The document provides a summary of Soumika Baddam's professional experience as a middleware administrator and system administrator. She has over 7 years of experience administering Weblogic Application Servers, Apache web servers, and BigData tools. Her responsibilities have included installing, configuring, and managing clustered environments, as well as deploying applications, configuring security, and performing troubleshooting.

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Soumika Baddam
Mobile:571-341-5959
Email: sushmitha@gokatech.com
Professional Summary:
 Around 7 years of experience in Middleware Administration providing support for development,
testing, Staging and production environments.
 Expertise in Administration of Weblogic Application Servers 8.1, 9.2, 10g and 11g Clustering
(WLS), Apache web Servers Oracle HTTP servers, IPlanet web servers.BigData Ecosystem
Tools like Datameer &Dataguise.
 Experience with installations, configurations, administering, implementing and performance tuning
clustered SOA environments (10g/11g).
 Created repositories using RCU (Repository Creation Utility).
 Experience in setting up clustered environments and providing high availability and failover.
 Excellent working knowledge in configuring multiple Weblogic domains including machines,
managed servers .
 Deployed various WAR, JAR, EAR and J2EE applications on managed servers and in clustered
environment using Console or auto deployment scripts in stage and production.
 Configured and administered JDBC Connection pools/Datasources, JMS Connection Factories
and other JMS artifacts like JMS Servers, Distributed Queues.
 Deployed proxy and business services using OSB console.
 Performed troubleshooting of OSB service calls by enabling tracing and using test console.
 Extensive hands-on experience in setting up multiple clusters and implementing Load Balancing,
High Availability and Failover functionality.
 Configuration of WebLogic proxy plug-in and applications on servers like Apache 2.x HTTP
Server.
 Good experience in configuring and managing secured environments using SSL and digital
certificates.
 Experienced in writing UNIX Shell Scripts and implementing auto deployment process.
 Performed thread dump analysis manually by looking for common symptoms like dead locks.
 Installed and configured Wily agent, Wily enterprise manager and Introscope Workstation and
provide application monitoring and measurement using Wily Introscope.
 Installing and upgrading VMware tools on client machines.
 Creating and maintaining user accounts using VAS/Active Directory tool, setting up security,
and process monitoring
 Installation and configuration of web hosting administration such as FTP, SSH, Telnet, and
HTTP.
 Developed startup and shutdown scripts for the Weblogic servers.
 Coordinated with BEA to resolve issues related with BEA WebLogic products.
 Excellent problem solving skills with a strong technical background and good communication and
interpersonal skills. Self-motivated and a good team player.

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 Provided 24x7 on call support in production environment on rotation basis.
Technical Skills:
Programming Languages C, JAVA/J2EE, SQL
Operating Systems Solaris, Red Hat LINUX
Windows 98/2000/NT/XP/VISTA.
Middleware BEA WebLogic Application Server 8.x./9.x/10.x, SOA Suite 11g, OSB 10g,
Jboss 4.2.3/4.3.0, Apache-HTTP Server 2.x
Big Data Ecosystems Hadoop, MapReduce, HDFS
J2EE Technologies Servlets, JSP, JDBC, RMI, JMS, JTA, JNDI, JMX, EJB, Applets and swing
components, AWT.
Web Technologies JDK 1.4/1.5/1.6 HTML, XML, DHTML, MSXML, ASPX.
Scripting Languages UNIX Shell Scripting
Packages JSDK 2.0, J2EE, Clear case, Clear Quest.
Performance Monitoring and
Testing Tools
Wily Introscope, HP Sitescope, OEM 11g
IDE’s/Utilities Eclipse, Putty
Database Oracle 8i/9i/10g, MS SQL Server, DB2,Mysql
Networking & Protocols TCP/IP, Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SNMP, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, SSL
Other Tools MS Office, TOAD, VERITAS Volume Manager 4.0/5.0, Logical Volume
Manager
Education:
 Bachelor’s in Computer Science from JNTU, Hyderabad, India
Experience:
American Express
System Administrator Oct’15 – Present
Responsibilities:
 Performed 24x7 Production support for the several application across different business areas.
 Installed, configured and administered on Bigdata Ecotools like Datameer,DatAguise,MAPR .
 Providing support for production servers running on Hadoop cluster.
 Applying patches.
 Managing and reviewing Hadoop log files
 Health checking the Production servers. Troubleshooting server issues and downtimes
Environment
 Importing and exporting data into HDFS and Datameer services.
 Running Hadoop/datameer streaming jobs to process terabytes of xml format data

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Experience:
Choice Hotels International
System Administrator Jun’14 – Aug’15
Responsibilities:
 Performed 24x7 Production support for the several application across different business areas.
 Installed, configured and administered WebLogic Server 10.3.x/11g on Red Hat Linux 5.x and
Windows environment.
 Building and configuring of Ubuntu Linux and RedHat Enterprise Linux servers.
 Providing support for production servers running with RHEL, Ubuntu Linux, SUSE Linux, and
CentOS.
 Worked as Administration, installation, configuration and tuning for Oracle SOA suite.
 Created repositories using RCU (Repository Creation Utility).
 Performed J2EE application deployment and administration including JAR, WAR, and EAR files.
 Configure and administered of JDBC, JMS in WebLogic Server 10.3.
 Install and configured SSL certificates for Apache web server in various environments.
 Configured and administered WebLogic server with Oracle9i/10g database.
 Installing packages and patches using rpm, yum, up2date, dpkg, apt-get, and aptitude utilities.
 Racking and unracking, and cabling of servers.
 Troubleshooting servers for network and booting issues.
 Deployed the applications on multiple WebLogic Server and maintained Load balancing, high
Availability and Fail over functionality.
 Configure and administered Connection pools for JDBC connections.
 Installed and configured WebLogic 8.x/9.x/10.x plug-ins on Apache 2.x
 Created and Configured Data Sources for database connectivity and JMS resources..
 Performance tuning of JVM heap size, garbage collections, java stack and Native thread &
production performance.
 Application’s migration of WebLogic server from previous version to current versions.
 Troubleshoot WebLogic Server connection pooling and connection manager with Oracle, DB2
checking the code in to cvs.
 Analyzing thread dump and heap dump for WebLogic application server.
 Active involvement in monitoring the server performance, network traffic to reduce performance
bottleneck.
 Deployed WARs, EARs using WebLogic Admin Console as well as running scripts.
Experience in configuring WebLogic domain across Data Centers in production environment
Experience:
Oshkosh Truck Corporation, WI
Operating systems Engineer Jun’13 –May’14

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Responsibilities:
 Performed 24x7 Production support for the several application across different business areas.
 Installed, configured and administered WebLogic Server 10.3.x/11g on Red Hat Linux 5.x and
Windows environment.
 Worked as Administration, installation, configuration and tuning for Oracle SOA suite.
 Experience in deployment in SOA suite with Stage, No-stage, External stage modes.
 Created repositories using RCU (Repository Creation Utility).
 Utilized pack and unpack commands for creation of domains in Dev, QA, UAT, PP and Prod.
 Performed J2EE application deployment and administration including JAR, WAR, and EAR files.
 Configure and administered of JDBC, JMS in WebLogic Server 10.3.
 Providing support for production servers running with RHEL, SUSE Linux.
 Troubleshooting systems crashes, slowness, and hardware issues, and working with vendors to replace
the failed hardware.
 Install and configured SSL certificates for Apache web server in various environments.
 Configured and administered WebLogic server with Oracle9i/10g database.
 Deployed the applications on multiple WebLogic Server and maintained Load balancing, high
 Availability and Fail over functionality.
 Installed, configured OSB 10g in a clustered high available environment.
 Configure and administered Connection pools for JDBC connections.
 Deployed proxy and business services using OSB console
 Installed and configured WebLogic 8.x/9.x/10.x plug-ins on Apache 2.x
 Craeated and Configured Data Sources for database connectivity and JMS resources..
 Performance tuning of JVM heap size, garbage collections, java stack and Native thread &
production performance.
 Application’s migration of WebLogic server from previous version to current versions.
 Troubleshoot WebLogic Server connection pooling and connection manager with Oracle, DB2
checking the code in to cvs.
 Performing d ay-to-day system administration activities, troubleshooting production issues, and
storage assignments such as adding LUNs to the volume groups and expanding the file systems.
 Analyzing thread dump and heap dump for WebLogic application server.
 Active involvement in monitoring the server performance, network traffic to reduce performance
bottleneck.
 Deployed WARs, EARs using WebLogic Admin Console as well as running scripts.
Experience:
CALHeers, Sacramento, CA
WebLogic Administrator Nov ’12– May’13
Responsibilities:

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 Installed, configured and administered Weblogic Server 10.3.x/11g on Red Hat Linux 5.x and
Windows environment. .
 Deployed J2EE applications on multiple Weblogic Server and maintained Load balancing and high
Availability by implementing Fail over on clustered environments.
 Installed and configured SOA, BPEL, OSB and OHS server. Created schemas using Repository
creation utility (RCU).
 Experience in setting clustering for SOA suite.
 Configure and administered of JDBC, JMS in Weblogic Server 10.3.
 Install and configured SSL certificates for Apache web server in various environments.
 Installed and configured Weblogic 8.x/9.x/10.x plug-ins on Apache 2.x.
 Involved in creation, configuration of JDBC resources and managing connection pools for database
connectivity.
 Deployed proxy and business services using OSB console.
 Used Config wizard and WLST scripts to create and manage Weblogic domains.
 Performance tuning of JVM heap size, garbage collections, java stack and Native thread &
production performance.
 Involved in creating service request with Oracle team in troubleshooting critical weblogic Server
issues by coordinating with cross functional teams.
 Researched and troubleshooted emerging application issues, from Weblogic configuration to code
issues.
 Analyzing thread dump and heap dump for Weblogic application server.
 Experience in configuring Weblogic domain across Data Centers in production environment.
 24X7 on call production support, technical support, and troubleshooting, problems related to oracle
Weblogic Server.
Environment:
Weblogic Server 10.3.x/9.x, SOA Suite 11g, OSB 10g, JDK1.6, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, EJB, LDAP, JDBC,
XML, Apache, UNIX (Solaris 8/9.0/10.0, LINUX 5 ), Oracle9/10gi, Win2K.
Paychex, Rochester, NY
Weblogic Engineer Dec ’11 – Oct ‘12
Responsibilities:
 Installed Weblogic Application server 8.1/9.2/10.3 using GUI and silent mode and configured the
Weblogic domain.
 Worked in a production environment supporting mission-critical applications.
 Installed and configured Apache HTTP Server 2.x Web Servers in various environments.
 Involved in Migration and Up gradation tasks like upgrading Weblogic server 9.2 to Weblogic 10.3
and updating JDK’s and installing service packs and patches for Weblogic Server.
 Troubleshooting every day problems and issues by interacting with developer and testing teams and
provided 24x7 On Call Production support on rotation basis.
 Deployed various J2EE and enterprise applications (WAR, JAR, RAR, EAR) on managed servers
and cluster environment and maintained Load Balancing, High Availability and Failover.

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 Installed and configured plug-ins for Apache HTTP server Web server to proxy the requests for
Weblogic server.
 Configured and administered JDBC data sources/multi data sources on Weblogic 9.2
 Involved in monitoring error logs, troubleshooting and fixing the problems.
 Implemented security by configuring Secured Socket Layer (SSL) for client authentication and data
encryption.
 Configured connectivity with SSL for App Servers and Web servers for applications in all
environments.
 Troubleshooting with Thread and Heap analysis Using Samurai thread dump tool, and Heap
Analyzer for detecting blocking and locked threads.
 Working knowledge of JMS using IBM MQ Series.
 Implemented standard backup procedures for Weblogic server.
 Experience in migrating from weblogic 8.1 to 9.2 and from 9.2 to 10.3.
 Involved in assisting QA team in Load and Integration testing of J2EE applications on WebLogic
Server.
 Supported developers and QA by maintaining test environments and configuring application servers to
development specifications.
 Consult with IT project management, product management, development, and engineering teams to
discuss capacity planning and resource allocation.
Environment:
BEA WebLogic 8.1/9.2/10.x, JDK 1.4/1.5, Apache 2.x, UNIX, Sun Solaris, Red Hat LINUX, Windows
NT/2K/XP, Oracle 8i/9i,10i JDBC, LDAP, EJB, JSP, Servlets, XML,MS Office, OpenSSL, Secure SSH,
Putty.
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Shell, Houston, TX
Middleware Engineer Jul ’10 – Nov ’11
Responsibilities:
 Provided support to Development, Testing, Staging and Production, environments.
 Installation, Configuring, troubleshooting and maintaining the Weblogic 8.1/9.x, Jboss 4.2.3 GA and
Apache 2.0 / SunOne Web Server 6.0.
 Created WebLogic domains, managed servers, clusters, machines and start up scripts.
 Created Jboss application instances with both clustered and non-clustered configuration.
 Configured JDBC resources, data sources and bounded to the J2EE applications, configured the
connection pools for the data sources.
 Created the JMS Server, JMS Connection Factories, Queues, Topics, File Store, Database Store and
Message Bridges and monitored.
 Managing and Monitoring the JVM performance by Weblogic Heap Size,
garbage collection, JDBC Pools and taking Thread dumps, pstack and prstat and
analyzing to find the problems in application. Configured the Session Management i.e.
Memory to Memory and Database replication on Weblogic Application
server.
 Involved in doing a performance benchmark of WebLogic server by using Loadrunner.
 Installed and configured Weblogic, Jboss, Apache Servers during the Data Center Server migration.

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 Upgraded all Production and Non Production systems to Weblogic 8.1 SP3 from Weblogic 8.1 SP2
successfully and installed DST patches. Applied patches to the WebLogic servers
 Configured Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) for data encryption and client authentication and Two Way
SSL for Weblogic 8.1/9.2 using Keytool.
 Provided Migration configuration for transactions, security, services, JMS servers and services while
transitioning from development to production environment.
 Installed and configured Site minder web agents on Web Servers on Windows 2003 and Solaris 9/10
Operating Systems
 Configured JNDI as repository for EJB Home stubs, queues and topics and Separate Execute Queues
for Heavily used EJBS
 Monitored WebLogic server resources using Wily 7.x Introscope.
 Deployed the WAR, JAR and EAR applications in WebLogic 8.1/9.2.
 Responsible for application changes across different platforms- development, testing and production
environments
 Involved in 24/7 support for production environments.
Environment:
SUN Solaris 8/9/10, WebLogic 8.1.x, 9.x, Jboss 4.2.3 GA, Apache, Windows 2003, WILY Introscope,
OpenSSL, Siteminder, Linux, Shell Scripting, WLST /JYTHON, ANT/AXIS/, Oracle 9i.
Barclays Bank, Wilmington , DE
Web Engineer Nov ’09 – Jun’10
Responsibilities:
• Install, configure and administered of BEA WebLogic Application Server, WebLogic Portal, WebLogic
workshop in various environments.
• Used configured wizard extensively to create and manage WebLogic domains.
• Provided 24/7 Support and on call schedule for Production support.
• Configure and administered of JDBC, JMS, JNDI, SNMP in WebLogic Server 8.3.
• Configure and administered of WebLogic server with Oracle9i database.
• 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.
• Created and configured websites for web hosting different applications.
• Problems by monitoring server availability and analyzing resources.
• Installed and configured Apache Web server and integrated with WebLogic server
• Maintain application configuration in production and test environments (UAT/Staging/ORT/PreProd) with
regular backups and for multiple release support.
• Configure Clustering EJB objects, jdbc connections and JMS connection factories.
• Used WLST to check the status of WLServers.
• Configure Node manager for administer the Managed servers.
• Created and configured new users groups and GlobalRoles to authenticate.
• Configure and administered Connection pools for JDBC connections.

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• Deployed applications like formats of WAR, JAR, EAR and Web-based/E-Commerce in WebLogic 8.1.
• Created WebLogic Portal domain and created projects, application and portal application in WebLogic
workshop.
• Installed and Configured the Oracle SOA Suite over HP-UX – BPEL PM on BEA Weblogic Server
• Installed, Migrated and configured IBM WebSphere MQ Series.
• Deployed applications on multiple WebLogic Server and maintained Load balancing, High Availability
and Failover functionality.
• Involved in doing a performance benchmark of Apache/WebLogic server by using Loadrunner and
Application Manager.
• Configured SSL and provided WebLogic based security procedures.
• Configured and deployed applications in various work environments like Development, QA, and
Production.
Environment: WebLogic Server 8.3/9.2 , MQ Series ,Solaris10, Oracle9i, Apache, Sitescope, IBM Http
Server, Remedy, Mercury7, IBM AIX Server, Web Services, LDAP, JDK 1.4.2, JSPs, EJBs and JMS.