Objective



Seeking an exigent position as a WebLogic/Tomcat Administrator that best utilizes my skills in Application Servers


Summary




More than 7 7 years of experience in the information technology discipline with extensive experience in BEA WebLogic Administration/Development/Deployment and other web/app servers like Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, Sun 1 iPlanet, MS IIS. are responsible for providing 24x7 on-call support to production environment customers. Strong Unix, Linux and Solaris Knowledge.
experience in administration of BEA WebLogic on Sun-Solaris 8, 9, 10, Red Hat Linux 6. x/7. x/8 .x and Windows NT/2000 environments. Well versed with all installation, configuring and monitoring of CISCO and Big IP F5 load Balancer.
experience in installing, configuring and trouble-shooting application servers like BEA WebLogic and web servers like iPlanet and Apache on Sun Solaris, Linux and IBM AIX platforms.
Strong knowledge of deployment of J2EE applications/components on BEA WebLogic 6.1/7.0/8.1, 9.2/10 and JVM profiling.
worked as a BEA WebLogic administrator for server installation, configuration, deployment of components and performance tuning, troubleshooting, Technical support and maintenance.
Exposure and working knowledge of MQ series Messaging Service
Managed and administered domains, nodes, managed servers, instances in BEA WebLogic application server.
Configured clusters, load-balancing and failover solutions.
Experience working with XML/XSL/XSLT documents.
Implemented SUN security and configuration of LDAP, Netegrity SiteMinder single sign-on, configuring Multi Master and Single Master Configurations and replications for MS Active Directory.
Experience working with Netegrity SiteMinder and IdentityMinder.
Experience in management of user profile and groups using IdentityMinder web edition.
Programming experience in J2EE 1.4, J2SE 1.4, JDK 1.3/1.2, J2EE technologies - Servlets, Applets, JSP, JDBC, JMS, JavaMail, RMI, JNDI, EJB, XML, Struts, SOAP, CORBA.
Quick learner and up-to-date with industry trends. Excellent written and oral communications and team player. Excellent customer relations and people management skills. Ability to work independently and well-organized. Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Excellent presentation skills strong verbal and written communications.
Environments : JDK 1.4, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, EJB, LDAP, JDBC, JMS, XML, Oracle 9i, WebLogic Server 7.0/8.1, WebLogic, Sun 1 6.0, Apache 2.0, IIS, Ant 1.5.1 maven, WIN NT/98/2000, Sun Solaris, AIX, Linux.
COMMON WEALTH OF MASSACHUSETS
August 2008 - till date.
Weblogic administrator/Deployment Engineer
Environment
BEA WebLogic 8.1/ 9.2, Tomcat 5.5/6.0
Jboss on Red hat Linux AS release 4
Apache 2.0.52 weblogic plugin sp6
Sun 1 web server, SUN JES 5.0, SUNIDM, MQ series
HP open view monitoring tool
Oracle Database
Roles and Responsibilities
Extensive Involvement in reviewing the current environment and migration of the middleware environment from HP unix to Red hat linux servers.
Provide production application support activities health service applications.
Provided 24/7 on call support to the Production environment applications.
Performance tuning with the help of monitoring tools like HP open view, thread dumps analysis.
Installed and configured various middleware packages like Weblogic, Tomcat, Jboss
Install, maintain, upgrade and support Commonwealth s enterprise wide J2EE applications in development, system test, QA, training and production systems running WebLogic application server on Red Hat Linux systems with Oracle 10G database.
Installing and configuring Tomcat in training environment for a development project.
Managed application configurable items for release specific activities in 4 release environments.
Experience with Ant/maven for generating build.
Participated in release management activities of all the applications.
Experience configuring SUN security agent and working knowledge of the Access manger.
Configuring policy agent for the Commonwealth applications on all the environments.
Experience in setting up multiple domains, machines, managed servers, node managers and clusters in all the 5 environments.
Installing and upgrading SSL certificates in QA and production environment.
experience in installing, configuring and administration of Apache HTTP 2.0 Web Server and Sun Web Server iPlanet 6.1.
Troubleshoot environment and application issues using BEA WLS support patterns as the standard methodology and provide root cause summary to application stakeholders.
Configured clustering, Data sources and connection pools for various applications on Weblogic application server.
Extensive experience of setting up multiple cluster environment and deploying applications on the same.
Up-gradation of WebLogic servers in development, testing, QA, training and production environment and applying patches.
Worked on Web Security tools- LDAP Server, SSL Certificates.
Node Manager Configuration remote managed server start and stop. SSL communication between Administrator server and node manager.
Knowledge on distributed systems and the support of highly distributed deployment.
Good knowledge of other web and applications servers like Sun java systems application server Sun 1 application server JBOSS, Apache.
Capable of working independently and a team player.
Excellent problem solving, analytical and communication skills
PATIENT KEEPER, MA
June2007 - July2008
Weblogic/Tomcat administrator/Deployment engineer
Environment
BEA WebLogic 8.1/9.2/10.01, Tomcat 5.5/6.0 on windows 2003 and Linux servers
Apache web server
JProbe, Argus monitoring tool
Oracle database
Roles and Responsibilities
Experienced in supporting a multi-application environment with experience 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 1 server, to server farm.
Configured clustering for Weblogic application server on client servers.
Responsible for deploying the Patient Keeper software on the client servers which are mainly windows 2003 or Linux servers.
Patient keeper software includes installation of Mobilizer and Interfaces Bridge, Dispatcher and listener.
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.
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, 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, configuring Multi Master and Single Master Configurations and replications for MS Active Directory.



Employment

August, 2006 -  May, 2007
Weblogic/Tomcat and Apache administrator

Acted as a Lead and upgraded the environment from 1 server to a server farm Tomcat and Weblogic.
Installation and configuration of BEA WebLogic Server 10 in development, staging, preproduction and production environments.
Configured multiple domains on Weblogic in order to deploy various applications.
Configuration and clustering of WebLogic Application Servers.
Configures connection pools, data sources for JDBC connections.
Deployed Webtop application on Weblogic 10.
Deployed applications on multiple WebLogic server instances maintaining Load Balancing and High-Availability.
Installation and configuration of multiple Apache Tomcat instances as a service on development, staging, preproduction and production environments.
Tuned memory parameters for installed servers.
Deployed applications on Apache tomcat application server instances in all the respective environments.
Load balanced Tomcat with Apache HTTP server with mod_jk module for evenly spreading traffic across the multiple servers.
involved in performance tuning and monitoring of various applications. JVM profiling with the help of third party tool jprobe.
Jboss installation, configuration and administration on windows based platform.
Deploy applications on Jboss application server.
Created monitors on perfmon performance monitoring tool in order to check the memory and CPU utilization.
Testing the application servers with Junit.
Wrote Batch scripts in order to install the application server as a windows service.
Troubleshooting emerging application issues.
Recommended the management about the proxy servers that is used as web servers.
Devised test plans for the existing environment.

ZIONS BANK, UT
August 2004 July2006
Weblogic, SunOne and Apache administrator
Environment
Weblogic 8.1/9.2 application server, JBoss Application server
SunOne Webserver, Apache, tomcat server
Foglight and qpasa monitoring tools
Vantage application performance enhancement tool
Repliweb

Roles and Responsibilities
Installation and configuration of BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 sp5 and 9.2 in development, staging, preproduction and production environments.
Expert in creating and configuring of clustered and non-clustered WebLogic Server domains.
Deployed applications on multiple WebLogic server instances maintaining Load Balancing and High-Availability. Expert in Installing and configuring, monitoring and administration of BIG IP F5 Load balancer. Configured JNDI server as repository for EJB Home stubs, JDBC data source, JMS connection factories, queues and topics.
Providing 24x7 Technical support to the application team and troubleshot emerging application issues ie WebLogic configuration to code issues.
involved in performance tuning and monitoring of various applications. JVM profiling with the help of third party tool JProbe. Creation of development environments for developers Shell scripts and source code management systems ClearCase.
Configured Apache to act as a proxy server for backend WebLogic and Tomcat application servers.
Used the WebLogic Scripting Tool WLST - Online and offline WLST to configure, create and deploy applications to various Weblogic Server Domains.
Expert in configuring and deploying web applications on Tomcat application server.
Administration of active applications, application performance monitoring recycling the application server, installation of plug-ins for iPlanet SunOne 6.1 Webserver.
Configured clustering for EJB objects, JDBC connections and JMS connection factories.
Detailed exposure and working knowledge of MQ series Messaging Service. Expert in setting up, configuring of Foglight and Qpasa monitoring tools. Expert in setting up Ventage analyser tools.
Used Repliweb as deployment management tool.

August, 2003 -  July, 2004
WebLogic Administrator

Involvement with the customer care and deployment teams in providing technical support and trouble shooting and fixing day-to-day problems of the applications in production on 24/7 schedule.
Migration from WebLogic 7.0 to WebLogic 8.1.
Administration and configuration of WebLogic 8.1 in deployment and production environments.
Creation of development environments for developers Shell scripts and source code management systems ClearCase.
Involved in installation and configuration of Ms Exchange 5.0 and 5.5 based messaging systems for internal use and for POP3, SMTP access.
Application deployment WAR, JAR, EAR.
Wrote Shell scripts for automating Weblogic administrational processes like thread dumps ; automated application deployments and start-up/shut-down scripts.
Development and maintenance of Shell scripts that facilitate the administration of BEA WebLogic.
Configuration and clustering of WebLogic Application Servers.
Load balancing and performance tuning.
Troubleshooting WebLogic server connection pooling and connection manager with Oracle 8i and DB2.
Testing and profiling to measure the performance of the applications.
Configuration and Application Deployment using WLST.
Configured Microsoft IIS to act as a front end web server for backend WebLogic application servers.
Administration and monitoring of WebLogic Administrator and managed servers.
Shell scripting to automate the maintenance process of the WebLogic server and recover the backed-up WebLogic configuration.

July, 2002 -  July, 2003
J2EE programmer/ WebLogic Administrator

Education

Skills

Hardware : IBM Compatible PCs, HP9000. Platforms : Solaris, AIX, HP, Linux, Windows NT/95/98/2000/XP Languages : Java, C/C++/C#, ASP.NET, HTML/DHTML, XML, JSP, Unix Shell, SQL Packages : J2EE, JDK 1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4/1.5/1.6. Databases : SQL, MySQL, DB2 and Oracle 8/9i/10g. Tools : WinRunner, LoadRunner, Site scope, Jprobe, Topaz, Netegrity SiteMinder and WLST, clearcase, HP openview. Web Servers : Sun 1 iPlanet, Apache, Microsoft IIS, IBM HTTP Application Servers : WebLogic Protocols : TCP/IP, SNMP, HTTP and FTP. IDE and Environments : Code Guide, JBuilder, IntelliJ and Eclipse.



Miscellaneous

BEA Weblogic 7.0, 8.1
Linux and IBM AIX Operating system
Apache Webserver, Microsoft IIS
Tomcat Servlet container
Roles and Responsibilities
Provided support to Development, Testing/QA and Staging environment.
Configuring multiple WebLogic domains.
Installed WebLogic 7.0 and 8.1 application server on Sun OS 5.8 and development, staging and production environments.
Application Deployment on BEA WebLogic on a single Server and a cluster of Servers.
Configured multiple WebLogic domains.
Configured WebLogic server with iPlanet web server through WebLogic s proxy plug-in.
managed server instances on different machines and clustered all the managed servers.
Created the startup and shutdown scripts for the servers.
Upgraded the WebLogic servers with necessary patches and service packs.
Created the connection pools, data sources, JMS servers, JMS destinations.
Deployed different application WAR files, EJB JAR files and enterprise application archives EAR on WebLogic 6.1.
Troubleshot the connectivity from the Application to Database, maintenance of the Database s in server
Developed framework classes for the above mentioned Advisor.
Designed HTML, JSPs for front end templates.
Business validations performed using JavaScript.
Developed servlets for main business logic implementation.
Designed and developed 2 types of session EJBs.
Designed and developed persistent entity EJBs.
Developed JDBC code for accessing data from the database.
B2B interaction developed using XML ; XML Parser coded using DOM and SAX API s.
Designed the application under J2EE architecture using JSP and developed the business components using EJB 1.0.
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