with different product vendors as an when

required

PROJECT-4

Employer: Cognizant Technology Solutions, Germany

Dec'10-Aug'13

Client: T-Systems, GMBH, Germany

Role: Team-Lead

Responsibilities:

. Responsible for design, configuration and deployment of IBM Websphere

Application Server based applications. Installing BEA Weblogic

Server.(versions: 8.1 ; 9.x ; 10.0 ; 10.3)

. Gathering requirements from application/business team and define

strategic build documents.

. Defined best infrastructure build practices with educating diverse

development team on these versatile middleware products.

. Worked on application deployments, data source configurations,

connection pooling and other application server relative

configurations.

. Server/cluster creation & low-level configuration to support High

Availability and Failover for tier-1 critical applications. Creating

new Domains(Admin Server, Managed Servers, Node Managers)

. Performed JKS & SSL checks and maintenance and Security realm

configurations & customizations.

. Improving application performance with proper JVM tuning & exception

analysis through desired Heap-Non-Heap memory settings & Perm Gen

settings.

. Worked on apache module customizations, Logging & archival

considerations, Vulnerability identification & remediation.

. Supported Load Balancer Concepts (VIPas, local/global high

availability, balancing algorithms, health checks, etc.)

. Involved in designing of high level and detail Design technical

architecture documents & technical specifications that guides the

implementation process.

. Responsible to manage a wide array of activities covering Incident

Management Process & Practices, provisioning of Infrastructure for

smooth project management & transitions, internal & external audits,

operations, business continuity planning, and SLA management.

. Setting up and configuring clusters for failover management and load

balancing.

. Weblogic Server and Sun JDK / BEA JRockit Tuning for optimum

performance.

. Applying fixpacks/feature packs etc. to make our applications running

with latest product versions.

. Experience on webserver plug-in configurations and Strong understanding

of Websphere technical aspects

. Involved in Proposal and capacity management discussions with the

client to provide solution as per the client requirements.

. Have efficiency in Unix commands and Shell scripting (used for

automation, report generation and maintenance of entire

infrastructure)

. Communicate with clients for different project requirements and

solving issues by scheduling bridge calls.

. Performed System level troubleshooting on Linux, Solaris and AIX

platforms (basic SysAdmin/Operational knowledge).Trouble shooting log

files and dumps using IBM ISA tool .

. Worked with onsite team in developing the automated script for

deployment and basic administration of App servers.

. Implementing repository based security renewal for WebSphere and Web

Server's

PROJECT-3

Employer: ADP India Pvt. Ltd.

Aug'08-Dec'10

Client: Broadridge Financial Services, USA

Role: Member Technical

. Administration and configuration of the Websphere/Weblogic Application

server domain environments

. Good hands on experience in installing service packs and security

patches in Middleware Websphere/Weblogic server.

. Worked on Security Realm configuration in Websphere/Weblogic.

Implementing repository based security renewal for Websphere and Web

Server's

. Worked on deployment of Web & Enterprise applications on

Websphere/Weblogic Servers.

. In depth knowledge of JVM Tuning (Heap dump, Thread Dump, Memory leaks

etc.) by using third party tools.

. Configure MQ/Oracle/DB2 resources as per application requirements.

. Have basic hands on experience in working BladeLogic operational

activities

. Websphere profile creation with versioning standard, resource

management, EAR configuration and deployment to respective profiles.

. Maintenance of Clustered Production Application Server

Environment(Active-Active and Active-Passive)

. Synchronization of Active-passive Application server cluster.

. Maintenance and synchronization of DR (Disaster Recovery) Application

server.

. Start/Stop of application servers/clusters & monitoring start-up logs

and SystemOut/SystemErr

PROJECT-2

Employer: Ace Software Solutions.

Apr'07-Jul'08

Client: Abu-Dhabi Bank

Role: Software Engineer

. Installing the Middleware products on various OS platform

. Websphere profile creation with versioning standard, resource

management, EAR configuration and deployment to respective profiles.

. Configuring Websphere proxy plug-ins (Microsoft IIS, Apache)

. MQ configuration to create different queue manager, queues (Local and

Remote), listener, Channels.

. Performed upgradation of Weblogic Domain from 8.1 version to 10.x

version.

. Performed upgradation of Websphere from 6.x version to 8.x version.

. Tomcat Server infrastructure build and support for web applications

. Installation and configuration of the Microsoft IIS & Apache web

servers.

PROJECT-1

Employer: Datamatics Technologies Ltd.

Sep'06-Apr'07

Role: Associate Engineer

. Installing the Middleware products on various OS platform

. Trouble shooting log files and dumps using IBM ISA tool

. Creating Cells/Nodes/Application Servers, Federating nodes and

creating/configuring application server

Clusters .Creating JDBC resources (Data sources, Connection Pools,

Multi Pools)

. Configuration of Database connection pools and data source in

Websphere/Weblogic.

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