Potti Srikanth

mail2srikanth429@gmail.com
+1 (513) 800-0026
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Professional Summary:

Around 9+ years of Experience in Administrating WebSphere MQ 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 9.x, Message Broker 8.x, IIB 9.x, 10.x, and ACE 11.x and
12.x, MQFTE, Middleware Web Application servers (WebSphere, WebLogic, JBOSS), with a wide range of experience with hardware,
Appliances, Software, and tools.

● Strong experience in Middleware IT Infrastructure Services, implementation, operations, and support functions.
● Having extensive experience on WebSphere WMQ/WMB and Application server administration.
● Strong understanding and experienced in Agile Delivery, ITIL Processes and Service Level Key Performance Indices &
Operational Performance Indices
● Strong experience, in administering High availability Queue Managers, Clustering and Multi Instance Queue Managers
● Create and Configure Queue Managers, MQ Objects, Queues, Channels, Listeners, Pub/Sub etc.
● Experience in configuring WebSphere MQ Series with monitoring tools like, BMC Patrol, IBM Tivoli, WMQ Explorer, MQ
Nastel, MQMON etc.
● Experienced and worked on other support tools like RHF UTIL, Message Broker tool kit for creating and deploying BAR files.
● Monitored and maintained MQ Series objects such as Queue Managers, Queues, channels, and listeners.
● Working on MQ Exits and providing security for the MQ objects.
● Installation, configuration and maintenance of the WebSphere, WebLogic, JBOSS Application Servers, and Webservers like
Apache, IHS, OHS, & Nginx on UNIX, RHEL, SUSE, & AIX servers
● Troubleshooting issues with out of memory and JVM crash for all the application servers.
● Analyzing Thread dumps and work with application support teams to fix out of memory issues.
● Configure monitoring Dashboards for all the JMX parameters in Dynatrace, to identify issues proactively.
● Strong experience using ITSM process, Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management, Release
Management, Asset Management & Major Incident Management
● Good understanding on SSL Setup.
● OAM security administration for the MQ objects.
● IBM MQ Series related troubleshooting and Bug Fixing.
● Experience in collaborating and working with diverse teams geographically, Onshore/Offshore/Nearshore.

Skill Summary:

Operating System : UNIX, Solaris, RHEL, SUSE AIX, Windows

Administration : WMQ 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 9.x, WMB 7.x, 8.x, IIB 9.x, 10.x, ACE 11.x & 12.x, MQFTE, Web & Application servers
Tools/Frameworks : ITIL, ServiceNow, Remedy, JIRA (Agile), BMC Patrol, WMQ Explorer, Nastel, MQMON, RFHutil, Sitescope,
ELK, Dynatrace, Grafana Prometheus
Cloud/Containers : Azure, OpenShift, Docker & Kubernetes

Work Experience:

● Working as Senior Middleware Administrator at Kroger, from November 2019 to till date.
● Worked as MQ & Middleware Administrator at Best Buy, from Aug 2014 - Oct 2019.
● Worked as MQ Administrator at Price Chopper (Golub Corporation) from Jan 2014 to Aug 2014.

Certifications:

● ITIL V3 Certified Professional.

● Sun Certified Java Programmer 5 (SCJP 5.0).
● WebSphere MQ Administration Certified Professional.
● WebLogic Certified Professional.
Academics:

● Master of Computer Applications from Osmania University Hyderabad.

● Bachelor of Computer Applications, from Nagarjuna University.

Project Experience:

Project #1:

Title : Web & Infrastructure services

Client : Kroger
Role : Senior Middleware Administrator
Duration : Nov 2019 to till date.

Kroger is one of the largest retailers based out of Cincinnati, operates around 2750 stores, under variety of banner names,
including Grocery Stores, Pharmacies, Little Clinics, Fuel Centers, Jewelry Stores and operates around 30+ food production units
Infosys plays key role in delivering Application development, Testing, Database Administration, ETL, EDI, Network Support &
Middleware Administration support.

● Create and Configure Queue Managers, MQ Objects, Queues, Channels, Listeners, Pub/Sub etc.
● Migrate MQ Queue managers from 8.x and to 9.x
● Migrating IIB servers to ACE (App connect Enterprise)
● Configuring MQFTE jobs, and troubleshooting issues with file transfer
● Administering High availability Queue Managers, Clustering and Multi Instance Queue Managers
● Work with Enterprise Monitoring team to configure Monitoring and alerting for Queue Managers and MQ objects.
● Troubleshooting performance issues, in message processing and assisting application teams in troubleshooting MQ issues and
Queue Backlogs
● Working on creation, configuration and maintenance of the Web Sphere Application Servers and IBM HTTP Web Servers on HP
UNIX, RHEL, SUSE, and AIX machines.
● Installation of Web Sphere Application Server, IHS and Oracle client.
● Solving problems of JVM crash and out of memory issues of application servers.
● Configuring Threads, monitoring application threads and doing thread dump analysis.
● Performance tuning of Web Sphere application servers HP Unix and AIX Platforms.
● OAM security administration for the MQ objects.
● Build & Deploy Web/Application servers, WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, IHS, Apache, Nginx etc.
● Manage Web Proxy services deployed on NGINX, Apache & AVI load balancer.
● Provide 24/7 support and participate in triage calls and major incident management calls.

Project #2:

Title : Middleware & Integration Support

Client : Best Buy
Role : MQ & Middleware Administrator
Duration : Aug 2014 to Oct 2019.

Best Buy is a leading multi-channel global retailer and developer of technology products and services. Retail is a business that
requires constant innovation, new ideas, new ways to delight the customers and new ways to work together. Best Buy stores and
operating models are being transformed to shift their focus from product-centric to customer-centric.

 Installed and Configured WMQ & Message Broker on Linux, Solaris, Windows, and AIX.
 Create and Configure Queue Managers, MQ Objects, Queues, Channels, Listeners, Pub/Sub etc.
 Monitored and maintained MQ Series objects such as Queue Managers, Queues, channels, and listeners and pub/sub.
 Created and configured MQ objects using BMC Patrol, Nastel and with MQSC commands,
 Monitored MQ Queue managers and objects using tools like, BMC Patrol, IBM Tivoli, WMQ Explorer, MQ Nastel, MQMON
  Experienced and worked on other support tools like RHF UTIL, Message Broker tool kit for creating and deploying BAR files.
 OAM security administration for the MQ objects.
 IBM MQ Series related troubleshooting and Bug Fixing.
 Installation, configuration and maintenance of the WebSphere, WebLogic, JBOSS Application Servers, and Webservers like
Apache, IHS, OHS, & Nginx on UNIX, RHEL, SUSE, & AIX servers
 Troubleshooting issues with out of memory and JVM crash for all the application servers.
 Analyzing Thread dumps and work with application support teams to fix out of memory issues.
 Configure monitoring Dashboards for all the JMX parameters in Dynatrace, to identify issues proactively.
 Configuring Threads, monitoring application threads and doing thread dump analysis.
 Performance tuning of Web Sphere application servers HP Unix and AIX Platforms.

Project #3:

Title : Store Transformation

Client : The Golub Corporation (Price Chopper)
Role : MQ Administrator
Duration : Jan 2014 - Aug 2014.

The Golub Corporation is an American Supermarket operator located at Schenectady, NY with 133 Stores located in East Coast.
The Project involves the analysis and provides roadmap for their Store Transformation and to Integrate the Price Chopper 133 stores to
send the point-of-sale data to corporate server for reporting and analysis.

 Installation and configuration of WMQ on Windows platform both on Store front servers and corporate servers
 Create/Configuring necessary MQ objects on all the servers (Local Queues, Remote Queues, Alias Queues, transmit Queues,
Channels, Topics and Subscriptions for Pub/Sub).
 Created scripts to configure MQ objects.
 Install and configure Tivoli agents on all MQ servers to monitor Queue managers and MQ objects.
 Configured Dashboards to monitor MQ objects.
 Srikanth P
 Mason, OH, US

Contact Information
 kln-e9e-ajk@mail.dice.com

 5138000026

Skills
 websphere application server - 9 years
 websphere wmq - 9 years
 jboss - 8 years
 application server administration - 7 years
 bmc patrol - 7 years
 ibm tivoli storage manager - 7 years
 weblogic - 7 years
 ihs - 5 years

Work Preferences
 Likely to Switch: True
 Willing to Relocate: False
 Travel Preference: 0%
 Work Authorization:
o US
 Work Documents:
o Green Card Holder
 Security Clearance: False
 Third Party: False
 Employment Type:
o Contract - Corp-to-Corp
o Contract - Independent
o Contract - W2

Profile Sources
 Dice:
https://www.dice.com/employer/talent/profile/7e49f92578c0768abc141c3886aef0ee