Galen K. Williams

ada79j@r.postjobfree.com

720-***-****

Objective: To obtain a Weblogic/Unix Support contracting or permanent position.

EXPERIENCE:

January 2019 - July 2019

TIAA Middleware Engineer Westminster, CO

•Managed, maintained, troubleshot Weblogic, Websphere, JBOSS, tomcat, in production environment

•Maintained service pak levels, scheduling SP installs and security fixes

•Built Weblogic instances to standard (8.1,9.2, 10.0, 10.3.X[11g]) WebSphere 8.5.5

•Managed releases to production environment

•Tuned sun servers (kernel tuning, memory parameters, network parameters) for Weblogic to run more efficiently

•Recent project was to build out 150 server environment which supports PEGA application. (to include dev, qa, uat, prod and dr sites, JMS modules/servers, jdbc’s, apache and siteminder implementations.

•Setup/configured apache 2.2.17 frontends for this most recent project as well.

•Maintained wls portal environment. This involved deployments, configuring agents, creating users/groups, maintaining entitlements, managing content according to lifecycle.

October 2015 - July 2019

Visa Middleware Engineer Highlands Ranch, CO

We support weblogic, tomcat/tcServer websphere,jboss/jws apache, iis. Daily support would be building these environments, deploying, upgrading, patching, migrating environments. We have specific projects that we pick up. I have worked on migrating fico environment to vm environment ; maintaining server certificate currency, building new environment for several different apps, worked on moving apps from weblogic to jws

October 2014 - October 2015

IGT Middleware Engineer Remote/Telecommute

This is a project based consulting position. Projects include:

•POC Weblogic 9 to Weblogic 12, wls9 to tomcat8, wls and tomcat to virtualization ( vagrant, docker, flocker, puppet, chef)

•Helping out on Break/fix issues with JBOSS and websphere, tomcat and weblogic when possible.

•Worked on refining deployment process

•Worked on resolving problem tickets

•looking at weblogic 12 on certain environments

•Helped in migrating from Weblogic9 to Tomcat8

Main environment contains weblogic, websphere, jboss, apache, oracle db, tomcat6. Part of the day to day maintenance is to keep these environments up and running, deploys, break/fix, etc.

November 2013 - October 2014,

ING Sr. Middleware Engineer Remote/Telecommute

This was part of a migration effort. Moving environments from IBM to in house support. This involved moving whole environments using pack/unpack, making modifications to those envs according to in-house standards. There were some upgrades along the way as a lot of the environments were wls8. So moving from wls8 to 11g or 12c . This also involved working with the load balancer and their frontends (iplanet) making appropriate changes there to ensure everything was point to the right place. Along the way, I did some tuning and scripting to make things smoother. Also did configuring on new environments as they came up.

Day to Day tasks :

maintenance of the JVM farm, which consistd of weblogic, webshere, jboss and tomcat.

July 2012 - November 2013

Wipro Sr. Middleware Engineer Remote/Telecommute

•Managed, maintained, troubleshot Weblogic, Websphere, JBOSS, tomcat, in production environment

•Maintained service pak levels, scheduling SP installs and security fixes

•Built Weblogic instances to standard (8.1,9.2, 10.0, 10.3.X[11g]) WebSphere 8.5.5

•Managed releases to production environment

•Tuned sun servers (kernel tuning, memory parameters, network parameters) for Weblogic to run more efficiently

•Recent project was to build out 150 server environment which supports PEGA application. (to include dev, qa, uat, prod and dr sites, JMS modules/servers, jdbc’s, apache and siteminder implementations.

•Setup/configured apache 2.2.17 frontends for this most recent project as well.

•Maintained wls portal environment. This involved deployments, configuring agents, creating users/groups, maintaining entitlements, managing content according to lifecycle.

Note: This is an environment that supported several hundred boxes across several accounts. We supported mostly Linux and Solaris installs. Captial One was a customer that used OpenStack to manage their environments. They have a very fluid need for environments. Creating a generic template and then to make customization changes worked well for this customer. Weblogic releases were from 8.1.X to 10.0/11g. We supported apache administration/upgrades/configs/installs as well. Here we have a team of 4 Weblogic Admins. We all supported our projects but also shared in a monthly oncall rotation that would involve supporting everything middleware; i.e. webmethods, apache, certificates, etc.

January 2012 - July 2012

Lockheed Martin

Sr. Middleware Administrator Arvada, CO

Lockheed Martin is a Websphere shop. We worked with developers in the QA and DEV environments to help maintain their ROSS application. Worked on a big migration project moving and upgrading their websphere, COGNOS, LDAP environments to new data center. This involved building out a new environment according to specs that were presented. Their environment also maintained COTS products as well as apache, IHS, and database connections. Helped in troubleshooting all of the above environments. Created some scripts to update LDAP; also created documentation for other processes that needed that.

July 2010 - December 2011

Wells Fargo

Sr. Weblogic Administrator Remote/Telecommute

This project was to install, build out and configure the new Pegasystems environment. This involved building out 150 servers across DEV, UAT, PFIX, BCP and PROD environments. Configuring the pegasys app involves configuring JMS servers, and JDBC datasources so I worked closely with the developers, DBA’s, network group and SA’s. I also installed/configured apache frontend to work with weblogic proxy plugin.

Worked with HPSA as a delivery tool and other Wells Fargo proprietary tools. In the process was put in the oncall rotation to help maintain, troubleshoot and assist in issues as the arose with other weblogic, apache, NDM, and sunone. The project OS platform was linux/redhat 5; some of the legacy environments were Solaris based.

April 2007 – July 2010

INFOCROSSING/Wipro

SR. Weblogic Administrator Remote/Telecommute

•Managed, maintained, troubleshot Weblogic, Websphere, JBOSS in production environment

•Maintained service pak levels, scheduling SP installs and security fixes

•Built Weblogic instances to standard (8.1,9.2, 10.0, 10.3.X[11g])

•Managed releases to production environment

•Tuned sun servers (kernel tuning, memory parameters, network parameters) for Weblogic to run more efficiently

•Recent project was to build out 150 server environment which supports PEGA application. (to include dev, qa, uat, prod and dr sites, JMS modules/servers, jdbc’s, apache and siteminder implementations.

•Setup/configured apache 2.2.17 frontends for this most recent project as well.

•Maintained wls portal environment. This involved deployments, configuring agents, creating users/groups, maintaining entitlements, managing content according to lifecycle.

Note: This is an environment that supported several hundred boxes across several accounts. We supported mostly Linux and Solaris installs. Weblogic releases were from 8.1.X to 10.0/11g. We supported apache administration/upgrades/configs/installs as well. Here we have a team of 4 Weblogic Admins. We all supported our projects but also shared in a monthly oncall rotation that would involve supporting everything middleware; i.e. webmethods, apache, certificates, etc.

August 2006 – April 2007

IBM

SR. Weblogic Administrator Remote/Telecommute

•Managed, maintained, troubleshot Weblogic and Websphere in production environment

•Maintained service pak levels, scheduling SP installs and security fixes

•Built Weblogic instances to standard (8.1,9.2, 10.0)

•Managed releases to production environment

•Tuned sun servers (kernel tuning, memory parameters, network parameters) for Weblogic to run more efficiently

•Migrated from wls 6.1 to 8.1

•Installed, configured, tuned wls 9.2, wls10 instances

Note: This is an environment that supported several hundred of boxes across several accounts. They were mostly Solaris boxes (9 &10) with a few Linux servers. Weblogic releases were from 8.1.X to 10.0. We supported apache administration/upgrades as well. On the team of 8 Weblogic Admins we supported tickets through remedy that ranged from installs, deployments, config changes. There is an on call rotation where we’d handle more impromptu situations, as in stuck threads, memory issues, instances down, permissions issues.

April 2006 – August 2006

AVAYA

SR. Weblogic Administrator Westminster, CO

•Managed, maintained, troubleshot Weblogic in production environment

•Maintained service pak levels, scheduling SP installs and security fixes

•Tuned and maintained of the servers and applications as it pertains to WL8.1

•Managed releases to production environment

•Tuned Sun Servers (kernel tuning, memory parameters, network parameters) for Weblogic to run more efficiently

•Helped Unix Admins on maintenance issues with SUN OS

•Suggest tools to use to help maintain, monitor and proactively troubleshoot Weblogic issues.

•Migrated from wls 6.1 to 8.1

•Installed, configured and tuned wls 9.2, wls10 instances

•Primary focus here was to manage the Weblogic continuum. From the F5 load balancer through iplanet to the Weblogic servers. While here was able to point out some server side tuning better fitted for Weblogic. Was able to do more server side administration in this instance to better suit Weblogic.

October 2003 – April 2006

EchoStar

SR. Weblogic/Unix Administrator Englewood, CO

•Upgraded and migrated for Weblogic 6.1 to 8.1.

•Maintained service pak levels, scheduling SP installs and security fixes

•Tuned and maintain of the servers and applications as it pertains to WL8.1

•Converted to ANT deploy tasks

•Tuned Sun Servers (kernel tuning, memory parameters, network parameters) for Weblogic to run more efficiently

•Orchestrated OS upgrades on sun boxes (Solaris 7 & 8 to 9. testing Weblogic on Solaris 10 using v20z's and v40z's)

•Managed sun servers: 120's 240's, 280's, 440's, 880's

•Managed HP servers: integrity servers, risk servers and creating FLAR images for building servers

•Created maintenance schedules involving server firmware checking/upgrading;

•Built, configured and maintained Sun and HP Servers

•Daily server maintenance

•Projects:

•Data center migration.

•Involved building new servers, organizing/reapportioning old servers planning for timing issues with other groups.

•Patched/OS upgraded planning for downtime, or on clustered boxes, planned testing/failover schedule SOX compliancy involving researching current environment, recommending changes to come into compliancy.

•Installed global sudo usage

May 2002 – November 2003

Motorola

UNIX/Weblogic Architect Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

•Projects include: re-architecting the Weblogic infrastructure and reapportioning UNIX systems to accommodate new architecture.

•Built out Sun servers (420’s, 220’s) for development use (from disk).

•Integrated servers onto backup schedule using VERITAS Netbackup

•Installed, configured, development server monitoring using BigBrother

•Maintained Sun servers for maximum uptime (this involved system tuning, upgrades, patch installations and general to detailed user help).

•Automated some tasks using shell scripts

•Refined deploy process and created new instances of Weblogic for development and other ongoing projects.

•Integrated Weblogic with Interwoven and ClearCase.

•Maintained/Created production (QA test, and development environments of Weblogic)

•Upgraded service packs on Weblogic.

•Created Weblogic migration plan/timeline for move from Weblogic 6.1 to Weblogic 7.0. Maintained/Created clustered environments where necessary.

•Utilized VERITAS suite.

•Created DR plan

September 2000 - May 2002

BenefitPoint

Senior UNIX System Administrator Concord, CA

•Maintain and administrate production, QA, and System integration environments.

•Build and maintain Sun systems (2.6, 2.7) including ultra5's, 250's 450's.

•UNIX servers were collocated so managed most of the servers remotely.

•Reconfigured backup schedule using VERITAS Netbackup.

•Take inventory of server environment to more efficiently tune the servers to the applications.

•Worked with and configured Netscape and Weblogic.

•The Weblogic environment consisted of production, quality assurance, and system integration.

•On the QA side and the SI side, maintenance includes the above plus the creation of new instances of Weblogic for testing.

•Maintain disk arrays (A5000).

•Configured numerous VERITAS products (volume manager, VERITAS cluster and VERITAS Netbackup).

•Brought in vendors for monitoring systems, SLA measuring, networking.

•For production, this included checking logs daily, cycling daemons, resetting connection pools.

•This included the directory structure and resetting the ports and paths built and maintained several Linux servers that were used for CVS and other development processes.

•Used Perl, ksh, BASH and csh to create/modify scripts used for automating tasks.

•Worked closely with all groups (Oracle DBA's, developers, networking, QA) to resolve issues and to plan the best route for efficiency for the systems.

•One of the projects included was flattening/hardening the network with the network group (CISCO/brocade).

•Implemented the Linux servers for developers; clustering the production process (Netscape, Weblogic, oracle database) with the DBA's.

•Helped to maintain maximum uptime using VERITAS for clustering, mirroring and used NetApp filers for further efficiency in uptime.

Duties include:

•Software/hardware upgrades/patches

•System/Security support for users

•Maintain 24x7 availability for systems

•Create scripts for daily task automation and problem solving

•Mentor co-workers on UNIX / VERITAS tasks

•Manage/tune server environment

•Create and maintain documentation

•Project mgr for several projects including terminal server implementation, Disaster recovery implementation and security implementation.

September 1999 - September 2000

Netscape

UNIX System Administrator Moraga, CA

•Primary role while at Netscape was to prepare the company for Y2K.

•This involved upgrading and patching UNIX servers (from 250’s to 5500’s).

•Checked all the software and firmware on a group of 300 servers for current patch levels to determine the need for each system.

•Migrated all OS's to the latest release. This was on Solaris 2.6 - 2.7 and IRIX systems.

•Implemented a DR plan which involved backup architecture and off-site plan.

•Used VERITAS Netbackup as the application and used ARCUS as an offsite vendor.

•Trained other co-workers on the backup schema by creating documentation and doing one on one sessions.

• Helped ramp my group up for the merger with AOL by building a jumpstart server and built out different servers and implementing those servers into the network that already existed. A big number of these servers were WebServers which involved building out the WebServer.

Duties include:

•Software/hardware upgrades

•System/Security support for users

•Maintain 24x7 availability for systems

•Build servers (250's 450's)

•Supervise several co-workers on backup/DR schema

•Create and maintain documentation

•Add servers onto existing network

•Add servers to DNS server

April 1999 – September 1999

Intraware, Inc.

UNIX System Administrator

July 1997 - April 1999

Byer California

UNIX System Administrator

January 1997 - July 1997

Bank of America Contract position

Sr. UNIX System Administrator

August 1996 - July 1997

MACRO 4 Inc. (Contract position)

Jan 1996 - August 1996

Wells Fargo Bank Contract

UNIX System Administrator

August 1990 - August 1996

DHL WORLDWIDE EXPRESS

UNIX System Administrator

1982 - 1989

HEWLETT PACKARD

Computer Operator III

UNIX System Administrator

Education/Certification:

Bachelor of Science in Biology, San Jose State University

Computer programming classes at San Jose City College:

UNIX System Administration, System Administration SVR4,

CERT Classes:

Solaris 7 Certification

Solaris 8 Certification, Solaris 9 Certification,

Other technical classes: Weblogic 6.1, 8.1, 9.2/10.0.

UNIX for Programmers, Advanced UNIX, Interwoven Open Deploy, ClearCase HP-UX 10.X System Administration, Dynix/PTX Admin, MC/ServiceGuard, Veritas Netbackup, Veritas Volume Mgmt, Veritas File System, Veritas Cluster Server, Network Appliance System Admin I & II and HP-UX Systems Administration.

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