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Singapore

Toa Payoh - Singapore

• Involved in the Engineering activities for the Development lab testing, UAT testing and prepare engineering work order (EWO) implementation document for the Network monitoring application tools.• Deployment of Network monitoring application tools for the GNOC network and firewall devices.• Manage application SLA and project risks / costs as well as development and implementation strategies.• Manage the customization, maintain and upgrade application views and reports used by Network operations command center (NOC).• Performance testing, capacity management, technology refresh, upgrade and patches for the Network monitoring application tools.• Develop the application automation rules and configuration policy for the integration of the Netcool application for the incident ticketing system.• Develop the Netcool SNMP configuration rules files from SNMP MIBs to provide correlation of events (alarming and clearing), establish severities and develop Impact policies.• Develop shell, perl scripts for the customized monitoring and house-keeping.• Technology strategy, Roadmap, Delivery of solutions and Vendor management.• Provide L3 support for fine-tune, debug and troubleshoot of the network monitoring tools.• Provide training and operational documentation.• Analyze results of operations to discover more efficient ways to utilize resources.

Changi Business Park - Singapore

Client: CITI Group, Singapore.Responsibilities:Implementation and deployment of IBM Tivoli and BMC products - Netcool Omnibus 7.x,TBSM 4.x, TEC 3.9, BMC Patrol Agent 3.x, Patrol View 3.x.TEC Rules and Omnibus Probe Rule file development for devices and applications.Conducting feasibility study and suggesting appropriate monitoring tools suitable for citi environment..Developing "proof of concept" of new product, making presentation to management, obtaining approval and implementation and deployment of the monitoring Tools for Devices and Application.Involving in the unit testing, troubleshooting and developing Technical Documentation. Fine-tuning, debugging and troubleshooting of the monitoring tools.Analyzing results of operations to discover more efficient ways to utilize resources.Coordinating the successful simultaneous development of several projects. Environment: Netcool Omnibus 7.1,TBSM 4.1.1, TEC 3.9, BMC Patrol Agent 3.X,, Patrol View 3.X, Aix 5.3/6.1 , Solaris 8/10 and Windows 2000/XP/Vista.

Bangalore - India

Project : IMS Project, France.IMS is IP Multimedia Subsystem providing service Assurance Demo for a 3G mobile company in France it includes the development of Omnibus Rules and Impact policies for Empirix, Brookroot, Cantata devices and testing the Performance and load of the servers in the client location. Responsibilities:Probe rule file development for devices (mttrapd) and log file parsing (e.g. glf probe)Knowledge of Omnibus, SSM (monitoring Linux based OS), Netcool Impact policy development, knowledge of NCKL.Scripting skills in Perl. Knowledge of Linux/Unix/Solaris OS. Knowledge of various types of probes like mttrapd, glf, stdin ,syslog, email etc.,; Testing for the various rules files using different tools like trapgen. Knowledge of various tools available for development and testing like Netcool IDE, M2R etc.Preparation of Test cases specification and Test report documentsImplementation and deployment of Netcool Suite - Omnibus, RAD, Impact , Webtop, SSM and PrecisionInvolved in the unit testing, troubleshooting and developed Technical Documentation.Troubleshooting Netcool Suite related issues.Environment: Netcool Omnibus 7.1, RAD3.0 ,TBSM 4.1.1, Impact 4.0,webtop 2.0, Precision, SSM, Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux ES.

Chennai Area, India

The work of planning, implementation and maintenance of WAN infrastructure (voice and data) of "Union Bank of India" is under taken by Wipro InfoTech Ltd. I was involved in maintenance and second level trouble shooting of network setup (Data & Voice) of "UBI" in southern states (T.N. & A.P). It includes leased lines, ISDN (PRI & BRI), Chen E1, IP Phone, and VLANs etc.Responsibilities:Modification of configuration of core location routers, distribution locations routers and leaf location routers, as per the direction of Network Specialist of the project. Configuration of router, switch & IP phone for upcoming branches.Suggesting solutions to Program Manager / UBI for proactively avoiding reoccurrence of problemsCoordination for installation and commissioning of new LL & ISDN link.Addressing performance bottlenecking and ensuring maximum network uptime. Installing and configuring of Cisco Routers and Switches.Configuring Dynamic Routing Protocols such as EIGRP and OSPF.Environment: Cisco Routers of 800,1700,1800,2600,3600,3700,4000,7200 series for Channelized E1, ISDN BRI , ISDN PRI, Leased Line, Intervlan communication, Routing Protocol RIP Version 1, RIP Version 2, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows 2000.

Chennai Area, India

Installation and Configuration of Cisco Internetworking products for Core Banking and WAN circuits for most of the banking and finance sector in the Chennai Region. Projects Handled at Chennai Region• Indian Oil Corporation • Chennai Customs and Central Exercise • Air Cargo • UTI Trust • ING Vysya Bank Ltd. • LIC of India. • Development Credit Bank • SIDBI • Central Bank Of India • Oriental Bank Of Commerce • Catholic Syrian Bank • Union Bank Of India • Thomas Cook • Franklin Templeton • TNSC Bank • Steel Authority Of IndiaEnvironment: Cisco Routers of 1700,2600,3600 series for Channelized E1, ISDN BRI , ISDN PRI, Leased Line, Routing Protocol RIP Version 1, RIP Version 2, IGRP, EIGRP, Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows 2000.

B, Tech Information Technology

Diploma, Computer Technology