Career Objective:

• Highly motivated professional seeking a lead IT architect / SME position taking advantage of his extensive knowledge of diverse systems, applications, process improvement and Disaster Recovery accrued in over 15 years of experience in the IT industry.

Technical skills:

• Virtualization - Ldoms, HMCs, LPARs, VIOs, VMware Vsphere 4.1
• Operating Systems - Sun Solaris 10 / 9 / 8 , AIX 6.1/5.x, Red Hat Enterprise AS 4.x /RHE Server 5.x, HP-UX v11.x, Windows NT Enterprise 4.0, Novell Netware 4.x/5.0, HMC's, Zones, Containers.
• Network - EtherChannel, Link aggregation, IPMP, vlan, Cisco Router Configuration, F5 load balancing, IBM Net dispatcher configuration.
• Incident / Change Mgt. and Monitoring - Remedy, BMC, Manage now, BigFix.
• High Availability - Veritas Cluster Server 5.x/4.x, Sun Cluster 3.x, HACMP, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System.
• Hardware - Sunfire T2000 , Sparc Enterprise M5000, Sunfire T5440/5420/5220 / E25K / 10K, IBM P series 590 / 570 / 505 / IBM System x3850 M2, HP 9000 DOM, SAN Storage - EMC Symmetrix Connectrix, Clarion.
• Database - Oracle, DB2, MS-SQL Server
• Web - iPlanet Web server, Active Directory Server, LDAP, Messaging Server, Apache, Websphere 6.x
• Excellent documentation skills including process improvement, RCA (Root Cause Analysis) and lessons learned.
• Leading swat calls for identifying issues and directing solutions using strong problem solving skills.
• Excellent communication, organization, planning and listening skills. Completing complex assignments within tight deadlines.

Professional Experience:

Lead - Sr. UNIX Administrator - Projects - Focal
Confidential, Client: Confidential - Team for Texas (State Of Texas) 2010- Till Date

• Technical lead for various projects with proven expertise.
• Work with Agency aligned IBM Architect and Agency team to understand and help designing new solutions for migrating Legacy Servers from 29 State of Texas agencies to IBM - Data centers including configuring LDOMs, Zones, Resource allocation, Link aggregation SAN Booting.
• Coordinating with Network team, SAN team, Project Managers and Middleware team to build servers as per approved build specs, create Run books for steady state team and get acceptance letter from each agency.
• Security vulnerability scanning using IBM BigFix and remediation to make sure servers are security compliant with ISec standards as agreed between IBM and State of Texas.

Selected Accomplishments:

• Streamlined SA&D checklist process for UNIX build team to activate and deactivate servers for faster turn over to customer.
• Documented the procedure to configure the remote console for servers and lead steady state team to configure them to reduce downtime by getting remote access for faster response on Swat calls.

Senior Systems Management Integration Professional 2006-2010
Confidential, Texas, USA [Client: Confidential]

• Worked as Security focal - SME for Global Server Security team to secure environment with 4000+ Servers managed by IBM. Designed process to remediate security violations on server for SOX Audit compliance based on GSD331 Security policy.
• Trained peer SA's in US, Brazil, Argentina and India on the Security Health check Scan/Remediation process based on GSD331 and renew SSL certificates for all American Express internet and intranet web servers.
• Managed transition to build Production and Development VCS clusters v4.x on DB and App servers for Amex - American Assurance Company (AAC) on AIX 5.2 Servers. Configured EtherChannel/802.3ad Link Aggregation on AIX 5.2 Server to resolve backup bandwidth issue.
• Supported Steady state team during swat / Severity 1 calls with technical expertise with Solaris, AIX, Linux and Veritas issues.

Selected Accomplishments:

• Streamlined and improved the procedure for SSL cert renewal process for minimum to no outage for cert related issues and achieved 100% customer satisfaction with zero down time for 2 yrs.
• Participated in internal and external Audits (war room) presentation for IBM and mitigated the security findings to Auditors.

Senior Systems Management Integration Professional 2001-2006
Confidential, RTP, North Carolina, USA [Client: Confidential, McDonalds]

• Led transition projects and providing support for hosting new web sites for General Motors. During this project worked closely on Sun Cluster 3.x /2.2 , iPlanet 6.0 web server, Sun one Messaging server, Oracle DB Server.
• Performed installation and support of Sun Cluster 3.x/2.x, Disk suite, Veritas Volume manager and Veritas File system, EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage, Sun Storage, Sun Fire E25k, 6800/880 Hardware, Solaris 8 / 9, VNC, Screen etc.
• Worked with McDonalds team to build and configure 400+ Web, App and DNS servers including E10k, Sun Fire 6800, 480R, Hitachi 9900 Storage.
• Implemented and managed Servers as per ITCS104 e-business Security policy.
• Trained peer SA's to support Sun Cluster 3.x

Selected Accomplishments:
Executed successfully multiple Disaster-Recovery tests for e-business web hosting customers like General Motors, Bank of America to recover the system from scratch at BCRS, NY and in RTP, NC within a strict timeline from 24 hrs to 72.
Conducted presentations for IBM, GM and Syntel executives and GMAC-MIC projects explaining overall architecture configuration and application flow.

USF- Sun Web Administrator 1999-2001
Confidential-, RTP, North Carolina, USA [Client: Confidential]

• Provided support for iPlanet Web Serve Database Servers and Sun Cluster - Oracle Database.
• Worked extensively on Hardware like SUN Enterprise Servers, RS-6000 Servers used as Web Server, Database Server and Firewall. Environment also included High Availability like HACMP on AIX. Worked on Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, and Netscape Enterprise Server.

Selected Accomplishments:
Provided problem determination and trouble-shooting to reduce technical risks.

System Administrator 1996-1999
Confidential, Mumbai, India Client: Confidential, NTPC

• Worked as a lead System Administrator of Sun Solaris 2.x, Windows NT 4.0, Novell Intra Netware, ConCurrent (Series MC7200) running RTU 6.1, Silicon Graphics Power Series servers - running IRIX. Responsible for Installation & Upgrade Of Solaris and Windows NT 4.0,Veritas volume manager, Providing technical support for CMC\'s internal backbone network.

Selected Accomplishments:

• Conducted training\'s for CMC Engineers and Customers

Professional Training:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V4.1] - VMware Education
• Systems Engineering - Systems Integration for ITD Virtual Boot Camp - IBM Education
• Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster 5.0 - Symantec Education
• N1 Grid and Sun™ Mgmt Center Custom Class - Sun Education
• Red Hat Linux Rapid Track Course (RH-300) - Red Hat Education
• HP-UX Admin and Network Training for experienced UNIX Admin - HP Education
• HACMP install, Configuration and Administration - IBM Education
• Sun Fire High-End Server Administration - E25k by SUN Education
• Sun Cluster 3.1 Advanced Administration - SUN Education

Professional Certification:

• PMI Certified Project Management Professional ( PMP )
• ITIL v3 Foundation Certification in IT Service Management
• Sun Certified Solaris System Administrator for Solaris 10 ( SCSA )
• Certified Data Management Engineer for Veritas Volume Manager
• Sun Certified System administrator for Solaris 9 and 8 (SCSA)
• Sun Certified Network Administrator for Solaris 8 and 7 (SCNA)
• Sun Certified Sun Administrator for Solaris 2.6 (SCSA)
• IBM Certified Specialist - AIX 4.3 System Administration
• Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) (MCP ID # 909623)
• Microsoft Back Office Products ( SMS, MS SQL, Exchange) Certification

Education:

• Bachelor of Engineering with Major in Electronics

Awards:

• IBM Bravo Award - Outstanding Support of Confidential Customer - 2004.
• IBM Bravo Award - Outstanding Support of Confidential Customer - 2005.