Middleware Administrator Resume Downers Grove, IL - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Leading the design, implementation, support, deployments and troubleshooting of applications for Weblogic, ColdFusion, Apache and Tomcat in Development, QA and Production environments.
Volunteered and succeeded in the role of Weblogic System Administrator in architecting, procuring hardware and software, and building new hardware to host the Weblogic 10.x environment. Supported all Weblogic environments and deployments eliminating the need for extra head count.
Primary System Administrator researching, testing and leading the conversion of physical Linux servers to virtual VMware servers. Physical servers were virtualized to VMware ESXi 4.x on a Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) blade cluster. Resulted in a smoother transition from physical server environment to virtual server environment, saving time and resources.
Implemented and supported Sendmail to provide for a robust email solution. Resulted in a savings of over $50,000 per year.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Downers Grove, IL

Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

Identified to become Subject Matter Expert for AppDynamics software to support Ensono’s goal of adding this software to its product line.
Appointed to become a Subject Matter Expert for IBM Data Power appliances.
Provided support for IBM Sterling File Gateway.
Provided support for Software AG’s webMethods products.
Member of a Team responsible for but not limited to performance planning, monitoring and growth of Weblogic/Websphere environments. Included installation, configuration, administration, patching and deployment of Weblogic, Websphere and Apache.
Responsible for load balancing Weblogic with Apache plug - in, creating, configuring multi cluster implementations, troubleshooting, performance tuning and managing Weblogic and Apache in multiple environments for various customers.
Responsible to learn and follow ITIL and Six Sigma practices.

Confidential, Golden, CO

Unix/Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Maintained and troubleshot servers hosting the County’s internet and intranet web sites. Included but was not limited to configuring Apache, Apache reverse proxies, virtual web sites, SSL certificates, Apache with Weblogic plug-in, Weblogic proxy configuration and deployment of applications to Weblogic, Tomcat and ColdFusion environments.
Attended instructor led courses in Basic Weblogic Administration and Troubleshooting. Upgraded from Weblogic 8.x to Weblogic 10.x requiring performance and capacity planning, requisitioning hardware, and building the physical servers. Installation of the OS (RHEL), configuration of file systems with LVM, user management, design and implementation of multiple Weblogic instances, and multi clustered environments. Weblogic technology used included node manager for managed server management, nmEnroll, pack/unpack and others.
Researched, installed, configured and maintained the following software; Alfresco, Atlassian JIRA, ClamAV, Splunk, Atlassian Access, SpamAssassin Sendmail and others.
Member of Team responsible for researching, testing and implementing migration from HPUX to IBM P5 hardware on AIX 5.3 using IBM LPAR, HMC, VIO-Server technologies in a very short timeline (4 months).

Confidential, Boulder, CO

SOLARIS & LINUX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Managed customer e-business accounts, followed strict change management procedures, applied software and security updates quarterly. Identified, troubleshot and resolved unscheduled outages while meeting strict service level agreements.
UNIX responsibilities required extensive expertise in Veritas Disk Suite, SUN Disk Arrays, TCP/IP, RAID and SCSI technologies.
Other responsibilities included working with IBM Middleware teams to install enterprise applications, such as WebSphere (Commerce and Portal), DB2, Deployment Manager and MQSeries.
Responsible for all aspects of UNIX Server, UNIX Desktop administration, replacement/addition of hardware, installation of new systems, NIS/DNS administration and troubleshooting systems.