WebSphere Administrator

Sumitha Ambati ***** Edgewoods way

Email: **************@*****.*** Glenelg MD 21737

Phone: 410-***-****

Career Objective:

With 8+ years of experience in I.T, seeking a position to utilize my skills and abilities in the Information Technology Industry that offers professional growth while being resourceful, innovative and flexible.

Looking for a challenging position in Middleware and Cloud technologies.

Experience in working with various middleware technologies on UNIX and Windows platforms.

Good knowledge of system architecture, securities implementation.

Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

Proficiency in deployment automation and scripting.

Trained on Sun Solaris Administration and good knowledge in UNIX environments. Immigration Status: Citizen

Academic Profile:

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering, Anna University, India. Masters in Information Systems, University of Maryland. Software Proficiency:

Languages : C, C++, JAVA, Jython/Python, Apache Ant, Shell scripting Databases : Oracle, DB2

Middleware Technologies : WebSphere Application Server, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere Portal Server, IBM Lotus Quickr /Connections, WebSphere MQ and Message Broker

Cloud Technologies : Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Deployment Automation : SubVersion, GitHub, Jenkins, Nexus, Puppet Monitoring Tools : Splunk, DynTrace, XtraHop

Certifications:

Amazon Web Services – Solution Architect Associate IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0 – Administration IBM WebSphere Portal Server 7.0 – Advanced Administration IBM WebSphere MQ 7.0 - System Administrator

Technical Experience:

Project: EDSC/New-wave Technologies, Maricom Systems, MD Client: Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services

Duration: March, 2012 to Present

Role & Responsibilities:

Involved in installation, migration, configuration and support of Enterprise Portal project, a single point of entry for multiple CMS applications

Installation and migration of various WebSphere Portal Server versions (6.1, 7.0, 8.0, 8.5).

Installation, configuration and support of IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5.

Implemented and supported WebSphere Portal Upgrades.

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

Performance tuning of WebSphere Application server and Portal Server, IBM HTTP server for optimal performance based on user load.

Debugged and improved performance by analyzing GC and Heap, using IBM ISA Lite.

Enabling administration security on WebSphere Application Server environment using LDAP (SUNONE) and assigning privileges to users and groups.

Automated Site Analytics and various other reports using SHELL/JYTHON scripting.

Supported the Deployment of numerous CMS enterprise applications and lead the troubleshooting sessions whenever there were issues.

Automated daily scheduled tasks with CMS Tivoli Work Scheduler (TWS).

Integrated multiple verticals using Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) and Web Application Bridge (WAB).

Integrated various vendors’ COTS (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf) products like MicroStrategy, SAP Business Objects, Adobe Livecycle, IBM Lotus Quickr, IBM COGNOS andInformatica.

Implemented and supported Web Content Management (WCM) at CMS using IBM tools.

Migration and synchronization of Portal Content to different data centers for Global load balancing

Integrated Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) like Sun Access Manager, Oracle Access Manager with Portal, along with J2EE policy agent and web agent.

Provided 24/7 on-call production support for various CMS applications as a IBM middleware administrator for portal and websphere technologies.

Worked with IBM support on numerous PMRs for resolving bugs and issues with CMS applications.

Involved in the planning and identification of business needs which helped the team to develop/integrate applications with portal efficiently with a less number of changes requested by the business.

Documentation of all deployment procedures and Disaster recovery management.

Monitored JVM performance, pages, portlets and various other resources using CA Wily Introscope.

Environment: WebSphere Portal Server 6.1/7.0, WebSphere Application Server 6.1/7.0, IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5, J2EE, DB2, Oracle 10g, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux Project: CITIC /Lockheed Martin Information Technology, Baltimore MD Client: Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services

Duration: September, 2011 to March, 2012

Role & Responsibilities:

As a part of “WebSphere Operations” group of Lockheed Martin CITIC provided administration technical support for WebSphere Application server, WebSphere Portal Server, IBM HTTP Server, and UNIX to various CMS Projects.

Installation, Configuration and Administration of WebSphere Application server, Portal server and HTTP servers.

Upgrading, and patching WebSphere Application servers, WebSphere Portal Servers, IBM HTTP Servers to the latest fix packs and installing fixes.

Configuration of LDAP repositories and SSO in WebSphere Application server and Portal server environments.

Deployment of Application, configuration and production support.

Worked as a part of delivery teams to ensure that all solutions were delivered within customer time lines and supported after deployment.

Responsible for various federal govt. project implementations, including application installations and upgrades, fulfilling customer requests, troubleshooting, and coordinating change management.

Provided on-call activities for application and middleware support, including 24X7 remote availability for off shift work hours.

Collaborated with delivery architects, project managers, and CMS/CITIC to create customer solutions in a secure and standard environment.

Implemented CMS security guidelines and controls as they pertain to 3-Zone web application infrastructure to ensure compliance with audit standards. Project: Blue shield Of California,

WebSphere Application Server, WMQ /Message Broker Production support Client: Mphasis, Chennai, India

Duration: July 2010 – August, 2011

Blue Shield of California is a healthcare insurance company, which outsource the production support project to HP-EDS, main objective of this project is to unsure all the components are up and running without any outage for the production, and also involves the production setup, deployment and administering the production environment. Role & Responsibilities

Worked on installing and configuring WAS WMQ, WMB on UNIX and Windows platforms

Involved in applying fixes and fix packs.

Deployed and configured enterprise applications to WAS.

Created and configured WAS resources.

Security configuration of WAS with LDAP over SSL.

SSL configuration in WAS environment.

Troubleshooting and problem determination.

Worked with IBM to resolving issues through PMR.

Created MQ components, like queues, channels, listener required for applications

Implementing and Configured SSL channels between queue manager to queue manger and applications to queue mangers.

Created sender and receiver channels on both sides to communicate with MQ queue manager.

Installed and configured IBM HTTP Servers.

Applied fixes and fix packs to Web Servers.

Worked as a L1 & L2 support which involves finding the root cause of the issue and also fixing the code level issues, by testing them in Break Fix environment

Monitor logs and Queue depths to proactively find potential problems.

Production environment Support of WAS, MQ and Message Broker servers. Environment: WebSphere Application Server 6.1/7.0, WMB Message Broker v6.1.0.5, WebSphere MQ Series v7.0, J2EE, DB2,Oracle 10g, Sun Solaris, Windows Project: Enterprise App Integration

Client: Proactive Infosys, India

Duration: August 2008 – March 2010

SRM Educational Society is running and managing several Educational Institutions like Engineering, Medical, Dental and other collages in city of Chennai, India. These individual institutions use their own applications at local level. ‘SRM Enterprise App Integration” architecture was proposed to integrate applications of all individual institutions to communicate each other, share information in “Master Data Repository” using WebSphere MQ, Message Broker, WebSphere Application Server and DB2.

Role & Responsibilities:

Involved in application requirements gathering.

Actively involved in application architecting, designing and documentation.

Installed and configured WebSphere MQ 6 and Message Broker.

Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server.

Created Queue Managers, Channels and Queues required for the application

Developed Message flows and Message sets required for the application.

Deployed Message Broker code and administered Message Broker environment.

Involved in Java/J2EE application development.

Deployed Java/J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server and administered.

Involved in preparing test cases for the project

Performed unit level and integrated testing process.

Actively involved in developing of documentation for the project. Environment:

Java, J2EE, HTML, WMQ 6, Message Broker 6.1, WebSphere Application Server 6.1, IBM HTTP Server 6.1, DB2 9.5, Windows 2003, Red Hat Linux 5 Project: Vulnerability Detection and Restoration System based on Ant Colony Optimization Client: Proactive Infosys, India

Duration: July 2007 – April 2008

Multi mobile Agent Vulnerability Detection and Restoration System (MAVDRS), restoration mechanism adopts ant colony optimization. As the agent itself has a certain degree of intelligence, it can complete the task locally within the scope of its ability and only submit the incident unable to deal with. This will greatly reduce the burden on the network manager. Role & Responsibilities:

Actively involved in project designing and documentation

Setup hardware and software requirements for the project

Responsible for coding of “Scan Move Engine” in java.

Involved in writing test cases and testing.

Environments:

Java, J2EE, Windows, Red Hat Linux 5

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