SUMMARY

• About 7+ years experience as a Systems and Application Server Administrator with expertise in SUN Solaris 7, 8, 9 & 10, RHEL 6.0, WebLogic Server 6.1, 7, 8.1, 9.2 & 10.0/10.3, Apache Tomcat and Microsoft Windows 2003, 2000 & NT Products in the areas of IT Operations, Solutions and Infrastructure management.
• Experience in Administration of BEA WebLogic Application Server 6.1, 7, 8.1, 9.2 & 10.0, iPlanet Application Server, SunOne Web Servers, Apache web Servers and Microsoft IIS Web Servers in complete project cycle implementations with 24x7 support.
• Experience in the Designing, Installation, Configuration, Clustering, Deployment and Troubleshooting of BEA Weblogic 6.1, 7, 8.1 & 9.2 J2EE services for highly available Production environments.
• Experienced in using F5 Big - IP Hardware Load Balancers v9.
• Provided 24x7 on-call supports for product delivery platforms and application troubleshooting and problem resolution, including managing, escalating, scheduling and reporting corrective actions.
• Strong troubleshooting skills in WebLogic Application Server platforms.
• Experience in implementing WebLogic’s best practices for Clustering, Load Balancing and Failover strategies.
• Experience in System Administration of SUN Solaris 10, 9, 8, 7, IBM AIX 5.3 & 5.2 Server Operating Systems.
• Expertise in writing UNIX Shell Scripts(ksh), WLST.
• Experience in administration of Apache HTTP Webserver, Apache Tomcat servers.
• Knowledge of VERITAS Volume Manager 5.0 and VERITAS Storage Foundation Suite 5.1.
• Experienced in Design, Analysis and Implementation of J2EE application services.
• Experienced in installing Certificates on various Web Servers and BEA WebLogic Application Server Platforms.
• Experience in performing Load balancing, performance tuning and troubleshooting of WebLogic Server systems.
• Experience with issue management tracking tools and change management tools.
• Experienced in developing detailed implementation plans.
• Detail-oriented multi-tasker with strong Organizational and Communication skills.
• Ability to work in challenging environments and strive for excellence.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: UNIX, Solaris, Red Hat LINUX, Unix-AIX, Cent OSWindows 98/2000/NT/XP/VISTA.

Middleware: BEA WebLogic Application Server 6.x./7.x./8.x./9.x/10.x., Apache-HTTP Server 1.3/2.0/2.2,Oracle RAC, Apache Tomcat 6.x, JBoss, MySQL

J2EE Technologies: Servlets, JSP, JDBC, RMI, JMS, JTA, JNDI, JMX, EJB and Applets.

Web Technologies: JDK 1.4/5/6, HTML, XML, DHTML, MSXML, ASPX, Eclipse.

Scripting Languages: WLST, UNIX Shell Scripting (Bourne, Korn, and Bash), ANT Scripts, Python

Packages: JDK 1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4/1.5/6 , JSDK 2.0, J2EE

IDE’s/Utilities: Eclipse, Weblogic Workshop, MS Visual Studio 2005, SSH, OpenSSL, Python9, Putty, and WLST.

Database: Pointbase, Oracle 8i/9i, EMC, MS SQL Server, My SQL, MS Access.

Networking & Protocols: TCP/IP, Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SNMP, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, ARP.

Other Tools: Adobe PhotoShop, Corel Draw, MS Office, SPSS, Prism, .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Des Peres, MO

System/Weblogic Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of weblogic 10.3 in UAT and Stress environment.
• Deployment of new release of Oracle ATG Commerce across all environments. (Prod, Stress, and UAT) and supporting performance testing and QA testing.
• Supporting Client to update the information in private infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting the issue related to managed servers and Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
• Writing ShellScript, WLST, Python script for automation of housekeeping jobs.
• Worked closely with other teams to troubleshoot and to ensure an error free deployment across the Stress, Prod and UAT environments
• Configured and administered JDBC Connection
• Monitoring error logs, fixing problems and tuning parameters on Weblogic environment.
• Troubleshooting with Thread and Heap analysis for detecting blocking and locked threads
• Writing SOPs (Standerad Operation Protocols) and verifying.
• Working with bladgelogic deploy the files across the environments.
• Creating jobs in bladgelogic for repetitive activity.
• Used ila ( Confidential &T internal monitoring tool) and NetDiagnostics to monitor the health of servers and managed servers.
• Administration, deployment and monitoring of endeca servers.
• Administration, deployment and monitoring of gigaspaces.
• Configuration and administration of F5 load balancers.

Confidential, Menlo Park, CA

Sr. Middleware/Weblogic Administrator

Environment: BEA WebLogic 10.0, Red Hat Linux, IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0, F5 BIG-IP Load Balancers, WLST, WLShell, JDK 1.5.0 12, SUN One Web Server 6.1SP6, Apache Web Server 2.0.55, Apache Tomcat, Oracle 9i; 10g Database Systems, Mercury Availability Center 6.8, Wily/CA IntroScope 7.0. Salt Stack 0.9.3, 0.9.4, puppet, Apache Subversion 1.7. Nagios 3.3, 3.4

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for administration, configuration and monitoring of BEA WebLogic 10.0/9.2MP2 and 8.1sp6 Application Server Environments.
• Responsible for the installation, configuration and administration of BEA WebLogic Server 10.0, 9.2MP2, 8.1sp6 on SUN Solaris 8/9/10 Servers.
• Involved in the configuration and administration of SunOne and Apache 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 the configuration and administration of F5 Big-IP hardware Load Balancers.
• Designed and implemented strategies for WebLogic Server upgrade from 8.1sp4 to 9.2MP2/10.0.
• Developed Application deployment, Server restart and WebLogic Health Monitoring scripts using WLST, WLShell and Korn Shell for BEA WebLogic 10.0 and 8.1sp6 Clustered & Non-Clustered environments.
• Shared in the on-call rotation; carrying a pager to provide 24x7 support.
• Configured Wily IntroScope to monitor the performance of WebLogic Application Servers.
• Assisted Performance testing teams to improve the overall performance of J2EE applications services on BEA WebLogic Application Server Platforms.
• Prepared implementation Plan templates for WebLogic Application Deployments and any other Infrastructure changes.
• Build and implemented Disaster Recovery strategies for WebLogic Domains.
• Deployed various types of application packages including JAR, WAR and EAR files.
• Implemented solutions with WebLogic for stand-alone and clustered environments using HTTP Plug-ins for Apache and SUN One HTTP Web Servers.
• Responsible for setting up Weblogic clusters, JDBC Datasources.
• Assisted development teams in activities such as load testing, troubleshooting and performance tuning of WebLogic Applications.
• Performed hardware maintenance for SUN & IBM servers, including equipment replacement and capacity planning.
• Worked with product vendors including F5, SUN, EMC, BEA, Veritas to resolve product related issues: both hardware and software.
• Involved in applying patches for BEA WebLogic Server, SUN Solaris, and Apache & SunOne Web Servers.
• Maintained 230+ SUN Solaris, Red Hat Linux Servers as part of a 16 member collaborative team.
• Created Disk Groups, Volumes and File systems using Veritas File System.
• Installed and configured SUN Solaris 10 using Jumpstart with Flash Archive (FLAR) images.
• Responsible for setting up Virtual IPs (VIP) on SUN Servers as required.
• Responsible for creating Volumes and File systems using VERITAS File System.
• Created OVO templates to monitor SUN Solaris Servers, BEA WebLogic Servers and other resources in the Production environment.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Weblogic/Tomcat administrator/Deployment engineer

Environment: BEA WebLogic 8.1/10.01, Tomcat 5.5/6.0 on windows 2003 and Linux servers, Apache web server, JProbe, Argus monitoring tool, Oracle database

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in supporting a multi-application environment with expertise in troubleshooting issues, performance analysis and tuning.
• Installing Weblogic8.1/9.2/10/Tomcat 6 on the client’s development, test and production servers. Moved the environment from one server, to server farm.
• Configured clustering for Weblogic application server on client servers.
• Efficiently deployed applications on multiple instances on the client servers in order to achieve Load balancing and high availability.
• Responsible for troubleshooting any deployment related issues.
• Applying upgrade patches of PK software regularly on the client side servers.
• Providing on call support to the third party client.
• Troubleshooting all Tomact/Weblogic’s deployment related issues.
• Extensively involved in monitoring the applications hosted on the client servers.
• Involved in monitoring and performance tuning of the application servers hosted on the client servers.
• Troubleshooting WebLogic server connection pooling and connection manager with Oracle 10g.
• Administration of active applications, application performance monitoring, recycling the application server including installation of plug-ins for apache Webserver.
• Creation of SSL and Digital Certificates for requesting, generating and the implementation of the communication link between the web server and the application server.
• Log-file analysis (troubleshooting) to resolve issues using scripts.
• Configured and administered connection pools, multi-connection pools and data source objects for JDBC connections.
• Implemented security and configuration of Netegrity SiteMinder single sign-on.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Weblogic administrator

Environment: WebLogic Server 8.3/9.2 Solaris10, Oracle9i, Apache, Site scope, IBM Http Server, F5 Load Balancer, Web Services, LDAP.

Responsibilities:

• Install, configure and administered of BEA WebLogic Application Server, WebLogic Portal, WebLogic workshop in various environments.
• Used config wizard extensively to create and manage WebLogic domains.
• Configure and administered of JDBC, JMS, JNDI, SNMP in WebLogic Server 8.3.
• Configure and administered of WebLogic server with Oracle9i database.
• Installed and configured Apache 1.3 as plug-in on UNIX environment and deployed applications.
• Installed and configured IIS to act as a proxy server to serve various applications.
• Configure Clustering EJB objects, JDBC connections and JMS connection factories.
• Used WLST to check the status of WLServers.
• Configure Node manager for administer the Managed servers.
• Created and configured new users groups and global roles to authenticate.
• Configure and administered Connection pools for JDBC connections.
• Deployed applications like formats of WAR, JAR, EAR and Web-based/E-Commerce in WebLogic.
• Deployed the applications on multiple WebLogic Server and maintained Load balancing using Big-IP F5 Load balancers to provide High availability and Fail over functionality.
• Involved in doing a performance benchmark of Apache/WebLogic server by using LoadRunner and Application Manager.
• Configured SSL and provided WebLogic based security procedures.
• Configured and deployed applications in various work environments like Development, QA, and Production.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

WebLogic Admin

Environment: BEA WebLogic 8.1/9,2, Apache web server, JProbe, IIS, Sitescope, Oracle 9i database, Remedy, Mercury7

Responsibilities:

• Install, configure and administered of BEA WebLogic Application Server, WebLogic workshop in various environments.
• Used config wizard extensively to create and manage WebLogic domains.
• Provided 24/7 Support and on call schedule for Production support.
• Configure and administered of JDBC, JMS, JNDI, SNMP in WebLogic Server 8.3.
• Configure and administered of WebLogic server with Oracle9i database.
• Installed and configured Apache 1.3 as plug-in on UNIX environment and deployed applications.
• Installed and configured IIS to act as a proxy server to serve various applications.
• Created and configured websites for web hosting different applications.
• Configure Clustering EJB objects, jdbc connections and JMS connection factories.
• Used WLST to check the status of WLServers.
• Configure Node manager for administer the Managed servers.
• Created and configured new users groups and Global Roles to authenticate.
• Configure and administered Connection pools for JDBC connections.
• Deployed applications like formats of WAR, JAR, EAR and Web-based/E-Comm in WebLogic 8.1.
• Deployed applications on multiple WebLogic Server and maintained Load balancing, High Availability and Failover functionality.
• Involved in doing a performance benchmark of Apache/WebLogic server by using Loadrunner and Application Manager.
• Configured SSL and provided WebLogic based security procedures.
• Configured and deployed applications in various work environments like Development, QA, and Production.

Confidential, New York, NY

Middleware Administrator

Environment: J2EE, Servlets, Windows NT, JSP, Java Script, HTML and Oracle 8i. WebLogic Application Server, Java, JMS, JDBC, JNDI, XML, SQL, Apache, I-Planet and UNIX

Responsibilities:

• Contributed to J2EE-UI development by writing SERVLETS, JSP, participated in navigation and functionality testing and validating using java script.
• Developed Custom tag Libraries, which will pass the data to the JSP pages.
• Developed user personalized dashboard, which facilitates the user to save his/her interested report pages along with related notes.
• Created, managed and maintained customer databases using Oracle.
• Configured a server to receive requests and perform business logic
• Provided testing and production support
• Involved in coding and testing of the application
• Installed, Configured and administered WebLogic server 7.0
• Performed WebLogic Server performance tuning.
• Performed J2EE application deployment and administration
• Created Managed Servers in a Cluster with round-robin algorithm for Load Balancing
• Configured Node manager for the machine.
• Created user roles and groups and mapped to the applications for securing the resources
• Installed and configured Apache and I-Planet Web Server
• Configured and administered JDBC, JMS, JNDI, and SNMP in WebLogic Server 7.0
• Developed scripts for automatic startup and shutdown of Admin Server and Managed Servers
• Involved in trouble shooting and fixing day-to-day problems of the applications in production