Manager Server

KANDARP SOLANKI

**** ****** **** **** ? Milford, CT ? 203-***-**** ?

**********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

. IT industry experience in BEA Web Logic Server Administration on

Solaris, Linux and Windows NT/2000 environments.

. Experience in Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting of

WebLogic and Apache servers in a domain.

. Expertise in configuring and tuning JMS, JDBC & Wrote UNIX Shell

scripts.

. Experienced in integrating WebLogic Server with DB2, ORACLE, SQL

Server and Sybase.

. Unix administration at the expert level - building Unix machines,

installing OS, mounting filesystems, setting up users, profiles,

roles, installing sudo, ldap etc.

. Application upgrade to higher version of weblogic server (8.x to 9.x

and 10.x). Migrating weblogic environments to a different Operating

systems (Windows server to Solaris and Solaris to Linux Virtual

Machines)

. Extensive Deployment experience. Preparing deployment plans, defining

the deployment strategies, building the automation and alerting

scripts for deployment, work as a deployment manager (responsible for

weekly build release management, maintaining build repository,

preparing and propagating builds)

. Website tuning expert - JVM tuning, OS tuning, weblogic console

tuning, code profiling

. Clustering for high availability. Integrating webservers with

clusters. Extensive experience with hardware load balancers (F5's

BigIP and Cisco's CSS) for content switching. Worked on the active-

active, active-passive, active-cold data center designs. Experience

with Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Global Traffic Manager (GTM) with

console access and iRule creations.

. Expert at advance fault-tolerant techniques. Design, configuration and

troubleshooting for session persistence/replication, session

stickiness at load balancer, persistence stores, multipool,

distributed destinations, JTA/JMS migrations.

. Extensive scripting experience with WLST, Perl and Unix Shell scripts.

Built a comprehensive automation script for weblogic install, domain

creation, deployment, configuration change, monitoring, log rotation

and administration activities .

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Operating Systems UNIX, Redhat Linux, Windows 2000 server,

Windows NT Server 4.0,Solaris,Windows 98/XP

Application Servers BEA WebLogic 10.3/9.2/8.1, Jboss, Apache

Tomcat,

WebLogic Portal 7.x (Portal, Integration)

Web Servers iPlanet 6.0/5.1, Apache HTTP Web Server,

IIS, Sun One Server,

J2EE Technologies JSP, Custom Tags and Tag Libraries, Java

Servlets, Java Beans

EXPERIENCE:

Web Logic Administrator

Dec-July 2010

Stujansar Corporation Irvine,CA.

. Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting and Maintenance of Web

Logic Server 8.1 sp3/sp5, 9.2 and iPlanet 6.0 servers.

. Researching and applying the necessary patches, jar files, service

packs necessary for maintenance of WebLogic Server

. Provide support to Production, UAT, Development environments

. Configured JDBC Connection pools, data sources using DB2, Oracle,

MySQL, and BEA Type 4 drivers. Configured JMS Servers, distributed

destinations, queues and topics. Configured Security authenticators,

managed security realms

. Maintaining clustered environment for various projects. Monitoring of

application server using in-house tools like beamon, webmon etc.,

Managed various high profile projects

. JNDI repository configuration for EJB Home stubs, JDBC data source,

JMS connection factories and queues

. Installed and configured RSA Web Agent 5.2, RSA ClearTrust, RSA FIM

for Webservers: iPlanet, apache

. Used Ant and Shell scripts for deployment of application code to

Training, Functional Test, Regression, E2E, Preprod, Maintenance, and

Production environments.

. Review and modification of Unix Scripts used for automation of

administration tasks & Involved in analyzing & solving

high/normal/minimal Priority tickets as a part of production support

. Tuning of application server by modifying Execute Queue Thread / Sun

JVM heap/ Jrockit JVM parameters

. Patch installation to applications, and application server. Migration

of 33 applications from Solaris to Linux with zero down-time.

Upgrading WLS 8.1 from sp3 to sp5. Updating JDK to current DST changes

in all environments

. Updating and configuring SSL certs to Web Servers and Application

Servers

. Work closely with vendors to facilitate appropriate changes when

needed. Identifying root causes for the outages and applying

appropriate fixes of application team or BEA Support.

. Deploying applications to various production environment using

deployment tools. Automated various tasks using Shell scripts.

. Documented various support procedures for applications. Documenting

weekly meeting minutes for status reports. Created infrastructure

diagrams using Visio.

. Coordinating various support tasks among team members. Responsible for

distributing tasks among team members. Host meetings for weekly status

of developers, application functionality, certifications, and proposed

tasks.

. Involved in 24/7 on-call support for production environment and UAT

environment

Environment: Solaris 2.8/5.8, RedHat Linux 3.0/4.0, Weblogic Server 8.1

sp3/sp5, iPlanet 6.0, Apache 2.0.52, IBM DB2 10i, ORACLE 9i, My SQL, BMC

Patrol KM 7.5, RSA Web Agent a5.2, ClearTrust, FIM

WebLogic Administrator

Smartech Solution, Gujarat, India

Dec-Nov 2007

. Installation, Administration and Configuration of WebLogic Application

Server 8.1

. Configuration and Maintenance of JDBC, JMS, JNDI and other J2EE Services

with WebLogic 8.1

. Configuration and Integration of I-Planet LDAP Server with WebLogic 8.1

. Documenting the standards & guidelines necessary for WebLogic Server's in

the development, REI and Configured Apache Web Server plug-in for

WebLogic Server load balancing of HTTP requests.

. Supported the current WebLogic Server 8.1 production applications for

maintenance & trouble issues.

. Configured all WebLogic domains to talk to centralized LDAP servers.

. Configured Apache Web Server plug-in for WebLogic Server load balancing

of HTTP requests.

. Load Balancing, Performance Tuning and optimization of WebLogic 8.1

Application Server.

. Auditing (Performance, Scalability) Applications and the Application

Servers.

. Node manager configuration for administering Managed Servers

. Configuration of JDBC connection pools and Data sources, troubleshooting

and fixing up problems

. JNDI repository configuration for EJB Home stubs, JDBC data source, JMS

connection factories and queues

. Performance Analysis of WebLogic 8.1 Server using JProfiler

. Ant and Shell scripting for deployment of application code to

Development, System Test and Production environments.

. Review and modification of Unix Scripts used for batch jobs.

. Configured web servers as proxy for Application servers

. Participation in on-call 24/7 production support

Environment: WebLogic 8.1 sp 5, iPlanet 5.1, Covalent Apache, Webmethods61,

SunOne, Linux 9.x, Windows NT/2000, Oracle 10g, Sybase, Db2 8.1, Java

1.4.2, LDAP IDS 5.2, BigIP, TAM 5.1, Rational CQ, Rational CC, Remedy,

Jprofiler

EDUCATION:

Master of Science, University of Bridgeport, CT, USA

Major: Electrical Engineering GPA: 3.42/4.00

Bachelor of Engineering, Gujarat University, India.

Major : Electronics & Communication Engineering GPA: 3.48/4.00

COURSE PROJECTS:

Simulated Cryptographic Algorithms A3 & F8 for Mobile Communication using Matlab.

Programmed & Implemented the conveyor products with the use of MicroLogix 1000 PLC.

Designed & Developed a Rolling Message Display using Microcontroller 8051.

Studied Brain Computer Interface.

AFFILIATIONS:

Member of AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education), SVIT alumni association.

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