SUMMARY:

• Multifaceted technical career with 12 + year track record of product innovation and success
• Over a decade of experience leading the development and execution of complex projects and consistently delivering quality services to a long list of clients. Demonstrated skill identifying customer needs, and implementing comprehensive solutions that meet those needs and capture valuable business opportunities. Proven track record of innovation coupled with technical expertise, able to consistently lead teams to complete complex projects on time, under budget, and beyond expectations.
• Service Strategy & Development
• Team Leadership &
• User and Support
• Deep Technical Acumen
• Classify Information (GCI, PCI, RCI)
• Full Life Cycle Project Management
• Relationship Building & Management
• Problem Resolution & Troubleshooting
• Support Engineering
• Information Privacy and Protection Policy ( IPPP)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Application servers: WebLogic Server 8.x/9.x/10.x, 11g, Spring Source Tomcat Server 6.x/7.x/8.x

Cloud: AWS: EC2, S3, ELB, Route53, Amazon Workspaces

CM tools: Puppet, Jenkins, Git/BitBucket, XLD

Web servers: Apache 1.3/2.0/2.2.26, SunOne iPlanet 5.1/6.1, IIS 5.0/6.0

Operating systems: Solaris 9 & 10, Red Hat Linux ES & AS, Unix, Windows 2003 AS & 2000

Monitoring tools: Appdynamics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Rockville, Maryland

Senior Middleware Architect and Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Ability to lead a group of professionals of various skill levels for managing enterprise level tasks and projects.
• Direct interaction between Application and Infrastructure teams to refine use cases, define architectures and to clarify middleware solutions to meet the requirements which includes user interface, proxy servers, firewalls, load balancers, application servers, ensuring high availability, monitoring, performance analysis.
• Directly working with management and app teams to clarify requirements for in house data center to AWS migration (EC2, S3, ELB, Route 53 etc.) and to then work with IT teams to deliver middleware as part of an overall solution to meet requirements
• Develop POC’s for new middleware solutions as part of migrating applications from weblogic to tomcat app servers.
• Working with Development teams to ensure right level of information during release planning and sharing feedback on the quality of codes that are being presented
• Working with all support teams ensuring and provide necessary level of approvals for deployments, configuration changes
• Working closely with Client Services, Enterprise services and Application Services regarding upcoming releases. Setting up right level of expectations and gathering regular feedback on any gaps related to our process
• Develop POC’s for benchmarking middleware software’s on different platforms
• Working with management teams to clarify requirements and to then work with IT teams to deliver middleware as part of an overall solution to meet requirements.
• Actively included in middleware (Oracle’s Weblogic ) software support and license renewal process.
• Documenting patch management meetings/agendas (TC/Weblogic/Apache/AMQ/RSA)
• Revising and cleaning up old user ids/Console access for people who have left the team (TC/Weblogic/Apache/AMQ/RSA/)
• Revising user access controls on Admin Vs read only accounts to consoles (TC/Weblogic/Apache/MQ/RSA)
• Upgrade Weblogic to latest 10.x patch level
• Compliance reporting/updates (TC/Weblogic/Apache/AMQ/RSA) as per Information Privacy and Protection Policy ( IPPP).
• Upgrade plan of Java to latest patch level
• Log Monitoring/Admin action monitoring/Reporting of events (TC/Weblogic/Apache/AMQ/RSA)
• Determined specific standards and guidelines conducting user application management
• Conducted root cause inspection for outages
• Wrote tickets reporting system outages
• Installed WebLogic applications and spearheaded deployment activities
• Monitored and analyzed system health and performance maintaining documentation concerning status
• Corp authentication (LDAP) implementation with all the middleware products like weblogic, AMQ
• Web application Single Sign - on ( Internal(ISSO) and external (EWS) apps)
• SSL Configurations on web and app servers.
• Aided in enforcement of off-the-shelf resources
• Proficient in managing s of technology and tools required for J2EE middleware applications.
• Excellency in managing rollout of J2EE middleware application software and maintenance packages in company’s IT infrastructure.
• Efficient in managing enterprise wide projects involving coordination with diverse technical teams and IT divisions
• Collaborate cross functionally with database, network, IAM, security, and other teams to ensure the swift, accurate completion of objectives.
• Carefully monitor teams to prevent down time and maintain business continuity.
• Serve a number of key functions, providing performance tuning, webserver setup, data center buildup, data migration, infrastructure management, and more.
• Oversee in-house data center building, ensuring a smooth transition from outsource model to an in-house model.
• Partner with application developers and architects to facilitate requirements gathering through to design, implementation, and final deployment.
• Administer technical for new hires as well as end users.
• Involved in providing corporate infrastructure and/or Internet systems, and to make sure that all client and corporate computing needs are met with an eye for efficiency and scalability. Involved in planning, designing and Implementation of Production as well as DR (Disaster recovery) environment.

Confidential, Denver, Co

Senior Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Communicated one-on-one with key client stakeholders and managers, gathering requirements and delivering swift service and comprehensively resolving issues.
• Provided additional support on security, clustering, deployment, performance, JDBC, and more for WebLogic and its subsystems.
• Recognized for consistently completing deliverables on time and under budget.