SUMMARY

• Proficient in Red hat Enterprise Server(4/5/6) and Solaris 8/9/10.
• Experienced in multiple storage protocols including ISCSI, Fiber Channel, CIFS, NFS, NDMP and their interaction with operating systems and hardware, which use these protocols
• Managed large virtual server farms running VMware ESX Infrastructure (24 hosts, 6 clusters, 2 sites)
• Experience inusing VERITAS Cluster Server, Volume Manager.
• Specialist in creating and maintaining Linux LVM and HP - UX LVM.
• Remarkable Experience in implementing security standards on Linux Servers.
• Experience in Solaris installation using Custom jumpstart, WANBOOT and FLASH.
• Solid Experience in Configuration/administration of Solaris CUSTOM Jumpstart, HP-UX Ignite-UX and Red Hat Kickstart.
• Experience in installation, configuration of Linux virtual server using VMWare Infrastructure.
• Experience in Installation and Configuration of multipathing software (Powerpath& MPXIO).
• Experience in UNIX shell scripting.
• Experience in implementing application servers like apache Tomcat and JBOSS.
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving network issues related to the servers.
• Hands on experience with EMC DMX, SymmetrixandClariionseries.
• Extensive Experience in Disaster Recovery Exercises (DR).
• Experience working in Production and Testing Environment.
• Knowledge of Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical abilities.
• Excellent Communication and Inter-personal skills.
• Expert in Managing NAS devices like NetApp Filers FAS 2020 & 2040, FAS 3040, FAS 6140 & 6210 & 6080 and EMC Celerra NS120.
• Expert in performing tasks on DATA ON TAP like creating volumes and involved in NFS and CIFS for UNIX and Windows servers.
• Managed the entire Netapp Storage Infrastructure of a sizable healthcare organization with multiple sites (350+ TB, 3 CF clusters, 2 sites)
• Was a single point of contact for all storage related aspects within the organization
• Experienced in ONTAP 7.x, 8.x 7-mode, CF clustering, NDU and takeover/giveback procedures with minimal disruption to a running production environment
• Expert in performing upgrades on DATA ON TAP 7.x to 8.x.
• Expert in Server Builds, Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Configuration and Performance Tuning.
• Expert in maintaining a secure, integrated heterogeneous computing environment.
• Experience in managing total site responsibility and monitoring IT projects for the entire life cycle.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: RHEL(4/5/6), Sun Solaris 10/9/8/7, HP-UX 11, IBM AIX 5.x, UBUNTU, Novell 4.0, Windows NT 4.0/98/XP/Vista.

Software Tools: VERITAS Volume Manager, Logical Volume Manager Veritas Cluster, Solstice DiskSuite, Samba, HP Service Guard,Open Migrator, Tivoli MAESTRO, VMware, Crystal Reports

Hardware: Confidential UCS, G5, Sun Microsystems SPARC & ULTRA servers/ workstations (E450, E3500, E6000, E10K), IBM P595F & HP UX systems, 3650 switches2900 Series routers, Confidential Nexus 4k & 5k.

Languages: PERL, C, C++, C#, Java, PL / SQL, HTML, Shell Scripting, ANT, .

RDBMS: Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, DB2 and MS Access.

Storage: EMC Power Path 4.0, VERITAS SAN Point Manager, VVM 3.1/3.2/4.0, RAID Manager NetAppFAS 2040, FAS 3170, FAS 3270 & FAS 6210, Data ONTAP6.x, 7.x & 8.x.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Savannah, GA

Linux / VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implementation, Integration, Problem Resolution, Root Cause Analysis, Quality Assurance, Disaster Recovery, Audits, Hardware/Software OS & Application Maintenance, Performance Tuning, Upgrades, OS Backups, Migrations, User Account Maintenance, Storage Management and all other daily system administration functions.
• Building HP-UX (11i, 11i v2 and 11i v3) Servers and RHEL(4/5) Servers from scratch.
• Creating the patch depots for HP-UX with the patches from the monthly Threat Horizon Reports.
• Organized the patch depots and act as POC for the patch related issues.
• Handled patch upgrades and firmware upgrades on HP-UX and RHEL Servers.
• Worked with storage and DB teams for successful hand-over of the projects.
• Configuration & Installation of Red hat Linux 5 by using Kick Start.
• Extensively used HP-UX IGNITE for installation of OS on the HP-UX target systems.
• Ran EMC grabs and performed staging for migration.
• Online data migration on Solaris and RHEL servers by EMC open migrator.
• Planning and implementation of NAS backup for the servers.
• Configured RHEL Servers (virtual) using VCENTER.
• Building and maintaining HP-UX VPARs and NPARs.
• Creation of various user profiles and environment variables to ensure security.
• Attended team meetings, change control meetings to update installation progress and for upcoming changes in environment.
• Deployed and tested patch bundles for HP-UX before release and distribution of the bundles in to the organization.
• Configured backups from DMZ using HP-IGNITE Backup.
• User and Group administration on RHEL Systems.
• Server hardening and security configurations as per the client specification.
• Developed startup scripts using Bash and Perl.

Confidential, Timonium,MD

Unix/linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configuration & Installation of Red hat Linux 5 by using Kick Start.
• Implementing disk quotas, security standards on Linux servers.
• Responsible for maintaining inventory for all Linux servers at corporate and remote locations.
• Configuration & Installation of Solaris 9&10 on SUN SPARC.
• Technical Trouble Shooting and Issue Resolution.
• Supporting Disk Management using VERITAS Volume Manager, solaris volume manager, and logical volume manager.
• Patching, User Administration, Security on Solaris 9.
• Upgrade of Solaris 9 to 10.
• Created Solaris Zones/Containers.
• Installation and Implementation of JBOSS Application Server.
• Planning and Deployment of Local Area Network administration.
• Scheduling cron jobs for job automation.
• Storage provisioning of hosts from DMX, CLARIION, NAS(NetAPP).
• Installing and updating packages using YUM.
• Configured Samba, NFS, NAS, Apache services in Linux Servers.
• Linux installation using Kick start and PXE.
• Worked with LDAP implementations.
• Tuning of kernel parameters.
• Created volumes on storage for VMAX array on RHEL and Solaris machines.
• RAID Configuration.
• Performed data migration at host level leveraging Red hat LVM, VxVM and Sun LVM.
• Configuring and implementing Linux kernel recompilation.
• Migration of data on Veritas cluster and Red Hat Cluster environments.
• Worked on VeritasNetbackup 6.5 version for data backup and restoration.
• Configured NIC bonding on RHEL Servers.
• Network based installation on huge number of machines using Jumpstart.
• Installation of logical domains (LDoms) manager and security packages.

Confidential, SAN Jose, CA

Unix/linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Planning of OS upgrades for existing infrastructure.
• Planning and Implementation of Kernel patches on Solaris and Linux Servers.
• On-call support using the Remedy Ticket System for routine system administration issues.
• Tuning of the TCP/IP stack for troubleshooting application and OS issues.
• Responsible for installation and maintenance of the Confidential UCS Servers.
• Responsible for downloading and upgrading the patches as per the system requirements.
• Support the PeopleSoft/Weblogic team by helping in the OS and Application upgrades and installation of new SSL certificates for Weblogic 10.1
• Maintenance of VERITAS Cluster Server.
• Used NetBackup for backing up & restoration of file systems.
• Built new servers using Custom jumpstart installation and Kick start.
• Securing services using TCP wrapper and SE Linux.
• Worked with Firewalls using IP Tables.
• Open SSH configuration.
• Sudo Configuration.
• Repairing the corrupted file system using FSCK.
• Network Interface configuration.
• Created Logical Volumes (LVM) for Linux operating system.
• Worked extensively on VMware (virtualization).
• Responsible for managing the OS test, release and push process.
• Maintained, updated and audited system documentation.
• Installation and Implementation of Apache Tomcat Application Server.
• Responsible for adding and maintaining users on the network.
• Supported and implemented system standards, processes and security to maintain corporate IT standards.
• Planning, scheduling and implementing OS patches on both Solaris & Linux boxes as a part of proactive maintenance.
• Responsible for configuring NFS &AutoFS.
• Performed and maintained the corrupted file system.
• Worked with Configuring and troubleshooting NIS.
• Help and troubleshoot user accessibility problems.
• Responsible for Monitoring network statistics of various network related data structures.
• Designing, Planning, Implementing and Troubleshooting a LAN.
• Configured and maintained Confidential switches 2900 series.
• Responsible for preparing architectural flow diagrams, topology and presentations.
• Responsible for Documentation of UNIX environment and configuration details.