Manager System Administrator

FAROOQ HASAN

Phone-408-***-****

******.*******@*****.***

OBJECTIVE: To obtain position as a System Administrator.

EDUCATION:

M.S in Software Engineering, May 2012

International Technological University, San Jose, CA.

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering, Spring 2009

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Result driven Administrator with 2+ years of system administration and operational support on

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, VMware ESX/ESXi and Microsoft Windows.

• Expertise in designing/building/configuring documentation related to Red Hat Enterprise

Linux via Kick start/PXE and Red Hat Satellite Server.

• Experience in Kick Start installations using PXE with NFS to deploy OS.

• Expertise in management and support of HP blade management using Onboard

Administrator and ILO.

• Expertise in configuring new Cisco UCS 6140xp Interconnects, 2140xp Fabric Extenders

with Hostnames, IP Address, Virtual Cluster IP Address, Server ports and uplink ports.

• Experience writing bash shell scripts to automate day to day tasks for monitoring or for any

Red Hat Enterprise Servers Resource Allocation.

• Experience in performing, uploading and upgrading new firmware on the interconnects and

Chassis.

• Installed and cabled new FC connections to the Fabric Interconnects Expansion Modules and

configured vSAN to enable FC traffic to Cisco MDS 9509.

• Proficient in providing support on the deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers from both

Operating system level and Application level.

• Experience writing bash shell scripts to automate day to day tasks for monitoring or for any

Red Hat Enterprise Servers Resource Allocation.

• Proficiency in advanced features of ESX/ESXi, vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA, DRS and

Update Manager.

• Expertise in creating VM templates, Cloning and managing Snapshots.

• Installation configuration and maintain windows AD server.

• Experience creating any custom channels especially for patching cycles; provision any new

rhel guests (phy and virt) by creating any new kickstart profiles.

• Proficient in all aspects of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) from installing, Configuring

Hardware, and Customizing Applications using the latest technologies available to design fully

automated operating systems.

• Experienced in deploying RHEL 5.x, 6.1 in a blade environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Operating Systems : RHEL 4/5/6 Linux, VMware ESX, ESXI 4.1/5, MS Win Server NT/2000/2003/2008

• Hardware : HP Blade Center C-7000 series, BL-460 G6/G7 ILO, OA, CISCO UCS 5108 Chassis,

CISCO 6500 series SWITCHES, NETAPP 6240 On Command Manager.

• Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, ETHERNET 10/100/1000.

• Scripting :Bash, Perl.

• Applications : Visio, Project,, SQL, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Microsoft Office 2000/

2003/2007/2010 – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Nagios

Monitoring, Symantec and McAfee corporate antivirus suite.

• Databases :MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle 10,11g.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

System Administrator:

HP, Cupertino. Apr 11 – Oct 12

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured several hundred Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x/5.x in both Physical Blade and VMware

ESXi 5, 4.1.2 Virtual Environment.

• Assisted in physically installing, racking and cabling new Cisco UCS 5108 chassis environment.

• Expertise in cabling 10ge sfp+ and FC cables from Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects to Cisco MDS and

Nexus 7k.

• Expertise in creating WWID pools, MAC pools and service profiles in Cisco UCS Manager.

• Created various Cisco UCS service profile templates and service profiles based on the requirement for

VMware ESXi 4/5 Deployment.

• Installing and Configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6 using Kick Start servers and Virtual Media

based installs on several hundred HP G6/G7 and Cisco UCS B200/B250 blades as required for

UAT/Production Oracle Weblogic, Redhat JBoss, Oracle Enterprise Database and My SQL Database

server requirements.

• Installing and updating packages using YUM (custom YUM Servers/repositories) and Red Hat Satellite

Server.

• Configured and deployed patches, upgrades, bug fixes on both physical and virtual Red Hat Linux servers using

satellite servers.

• Expertise in Security hardening (iptables/selinux) major Production Servers and compiling,

building and installing web server based Linux Tools.

• Proficient in all aspects of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) from installing, Configuring

Hardware, and Customizing Applications using the latest technologies available to design fully

automated operating systems.

• Experience in scripting using BASH & PERL.

• Manage VMware infrastructure comprising of 40 ESX hosts with 700 RHEL, Centos Linux & Windows

OS virtual machines.

• Experience in Creating VM templates & Managing Virtual Machine deployments.

• Implemented ESX technologies like DRS, HA & vMotion for high availability.

• Migrated existing physical server to virtual m/c with P2V tool using hot cloning method.

System Administrator:

International Technological University. Aug 10 – Mar 11

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured and Maintained Personal Computers, Novell Networks, File Servers, Ethernet

Networks, Network Cabling and other related equipments, devices and systems.

• Supervise setting up of software, configuring and adding new hardware, and making it ready for local

network.

• Conducted technical testing of PCs and other hardware to assure product compatibility and connectivity.

• Manage the setting up and loading of security and virus protection software on all staff and public PCs.

• Troubleshoot and solve computer and network related problems in both staff and public areas.

• Investigated user problems, identified their source, determine possible solutions, test and implement

solutions.

• Planned and Implemented network security, including building firewalls, applying cryptography to

network applications, Managing host security, file permissions, backup, adding and deleting users.

PROJECTS :

• Student Information Management system aims about the automation of school management system.

• Retail Store Data warehouse aims to create an intelligent decision support system for a retail company in order to

help the management make better decisions.

CERTIFICATIONS:

• LPI Level 2 Certified Professional

• VM Certified Professional

REFERENCES:

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