Career Profile:
. Over ** years of experience in administering different flavors of
Unix(Linux, Solaris, Aix, HP UX, TRU64)
. Knowledge of volume managers(LVM, Veritas Volume Manager, Solaris
Volume Manager)
. Knowledge on Cluster technology(Veritas Cluster Service, HACMP Power
HA)
. Worked on Solaris Zones and Solaris ZFS.
. Performed patch and package administration in UNIX servers.
. Implemented security tools like Seos Powerbroker
. Involved in setting up NIS, NFS, AutoFS, and CacheFs Sun Server.
. Involved in securing the operating system.
. Coordinated the hardware replacement on UNIX servers.
. Involved in planning huge storage and used Backup Software(Netbackup,
Legato Networker & Arcserve)
. Involved in planning and building secured systems.
. Raising support calls with vendors and involved in post mortem
analysis for server problems.
. Leaded the efforts in setting up the operations for offshore support
for Unix and Backup administration
. Developed health check scripts for Linux and Solaris servers.
. Leaded a team of L3 Unix administrators and Backup administrators.
SkillSet:
Operating System RedHat Linux 5.X & 6X, Solaris 8,9 & 10, AIX 5.3,
Tru64 and HP UX
Storage LVM, Solaris Volume Manager, Solaris ZFS, Veritas Volume
Manager
Backup Arcserve, Netbackup, TSM(Client Side)
Monitoring Tools Sitescope, Gomez, Optier & Proactivenet
Load Testing Loadrunner, Webload
Cluster Veritas Cluster Service, Solaris Cluster Service,
HACMP
Virtualization Zones, AIX VIO
Professional Certifications
. Sun Certified System Administration ( Solaris 8 & 10)
. IBM Certified Specialist - System p Administration
. ITIL V3 Foundation
Technical Trainings
. Linux Jump Start for Unix administrators
. Sun Solaris 10 Training
. VERITAS Volume Manager
. VERITAS Cluster Services
. Aix Jump Start for Solaris Administrators
Behavioral / Management Trainings
. Leading Edge ( Leadership Training )
. ITIL Foundation Course
. Interviewing Skills
. PMP certification training
. Customer Support skills from Omni Touch
Professional Experience:
Client: Citigroup
Start Date: 10-Jan-2005
End Date: Till Date
Location
Jacksonville, FL & Irving, TX US: Jul 2011 till date
Chennai, India: Jan-2005 to Jun 2011
Roles and Responsibilities
. Developed health script for Solaris and Linux environment which
proactively monitors the servers for any warning and possible critical
errors. The script was deployed across thousands of servers.
. Performed point in time restores for the Solaris servers.
. Worked on Solaris, Linux and AIX patching
. Worked on preparing the AIX server to be built for RAC cluster
. Worked on creation of GPFS file system on AIX.
. Upgrading GPFS file systems across AIX servers.
. Worked on adding / removing of disks for GPFS file system on AIX
servers.
. Performing new disk allocation and LVM creation on Linux and AIX
servers.
. Performing PV migration on AIX servers.
. Worked on building Linux, Aix and Solaris servers.
. Installation of latest patches for security bugs and relevant platform
specific packages.
. Implemented eTrust Access Control in Solaris, HP UX and AIX servers
. Performing of operation system hardening for new system to deployed in
the environment.
. Performing Backup and Restore operations with Legato Networker and
Veritas Netbackup.
. Installation and Upgradation of Veritas Volume Manager.
. Installation and Configuration of Veritas Cluster Server.
. Analyze performance problems and Implement the recommend solutions.
. Raising support calls with vendors and involved in post mortem
analysis for server problems.
. Trouble shooted various problems related to Solaris, AIX and Linux
. Writing scripts in shell for system administration related activities.
. Maintaining the threshold limit for Disk Space, I/O, memory
Utilization on the systems.
. Responsible for creating new file systems adding up swap space if
required in the systems.
. Setting up the operations offshore for Client Web Site (Citigroup
Private Banking) and NAIT (North America Information and Technology)
project.
. Suggesting any process improvement to client and to the management.
. Coordinating for the controlled COB switchover and actual COB
switchover.
. Building Veritas Cluster servers
Organization: Computer Associates
Start Date: 15-Mar-2004
End Date: 10-Jan-2005
Location: Chennai(India)
Roles and Responsibilities
. Helping Clients resolving issues related to the backup and restore of
Solaris, Linux, Windows and netware servers servers
. Determining the problem between hardware and software
. Problems related to backup and restoration in a SAN, NAS and Cluster
environment
. Problems related to backup and restoration of the Microsoft Exchange,
Lotus Notes, SQL, Oracle, and Sybase.
. Problems related to backup and restoration of Solaris, Linux, Unix and
Netware servers from windows
. Restoration of Windows Domain Controller and the Active Directory
Structure
. Handling Escalation for Solaris, Linux and Unix related issues
. Help Client design the backup strategy so that the backup is
maintained for years
. Resolve the issue related to Arcserve database problem
Organization: Focus InfoTech Limited
Client: IT365 (P) LTD (Subsidiary of Scope International a Standard
Chartered Group)
Start Date: 10-Jul-2002
End Date: 12-Mar-2004
Location: Chennai (India)
Roles and Responsibilities
. Troubleshooting problems related to webservers (Apache and Tomcat)
. Troubleshooting problems related to high CPU, Disk on Solaris servers
. Troubleshooting proxy (Netscape) server problems
. Performance analysis of Network Bandwidth utilization done
. Monitoring ATM's across India, Bangladesh and United Arabic Emirates
. Troubleshooting problem related to OS2 gateways through IBM Netfinity
which is primarily used by the tellers for accessing the mainframe
applications
. Troubleshooting problems related to download of reports from mainframe
. Troubleshooting problems related to VPN to connect to the banks
network
. Providing desktop support the Scope and Standard Chartered employee
Organization: Allied Resins and Chemicals Ltd
Start Date: 18-Jan-2001
End Date: 20-May-2002
Location: Calcutta (India)
Roles and Responsibilities
. Administrating the performance of the network on platforms like Unix
and Windows NT
. Administrating user profiles and user rights.
. Implementation of Iptables (Linux)
. Implementation of Snort (IDS) on Linux
. Performing performance, memory and space management
. Scheduling backups and restoration of data
. Scheduling system events and cron jobs
. Remote administration and Desktop troubleshooting
Organization: SSI Limited
Start Date: 15-Jun-2000
End Date: 10-Jan-2001
Location: Raipur (India)
Roles and Responsibilities
Subjects covered
Operating System: Dos, Linux, and Windows NT
Programming Languages: C, Java 2.0
Scripting: Shell Scripts and Java Scripts
Web Technologies: Html, Dhtml
. System And Security Administration of User Profiles in the Center
. Maintaining the entire network of the center.
. Conducted seminars from time to time on various topics
Personal Information:
Name: Mohan Mohta
Contact: 904-***-****
VISA Status: H1B
Relocation: Yes
Availability 2-Weeks
Last 4 Digits of SSN: 7668
Current Location: Dallas, Texas