Objective: Looking for a position as a Linux Administrator in reputable Organization that will utilize my educational background, extensive skills experience.

SUMMARY:

• Talented and accomplished Information Technology professional with extensive background in Systems and Network Engineering
• Install and maintain all server hardware and software systems and administer all server performance and ensure availability for same.
• Maintain all system backup and assist to restore all procedures and provide required training to all users.
• Design and maintain all system tools for all scripts and automation processes and monitor all capacity planning.
• Integrate all required software and resolve all issues across various technologies and design require enterprise servers and provide back up support.
• Evaluate all documents according to system requirements and evaluate all design and perform tests on all development activities and administer all complex methodologies.
• Develop an infrastructure to provide support to all business requirements and perform regular troubleshoot on system to resolve all issues.
• Monitor everyday systems and evaluate availability of all server resources and perform all activities for Linux servers.
• Assist to configure and deploy all virtual machines and install and provide backup to all configuration procedures.
• Maintain and monitor all patch releases and design various patch installation strategies and maintain all systems according to NIST standardization.
• Administer all performance for various resources and ensure optimization for same and provide support to all applications and ensure optimal level of customer services.
• Maintain and monitor all system frameworks and provide after call support to all systems and maintain optimal Linux knowledge.
• Perform troubleshoot on all tools and maintain multiple servers and provide back up for all files and script management servers.
• Perform tests on all new software and maintain patches for management services and perform audit on all security processes.
• Design, Support, and Installation
• Proven ability to design and implement large-scale network and systems infrastructures at the national and global levels.
• International project management experience.
• Able to liaison between technical and non-technical persons.
• Adept at determining requirements, project scheduling, and technology planning.
• Multiple certifications, including MCSE, CNA, A , CCNA, and more.
• Outstanding presentation and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS: Operating Systems:

• Windows 98/NT/2000/XP,
• Linux RHEL 6 Update Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE , BSD, FreeBSD, OS/2
• Novell Netware, AIX, Solaris, AS400

Networking:

• LAN/WAN design and architecture,
• TCP/IP, Ethernet, IPX/SPX, ATM, fiber optics OC3, OC12, OC48 , T1/T3
• Web services, VPN, various protocols.

Applications/Tools:

• MS Office, Visio, Project, Clarify, Crystal Reports
• Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino, SAP, MS Exchange
• HP Openview, Checkpoint, Sidewinder, Raptor Systems
• NMap, Airsnort, Spectrum NMS, Tivoli, Internet Scanner Software ISS , ITA, ESM
• Legato Professional Backup, Full-time HA Cluster
• NetObjects, Fluke Network Inspector, Unicenter TNG, Oracle 8, SA DNCS
• Websphere Internet Server, Apache Web server, Legato Professional Backup, VINES, CTRIX, VNC

Hardware:

• PC / server assembly and repair, digital Head end Equipment
• Divicom RTEs, Digital Satellite receivers, Terryon Cherry Pickers
• IBM Midrange H50s, Cisco routers/switches/hubs, Bay hubs/routers
• Marconi/Fore Systems ATM routers/switches, Xylan switches, IBM RS/6000
• SpectraCom GPS Clock, 3COM hubs and Office Connect units
• NetGear switches/hubs, Nortel and WorldCom telephony systems
• Cabletron hubs, peripherals, Air Force IS Equipment, Spectrum analyzers and Cable
• Sniffer
• QAM/QPSK Analyzers, DOCSIS 1.2 gear, MPEG analyzers, Sun Microsystems
• Enterprise and Blade Servers

Development Tools:

• Java embedded and standard , JavaScript, Perl scripting, ColdFusion
• Shell scripting Borne and Korne shells , embedded code writing, Unicenter TNG,
• C/C

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Confidential

Role: Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

Corporate Liaison / Field Engineer / Network Engineer / Project Coordinator

• Plan, design, install, and support major server and network systems for clients in Japan, UK, Canada, South America, and the U.S. Provide pre and post-sales support as needed for clients such as Time Warner, Comcast, UK Cable, and many others. Carried out system administration.
• Installed, configured, upgraded, and maintained digital cable head end systems, ATM switches and equipment, routers, switches, hubs, servers, fiber optic cabling, SONET rings, Wi-Fi, and more. Supported Scientific Atlanta's brand as well as Motorola, Pioneer, and many others.
• Performed configuration and support of Solaris/UNIX-based Digital Network Control System DNCS and all interconnecting equipment.
• Project Manager for international development and installation projects, creating systems supporting from 5,000 to 4.2 million users.
• Responsible for complete project life cycles, including requirements determination, technical planning, scheduling, design, implementation, testing, and post-implementation support.
• Served as liaison between company and client technical and executive management teams.
• Performed XOD/VOD integration and support for internal/external clients. Maintained video servers of up to 3 million addressable multicast nodes.
• Installed, configured, and supported broadband email, automated log emailing, interactive services, WAN systems, DNS, and IP networks.
• Conducted in-house and client-site training, installed and supported equipment for international and domestic industry events.

Confidential

Role: Linux/Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration of RHEL and AS 3, 4, 5 which includes installation, testing, tuning, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting both physical and virtual server issues.
• Creating, cloning Linux Virtual Machines, templates using VMware Virtual Client 3.5.
• System and Network Administration training, which include but is not limited to installing Linux , Solaris, UNIX internals, NFS/NIS management, and DNS Configuration
• Configuration of LVM on AIX 5.x and RHEL and extensively used LVM, created VGs, LVs and mirroring
• Creating, installing and configuring Zones, LDOMs in Sun Solaris 10using Jumpstart.
• Performs Integration, Deployment and maintenance support of system integration activities.
• Creating Linux Virtual Machines using VMware Virtual Center and AIX LPARs on P550 and P570
• Regular disk management like adding/replacing hard drives on existing Linux, AIX, Solaris servers/workstations, partitioning according to requirements, creating new file systems or growing existing one over the hard drives and managing file systems.
• Provides coordination with technical presentation to the customer. Perform data backups and disaster recovery operations.
• Experience in installation of Splunk tool, proficient in Splunk search and building reports and alerts.
• Build LPAR system and Installed AIX 5.3 and 6.1 on LPAR using NIM Power 4, 5 and 6 systems and Upgraded Maintenance level as well.
• Involves in maintenance support and troubleshooting of system deployed with customers.
• Adding SAN using multipath and creating physical volumes, volume groups, logical volumes.
• Gathering requirements from customers and business partners and design, implement and provide solutions in building the environment.
• Installing and configuring Apache and supporting them on Linux production servers.
• Troubleshooting Linux network, security related issues, capturing packets using tools such as IPtables, firewall, TCP wrappers, NMAP.
• Installing Jboss application, JDK 1.5, 1.6, setting up and testing Ingrain device.
• Updated the System Firmware for IBM power5 and power4 machines.
• Used LPAR Validation Tool LVT to validate the resources assigned to LPARs
• Setup of full networking services and protocols on AIX, RHEL including NIS/NFS, DNS, SSH, DHCP, NIDS, TCP/IP, ARP applications, to insure optimal networking, application functionality
• Installed and verified that all AIX/Linux patches or updates are applied to the servers.
• Performed Installation and Configuration of NIM. Installed AIX on each node using NIM.
• Expertise in enterprise class storage including SCSI, RAID and Fiber-Channel technologies.
• Configuration of the RAID 1 and RAID 5 Storage using Veritas File system and Volume Manager.
• Installed and Configured Websphere Application servers on Linux and AIX.
• Provide technical support to other teams, members and associates.

Confidential

Network System Admin

Responsibilities:

SAN right tearing /consolidation

• Migration of Storage from EMC, Hitachi to IBM MPIO behind IBM's SVC.
• Total 3500 servers to be migrated to IBM storage MPIO behind IBM's Storage Volume Controller.
• on HACMP and RAC clustered servers.
• Host based migrations.
• Upgrading the Microcode level of the HBA's.
• Configured IBM P-series: 570, 595, 670, 690 for production, staging, Development and test environments.
• Installed and configured AIX, 5.3 and 6.1 on P-595's creating the root volume group application/backup volume groups, logical volumes, and filesystems JFS JFS2 on RAID Level 5 with appropriate data stripping for protection, and for the optimal performance of the Servers within a High Availability system DFS using DASD, DCE and services.
• Set up, configure, backup and restore nim database and create various NIM objects and resources such as lppsource, spot, bosinst.data, image.data.
• Created LPARS and DLPARS on p570, p590, p595, p690 servers.
• IBM P-series System Software Maintenance AIX System Dump Generation and sending System Dump to AIX System Support Center.
• database/IBM WebSphere and WebLogic servers
• Daily roles included dealing with LVM and Filesystems extensively.
• Supporting AIX on WebSphere application server5.0 servers and assisting web team in configuring the ports, name services etc.
• Responsible in working on slow servers and increasing performance through performance monitoring tools such as vmstat, iostat, sar, nmon and topas. Also used additional tools including vmo, ioo, no.