SUMMARY

• 7+ Years of experience in IT industry in Infrastructure Build and Hosting support for various MiddleWare components.
• Seven Years of Experience as an Administrator on both Linux/Windows Platforms in installing configuring and administering Server Configuration for on various WebLogic versions, 9.x, 10.x and 12c.
• Around Five Years of Experience is supporting Application Server/Webserver Infrastructure in High Critical Business to Customer (B2C) Applications.
• As part of Middleware Operations, Worked on Various Application Server's(Weblogic, Websphere) and Webserver's(Apache, Iplanet, Oracle HTTP)
• Good Knowledge on Installing, Configuring, Troubleshooting JBOSS Application Server Versions 5.0 and 6.0.
• Extensive Knowledge on Troubleshooting, Performance tuning, Debugging JVM issues.
• Extensive Knowledge in Analyzing Thread Dumps, Heap Dumps and Various issues dat impact JVM performance.
• Extensive Knowledge in Writing/Automating various Daily Maintenance Weblogic Tasks wif Shell and WLST scripting.
• Worked wif Enterprise Architects in Building/Designing Weblogic/Iplanet Webserver Farm wif a Capacity to host 2000 JVM's in both Clustered and Non - Clustered Environments.
• Around Two years of Hands on Experience in VMWare in Installing ESXi4.0, ESXi5.0 design, setup installation configuration and Administration.
• Built Standard Server Level Virtual Machine Templates for various different MiddleWare Components on multiple operating systems.
• Prepared Standard operating procedure documents for WebLogic Application Server and Iplanet Webserver.
• Created Standard Disaster Recovery documents for all the applications dat involve WebLogic servers.
• Worked as SPOC for quarterly Disaster Recovery activities for Critical Business to Customer (B2C) and Highly Visible Sales and Marketing Applications.
• Taken responsibility to Provide WebLogic VM wif an SLA of 2hrs to build up Virtual Linux machine wif WebLogic Server's Installed and Configured from Bare Metal Physical Machine.
• Worked in both MiddleWare Engineering and MiddleWare Build Team’s to automate/standardize various MiddleWare tasks.
• Worked closely wif Enterprise architect’s for Data Center Transformation Program in GM to build WebLogic Farm.
• Installed and configured iPlanet Webserver, Apache Web Servers in various environments like Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX and IBM AIX and Integration of the same wif the WebLogic.
• Good knowledge of setting up MiddleWare environment in support to Cognos in WebLogic, IIS, Iplanet, Apache
• Installation and configuration of Web Security tools such as SSL Certificates, LDAP on MiddleWare platforms like WebLogic, Iplanet webserver

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms: Solaris 9/10, HP-UX, SuSE Linux, RedHat Linux, Windows.

App Servers: WebLogic, Websphere, JBOSS

Web Servers: Sun One/Iplanet, Apache and IBM HTTP Server.

Monitoring Tools: Dynatrace, HPOM.

Reporting: Cognos, Oracle Discoverer Forms

Virtualization: VMware ESXi4.1, 5.0, Vcenter

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bloomington, MN

Middleware-Windows Operations Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working as an L3 Middleware Operations Support Engineer and will be involved in severe performance issues dat impact Highly Customer visible Business to Customer(B2C) Applications.
• Create Virtual Templates for various OS and deploy new servers using the templates as per the new project requirements.
• Good Knowledge on Tuning Weblogic on the FLY to reduce Business Impact in High severity Incidents.
• Analyze requirements of various applications teams and provide Weblogic Infrastructure Environment
• Maintain Weblogic on 2000+ Windows Hosts in clustered Environment.
• Analyze Thread Dumps, Heap Dumps and Tune Weblogic to provide Optimal Performance to the application Deployed.
• Provided Weblogic Operations Support and Worked on High Priority Incidents and Provided Root Cause Analysis by working Parallel wif oracle
• Weblogic Installation, Configuration And applying Scheduled patches.
• Deploy Virtual Hosts wif Weblogic Standard Build.
• Good Knowledge on various Windows Server operating systems
• Active team member and successfully participated in Data Center move of physical servers.
• Good Knowledge on CommVault Backup Software.
• Virtualized physical servers to consolidate data center using CommVault virtualize me Tool.
• Support 5000+ physical and virtual Windows servers in the environment in multiple sites.
• Install and configure IIS on windows server for hosting web applications and services.
• Good knowledge on implementing Symantec System Recovery tool across Data Center and Reported Backup Compliance Rate to management.

Confidential, Troy, MI

MiddleWare Support

Responsibilities:

• Working as team lead wif Onsite/Offshore model for GM MiddleWare servers across the globe.
• Coordinating Data Center Transformation activities for various applications.
• Working wif application teams to migrate the application from Old Data Center to New Data Center wif minimal impact to highly visible Business to Customer (B2C) applications.
• Maintained MiddleWare Server's, Applications, SSL certificates inventory
• Installed WebLogic and other MiddleWare Components as per the Gold Build and TSS Standards of GM.
• Installed and configured different versions of Iplanet webserver As per the requirements provided by the development teams
• Installed different versions of Cognos, Oracle Discoverer and configured as per the requirements of the development teams.
• Performed WebLogic Administration tasks such as installing, configuring, monitoring and performance tuning, content management and user management.
• Performed activities such as Change Management, Content management, User Management, Portal and Deployment (of application packages, patches, etc.)
• Had Good knowledge on installing SSL certificates on different types of MiddleWare servers like WebLogic, Iplanet webserver, Apache
• Prepared Standard Operational Procedure documents for Installing WebLogic, Creating Domains, Installing SSL certificates.
• Responsible for the configuration and Administration of Sun One Web Servers, including installation and configuration of WebLogic proxy Plug-ins to proxy load balanced requests for dynamic content to backend WebLogic Application Servers
• Involved in upgrading, patching of different versions of WebLogic.
• Deployed applications on multiple WebLogic Servers and maintained Load balancing, High availability and Fail over functionality.
• Had good knowledge on Unix Administration.
• Closely worked wif Unix, Network teams for troubleshooting high severity issues in production environment.
• Provided 24/7 on call Production Support.

Confidential, Warren MI

Middleware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Administration and migration of more TEMPthan WebLogic instance between datacenter’s wif minimum impact to production.
• Created various Gold Build Documents for installing/configuring MiddleWare components
• Worked wif Architects and Development Team to build Infrastructure for both shared and dedicated application environments.
• Analyzed application performance reports in the LAB and provided best solutions to infrastructure team and halped architects in building the new Data Center.
• Created Various MiddleWare Technology Templates on various operating system’s
• Standing up a WebLogic Suse Linux Virtual Machine from bare metal in less TEMPthan 2 hrs of SLA.
• Responsible for documenting the current architectural configurations and detailed data flow and Troubleshooting Guides for application support.
• Extensively automated various MiddleWare installation and maintenance tasks to reduce application outages and business impact.
• Extensively supported and migrated Business to Customer High Priority and Highly visible Applications between data center wifout any business impact or outage.
• Extensively worked on Data Centre Migration activities which involves high business to customer visibility applications
• Extensive experience in troubleshooting the deployment and other application problems, applyingWebLogic patches and working closely wif Development Teams in solving issues.
• Responsible for the configuration and Administration of Sun One Web Servers, including installation and configuration of WebLogic proxy Plug-ins to proxy load balanced requests for dynamic content to backend WebLogic Application Servers.
• Worked closely wif UNIX hardware teams during the production on-calls to get the OS related issues fixed and bring up the applications wifin the SLAs.
• Perform troubleshooting and/or configuration changes to resolve MiddleWare issues
• Worked wif Oracle to resolve the outstanding issues in the existing production environments.
• Installation and configuration of Web Security tools such as SSL Certificates.
• Involved in the server builds for application hardware refresh project meetings.
• Worked wif Unix team, firewall team, network team as part of a datacenter move project which involved moving WebLogic and sun one web servers.

Confidential, Troy MI

MiddleWare Support

Responsibilities:

• Performed Middleware Administration tasks such as installing, configuring, monitoring and performance tuning, content management and user management.
• Installed and configured different versions WebLogic, Iplanet, Apache for both development and production environments
• Provided production support on North America Region timings for various MiddleWare components.
• Participated in Quarterly Disaster Recovery Fail-Over activities dat involve Re-Routing Application Traffic between data centers and make sure dat their is no impact to End User Applications.
• Analyzing Thread Dumps and Memory wif various tools and reporting the status to development Team’s
• Deployed applications on multiple WebLogic Servers and maintained Load balancing, High availability and Fail over functionality.
• Configured Node manager for Administration of Managed servers and administered Connection pools for JDBC connections.
• Installed and configured Iplanet webserver to work wif WebLogic Server.
• Used configuration wizard to create and manage WebLogic domains.
• Provided 24/7 on call Production Support.
• Performed activities such as Change Management, Content management, User Management, Portal and Desktop Management and Deployment (of application packages, patches, etc.).

Confidential

Weblogic Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for administering Weblogic Application Servers, Webservers in Pre-Prod and Production Environments.
• Performing application deployments as requested by the application teams on the respective environments.
• Worked on HP Operations Management Tool to Monitor CPU utilization, JVM memory utilization and monitor JVM Heap Size
• Tune and configure WebLogic domains to make optimal use of execution threads, JDBC pools, adapter pools and JMS pools.
• Adding WebLogic Server instances to a WebLogic Domain Cluster during the application Upgrades
• Create new domains from existing domains and modify WebLogic Server domains
• Take thread dumps, analyze logs and resolve various errors/exceptions.
• Working on production deployments wif minimal business impacts by raising RFC’s (Request For Change) Control.
• Worked Closely wif Incident Management, Problem Management Teams to analyze the frequency of incidents and performing RCA's

Confidential

Junior Weblogic Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed WebLogic and Created Domains of WebLogic server 9.2.
• Setting up clustered and load balanced environments for new applications.
• Installed SunOne Webserver 6.0 and Integrated wif Weblogic.
• Setting up the cluster environment for Weblogic Server integrated wif multiple workflows.
• Participated in upgrade activities for Highly Visible Business transactions apps.
• Configure and administered of JDBC, JMS, JNDI in Weblogic Server 9.2.
• Configuring JVM parameters as per requirement.
• Created CronJob Scripts for Re-starting, Deploying application's based on Daily maintenance activities.