Venkatesh Ramachandhiran Email: venkatram.websphere@gmail.com

Professional Summary

 

·         I have 10+ years of  total professional experience in IT which includes 8 years of experience in Websphere Middleware Administration using IBM Business Process Manager (BPM), Websphere Process Server (WPS), Websphere Application Server Network Deployment (WAS ND), Websphere ESB (WESB), WODM, WSRR, and Business Monitor

·         Extensive experience in Administration of BPM (both standard and Advanced versions), WPS, and WAS environments and enterprise level applications which are using workflows and EAI.

·         Good experience in managing Weblogic, Tomcat, JBoss Application Servers.

·         Very good hands-on with creating and configuring high available and scalable environments using both vertical and horizontal clusters.

·         Excellency in Installation and configuration of BPM (formerly known as Lombardi), WPS, WAS ND, Business Monitor products in a clustered (high available) environments.

·         Excellent knowledge and implementation experience on product upgrades and migrations like version-to-version migrations and hardware migrations.

·         Good Exposure in websphere adapters and managed for EAI applications using WPS.

·         Good Knowledge in IBM Worklight, Business Intelligence tools like IBM Information Server (Datastage), IBM Cognos, and SAP Business Objects.

·         Experience in IBM HTTP Server installation and configuration.

·         Hands-on experience with web server plug-in configurations for request routing and load balancing.

·         Knowledge on development tools like Process Designer, Worklight Studio, IBM Integration Designer (IID), and Websphere Integration Developer (WID).

·         Strong knowledge and experience in unix/linux commands and shell scripts.

·         Very good understanding and hands-on with Jython and JACL scripts.

·         Good understandings about monitoring tools like HP open view and Site scope, etc.,

·         Hands-on experience in configuration of WPS, BPM, and Business monitor with Oracle Database.

·         Involved in Disaster Recovery Site configurations and mock drills for Production Systems.

·         Excellent communication skills, good team player and have a good experience in guiding team members.

·         Good External and Internal Customer interaction, Professional services, and providing recommendations.

·         Highly experienced in troubleshooting and supporting complex multi-platform deployment environments.

·         Exposure in problem analysis tools like Heap analyzer, Firebug, http watch, etc.,

 

Primary Skills/Roles Played

 

·         Involved in architectural discussions and created BPM environments for appropriate needs. Setup a Process Center environment which acts as a hub for multiple Process Servers connected to it.

·         Implemented Business Monitor Environment and Integrated with WPS/BPM environments to receive and monitor business Events.

·         WPS Implementer, WPS Capacity Planner/Architect for High-Availability Configuration.

·         End-to-End Administration of IBM Business Process Manager Standard (Process Server) and Advanced (Process Center) versions

·         WPS Runtime Environment Set-up for different kind of applications (BPEL and EAI) on different platforms.

·         As  part of Decision making Team, direct Interaction with Senior Architects and IBM teams for selection of suitable topology

·         Primary contact for vendor management to product solutions.

Secondary Skills

 

·         Good Exposure in Administration of Oracle Weblogic Server

·         Installation and Configuration of IBM Worklight for Mobile Applications

·         Good Knowledge about Websphere Adapters and developed real-time data integration applications

·         Generation of Monitor Models for BPM Applications.

·         Knowledge about IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) and experience in installation and configuration.

 

Key Achievements

 

·         Migration of IBM BPM version 8.0 from version 7.5.0.1

·         Installed and Configured IBM BPM 7.5 Standard (Process Center and Process Server)

·         WPS 6.2 Hardware Migration (existing hardware to new hardware with upgraded Linux OS)

·         Upgrade of WPS 6.2.0.3 from 6.2.0.2

·         Resolved all environment related issues with existing Websphere Business Monitor 7.0 setup and made functional for Business.

·         Installation and configuration of IBM Business Monitor 8.0

·         Integrated Business Monitor 8.0 with BPM 8.0 and WPS 6.2 environments to receive/monitor Business events

·         Configuration of BPM iWidgets on Business Space of Business Monitor.

·         Installation, configuration and administration of Websphere Application Server ND 6.1, 8.0, 8.5

·         Migration of Websphere Application Server 8.0 from 6.1

·         Successful completion of WAKA (Websphere Architect Kit for Associates) – conducted by TCS and acquired E3 proficiency in BPM (WPS), B2B (ESB), and Application Infrastructure (WAS) products.

·         Architecture design and implementation of multi-cluster topology in single cell for independent global applications.

·         Migration of EAI server from Bronze topology on WPS 6.0.1 to Silver topology on WPS 6.1.2

·         Technical paper submitted for hosting multiple applications in single WPS Cell and ranked 4th position among top 5 papers, which was reviewed by both TCS and IBM panels.

·         Lead a team for winning first position in Server Hardening Security Checklist event – corporate level competition.

·         Published articles in TCS knowledge management portal (KnowMax) for BPM and WPS products

1. Installation and configuration of BPM 7.5 Standard

2. Install and configure WPS 6.1.2 with multiple clusters topology.

·         Built and lead a team of WPS administrators

·         Conducted technical trainings to various teams.

·         Developed interface in WPS using Websphere Adapters for real time data integration.

 

Certifications

Ø       IBM Certified System Administrator – Websphere Application Server, Network Deployment v6.0 and v6.1

Ø       IBM Certified Deployment Professional – Websphere Process Server, v6.0 and v6.2

Ø       IBM Certified Administrator for SOA Solutions – Websphere Process Server, v6.0

Ø       IBM Certified SOA Associate

 

Awards

Ø       Star of the Quarter award for continuous achievements in a quarter (January 2010 to March 2010)

Ø       Won first position in corporate level event for technical paper submission (Jan 2010 to March 2010).

Ø       Technical Excellence Award for successful migration of WPS server (October 2009)

Ø       Received On-the-Spot awards three times

 

Education:

 

§         Master of Science (Information Technology and Management), India

§         Bachelor of Science (Mathematics), India

 

Technical Skills:

 

Operating Systems                      SuSE Linux v10, HP Unix v2 and v3, IBM AIX 5.3, Windows Server 2008

 

Languages                                                   Java2/ J2EE, C, C++, SQL

 

Product Focus                      IBM Products: IBM Business Process Manager, Websphere Process Server, IBM Business Monitor, WSRR, WESB, WODM

              Application Servers: Websphere Application Server ND (6.0, 6.1, 7.0, 8.0, 8.5), Weblogic, Tomcat, JBoss

              BI Tools: IBM Information Server 8.0.1, IBM Cognos 7.3, SAP Business Objects XIR2, XIR3

              Other Tools: IBM Worklight, IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

Web Servers                                          Apache 2.2.3, IBM HTTP Server (6.0, 7.0, 8.0)

 

Scripting Languages                                     Unix/Linux Shell Scripting, Jython, JACL

 

Databases                                                  Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g

 

 

Professional Experience:

 

Role: WebSphere Systems Administrator

Customer: Verizon Business

Line of Business: Media Services

July 2013 – Till date

 

Description:

Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) is part of Verizon Business and provides greatest solutions to its digital media customers. VDMS provides end-to-end platform for upload, transfer, store, and distribute digital media files between systems. There are multiple media technologies and components are being used for such provisions. WebSphere systems (BPM, WAS, WSRR, WESB, WODM) are used to integrate with those digital media components for providing best solutions for each customer as per their needs.

 

Responsibilities :

·        Installed, Configured and Managed IBM WAS v8.0, BPM v8.0, WODM 8.0, WESB v8.0, and WSRR v8.0 on Red hat Linux

·        Configured Business Monitor and Cognos on BPM Cell

·        Upgraded BPM to 8.0.1.1, WAS to 8.0.0.6, and WSRR to 8.0.0.2

·        Developed new and Integrated with existing Jython scripts for automated deployment and websphere configurations

·        Configured resource adaptors and J2C connection factories, J2C activation specifications, resources environment entries and Object cache instances and there custom properties.

·        Installed different types of applications in Websphere systems (EAR,WAR and SAR, Services)

·        Configuring resources like JDBC Provider, Virtual Host, Shared libraries, JNDI Configurations, EJB References, Environment Variables and Session Management

·        Implemented High availability and created Core groups.

·        Administering the SCA modules, BPMN Workflows, Business Process and enterprise applications deployed on server.

·        Worked on performance tuning and optimized various configuration settings such as thread pools, JMS queues, Messaging Engines, Connection pooling.

·        Optimized the java settings includes JVM arguments, Garbage Collection and Heap size dynamics and fine-tuned the memory management using TPV.

·        Created JMS Providers, Connection factories, Queue destinations, Listener Ports and Activation Spec

·        Implemented Horizontal and vertical scaling and created cluster member for the Workload-Management,

·        Involved in monitoring the JVM performance, Heap Size, garbage collection, JDBC Pools periodic testing and support of Web Environments with respect to High Availability and Disaster Recovery,

·        Opened critical PMR with IBM to solve the problems in the WebSphere and collected the MustGather information according to IBM requirement,

·        Involved in configuring SSL on IBM HTTP and Apache Servers.

·        Configured Global Security using LDAP, Managed user and user group on all Websphere systems

·        Configured Application level securities for BPMN applications and Monitor Models

·        Generated LTPA token and exported to the other environment,

·        Administered various Log files like Product logs, Installation logs, Administer server logs, Application server logs were monitored during troubleshooting for reported errors

 

Tools and Technologies:

Tools: IBM BPM (8.0), WAS (8.0), IBM Business Monitor (8.0), WESB (8.0), WODM (8.0), WSRR (8.0)

Operating System: SuSE Linux, HP-UX, Windows Server 2008

 

 

Role: Senior BPM/WPS Administrator

Customer: Johnson Controls Inc,

Line of Business: Manufacturing

October 2009 – July 2013

 

Description:

Johnson Controls Inc. (JCI) is a global market leader in automotive systems, facility management and control. WAS/BPM Platform team provides end-to-end platform support like new environment setup, configurations, product migrations/upgrades, Application Deployments, production support, etc., Platform team handles existing environments running in WAS, WPS, BPM products and involves in implementing new products like Business Monitor, IBM Worklight, etc., Platform team also responsible for providing support of new and existing applications hosted on all platforms.

 

Responsibilities (BPM):

·        Installed and configured IBM BPM 7.5 Standard in three cluster topology

·        Migrated IBM BPM Process Server environments from v7.5 Standard to v8.0 Standard with four cluster topology

·        Migrated IBM BPM Process Center environments from v7.5 Standard to v8.0 Advanced with four cluster topology

·        Deployment of Snapshots and application level configurations in QA and Production

·        Identified product related problems during BPM 8.0 migration and get IBM engaged to fix product related issues. IBM has provided many fixes for issues we reported and most of them are officially announced.

·        Regular calls with IBM teams to make the stable BPM environment after 8.0 Migration.

·        Configuration of Portal customization using WebDAV in BPM 8.0 environments

 

 

Responsibilities (WPS):

·        Migrated WPS 6.2 to different hardware when hardware lease expired

·        Upgraded Websphere Process Server from v6.2.0.2 to v6.2.0.3

·        Created scripts for automation of regular admin activities and Error monitor

·        Deployment of web Services, Short Running BPEL, Long Running BPEL applications and configuration

·        Configuration of Message Listeners, Connection Factories, and Queues for applications which interacts with MQ Systems.

 

Responsibilities (Business Monitor):

·        Installation and configuration of IBM Business Monitor 8.0 in four cluster topology

·        Resolved all environmental issues in Websphere Business Monitor v7.0 and made stable environment.

·        Integrated Business Monitor environment with BPM Standard environment to receive events using Queue-Based mechanism without CEI at BPM side.

·        Integrated Business Monitor environment with WPS environment to receive events using Queue-Based mechanism with CEI enabled at WPS.

·        Configuration of Event distribution and Cognos cube packages for each monitor models

·        Configuration of BPM Widgets on Business Monitor’s Business Space

·        Generated Monitor Models for BPM applications

 

Responsibilities (WAS):

·        Installation and configuration of WAS 6.1 for UI Applications

·        Migration of WAS versions 8.0 and 8.5 from v6.1

·         Installed and Configured Websphere for Business Objects

·         Installed and configured Websphere for IBM Datastage

·         Automated scripting using Jython for problems in Websphere where Business Objects is configured.

·         Project Setup, User setup, deployments and related configurations in IBM Information Server

·         Involved in migration of Business Objects to XIR3 from XIR2

·         Deployment of webservices and J2EE applications.

 

Responsibilities (Common):

·        Installation and configuration of IBM Worklight (PoC) for Mobile applications.

·        Security Setup using Federated Repository with Active directory in all BPM, WPS, WAS, and Business Monitor Environments

·        IBM HTTP server installation and configuration for all BPM, WPS, WAS, and Business Monitor environments.

·        Application of Interim Fixes, Fix packs, and Refresh Packs

·        Product Support, configuration, and version upgrades/migrations

·        Ensure the Production problems are resolved within SLA

·         Supporting the live application in the production environment

·         Interact with other technology groups as needed.

·         Coordinate with users and developers located in different geographic regions

·         Involved in On-call weekly rotation to provide 24 X 7 production support and infrastructure Maintenance and troubleshooting.

 

 

Tools and Technologies:

Tools: IBM BPM (7.5.0.1, 8.0), WPS 6.2, WAS (6.1, 7.0, 8.0, 8.5), IBM Business Monitor (7.0, 8.0), IBM HTTP Server (6.0, 7.0, 8.0), IBM Worklight

Operating System: SuSE Linux, HP-UX, Windows Server 2008

 

 

Role: Module Lead, WPS Implementer/Architect

Customer: Tata Consultancy Services Limited

Line of Business: Services

June 2007 - October 2009

 

Description:

Ultimatix Technical Support Team is supporting many applications which are running in various technologies like Oracle, WPS, Weblogic, etc.,

WPS Administration team is a part of Technical support team and supports EAI and Work flow (BPM) applications which are running on WPS. EAI modules are based on Websphere adapters used for real-time data integration between various critical systems. Business process (workflow) implementation with Associates appraisal system, Employee self service system, and Procurement system are based on BPEL. Also Installed, configured, and maintained Weblogic application server for UI applications.

 

Responsibilities:  

·            Lead WAS/WPS Administration team

·            Architecture design and implementation.

·            Product installation, configuration, version upgrades, and migrations

·            Capacity planning and Performance tuning.

·            Migration of WPS 6.1.2 from 6.0.1 for EAI.

·            EAI and BPM application deployments and Adapter configurations.

·            IBM HTTP server installation and configuration

·            Interaction with IBM WebSphere Product Support teams

·            Successful set-up of seven WPS environment, which includes 3 production systems.

·            Implemented complex architecture for hosting different independent applications.

·            Automated scripting using JACL, Jython, and shell scripts

 

 Tools and Technologies:

Tools: WPS (6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.1.2), WBI Adapters (6.0.2, 6.1.2), Weblogic 9.2, IBM HTTP Server 6.0

Operating System: IBM AIX, HP-Unix

 

 

Role: WPS Developer

Customer: Tata Consultancy Services Limited

Line of Business: Services

December 2006 - June 2007

 

Description:

Ultimatix – EAI team integrates many applications to transform real time data. Enterprise application integration using Websphere Process Server (WPS) is implemented for a set of Ultimatix applications. This solution is based on the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Architecture which enables the building of service oriented applications. Developed Integration interfaces to transform real time data between various ERP systems using Websphere Adapters and Websphere Integration Developer.

Responsibilities:

·         Involved in designing real-time data integration interfaces/projects.

·         Gathered Business Requirements from the Business Analysts.

·         Designed and Developed Short running business process flows.

·         Designed and Developed EAI interfaces for whole project.

·         Implemented Business logic and transformations using Websphere Adapters.

·         Involved and worked in web services security implementation.

·         Customization of WPS custom registry code for Security implementation.

·         Defined naming standards for Business Objects, designed solutions, worked with team members to aid in meeting deadlines.

·         Involved in designing and documentation of Development Architecture.

·         Problem Determination and Resolution.

·         Documentation and process implementation.

·         Involved in Production Support.

 

Tools and Technologies:

Tools: WPS (6.0.2, 6.1.2), WBI Adapters (6.0.2, 6.1.2), IBM Websphere Integration Developer (6.0.2, 6.1.2)

Operating System: IBM AIX, HP-Unix

 

 

Role: JAVA/J2EE Developer

Customer: ICICI Bank Limited

Line of Business: Banking

November 2005 - December 2006

 

Description:                                                  

Used for remitting money by Correspondent Banks, Foreign Currency Cheque Collection and Clearance. This web application has been bifurcated to two different applications. One with which the Customer interface and the other which does Operations team at ICICI BANK use. The beneficiaries can be ICICI Bank Registered Beneficiaries or Customer defined beneficiaries depending on the various modes of disbursal.

 

Responsibilities:

·         Involved in Designing and developing User interface applications

·         Gathered Business Requirements from the Business Analysts.

·         Problem Determination and Resolution.

·         Documentation and process implementation.

·         Involved in Production Support.

 

Tools and Technologies:

Tools: J2SDK1.4.2, JSP, Oracle 9i, Tomcat 3.2.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Role: JAVA Developer

Customer: HDFC Bank Limited

Line of Business: Banking

March 2005 - November 2005

 

Description:                                                  

Enet is an Internet based, fully secured and online electronic delivery channel which provide the bank’s corporate clients with convenient and secure access to their banking data around the world. The Modules in Enet are Accounts, Payments, Disbursements, Collections and Administration Modules.

 

Responsibilities:

·         Involved in Designing and developing User interface applications

·         Gathered Business Requirements from the Business Analysts.

·         Problem Determination and Resolution.

·         Documentation and process implementation.

·         Involved in Production Support.

 

Tools and Technologies:

Tools: J2SDK1.4.2, jsp, Oracle8.1.7, Jrun 4.0, JBoss

 

 

Role: Developer

Customer: Unique Software Systems

Line of Business: Retail

September 2003 - February 2005

 

Description:                                                  

Unique Software system is product based company which helps customers to automate their business needs. Company Provides software trainings to customers from small scale industries sector. Multi-Case Online system is a legal based system which helps customers to maintain their client and case information. Music Net-World application helps retailers to maintain online music store and service their customer needs.

 

Responsibilities:

·         Involved in Designing and developing User interface applications

·         Gathered Business Requirements

·         Problem Determination and Resolution.

·         Documentation and process implementation.

·         Involved in Providing training to customers

 

Tools and Technologies:

Tools: J2SDK1.4.2, jsp, SQL Server, Tomcat 3.2