websphere administrator
Resume:
MARTIN JOSEPH
**************@*****.***
SUMMARY
Six years of strong experience in IBM WebSphere Application Server Administration and integrating with various webservers, databases, Ldap and security servers.
Strong experience in setting up WAS Servers in the development, testing and production environments.
Involved in performing stress testing to test for workload balancing and memory leaks, connection pooling issues in Web Sphere Application Server and tuning.
Experienced in Installation and Configuration of WebSphere Application server V3.5/4.0/5.x,6.x, IBM HTTP Server, Sun-one Webserver on AIX, Solaris, Linux and Windows platforms.
Experienced in Installing and Configuring IBM WebSphere MQSeries V5.3, V6.0 creating local queues, remote queues, creating channels, listeners and installed client software on AIX, Solaris and Windows Platforms.
Experience in both JACL and Jython scripting using wsadmin, and also shell scripting for various automation tasks and troubleshooting.
Involved in migrating the existing administrative scripts (JACLs) from Web Sphere Application Server 5.X to 6.X (Jython).
Experienced in configuring Workload Management (WLM) of Web Sphere Application Server and also in Performance Tuning using Resource Analyzer and Tivoli Performance Viewer.
Experienced in deploying J2EE components on IBM WebSphere Application server and monitoring using Wily Introscope
Experience setting up WebSphere Global Security for access to the adminconsole.
Extensive experience in configuring the HTTP Server for various clustered application servers using virtual hosting and enabling SSL security.
Strong experience in Analyzing, Troubleshooting and taking appropriate actions for Application/Web server errors and logs using Web Sphere Log Analyzer tool.
Well versed and hands on experience in securing administrative server using Authentication, Authorization, Single Sign on, LTPA, User registry
Experienced in implementing Work Load Management (WLM) methodology and Fail Over mechanisms using horizontal, vertical and hybrid clustering as per the requirements after doing cost analysis.
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.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Server Software: IHS, Apache, i-Planet/sun-one WebServers, WebSphere 3.5,4.0,5.x,6.x,WebSphere XD,Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft IIS, Veritas and Sun clusters, Veritas Volume Manager 3.5, Raid Manager 6.1.1
Databases: Oracle 8i(8.1.6), 9i, 10i, DB2UDB, DB2 Mainframe, SQL Server
Security Software: Tivoli Access Manager 5.1, 6.0
LDAP: Sun-one Directory Server, IBM Directory Server.
Operating Systems: AIX 4.3/5XL, Sun Solaris 8,9,10, Windows NT 4.0,2000 Servers, Workstation, Windows 95/98/XP, various flavors of UNIX, HPUX 10/1, HP Itanium , HP Integrity VM and LINUX
Network Hardware: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS Firewalls, Load balancers and Packeteers. Cisco Switches/ Routers
Tools: Tivoli Storage Manager, MQ Series, Clear Case (Version Control Software), SSO (single sign on) Access manager , SSH and PC Anywhere (Exceed)
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Bank of America
Norfolk,VA
Websphere Administrator
April 2009 – dec 09
Responsibilities:
Installed and configured WebSphere XD, WebSphere Network Deployment Manager 6.0, 6.1.
Installed WebSphere Application Server 6.0 XD and created dynamic clusters and configured ODRs. Applied iFixes on ODR.
Installed WAS XD 6.1.0.23 along with WAS Data Grid 6.1.0.5
Installed Configured and maintained IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x on AIX /Linux/Windows2003/Sun Solaris.
Involved in migration of the applications from WebSphere 5.x to 6.0 and worked closely with development team. Applied Refresh packs, fix packs and cumulative fixes for WebSphere, IHS and plug-in.
Worked on Jython scripts to administrate WebSphere configuration.
Created various requests for all Administrative tasks like WebSphere MQ Queue Connection Factories, Queue Destinations, Listener ports, Resource Adaptors, URL Providers for WAS Group and other Groups.
Provided solutions for clustering at Web Server and WebSphere areas. Worked on Horizontal and Vertical clustering methods providing fail over, effective load balance scenarios and efficient utilization of system resources. Worked closely with other teams providing WebServer load balancing mechanisms.
Involved in enabling WebSphere global security using Local OS and LDAP/LTPA mechanism, SSL configuration and Ordering digital certs for Pre-prod and Prod environments.
Good working experiences with Session Management, creating replication domains for session persistence (Memory to Memory replication) using client server methodology. Used WebSphere backup and restore scripts for backing up WebSphere repository
Worked closely with developers to define and configured application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web resources, Servlets, JDBC drivers and Servlet Engines-as well as deployment of EJBs across multiple instances of WebSphere.
Deploying the applications on clusters, updating the installed applications and updating Web Server plug-in configuration using administrative console as well as Jacl scripts.
Used Wily Introscope 7.2.1.0 to monitor the health of various applications.
Configured Wily Introscope to all lower environments and also to the production environment.
Managing and Monitoring the JVM performance by WebSphere Heap Size, garbage collection, JDBC Pools Responsible for Architectural Design, Implementation and periodic testing and support of Web Environments with respect to High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Assembled and Deployed the application in staging, in productions, following change management practices and 24/7 support, worked in shifts.
Environment: IBM WebSphere 6.x/5.x/4.x, AIX 5.x, IBM HTTP Server 1.3.26, Apache 1.3.x, Oracle 10.x/9.x/8.x, DB2/UDB, WebSphere MQ 6.0, WebSphere Process Server 6.x,SunONE Directory Server 5.1, Netegrity SiteMinder 6.0, WILY IntroScope 7.0/6.x, Tivoli performance viewer, Mercury Transaction monitor v5.1/Topaz
JP Morgan Chase, Newport, NJ Oct 2007 – Jan 2009
WebSphere Administrator
Responsibilities:
Production support of Investment management Apps 24/7 on a weekly rotation basis.
Involved in the build and support of DEV, QA and UAT WAS 6.1 and WAS 5.1 environments.
Production Support of Websphere MQ Version 5.3, creating local queues, remote queues, creating channels, listeners and installed client software on AIX, Solaris and Windows Platforms.
WebSphere Portal Administration expertise, Clustering, Administration, Deploying WPS portlets, pages, and portal applications.
Experienced in deploying portlets for WebSphere Portal Server (WPS).
Involved in the build out of Cognos version 8 for the new QA environment.
Supported WAS/MQ and IIS running on Windows environment.
Secured administrative server’s using Authentication, Authorization, Single Sign on, LTPA, User registry.
Worked on the tool MQMONNTP from IBM for trouble shooting with in MQ environment.
Worked on the change management process with in JPM for changes to Production.
Involved in the Disaster Recovery tests with in JP Morgan.
Enabled SSO by installing webagent and registering with the policy servers
Troubleshoot problems on the various environments involving the integrations of WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server, iPlanet web Servers.
Involved in opening and working on PMR’s with IBM to solve various issue related to the environment. Enabled traces as part of troubleshooting and used collector tool to submit the logs and traces to IBM after running the must gather scripts and enabling various traces and taking thread dumps.
Participated in team meetings and management meetings to resolve issues related to the various environments.
Configued adminconsole security on WebSphere and creating users with various roles to access the WebSphere admin console – users and groups in ldap and added them as WebSphere Console Groups.
Was responsible for documenting the various procedures involved in the day to day maintenance of the various environments.
Environment :-Application Server Network Deployment 6.1, Websphere Portal Server v6, WebSphere Portal Servers (v6.x), , Websphere MQ 5.3, 6.0, IHS Web Server 6.0,6.1, Solaris 9,10, windows, Netegrity Siteminder 5.X, TSM 6.1.
Swiss-Re, White Plains, NY July 2006 –Aug 2007
WebSphere Administrator
Responsibilities:
Installed and configured WebSphere XD, WebSphere Network Deployment Manager 6.0, 6.1 on P-Series / AIX Platforms, WebSphere base Application Server and used Update Installer to update with fixpacks. Automated the tasks with shell scripts using silent response files.
Automated configuration, troubleshooting, deployments using JACL and Jython scripts – used AdminConig, AdminApp, AdminControl and AdminTask.
Worked with developers and QA team in various stages of development and testing and taking the application rom DEV to Test to QA and PROD environments.
Installed and configured both IBM HTTP Server 6.0 and iPlanet 6.1 Web servers and plugins and configured SSL for the webserver and plugin communications.
Created and federated profiles to the Deployment Manager using both Profile Management tool and also automated the process using manageprofiles and addnode command.
Recommended and used hybrid clustering (horizontal and vertical) to make use of efficient resources on a single system and to provide for hardware failover and load-balancing and worked with developers.
Responsible for deploying applications on the cluster and setting up the environment.
Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources 4/5 and connection pooling and tuning it and monitoring it using Tivoli Performance viewer by enabling PMI.
Troubleshoot problems on the various environments involving the intergrations of WebSphere, IBM HTTP Server, iPlanet web Servers, TAM and ldap.
Configured global security on WebSphere using IBM Directory Server and secure the adminconsole.
Configued adinconsole security on WebSphere and creating users with various roles to access the WebSphere admin console – users and groups in ldap and added them as WebSphere Console Groups.
Involved in opening and working on PMR’s with IBM to solve various issue related to the environment. Enabled traces as part of troubleshooting and used collector tool to submit the logs and traces to IBM after running the must gather scripts and enabling various traces and taking thread dumps.
Used WebSphere plug-in for load balancing across the cluster members and manually updated it for remote webservers in the DMZ.
Installed SSL certificates on the web servers using ikeyman tool.
Was involved in writing shell scripts to automate websphere admin tasks and application specific rsyncs / backups and other schedulers.
Participated in team meetings and management meetings to resolve issues related to the various environments.
Used Tivoli Performance tools for tuning the WebSphere environments (JVM heap size, data base connection pool size, etc).
Was responsible for documenting the various procedures involved in the day to day maintenance of the various environments
Environment: WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment 6.0.2.17, 6.1, iPlanet 6.1 Web Server, IHS Web Server 6.0,6.1, Netegrity Siteminder 5.X, HP Integerity VM, Sun Solaris 9,10, HP Itanium, TSM 6.1.
American Express, Phoenix, AZ Apr 2005 – June 2006
Websphere Administrator
Responsibilities:
Installation and configuration of number of WebSphere Application Servers 4.0/5.0 instances on development, WebSphere XD, QA and production environment.
Installation of multiple instances IBM WebSphereV5.0, 5.1 on the same machine. Coexistence of multiple Application Server (Base) instances, multiple Deployment manager instances, and different versions of WebSphere as well.
Installing fixpacks and fixes, federating Node to the Deployment Manager.
Administration and troubleshooting of working Application - starting and stopping the application server – Regenerating/updating plug-in for IBM HTTP Server and iPlanet Webserver, co-ordinate with Database Admin Team to create databases for storing the Websphere application repository (for WAS4).
Enable global security for application servers and applications using Single Sign on (SSO) by LTPA mechanism on SecureWay LDAP User Registry.
Deploying the Applications on the Server from wsadmin/WSCP using jacl/tcl scripts.
Involved in Application integration for Customer Trouble Ticket Tracking System, a web-based system using EJB Architecture deployed in Websphere Application Server.
Integrating the mainframe trouble ticket system to web-based system using EJB Architecture to be deployed in WebSphere Application Server.
Assisting the application owner with questions about installation packages, assisting operations staff with questions about the execution of a change request, and maintaining operational procedures and tools for managing the WebSphere environment.
Configured the web server interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere.
Installation & Configuration of IBM HTTP Server, make junction works for the transportation of application through a webserver.
Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling and JavaMail sessions.
Involved in configuring the WebSphere load balancing using WebSphere workload management like horizontal cloning and vertical cloning.
Configured horizontal scalability of WebSphere through a mechanism called as “Cloning of multiple JVMs” with independent Java Virtual Machines-JVMs, for each clone.
Trouble shooting, Performance tuning and Capacity Monitoring of Applications Servers using Tivoli Performance Viewer and log analyzer.
On call, on pager, 24x7 production support and maintenance of Applications Servers.
Environment: Java2EE, WSAD 5.0, IBM WebSphere Application Server4.0/5.0, IBM MQ Series, IBM HTTP Server, Netscape iPlanet, Actuate, LDAP Server, DB2 UDB, Oracle, Windows NT and Solaris5.8.
Adminserver Inc, Chester, PA Mar’04–March’05 WebSphere Administrator
Responsibilities:
Installation, Configuration and maintenance of WAS 5.0.2.2, IBM IHS 2.0.42, SiteMinder 5QMR5, WebSphere MQ.
Created and setup WebSphere Application Servers in a clustered environment.
Deployed new Enterprise J2EE applications in the shared WAS environment
Configuration of new IHS WebServers and Virtual Hosts
Setup of new WebSphere Queues on WAS nodes. Local queues for the Application MDB’s and Remote queues for connecting to the Mainframe
Lock-Down the access to the Application using SiteMinder, Installing and configuring Siteminder webagent, WebServer.
Creation of Data sources for the applications involving DB2, Oracle.
Applied fixpacks and cumulative fixes to WAS.
Created and setup new WebSphere Application Servers in a clustered environment
Setup of the new Application work area. Created jacl scripts for creating clusters.
Day-to-Day problem solving involving WAS 5.0.2, IHS WebServers, Siteminder WebSphere MQ.
Escalating Issues with IBM involving WAS 5.0.2 ND, DB2, MQ
Diagnosed the problems caused in the applications through the log files and rectified the problems.
Monitored the Server performance using performance servlet, Tivoli Performance viewer
Setup of new Application through Dev/Test and Stage Environments in Linux.
Created scripts for automating Application deployment.
Creating self-signed certificates ,generating CSR,receiving CA signed certificate
Experience of providing production support and monitor the team Mailbox for Issues 24x7
Environment:
WAS 5.0.2.2, AIX 4.5, SiteMinder 5.0, IHS WebServer2.0.42, WebSphere MQ 5.3, IBM DB2 UDB 7.2, Oracle 8.0, WSAD
Ford Motors, Detroit, MI Jan 2003 – Feb 2004
WebSphere Administrator
Responsibilities:
Installed and configured IBM Web Sphere Application Server 3.5/4.0, JDBC drivers and Servlets engines on AIX, Linux and Sun Solaris and also created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
Worked on Web Sphere components such as Work Load Management (WLM), Servlet Engine, Session Manager, Admin Client and Http-Web Admin tool (thin client).
Developed many Web Sphere Control Program (WSCP) scripts and shell scripts to automate the maintenance process of the Web Sphere and recovered the backed up Web Sphere configuration using XML Config tool.
Installed JDBC drivers and Servlet engines on Sun Solaris.
Configured the extranet Web Servers and intranet application servers using the firewalls between the Web Servers and application servers (DMZ model).
Created, tested & deployed J2EE applications on Web sphere Application Server using WSAD tools.
Administration of Working Application, Application performance monitoring - starting and stopping the application server.
Involved in deploying the EAR files and scripting automated deployment of the applications.
Used IBM Edge Server and Network Dispatchers for load balancing.
Configured the webserver interfaces, session management, virtual hosts and transports for WebSphere.
Configured WebSphere resources like JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection pooling, and JavaMail sessions.
Involved in number of installation of WebSphere instances from development to production.
Involved in configuring the WebSphere load balancing using WebSphere workload management like horizontal cloning and vertical cloning.
Migrated the existing applications from WebSphere 3.5 versions to 4.0 using WAS pre-upgrade and WAS post-upgrade tools.
Configured horizontal scalability of WebSphere through a mechanism called as “Cloning of multiple JVMs” with independent Java Virtual Machines-JVMs, for each clone.
Involved in trouble shooting and Performance tuning using Resource analyzer and log analyzer.
Defined synchronized and persistent IBM MQSeries Queue Manager, Channel Managers and Queues.
EDUCATION
BE Computer Science & Engineering Madras University, India - 2002
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