Project Software Engineer

Kumar Gaurav

Mobile: 201-***-****

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

Seeking a Challenging assignment in the field of WebSphere Administration.

Professional Profile:

I am a Software Professional with 7.5 years of work experience. Mostly in the field of WebSphere Application Server, Configuring new environments, Engineering new applications, Maintaining existing environments and Troubleshooting production issues. Proven ability to implement and promote best practices and standards, methodologies and processes. I am quick in learning with ability to rapidly adapt to new technologies and environments. Strongly result driven, flexible and adaptable.

Professional Summary:

Total 7.5 years of IT Experience at Tata Consultancy Service; currently working as WebSphere Administrator

• Over 7 years of IT Experience, with more than 6 years of experience in planning, installation engineering and administering of IBM WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ , Version Control tools , open Source technologies on AIX , HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and Windows.

• 7 years of experience in J2EE and related technologies like JSP, Servlets, EJB, XML, JMS, JDBC, RMI, JNDI, Object oriented technology (OOB).

• Extensive experience with Web administration, which includes Installation and configuration of Apache, IBM HTTP Servers and Microsoft IIS

• Experience in installation/migration/deployment of Enterprise Applications using WebSphere Application server 7.0/6.1/6.0/5.x.

• Experience in Setting up of Nodes, Data Sources, Virtual Hosts, Session Managers including installation and configuration of Application Server Trace Service, Applying fix Patches, Plug-ins and Object Level Trace (OLT).

• Extensive experience in Migrating and Administering of WebSphere Application Server 4.0/5.0/6.0/6.1/7.0, IBM HTTP Web Server, IIS, Apache Web Server in Solaris8 AIX5L and Windows NT/2003/2000 in a 24x7 shift rotation and pager support.

• Experience in creating static and dynamic clusters, cluster members, JDBC Providers, Data Sources, JMS Providers and so forth for development, QA and Production life cycles in a DMZ environment.

• Experience in configuring ODR for an XD environment.

• Manual update of plugin file. Creation of ND Plugin, XD plugin or merged plugin for catering to different applications existing in the same environment.

• Successful implementations of WLM using cloning and clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Clustering for failover and backup/recovery processes.

• Expertise in automating Web Sphere application Server Administrative tasks.

• Good experience with Jython, WSADMIN and Shell scripting to administer and automate the maintenance process of the WebSphere.

• Closely worked with Application groups in monitoring JVM, troubleshooting and fine-tuning the application Performance using Wily Introscope.

• Experienced in implementing various authorization and authentication models including LDAP and LTPA in e-commerce applications.

• Profound knowledge of IBM Tivoli Identity Management and Third Party Vendors, such as Netegrity Siteminder 6.0 etc.

• Configured and secured WebServer interface, Session management, WebSphere resources, J2C resources, connection factories and JMS resources in IBM WebSphere 5.x/6.x.

• Deployment experience in WebSphere Process server on Z/OS platform

• In the process of configuring Phurnace tool to automate creation of new WAS environments.

• Experienced in working with JACL scripts, recovering and Backup Web Sphere configuring.

• Creating the Problem Management Record (PMR) if there were any unresolved bugs.

• Used version control tools tools like clear case, Microsoft VSS and bug tracking tools like clear quest, Quality Center and Service Manager.

• On-call support (24x7), Monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications at Development and QA phases.

• Work well under pressure and accomplish assigned tasks with a high degree of success.

• Excellent client relation skills and the drive to complete tasks effectively and efficiently where customer services and technical skills are demanded.

Education

Bachelors of Technology in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering.

Technical Skills

Operating systems

IBM AIX 4.3.3/4.5/5.2/5.3, SUN Solaris 8/9/10, LINUX (REDHAT), HP-UX, Windows NT/2003/2000 server, Windows XP/98/95, Z/OS

Application/Web/Messaging Servers IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x/7.x, Apache Web Server 1.3/2.0, IIS, IBM HTTP Server 6.x/1.3.28//2.0.47, Rational Application Developer5.1/6.0/7.0, Netegrity SiteMinder 6.x/5.5/4.5, WebSphere MQ 5.3/6.0,,WebSphere TAM, Web Logic, iPlanet 6.1. Tomcat 4.0

Web Development J2EE Technology, JDK 1.6, JDBC2.0, Servlets, EJBs, JSPs, RMI, JavaScript, HTML, XML and XSL.

Databases & Tools ORACLE8i/9i/10g,DB2/UDB7.2/8.0,SQL Server .5/7.0/2000, MS-Access 2000, DB2 and Sybase

Development and Testing tools IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer V4.0, IBM VisualAge for Java 3.0/3.5/4.0/5.0/6.0, JBuilder, Visual Café 3.5, Microsoft VJ++, Rational Robo and Visual SlickEdit

Programming Languages Java, C, C++, HTML, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX Shell Programming

Networking/Protocol TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, RMI/IIOP, IBM OSE, IMAP, POP3 and WAP

Work History:

Working with Tata Consultancy Services Ltd since Sept 2004

Project Title : GWM - Morgan Stanley Smith Barney

Duration : August 2009 – till date.

Team size : 6

Technology : UNIX, WebSphere

Role : WAS Administrator

Project Description: Following the merger of Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney, the respective systems had to be integrated, this integration required creation of new WAS environments and a lot of changes on either side before and after integration.

Responsibility:

• Creation of new WAS environments in ND/XD. Engineering how many core-groups to have, distribution of applications/clusters in core-groups. Configuring ODR. Generating ODR Plugin/ ND plugin then manual updation of the Plugin file to match application requirements of ND or XD. Creation of static/Dynamic clusters, deployment of applications, creation of automated scripts for further ear/war deployments, configuration of datasources, shared libraries , namespace bindings, MQ listeners , setting other configuration parameters such as heap sizes, logging and tracing parameters, Applying SSL certificates as required. Configuration of WAS webservers, creation of websites.

• Troubleshooting in case of issues in existing environments including Production.

• Deployments in WebSphere Process Server in Z/OS platform

• Critical Production deployments especially first time configuration of an application going live.

• Installation/Uninstallation of Fixpacks, ifixes to the various WAS environments.

• Configuration and engineering of new applications to go into existing environments.

• Configuring Phurnace ( a new tool from bladelogic going to be used for duplicating WAS environments and later on for automated deployments)

• Documentation of all newly configured applications and environments.

• Debugging Performance issues.

Project Title : CITI -STS

Duration : September 2005 – July 2009.

Team size : 6

Technology : UNIX, WebSphere

Role : Team Lead for Production Support Team

Project Description: Citibank is the world’s largest financial conglomerate. STS – Shared Technology Services is a pool of shared common resources serving across different Lines of Businesses of Citibank.

Responsibility:

• Maintenance of production, load, test, stage, patch and training application servers

• Application of patches, new releases, configuration changes into the live Production environment

• Resolution/ aiding in resolution of incidents/trouble tickets raised for the production environment.

• Reporting the number of incidents

• Maintenance of a knowledge repository and known error database; pro-actively searching for avenues, opportunities to achieve more customer satisfaction.

• Since the team was started from scratch, I selected, inducted and trained all team members;

• Created all documentation for various auditory requirements like induction manual, process manual, Error database.

• Created proposal document for the client was also written by me. As the team evolved, I was involved in negotiations with the client to increase the scope of the activities of the team and successfully established the 24X7X365 production support onsite-offshore model.

• Responsible for a clean Client Security Audit conducted on the team.

Project Title : KS Production Support

Duration : April 2005-August 2005

Team size : 2

Technology : Unix, Weblogic

Project Description: Knowledge Stream provides real time updates of various market parameters for evaluation, processing for the downstream systems and the users for Deutsche Bank.

Responsibility:

• Application of releases onto live Production Environment

• Analysis and trouble-shooting of the maintenance tickets.

• Shell Scripting

Project Title : KS Core team

Duration : December 2004 – March 2005

Team size : 8

Technology : UNIX, Weblogic

Project Description: Knowledge Stream provides real time updates of various market parameters for evaluation, processing for the downstream systems and the users for Deutsche Bank.

Responsibility:

• Create, maintain and move files in between the development, system testing (ST), Pre-UAT and UAT environments

• Debug and fix environment problems

• Package developed component at the end of the quarter and hand over to production support team for application to production.

• Basic UNIX shell scripting

• Creation and maintenance of weblogic domains; for developed components to be incorporated into an ear (enterprise archive) file which needed to be deployed on a weblogic server.

• Applied application ears onto onsite environments where weblogic servers were maintained by a third party. For this role, I got acquainted with java and fundamentals of weblogic administration.

Project Title : Initial Learning Program

Duration : Sep 2004-Nov 2004

Description: Initial Learning Program is a two months training program for new inductees in TCS designed to groom an employee to be a software engineer with training on software concepts, technical programming , life skills and a foreign language.

Topics Covered:

• Software Concepts –SDLC, Operating Systems, etc

• SQL

• Java

• Unix

• Project : A java based project with oracle database on Windows platform involving basic Calculations after user input using data in the database and producing an output demonstrating skills in programming and configuring a basic application

• Life Skills including communications, dining, etiquettes in different countries, etc

• Foreign Language French

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