Project Management

Sajith Vasu Kulathupara

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A results-driven technical professional with over 8 years of experience in Integration Space with deep knowledge of Middleware Technologies.

Certified professional with P4 expert in IBM WebSphere Message Broker & IBM WebSphere MQ Series. Extensive experience in leading Integration projects using WebSphere MQ, Broker, Tibco, Axway, AWS Cloud Solution, JBOSS, Tomcat for NA Retail Client.

Extensive experience in Software Engineering, middleware Production Support & Development for large NA retail Client. Proven ability to lead and motivate team members to ensure success.

Currently serving as Software Engineering Associate Manager (Sr Systems Analyst) and is involved as technical consultant in production support and also involved in development activities and enhancement.

Experienced on Leading Integration Support team of size 25 and driving both Operations and delivery work with hands-on on technologies like IBM WebSphere MQ, IBM WebSphere Broker, IBM Integration Bus v9 and v10, AWS Cloud solution (EC2, ELB, EBS, VPC, Route 53, RDS, S3, IAM, Cloud Watch, Elastic Map), Tibco, JBOSS, tomcat, Axway File Transfer, splunk and open source product like chef, couchdb, elastic search, terracotta, varnish, flume & log stash.

Domain expertise in IBM WebSphere MQ version 6, 7, 8 and IBM Message Broker version 6, 7, 9 and 10 in EAI applications.

Extensive Experience on AWS cloud end to end infrastructure support & delivery.

Trained on Hadoop Administration by Cloud Era & IIBv9 System Administration.

In depth understanding of production/application support and severity involved with the issues.

Very good capabilities in understanding the Business Process Functionality, leading to gaining excellent domain knowledge.

Coordinating with Client team to understand the requirements of projects and estimating time and man-power required to complete.

Ability & highly keen on to learn, grasp and deliver both individually & also as a proactive team member.

An effective communicator with exceptional relationship management skills with the ability to relate to people at any level of business and management and significant experience working with steering committees and other project managers.

Qualification

2007 - B.E. (Hons.) (Electronics and telecommunication Engineering), Mumbai University, India

Certification

IBM Certified System Administrator – Web Sphere MQ V6.0 Admin (000-994)

IBM Certified Solution Designer – Web Sphere MQ V6.0 (000-996)

IBM Certified System Administrator – Web Sphere MQ V7.0 Admin (000-374)

IBM Certified System Administrator – Web Sphere Message Broker V7.0 (000-184)

Domain Certified - Retail Industry Generalist Certified.

ITILv3 2011 edition Certified.

IT Skill Set

Technologies : IBM MQ series, IBM WebSphere Message Broker & IIBv9 Administration, TIBCO Business Work and EMS Administration, AWS Cloud Administration, JBOSS & tomcat Administration, Chef Administration.

OS : Worked on Windows, HP-UX, Linux – RHEL, UBUNTU, SUSE Linux.

Tools & Utilities: IBM MQ Explorer, Nastel Autopilot, Nastel MQ admin tool, RFHUTIL, IBM Message Broker Toolkit, EDS-INET, HP SC,IBM Impact, ITSM, ant, cruise control, HPOV, Key store explorer, Ikey management, Nettool, VM Sphere, SOAP UI, Chef, varnish, flume, log stash, elastic search, TIBCO Designer, RUMMON, HP-Perf Mon, BSM, SPLUNK, GOMEZ etc.

Industry Knowledge: Informatica, Tibco products, Web sphere Application Server, Java, J2EE, Webservices, apache tomcat, varnish, couchdb, elastic search, flume, Tibco Active Space etc.

Professional Work Experience:

Client: Sonepar USA, Philadelphia PA Aug 2015 – Till Date

Role: Integration System Architect/System Admin Lead

Project: Integration Migration WESB-IIB

Description: The WESB-IIB migration effort consists of a detailed analysis of all current-state solutions and the design, implementation and architecture of a new to-be SOA solution for E-link Order entry, Web Commerce integration interfaces, and other system integrations. In addition, this project will modify and/or design and implement solutions to address gaps as one of US operating companies, Viking Electronic Supply, migrates from an existing proprietary ERP system to the corporate standard Eclipse ERP system. This is a multi-phase project with planned go-live in May of 2016.

Project Responsibilities:

Middleware system administration to design, document, setup, configure and author run-books for the development workstations, shared development environment, test, uat and production environments.

Responsible for performing source code management, merge, and deployments.

Detailed analysis of application and identifying gaps to do seamless migration.

Migration of existing Client solution from WebSphere ESB to IBM Integration Bus

Responsible for Integration Architecture design with detailed documentation.

Building IIB infrastructure and developing standards across software life cycle.

Responsible for preparing for and performing the transition of duties to an off-shore resource for the long-term run team.

Setting up Monitoring system, deployment automation, high availability of application using IIB solution.

Environment: IBM WebSphere MQ, IBM Integration Bus, App dynamics, Windows.

Client: Best Buy, Richfield MN August 2013 – July 2015

Role: Integration Technical Lead

Project: Integration Application Maintenance and Delivery.

Description: Client integration system was majorly built on Tibco products, IBM Websphere Message Broker & MQ, Java/.Net based atomic/composite services, JBOSS, Axway secured managed file transfer and these are used across the client Enterprise to meet the challenge of connecting to all of their corporate assets.

Project Responsibilities:

Accountable for handing entire Middleware Application for the client with hands-on experience on administration and installation of IBM Websphere MQ & IBM Websphere Message Broker/IIBv9 platform, Tibco products, Axway Secure File Transfer.

Responsible for Setting up connectivity between complex client systems, SSL configuration, setting up load balanced environment through MQ clustering and configuring HA environment.

Responsible for Code deployments/migrations from the development to the production environment, mitigating security vulnerability risks, setting up monitoring and alerts using Nastel Monitoring tool & HP BSM.

Performing configuration & code review, configuring and maintaining HA environment, coordinating OS upgrade with platform teams, handling critical outages, providing technical assessment and coordination with other stakeholders.

Performing deployment through scripts and chef.

Leading integration application team and ensuring all deliverables are completed on time

Providing technical direction to client for developing, designing and integrating systems for customers.

Solving technical issues and providing best of the services to client.

Technical Consultant for all new project/enhancement of existing services.

Identifying system deficiencies and implementing effective solutions.

Analyse all requirements and maintain business systems and documents.

Coordinate with application team to implement all integration strategies and administer integration of all applications.

Perform troubleshoot on all production issues and recommend appropriate solutions for same and managing all maintenance activities.

Define & Design various standards and guidelines for all integration processes and collaborate with application teams to design various applications according to standards.

Managing operational support activities in Prod environment with Ticket handling, development of application, monitoring queues/channel/error logs/queue manager status, memory and CPU utilization, alert handling, reporting, troubleshooting environment issues, helping application team in triaging production issue, Change coordination, root cause analysis, documenting resolution steps, managing license, SSL etc.

Environment: IBM Websphere, Tibco, IBM MQ & Broker, JBOSS, MQ and MB Explorer, Nastel Autopilot, MQ admin tool, RFHUTIL, IBM Message Broker Toolkit, Key store explorer, SOAP UI, Chef, Jenkins, Github, SVN, Atlassian, TIBCO Designer, Spring Tool Suites, BSM, SPLUNK, Service Now, Linux platform, Windows.

Client: Best Buy, Richfield MN August 2012 – August 2013

Role: AWS Cloud Engineer

Project: Evolution Platform.

Description: Evolution Platform is the name of a program that aims to build a flexible, open platform that is at the same time extremely flexible to traffic, development and operational needs.

The Platform is built on Amazon cloud infrastructure that enables

rapid mobilisation of environments

adaptability to seasonal spikes in traffic

easier operability by allowing real-time deployment without impacting end-users

geographic distribution of infrastructure to provide for availability and redundancy

reliability of the infrastructure through mirroring and caching of elements

Project Responsibilities:

Responsible for operational support activities to ensure availability of customer websites hosted on AWS cloud infrastructure using Virtual private cloud and public cloud.

Extensive experience working with AWS provided Solutions like EC2, ELB, EBS, VPC, Route 53, RDS, S3, IAM, Cloud Watch, Elastic Map Reduce and deployed solution like Chef, CouchDB, Varnish, Flume, Splunk, Terracotta, Documentum, Oracle XE, Elastic Search, Apache tomcat.

Worked on installation and configuration of open source software like apache tomcat, chef, varnish, elastic search, couch db, terracotta, flume and documentum, oracle xe, splunk on cloud instances.

Have experience on configuring VPN/SSL/security for application deployed on cloud, setting up elastic load balancer with auto scaling of instances based on performance load.

Configuring Cloud Watch for monitoring cloud instances.

Automating cloud deployment and changes through Chef using ruby to allow real time deployment without impacting customers.

Technical consultant for all enhancements/deployments in AWS infrastructure to enrich customer experience.

Evaluating technical architecture for new changes and recommending solutions.

Responsible for application maintenance activities in Production environment.

Identify, implement and support application monitoring solutions for cloud deployments.

Leverage industry best practices in defining and tuning appropriate on-demand cloud architecture.

Maintaining 100% software & security compliance.

Environment: AWS provided Solutions like EC2, ELB, EBS, VPC, Route 53, RDS, S3, IAM, Cloud Watch, Elastic Map Reduce and deployed solution like Chef, CouchDB, Varnish, Flume, Splunk, Terracotta, Documentum, Oracle XE, Elastic Search, Apache tomcat, Ubuntu, Windows.

Client: Best Buy, Richfield MN Sep 2007 – July 2012

Role: Middleware Technical Expert

Project: Enterprise Middleware Services

Description: Enterprise Middleware services (EMS) is built on messaging/web services which helps organization to meet challenge of connecting to all of their corporate assets by providing an integration platform which includes EAI technologies and orchestration under SOA architecture.

Project Responsibilities:

SME for Middleware delivery and Application support projects running on messaging/web based technologies.

Solving technical issues and providing best of the services to client.

Member of Service Introduction and Operational Readiness for all project going live into Production.

Performing internal Audit to maintain SOX and PCI compliance. Always ensured that everyone adheres to compliance policy.

Managing technology license cost for all product used.

Managing operational support activities in production environment.

Coordinating with client and understanding the requirements for new projects/enhancements and ensuring deliverables are achieved in time.

Evaluating existing technical architecture and recommending improvements.

Upgrading existing technical solutions to meet security and software compliance.

Interacting with different other application teams for understanding the requirement and proposing solutions.

Following best practice and standardizing the approach.

Tracking the issues and delivery changes in production environment and ensuring sign-off are received from client before any changes.

Following Change/Incident Management Process to handle change, problem and incident management for dev-ops & prod application support.

Have a very good functional knowledge on Informatica ETL tool. Closely working with client to understand the requirement in this area.

Environment: IBM Websphere MQ, IBM Websphere Message Broker, Tibco ActiveMatrix Business Works, Tibco EMS, Tibco ActiveSpace, Replication, IBM MQ/Broker Explorer, Nastel Autopilot, MQ admin tool, RFHUTIL, IBM Message Broker Toolkit, ITSM, Key store explorer, Ikey management, Nettool, VM Sphere, SOAP UI, TIBCO Designer, RUMMON, HP-Perf Mon, BSM, SPLUNK, GOMEZ etc. Windows, HP-UX and Linux – RHEL, UBUNTU, SUSE.

Awards & Recognitions

ASE Achievers Award

People Developer Recognition

Celebrating Performance points

Best Performance at Client location

Trainings Attended

oInternal trainings

oNastel’s training on Autopilot monitoring.

oIBM IMPACT, ITSM & Service Now Trained for ITIL

oCompleted ITILv3 foundation training.

oIBM Impact 2011 held in Las Vegas.

oIBM Impact 2012 held in Mumbai.

oAttended conference for Cloud Computing.

oTrained on Hadoop Administration.

oRAF and Workload Deployer.

oTeam Lead School Training.

oPathway to Leadership program

oHadoop Administration.

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