Over ** Years in System Management, Storage Administration and Storage

Testing

D.Ramachandra

#*, ******* ***** ******, **************, Bangalore - 560 061.

Phone: 91-80- 26392625 Mobile:

914*******

acg0mf@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

> Open VMS System Management/Administration

> Trained IBM Engineers on OpenVMS System Management.

> Performance tuning Installation, up gradation of OS and Patches.

> SAN setup and Administration and Storage Testing with Brocade Cisco

Switches

> HP Integrity Blade server Setting up and configuration with Virtual

connect, Flex-10

> Testing of Storage Products on VLS, VTL and D2D

> Configuration of EVAs and MSAs, qualification of Firmware of FC HBAs. And

controllers

> Hardware trouble shooting and management of Itanium systems.

> Configuration of SCSI, SAS and FC Tape drives and tape Libraries for

testing storage products.

> Configuration of OpenVMS clusters with DECnet and IPCI.

> Queue Management, Volume shadowing. Managing the license of OpenVMS

> Extensively worked on testing of storage products using SCSI, SAS and FC

devices such as tape drives, tape libraries, tape loaders of various

media such as LTO, SDLT, DAT, disks, Optical devices etc.,

EDUCATION

PDCE - Post Diploma In Computer Engineering, School of Engineering Studies

Bangalore

DTE - Diploma in Telecommunication Sri Jayachamarajendra Polytechnic

Bangalore

STRENGTH

. Achievement oriented with excellent Project & people management skills

and an ability to manage change with ease.

. Proven strength in problem solving, coordination and analysis.

. Strong technical, communication, interpersonal, learning and

organizing skills matched with the ability to manage stress, time and

people effectively.

. Proactive, adaptable to changes.

. Exposure to CMM quality processes

PERSONAL DETAILS

Marital status: Married

Languages spoken: English, Hindi, Kannada

Passport number: K2116169

Valid till: 20-12-2021

Date of Birth 24-Aug-1951

PROJECTS HANDLED

Project : OpenVMS IO driver qualification

Client : HP

Employer : HP, Bangalore, India

Period : May 2009 to Aug 2012

Role : Qualification of LAN and Storage products

Qualification of storage products on OpenVMS such as EVA, MSA, Tape devices

EML, ESL, VLS, D2D etc. configuration of Blade servers BL860, BL870, BL860

i2 with C7000 and C3000 enclosures with network and FC interconnect

switches such as Flex -10 VC-FC etc. Qualification of OA, VC, of IA systems

Firmware, Network and FC HBAs Firmware. Trained engineers on OpenVMS system

management.

Project : EVA Firmware development

Client : HP

Employer : HP, Bangalore, India

Period : March 2006 to May 2009

Role : Build and release

Setting up the development environment to the developers and setting up the

build environment Configuration of source code using ClearCase, building

the kit, releasing to the partners for testing and also responsible for

releasing the final kit to the customers on web.

Project : SAN Visibility

Client : HP

Employer : HP, Bangalore, India

Period : March 2005 to March 2006

Role : Tester

SAN Visibility is a complementary software utility for HP customers that

help with SAN Analysis, SAN Diagnostics and SAN Optimization. It saves

considerable time, money, and effort by automating inventory activities and

providing a quick and accurate view of your SAN topology. It has an

automated report generation feature that produces recommendations, topology

diagrams, and informative SAN element reports for switches, host bus

adapters and storage array connectivity. SAN Visibility runs on any Windows

desktop or laptop which has network connectivity to a switch within your

SAN Testing the package in heterogeneous environment, HP-UX, Windows,

OpenVMS Operating systems

Project : OpenVMS Storage

Client : HP

Employer : Digital Global Soft Ltd., Bangalore, India

Period : March 2003 to 2005

Role : Resource manager

Providing System resource to the team, configuration of HSG80, HSZ50, HSJ40

controllers, FC switches, Network Switches to connect VMS and Unix systems.

Carrying out Hardware maintenance of Alpha VAX and Proliant servers,

testing of storage products.

Project : AshWin

Client : Compaq Computer Corporation

Employer : Digital GlobalSoft Ltd., Bangalore, India

Period : April 2001 to March 2003

Role : Project Leader

Project

The Ashwin Process Scheduler (APS) is a 32-bit multi thread single instance

MFC based application, whose primary responsibility is to schedule jobs to

be executed across a multi platform enterprise. The APS can be instantiated

as an NT service or runs as standard application. The APS manages a process

sequence by submitting each task to a workstation or a group of

workstations in its machine list for execution. Tasks can be loaded,

balanced across machine.

Development Environment

Windows NT/98, VC++ 5.0, Install Shield, SQL Server 7, VSS

Roles and Responsibilities

This is a maintenance project. Leading the team of Engineers, Project

scheduling, Project Management, and customer interaction. Testing and QA of

final deliverables

SANWorks Virtual Replicator

Client : Compaq Computer Corporation

Employer : Digital GlobalSoft Ltd., Bangalore, India

Period : June 2000 to April 2001

Role : Team Member, Build engineer, Tester

Project

Compaq SANWorks Virtual Replicator is a software solution for more

effectively managing storage in Microsoft Cluster and non-cluster

environments. It lets Administrators to locate disks for Windows NT

servers, and allows these disks to be backed up and restored online without

necessarily interrupting users. It combines four innovative technologies -

Virtual Disk Management, point-in-time Snapshots, Network Disks, and On-

line Volume Growth - that work together to help reduce the cost,

complexity, and tedium of managing storage.

Development Environment

Windows NT/2000, VC ++6.0, VSS, Install Shield

Roles and Responsibilities

Building of SANWorks Virtual Replicator product Executables on NT using

Visual C and Install shield, testing of the Executables. Configuring source

files using Visual Source Safe (VSS), also testing the deliverables in NT

4.0 and Windows 2000 cluster environment.

VMS Storage Project

Client : Compaq Computer Corporation

Employer : Digital GlobalSoft Ltd., Bangalore, India

Period : March 1999 to June 2000

Role : OpenVMS System Administrator

Project

OpenVMS system Administration support for OpenVMS storage projects (ABS,

SLS, HSM, MDMS, MRU, Etc.)

Development Environment

OpenVMS

Roles and Responsibilities

System Administrator for VAX and Alpha Systems. Managing Clusters (2

clusters with 15 and 10 nodes.) connected by HSJ40 Controllers, Configuring

SCSI Drives and Tape Library systems on clusters. Installation and

upgrading OS, Applying Patches, Configuring the clusters for testing

supporting 40 users. Regular backups using SLS.

Defence Projects

Client : Defence

Employer : DRDO

Period : May 1978 to March 1999

Role : Different roles and responsibilities

LCA-FCS Project :

Configuration Management Build and release of Light Combat Aircraft flight

control system software (LCA-FCS). Setting up of Software Configuration

Management Library Repository system for source code, test cases and Result

files using Code Management System (CMS) and automated LCA-FCS build system

using Module Management System (MMS). Involved in Inspection Verification

and Validation (IV&V) of LCA-FCS software. Managing OpenVMS Systems.

Air war game Project:

Setting up of hardware, configuration of network for 24 Desktop systems for

Defence Staff Services Staff College Wellington

Pay Roll Development Project:

Developed Pay Roll Package for Industrial and Non-Industrial Employees at

Naval Science & Technological Laboratory Vizag. This Package generates all

forms and schedules required for Central Defence Accounts Department, used

COBOL and BASIC on PDP-11/23 System with RSX11-M Operating System.

Ajit and Kiran Simulator Project:

Underwent training in HAL Bangalore on Cockpit Control systems and

instruments of Ajit and Kiran fighter Aircrafts. Involved in modification

of Cockpit Control systems and instruments of Ajit and Kiran Aircraft

simulator in ADE Bangalore.

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