Name: Praveen Kumar Voruganti

Phone:+1-860-***-****

Email:adiatq@r.postjobfree.com

Experience Summary

Over 12 years of experience in support of Business integration solutions, design, support, testing. Core expertise is in Middleware Technology IBM WebSphere MQ and IIB.

Currently working in Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Highlights

Experience in Installing and Configuring WebSphere MQ, IIB apply patches, manage middleware infrastructure and troubleshooting in highly available and fault tolerance environment.

Having good knowledge in Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Cloud Computing Services.

Installing and configuring IBM MQ V7.0, V7.1, V7.5, V8 and IIB 10 on Linux.

Build and Manage the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) in MQ.

Involved in Multi instance queue manager setup in various platforms like Linux and Windows servers.

Hands on experience in gateway queue manager setup with MQ clusters.

Configured the required IIB components (Integration nodes, Integration servers) on Linux/Unix servers.

Wrote scripts for creating, recreating, and maintaining Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, processes, and other MQ Object.

Monitored, maintained, and customized existing MQ objects such as Queue Mangers, Queues (local, remote, alias and model), process definitions, channels, and listeners. Implemented processes and procedures related to MQ Series security administration and triggering

Having good knowledge in Splunk, GIT, Udeploy, Tivoli and Jenkins

Having good knowledge in Performance management tool using Team Quest.

Handling the Problem/Change/Incident Management.

Experience in ITIL process like Incident Management, crisis management process etc.

Experienced in integrating different applications and platforms.

24/7 on-call production support and troubleshooting problems related to IBM MQ/IIB.

Good team player and self-motivated individual with very good analytical and problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Anna University, India.

Training and Certifications

IBM WebSphere MQ V8.0 System Administration (C9530-410)

IBM WebSphere MQ V7.0 System Administration (000-374)

ITIL V3 Foundation, Intermediate Service operation Certified.

Project Management Professional Certification Training program by Cognizant Technology Solutions

Technical Skills

EAI/Integration Tools

IBM WebSphere MQ 8.x

IBM Integration Bus v10.x

Programming Languages

C / C++, Java and SQL, Shell scripting, Control-M

Operating Systems

Windows, AIX, Linux, and SunOS.

Project Details

Company: Cognizant Technology Solutions

Project: CIGNA

Dec 2013 - Till Date

Role: Middleware Engineer

Cigna is a global health service company; a group of Philadelphia citizens formed the Insurance Company of North America (INA). In 1982 Cigna was formed through the combination of INA Corporation and Connecticut General Corporation. They have sales capability in 30 countries and jurisdictions, and more than 90 million customer relationships throughout the world. More than 39,000 employees serve customers just about everywhere.

Responsibilities:

Ability to analyze, design, develop, test, and implement system and procedures that optimize time, effort, and resources.

Engage in giving training on MQ and Broker to my team.

Implemented Active – Active & Active - passive MQ DR setup.

Installed and configured WMQ 8.0 and applied Fix Packs on Windows

and UNIX environments.

Experience in configure and monitor MQ Listeners, Command Servers, Channel initiators, Trigger Monitors, MQ Log files & Dead Letter Queues

Managing SSL certificates renewals and maintenance in production and test environments

Implemented Distributed Queuing and Clustering.

Good Knowledge and Hands on Experience on MQ Clustering.

Deploy new message flows, SSL Configuration for broker, configure database connectivity to databases

Configured the required IIB components (Integration nodes, Integration servers) on Linux/Unix servers

Installed, configured and administered WebSphere MQ 8.x across DEV, INT, PVS and PROD & PFX Environments

Expertise in building the Automated IIB and MQ installations and configurations.

Enabling of the trace in WMQ and IIB in toolkit and MB/IIB servers.

Participated in on call support for issues (Performance/slowness/network/application availability) on production servers

Raise PMR to IBM, Vendor tickets to Cloudera & Confluent.

Product, Fix pack installations and version upgrades of Web sphere MQ, IIB. Extensive experience in working directly with customers, defining their needs and produce quality solutions on time.

Company: IBM India Private Limited

Project: Walmart Stores

April 2012 –Dec 2013

Role: Lead Consultant

Working for Walmart Stores which serves customers and members more than 200 million times per week. They are in retail outlets, online, and on mobile devices. Middleware admin support team manages HO, DC and Store boxes for Walmart business integration activities which operates under 69 different banners in 27 countries.

Responsibilities:

Interact with application stakeholders in analysis phase to gather initial requirements for new projects.

Involved in technical design discussions with application while designing ESB patterns.

Design and review unit test cases for the core business/process services.

Perform unit and integration test to record the results.

Support migration of test environments to resolve middleware issues.

Installed and configured WMQ 6.0, 7.0 and applied Fix Packs on Windows

and UNIX environments.

Configuration of WMQ, setting up WebSphere MQ objects Queue Managers, Queues, and Channels etc.

Monitored and maintained WebSphere MQ objects with APPWATCH.

Enabled Triggering on the Queues for monitoring and automation.

Hands on experience in Multi-hopping between Queue-Managers.

Hands on experience in Problem determination and Trouble shooting.

Implemented distributed queuing client/server architectures and configured MQ.

Migration of Qmgrs and MQ objects (Host to Host / Qmgr name change).

Interact with Client’s technology teams about requirements, involved in implementing Channel Exit to implement Security (to allow approved applications to connect).

Deploy new message flows, SSL Configuration for broker, configure Database connectivity to databases.

Worked on Qload utility for taking message backup.

Ensure proper documentation for handover to Warranty Test.

Maintained centralized inventory for information about hosts,

applications, Queue manager names.

Create broker topology - execution group creation, domains etc.

Experience in raising PMRs, working with IBM Support team for resolution

Company: HCL Technologies Pvt Ltd, Singapore

Project: Deutsche AG(INFRA OPS)

Mar 2009 to April 2012

Role: Senior Software ENG

Worked for Deutsche AG, which is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, operating their major IT services from Singapore. Maintaining their all Production, Non-production Administration activities and Application support for Payment backbone systems.

Responsibilities:

Debugging, handling the outage calls – depend on severity of the issues.

Creating, installation of new Web sphere MQ QManager, channels, Queues and Troubleshooting the MQ connectivity.

Hands on experience in MQ Upgrade.

Performing periodic Servers health checkup and Configure the servers for Failure alerts.

We are conducting the BCP test for Prod Environment (Every 3 months)

Performing System Automation through UNIX shell scripts.

Providing solutions within the specified SLA.

Installation of MQ SSL and VeriSign certificates.

Troubleshoot network connectivity for applications.

Providing Change Release document to AIS team for new CR.

Working on Test Director, Quality Centre and ARS system for Tickets, RFC & OPR’s.

Company: HCL Technologies Pvt Ltd, Singapore

Project: Deutsche AG(MPO/TPO)

Mar 2008 to Feb 2009

Role: Software ENG

MessagePlus/Open is an enterprise messaging solution capable of handling Fax and Telex message incoming and outgoing communication traffic. It is scalable to handle the most demanding needs of any business. MessagePlus/Open can manage many forms of messages via a common workflow enabled, content independent communications engine that forms a key part of a company’s content management environment. The product currently supports the transmissions and reception of the following message types: Fax, Telex & SMTP (email).

Responsibilities:

Handling second level issues as an L2 Specialist.

Working in alignment with Deutsche Bank Americas, Deutsche Bank Central Europe.

Handling conference calls with Deutsche Bank Central Europe.

Team Lead for the Application.

Providing Change Release document to AIS team for new CR.

Fixing up an issue and raising CR, GIMS.

Handling the team and provide the assignment to every team member.

Preparing the Knowledge Based Document.

Simulate the testing on UAT as well as Production Server.

To provide the shift plan schedule for team.

Company: Scope International, Malaysia

Project: GMEBBG

Dec 2007 to Feb 2008

Role: WBI Consultant

Scope International, the Global Shared Services Centre of the Standard Chartered Group, is a pioneer in off-shoring knowledge-based services in the banking industry. They are in-house software vendors for Standard Chartered Bank.OLT3 is an online service that is offered to financial institution and individuals 24 X 7. It is concerned with allowing the end users to trade in foreign exchange and precious metals online.

Responsibilities:

Develop message flows and message sets for transformation of the messages from one format to another.

Usage of XSLTs to transform the request and response messages from the online interface.

Trouble shooting various scenarios and provide support for Systems Integration Testing

Package creation and successive deployment into User Acceptance environments.

Create Application Installation guides for the deployment of the finished application into the systems.

Develop scripts for automating creation of DB/MQ/Broker components.

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