Surjit S. Sedeora     Phone:  

P.O Box 1268                           Mobile:  540-522-6768

Superior,                       

MT 59872      Email:   ssedeora37@gmail.com

 

Personal:

United States Citizen (since 1984)

 

Security Clearance:

Public Trust:  Through my employment with FederatedIT (US Department of Labor)

DoDs Secret Security Clearance (Inactive)

United States Department of Energy’s Q security clearance (1989 - 1991)

 

Certification:

Security+ - DoDs Directive 8570.01

Oracle Solaris Certified Associate (June 27, 2011)

 

Special Training:  Solaris10 (supports vxfs, ufs and ZFS) migration to Solaris 11.2/11.3 (support only ZFS), Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 Virtualization (P2V, V2P, moving/creating Zones and LDoms (Logical Domains).

 

FederatedIT (US Department of Labor in Washington DC) Aug 21, 2015 through Jan 15^th, 2016)

FederatedIT - UNIX Systems Team Lead:

               My primary responsibility was to maintain legacy servers, most of the servers were pre 2009.  Due to family circumstances my wife and I decided to move to Montana from Northern Virginia. I am working to get back into the Job market.  I am open to a long ranger move for a job.

 

General Dynamics Information Technology Oct 10th, 2013 to Aug 29^th, 2015)

Position:  Principal Administrator, Systems

Responsibilities Performing:

               I am a member of the Unix Engineering Team.  I have been working on Solaris 11.2 virtualization using OpsCenter.  This CMS Data Center is primarily an Oracle-Solaris shop.  My team is working to migrate Solaris 10 to Solaris 11.2 along with Creating an Enterprise Architecture level newly virtualized server using state of the art Sun-Oracle hardware T5-8, T5-4, T5-2, T4-4, T5-2, M5000, M4000 and M3000 Servers naming a few.

      I worked in Operations Team for about two years here, trouble shooting Tier1, Tier2 and Tier3 user problems ranging from resetting password to network issues to facilitate middleware applications testing and developments. The Operations Team maintains supports and patching Solari10 Operating System in Production, Test, Development, validation verification lifecycles.

      We have gone through a large software migration from Veritas software Implementation to Oracle ASM and CRS implementation of Oracle Data Bases. Following the Migration we had to Reclaim Storage Vacated by the Veritas implementation.  It was a complex and interesting operation. We have maintenance period every 3rd weekend of every month to install security patches and any other type of fixes we need to implement.  We are working with cutting edge technology using virtualization and latest Midrange Highend Oracle/Sun Servers.

CA capacity Planning project was completed and documented for Operations Administrators for its implementation.

 

 

CRGT Inc (formerly Cherry Road Technologies) (Oct. 1st, 2007 to Oct 8th, 2013)

Position: 

               Sr. Systems Engineer level IV

 

Responsibilities Performing:

                 I was a member of the Systems Engineering Team. My responsibilities included to be On Call for a week at least once a month (Pager Rotation).  The overall responsibility was online trouble shooting of Productions Systems. If problem could not be resolved permanently, in that case to place a temporary fix, a permanent resolution used to be postponed for it to be resolved in a Maintenance Period. The Maintenance period was usually once a week at a predetermined weekday late in the evening for four (4) hours.

I was CI Owner for Disaster Recovery (Backup/Restore) Team. I had two full time employees and another partially working for me. The Backup/Restore software used was Symantec’s Enterprise NetBackup (NB) Release 7.1.0.3. The backups Policies are configured for newly installed servers and have written scripts to extract statistical information from the NB Database. 

I have designed and implemented Off-Site data Storage System.  The Off-Site LTO4 Tapes were created using Vault Utility of the NB and are Encrypted using Symantec’s Key Management Service (KMS).  The KMS invoked AES256 Encryption on IBMs LTO4 Tape Drives (Quantums ADIC i2000 Tape library) during the Vault Sessions.  I have designed and implemented backup solutions for a Third Tier DeDupliction using PureDisk and storing information on DataDomain 880 through Pcie10x 10GB Enet Jumbo Frames.

As a member of the Operations Team, I install base OS (Solaris10), Security Patches (using PCA utility) to make software (OS/Applications) IAVA compliant and follow DISA recommendations.

Following Oracle (formerly Sun Microsystems) is configured in a predetermined fashion to achieve desired results.  The Sun MicroSystem’s  Hardware(Sun-Fire V890, V480, V440, 280R, T5120/T5140, T5220/T5240, T2000, X4200, X4600, M5000 and SunFire 6000 Modular Servers with X6450 and T6340 Blades) with Solaris10 Operating System.

      For Managing the File Systems, mirroring and clustering. Install, configure and support Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 for Solaris and Veritas Cluster Server 5.1 for Solaris. We have started using ZFS as a standard Configuration for all out new Solaris10 installations.

I was Point Of Contact (POC) for Oracle (formerly Sun Micro Systems) to Diagnose and coordinate Oracles Field Engineer(s) to do necessary repairs Oracle/Sun Hardware on both Primary and Secondary Facilities. 

 

Acumen Solutions, Inc (June 18th, 2007 to Sept 15th 2007)

Position: Systems Engineer Manager

Responsibilities: Recommending Hardware Systems Integration and contributing to all aspects of the project for its successful conclusion.

 

Digital Solutions Inc (May 12, 2006 to June 15, 2007)

Position:  Systems Engineer - IV

Responsibilities:

            Digital Solutions, Inc (DSI) is National Science Foundation IT contractor. I am part of the team supporting Solaris8/Solaris9/Solaris10 Servers.  The Sun MicroSystem’s hardware included servers ranging from small V240 to three Sun Fire 6800 with four domains configured on each server.  I am also responsible for supporting two 6130 configured in a SAN environment. I am working on a project involving Solaris10 upgrade. I was responsible for setting up MySQL-Cluster (Shared-nothing) using 4 SunFire V440 Servers.

 

Tickets.com (May 3rd, 2005 to May 9th, 2006)

Position: Senior Systems Administrator:

Responsibilities: 

Tickets.com (TDC) has mixed HP and RedHat Linux/Fedora Production Environment.  The RedHat Linux/Fedora FC4 is used for Web and web application servers.  The Hewlett Packard Hardware/Software is used for backend High Availability (MC/Service Guard with HANFS in SAN/NAS environment) mission critical and high demand Database applications. The SAN/NAS environment is composed of HDS-9585V storage server and HPs MSL6030 LTO2 tape library attached through Spherion 4500 Fibre Switches.  The Disaster Recovery solution is implemented using Hewlett Packard’s Data Protector 5.5.  I have designed a complete backup and recovery system for tickets.com.  I also have pager rotation support for our Production systems.

 

APEX Information Systems (Feb 2005 to May 2005)

Working for GEICO Insurance Companies:

Position: UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

GEICOs Production environment was made up of SUN Micro-Systems Hardware/Operating System implemented with Veritas File System, (VxFS), Volume Manager (VxVM) and Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) in SAN/NAS environment.  I was a part of the Systems Administration and deployment team.  My primary responsibility was to upgrade Mirocode on SUN servers, Brocade Fibre switches and applications upgrades/maintenance and online systems/application trouble shooting.

 

Promontory Interfinancial Network (Nov, 2003 to Feb 2005)

Position:  UNIX systems Administrator

Responsibilities: 

I supported Solaris 2.8 including upgrade Veritas Foundation Suite Release 4.0 , Sun Microsystems SAN Systems-3910, 3960 and A5100, VCS 3.5. SUNs HW included v100, SUN Fire 280, V480, V440 and SUN Fire 880 in Veritas Cluster Server (Rel 4.0) configuration. Symantec’s Netbackup 5.0 with L1000 LTO tape Library was used for backup solutions.

 

MastechEmplifi (Contract - SWIFT, October 2002 to Nov 15, 2003)

Position: Product Specialist

Responsibilities:

Igniting the Hewlett-Packards mid-range servers with HPUX-11i and COTS products, the post installs configurations and deployments of the new hardware and software in the Production environment. Some improvements were introduced in the process of new server(s) deployment in the Production environment.

 

IBM Global Services (August, 1999 to July, 2002)

Title: Systems Integrator Professional Specialist (level-7)

Position: UNIX Systems Administrator at Universal Server Farm (USF), Hazelwood, MO

Duties Performed:

Primary responsibility was to support a Joint Application Development (JAD) account - World Wide Retail Exchange (WWRE). I maintained a Staging and a Production environment. I was responding the Pager Rotation, Emergency Trouble Shooting of the servers assigned to the other customer accounts, placing service calls with on behalf of the IBM customers to replace or repair Hardware on their servers.  The Primary Operating Systems environment was Solaris 2.6, 2.7, and 2.8 and SAN/NAS.

 

My Previous Assignment with IBM (Ameritech Account in Southfield, MI)

UNIX Systems Administrator:

Mid Range Servers (SUN, HP, and SGI), Operating Systems supported HPUX-10.20, 11.x, Solaris 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8, IRIX-6.5.x, and AIX 4.3.3. 

HPUX support included - MC/ServiceGuard, Ignite, JFS and Tunable Kernel Parameters (TKP). Network Configuration/trouble shooting - DNS, NIS, NIS+, SSH, SSL, NFS, and Shared FS.

The SOLARIS support included - SUN Cluster 2.2, Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), Solstice Disk Suite, Solstice (Legato) Backup, Veritas File System, and Volume Manager.

IRIX - Attached third party DLT- 4000/7000, Jukebox and Used Legato, Networker and OmniBack -II for backup/restore. 

I participated in SAN and NAS designs and High Availability/Performance tuning of Mid-Range Servers. Hands on experience of EMC Storage, IBMs Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) F20 also called Shark.

Backup and storage systems: Storage Technology (STG) s 9730

Timber Wolf, IBMs LTO Libraries, SAN Data Gateway.

Brocade (2109) Switches for setting up SAN/NAS.

Backup Software: Legato Netback up for HPUX 10.20, 11.x, Solaris 2.7, 2.8, IRIX (SGI) 6.5.x, Legato and bru for IRIX, OmniBack - HPUX. Beside above mentioned backup utilities, tar, cpio, dd were also extensively used.

 

Author: RED PAPER - Shark F20 connectivity to IRIX 6.5.9

Using FC-AL (Arbitrated Loop), and FC-Point to

Point configurations

Author: REDBOOK (sg246119)

UPUX 10.20 and 11.x, Solaris 2.6, 2.7connectivity to IBMs ESS (Shark F20)

Using FC-AL and FC-Point-to-Point configurations ESSs PPRC, XRC, and FlashCopy were also               Tested.

 

Franklin Templeton Group (Sept., 20, 1998 to May, 1999)

POSITION: Systems Programmer Level - 3

Duties performed:

I as a member of the support team, I install/upgrade and do patch analysis and patch installation.  I played Primary Role in Capacity Planning. The Operating System instillation on RS6000 (AIX-4.3.1), SUN E10K, E4500s E450s and E250s enterprise Servers (Solaris Development of Shell scripts, using /bin/ksh,

nawk, awk and perl as tools to facilitate the level-1 and 2, support Operators and System Administrators in Information centers. Project planning, implementation,

 

 

VOLT Information Sciences, Inc. (May 11, 1998 to August 20, 1998)

Contracted to Hewlett Packard as a Response Center Engineer:

 

Duties Performed in HP-UX 10.X, HA Sys Admin/Response Center Engineer in Hewlett Packards North American Response Center (NARC) in Roseville, CA.

Primary duty was to provide HP-UX (10.x, 11.x) Operating System support to High Performance and high availability servers. I also resolved some of the Kernel Tuning issues, performance Monitoring. MCService Guard, Ignite, Networking and network printing issues.

 

 

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF)

Information Technology Section (December. 1990 to May 8, 1998)

Position: Associate Programmer Analyst (Specialist).

Duties Performed:

Maintain, Update, Capacity Planning, and introducing new technology for California Department of Forestry (CDF)s Mission Critical Corporate Servers. The Corporate servers (NCRs 6 way, and 4 way Pentium- Pro SMP with NCRs MP-RAS UNIX O/S Release 3.02, were configured in a Client/Server Enterprise Architecture Arrangement. The peripheral used were DDS tapes, RAID (NCR-6255) unit, configured as RAID-5, in UFS, and Veritas File System (VxFS) environment. The Multithreaded UNIX Operating System has ORACLE based Data Base application for CDFs Statewide

Operations.  I supported UNIX to NT4 end to end support.

 

 

Computer Tech Integrator: (Dec., 1989 to Dec., 1990)

Position: Consultant

Duties Performed:

 

Development of INCINET DATA BASE for Incident resource management in case of fire or any other disaster, this system is based on Incident Command System (ICS). I was playing the role of System Administrator and trouble shooter for UNIX Operating System, MS/DOS and Network connecting MS/DOS to UNIX Operating System. I was also migrated Application Programs from MS/DOS to UNIX and vice versa.

 

 

Cray Research, Inc (CRI): (June, 1988 to Nov. 1990).

Position: Senior Program Analyst (Analyst Incharge SNLL - Manager).

Duties Performed:

 

I Worked in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California as an Analyst-in-Charge. I was responsible for supporting Cray Research Inc, software products - Assembly Language Version-2 (CALv2) on Cray-1, Cray-XMP, Cray-YMP, and Cray2. I also migrated some of CRIs UNICOS utilities to Lawrence Livermore Labs Operating Systems CTSS/NLTSS. I also designed, coded, and implemented framework for automated software bench marking tests for Cray-YMP factory trials.

The tests included, result verification routines coded in k-shell and ANSI C. Those tests (Livermore Loops, etc) were designed to benchmark the various functions of the Operating Systems for their Hardware/Software performance comparison.

 

 

Computer Science Corporation (Houston, Texas) February 1986 to June 1988:

Position: Systems Programmer

Duties Performed:

 

As a Project Co-Leader in designing NASAs Space Shuttles attitude data acquisition and distribution system for Mission Planning and Analysis Division (MPAD) for John Space Center, Houston, Texas. As a member of the team I was responsible for Design and Coding of the Network software, which was to distribute data to fourteen (14) UNIX based mini computers. The Computer used by MPAD were of the following types Hewlett-Packard 9000 series 500, Sun 3/50, Sun 3/75, and Silicon Graphics IRIS-500 all these computers were connected via Ethernet. The Coding I generated was all dealt with Data Link Layer of the OSI network model. As a System Administrator I also was resolving customers technical issues.

 

Exxon Production Research (Houston, Texas) December 1976 to February 1986.

Duties Performed:

 

Developed, updated, maintained, and documented the Geophysical Mathematical Modeling Research Publications. Mathematical Modeling was done using IBM mainframe-370 (3090), IBM Array Processors, HP9000, HP9845, and Cray-1S Super Computer. Geophysical modeling also required an extensive use of interactive, graphics, online and offline plotters.

 

Programming Experience

Information distribution over Ethernet, using Network Link Level (tcp/ip) Programming for Mission Planning and Analysis Division (MPAD) of Johnson Space Center, Houston. ANSI C was used for as a Programming Language, and took full Advantage of HPUX internals and protocol standards (in 1986) were conformed to TCP/IP protocol. I have over ten (10) years of experience in Scientific Programming (Mathematically Modeling) using C, FORTRAN, and Basic. I also created electromagnetic and Seismic Sections using CALCOMP, APPLICON, HP and Electrostatic plotters.

 

Educational highlights in brief

Open University Courses at CSUS

Telecommunication Protocols and Design (course#242)

Software Engineering (classic and Object Oriented Analysis)

 

M. S. Texas Southern University (27 Units, Thesis not completed).

B. S. Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics Khalsa College Patiala, Punjab, India

 

 

 

Solaris Training:

 

Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 for Solaris (Nov. 17 - Nov. 12, 2008)

Veritas Cluster Server 5.x for Solaris (Dec. 9 - Dec 12, 2008) 

 

 

Cray Systems Training:

1. I/O Subsystem Architecture and Internals (December 9, 1988)

2. Cray-2 Systems Architecture and Cray-2 Assembly Language (July 14, 1988)

3. Cray-YMP UNICOS Kernel Internals (September 22, 1989)

4. Joint Project Development (JAD) CDF

5. UNICOS - Systems Administration (April, 1989)

Additional training includes: interpersonal skills, how to deal with a customer etc.

 

Research Publications: Exxon Production Research Company.

An Improved Thin-Section Staining Technique for Potash Feldspar, By Michael D. Wilson and Surjit S. Sedeora

Published in Journal of Sedimentary Petrology - July 17, 1979.

 

Theoretical Response of Collinear Dipole-Dipole Coupling

Two Layered Homogeneous Earth Upper Layer Conductive and

Lower Layer Resistive - W. H. Meyer, J. B. Fink and Surjit S. Sedeora - April 1982.

 

Theoretical Response of Collinear Dipole-Dipole Coupling

Two Layered Homogeneous Earth Upper Layer Resistive and

Lower Layer Conductive - W. H. Meyer, J. B. Fink and Surjit S. Sedeora - April 1983.

 

Large Loop Genie Models (Volume I and Volume II) By W. H. Meyer and Surjit S. Sedeora - October, 1984.

 

ISOCRON: A program for graphical display of lead isotopic data. The Construction of Lead growth curves and calculations of Pb-Pb model ages by Surjit Sedeora and Ted Bence.