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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

  • System Administrator with more than 8 years of experience in Information Technology which includes focused experience in System administration, System Builds Server Buildson Unix Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux , Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Disaster recovery, Performance Tuning on Vmware Envionment and Unix/Linux system software hardware.
  • Experience in PowerVM and VIO LPAR's cloud automation migration integration with OpenStack / Cloud Stack and operations.
  • Experience workingwith Windows Server 2003 and 2008,Veritas Foundation Suites,and Clustering DB2.
  • Experience working with Pulic and Private Cloud with OpenStack, Cloud and Cloud Stack
  • Work on data center transformation activities to confirm and document accordingly Windows Systems and workloads
  • Migrate server workloads using industry standard tools such as VMconverter, PlateSpin
  • Independently manage all aspects related to Workload Integration projects.
  • Work with vendors and contractors to define detailed technical requirements
  • Execute Discovery activities to fully identify and document the existing Windows server inventory
  • Work with the Datacenter Server Tower to develop and implement the appropriate solution for successful transformation
  • Consult on complex business issues and design considerations
  • Responsible for the identification and documentation of system requirements to enable the Technical Team to deliver the appropriate solution for successful transformation
  • Participate in the development and execution of the user acceptance test plans, as well as schedule testing
  • Create new documentation and processes as needed to help refine, optimize, and/or to establish network functions and processes
  • Strong Experience with Vmware vSphere Client / Vmware Envionment / Citrix
  • Good experience on migrations from UNIX to LINUX servers Solaris 10 ,AIX,HP-UX to Redhat,Ubuntu or vice virsa,proficient in migration the packages,and ILOMS firmwares.
  • Experienced working within complex networking topologies including the use of numerous VLANS, firewalls
  • Build and troubleshooting experience With VMWARE ESX Server and Virtual center server
  • Worked on different VMware products like VMware GSX server, VMware workstation and VMware player
  • Sound knowledge on vSphere Client, Virtual Center server 2.5 and Center 4.0 for managing multiple ESX servers
  • Good-Experience,working with EMC-GreenPlum-DataBase which includes Database clustering,Resourcing,Administering,configurations,Managing the rules and Privilages,databaseobjects,Loading and unloading data and starts and stops.
  • Proficient working with GreenPlum Query Processing ,distributeddatabases,backups and restoration,and monitoring the availability and requests wait time.
  • Proficient Working with Apache Hadoopfilesystems,installation ,configuration and troubleshooting the issues and Can configure with using EMC Green plum DB.
  • Good Knowledge in managing and monitoring the large amount of data hits and splitting them to different jobs through cluster systems to improve the performance Monitoring.
  • Develop Custom Scripts on vCAC vCO vCOP vFabric and etc
  • Installation of Citrix Presentation server 4.0/ XenApp 4.5/5.0 Citrix Client Tools
  • Administration of Citrix XenApp Farms
  • Configuration of Citrix server policies, Load Management and Printers in the Farm.
  • Expertise in creating Citrix Streaming Profiles and Publishing Applications to users in Citrix XenApp 4.5/5.0.
  • Citrix Xenapp Web Interface Administration Via IIS
  • Experience in administering Windows Terminal Server, Group Policy management and Active Directory environment ,
  • In-depth knowledge in dealing with Windows Registry and File Systems.
  • Extensive experience with troubleshooting Windows Installer MSI Windows Installer Transforms MST installation and runtime errors.
  • Expertise in SQL Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MOSS2007 .
  • Installation and Configuration of VMware ESX/Vsphere 4.x.
  • Providing Comprehensive documentation for system builds.
  • Excellent interpersonal and oral/written Communication skills and have high adaptability to changes in technology.
  • Extensive experience in Unixperformance tuning and Capacity Planning.
  • Experienced in configuration maintaining Veritas Cluster server, Netbackup, veritas volume manager andVeritas file system.
  • Proficient in IBM Storage Manager and Deploying Oracle RAC - VM WARE
  • Seasoned Experience in UNIX Load Test ,Unit Test and IBM MQ Support.
  • Expertise in VM-ware tools,V-sphere and Virtual Centre and VMconverter, PlateSpin.
  • Efficient in Branching, CVS, andCreating software build.
  • Technically very sound working on Storage, Disk Management, Logical Volume Management LVM and logical partitioning.
  • Experience working on AIX6.1 and 6.3 and IBM communication server,troubleshoots.
  • Recently Upgraded the technical features of AIX 7.1 with binary comaptibilty and modulations compared to the previous release.
  • Proficient in capturing the vertical scalability to provide capacity to the client infrastructure in order to grow the business.
  • Experience on AIX 7.0 virtualization capabilities in providing more flexibilities to support changing work loads.
  • Experience working with new built in clustering capabilities called cluster Aware and its modules security features to improve and simplify the security administration.
  • Experience in Weblogic 11g /IBM WebSphere v7 administration.
  • Good knowledge in IBM AIX hardware components RS/6000, pSeries , trouble-shooting and maintenance.
  • Managed Systems and Network related issues like Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting on UNIX and Solaris platform
  • Proficient with user account maintenance, backup recovery, Auto-mounting, License Management and Printer configuration.
  • Seasoned Experience in Managing Source control systems using CVS and Sub Version
  • Experience in writing Shell scripts using Ksh, Bash, Perl, for process automation of databases, applications, backup and scheduling.
  • Can Efficiently able to check-in and check-out code from source control systems.
  • Experience in Installation, configuration and maintainance ofVMware ESX, Xen, Tivoli. And VMconverter, PlateSpin for migration.
  • Experience working with Storage Area Network SAN , EMC CLARiiON, EMC Symmetrix DMX.
  • Experience in installation and configuration of web servers using iPlanet/Apache, Middleware software such as WebLogic, IBM-WebSphere, JBoss.
  • Micro partitioning, dynamic LAPRS,Virtualization and Advanced Virtualization VIO 2.1.
  • Expertise in Tuning of Application Servers by Tivoli Performance Viewer like setting the dynamic cache size and setting the JVM heap size using collected Performance Monitoring Infrastructure PMI data on J2EE application.
  • Experience in writing Shell scripts using Ksh, Bash, Perl, Python for process automation of databases, applications, backup and scheduling.
  • Experience with EMC backup solutions including AVAMAR, Data Domain and Networker
  • Experience with back-up, and recovery.
  • Have dealt with NIS, NFS, FTP, AS2, NIS, NDM, Samba Server, remote access, security management and possess system troubleshooting skills.
  • Experience in using the network protocols like HTTP, FTP, TFTP, SMTP, TCP/IP, UDP, POP.
  • Worked on debugging tools such as Dtrace, Struss and Top. Expert in setting up SSH, SCP, SFTP connectivity between UNIX hosts.
  • Performed extensive Back-up and restore operations utilizing Solaris features tar, cpio, ufsdump, and ufsrestore.
  • Seasoned Experience in NFS and NET APP'S
  • Proficient in tuning Oracle Database servers utilizing various database tools such as Platinum Technologies Desktop DBA, DBVisionand Provision Suite for proactive monitoring of production systems.
  • Implemented SUDO, SSH and other security tools and implemented SOX Sarbanes Oxley security compliance.
  • Responsible for Day-to-Day Backup and Recovery using tar. Disk and File system management through Veritas Volume Manager Solstice Disk Suite on Solaris and logical volume manager for Linux.
  • Provided day-to-day operational support and system administration to production servers and related infrastructures.
  • An excellent team player and self-starter with good communication skills and proven abilities to finish tasks before target deadlines.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Operating Systems

Sun Solaris 8/9/10/, Linux RedHat, Suse , IBM AIX6.1 5.3,5.2, 5.1, HP-UX 11.0, Windows NT 4.0, Windows Vista/XP/2000/98.Vmware Implementation License management Consolidation Windows Server Perspective

Sun Fire Servers

E25k,E15k,12k, E280R, E480R, V240,420R, V440, V480, V490, V880,V890 and 4800

Software

Veritas File System, Veritas storage foundation suite, Solaris Volume Manager, VeritasNetbackup, MS Office Suite, VMware, Tivoli, CA SiteMinder

Languages

C, C , C , Python, SQL, PL/SQL, Shell Programming, Perl, HTML, Javascript, J2EE,VB.net, Asp.net, Puppet

Networking

NIS, NFS, NDM, DNS, ALE, DHCP, Telnet, TCP/IP, SMTP, FTP,AS2,AS3,TFTP, UDP and SSH, Cisco

Tape Libraries

Sun StorEdge L20/L40/L60, L180 and Storagetek's 9840 A/B/C Fibrechannel

Backup

VeritasNetbackup 4.5, Solstice DiskSuite 4.1/4.2, MsBackup, Ufsdump, Ufsrestore, Sysback v4.2, ACSLS

Databases

MS Access, Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g, MySQL, DB2/UDB, Sybase.

Application Servers and Web Servers

WebLogic 8.1/ 10, WebSphere Application Server 5.0/6.0, LDAP Server, JBoss, Apache Tomcat 6.x, Resin, IPlanet and IIS 3.0/4.0,Open Stack, Cloud Stack, Automation, Chef

Storage

Sun Cluster 3.2, VERITAS Netback up 6.0, VERITAS Storage Foundation Suite, Solaris Volume Manager 5/4.1/4.0/3.5, Veritas Clusters

Disk Arrays

Sun StorEdge 3130,6320,6120, A1000/D1000, EMC DMX 800 and 1000, VNX, VMAX and VPLEX

Mail

SMTP, POP, IMAP, QMAIL, SENDMAIL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

VMware Consultant

  • Experience with SSRS and Microsoft Great Plains 10.0, 2010-R2 and 2013
  • Experience with SharePoint with SSRS and MS Great Plainss
  • Strong Experience in Cloud Automation Migration Integration and operations with vCOP on vCAC vCO vCOP vFabric BMC Patrol, Team Quest, Splunk , Clear Quest MS Great Plains and foglight and etc
  • Experience with Setup Openstack Environment in their Lab for POC
  • Creating standard process for group policy deployment Active Directory users and group's management and active directory conversions
  • Analyze and maintained capacity planning for new equipment in Datacenter
  • Uses different tools for Capacity Planning such as BMC Patrol, Team Quest, Splunk , Clear Quest, CA SiteMinder, MS Great Plains and foglight etc
  • Implementation and administration of DNS, DHCP and WINS
  • Experience with CA SiteMinder on Virtual environment.
  • Test and Create coustom script on vCOP on vCAC vCO vCOP vFabric
  • Work on vCAC vCO vCOP vFabric and etc
  • Strong Experience in Cloud Automation Migration Integration and operations
  • Strong experience in Vmware Envionment.
  • Design and implement a mechanism for handing on-off technical issues to other technical teams for resolution using customization with foglight and SiteMinder .
  • Create standard Net-backup policies and taking back-up of the servers. Restoring the data as per the customer request
  • Experience with Workspace Collaboration, Configuration and Development with extended pack of Microsoft Dynamics Great Plainss Modules VM Converter and PlateSpin.
  • Strong Experience in VM Converter and PlateSpin
  • Prepare monthly work status report and updating technology specific documents
  • Remote administration of servers for any problem across Fidelity offices related to Microsoft Windows operating system.
  • Work with customers on data center transformation activities to confirm and document accordingly Windows Systems and workloads, develop Functional Specifications.
  • Migrate server workloads using industry standard tools such as VMconverter, PlateSpin
  • Independently manage all aspects related to Workload Integration projects.
  • Work with vendors and contractors to define detailed technical requirements
  • Participate in Application owner and Business User interviews to identify system functions and architectural and network related dependencies
  • Execute Discovery activities to fully identify and document the existing Windows server inventory
  • Work with the Datacenter Server Tower to develop and implement the appropriate solution for successful transformation
  • Experiecne with Avamar proxies, configuration and monitor
  • Create new documentation and processes as needed to help refine, optimize, and/or to establish network functions and processes
  • Install and Deploy Virtul Machine Servers based on their requirements
  • Monitor Infrastucture Envionemnt of Virtual DataCenter.
  • Support and Implement VMware Environment 24/7.
  • Automate VM Build/Delete in Vmware environment
  • Support the Automation tool build on thire environment
  • Support and implementation Engineer for all related Citrix VMware ESX 3.0/3.5, and vSphere Client
  • Maintain over 6500 user domain at Datacenter and Shared Services Center.
  • Interacting with business users for gathering the requirements for on boarding the applications to Citrix Servers
  • Adding CustomActions to MSI InstallSequence using embedded VBScripts to customize MSI install behavior.
  • Using Orca Tool for creating Windows Installer Transform MST files for customizing vendor provided MSI installs.
  • Resolving various connections of Citrix Printer issues for client printing over Citrix.
  • Creating a test Environment in Citrix or VMware for Production Team to test their applications.
  • Experience with Application Streaming and publishing Streaming profiles for user access.
  • Supporting Citrix Password Manager and Access Gateway.
  • Resolving user connections to the Citrix Web Interface server by recycling the IIS services.
  • Implementation Engineer for upgrades, support, and installation of new Wintel.
  • 3rd Level Support for Remote Sites for all related back end applications hosted
  • Maintain Active directory and Exchange environment
  • PowerShell Scripting for over 10,000 objects
  • Design and implement new server and application role out of back office applications in VMware.
  • Consult on complex business issues and design considerations
  • Responsible for the identification and documentation of system requirements to enable the Technical Team to deliver the appropriate solution for successful transformation
  • Participate in the development and execution of the user acceptance test plans, as well as schedule testing

Confidential

AIX/UNIX/Linux/ VMware Consultant

Roles and responsibilities:

  • Responsible for installation, configuration, support and troubleshooting existing systems in AIX 5.X, 6.1.
  • Installed and configured AIX 5.3,6.1 on p5 520,550,560,561,570,590, 595, 770
  • Configured and administrated Stand alone pars.
  • Configured and administrated Dual VIO server and Lpar clients.
  • Installing VIO clients and assigned storage with the help of NPIV technology
  • Installation Administration of Redhat Linux server and Workstation.
  • Migrated HACMP 5.2 to HACMP 5.4.
  • Managed Systems and Network related issues like Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting on UNIX and Solaris platform
  • Experience with Backup/Restore Awamar and Networkers
  • Experienced supporting and deploying web application servers such as BEA WebLogic server, JBoss server, Apache Tomcat server, IBM WebSphere, Apache HTTPD server in production environment.
  • Experience using LVM creating VGs, LVs, and disk mirroring.
  • Experience with EMC backup solutions including AVAMAR, Data Domain and Networker
  • Strong Knowledge of Backup and Restore with Avamar.
  • Experience with Avamar Configuration on Virtual Environment
  • Experience with Protection Site and Recovery site
  • Experience in VM Converter and PlateSpin
  • Experience with Failover and failback scenario like SRM
  • Experience on SAN, NAS Envionment
  • User management, security planning and implementation.
  • Implemented Advanced POWER Virtualization on IBM p5,p6 Systems.
  • Configured VIO servers and related LPARs through HMC, Dual VIO Server testing.
  • Created Micro partitioning of processor by dividing physical processor's computing power into fractions of a processing unit and share them among multiple logical LPARs.
  • Installation and configuration of NIM master server and clients, creating lppsource and SPOT for client on NIM server.
  • Installing NIM clients using network boot.
  • Administration, maintenance of HACMP Clusters.
  • Installation, Configuration Upgrade of AIX operating systems running oracle Database.
  • Design, Implement and troubleshoot any issues related to VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling, Resource Pools and VMware High Availability
  • Maintain and deploy web farm servers designed to run on Apache and configured Apache to load any custom modules.

Confidential

Sr. System Admin

Responsible for installing, configuring and maintaining AIX servers.

  • Configured and administrated VIO server and VIO clients.
  • Extensive use of LVM, creating Volume Groups, Logical volumes, and disk mirroring.
  • Administration Task's included User administration, Performance, Sendmail .weekly mksysb.
  • Daily roles included dealing with LVM extensively. Strong hold of LVM.
  • Migrated AIX 5.3 with HACMP 5.1 to HACMP 5.2 online .
  • Maintain a secure Samba file server on Solaris systems for integrated data communication between Solaris, Windows and Linux Operating Systems.
  • Daily tasks included dealing with AIX side of SAN. Like troubleshooting Fiber card adapter, replacing Fiber card adapters and LUN's Configuration.
  • Setup of full networking services and protocols on AIX, including NIS/NFS, DNS, SSH, DHCP, NIDS, TCP/IP, ARP, applications, and print servers to insure optimal networking, application, and printing functionality.
  • Experience in VM Converter and PlateSpin
  • Configured Samba, NE'S, NAS, Apache services in Linux Servers.
  • Install and configure DHCP, DNS BIND, MS , web Apache, IIS , mails and file servers.
  • Dealing with user id deletion with removing entries from CRONTAB.
  • Configured and installed LPAR's and VIO servers on P570, P595 servers.
  • Performing Failovers in HACMP cluster environment, monitoring servers.
  • Created and maintained FILESYSTEMS by increasing the space and running FSCK's.
  • Designed and configured ethernet VLAN's with RS/6000 IBM Servers, Cisco Routers 2500/2600 series and Cisco Switches Catalyst 2912 utilizing RJ45 CAT5 cables for the internal LAN, and a T1 fiber uplink across a Cisco backbone for connection on the WAN.
  • Experienced with Apache Installations, MYSQL, PHP and JBOSS.

Confidential

Sr. System Admin

  • Worked with Oracle, Web groups in maintaining and problem solving in applications and OS.
  • Supported multiple RS6000 Systems and SUN/Solaris Systems
  • Responsible for Day-to-Day Backup and Recovery using tar. Disk and File system management through Veritas Volume Manager Solstice Disk Suite on Solaris and logical volume manager for Linux.
  • Created logical volumes mirrored/stripped in SSA disks.
  • On figureWinbindon all Linux workstations, which enables all the Linux users to be authenticated on Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory Server.
  • Installing and maintaining security using truss, Openview, sitescope for SUN and Linux servers, Configured the build tools to make builds with Ant/maven.
  • Installed and configured the Apache with Vignette. Using the mod curl as module to communicate with Vignette.
  • Experience in VM Converter and PlateSpin
  • Involved in Disaster Recovery, DataStage Upgrade, Unix Infrastructure, WebSphere.
  • Maintain a secure Samba file server on Solaris systems for integrated data communication between Solaris, Windows and Linux Operating Systems.
  • Managed Printer queue and Fax servers
  • Done revision review for Shell Scripts. Written for variety of Unix Administration.
  • Created and maintained user accounts on UNIX Systems
  • Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of the I planet web Server on Sun boxes.
  • Troubleshooting the Kernel, Loader, Assembler and Compiler errors.
  • Installed and configured the Oracle 8i Database on Sun Enterprise 6500,450 Servers for staging and Production boxes.
  • Supported multiple RS6000 Systems and SUN/Solaris
  • Installed and configured secure shell on servers and desktops.
  • Installed, Configured and Management of Mail Servers, DNS
  • Developed shell-scripts Perl to automate routine activities.
  • Configured NFS, NIS on Servers on Production boxes.
  • Configured TCP/IP backup restore and storage management.
  • Created users on the server for public and private ftp access to the site.
  • Extensive experience Mail Server, Samba Server, Apache Server.
  • Expertise in hardening, Linux Server and Compiling, Building and installing Apache Server from sources with minimum modules.

Confidential

System Admin

Installation, Configuration Upgrade of operating systems Solaris /9, AIX, HP-UX and Redhat Linux.

  • Used fsck and fsdb on file systems successfully when critical data got corrupted. Made use of alternate superblocks to replace corrupted superblock.
  • Used commands for creating new users, groups, user passwords, changing passwords, managing user accounts and locking users, Monitored System processes system status identifying system bottlenecks.
  • Joined multiple disks to overcome disk size limitations, mirrored data for fault tolerance. Spread data over multiple disks for performance enhancement.
  • Responsible for Day-to-Day Backup and Recovery using tar. Disk and File system management through Veritas Volume Manager Solstice Disk Suite on Solaris and logical volume manager for Linux.
  • Installed and maintained the machines with the updated Patches and necessary client software packages, pkgadd, pkginfo, pkgrm, patchadd, showrev p, patchadd p.
  • Configuring systems with Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System using Vxdiskadm utility, Vxassist.
  • Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA and DRS
  • Managed Systems and Network related issues like Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting on UNIX and Solaris platform
  • Post installation configuration such as ssh, netgroups, ntp, timezone patch.
  • Configured Domain Name System DNS for hostname to IP resolution .
  • Troubleshooting and fixing the issues at User level, System level and Network level by using various tools and utilities. Schedule backup jobs by implementing cron job schedule during non business hours
  • Creating and Managing resource pools for Virtual Machines
  • Expertise in hardening, Linux Server and Compiling, Building and installing Apache Server from sources with minimum modules.

Confidential

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

  • Installations of all the required Software, documentation and licensing.
  • Added new SCSI hard drives to the system.
  • Setup various user profiles, environment variables/security to ensure smooth operation.
  • Expertise in setup various Network Printers and troubleshooting Printer problems.
  • Scheduling cron jobs to automate the system.
  • Used tools Ufsdump for day to day full and incremental Backups and Ufsrestore for crash dump recovery.
  • Used various commands to check the Performance of the system, load balances on the CPU and memory.
  • Expertise in setup DNS Server, DNS Client and troubleshoot DNS network issues.
  • Maintain a secure Samba file server on Solaris systems for integrated data communication between Solaris, Windows and Linux Operating Systems.
  • Configured NFS, remote mounts and remote access of file systems.
  • Configured, monitored and maintained the NFS service
  • Auto-mounted directories between the clients as required by the users
  • Configured NIS and DNS clients to the existing networks
  • Took backup using tar, ufsdump, cpio utility and automated backup using Cron

Confidential

Network Administrator

Worked as a Systems / Network Administrator configured and maintained Solaris 2.5 servers.

  • Used the LVM extensively Created/Modified/Deleted Volume Groups, Logical Volumes and Filesystems Added/Removed physical disks Mirrored Volume Groups and Logical Volumes.
  • Setup of print queues and definition printing and plotting devices.
  • Setup NIS in a multi-platform UNIX environment.
  • Setup NFS between IBM, SUN, HP and SGI workstations and servers.
  • Setup NFS between IBM RS/6000 server and NT server.
  • Setup NIM and install clients.
  • Maintain a secure Samba file server on Solaris systems for integrated data communication between Solaris, Windows and Linux Operating Systems.
  • Configured TCP/IP for servers and workstations and setup of complete network.
  • Wrote several korn shell scripts perform background FTP, distribution of data to other servers, backup operations and management of large volumes of CAD data.
  • Setup Jumpstart server for auto installations of servers.
  • Configuring NFS, NIS.
  • Network administration and Network monitoring.
  • Supported multiple RS6000 Systems and SUN/Solaris
  • Firewall configuration for packet filtering firewall.
  • Installation and maintenance of the Internal DNS server.
  • Experience in VM Converter and PlateSpin
  • Support for all the internal Windows nodes
  • Involved in user, package and patch management and administration.
  • Development shell scripts using Perl, awk for automation of Systems administrative tasks.
  • Implemented RAID techniques RAID 0 1, RAID 5 by using Veritas Volume Manager and Online Disk Suite ODS .
  • Configured the printers with the use of admintool and command level.

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