SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

Information Technology Specialist with 19 years of experience in Unix/Linux System Administration and Leading the global technical team. Extensive experience in Enterprise Architecture, Virtualization technologies, Solution Architecture, Disaster Recovery, IT Leadership, Strategic Planning, Capacity Planning, DC Consolidation and PCI/SOX compliance. Have excellent knowledge of enterprise UNIX platforms HP, Solaris, and AIX, blade servers, SAN storage with replication, enterprise backup solutions and high availability clustering. Showing excellent customer relations skills including leading and documenting many regularly scheduled customer meetings.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware

HP Integrity Superdome2, rx8640, HP 9000 PA - RISC servers, IBM power servers P7/P6/P5 Sun enterprise servers. HP Blade Systems, IBM BladeCenter, HP XP Disk Arrays 24000/20000, EVA and 3PAR, EMC Disk storage VMAX, DMX 4/ 3/3000/2000, Clariion, Data Domain, Brocade SAN switches, F5 Load balancer, Infoblox, and various appliances HANA, HP BWA, Netezza

Operating Systems

RHEL 6.x/5.x. SLES 11.x/10.x, HP UX 11.31, 11.23, 11.11, Solaris 10/9/8/7, AIX 7.1/6.1/5.3

Software Tools

HP Storage Works Command View, Business Copy HP Raid Manager RSM, SIM, APA, EMC Control Center, EMC Solution Enabler, Power Path, VERITAS HA Cluster, EMC Legato. HP Open View, NetBackup, Storage Data Protector, Apache, JBOSS Tomcat, PLM, Weblogic LDAP, Oracle, SAP, VMware, BMC, TWS, Novell PlateSpin. DNS, DHCP, NFS, SSH, SFTP, SMTP and UNIX shell scripting.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Manager /Unix Track Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented HA clustering solutions for business critical applications.
• Working on new environment deployment, datacenter server consolidation site decommission which include server migration and virtualization of current environment.
• On-shore/Off-shore service delivery and customer relationship management.
• Managing the Global UNIX Team on day to day operations.
• Interact with customer on day to day activities and new project initiatives.
• Storage consolidation to save the cost on storage products.
• Designed and implemented DR strategy to reduce the RTO and RPO.
• Work with IT security auditors to resolve security vulnerabilities in Linux, UNIX, Apache, Tomcat and JBOSS.
• Implemented PCI standards on payment systems and attend the periodic audit interview
• Develop scripts for monitoring, reporting, recurring jobs with failure reporting and recovery.
• Writing Technical documents and mentoring global UNIX team.
• Periodic patch management on Unix/Linux Environment.
• Designed and implemented HP BC / 3 Par RMO for backup and system refresh.
• Meet Customer SLA by providing high level of support.
• Process automation for system builds recovery and DR by using Kick-Start server, SuSE AutoYaST and Symantec BMR.
• Present daily and weekly status meetings to customers, managers and co-workers, maintaining issue tracker spreadsheet and various automated reports for customers.

Environment: RHEL 6/5, SLES 11/10, HP-UX 11.31. AIX 6.1, Solaris 10/9. XP24K, EVA, 3PAR, HP MC/Service Guard, VCS, RHEL Cluster, Oracle, SAP ECC, BI, PI, VMWare, HP BWA, HANA, JBOSS, BMR, NetBackup.

Confidential

Senior UNIX System Administrator/Lead Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Architected, Implemented and maintained system security and configurations of company UNIX HP-UX, SOLARIS, AIX, SAP, Oracle DB and application servers including clustered and virtual partitions at three sites for a large user base.
• Managed the B2C environment firewall, DNS and DHCP
• Supported various production HA clusters VCS and MC/Service Guard .
• Designed and installed multiple Linux Redhat physical servers for various applications.
• Designed and configured Oracle RAC on Redhat Linux and HP-UX.
• Involved in creation of Linux VM s by using Templates Clones.
• Configured SRDF, BCV and Clone for backups, refresh and DR using EMC products.
• Performed various nPar and vPar migrations across HP Superdomes.
• Designed and configured various HP blades and IBM Blades for Virtual machines.
• Worked with internal and SOX auditors to resolve security audit issues.
• Performed HP-UX OS upgrade from 11.31.
• Resolved several performance related issues including a high visibility IO bottleneck.
• Configured ignite Server for Ignite backup and Disaster recovery and system cloning.
• Configured Kick Start server for installation and package repository.
• Performed P2P, V2V migration on Redhat Linux.

Environment: Redhat, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX 6.1/5.3 EMC storage, CDL, XIV, Legato Networker, HP MC/Service Guard, VMWare, SRDF, BCV, Power Path, Navisphere, SAP, ORACLE RAC

Confidential

Senior UNIX System Architect.

Responsibilities:

• Designed the new Superdome nPar and vPar for high availability solution using MCSG.
• Installed and supported multiple HP-UX, Linux Redhat Physical and Virtual Servers.
• Configuration Installation of Redhat Linux by using Kick Start and customized scripts
• Re-designed the existing PLM architecture to enhance the new functionality and better resource utilization.
• Designed and deploy new HP OpenView policies on multiple platforms.
• Configured and managed the Netezza DW appliance .
• Configured Secure Resource Partition SRP on shared environment.
• Created standard build documents for new OS release and application components.

Confidential

Senior UNIX System Engineer / Technical-Lead.

Responsibilities:

• Cluster configuration MC/Service Guard for production R3 and CRM servers on Superdome partitions.
• Integrated Oracle SAP into HP MC/Service Guard.
• Performed HP Business copy Raid Manager for Staging refresh and Production backup.
• Configured nPar and vPar on HP9000 Integrity servers.
• Configured PRM for optimal resource management and make sure that no single application hogs the system.
• Implemented OpenView clients on the servers for monitoring.
• Responsible for troubleshooting the system related problems and solving the problems.
• Wrote shell scripts for process automations and system monitoring.
• Periodic disaster recovery testing at remote DR Site.
• Created Technical Documents and Checklists for various installations and support
• Extensive FDA validation procedures on Server build and day-to-day activities.

Confidential

Unix/SAN/Backup System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed system administration for HP 9000 and SUN Solaris systems.
• Plan, configure and implementation of HA systems using HP MC/Service Guard.
• Managing HP StorageWorks Disk Array XP1024/512, HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/16 through Command View Secure Lun Manager.
• EMC SAN administration through ECC
• Configuration of Network Security tools and Sendmail.
• Backup Management using Veritas NetBackup 4.5, HP OpenView Data protector, and STK L180/L40 and HP Surestore Tape Library Model 20/700 for various Development servers
• Configured Ignite-UX and SD-UX server for managing and distributing operating systems, patches, OS backups and cloning.