Lokesh Kumar K

Contact Number 9108583151

Contact Number 8050007035
Email klokeshkumar86@gmail.com

SUMMARY
Approx 2 years of experience in various technologies in IT in Middleware Administration. In depth
experience with WebSphere MQ on a gamut of Windows and UNIX based Operating Systems. Built
development environments from scratch to test and through to production deployment. Provided
24x7 on-call support. Extensive experience in troubleshooting issues in both intermediate and high
technical levels. Training new hires and cross teams with new technologies. Good experience with
working on a range of Operating Systems from Windows based Servers to UNIX based flavors –
IBM AIX, HP-UX, Linux and Sun Solaris. Willingness and ability to quickly adapt to new
environments and learn new technologies.
Technical Expertise
Software: Microsoft Office/Excel/PowerPoint, IIS, IBM WebSphere MQ, SQL Server 2005, Eclipse,
MQMON, BMC Patrol,
Hardware: PCs; Dell Dimension/Optiplex, HP Pavilion. Processors; Pentium, AMD; Modems (dial-
up, direct line and cable), Linksys, D-Link, Netgear Routers
OS: Windows 95/98/Me/XP/2000/2003/Vista/7, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Oracle Enterprise
Linux, CentOS, Red Hat Linux, Fedora Core, SUSE.
Languages: C, Java, UNIX Shell Scripting.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MQ Administrator, Cogent infotech, May 2016 – Present
Worked as an MQ Administrator at CogentJob profile entailed working with development and cross-
functional teams to build WebSphere MQ (Message Queuing) entities based on project
requirements. Tasks included building MQ objects (queue managers, queues and channels) and
establishing connections between Midrange and Mainframe Servers.

 Responsibilities included Installation, Configuration, Integration and Maintenance in

WebSphere MQ.
 Installed MQ V6 & V7 on various UNIX based Servers (AIX, Solaris and HP-UX) and
Windows based Operating Systems.
 Applied RefreshPacks and FixPacks to upgrade MQ Versions.
 Upgraded MQ versions by manual process and automated processes using scripts.
 Identified out of support MQ 5.3 versions on servers and upgraded to Version 6.0.2.3 and
eventually to V7.0.
 Installed MQ using smitty and installp utilities on AIX and Solaris Servers.
 Created and configured MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Local Queues, Alias Queues,
Remote queues, Transmission Queues, Dead Letter Queues, Clustered Queues, Channels,
Listeners, Clusters, Triggers, Processes and Namelists.
  Configured repository Queue Managers in a Clustered environment.
 Converted an existing network of Queue Managers into a Cluster environment.
 Built DEV Environments from scratch and followed through to TEST and Successful
PRODUCTION Deployment.
 Created MQ Objects in DEVELOPMENT, TEST and PRODUCTION Environments.
 Created MQ objects on Mainframe z O/S Servers and built connections to Mid Range
Servers.
 Monitored log files of Clusters and Queues and Queue Managers.
 Monitored MQ Objects using MQMON and BMC Patrol.
 Problem determination using Queue Manager Error logs.
 Cleared Queues using MQ Commands and the MQMON monitoring tool.
 Checked for and Set MQ Authorities for different Applications Teams.
 Set Authorities on Queue Managers, Channels, and Queues.
 Involved in developing backup and recovery procedures.
 Read/Browsed Messages to verify proper/complete message transmission.
 Ran Security Scripts to assign authorization to Queue Managers.
 Edited and Updated CronJobs as and when required.
 Performance Tuning on Queue Managers and Channels.
 Maintained and Documented MQ Installs and Upgrades on various Platforms.
 Maintained over 300 Queue Managers on over 200 Servers.
 Opened PMRs with IBM and documented the fixes.
 Performed regular on-call duties like scheduled MQ bounces during server upgrades.
 Documented all upgrade and install procedures.
 Trained Team members on WebSphere Product support.
 Provided 24x7 on-call support on rotation basis once every 2 weeks supporting outages and
scheduled server maintenance.

EDUCATION
B.E