Payal Halder

Weblogic Administrator/Configuration Management

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Experience Summary

Over 9 years of cross-platform Middleware administration experience with Weblogic and Unix

Shell Scripting.

Experience in Configuration Management

WebLogic 11g administration - Configuration, Customization, Clustering, Troubleshooting, and

Deploying Applications.

Done Weblogic upgrades from 8.1.5 to 9.2, and to 10

Extensively worked on Deployment/auto deployment and troubleshooting of components

and applications in WAR, JAR and EAR formats in Domain and Clustered environments of

WebLogic Server

Extensive experience in Troubleshooting WebLogic Server issues in production,

production-fix and testing environment

Experience in Automating build process using Tools like Jenkins

Worked on SVN and CVS repositories management using Tortoise SVN and Tortoise CVS

Tools.

Worked on JIRA Tool to track Issues and Bugs

Experience on Integrating Automation Tools.

Extensive experience in Unix Shell Scripting and have working experience on PERL

scripting.

Expertise with setup and maintenance of WebLogic Application Server, WebLogic Portal,

LDAP server Apache HTTP 2.0 webserver, Tomcat

Managed multiple WebLogic domains with 1000+ concurrent users supporting Production,

Stress, UAT, Integration/Staging and Development environments.

Experience in supervision, planning, security, infrastructure support, migration, upgrades,

and implementation of production weblogic instances.

Extensive experience in Weblogic tools like ANT scripts, Perl scripts.

Configured and administered major J2EE technologies such as JDBC, JMS, JTA, JNDI, JMX,

SNMP and Node Manager to administer the Managed Servers in WebLogic Application Server.

Also responsible for Physical and Logical WebLogic domain design

Extensive experience in supporting multiple WebLogic instances running 24/7 mission

critical applications and instances under multi-tier architecture demanding high availability

and increased performance.

Worked on Application Monitoring Tools – BMC and HP Openview

Worked on ITIL change management process

Worked on other tools like ZXTM load balancer, Vignette content Management tool, SharePoint

tools.

4 years of experience in Tumbleweed Administration for Managed File Transfer.

Tumbleweed administration - Configuration, Customization, Troubleshooting, and Deploying

Applications.

Expertise in Managed File transfer Protocols like SFTP/FTP/LFTP/AS2/HTTP.

Extensive experience in supporting Tumbleweed Secure Transport tool, 24/7 mission critical file

transfers.

Troubleshooting and Technical support abilities with Migrations, network connectivity, and

Security and Database applications.

Excellent communication and problem solving skills.

Certifications: BEA Weblogic 8.1 Administrations

SUN Solaris 10

Technology

Below are the list of important hardware, software products, tools and methods that I have worked with

Weblogic: 6, 7, 8.1.3, 8.1.4, 8.1.5, 10/11g.

TOAD

JENKINS 4.9 Build Automation Tool

Tumbleweed: 4.6, 4.9.2.

Tools: ANT, Tumbleweed Secure Transport tool, ZXTM, Vignette, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Loader, TOAD,

VERITAS I3, Sharepoint, HP Open View, HP Service Desk/Center, Bridge Clarify, Remedy ticketing

system, Iplanet, Sunone.JENKINS,JIRA,BMC

Protocol: SFTP/PSFTP/SSL/HTTP/AS2.

Database: Oracle 11g, 10g, 9i, 8i.

OS/Hardware: Sun Solaris, HP Servers(Itanium B 11.23,PA-RISC, Windows Servers, Linux, VERITAS

Cluster service, Sun Clusters.

Application Server and Utilities: SSO, HTTP/HTTPS Server

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Programming languages: Unix Shell Scripting, PERL

Professional Experience

Comcast Corporation, Mt Laurel, NJ, USA

June 2012 – Till Date

Middleware Administrator

Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) is a global media and technology company with two

primary businesses, Comcast Cable and NBCUniversal. Comcast Cable is the nation's largest video,

high-speed Internet and phone provider to residential customers under the XFINITY brand and also

provides these services to businesses. NBCUniversal operates 30 news, entertainment and sports cable

networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, television production operations, television

station groups, Universal Pictures and Universal Parks and Resorts.

As a Middleware Administrator in Comcast my primary responsibilities are as following

• Weblogic upgrades from 8.1.5 to 9.2, and to 10.3.6

• Designing the architecture of the environment that will host the application.

• Creating High Availability environment for failover and zero downtime.

• Installing and configuring UNIX shell scripts and Perl Scripts for adding new functionalities to

the tool.

• WebLogic 11g Configuration, Customization, Clustering, Troubleshooting, and

Deploying J2EE Applications.

• Installing and configuring UNIX shell scripts and Perl Scripts.

• Configuring, Scheduling and monitoring scripts using Unix Shell scripting and UNIX crontab.

• Creating the users, setting privileges, connection Pools, data sources, Node Managers,

Machines, queues.

• Worked with developers to understand and resolve various issues related to application

/Weblogic tuning for performance enhancement.

• Participating in weblogic and application releases using ITIL change management process.

• General weblogic administration operational support included security administration, and

space management.

• Working actively with Oracle support on Service requests and for any other technical

assistance.

MFX/FairFax, Morristown, NJ, USA

Mar, 2011 – June 2012

Weblogic Administrator/Configuration Management

MFX is a technology company providing critical business solutions in the areas of insurance technology,

data center outsourcing and managed application services.

MFX's goal is to bring advanced technology solutions and services to the Insurance and IT marketplace

that leverage in-depth industry experience, delivery flexibility and creativity, and worldwide presence,

allowing clients to realize true cost savings in their IT expenditures.

As a Weblogic Administrator in the Configuration Management Team of MFX/Fairfax my primary

responsibilities were as follows

• Weblogic upgrades from 8.1.5 to 9.2, and to 10

• Automate build process using JENKINS

• Application build using ANT tools and WLST

• Code repository maintenance using CVS and SVN Tortoise

• Application deployment automation using JENKINS and JIRA

• Installing and configuring UNIX shell scripts and Perl Scripts for adding new functionalities to

the tool.

• WebLogic 11g Configuration, Customization, Clustering, Troubleshooting, and

Deploying J2EE Applications.

• High availability and Fail over functionalities

• Provided WLST and configuring various WebLogic components/services

• Performance tuning w.r.t JVM heap args, Execute Threads, Custom Execute Threads, JDBC

Connection Pools, Multipool, OS Parameters and network parameters.

• Installing and configuring UNIX shell scripts and Perl Scripts.

• Configuring, Scheduling and monitoring scripts using Unix Shell scripting and UNIX crontab.

• Creating the users, setting privileges, connection Pools, data sources, Node Managers,

Machines, queues.

• Worked on weblogic performance tuning

• Participating in weblogic and application releases using ITIL change management process.

• Providing 24x7 application support with the help of ITIL framework using incident management

complying with SLA/OLA and underpinning contract.

• Installing and upgrading weblogic from 9.2 to 10

• Weblogic Patch upgrade to 10.2.0.4.

• Installing weblogic patch

• General weblogic administration operational support included security administration, and

space management.

• Working actively with Oracle support on Service requests and for any other technical

assistance.

• Supported WebLogic Application Server clustering

• Shutting down and restarting production servers on UNIX and WEBLOGIC.

GMAC Rescap, Fort Washington, PA, USA. March’08 –

Feb’2011

Weblogic Administrator/ Tumbleweed Administartor

GMAC Residential Funding Corporation provides capital solutions to businesses in the United States and

Canada. It focuses on buying and securitizing single-family mortgages, mortgage securitization,

acquisition of mortgage loans in the secondary market, wholesale lending, warehouse lending, and

master, primary, and special loan servicing. The company also offers residential mortgage-backed

securities; mortgage origination, acquisition, and servicing; loans, project equity, and other capital

solutions for the United States homebuilders and developers; resort finance; healthcare finance; and

distressed residential mortgage assets resolution services. The company serves the institutional

investors, mortgage lenders, homebuilders, resort developers, and healthcare enterprises. It has locations

in Canada, Mexico, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, and

Australia. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. GMAC

Residential Funding Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Residential Capital, LLC.

As a Tumbleweed / Weblogic Administrator of GMAC Rescap my primary responsibilities were as follows

• Weblogic upgrades from 8.1.5 to 9.2, and to 10

• WebLogic 11g Configuration, Customization, Clustering, Troubleshooting, and

Deploying J2EE Applications.

• Providing full time support for mission critical applications in production, development, testing

and UAT environments.

• Tumbleweed administration - Configuration, Customization, Troubleshooting, and

Deploying Applications.

• Performed Tumbleweed upgrade from 4.6 to 4.9.2.

• Installing and configuring UNIX shell scripts and Perl Scripts for adding new functionalities to

the tool.

• General tumbleweed administration operational support included security

administration, and space management.

• High availability and Fail over functionalities

• Installing and Configuring of Tumbleweed Secure Transport tool.

• Provided WLST (Jython script) and configuring various WebLogic components/services via

Jython script.

• Performance tuning w.r.t JVM heap args, Execute Threads, Custom Execute Threads, JDBC

Connection Pools, Multipool, OS Parameters and network parameters.

• Developed Scripts to perform the online/offline backups and export job scheduling for the

Tumbleweed embedded MSSQL Database.

• Installing and configuring UNIX shell scripts and Perl Scripts.

• Configuring, Scheduling and monitoring scripts using Unix Shell scripting and UNIX crontab.

• Creating the users, setting privileges, connection Pools, data sources, Node Managers,

Machines, queues.

• Developed Scripts to perform the online/offline backups and export job scheduling.

• Extensively used SQL *Plus, OEM, and Toad.

• Worked on weblogic performance tuning

• Participating in weblogic and application releases using ITIL change management process.

• Providing 24x7 application support with the help of ITIL framework using incident management

complying with SLA/OLA and underpinning contract.

• Installing and upgrading weblogic from 9.2 to 10

• Weblogic Patch upgrade to 10.2.0.4.

• Installing weblogic patch

• General weblogic administration operational support included security administration, and

space management.

• Working actively with Oracle support on Service requests and for any other technical

assistance.

• Supported WebLogic Application Server clustering, load balancing with F5 and fail over.

• Shutting down and restarting production servers on UNIX and WEBLOGIC.

British Telecom, United Kingdom Mar, 2005 –Mar, 2008

Weblogic Administrator

BT Group plc (formerly British Telecommunications plc, abbreviated to BT or British Telecom) is the

privatized former state telecommunications operator in the United Kingdom. It is the dominant fixed line

telecommunications and broadband Internet provider in the United Kingdom, and also operates in more

than 170 countries around the world. It is headquartered in the BT Centre in the City of London.

As a Weblogic Administrator in BT, I primarily worked as an Application support person for Broadband

ordering system as a part of British Telecom Real Internet Operation Support team and my responsibilities

were

• Providing full time support for mission critical applications in production, development, testing

and UAT environments.

• Install, configure and administer BEA WebLogic Server 8.1.5 in various environments.

• Configuring and Administering JDBC, JMS, JNDI in WebLogic Server 8.1.X

• Install and configure Microsoft IIS, Apache, Tomcat Web Server in various environments.

• Configured LDAP and installed the applications with data sources.

• Installing and configuring UNIX shell scripts and Perl Scripts for adding new functionalities to

the tool.

• Integrated WebLogic with MQ Queue Manager and configured JMS and JNDI namespace.

• Worked on UNIX shell scripts and Perl Scripts for automating the deployments.

• Extensively Configurated WebLogic Integration server and 8.1 and Worked on Applications

• Configured Connection Factory and Distributed Queue as JMS system resources.

• Configured Node manager to remotely administer Managed servers

• Creating providing access permission to users, roles.

• Worked on Weblogic performance improvement.

• Using EXPLAIN PLAN for gathering SQL statement statistics for query optimization.

• Installing and configuring Veritas i3 monitoring tool.

• Working extensively on Weblogic performance in terms of execution time using performance

monitoring tool, VERITAS I3.

• General weblogic administration operational support included security administration, and

space management.

• Developed Scripts to perform the online/offline backups and exports scheduling.

• Extensively used Toad for database tasks.

• Worked in United Kingdom for 1 year at client site.

United Bank of India, Kolkata, India Dec 2004 – Feb 2005

Weblogic Administrator

United Bank of India, is government-owned and one of India's major commercial banks. Presently the

bank has a three-tier organizational setup consisting of its Head office in Kolkata, 28 Regional offices and

1453 branches spread all over India. However, its major presence is in eastern India.

• Weblogic upgrades from 6 to 8.1.5

• Creating and managing users, roles, passwords and privileges.

• Supported 24/7 on call support for the Hosting Team

• Checking Alert Logs continuously for domain error logs.

• Setting up and managing Public Key Infrastructure and in generating public and private keys to

encrypt data sent to various vendors and Partners of Fannie Mae internal and external

partners.

• Monitored Service Level Agreements (SLA) for all applications, batches and feeds, including

performance levels, availability and critical windows of operation.

• Installing and configuring UNIX shell scripts and Perl Scripts for adding new functionalities to

the tool.

• Deployed wars and ears using WebLogic Admin Console as well as runnable scripts.

• Improve the visitor experience with business tools for implicit and explicit personalization

• Installed Service packs and patches to WebLogic Server and JDK.

• Automated jobs by using Cron & writing shell scripts & troubleshooting.

• Optimizing weblogic instances by using performance monitors like veritas i3 .

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor of Engineering, Kalyani University, West Bengal, India - specialization in Computer

Science and Engineering.

VISA STATUS:

• H1B

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