SUMMARY:

Proactive Information Technology Specialist with in - depth expertise in multi-platform environments. Proven ability to diagnose and resolve system problems quickly, secure all aspects of server operations, minimized facility downtime. Assessed user requirements and provided cost-effective solutions. Known for delivering projects with aggressive timelines, at negotiated budget with high customer satisfaction. Well-developed ability to communicate effectively with users and colleagues across the organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Solaris 11, 10, 9, 8, Redhat Advanced Server 6,5,4, HP-UX 11.31, 11.23, 11.11, 11.0, 10.20, SuSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11,10,9, SCO, NetBSD, WINDOWS 2008 / XP

Hardware: Oracle SUN T5 and T4 Series, T5140, M5000, X4150, X4200, X4600, Fire Enterprise Servers 6800 / V890 / V480 / V240 server, HP RP 4440/RP 5470 / RP 7420 / RP 8420 / RX 2640 / RX 4640 / RX 8620/ RX 8640 / SuperDome, Dell 1950

High Availability: Veritas Cluster Server, MC / ServiceGuard, Sun ClusterVirtualization: Oracle VM/LDOM, Zones, vCloud Director 5.0, 5.1, ESXi 5.1, 5.5, nPar / vPar, Xen

Programming/Scripting Languages: Bash, Korn, C, C++, Java, Python, FORTRAN, Pascal, LISP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential , Somerset, NJ

UNIX SME/Engineer

• Implemented server security policies such as trusted systems, RBAC, authentication policy.
• Installed and configured security and compliance tools: ITM, Fusion, Parity, SRM, Sudo, ssh under contractual agreement. The tools are for UNIX security checks, compliance requirements, performance, capacity management, that is tailored to each client.
• Verified OS and application security configurations flagged by vulnerability reports from QualysGuard.
• Developed scripts to check patch levels, security levels, tools prerequisites and hardware requirements before taking control of client server. This resulted in 30% time savings and ensured project completion on time.
• Built Solaris, AIX, HPUX, Linux servers according to specifications.
• Built high availability 4 nodes Oracle VM clusters on T5-2s with Live Migration.
• Designed highly available cluster system. Configured VCS, VxVM, SVM.
• Implemented Oracle RAC running on four node VCS cluster.
• Designed and Built Solaris, Linux, HPUX, servers according to business requirements.
• Architected and Configured vSphere infrastructure consists of 20 ESXi 5.1 servers and one vCenter server. Enabled virtualized linux servers to perform vMotion.
• Built Jumpstart/Kickstart service for fast system deployment tailored to different hardwares.
• Decreased system deployment time. Duplicated operating systems on SUN hardware used Raid-1. Built Jumpstart/Kickstart service for fast system deployment tailored to different hardware.
• Implemented server security policies such as trusted systems, RBAC, authentication policy.
• Redhat Linux Performance Tuning using vmstat, iostat, sar, top and etc.
• Installed Linux patches for kernel, security updates.
• Utilized Solaris system performance tools such as DTrace and MDB.
• Troubleshot network performance issues using netstat, snoop, traceroute, tcpdump and etc.
• Increased system utilization. Designed and configured Solaris Zones for application isolation and efficient resources allocation.
• Developed scripts to check patch levels, security levels, tools prerequisites and hardware requirements before taking control of client server. This resulted in 30% time savings and ensured project completion on time.
• Installed and configured security and compliance tools: ITM, Fusion, Parity, SRM, Sudo, ssh under contractual agreement. The tools are for UNIX security checks, compliance requirements, performance, capacity management, that is tailored to each client.
• Verified OS and application security configurations flagged by vulnerability reports from QualysGuard.
• Evaluated Puppet for configuration management and server deployment tool.

Confidential , South Plainfield, NJ

Oracle Database Administrator Trainee

• Installation of Oracle 10gR2, creating databases, database objects, users, roles etc.
• Physical Database Design and Creation
• Created new databases, involving importing and exporting: installing and configured database software for Oracle Application development environment.

Confidential , Piscataway, NJ

UNIX Project Engineer

• Designed highly available system. Built Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), VxVM, CFS. Troubleshot VCS, VxVM errors.
• Configured / troubleshot multiple network services in conjunction with 186 system migrations (Solaris, Linux, HP-UX and SCO)/ upgrades delivered on-time, accurately and with user satisfaction.
• Saved money. Upgraded UNIX server infrastructure to Solaris 10 update 6 and Redhat Enterprise 5.2, 2 hours downtime.
• Increased customer satisfaction. Resolved problems quickly, correctly the first time.
• Cut troubleshooting process time from 2 days to 2.5 hours. Communicated directly with customers, eliminated network routing and firewall problem. Isolated application / system performance issues..
• Ensured system integrity. Upgraded FIX TAGG infrastructure in Market Data RealTime environment to SCO 6 and Linux operating environment.
• Doubled SAN bandwidth and stability using Powerpath.

Confidential, Carlstadt, NJ

Senior UNIX System Engineer/Architect

• Implemented Product Lifecycle Management system and integrated it in corporate LDAP environment.
• Doubled application performance. Tweaked systems/application performance with glance, OVPA, gpm and standard UNIX tools; sar, vmstat and etc. Analyzed kernel parameters for system and application performance tuning.
• Increased system, database / application performance/stability and saved money. Mentored 2 engineers and brought troubleshooting in-house.
• Increased productivity by 34%, reduced time to market from 18 mos. to 12 mos. Implemented Product Lifecycle Management system.
• Increased system operation time. Utilized HP Online Addition and Replacement feature, replaced I / O cards online in vPars or nPars.
• Delivered project 2 months ahead of schedule, increased Confidential efficiency. Early production rollout.

Confidential, Raritan, NJ

Senior UNIX System Engineer

• Increased system uptime to 99.99%. Designed, setup, maintained HP high availability cluster servers used MC / ServiceGuard Online JFS and MirroredDisk / UX.
• Increased hardware utilization 50%. Allocated system resources efficiently, used Virtualization; vPars, nPars, ICOD.
• Certified FDA servers. Validated FDA on UNIX production servers.
• Conformed 100% to ITIL stabilized environment. Analyzed problem root cause/initiated system change.
• Expanded network bandwidth and stability. Used HP Auto-Port Aggregation for multi-NIC load balancing.
• Increased connection speed. Employed HP SecurePath for load balancing fibre channels to SAN.
• Avoided fines. SOX remediation. Deployed patch bundles and scripts to 55 servers.

Confidential , Whitehouse Stations, NJ

Senior UNIX System Analyst

• Managed 80 HP / Sun UNIX servers which include LDAP, PKI, Firewall Monitoring, EzExpense, DMZ servers.
• Managed corporate LDAP servers.
• Cut system deployment time from 4 hrs to 45 min. Configured Ignite / Jumpstart Server for server deployment and disaster recovery.
• Increased web speed / uptime. Managed Linux (SuSE) server farm for web serving functions.
• Improved system uptime. Modified kernel parameters in real time used mdb / kmtune for Solaris / HP-UX.
• Ensured system security. Setup trusted systems and implemented various security policies, used ssh.

Confidential , Piscataway, NJ

Senior UNIX System Administrator

• Kept system available to 170 users, on 255 HP / Sun servers. Setup clients' business-to-business connections for project demonstrations and delivery.
• Setup and troubleshot NFS, NIS, NIS+, automount for network sharing of 250 system resources.
• Improved work efficiency 30%. Automated system administration tasks using shell scripts.

Confidential, Holmdel, NJ

Windows/Unix System Administrator

• Sustained system operation for170 people and 330 servers/workstations in a production environment. Led 2 system administrators
• 99.9% system uptime. Setup, maintained aggressive production, QA and development environment.
• Integrated Windows NT and UNIX environments used CIFS / Samba.
• Worked with developers and testers for SONICs fiber optic network management product.