Nikesh

Middleware/WebLogic Admin

Email: aczj0y@r.postjobfree.com

PH #: 732-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

* ***** ** ********* ********** in supporting 3rd party applications including development, testing, UAT & Production/Sustain for customer client applications.

Excellent knowledge and background in Linux, UNIX such as Red hat Linux, SuSE Linux, HP-UX, IBM-AIX etc. including proven expertise in shell scripting including korn, Bash etc.

Hands on experience on administrative tools like Administration Console, WLST and Command line interface.

Installed and configured external LDAP servers using Netscape and SunOne Directory Servers for user authentication.

Strong knowledge & experience of architecture of several 3rd party products such as WebLogic Server, Apache, Tomcat, Oracle RDBMS, Web Servers, Mom such as WebSphere MQ.

Installed, configured and administered Web Servers like Apache 2.x HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat 6.x and SunOne 6.x Web Server for WebLogic plug-ins.

Experienced in installing and configuring Oracle Access Manager with Oracle Virtual Directory, Policy Manager.

Hands on experience and expertise of Silent installation of WebLogic & Domain configuration using silent xml & domain configuration scripts.

Experience in Deploying Oracle SOA Composites and Trouble Shooting Faulted Instances.

Experience in configuring Adapters in SOA.

Installed and configured of SOA, BPEL, OSB and OHS server.

Experience with installing, configuring, administering, implementing and performance tuning clustered SOA environments (10g/11g).

Hands on experience over 3 years of configuring, adding clusters, managed servers using WLST.

Excellent knowledge and background in Linux, UNIX such as Red hat Linux, SuSE Linux, HP-UX, IBM-AIX etc. including proven expertise in shell scripting including korn, Bash etc.

Excellent knowledge and scripting background in Windows platforms such as Windows2003/2005/2007/2010 servers including batch job processing using Windows batch scheduler/Autosys.

Experience and Knowledge in SSH, telnet, rloginSCP, RCP and SFTP.

Expertise in UNIX System Administration tasks such as writing system monitoring scripts, cron jobs, adding/deleting users, Physical/Virtual Memory monitoring, CPU Utilization, regularly monitoring user level activity, checking System logs, monitoring system performance.

Design of SSL communication, Third Party SSPIs, including Authentication /Authorization/ Adjudication providers, Integration with LDAP, Access Control (ACL), Role-mapping, User definitions on different versions of WebLogic Server & other 3rd party middleware.

Deployed EAR, JAR, WARandJ2EE applications on Managed Servers and Clustered Environments using Console and Auto Deploying Scripts.

Configured and managed secure environments like SSL and Digital Certificates including 1 & 2-way SSL.

Monitored performance and tuned JVM heap and garbage collector parameters.

Excellent experience in raising Service Requests (SR) with Oracle and working with their Technical teams in resolving several critical issues in Production, UAT & Development environments for several customers.

Experience in maintenance of Jboss versions 5/6/7 and Apache servers.

Configured multiple WebLogic Domains which includes Node Managers and Managed Servers in multifarious environments.

Working experience on relational databases like Oracle 10g/9i/8i, MS Access, MySQL, DB2.

Provided 24X7 production support with on call on rotation basis.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Highly motivated, detail oriented and organized with the ability to multi-task projects while maintaining a high degree of proficiency.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Middle Ware

Oracle WebLogic Server 8.x/9.x/10/11i,12c SunOne6.0, 6.1, Apache Tomcat 6.0

Application/Web Servers

Web Logic, IBM Web-Sphere, JBoss, Tomcat.

Programming & Scripting Languages

Java, C, C++, C#, SQL, PL/SQL, TSQL, MS SQL, PHP, Perl, Shell Scripting, WLST, Python Scripting

Operating Systems

UNIX Solaris, Red Hat, SuSE, LINUX, HP-UX, IBM-AIX,

Windows : 98/2000/NT/XP/VISTA

Web Technologies

HTML, XML, DHTML, XSLT, CSS

IDE’s Tools

Net Beans 3.5, 3.6, 5.0, 6.0, My Eclipse, Putty, WebLogic workshop

Protocols

TCP/IP, Telnet, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SNMP, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, ARP, SSL

Editing tools

Vi editor, GVim, Emacs, Notepad++, Textpad

Ticketing tools

TrackIT, HP ITSM, BMC Remedy

Monitoring Tools

Sitescope, BMC Patrol, HP-OM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: Guggenheim Investments, Rockville, MD July 2015 to Present

Role: Middleware/WebLogic Admin

Description: Working as WebLogic Administration in WebLogic support team to provide enterprise wide services for applications running on UNIX, Linux and Windows platforms.

Responsibilities:

WebLogic Administration with expertise in Installation, Configuration, Tuning, and Deploying Applications.

Experience in Configuring WebLogic runtime environment knowledge of various WebLogic Concepts Domain Configuring, Clustering, Patch, management, Security, Performance Tuning, User management, Log monitoring, Node Manager, JDBC, JMS.

Install, configure and administered of BEA Web Logic Application Server, Web Logic Portal, Web Logic workshop in various environments.

Participated in the Installation, setup and Maintenance of Oracle Fusion middleware software stack on Linux servers.

Experience in Administrating Oracle Service Bus/Aqualogic Service Bus(OSB/ALSB), Managing Proxy & Business Services, MQ ESB Integration, Oracle BAM, BPM,BPEL- Coherence 3.X versions, Working with MQ,DB,AQ Adapters configuration and tuning, WebLogic 10g, 11g Administration(Strong JMS, JDBC, JTA, Performance, Security, Clustering, Unicast, Multicast Concepts), Monitoring setup on BMC,OEM. Automation of processes using Shell scripts, WLST, ANT. Build and Deploying OSB apps, BPEL Composites, WebLogic Resource Creation (JMS, JDBC, Work Managers) using Hudson Tool.

Worked on sections of oracle fusion like Enterprise Deployment, Management, Scalability, High Availability, Load Balancing, Diagnostic Data, Cloning, Oracle RAC, Backup and Recovery.

Worked on oracle fusion components like oracle WebLogic server.

Experience in setting of High Availability and clustering for Oracle SOA suite.

Managing and Monitoring the JVM performance by WebLogic Heap size and Garbage Collection parameters.

Deployed various WAR, JAR, EAR applications in clustered environment.

Experience in deployment in SOA Suite with Stage, No Stage and External Stage modes.

Configure and administered of JMS, JNDI, SNMP in Web Logic Server 8.3.

Maintained and investigated performance improvement of J2EE applications effectively using enterprise-monitoring tools.

Load Balancing / Clustering / High Availability / LDAP Replication.

Worked with Big IP F5 Load Balancer administration, shell scripting for alerting and alarming on applications.

Configuring User Authentication Stores and Policy Authorization Stores on LDAP.

Worked in Set up Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) communication between web servers like Apache, IIS, and iPlanet and the WebLogic Application Servers.

Performance tuning for LDAP and siteminder for better response time and throughput.

Installed and configured Apache 2.2 as plug-in on UNIX environment and deployed applications.

Installed and configured IIS to act as a proxy server to serve various applications.

Configure Clustering EJB objects, jdbc connections and JMS connection factories.

Used WLST to check the status of WLServers.

Experience in performance tuning of Oracle SOA suite.

Experience in setting of High Availability and clustering for Oracle SOA suite.

Implemented Policy Stores to utilize Sun ONE Directory Server (LDAP) as the user and policy repository on Linux.

Installed and administrated SOA suite and installed, configured, administer and monitor BPEL, ESB.

Deployed applications on multiple Web Logic Server and maintained Load balancing, High Availability and Failover functionality.

Provided 24/7 Support and on call schedule for Production support.

Environment: Web Logic Server 8.3/9.x,10.x,11.g,12c, Oracle SOA suite 11g, MQ Series,Solaris10, Oracle9i, Apache, Site scope, IBM Http Server, MySQL, Remedy, Mercury7, IBM AIX Server, Web Services, LDAP, JDK 1.4.2,Windows Server v2000/v2003, Solaris v10. JSPs, EJBs and JMS.

Client: T-Mobile, Bothell, WA Jan 2014 - June 2015

Role: Middleware/WebLogic Admin

Description: Worked in WebLogic Administration 8.x/9.x/10.x/11g - installation/ deployments/ configuration/ maintenance/ performance/ monitoring/ troubleshooting Web based applications in Linux and Windows environments.

Responsibilities:

WebLogic 9.x,10.x,11g Administration with expertise in installation configuration, Tuning, and Deploying

Applications.

Experienced with J2EE application servers (Tomcat and JBoss), Oracle, MySQL, Shell, HTTP, and Apache in UNIX and Linux.

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.

Installed, Configured and Administered Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA Suite 11g in Cluster in various environments viz. DEV, QA, UAT, PRE-PROD and PROD.

Activities includes doing Proof of Concepts and implementations, capacity planning of Oracle SOA 11g Products i.e. installing OSB, BPEL, BAM, Webcenter products on Linux and creating supporting schemas using Oracle Resource Creation Utility(RCU), applying OPatch, SSL, 3DNS/BIGIP configuration, SSO/Kerberos, SAML(Relying Party) Setup, AD/LDAP Authenticators-Providers, SOA EM, OSB and WLS Security management.

Performed migration activities i.e. moving code from development teams through different environment for WL 10.x deployments. Migrated WebLogic 8.x/9.x to WebLogic 10.x.

Performed web server (Apache) administration UNIX.

Installed and upgraded Apache 2.2 version and implemented the proxy plugin for the WebLogic 10.2.

Configured and administered JDBC, JMS, and JNDI in WebLogic Server8.x, 9.x.

Backing up the SOA Applications and upgraded Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA Suite 10g to 11g.

Troubleshooting using thread dump, heap dump and Garbage collection analysis for WebLogic server issues.

Regularly involved with troubleshooting, debugging, script building, automation innovation, monitoring, develop document and procedures, etc.

Experience in configuring multiple LDAP instances and defined LDAP Schemas.

Involved in migration BEA WebLogic 8.1 version to 10.3, performing patch upgrades, SP (service pack) installations & SSL certificates renewal.

JNDI repository configuration for EJB Home stubs, JDBC data source, JMS connection factories and queues.

Installed and administrated SOA suite and installed, configured, administer and monitor BPEL, ESB.

Worked in Oracle 11g SOA Suite including, OVD, OES, OSB, Oracle WebLogic Portal

Work with application development teams on troubleshooting Tomcat administration issues.

Created Managed Servers and Node Manager in Production Servers and test server.

Developed Scripts for deploying applications in different environments using WebLogic.

Involved in Oracle Internet Directory setup. Configured LDAP using Sun ONE Directory Server for user authentication.

Configured and setup Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client authentication.

Worked on 24/7 on calls to support various applications.

Worked with different teams to automate and improve the migration process.

Environment: WebLogic 8.x/9.x/10.x/11g, J2EE,Apache 2.2, Sun one, LDAP, Oracle SOA suite 11g, MySQL, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux 6,Anthill,Oracle 10g, MQ client 6.0, Wily7.2.5/8.2.3,Remedy, Jms, JRockit, WLST.

Client: Miracle Software Systems, Novi, MI Apr 2013 – Dec 2013

Role: Middleware/WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

Developed several key tools including UNIX scripting to monitor applications & reduced deployment time delivery for several applications.

Used vSphere/vCenter v5.x to monitor VMs running on 30 ESXi hosts for the customer.

Created custom scripts for monitoring WebSphere MQ, URLs, Database monitoring alerts in Sitescope.

Was on-call 24x7 as part of the rotation policy among the team of 4 members and provided support for UAT, SIT & Production environments during the on-call.

Wrote SQL scripts and coordinated with the DBA team to monitor and assist during system outages.

Used Auto-sys & cron jobs for batch processing and other jobs required to support WebSphere & database server environments.

Raised several service requests (SR) & tickets with Oracle Support via Oracle Support Metalink site and worked with their teams in resolving issues in Production & UAT.

Created, Configured & Deployed Development, SIT & Production environments from scratch coordinating with the Development, DBA & Hosting teams.

Used different types of ticketing systems for change controls & production escalations including responding to business users within the time frame of SLAs defined for the customers.

Wrote custom programs for PL/SQL & SQL Server Statements/Procedures/Views using SQL developer tools such as SQL Developer, SQL Plus, SQL Server Integration studio etc.

Supported WebSphere, WebLogic & other application server environments for about 20 applications in the customer data center.

Configured 1-way & 2-way SSL for customer applications running on WebLogic Application Server environment

Used WLST to monitor performance, create new WebLogic components including servers including cluster configuration, JDBC connection pools etc.

Migrated all Admin server consoles to use SSL ports for secure communication instead of using non-secure communication.

Configured WebSphere MQ to communicate with WebSphere & WebLogic application servers including using MQSC scripts to create Queues, Topics, Qmanagers & other objects for MQ.

Was responsible for over 10 sustain projects in a team of over 50 members in the sustain team

Environment: WebLogic Server9.x/10.3, IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0/8.5.5, IBM Http server, Microsoft IIS,Apache,Solaris10, Windows XP, DB2, Oracle9i/10g,Mercury7,Sitescope,webservices, LDAP, Oracle Access Manager, JDK 1.4.2, SOA,JSP, EJBs, JMS, HTML, XML, JRUN, SSL, JDBC, JMS, JNDI.

Client: Wells Fargo, Charlotte, NC Aug 2012 - Mar 2013

Role: WebLogic Admin

Responsibilities:

Expertise in migrating WebLogic server 9.2 to 10.0 MP1 including Configuring and administration of the WebLogic based environment

Configured WebLogic 10.0 MP1 with extensive experience in configuring the web application for new version.

Work with application development teams on troubleshooting Tomcat administration issues.

Install and configure assortment planning WL portal environment using WebLogic Portal 10.

Responsible for installation, configuration and maintenance of J2EE applications on WebLogic Application Server in a multi clustered high availability environments.

Involved in migration BEA WebLogic 8.1 version to 10.3, performing patch upgrades, SP (service pack) installations & SSL certificates renewal.

Worked on Upgrading Wily Introscope 7.2.5 to Wily 8.2.3.

Worked in Oracle 11g SOA Suite including, OVD, OES, OSB, Oracle WebLogic Portal

Installed the Oracle SOA on top of WebLogic and having hands on experience on SOA BPEL deployment and troubleshooting the issues, Experience in setting High Availability and clustering for SOA suite.

Created repositories using RCU (Repository Creation Utility), Worked on LDAP with Solaris 10 having Domains in different containers.

Work with application development teams on troubleshooting Tomcat administration issues.

Install and configure assortment planning WL portal environment using WebLogic Portal 10.

Extensively worked with JVM and other performance monitoring tools for better performance, Tuning JVM heap size to maximize the number of clients accessing the applications.

Worked with Web Logic Scripting tool WLST to automate the domain creation process.

Configured and Installed Apache Tomcat 5 for the proxy server.

Resolve all build/deployment issues with ant / maven

Installed and Configured apache, and IIS Plug-ins for WebLogic.

Provided 24*7 on call support & Interaction.

Environment: WebLogic 8.x/9.x/10.x/11g, IPlanet 5.1/6.0, AquaLogic, ESB, JBOSS, MySQL, Webmethods 6.1, SunOne, Apache, AIX, Linux 9.x, Sun Solaris, Apache Web Server, iPlanet web server, UNIX, Windows NT/2000, IBM MQ Oracle 10g, DB2 8.1.4/9.1.4, IBM MQ, Java/J2EE, LDAP, BigIP .

Client: Sierra Atlantic Software Services, ltd, India Jan2011 - July 2012

Role: WebLogic Admin/Engineer

Responsibilities:

Involved in Migration from WebLogic 8.1 to WebLogic 9.0 and JDK update and service packs installation.

Administration and Configuration of WebLogic 8.1 in Testing and Production environments

Deployed WAR, JAR, EAR applications on servers in both Clustered and non-Clustered environments

Configuration and Clustering of Managed Servers

Troubleshooting WebLogic Application Server connection pooling and connection manager with Oracle 8i, DB2 databases

Configured the WebLogic server with SunOne Web Server 6.1 through WebLogic’s proxy plug-in

Involvement with the deployment teams in trouble shooting and fixing day-to-day problems of the applications in production on 24/7 schedule

Installed and configured Apache 1.3 as plug-in on UNIX environment and deployed applications.

Installed and configured IIS to act as a proxy server to serve various applications.

Problems by monitoring server availability and analyzing resources.

Installed and configured Apache Web server and integrated with Web Logic server.

Well versed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0

Creation of SSL and Digital Certificates for requesting, generating and implementation for the communication between Web server and the Application Server

Configured external LDAP server using SunOne Directory server for user authentication

Configured Node managers for administration of Managed servers

Performance tuning of JVMheap size, garbage collections, Java stack and Native thread and production performance

Configured JDBC connections pools for Oracle 8i, DB2.

Environment: WebLogic Server 7.0, 8.1, SunOne 6.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, Windows XP/2003, J2EE, EJB, LDAP, JDBC, XML, Oracle8i, DB2.

Client: Sell craft Softech Pvt. LTD, India July 2009 – Dec 2010

Role: WebLogic Administrator

Responsibilities:

Worked on Optimization and performance tuning techniques having good Experience in performance tuning.

Provided WebLogic server instances into WebLogic clusters for high availability.

Worked in WebLogic server like jdbc, security, and install apache server configuration.

Worked on migration from WebLogic 8.x to WebLogic 10.x.

Worked with the Portal team to integrate InfoView into a BEA WebLogic Portlet.

Worked on web application and portal development on a large Oracle data warehouse, and administration of a middle tier application server.

Worked in WebLogic Administration 8.x/9.x/10.x - installation/ deployments/ configuration/ maintenance/ performance/ monitoring/ troubleshooting Web based applications.

Worked on performing systems monitoring using Sitescope, OEM (Oracle Enterprise Monitoring) tools.

Installed and configured Apache HTTP Server 2.0, Tomcat 6.0, Active MQ, IIS 6 and Sun One Web Servers in various environments.

Installation and configuration of NDM (Network Data Mover) for file transfer from WebLogic server to Mainframe servers.

Strong Experienced in WLST, Jython and ANT scripting to automate and monitor the WebLogic routine tasks.

Worked in WebLogic Administration with expertise in Installation, Configuration, Tuning, and Deploying applications on a Windows platform.

Maintained and investigated performance improvement of J2EE applications effectively using enterprise monitoring tools.

Worked in Oracle/WebLogic Application Server, Portlet and Content Management Administration (UCM) and Site Studio.

Strong scripting skills (shell scripting, WebLogic WLST, JMX, WebLogic Admin.

Worked as administrating Jboss, WebSphere and WebLogic application servers.

Performed troubleshooting, performance and capacity tuning.

Solved server hang issues such as Deadlock, Application and Database level lock by taking thread dump and analyzed to get the root cause of the hang.

Supported of Applications running in WebSphere, JBoss and Tomcat.

Participated in the on call rotation for 24x7 production support.

Environment: BEA WebLogic 8.x, 9.x, IIS 5.0, UNIX/Linux, Shell/Perl Scripting, Oracle 8i, Solaris 8, Apache Server 2.0, Netscape Enterprise, Siteminder.

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