Career Summary With 11 years of strong experience in Middleware Administration using IBM WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Process Server and Weblogic Server and 2 years of experience as AWS Engineer. Extensive experience in Planning, Designing, Installing, Configuring and Administering IBM WebSphere Suite of Products on various platforms like AIX, Linux, Solaris and Windows. * Experience in AWS services such as EC2, ELB, Auto-Scaling, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS, DynamoDB, Certificate Manager, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Lambda, Elastic Cache, Glacier, SNS, SQS, CloudFormation, CloudFront, Elastic File System, Storage Gateway, AWS WAF * Built and maintained critical, high fault tolerant and highly available web applications using the Elastic Load Balancing. Scaling the web application servers by adding or deleting servers for controlling the server capacity with Auto Scaling. * Managed users and groups for secured access to AWS services and products with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Built policies for specifying different roles for IAM groups. * Worked on industry standard web servers such as Apache and Java Web Application Servers such as WebLogic, WebSphere and Tomcat for hosting both static and dynamic content code. * Worked on setting up Amazon Virtual Private Cloud with customized Network ACL (NACL) and Routing tables with creation of subnets with specified set of IP address range. * Worked on creating databases with Amazon RDS with the backups stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. * Designed template stacks using Cloud Formation to automate building the Amazon Web Services (Amazon EC2, Simple Storage Service, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Amazon VPC) using JSON files. * Strong Experience in Installation and Configuration of IBM WebSphere Application server V3.5/4.0/5.0/5.1/6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0/8.5, IBM HTTP Server 1.3.x/2.0.47.1/6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0/8.5, WebSphere Portal 5.0/5.1.0.x/6.1.x.x/7.x/8.0. on AIX, Solaris, Linux and Windows platforms in dev, test and production environments. * Thorough knowledge of setting up the Portal Clusters in both horizontal and vertical clustered environments on WAS5.1.1.x/6.0.2.x/6.1.x.x./7.0.0.x/8.0 for Work Load Management (WLM) which involved various steps like database migration on the primary node, connecting the database on the secondary node, federation and enabling security, configuring Portal to use web servers, Mapping the Enterprise Applications to the web servers etc and configuring Web Content Management (WCM) for publishing the website content dynamically. * Experience in migrating portal applications from Portal 6.1/7.0 to Portal 8.0. * Installed and Configured the POC servers for WAS, Portal and Process Server and documented the whole process to be used by RAFW. * Thorough experience in installing WebSphere Servers both manually and through RAFW. * Integrated IBM WebSphere Portal 5.1/6.1/7.0/8.0 clusters with Novell e-directory and Tivoli Access Manger (TIM/TAM) for authorization/authentication and SSO (Single Sign On). * Experienced in administering and configuring portal resource using Portal Administration Portlets, XML Configuration Interface, Portal Scripting Interface (wpscript), Release Builder * Used Portal Enable, Portal Extend for personalization, content publishing, document management, productivity functions along with the scalable portal framework. * Well experienced in managing intranet/internet applications in SOA (service Oriented Architecture) environment. * Experience installing and maintaining Adobe Life Cycle on WAS 7. * Strong experience in Analyzing, Trouble shooting and taking appropriate actions for Application/Web server/App Server/Portal Server errors and logs using WebSphere Log Analyzer tool. * Experience in enterprise software monitoring tools like IBM ITCAM, BMC Patrol, Nagios, Wily IntroScope, Hobbit/Xymon and SevOne. * Well versed in integrating IBM HTTP Server (1.3.x/2.0.47.1/6.0/6.1/7.0/8.0), iPlanet (4.0), Apache (1.3.x/2.0.x), LDAP, DB2/UDB (7.2.x/8.0.x), Sybase, Oracle 11/10g/9i/8i/7.x with IBM WebSphere Application server/WebSphere Portal Server/WebSphere Process Server on AIX, Solaris, Linux and Windows NT/2000/2003 platforms. * Maintained WebSphere Portal 5.1.0.x/6.1.x.x/7.0/8.0 performance to maximize server uptime via monitoring and analysis performance tuning troubleshooting system hardware, software and operating system issues and escalating application problems to the vendor and server issues to the server support team. * Security implementation using secured socket layer SSL, LDAP, LTPA tokens and firewalls in Portal and Application Server which includes installing GSKit, Creating CMS key database files, create, extract, and import certs into key files, configuring the plug-in to use the SSL key certs. * Experience in J2EE (JSP, Servlets, EJB, JNDI, JMS), Java2.0, JDBC, Java Beans, RMI, CORBA, JavaScript, XML, HTML, SQL. * Expertise in UNIX based servers AIX 4.3/4.5/5.1L/5.3L/6.1, Sun Solaris 8/9/10/11, Linux (RedHat & SuSE) and Windows NT 4.0/2000/2003 Servers. * Experienced in installation, configuration, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of Sun Solaris, Linux (RedHat & SuSE). * Well versed and hands on experience in securing administrative server using Authentication, Authorization, Single Signon, User registry, WebSphere Resources (Servlets, JSP files, HTML files). * Experienced in implementing Work Load Management (WLM) methodology and Fail Over mechanisms using cloning and clustering including horizontal and vertical cloning/clustering. * Experience in BEA/Oracle Weblogic "http://www.indeed.com/rz/Rakesh-Vanam/e34eb59e54be3159" Servers 10.x/11.x installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting. * Experience in Cluster Management, setting up Node Managers, Admin Servers * expert in configuring JBoss application server on Linux/Unix environment * Experienced in configuring JBoss and automating installations * Expert in setting up application server cluster, web server-app server communications and deployments to cluster * Experience in Shell scripting (Perl, Csh, sh, ksh) to automate system administration jobs using 'cron' and 'at' utilities. * 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 client community. * Knowledge of WebSphere MQ 5.3/6. * Experience in developing, and maintaining standard operational procedures establishing and testing disaster recovery policies and procedures and supported the design and execution of system load/stress testing. * Proactively monitor and resolve assigned customer trouble tickets within appropriate time frames and escalate tickets as necessary. * Respond to calls for service and customer requests and solved the issues working with them without disrupting the customer/business requirements. * Cultivate relationships with customer and establish self as technical expert on the WebSphere Portal servers. * Maintain relevant and current knowledge within assigned technical fields. * Prioritize all related work efforts. * Submit weekly status reports and project status meetings as required. * Provide technical consultations and presentation to IT and external customers as needed

Highlights:

• Management
• Microsoft Windows
• Support
• Tivoli
• Configure
• IBM AIX
• Monitoring
• Sun
• Sun Solaris Operating System
• Test