Management Manager
Resume:
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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