OBJECTIVE:

Infrastructure technology specialist having over 10 years of strong experience in middleware technology as Web Logic Administrator for Production, development, staging, UAT and Testing environments. Handling all the aspects of administration tasks such as day - to-day site Monitoring and Maintenance, Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Load Balancing, Clustering, Deploying Applications, Performance Tuning and Maintenance of WebLogic Server versions 7.x/8.x/9.x/11g/12c

SUMMARY PROFILE:

• Having 10 years of experience in client server distributes web applications with emphasis on Middleware administration.
• Had been to Sydney, Australia for product implementation for Confidential corporation.
• Expertise in Oracle Fusion Middleware, Weblogic administration, Web center portals, installation and configuration, performance tuning, backup and recovery methods in multiple computing environments.
• Configuring and administering Oracle Fusion Middleware infrastructure components, including and not limited to Weblogic Suite (WLS, Coherence, and Java SE)
• Setting up and maintaining Middleware infrastructure in the Development, Test, Staging and Production Environments.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, infrastructure upgrades and system resource optimization.
• Investigate and troubleshoot issues, performing regular log analysis and security monitoring.
• Liaisons with the Infrastructure team, Application team, Architecture team, ISP, third parties, as necessary.
• Have implemented and participated in full cycle of CC&B 2.4 upgrade.
• Assist in disaster recovery planning, testing and execution as needed.
• Unix knowledge with experience in writing/modifying shell scripts, creating cron jobs, installing FMW on Linux.
• Basic knowledge on SOA Suite (Adapters, BPEL, BAM, Business Rules, OSB, and OWSM), and Oracle IAM Suite.
• Ability to manage project tasks and executions independently and get all associated team members to deliver their tasks on time, both with and without direct authority.
• Expertise in administration of Apache HTTP 2.0 Web Server and (iPlanet 6.1).
• Working knowledge on Middleware monitoring tool OEM 13c, Newrelic. Cacti.
• Working knowledge on IBM Websphere 8.5, JBoss wild fly
• Knowledge on DevOps and continuous integration using Jenkins and Hudson tools.
• Knowledge and proficiency in Outage Management and Escalation
• Knowledge on Incident management, Release management and Problem management for both the infrastructure and the application
• Provided Knowledge transitions and training sessions on deployments using ANT and on web logic servers and general project trainings

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux 2.6.

J2ee Technologies: Jsp, Servlets, Jdbc, Struts.

App Servers: IBM Websphere 8.5, IIS, Oracle Weblogic 8.1/10.3/12c

Version Control Tools: Tortoise svn.

Database and Tools: Sql Server 2005/2008, TOAD, MSAccess,.ANT

Web servers: Apache 2.0, Tomcat.

PROJECTS PROFILE:

Confidential, Bedford

Senior Associate - Web logic admin

Responsibilities:

• Activities include Installing, configuring, maintaining and supporting close to 500+ servers around 20 environments hosted on Weblogic 11g and 12c.
• Performing domain migrations on daily basis from Weblogic 11g to 12c.
• Configuring, managing and troubleshooting and supporting Weblogic domains following Horizontal clustering method.
• Support includes managing OSB/SOA hosted on domains of Weblogic 11g and 12c too.
• Performing deployments and covering initial code commits to target domains making sure data sources and work managers are migrated properly
• Working on end to end disaster recovery every fortnight.

Environment: Technologies: Java/J2ee, XmL, XSLT, Ajax, OpenJPA

Databases: Oracle 11g, SQL DB, Mongo

Tools: Service now, ClearQuest, JIRA, Putty, WinScp, mRemote, OEM13c, NewRelic, BAM,BPM,GoldenGate, IDXM,OpenIAM, Solr, Zookeeper, Pentaho,Dameware.

Platform: Linux 2.6

Appserver: Oracle Weblogic10.3.5, 10.3.6, 12c

WebServer: Apache, Tomcat

Confidential, Tuscon, Arizona

Senior Associate / Web logic admin

Environment: Technologies: Java/J2ee, XmL, XSLT, AjaxDatabases: Oracle 10g

Tools: UC4, Automic, Service now, KeePaas, ANT, WinScp, Jenkins, Hudson, Groovy ANTBuilder

Platform: Linux

Appserver: Oracle Weblogic10.3.6

Framework: CC&B (Customer care and billing) 2.2 / 2.4 built on Oracle Utilities and application framework (OUAF)

Responsibilities:

• Capturing snapshots of around 20 environments and restoring snaps for business dates based on the requirement.
• Performing refreshes of environment i.e., updating a particular environment with that of a particular business date of production environment
• Configuring, managing and troubleshooting thread pool workers.
• Preparing production daily status on production thread pools and server reports and keeping clients updated on daily basis.
• Creating, configuring and troubleshooting new UC4/Automic clients.
• Deploying Oracle OUAF patches. Single / multiple fixes on corresponding weblogic environments as per client requests.
• Installing new CC&B 2.4 instances.
• Performing deployments in various environments following stage mode method.
• Handling daily activities making sure all the servers are up and running.
• Miscellaneous trouble shooting activities on Weblogic servers & consoles and Apache servers and co ordination with teams both at onsite & offshore.
• Monitoring the server logs of all Production environments making sure there is no slippage of major or minor error and escalate to respective teams.
• Configuring JMS modules using WLST scripts / manually depending on the number of JMS instances to create.
• Assisting in creating and validating new environments.
• Helped developers to automate the build and deployment using Jenkins and Groovy Ant Builder.
• Solved application related issues hosted on weblogic and communicating to customers.
• Helped project management team to implement ITIL process.
• Used DevOps tools for continuous integration and build to push the code on lower environments till pre production followed by production environment.
• Adding extra options to property file to capture corresponding logging in stdout and stderr logs.
• Analysing thread & heap dumps and suggesting dev teams to tweak code to counter GC’s and stuck threads.
• Tuning JVM to counter Permgen Out Of Memory Exception issue, thus avoiding slowness / hanging of consoles.
• Working closely with clients and co coordinating with offshore development and Project Management teams at onsite and Hyderabad.
• Team mentoring and SPOC at offshore.

Confidential

Team Lead

Environment: Technologies: Java/J2ee, Struts, XmL, XSLT, Ajax, Hibernate

Databases: DB2, Microsoft MDB

Tools: Oracle Web logic 9.1, Oracle UCMS, Apache web server, My Eclipse, Remedy, HPOV,BAC, BMC Blade Logic, ANT, Cacti, IBM, Web seal, Squirrel, IBM RAD

Platform: Windows XP

Appserver: WebLogic 10x, IBM Websphere

Responsibilities:

• Team lead responsible for handling Incident management, Release management and Problem management for both the infrastructure and the technical support of Spider Westpac application.
• Extracting daily and weekly report from Remedy and reporting to client on weekly basis.
• Handling BAU activities making sure all the daily tasks are executed on production without errors.
• Performing PIV (Post Implementation Verification) after a CRQ is implemented on production which includes creating / updating database records, performance is tuned.
• Morning and evening batch job monitoring using IBM mainframe console and troubleshooting when a job has failed making sure all the servers are restarted and are ready for the business to start.
• Handling user requests predominantly tellers across Australia to provide required data querying the database.
• Batch job monitoring as part of weekend support
• Handling and fixing QC defects.
• Assist Tellers in extracting the data from database to prepare monthly report for transactions in their banks.
• Work closely with Of Shore Development and Project Management teams in Sydney and Hyderabad
• Team mentoring and SPOC at offshore.

Confidential

Weblogic administrator, Infrastructure maintenance

Environment: Technologies: Java/J2ee, Struts, XmL, XSLT, Ajax, Hibernate

Databases: Oracle 9i, sql 2008

Tools: Oracle Web logic 9.1, Oracle UCMS, Apache web server, My Eclipse, Remedy, HPOV, BAC, BMC Blade Logic, ANT

Platform: Solaris 10

Appserver: Weblogic9i

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting and Maintenance of WebLogic Server 9.2.
• Implement clustering concepts ( both horizontal clustering and vertical clustering)
• Performance tuning with Weblogic and effective use of failover mechanisms
• Performing health checks on managed servers on all the domains in production, staging and development.
• Configure JMS Servers, distributed destinations, queues and topics. Configured Security authenticators, managed security realms.
• Configure JNDI and Data sources on weblogic.
• Extracting thread dumps and analysing them.
• Performing health checks and applying CRQ’s as part of rotating weekend support
• Creation of users and assigning roles on Oracle UCMS
• Perform content check in, check out, deletion and approval.
• Full hands on experience of Archives, configuration bundles, work flows, content migration, replication between two CMS instances, user creation, Folder migration, setting up different work flows, managing and migrating content and tables, configuration backups & other content management utilities in UCMS
• Performing regular health checks for production environment
• Using HP Open View to monitor the health and availability of the website infrastructure components such as web servers, application servers, UCMS.
• Using Cacti tool to measure and assess CPU utilization, load average, network activity etc of web servers, application servers, UCMS instances and database.
• Troubleshooting production issues
• SPOC for all client issues and ECO (Engineering Change Order) and CRQ (Change Requests).
• Participate in IT meetings for Hardware (Infrastructure) and Monitoring requirements based on expected project signoffs and demos.
• Providing Service Improvement Plans to the client.
• Support basic tasks of database administration for the application
• Work closely with On Shore Development and Project Management teams in UK.
• QA and Testing activities like Smoke Tests, Sanity Checks and Unit Testing after a change implementation.

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Technical support engineer

Environment: Technologies: Java/J2ee, Struts, XmL, XSLT, Ajax, Hibernate

Databases: Oracle 9i, sql 2008

Tools: My Eclipse, IPlanet, Tortoise SVN

Platform: Windows XP

Appserver: weblogic 10.3.

Webserver: Apache

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of WebLogic 8.x, 10.x on development testing and production environments.
• Configured JMS Servers, distributed destinations, queues and topics. Configured Security authenticators, managed security realms.
• Managing health checks and performance tuning on weekly basis.
• Assist users spread across world in deploying the Steelwedge application on web logic server whose model is On Premise.
• Deployment of Steelwedge application on production servers for users whose model is On Demand / Cloud on a non-clustered0 environment.
• Data loads and ETL.
• Applying patches and providing technical support and hot fixes for the applications hosted on different application servers like: Web Logic 8.1 / 10.3 and DB server on SQL 2005 & 2008
• Involved in full life cycle of the project, tracking bugs and fixes for diagnosing the application server problems
• Provide support to Production, QA, INT, Development environments
• Installed and configured IPlanet, apache web servers
• Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting and Maintenance of Web Logic Server 8.1 sp3/sp5, and 10.3
• Enabling the SSL communication on web servers. Installed several types of certificates.
• Supported basic tasks of database administration for the application.
• Responsible for maintenance of WebLogic Application Servers, IPlanet Web servers, and SQL Database Servers
• Coordinate with several teams to resolve various levels (system, network, firewall) of problems
• Mentorship and Training of other team members
• Helping in resolving issues such as server crash, server hang, JVM issues and performance problems.
• Monitoring application and database health
• Interaction with worldwide clients, predominantly US and Europe.
• Co - Ordinate with internal development teams and project managers for issue resolution and product releases.
• Validate environments and configurations and then troubleshoot the problem to provide them a fix or workaround
• Provide support to sales team like setting up Demo Applications on development environments
• Handle transitions from Implementation to Support.

Environment: Databases: Sql Server 2005 / 2008.

Tools: Ant, Middle Gen, Web logic 8.1/8.6/10.3 administration, IPlanet server, Testing and QA.

Platform: Windows XP