ROY SINGHAL

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Accomplished lead Unix/Linux Architect with over 19 years of experience.

Skilled in evaluating short- and long-term business goals, analyzing systems, and leading entire hardware and software development processes from conception to completion.

Excellent communicator, presenter and team leader

Experienced enterprise systems integrator, developing highly scalable systems that accommodate future growth, minimize risk, and optimize long-term investment in IT infrastructure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Solaris/AIX to RedHat Linux data center migrations

Lead Enterprise Architect

IT architecture

IT auditiing

Data center design, installation and administration

SAN installation and administration

Inventory control

Oracle RAC 10g and 11g installation

JBOSS clustering

Ubuntu 12.04 Administration

RedHat Administration

Suse Administration

RedHat Clustering and GFS

AIX System Administration

Mac OSX 10 administration

Netscaler administration

Apache administration

Java development

Perl and Bash scripting experience

Windows Administration experience

Vmware ESX experience

Cisco UCS administration

Solaris administration

Mysql deployment and administration

Postgresql deployment and administration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Zenimaxonline Apr 2014 – Present

UNIX Senior Systems Administrator and Data Center Architect

Tuned the infrastructure and add resources to increase capacity and decrease downtime

Increased load and network throughput of infrastructure

Key resource for software and hardware issues

Chicos Sept 2013 – Apr 2014

Data Center Architect

Tuned the infrastructure and add resources to increase capacity and decrease downtime

Key resource for JBOSS, Tomcat and ATG issues

key resource for ATG architecture, design

Boar’s Head Apr 2013 – Sept 2013

Data Center Architect Primary resource for new infrastructure

Implementation engineer resource for the planning and design of the new infrastructure

Key resource for Vmware

Chicos Aug 2012 – Apr 2013

Data Center Architect

Tuned the infrastructure and add resources to increase capacity and decrease downtime

Key resource for JBOSS, Tomcat and ATG issues

key resource for ATG architecture, design

United Airlines Aug 2011 – July 2012

Data Center Architect

Provided architectural design and strategy development during complex business transition, legacy infrastructure during a large company merger.

Identified systems and applications to be decommissioned, notified business owners, and forged strategy to back up all data during decommission processes.

Re-deployed or retired all infrastructure assets on-schedule.

Developed infrastructure systems, supported cloud company systems.

Communicated with various groups and coordinating application testing and delivering roadmaps and other deliverables.

Direct groups to identify and gather information on all applications systems, supporting infrastructure, and disaster recovery systems; designed dependency model to discover information quickly and translate to new organization..

Windows/Unix/Linux Technical/Product Knowledge Sharing and shared best practices.

Provide high-level solutions designs to migrate legacy architectures based on the architectures/plans.

Meet with business units to address needs for future products/services.

Forest Pharmaceutical June 2010 – Aug 2011

Senior Architect

Directly responsible for benchmarking and creating strategy for the decommissioning of old legacy hardware and software

Acted as a key resource for the migration of applications from one operating system to another

Strategized with team leadership to create a roadmap for increased systems availability

Created and adhered to major milestones for the implementation of the new systems

RCCL Dec 2009 – June 2010

Data Center Architect

Directly responsible for creating and implementing the POS system for RCCL

Created HA design to increase systems availability

World Media Feb 2008 – Dec 2009

Data Center Architect

Architected a backup strategy to increase systems availability

Increased system performance

Architected a monitoring solution

BANKUNITED July 2007 – Feb 2008

Data Center Architect

Created RAC 10g design for implementation in a new program initiative

Chief Linux administrator and architect

Acted as vendor relations manager for SAN hardware design

Increased systems availability

ASSURANT Apr 2007 – July 2007

Data Center Architect Created new monitoring tool suite for data center deployment

Chief Linux administrator and systems architect

Acted as vendor relations manager for new data center implementation.

THE FUND Jan 2007 – Apr 2007

UNIX Senior Systems Administrator

Strategic backup architect using vdisk technology

Prepared and implemented design center Unix to Linux migration

Analyzed and redesigned hardware to increase server throughput

OFFICE DEPOT August 2006 – Jan 2007

Data Center Architect

Analyzed and redesigned backup hardware and software suite

Created new backup strategy

Architected new design to implement the new backup strategy

SOUTHERN WINE AND SPIRITS May 2006 – August 2006

Data Center Architect

Analyzed and designed a new infrastructure for future company growth

Acted as lead architect for company wide resources

Acted as vendor relations manager for hardware proposal

TOUSA Mar 2006 – May 2006

Backup Architect

Architected HA unix clustering solution for data center deployment

Architected HA windows clustering solution for data center deployment

Proposed and deployed new HA backup strategy

Designed data center hardware for backup implementation

INTERVAL INTERNATIONAL Nov 2004 – Mar 2006

Data Center Architect

Implemented to hardware design to increase systems availability

Vendor relations manager for data center

Created new hardware design for unix deployment

OCWEN Sept 2003 – Nov 2004

Senior Systems Administrator and Data Center Architect

Created a DR strategy and implemented, including choosing hardware, installing Solaris and Linux

Created Netbackup strategy for Solaris and Linux

Veritas architecture design and implementation on Solaris hardware and software

EMC administration and architecture

MORTGAGE, INC Nov 2002 – Sep 2003

Senior Systems Administrator

Unix and Linux installation and administration technical lead. Acted as a key resource for

Infrastructure design, implementation and upgrades.

Veritas Netbackup installation and administration.

Solaris 8, 9 UNIX Administration.

Websphere 4 installation and administration

Linux Redhat Server 2.1 installation and administration.

Veritas Netbackup installation and administration.

Veritas Volume Manager.

Perl and Bash scripting

Veritas Cluster Server.

HPUX 10 and HPUX 9 installation and administration.

HARRIS Nov 2001 – Nov 2002

UNIX Senior Systems Administrator and Data Center Architect

Acted as key resource for Netbackup, DNS, HPUX, Solaris and Linux installation

and administration.

Implemented T3 storage technology for Sun servers.

Veritas Netbackup installation and administration.

HPUX 10 and HPUX 9 installation and administration.

Oracle 8.1.7 installation and administration.

Linux Redhat Server 2.1 installation and administration.

Linux System Administration.

Solaris 2.x administration

UNIX System Administration for SCO.

Sun Enterprise Volume Manager configuration, maintenance and management.

Sun Enterprise NetBackup configuration, maintenance and management.

Veritas File System management.

BELL Sept 1998 – Aug 2001

Data Center Architect

Sun Enterprise Design.

Sun Enterprise 2500R setup and installation.

Sun Enterprise 420R setup and installation.

Sun Enterprise 220R setup and installation.

Veritas Cluster Server architecture

Veritas Netbackup architecture

Veritas Volume Manager.

ROCKWELL Feb 1998 – Aug 1998

UNIX Senior Systems Administrator

Responsible for UNIX and NT maintenance, as well as new installations of Solaris 2.51 and 2.6 in a team environment. This included hardware repairs, hardware upgrades, as well as new installations of servers to increase the productivity of the users. Also responsible for Perl and Bourne scripts to automate installation and maintenance of the UNIX environment.

UnixSystem Administration for Solaris, HP-UX, and PC users.

Bourne Shell programming.

C Shell programming.

Perl programming.

Unix System maintenance.

UNIX peripheral configuration and maintenance.

Solaris 2.6 and 2.5.1 installation.

Software restoration for users.

Sparc Ultra 2, 10, 30 installation, configuration, network connection.

MITSUBISHI Dec 1996 – Dec 1997

UNIX Senior Systems Administrator

UNIX System Administration Prime for SOLARIS users.

Software patch installation and verification.

Software installation (Verilog, Synopsys, video conference, CAD tool updates,etc.).

UNIX System software upgrades.

Bourne Shell programming.

C Shell programming.

UNIX System maintenance.

UNIX peripheral configuration and maintenance.

SOLARIS 2.51 installation.

Backup script creation and verification.

Software restoration for users.

Sparc Ultra 2 installation, configuration, network connection.

Resolved IP address conflicts on DNS server.

Creation of DNS slave for SOLARIS network.

Sparc video conference hardware upgrade.

Hard drive formatting and partitioning.

NORTEL Jan 1993 – Dec 1996

UNIX Senior Systems Administrator

UNX server room project, including planning, coordinating, server installation and configuration, purchase order generation, etc.

Bourne Shell programming.

C Shell programming.

UNIX System maintenance.

UNIX peripheral configuration and maintenance.

Hard drive installation and mounting.

Hard drive formatting and partitioning.

NFS mount creation.

NIS user and group creation.

Hard drive swaps and remounts.

HP-UX and Sparc memory upgrades.

Root drive mirror creation.

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