SUMMARY:

Over 19 years of extensive experience in HP/Sun/AIX System Administration, Storage management SAN, NAS and CAS, Information security, compliance, install, upgrade, troubleshooting and Maintenance. Worked for the top multinational companies like. Managed datawarehouse systems for the retail bank and citicards division. Proven track record with successful implementation of commercial systems as an Oracle Ingres Database Administrator as well as a UNIX HP - UX, AIX, Linux RHEL and SUN Solaris System administration. Supported Datastage / Infosphere 7.5, 8.0, Abinitio and Websphere. Experienced in EMC Symmetrix / DMX3000 and XP 256 / 512 Storage Systems. Highly skilled in HP Openview ITO/VPO/OVO 5.3/7.1 and NNM 6.3 Service management software and relational database design, database sizing and security management procedures.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• System Administrator.
• IBM Certified AIX 5L Specialist.
• Sun Certified Solaris 10 Administrator.
• ITIL Certified V3 Service Management Foundation.
• RDBMS: Oracle 7.3 8i 8.1.6, INGRES 6.4, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL JPL
• O.S.: AIX 5.x,6.x HP-UX 9.x,10.x,11.x, Linux RHEL 4, 5 Solaris 2.x, 5.x, 8, 10, Novell Netware, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista and OS/2
• H/W: HP-9000 series 700/800, Superdome, RS/6000, 7040, P690, P570 and P595 regattas, S85, SUN Sparc, E15K, E25K, AS/400.
• Storage: SAN EMC Symmetrix thin thick provisioning Clarion, EMC Powerpath, IBM Enterprise Storage Server SharkType 2105 with Fiber Switch, IBM Total Storage SSA, Hitachi Data Systems HDS, HP EVA 5000, HP VA 7410. DMX 3000, EMC Control Center ECC, Storage Navigator, Timefinder and SRDF.
• Other: Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas file systems and veritas netbackup. Have worked with weblogic, dynamo, iplanet and security system mgmt. products like Tivoli, ESM, FXBoKS, Powerbroker, SSH, Etrust Access Control, BMC Performance Assurance, LDAP/Kerberos, Tectia, Netagent, NIS, NFS, TIScan. HP Service management software. Also have experience with Netbackup, Tivoli Storage Manager TSM and Omniback/Data Protector. Jumpstart, Kickstart, NIM, Ignite-UX, Glance and MWA.Abinitio, Datastage and Websphere.

EXPERIENCE:

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Platform unix and Storage EMC Engineer

• Installing new servers. Upgrading existing servers to Solaris 10. Updating all servers to the current patch levels. Allocating Storage to newly installed servers. Providing support to the existing applications like AAA and VZNet. Workingwith the vendors for hardware and software support. Working with Bridgewater Systems for building a configuration management tool and supporting the ongoing audit requirements. Managing the X4270, 4170 and T5240s SUN servers. Installing Oracle for the database servers and working on performance and capacity issues.
• The following projects are to be completed this year.
• Build Jumpstart servers.
• Build WAN Boot servers.
• Configuration Management tools.
• Patch Management.
• Firmware Management.
• Storage Management Available, Allocated and used.
• Server and Storage Consolidation.
• Performance and Capacity reporting.

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Solaris, AIX HP-UX UNIX / SAN EMC Senior Unix System Administrator

• Workied on AIX, LPARs, filesystem, capacity planning, performance monitoring, production support of P690, P595, S85 Power5 and Power6 frames and HMCs etc..and Z/Linux LPARs. Security management through BoKS, eTrust Access Control and Enterprise Security Manager ESM . Managing production support of critical financial applications and supporting development groups for application development platforms Abinitio, Websphere and middleware like IPlanet etc. Upgrading systems from 5.3 to 6.1, patch management and management reporting. Also installed various storage components like ECC and powerpath. Root mirroring, SYSBACK and MKSYSB bakups. Support database filesystems for logs, indexes and data.
• Did data migration from old EMC symmetrix frames to the new EMC DMX3000 frames for the Citicards datawarehouse approx. 140 TB. Implemented EMC Control Center ECC for all the EMC frames this helped in inventory, monitoring and measure of he utilization of storage.
• Previously supported Solaris 8, 9, 10 running on M and T series, E15 E25K servers for supporting legacy applications and migration / consolidation to Solaris 10 global and local domains. User management via NIS infrastructure, eTrust Access Control eAC, eTrust Audit and eTrust Admin which is getting converted to LDAP/Kerberos by Q2 2010. Security configuration management and change management by ESM. Support critical corporate investment bank critical applications. Install patches and application updates in green zones. Build new development, Work with data center for new server install, move and disaster recovery processes and functions. Upgrading solaris 8 and 9 to 10. Performance monitoring purposes using Tivoli and for capacity planning using BMC Performance Assurance. Key interface for engineering, development and production issues. Also have worked with Audit and compliance. Implemented Tectia for secure access to hosts. Extensive knowledge of virtualization technologies specifically Veritas Volume Manager 3.x-4.x VxVM, Veritas File System VxFS and Veritas Cluster Server. Also well versed in Sun Volume Manager. SVM .
• Supported information security server infrastructure and application like eTrust Access Control, eTrust Admin and eTrust Audit. Upgraded the security software FXBoks Keon, eTrust Access Control to version 6.5.0.3 and 5.3.0.5. Also worked on ESM infrastructure and policies for security compliance and change control purposes. Deployed ESM agents to Solaris, AIX and HP-UX servers in Dev, COB, UAT and production environments.
• Have worked on system security and auditing related issues and IBM RS6000 and Regattas 7040 P690s running AIX 5.2, 5.3 and 6.1 HACMP and SP/PSSP 3.4 3 EMC DMX 3000 Storage arrays using fiber channel and brocade switches. Supporting 30 TB SAN configuration for the Citi Cards. Worked on expanding the SAN environment to accommodate the sears cards database. Managed LPARs and VIO for multiple frames for supporting Websphere, Datastage and Abinitio platforms.
• Worked extensively with internal auditors on security and control issues. Responsible for implementing NIS and TCB for HPUX 10.20, 11.00 and 11i. Supporting multiple two node clusters of HP High availability Mcserviceguard. Also involved in the implementation of the HP/Hitachi XP256 1 TB SAN. Successfully implemented OMNIBACK/DATA PROTECTOR 6.0 and IGNITE UX. Also worked with NNM and ITO implementing OVO 7.0, upgradation, applying the relevant patches and implementing oracle database, which supports it. Installation, Configuration, maintenance and system administration support of HP-UX 10.20, 11.04 and 11i on various HP servers namely - K410, K580, K460, T500, L1000 L2000, N4000 and R and RP series machines, Superdomes. Development maintenance of shell scripts, LVM, SAM and command line usage of the same for file system maintenance. Managed VPARs and NPARs for for Superdomes and used PRM and WLM software. Installation and configuration of disk arrays using the Gridmanager, connecting the console with server through the null modem connectors. Disaster Recovery planning for all client server networks and maintenance of network security firewall designs. Solaris consolidation on Solaris 10 servers by using LDOMs Global and Local domains and ZFS. The servers were R, V and T series. The project was to consolidate market data and implement RMDS6 alongwith DACS MDM upgrade. Have worked on CHECKPOINT firewall. Also worked on HP Openview Vantagepoint ITO 5.3 to 7.0 maintenance, monitoring upgrade. Supporting HP service management software for change, Problem and Asset management purposes for the retail bank. Supporting EMCs 3430/3330 and XP256 alongwith Dynamo, Weblogic and LDAP, Crack and SSH. Maintenance and support and upgrade of VPO 5.30 to 7.10 managing templates, applications, nodes, users and oracle 8.1.7/ 9.2.0 database. Very well conversant with the following processes as applicable to the technology infrastructure Change, problem, information security, Management Reporting, Performance / Availability Montoring, Capacity Planning, Configuration management, End-of-life software and hardware management, Production Support, Problem Management, Upgrades and maintenance, Vulnerabilities Patch management and Vulnerability scans for high risk internet facing servers.
• Also completed the following projects:
• Implementation of Tivoli Provisiong Manager.
• Implementation of Netbackup across regions and datacenters.
• Server Consolidation project
• Storage consolidation project
• Implementation of Z/Linux on Pseries

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UNIX Security Administrator

Responsible for implementing NIS for HPUX 10.20 and 11.00. Also involved in the implementation of the HP/Hitachi XP256 1 TB SAN. Successfully implemented IGNITE UX. Also worked with NNM and ITO, upgradation, applying the relevant patches and implementing oracle database, which supports it. Installation, Configuration, maintenance and system administration support of HP-UX 9.04, 10.10, 10.20 and 11.00 on various HP servers namely - D250, D350, E45/55, H60, I70, K410, K580, K460, T500, L1000 L2000, A500 A180 A180C A400, N4000 and R series machines. Development maintenance of shell scripts, LVM, SAM and command line usage of the same for file system maintenance. Installation and configuration of disk arrays using the Gridmanager, connecting the console with server through the null modem connectors. Have used extensively veritas volume manager 3.0 and 3.1 also worked with veritas file systems. Installation, Configuration and maintenance of Sun Sparc workstations with Oracle 8.1.5 RDBMS applications for AT T communication software on Sun Solaris 2.5.1. Disaster Recovery planning for all client server networks and maintenance of network security firewall designs. Have worked on CHECKPOINT firewall. Also worked on HP Openview Vantagepoint ITO 5.3 to 6.1 maintenance, monitoring upgrade. Supporting EMCs 3430/3330 and XP256 alongwith Dynamo, Weblogic and LDAP, Crack and SSH. Administering hardware raids - dassmgr. Using Sun Sparc and ultra sparc workstations along with R220 R350 R450s. Supporting Netscape Web Server applications. Using Jumpstart and netbackup.

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UNIX System Administrator

Supporting two/2 node clusters of Mc/service Guard along with other medical applications running on K570/580s running HPUX. Also supporting v2250 with EMC disks of more than 1TB. These are twenty production servers needing 24x7 support. Using performance tools like glance, top, measureware and BEST1 and managing checkpoint firewalls.

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SUN Solaris System Administrator

Previously worked at Verizon as a consultant for System administration of Sun Solaris 2.6, 7 and 8 Machines. Installing, Upgrading and supporting the OS with Veritas 3.1.1 Solstice disk suite and Solstice backup. Administering hardware raids - dassmgr. Using Sun Sparc and ultra sparc workstations along with E1000 E10000 R220 R350 R450s. Supporting Netscape Web Server applications. Using Jumpstart and netbackup.

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UNIX / Storage Sr. System Administrator - Lead / Project Manager.

Have handled implementation of various new projects like EMC, XP256 and serviceguard alongwith procurement of new servers/hardware, networking equipments and softwares. I have recruited system admins for the lab and we had over 200 HP servers and approx. 30 Sun servers alongwith the various storage devices like XP and EMC symmetrics. We have supported over thousands of external and internal customers thru our lab in Florham Park. Aslo managed three system administrator under me. I was also involved in the time and resource management alongwith the technical support of servers and operating system / applications.

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UNIX / High Availability Cluster - System Administrator.

• Responsible for implementing NIS for HPUX 10.20 and 11.00. Also involved in the implementation of the HP/Hitachi XP256 1 TB SAN. Successfully implemented IGNITE UX. Also worked with NNM and ITO, upgradation, applying the relevant patches and implementing oracle database, which supports it. Installation, Configuration, maintenance and system administration support of HP-UX 9.04, 10.10, 10.20 and 11.00 on various HP servers namely - D250, D350, E45/55, H60, I70, K410, K580, K460, T500, L1000 L2000, A500 A180 A180C A400, N4000 and R series machines. Development maintenance of shell scripts, LVM, SAM and command line usage of the same for file system maintenance. Installation and configuration of disk arrays using the Gridmanager, connecting the console with server through the null modem connectors. Have used extensively veritas volume manager 3.0 and 3.1 also worked with veritas file systems. Installation, Configuration and maintenance of Sun Sparc workstations with Oracle 8.1.5 RDBMS applications for AT T communication software on Sun Solaris 2.5.1. Disaster Recovery planning for all client server networks and maintenance of network security firewall designs. Have worked on CHECKPOINT firewall.
• Have done system network administration. TCP/IP, NIS and NFS configurations and trouble shooting. Development and production environment HP9000 servers. Extensive experience in setting up and recovering by using IGNITE UX, COPYUTIL and OMNIBACK 2.55/3.00 utilities. File system set up and maintenance along with the LVM Logical Volume Manager and MIRROR UX usage. Installation, configuration, upgradation and supporting application software: SAS, Accugraph, Remedy, SNA3270, Paradyne, One Vision DCE Manager. Involved in implementation of Windows NT 4.0 and SQL server along with the Microsoft Exchange Server. Extensively worked on the Gridmanager using the raid arrays model 10 and 20's with the HP servers.
• Have extensively worked on EMC disks and related software supported on HP9000 servers. Have implemented 1 terra byte EMC disk with a HP9000/T500 for a medical database and data warehousing using ORACLE 8.1.5. Worked with Time Finder software and BCV's and simmanager from EMC. Tuning and Optimizing Unix kernel for OLTP. Putting up a disaster recovery strategy for development and production environment HP9000 servers. Extensive experience in setting up and recovering file systems using IGNITE UX, HP DIAGNOSTICS COPYUTIL and OMNIBACK 2.55. File system setup, sizing and tuning using BEST1, glance and top. Logical Volume Manager LVM and MIRROR UX.
• Worked on EMC 3330 and a EMC 3430 disks with 1 TB capacity. Connecting and configuring the disk with the HP9000 servers. The pilot project has started for the High availability clusters with MC Service Guard implementation. The initial three-node cluster is made of the development boxes - D350 boxes running Sybase replication server 11.5, Remedy 4.0 and Oracle 8.1.5 Datawarehouse on HPUX 10.20. The MC Service Guard version is 10.11.

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UNIX AIX HP-UX System Administrator

• Performed system administrator for HP machines ranging from H50 to T500 with EMC disks, raids and HPUX versions from 9.04 to 10.20 and IBM RS6000 machines ranging from H40 to SP2 frames. Worked on ADSM backup server and clients.
• Installed and upgraded ADSM server and clients. Had exposure to BEST/1 performance monitor. Obtained training from IBM on AIX and PSSP on the SP2 frames with SSA drive. Have worked with AIX 4.1.4 4.1.5 4.2.1 and 4.3.1 Was involved in Y2K tests for AIX and HP-UX. Regularly interacted with the Database Administrators for the Y2K tests and performance tuning along with user support. Regularly monitored predictive support on the HP machines. Installed various versions of AIX and HPUX with Y2K patches and also did OS upgrades. Disk and file system trouble shooting and hardware upgrades.
• Extensively worked on EMC disks and related software supported on HP9000 servers. Have implemented 1 terra byte EMC disk with a HP9000/T500 for a medical database and data warehousing using ORACLE 7.3.3. Worked with Time Finder software and BCV's and simmanager from EMC. Tuning and Optimizing Unix kernel for OLTP. Putting up a disaster recovery strategy for development and production environment HP9000 servers. Extensive experience in setting up and recovering file systems using IGNITE UX, HP DIAGNOSTICS COPYUTIL and OMNIBACK 2.55. File system setup, sizing and tuning using BEST1, glance and top. Logical Volume Manager LVM and MIRROR UX.

SUBURBAN PROPANE

UNIX System Administrator

Responsible for upgrading all their systems from HP-UX 9.04 to HP-UX 10.20 including their x.25 lines and Xcom software applications, which run for obtaining data from the main frame system at Houston, to the systems at Whippany running SAP on Oracle and HP-UX. Along with the upgrades also carrying out day to day system administration responsibilities like setting up Omniback for backing up the HP servers ranging from G50 to T500. Upgrading the Omniback Cell server and the client software, license management and user support. Systems and Network administration, TCP/IP, NIS, NFS and DNS configuration and troubleshooting. Platform software and hardware upgrades and maintenance. System backup and recovery using OMNIBACK 2.55, COPYUTIL diagnostics and IGNITE UX. Also used extensively MIRROR UX for mirroring of logical volumes and file systems. Performance monitoring by BEST1, glance and top, testing, installation and fixing new pre- release Operating System installation and patches, software packages and hardware/ system configuration and tuning, and file system maintenance.

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UNIX AIX HP-UX System Administrator

Worked for the NYSE New York Stock Exchange at 2, Metrotech, Brooklyn. Involved in the WDS wireless data service which comprises of all HP servers ranging from E series to the G series HP 9000 machines. Except the operating system all the software components are developed in-house. Responsible for the implementation and maintenance of the WDS i.e. the wireless data system. Upgraded the application software along with the operating system to 10.20 and applying the year 2000 patches, supporting the users in case of problems are regular responsibilities. All the servers are in Distributing Computing Environment i.e. running DCE.

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UNIX Administrator / Oracle DBA.

• Designing, development, installation and maintenance of Oracle 7.1.0, Ingres 6.4 Sybase 10.0 RDBMS based applications, developed using C and SQL. Development of backup strategies for multiple HP-UX platforms using HP-Omniback II and Fbackup scripts on optical juke boxes data autochangers.
• Installing and maintaining Cisco Works and Cisco View software, as well as HP Openview and Hummingbird. Configuring of Cisco 4500, 2500 Routers and monitoring networks using HP Network node managers ver 3.31 4.11, HP-Netmatrix and IT operations ver 3.00 on HP network servers Netserver .
• Installation, configuration, maintenance and system administration support of HP-UX 9.04 10.10, 10.20 and 11.00 on various HP servers namely - D250, D350, E45/55, H60, I70, K410, K580, K460 and T500 series machines. Development maintenance of shell scripts, LVM, SAM and command line usage of the same for file system maintenance. Installation and configuration of disk arrays using the Gridmanager, connecting the console with server through the null modem connectors.
• Installation, Configuration and maintenance of Sun Sparc workstations with Ingres 6.4 RDBMS applications for AT T communication software on Sun Solaris 2.5.1. Disaster Recovery planning for all client server networks and maintenance of network security firewall designs.
• Also performed system network administration. TCP/IP, NIS and NFS configurations and trouble shooting. Development and production environment HP9000 servers. Extensive experience in setting up and recovering by using IGNITE UX, COPYUTIL and OMNIBACK 2.55/3.00 utilities. File system set up and maintenance along with the LVM Logical Volume Manager and MIRROR UX usage.
• Installation, configuration, upgradation and supporting application software: SAS, Accugraph, Remedy, SNA3270, Paradyne, One Vision DCE Manager. Involved in implementation of Windows NT 4.0 and SQL server along with the Microsoft Exchange Server.

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UNIX Admin/Oracle DBA.

• Designing, Development, Installation and maintenance of Oracle 7.1.0, Ingres 6.4 Sybase 10.0 RDBMS based applications, developed using C and SQL. Development of backup strategies for multiple HP-UX platforms using HP-Omniback II and Fbackup scripts on optical juke boxes data autochangers. Installing and maintaining Cisco Works and Cisco View software. Configuring of Cisco 4500, 2500 Routers and monitoring networks using HP Network node managers ver 3.31 4.11, HP-Netmatrix and IT operations ver 3.00 on HP network servers NetServer .
• Installation, Configuration, maintenance and system administration support of HP-UX 9.04 10.10 on various HP servers namely - D250, E45/55, H60, I70, K410 and T500 series machines.

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Oracle DBA / UNIX Administrator

• Planned and implemented SQL Net V1 to SQL Net V2 migration. Provided expert consulting for new projects on database and application issues. Also handled ORACLE installation, backup and recovery and database performance tuning.
• Established communication between various clients and server using SQL Net. Granted and revoked object privileges. Performed transaction control, creation of views and synonyms, query of views. Performed database security and recovery, allocation of system and application storage space. Also responsible for creating databases, table spaces memory structures, maintaining system security, managing database procedures and table level triggers. Performed on-line, off-line and logical backups. Utilized export and import utilities.
• Also performed the following functions on an INGRES 6.4 database: Loading applications, extensively used ISQL, Process Monitoring through IPM and Table and Indexes maintenance through QBF. Used ISQL for building of primary and secondary indexes. Regularly operated backups through UNLOADDB utility. Building of system statistics by OPTIMIZEDB options. Regularly used MODIFYDB for releasing disc space against deleted data. Configured logs. Maintained security for database users. Created databases and tuned parameters like runrundbms, locking parameters, session's memory buffers and caches. Used SQLNet and SQLStar for networking with other systems.
• Responsible for two HP-9000 boxes connected back to back for running the Distribution/Logistics system totally on-line, one RS/6000 for running the Stock and Sales information system which is quasi on-line and one AS/400 for the MRP and BPCS packages implementation of which are in process. Loading of HP-UX 9.x onto HP-9000 E45, E55. Administering security for the system using SAM. Granting user rights using SAM/smit along with CHMOD, CHGRP CHOWN commands for files and directories. Kernel tuning using SAM parameters. Kernel rebuilding.
• Backup and recovery using tar and cpio commands with all options. Partition management for the logical disk volumes. Monitoring processes using ps with all options. Partition backups for /root and other user partitions and Recovery in the event of disk crash. Disk space monitoring using Bdf and SAM utilities. Memory measurement using SAM and other Unix commands. Adding devices like workstations, printers and configuring them. Editing initial parameter entries to activate the workstations attached. Regulating fstab, mnttab, mtune and stune parameters.
• Responsible for user support, upgradation of software applications loaded, user maintenance, system tuning, database maintenance etc. Also, responsible for the LAN installed at the office for secretaries and a group of users.
• Maintaining the LAN, housekeeping of the LAN Server, Liaison with the vendors. Total responsibility for MIS reporting to the top management and operations and logistics of Eastern India.