SUMMARY:

• Twenty years of Administration of all types: Exalogic, Weblogic, Jboss, Websphere, Windows, Unix and Linux, AIX, Solaris, RHEL, Ubuntu, Suse, and much more.Cloud Administration
• Worked with various cloud services to support business enterprise. Administered Amazon and Google cloud services to create immutable systems for dev environment to recreate fresh new environments without artifacts that might interfere with development testing.
• Installed, deployed, and upgraded AWS Cloud - based servers and services in accordance with standards and project guidelines
• Used scripting languages like Python, Ruby, Bash and configuration management tools Chef, Puppet and Web Service like AWS.
• Integrating AWS cloud Formation with Puppet for configuring and patching applications.
• Production experience in large environments using configuration management tools such as BladeLogic, Chef, and Puppet supporting Chef Environment with servers and involved in developing manifests.
• Use of Jumpstart, kickstart, and AWS to create consistent infrastructure systems across multiple environments.
• High proficiency in Solaris Unix and RedHat Linux administration/engineering/architectural roles.
• Extensive experience in troubleshooting the deployment and other application problems, applying WebLogic patches, Service Packs, and working closely with Development Teams in solving issues.
• Experience in installing, configuring, patching, tuning and troubleshooting of the WebSphere Application Server 7.0/8.5, HTTP Server and setting up the Development, Test and Production environments on Unix (Sun Solaris, SuSE Linux, AIX) and Windows servers.
• Deployed applications in WAR, EAR, in Domain and Clustered environments of Websphere Application server.
• ExaLogic / ZFS - Create and Manage Virtual Machine, modify Templates, Create New Template from Guest VM, and Hands on E LLC toolkit, Configure 12c Grid on Exalogic.
• Admin via EMOC and OVMM bui, create and manage ZFS shares, setup replication between Exalogic ZFS. Apply QFSP Patch on Exalogic Virtual x4-2. In-depth knowledge of Exalogic Virtual Networks. Understanding of multi-rack networking. Trouble-shooting of IB switches.
• Exachk plugin on OMS & Exadata/ Exalogic agents. Monitor Exachk from OEM.
• Migrated existing application deployments to the oracle Exalogic/Exadata environment.
• Applied Exalogic/Exadata patches in Prod/Non-Prod Env.
• Migrating Dagtacenter servers from one location to another.
• Migrating physical servers to virtual servers.
• Migration fro VMWare to AWS Cloud.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Middleware: Tibco, EMS, RV, BW, HAWK, WSDL, SOAP, XMLApp Servers Weblogic, Websphere, Amazon Web Services, JBoss, Tomcat, Exalogic, Sun Java Server, Glassfish 2.1.1, 3.0.1, 3.1.2, Resin

Webservers: IIS, Apache, iPlanet

Code Repositories: Perforce, subversion, CVS

Operating Systems: Windows Server and Deskop Unix AIX, Solaris, HP, Linux Red Hat Enterprise (RHEL) 3 - 7, and Apple OSX 8,9, and 10x.

Ticketing Systems: Remedy, CustQ, Content Management Systems, Escenic, Wordpress

Server Technologies: Sun Cluster 2.2 & 3.1, SVM and SDS, VCS, RHCS, BMC PARTOL, VMWare, Jumpstart, Kickstart, BladeLogic, Puppet, Chef

Database: Oracle RAC, Mysql, Sybase

Scripting: Python, perl, shel, jython, WLST, shell, bourne, ksh, perl, php. Pre Sales Aid the Sales and Marketing teams

Cloud: AWS, Google Cloud

Performance Tools: Dynatrace, Splunk, Gomez, and Tealeaf

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Weblogic/Application Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided primary role in providing security for and troubleshooting of applications and server environments along with providing the Infrastructure support for prod, qa, uat, and test environments.
• Acted as subject matter expert for overseas team. Duties included resolving issues on Solaris and Linux platforms and environments.
• Administered and troubleshoot highly-scalable distributed systems for running web applications and web services (e.g., cloud computing). Presented users with policy suggestions for the data uploaded on a Cloud computing platform. Conducted log analysis for the enterprise services on cloud based service solutions.
• Advised on best practices and spearheaded an upgrade project from older Linux/Unix distributions to RHEL5.
• Created systems with Kickstart and Jumpstart and tweaked Chef and Bladelogic configuration files for Dev Environment Configuration Management.
• Used third party analytical tools such as splunk, Gomez, and dynatrace to gain a better proactive and comprehensive picture of the serves and overall environment.
• Administration and configuration of Wordpress, Jboss, Weblogic, Exalogic, WebSphere 5.1, 6, 6.1, and 7 server environments on AIX 5.3

Weblogic/Application Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided primary role in providing security for and troubleshooting of applications and server environments along with providing the Infrastructure support for prod, qa, uat, and test environments.
• Performed server updates and code drops.
• Proficient with all flavors of Unix/Linux: IBM AIX, Sun Solrais, HP UX, Red Hat RHEL
• Advised on best practices and spearheaded an upgrade project from older Linux/Unix distributions to RHEL5.
• Experience with Perl coding and shell scripting.
• Used Puppet for application automatic deployment and provisioning to different environments.
• Swapped out EMC disks in arrays
• Administration and configuration of Wordpress, Jboss, Weblogic, Exalogic, WebSphere 5.1, 6, 6.1, and 7 server environments on AIX 5.3

Soa/Web Services Admin

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded Subversion for the developer Production, Development, and QA departments.
• Troubleshot, configured, constructed, and administered, CFA servers for various projects.
• Provided Production Support for the Windows and Linux servers in various environments.
• Experienced configuration with expertise in application servers for the F5 BigIP network load balancers
• Responsible for reviewing current and planned F5 load balancer implementations.
• Used scripting languages like Python, Ruby, Bash and configuration management tools Chef, Puppet and Web Service like AWS
• Worked with Glassfish, Wordpress and Amazon webservices and other application servers.
• Working knowledge of leveraging F5 devices for web acceleration & caching.

Web Services Admin

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Completed recovery of Confidential Signpost systems.
• Systems ran on linux platform.
• Custom made python and java application.
• Experience with Perl coding and shell scripting.
• Troubleshot, configured, improved, administered, and architected next generation of project.
• Advised on best practices and spearheaded an upgrade project from older Linux/Unix distributions to RHEL5.
• Proactive hardening of RHEL, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX 11i Unix servers.
• Worked with Bigdata such as Teradata and Hyperion.

Linux/Application Admin

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Provided primary role in building new environments and providing the Infrastructure support for prod, qa, uat, and test environments.
• Setup SVN environment for develops.
• Performed server updates and code drops.
• Administration and configuration of Jboss, Weblogic, WebSphere 5.1, 6, 6.1, and 7 server environments on AIX 5.3

Environment: Production - Windows 2008, Solaris 10 on x86, RHEL 4 and 5, and AIX

Weblogic/Application Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided primary role in troubleshooting application server environments and providing the Infrastructure support for prod, qa, uat, and test environments.
• Performed server updates and code drops. Experience with Perl coding and shell scripting.
• Administration and configuration of Jboss, Weblogic, Exalogic, WebSphere 5.1, 6, 6.1, and 7 server environments on AIX 5.3

Soa/Web Services Admin

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible and took the primary role in building new environments and providing the Infrastructure support for prod, qa, uat, and test environments
• Provided production support (24/7) and coordinated with developers, Management and end users to resolve the critical issues.
• Actively involved for the Migration of couple of business applications from Weblogic 8.1 and 9.2 to 10 an 11g.
• Extensive experience in problem tracing, WebLogic Exalogic, and Jboss log files and troubleshooting problems related to the applications deployed on WebLogic Application Server.
• Configured and created Tibco and Weblogic domains, clusters, servers, connection pools, JMS queues and topics by using WLST.
• Documented and edited the deployment procedures, customer facing and resolution issues on WIKI for our feature references.
• Mentored the Off-Shore support team and Application Support People about the Weblogic server and our existing infrastructure.
• Tuned the Jboss, Tibco and WebLogic JVM Heap Sizes by adjusting the MIN, MAX and Nursery Sizes in Production and Staging Environments.
• Advised on best practices and spearheaded an upgrade project from older Linux/Unix distributions to RHEL5. Experience with Perl coding and shell scripting.
• Proactive hardening of RHEL, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX 11i Unix servers.

Oracle Trainer

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Responsibilities:

• Travels to various cities as an Oracle trainer for the Weblogic Admin I and II class.
• Created improved course materials for Weblogic Admin classes
• Performed onsite mentoring for various clients acting as a subject matter expert.
• Administered and troubleshoot highly-scalable distributed systems for running web applications and web services (e.g., cloud computing).

Weblogic Engineer

Confidential, Menomonee Falls, WI

Responsibilities:

• Maintained high availability clustered and redundant environment consisting 200 weblogic and SOA instances in grid data memory management with Coherence, and Blue Martini Web Storefront.
• Assisted with the installation and monitoring of Oracle Grid Control to ensure 100% availability and advise problem resolution with Kohl’s personnel.
• Assisted the DBA’s in translating Oracle log files to capture problematic processes and recommend remedies for these problems.

Technologies used: Weblogic, Fusion Middleware, Oracle 11g, Oracle Enterprise Manager, SOA

Environment: Production - RHEL 4 and 5, and AIX

Middleware Engineer

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Supported the Sales and Delivery group by providing technical expertise for Technical Sales reps
• Constructed demo systems for sales representatives for clients presentations and Confidential shows.
• Created and enhanced documentation of existing systems.
• Provided service on any issue or technical question concerning the systems in our environment.
• Installed and configured Websphere products such as Websphere Commerce, Websphere MQ, Websphere Portal

Environment: Production - Windows 2008, Solaris 10 on x86, RHEL 4 and 5, and AIX

Sr. Linux\Web Engineer

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured Weblogic, Jboss, SOA, IIS, and Websphere
• Creating scripts with various shells and perl. Consolidated existing scripts.
• Managed certificate renewals for domains
• Manage builds, create builds on demand, and Deploying code
• Managed build tools using subversion, perforce, and fisheye
• Constant tweaking and troubleshooting environment.
• Creating documentation on scipts and environmental processes.

Environment: Production - Windows 2008, Solaris 10 on x86, RHEL 4 and 5, and AIX

SOA Middleware Admin

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting SOA environment when presented with issues such as slowness in processing, missing headers, or various errors.
• Created new services, users, installed new certificates, policies, wsdls. Managed physical services via virtual services for the internal, external, and vendors.
• Managing the Tibco, WebLogic, Websphere, IIS, and JBOSS application servers.
• Installation, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting of application servers.

Environment: Production - Windows 2008, Solaris 10 on x86, RHEL 4 and 5, and AIX

Senior Linux Web Admin

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting application logs and fixing errors for application servers and individual applications.
• Created advanced interactive scripts which automated repetitive tasks and presented information online via websites for presentation to our business partners.
• J2EE application server tuning using tools with focus on heap size, garbage collection, memory allocation, and string management. (Webshere, Weblogic)
• Responsible for backup and storage of critical files and data and both physical and VMware servers.

Environment: Production - Solaris 10 on SPARC and x86, RHEL 4 and 5, and AIX

Web Application Admin

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Weekly Production environment refresh. Participated in monthly oncall rotation.
• Environment planning and improvement consisting of Solaris OS and application migration, deployments and updates.
• Tibco, Weblogic, jboss, tomcat, and app server tuning performed as well.
• Assisted in the SJS Access Manager upgrade to Open SSO.

Environment: Production - Solaris 8 and 10 on SPARC, RHEL 4 and 5, and AIX

Senior Linux /Web Consultant

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Created jumpstart server for recovering root and provisioning servers.
• Installed patches and performed regular maintenance and updates on physical and vmware servers.
• Removed traps from servers, administrated, and tuned the dev, prod, qa, and test environments.
• Trained as team lead and worked with developers and dba’s to improve performance of servers and applications running on weblogic, websphere, IIS, and jboss.
• Created shell and perl scripts to automate and simplify everyday unix and middleware tasks.

Environment: Production, Development and Test - Windows, Solaris 9 and 10 on x86 and SPARC, RHEL 4 and 5, and Suse Linux

Senior Technical Consultant

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Configured, administrated, and tuned dev, prod, qa, and test environments.
• Installed, configured and administered EMS, BW, RV, Hawk, tomcat, and jboss.
• Created scripts to automate and simplify deployment of everyday unix/linux and middleware tasks.
• Environment: Production, Development and Test - Solaris 10 x86 and SPARC, and RHEL 4 and 5.
• Managed SJS Acess Manager and helped evaluate open sso for future upgrade
• Utilized SOAP and XML in Tibco for client applications.
• Used VMware for substitution of larger servers and solaris zones.

Web Applications Engineer

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Managed a high visibility portfolio of web applications for Confidential by performing code drops and server configurations, code drops, and advanced troubleshooting for various projects.
• Worked hand in hand with developers and dba's to improve performance of java application and servers - tomcat, weblogic, and jboss.
• Created jumpserver and installed patches on server. Later migrated to vmware.
• Utilized SOAP and XML in Tibco for client applications.
• Worked with hardware and software rollouts on Google appliance servers.

Environment: Production, Development and Test - Solaris 10, 9, 8, and beta 11, JDK 6 Update 3 with Java EE 5 SDK Update 4, and RHEL 4 and 5.

Senior Linux Web Admin

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Worked to improve existing environment and with installation and configuration of weblogic, tomcat, and websphere. Created scripts in shell and perl to automate and augment the process.
• Performed Code drops for developers and executed scripts for OracleDBA’s.
• Performed database file transfers of vital Confidential information from business partners and banks.
• Performed critical web site updates concerning content, site redirects and certificate installs.
• Utilized SOAP and XML in Tibco for client applications.

Environment: Production, Development and Test - RHEL 4 and 5, with some Solaris 10, 9, and 8.