Career Summary:

Member of UNIX Server and storage Administration Team.

• Extensive experience on UNIX servers and Storage Area Networks.
• Experience in maintaining and supporting in production environment.
• Provide day-to-day troubleshooting support to a managed environment infrastructure.

Personal Skills:

• Possess Excellent Communication Skills.
• Comprehensive problem solving abilities
• Ability to work as an excellent team member & Team facilitator
• Maintain cordial human relationships.
• Quick Learner
• Believe in working Smart
• Confident and positive attitude
• Keen on challenging myself
• Always look for opportunities to excel.
• Accepting new challenges and achieving them
• Always believe in exceeding goals rather than meeting them.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Designation : Engineer-Server Management

Duration : 28th July 2008 to 13th November 2009

Roles and Responsibilities:

As IBM-AIX Administrator

• Doing systems administration of AIX on IBM’s power series and managing servers
• Installing and configuring new systems, setting up LIVE Database, Application, development and test systems
• Doing maintenance, trouble shooting, performance tuning, backup and documentation of the IBM Servers
• Manage the storage administration with LVM.
• Ensure validity of disaster recovery procedures/processes with reference to documentation & simulation
• Performance Monitoring on HP-UX & SUN Solaris servers.
• Installing, configuring and administering AIX ver 5.3 and 5.2 in P520/550/570 servers.
• System Administration task with monitoring the performance of all live production servers.
• Logical Volume Management in AIX servers.
• Managing Network File Systems in AIX servers.

AS Storage Administrator

• Managing below Storage Area Networks,Network attached storages& DAS.
• Netapp NAS
• EMC-clarion series.
• IBM -DS4000 series & DS3200
• HP-EVA 3K,6K& 8K
• SUN 6140
• Hitachi AMS200
• Managing Brocade ,macdata and cisco SAN switches
• Creating LUN in NAS& SAN and assign to unix/windows servers as per the requirement of clients.
• Monitoring the Storage Area Networks performance and event logs on daily basis.
• Create, configured and maintained Vdisks on HP Storage for both Main and Contingency Site
• Managing SAN DS4800 with IBM Storage Manager 9 client.
• Creating Array, LUN, Host and Host group in IBM DS4800.
• Mapping LUN to the Hosts and Host Groups.
• Taking profiles and event log on SAN periodically through IBM Storage Manager 9 Client
• Taking the Backup of SAN switches periodically.
• Managing Storage Fiber Channel Switches
• Creating Zoning in FC switches as per the requirement of client.

As Backup Administrator

• Managing VERITAS Netbackup.
• Design of backup policy in veritas Netbackup.
• Based of client requirement planning of Veritas NetBackup backup policies.
• Providing solutions on backup and restoration related problems.
• According to Client requirement set the backup procedures for various servers.
• Installation & Configuring Veritas NetbackupClients.
• Documenting the daily day to day activities.

Designation : CUSTOMER SUPPORT EXECUTIVE

Duration : 4nd May 2007 to 24TH July 2008

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Managing IBM-AIX servers
• Managing IBM DS4000 Storage Area Networks & Netapp NAS
• Managing Brocade and macdata SAN switches.
• Creating LUN in NAS& SAN and assign to unix/windows servers as per the requirement of clients.
• Performance Monitoring on Aix servers.
• System Administration task with monitoring the performance of all live production servers.
• Managing Storage Area Networks.(IBM DS4800,hp-Eva and SUN)
• Managing Veritas Netbackup.
• Based of client requirement planning of Backup & Archive policies.
• Providing solutions on backup and restoration related problems.
• According to Client requirement set the backup procedures for various servers.
• Installation & Configuring Veritas backupClients.
• Documenting the daily day to day activities
• Installing, configuring and administering AIX ver 5.3 on P570 /520
• Managing Aix V5.3 servers in HACMP V5.3 environment.
• CPU and Memory Upgradtion on IBM- P570 servers.
• Storage Area Network (SAN) IBM DS4800 Expansion on P570 servers.
• Managing Concurrent Volume Groups and, Logical Volumes in HACMP.
• Managing Shared Volume Groups, Logical Volumes and File systems in HACMP.
• Managing Resource Groups on HACMP version 5.3.
• Managing SAN DS4800/4200 with IBM Storage Manager 9 client.
• Managing LUNs(Logical Unit Number) on IBM DS4800/4200.
• Monitoring SAN performance and event logs on daily basis.
• Taking profiles and event log on SAN periodically through IBM Storage Manager Client
• Managing Raw Logical Volumes.
• Taking regular system backup using mksysb in aix servers.
• Checking for error and system log reports on daily basis
• Managing volume groups, Logical volumes and File systems using Aix Logical Volume Management.
• Having basic knowledge in TIVOLI Storage Manager.
• Scheduling Backups using Crontab, backup of Root and other file systems on regular basis
• Knowledge on Various Performance tools in all UNIX flavors.
• Installation and configuration of patches & software according to the client’s request.
• Taking regular reports through nmon tool.
• Documenting the daily day to day activities.

Designation : Systems Engineer.

Duration : 25th May 2005 to 2nd May 2007

Roles & Responsibilities

• Managing all the IBM-AIX servers.
• Performance Monitoring on IBM-Aix,hp-ux and sun solaris servers.
• Managing IBM DS4000 Storage Area Networks & Netapp NAS.
• Managing Brocade and macdata SAN switches.
• managing Windows ,Linux and sunsolaris networks
• Managing VERITAS Netbackup.
• Design of backup policy in veritas Netbackup.
• Implementing Windows 2000 networks with ADS
• Managing DHCP, DNS & file server
• Maintaining virus free environment using Symantec Antivirus Corporate dition
• Installation and upgradation of server and operating systems
• Installation and up gradation of server and operating systems
• Patch updating on servers

Master of Science in Electronics
Bachelor of Electronics Science

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION AND TRAINING:

• Linux and c++ : NIIT,Anna Nagar,Chennai
• GNetPro : IIHT,Anna Nagar,Chennai
• Aix 5L : Net Masters, Anna Nagar,Chennai

professional certification:

IBM Certified Specialist eServer P5 and pSeries Administration and support for Aix 5L V5.3 (000-222)

IBM Certified systems expert pSeries HACMP for AIX 5L (000-237)

• AIX-UNIX-5L Pseries
• SUNSOLARIS(5.10version)
• RHCE
• NETWORK+
• CCNA