My interest lies in the technology side of the organization. With nearly 8 years of experience in Strategic HRM & Recruitment. I am now a technologist LPIC level-1 & level-2 linux certified and am uniquely positioned to execute and implement IT policies & projects. I firmly believe that my unique skill-set and background will assist meeting the organizational goals.

Educational Qualification:

Masters Bus. Admin MBA-HRM - Symbiosis Center, Pune, India May 2006

Masters in Commerce - Bangalore, India May 2000

Diploma in Software Tech& Systems Mgmt - NIIT, Bangalore, India Apr 1998

Graduate in Commerce - Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, India Apr 1997

Certifications:

Linux LPIC level 1 - Linux Administrator certified 04 April 2016

Passed both Exam 101-400 & 102-400

Verify = http://www.lpi.org/verify/LPI000356562/gmu5jhnqha

Exam 101-400 objectives http://www.lpi.org/our-certifications/exam-101-objectives

Exam 102-400 objectives http://www.lpi.org/our-certifications/exam-102-objectives

SLES-Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 Certification = 10290011

Linux LPIC level 2 - Linux Engineer certified part-1 of 2 exams 24 Apr 2017

Passed Exam 201-400

Exam 201-400 objectives https://wiki.lpi.org/wiki/LPIC-2_Objectives_V4#205.2_Advanced_Network_Configuration_.28weight:_4.29

Technical Tools:

ERP: Oracle Financials, Accounts payable and receivable, General Ledger & PO, Peoplesoft HCM

Tools Ultipro, Business Intelligence reporting tools, Microsoft Office, Excel, Word,

Powerpoint, IBM Cognos virtual web training

OS Worked extensively on Debian & SLES Linux, Windows.

Networking TCP/IP, NFS, NIS, DNS, FTP, SSH, DHCP.

My Linux skills/proficiency include the following

Exploring Linux Command-Line Tools

Managing exporting, adding shell environment, configuring shell configuration files

using command aliases thereby enhancing admin linux commands.

Writing shell scripts using commands, variables, conditional expressions, loops and functions to automate admin functions

Using Streams, Redirections and Pipes

Exploring types of streams and piping data between programs

redirecting input and output using command Lines

Processing text using filters

File combining commands – cat, sort, join

File Transforming commands- cut split, tr, uniq

File formatting commands – sed, awk

File viewing commands – cat, head, tail, view, vi, less, more

File Summarizing commands- wc, tee, nl, sort

Using Regular Expressions - grep, sed, awk, tl, wc,

Managing Software

Package updates using Zypper, Yast, yum

Using RPM and extracting data from RPMs using rpm command set

tar, untar, gzip, bzip2, unxz, zip, cpio.

Using Debian and SLES Package management utility

Debian Distributions and cmds using dpkg, apt-cache, apt-get, dselect, aptitude

Converting between Package formats, Package dependencies and conflicts

Configuring Hardware

Configuring firmware, hardware, RAID, LVM & mounting USB devices

Configuring partitions and filesystems (PATA, SATA, SCSI Disks)

Maintaining and tuning file systems, journaling & checking file systems

Mounting and Unmounting filesystems & monitoring disk usage

Managing Files

Account management- Setup users and groups with controlled access privileges.

file archiving commands - like tar, bzip2, bunzip2, gunzip, gzip, zip, compress

Setup and use both hard link and soft/symbolic links

Managing file ownership using chown, assessing file ownership

Controlling access to files. Changing file attributes- chattr, locating files

File permissions - using chmod to control file’s ugo, changing file’s group – chgrp

Managing quotas– setting quota and resource limits based on groups or users to overcome memory leaks and excessive disk usage by few users.

Enabling and setting user quota – quotaon, edquota, repquota

Booting linux and editing files

Understanding the boot process Boot sector, setting up default boot manager like GRUB, LILO, ability to edit system bootup options.

Awareness of UEFI, troubleshoot boot-loader issues, using alternative boot systems like isolinux, syslinux, pxelinux.

Setting up runlevels, init/boot scripts for services to be activated in event of server reboots,and the initialization process, activating, deactivating services

Inittab, init.d, chkconfig, init, telinit, mbr, grub-install, fsck, initramfs, initrd

Configuring X window system, localization and Printing

Enabled X-forwarding onto windows machines for remote administration

Setting up and changing display manager on an OS, X server troubleshooting.

Configuring X fonts, Using X for remote access, X accessibility

Managing GUI logins & configuring printer using cups.

Administering & Compiling the system

Setting logging options, log rotation and Custom Log Formatting to be used as per audit requirement to get remote server IP/source information.

Understanding background and foreground processes & managing process priorities with nice. Tuning user and system environments.

Setup ntp to sync clock on all servers with both internal/external ntp time source servers and setting server locale

Creating user & system cron jobs, using anacron and at

Unpack and Installing programs from source

Kernel compilation to add/remove support for features/hardware devices, and to add modules support to kernel.

Applying patches and upgrading kernel version using Patch command.

Commands like – configure, patch, make, install, rpmbuild, zImage, bzImage, binrpm-pkg, mkinitrd, mkinitramfs, Dracut, DKMS, insmod, lsmod, depmod, lspci, lsusb, sysctl, udev, mdadm, swapon, swapoff, mkswap, tune2fs, mkfs, fsck, mkisofs

Configuring Networking

Understanding TCP/IP networking & basic functions of network hardware

Utilities to configure and manipulate ethernet network interfaces

Configuring basic access to wireless networks with iw, iwconfig and iwlist

Resolving hostnames & IP’s, using ifup, ifdown, ip, commands

Configuring with DHCP & static IP address, routing, tracing a route.

Diagnosing & Troubleshooting network connections, examining raw network traffic

nmap, netstat, lsof, arp, ip, ifconfig, iwconfig, dig, host, tcpdump, route, nc, traceroute.

Writing scripts, configuring email and using databases

Managing, configuring email and using databases.

Choosing email software & Securing email servers.

Managing data and database with basic SQL commands and queries.

System security

Securing and Administering system and network security.

Ability to setup aliases & configure sudo using the sudoers file.

Administering local security- securing passwords, limiting root access, setting login, enforcing password aging policy.

setting process and memory limits to prevent memory leaks and excessive disk usage by a few rogue users.

locating SUID/SGID files to plug security loopholes.

ability to setup password-less ssh or ssh key trusts between servers.

Setup ssh files to display corporate warnings on logins & disabled transmission of root passwords by enforcing non-root logins.

Using GPG – generating, importing, and revoking keys

encrypting and decrypting data, signing messages and verifying signature.

able to configure a OpenVPN (Virtual Private Network) and create secure point-to-point or site-to-site connections.

Backup operations

Knowledge of taking backups and restoring from backups using utilities like dd, tar, mt, nst, rsync, tape archive, mkisofs, cdrecord

Software RAID configurations, iSCSI tools and utilities- scsi_id, wwid, LUN

Re-sizing, renaming, creating, and removing logical volumes, volume groups, and physical volumes – pv*, vg*, lv* commands, /dev/mapper, mount

Perform partial & manual backups, verify integrity and restore backups.

Consumer United, Boston Jan 13 –Jul 13

Role: Senior Recruiter

IBM Global Process Services, India Oct 05 - Apr 11

Designation – Assistant Manager (Talent Acquisition Unit - Staffing and Employee Relations)

Accenture Services Pvt Ltd, Bangalore,India Jul 04 - Sep 05

Designation - HR Consultant

Eduquity Career Technologies Pvt Ltd, India Jul 02 - Jun 04

Designation – Psychometric Test Assessment Administrator

Visa Status: US Citizen

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