Engineer Manager

Muniasamy Gurusamy

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Objective

A challenging career in competitive industry of Information Technology by introducing innovative Technical Support and architect solutions that drive the future networks.

Summary

Has had 18+ years of tremendous experience in IT industry and 12+ years of relevant experience, got exposed to various segments with different solutions. Current job function includes technical support for various solutions, which includes Solaris 8, Solaris 10/11, RHEL5/6/7, OVM x86/OVM SPARC and Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas Cluster.

Educational

Diploma in “Computer Technology” from Arasan Ganesan Polytechnic College, Sivakasi, Directorate of Technical Education, Chennai, TamilNadu. (July 1997 – April 2000).

Pursuing Final year Bachelor of Computer Application (B.C.A) through Distance Education from “Karnataka State Open University”

Certifications

Certification Name : Sun Certified System Administrator - I

Exam Number : 310 – 014

Subject : Solaris 9.0

Percentage : 91%

Certification Name : RedHat Certified Engineer (RHCE)

Certificte Number : 160-005-732

Subject : RHEL 7

Percentage : 97%

Trainings Undergone

• Training completed in AWS Essentials from Global Knowledge (LVC)

• Training completed in RedHat Enterprise Linux Cluster from RedHat Pvt Ltd., Bangalore.

• Training completed in Redhat Virtualization from RedHat Pvt Ltd., Chennai

• Attended training in CCNA from IIHT, Coimbatore.

• Attended training in Red Hat Linux Professional Engineer from Accel IT Academy at Madurai.

• Completed the training “Power Consulting”

Experience

Organization : Marsh & Mclennan Company, Chennai.

Designation : Technical Specialist.

Period : Jul 2013 to till Date.

Responsibility :

Involved in Design & implementation of OVM SPARC/OVM x86

Define the naming standard and implement OVM x86 and OVM SPARC environment

Involved in Redhat Satellite 6.2 implementation

Handling critical tasks in Redhat/Solaris/OVMx86/OVM SPARC/Redhat Satellite/VCS/VXVM

Handling escalation calls

Mentoring team with new technology

Supporting for Operating System Auditing

Handling critical tasks in OVM x86 and OVM SPARC

Submitted Shell scripts to automate the tasks for OS Auditing/Solaris & Linux server Patching

Automate the mundane tasks in environment

Handling Periodic RHEL/Solaris/Oracle Linux patching

Redhat server provisioning (Hardware+Virtual) through the kickstart

Solaris server provisioning in OVM SPARC environment

Supporting Day to day activities in AWS cloud

Build AWS EC2 instance through Ansible

Filesystem manipulation in AWS cloud operations

LVM and Filesystem manipulation with newly allocated storage

Kernel Parameter configuration

Creating ASM Disks for DB team

Rename the ASM disk

ILO Firmware upgradation on HP Proliant/Oracle Hardware servers

Hardware RAID configuration in HP servers

Create and resize the filesystem in LVM/VXVM/ZFS

Auditing user account and password aging

Infrastructure package installation on Solaris and RHEL

NIC Bonding configuration in RHEL 5.x and 6.x

Supporting for VCS with limited servers

Limited working knowledge in Docker

Organization : Wipro Technologies, Chennai.

Designation : Technical Consultant.

Client : Nokia Siemens Network

Period : Oct 2011 to Jun 2013.

Responsibility :

Lead the offshore virtualization team

RHEL VM provisioning through the kickstart

Administration of RHEV-M

Hypervisor upgradation on RHEV physical servers

Manipulation of RHEL VMs in RHEV Manager

Firmware Upgradation on HP DL/BL servers

Filesystem and LVM manipulation in RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.7, 6.2

RHEL OS Kernel Patching and vulnerability patching

Client : MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL (USA)

Period : Dec 2008 to Oct 2011.

Responsibility :

Lead the offshore Unix/MIP team

Server Provisioning through kickstart

Supported for RHEL/Solaris Day to Day activities

OBP Upgradation and OS kernel patch upgradation

Managing the SUN Hardware T5120, T5220, T2000, M3000, M4000, M5000, SUN FIRE V440 and V880, Fujitsu prime power 450

Package and patch installation in Solaris 10

Root mirroring in ZFS

Adding and replacing the disk in zpool

Create and extend the ZFS Filesystem

Soft partition creation under SVM

Mirror the root disk using SVM / Veritas

Updating the kernel parameters in Solaris 10

Sendmail configuration in Solaris and Linux

Migrate the root filesystem from SVM to ZFS

Filesystem migration from SVM to Vxvm and Vxvm to Zfs

Convert the root filesystem from UFS to ZFS

Explorer installation and collecting the explorer data

Veritas volume manager Configuration and troubleshooting

Volume creation / root mirroring / unencapsulation in VXVM

Created the Shell script for Prepatching, Postpatching validation and Filesystem migration

Infrastructure package installation in Solaris, AIX and Linux

NFS and AUTOFS configuration

Performance Tuning and Ticket creation

Vendor coordination with Oracle, IBM and Redhat

Working knowledge in VMware

Filesystem and LVM manipulation in RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.7, 6.2

Configure the Redhat linux as a guest domain in vmware

Memory upgrade and disk addition in vmware guest domain

RedHat Linux LVM and Linux OS Patching

AIX LVM creation and troubleshooting

AIX OS patching

Client : LEHMAN BROTHERS INC. (USA)

Period : Jun 2007 to Dec 2008.

Job Description :

Part of Unix technical support team providing support for Wipro Customers in USA through remote administration and managing Datacenter servers.

Responsibility :

New blast and reblast with rename the host through jumpstart by using QIP.

Creating the new volume and resize the volume using Veritas, Veritas disk group upgradation, Allocate / De-allocate the storage.

Veritas Cluster Server Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting

Netbackup client and HB configuration after the blast

Install the NIS / autosys / etrust / Tibco packages Opsware agent and command line.

Configuring NIS Slave servers, convert hosts to self-binding NIS slaves

OBP Upgradation and OS patch upgradation

Updating the kernel parameters

New install ticket / Rename ticket / Relocation ticket / Network patching ticket creation.

Mirror the root disk using SVM / Veritas

Moving user home directories from one host to another host

Applying ACLs to user IDs, Creating the NFS Shares

Unix service ID home directory creation

Decommission the host

Organization : CMS Computers Ltd., Chennai.

Period : Jan 2006 to Jun 2007.

Designation : Sr. Customer Support Engineer.

Responsibility :

Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Administration of Sun Solaris.

Filesystem and swap maintenance in Solaris 8

Package installation and patch upgradation

SVM and VXVM Filesystem manipulation

Volume creation and extend the filesystem

Adding and Replacing the disk in SVM and VXVM

Root mirroring in SVM and VXVM

Apply the application patches

Maintain the NFS shares

Installation and Administration of SCO Unix.

Installation and configuration of Squid proxy Server on Linux Platform.

Maintenance of User accounts and attending day-to-day complaints.

Maintain daily / weekly / Monthly backups on existing systems.

Generating Call Reports on Weekly / Monthly basis, Providing 24*7 support

Projects Handled:

• Central Bank of India – Vellore (Dist)

Installation and Configuration of sun Solaris 9.0 and 7 windows based clients are connected to this server.

• LIC of India – Vellore (Dist)

Installation and configuration of RedHat 8.0 server and 30 clients are connected to the Linux server.

• Employee Provident Fund Office – Vellore (Dist)

Installation and configuration of SCO Unix server 5.0 and 16 Dump Terminals are connected to the server.

Organization : SYSTECH, Tirupur

Designation : Senior Customer Support Engineer

Period : March 2004 to Dec 2005

My Role :

Solaris and RedHat Linux Server Maintenance in Banks and Export companies.

System Servicing and Troubleshooting

Network structured Cabling, IP Addressing and Subnetting

User Maintenance, Backup and Troubleshooting.

Internet and Mail Server Configuration.

Mail Server Configuration and Maintenance.

Organization : Arasan Ganesan Polytechnic at Sivakasi

Designation : Hardware Engineer

Period : June 2001 to February 2004

My Role :

Administration of RedHat Linux server

RedHat Linux Server Installation and configuration of Proxy server, web server, squid guard, mail server, user creation and maintenance

Install & configure OS and all application software’s

Maintain the VSAT facility

System Servicing and Local Area Network setup

Projects Handled:

• Arasan Ganesan Polytechnic college, Sivakasi

RedHat Linux server with proxy and website filtering has been done[IBM Server].

Organization : Kay Yes InfoTech at Sivakasi

Designation : Service Engineer

Period : May 2000 to June 2001

My Role :

System Servicing

Installation & configuration of OS & all application software’s

Dot Matrix printer servicing

Establishment of Internet connection

Technical Qualification

Course : Diploma in Computer Technology

Name of the College : Arasan Ganesan Polytechnic college, Sivakasi.

Year of Study & Marks

Year of Study

Year

Marks

Percentage

III Year

1999 – 2000

1088 / 1200

90.67 %

II Year

1998 – 1999

1033 / 1200

86.08 %

Awards

Gold Medalist :

I got FIRST RANK ( 91 %), out of 72 students in final year of my diploma study (1999 – 2000)

Silver Medalist:

I got SECOND RANK (86 %), out of 72 students in second year of diploma study (1998 – 1999)

Achievement :

I got BEST PROJECT award from my college. My project is PC BASED CUTTING MACHINE CONTROLLER, I was Team Leader of my project & 5 members under in my Team. Total completion of my project duration was 3 months.

Knowledge in Operating System

Red Hat Linux

Installation & Configuration of Red Hat Linux

LVM manipulation

OS Patching and rpm installation

Yum repository configuration

Linux cluster installation and administration

Iscsi configuration

XEN installation and configuration

Virtual IP binding and unbinding

Proxy Server, Squid guard Configuration and Samba Server Configuration

Squirrel mail server configuration

Sun Solaris

Installation & Configuration of Solaris

User creation and administration

Backup and Restore

File System management, Autofs and NFS

Package and patches administration

Solaris Volume Manager

Error log checking and system log maintenance

Shell Script

Created and managing Prepatching and Postpatching script for the patching activity

Automated the filesystem migration from vxvm to ZFS with validation

Auditing script for check the veritas mirroring and check the file permission.

Automated the virtual IP plumbing in Solaris and Redhat Linux.

Automated Redhat patching (Virtual+Physical servers)

Created script to trigger Redhat satellite6 subscription consumption report

Personal Details

Address A3, I Floor Saijyothir Aditya Apartment

Vignarajapuram 3rd Extn, Haridass Street

Vengaivasal

Chennai - 73

Marital Status : Married

Passport : K3481521

Visa : H1B (Expired)

Nationality : Indian

Declaration

I here by declare that the above information is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.

Date : Yours faithfully,

Place :

(G.Muniasamy)

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