System Administrator Project

CURRICULUM VITAE

Parminder Singh Randhawa

Flat No 51-B, Plot No B-124, Phone No: 995-***-****

Shalimar Garden, Ext-II, E-mail: ******************@*****.***

Sahibabad

GAZHIABAD - 201005

Career Objective

To seek a position in the industry that utilizes my skills, abilities, offers professional growth and aids in being resourceful, innovative and flexible.

Profile

Overall 7 years IBM Pvt Ltd. INDIA IT experience in various domain working for Client Bharti Airtel.

Experience as a Linux Administrator, Backup System Administrator, Media-Coordinator and Asset-Coordinator for Bharti Project in Core Data Center Team. Handling one of the largest Data Center.

I have worked for multinational client Bharti Airtel Limited India’s largest integrated and first private telecom service provider performing various roles for their different line of business.

Professional Certification

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Administrator (RHEVA) Certification ID: 150-019-826

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Certification ID: 130-186-463

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) Certification ID: 130-186-463

Acedemics Qualifications

Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (GDBA) from NIBS, New Delhi

Work Experience

Worked with IBM India Pvt. Ltd. in Bharti Project since 4th January’10 to 16th Septem ber '13 as System Administrator, Media & Asset Coordinator.

Worked as a team member in IBM India Pvt. Ltd (FTH) as Backup Administrator & Media coordinator from 3rd January’08 to 31st December’09.

Earlier worked as Backup System Administrator for IBM (Bharti Data Center) from 5th August’06 to 2nd January’08: Netconnect Pvt. Ltd.

IBM Pvt Ltd. Noida (Since 3th January 2008 to 16th September 2013)

Project Name:- Bharti Central Data Centre

Project Detail: I worked in the Central Data Centre System Server Operations. The Data Center had more than 3500 servers as on date and they are increasing with the phenomenal growth of Bharti. Central DC team manages all the critical servers that are placed across India,Sri Lanka, Africa & Bangladesh.

Role: System Administrator, Media and Asset Coordinator.

Responsibilities:

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR LINUX:-

Maintain users and their permissions for Data center production servers.

Controlling the changes being done in production environment and ensuring that all the documents (Change Request/Release note) are in place before changes are done.

Good knowledge on monitoring and capable to attend the issues related CPU, memory and Network.

Installing RedHat on Servers and packages through RPM.

Implementing Linux OS level Security and Configuring RAID levels.

Installation and Configuring various servers and work stations such as DNS, MAIL SERVER, NFS, DHCP, APACHE (HTTPD), SQUID and SAMBA SERVER etc.

Creating Software and Hardware Raid and LVM (Logical Volume Manager) and trobleshooting.

Hands on experience in User administrator (Create new user, Modify Exit user and password related issue)

Monitoring Virtual memory, adding additional swap space as needed.

Schedule various regular, future queue tasks by using crontab & at.

MEDIA COORDINATOR :-

To maintain physical media Inventory for Central Data Centre in accordance to the PSM (Portable Media Storage) process.

To Co-ordinate with all the Bharti locations to get the PSM inventory done on a quarterly basis (Location-wise) .

Guiding as SME to locations for the process and best practices in order to have better control with 100% compliance on PSM process.

Doing offsite of the tapes and Keeping documents as an artifact for all the movements & transactions made for future audit and reference.

Updating e-TOC (Media Management Tool) for any & every movement taken place at our location and also ensuring that the same has been followed in all the bharti accounts.

Acting as a SPOC for assistance to all the bharti accounts whether related to the process or Media Management Tool.

ASSET COORDINATOR :-

Keeping inventories and track of all the assets i.e. servers, storages, network equipments etc. whether online or in stock.

Receiving of all the assets & issuing the same to Project owners.

Continuous follow-up with the installation and Facility Team. Ensuring the proper installation and compliance of procedure as per the DC norms.

Maintaining all the records of Server Room’s hardware. These inventories include complete track of an asset from P.O. to Completion of Project (For example P.O. Invoice Nos, Location, Installation Date, Project / application etc.)

Maintaining all the logical details of any Server or other asset with the help tool (Maximo).

Involved in every assets transaction from Acquisition to Disposal. Doing IMAC for all the assets installed in Data Centre.

Handling day to day requests of changes made in device details for PAN India.

NETCONNECT (5th August, 2006 to 2nd January,2008)

Project Name: Bharti Central Data Centre.

Project Details: Worked for IBM India client Bharti Airtel

Role: Backup Administrator

Responsibilities:

Perform backups and restoration on daily basis using Symantec netbackup 6.0 & 6.5 through IBM Backup libraries (Model: 3584 etc) and Storagetech L-500 library on LTO and SDLT tapes.

Preparing Backup Dashboard and monthly reports using excel.

Check status of catalog backups on daily basis and take corrective actions in case of errors.

Check Drive status and take corrective actions if in case of error.

Monitoring and management backup tool, check status/health of servers and coordinate with different support teams for failures.

Check media availability status, free slots, status messages on library console panel, tape drive cleaning status, logging calls with hardware vendors for maintenance.

Troubleshooting netbackup errors while taking backups.

Restoring data over LAN WAN SAN.

Import of media in case of using it in different environment.

Media Servers installations.

Taking backup of over 1200 servers including AIX, Linux and Windows on daily basis.

Performing activities on storage libraries like drive cleaning, freeze and unfreezing of media based on the requirement.

Performing incremental, full, cold backups, catalog backups and importing images.

Managing backup policies, volume pools for daily, weekly & monthly backups

Personal Details

Date of Birth : 4th Nov, 1981

Gender : Male

Nationality : Indian

Languages : English, Hindi and Punjabi.

I hereby declare that the above-mentioned information is correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

( Parminder Singh Randhawa )

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