SUMMARY:

• Fifteen years of Administration of all types: Windows, Unix and Linux - NT 3.5, 2000, 2003, 2008, AIX, Solaris, RHEL, Ubuntu, Suse, etc.
• High proficiency in Unix/Linux administration/engineering/architectural tasks and roles.
• Twelve years of strong Professional experience in Weblogic and fourteen years of Systems Administration which includes extensive experience in Web Application server (WebLogic/ WebSphere) Administration and Unix Administration providing support for Production, Staging, Testing and Development environments.
• Administration, Installation, configuration of Weblogic (WLS, WLI), I-Planet Web Server 4.0, Sun One Web Servers & Apache Web Server, and configuration of proxy requests using BIG-IP® Load Balancer to clustered Weblogic servers.
• Extensive experience in troubleshooting the deployment and other application problems, applying WebLogic patches, Service Packs, and working closely with Development Teams in solving issues.
• Worked closely with BEA WebLogic Technical Support Team in resolving the WebLogic critical issues, and followed up on the opened tickets by analyzing the respective thread dumps and config files.
• Experience with WebLogic Clusters and the JMS Clusters. Configured the distributed topics, queues and message bridges in JMS Clusters and MQ Series.
• Expertise in managing JNDI, LDAP, Managing Security, Configuring and monitoring.
• Extensively worked with Netcool, Nagios, and Wiley monitoring tools to monitor, report, and resolve the Customer facing application slow performance issues.
• Solid experience in finding the Memory Leaks and adjusting the JVM Heap Sizes and configured and worked with VirtualGC, VirtualVM, OptimizeIT, and JProbe to detect memory leaks.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, self-starter, good team player and highly self-motivated.
• Installation, configuration of hardware and software, migrating systems to current OS releases.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Middleware: EMS, RV, BW, HAWK, WSDL, SOAP, XMLApp Servers Weblogic, Websphere, JBoss, Tomcat, Exalogic, Sun Java Server, Glassfish, 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, 4, 5, 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

Database: Oracle RAC, Mysql, Sybase

Developer Technologies: .NET, J2EE, JMS, JDBC, JNDI

Scripting: WLST, shell, bourne, ksh, perl, php, jython, and python.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

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.

Web Services Admin

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Completed recovery of Confidential Signpost systems.
• Systems ran on linux platform.
• Custom made python and java application.
• Troubleshot, configured, improved, administered, and architected next generation of project.
• Provided Production Support for the SOA Tibco and Unix Systems Team.

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.

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.
• Administration / configuration of WebSphere 5.1, 6, 6.1, and 7 server environments on AIX 5.3

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 in adding the new features and configuration changes for the existing environments.
• Actively involved for the Migration of couple of business applications from Weblogic 8.1 and 9.2 to 10 an 11g.
• Well versed with complete Development Life Cycle process which includes development, testing, implementation and migration process.
• Closely worked on DR rehearsals and configured the PROD and DR environments.
• Extensive experience in problem tracing, WebLogic log files and troubleshooting problems related to the applications deployed on WebLogic Application Server.
• Configured and created Tiboc 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.
• Extensively worked in Production deployments, monitored and troubleshot the J2EE applications.
• Tuned the Tibco and WebLogic JVM Heap Sizes by adjusting the MIN, MAX and Nursery Sizes in Production and Staging Environments.

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

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.

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, 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.
• Worked with developers to improve performance of Tibco applications.
• 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 .com 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.
• Worked and trained team on various enterprise wide OS upgrades.
• 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.

Linux Middleware Admin

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Tibco administration and tuning of BW (Business Works), RV (Rendezvous), and Hawk
• Responsible for Code drops, deployments, troubleshooting of Unix Middleware applications.
• Responsible for modifying scripts: Unix shell scripts and Oracle and MySQL scripts.
• Administration of various flavors of Unix, linux, databases, and application servers.
• Utilized SOAP and XML in Tibco for client applications.

Sr. Linux Web Admin

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshot escalation Unix and middleware issues.
• Team lead for night shift
• Implemented various improvements to monitoring and information sharing.
• Deployed applications in weblogic, websphere, and jboss and troubleshot error logs. Installed Nagios, monitored and responded to alerts. Installed, configured and upgraded application servers.
• Part of the four person UTCS admin team. UTCS controls the flow and management of all NS trains and closely guides and follows their movement on the tracks.
• Constructing Mysql, Oracle, Sybase, and DB2 systems for the Oracle group. Afterwards I administered and monitored these servers running scripts when necessary.
• Proxy management with Websense for the entire organization and branches and reverse proxy security through AppShield to bolster the XML gateway applications.
• Operating Systems managed: Solaris 6, 8, 9, and 10 AIX 5.1, 5.3 with Mqueue
• LDAP and open ldap administration.