PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Fifteen 15 Years of Rich Experience as Infrastructure Specialist in Computer Systems/Network Administration, Engineering, Integration and Application Professional Service environments with Expertise in Microsoft Products.
• Highly Proficient in Active Directory, Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, Migration, Group Policy, VMware and operating system virtualization
• Strong experience in Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Medical Laboratories, Government Manufacturing Industries.
• Strong exposure in Project Managements, Technical Project Deliverables, managing teams, coordinate with Vendors and Clients at various on site locations and maintain SLAs
• Expertise in Information Systems Management, Networking, and System Security with expertise in implementation, operations support functions of business solutions using IT as tool
• Extensive exposure to Network troubleshooting, maintaining Network devices, implementing and executing Network Projects under ITIL Standards.
• At Managerial level, involved in IT Infrastructure Management, Strategy Planning, Budgeting Financing, Resource Planning Deployment - Process Re-engineering, Team Management.
• Experience with Web Interfaces Knowledge of the Metaframe Com object models
• At Execution level, involved in - Networking Projects, Technical Support/ Troubleshooting, Systems Administration, and System Security
• Working knowledge Netscape Enterprise Server, LDAP, MTS, Active Server Pages, HTML, XML DHTML
• Extensive experience in performing System Integration/Administration for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 Standard/Advanced Server, Windows 2003 Standard/Enterprise Server, Windows 95/98/XP, IIS3.0/4.0/5.0/6.0, Microsoft Cluster Server 2.0, Microsoft Internet Security Acceleration 2000
• Working knowledge of WEBDEFEND, IBM APPSCAN and Web Application Firewall.
• Extensive working knowledge in Windows Active Directory, DNS, DNS records, DHCP, DHCP scopes, Windows Desktop and Remote Desktop. Implementation and administration of Active Directory in Windows 2000/2003 environment
• Experience in performing System Integration/Administration for VMware ESX 2.X and 3.X Servers.
• Experience with regards to Install Manage MS-SQL 7.0 and MS SQL 2000/2005 Standard and Enterprise Server.
• Strong knowledge of Networking technology and Solid working knowledge on SAN administration and Virtual Center
• Experience in Capacity Planning and Monitoring in VMWARE environments
• Experience in ICA protocol and VBScript, WMI, Windows installer, MSI internals, Windows PE,
• Extensive experience in upgrading a Windows NT 4.0 domain to Windows 2000, 2003 Active Directory and from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003, 2007
• Carried forward exercise to implement Disaster Recovery PLAN DRP solutions using Backup Softwares like Seagate Backup Exec, VERITAS NetBackup/Backup Exec, HP Omni Backup, and Windows NT Backup.
• Working Knowledge on Microsoft technologies including, clustering, load balancing, IIS 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0 , patch management, Security and policy control, Hyper-V, Powershell.
• Working knowledge of x84 Server hardware technologies especially IBM xSeries, HP Proliant and HP/IBM blades
• Ability to use and perform basic health checks on multiple OS types: Solaris, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, Linux, AIX
• Strong knowledge in Citrix, AD Migration, MS Clustering, MS SQL Server, HP and IBM server HW, Blade Servers HP, IBM , Virtualization Technology VMware, MS Virtual Server , HBAs and SAN technology, Healthcare environment experience, Tivoli Storage Manager TSM Backup product
• Have extensive Healthcare Pharma domain experience and clinical systems support, medical devices support and maintenance at clinical laboratories and have strong understanding on Laboratory Information Management System LIMS .
• Strong knowledge electronic clinical, biotechnical medical transaction application, Medical Reporting, FDA Regulations, HIPAA data privacy standards and the HL7 messaging format.
• Tremendous Leadership qualities, problem solving and troubleshooting skills, leadership qualities, strong analytical, organizational, multitasking, execution skills and presentation skills with ability to co-ordinate activities and interact with end users in a fast paced team environment and ensure delivery within time frame.
• Magnificent verbal and written Communication Strong experience interacting with clients, end-users, requirement gathering, understanding requirements, analyzing solutions. Mentor, lead team be a team player with strong aptitude towards interpersonal communication with ability to work in team and independently.
• Able to work in any shift and can support 24 7 production servers/network issues and emergency support in offices/client locations during any kind of disasters, highly flexible and willing to Travel and work during Nights and Weekends

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: SOLARIS 2.6/2.7/2.8/2.9 SUN OS 4.1.4, Sun Cluster 2.2, AIX 5.3, HP Service Guard A.11.16.00 VERITAS NetBackup 3.5, Legato Networker 4.3, TNG 2.2, Sun Raid Manager 6.22, VERITAS volume Manager 2.6/3.5/4.1 VERITAS Cluster Server 2.0/4.1, ODS 1.0, ODS 4.1. Sun Volume Manager 1.0. Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 Networks: TCP/IP, NIS, NIS , DNS, NFS version 3 . Network Devices CISCO Catalyst 6500 and CISCO routers MSFCs CISCO Routers - 3600, 2600, 2500, 1800, CISCO Switches - 3500, 2950, 1900, CISCO Load Balancers ACE, CSS, CSM Security Appliance CISCO PIX Firewall 525 515E Antivirus Security Trend Micro Office Scan, Websense Administrator Monitoring Devices/Tools Packeteer 9500, PRTG Tools: Admintool, SYSAMD, Open Windows, CDE, VMSA, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Solstice Admin Suite, Metatool 4.1, TrackWise EQMS, Exceed, Viewnow, Host view. Utilities: SSP 3.2, Shell Bourne Korn , VI editor, AWK, SED, EX, Perl, Performance tuning utilities.

RDBMS: Oracle 8i, MS SQL Server 2000, MS Access, Sybase

Third Party- Tripwire 5.51, Patrol 3.2, Autosys 3.3.5, Netscape enterprise server 3.63, iPlanet Messaging

Software: Server4.1/6.0, Merant odbc3.5. Pro ftp 3.0, WU-ftp server 2.4.2,samba 2.0, WebLogic 5.1/6.0, Tuxedo 8.0, Arc Serve 6.61, Asset, Remedy, Kintana, Norton Anti Virus, MQ series.

Hardware: Sun E10000, Sun Fire 6800/4800/3800, E 6500, E-3500, E-4500, E-420R, E 450, E 2,Netra 1405, Netra 1150, Netra 105, Ultra 10, Sparc 5, Sparc 20, RISC 6000 S-70, HP Superdome SD64A, HP SD32000, S16k, rp7420, rp8400, SGI Origin 3800.

Tape Libraries: Adic Scalar 1000 Scalar 100, Storage Tek Timberwolf 9738 with DLT tape drives, Sun Store Egde L6000, TLS 8000 Libraries with 8 IBM LTO Ultirum Tape Drives Exabyte 690D.

SAN: Hitachi Freedom Store 9900, EMC Clarion CX700, EMC DMX2000, XP1024, XP12000, SUN A5200, D1000, A1000.

Languages: Java, HTML and CGI

Backups Tape Back Up and Legato Network Backup

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Title: Senior System Administrator

Roles Responsibilities:

• Working on NEC/IBM builds, IBM data storage Manager, EMC/NEC/MS EXPRESS CLUSTER/Testing and production environments
• Created roles for Employees, Contractors and Vendors and Guest Visitors and planned authentication strategy via Clients Windows Active Directory.
• Configured Single Sign-On SSO for Windows Login, Remote Login VPN users and Wireless Users using Active Directory and Mapped users for their respective roles with LDAP.
• Handed technical aspects of various projects at various client locations/on sites at this client

SAN:

• Building IBM servers 3550/3650/3850 etc
• Held Responsible for complete SAN hardware/software installations, configurations and Production support from end to end
• Building SAN DS4800/DS3512 Express Dual Controller Storage /V7000 etc
• ON CALL:
• Supporting WTC projects-onsite/oncall and ON CALL 24 7 Support to solve problems On the fly/Emergency on-site visits for airports for serverL3/L4/network L2 support/identify
• Coordinate Network issues with client teams and Coordinate with critical applications owners/vendors
• Testing disaster recovery on servers at onsite and also Conduct/participate Disaster Recovery Test offsite

SERVERS:

• Building NEC servers Express 5800 320a-M4/120a-R2 etc from end to end and IBM X series of servers from end to end hardware installation, configuration and deploying into production and troubleshoot hardware/software issues on fly at different datacenters/airports/Bridges and Tunnels
• Attend emergency issues at all on sites any time to bring the servers/SANs online
• Coordinate with EMC on EMC SAN issues
• Supporting Microsoft windows 2008 clustering and troubleshooting, Oracle and SQL Servers
• Supporting Linux and Unix servers
• Working with teams for enterprise infrastructure migrations and submit detailed documentation on consolidation into a virtual environment
• Create and deploying VMs/ virtual VMware ESX 4.0 deploy, manage and capacity planning of the virtual infrastructure
• Coordinate with EMC on EMC SAN Issues
• Participate in migration of ESX from 4.0 to 4.1.X
• Rack and Stack different products of server hardware of production servers, SAN Storages from Install, configure to troubleshoot on fly at different client locations on emergency works
• Work in multiple shifts and weekends to meet client business needs at airports
• Migration of Novell 6 to Active Directory AD Win2k8 user/printer etc-migrations from Novell to Microsoft
• SAN: Creating LUN/Host groups/hosts/add volumes
• End to end SAN hardware installations/configurations/deploy on to production at various client and datacenters locations
• Change control/download and test MS Patches/Plan and deploy Microsoft patches on all production and database servers on every second Thursday of every month
• Backup and Recovery, Installation of Server Backup Components and Backup Scheduling
• Testing the Restore Procedure

Confidential

Title: Windows Systems Administrator

Roles Responsibilities:

• Provide Server System Administration roles with installations, additions, updates and changes to Microsoft Windows 2008 Servers.
• Administered the Microsoft Windows Servers and managing disk space, user profile creation and user rights management and Technical management of project
• Implementation of Windows domain infrastructure, VMware and Windows Active Directory setup
• Maintain and create user accounts and policies within Active Directory, Configure/maintain Internet filtering and security on public access pc's.
• Planned Data Recovery, Drive/Disk Imaging and Backup process and procedures.
• Configuring and managing Windows Firewalls, Cisco PIX and Checkpoint firewalls.
• Providing support for 12 center across globe from HQ and Support service to the business on all server-platform systems
• Accountable for managing and administering the Active Directory system that supports the global operations
• Performing regular tasks and Migrations of Microsoft Windows Sever 2003 / 2008, Active Directory, Active Directory Migration and Group Policy
• Supporting production application server environment
• Design of systems including hardware installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and problem resolution with in SLA timings
• Coordinating and performing Application deployments/migrations in various phases of the SDLC including Production Administration of Windows Server 2003 and 2008 R2 operating systems and IIS 6.0, 7.0 and 7.5
• Supporting ASP/VB 6/COM based Applications
• Management of Team Foundation Server, including branch, shelving and merge operations Build/Deployment
• Supporting Oracle 10g and 11g databases
• Supporting server administration of SQL Reporting Services SSRS 2008
• IIS 6.0 Web Server Maintenance and supported IBM APPSCAN and Web Application Firewalls.
• Install, setting up of Web based applications in a WebSphere Application Server environment.
• Supporting Project management and multiple technical areas
• Supporting VMWare, ESXi 4.10 including the building of ESX hosts and the creation of WINDOWS Guests.
• Supporting IIS, WebSphere, VMware, SCCM, SQL 2005 and Web Sense
• Supporting load balance and VMware and Citrix forum
• Maintain and update the Installation run books

Confidential

Roles Responsibilities:

• Reporting to Site Lead/Sybase on site and Head of Data Center Technologies Operations/Next Generation Data Centers Accenture
• Supporting issues for Solaris, Linux RedHat, SuSE , HP-UX, AIX, Windows, DNS, IP Addressing, Subnet Masks, Routing, Gateways as applicable to servers and a Data Center environment
• Settings and Configuration of printers and other office devices
• Performing technical server validation Ping, Telnet, NFS/CIFS Mounts, Trust Relationships, etc.
• Follow precise directions while contributing expertise to solve problems on the fly

Scope

• Complete any remaining inventories on-site count, type, location of Assets for Re-IP in a location
• Complete pre-work tasks including, but not limited to: Reboot of servers prior to IP address change Validate return to service , perform backups, and confirm privileged access and connectivity to machines
• Change IP address of an asset via an automated script and report results, or perform the Re-IP manually Perform basic validation and testing per documented process to ensure the Re-IP process is successful
• Testing in more detailed and interaction with server business owner or Sybase/SAP IT staff may be required upon request
• Work with vendor to resolve any physical hardware failures that may occur in the course of your work tasks
• Provide accurate reporting of task work completed and progress made to project/site management