Jaikanthan Sankaradass
**********@*****.*** Immigration Status: GC
Phone: 480-***-****
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:
. Around 11 years of experience on a large scale UNIX (AIX, Linux, Solaris,
HP-UX), WINDOWS (NT/2003/XP/2008) and SAN/NAS Storage environments.
. Thorough understanding of fundamentals of AIX UNIX kernel, LVM and file
system concepts.
. Experience in installation, configuration, tuning, security, backup,
recovery and upgrades of IBM AIX on P-series servers.
. Extensive knowledge in installing AIX in LPAR environment on P-Series
servers.
. Experience in installation and configuration of Virtual I/O Server (VIOS
1.5. x & 2.1.0.0) on LPARs.
. Expertise in doing NIM Installation on P-series servers for AIX
5.2/5.3/6.1 Operating Systems.
. Assist with architecture and design of LPARs, micropartioning,
capped/uncapped resources, etc
. Experience in implementations using advanced AIX features such as DLPAR,
memory and processor pools, VIO, etherchannel/link aggregation, Live
partition mobility, Workload Partitioning, kernel tuning, etc.
. Troubleshooting, performance tuning and backup/recovery the AIX
environment.
. Expertise in Planning, Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of IBM
PowerHA V6.1.
. Configured HACMP 5.3 to monitor, Disaster recovery, detect and react to
failure events, allowing the system to stay available during random,
unexpected software problems and also configured to react to hundreds of
system events.
. Implementation of Apache and Oracle Web Server on IBM P-series servers
and its administration
. Migrated HACMP from 5.1 to 5.2 on IBM P595 servers on both development
and production servers.
. Implementation and Administration of DHCP, NFS and NIS on AIX and
automation of Jobs using crontab and scripts.
. Extensive experience in installing, upgrading, removing, verifying
packages using installp utility on AIX OS for P- series servers.
. Handling the multiple priorities of the conflicting performance
objectives of the different workloads and delivering the cost/time
effective solutions.
. Experienced in Tivoli Storage Management, Managing LVM and File systems,
SRC and Paging space management, restore and availability, Monitoring
System / Network Performance and Send mail administration.
. Knowledge on websphere administration, TIBCO administration and clear
case & clear quest.
. Installed EMC powerpath, EMC control center, EMC Navisphere and Veritas
command central on IBM P series Servers.
. 24X7 on-call production support and troubleshooting problems related to
IBM AIX P series servers like p670, p690, p520, p550, p570, p595, etc...
. Knowledge and experience on installing, configuring, troubleshooting
various components of DCE for AIX 5.3 OS.
. Experience on Sun hardware & software and used jump start on solaris 9 &
10 installation.
. Installed & configured Red Hat linux & SuSE linux for IBM P-Series
Servers and troubleshooting the LINUX OS issues.
. Used kickstart for installing Red Hat linux on various machines and
experience on Linux LVM & LVM2.
. Experience with upgrading and migrating linux systems and knowledge about
virtualization on RHEL.
. Installed HP Open View agent (Version 7.35, 7.37) on Windows and AIX
servers and also installed DCE to run the RPC.
. Installed Bind view on UNIX and windows server for our application.
. Installed IBM Rational Functional Tool (version 6.1.1) for our tester on
windows PC for the Application testing and also for improving the
performance of the application.
. Installed Control-M agent (Version 6.3.01.400) to make the oracle and
application job automatic on both windows and UNIX servers and
troubleshoot the errors.
. Experience on Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM 5.0) on AIX and cluster server
(VCS) in Sun and Windows OS.
. Installed, maintain, and upgrade the Veritas Net backup (version 5.0, 6.0
and 6.5) on both UNIX and Windows Servers.
. Installed, configured and troubleshoot and upgraded HMC version for HMC.
. Wintel Tier 3 Team member tasked with administering and maintaining
corporate IBM server infrastructure.
. Installed and troubleshoot Oracle 10.2 installation on both windows and
UNIX servers.
. Skilled in replacement/repair/upgrade of software, hardware and firmware.
. Excellent knowledge in writing Shell Scripts (C, SHELL, PERL, KORN) to
make the jobs automatic.
. Experienced in managing LPAR & storage Area Networks SAN and Extensive
experience in TCP/IP networking.
. Deploy the Application code on QA and production environment which was
already test on Test, Training and development environments.
. Experience on administration, troubleshooting & windows user account
creation and maintenance for Wintel (window OS running on Intel Micro
processor)
. Knowledge on GPFS for high speed access to large volume of Application
Data.
. Experience working with Enteprise class SAN storage arrays, FC HBA
connectivity, etc.
. Working experience on .net framework, sql server 2000, asp.net, vb.net,
java scripts, oracle, Visual Source Safe, etc.
. Experience on Kintana, Remedy, Siebel, HP Service Desk 4.5 and Service-
now ticketing systems.
. Knowledge of ITIL concepts.
. Designed and hosted a website for a small IT consulting company.
. MCSD certified professional and also preparing for VIOS and HACMP
certifications.
. Prepared various documents along with the screen shots for future
references and maintenance of all servers.
. Experience on AIX with db2, oracle databases for SAP environment and
troubleshoot database & application issues.
. Implementation and Administration of Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000,
Windows 2003 and its services like: DHCP, DNS, WINS, VPN, Terminal
Services, RAS, Active Directory, Group Policy, IIS etc.
Operating IBM AIX (6.0/5.x/4.x), Linux 4.x/5.x, Windows 2000/NT/4.0,
Systems Sun Solaris7/8/9/10, HP-UX11.x
Hardware IBM P-series servers (590,570,550,650/640/630/M80), IBM
RS/6000, SUN E-3000, E-4000, HP 9000/750
Databases Oracle 7.x/8.0/9i/10g, DB2, MS SQL SERVER 7.0/2000/2005
Networking TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, and Cisco Routers/Switches.
Tools Active Directory, Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Volume Manager,
Veritas Volume Replicator, NAS, Shell scripting, Visual
Source, safe, Rational Clear case, clear quest, etc
Storage DS8100, DS6000, Brocade, McDATA, NetApp Filers, EMC
Symmetrix DMX 3000, IBM 3584, Hitachi 9507V, Cisco Switch
MDS-9509, SCALAR ADIC Tape Libraries.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Capgemini, Phoenix, AZ http://www.capgemini.com
Jun 2010 - till date
Team Lead - 24/7 Environments
. Installation and configuration of AIX Operating System 6.1 on IBM P750 P-
series & HS 22 blade server for new build using NIM server for 27 LPARs
for SAP environment
. Build new NIM server for Dev & QA and another NIM server for Production
environment and admin over 1300+ servers.
. Done Live Partition Mobility on POWER6 servers that allows a running LPAR
to be relocated from one system to another which is similar to VMware
VMotion.
. Created LPAR on P750 and installed AIX 6.1 on IBM blade servers.
. Migrated AIX 5.3 to AIX 6.1 on over 30 servers using NIM server.
. Experience on system configuration, troubleshooting and performance
tuning on os level.
. Upgraded the sddpcm mpio on bunch of server and migrated from sddpcm
mpio to RDAC on few AIX servers
. Installed Red Hat Linux on hp blade and also added some memory cards.
. Upgrading the AIX 6.1 TL 01 to TL04 & SP 03 on the development, test, QA
and production servers.
. Installed, configured and troubleshoot PowerHA 6.1 and also upgrade to
the service pack 2 on three 2node cluster.
. Migrated HACMP 5.4 to PowerHA 6.1 on the existing 2 node clusters.
. Document the cluster testing with & without process monitoring for SAP
environment.
. Upgraded the VIOS from 1.5.2.10 fixpack11.1 to 2.2.0.10 fixpack 24 using
NIM server on dual VIOS environment.
. Upgraded HMC from various older version to 7.0.3.5 & 7.1.7.0
. Upgraded the firmware on various servers to the current release on IBM p
series servers using HMC
. Allocate the LUN from IBM XIV storage and mapped them to newly created
LPARs and dual VIOS servers and also increase the LUN size for filesystems
growth & also took snapshot on storage level.
. Upgraded to EMC powerpath from 4.5 to 5.3 on Dev, QA & Production servers
for VIOS migration.
. Configure all the unix servers for Legato backup and have a dedicated
static route for backup IP address to take backup.
. Use to take mksysb, backupios for vios backup and also backup using TSM
before doing any upgrades.
. Experience on Nagios monitoring tool for alerting the issue on the
servers and also the System Administrators.
. Work on the tickets and updated / resolve the tickets with in the SLA and
guide the offshore team.
. Installed, Configured IBM DB2 8.2 as per the client Application
requirement.
. Installed backup software EMC LEGATO NetWorker 7.5.3 client on multiple
AIX LPAR's for taking backup.
. Updated EMC Networker from 7.2.x to 7.5.x and installed on cluster
servers as well.
. Installed, configure and troubleshoot veritas Netbackup 6.5.2 on AIX and
also window servers.
. Document all the new changes with appropriate screen shots for future
references.
. 24X7 on-call production support on production UNIX environment.
. Trained onshore and offshore junior system administrator.
. Develop, maintain and cultivate relationships with internal clients.
IBM, Minneapolis, MN http://www.xcelenergy.com
May 2010 - Jun 2010
UNIX / AIX System Admin - 24/7 Environments
. Installation and configuration of Operating System AIX 5.3 & 6.1 on IBM P-
series for new build using NIM.
. Upgrading the AIX 5.3 TL and migrated from AIX 5.3 to 6.1 tl04 on the
development, test, QA and production servers.
. Installed, configured windows server 2003 using GHOST image and
add/replace memory card on IBM x servers.
. Used Nagios monitoring tools and Remedy ticketing systems and installed
autosys for job automation.
. 24X7 on-call production support on production UNIX environment.
APS (Arizona Public Service), Phoenix, AZ http://www.aps.com
Dec 2007 - Apr 2010
Team Lead for UNIX / AIX System Admin - 24/7 Environments
. Installation and configuration of Operating System AIX 5.3 & 6.1 on IBM P-
series for new build using NIM.
. Administration for the user accounts on windows and UNIX servers (AIX
5.3/6.1, SUN Solaris 8/9/10) over 300 users on 127 servers.
. Upgrade the firmware and also the memory to secure and to improve the
performance.
. Installation and configuration of oracle RAC 10.2g on test, QA boxes and
also in production boxes on windows and unix servers.
. Upgraded the HP OVO 7.35 from 7.14 and using alarm point for call out the
outage.
. Installation and configuration of Oracle Application Servers (OAS) 10.1.3
and also upgrade the patches on quarterly basis on test, QA boxes and also
in production boxes on windows and UNIX servers.
. Good knowledge and experience on LPAR, Micro Partioning, LVM, et.c
. Experience on system configuration, troubleshooting and performance
tuning on os level
. Installed veritas netbackup 5.1 on development, test, QA and production
servers on windows and UNIX servers and planning to upgrade to version 6.5
in the near future.
. Worked on taking backup's using master and media servers and validate
them on windows 2003 servers, AIX 5.3 p series servers and also in sun
solaris severs.
. Experience on Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM 5.0) on AIX and cluster server
(VCS) in Sun and Windows OS.
. System Administration on Linux 4.x/5.x. Migration and System deployment
through kickstart.
. Calculated the storage space for the file systems and also for the
netbackup storage.
. Experience on administration for VMWare ESX servers.
. Working on NetApp Filers (NAS) for the new build and taking care of the
existing IBM storages (DS4200 & DS 8000) and planning to move from SAN to
NAS completely.
. Experience on HACMP 5.4 and system supervision cluster software, which is
similar to IBM HACMP.
. Supporting VMware on windows and working with VIOS on IBM P series
servers.
. Write script for operational and performance test for the new environment
on unix and windows environment and also for taking mksysb on all the
clients from NIM server.
. Performance analysis using nmon analyzer, vmstat, iostat, topas and
tuning using commands like vmo, ioo, filemon, etc.
. Using HPSD (HP Service Desk) and Seibel for ticket systems & Supporting
the 24*7 production servers on call rotation basis (three weeks once)
. Training couple of internship/fulltime employee on AIX UNIX
administration.
GE-GIS [Oil & Gas], Alpharetta, GA http://www.ge.com
Aug 2006 - Nov 2007
Sr. AIX System Admin - 24/7 Environments
Genpact, Cincinnati, OH
Nov 2005 - Aug 2006
AIX System Administrator - 24/7 Environments
SunGard Higher Education, Maitland, FL
Sep 2003 - Jul 2005
UNIX Administrator - 24/7 Environments
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Minneapolis, MN
Nov 2002 - Aug
2003
AIX/windows Administrator - 24/7 Environments
TATA Consulting Service, Chennai, INDIA
Jan 2000 - Sep 2002
System Administrator - 24/7 Environments
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering (B.E)
Diploma in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (D.E.E.E)
CERTIFICATIONS
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer [MCSD]
IBM Certified System Administrator - AIX 6.1
IBM Certified Systems Expert - Virtualization Technical Support for AIX and
Linux
IBM Certified Systems Expert - High Availability for AIX Technical Support
and Administration
ITIL V3 Foundation - In progress