AIX and Linux administration
Resume:
Mr. Ashwin Kulkarni
Objective
To be associated with the organization that provides me an opportunity to show my skills and improve my knowledge with latest trends and to be part of time, to work dynamically towards the growth of the organization.
Experience Summary
Over 14.0+ years of work experience in Information Technology industry. The area of expertise lies in Technical Project Transition.
Mainly involved into installation and configuration, upgrades, administration, testing, backup and recovery on AIX and Linux servers.
Educational Qualifications
Master of Business Administration (IT and Systems) 2007
Master of Computer Management 2002
Bachelor Of Science 1999
Professional Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate 2019
ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management 2015
IBM AIX 7 System Administration 2013
Oracle Solaris 10 System Administrator Certified Professional Exam (SCSA) Part 1 2012
Work Experience
Organization : Evolutionary Systems Saudi LLC July 2020 – Till date
Client : King Faisal Specialist Hospital (KFSH) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Role : Server Security Specialist
Operating System : AIX, Linux
Responsibilities
Unix/Linux Profile
I am working Server Security Specialist for KFSH project in a Technical role.
Undergoing Knowledge Transfer for Unix and Linux servers for the project.
Performing health checks for AIX and Linux servers on daily basis.
Create technical SOPs
Performing server upgrade activities.
Working on Service requests, changes etc.
Planning and implementing changes.
Work Experience
Organization : IBM July 2015 – July 2020
Client : Lloyds Banking Group, United Kingdom
Role : Squad Leader
Operating System : AIX, Linux and Agile implementation
Responsibilities
Unix/Linux Profile
I have worked as Squad Leader for Lloyds Banking Group project in Techno Managerial role.
I was involved in setting up Agile methodology for the project along with other Managers.
Involved in the project from the Transition phase till Go-live date.
Visited onsite to Client location for project transition.
The project transition mainly involved taking Knowledge transfer from onsite SMEs by understanding the project requirements, scope of the team, understanding processes and procedures to carry out day to day operation.
Understand the overall Project infrastructure and guidelines set to deliver project requirements on time.
Passing the knowledge achieved from the transition to the team in offshore and making them understand the environment.
Provide end to end support to the customer.
Managing team of 15 Unix resources. Provide leadership and mentoring to junior staff in technical, customer, and project management skills.
Installation, Configuration and up-gradation of Linux and AIX Servers.
Being the part of Project and Maintenance team, I am involved in various server upgrade activities.
Working with Capacity planning team to evaluate and tune system performance.
Working closely with software vendors and co-ordinates third party software installs and evaluates the compliance of installs to the organization standards.
Involved in planning of patching of the servers by co-ordinating with various teams.
Involved in CAB calls and make teams understand about patching cycle of the servers along with risks.
Maintenance of technical documentation.
Create SOPs for support teams to assist them in day to day operations.
Other Skills
Participated in Mega walk-in drives conducted by IBM as a Technical panel.
Organization : Tata Consultancy Services May 2014 – July 2015
Client : Cloud Command Centre (CCC)-> Barry Callebaut, Europe
Role : Assistant Consultant
Operating System : AIX
Responsibilities
I have worked as Consultant for the Barry Callebaut project.
Installation & Upgrade of Fixes/Patches/APARs/TL.
Being the part of Project team, I am involved in various server upgrade activities.
Installation, Configuration and up-gradation of AIX Servers.
Working on Problem Analysis and resolution.
Participated in weekly Client meeting.
Providing suggestion/improvements to the client on existing infrastructure.
Guiding the team members by solving issues.
Helping the team members to find out and helping them to prepare RCA.
Other Skills
Participated in Mega walk-in drives conducted by TCS as a Technical panel.
Initiated AIX System Administration training program for resources.
Plan the structure of the training to be provided to up-skilling candidates.
Organization : Infosys Limited August 2012 – May 2014
Client : North-East Utilities, United States
Role : Consultant
Operating System : AIX
Responsibilities
I have worked as Technical Lead for North-East Utilities project.
Production Environment Support.
Involved in the “Transition” of the project. This involved going through the project documents, taking KT from the onsite SMEs, understanding the flow, creating technical documentation and getting those documents verified from the client and playing reply sessions i.e. giving cross KT to the client to understand that we have enough knowledge to run the project in offshore.
Involved in client calls twice in a week to discuss about the status of the issues and updates.
Experienced in installation, configuration, upgrades of IBM AIX and Red Hat Linux servers.
Experience in Working on AIX LVM.
Technology level (TL / ML) Upgrades.
Performed TL upgrades in the environment and installed APARs as and when required.
IBM Power VM experience including setup and management of VIO Servers and partitions.
Experience in NIM installation, setting up NIM servers. Defined NIM clients on NIM master server, and defined resources.
Performed BOS Installations from NIM server using Lppsource and Spot, Migrations, patch Installations from NIM server.
Working on daily Incidents and Requests on production and test Environments.
Working on Changes and Problems.
File System and Disk Management.
LPAR and DLPAR activities on pSeries systems.
Managing LPARs including configuration of virtual devices (Ethernet, SCSI), dynamically changing LPAR resource configuration, configure and manage LPARs using HMC along with dual VIO configuration with SEA failover.
HACMP implementation and support.
HACMP tasks includes adding more space to existing file system, adding new physical volume to an existing volume group, creating file systems, volume groups and logical volumes.
Knowledge of HACMP migration.
Systems administration, maintenance and monitoring various day-to-day operations.
Maintain accurate documentation.
Develop concise technical documents and/or deliverables for project.
Provide regular status reports on tasks accomplished, current issues, and progress toward goals. Provide technical presentations as necessary to communicate.
Resolved system errors and crashes, disk space problems, huge file sizes, file system full errors.
Managing log files, daily management activities and health checks.
Log calls with the vendor when required for software and hardware issues, making arrangements for onsite hardware visits.
Respond to Service Requests raised by the clients.
Respond to other ad-hoc requests for support (e.g. telephone queries and ad-hoc email requests).
Other Skills
Giving trainings to new joiners and validating them in the team and help them understand the process in environment.
Organization : Wipro Technologies Limited April 2010 – August 2012
Client : North Western Mutual, United States
Role : Senior System Administrator
Operating System : AIX and Linux
Responsibilities
Installation and configuration of AIX and Linux servers.
Installing new software / file sets, packages, APAR installation and other third party applications when required by the developer or business.
Technology level (TL / ML) upgrades.
Managing file systems which include creating, mounting etc.
Experience in installation and management of NIM servers.
LPAR and DLPAR activities on pSeries systems.
Managing LPARs including configuration of virtual devices (Ethernet, SCSI), dynamically changing LPAR resource configuration, configure and manage LPARs using HMC along with dual VIO configuration with SEA fail over.
Migrating AIX servers from AIX 5.3 to AIX 6.1 and vendor
co-ordination with IBM and Oracle thereby helping in performing root cause analysis.
Firmware and VIOS upgrades.
HACMP implementation and support.
HACMP tasks includes adding more space to existing file system, adding new physical volume to an existing volume group, creating file-systems, volume groups and logical volumes.
Knowledge of HACMP migration.
Server builds as per the client requirement.
Disk management, LVM administration and File system management.
Systems administration, maintenance and monitoring various day-to-day operations.
Resolved system errors and crashes, disk space problems, huge file sizes, file system full errors.
Managing log files, daily management activities and health checks.
Log calls with the vendor when required for software and hardware issues, making arrangements for onsite hardware visits.
Respond to Service Requests raised by the clients.
Respond to other ad-hoc requests for support (e.g. telephone queries and ad-hoc email requests).
Daily tasks involves Production support, running health checks at OS level.
Handling System outages and solving the problems as per the SLA
Log calls with the vendor when required for software and hardware issues, making arrangements for onsite hardware visits.
Respond to Service Requests raised by the clients
Respond to other ad-hoc requests for support (e.g. telephone queries and ad-hoc email requests)
Ensure that all changes are performed professionally in timely manner, in the change management system and implemented with minimal impact to operational systems.
Installation of patches and packages.
Ticket assessment on daily basis.
Organization : Steria India Limited March 2006 – April 2010
Client : Barclays, United Kingdom
Role : Assistant Support Engineer
Responsibilities
Extensively performed User management, creating users and groups, managing user accounts and passwords.
Monitoring system Performance of Virtual memory, Disk utilization and CPU utilization.
Scheduling of jobs using crontab.
File system monitoring and administration.
Disk Administration.
Daily tasks involved Production support, running health checks at OS level and application support.
Handling System outages and solving the problems as per the SLA.
Log calls with the vendor when required for software and hardware issues, making arrangements for onsite hardware visits.
Respond to Service Requests raised by the clients.
Respond to other ad-hoc requests for support (e.g. telephone queries and ad-hoc email requests).
Ensure that all changes are performed professionally in timely manner, in the change management system and implemented with minimal impact to operational systems.
Client : National Healthcare System, United Kingdom
Role : Assistant Support Engineer
Responsibilities
Examining relevant log files stored on Unix server.
Understanding clients business processes. Generate ad hoc reports for custom trending and analysis, working closely with business users.
Work closely with Onshore support and infrastructure team in the UK to resolve issues as they arise.
Building up a very strong customer support and communication structure - major incident resolutions and service improvement plan meetings.
Responsible for working with teams, vendors and other business partners and make sure that all areas of the release are properly managed.
Prioritize numerous issues of varying severity, and effectively manage the resolution of all issues within accepted service levels.
Make sure that proper completion and change control procedures are well followed.
Responsible for various other duties as assigned.
Disk Administration.
File system monitoring and administration
Daily tasks involved Production support, running health checks at OS level.
Handling System outages and solving the problems as per the SLA.
Extensively performed User management, Creating users and groups, managing user accounts and passwords.
Career Profile
Month and Year
Duration (Yrs)
Organization
Role
July 2020 – till date
1.5 months
Evolutionary Systems Saudi LLC
Server Security Specialist
July 2015 – July 2020
5.0
International Business Machines
Squad Leader
May 2014 to July 2015
1.2
Tata Consultancy Services
Assistant Consultant
August 2012 to May 2014
1.9
Infosys Limited
Consultant
April 2010 to August 2012
2.4
Wipro Technologies
Senior System Administrator
March 2006 to April 2010
4.1
Steria India Limited
Assistant Support Engineer
Rewards And Recognition
Received “Be Essential” award for exemplifying IBM practice.
Received “Smiles” award in appreciation of outstanding contribution to the organization in Tata Consultancy Services.
Received “Feather In My Cap” award for outstanding contribution for the efforts in migrating AIX servers from AIX 5.3 to AIX 6.1 and vendor co-ordination with HP, IBM, SUN and Red hat thereby helping in performing root cause analysis in the year 2011 in Wipro Technologies.
Received “GLOBAL TEAM EXCELLENCE AWARD (DELIVERY)” certificate of appreciation for extraordinary contribution made from the client in Wipro Technologies.
Received ‘STAR BRIGADE – Q2 (11-12) Technology Infrastructure Services Excellence Award’ on being awarded ‘NEBULA’ in recognition to significant contribution to TIS (Technology Infrastructure Services) in Wipro Technologies.
Received appreciation mails from the clients for doing good work that includes following up with vendors, implementing solutions, being proactive, teamwork, SLA commitment etc.
Personal Details
Address : Indranagari, R Building, Flat # 23, Dahanukar Colony, Lane No. 15,
Kothrud. Pune - 411038
Email : ******.********@*****.***
Phone : +91-883******* / 976-***-****
Languages Known : English / Hindi / Marathi
Passport Details : R70223952 valid upto 14/11/2027
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