UNIX System Administrator SAN/NAS and Provisioning

JACK S. KALLU

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SUMMARY

UNIX System Administration, Data Center Experience, Thousands of Servers, Web Alerts Resolution,

SAN and NAS Storages, QA Testing, Lab Admin, Marketing Pre Sales Support.

Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Red Hat Linux, Fedora, Mac OS and Windows.

Remote Imaging Solutions (kickstart, Jumpstart / OpForce / Ignite / NIM / PXE).

Nagios monitoring, Version Control, FreeVM for Linux, VMware fusion to run windows on Mac OS.

team player, self-motivated and proactive. I like to use my skills and experience to enhance your company’s success and my own personal growth.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAN and NAS Storages: Configured SAN Switches, Storages and Servers. EMC SymCLI DMX

Symmetrix, Clariion CX-380, Hitachi HDS 9970, HP MSA 1500, NetApp NAS FAS 3210, 3240, 3270,

6210, 6080 and DS 4243, EMC Connectrix, Celera, Centera, Cisco VSAN on MDS 9216, 9513 and Brocade 200E, 7420B switches,

QLogic, Sun qlc, JNI, HP, Emulex and LSI HBA’s, Veritas DMP, EMC Power Path, Clariion Navisphere,

ISCSI and FC SAN, SCSI-3, ISL, EMC ECC SRM Software.

Systems: Sun Fire Servers, v220, x2200, 1-10 U, 6800, V880, V240, T1000, X4200, 64/32 Bit Servers, IBM e series, P5 series, Hp Proliant DL360, 580, C7000 Blade, etc. Dell Servers Power Edge R620, M1000e, etc.1U, 4U, 10U.

Network: Cisco Catalyst 2950, ISL, VLANS, Server Racking, Relocation, IBM HMC, Console Servers Perle

and Raritan Serial Console Servers, Avocent and Belkin dongle KVM Switches, Subnets, NAT, FC and

Copper patch panels.

Tools: VMware Central and ESX 3.0 Servers, VMClients, VMware Remote VI Client 2.0 and Vmotion.

Provisioning, AIX NIM, HP Ignite, Jumpstart, PXE, Veritas OpForce, Veritas CC Storage, Zoning, VLANS, Perle Serial and Raritan Console Servers, Apache Web Server’s, Windows SFU Laddis NFS QA testing, Veritas VM, FLEXlm, HP EFI Firmware, LSF, Samba, PC NFS, etc.

Languages: Shell Scripting, SED, AWK and Regular Expressions.

EXPERIENCE

Synopsys Inc. Mountain View CA, UNIX System Administrator, Contract Sep 2013 – Nov 2013

Worked at Savvis Data Center for thousands of servers including Sun, IBM, Cisco, HP and Dell blade servers, Dell and HP rack servers. Worked on CCT ticket system for hung servers checked server status using Nagios server health check monitor used Cyclades Console Servers to troubleshoot hung servers, booting and system

file check. Setup remote Linux kickstart scripts for groups of 25-75 servers, configured Boot and CPU BIOS

on HP and Dell servers, ran scripts for hosts, IP, MAC Addresses and configuration scripts to create kickstart

files to load Linux also ran DNS and Audit scripts.

Yahoo Inc. System Reliability Engineer SRE, N. Mathilda Ave, Sunnyvale, CA Apr 29 to May 23, 2013

Worked with System Engineers SE’s in Revenue-SRE on Watcher Real Alert resolution and metrics, analyze website's performance in real time as it handles real user transactions generated graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualizations by NOC technicians using Nagio Web monitoring technicians to resolve Bugzilla and remedy tickets escalated to tier II SRE’s. WebEx video conferencing, Adium IRC group chat, Google Drive/Docs,

Palm Inc: UNIX Admin – Contract, Sunnyvale, CA Jan 10 – Feb10

Short contract less than a month, performed data restore from NetApp Snapshots to NFS server using Linux, checked clients data then SSH to Linux NFS server, to restore client data to Tomcat internal servers, documented results on Excel spreadsheet.

US Government, DOD - Contract: Jul 09 – Sep 09

FT Benning, completed clearance training and documentation,

EMC Corp: Lab Admin, Sales Support – Contract, Santa Clara, CA Jul 07 – Oct 07

Setup Symmetrix, Clariion, SAN Storages, Installed VMware ESX 3.0 Servers and VM Clients, pre sales support for Symmetrix, Celera, Centera, Invista, and Connectrix in demo lab, checked VSAN on Cisco SAN switches, checked OS code upgrade on MDS 9513. Knowledge of ECC SRM and Cisco Fabric Manager.

Symantec Corp: UNIX/Storage Global Services Lab, Mountain View, CA Jul 06 - May 07

Interacted with members of a Global IT team, Configured UNIX Clusters for Tech Support, used Sym CLI

to configure LUN's on; EMC Symmetrix used GUI on Clarion, Hitachi 9970 and HP SAN storages. Configured Zoning on Brocade switches and VLANS on Cisco IP switches used Veritas CC Storage SRM and Opforce. Used Solaris Jumpstart, IBM MIN and Opforce to load UNIX and Linux. Configured cluster nodes for AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and Linux. Configured Navisphere and HBA drivers, Setup SAN and helped with Lab move.

Hewlett Packard: QA SAN Testing – Contract, Cupertino, CA Dec 05– Apr 06

Lab testing HP Fiber channel SAN Storages using SCSI and FC drives attached to Itaniam

Integrity Servers, ran Storage Stress Tests, configured zoning on McDATA and Brocade SAN Switches.

VLANS on HP Procurve Network Switch

US Government, DOD - Contract: Fayetteville, NC Jul 05 – Dec 05

Worked as Translator, Advisor and Facilitator for Department of the Army, Civil Affairs Command.

Head liaison between the US Civil Affairs Command and Diyala, Iraq Provincial Government.

US Government, Department of the Army - Contract: Washington, DC Dec 03 – Mar 04

Translator, Facilitator and Contributor to the US Federal Government and Baghdad, Iraq Government.

Maxtor Corporation: QA Lab Testing – Contract, Milpitas, CA Oct 01 – Feb 02

Setup and configures HP and Sun Servers used Laddis SPEC SFS 3.0 NFS performance test measured NFS Load metrics and Access Time. Configured different RAID volumes using Maxtor SAN and NAS storages, Configured SFU with UNIX clients, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux and Red Hat as load generators.

WebMd Corp: UNIX System Administrator, Santa Clara, CA Feb 2000 – Nov 20000

Maintained Data Center servers, and production servers, installed Solaris and maintained Informix production and web servers, installed JNI Fiber channel cards configured to test SAN storages, managed

user accounts and other requests. SC branch was closed and the company was moved to Nashville.

Cybersource Corp: UNIX Administrator–Contract, San Jose, CA Oct 99 – Jan 2000

Setup Solaris Servers, maintained Data Center servers, maintained DNS, Sendmail, Cyrus Imap mail server, Legato back up, Apache Web Server’s virtual host setup, granted access to secure web sites.

Global star Comm.: UNIX Administrator–Contract, San Jose, CA Nov 98 –Apr 99

Installed Solaris and configured Netscape SuiteSpot Servers, backup and restored LDAP, installed and customized jumpstart. Installed and configured Veritas Volume Manager, resolved NIS problems, was responsible for support of web development group.

Silicon Magic Corp: UNIX System/Network Admin, Santa Clara, CA Jan 98 – Jul 98

Maintained and managed UNIX Systems and Networks, resolved NIS, NFS, DNS, maintained FLEXlm new licenses and server, used Legato for back up. Installed LSF, CPU Load Sharing Facility, for compiler jobs. Upgraded network infrastructure, new Cisco CAT5500, PIX FW and Cisco Dial-In router.

Cylinc Corp: UNIX System/Network Administrator, Sunnyvale, CA Jul 96 – Jun 97

Installed new Sun Solaris servers, resolved NIS, NFS, DNS and Sendmail problems. Upgraded network infrastructure and switched internal addresses from class C to class A using NAT.

Actel Corporation: UNIX System Administrator, Sunnyvale, CA Aug 94 – Jul 96

Setup HP servers using SAM, configured NFS, and NIS. Installed Synopsys and EDA Tools, installed Sun OS and Solaris configured HP-UX. Troubleshot NFS, NIS on HP and Sun servers.

Digital Equipment Corporation: Customer Support, Field Engineer, SC, CA Jun 92 – Sep 93

Provided field/In-hose customer service for DEC Equipment at customer locations in Santa Clara county.

Computer Land Corp. Customer Field Service, Campbell CA, 1988- 1991

Provided customer field service for desk top equipment.

EDUCATION

Honors in Electronics Engineering, Mohawk College, Ontario, Canada.

EMC Symmetrix CLI and Veritas OpforceTraining Courses

Sun Solaris System Administration Courses,

HP-UX System and Network Administration,

IBM, Compaq, Digital and Apple PC Courses,

Dale Carnegie Customer Relation Course.

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