OBJECTIVE:

Secure a challenging position involving Linux Solution Architecting and project management in a complex datacenter environment.

SUMMARY:

• A dynamic Red Hat certified professional with 9+ years of experience in Datacenter and Infrastructure Management and Project execution, currently associated with Confidential as Assistant Consultant.
• Expertise in end to end solution delivery and project Management as per customer requirement involving customer requirement analysis, hardware and software capacity planning, effort and risk analysis, DR planning and quality assurance, security audit, BCP and support training.
• Redhat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux based solution architecture involving Redhat Cluster suite, Oracle Cluster Suite, VMWare virtualized environment, HP BladeSystems, EMC NetApps and HP 3PAR Storage Systems, NetBackup STK Silo and DataDomain Backup Solutions.
• Exposure to Redhat Cluster suite, Linux LVM, Oracle RAC, Oracle Exadata, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster, Coyote Cluster.
• Veritas NetBackup administration & management on HP - UX with STK SILO robotic tape library, ACSLS Servers & EMC Replication manager and almost a year experience in storage administration in EMC Clariion.
• Also have experiences in HP-UX system administration with exposure to LVM, HP service guard clusters, Aurora Linux, FreeBSD with exposure to Apache Web Server, MySQL database server, Sendmail, vsftpd and Perl scripts. R & D of remote hosting servers for better bandwidth utilization and faster response.

SKILLS PROFILE:

Operating Systems: Redhat Linux EL ES/AS, Oracle Enterprise Linux, SuSE Linux, HP-UX, Aurora Linux, FreeBSD, HP Virtual Connect for BladeSystems, HP Sim

Virtualization Technologies: Linux Virtual Machines on VMWare, XEN VM

Storage Technologies: Familiar in working with EMC Clariion, EMC Symmetrix, NetApps, HP 3PAR

Backup Technologies: Veritas Netbackup, STK SILO Robotic Tape Library, HP StorageWorx Robotic Library, EMC Replication Manager, EMC DataDomain.

Databases: Designing Linux based solution with Oracle 10G, 11G, Oracle discoverer, Fusion middleware and MySQL database.

Languages: Korn SHELL, Bash SHELL, HTML, DHTML, CSS, familiar with C and Perl

Business Area: Infrastructure Management Services, Solution Architecting, Disaster Recovery & Web Portal

Hardware Systems: IBM Intel based Servers (xSeries x345, x346, x3650, x3650 M2 and x3650 M3)

HP Blade system: BL series, HP Proliant DL380, HP Proliant DL580, HP Proliant DL980, Sun Fire 15K, Sun Fire 12K, Sun Sparc V880, Sun E450, Sun V240 HP rp Series Servers, HP Super dome

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

GID Unix / Linux Technical Services Onsite Lead & SME for Linux

Responsibilities:

• GID Unix / Linux Technical services is the Unix / Linux engineering team for Confidential Global Infrastructure Delivery.
• As a member of the team working as Project Lead / SPA for Unix or Linux related projects.
• Also this team works as Architect for Unix and Linux environment, disaster recovery planning and escalation group for Unix/Linux Support group.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

GID Unix / Linux Technical Services Onsite Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project management as SPA for Linux area involving requirement analysis, effort estimation, resource planning and execution.
• Confidential Linux future strategy & architecture planning. Migration planning from HP-UX to Linux platform.
• Working as a member of Linux Core Competency team to define future roadmap for the organization and how the environment can be more cost effective and manageable.
• Working with various technologies as server hardware, software, storage, disaster recovery, risk analysis, support transition and audit related activity.
• Evaluation of new technology in Lab environment before actual deployment.
• Customizing products like OS for Confidential environment standards.
• Planning & performing disaster recovery test to keep the environment compliant for North America, Europe and Australia Datacenter and Sungard DR site.
• Planning and designing of Linux environment for virtualization of environment.
• Working closely with Windows engineering team for Linux and Windows integration.
• Also working as additional resource for large HP-UX projects.
• Vendor Management
• Working on Linux roadmap and strategy with future Confidential Linux architecture.
• Working as active member of the Oracle Release 12 Exadata implementation team.
• Worked as a part of Infrastructure core team for Confidential organization wide Intel based server re-bid. Evaluating different models of Intel servers from different vendors giving feedback to management and purchase team.
• HRDTA time and attendance Workbrain application environment
• Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network infrastructure for Confidential (Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network is similar product as Redhat Satellite server)
• SOA HRMS OS upgrade
• SOA SPED Application deployment
• IRecruitment architecture and deployment
• Confidential Direct Portal environment
• Europe datacenter migration & consolidation project

Hardware: IBM xSeries x345, x346, x3550, x3650 and x3650 M2, HP Bladesystem C7000, HP Proliant DL380 G7, HP Proliant DL580 G5, HP Proliant DL380 G6, Dell R900, Dell R700, Dell Poweredge

Operating Systems: Redhat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux, HP-UX

Language: Mainly Korn Shell and Bash Shell, Also works on C, Perl and PHP as required.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Performed NetBackup upgrade project as SPA for Australia region. Was involved end-to-end activity for NetBackup upgrade to 6.5 from 5.1 including OS side activity, project timeline planning, outage planning etc.
• Developing new Disaster Recovery strategy planning for Confidential Australia Datacenter and performing first DR test based on new DR plan as Unix and Backup SPA.
• Administration, configuration & patch management for HP-UX servers consisting HP RP Series servers and HP Superdome in Australia datacenter.
• Administration and maintenance of EMC Clariion storage including host config, LUN assignment.
• Support, implementation and maintenance of Global Infrastructure Delivery Backup infrastructure on Netbackup.
• Disaster recovery planning, Business continuity planning, Capacity Planning from NetBackup point of view.
• Administration, configuration and patch management of Veritas NetBackup Enterprise Server backup master, media servers and around 1000+ NetBackup clients (HP-UX, Linux and windows)
• Managing and administration of STK SILO Robotic tape library and ACSLS servers running on Solaris.
• Scheduling and planning backup policies for different servers, applications and databases and restoration.
• Lawsuit management for corporate legal cell.
• Coordination of communications with customer, and change & turnover management for projects and outage and cross-organizational engagement as appropriate.
• Writing shell scripts for NetBackup environment for various reporting, automated jobs and lawsuit handling.
• Performing ASAT tests for Backup audit.
• Coordinating with client & various Hardware and Software vendors on regular basis for site preparation and readiness for the implementation of Backup infrastructure initiatives at designated sites.
• Managing and performing day-to-day jobs in EMC Enterprise Replication Manager for exchange servers, which are linked with NetBackup and SILO tape library.
• Troubleshooting & Root cause analysis of various hardware and software issues escalated from Unix, Linux, Windows and Network from Veritas NetBackup perspective.
• Performing Disaster recovery tests including Sungard DR tests.

Hardware: IBM XSeries x345, x346, x3650, Sun V480, HP RP Series Servers, HP Super dome, EMC Clariion C300, STK SILO tape library, HP Surestore tape library

Operating Systems: Redhat Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003

Languages: Korn & Bash SHELL, Perl

Confidential, New York City, New York

Responsibilities:

• Administration of 47000+ Servers, Mostly Redhat & Aurora Linux, Solaris & HP-UX
• Troubleshooting of various hardware problems and configuration of Red Hat Linux, Aurora Linux and Solaris.
• Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas Cluster Administration.
• Coyote Cluster administration.
• Shell & Perl scripting for Linux Administration.
• Local & Remote Installation of Redhat Linux Servers.
• Root cause analysis of the escalated problems.
• Patch Management through up2date.
• Primary network issue resolving before escalating to Network Team.
• Performing Veritas Netbackup backups and restoration.
• Recovery of Servers in the event of failures.

Hardware: IBM XSeries eServers, Sun V480, Sun Sparc & Dell Servers

Operating Systems: Redhat Linux, Solaris, Aurora Linux, HP-UX

Languages: Korn and Bash Shell, Perl

Confidential

ODC Unix Ops Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Taking transition and Documentation of the knowledge taken from client for future use in project.
• Administration of 250 Servers, Mostly Redhat Linux & AIX.
• Troubleshooting of various hardware problems and configuration of Red Hat Linux and Solaris.
• Root cause analysis of the escalated problems & Patch Management
• Performing Veritas Netbackup backups and restoration
• Recovery of Servers in the event of failures
• Veritas Volume Manager Administration

Hardware: IBM XSeries eServers, IBM AIX Servers, Sun Vxxx Series, Sun Sparc & Dell Servers, EMC Symmetrix

Operating Systems: Redhat Linux, Solaris, AIX

Languages: Korn & Bash Shell

Confidential

Lead - Server Administration

Responsibilities:

• Overall team management, Resolving Problem tickets, and extensive coordination with vendors (IBM, HP, APC, VSNL etc.), Change management, Server turnover/Decommission and Managing and administration of Datamatrix datastore storage device for local as well as remote storage.
• Directly Reporting to Management (MD and CEO) on day-to-day operations and update. This includes resource management, their schedules, proper execution, time & work sheets, internal planning & their execution, training etc.
• Planning, Designing and implementation of the internal network & server system including hardware procurement and installation.
• Unix server administration including Web Server, File Server, NFS, Samba, Storage, Backup management and scheduling for 25+ internal servers and 200+ remote hosting servers situated in USA.
• Development of low cost bulk storage (approx 20TB) for Office internal use and Shared storage space using standard server and network hardware.
• PHP and PERL code testing & checking before final uploading to server.
• MySQL database server administration.
• Development of Spanish website for 123greetings.com including server side Spanish language encoding
• Tuning servers and websites for Search Engine Optimization.
• Research and Development for the remote-hosting servers for tuning the servers for better performance and better utilization of bandwidth.

Hardware: Mixed Type Intel xSeries eServers, Dell & Assembled, Datamatrix Datastore storage.

Operating Systems: Redhat Linux, FreeBSD, Windows

Languages: Shell, Perl, PHP

Confidential

Web Administrator / Developer

Responsibilities:

• Solely responsible for Designing, Development and Administration of the company website.
• Solely responsible for Development of the internal CRM package in FoxPro and Dbase for management of customer data and company resource.

Hardware: Acer Servers Intel Based

Operating Systems: Linux, Windows 98, 2000

Languages: ASP, PHP, FoxPro, SQL, dBase