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Prasanna K

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Summary

  • Over all of 3+ years IT Experience in the analysis, design, implementation, and administration of software applications using object-oriented and distributed computing concepts.
  • Expertise in setup, installation and administration of IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0/7.0/7.5/8.0 Versions on various Operation Systems like IBM AIX, SUN Solaris, Red Hat Linux, RHEL 3/4, Windows Server.
  • Expertise in Installing, Configuring and administering WebSphere Application Server versions /6.0/6.1,7.0 ND &base, Web Logic 11g (10.3.3)/10g on AIX, Solaris, Linux and windows.
  • Experience in maintaining application Highly available and fail over redundancy by creating Clusters, multiple instances/domains, load balancing methodologies, work load management on Tomcat/WebSphere application servers.
  • Developed automation process for operations and deployment of application in a WMB/DataPower environment.
  • Experienced in System integration testing and validation and application documentation.
  • Highly experienced in the upgradation of MQ Series, Message Broker.
  • Define MQ objects (queues, channels, processes, services) and Setting up WebSphere MQ clusters for load balancing and high availability.
  • Extensive experience in migration of products from older versions to newer versions whenever suggested by vendors.
    MQ versions from 5.3 to 6.0 and 6.0/6.1 to 7.1
    WebSphere Application server versions from 6.0 to 6.1/7.0, 7.5/8.0.0.5
    Tomcat version 5.0 to 5.5/6.0 and 6.0 to 7.0
    IBM HTTP server versions 6.0/6.1 to 7.0
  • Implemented MQ Active-Active setup with multi instance queue managers and also worked on Replication.
  • Implemented the clustering of queue managers to achieve work load balancing and to reduce system administration. 
  • Good at Problem Determination and Troubleshooting through the Log files, Traces, Log Analyzer and rectified the problems or interacting with IBM support to solve problems.
  • Analyzing the memory, CPU usage and overall server status with commands and GUI tools.
  • An enthusiastic, project-oriented team player with leadership skills and with an ability to interact with end-users and managers.
  • Experience in requirement gathering and to develop creative solutions for challenging client needs.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

MQ Analyst

C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.
05.2016 - Current
  • Installation, Configuration, testing, implementation, maintenance and documentation of Websphere MQ 7.5/8.0, on various platforms such as Linux and Windows.  
  • Circumvented and resolved many complex and critical WMQ issues in production environment.  
  • Setup naming standards for the Queue managers, Queues and Channels. Ø  Worked on MQ disaster recover situations.  
  • Implemented MQ Active-Active setup with multi instance queue managers and also worked on Replication.  
  • Implemented the clustering of queue managers to achieve work load balancing and to reduce system administration.
  • Build the security infrastructure for MQ using security exits, SSL.  
  • Created the Queue managers, queues, channels, process definitions and triggering in MQ.
  • Backing up the Queue manager objects periodically.  
  • Troubleshoot problems and errors related to application servers, MQ servers. 
  • Provide support for the entire cycle of application testing including building applications, deploying, and troubleshooting.
  • Source Code Control and deploying the BPHEL and BPD packages through offline and online to production and non-production servers using Jython, JCAL scripts and process admin console.
  • Worked on manually migrate instances from the old model version to the new model version through process admin console.
  • Undeploy and cleaning up the old snapshots from admin console and using Jython, JCAL scripts.
  • Configured JDBC, JMS resources, the Deployment topology environment and security Configurations for WebSphere Business Process Manager.
  • Designed and implemented SOA compliant management and metrics infrastructure for new Websphere ESB infrastructure utilizing the SOA management components.
  • Created all high level design documentation for new ESB infrastructure.
  •  Worked with Websphere ESB mediation modules exports to reference by external services.
  • Configured commerce in clustered environment.
  • Monitoring the MQ and Commerce jobs, monitoring the heap sizes in the WebSphere Commerce Cluster.
  • Trouble shooting various issues which arise in the WebSphere Commerce environment.
  • Created MQ Queues and Channels required for the Application and resolved Channel issues, Cluster issues by diagnosing the problem from various logs i.e. MQ error logs, JMS logs and trace files.
  • Setup naming standards for the Queue managers, Queues and Channels.
  • Administered the WMQ Queue manager, Queues and Channels, Debugging the day to day problems.
  • Defining and maintaining Queue Managers and MQ Objects on Windows and Linux.
  • Setup naming standards for the Queue managers, Queues and Channels.
  • Created queue clusters and stopping and starting the queue managers and Qmgr Services.
  • Worked with the application teams to gather the requirements to build the interfaces.

MQ and WMB Analyst

Quadcapillar LLC
01.2016 - 04.2016
  • Installation, Configuration, testing, implementation, maintenance and documentation of Websphere MQ 6.0/6.1/7.1, WMB/IIB 9.0 on various platforms such as AIX, Linux and Windows.
  • Circumvented and resolved many complex and critical WMQ, WMB & IIB 9.0 issues in production environment.
  • Installing, configuring and administering all Application & Web Servers Web Sphere 7.x/6.X, Tomcat 6/5.5/5.
  • Responsible for deployment and moving of applications from development (DEV), systems integration, UAT, production (PROD) and DR Servers.
  • Configured the ODBC connections and Syslogs for the Message Broker.
  • Developed message flows in Message broker to do XML to copy book transformation routing and Database retrieval using ESQL.
  • Designed Pattern based implementation in Message Broker/IIB.
  • Involved in pulling data from the Mainframe via a COBOL copybook (EBCDIC), placing it on an MQ, and having Message Broker perform a transformation.
  • Responsible for installing XML flows, SSL certificates, config backup, domain backups on DataPower XI50.
  • Configured MQ (front/back side handlers) with DataPower 3.8 XI50.
  • Install Configure, Monitor and Maintenance of Webservers IBM HTTP server 7.0/6.0, Sunone 7.0, IIS 7.0/7.5 on various platforms.
  • Configured the Configuration Manager, Message Repository Database, broker database for IIB 9.0.
  • Setup naming standards for the Queue managers, Queues and Channels.
  • Implemented the clustering of queue managers to achieve work load balancing and to reduce system administration.
  • Build the security infrastructure for MQ using OAM, security exits, SSL.
  • Created the Queue managers, queues, channels, process definitions and triggering in MQ.
  • Backing up the Queue manager objects periodically.
  • Involved in configuring the WebSphere load balancing using WebSphere Workload Management including horizontal and vertical clustering.
  • Configuring of JDBC Providers, Data Source, Virtual Hosts, Global Security, SSL, and LDAP.
  • Configured Plugins for webservers to connect to application servers using plugincongig.xml, genplugin.sh.
  • Used Tivoli Performance Viewer to monitor WebSphere Applications and tuned the environment accordingly like changing the JVM Heap, & Connection Pool sizes.
  • Knowledge of Edge Components Failover (Active/Standby), HTTP Server Failover (Active/Active), Web Container Failover, EJB Container failover, Session Affinity, Session Persistence.
  • Setup Tivoli Omegamon monitoring tool and created some custom scripts to monitor the middleware infrastructure.
  • Troubleshoot problems and errors related to application servers, MQ servers and webservers.
  • Used Tivoli Performance Viewer, sitescope to monitor WebSphere Applications and tuned the environment accordingly.
  • Provide support for the entire cycle of application testing including building applications, deploying, and troubleshooting.
  • Environment

Middleware Administrator

Centrica Informatics Pvt Ltd
06.2011 - 12.2013
  • Responsible for Configuring, deploying, troubleshooting and maintaining applications moving from DEV to TEST to QA to PROD.
  • Setup, Maintain, Installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server 6.1/7.0, WebLogic 8.0/9.0, WebSphere MQ 7.0/6.1 on AIX, RHEL, Windows machines.
  • Responsible in implementing WS-Security infrastructure for all the Web Services publishing outside by creating various AAA policies.
  • Migrated from WMB to IIB 9.0.
  • Installed the latest fix packs for WMQ and WMB.
  • Installed Tomcat 7.0 and migrated all the applications from previous versions of Tomcat 6.0/5.5.
  • Migrated WebSphere MQ client/server 6.0/7.0 on various machines.
  • Created WSP's, MPG's, XMLFW on the DataPower for the required service configurations.
  • Defined framework for uplifting existing web services working on .net service environment to SOA webservice integration environment with DataPower ESB.
  • Created WSP's, MPG's, XMLFW on the DataPower for the required service configurations.
  • Installed WebServer IBM HTTP 7.0/6.1, IIS 7.0 and Apache 2.0.48 for serving multiple applications.
  • Configured WebSphere Plugins to connect to Application server.
  • Made changes in virtual host entries, Threadlimit, ServerLimit, StartServers, MaxClients, MinSpareThreads, MaxSpareThreads, redirections in httpd.conf file for WebServer.
  • Extensive experience in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts & in analysis, design, development and testing of Web Services using Message Broker HTTP and SOAP nodes.
  • Good understanding of Object Oriented Programming experience using Java and J2EE.
  • Experienced in design, development and mapping using Websphere Message Broker and Web Sphere MQ with different formats like TLV, XML, TDS and CWF.
  • Developed message flows in Message broker to do XML to copy book transformation routing and Database retrieval using ESQL and Java.
  • Developed message flow for purge process using timer nodes.
  • Developed message flows to process flat files using File nodes and MQ nodes.
  • Developed Web services in IIB/message broker by using SOAP and HTTP nodes.
  • Created XSDs, WSDLs and also implemented Restful web services utilizing XML and JSON message formats.
  • Used email nodes for notifying error report to production support team.
  • Created Re-usable sub-flows, Common ESQL functions in Message Broker.
  • Assigned message flows and message sets to appropriate Execution Groups in Broker Runtime Environment.
  • Monitored, maintained and customized existing MQ Series objects such as Queue Mangers, clusters, Queues (local, remote, alias, model, and deadletter), process definitions, channels and listeners.
  • Setup MQ on HACMP/veritas hardware clusters for high availability (active-active/active-passive/failover/DR).
  • Managed all the Middleware services (start/stop).
  • Supported, setup SSL on CD clients also configured secodary nodes.
  • Monitored data transfer processes.
  • Managed application deployment without outage maintaining High Availability using F5 Big-IP by Active-Active/Active-Inactive modes.
  • Involved in Load balancing/Tuning/Clustering for IBM MQ, WebSphere Application Server using Deployment Manager and Tomcat using Tomcat Manager/Admin tool.
  • Performed RCA's and approached vendors by rising Tickets and installed fix packs and cumulative fixes up on suggestions/recommendations.
  • Configured clustering through deployment manager for load balancing and failover functions.
  • Developed Scripts (shell, bash, Jython, Wsadmin utility) for command line deployments and for regular configuration backups, log rotations/archives.
  • Configured SSL (using third party cert) for Web Server, Application server, TAM/TIM, load balancer, Data Power device by uploading Client side Certs on front end machines.
  • Involved with the team and provided 24x7 support on rotating on-call shifts basis.
  • Environment

Education

Master of Science - IT

Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, IN
2016

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad, INDIA
2012

Skills

    MQ/App/WebServers:        WebSphere70/61/60, Web Logic 11g(1033)/10g/90, Tomcat 70/60x, WebSphere MQ 70/61/60, SunOne61/60, IHS 70/61/60/2047, iPlanet 50, IIS 60/50, Apache2047/1328, IBM DataPower 381/380 XI50, JRUN 30, Web logic 80, IBMTivoli Access Manager 45/50/60, Tivoli Directory Server 41/51/52

    OperatingSystems:  Solaris8/9, AIX 51/52/53/60, Linux (SUSE) 8/72/71/62, Red Hat Enterprise Linux3/4 and Windows NT/2000/2003 Server

    J2EETechnologies:           J2EE14/13,Java 20, Servlet23/22, Java Beans, EJB20/11/10, JSP12/11/10,JDBC20/10, JNDI, RMI, CORBA, Java Swing /AWT, XML, HTML, DHTML JavaScript

    Databases: Oracle90/81/80//7x, Sql Server 2000/2005/2008, DB2UDB 81/72/71, Sybase andMS-Access 2000

    Security& others: SterlingConnect: Direct 34/36, Qpasa, Appstat, Wily introscope, Site Minder, Ikeyman,Tivoli, WMB SAP Adapters 70, MQ R/3, F5 Big-IP, Anthill PRO, Site Scope,Splunk 

Timeline

MQ Analyst

C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.
05.2016 - Current

MQ and WMB Analyst

Quadcapillar LLC
01.2016 - 04.2016

Middleware Administrator

Centrica Informatics Pvt Ltd
06.2011 - 12.2013

Master of Science - IT

Valparaiso University

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

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