SUMMARY:

• Over 20 years’ experience in IT Infrastructure management, Enterprise UNIX server management & vendor management.
• Rich enterprise wide experience in Unix & Linux System Administration & Server Management, EMC and HP SAN Administration, HP Data Protector and Symantec NETBACKUP Management
• Knowledge in EMC Data domain deduplication and VMWARE ESXi virtualization .
• Extensive experience in financial, pharmaceutical and health care industries, experience in FDA regulated, Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliant, PCIDSS and HIPPA controlled environments.
• Extensive experience in management of data center operations, network systems, and application development.
• Managed projects using PMI recommended project management methodology & framework.
• Planned, designed & implemented disaster recovery standards and policies.
• Champion in Data Center Consolidation and Data Center migration projects.
• Deployed Data security management and enforcement solutions with encryption and access control
• In depth knowledge of ITIL process & Quality Management in process improvement
• Proven ability to adhere to a PMLC / SDLC methodology
• Detail oriented with excellent problem solving, interpersonal communication & customer handling skills.
• Server virtualization - PARISC and Itanium based using HP NPARS &VPARS.
• UNIX Performance monitoring and tuning.
• Backup & recovery management -Symantec NETBACKUP 5.x, 6.x, &.7.X & HP Data Protector 5.5.
• Storage Area Network administration-Enterprise tier EMC DMX3000 with Time Finder family Snap/Clone/BCV) for local replication and SRDF/s for remote replication. Mid tier Clarion CX700 and NAVISPHERE Manager. Designed and implemented HP SAN on Virtual arrays and Brocade silkworm switches.
• Planned, designed & implemented “High Availability” solutions using M/C Service guard clustering, Logical Volume Manager(LVM), VERITAS Volume Manager(VXVM), VERITAS file systems, RAID levels, VERITAS Cluster server 3.5 on HPUX
• Certified in HPUX Systems Administration
• Exposed to SNMP based network management tools like HP Open View Network Node Manager, CA Concord eHealth and SevOne.
• Security Management- OS hardening tools, Bastille and Intrusion Detection Software.
• Trained on 21 CFR Part 11 Awareness and Information Asset Protection.
• Self- motivated team player with excellent problem solving, interpersonal communication and customer handling skills
• Certificate of recognition from HCL Hewlett Packard Limited for excellent performance in pre & post-sales support.
• Certificate of recognition from Confidential & Confidential, Corporate for contributions to the success of the E-Advantage (e-business) project

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Servers: HP Blade servers, HP Proliant servers, HP PARISC & Itanium enterprise superdome.

Storage Management: SANs, vSANs, NAS appliances, EMC Symmetric, DMX, Clarion, SRDF, Time finder, EMC control center, Navisphere, HP XP and Virtual arrays, McData, Brocade, Cisco SAN switches.

High Availability: HP ServiceGuard campus cluster,Veritas cluster server(VCS),RAID,Mirroring

Data Protection: Symantec Netbackup, HP Data Protector, Quantum, ADIC tape library, EMC Data Domain DD990, Confidential Data Security expert.

Operating System: HPUX 11.31, Solaris7/8/9, SUSE Linux 10,11, RHEL Linux 4,5,6 CentOS, Scientific Linux, Windows 2003 R2 Windows 2008 R2 & VMWARE ESX 5.5 Hyper Visor.

Vitualization: VMWARE VSphere, Microsoft Hyper V,RHEL KVM and HP Virtual Machines.

Tools: Logical Volume Manager(LVM), VERITAS Volume Manager(VXVM), VMWARE vCenter, ITSM, HP IGNITE UX and Linux Relax - And- Recover ( REAR) Remedy, Maestro/Tidal, Centrify, Power Point, Excel, Unix Performance and System monitoring tools

Networking & Protocols: GRE Tunnel, VPN, F5 load balancers, VLAN, TCP/IP, NFS,CIFS, NDMP

Environment: s: Oracle, Oracle RAC, Cache, Weblogic, Webmethods, Documentum, J D Edwards, SAP R3 and Live Cache, Citrix, Microsoft SQL, Peoplesoft and McKesson

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Unix Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Unix Lead of the global multi - site Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity for enterprise wide systems Physical & virtualized server environment consisting of Unix, Linux, Wintel & VMWARE based systems.
• Maintain & support the Disaster Recovery Infrastructure environment Recover Unix ( HPUX 11.31 ) & Linux ( SLES10/11 & RHEL 4,5,6 ) using HP IGNITE UX and Linux Relax - And- Recover ( REAR) respectively. Recover RHEL physical server environment to a VMWARE ESX 5.5 hypervisor based virtual environment.
• Software management on HPUX using depots and software package management on Linux based servers using RPM and YUM repositories.
• Perform network subnet scanning for traffic restriction to DR site VLANs only. Developed deep understanding of Big IP F5 load balancing approaches, configuration and implementation & performed firewall operations including network & port translation troubleshooting Co-ordinate and support the quarterly Treasury active - passive HP Serviceguard campus cluster DR test
• Co-ordinate and support the annual Case HR SAP and NON-SAP DR Test using Oracle Dataguard log shipping methodology.
• Build RHEL 6 based Symantec Netbackup 7.5 Master server for Data Domain use case. Core team member in the design and deployment of the SAN HLM port migration and host level data migration project using IBM TDMF utility. Data recovery using Oracle cold backup and RMAN, SAP BRBackup & BRRestore
• Facilitated & supported the Confidential remote disaster recovery test Unix environment in unison with the DNS, Active Directory,Centrify,Network,Application,Database,SAP,Backup,Server,Storage and Security teams Business Continuity/Disaster recovery(BC/DR) planning & strategy with appropriate Recovery Time Objective ( RTO) /Recovery Point Objective(RPO).
• Business Impact analysis (BIA) with emphasis on risk assessment, risk tolerance and risk mitigation strategies.
• Gather requirements for the client capture document and certify the Unix & Linux server environment for the monthly DR tests
• Co-ordinate, participate & execute the monthly DR tests with cross functional teams.
• Maintain all test documents for compliance and audit.
• Adopted SDLC project process framework in project execution for all assigned projects
• Provided ongoing expertise for Confidential & Confidential s strategic backup related initiatives.

Solution Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the deployment of Data security management and enforcement solutions with encryption and access control.

Unix Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead, designed and executed point of sale infrastructure migration project from HP Superdome to Integrity Blade servers.
• Disaster recovery setup using remote replication.
• Virtual connect device management for Ethernet LAN vSAN management for SAN connectivity with storage arrays
• Managed the data center facilities management for site planning
• Devised project scope and project charter, risk assumptions and constraints.
• Prepared the implementation documentation, identified risks & defined risk strategies.

Confidential

Senior Netbackup Engineer

Responsibilities:

• .Performed the J & J global backup infrastructure upgrade project for over 500+ HPUX, Solaris and Windows based Symantec Netbackup master, media and client servers.
• Performed Symantec NetBackup environment upgrades on the Master and Media servers in the UNIX and Windows environment from version 5.1 and 6.0 to 6.5.X
• Upgraded NDMP option, agents for Oracle and SAP on Master servers, Media servers and clients from 5.1 and 6.0 to 6.5.X.
• Developed the backup strategy understanding the business, legal and recovery requirements
• Configured and setup of Quantum i2K tape libraries with LT04,LT03 and Quantum 10 K with LT02 and LT01 drives.
• Performed channel zoning, Lun mapping and zoning setup on Scalar i2k tape silo.
• Designed and build NBU 6.0 MP4 on Unix Master servers
• Install & configure Advance tape device driver ( ATDD) on UNIX servers.
• RMAN install and configure on SAN media server and client.
• Installed and configured Netbackup 6.5 SP2a on windows standalone and SAN media servers.
• Performed Netbackup Catalog Consistency Checks (NBCC s) of the master server domains prior to upgrades
• Performed the testing and deployment of scheduled NBU product updates and patches.
• Monitored & executed backups, restores on the NBU & TSM environment on UNIX and Windows servers.
• Executed vaulting process and daily tape management using Quantum scalar tape library.
• Performed the conversion of a Netbackup client to netbackup media server
• Decommissioned Media servers from a Netbackup domain.
• Installed & configured Netbackup Operations Manager 6.5.4
• Disaster recovery setup and recovery of HPUX & windows servers at Sungard High Availability services
• General troubleshooting, monitoring and reporting of backup & restore processes.

UNIX Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed 200+ HP - UX based J &J global consumer division servers meeting Service Level Agreements.
• Responsible for the Global (North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific & EMEA) server management support for HP servers running HPUX 11.11, 11.23, 11.31 operating systems
• Performed disaster recovery drills for client environment at Sungard High availability services.
• Installed and configured new server builds based on Installation Qualification/Operational Qualification (IQ/OQ) for Itanium HPUX 11.23 and HPUX 11.31 rx8640 and Blade servers.
• Supported SAP ECC and Live cache UNIX environment with HP MCserviceguard clustering and SAP extension.
• Performed HP Business copy for production refreshes on development and test servers.

Unix/SAN System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed Enterprise EMC storage Area Network with local and geographic replication using EMC BCV and EMC SRDF and 100+ HP Unix 11.11 and 11.23 and Windows based servers supporting health care applications at the corporate data center
• Provisioned storage on DMX 3000 using EMC Control Center & allocate storage on Clariion CX700 to UNIX and Windows servers using Navisphere Manager.
• Created aliases, zones & activated zone sets with Connectrix Manager and Mcdata switches for zoning.
• Used symcli for lun masking
• Worked with powerpath for automated path management, multi - path I/O capability, and automatic load-balancing and enhance application availability.
• Performed ECC infrastructure maintenance deploying infrastructure agents and discovering storage equipment s .
• Performed EMC control center upgrade from 5.2 to 6.0
• Assigned/updated FA assignments, changing device attributes, creating META volumes
• Analyzed BIN File and OS structure. Determined devices available to use without any performance impact
• Worked on EMC Timefinder BCV/Clone/Snap,EMC Clariion snapview snapshot/clone for multiple point-in time copies of filesystems/databases for backup/test purposes. Point-in-time BCV mirrors copies of data to hosts for backup and performance tests using Time Finder solutions.
• Performed sync and split of BCV s on development servers from production standard drives for weekly database refreshes.
• Involved in the data center consolidation project and architectural assessment and migration to the new environment. Implemented footprint reduction of servers by consolidating to Itanium virtual servers(VPARS)
• Managed and performed backup and restores on HPUX and Windows using HP Data protector 5.5 Enterprise
• Decommissioned PARISC servers per regulated guidelines
• Responsible for the setup of HP Host IDS to monitor intrusion detection, DST patch rollout on all PARISC, Itanium and Linux servers and annual UNIX security audit per HIPPA regulatory compliance
• Executed the Peoplesoft stress test for the PARISC to Itanium transition
• Monitored pay per use CPU utilization for periodic capacity planning and reporting.
• Performed annual Disaster Recovery testing for different application environment
• Designed and implemented shell scripting to automate several system admin tasks.
• Installed & configured CA Concord performance monitoring & alert notification agents
• Installed, configured and managed Ignite UX server for automated OS image backups.
• Implemented bi-annual patch analysis and deployment of OS patches
• Designed, implemented and managed a 5 Node active MC ServiceGuard with NFS & Oracle toolkit.
• Installed, configured and managed Red Hat Linux Enterprise server.

Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed & implemented high available 24 way, 2 node clustered Superdome servers
• Managed and maintained XP 1024 and XP 512 storage arrays in a core - edge SAN fabric environment.
• Designed and managed backup infrastructure environment on HP Data protector 5.1.

Sr. Unix Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed technical design and solution architecting for the technologies used in the enterprise UNIX server environment
• Planned, designed and implemented disaster recovery standards and policies.
• Lead infrastructure projects at client locations
• .Data center consolidation and offshore transition lead
• Prepared technical documentation and run - books for operational staff
• Incorporated UNIX shell scripting for automation and reporting.
• Security management using OS hardening and Intrusion detection tools.
• Storage array assessment based on weighted selection criteria
• Designed and implemented HP virtualization NPAR, VPAR, VM
• Performance management and tuning for Weblogic application servers
• Designed, planned and managed highly available Webmethods cluster.
• Workload management with iCOD,tiCAP, PRM and WLM.
• Designed and implemented HP Serviceguard campus clusters
• Designed and implemented Veritas cluster server
• Performed file system management using HP LVM and VERITAS VXVM.
• System recovery and create golden images using Ignite-UX
• Designed and implemented a HP TAPE SAN solution with HP VA7100 / VA7400 virtual disk arrays, Secure LUN Manager and Brocade Silkworm 2800 switches with zoning.
• Performed performance management and tuning for Oracle database and Weblogic application servers
• Performed backup management using HP Data protector and Omniback II
• Performed system and network management using HP Openview Vantage point operations and Network Node Manager.