SUMMARY

• A senior level Solaris System Administrator/ Technical Architect with over 15 years of experience in designing and implementing various Hardware and Software products for any business in IT industry.
• A proven technical leader with superior verbal and written communication skills and a “can do” attitude with extensive experience partnering with business people and vendors on successful software/hardware project implementations.
• Experience in designing/configuring and implementing virtualization for dynamic data centers server consolidation via virtualization methods and saving millions of dollars in hardware/software and maintenance costs using VMware, RedHat KVM, Solaris Zones and Containers, LDOMS using Solaris and Linux Operating Systems
• Over 10 years of experience in designing and implementing high availability systems using various cluster softwares’ across all SUN SPARC and X86 platforms.
• Experience with VMware ESX/ESXi, vSphere, vCenter, RedHat KVM technologies
• Experience installing and configuring dynamic space utilizations using management softwares’ such as Symantec volume manager, ZFS,SUN Volume Manager (SVM) and Linux LVM
• Experience with Sun Blade T and X - series, Cool Threads Enterprise T- series and SPARC64 VI architecture servers
• Experience with IBM Blade Center H-Chassis, IBM Blade Center HS/23HS22/HS21 and IBM X3650 M4 servers including the configuration of BNT virtual Fabric 10g switch module
• Experience with various HP DL380 g8 and DL380 gen9
• Experience in migrating to LINUX from Solaris onto SUN x86 hardware
• Experience in deployment of server automation tools including Operations Orchestration and CMDB setup
• Experience in NIS, NIS+, NFS, DNS, DHCP and TCP/IP
• Experience in Backups, Restores, disaster recovery using Legato, Netbackup technologies
• Experience in Jumpstart technology
• Experience in SUN’s OPS center tool for OS provisioning, firmware provisioning, patching and update capabilities for operating systems (Solaris™ operating system, Linux, and Windows), and create patch compliance reports.
• Experience in scripting for automation
• Experience in installing/configuring/administering standalone/cluster WEBLOGIC administration
• Experience with installing and configuring sendmail with mail filters
• Experience with Solaris system security implantation

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: Sun Blade 6000/6048, Sun Blade T serial, Midlevel Enterprise M series servers, Netra T and X series servers, SUN FIRE E15k, 6800, 3800, ENTERPRISE, Sun Fire 4800, Sun Fire V R, Sun Fire T2000, Sun Fire 890, Sun Fire 880, Sun Fire V440, Sun Fire V245, Sun Fire V445, Sun Fire x4200, Sun Fire x4600, Sun Ultra 27 Workstations (x86/x64), Sun Ultra 40/20 workstations IBM - H-Chassis, HS23/HS22/HS21 blades, IBM X3650 M4, BNT virtual Fabric10gswitchmodule HP DL380 g8, HP DL380 gen9

Storage: Sun Storage Tek Disk arrays, Sun Storage 6580/6780, Sun StorEdge series, SPARC storage Array

Operating Systems: Solaris 11, Solaris 10, Solaris 10 (x86) Solaris 2.9, Solaris 2.8, Solaris 2.6, Solaris2.5.1, RedHat Linux, Windows XP, Windows 2000

Virtualization Tools: VMware ESXi 4.1, RedHat KVM, LDOMS, Solaris zones/containers, vSphere, vCenter

Middleware Tools: Symantec (VERITAS) Cluster Server (VCS), Symantec Storage Foundation VXFS, Solaris ZFS, Linux-LVM, Sun Cluster, Legato Networker6.x, Symantec Netbackup 6.5.x, Sun Volume Manager (SVM), SUN OPS Center, WEBLOGIC 9.x, Apache Server, Samba

Database: Oracle 11.x, Sybase 11.x

MS Office Tools: MS word, Excel, PowerPoint, Vision, Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Reston, VA

Technical Team Lead/Sr Solaris/Linux System Administrator//Technical System Architect

Environment: Oracle Solaris, Linux, RedHat KVM, IBM H-blade center, HP DL380 g8 and DL380 gen9, VMware ESXi, vCenter

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement data center consolidation by creating virtual environments using VMware(ESX/ESXi), RedHat KVM, LDOMS, Solaris ZONES, containers on various SUN,IBM and HP hardware by saving millions in hardware/software/maintenance costs
• Installed and configured SUN StorageTek Disk Arrays, Sun StorEdge, SPARC storage Array using RAID and ZFS
• Install and configure VMware ESXi on SUN x86 environments
• Install and configure vSphere, vCenter technologies for setting up and managing virtual machines through a single interface
• Design and Implement high availability by using Symantec (VERITAS) Cluster Server (VCS) 5.0 to have the systems available at 99.9% to the customers on both Solaris and Linux environments
• Design, configure and manage the dynamic space utilization by using Symantec (VERITAS) Storage Foundation 5.0, ZFS and Sun Volume Manager (Solstice Disk Suite) and Linux LVM
• Install and Configure Solaris 11, Solaris 10, Solaris 9 and Solaris 8 Operating systems on both SPARC and x86 platforms
• Install and configure Linux OS on SUN x86 platforms
• Design and implement IBM Blade Center H-Chassis, IBM Blade Center HS22/HS21 with Linux Operating System including the configuration and management of BNT virtual Fabric 10g switch modules by implementing VLAN/bonding techniques
• Installing/migrating Red Hat Linux on Solaris x86 platforms
• Installed and upgraded operating systems to Solaris 10 and Solaris 9 and Solaris 8 on both SPARC and x86 platforms
• Expert in upgrading Operating Systems from Solaris8 to Solaris 9/10
• Installed and configured Sun’s OPS center tool for OS provisioning, firmware provisioning, patching and update capabilities for operating systems (Solaris™ operating system, Linux, and Windows), and create patch compliance reports for the management
• Designing and Implementing Disaster Recovery process for the datacenter replication for high availability
• Install and configure Jumpstart environments via LAN/WAN to automate Solaris Operating System installation
• System performance tuning for the load balancing purposes
• Installing and Configuring Sendmail and configure third party mail filers for the spam
• Implement NFS and NIS and NIS+ environments
• Network administration such as configuring and troubleshooting TCP/IP,DNS name service
• Install, configure and administer WEBLOGIC standalone/cluster application on Solaris Systems
• Install, configure and administer Xyplex terminal servers for data collection and console management

Confidential, Reston, VA

Technical Team Lead/Sr Solaris /Linux System Administrator

Environment: Sun Solaris

Responsibilities:

• Designing and Implementing high availability by using Symantec (VERITAS) Cluster Server (VCS) 5.0 to have the systems available at 99.9% to the customers
• Design and implement virtualization using LDOMS, Solaris Containers and ZONES
• Designing, configuring and managing the dynamic space utilization by using Symantec (VERITAS) Storage Foundation 5.0, ZFS and Sun Volume Manager (Solstice Disk Suite)
• Installing and Configured Solaris 10, Solaris 9 and Solaris 8 Operating systems on both SPARC and x86 platforms
• Installed and upgraded operating systems to Solaris 10 and Solaris 9 and Solaris 8 on both SPARC and x86 platforms
• Installing and configuring various backup and recovery processes such as Netbackup 6.5, Solstice Backup6.0 software and automate the backups to have the data available at all times
• Designing and Implementing Disaster Recovery process
• Installed and configured Jumpstart environment to automate Solaris Operating System installation
• SSH (Secure Shell) TCP/IP based product for network security and privacy, supporting strong encryption and authentication, Configuring SSH servers and clients, both system-wide and per user, with recommended settings to maximize security.
• System performance tuning
• Installing and Configuring Sendmail and Procmail
• Installing and Configuring Storage Area Network
• Setting up and managing NFS and NIS and NIS+ environments
• Network administration such as configuring and troubleshooting TCP/IP,DNS name service, sendmail
• Installing and configuring WEBLOGIC standalone/cluster application on Solaris Systems
• Installing hardware/software and troubleshooting problems related to them
• User Administration
• Installing and configuring change management process such as CVS(concurrent version system)Remedy ARSystem, ARWeb by using Apache Server
• Installing and configuring Concord Sysedge product for the notification process
• Installing and Configuring Samba system

Confidential, Reston, VA

UNIX System Administrator

Environment: Sun Solaris

Responsibilities:

• Designing, configuring and managing the dynamic space utilization by using VERITAS Volume Manager3.2 and Solstice Disk Suite
• Designing and Implementing high availability by using VERITAS Cluster Server2.0 to have the systems available at 99.9% to the customers
• Installing and configuring various backup and recovery processes such as Solstice Backup6.0 software and automate the backups to have the data available at all times
• Designing and Implementing Disaster Recovery process
• SSH (Secure Shell) TCP/IP based product for network security and privacy, supporting strong encryption and authentication, Configuring SSH servers and clients, both system-wide and per user, with recommended settings to maximize security.
• System performance tuning
• Installing and Configuring Sendmail and Procmail
• Installing and Configuring Storage Area Network
• Setting up and managing NFS and NIS and NIS+ environments
• Network administration such as configuring and troubleshooting TCP/IP,DNS name service, sendmail
• Installing and upgrading Solaris Operating System
• Installing hardware/software and troubleshooting problems related to them
• User Administration
• Installing and configuring change management process such as CVS(concurrent version system)Remedy ARSystem, ARWeb by using Apache Server