Chaitanya Manne

717-***-**** / adm0c1@r.postjobfree.com

With nearly twenty years of overall results driven and diversified experience in Software Development Life Cycle inclusive of Experience in Middleware administration using IBM Websphere Suite of products

Professional Summary

Experience in Middleware administration using IBM Websphere MQ, ACE, IIB, WMB on AIX, z/Linux, Linux x86 (RedHat) and Windows.

Experience administering DataPower Security Gateway appliance infrastructure

Provide Architectural solutions to the app teams on the new IIB / MQ infrastructure

Install & configure IIB & MQ software versions, patches and APARs

Define SSL protocols for IIB for encrypted communication between the systems both in-network and out-of-network communication

Worked on scripts to define IIB & MQ automated tasks

Worked with CICD team to configure Jenkins for IIB BAR deployments

Worked on multiple IIB POC’s related to new projects, compare the results, and suggest the management the use of new tools or technologies

Administration and configuration of Execution Groups on ACE / IIB and periodically monitor EG JVM settings and fine tune as per the volume.

Maintaining, testing, and deploying WMB Message Flows

Good Understanding of SOA, Web Services (WSDL,UDDI,XML and SOAP)

Experience in providing 24 X 7 support in the Production Environment

Experience configuring & upgrading Tivoli, Solar winds & Splunk for monitoring purpose.

Hands on experience in development and deployment of J2EE applications on Web Sphere Application Servers

Experience working on IBM PMR to resolve software related issues

Having Strong emphasis in SDLCs Analysis and Design using Software

Installed DB2 on Windows and Unix platforms

Familiarity and experience with various procedures and policies required for escalation and outage resolution with Strong documentation skills. Consistently met goals and target dates with a high level of customer satisfaction

Strong organizational skills, ability to work effectively in high-pressure situations and ability to work independently towards department objectives, strong troubleshooting skills

Versatile team player with good communication and interpersonal skills

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, USA with 3.79 GPA. Graduated December 2004.

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, Madras University, Chennai, India.

Graduated May 2002.

Technical Expertise

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Windows 98/2000/NT/XP, Linux z & x86, Unix and AIX

Languages

Java 1.5, C++, JavaScript 2.0, HTML 4.0, SQL, PL/SQL,

Web Development

XML, REST, JSON, & SOAP

Middleware

MQ 9.x, 8.x, 7.x, 6.x, ACE v12.x, v11.x IIB v10.x, 9.x WMB 8.x, 7.x, 6.x

Databases

Oracle 10/9i/8i/7.x, SQL server, DB2 9.1 and MS-Access

Work History

PENNDOT, HARRISBURG, PA

SEP 2007 – PRESENT

IIB & MQ are used as Middleware components on critical applications including DL issuance and renewal; Motor Vehicle registration and many other PennDOT applications. Data processing at IIB is encrypted and secured passing through the gateway DataPower and before reaching the backend systems.

IIB / MQ Administrator (Systems Architect)

Extensive experience in Configuring and Administering of Websphere MQ 10.x, 9.x, 8.x, 7.x, 5.x, 6.x, ACE 11.x IIB 9.x, 10.x; Websphere Message Broker 10.x, 9.x, 8.x, 7.x, 5.x,6.x, ACE 11.x & 12.x

Define, maintain and administer MQ Queue Manager objects like Queues and Channels

Provide Architectural solutions to the app teams on the new IIB infrastructure

Build new servers and IIB/MQ components for new projects

Periodically monitor IIB EG JVM settings and fine tune as per the volume and thruput of the message flows and deployment of BAR files on Execution Groups

Suggest Architectural changes to new project IADD from middleware perspective

Configure and manage IIB ODBC connections for multiple projects

Define SSL protocols for IIB for encrypted communication between the systems both in-network and out-of-network communication

Worked on scripts to define IIB & MQ automated tasks and schedule the cron jobs as per the requirement & support IIB batch processing for late night schedules.

Worked on multiple IIB POC’s related to new projects, compare the results and suggest the management the use of new tools or technologies

Worked with CICD team to configure Jenkins for IIB BAR deployments

Worked with QA teams in supporting the various testing phases including the performance or load tests.

Experience with architecture and design of MQ clustering for high availability and load balancing

Performed daily and weekly backup of Application logs

Developed Unix shell scripts, Perl scripts to automate the Websphere Administration (recycling the application server, deploying customer applications, logs rotation, monitor applications state)

Performed disaster recovery operations.

Experience on DataPower appliances and IBM API Gateway integration

Applied software maintenance, program fixes and keeping the system software releases current

Opened PMR's and coordinated with IBM to solve the critical issues.

Provided 24/7 on call support

Technologies: Websphere MQ, ACE, IIB, Websphere Message Broker, Oracle, SQL, DB2, Java, XML, Perl Scripts, Remedy.

NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL, WISCONSIN

JUL 2007 – SEP 2007

WMB & MQ are used as Middleware components to interact with backend Insurance agents in providing access to data and address key functionality in generating reports. WMB is used for multiple projects.

IBM Websphere Administrator

Installed and configured IBM Websphere MQ & WMB on AIX, Sun Solaris and Win NT

Installation, testing, implementation, maintenance and documentation of Websphere MQ Series.

Created and configured MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Remote queues, Local Queues, Queue aliases, Channels, Clusters, Transmission Queues, Performance Events, Triggers, Processes, MQ error trapping applications and performance tuning/monitoring.

Defining channels using SSL certificates.

Designed MQ applications supporting application level security and delivering MQ infrastructural solutions using link level security.

Configured repository Queue Managers in Clustering environment

Monitoring All Servers, shutdown and boot up, Network Support and Trouble Shooting

Technologies: Websphere MQ, Websphere Message Broker, Websphere Application Server, Websphere HTTP, DB2, Java, XML, Perl Scripts.

VERIZON BUSINESS, TULSA, OK

JAN 2005 – JUL 2007

WMB & MQ are used to generate workflow services to the telecom giant. WMB used for multiple step processing that involves automated and manual tasks.

Websphere Configuration Specialist

Extensive experience in Configuring, Installing and Administering of WBI MB, MQ Series 5.x / 6.x

Installed and upgraded Solaris 8, 9, 10, IBM AIX 5.x/6.x, Redhat EL 5.x and SUSE EL Server 10.

Created and assigned access rights to IBM Tivoli Access Manager for system users and groups

Worked on Development of guidelines for the usage, control, maintenance and ability to audit information and computer resources that are required in Secured environment.

Monitoring Application log files, Application Server Performance

Diagnosis and fixing of Configuration and Installation Problems

Experienced in Evaluating and Installing new IBM Websphere MQ Series versions

Installation, Configuration and administration of Websphere MQ on most of the sorted platforms.

Identifying for the need of Queue managers, Queues, Channels, and other MQ Objects, defining, administering and maintaining the same.

Developing MQ infrastructure in enterprise level with distributed queuing and clustering.

Applied software maintenance, program fixes and keeping the system software releases current

Maintaining updated documentation of all the Servers and the installed applications and patches.

Opened PMR's and coordinated with IBM to solve the critical issues.

Provided 24/7 on call support

Technologies: Websphere MQ, Websphere Message Broker, Websphere Application Server, Websphere HTTP, DB2, Java, XML, Perl Scripts, Remedy.

SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, SHIPPENSBURG PA

MAY 2003 – DEC 2004

Graduate Assistantship at the University to maintain the computer labs for the students to access for their research, assignments and project works.

Systems Administrator

Assessing the stability, security, and scalability of installed Windows systems.

Discussing system and server upgrades with Supervisors.

Installing or upgrading Windows systems and servers.

Providing technical support for staff and back-end system users.

Troubleshooting system and server errors.

Technologies: Windows & Macintosh systems

PARASOFT TECHNOLOGIES, CHENNAI

JAN 2002 – NOV 2002

The application is part of developing modules to support an on-shore project.

Java Developer

Involved in the Feature meetings, code reviews

Identified the Business Requirements

Prepared System Requirements and Detailed Design documents for the project

Involved in full life cycle development and deployment

Analysis of customizations and enhancements: evaluated design, quality, stability and maintainability of custom code developed for client’s business requirements

Written CSS and made changes in code to automatically apply formatting styles

Modified and optimized user interfaces by changing JSP’s and Servlets to accommodate client’s requirements

Deployed application on Tomcat Web Server and Websphere Server depending on client’s application server availability

Technologies: Java, J2EE, JSP, Tomcat

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