Anand N. Purohit

Contacts: +1-916-***-****

E-mail: xn25tu@r.postjobfree.com

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Position being applied for

11+ years’ rich experience in delivering optimal results & business value in high-growth environments

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Technically focused, highly successful with 11+ years’ rich experience in working and delivering as part of the technical environment, seizing control of critical problem areas and delivering on organizational commitments; major experience across all facets of Information Technology and software development whereby implementing large and complex projects. Skilled data and research forecaster with demonstrated capability in project management, administration, economic analysis with excellent understanding of business dynamics. Established credibility in areas of creating complex MIS reports to explain various critical data and planning the reporting structure as required by the Project.

A keen planner and strategist who can successfully integrate solid technical skills with personnel leadership in pursuit of bottom-line goals and objective. Meticulous approach with super planning, work management & deliverance skills. Excellent communication skills, man-management, time management, and leadership skills. Capable of keen observation and quantitative and qualitative analysis of facts and data. Articulate communicator with strong analytical and interpersonal skills; skilled at collaborating with project teams, interfacing with clients and deploying technology to build successful solutions for clients.

PROFESSIONAL VALUE OFFERED

Customer/Technical Support Training & Development Installation/Configuration Strategic Planning I.T. Infrastructure Management Customer/Technical Support Relationship Management Team Leadership System Administration/Enhancement Liaisoning/Public Relations Maintenance Management Documentation

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CAREER PROGRESSION

Sr. Unix Administrator, System Edge USA LLC New Jersey, USA, Since July 2010

Client: Accenture Technology Solutions Sacramento CA

• Accountable for Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of SUN Solaris 10 RHEL 5, HP Proliant servers, Solaris, Linux, servers in both networked and stand-alone environments

• Actively involved in performing systems and network administration duties on diverse operating systems and Wide-Area networks

• Contributed largely to the planning, installing, and configuring Network File Systems, incorporating the automounter

• Drove the initiative to evaluate and optimize system performance and memory and paging space utilization, using sar, vmstat, iostat, and other tools

• Accountable for configuration system devices, hardware compatibility, configured and monitored error logs, installed optional software and service updates, upgrading, recovery and back up of IOS through TFTP Server

• Responsible for coordinating between various teams involved in application & infrastructure deployment

• Actively worked with vendors (Sun, VERITAS, IBM & HP) and internal business units to maintain the minimum downtime of the servers

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• Associated closely in backups using “ufsdump”, “fssnap”, “tar”, “cpio” and restoration using “ufsrestore”

• Worked on Logical Volume Creation, Mirroring, Crash Recovery of volumes and disk replacement using VERITAS Volume Manager 40 and 5 .0

• Contributed significantly in working on Projects like server consolidation, backup/recovery automation data-center and infrastructure monitoring through Site Scope

• Actively involved project management including documenting processes and capacity planning presentation

• Responsible for creation and maintenance of user accounts, permissions & file systems

• Accountable for coordinating with Primary administrators regarding issues such as minimum Downtime, outage issues

• Liable for working on OS up gradation and Patch up gradation

• Interfaced & administrated NFS, NIS, DHCP and DNS Samba services running on Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux

• Associated closely in Installation, Configuration & up gradation of VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) and VERITAS File Systems (VxFS)

• Drove the efforts in the Migration of Linux server from one hypervisor to another hypervisor

• Assumed responsibility for managing virtual Linux server on VMware vSphere Hypervisor

Sr. Solaris Administrator, Tekseed Solutions LLC New Jersey, USA, December 2008 to June 2010

Client: Ambac Financial Group Inc. NYC (November 2009 to June 2010)

• Contributed significantly in preparing the task plan and back out plan to follow the sequence to create DR server

• Installed and configured Solaris 10 (x86) 64 bit on Sun Fire x4440 for production environment, Solaris 10 (Sparc) 64 bit on Sparc M3000 & Sparc M4000 server

• Worked on the configuration of the network card, SSH, Telnet services, NFS services, NFS mount points and assigned IP address to production server

• Actively involved in creating user accounts and preparing production server for Oracle database installation

• Accomplished responsibility of creating flar image of production server using flar create command

• Utilized flar image of production server to create DR server on another Sun Fire x4440 , Sparc M3000

& Sparc 4000

• Developed flar image of the DR server as to keep backup of OS installed on DR server

• Successfully Delivered DR server to DBA team for Oracle installation

Sr. Production Support Engineer (Linux & Solaris), Jan 2009 to October 2009

Client: ADP Inc. Roseland NJ

Environment: SUSE Linux, Solaris, Intel Xenon Blade Servers, Web sphere 6.0.2

Skills: Shell Scripting, SUSE Linux/Solaris Administration

• Credited for Installing and configuring Solaris 10 & SUSE Linux 10 on x86 platform

• Liable for Understanding and migrating Windows batch files to shell scripts

• Contributed significantly in automating Solaris & Linux environment using Shell Scripts

• Contributed significantly in Creating NFS, UNIX admin mount point, and patch installation on all servers

• Responsible for installing and configuring Web Sphere 6.1.0.7 on SUSE Linux 10 & Solaris 10

• Developed profiles for Web Sphere using Shell Scripts

• Contributed significantly in assessment of application deployment on Web Sphere using Shell Scripts

• Provided assistance in tuning the kernel parameters based on the application requirement

• Successfully managed SSH, Telnet, SFTP, NFS & rlogin services on Linux & Solaris

• Worked on the user management on Linux & Solaris

• Contributed largely to setup various user profiles, environment variables/security to ensure smooth operation

• Contributed significantly in configuration and administration of NIS, NFS & DNS environment

• Solely responsible for the performance monitoring using vmstat, iostat, netstat, Nagios

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• Drove the efforts to create clusters & application servers for HWSE application using shell script

• Liable for creating Cluster service groups and establishing group level dependencies

• Exchanging the service groups from one node to another

• Configuration of network for Linux & Solaris

• Liable to start, stop & restarting cluster, application server & application using shell scripting

• Monitored and coordinated with application team for performance/upgrade related issues

• Contributed largely to the successful creation of cell, node & node agent for Web Sphere

• Responsible to Manage system logs and application logs

Sr. System Engineer (UNIX Administrator), Verizon Data Services India Pvt. Ltd Chennai, India, June 2006 to Sept 2008

Domain: Open System Engineering & Infrastructure Support

Environment: RHEL 4.0, Solaris, 15k, 25k, E10k, Sun Fire 220R, Sun Fire 440R

Skills: Shell Scripting, RHEL/Solaris Administration, VxVM, SAN

• Responsible for Installing, Configuring, Maintaining and Troubleshooting of SUN Solaris and it’s add on services, software and patches for SUN machines

• Performed systems and network administration duties on heterogeneous operating systems and Wide-Area networks. Installed and configured Solaris, Linux, servers in both networked and stand-alone environments

• Responsible for conducting backups and restores, problem-determination on file systems

• Successfully planned, installed, and configured Network File Systems, incorporating the automounter

• Proactively contributed in evaluating and optimizing system performance and memory and paging space utilization, using sar, vmstat, iostat, and other tools

• Configured system devices, determined hardware compatibility, configured and monitored error logs, installed optional software and service updates

• Network designing, installation, and maintenance of a variably sub netted Local Area Network, which utilizes Ethernet hubs and switches

• Responsible for upgrading, recovery and back up of IOS through TFTP Server. Application deployment on Solaris & Linux. Infrastructure deployment on Solaris & Linux

• Liable for reviewing task plan, back out plan for the deployment. Coordinating between various teams involved in application & infrastructure deployment

• Actively involved in working with vendors (Sun, VERITAS, IBM & HP) and internal business units to maintain the minimum downtime of the servers

• Accountable for taking Backups using “ufsdump”, “fssnap”, “tar”, “cpio” and restoration using “ufsrestore”

• Proactively contributed in working on Projects like server consolidation, backup/recovery automation data-center and infrastructure monitoring through Site Scope

• Worked on the project management including Documenting processes and Capacity Planning presentation

• Creation and Maintenance of User Accounts, permissions & file systems

• Responsible for troubleshooting Day–to-Day File system, Memory and CPU and other application issues with various Servers on different platforms Unix Platforms

• Drove the initiative to analyze and coordinate with Primary administrators regarding issues such as minimum Downtime, outage issues

• Worked as On-call 24*7 supporting 500+ Sun servers across Data-centers

• Administrated NFS, NIS, DHCP and DNS Samba services running on Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux

• Actively involved in Installing, Configuration & up gradating of VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) and VERITAS File Systems (VxFS)

• Worked on Logical Volume Creation, Mirroring, Crash Recovery of volumes and disk replacement using VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 and 4 .0

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System Engineer, Wipro Technologies Chennai, India, May 2005 to June 2006

1. Client: Storagetek Inc. (Domain: Storage)

Environment: Linux, Solaris, Windows 2000 Server, StorageTek Tape Library L700 & L180 and External Disk Blade Store (Blade Store B280), Ocelot Flex Line FLX680/640)

Skills: Shell Scripting, Java Programming, Linux/Solaris Administration, SAN

• Responsible for Installation and configuring of Archive Solution (Barolo) with Tape Library and external array of disk

• Liable for Installation & Configuration of Solaris 10 on Sun Ultra Sparc, Sun FireV210 & FireV240, X86(Intel Platform)

• Associated closely in configuring NFS, Samba, FTP on Solaris & Linux

• Proactively contributed in Installing, Upgrading operating systems (Solaris and Linux)

• Contributed largely to the Installation, Configuration, Crash Recovery, Performance tuning and Administration of Solaris 8 & 9

• Worked on Solstice Admin Tool in Solaris for creation of user logins, groups with access permissions

• Assumed responsibility for Performing compatibility of the Backup Solution with other OS and third party tool

• Responsible for writing High Level test Case design and Low Level Test case Design

• Prepared report on any functional gaps in existing applications and suggest business process improvements

• Liable for preparing Automation test Suite

• Accountable for the Design & Engineering Verification Testing

• Solely responsible for conducting Manual Black Box, Acceptance, Functional, Stability and Regression Testing

• Written Scripts for the test cases using Shell Script & Java

• Actively involved in running I/O through different OS (Solaris, AIX, Linux, Windows)

• Effectively coordinated with Development Team

• Responsible for Filing Car’s and bugs in E-tracking tool

2. Client: Sun Microsystems Inc. Palo Alto, California (Domain: Open System)

Environment: Solaris 10(Sparc & x86), Sun FireV210, Sun Fire V220, Sun Fire V440, Ultra Sparc & Intel based servers for x86 version of Solaris 10.

Skills: Shell Scripting, Java Programming, Solaris Administration

• Proactively contributed in the work on Solaris 10 live software update application N1 System manager and SWUP (Software Update)

• Actively involved in Installation and configuration of Solaris 10 OS Jan 2006 release

• Solely responsible for Installation and Configuration of Solaris 10 on Sun Ultra Sparc, Sun FireV210, V220 & V440, X86(Intel Platform)

• Configured Zones & Containers on Solaris 10

• Liable for system administration of Sun Solaris 7, 8 & 9, Red Hat Linux Enterprise AS 3.0

• Responsible for Configuration and maintenance of NIS and NFS servers on Solaris 2.x

• Associated closely in installation, configuration & maintenance of patches and Packages on Solaris 2.x

• Proactively contributed in installation, configuration, crash recovery, performance tuning & administration of Solaris 7, 8 & 9

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UNIX Administrator (Part Time), Tennyson Networks Melbourne, Australia, Aug 2002 to Dec 2003

Domain: Telecom

Environment: SUN Sparc E-450, SUN Sparc 5, SUN Ultra Sparc 20, SUN Ultra Sparc 10, Xenon

based Intel servers Solaris 2.6,7,8 (Sparc and Intel Versions), Windows 95/98/NT4.0,

Skills: Shell Script, Apache Web Server, NIS, NFS, DHCP, DNS.

• Installation, configuration and maintenance of servers by using Solaris 2.6, 7 & 8

• Setting up NIS server for 100 workstations

• Setting up NFS server for 100 workstations

• Setting up of LAB for around 100 users for development environment

• Installation, Configuration, Crash Recovery, Performance tuning and Administration of Solaris 2.6, 7 and 8

• Tuning Kernel parameters and Installation of Development tools like Workshop etc

• License management for Sun Products

• Planning Backup strategies for Users

• Responsibilities include performing general system administration duties on the Sun Solaris 2.x platform with NFS, DNS and NIS

• Provided UNIX Support for end-users, developers, heterogeneous Unix System Administration

• Maintained systems to maximize availability and optimize productive of users

• Planned and implemented system upgrades. Send mail configurations, mail handling

• Identified correct system for a particular kind of work by doing System Benchmark work

• Performed backup strategy and disaster recovery plan

• Automated data process and flow through shell scripting, cron, at. Activities like to get the statistics report of disk usage for all groups in the projects, to remove the temporary unwanted files for effective usage of disk and to track log files for system maintenance and securities

Software Engineer, Ripra Solutions Jodhpur, Rajasthan, July 1999 to June 2002

Domain: E-Commerce

Environment: Intel Xenon, Linux

Skills: Java & C++ Programming, Apache Web Server, FTP Server, Shell Scripting.

• Worked on Customized Business Application development using C++ & Java

• Actively involved in Installation & Configuration of Linux 7.1 & Solaris 7 on Intel platform

• Drove the initiative to work on Red Hat Linux 7.1 & Solaris 7OS as System Administrator and managing LAN

• Solely responsible for Creating, Modifying & Deleting User accounts & checking disk quotas

• Liable for working on send mail server & print server

• Proactively contributed in the administration of FTP Server, Apache Web Server, Samba Server on Linux & Solaris

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EDUCATION

• Sun Certified System Administrator for the Solaris 9, Operating System Part 1 & 2, Wilshire Software Technology Pvt. Ltd, Secunderabad, 2004

• Master’s Information Technology (MIT), Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

• Advance Diploma In Software Engineering, IBM -ACE, Bangalore, 2001

• Bachelors of Engineering, Nagpur University, 1999

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CERTFICATIONS/TRAINING/AWARDED

• Certified Sun System Administrator (Solaris 9) part 1

• Certified Sun System Administrator (Solaris 9) part 2

• Training, Advance Diploma In Software Engineering, IBM-ACE Bangalore

• Training, Solaris 10 New Features

• Awarded with the Best Performer for Year 2007-2008

I.T. SKILLS

• Languages: Shell Scripting, C, C++, JAVA

• Hardware: Sun Enterprise Ultra 10, Ultra Enterprise Servers (E3500, E4500 E6500, E10K, E15K, E25K), Sun Fire (220R, 440R, 880R) Sun Sparc5/2, HP Proliant DL385 (G1, G2), HP Proliant DL585 (G1, G2), Brocade Switches 200E, 300

• Operating Systems: Solaris 8.9.10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 5.0

Windows 2000/XP

• Tools / Techniques: MS-Word, MS-Excel, Admintool, Vi- Editor, VERITAS Volume Manager 4.0(VxVM), Apache, SMC. VERITAS Volume Manager 4.0,

• Networking: NFS, Automounter, NIS, NIS+, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP.

• UNIX Shell Scripts: Bourne shell, Korn shell, Perl

• SAN (Storage): Storagetek Tape Library L700 & L180 and External Disk Blade Store (Blade Store B280), Ocelot Flex Line FLX680/640)

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Languages Known: English and Hindi ________________________________________

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