Infrastructure Architect

Sanam Mehra

New York, NY- *****

*******@*******.***

Synopsis

Creative Thinker & Solutions Oriented Infrastructure Architect seeking a challenging and interesting opportunity in the domain of Tactical and Strategic Enterprise Infrastructure and relating Platform Components Architecture, Design, Research, Planning, Implementation, Migration, Consolidation, Virtualization, Administration, Engineering, Security, Management & Business Continuity.

Technical Proficiencies

Virtualization

Ldoms, Containers, M/ D / L pars, Wpars, VIO, PowerVM, Partition Mobility, App Mobility

Operating Systems

Sun Solaris-2.x -10, Aix 5.x/6.1, Linux, Hp-UX, Sco, Windows 200x

Unix Tools

Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Filesystem, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Cluster Filesystem, Veritas Quick- I/O, Veritas First-Watch 2., Sun Solstice Disk suite, NIS, NFS, DNS, IPMP, QIP, Jumpstart, Autosys, Ctrl-M/ECS Distributed Env., Clearcase, CVS, LVM, NIM, AVM

Server Platforms

Sun Fire

M4000, M5000, T5220, T5440, V1280,E3800/4800/6800, E25K

Sun Enterprise

E-250, E-420, E-450, E-3000/3500/4500/E6500, V280, V490, V880, V890

Ultra Sparc’s

Ultra Sparc 1/2/5/10/80, Netra Blade Servers (Netra 120/220/440)

Fujitsu

PrimePower P650, P850

IBM Power Platform

p6 (595, 570, 520, 550) & p5 (595, 570, 560)

IBM Risc 6000

J-570/30, p550, p590, p650, p690 (2/4/8/16-way pSeries- Lpar w/ Micropartioning)

Grid / High performance computing (HPC)

IBM BladeCenter Series, Egenera, HP BladeSystem

Lintel/Wintel Platform

Compaq/HP DL 385/585/785, Compaq/HP Blade, Dell, x86, IBM

Web Platforms

J2EE Portal/ WAS, Weblogic, Websphere, Adobe CAD, Apache, IIOP, Forte/ IPlanet, Netscape

Monitoring

Mercury MOM, SiteScope, Orcastats, Whatsup Gold, Teamquest, BMC Patrol, Sar, Sarcheck

Security

LDAP, Keon, Rbac, Siteminder, SSH, Yassp, Tiger, Janus Single Signon (SSO), Tripwire, Jass toolkit

Storage Platforms

SAN

EMC (Symmetrix, Celera, Clariion) Raid Arrays, Sun StoreEdge 6540, Hitachi HDS-9200/9500

Netapps-NAS, Sun S1, D130, A1000, D1000, A3500, A5200, T3, Sun Multipacks, Sun Diskpacks, RAID

SAN Tools

Hitachi Resource Mgr, SRDF, TimeFinder, Powerpath, SanPoint Ctrl, Snapview, Controlcenter

Switches

Brocade Silkworm, Mcdata, Netapps (NAS), F5 Load-Balancers.

Tape Libraries

Sun Storedge L3500, Storage Tek L20 & L40

Business Continuity(DR)

Veritas Netbackup, Legato Networker, Arcserve, Iron Mountain, bi-directional replication

Financial Applications

ciServer Networks, Pulse, Triach, OpenBook, Reuters for MarketData, Multicast, PeopleSoft, Ascential, RAD, DMV, Credit-Reporting,

Rdbms/Dbms

Oracle RAC, Sybase, UDB, Microstrategy, DB2, Sqlserver, My-Sql, Toad, Foxpro 2.6

Programming Languages

Shell Scripting (Bourne & Korn), C, C++, Java, PB-5.0, VB, Vc++, PFC, MFC

Software Applications/tools

Exceed, Peregrine, Sharepoint, Mantis, Plan-IT, Mercury Kintana, Microstrategy Tools For Data Warehousing (DSS), Datamarts, Ms-Project, Visio, , Lotus Smart-Suite, Ms-Office-2003/XP, Mcafee, Rational SW Tools, Mercury Test-director, Ms-FrontPage, Pc-Anywhere, Oracle Enterprise Manager,Subversion, Confluence, Quickplace, Vmware

Protocols

LAN And TCP/IP, 3-DNS (round-robin) Unicast, Multicast, Virtual IP’s/Hosts, FTP, S-FTP, A-FTP

Engagements:

(10/07- current)

VP- Solutions Architect- JPMorgan Chase, NY

Senior Architect in a team responsible for Infrastructure Design & Engineering across TSS-CB Architecture & Engineering group. TSS (Treasury Security Services) is a LOB within JPMC servicing Treasury Services, Worldwide Security Services, Hedge Fund, Securities, Commercial Banking, Global Cash. This role is to reach out to the Application Development teams, capture their non-functional / technology requirements and develop infrastructure technology solutions and designs to provision an agile & on-demand platform. Also driving several initiatives to ensure the successful adoption and execution of the TSS Infrastructure Design Methodology & Strategy and evolving patterns based designs which are aligned by the Global technology strategy.

(Green Strategy, Environment Sustainability, Solaris, Aix 6.x, IBM Power Linux, Wintel, SAN, NAS, TCO, SOA, Consolidation/ Virtualization, ITIL, Roadmaps, Solutions Configuration, CMDB,

Roadmaps, Messaging, Middleware, Security, Business Continuity, Monitoring, Performance & Capacity Mgmt, Provisioning, Automation, Datacenter Migration, PMO, App & Infrastructure Life-Cycle Mgmt)

(05/07- 08/07)

Unix Infrastructure Architect- Sun Microsystems (Client: Ameripath) Dallas, TX

Sourced by Sun Professional Services as a Unix SME for their Client Quest Diagnostics (Ameripath) for performing a detailed Health Check Assessment & Platform Qualification for Ameripath’s Pathway Application Solaris Infrastructure. Also gather utilization metrics for the SUN platform to complete a Performance Assessment of the Environment and based on the findings forecast Growth & Capacity Planning options for the Pathway Application. Also did a detailed Solution Recommendation for the existing Environment based on existing Configuration state’s changes and Sun Recommended Best practices Reference Architecture to include the tactical as well as the strategic areas for Pathway’s Technology Roadmap.

(Sun Fire V290/ V490/ V890, Solaris 8/10, Linux, Veritas, VCS, F5, J2EE Portal, Jboss, Apache, Oracle RAC, Legato, Web Servers, Cognos, Tomcat, EMC, Storagetek)

(01/07- 04/07)

Unix Infrastructure Architect- NBC Universal (GE) Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Responsible for performing an ITIL oriented Assessment & Qualification of the SAP Platform and Application Architecture. Calibrated the existing SAP Infrastructure (AS-IS) to map out the existing technology and its alignment with the business needs and the strategic GE Enterprise tech stack.

(Solaris 8/10, Aix 5.x, SAP, Veritas, VCS, F5, SAP WAS, Apache/ Adobe Web Servers, Oracle, Sybase, Jboss, Tomcat)

(09/06-01/07)

Unix Platform Architect- Liberty Mutual Insurance, Portsmouth, NH

Engaged as Platform Architect for the Personal Markets division (LOB) at Liberty Mutual Insurance as Subject Matter Expert to create a strategic solution design for an end-to-end test Infrastructure environment to enable the PMIS platform applications conduct an full end-to-end Integrated testing & to be used for true pre-Production testing platform as base for SOI (Service Oriented Infrastructure) to host the SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) through creating and maintaining a set of design drawings, standards, architectural models &. For the immediate tactical solution pilot design the specifics on planning & implementing an upgrade of the Customer First application.

(WAS (Websphere Application Servers) and IIOP / IHS Web Servers to Solaris 10 and Websphere 6.1 with MQ 5.3 (Solaris 8/10, Aix 5.x, LPAR, Veritas, HACMP, F5, Websphere 5.x/6.x, WAS, Oracle, Sybase, UDB, JNI Encina, Tuxedo, J2EE)

(08/05-08/06)

IT Infrastructure Architect IBM Global Services – (New York / New Jersey)

Sub- Engagement(s) for IBM Global Services

Infrastructure Architect-

Client - JPMorgan Chase (IB), New York, NY

Lead Infrastructure Resource to access, define, research, design, plan and implement the migration of the Global Risk Management Web Portal’s Infrastructure (GCRM & RAD applications from a JBOSS to a SOA Shared Services Infrastructure as a Strategic Initiative for the business and an ITIL directional approach for the Enterprise Technology group. (J2EE, Weblogic, Janus, Wily, Solaris, Fujitsu Platform, Control-M, Apache, Sybase, Oracle RAC, VCS, EMC, DR)

Server & Application Consolidation Architect- MetLife, New York, NY

Main role as a Server/Application Consolidation Engineer. Responsible for the optimization of hardware platforms and software systems for large-scale enterprise projects, derive a strategic path for hardware/software consolidation as well as being able to develop design/implementation solutions.

(Solaris, Aix, Citrix, Apache, Winframe, Veritas, Teamquest, Bmc Patrol, Solaris Resource Mgr)

Server /Application Migration Architect-

Avaya, New York, NY

Engaged as an Application Migration Engineer. Responsible for the defining a Server Consolidation strategy where the number of Server footprints were reduced from 800 to 500 servers using the methodology of Application Stacking. This initiative was to reduce the TCO of Avaya’s Server Infrastructure.

(IBM P-series 570/ 690, X-series, Solaris, Aix, SAP, Oracle, Websphere, Micro-Partition Lpar, Veritas)

End of IBM Engagement Details

(06/05-08/05) Systems/Technology Integrator- Deloitte Consulting, Los Angeles, CA

Responsible for translating Countrywide’s (Client of Deloitte) Financial Technology business model into operational/infrastructure schema by Integration of Data via Batch Interfaces.

(PeopleSoft-all ERP components, Control-M and PeopleSoft EM, Ascential in a heterogeneous Unix/Windows Environment)

(04/05-05/05) Product/Solutions Engineer – Merrill Lynch, New York, NY

Member of Infrastructure Data Services- Engineering Team( designated as a Solutions Engineer) providing solutions to Merrill Lynch’s Global Businesses needs ( Fixed Income, Equities, Middle office, Front Office, B2B, E-commerce) and all domains and sub-domains of client server technology

(Unix, Linux and related components – San, Backup, CNR, Hardware, Software, Capacity Planning, Migrations and stabilizing day-to-day computing)

(11/03- 03/05) Sr. Unix Administrator –

Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), New York, NY

Member of Global Unix Infrastructure Production Support Team providing support to Global users and Businesses ( Fixed Income, Equities, Middle office, Front Office, B2B, E-commerce) in all Domains and sub-domains of Distributed Computing ( Solaris, Linux, Applications, Process, Security Business Continuity & Business Process)

(12/99-10/03) Unix Systems Engineer Transamerica Finance Inc., WhitePlains, NY

Responsible for Architectural, Administrative, Security, Implementation and Scheduling functions. 24/7 support to all Applications and Unix Infrastructure. Backup Forte DBA and Oracle DBA.

(Freelance)

(03/99-10/00) Unix Support Engineer–

Orasoft Information Tech.,North Bergen, NJ.

Orasoft is a consulting firm providing software and hardware solutions to its clients. Supported several clients for Hardware and Software Service Contracts. Also involved in Pre-Sales for Unix solutions.

(10/98-11/99)

Liz Claiborne Inc., North Bergen, NJ

Application Support Specialist

Assisted in the implementation and rollout of new and existing LCI business applications, i.e. SEWN 2000, RAMS 2000, T2000 initiatives & DSS with PeopleSoft- Data Warehousing and Datamarts Applications.

Software Professional

Key member of Textile Planning System through all stages of SDLC, Responsible for end user training/support.

(10/97-9/98) Technical Specialist-

Siemens Ltd., Bombay, India

Responsible for administration and management of cross platform Technologies and systems components supporting the Integration of Servers and Applications on both Windows NT, Novell and Unix

Technical Education:

-Working towards Sun Microsystems Certification

-Working towards ITIL Certification

-Working towards CISSP Certification

Completed coursework/certificates:

•Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0

•Mercury MOM and Logidex Asset and Configuration Management Workshop

•Server Consolidation and Application Migration Methodology Intensive Workshop- IBM

•Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)

•Shell Programming (Bourne and Korn)

•LAN Administration in WIN-2000

•Veritas Foundation Suite (VM and Vxfs)

•Administration, Management and Monitoring ECS(CTRL-M)-BMC

•System Administration –I (Solaris 2.7)

•Certificate in Unix System Administration and Networking

•Higher Diploma in Information Management Systems,Computer Information Processing , IT Management , System Structure, Analysis and Design

•Professional Diploma in ‘O+P.B.’ {Oracle + Power-Builder}

•Basic, C and C++ Language Programming Practice and Techniques

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