WebSphere Administrator Resume

Title
WebSphere Administrator

Primary Skills
WebSphere, Java, J2EE, Administration, Support, ANT, JACL, Tivoli, Messaging

Location
Canada-BC-Vancouver

Posted
Nov-02-08

BRIEF OVERVIEW:
7 year experienced consultant in the IT industry. His key skills lie in the IBM WebSphere suite, Java, Tivoli products and J2EE/Web development. He performs well in team situations and client relations. Chris is quick to pick up new technologies and renowned for quality work. He has spent most of his time in the Development, Administration and Support areas. Chris has well rounded international experience with work placements in the UK, Canada and Australia.

SEEKING:
Contract work -- in WebSphere, MQ, Java (J2SE/J2EE) development or TIM/TAM roles.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Support/Software Yrs Experience
WebSphere MQSeries 4
WebSphere App. Server 3
WebSphere Msg Broker 1.25
WebSphere Commerce Suite 0.25
WebSphere Edge Server 0.25
IBM Tivoli Access Mgr 0.5
IBM Tivoli Identity Mgr 0.5
LDAP 1
IBM DB2 2
MQIPT 0.75
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) 2
CMVC Source Control 0.5

Languages Yrs Experience
Java 4
- J2EE 3
- J2SE (up to V1.4.2) 4
Visual Basic 0.5
HTML 2
SQL/ESQL 1
VBA 0.25

SCRIPTING Yrs Experience
JavaScript 1.5
Windows Scripting 0.5
VBScript 0.5
JACL 0.75
DOS Batch programming 2
ANT 0.5

Other Yrs Experience
OO Methodology 4
JMS Methodology 0.5
STRUTS 1
Design work 1.25
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 0.5
PKI 1
XML 1.5
Support Documentation
Support Coordinator
Problem Determination
Problem Solving
Customer Relations

Operating Systems Yrs Experience
WIN 98, NT, 2K, XP, 2003 6
Solaris 8 0.25
AIX 0.5

Toolkits Yrs Experience
Eclipse Toolkit 2.5


PROJECT EXPERIENCE DETAILS:
COMPANY: IBM Canada (Pacific Development Centre)
PROJECT: St. Judes Medical Hospital CAN -- December 2007 -- June 2008
The SJM project team consisted of some 30+ employees. The project spanned multiple releases and supported a large set of patient medical data.
ROLE TITLE: ENVIRONMENT BUILD SPECIALIST
ROLE DESCRIPTION:
This role involved performing the following tasks:
Environment/Linux Support/Management -- Maintaining 4 Linux environments for the project. This involved installing software, managing security (for both WAS and Linux x/p series). Chris applied fixpacks to both the middleware and OS. Chris was responsible for setting up (and updating) Oracle/WebSphere configuration.

Web Deployments -- Chris controlled the process of checking out project source code, building an EAR file and deploying it to WAS. Existing ANT scripts were used for the builds. Chris modified the scripts when necessary, and fixed any build problems. He setup global security in WAS - this included connecting to various hooks such as active directory, local domain security and other LDAP directories.

Troubleshooting, Problem Solving -- Resolving issues on all servers in each environment, including network related issues. Chris was responsible for fixing a TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) problem due to invalid network adapter problems. TSM was used for server backups. Chris fixed issues relating to components mentioned below.
SKILLS SUMMARY:
WebSphere Application Server V6.0.2.25
IBM CMVC Source Control
IBM Message Broker
Apache HTTP Web Server
Linux Redhat
ANT
WebSphere MQ
Oracle Database
System Maintenance
Tivoli Storage Manager

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COMPANY: IBM Australia
PROJECT: Medicare and DVA Accounts AUS -- February 2007 -- May 2007
ROLE TITLE: WEB ENABLEMENT SPECIALIST
ROLE DESCRIPTION:
This role involved performing the following tasks:
Server Builds -- installing software on servers for Testing, UAT, and Production. Involved running automated health checks and resolving any issues. WebSphere App. Server was primarily setup on these machines in a clustering manner. The system was setup with a WebSphere Edge Server that load balanced the system. A key objective involved eliminating all points of failure. Redundancy played a big part in this. Most work involved Windows systems, although Chris worked on some AIX boxes as well.
Security -- involved setting up global security in WAS. This involved connecting to various controls such as active directory, local domain security and other LDAP directories. Chris was also involved in configuring TAM to control web resource access to system users.
Troubleshooting, Problem Solving -- Resolving issues as they arose. Involved communicating with the client and IBM support teams.
JACL/ANT scripting -- Creating JACL scripts to automate WAS configuration.
PKI - SSL -- Setting up certificates and key pairs for WAS communications to other software tools such as LDAP and TAM.
Server analysis -- Involved investigating client systems as a whole and recommending better configuration and/or architecture.
SKILLS SUMMARY:
WebSphere Application Server V6.0.2.17
PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
SSL (Secure Socket Layer) setup
HTTP Web Server
Websphere Edge Server System support
System configuration
Support Documentation
JACL scripting
TAM
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COMPANY: IBM Infrastructure Projects
PROJECT: Release 8 -- TPF Strategic Value UK - October 2006 -- November 2006
Release 8 added functionality to that introduced by the E_CRM application (explained below).
ROLE TITLE: WEBSPHERE CONSULTANT
ROLE DESCRIPTION: “Contract Renewal” - See below contract for role and skill summary.
Release 8 went live into Production on the 19th November.
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COMPANY: IBM Infrastructure Projects
PROJECT: Release 7 - E_CRM UK - June 2006 -- September 2006
E_CRM is a JMS trigger based email system providing clients with detailed insurance quotes. The project was designed as an adoption to RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) current infrastructure. The system deals with 50,000 emails per day.
ROLE TITLE: WEBSPHERE CONSULTANT
ROLE DESCRIPTION:
This role involved performing the following tasks:
Support -- deployment of EAR files and web resources onto WAS (WebSphere Application Server). This system went into PRODUCTION on the 13th August 2006. Production support was provided for up to 3 weeks after go-live. The WAS server was hosted on 2 AIX LPARs (logical partitions).
Design -- Assistance in the design of the Production and Testing environments.
Troubleshooting, Problem Solving -- Resolving issues as they arose. Involved communicating with other support teams.
Optimisation -- Optimising the WebSphere Application server for maximum throughput. Involved tweaking configuration and settings.
Test Assistance and Monitoring -- Testing various components of the system. Monitoring how the tests were performing, correcting issues, and improving the system.
JACL/ANT scripting -- Creating JACL scripts to automatically setup JMS and WAS configuration for the Production environment.
PKI - SSL -- Setting up certificates and key pairs to implement SSL connections over TCP between WAS and MQ on the mainframe.

SKILLS SUMMARY:
System support
System deployment and configuration
System design
Support Documentation
JACL scripting WebSphere Application Server
IBM WebSphere MQ (Message Queue)
JMS design
PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
SSL (Secure Socket Layer) setup
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COMPANY: AUSTRALIAN DEPARTMENT OF defence (Contracted to by KAZ Technology Services)
PROJECT: DeBI AUS - April 2005 -- April 2006
AUS - November 2003 -- March 2004
ROLE TITLE: SYSTEMS SUPPORT
ROLE DESCRIPTION:
This role has involved a number of varying skills:
Organisation, Deployment and Support of SDSS (Standard Defence Supply System) E-Business: Ensuring all server builds included the required software -- such as database connection drivers and software levels. Communications over the network were also arranged for adequate system access and operation. These tasks required a large document set of which Chris covered: 'statement of work', 'high-level design', 'installation guides', 'testing' and 'support' documents. The system is now in production.
Scripting tasks: Designing scripts to automate system installation. Chris has used Windows scripting and batch files for this task.
IBM Tivoli Products: Chris played a major role in the DOSD2 (Defence Online Secure Domain) project. He installed IBM Tivoli Access Manager to protect access to Web server resources. He also installed IBM Tivoli Identity Manager to provision access to network resources within Defence. Protection of MQ Messaging queues with TAMBI (Tivoli Access Manager Business Integration) was necessary. Other skills developed were PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) and certificate authentication, including self-signed and CA (Certificate Authority) signed certificates. MQIPT (MQ Internet pass-thru) was used to assist in firewall access from external applications/clients.
SKILLS SUMMARY:
System support
System deployment and configuration
Windows Scripting, batch files IBM WebSphere MQ and MQIPT
IBM TIM and TAM
PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
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COMPANY: AUSTRALIAN DEPARTMENT OF defence (Contracted to by KAZ Technology Services)
PROJECT: OC/N - DeBI AUS - April 2004 -- December 2004
OC/N is a simple architecture that guarantees delivery of data between 3 Defence systems. Two systems responsible for maintaining aircraft configuration and maintenance data require updates on aircraft policy data from the 'OmegaPS' system. OC/N is responsible for this delivery and routing correct information between the two including trx management.
ROLE TITLE: JAVA/MQSERIES DEVELOPER
ROLE DESCRIPTION:
This project was the foundation of future developments for the DeBI (see job above for DeBI description)
WebSphere Message Broker: Chris was previously unfamiliar to this product and had to learn on the job. This tool allows smart routing of messages across an MQ Series messaging architecture. To build message flows with this product, Chris used ESQL (Extended Structured Query Language) that included connection and interaction with a DB2 database.
SKILLS SUMMARY:
Java development
Personnel Mentoring
Design work
Testing WebSphere MQ
WebSphere MQ Message Broker
ESQL
System deployment and config
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COMPANY: Australian customs service (Contracted to by KAZ Technology Services)
PROJECT: Integrated Cargo System (ICS) AUS - February 2003 -- April 2004
The ICS is a web application designed to replace the current systems responsible for the flow of cargo in and out of Australia. The ICS is developed using the Apache Software Foundation Struts Framework.
ROLE TITLE: JAVA DEVELOPER
ROLE DESCRIPTION:
Team Player: Chris worked on this long-term project, as part of a large development team.
Technical Spec Design: for parts of the front-end interface and build of those components.
Coding: Included client-side JavaScript, server-side Java scriptlet code, servlet coding.
J2EE Technology Experience: Chris used the following tools/technology: IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer, Java, STRUTS, Java Server Pages (JSP), HTML, JavaScript and XML.
SKILLS SUMMARY:
Documentation
User Interface Design
Client-side JavaScript
J2EE -- JSP, Servlets WebSphere Studio Application Developer
HTML
XML
STRUTS
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COMPANY: AUSTRALIAN DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (DVA)
PROJECT: SOCS (Secure Online Communication System) AUS - December 2001 -- January 2003
Web-based Email Application, designed to assist Australian-wide veterans in communicating with DVA personnel.
ROLE TITLE: WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPER
ROLE DESCRIPTION:
Lead Developer for designing:
a central API that provided a link between DVA's LAN and the system's DMZ
a web email front-end client to assist communication between DVA staff and other external veterans
an online system that assisted external veterans in completing forms for government allowances
SKILLS SUMMARY:
LDAP -- access and searches
IBM MQ Series
XML
Some exposure to Stored Procedure and
database access. JSP development
Decision Making
IBM WAS (WebSphere Application Server)
Servlets -- Java coding
IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer
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PERSONAL INFORMATION:
REFERENCES/REFEREES: available on request
EDUCATION: Bachelor in Information Tech. - Charles Sturt University (1998-2000)
Bachelor of Information Technology
IBM course in administering and installation of TIM/TAM, 2005

Certifications
Bachelor in Information Tech. - Charles Sturt University (1998-2000)


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