Syed F. Haider
Edison, NJ ***17
Email: ****.******@*****.***
* *******: 7 + years administration experience in large hosting
environment and R&D facility managing and troubleshooting various platforms-
Infrastructure experience in building complex hosted environments on
multiple platforms that include Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Win2k3, F5 load
balancing, and Checkpoint Firewall (NG).
Certifications: SUN Certified System Administrator (SCSA)
Education: Devry University
1 Bachelor of Science, Network Communication Management
Experience:
10/2009-Present Technicolor Princeton, NJ
Systems Engineer
Establish and maintain customer relationship with the BU Film and Post
organization and make sure that corporate guidance, from the IT
organization and from the business operations group are being cascaded and
complied with
Provide strategic leadership and day-to-day management in directing the
systems analysis and software development functions
Provide overall guidance for systems project management, appropriate risk
management and leveraging existing solutions
Manage and coordinate efforts to upgrade and maintain current systems, and
direct the systems analysis, procedure development and programming efforts
in the implementation of new systems, and in the evaluation, acquisition
and installation of new equipment
Work closely with other managers in the evaluation of technical solutions
and planning/ execution of key customer and ongoing improvement/ change
initiatives
Ensuring a financial reporting environment in compliance with SOX and other
applicable industry standards
09/2006-Present Thomson Inc. Princeton, NJ
2 Unix Administrator
Project Lead in implementation of corporate backup environment consisting
of StorageTek SL500 tape library and Symantec Veritas Netbackup 6.0.
Performance tune backup network and master/media servers.
Configure policies and schedules consistent with corporate policy and
Symantec best practice.
Engineered SAN solutions providing connectivity to multiple clusters, stand
alone servers and workstations on various platforms.
Implementation of NAS environment utilizing Sun 5320 NAS Appliance.
Implementation of 6140/6540 Sun SAN solution with 30Tb disk space
interconnected via 4Gb HBAs.
Configuration of QFS file systems for I/O intensive cluster access.
Installation and administration of production High Availability (HA) Multi
Platform UNIX based solutions including SUN Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise,
and UBUNTU Linux.
Installation and administration of Sun GridEngine and management of queues
and policies.
Configuration and deployment of open source monitoring tools including
MRTG, Cacti, and Nagios.
Monitor and maintain network applications and procedures including backups,
disaster recovery, maintenance, and upgrades.
Configure and maintain Jumpstart servers to install and upgrade Solaris
servers over network.
Collect and analyze key utilization metrics on production database and
application servers.
Responsible for Installation, Management, and troubleshooting of Apache web
servers in Production, Development, and QA environments.
Develop SHELL scripts necessary in automating systems management.
Configure and maintain NIS/DNS master Server/Slave/Client for entire client
domain.
04/2001-09/2006 Hewlett Packard Newark, N J
Systems Engineer
Responsible for technical project management, infrastructure design,
implementation, and maintenance of hosted client networks.
Analyzed Sun software/hardware using scripts and commercial software
providing metrics and recommendations for performance tuning to senior
leadership.
Perform all duties related to Solaris system administration NIS, DNS. NFS,
user account maintenance, backup & recovery, Auto-mounting, and License
Management,
Perform routine hardware/software upgrades on equipment including SUN
Servers, Compaq/HP servers running LINUX, and CISCO Routers and switches.
Responsible for successful backup of hosted clients using Veritas
Netbackup, Brocade Silkworm switches, and StoredgeTek Tape Libraries.
Capacity optimization and security infrastructure design of top financial
and pharmaceutical systems.
Designed and deployed high availability solutions using Cisco, F5 in
managed environments.
05/2000-04/2001 Qwest Communications Newark, NJ
Systems Administrator
Configured and maintained equipment under a datacenter environment
including Sun/Compaq servers, Cisco routers, switches, and patch panels.
Installed and administered Solaris/Red Hat systems providing IS
infrastructure (mail, web, FTP, streaming media).
Coordinated and provided Hosting support for Fortune 500 companies,
including pharmaceuticals, Retail, and Financial industries.
Monitor network and system functions and processes using various tools,
including Solar Winds, Whats Up Gold? and HP Openview.
Performed scheduled maintenance on HP/Compaq, Dell PE, and SUN servers.
Responsible for troubleshooting LAN/WAN connectivity issues.
Enterprise Backup Administration using Veritas NetBackup.
Managed network core devices including Checkpoint Firewall-1 & core CISCO
routers.
02/2000-04/2001 Johnson & Johnson North Brunswick, NJ
Systems Administrator
Responsible for the configuration/installation of various operation systems
such as Microsoft
Windows95/98, NT Workstation 4.0, and Linux.
Performed training of proprietary collection software (QuickFlow) as well
as RUMBA A/R, COACT and WinCoins.
Implement and troubleshoot A/R software on client LANs consisting of
Windows98 and NetWare 4.1.
Performed hardware upgrades including NIC's, Processors, Systemboards, Hard
Drives, and other various internal peripheral upgrades.
References: Available upon request.
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4 Technical Skills:
Software: Redhat Enterprise 2.1, 3.0, 4.0, 5, SUN Solaris 8, 9, 10,
Windows 2003 Server, Veritas Netbackup, Symantec Antivirus, HP SmartStart,
DELL Openmanage suites for Linux and Windows, Check Point FW/VPN 1, CAM
(Common Array Manager).
Hardware: SUN Netra, SPARC, SUN FIRE Servers, HP/Compaq Proliant servers
(DL360, DL380, DL385, DL585), Dell Poweredge servers (PE1650, PE1950,
PE2650, PE2950), SUN Array controllers (6540,6140), SUN NAS Appliance 5320,
StorageTek Tape Libraries (L25, L700, SL500),Brocade Silkworm fabric
switches(4100), F5 BIG IPs, Nokia IP series firewalls (IP330, IP350,
IP440).
Expertise: System & Network performance tuning, Static and Dynamic routing,
Network Protocols, DNS, NFS, NIS, SMB, HA, Veritas, Server Installs and
Configurations, Network O.S, SAN/NAS solutions.
Professional References
KT (David) Su
Windows Administrator
Thomson Inc.
Paul Hanley
Data Center Manager
Hewlett-Packard
Mustafa Aziz
IT Technical Lead
eBizMatrix.com