This document contains a summary of a candidate's professional experience with administering and configuring IBM application and web servers. The candidate has over 3 years of experience installing, configuring, and administering IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM MQ, WebLogic, and other application servers in Linux, AIX, and Windows environments. Responsibilities have included performance tuning, clustering, security configuration, application deployment, and troubleshooting. The candidate also has a Master's degree and technical skills including WebSphere, WebLogic, Java EE, databases, and monitoring tools.
WebSphere Administrator with 3+ Years of Experience in Application Server Administration
1. k.prudhvi
k.prudhvi@gmail.com
202-818-9842
Professional Summary
Over 3+ years of experience in administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server
and IBM MQ Series
Experience in administration of other application servers like WebLogic 11g, JBOSS 7.1
Installed and Configured IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.x/8.x
Installed and Configured IBM MQ 8.0
Network Deployment Various Operating Systems like AIX and Linux Environments.
Extensive experience in installation, configuration, and administration of WebSphere
Application Server, IBM HTTP Server, IBM MQ on AIX, Linux, and Windows.
Involved in creating and configuring JVM’s, profiles, clusters, nodes, node agents for
WebSphere Application Server.
Experience in WebLogic Administration, Configuring and monitoring the domain,
deploying applications, Clustering, Webserver Configuration in Test/Production in
Linux platforms.
Experience in Setting up of Data Sources, Virtual Hosts including planning installation
and configuration of WebSphere Application Server.
Hands-on experience in a Clustered environment including deployments,
troubleshooting performance issues and especially performance test monitoring,
installations, and configuration maintenance.
Architected the environment using Horizontal and Vertical clusters for a fault-tolerant,
scalable, and highly available WebSphere environment.
Experience in Installation, Configuration of Sessions and Global Security in WAS.
Involved in migrating WebSphere 7.x to 8.5 on AIX
Handled deployment of JAR, EAR and WAR files to the respective application server
instances.
Experience in Configuring SSL for Application Server, Web Server and Plug-ins.
Experience performance tuning at WebLogic domain level and OS level, performance
tuned WebLogic heap, threads, JDBC and JMS subsystems.
Good experience in monitoring and troubleshooting issues & hands-on experience
working with logs, traces and dump files using tools such as Log Analyzer, Heap
Analyzer, and Core Analyzer & IBM Support Assistant.
2. Extensive experience in configuring the HTTP Server for various clustered application
servers using virtual hosting and enabling SSL security.
Experience in troubleshooting, applying patches and plug-in for WAS 7.x/8.x
Performing backup and recovery when new technologies related to Webservers is being
installed or upgraded.
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.
Education:
Bachelors in Vignan Engineering college, India
Masters in Virginia International University, USA
Technical Skills:
WebSphere Application Server
IBM WebSphere Application Server
8.5/8.0/7.0, Web Sphere MQ (IBM
MQSeries), WebSphere Portal Server 7.0,
IBM Http Server 7.x/8.x, Tomcat 4.0, JBOSS,
Weblogic8.1/9.2
Operating Systems UNIX, IBM AIX, Linux, Solaris Windows
XP/Vista/7, Eclipse.
Databases Oracle, DB2, MS Access, Microsoft SQL Server
2008 SQL, PL/SQL.
Monitoring Tools
Heap Analyzer, Thread Analyzer, Tivoli
Performance Viewer,
Web Technologies J2EE, JSP, EJB, JDBC, JMS.
MS Office Tools Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project,
Visio, Access.
Comerica Bank March’ 15 - Present
San Antonio, TX
WebSphere Administrator
3. Responsibilities:
Involved in installing, upgrading, configuring and Troubleshooting IBM WebSphere
Application Server 7.x/8.x and IBM MQ Series 8.0/7.x on AIX and Linux
Created and federated profiles to the Deployment Manager using both Profile Management
tool and also automated the process using manage profiles and add node command.
Build, deploy, and administer applications in WAS, at Development, Pre prod and
Production Environments
Configured admin console 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.
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.
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
Creation of Data sources for the applications involving DB2, Oracle.
Experience in creating queues, Configuring WebSphere JMS settings like Queues, Topics,
Activation Specifications, Queue connection Factories and Topic Connection Factories for
WAS- MQ connectivity.
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
Monitored and responsible for troubleshooting the WebSphere Application Server with JVM
logs, Process Logs, Service logs.
Collection of JVM statistics, garbage collection data for monitoring the heap and physical
memory.
Configured JMS support by creating MQ Connection Factories and Destinations and
coordinate with MQSeries team.
Configured the webserver interfaces, session management and transports for WebSphere
Written and used WSAdmin scripting to automate WebSphere builds and deployments for
all environments leading to huge savings in deployment time for the company and also
configuring and testing the environment.
4. Actively involved in support of WebSphere MQ & WBI Message Broker infrastructure in
Production/QA/Test regions, shared support responsibilities with other members of the
team.
Involved in investigating the problem, troubleshooting and resolving application and
configuration issues.
Bharti Airtel jun’13 - jul’14
Hyderabad, India
Middleware Engineer
Technical Environment: WebLogic server, iplanet, Apache, Linux, Windows
Responsibilities:
Installed, configured and administered Oracle WebLogic server 10.0 MP1, 10.0 MP2, 11g
and Webservers like iplanet/Apache in development, Test and production environments.
Set up WebLogic domain with a single server instance for developers on their windows
machines.
Administered complex SOA based WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Application
Server applications in various Environments.
Experienced in Configuring WebSphere Process Server Golden Topology with Oracle, DB2 on
z/os as its backend database and WAS v7.x/8.0
Deployment experience with a J2EE, EJB, JSP, HTML, and XML based solutions.
Handling all the aspects of administration tasks such as day to day site monitoring and
maintenance, installation, configuration, clustering, troubleshooting, load balancing,
performance tuning and maintenance of WebLogic Server.
Developed scripts to monitor JDBC Connection Pool Status, JVM Heap Size, and JMS
Messages in the Destination queues in the production environment.
Design Security strategy – use of SSL/Firewalls between tiers, defining/implementing
Security Roles/Policies, LDAP.
Modified existing scripts for automating deployment and administration tasks for recycling
the application server, deploying customer applications, logs rotation, monitor applications.
5. Involved in the migration of applications into various versions of WebLogic servers.
Monitoring CPU utilization, JVM memory utilization, finding process id with Port number
and resolving Port conflicts using various UNIX commands.
Deployed the applications on multiple WebLogic Servers and maintained Load
balancing, high availability and failover functionalities.
JDBC Data source and Connection pool configuration with Oracle.
Performing backup and recovery when new technologies related to Webservers is being
installed or upgraded.
Configuring JVM parameters as per requirement.
Monitoring error logs, fixing problems and tuning parameters on WebLogic environment.
Eidiko systems integrators Sep’ 12 – Jun’13
Hyderabad, India
WebSphere Admin
Technical Environment: AIX, HP, Linux, Windows, Oracle, DB2, WebSphere ND 7 & 8,
HTTP and Apache web servers.
Responsibilities:
Installed and configured MQ Series on Solaris, AIX, Z/OS and Windows.
Installed the Refresh Packs and cumulative fixes to WebSphere ND V7.0 environment,
for WebSphere, plugins and IHS.
Migrated existing applications from WebSphere V7.0 to V8.0.
Created the Clustering Topology in WebSphere Application Server ND V7.x to achieve
Work Load Management (WLM), High availability, Load Balancing and Hardware fail
over.
Configured Web server plug-in to directing dynamic requests to application servers for
load balance in clustered environment.
Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container
parameters using the Admin Console.
Involved in Performance tuning such as tuning the web server by specifying the
parameters for the max client, start servers and maxspareservers. Tuning the Servlet
engine and database connection pools. Tuning the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) by
specifying the minimum and maximum heap size.
Used Tivoli Performance Viewer to monitor WebSphere Applications and tuned the
environment accordingly like changing the JVM Heap, and Connection Pool sizes.
6. Configured WebSphere resources like JVM heap settings, JDBC providers, JDBC data
sources, connection pooling, Virtual Hosts, Global Security and SSL.
Involved in Stopping/Starting & Monitoring the logs for Application Server Instances.
Implemented Horizontal and Vertical Clustering, Performance tuning and
troubleshooting of IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0/8.0.
Provided 24x7 support for any issues or impact caused by the New Changes.