PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Professional with 10 years experience in project management, process re-engineering & system design analysis
• Strong in adapting to new applications and heterogeneous environment.
• Superior client interaction skills along with technological expertise in supporting large service delivery teams across various clients.
• Extensive experience managing system architecture and integration projects, including network infrastructure design, enterprise deployment, SAN & NAS storage, network security, system mgmt, backup & disaster recovery, web applications support, data warehousing, and messaging
• Strong technical expertise in all major server technologies with experience managing mission critical, high availability IT systems
• Proven leadership skills with experience directing technical network engineering teams in mission critical project environments, managing crisis & day to day IS operations, and managing vendor relationships
• Results-oriented with strong problem-solving, analytical, communication and leadership skills, capable of functioning in management, consultant, and hands-on technologist roles

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Science (Electronics, Mathematics, Physics)
Sun Certified Network Administrator (SCNA)
Sun Certified Systems Administrator (SCSA)
Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT)
Microsoft certified systems Engineer NT (MCSE)

TRAINING

Solaris 2.7

MCSE for NT

Sun Cluster 3.0

Six Sigma

Veritas VCS RAC (2006)

Red Hat 4 (2006)

Solaris 10 (Jan 2008)

Hitachi Enterprise Storage Bootcamp (Feb 2008)

Netapp Storage Solution (Jul 2008)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Server Hardware : Sun Servers M5000, SF5440 (LDOM), SFE25k, SFE15k, T2000, E10k, SF6800 E4500, E3500, E450, E250, E220R, E420R, V880, V440, V220 & Workstations, IBM RS6000 workstations, HP C-Class, Dell, Compaq
Storage Hardware : NETAPP FAS6000 & FAS3000 Series, Hitachi 9990/9980/9970 & USP V, Hitachi AMS 2500 & 1000, Hitachi BlueArc HNAS, Brocade Fabric (48000 director, Sphereon 4500 switch, Intrepid 6140 & 10K Director), JNI, Emulex & Qlogic HBA, EMC storage, Sun Disk Array “SSA110/A1000/D1000/A5200/T3”, Sun StorEdge L20 & L9, Compaq RAID Array, Symmetrix DMX800 & DMX1000, Clariion CX700 & CX300
Storage Software: NetAPP - Data ONTAP 7G (OS), Operations Manager, Snapshot, Snapmirror, iSCSI, Snapvault, Flexclone
HP - HAFM (HP StorageWorks High Availability Fabric Manager & element manager), Business Copy (BC), Continuous Access (CA)
Sun - Storage Navigator
Hitachi – HORCM (CCI), Shadow Image (SI), Copy on Write, True Copy (TC), Hitachi Universal Replicator, Universal Volume Manager, Device Manager, Tuning Manager, Dynamic Provisioning, Volume Migrator, Cross System Copy, Tiered Storage Manager, HNAS
Brocade- EFCM (enterprise fabric connectivity manager), EOS CLI (For Intrepid 10k Director), FOS, DCFM (Data Center Fabric Manager)
EMC- Navisphere, ECC
Veritas - Command Central, Storage Foundation 4.x/5.x, Veritas Cluster 4.x/5.x (RAC)
Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 2.6/2.7/2.8/2.9/10, HP-UX B 10.20, IBM AIX 4.3, Red Hat Linux 7.x, Terminal server, Citrix thin Client, Windows XP, 2k, NT
Network Management: NFS, NIS, DNS, Jumpstart, DHCP, SMS Server, FTP Servers, WINS, VPN/RAS
Unix Tools & Utilities: Veritas Volume Manager (VVM), Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), VCS4.1/5.0 RAC, Solstice disk suite, Sun Cluster (SC), Sun Management Console, System management services, RAID Manager 6, RSC (Remote system control), DMP, IP-Multipathing, Jumpstart, JASS, Sun DHCP, TCP wrapper
Backup Tools: Veritas Netbackup, Solstice backup, ARC serve backup, Legato, Tivoli
Security System: Checkpoint firewall, Sunscreen firewall, ISA proxy/firewall, Apache Reverse Proxy, MIMESWEEPER (Mail security system), WEB Sense (web scanner)
Web Servers: Apache Reverse/ Forward Proxy, Iplanet Enterprise Web server, IIS
Scripting Languages: Shell, AWK, SED, HTML, PERL
Databases: Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g r2, Informix, BAAN
Application Server: Weblogic 6.x, JBOSS 3.x
Servelet Engine: Tomcat
Load Balancer: BIG IP, F5
Monitoring Tools: Webalizer, Web Trends, MRTG
Single Sign On: Netegrity SiteMinder 4.5
Directory Server: iPlanet LDAP 4.1
Mail Server: Sendmail, Exchange server 5.5

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2005 – Till Date Confidential, Wauwatosa, WI

Environment Description

Confidential,on multiple projects as Backup, Storage & Systems consultant. Job requires being part of a team & leading various efforts on Backup, Storage & System migration, DR activities, FDA documentation and day to day maintenance. I am responsible for Planning, Designing and implementation expertise on the Storage, Backup & Systems infrastructure. Also provide Infrastructure support for Data Centers with Enterprise level Sun servers, Hitachi SAN Storage, Brocade Switches & Netapp Filers. Perform storage & server builds, provide onsite support for Hardware, OS & Software for various vendors like “Sun, Veritas, Qlogic, Netapp & Hitachi”.

Roles & Responsibilities:

I had the opportunity to perform different roles and undertook various responsibilities.

• Plan and Design the Storage infrastructure and software solutions for the enterprise
• Responsible for Netbackup server administration
• Architect, Designed and Build Solaris 10 servers and worked on virtualization & capacity planning and datacenter migration activities.
• Performed Build & Maintenance activities on Solaris Zones, Jumpstart, JASS, ZFS filesystems, Resource control, Projects, Containers, LDOM’s
• Design & Build Veritas Cluster (VCS) for Oracle RAC 10g environments
• Automate administrative tasks by writing Perl scripts
• SAN Migration activities on EMC, HP & Hitachi USP V storage subsystems
• Performed lease replacement on HP & EMC storage and moved them to the new Hitachi USP V storage using a combination of Shadow Image (SI), Universal Volume Manager (UVM), Volume Migrator & Veritas Cluster (VCS)/Volume Manager (VVM) software
• Performed Virtualization using Hitachi USP V storage
• Moved data stores from the HP XP-1024, Sun StorEdge 9980/9985 Arrays to Hitachi USP V
• Implementation of the Brocade (McData) Intrepid 6140 & 10000 Fabric Director, 48000 director zoning configurations and Datacenter fiber connectivity setup using EFCM & DCFM
• Setup of high availability solution using the Hitachi Universal Replicator (HUR)
• Setup ShadowImage (SI) & TrueCopy (TC) for Disaster recovery, Backup and Testing environment
• Architecting the layout and allocation of SAN Disk Arrays for all Environments and implementing them using HP StorageWorks, Sun Storage Navigator and HDvM on Hitachi USP V
• Perform storage provisioning using Hitachi LUN Manager and Brocade EFCM on Hitachi USP V storage
• Automate & Script the Hitachi Shadow Image and True copy activities using HORCM (CCI)
• Design & Implementation of Solaris 10, Oracle 10g RAC, Veritas SF RAC Cluster environment on SunFire 25K domains.
• Design and Administration of NetApp FAS6000 & FAS3070 Series network storage
• NAS migration from legacy Netapp NAS architecture to Enterprise Tiered architecture.
• Work with NetApp Storage Vendor for iSCSI Proof of Concepts and storage enhancements.
• Setup NetApp Filer Clusters, worked on netapp day to day administration activities Data on ONTAP 7G, & applications like Operations Manager, Snapshot, Snapmirror, iSCSI, Snapvault, Flexclone
• Lead Disaster Recovery & capacity planning efforts for Oracle 10g ERP environment from Storage and Systems end
• Perform Live server Upgrades in ERP environment & Storage/Server lease replacements
• Review Application & Infrastructure Architecture with the application & infrastructure teams
• Maintain FDA standard documentation for Servers, Storage and Application
• Provide Level 3 Support for the Environment listed below

Environment
Sun Servers “M5000,SF5440(LDOM),SunFire25K/SF15k/SF6800/V2900/V1280/V880/V490/V480/V440/V240 /V40z/V20z”, Sun StorageTek SL8500 tape library, Sun StorEdge 9990/9980/9970, USP V/VM, AMS1000, NETAPP FAS6000 Series, Brocade fabric(Intrepid 6140 & 10K & 48k Director), Storage Navigator (HDS), Device Manager, Tuning Manager, Dynamic Provisioning, Volume Migrator, Tiered Storage Manager, HAFM (HP StorageWorks High Availability Fabric Manager & element manager), EFCM (enterprise fabric connectivity manager), Emulex & Qlogic HBA, Sun Solaris 2.8/2.9/10, Data Ontap, Perl scripting, VVM, Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) for RAC, SVM, Sun DHCP, Jumpstart, JASS, NIS, LDAP

2004 – 2005 Datacenter Migration Infrastructure support Confidential,Hartford, CT

Description

Provide Infrastructure support for the ING Data Centers with over 200+ servers across multiple locations in US, Hitachi SAN Storage, Backup & Network devices. Perform server builds & define guidelines for it. Provide onsite Hardware, OS & Software support for various vendors like “Sun, Veritas, Qualix, Legato, Tivoli, JNI, Emulex, HDS, EMC”. Involved in the Datacenter Migration plan and execution for Hitachi and Sun servers.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Infrastructure team in the UNIX datacenter migration
• Perform & execute the capacity planning efforts
• Coordinate/Perform the Application or System changes and Hardware maintenance
• Design/Manage the High Availability ING environment using Veritas Cluster
• Managed & Provisioned the EMC storage with ECC and Navisphere
• Manage and own new project requirements and change requests.
• Review Application & Infrastructure Architecture with the application & infrastructure teams

Environment
Sun Servers “SF15k/SF6800/E3500/V1280/V880/V440/V240/V220/E6500/E450”, Hitachi Lightning 9900V series, HNAS (BlueArc), EMC Symmetrix & Clariion storage, Emulex/JNI/Sun HBA & GBIC, Sun Solaris 2.6/2.7/2.8, Shell scripting, AWK, SED, Perl, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), BIG IP F5 Load Balancers.

2002 – 2004 E-Biz Operation Support – Unix Team Lead Confidential,Atlanta, GA

Description
Operations support for the entire E-Business environment of “GE Power Systems” with 250+ servers that spread across multiple locations in US. Servers were located primarily at four Data Centers within US (Cincinnati, Atlanta, Schenectady & Charlotte), Implementation of High Availability environment supported by Veritas & Sun cluster running multiple Operating Systems. Portals implemented in 3-tier architecture (Web/Application/Database) where security was given the highest priority with the implementation of multiple layer Firewalls, Load Balancers & Reverse Proxy.

The project expectations were demanding strict attention to rules and procedures, and tight SLA. It involved preparation and flawless execution of Project Plans, requiring us to have a lot of Client interaction and interaction with other teams like, the Infrastructure/App/Network/Security/Database teams, whereby all application were taken through the entire release cycle (BT/QA/Staging/Production).

Responsibilities:

• Define process & procedures for GE Power Systems E-Business environment
• Coordinate/Perform the Application release (Take applications through the entire life cycle of Build/Test, QA, Staging and Production)
• Design/Manage the High Availability of the GEPS Infrastructure
• Support GE Power Systems E-Business environment, that includes Siteminder Policy server, iPlanet directory server, Apache webserver, Tomcat, BIG IP F5 load balancers, E15k Domains, Veritas Cluster server, Weblogic/Jboss application servers
• Prepare project plans and revise SLA’s
• Capacity Planning by consolidating the servers to High end Enterprise level Sun Fire 15K environment
• Contribute in chartering, building, and sustaining the project team
• Be the escalation point for process related issues
• Plan, schedule and conduct process monitoring
• Listen to customer complaints Identify the change, manage the change
• Manage new requirements and change requests.
• Produce monthly management reports.
• Lead / Assist with Technical Specification development
• Help the project team to identify potential weaknesses in the defined processes and overcome the same

Environment
Sun Servers E15k, EMC storage, EMC Navisphere Management Suite, V880, V440, V220, E450, E250, HP ProLiant BL P-Class, Sun Solaris 2.6/2.7/2.8, Red Hat Linux 7.x/9, Win2k Advanced server, Shell scripting, AWK, SED, HTML, Perl, Oracle 8i, Weblogic administration server 6.x, JBOSS 3.x, Tomcat, Apache Reverse Proxy/ Forward Proxy, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), Sun Cluster (SC), Sun Management Console (SMC), System management services (SMS), SSH, OpenSSH, BIG IP F5 Load Balancers, DevPartner Compuware, Webalizer, Web Trends, Awstat, Netegrity SiteMinder 4.5, iPlanet LDAP 4.1

2002 – 2002 Sun Solutions & Oracle ERP Implementation Confidential,Hyderabad, India

Description
Setup Oracle ERP server on SunFire V880. This involved replicating the Staging environment to the production environment. Initial study of existing server environment running on SunFire 280R was performed & process/procedure was developed to replicate the same in the production environment with same level of performance and efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and Setting up the SunFire V880 server for Oracle database & ERP application in Production environment
• Implement features related to Remote management like RSC (remote system control)
• Configure Tape Library (Sun StorEdge L9) with Veritas Netbackup and Oracle Database agent for Database and OS backup
• Install & Configure FC-AL card with DMP (dynamic Multipathing for redundant controllers) & IPMP (IP Multipathing for redundant Network Interface)
• Configure a private network between Staging and Production for secure and faster data transfer
• Implement VVM (Veritas Volume Manager) and VNB (Veritas Netbackup)
• Implement features related to Performance tuning and Security, like setting DIRECT I/O for file systems
• Replication of the staging environment in the production environment and Data movement between the two servers
• Configure system parameters for Oracle and RSC
• Develop and implement Backup strategy for the production environment
• Perform HP Printer Management activity for Production server

Environment
SunFire V880 & SunFire 280R, Sun-StorEdge L9 tape library, FC-AL (fiber channel arbitrated loop), RSC (remote system control), Sun Solaris 2.6/2.7/2.8, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Netbackup, RSC (remote system control), RMAN (recovery manager), Sun Management Center, SunVTS, FC-AL , Oracle 8i

2002 – 2002 AIX Server management Confidential, Singapore

Description
Confidential,is carrying out SAP projects for their clients in Asia Pacific region. To maintain the performance and availability of the servers, on which SAP applications are running, these servers are remotely managed and monitored from India.

Responsibilities:

• Project Documentation and Preparation of the project deployment plan
• Generating the process and methodology for remotely managing / administering the UNIX servers
• Implementing the Big Brother web based Systems monitoring tool on IBM AIX.
• Customizing the Big Brother for monitoring IBM AIX specific parameters, customizing the alerts and notifications.
• Implementing the Webmin - web based UNIX administration tool on IBM AIX.
• Implementing Apache 1.3.20 web server on AIX & File system Management
• Generating trends from the monitoring exercise and helping the client in carrying out Capacity Planning.

Environment
IBM RS6000 Workstation , IBM AIX 4.3, Big Brother and Webmin , Apache 1.3.20

2001 – 2002 Team Leader – Systems & Network Analyst Confidential, London, UK

Description
Technical Specialist working on SUN E4500 / E450 / E250 / Ultra 10 / Ultra 5 Servers and Workstations, Windows NT Servers, Windows 2000 Servers, Software’s like Samba, IIS Server, Exchange 5.5 Server, Checkpoint Firewall 4.01, ISA proxy and Firewall, Terminal Server, Mime Sweeper, VPN, OWA, DHCP & WINS, Web Sense, Compaq RAID Array.
Solaris 2.6/2.7/2.8,Veritas Netbackup, Veritas File System, Veritas Volume Manager, RAID Manager 6, NIS, NFS, Solstice Backup, Solstice Disk suite, Storage L20 (tape library), A1000 & D1000 disk Array, Samba, SE toolkit3.1.2, Proctool, Sarge, ttywatcher, Sun Management center, VNC, Reflection

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration & Administration of Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Netbackup, Solstice Disk Suite, Solstice Backup
• Installation & Up gradation of Solaris 2.5.6 / 2.5.7 / 2.5.8 servers.
• Implementation, Configuration & Administration of NIS, NFS, Samba
• Administration of Storage L20 (tape library) for E4500
• RAID Configuration using RAID Manager-6 for E4500 on A1000 & D1000
• Monitoring of Servers using the following tools, SE toolkit3.1.2, Proctool, Sarge, ttywatcher, Sun Management center
• Installation and configuration of VNC
• As a team member was responsible for, Installation and Administration of Checkpoint Firewall 4.01, Setting up Security policies for the Organization
• Installation and Administration of Mime Sweeper & Web Sense Server for Network Mail Security
• Installation & Administration of ISA Proxy and Firewall server
• Implementation of WINS, DHCP, VPN, Terminal Servers
• Implementation & Administration of Exchange5.5 and Outlook Web Access
• Implementation & Administration of VPN, RAS and Terminal Server
• Implementation of Security procedures in the site

Environment
Sun Servers E4500/E450/E250/Ultra10/Ultra5, Compaq, Dell, Sun storage L20 (tape library), Sun A1000 & D1000 disk Arrays, Compaq RAID array, Solaris 2.6/2.7/2.8, windows NT/2000 servers, CITRIX thin client, Terminal server, Shell scripting, AWK, SED, BAAN, Informix, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), Sun Cluster (SC), Sun Management Console (SMC), System management services (SMS), NIS, DNS, Jumpstart, FTP Servers, WINS, VPN/RAS, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Netbackup, Solstice disk suite, Solstice backup, Sun Management Console (SMC), RAID Manager 6, Solstice backup, ARC serve backup, Checkpoint firewall 4.01, ISA proxy/firewall, MIMESWEEPER (Mail security system), WEB Sense (web scanner), IIS, Reflection, VNC, Exchange server 5.5

2001 – 2001 Single Sign-On (SSO) & LDAP specialist Confidential, Chennai, India

Description
Implement Single Sign On for GE GCF to facilitate their corporate users to log in to any GE web site and provide them seamless transition across different sites and portals. In Single Sign On infrastructure Netscape Directory Server is used as single point of repository for GE corporate users. Implementation of Single Sign-On feature carried out by Netegrity SiteMinder.

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of SiteMinder Policy server.
• Installation and Configuration of Netscape and Iplanet LDAP servers.
• Configuration of SiteMinder Web agents on IIS4.0 web server.
• Protection of resources on each web servers.
• Configuration of SiteMinder Policy server to store policies in LDAP server.
• Creation of users in LDAP server.
• Creation of realms, rules, policies, response and user directories for LDAP server.
• Configuration of IIS web agents for SiteMinder Policy server.
• Testing user authentication and authorization through LDAP servers, one LDAP server used for user authentication and another for user authorization.
• Configuration of supplier and consumer replication between all the LDAP servers.
• Configuration of Policy replication between two LDAP servers.
• Configuration of “Master to Master” and “Master to Consumer” replication of LDAP servers.

Environment
Solaris 2.5.8, Iplanet Enterprise Web server, IIS Web Server, Netscape Directory Server, Site Minder Policy Server 4.51, Enterprise 420R and 220R Servers

2000 – 2001 Sun Support Team Leader & Site Manager Confidential, Bangalore, India

Description
Technical Specialist working on managing Windows NT Servers, HP-UX & SUN Servers (E250, E450, Netra), & Following software’s PCANYWHERE, Oracle 8i, Samba, iPlanet Netscape Proxy Server, FTP Server, IIS, DNS, DHCP, WINS, SMS, NTP, NIS, NFS, Sendmail, Apache web server, Rational Rose License management, Printer Administration, Backup and Restoration for both Win NT and SUN Solaris, Mail Administration

Responsibilities

• Installation and Up gradation of Solaris 2.5.6 / 2.5.7 / 2.5.8 server.
• Implementation of Security procedures in the site
• RAID Configuration on Sun Servers
• Implementation of NAS using NETAPP servers
• Installation and administration of WebLogic, Aspen, Rational Rose, WinRunner & LoadRunner servers
• Installation and Up gradation of Solaris 2.5.6 / 2.5.7 / 2.5.8 server
• Performance Monitoring of the Solaris2.5.8 Server

Environment
Oracle 8i, Application: WebLogic, Rational Rose, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Aspen Modules, Solstice Disk suit, SAMBA, SAR, TOP, IIS, PC Anywhere, SMS, Netscape proxy server, Netscape Web server, Solaris 2.6/2.7/2.8, windows NT/95/98, HP-UX B 10.20 , Sun Servers E450/E250, NETAPP data storage, HP C-Class

1999 – 2000 Customer Support Engineer Confidential, Bangalore, India

Environment
Telnet server, FTP Server, Exchange5.5 Server, SCO Unix, Windows NT/95/98, Wipro, Dell

Responsibilities

• Administration of NT Server 4.0, NT Workstation, Windows 95/98/2000, Exchange server
• Printer Management and ISO Documentation, Windows NT Backup
• Responsible for Exchange server, PDC, BDC, SCO Unix and Symix servers and Desktop Support