SUMMARY

• An experienced IT professional with over Eight years in System administration and management experience with product planning and testing.
• Very comfortable with most aspects of UNIX operating system across multiple flavors especially Linux and Solaris.
• Extensive hands - on training in UNIX based operating system as a result driven IT professional with a demonstrated ability to work with technical and non-technical groups and providing efficient, cost-effective solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• X86/X64 architecture
• Sun Netra servers
• Solaris 9 &10
• HP-UX
• RHEL 5 and 6
• Centos
• Suse
• RedHat on Z Series
• SVM
• Veritas Volume Manager
• LVM
• ZFS
• StorageTek Powderhorn and Streamline Libraries. STK ACSLS
• Windows XP
• Window 7
• Brocade 3900
• 4100
• 5300 and DCX
• Sunfire
• V240
• V490
• V880
• E15K
• E25K
• Sun Sparc E2K
• T-series
• Sunsparc M4000
• M8000 and M9000 blade servers dell servers dell poweredge series. OpenManager
• Enterprise Management System
• Groundwork Monitor Enterprise
• Avocent DSView3
• Symantec NetBackup
• IBM
• Tivoli Suite
• Helix
• HP-Openview
• Remedy. BMC Remedy
• KVM
• VirtualBox
• Apache
• Jboss
• Scriptmed
• IDRMS
• COGNOS
• S4Access
• SAN
• PhP
• Mysql
• SSH
• Sudo
• Vmware
• Red Hat enterprise Virtualization (RHEVM)
• LDAP
• Shell
• Html
• Java
• TCP/IP
• Oracle DB. clonezilla

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Unix Engineer/Administrator

Confidential, Alexandria VA

Responsibilities:

• Volume and file system management in Linux and HP-UX environments (LVM).
• Configuring local firewall and managing iptables.
• File space investigation and management.
• Experience supporting Jboss, JVM and Apache applications.
• Experience supporting Oracle, Mysql etc.
• Experience with LDAP authentication.
• Server built by cloning within VMware and RHEVM virtual centers.
• Building servers from VM templates on RHEVM.
• Experience with building and managing Red Hat Virtualization (RHEVM).
• Experience creating datacenters, clusters, pools, and templates in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
• Experience installing and configuring Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization hypervisors to support Linux and Windows users and manage them using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.
• Building and maintaining satellite servers.
• NFS/CIFS file system mounting and support.
• Performed data management using native Linux utilities for archiving and compression.
• Used VI editor to edit necessary files.
• Preventive maintenance (OS Patching) of red hat enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Administering user accounts.
• Virtual machines migrations between clusters and between RHEVM.
• UNIX Financial server management.
• Responding to critical and major HPOV alerts.
• General troubleshooting and root cause analysis and making proper documentations.
• Troubleshooting user logins using various remote login utilities.
• Hardware troubleshooting, replacement and support.
• Proficient in troubleshooting system problems and performance.
• Performed administration and monitored job processes using associated commands.
• Monitored client disk quotas and general disk space usage. System performance monitoring and tuning.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting network connectivity.
• Installing, configuring and hardening Linux servers, evaluating needs and installing appropriate recommended patches as needed
• Set up mount points on Linux servers for Oracle database.
• Customized user environment for users.
• Monitored system logs.
• Performance Monitoring and capacity planning in anticipation of system resource usage and needs.
• Setup NFS-share of directories and other resources and Samba access management.
• Monitoring TCP/IP network environment
• Experience with Internet technologies including TCP/IP and HTTP
• Familiarity with network systems such as servers, switches, firewalls and routers.
• Knowledge of Internet and networking infrastructure design

Senior Unix Administrator

Confidential, Lincolnshire IL.

Responsibilities:

• Volume and file system management in Linux environments (LVM).
• Installing, configuring and hardening Solaris and Linux servers.
• Preventive maintenance (OS Patching) of red hat enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Cloning of new severs within Red hat virtual centers.
• Volume and file system management in Solaris environments.
• Performed data management using native Solaris utilities for archiving and compression.
• Used VI editor to edit necessary files.
• Administering user accounts.
• NFS/CIFS file system mounting and support.
• Experience supporting Jboss, JVM and Apache within redhat environment.
• Troubleshooting user logins using various remote login utilities.
• Proficient in troubleshooting system problems.
• Performed administration and monitored job processes using associated commands.
• Monitored client disk quotas and general disk space usage. System performance monitoring and tuning.
• File space investigation and management.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting network connectivity.
• Set up mount points on Red hat and Solaris servers for Oracle database.
• Customized user environment for users.
• Monitored system logs.
• Performance Monitoring and capacity planning in anticipation of system resource usage and needs.
• Setup ZFS quotas, reservation and automatic.
• Used SMF system utilities
• Have knowledge in installing and configuring VERITAS volume manager.
• Implemented RAID 0-5 solutions with VERITAS Volume Manager.
• Setup Role-Based Access control
• Monitoring TCP/IP network environment
• Experience with Internet technologies including TCP/IP and HTTP
• Familiarity with network systems such as servers, switches, firewalls and routers.
• Knowledge of Internet and networking infrastructure design

Systems Administrator

Confidential, MD

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, configuration of Linux servers using jumpstart methods.
• Volume and file system management in Linux environments (LVM).
• Installed, configured and hardened Solaris and Linux servers, evaluated needs and installed appropriate recommended patches as needed.
• Configured and maintained Solaris virtual environments. Installed multiple sparse and whole root zones within one physical instance of Solaris 10.
• Performed data management using native Solaris utilities for archiving and compression.
• Used VI editor to edit necessary files.
• Experience with LDAP authentication.
• Preventive maintenance (OS Patching) of red hat enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Performed data management using native Linux utilities for archiving and compression
• Administered user accounts
• Troubleshooting user logins using various remote login utilities.
• Proficient in troubleshooting system problems.
• Performed administration and monitored job processes using associated commands.
• Monitored client disk quotas and general disk space usage. System performance monitoring and tuning.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting network connectivity.
• Set up mount points on Solaris servers for Oracle database.
• Customized user environment for users.
• Monitored system logs.
• NFS/CIFS file system mounting and support.
• Performance Monitoring and capacity planning in anticipation of system resource usage and needs.
• Setup ZFS quotas, reservation and automatic NFS-share of directories
• Used SMF system utilities
• Have knowledge in installing and configuring VERITAS volume manager.
• Implemented RAID 0-5 solutions with VERITAS Volume Manager.
• Setup Role-Based Access control
• Monitored TCP/IP network environment
• Experience with Internet technologies including TCP/IP and HTTP
• Familiarity with network systems such as servers, switches, firewalls and routers.
• Knowledge of Internet and networking infrastructure design

System administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed data management using native Linux utilities for archiving and compression.
• Used VI editor to edit necessary files.
• Preventive maintenance (OS Patching) of red hat enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Administering user accounts.
• Virtual machines migrations.
• UNIX Financial server management.
• Server built by cloning within virtual centers.
• Volume and file system management in Linux and HP-UX environments (LVM).
• Configuring local firewall and managing iptables.
• Administered NFS on Sun, Solaris and Linux servers.
• Troubleshooting of network connectivity issues.
• Performed patch administration.
• Installed and configured Apache web server.
• Administered Apache web server.
• Troubleshooting server error messages.
• Monitored system uptime.
• Tracked disk space on servers when appropriate escalated system issues arose.
• Tracked and fixed problems using system logs
• Cleanly performed system startup and shutdown procedures

System administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with computer systems.
• Introducing and integrating new technologies into existing data centre environment.
• Responsible for performing backups.
• Responsible for applying operating system updates, patches and configuration changes.
• Installed and configured new software and hardware.
• Adding, removing and updating users account information and resetting passwords, etc.
• Responsible for system and data security.
• Troubleshooting any reported problems.
• Ensured that network infrastructure was up and running.
• Answered technical queries and dealt with often frustrated users.