SAJID KAREEM

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SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

** *****' experience in Unix/Linux System Administration /

Engineering and Managing global technical teams. Extensive experience in

Enterprise Architecture, Virtualization technologies, Solution

Architecture, Disaster Recovery, IT Leadership, Strategic Planning,

Capacity Planning, DC Consolidation and PCI/SOX compliance. Have excellent

knowledge of enterprise UNIX platforms (HP, Solaris, and AIX), blade

servers, SAN storage with replication, enterprise backup solutions and high

availability clustering. Showing excellent customer relations skills

including leading and documenting many regularly scheduled customer

meetings.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems

RHEL/OEL 6.x/5.x. SLES 11.x/10.x, HP UX 11.31, 11.23, 11.11, Solaris

10/9/8/7, AIX 7.1/6.1/5.3

Software & Tools

HP StorageWorks, Business Copy (HP Raid Manager) RSM, SIM, EMC Control

Center, EMC Solution Enabler, MC Service Guard, VERITAS HA Cluster, EMC

Legato. HP Open View, NetBackup, Chef, Apache, JBOSS Tomcat, PLM, Weblogic

LDAP, Oracle, SAP, VMware, BMC, TWS, Novell PlateSpin. DNS, DHCP, NFS,

CIFS, SSH, SFTP, SMTP and UNIX shell scripting.

Hardware

HP Integrity Superdome2, rx8640, HP 9000(PA-RISC) servers, IBM power

servers (P7/P6/P5) Sun enterprise servers. HP Blade Systems, IBM Blade

Center, Cisco UCS, iSCSI, HP XP Disk Arrays 24000/20000, EVA and 3PAR, EMC

(VMAX, DMX 4/ 3/3000/2000,Clariion), Data Domain, Brocade SAN switches, F5

Load balancer, Infoblox, HANA, HP BWA, Netezza

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Covance Inc. (LabCorp)

January 2015- till date

Technical Leader /Senior Unix-Linux System Engineer

Covance is one of the world's largest and most comprehensive drug

development services companies with global operations in more than 30

countries. Unix/Linux team is responsible for managing over 1000 servers

across global datacenters.

Responsibilities:

. Leading the global Unix/Linux team on system engineering operational

deliveries.

. Responsible for providing architectural leadership and direction for the

various projects.

. Responsible for maintaining and implementing solutions to optimize

infrastructure operations.

. Plan design and implement new Unix/Linux server based solutions, which

includes HA and various virtual environment.

. Participate effectively in execution of Enterprise support process

including change management, incident management, problem management and

audit compliance.

. Work with IT security auditors to resolve security vulnerabilities in

Linux, UNIX, and various other business critical applications.

. Responsible for OS level kernel tuning to optimize the throughput.

. Maintain the periodic OS patching and upgrades on the entire Unix/Linux

environment.

. Design and implement new DR strategy for recovering various business

critical applications.

. Write shell scripts for process automations and system monitoring.

. Properly managing the resources to meet the SLA's

. Vendor partner relationship management.

Environment: Oracle Enterprise Linux 6/5, RHEL 6/5, Solaris 10/9. Cisco

UCS, vBlock, EMC storage, Oracle RAC/Clusterware, VMware, NetBackup.

HCL Technologies (Ann Taylor/LOFT) March

2012- January 2015

Group Technical Manager

HCL Infrastructure Services Division has managed IT infrastructure

operations for more than 250 customers around the world. Ann Taylor/Loft IT

Infrastructure is currently managed by HCL. Currently Ann is consolidating

the data center to utilize the full capacity and redundancy.

Responsibilities:

. On-shore/Off-shore service delivery and customer relationship

management.

. Managing the Global UNIX Team on day to day operations.

. Interact with customer on day to day activities and new project

initiatives.

. Designed and implemented HA clustering solutions for business critical

applications.

. Worked on new environment deployment, datacenter & server consolidation

site decommission which include server migration and virtualization of

current environment.

. Storage consolidation to save the cost on storage products.

. Designed and implemented DR strategy to reduce the RTO and RPO.

. Work with IT security auditors to resolve security vulnerabilities in

Linux, UNIX, Apache, Tomcat and JBOSS.

. Implemented PCI standards on payment systems and attend the periodic

audit interview

. Develop scripts for monitoring, reporting, recurring jobs with failure

reporting and recovery.

. Writing Technical documents and mentoring global UNIX team.

. Periodic patch management on Unix/Linux Environment.

. Designed and implemented HP BC / 3 Par RMO for backup and system

refresh.

. Meet Customer SLA by providing high level of support.

. Process automation for system builds recovery and DR by using Kick-Start

server, SuSE AutoYaST and Symantec BMR.

. Present daily and weekly status meetings to customers, managers and co-

workers, maintaining issue tracker spreadsheet and various automated

reports for customers.

Environment: RHEL 6/5, SLES 11/10, HP-UX 11.31. AIX 6.1, Solaris 10/9.

XP24K, EVA, 3PAR, HP MC/Service Guard, VCS, RHEL Cluster, Oracle, SAP (ECC,

BI, PI), VMWare, HP BWA, HANA, JBOSS, BMR, NetBackup.

Sony Corporation of America April 2009 -

Mar 2012

Team Leader / (Unix/Linux Systems)

Sept 2006 - Oct 2007

Responsibilities:

. Led the UNIX onsite and offshore operations.

. Provides effective engineering and support service to the global team by

demonstrating ownership and accountability for all assigned tasks and

projects.

. Architected, Implemented and maintained system security and

configurations of company UNIX (HP-UX, SOLARIS, AIX), SAP, Oracle DB and

application servers including clustered and virtual partitions at three

sites for a large user base.

. Managed the B2C environment firewall, DNS and DHCP

. Supported various production HA clusters (VCS and MC/Service Guard).

. Designed and installed multiple Linux (Redhat) physical servers for

various applications.

. Designed and configured Oracle RAC on Redhat Linux and HP-UX.

. Involved in creation of Linux VM s by using Templates & Clones.

. Configured SRDF, BCV and Clone for backups, refresh and DR using EMC

products.

. Performed various nPar and vPar migrations across HP Superdomes.

. Designed and configured various HP blades and IBM Blades for Virtual

machines.

. Worked with internal and SOX auditors to resolve security audit issues.

. Performed HP-UX OS upgrade from 11.11 to 11.23 & 11.31.

. Resolved several performance related issues including a high visibility

IO bottleneck.

. Configured ignite Server for Ignite backup and Disaster recovery and

system cloning.

. Configured Kick Start server for installation and package repository.

. Performed P2P, V2V migration on Redhat Linux.

Environment: Redhat, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX 6.1/5.3 EMC storage, CDL, XIV,

Legato Networker, HP MC/Service Guard, VMWare, SRDF, BCV, Power Path,

Navisphere, SAP, ORACLE RAC

Coach Inc.

Oct 2007 - Mar 2009

Senior UNIX System Architect.

Responsibilities:

. Designed the new Superdome nPar and vPar for high availability solution

using MCSG.

. Installed and supported multiple HP-UX, Linux (Redhat) Physical and

Virtual Servers.

. Configuration & Installation of Redhat Linux by using Kick Start and

customized scripts

. Re-designed the existing PLM architecture to enhance the new

functionality and better resource utilization.

. Designed and deploy new HP OpenView policies on multiple platforms.

. Configured and managed the Netezza (DW appliance).

. Configured Secure Resource Partition (SRP) on shared environment.

. Created standard build documents for new OS release and application

components.

Johnson & Johnson (NCS)

Oct 2004 - Sept 2006

Senior UNIX System Engineer / Technical-Lead.

Responsibilities:

. Cluster configuration (MC/Service Guard) for production R3 and CRM

servers on Superdome partitions.

. Integrated Oracle& SAP into HP MC/Service Guard.

. Performed HP Business copy Raid Manager for Staging refresh and

Production backup.

. Configured nPar and vPar on HP9000 & Integrity servers.

. Configured PRM for optimal resource management and make sure that no

single application hogs the system.

. Implemented OpenView clients on the servers for monitoring.

. Responsible for troubleshooting the system related problems and solving

the problems.

. Wrote shell scripts for process automations and system monitoring.

. Periodic disaster recovery testing at remote DR Site.

. Created Technical Documents and Checklists for various installations and

support

. Extensive FDA validation procedures on Server build and day-to-day

activities.

AT&T / IBM

Sep 2000 - Sep 2004

Unix/SAN/Backup System Administrator

Responsibilities:

. Performed system administration for HP 9000 and SUN Solaris systems.

. Plan, configure and implementation of HA systems using HP MC/Service

Guard.

. Managing HP StorageWorks Disk Array (XP1024/512), HP StorageWorks SAN

Switch 2/16 through Command View & Secure Lun Manager.

. EMC SAN administration through ECC

. Configuration of Network Security tools and Sendmail.

. Backup Management using Veritas NetBackup 4.5, HP OpenView Data

protector, and STK L180/L40 and HP Surestore Tape Library Model 20/700

for various Development servers

. Configured Ignite-UX and SD-UX server for managing and distributing

operating systems, patches, OS backups and cloning.

HCL Infosystems Limited India

Aug 1995 - Aug 2000

Unix/Windows/LAN System Administrator

Responsibilities :

. Performed System Administrator of HP-UX and Sun Solaris, SCO,

UnixWare, Novell Netware and Windows NT.

. Designed and implemented HP Cluster using switchover/UX Mc/Service

Guard.

. Diagnosed and resolved problems in HP and Sun hardware and

peripherals.

. Performed Day to day system administration tasks

. Disk space management using LVM and Veritas volume manager.

. Disk mirroring & management using HP Mirror/UX.

EDUCATION:

Diploma in Electrical Engineering. (1992-1995 / Government

Polytechnic College, India)

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