IBM Web Sphere Administrator

Harsha Havalimane Mobile: 646-***-****

Web Sphere Administrator

Email: ******.******@*****.***

Professional Summary:

Over 6+ years of strong experience in integrating various middleware technologies - IBM WebSphere Application Server Base, ND, JBOSS, WebServers (IHS, Apache), Databases(Oracle, DB2), Dynatrace, Splunk and Master’s degree in computer science.

Experienced in Installation and Configuration of WebSphere Application Server7.x/8.x/8.5, IBM HTTP Server, JBOSS, Webserver on AIX, Linux and Windows.

Performed WebSphere application server administration tasks such as installation, configuration, monitoring and performance tuning.

Experience in shell scripting for various automations and troubleshooting tasks like environment configuration from scratch and duplicating environment configurations and created script for deployments.

Expert level experience in configuring and troubleshooting applications deployed on WebSphere Application Server and connecting it to Oracle databases.

Configured, and administered JBOSS 7.

Good knowledge on WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5 Architecture Runtime.

Good knowledge on WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5 Architecture Administration.

Good knowledge on Unix\Linux Commands.

Good understanding on Jenkins.

Experience in setting up of Nodes, Data-sources, Virtual Hosts, configuring Session Management.

Experienced in deploying J2EE components and administration including JAR, EAR, and WAR files on IBM WebSphere Application Server and monitoring using Dynatrace.

Good knowledge on Dynatrace.

Experience in SSL Configurations from Webserver to AppServer, requesting and exchanging certificates from keystores and putting in truststores.

Experience in setting up WebSphere Global Security for access to WebSphere Adminconsole using the adminconsole and wsadmin scripting.

Extensive experience in configuring the HTTP Server for various clustered application servers using virtual hosting and enabling SSL security.

Good knowledge on Splunk, WebSphere MQ.

Good knowledge on Microsoft Azure.

Strong experience in analyzing, troubleshooting and taking appropriate actions for Application / Web Server errors and logs.

Hands on experience in securing Administrative Server using Authentication, Authorization, Single Sign on, LTPA, User registry.

Deployment, general administration, troubleshooting and performance tuning of JBOSS.

Excellent working knowledge of JBOSS Application Server, middleware and other JBOSS Components.

Highly experienced in setting up development, testing, staging and production environments with all the components and making the required configurations and automating the environment configuration build.

Involved in performing stress testing to test for workload balancing and memory leaks, connection pooling issues in WebSphere Application Server and tuning various parameters to reduce the amount of hardware.

Worked closely with developers to define and Configure Application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web Resources, Servlets, JDBC drivers and Servlet Engines and Deployment of EJBs across multiple instances of WebSphere.

Excellent client relation skills and the drive to complete tasks effectively and efficiently where customer services and technical skills are demanded as well as the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management and the technical community.

Broad experienced in all phases of the software development lifecycle from study, requirements, design, development, implementation, maintenance and software enhancements.

Created various scripts to run different batches as per needs both in lower environments and in Production.

Worked on Production Patching for almost 2 years in NC DHHS.

Worked on Production Release and manual run of different batches as per management approvals in Production.

Work Experience

Client: NC Department of Health and Human Services, NC, USA February 2019-March 2021

Role: Curam Build/Release Admin

Installed and configured enterprise applications Curam based on IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 (IBM HTTP Web Server 8.5) in AIX, Linux and Windows 2000 environment.

Support Curam Application involving Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Application Integration, Deployment, Configuration and Administration of Business Integration, Projects using Java/J2EE related technologies and IBM tools like WebSphere Enterprise Bus, WebSphere Business Monitor Server, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Integration Developer and Rational Application Developer and back end Oracle DB.

Expert level knowledge on working with applications and deploying them on WebSphere Application Server and writing scripts to automate the process.

Installed and configured Tomcat Server and Application support.

Installed, configured, and administered IBM FileNet P8.

Created WAS application clusters, deploying enterprise applications, setting up data sources.

Installed, configured, and administered JBOSS 7.

Responsible for administration of JBOSS Application server.

Set up environments for WAS on dev, integration and production servers.

Troubleshoot SSL issues such as unknown certificate, expired certificate, etc.

Troubleshooting Middleware applications including auto deployment process for WAS applications deployment portal.

Provided support by 24x7 shift rotation basis and on call support.

Enabled different components of trace for problem determination and collection of JVM statistics, garbage collection data for monitoring the heap and physical memory.

Worked on Production patching and Production Release.

Performed WebSphere application server administration tasks such as configuration, monitoring and performance tuning.

Configured and monitored WebSphere Application Server in clustered and non-clustered environment.

Worked with developers and QA team in various stages of development and testing and taking the application from DEV to Test to QA and PROD environments.

Responsible for setting up the environment and deploying applications on the cluster.

Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC Providers, Data Sources and Connection Pooling and tuning it and monitoring it using Dynatrace.

Configured JDBC connections and JMS connection factories.

Deployed J2EE applications on multiple WebSphere application server and maintained Load balancing, high availability and fail over functionality.

Worked to meet changing business processing loads and provided easy interactions with any JMS and HTTP applications.

Good knowledge on Oracle database.

Troubleshot problems on various environments involving the integrations of WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server and Apache Web Servers.

Enabled traces as part of troubleshooting and taking thread dumps.

Participated in team meetings and management meetings to resolve issues related to the various environments.

Documented various procedures involved in the day to day maintenance of various environments.

Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5.x, JBOSS 7.x, Apache Web Server, IHS Web Server, Azure, Dynatrace, Splunk, Teamcity, JobScheduler, Jenkins, ODI, FTE, AIX, Unix, Windows, Oracle DB.

Client: Cardinal Health September 2017 - January 2019

Location: Dublin, OH

Responsibilities:

Responsible for building number of new projects starting from design phase, providing customers with varied solutions for WAS 6.x/7.x/8.5.5on the platforms like RHEL and Windows.

Responsible for SDLC that includes install, configure and deploy J2EE applications (.war, .ear) for large/fragmented enterprise environments and hand it over to the clients on time (Dev, QA, Stage and Prod).

Applied fixpacks and interim fix packs on Websphere Application Server 7.x/8.5.

Worked on Unix shell scripts for log rotation, init scripts for Websphere and WebServer processes, cronjobs, and shell wrappers for wsadmin scripts. Wrote scripts to handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, accessing for remote Admin servers, System Cleanup and Scheduled Jobs.

Created JMS resources like Queues, QCF to integrate WAS with the MQ servers.

Actively participated along with the off shore teams to accomplish various Change Tickets for changes in the production environments.

Worked on Problem tickets (PMR’s) with IBM to find effective solutions to various problems and performance issues.

Responsible for the administration and maintenance of applications running on Apache Tomcat.

Performed troubleshooting on Java applications using WAS logs, traces, Log Analyzer, Resource Analyzer in production environments.

Responsible for maintenance of Wily Introscope monitoring tool.

Working on the setup of simplified runtime environment in Pivotal Cloud Foundry for applications using WebSphere Liberty profile

Environment: WAS 6.x/7.0/8.5.5, IHS 6.1.x/7.0, Tomcat 7.0, Wily Introscope 7.x, Linux, Windows Server, Oracle 10g/11g, DB2 9.7/10.x. Supporting 60+ J2EE applications running on 130+ servers from dev through production environments.

Vetware Private Limited, Thane, Maharastra, India June 2013 - June 2016

Role: WebSphere Administrator

Project: Herdman-Coop: For Large Co-operative Dairies

It is herd management software for multi-centric dairy cooperatives with a focus on defining benchmark parameters and breed level data analysis.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Installed and Configured WebSphere Application Server.

Involved in building the code using the build tool (Apache Ant).

Responsible for deployment of code under WebSphere.

Involved in automating the deployment process using shell scripting.

Monitored and Troubleshot the Application Servers for errors.

Administered working Application, Application performance monitoring - starting and stopping the application Server.

Involved in deploying the EAR files and scripting automated deployment of the applications.

Involved in a number of installations of WebSphere from development to production.

Project: Herdman-Com : For Large Commercial Dairy Farms

It is herd management software for commercial dairies rearing 50 or more cows and or buffaloes. The software provides facility of defining parameters for different breeds of cows and buffaloes and analysis based on species and breed. Herdman-com is a total solution for the dairy as it maintains lifetime records of animals that have spent in the farm. To help the farm management, implement precision management, action and alarm lists are generated daily and these can be sent to the cell phones as prompt or text SMS to remind the farm staff on various jobs to be done in the farm. Data can be sorted for various parameters and reports can be generated.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Installation and Configuration of WebSphere application server.

Involved in building the code using the build tool (Apache Ant).

Responsible for deployment of code under WebSphere.

Troubleshooting various problems in different stages of development using log files and with coordination from development teams.

Involved in Stopping/Starting & Monitoring the logs for Application Server Instances.

Experience in configuring and troubleshooting applications deployed on WebSphere Application Server.

Involved in issues like Application not responding, Application Deployment Errors.

Provided on call, on pager, 24x7 production support and maintenance of Applications Servers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

WebSphere Application Server7.x/8.x/8.5, IBM HTTP Server, Tomcat/Apache HTTP Server, UNIX, AIX, Shell Scripting, Vi, Java, J2EE, Servlet, JDBC, JMS, JSP, DB2, Oracle8i/9i, SQL Server, SQL, JBoss, FileNet, Datacap.

EDUCATION

M.S. in Computer Science, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, and TX Aug 2017 GPA: 3.75/ 4.0

B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering, VTU, India June 2013

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