BALAJI

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Phone number: 336-***-****

Professional Summary

* ***** ** ********** ** Enterprise Application Integration using IBM WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker.

A sound background in, Design, Implementation and Performance Monitoring of Message Based Business Systems using IBM WebSphere MQ 5.3, 6.0 and 7.0, MQSI/ WMQI 2.x and WMB 5.x, 6.x on various platforms like Windows NT/2000,2003 server, AIX, SUN OS, and Z/OS.

Experience in Installation, configuration, maintenance, upgradation, development, remote technical support, patch management, troubleshooting, repair, monitoring and supporting of WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker.

Highly experienced in installing and configuring WMQ, WMQI and WMB on Windows NT/2000, 2003 server, AIX, SUN OS, and Z/OS.

Installed Hypervisor Datapower XI52 and Created POCs for AAA, WSP, Multiprotocol Gateway Services

Sound Knowledge UNIX Shell Scripting and Job automations and Scheduling on AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux.

Programming experience in developing MQ Adapters using MQSeries for Java and MQSeries JMS.

Expertise in working with XML, DTD, XSL, XPATH, XSD.

Extensive experience in implementing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) services by using HTTP and SOAP nodes.

Involved in pulling data from the Mainframe via a COBOL copybook (EBCDIC), placing it on an MQ, and having

Message Broker perform a transformation.

Experienced in working with data formats such as SOAP, XML, Fixed Length, Delimiter, Swift, and EDI.

Administration and Configuration of WebSphere MQ on different environments like Windows, Linux and AIX.

Created and configured Local Queue Managers and Remote Queue Managers including Queues.

Experience with Version control systems like TFS and CVS.

Experienced in writing stored procedures and triggers in databases.

Technical Skills

Tools : IBM WebSphere Message Broker 6.0/7.0 and 8.0 and IIB 9

IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0, 7.0 and 7.5, Datapower XI52.

Operating Systems : IBM AIX, UNIX/Linux, Windows 2000/XP/98

Languages : ESQL, Java, C, C++, XML, HTML

Database : IBM DB2 8.2/9.5, Oracle 11i/9i/8i, MS Access, SQL Server

Version Control : IBM Rational Clear Case, CVS

Documentation : MS-Word/Excel/Power Point

Project Experience

Client: VF Corporation, Greensboro NC. 2015 – TILL DATE

WebSphere Middleware Developer.

Responsibilities:

Involved in Installation, configuration, upgradation, development, remote technical support, troubleshooting and system administration of WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker.

Installed and configured Message Broker Toolkit for enabling design, development, build and deploy Message Flows & Message Sets supporting message broker applications.

Completed requirement analysis from the requirement document given by client team by direct interaction with them.

Installed Hypervisor Datapower XI52 and Created POCs for AAA, WSP, Multiprotocol Gateway Services

Responsible for Detailed Technical Design Documents for the above mentioned components.

Development of Message flows having various patterns as per the Technical design document.

Unit testing and Integration testing with the help of Application teams.

First-line support for operational or functional system failures, with hours of support, on-site or over telephone

Resolving tickets generated by users in the stores as well as corporate users.

Respond to user questions on system functionality, feasibility or implication of any Enhancements, or on system operational procedures.

Used Database Interface Designer for interaction with Databases.

Maintenance of technical, functional, operational documentation for existing applications.

Providing Technical and business solutions for MQ series and Message broker interfaces.

Resolving issues occurring during Batch Processing along with functional and logical defects in interfaces and custom modules.

Configured chords in maps to interact with file system using ftp and mq system using mq client.

Created functional maps for reusability in other projects.

Handling MQ and Broker version upgrade.

Monitoring setup for all the MQ objects in production using the third party tool.

Installation, upgrading, installation of fix packs, monitoring setup.

Broker support and deployment of flows.

Effectively handling client Change Requests by proposing and supporting the design, development and testing of solutions.

Managing the Employee related information and payroll processing for the Client’s workforce.

Environment:

IBM WebSphere MQ 7.0/7.5, IBM WebSphere Message Broker 7.0/8.0, IBM Ration Clear Quest, IBM Rational Team Concert, Microsoft SQL Server, CVS, IBM AIX V 6.1, Oracle 9i, Mainframe.

Client: Hcentive, Lakewood,CO OCT 2013 – MAY 2015

Message Broker Developer

Responsibilities:

Preparing functional and technical specification documents for integrations.

Designed & Developed Message Sets, Message flows, Mediation flows and Deployed in broker runtime.

Created Message flows without Message set which used custom XSD/XSLT transformations to XML and Fixed

Length Message (TDS).

Developed MQ objects such as Local Queues, Remote queues, Alias Queues, Sender and Receiver Channels etc. using mqsc script commands.

Used ESQL for routing and enrichment of incoming messages in compute and filter nodes.

Published message flows as web services using SOAP and HTTP nodes.

Developed message sets for mainframes applications using COBOL copybook structures.

Installed Hypervisor Datapower XI50 and Created POCs for AAA, WSP, Multiprotocol Gateway Services

Implemented common error handling mechanism for all message flows.

Designed and developed message flows to interact with file system using file nodes.

Developed message flows involving data flow using Environment variables, UDPs for dynamic DB parameters.

Conducted System, Integration, Functional and Regression Tests in test and quality assurance environments.

Installed WebSphere MQ on AIX 5.3.

Environment:

WMQ 7.0, Message Broker 7.0, Datapower XI50, IBM DB2 8.2, Oracle 9i/10g, z/OS, AIX 5.3 and Windows 2003.

Client: Invesco,Houston,TX OCT 2012 – AUG 2013

Message Broker Developer

Responsibilities:

Installation of WebSphere MQ 6.0 / 7.0 on various AIX, CentOS, Windows Server 2003 operating systems.

Installation of WebSphere Message Broker 6.0 on AIX server.

Creation of clustered environment between various systems.

Developed message flows to transform the messages from one encoding to other.

Integrating of Datamovers with MQ and WMB to transfer files from one server location to another.

Worked with different adapters and connectors to transfer data between various systems and integrating the adapters with the MQ and WMB.

Written shell scripting to automate restart and log purging for various processes.

Developed ESQL codes for all the message flows for the incoming messages to replace the existing mapping nodes by Compute nodes.

Used MQ message priority, Message Id /Correlation Id concepts, Dynamic queues, Request/reply queues,

queues triggering etc.

Implemented message parsers to work with existing message processing nodes.

Assigned the message flows and message sets to the appropriate execution groups in the broker runtime

Environment.

Analyzed WBI MB 7.0 for migration considerations from WBI MB 6.1 and WMQ 7.0 from WMQ 6.0.

Involved in design, construction, testing and production deployment phases of the project.

Deployed and tested the message flows and message sets into the broker running on AIX and

monitored/compared the performance and CPU utilization.

Developed and prepared Unit test plan for all Interfaces and Conducted Unit testing as per UTP and migrated code to QA (Staging) environment.

Conducted Performance Testing (UAT) in order to show the client that all Interfaces were running within the client specified time.

Handling the RFC Process to move the application code to production.

Environment:

WMQ 6.0, Message Broker6.0, WebSphere Application Server 5.0/6.0, DB2 8.2, Oracle 9i/10g, UNIX,z/OS,Linux.

Client:Common wealth of KY,KY OCT 2011 – SEP 2012

WebSphere Message Broker Consultant

Responsibilities:

Designed and developed Message Sets and Message Flows for the Data transformation and Routing based on

functional Design specifications.

Mentored Internal Customer Employees on WebSphere Message Broker.

Extensively used Mapping and Compute Nodes for converting message formats from XML to COBOL Copybooks and COBOL Copybooks to XML.

Developed custom ESQL code for proprietary NewPage specific data transformations.

Used Http Nodes to export cache broker data to a web client/service.

Used a custom transaction monitor with emitter nodes developed by IBM for all these interfaces.

Used Candle Monitor nodes to monitor the message flows and queues.

Developed ANT scripts to build and deploy Message flows in the test environment on AIX. Also developed Ant

scripts to check in and out and to create baseline in Rational Clearcase SCM.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Message Broker 6.1, 7.0 on AIX, WTX 8.2, Tivoli Omegamon XE Version 6.0.1, WebSphere MQ 6.0, ESQL, XML, DB2 9.1, Windows XP.

Client: Systel Infotech India, JUL 2010– AUG 2011

MQ Administrator

Responsibilities:

Prepared high level design & requirements WebSphere MQ document for each business transaction.

Installed WebSphere MQ on various platforms.

Setup WebSphere MQ Clustering for High Availability and load balancing.

Created MQ Startup/Stop Scripts for daily Tasks.

Implemented MQSeries Clients to establish connection between MQ client and its server.

Implemented trigger concept on Queues to Trigger Autosys jobs, AS/400 applications.

Designed message flows and re-usable sub flows.

Exported/Imported message flows and sets.

Deployed bar files in different execution groups.

Fixed and closed WebSphere MQ related issues using ManageNow tool.

Environment: MQSeries v5.1, MQSI v2.0.1, MQSI v1.1, Java, JMS, JSP, WebSphere v3.5, XML, TWS, Oracle v8.1.5 and Windows NT v4.0.

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