ARUNPRASAD.

Summary:

Five years of over all results driven and diversified experience in software development cycle
inclusive of three years of experience in middleware administration using WebSphere
Product family.

Professional Experience:

Working as a Senior Specialist – Systems in Middleware Administration since January 2009 to till
date in HCL Technologies Ltd, Chennai.

Worked as a Systems Engineer Level 2A in Middleware Administration from August 2007 to

December 2008 in Sify Technologies Ltd, Chennai.

Worked as a System Administrator from July-2004 to July 2007 in Sree Technologies Pvt Ltd,
Chennai.

Summary:

 Total 5 + Years of IT Experience.

 3 years experience administration and support of IBM WebSphere production systems in a
business environment.
 Hands on experience with administering WebSphere Application Server Network
Deployment (ND) 6.1.
 Managing Level-2, Level-3 support and administering an extensive array of WebSphere
servers servicing multiple product groups.
 Troubleshooting problems related to web architecture and applications in conjunction with
helpdesk, development team, testing team.
 Configuring, support and administration of WAS for applications and HTTP Server systems
on Unix environments.
 Experience with Application Deployment.
 Experience with monitoring the JVM performance.
 Experience with on-call support for the production environment.
 Experience with troubleshooting production applications.
 Ability to work in a team or independently in any environment.
 Practical exposure to MQ Installations, Upgradations, LIFT Installations, Upgradations and
troubleshooting problems as per the client requirements.

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Academic Qualification:

• SSLC : 79%
Govt. Hr.Sec.School. MetturDam - 1997

• Diploma in Computer Technology : 86%

DOTE, Chennai - 2001

• BE(ECE) : 72%
Madras University, Chennai - 2004

Certification:

Sun certified System Administrator Level I.

Sun certified System Administrator Level II.

IBM WebSphere Application Server WAS 6.1 ND

Technical Skills:

Middleware suites WebSphere Application server v6.1,WebSphere MQ V6

Oracle Database Server (UDB), DB2 on AIX,(UDB), DB2 on
Databases
Mainframe, Sybase, MYSQL
Operating Systems MS-DOS, Windows XP, AIX, RHEL 5
Web servers IBM HTTP Server (IHS 2.0) & Apache

Project Experience:

Company Name HCL Technologies Ltd

Role & Duration Senior Specialist – Systems Jan 09 to till date

Project Starwood hotels and Resorts - USA

Responsibilities
• Collection of JVM statistics, garbage collection data.
• Cluster and Application restarts
• Deployment of J2EE Applications in WAS under Unix
platforms like AIX and Linux.
• Support involves in installing / deploying Applications
across Three Environments(Dev/QA/Prod).
• Help with documentation – procedures, installs,
versions, lists
• Daily Health Check and System Log monitoring
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 • Co-ordinate with client’s SME and Managers for
scheduling the deployments.
• Develop and maintain Runbook and operations
procedures.
• Oversee on-call coverage rotation to deliver 24x7
incident response and resolution.
• Prepare fortnightly status report

Company Name Sify Technologies Ltd

Role & Duration Engineer – Systems Level 2A (May 07 to Dec 08)

Project GM Motors - USA

Responsibilities
• New server setups
• Software upgrades
• Server recycles
• Performance monitoring
• Deployment process
• Help with documentation – procedures, installs,
versions, lists
• Daily Health Check and System Log monitoring
• Experience with monitoring the JVM performance by
WebSphere Heap Size, periodic testing and support of
Web Environments with respect to High Availability.
• Customization of IBM HTTP Server for serving
application static content.
• Diagnosing and resolution of application performance
bottle necks within the WebSphere servers and host
operating systems.
• Interact with application architects to help with
software architecture that meets functional and non
functional requirements as availability, scalability,
throughput and workload management
• Giving production support includes solving incident
tickets and service requests.
• Review and verify production Release Notes.
• Oversee on-call coverage rotation to deliver 24x7
incident response and resolution.

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Company Name Sify Technologies Ltd

Role & Duration Engineer – Systems Level 2A (May 07 to Dec 08)

Project National Stock Exchange – NSE , India

Responsibilities
• Installed and configuring IBM WebSphere Application
Server 5.1/6.0/6.1, IBM HTTP server, WebSphere
Business Modeler Publishing Server 6.0.2 and UDB
DB2 on Unix/Linux servers.
• Responsible for setting up the development, system
test, performance test and pre-production
environments for the ongoing application
development.
• Enabled security using the local operating system
registry by assigning different roles to different users
and groups.
• Installed operating system software (Red Hat Linux,
Solaris & Windows XP) for the test, pre-production and
production environment.
• Installed and configured the WebSphere plug-in for
remote web servers.
• Implemented Workload Management (WLM) for
failover using a horizontal, vertical and a combination
of horizontal and vertical clustering.
• Configured WebSphere resources such as JDBC
providers, JDBC data sources and connection pools.
• Applying fix packs and refresh packs to various IBM
products and testing the environment.
• Managed the user environment by adding, modifying
and removing user accounts and by assigning proper
permissions to files and directories.
• Monitored, maintained and customized existing
WebSphere MQ objects such as queue managers,
queues, channels and listeners.
• Responsible for debugging application problems during
the development of the application.
• Giving 24x7 support as Primary WebSphere
Administratorvarious aspects of system performance,
resource utilization, and application usage.

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Company Name Sree Technologies Ltd

Role & Duration System Administrator (July 04 to Apr 07)

Project First Advantage - UK

Responsibilities
• Installed and configuring IBM WebSphere
Application Server 6.x, IBM HTTP server.
• Involved Configuration of JDBC , Data Sources.
• Installed Application into WebSphere Application
Server using Admin tool.
• Involved developing Unix Scripts.
• Installed the Application Server in AIX, Windows
Environments.
• Created the Clusters (Vertical , Horizontal) .
• Applied Fix packs to the base Application Server
and ND.
• Involved in trouble shooting and performance
tuning using Resource Analyzer and Log Analyzer
• Created Node Agent by Federating Node to ND.
• Involved in Log Analyzing.
• Involved in Application Support by 24 X 7 Basis.
• Involved Creating test environment, Staging
Environment.

Personal Details:

Date of Birth : 05-25-1982

Gender : Male
Marital Status : Married.
Passport No : YES