SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience in IT industry and over 5 years of strong experience as Jboss, Tomcat, Weblogic and Apache Administrator.
• Around 4 years of experience in Technical support, Troubleshooting, problem Analysis of Jboss, Apache, Tomcat, BEA Weblogic environments
• Expertise in Deployment, and Production support of J2EE applications and SOA components running in Jboss, Tomcat, Weblogic
• Extensive Experience in Installation (Manual/Automated), Upgrades, Deployment and Application Configuration/Integration of Jboss EAP 5.x, 4.3.0, 4.2.x, 4.0.x., Apache 2.x and Tomcat 5.x and 4.x
• Strong Work experience on Web servers such as iPlanet Webserver 4.x/6.x, Apache web server 2.x and integrated them with Jboss and WebLogic.
• Hosted multiple websites on the apache and integrated different backends on apache.
• Provided access to different content providers to update routing configuration by themselves using htaccess.
• Good understanding of Jboss ON (JON) and configuration of the existing application and infrastructure into JON for monitoring purposes
• Performed POCs for application deployment, datasource configurations using JON
• Performed operational aspects like stop/start for Jboss instances across different environments using JON
• Strong experience in working with Solaris 8,10, Redhat, Fedora, SUSE Linux 10 and VMWare environments
• Good experience with desigining deployment architecture for Jboss applications
• Good experience securing the Jboss and Tomcat images with security vulnerabilities
• Good working experience with the setup of Virual IPs, DNS records and SSL certs.
• Good knowledge of Best Practices for workload management/Scalability/High - Availability strategies through Clustering, Load Balancing and Fail-over support
• Good understanding Jboss frameworks like JGroups and JCache
• Experience in monitoring and profiling tools like Wily Introscope, Twiddle
• Involved actively in troubleshooting the JVM crashes by analyzing the core dumps using dbx, other diagnostic artifacts
• Proven ability to identify problem, analyze possible solutions and determine best course of action to meet objectives
• Involved in the certification of WebLogic 9.x /10.x under Linux and Solaris and fine tuning the Enterprise webLogic image
• Strong experiences in scripting like Bourne Shell and wlst
• Ability to work independently and effectively on concurrent and multiple tasks and projects and to coordinate, organize and track tasks.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Web Development: EJB 2.0/1.1/1.0, JDBC 2.0/1.0, RMI 1.2, Java Servlets 2.3/2.0, Java Script 1.2, Visual JNDI, JSP 1.2/1.1, HTML

Web Servers: Jboss EAP/4.3.0/4.0.x/4.2.x, Weblogic 10.x/9.x/8.1, Apache 2.x, Tomcat 5.x/4.x

Middleware: RMI 1.2, JMS, MQSeries 5.2

Languages: Java 1.5/1.4/1.3/1.2/1.1 , J2EE 1.4/1.3, MVC Architecture

Operating Systems: Red Hat, Ubuntu, Fedora and SUSE Linux, Solaris 8/10, Windows2000/NT/98/95

Hardware: HP Workstation, IBM PC 486 & Pentium, Sun Solaris 2.4/8, Dell Optiplex

Database(s)/Tools: Oracle 10g/9i/8i/7.x, MS SQL Server 6.5/2000, TOAD

Reporting Tools: MSProject, MSExcel, PowerPoint, Adobe Report writer

Version Control: CVS, PVCS 6.0, SVN

GUI/Java Tools: Eclipse, Wily, ANT 1.5.3/1.4.1

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

Jboss/Middleware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and administered Jboss 4.x (4.2)/5.x (5.0.1, 5.1.0) in different environments like Development, QA, UAT and Production on Linux (RHEL 5) operating system.
• Installed, configured and administered Weblogic 9.x/10.x in various environments like Development, QA and Production on Solaris 9 and Windows server 2003 operating system.
• Deployed webservices (SOA) components onto Jboss server.
• Performed Installation of Jboss JON 2.4, monitoring server which will monitor the Jboss instances, Operating system parameters running on different Operating systems.
• Created groups, users, roles and configured alerts in JON 2.4 (Jboss Operations Network) monitoring server.
• Configured connection pools and Datasources for Weblogic 9.2/10.3, Jboss 4.2/5.0.1/5.1.0 , and SJSAS 9.1 application servers with backend oracle 9i/10g/11g RAC DB’s.
• Automated deployment process in Jboss 4.x/5.x to deploy the war files in FARM directory.
• Developed scripts to monitor JVM Heap Size, JMS Messages in the Destination queues in the production environment.
• Dealt with troubleshooting issues like Server hang, keep alive threads, HTTP threads, Application Deadlock, Perm Gen space, Out of Memory Issue, High memory usage and High CPU.
• Single handedly performed up-gradation of Jboss 4.2 GA to Jboss 4.2 EAP, Red hat release and configured JDBC, Jboss-log4j, JMS and JDK.
• Performed migration of weblogic 8.1.5 to Jboss 5.0 and JDK 1.4 to JDK 1.6.
• Configured JDBC and JMS Queues in Weblogic 9.2/10.3, Jboss 4.2/5.0.1 EAP.
• Provided Development team with thread dumps and heap dumps using jstack and jhat, JDK tools.
• Worked with networking team during load tests and suggested changes on BIG IP F5 LOAD BALANCER.
• Assisted in several Load tests and gave suggestions at OS level tuning, also configured Weblogic and Jboss Application servers to produce the best results.
• Installed Apache 2.2.15, and configured plug-in for clusters running on Jboss 5.1.0.
• Created SSL certificates for Jboss 5.x/4.x.
• Encrypted passwords for admin-console, application login and datasource in Jboss 5.x
• Automated WAR deployment procedure in production environment running on Jboss EAP 5.x using UNIX shell script.
• Hands On in monitoring physical hosts, application servers and web servers through BMC Patrol and HP Sitescope monitoring systems.
• Created Remedy Tickets for Change/Release management using Remedy Client and Remedy
• Created cron jobs for timely running of scripts.
• Provided documentation of all the environments that were built during project duration.
• Being a part of production team provided 24x7 supports for all the environments.

Environment: - Jboss 4.2/5.0.1/5.1.0 EAP, Weblogic 9.x/10.x, Windows 2003 server, Linux RHEL 5, Jrockit/JDK 1.4/1.5/1.6, Apache 2.2.x HTTP, Oracle 9i/10g/11g RAC, LDAP, OEM (Oracle Enterprise Manager), Jconsole, HP OVO, Remedy Ticketing system 6.1, Remedy Client (Change/Release management), F5 load Balancer, JON 2.4

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Web Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed Apache, Jboss, Tomcat and Web server binaries for different versions and related components across all environments.
• Stored Jboss, Tomcat, Apache binaries in SVN and deployed as and when required to update/install the images
• Installed, maintained, upgraded and supported Enterprise wide J2EE applications in development, test, acceptance and production systems running Jboss application server on Solaris, Linux and VMWare environments.
• Hosted multiple websites on the apache and integrated different backends on apache.
• Provided access to different content providers to update routing configuration by themselves using htaccess.
• Involved actively in migrations of J2EE applications running under BEA weblogic server 8.x to Jboss Application Server 4.2.3.GA
• Performed application deployment, datasource configurations using JON. However we have discontinued the process through JON.
• Performed operational aspects like stop/start for Jboss instances across different environments using JON
• Authored the guidelines for Jboss image preparation with every GA release
• Responsibilities include Installation and Setup Management, Performance Management, Capacity Management, Backup and Recovery Management, Service Pack and Patch Management, Diagnostic Services, User and Security Management, Application Management and providing technical recommendations to application teams
• Setting up DR compatible application profiles and validating the same during the drills.
• Prepared clustered and non-clustered JBoss images.
• Developed a tool called InstallJboss.sh for installing JBoss from a centralized server
• Created custom startup and shutdown scripts fro Jboss
• Developed the bootstrap scripts for JBoss during the box reboot and installed them in /etc/init.d
• Created delegated deployment standards and processes for applications deployed in Jboss.
• Automated authentication to the Jconsole user and provide the access by LDAP group associated with the user.
• Created a process to encrypt the application configuration passwords.
• Identified the steps involved in creating a JDBC connection pool. The process has been designed keeping in mind the segregation between infrastructure configuration and application configuration.
• Configured and Integrated JBoss to the Enterprise LDAP.
• Integrated Apache and Jboss mod jk connector
• Performed software updates and patching of JBoss on a need basis
• Tested both File Based and URL based deployments for JBoss. Used File Based deployment model.
• Created a deployment process and tool for deploying in higher env.
• Integrated Weblogic with IPlanet LDAP Plug-in as authentication provider. This facilitated administrators to log into weblogic consoles using their LDAP ids and eliminated the usage of shared ids.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Web/Middleware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured Jboss, Tomcat, Apache and Sun ONE Web server binaries for different versions and related components across all environments.
• Involved actively in the strategy for converting a huge set of BEA weblogic applications to Jboss applications
• Prepared the Jboss Image from general release to implement controls and segregation of application configuration with infrastructure configuration
• Installed the latest patches for Tomcat Applications related to Cross Site Scripting and other security vulnerabilities
• Established processes for smooth deployments by customizing the deployment scanner location
• Established processes and built tools for implement proper encryption methodologies
• Setting up Single/Dual Site (Clustered/Non-Clustered) Jboss infrastructure based on Enterprise standards.
• Prepared clustered, default and non-clustered JBoss images.
• Created custom startup and shutdown scripts fro Jboss and added the log archival logic to the startup scripts
• Created delegated deployment standards and processes for applications deployed in Jboss.
• Identified the steps involved in creating a JDBC connection pool. The process has been designed keeping in mind the segregation between infrastructure configuration and application configuration.
• Configured and Integrated JBoss to the Enterprise LDAP.
• Integrated Apache and Jboss with mod proxy ajp and mod jk connector
• Performed software updates and patching of JBoss on a need basis
• Tested both File Based and URL based deployments for JBoss. Used File Based deployment model.
• Created a deployment process and tool for deploying in higher env.
• Configured proxy plug-in for weblogic under Sun One/IPlanet and Apache web servers on Linux. Fine tuned plug-in parameters like WLIOTimeoutSecs. Opened Remedy change management tickets and coordinated the approvals.
• Coordinated production outages and facilitated resolution by working with several teams like UNIX, Network, Database, Infrastructure and Application teams

Environment: Jboss 4.2.1/4.0.3 , Tomcat 5.x/4.x, WebLogic Server 8.1/9.2, iPlanet Web Server 6.04/6.15, Apache, Stove Pipes, SSL accelerators, Siteminder, Remedy, Sybase, Oracle, J2EE, Java2.0, Struts 1.1, Spring Framework, Hibernate, Ajax, JSP, Servlets, XML/XSLT, EJB2.0, JMS, JDBC, MQ Series 5.x, MQSI 2.x, ATG Dynamo, Suse Linux 10.x, Sun Solaris 2.8/9, Linux 10.x, WLST, Shell Scripting, Perl.

Confidential

J2EE Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Web pages using Java Script and developed Servlets and JSP’s for dynamic content.
• Implemented Servlets to process validate and transit the data between client and server..
• Developed custom exceptions for handling exceptions properly.
• Developed web pages using ASP and java script
• Created, managed and maintained customer databases using Oracle.
• Installed and configured Apache, Tomcat to work as proxy server for WebLogic server.
• Written and executed WLST and ANT scripts based on the financial requirements of the client.
• Configured and maintained of WebLogic server with JDBC, JMS, JNDI, SNMP and J2EE Services and Data sources with Oracle database server 8.x.
• Developed Startup, Shutdown and Status the Weblogic server scripts using WLST and ANT scripts.
• Installed, configured and maintained Weblogic 6.1/7.0 in Domain and Clustered environment
• Deployed Applications (WAR, JAR, and EAR) in Domain and Clustered environment.
• Developed JSP Pages and Servlets to provide dynamic content to HTML pages.
• Wrote EJB’s for business logic and created Entity and session beans for information storage.

Environment: Java/J2EE, JDK 1.1/1.2/1.3, UNIX, LINUX, WINDOWS XP/2000, Weblogic 6.x & 7.x, Apache1.x, Tomcat 3.0, Oracle 8i/9i, JDBC, Servlets, JSP, EJB, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SSL, Secure SSH.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Created and maintained Design documents (Low & High Level Design Documents)
• Used Object Oriented design Methodology for designing Java applications
• Developed several JSP pages and SERVLETS for the front end
• Deployed application on WebLogic Server 7.1
• Involved in the design, development, and execution of test plans and strategies
• Used fine-grained access control for dynamic query modification to enforce security policies on the objects-the tables or views
• Developed JSPs with HTML and JavaScript for data presentation and collection
• Developed JavaScripts and HTML pages for the front end
• Developed Stored Procedures for extracting data
• Designed and developed JDBC connection objects for the data retrieval and update
• Developed connection Pooling methods to reduce the time for database connection

Environment: Java, JSP, Servlets, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, XML, XSL, Weblogic server 7.1, Oracle, Apache, Tomcat, Windows 2000, UNIX