PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Devoted, intent, dynamic, industrious and owning excellent communication skills with over 10 years of involvement in IT and over 7 years of experience in Linux and Confidential Vsphere System Administration and Server Virtualization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Linux/Unix: Linux Confidential Enterprise 5.x/6.x, CentOS 5.x/6.x, OEL, SUSE, Solaris 9/10

Confidential: ESXi, ESXi5, ESXi6, vCenter, vMotion, HA, DRS, Managing Resource pools, Confidential Workstation, Confidential Converter

Windows: Windows Server (2008 and 2003), NT,2000, Windows 95,98,Vista,XP, 7,8,10

Database: Oracle, MS SQL Server

Installation: Kickstart, HTTP, FTP, NFS/CIFS shares, Puppet

Storage: iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, Confidential CLARiiON, VMAX, VNX, NetApp 6240, 6040 FAS Solutions.

Scripting: Bash shell, Perl

Protocols/Services: TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, DNS, DHCP, FTP, SMTP, NFS, NIS, SMB, BIND, POP3, IMAP, SSH, TELNET, ICMP

Web: Apache HTTP server, Apache Tomcat server, JBoss, Java stacks

Monitoring: Nagios

Backup: Netbackup

Package Management: YUM, RPM

Troubleshooting: Ping, traceroute, telnet, netstat, netcat, tcpdump, ethtool, dig

Graphic Applications: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Visual Basic Adobe Photoshop, Adobe premiere, Adobe illustrator

Hardware: Dell (Dell Servers Dell PowerEdge R710, R810, 1950,2050,2150), HP - UX, HP BL460C, C-7000, HP Proliant DL380 g5,g6, Gen, Cisco UCS B200's, B250's, M1's M2's, Cisco (Switches 6500,2750,2900), HP Onboard Administrator, HP ILO, Dell DRAC, Cisco UCS Manager

Racks and Cabling: Installation of Hardware, Cable Management, Network, Power and fiber cabling

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Oklahoma City

Linux/Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• In a UNIX server environment, perform installation, customization and maintenance of the operating system and system software products in support of business processing requirements.
• Support Infrastructure services such as NFS, FTP, DHCP, DNS, NTP, Samba, VNC, and SSH.
• Managing Sever Farm consisting of 250+ Rack optimized Linux Clusters.
• Build Nodes using automated scripts (Kickstart scripts) and DHCP server.
• Architect and manage Enterprise SAN and NAS environments, disaster recovery.
• Installing/configuring blade enclosure and HP Virtual Connect, XEN, Confidential ESX/ESXi 5.1 and vCenter.
• Zoning, disk creation on various systems of SAN, maintaining and configuring various fiber switches and storages. Work on NetApp storage.
• Install and maintain Nagios Monitoring tool.
• Install & configure Confidential storage foundation such as VCS, VxVM, & Confidential Netbackup.
• Plan, document and support high availability, data replication, fail-over and fall-back Solutions using Confidential Cluster Server 5.0, 5.1 in SAN environment.
• Coordinate with SAN Team for storage allocation and Disk Dynamic Multi pathing.
• Work on Various SAN Products like Net App, Confidential Symmetrix, Confidential data systems.
• RDBMS installation and support for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL.
• Work with Backup Team to Configure the Master and Client Backup servers Using Confidential Net Back up.
• Set up LANs and WANs.
• Create Plugin Nagios.

Confidential, NY

Linux/Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed Linux OS, and configured required network on virtual machine.
• Built, implemented and maintained system-level software packages such as OS, Clustering, disk, file management, backup, web applications, DNS, LDAP.
• Configured, and automated the deployment of Linux and Confidential infrastructure through existing Kickstart/Jumpstart infrastructure.
• Configured and maintained FTP, DNS, NFS and DHCP servers.
• Performed configuration of standard Linux and network protocols, such as SMTP, DHCP, DNS, LDAP, NFS, SMTP, HTTP, SNMP and others.
• Mentored other system administrators in engineering, installation, configuration, testing and Administration of Linux servers.
• Configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting of local development servers. Software Implementations.
• Worked on virtual and physical Linux host for decommission.
• Managed server on Confidential vshpere center.
• Configured Linux guests in a Confidential ESX environment.
• Understand server virtualization technology such as Confidential .
• Installed, tested and implemented DB2 database management systems and related products.
• Involved in creating plug-in nagios.
• Suggested tools and related implementation to engineering teams regarding cloud based services.
• Resolved problems in cloud applications by proper identification as per client requirements.
• Install and run automated Puppet. Used Puppet to deploy Mail software across multiple mail servers.

Confidential, MN

Linux/Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked primarily on RHEL 4/5, HPUX and Solaris 8,9& 10 operating systems.
• Involved in migration activities using Confidential LVM, Solaris LVM.
• Confidential and Sun/Oracle support teams. Migrated oracle RAC servers using system Confidential open
• Wrote shell Perl scripting for automation of job.
• Tuned kernel parameters base on the application /database requirement.
• Used Confidential file system Confidential volume manager to configure RAID 1 and RAID.
• File system tuning, growing, and shrinking with Confidential file system 3.5/4.x.
• Installed and configured GFS cluster for holding databases.
• Validated the servers to check they meet the customer requirements.
• Setup and manage DNS and DHCP Servers.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Linux/Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured Linux Servers for different Applications and Oracle Databases.
• Deployed postgress code in Production environment for electronic maps and navigation systems.
• Adding new development user accounts, removing users, resetting user accounts in Confidential Enterprise Linux to allow new developer's access to Confidential Servers.
• Setup and Configured various benchmark test to kernel tune linux operating system for DBAs and other groups in the organization.
• Setup environment based sudo permissions to allow developers to perform day to day activities including running start/stop scripts in development environment.
• Used networking tools such as ssh, telnet, tcpdump, wireshark, ftp and ping to troubleshoot networking issues.
• Monitored RAM/CPU, Disk space utilization.
• Backup/restore with tar including disk partitioning and formatting.
• Remote system administration using tools like SSH, Telnet, and Rlogin.
• Involved in installing and configuring of NFS and SAMBA.
• Administer SAN Confidential Clariion CX500/700.
• Configured RAID Groups, Binding Lun’s and Managed Storage groups.
• Responsible for SAN Zoning preferred WWN Zoning.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Planned, designed and implemented servers and network for engineering test applications.
• Configured the Remote Console service to the servers.
• Validated configuration standards for Active Directory domain controllers for directory security.
• Provided Project support and Data Center support for upcoming projects.
• Collaborated with other advisory committees in making recommendations concerning Active Directory operations management.
• Implementing Active Directory Services, maintaining Replication, Trust Relationship and enforcing Domain wide Group Policies.
• Configuring & troubleshooting DHCP server and DHCP relay agent and WINS services.
• Managed server on Confidential, provided test environments on virtual machines.
• Provide IT support to internal WaMu staff members.
• Provided application support to large users groups.
• Configured and Manage Apache web server.
• Manage software and hardware RAID systems,
• Configure and maintain FTP, DNS, NFS and DHCP servers.
• Manage user accounts, and authentication process by NIS service.
• Manage System Firewall utilizing IP Chains, IP Tables. Implemented SSH SSL.
• Managed user disk usage by setting up quotas.
• Implemented and maintained data replication for both SAN and NAS storage to meet requirements.
• Configured SAN storage to allocate storage for hosts.
• Created Kickstart scripts as per the user requirement and performed few test deployments.
• Assigned the Server Build Tasks, DHCP Management, Kickstart Modifications and OS image Management to each team member.
• Validated the servers to check they meet the customer requirements.
• Provided application support for Patran and fluent.
• Applications supported on the above servers are Apache/Tomcat.
• Performed Jboss Administration for Dev and Test Environments.
• Setup and manage DNS and DHCP Servers.

Environment: Windows 2003, Solaris, Linux