OBJECTIVE:

Seeking an exigent position as a Middleware Administrator that best utilizes my skills in Application Servers.

SUMMARY:

• Around ten (10) years of experience in the information technology discipline with over 7 years in BEA WebLogic Administration/Development/Deployment and other web/app servers like (WebSphere Application Server,ALSB 6.0, Tomcat, JBoss, IBM HTTP Server, Apache, Sun One (iPlanet), MS IIS).
• Extensive experience in web application development using J2EE and Java related technologies. Well - versed in all phases of software development life cycle.
• Expertise in administration of BEA WebLogic 6.1/7.0/8.1/9/10 on IBM AIX, Sun-Solaris 8, 9, 10, Red Hat Linux 6.x/7.x/8.x and Windows NT/2000 environments.
• Expertise in installing, configuring and trouble-shooting application servers like BEA WebLogic 6.1/7.0/8.1,9.2, and web servers like iPlanet, IBM HTTP Server, and Apache on Sun Solaris, Linux and IBM AIX platforms.
• Strong knowledge of deployment of J2EE applications/components on BEA WebLogic 6.1/7.0/8.1, 9.2/10
• Extensively worked as a BEA WebLogic administrator for server configuration, deployment of components and performance tuning including troubleshooting, Technical support and maintenance.
• Detailed exposure and working knowledge of MQ series Messaging Service
• Managed and administered domains, nodes, managed servers, instances in BEA WebLogic application server.
• Configured clusters, load-balancing and failover solutions.
• Experience working with XML/XSL/XSLT documents.
• Experience in setting up Weblogic Queues and topics
• Experience developing J2EE applications using Java development tools such as Eclipse, Visual Age for Java 3.5, JBuilder and Visual Café.
• Implemented security and configuration of LDAP, Netegrity SiteMinder single sign-on, configuring Multi Master and Single Master configurations and replications for MS Active Directory.
• Experience working with Netegrity SiteMinder and IdentityMinder.
• Experience in management of user profile and groups using IdentityMinder web edition.
• Strong programming experience in J2EE 1.4, J2SE 1.4, JDK 1.3/1.2, J2EE technologies - Servlets, Applets, JSP, JDBC, JMS, JavaMail, RMI, JNDI, EJB, XML, Struts, SOAP, CORBA.
• Extensive knowledge of Jython and Python Scripting.
• Quick learner and up-to-date with industry trends. Excellent written and oral communications and team player. Excellent customer relations and people management skills. Ability to work independently and well-organized. Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Excellent presentation skills (strong verbal and written communications).

SKILLS:

Hardware: IBM Compatible PCs, HP9000.

Platforms: Windows NT/95/98/2000/XP, Solaris, AIX, HP - UXLinux.

Languages: Java, C/C++/C#, ASP.NET, HTML/DHTML, XMLJSP, Unix Shell, SQL.

Packages: J2EE, JDK 1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4 , JSDK 2.0, JSWDK, JFC.

Databases: SQL, MySQL,DB2 and Oracle 8/9i, MS Access.

Tools: WinRunner, LoadRunner, Sitescope, JprobeTopaz,Introscope, HP OPENVIEW, BMC Patrol.

Web Servers: Sun One, Apache, Tomcat Microsoft IIS, IBM, HTTP.

Application Servers: WebLogic 6.1/7.0/8.1/9.2/10.2 , JBOSS,Websphere Process Server

Protocols: TCP/IP, SNMP, POP/SMTP, HTTP, FTP.

IDE & Environments: Code Guide, JBuilder, IntelliJ, Eclipse.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Middleware Adminstrator

Responsibilities:

• Designed and created Oracle WebLogic Server 9.2/10/10.3 domains and managed Servers in Training, Devlelopment, QA,Staging and Production Environment as well as provided 24/7 production support.
• Upgraded BEA WebLogic Server 9.2 to WebLogic Server 10.3 in the Training, Devlelopment, QA,Staging and Production Environment.
• Automated the Deployment process of WAR, EAR, Cognos and J2EE applications in WebLogic Server 9.2/10/10.3 using WLST (WebLogic Scripting Tool), UNIX Shell Scripts and weblogic.Deployer utility.
• Configured WebLogic JMS Servers, JMS Modules, JDBC Data Sources, JDBC Connection Pools, and Bridge to provide interoperability between WebLogic JMS and IBM MQ Series.
• Installed, Configured and used HermesJMS to interact with WebLogic JMS providers, discover WebLogic queues and topics, copy/delete messages, and drop XMLs in WebLogic JMS queues and IBM MQ queues.
• Built and Deployed J2EE applications using Hudson,Maven, SVN, CVS, and Winscp on WebLogic 9.2/10/10.3 for Release and Maintenance. Performed Smoke Test for the deployed applications to Validate its status is up and running.
• Installed and configured Apache HTTP Server 2.0 Plug-in as an Apache module on Red Hat Linux.
• Having background with SUBSCRIPTION BILLING SYSTEMS
• Configured SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and obtained digital certificates, private key for WebLogic server to provide secure connections.
• Worked on different Data Interfaces, Data Warehouse, SQL Server,Sybase, Oracle Server, and PL/SQL-Dev tool in ST, QA and Partially Production Environments.
• Configured and Tuned JDBC connection pools so that applications point to correct Database schema and the appropriate number of JDBC connections available to resolve the java.lang.NullPointerException issue.
• Extensively used IBM Rational ClearQuest as a change management tool for better visibility and control of the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).
• Log files analysis such as WebLogic server logs, node manager logs, Plug-in logs, thread dumps, verbosegc logs for troubleshooting and Problem determination to resolve issues.
• Created Server Execute Queues and Tuned the parameters for better Performance of critical applications deployed in WebLogic Server 9.2.
• Deployed applications on multiple WebLogic server instances maintaining Load Balancing and High-Availability
• Installed and Configured F5 load balancer.
• Proven experience developing and implementingbuildand automated deployment systems usingANTmake shell and perl scripting.

Confidential, GA

Weblogic, Sunone and Apache administrator

Environment: BEA Weblogic 10, 8.1 sp5 on Sun Solaris 10 and 9 respectively Sunone Webserver, Oracle 10g,Apache, tomcat server

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 sp5 and 10 in development, staging, preproduction and production environments.
• Expert in creating and configuring of clustered and nonclustered WebLogic Server domains.
• Configured and administered connection pools, multi-connection pools and data source objects for JDBC connections.
• Configured JNDI server as repository for EJB Home stubs, JDBC data source, JMS connection factories, queues and topics.
• Providing Technical support to the application team and Troubleshoot emerging application issues i.e. WebLogic configuration to code issues
• Extensively involved in performance tuning and monitoring of various applications.
• Responsible for setting up JMS topics and Queues
• Responsible for writing shell scripts and modifying Jython scripts.
• Extensive knowledge of Bash and Korn Shell
• Configured Apache to act as a proxy server for backend WebLogic and TomCat application servers.
• Installed and Configured F5 load balancer.
• Expert in configuring and deploying web applications on Tomcat application server.
• Administration of active applications, application performance monitoring - recycling the application server including installation of plug-ins for iPlanet (Sunone 6.1) Webserver.
• Configured clustering for EJB objects, JDBC connections and JMS connection factories.
• Configured LDAP using MS Active Directory Server for user authentication.
• Creation of SSL and Digital Certificates for requesting, generating and the implementation of the communication link between the web server and the application server.
• Expert in using ANT.
• Detailed exposure and working knowledge of MQ series Messaging Service.
• Expert in setting up, configuring of Foglight and Qpasa monitoring tools.
• Expert in setting up Ventage analyser tools.
• Used Repliweb as deployment management tool.

Confidential, Washington

WebLogic Administrator

Environment: BEA Weblogic 8.1 sp3, IBM Websphere 5.0,Sun solaris 8 and 9, Iplanet 4.0 Webserver, BMC Patrol Monitoring tool

Responsibilities:

• Involvement with the customer care and deployment teams in providing technical support and trouble shooting and fixing day-to-day problems of the applications in production on 24/7 schedule.
• Migration from WebLogic 7.0 to WebLogic 8.1.
• Administration and configuration of WebLogic 8.1 in deployment and production environments.
• Administration and configuration of JBOSS 4.0 in deployment and production environments.
• Creation of development environments for developers Shell scripts and source code management systems (ClearCase).
• Involved in installation and configuration of Ms Exchange 5.0 and 5.5 based messaging systems for internal use and for POP3, SMTP access.
• Application deployment (WAR, JAR, EAR).
• Development and maintenance of Shell scripts that facilitate the administration of BEA WebLogic.
• Configuration and clustering of WebLogic Application Servers.
• Load balancing and performance tuning.
• Troubleshooting WebLogic server connection pooling and connection manager with Oracle 8i, and DB2.
• Testing and profiling to measure the performance of the applications.
• Conducted performance and scalability audits of applications and the application servers.
• Administration and monitoring of WebLogic admin and managed servers.
• Designed/Implemented the testing environment for MS SQL Reporting Services.
• Designed/Implemented the SQL Reporting Services management security (LDAP).
• Architect for the definition and design of a Common Message Repository and Application Interaction Service using MQ Series.
• The Common Message Repository maintains definitions of all message types that can be used for communication between a number of existing applications and newly developed applications.
• Shell scripting to automate the maintenance process of the WebLogic server and recover the backed-up WebLogic configuration.
• Log-file analysis (troubleshooting) to resolve issues using scripts.
• Creation of SSL and Digital Certificates for requesting, generating and the implementation of the communication link between the web server and the application server.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

J2EE Programmer/WebLogic Administrator

Environment: BEA Weblogic 7.0, 8.1,Linux and IBM AIX Operating system, Apache Webserver, Microsoft IIS, Wiley interscope Monitoring tool,JBuilder, IntelliJ, Eclipse

Responsibilities:

• The project was developed for Northern Trust Bank to generate values on policies based on fluctuating interest rates, deposits, interest accruals, surrender charges and time value of money.
• Designed the application under J2EE architecture using JSP and developed the business components using EJB 1.0.
• Designed and developed the user interface using JSP, Servlets, XML and Java.
• Developed Java Server Pages for both business logic and GUI development.
• Developed Java Bean components to communicate with JSP.
• Designed and developed the front end using JSP and other custom tag libraries.
• Developed applications using JSPs and EJBs for Weblogic application server 5.1.
• Involved to develop forms using HTML and Java Script.
• Involved in writing SQL in DB2 UDB.
• Involved in converting Mainframe DB2 data to SQL Server database.
• Wrote JSP pages for server side to access the database.
• Developed database connection through JDBC drivers.
• Installed WebLogic 6.1 application server on Sun OS 5.8 and development, staging and production environments.
• Configuring multiple WebLogic domains.
• Configured WebLogic server with iPlanet web server through WebLogic s proxy plug - in.
• Configured managed server instances on different machines and clustered all the managed servers.
• Created the startup and shutdown scripts for the servers.
• Upgraded the WebLogic servers with necessary patches and service packs.
• Created the connection pools, data sources, JMS servers, JMS destinations.
• Deployed different application WAR files, EJB JAR files and enterprise application archives (EAR) on WebLogic 6.1.
• Developed framework classes for the above mentioned Advisor.
• Designed HTML, JSPs for front-end templates.
• Business validations performed using JavaScript.
• Developed servlets for main business logic implementation.
• Designed and developed two types of session EJBs.
• Designed and developed persistent entity EJBs.
• Developed JDBC code for accessing data from the database.
• B2B interaction developed using XML; XML Parser coded using DOM and SAX API s.