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Resume Headline: Sikandar Mohamed - Infrastructure & Software Architect

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                                    SIKANDAR MOHAMED

6350 Stoneridge Mall Rd G106 Pleasanton CA, 94588

818-414-0786 sikandar_mohamed@hotmail.com

 

TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT / INFRASTRUCTURE & SOFTWARE ARCHITECT

 

Accomplished, innovative, and solution-driven IT Professional with over 15 years of hands-on experience in the areas of Enterprise Architecture, Systems Integration and Design, Performance & Scalability, and Implementation of SAP and Clinical Applications on high end UNIX Systems. Expert in AIX advanced support with exceptional skills in HACMP Solutions, other Clustering technologies and in Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery procedures. Excellent expertise on Enterprise Servers running IBM AIX, HP-UX with Oracle / DB2 / Cache databases and large Storage Area Networks such as EMC & IBM ESS. Have insightful leadership skills to motivate internal and external teams to exceed project objectives. Excellent in creating Standard Operating Procedures, write technical white papers, document and remediate any complex issues following a methodical approach. Research, and provide guidance to protect the IT infrastructure from code defects or security vulnerabilities. Rich experience of training and mentoring colleagues and clients. Proactively anticipate problems and provide resolutions with a focus to strive for innovation, continuous improvement and process simplification.

        

SUMMARY


Systems architecture and design Infrastructure Build Integrate SAP solutions on AIX Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Procedures HACMP • Advanced AIX • Migrations • Performance and Scalability • Virtualization Technologies using IBM PowerVM and Virtual I/O Server • VMware • Live Application Mobility • WPAR (Workload Partition) • Oracle 11g/10g System Software installation • OS upgrade and maintenance • Infrastructure and Application Technical Support • SAN Redesign & Migrations for EMC Symmetrix, IBM ESS • IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) Enterprise Middleware WebSphere MQ Network Deployment Manager


 

Systems & Infrastructure Architect / Technology Consultant

 

·         Understand Application requirements and business processes for infrastructure design

·         Expert in Systems architecture & design

·         Leveraging data replication tools to design enterprise backup solutions

·         Extensive experience to direct infrastructure build

·         Architect and integrate SAP solutions on AIX platform

·         Feasibility study, proof of concepts and gap analysis

·         Hardware Planning, Technical Marketing and SME review for project proposals

·         Install - Configure Operating Systems VIOS 2.1, AIX 7.1 / 6.1 / 5.3  / 5.2 / 5.1 / 4.3.3, HP-UX 11.x and Red Hat Linux ES5 / ES4

·         Build and configure Virtual I/O Servers, create LPARs on System p 695/690/670

·         Build WPARS, configure LPARS for Live Application mobility

·         Build, configure & deploy Power HA 6.1 / 5.5 / HACMP-ES 5.4 / 4.5

·         Work with IBM SAP Competency Center for integrating SAP solutions on AIX and enhance performance and scalability

·         Deploy Web Application Servers using HTTP Server, WebSphere MQ

·         Analyze workloads and usage trends for evaluating System performance, and make capacity planning recommendations

·         Implement SAP Concurrent I/O to enhance Oracle database performance

·         Design and architect business continuity and disaster recovery procedures

·         Direct the development of comprehensive and strategic business cases with cost/benefit dimensions.

·         Advanced AIX, HACMP consulting & integration support for the platform infrastructure reliability and agility

 

TECHNICAL PROFILE

 

Hardware:              IBM Power 770 / System p 695 / 690 / 670 / 650 / 630 / 615, RS/6000 S85 / S80 / S7A / S70 / F50, HP-9000 N-Class & K-Class, SUN Ultra E4500 / E3500 / 450 / 250, 220R, Alpha Server GS 140 / GS 60, Alpha Server 8400 / 8200 / 4100 / 2100 / 1200 / 800, DMX VMAX / EMC Symmetrix 8000 / 3000 Series, IBM ESS Model 800, HP BL460c, f5 Load Balancer, IBM Data Power

OS:              VIOS 2.2 / 2.1, AIX 7.1 / 6.1 / 5.3 / 5.2 / 5.1 / 4.3.3, Solaris 8 / 7 / 2.6, HP-UX 11.1 / 10.x, Digital Unix 4.0E / 4.0D and SCO UnixWare 7.1, Red Hat Linux ES5 / ES4 / AS4, Windows 2008 R2 Server Enterprise, Citrix XenApp 6.0

Misc:              WebLogic 10.3, WebSphere Application Server 8.5 / 6.1, WebSphere Message Broker 8 / 6.x, WebSphere Message Queue 7 / 6.x, Omegamon XE for Messaging 6.0, SAP NetWeaver 7.0, SAP PI 7.0, SAP R/3 4.6B, Power HA 6.1 / 5.5 / HACMP-ES 5.3 / 4.5 / 4.4.1, PSSP-3.4, GPFS 1.5, ITM 6.x, EMC Power Path 5.3 / 4.5 / 3.0.4, Volume Logix 3.0.12, TSM 6.x, EMC TimeFinder/Clone

Networking:                            TCP/IP, NFS, Ether Channel, IBM Load Balancer 5.0.2

RDBMS:                            Oracle RAC 11gR2 / 10gR2 / 9i / 8i / 8 / 7.3.4, DB2 UDB 8.x/7.x, Cache

Scripting Language:              UNIX Shell Programming, SQL                                                                     

Tools Used:              EMC Control Center, Time Finder, SRDF, Solstice Disk Suite 4.2, Legato Networker 5.2, BMC Patrol, TNG 2.2, Platinum DBA, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli Workload Scheduler

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

CSC, Falls Church, VA 22042 Oct 2013 – Present

 

Major Client:

Kaiser Permanente, Pleasanton, California

 

Environment: IBM Power 770 / System p 695 / 690, DMX VMAX / EMC Symmetrix 8000, VIOS 2.2 / 2.1, AIX 7.1 / 6.1 / 5.3, Power HA 6.1 / 5.5 / HACMP-ES 5.3, Web Logic Application Server 10.3, Tomcat 6.0.32, WSO2, Web Sphere Application Server 8.5 / 6.1, WebSphere Message Broker 8 / 6.x, WebSphere Message Queue 7 / 6.x, Oracle RAC 11gR2 / 10gR2, VMware 2.x, f5 Load Balancer, IBM Data Power, Enterprise Service Bus

 

Architect – Application Performance & Scalability

 

·         Optimize the Pharmacy Application Stack for high-performance computing.

 

·         Build Performance & Scalability prototypes, profiling and capacity modeling.

 

·         Tuning the SOA infrastructure (ESB & Messaging stack) for multi-dimensional scaling.

 

·         Build Performance and Scalability regression suite with different test cases of the Application work-flow, use different load profiles and real-world-scenarios to simulate and analyze the Production load variances.

 

·         Align with Application Development Life Cycle and business requirements to build & drive Performance & Scalability test plans.

 

·         Work with Enterprise Architecture for standards and compatibility in doing the Proof of Technology and recommending design changes in the Physical & Logical                                                Solutions stack to optimize performance.

 

·         Deep dive into designs, application code, and frameworks, and provide clear insight and direction to business and IT stakeholders.

 

·         Use instrumentation / diagnostics tools to determine the Application footprint, latency & contentions at different layers of the framework from an end user perspective.

 

·         Detect, isolate, and resolve performance issues throughout the technology stack by collecting & analyzing Application & DB performance metrics.

 

·         Distill volumes of data, analyze performance results, and characterize system performance.

 

·         Manage work packets and deliverables for on-shore & off-shore teams and review the automation scripts, load profiles & test data in the regression suite.

 

·         Analyze the results of the regression test with Performance & Scalability team and publish the Executive Summary for the Pharmacy IT leadership.

 

·         Create Project Plan for the Performance & Scalability roadmap and publish weekly Status Reports to the PMO and Business stakeholders.

 

·         Provide accurate reporting of Defect Status and collaborate with Quality Assurance & business teams for getting defect fixes in a timely manner from the Vendor.

 

·         Communicate the risks and mitigation plans to Business and other stake holders.

 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

 

·         Collaborated with cross-functional teams and Service Owners to optimize the configuration of clients, servers, and networking equipment for maintaining the SLAs and key performance indicators (KPIs) reporting for reliability, robustness, and scalability of the Pharmacy application.

 

·         Successfully accomplished the design change in SOA infrastructure by studying the messaging & event patterns for latency and throughput. And obtained horizontal scaling by virtualizing the services for parallel routing and eliminating the timeouts, hanging threads, big JVM object heaps and thread deadlocks.

 

·         Optimized the DB purging and retention policies that was impacting the asynchronous routing rules in the SOA and was slowing down the console when accessing the audit data with a large overhead due to the DB defragmentation.

 

·         Did Proof of Technology for predictive analytics of Business Volumetric & Scalability to support the agile strategies & ROI in the Enterprise, and having clear insight to the projected business growth.

 

 

Rose International Inc., Chesterfield, MO Nov 2010 – Sep 2013

 

Major Client:

Kaiser Permanente, Pleasanton, California Nov 2010 – Sep 2013

 

Program Manager – System Design & Architecture

·         Develop physical solution design for the integration of Pharmacy Application Systems and its technology stack; Weblogic, Tomcat, Oracle, Power HA, Citrix, f5 Load Balancer, Data Power devices and Enterprise Service Bus.

 

·         Perform technical analysis of IBM Power 770 HW and exploit its features for memory expansion, NPIV, Live Partition Mobility and the PowerVM capabilities to direct infrastructure build with an optimal design and ROI.

 

·         Design backup & recovery strategy for all Pharmacy components (end-to-end) - Pharmacy layer (EPS, POS - App & DB), DC layer (Central Services App & DB) & Interface layers (ESB - WAS, WMB) using data replication tools.

 

·         Develop and maintain technology-level compatibility and manage alignment with Enterprise Architecture Standards and Compliance.

 

·         Maintain the matrix of OS versions, HACMP & Application components.

 

·         Audit OS, HACMP, Oracle RAC, WebLogic and other underlying infrastructure component parameters.

 

·         Research and identify configuration changes to enhance Application availability and performance.

 

·         Assess backup requirements and work with Platform engineering to beef up the TSM infrastructure to handle anticipated growth.

 

·         Research automation of Oracle Grid events with Enterprise monitoring tools (ITM).

 

·         Design backup and recovery architecture for EPS DB (Beta roll-out) using clone/snap and to accommodate recovery at the tablespace level.

·         Work with IBM to engineer & design 3:1 HACMP solution for Enterprise Pharmacy & Point-of-Sale Applications.

 

·         Ensure seamless integration of EPS/POS - App & DB in the HA cluster environment, and perform regression/functional testing to certify Prod readiness.

 

·         Handle design changes for ITM6 agents to map 3:1 HA solution.

 

·         Consult and provide advanced AIX, HACMP & integration support to ensure infrastructure and Pharmacy Services scalability & endurance.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

 

·         Developed the Physical Solution design and architecture for the integration of Pharmacy System Application and its technology stack.

 

·         Performed operational Readiness assessment (end-to-end) and regression testing to certify Production readiness of Pharmacy Applications for Alpha release.

 

·         Architected the backup and recovery strategy for all Pharmacy components. Successfully accomplished cloning of the Oracle RAC DB using EMC Time Finder Clone/snap technology to meet the desired RPO/RTO objectives.

 

·         Performed technical analysis of IBM Power 770 HW and leveraged its features for memory expansion, Live Partition Mobility utilizing the PowerVM capabilities and directed the infrastructure build to have an optimal design and ROI.

 

 

VED Software Services Inc., Farmington Hills, Michigan 2005 – 2010

VED Software Services, Inc. is a recognized Michigan based corporation, specializing in providing Project Management Consulting & training, Software development and contracting. IT consulting services range from E-Commerce / Web based Solutions, Internet Development, ERP / CRM / SCM Implementation, Client/Server Development, Database Administration and System / Network Administration to feasibility studies and gap analysis, to change implementation and reengineering. 

Major Client:

Bayer Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Oct 2005 – Sep 2010

 

Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. Its three subgroups, Bayer HealthCare, Bayer Crop Science and Bayer Material Science, is one of the world’s leading, innovative companies in improving people’s lives through a broad range of essential products that help diagnose, prevent and treat diseases; protect crops and enhance yields; and advance automobile safety and durability.  More information is available at www.bayer.com.

 

Environment: IBM System p 695 / 690 / 670 / 650, EMC Symmetrix 8000 / 3000 Series, VIOS 2.1, AIX 6.1 / 5.3 / 5.2 / 5.1 / 4.3.3, PSSP-3.4, SAP NetWeaver 7.0, SAP PI 7.0, SAP R/3 4.6 B, Oracle 11g/10g/9i/8i/7.3.4, DB2 UDB 8.1/7.2, WebSphere MQ / Deployment Manager 5.3, IBM HTTP Server 2.0.42.2, EMC Power Path 5.3 / 4.5 / 3.0.4, VMware

 

Technology Integration / Business Continuity Consultant

 

·         Install and configure IBM AIX (6.1 / 5.3 / 5.2 / 5.1 / 4.3.3) Operating System.

·         Installation of Application Suites, O/S patches, database and monitoring tools.

·         Perform Operating System and firmware upgrades.

·         Architect and devise mechanisms to improve SAP system performance.

·         Capture system statistics, analyze workloads and usage trends, and make capacity planning recommendations to business.

·         Provide second level support for AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and Linux Operation systems.

·         Perform root cause analysis of problems that are of high and critical severities.

·         Author and update technical support procedures and installation documents.

·         Review Enterprise Security vulnerabilities and develop remediation measures to mitigate risks.

·         Research new architectures, verify interoperability and do proof of concepts.

·         Work with the global UNIX team to harmonize and standardize procedures for expediting the plan, build and run of Applications and other deliverables.

·         Research new technologies and viable solutions for Disaster Recovery to streamline and enhance Business Continuity procedures.

 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

 

·         Developed the Solution Design for integrating SAP and its components on high-end UNIX platform using SAP-XI, AIX and Oracle.

 

·         Researched and implemented Concurrent I/O to enhance SAP performance.

 

·         Designed the Oracle DB grid infrastructure using Oracle RAC with cluster nodes in multiple sites; integrated the grid metrics for pro-active monitoring of RAC events/failures and sending regular feeds to the central repository (Tivoli Data Warehouse) for trend analysis, reporting and predictive management tasks.

 

·         Architected and implemented the Disaster Recovery process for Business Critical Systems.

 

·         Collaborated with SAN team and developed several procedures for data migration and technology upgrades using the EMC software suite.

 

·         Devised a framework for provisioning SFTP accounts to self-contain and restrict users for Systems security and seamless interoperability.

 

·         Architected a broad corporate strategy for patch management on UNIX Systems. This approach efficiently manages, remediates and/or mitigates the risks to the Corporate IT infrastructure from code defects or security vulnerabilities; Protects business data and networks; and ensures compliance with internal IT Security policies and regulations.

 

 

Kaiser Permanente, Walnut Creek, California 2004 – 2005

 

Kaiser Permanente is the largest nonprofit health plan in the United States, serving 8.4 million members in 9 states and the District of Columbia. It is an integrated health delivery system that provides and co-ordinates the entire scope of care for the members, including Preventive Care, Well-Baby and Prenatal Care, Immunizations, Emergency Care, Screening Diagnostics, Pharmacy Services, Hospital and Medical Services. Kaiser Permanente deployed a paperless automated medical record (AMR) system, named as KP Health Connect (KPHC) for all of its 8.4 million members and 11,000 physicians by a suite of products from Epic Systems. This provided Kaiser Permanente with an integrated data depository that integrates all clinical data, including patient charts, order entry systems, clinical notes, nursing documentation and pharmacy information systems.

 

Environment: IBM pSeries 690 / 670 / 650 / 630 / 615, RS/6000 Enterprise S85/S80/S7A/S70, EMC Symmetrix 8000 / 3000 Series, IBM ESS Model 800, AIX 5.2/5.1/4.3.3, PSSP-3.4, GPFS 1.5, Load Balancer 5.0.8, Oracle 9i/8i/7.3.4, DB2 UDB 8.1/7.2, Cache 5, WebSphere / Deployment Manager 5.0.2, IBM HTTP Server 2.0.42.2, MQ Series 5.3, EMC Power Path 3.0.4

 

National Lead Support Engineer

 

·         Leading a team of Support Engineers for monitoring & troubleshooting of application environments.

·         Triage of configuration & installation problems.

·         Audit of environment configurations.

·         Performing root cause analysis of problems and creating reports.

·         Analyze and recommend alternative technologies that will enhance current or anticipated information systems and that support overall corporate and business goals.

·         Feasibility study of hardware dependencies, understand workflow and propose suggestions for redundancy and high availability.

·         Help develop systems architecture standards.

·         Provide in-depth technical consultation to IT staff in interpreting and applying IT architecture and utilizing established standards, procedures and methodologies.

·         Help develop technical skills of lower level resources.

·         Provide second level of escalation and support for any technical issues.

·         Help establish the Support SLAs and procedures.

 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

 

·         Researched and drafted the proof of concept for deploying the Gateway Server as an aggregation point for all Production Servers using the SSH protocol.

·         Proposed mechanism to enhance ESS Shark flash copy features used in PPRC for Production backups and solution to integrate with Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS).

·         Studied Cache database monitoring for high availability cluster servers (HACMP) and designed the integration mechanism for Tivoli interface.

·         Created shared SSH keys for all Production Servers to logon from the Gateway Server and automated scripts to put Cache database monitoring in maintenance or normal modes.

·         Devised a framework to integrate Application Servers with Tivoli endpoints in HACMP servers for 1:1 and many to one Cluster configuration and performed functional testing by partnering with other business groups.

·         Proposed enhancements to existing Cluster architectures for keeping the user files and passwords in sync across the Cluster.

 

 

Kaiser Permanente, Pasadena, California 2001 – 2004

 

Sr. Systems Programmer (AIX Systems Administrator) - National Operations

 

·         Installation of AIX (5.2 / 5.1 / 4.3.3), application suites, patches, databases and monitoring tools. Build, configure and deploy IBM HACMP/ES 4.5/4.4.1/5.1/5.2

·         Perform Operating System upgrades in AIX, microcode updates for system firmware / service processor, adapter & disk drive.

·         Configure servers for O/S backup and recovery using Sysback, Clone rootvg using alt disk install.

·         Co-ordinate with different functional groups to plan and execute system tasks for Server consolidation, data migration from EMC to IBM Shark or for SAN redesign activities (Replacement of core switches & cables) for EMC Symmetrix / IBM Shark.

·         Production support & problem analysis, research and propose better methodologies & standardize procedures to speed up deliverables.

·         Assigned to key projects as KP Health Connect, WebSphere Infrastructure, EMC Tech Refresh, Remedy implementation for National Help Desk. 

 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

 

·         Configured and successfully deployed 25 x Clusters using HACMP/ES 4.5/4.4.1 (4-node, 3-node and 2-node clusters) using Cascading / Rotating architectures in last 2 years using IBM pSeries 690 / 670 & standalones as p660 / H80 / H50.

 

·         Successful implementation of HACMP/ES using IPAT with aliasing using two boot adapters (instead of the conventional - boot and standby) using multiple gateways.

 

·         Instrumental in layout & configuring LPARs from Regatta frames (pSeries 690 / 670) with redundant slot assignments (using planar partition) and using the alt disk clone mechanism for quick turnaround.

 

·         Drafted Regatta best practices (turn on CuoD, CPU Guard implementation, SP boot and surveillance policy, HMC call home) for operational stability and high availability.

 

·         Did research and devised guidelines to size and tune memory requirements and address server failures due to low paging space from VMM standpoint.

 

·         Successfully tested and documented the alternate disk install procedure to clone O/S & upgrade maintenance level (ML) in AIX, thereby adding the flexibility of having reduced down time for applications during upgrade and fast recovery from fatal operating system / disk failures.

 

·         Migrated data successfully from EMC Symmetrix to IBM ESS Shark with good familiarity of events, analytical approach to assess and minimize business impact.

 

·         Upgraded servers seamlessly from AIX 433 to AIX 5.1 & AIX 5.1 to 5.2.

 

·         Automated scripts to collect data for system resources and stored in a NFS repository. Devised a mechanism to streamline and ease the process of adding storage to volume Groups on HACMP Servers using device serial numbers and importing volume group and other LVM definitions during major SAN redesign activities.

 

·         Configured and successfully integrated Remedy AR System for Service Management and Kaiser National Help Desk functions using Network Deployment Manager 5.0.2, multiple WebSphere instances, ARS servers, IBM HTTP Server and Load Balancer to dispatch network traffic for thin and fat clients with DB2 UDB 7.2 as the backend database.

 

 

VED Software Services Inc., Farmington Hills, Michigan May 2000 – Oct 2001

VED Software Services, Inc. is a recognized Michigan based corporation, specializing in providing Project Management Consulting & training, Software development and contracting. IT consulting services range from E-Commerce / Web based Solutions, Internet Development, ERP / CRM / SCM Implementation, Client/Server Development, Database Administration and System / Network Administration to feasibility studies and gap analysis, to change implementation and reengineering. 

Major Clients:

 

Acxiom Corporation (Sep 2000 – Oct 2001)

ADP Inc. (Jun 2000 – Aug 2000)

 

Acxiom Corporation (Formerly Litton Enterprise Solutions), Woodland Hills, CA

Sep 2000 – Oct 2001

 

Acxiom Corporation is a global leader in real-time, multi-channel Customer Data Integration (CDI), enabling businesses to develop and deepen customer relationships by achieving a single, accurate view of the customer across the enterprise. Acxiom accomplishes this by offering innovative database marketing services, advanced technologies, infrastructure management and premier data content. Acxiom acquired the technology division of Litton Industries, which is the largest builder of non-nuclear ships for the U.S. Navy and designs, builds, and overhauls surface ships for government and commercial customers worldwide. The company is a leading information technology (IT) contractor to the U.S. government and provides specialized IT services to commercial customers and government customers in local/foreign jurisdictions. Also does Web Hosting by providing infrastructure (hardware, software, and network / internet communications) to run e-business environments that are highly available with redundancy and high-speed communications.

 

Environment: IBM RS/6000 Enterprise S80/S7A/S70, Sun Enterprise 4500/E3500/ 420R’s/220R’s, Sun Ultra 450/250/5/10, HP-9000 N-Class and K-Class, Alpha Server GS140, GS60’S, Alpha Server 8400, Alpha 8200 / 4100’s / 2100’s / 1200, EMC Symmetrix 3930, EMC CLARiiON FC5300, Digital RAID Arrays RA10000 x 2, RA7000 x 3, XP-256 RAID Array (HP E-Sure store), Sun D1000’s, Sun Storage A1000’s.  AIX 4.3.3 / 4.3.2, Solaris 8 / 7 / 2.6, Solstice Disk Suite 4.2, HP-UX 11.00, Digital Unix 4.0E / 4.0D, Oracle 8i/8/7.3.4, PL/SQL 8.0.5, SQL*FORMS 5.0, SQL*PLUS 8.0.5, Developer 2000 V 6.0, Net8/SQL*Net, Legato Networker 5.2, BMC Patrol and TNG 2.2

 

AIX Consultant

 

In a position utilizing broad experience in Unix Administration involved, Installation of O/S, application packages, patches and third-party tools for AIX 4.3.3 and Solaris 7. Performed Operating System upgrades in AIX and Solaris, microcode updates for system firmware, service processor of RS/6000 servers. Designed / Implemented and tested the backup and disaster recovery strategy in AIX using the LVM, breaking the mirror and re-syncing the logical volumes and the volume group. Created metadevices in Solaris with Solstice Disk Suite 4.2 and mirrored the root and other file systems to have a fault redundant system; Successfully tested the System boot process using the second copy of the mirror in AIX and Solaris.

 

·         Configured sendmail (V8 Berkeley) and created anonymous ftpuser in Solaris and AIX. Configured secure systems in Solaris 7, turned off the IP-forwarding and spoofing. Installed Secured Shell (ssh2.0) and implemented XNTP for time synchronization in Servers with the Internet.

 

·         Configured TCP/IP, NFS v3 on AIX, Solaris and HP-UX to share system resources through the network. Managed and provided technical support for multi UNIX environment running different applications. Capable of managing the installation and removal of LPP's (Licensed Program Products), PTF's (Program Temporary Fixes), building / installing packages and patches.

 

·         Configured Apache Server on AIX and Solaris. Installed SNMP agents and Unicenter TNG 2.2 for monitoring the System workload management.

 

·         Installed and configured EMC Power Path on AIX 4.3.3. Instrumental in successful data migration from other DASDs to EMC Symmetrix using EMC Time Finder and host based mirroring. Mapped existing file systems layout with the EMC bin file created for data migration. Well versed with managing BCV creation and split for use as SRDF to the remote location.

 

·         Scripted to monitor the System warnings, errors or fatal failures, file system free space, network collisions and CPU hogging by automating through cron which keeps track and notifies proactively by paging or sending an e-mail in case of any eventualities that may occur.

 

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENT

 

Instrumental in a large Data Center migration and Server consolidation effort for the Brooks Brothers’ outlet. Rich experience and familiarity with the sequence of critical events and phases corresponding to the move. Replicated Servers at remote location; migrated data from existing production environments to target location. Used EMC Time Finder and created independently addressable Business Continuance Volumes (BCVs). Well versed with BCV split to be used at the target units for testing functionality of applications before the final Network Swing. Replicated Production data using EMC Suite of tools; verified end-to-end Application functionality and successfully accomplished the Data Center migration process.

 

 

ADP Inc., New Jersey Jun 2000 – Aug 2000

 

ADP Inc. offers a broad spectrum of technology based business solutions. The Company is a largest provider of payroll services and human resource information systems (HRIS), offering a comprehensive range of benefits, business tax deposit and 401k services, prepares and submits employers’ quarterly payroll tax returns to over 2000 US federal, state and local regulatory authorities.

 

Environment: IBM RS/6000 Enterprise S7A, NFS, DNS, with AIX 4.3.3 / 4.3.2, IBM S/390, Oracle 8/7.3.4, PL/SQL 8.0.5, SQL*FORMS 5.0, SQL*PLUS 8.0.5, Oracle Server Manager, Developer 2000 V 6.0, Net8/SQL*Net, Web Application Server 3.0

 

Systems Consultant / Administrator

 

·         Installation of O/S, application packages and third-party tools

·         Resolving performance issues of application and database

·         Monitoring disk space requirements for dynamically growing file systems and databases

·         Tuning Unix specific parameters for good throughput of Oracle database

·         Installing and Configuring devices, creation of users, determining and allocating disk quotas based on applications

·         Collecting statistics of disk I/O, CPU and memory utilization during peak loads and analyzing these for improving performance

·         Configuring / Monitoring the network traffic and tuning TNS parameters for reducing congestion

·         Net8/SQL*Net and listener Configurations

·         Creation of tablespaces, adding datafiles, managing rollback segments and redologs in Oracle database

·         Creating database links for location transparency

·         Training application and support groups

·         Interacting with different User-groups and projecting their requirements

 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

 

·         Designed the layout of Oracle database on EMC Symmetrix by studying the applications and database characteristics for read / write intensiveness, sequential or random access behaviors and configured accordingly as RAID 0, 1, 1+0 & 5 for enhanced performance and redundancy.

·         Successfully upgraded servers from AIX 432 to 433.

·         Implemented paging space thresholds and monitoring by Tivoli.

 

 

 

DDE ORG Systems, India 1993 – 2000

 

Dy. Manager / Technical Lead (Aug ‘99 – May ‘00)

Systems Specialist (Dec ‘98 – Jul ‘99)

Sr. Systems Engineer (Jul ‘96 – Nov ‘98)

Systems Engineer (Mar ‘93 – Jun ‘96)

 

Major Clients:

 

Colgate Palmolive, Johnson & Johnson, Thomas Cook Travels, TRW Steerings, Life Insurance Corp of India, Hindustan Lever Ltd, First Leasing Co, Jet Airways, Air India, State Bank of India, National Dairy

 

DDE ORG Systems is a joint venture of DDE Systems of Denmark and ORG Systems (Sarabhai Group Company) of India, a System Integration Company that is primarily involved in manufacturing and marketing of RISC based Systems under brand name SUPERMAX. DDE ORG provides total solutions for their clients, including analysis, design installation and support for hardware and O/S, database and development of applications. DDE ORG also had strategic alliances with other major vendors like SUN, HP, IBM, Digital, Silicon Graphics and AST and was providing turnkey solutions and facility management services to clients. Some of the successful deployments include - Air Travel Reservation System, Betting Terminals for Race Clubs, and Data Message Concentrator for Airlines, National Dairy Automation, Engineering analysis of structures, system and components for Builders, Developers & Research Institutes.

 

Environment: HP9000 with HP-UX 10.1/10.2, SUN Ultra E4500 with Solaris 2.6, IBM RS/6000 - F50, AIX 4.3.2, ORG Supermax RISC 4400 with TCP/IP on Ethernet, NFS, DNS, Digital AS/800 with 64 bit Alpha Unix, SCO UnixWare 7.1, Oracle 8i/7.3.4, Oracle Server Manager, SQL*DBA, SQL*Net, Developer 2000 (Forms 4.5, Reports 2.5), SQL*Forms 3.0, SQL Menu 5.0

 

Dy. Manager Systems Support / Technical lead and Sr. Systems Administrator (HP-UX, Sun Solaris, AIX)

 

·         Installation, technical support and configuration of IBM, HP, SUN, and Digital Servers

·         Managed users, file systems and incorporated security features, designed and implemented the backup and recovery strategy. Installed application packages and third-party tools

·         Installed Server with NFS shares and Automounts, developed shell scripts for automating System admin tasks. Managed disks and file systems using Administrative tools (SMIT, SAM)

·         Managed database (Oracle 7.x) problems as data block corruption, loss of control files and restoration, disk fragmentation, adding/dropping tablespaces, taking exports, importing data and backup strategies for a total redundant System  

·         Excellent experience of establishing the Network using TCP/IP and SQL*Net Connectivity to database for Client/Server Computing

·         Coordinated Y2K compliance issues, security and patch installations

·         Trouble shoot system software and network related problems

·         Project management support for new products and applications

·         Performance monitoring and tuning for redundancy, speed and high availability

 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

 

·         Engineered the National Dairy Project in a timely fashion setting up total production IT environment using IBM RS/6000 running AIX and Oracle database. Provided technical support to the development, QA and marketing team in project execution and implementation of deliverables.

·         Coordinated Y2K compliance issues with seamless integrations of Operating System patches and upgrades.

·         Involved in total database (ORACLE 7.3.4) reorganization. Removed fragmentation by taking full database export and importing full database backups, user wise backups and restored the database successfully with crucial database objects as indexes, views, integrity constraints and database triggers.

·         Did technical research / analysis and provided strategic pre-sales support to the marketing team and other functional groups in project execution and implementation of turnkey solutions.

·         Devised scripts and automated backup strategies for database and O/S and developed a warning system for failing system resources and performance bottlenecks.

·         Documented the complete System information, Hardware (including CPU, memory, hard disks, controllers, network adapters, their type / make / model) and Software (all applications, databases, third party tools with version and revision levels) including any application specific customizations, changes made to the operating environment and important system parameters, problems encountered, technical work around and solutions provided.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering (1988 – 1992)

Ravishankar University, India

                                                                     

Computer SKILLS

 

UNIX, AIX, Power HA / HACMP-ES, PSSP, GPFS, Oracle, DB2 UDB, SAP NetWeaver, SAP PI, SAP R/3, C, C++, Java, Shell Script, WLM, ITM, TSM, TWS, EMC Power Path, EMC Time Finder/Clone, ESB, f5 Load Balancer, IBM Data Power, WebLogic, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere MQ, Omegamon XE for Messaging

 

                            CERTIFICATIONS

IBM RS/6000 & AS/400 Maintenance Training Program

IBM RS/6000 SP System Administration

IBM WebSphere 5.0 Administration Course

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Experience

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Job Title

Company

Experience

Architect - Applications Performance & Scalability

Computer Sciences Corporation CSC

- Present

 

Additional Info

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Current Career Level:

Experienced (Non-Manager)

Work Status:

US - I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

Active Security Clearance:

None

US Military Service:

Citizenship:

None

 

 

Target Job:

Target Job Title:

Infrastructure & Software Architect - Software Development

 

Target Company:

Company Size:

Occupation:

IT/Software Development

·         Enterprise Software Implementation & Consulting

·         General/Other: IT/Software Development

·         Software/System Architecture

 

Target Locations:

Selected Locations:

US-CA-Oakland/East Bay

Relocate:

No