SUMMARY

• 13 years of diversified IT experience in Linux, Solaris, HP-UX
• Extensive knowledge of web and ERP applications
• Experienced working in Large heterogeneous fast-paced dynamic environment
• Various migration projects in large environments
• Experience with various Unix projects in Large Enterprise Unix /Data Center setting. Ability to contribute or manage multiple projects, assignments or work load effectively
• 12 years experience with Change Management, Business Controls, Root Course Analysis and other essential IT processes

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Hardware Platforms: SPARC 5, SPARC 20, ULTRA 10, ULTRA 60, SUNFIRE V490, Sunfire 480, T2000, T5220 T5240, M3000, E6500,Linux RedHat/Suse/CentOs, HP-UX, HP- C7000 Blades, AIX P-series, Intel AMD,
• Tape Drives/Libraries: DLT, LTO, StorageTek, IBM Tape Libraries, SL 500
• SAN: T3 StorEdge, Sun StorEgde 3910 indy , Sun Oracle StorageTek 6140, Hitachi 9985V/ EMC, Brocade Switches
• Operating Systems And Software: Solaris 8/9/10 , Linux RedHat 5.x, Linux Suse 10.x, HPUX 11.x, AIX 5.x/6.x, VMWARE, Windows 2003/2008 Servers, Veritas Volume Manager,Veritas Cluster, Netbackup, Unix/Windows Virtualization, ZFS
• Databases: Oracle 8/9i/10g, MySql

WORK EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Day to day System Administration tasks in a 24/7-production environment.
• Supporting over 2500 Sun Oracle Servers running Solaris 8, 9, 10 and 11 in a fast pace production environment
• Red Hat Linux Administration support
• Supporting over 500 Redhat Linux Servers
• Supporting Tier1, Tier2 and Tier3 applications in a very fast pace production environment
• Mq client, Autosys and oracle client installations

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Day to day System Administration tasks in a 24/7-production environment.
• Nagios configuration and monitoring of over 500 Unix, 300 Linux and 2000 Windows Servers
• Red Hat Linux Administration support
• Supporting over 500 Redhat Linux Servers
• Supporting Tier1, Tier2 and Tier3 applications in a very fast pace production environment
• Supports IT operations, incidents, change and problem Management ITIL processes and controls
• Tape backups and restore using Legato Networker and TSM on StorageTekL700
• Performed SUN server, Solaris O/S 8, 9 and 10 , VxVM and layered product builds / upgrades / patching for migration
• Windows 2008R2 installation and support using VMware 5.5
• VMware administration and support

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Day to day System Administration tasks in a 24/7-production environment.
• Supporting over 2500 Sun Oracle Servers running Solaris 8, 9, 10 and 11 in a fast pace production environment
• Red Hat Linux Administration support
• Supporting over 500 Redhat Linux Servers
• Supporting Tier1, Tier2 and Tier3 applications in a very fast pace production environment
• Supports IT operations, incidents, change and problem Management ITIL processes and controls
• Troubleshooting hardware problems Memory, CPU, etc
• Performed SUN server, Solaris O/S 8, 9 and 10 , VxVM and layered product builds / upgrades / patching for migration
• Instrumental in UNIX break/fix activities and project related support tracked by Service desk
• Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas Cluster administration and support
• Daily break and fix.
• Oracle 10g client installation for application and DBA team.
• Administering Servers using VMware
• Giving users to systems and applications using Etrust commands support and administration
• Netbackup administration and support. Verifying backup failures, restores etc
• Monitoring over 3000 production and QA servers using HP OpenView
• Autosys installation and troubleshooting
• Tidal installation and recycling
• Implementing changes on various Solaris 8, 9 and 10 / RedHat Linux Platforms
• Ldom administration and support
• Created user acces to server using Etrust and LDAP
• Worked on user access using LDAP and PAM authentication.
• Authourization using Etrust and auditing of user accounts making sure appropriate users were assigned to the right groups and the right access.
• Using shell script to automate processes.
• Accounts and group management.

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Day to day System Administration tasks on over 2000 Unix systems running Solaris 9 and 10
• Writing instructions for RBC Data Center migration Using Empir Migration Application
• Performed SUN server, Solaris O/S, VxVM and layered product builds / upgrades / patching for migration
• Instrumental in UNIX break/fix activities and project related support tracked by Remedy
• Made sure instructions for migration were fully tested and working properly in QA before migration day
• Zfs Filesystem creation and management
• Administering Servers using VMware
• Red Hat Linux Administration support
• Weblogic test and support.
• Tidal Administration
• Veritas cluster administration.

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Help with building the business environments hosted on Sun Servers running Solaris 10 Containers/Zones.
• Racking Sun Hardware for IT project
• Performed SUN server, Solaris O/S, VxVM and layered product builds / upgrades / patching
• Active in daily UNIX break/fix duties and project related support tracked by Remedy
• Fulfill server H/W alterations as requested by the system architects
• Zfs Filesystem creation and management
• Created and managed the sharePoint for UNIX standards and knowledge documentation
• Red Hat Linux Administration support
• Apache Tomcat installation, configuration and support.

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Red Hat Linux Solaris Administration and support
• Installed and built all Enterprise Solaris/ Linux level servers
• System administration of Linux-Redhat, Solaris servers on a daily basis
• Administration on ESXi, Vsphere Vcenter in Linux Redhat HA Environment
• Configuration of Enterprise Servers for Linux RedHat installation
• Linux Network security/monitoring tools iptables firewall, tcpdump, Uptime
• Knowledge of FTP, SSH, SCP,SMTP, SNMP protocols
• Lead systems administrator on migrations of 400 Solaris/Linux Servers
• Virtualization of Linux/Windows/Solaris servers using VMWARE
• Virtualization of Seneca College's data centre using Solaris 10 Zones.
• Linux package and configuration management using rpm, yum
• Spearhead the upgrade of older Linux distributions to RHEL5/CentOS
• Apache Web server configuration/support, DNS installation and configuration
• Installation, configuration of SAM-FS/QFS on Sun T-Series.
• Sun Oracle StorageTek 6140 Configuration and setup firmware upgrade on SUN/ORACLE T2 servers
• Sun Web server and Application server Glassfish Weblogic , SunWebserver 7, ApacheTomcat installation, troubleshooting, deployment and support
• Securing webservers and applications by installing certificates.
• Sun Oracle identity Manager troubleshooting and support on a daily basis.
• Technical documentation of disaster recovery for mission-critical servers and applications
• Auditing user accounts on a daily basis
• Provided 24x7 software and hardware support and logged in resolved support calls
• Experience with change management, ticketing systems and Server support Contracts
• Experience with NIS, DNS, LDAP, NFS.
• Implemented user access using PAM and ldap authentication
• Created user and group accounts with the right access controls
• Sudo implementation for blackboard online system stop/start processes
• Coordinating with application teams to schedule AIX maintenance on QA/DEV
• Support and troubleshooting problems on AIX version 5 and version 6
• Automating certain processes by scripting
• Researched on new technologies and used it to prepare documentation for in-house training
• Installation and configuration of Cognos 7/8 SAP Netweaver
• Updating Patching solaris zones Solaris Live Upgrade
• Patching of global zones with multiple non-global zone instances
• Configured Solaris 9 and 10 servers for Oracle 10 installation.
• Automated various process using shell scripts Korn shell
• Configured solaris 10 zones for Oracle 10g installation, configuration.
• SAN storage administration and support i.e. assigning LUNS from Hitachi 9985V to T5240s
• Creating zone configurations on brocade switches connected to Linux and Solaris Servers
• Write and communicate technical documentation
• Knowledge of HP Opsware automation software
• Supported about 10 HPUX servers.
• Adhere to, and enforce aggressive Service Level Agreements and Service contracts
• Supports IT operations, incidents, change and problem Management ITIL processes and controls
• Application e.g Cognos, SAP Netweaver 7.0, kix, Glassfish Application Server installation, configuration, troubleshooting and support.