JAI PAGARE

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Certifications:

RHCE 4 (Red hat Certified Engineer), OCP 11G (Oracle Database 11G Administrator), CCNA (Routing and Switching 200-125), Data Privacy & Security, ET&T Diploma in software development.

SUMMARY:

Business Development, Enterprise Systems Analysis, Design, Implementation and Support

-- Industry Analysis and Business Development.

-- Enterprise Architecture analysis, design and implementation.

-- Technology staff resource planning, hiring, training, and management.

-- RFP response, scope definition, project scheduling, risk analysis, and costing.

-- Vendor evaluation, negotiation, and oversight.

-- Data center design and implementation.

-- Oracle Database Design, Linux and Cisco Development, Tuning, and Administration.

-- Storage systems analysis, design, and implementation.

-- Virtualization and Data Migration.

-- MS, Linux, Solaris, EMC, Cisco UCS, Dell Blade chassis and Super micro.

-- Software Development with developers in C,C++,C#,PL/SQL.

-- Data Analysis and Root Cause Analysis.

-- Tier 3 Resource. Resolution of complex problems at any level in the technology stack or organization.

-- Self motivated and ability to learn new operating systems rapidly.

-- Possess strong oral and written communication skills with a proven track record of working effectively across large organizations.

-- Enthusiasm for helping a team set and achieves goals.

-- Experience with various hardware components including storage and networking.

-- Strong problem solving skills: innovation, collaboration, analysis, inductive reasoning.

-- Capable of managing multiple projects and integrating new project requirements effectively.

-- Inventory Management.

Business Analyst:

•Prepare Technical Specification Document.

•Conduct and participate in status meetings to collect data from business users.

•Implement business modeling using MS Visio to develop screens for the application.

•Have exposure in educating internal customers on business systems and procedures and working with other analysts and QA team to set priorities and schedules.

•Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to develop and agree upon a system that focuses on the business requirements.

•Participated regularly in Walkthroughs and Review meetings with Project Manager, QA Engineers and Development team.

•Regularly interacted with offshore and onshore development teams.

•Handled regular deployment issues across Dev, Prod and Test environments.

•Documented all system changes and request for user access using Change Management Forms in the SharePoint document library.

•Conducted conference calls with SMEs to gather information.

•Defined and tracked software releases, enhancements and software defects. Addressed the areas of security. Patch management and application deployment to provide relevant software and updates to users quickly and cost effectively.

Technical Skills: VMware:

•Design, install, and configure VMware ESX (5.5), ESXi, and ESXi 5 environments with Virtual Center management (Web based interface), Consolidated Backup, VMHA & Vmotion.

•Build, configure and deploy VMs. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2008 and 2012 servers.

•Analyze and troubleshoot on an performance of SAN backed VMware ESX infrastructure to determine proper allocation of resources to a multi-department user population with widely varying needs.

•Networking between VMware, networking components and storage for high availability and maximum performance.

•Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.

Management Skills:

•Decision making skills strong technical exposure in Linux, Windows and Oracle Database.

•Able to handle multiple projects simultaneously and to work without any supervision

•Sending, updating n maintaining project reports various new implementations with team management skills, teaching, guiding to the other team members.

•Handled and managed technical support via Phone (VOIP) for USA and Canada based company’s projects.

•Worked as a Team Leader and Supervisor for 5 projects at a time.

•Level 3 base. Ability to work effectively with all levels of staffs and management.

•Creating Network documentation and implementations of network standards.

Datacenter Skills:

•Assembling and implementing Network cabling CAT5 plus CAT6 E and Fiber cables with accurate

Crimping skills for RJ45 connectors.

•Performing power lookups for 20, 30AMP circuits and planning power distributions.

•Additional skills in maintaining racks and mounting 1,2U Dell, Intel Storage and HP Blade servers.

•All types of server’s hardware knowledge. Operating system installations, Windows and Linux all flavors and versions.

•Software Security patches.

•SAN/NAS/JBOD:

•ArcaSAN from Arcastor using Fiber Channel SANS with Fabric switch Brocade 4100.

•SAN Administrator on Brocade fiber channel Silkworm switch 4100

•Performed switched management by creating Alias zoning and port zoning on brocade fabric using web tools and fabric manager.

•Collected the logs on the switches (telnet, putty) Configured San devices with dual path on dual fabrics for redundancy.

•Installed fiber cables from patch panels to switches and servers

•HP Hardware: Proliant DL380, Proliant 850, Proliant DL360

•Install PERC 5/E Raid controller, PERC 5/I Raid controller

Accomplishments

•Maintained a customer base of 10 System accounts.

•Performed as field support specialist for the North West region (Chicago IL).

•Team Leader and mentor to junior engineers on mini-computers which reduced training cost.

•Proficient in diagnosing and troubleshooting computer systems.

•Delivered 90% customer satisfaction.

•Mechanical & Electronic Aptitude

ETCC. Lisle IL Dec 2011 to August 2017

Sr System Administrator

•Responsible for the day to day operations of the toll collection network. Provide Tier 3/4 Support to the lane controller analysts. Assist the software development group in the isolation of software issues and the testing of fixes.

•Configured and managed the Linux & Windows serving customer web applications. Create and execute test plans at the customer's request. Support the corporate VPN environment. Work the customer's Information Technology group to satisfy support and maintenance requests. Perform regular security audits of corporate IT systems to satisfy payment card industry security requirements. Work with the solutions engineers to migrate the core business products from Windows to Redhat Enterprise Linux. Responsible for the maintenance of the core OS distribution Used for toll collection services across multiple customer organizations. Engineered the disaster recovery site for customer data per customer requirements

•1000+ Linux, Windows Virtual Servers remotely and Hardware Maintenance.

•Managing Disaster Recovery Datacenter Site.

•Managing Active Directory and AD authentication over Linux.

•File Storage and NAS administration.

•Building configuring Check_mk nagios systems.

•Work closely with Developers and Data Base Administrators.

•Supporting Oracle, Mysql and MS SQL Database server requirements.

•Microsoft OS patching release patches approves, updating in Production environment.

•Vmware, Virtual Center, Citrix, Linux, CentOS, Windows 2003/2008 administration.

Ihsystem Inc. Schaumburg, IL.

July 2009 to August 01, 2011

Senior IT infrastructure Manager.

•2000 Linux servers, 50 Linux RedHat servers, 200+ Windows and oracle server with Mysql & Oracle DB 2005/2008/11G

•Virtualization through VmWare.

•Enterprise experience with Linux RedHat servers, heavy on Vmware, HP and Dell server.

•Administrate, monitor, configure, and troubleshoot Linux & Windows servers. Monitor networks, routing and little networking. Extend 2*T1s to server room from riser room.

•Maintain and perform trouble shooting for Corporate Local Area Network, consisting of 1000+ node local network, including Windows/Linux clients and networked printers and scanner.

•LAN Administration including: adding and deleting users, performing regular backups, occasional

restorations from NAS backup media, and maintaining LAN security. Maintained and managed corporate remotely hosted corporate e-mail solution. Determined computer-related needs for Entire Corporation

•Client server management.

•Root-caused data corruption, OS and software bugs, disk driver and clustered file system

•Debug hardware failures in some largest Linux/windows servers & clusters

•Implementing server security and hardening

•Tuned performance of customer applications in competitive evaluation environment

•Profiled and tuned Linux for customer applications

•File Storage and NAS administration NFS configuration and ongoing maintenance

•Migrated Servers from LA & Naperville Datacenter to Schaumburg IL location

•Implemented new system security policies. Monitoring tools. Nagios, Cacti & Nexvu.

Responsibilities:

•Provide consulting and implementation expertise for technology components that are associated with the Company's Distributed Computing.

•Server environments including support for the development and integration of business solutions Performs R&D activities Performs consulting services Performs capacity planning

•Performs 3rd level problem resolution Designs and plans for implementation Performs systems integration and interoperability, both internally and externally

•Performs system software maintenance, including version/release lifecycle management

•Supports Strategy and Planning projects

•Participate in Disaster Recovery support activities including technical design, planning, consultation, and testing Provides consultation and support towards the development of Service Level Agreements Contributes to the development and recommendation of standards and guidelines in conjunction with Strategy & Planning

Pugmarks Inc. Chandigarh, India

May 2006 to May 2009

Assistant Manager Server Security

•Security Hardening and Monitoring and Security Hardening with Service Level Monitoring” as well as a onetime Server Setup service

•24/7 Security Monitoring, Updating/patching your kernel, Third party software installation, new patches, security updates.

•Log monitoring for unusual activity Manipulation of Firewall Rules Based on Log Activity

•Security Updates as Released by OS and/or Control Panel. Cpanel, Plesk and Ensim.

•Consultation with a Security Expert on Matters Requiring Customer Action

•High performance computing benchmarking and kernel tuning Constant review of upstream kernel activity

•Maintenance and engineering on a from scratch Linux distribution in support of high volume electronic trading

•Successfully carried out data center migration work in Naperville, IL USA in June 2008 on three months on site project

Aress Software and Technologies PVT LTD, Nasik, India October 2003 to May 2006

System Administrator

•Utilized open source software to meet business. Linux FreeBSD

•Vulnerability scanning and network penetration testing of customer facing applications

•Proactive hardening Linux and UNIX servers’ ongoing evaluation

•Hardening Apache web servers LAMP Servers.

•Disk Management, partitioning tools like fdisk, sfdisk etc. file system management ext3 file system & utilities (mke2fs, e2fsck, tune2fs, fsck) LVM physical volumes and logical volumes & volume groups extending file systems on LVM mount, unmount of file systems - /etc/fstab mount options disk quota.

•Red Hat Linux Startup process - init - /etc/inittab - /etc/init.d service scripts, run levels chkconfig,

•Worked on Linux system administration, securing, debugging errors

•Identify the possible DDoS attack origin or target device.

•Parallels Virtuozzo for Linux and Windows support (Virtualization technology) used in 2004

•Team leader maintaining 12 people team.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, University of Pune, 2005

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