SUMMARY

• Result driven consultant wif 7+ years of support, and operational experience on UNIX, Red Hat Linux installation, VMware, Red Hat clustering, creating back up domains and resolving technical issues, consolidated Backup wif experience in building, configuring, diagnosing, and solving complex production outage problems and issues on Red Hat Linux, VMware.
• Experience in working wif ticketing tools such as Remedy and Lotus Domino to perform daily tasks and duties. Proficient in creating documentation (implementation and roll - back) for changes on over 500 servers as per company requirement.
• Experience in working on Heavy Operations based environment and delivering 24/7 support as required by teh client.
• Provide system consultancy, performance tuning, bug tracking, fixing, QA, and software installation, licensing and distribution.
• Extensive experience in setup, configuration, upgrade, maintenance, performance monitoring and troubleshooting on different UNIX platforms like Linux, Windows system software and hardware. Experience in Monitors performance of systems for assigned functional area.
• Performed diagnostics on system operations to identify' problems and trends, verify network performance and identify potential user requirements. Tracked and resolved problems which impact continuing system operations
• Experience in Maintaining Name servers Application and third party tools installations, automating tasks using cron for backing up and restoring data in Linux and patch installations in Linux using NFS, Automating tasks through cron.
• Direct hands-on experience in managing EMC Clariion or NS/Celera storage systems, IBM SAN Storage, Cisco MDS SAN switches.
• Extensive Knowledge IN VMware ESX/GSX/WORKSTATION/VMSERVER.
• Possess great communication skills which include proper grammar, English etiquette excellent wif teh ability to work independently and as team member wif teh ability to connect wif coworkers, passionate about my work, detailed in documenting and recording.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: DELL PowerEdge 2200/2950/6950/ M-series/R-series.HP Blade center C-series ILO MANAGEMENT,EMC iSCSI AX4 SAN, NAS. DELL ML 6000 TAPE LIBRARY HP PRO CURVE SWITCHES CISCO 6500 series SWITCHES

Operating Systems: DOS, Windows3X, NT, 95, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7. MS Win Server NT/ 2000/2003/2008. SUSE Enterprise, RED HAT ES Linux and Sun Solaris 10.

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH. Ethernet 10/100/1000.

Applications: Visio, Project, SQL, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Microsoft Office-(00/03/07/10) Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access. Tivoli Backup, VERITAS backup 9.0. Nagios Monitoring, Whatsup Gold. Symantec and McAfee corporate antivirus suite.

Scripting Languages: Perl, Bash, Korn

Databases: MySQL, Oracle, MS Access.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Columbia, MD

VMware / Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring Red Hat Linux using Kick Start server as required for teh project.
• NOC support for servers Windows and Linux racks in enterprise environment wif over 500 servers wif production as well non production environments.
• Created user logins, administering teh system performance and monitoring user activities.
• Experience monitoring ticket queue’s using Remedy and updating bug fix and ticket solution documentation using lotus domino application and linking teh ticket wif teh resolution.
• Configuring and maintaining Apache and MySQL clusters. Deploying apache and Weblogic application servers pertaining to teh client’s needs.
• Monitoring night-time and weekend batch scripts, initiating fixes and restarting jobs that aborted, responsible for informing management and respective teams of any unexpected outages/problems.
• Deployed key VMware ESX technologies, expertise wif HA/DRS, P2V. ESX migrations from 4 to Vsphere 5.0. Deployment of business critical technologies -Vsphere View and VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager).
• Configured & Deployed ESX/ESXi server in corporate production environment.
• Use VMware VSphere vCenter Update Manager to apply patches to virtual machines and also Virtual Private Networking (VPN) tools and techniques to maintain these VM’s.
• Provided 24/7 on call support for 100 Red Hat & Ubuntu Linux guests.
• Consulted wif support teams to jointly provide teh best possible services and solutions through TEMPeffective requirements gathering, expectations and management.
• Document all technical inquiries, develop and review content for noledge base
• Maintained Name Servers (DNS), Application Servers and third party tools installations, automating tasks using cron for backing up and restoring data in Linux and patch installations in Linux NFS, Automating tasks through cron.
• Configuring network interface cards for bonding assignments.
• Install configured and implemented a network wif Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers to support web and data-mining operations. This included an Oracle 10g server, load-balanced web servers, mail and DNS services, Checkpoint firewall, a DLT library, and Cisco switches/router.
• Implemented and enhanced UNIX shell scripts using Korn, Bash and Perl Scripting.
• Monitor performance of systems for assigned functional area. Performs diagnostics on system operations to identify' problems and trends, verify network performance and identify potential user requirements. Tracks and resolves problems which impact continuing system operations.
• Checking and tuning Linux Kernel parameters for better performance responsible for applying servers patches using Patch Center, daily support which includes installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Linux
• Compiled and packaged Apache 2.0.x wif openssl and mod ssl & configured debugging on apache related issues.
• Initial setup of Open LDAP to centralize network device authentication.
• Installation and configuration of RPM packages for upgrades.
• Upgraded older linux distributions from RHEL3/4 to RHEL5.

Confidential, Brea, CA

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers using kickstart unattended installation in addition to PXE Boot, configuring of new servers and workstations using kickstart and autostart .
• Tuning of teh Linux OS in order to increase performance as well as installation of new patches as needed, developed shell scripts to automate daily housekeeping tasks such as file transfers, Troubleshooting any and all problems wif performance, upgrades and file transfers.
• Mounted/un-mounted new file systems, mounted file systems on remote servers using NFS Server & client configurations, performed disk configurations and crash recovery.
• Maintained user account management, configured servers to register wif Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite Server, monitored servers - workload assessment, service console monitoring.
• Troubleshooting, networking, security, services, reporting, monitoring, database-backed management, capacity planning, strategic planning, documentation.
• Established network security using Linux Firewall and troubleshoot problems relating to boot loaders (GRUB, LILO).
• Assisting wif teh software integration and turning software builds into RPM packages
• Resolve technical issues through diligent research, reproduction, and troubleshooting
• Work directly wif other technical support staff, quality assurance, engineering, sales, marketing, operations, and administration to resolve problems.
• Documented, performed and validated test cases based on client requirements
• Developed training documentation for leveraged support teams.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration and maintenance of Red Hat Linux servers for maintaining packages (system/application) on server.
• Migration of servers to new hardware (hp Blade Center) and new OS version, responsible for all UNIX related issues including OS, device drivers, OS tuning, environment setup for applications and updates.
• Compiled kernel, Device drivers, performance tuning for OS and application, customization as per requirements, security patching.
• Experience in developing kernel modules in Linux/Unix platforms. Strong in LVM (Storage Methodology), Performance monitoring, Error logging, Diagnostics, Fine-tuning and Backup management.
• Configured different hardware and software components as per requirement to support UNIX initiatives.
• Work wif RAID configuration-RAID 0, 1, 5, 0+1, Writing sss/bash scripts for better administration.
• Indented and executed scripts and other UNIX utilities; create, tune, and optimize stored procedures and DTS packages
• Administer database security including adding/removing users, auditing, and troubleshooting security related issues, provide internal management services
• Follow documented procedures and develop new documented procedures for new technology installed in teh data.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Junior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured Networks, and Wireless Access Point/Router wif security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks. LAN Cabling, RJ-45 crimping, Labeling, Patch Panel, PC Junction boxes, Phone Switches and Rack set-up
• Worked wif Network Concepts such as OSI reference model, IP protocols such as TCP/IP, IP addressing, subnets, routing protocols like OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, BGP, STP
• Setup and configured various RAID 1 and RAID 5. Applied patches and upgrades to teh servers.
• Configured backups and recovery plans for windows based servers using windows server backup utility
• Responsible for troubleshooting network, database, applications, and web performance issues. Documented and maintained automation scripts for administration of servers.