Lead Middleware Engineer resume example with 20+ years of experience
JessicaClaire
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Professional Summary
Over 15+ years of IT
experience in Managing Infrastructures which includes installations,
configurations, deployments and managing enterprise applications using PRPC
5.x/6.x/7.x ,WebSphere Application server 5.x./6.1/7.0/8.5, Websphere Process
Server 6.1/7.0 , Weblogic 11g/10 on various platforms
Unix/Solaris/Linux(SUSE/Redhat)
Experience in Managing
,installing & configuring Vignette Content management V6/V7.3.1.1
Experience in
installing & Configuring Websphere Portal Servers 6.x
Complete understanding
of SDLC
Extensively
worked with webservers & experience with webservers (Apace/IHS/iPlanet/IIS)
Very proficient in
applying/renewing SSL’s on all types of webservers.
Configured Siteminder webagents for all
flavors of webservers Apache/IHS/iPlanet/IIS w.r.t the SUN/AIX/Windows.
Experienced in
applying patches and plug-ins for WebSphere application server and WebLogic
Extensive experience
in Java server technologies including message-oriented middleware and XML
web-services and object relational mapping frameworks & Solid understanding
of XML/XSLT/SOAP/WSDL Web Services expertise.
Experience in Shell
scripting (bash, ksh) to automate administration batch jobs including backing
up WebSphere Admin repository.
Experience in Workload
Management (WLM) for WebSphere using horizontal and vertical clones and
clustering.
Building high available, scalable, redundant, high throughput WebSphere
environment systems using clustering, multi cell and multi node methods.
Dynamically react to changing business requirements with the ability to
install new versions of a process and migrate running processes to a new
version
Configuring security, performance tuning, troubleshooting the issues in
WebSphere environments.
Experience in installation, configuration, troubleshooting and
performance tuning of IBM WebSphere Application Server, Process server on zOS
Experience in working with CA Siteminder, IBM Tivoli Directory Server
for authentication and authorization.
Expertise in MQ
Series Administration tasks including intercommunication setup between Queues,
Triggering MQ Queues, Clusters and Repository Queue Managers.
Skills
PRPC/Pega Administration
Websphere Administration
Infrastructure Architect
Websphere Process Server
SDLC
Apache
Enterprise Architecture
Websphere MQ
SOA
Unix/Linux/AIX/ZOS
Work History
Lead Middleware Engineer, 2016 to Current Tiaa – Melville, ,
Managing &
Configuring IBM Http servers, Websphere Application servers , MQ on all
Environments namely Development , QA & Production Environments
Configured
WebSphere MQ queue connection
factories & WebSphere MQ queue destinations in WAS console
Involved in upgrading/migrating Websphere application server and WebSphere MQ components.
Worked
with the subject matter experts to design/architect the infrastructure and
application monitoring requirements for web-based environments, worked with QA
groups to assist in the stress testing and results analysis, and responsible for infrastructure performance
and scalability benchmarks for web-based applications
Enabled security and configured SSL between WebServer, WebSphere
Application Server, Process server and Data Power
Responsible
for monitoring the application and all the servers on a daily basis.
Implemented service provider/consumer message infrastructure using
MQ/JMS, Data Power and Service Integration Buses & Messaging Engines.
Sr.Pega/Webphere Administrator, 02/2010 to 11/2015 Epic Games – Chicago, ,
Managing the
Architecture & Installation, Configuration and support existing systems for
WebSphere Application Server 6.1/7.0/8.5 Migrated Pega applications
from PRPC 6.1 to PRPC7.3
Managing WebSphere
Process Server 6.2/7.5/8.0 for z/OS installation, validation, performance
testing/tuning, failover testing, troubleshooting production issues, isolating
issues from process servers and other environments
Managed the team
from onshore & offshore as a Pega Lead
Managing with
Process Server Components like BPM topologies like Business Process
Choreographer applications, Business Flow manager, BPC Explorer and Business
Rules Manager
Handled Integrated
Applications Failed Event Manager, installed various J2C resource adapters like
MAIL, JDBC
Experienced in
Service Oriented Architecture understanding of business process choreography
terminology
Design, maintain HA operational model, optimized scalability, capacity
planning
Dynamically react to changing business requirements with the ability to
install new versions of a process and migrate running processes to a new
version
Installed &
Deployed Pega(BPM) applications on Z/OS
Configured
WebSphere MQ queue connection
factories & WebSphere MQ queue destinations in WAS console
Design, maintain HA operational model, optimized scalability, capacity
planning
Implemented Workload Management (WLM) on zOS WAS Network Deployment (ND)
environment using multi servant cloning and clustering techniques including
process server topologies.
Involved in capacity planning of the servers that host the WebSphere
Application servers, Process server and their applications.
Experience in administration of WebSphere with the help of wsadmin using
Jacl, Jython Scripts.
Enabled security and configured SSL between WebServer, WebSphere
Application Server, Process server and Data Power.
Involved in upgrading/migrating Websphere application serve and WebSphere MQ components.
Involved in WebSphere Process Server for z/OS installation, validation,
performance testing/tuning, failover testing, troubleshooting production
issues, isolating issues from process servers and other environments.
Experienced in Service Oriented Architecture understanding of business
process choreography terminology.
Enabled
the security for WebSphere Application
server 6.x/7.x by configuring it with the LDAP server.
Responsible for
establishing Single Sign On
(SSO) between the Siteminder & HIS
Ø Good Command in implementing and troubleshooting
WAS/zWAS/MQ components to provide better guidance during Production issues
using Managing Server and TEPS interface.
Identifying End-End slow response transaction flow
using SOA and TT agents on top of ITCAM for Websphere.
Empowered basic knowledge to team members on how to
use those ITCAM technologies and how does it work in presentations and
documents.
Worked closely with IBM folks on ITCAM PMRs during
MS 6.1 to 7.1 JVM config upgrades.
Configured HTTP/HTTPS urls in ISM profiles and
setup basic alerting system with the help of actual ITCAM admins.
Created basic Portal workspace for different
applications teams based on their requirements.
Performed
Root Cause Analysis and involved
in 24/7 production support
including change management procedures,
troubleshooting and monitoring.
Configured
WebSphere Application Server on multiple platforms for both horizontal and
vertical clustering for Work Load Management, fail over and High
availability.
Sr. Web Engineer, 05/2008 to 2010 IBM – City, ,
Managing ,Installing
& Configuring IBM Http servers, Websphere Application servers on all
Environments namely Development , QA & Production Environments
Extensively involved
design, planning , work flow and architecture for web based applications
Migrated WAS 4.0
Applications to WAS 6.0
Configured multiple
App servers which compromises vertical & Horizontal clustering
Deploying ear files & as wall as new fix packs of
JDK, Plug-in, WAS etc.
Configured
WebSphere resources including JDBC providers, JDBC data sources, connection
pooling. Deployed Session and Entity EJB’s in WebSphere.
Defined
the Global security for WAS console/applications & dealt with issues
related to LDAP authentication mechanisms
Deployed
J2EE based Applications in WAS &
tuning J2EE based Applications on
Clustered environments
Configured
WebSphere MQ queue connection
factories & WebSphere MQ queue destinations in WAS console
Worked
with Tivoli Work Scheduler & automated the Maestro jobs for daily stop
& start the apps according to the Business SLA
Worked
with the Application Development team from the very beginning phases of a
project to insure that all proposed technologies and solutions are met the
business requirements
Provided
the design/architectural lead and assistance to all of Enterprise Technology
for the deployment and operational support of applications
Worked
with other subject matter experts to build the DEV, QA and Production
environments, and assist in the process of performing the necessary tests and
due diligence on the latest technologies
Worked
with the Project Managers to help size the necessary level of involvement from
Internet Engineering throughout the life of an application from the very
beginning phases to production deployment
Worked
with the subject matter experts to design/architect the infrastructure and
application monitoring requirements for web-based environments, worked with QA
groups to assist in the stress testing and results analysis, and responsible for infrastructure performance
and scalability benchmarks for web-based applications
Responsible
for monitoring the application and all the servers on a daily basis.
Involved
in writing and executing UNIX shell Scripts.
Involved
extensively in trouble shooting the issues and finding out root cause analysis.
Worked
closely different groups as the application was integrated with other products.
Worked
closely with vendors during trouble tickets and also in coming to a solution.
Involved in testing
of the web URL’s and software installed and versions migrated.
Used
Tivoli Performance tools (TPV and TPA) for monitoring and tuning the WebSphere
environment (JVM heap size, data base connection pool size, etc).
24/7
on-call production support and troubleshooting issues related to WAS, IHS &
LDAP
Sr. Websphere Administrator, 09/2005 to 04/2008 MetLife – City, ,
Installed,
Configured & upgraded WAS for all QA, DR and Production environments
Installed and
configured the I-Planet & IBM HTTP Web servers on Sun platform.
Installed Vignette
CMS, CDS & JSP-APE page generator
Created &
configured the web instances on I-Planet & IBM HTTP Web servers
Responsible for
installation and configuring (set up and registration with policy server) of Netegrity
Siteminder Web agents for iPlanet web server/IHS
Extensively worked
with Siteminder upgrades from
version 5 to 6(5QMR7 – 6QMR4)
Expertise in Weblogic installation,
configuration,clustering, load balancing and performance tuning
Involved
in troubleshooting Weblogic Node Manager Administration
Responsible for
doing the code deployments across different environments using vignette
utilities.
Responsible for
writing the programs tasks for vignette work flow
Involved in
customizing the out of the box CMS to suit MetLife security policies.
Ø Managed offshore
team for team size of four.
Involved in
configuring the NSAPI plugins with Vignette Dev and Live CDS.
Involved in
optimizing/tuning the vignette as per load demand.
Involved in writing
the cron jobs to execute vignette clear cache tasks.
Ø Created new
collections, parametric indices for a new tenant getting onboard for the
Enterprise Search Platform using Verity
Performed
requirement gathering and capacity analysis for the Verity search usage
Developed
familiarity with Verity dashboard and command line interface
Acted as a liaison
to engage Autonomy (Verity vendor) for bug fixes, patches and upgrades.
Responsible for
installation and configuring (set up and registration with policy server) of
Netegrity Siteminder Web agents for iPlanet/IHS/IIS
Extensively worked on issues like High CPU & memory leaks to identify
the bottlenecks by analyzing the thread dumps & heap dumps
Responsible in Creating/Configuring websites on all webservers
IIS/HIS/iPlanet
Ø Very
proficient in writing & executing Jacl/Jython scripts.
Analyzed the results for Stress & Performance
test & made necessary configuration changes to over come the performance
issues.
Installed &
configured Reverse proxy plug-in for iPlanet web server
Configured Reverse
proxy features, Data Encryption and Load Balancing
Extensively worked
with configp utility while upgrading Vignette from 7.3.0.4 to 7.3.1
Configured magnus.conf & corresponding obj.conf to
initialize the Reverse proxy in iPlanet web server
Sr. Websphere Administrator, 05/2005 to 08/2005 City Furniture – City, STATE,
Responsible for
Installation, Configuration and support existing systems for WebSphere
Application Server 6.0
Installed IBM Http
servers, Websphere Application servers on all Environments namely Development
and Production Environment
Installed DB2 UDB
8.2server for all the environments
Ø Installed DB2
Everyplace 8.2 for all the environments
Enabled the SSL for
Production environment
Deployment of new versions/fixes of portal
application
Deployment of themes and Skins
Architected and implemented the reusable
scripts using Jython/JACL
Performance tuning of the application on
WebSphere Application Server
Ø
Deployment of new fix packs of JDK,
Plug-in, WAS etc.
Created the
databases and executed the ddl scripts according to the business requirements
Typically involved
in deploying and unpackaging the EAR file, making necessary configuration
changes to the files and then repackage it, and then deploy/ install the EAR on
the WAS server
Responsible for
monitoring the application and all the servers on a daily basis
Worked closely with
vendors during trouble tickets and also in coming to a solution
Worked closely
different groups as the application was integrated with other products.
Sr. Websphere Administrator, 10/2000 to 05/2005 Sprint – City, STATE,
Responsible for Installation, Configuration and support existing systems for WebSphere Application Server 5.0.
Installed IBM Http servers Edge servers, Websphere Application servers on all Environments namely TDL, New loads, Load Fail over, Third party and production environments.
Deployed and managed portal applications in portal server.
Involved in customizing portal applications and administering users, pages and portlets and securing IBM WebSphere Portal 5.1 Responsible for maintenance and Systems administration of many Aix systems.
Installed and Configured Edge proxy servers for Load Balancing.
Installed & configured the Jboss Application Server.
Typically involved in deploying and unpackaging the EAR file, making necessary configuration changes to the files and then repackage it, and then deploy/ install the EAR on the WAS server.
Extensively involved design, planning and architecture.
Installed, Configured, upgraded IBM AIX 5.0 on IBM RS 6000 machines.
Extensively used SQL queries to interact with data base Installed & Configured DB2 Connect according to business needs Responsible for Installation, Configuration and testing of IBM DB2 UDB database and IBM HACMP.
Defined synchronized and persistent IBM MQ Series Queue manager, Channel Managers and Queues.
Involved in migration of DB2 version 7.2 to version 8.2.
Experience in problem tracing, performance tuning, trouble shooting of problems related to the applications deployed on WebLogic Application Server
Worked with BEA WebLogic Technical Support in resolving the critical issues by analyzing the respective thread dumps, server hangs, server crash, logs and config files and did a follow up on the open cases
Performance Tuning by Managing and Monitoring the JVM performance by WebLogic Heap Size, garbage collection, Execute Threads, EJB Cache size, JDBC Pools and Multi pools
Responsible for resolving the issues related to WebLogic server in an integrated environment of IPlanet and Siteminder policy servers
Supporting WebLogic installations involving multiple clusters, multiple machines, and multiple server instances Environment
Education
Bachelor of Science: Mechanical Engineering, Expected in 1997 Manipal Institute of Technology - Manipal, India GPA:
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