Kaeman Varapragasam Email & Phone Number

Kitchener, On, Ca

Ibm Global Business Process Services

Primary Focal for Unix environment server services

Ibm

• High profiled project lead utterly handled sensitive technical projects at aggressive deadlines with solid record tracking and risk mitigation.• Greatest project planning/change grids and actively flexible to meet and overcome unexpected challenges. Perpetually consider diversity project planning and back out with fully complying to account security and service level agreements.• Involved in clients business continuity planning prior to support spinoff.• Solid, practical knowledge… Show more • High profiled project lead utterly handled sensitive technical projects at aggressive deadlines with solid record tracking and risk mitigation.• Greatest project planning/change grids and actively flexible to meet and overcome unexpected challenges. Perpetually consider diversity project planning and back out with fully complying to account security and service level agreements.• Involved in clients business continuity planning prior to support spinoff.• Solid, practical knowledge of Agile frameworks and Agile practices (cross functional team dynamics, continuous server service integration, iterative and incremental development) Show less

Ibm

• Company partially sold the business to another company. Portion of datacenter shift and lift occurred. Served and delivered the entire enterprise infrastructure changes through the strategic use of data center technologies.• Collaborated with the senior PMs & Clients to create infrastructure roadmaps, business requirement scales and high level technology design of enterprise infrastructure plan.• Acting as the first line response on all technical client relations issues and… Show more • Company partially sold the business to another company. Portion of datacenter shift and lift occurred. Served and delivered the entire enterprise infrastructure changes through the strategic use of data center technologies.• Collaborated with the senior PMs & Clients to create infrastructure roadmaps, business requirement scales and high level technology design of enterprise infrastructure plan.• Acting as the first line response on all technical client relations issues and controlling the quality of subcontracted work.• Self lead end to end server service delivery.• Advisory for the client end server integration management team. Show less

Ibm Global Services

• Departmental Project Executive’s Go-to-Guy• Experienced senior Unix System Analyst/Architect with latest and legacy Sun Micro System’s enterprise High-end/Mid-range SPARC servers running Solaris 8 and 10.• Unix Request For Service (RFS) and Statement of Work (SoW) Management.• Department focal for first cycle of practicing Global Delivery Frame (GDF) Project Planning/Technical solutions:Nexus Switch upgrade Infrastructure planning with clients, IBM TDMF cook book… Show more • Departmental Project Executive’s Go-to-Guy• Experienced senior Unix System Analyst/Architect with latest and legacy Sun Micro System’s enterprise High-end/Mid-range SPARC servers running Solaris 8 and 10.• Unix Request For Service (RFS) and Statement of Work (SoW) Management.• Department focal for first cycle of practicing Global Delivery Frame (GDF) Project Planning/Technical solutions:Nexus Switch upgrade Infrastructure planning with clients, IBM TDMF cook book summarization, Architected solutions for T5440 model server communicating to Nexus v-net architecture, Weblogic Server Capacity planning for virtualization, TSM Capacity Expansion, ZFS upgrade, panorama application install and testing. Unix Team Lead Activities: Interview hiring process, weekly project meetings, RFS on-line handling, Unix change management internal department coordination, Hardware Ordering/POs and procurement services, Audit management and security compliance, IBM Asset management (SA&D, SYSREG, AAF), Show less

Kitchener, Canada Area

• Server Services: Solaris & AIX server administration, high availability Veritas cluster server management, system monitoring, steady state activities, server patching, data center Unix platform floor management, server deployment, consolidation and decommission.• Semi-annual disaster recovery & data replication test.• Datacenter Audit, Asset Management and DC floor plan maintenance• Oversee the Infrastructure to ensure all required work is carried out promptly and effectively, and… Show more • Server Services: Solaris & AIX server administration, high availability Veritas cluster server management, system monitoring, steady state activities, server patching, data center Unix platform floor management, server deployment, consolidation and decommission.• Semi-annual disaster recovery & data replication test.• Datacenter Audit, Asset Management and DC floor plan maintenance• Oversee the Infrastructure to ensure all required work is carried out promptly and effectively, and is properly recorded through change management.• Server provisioning, configuration, automation and management using OpsWare• High availability (24*7*365)Infrastructure Based Projects: Data Center rack consolidation, Rack power estimation, PDU redundancy test, New model server testing, Jumpstart/Admin server maintenance, Package/patches roll out, frame reconfiguration, high availability server IPMP reconfiguration, Virtualized T-Series and M-Series model server using Solaris ldm administration. Project based: New server build, Oracle Server Virtualization, Veritas upgrade, Server refresh(Sun, AIX and Linux), Operating System Upgrades (Solaris 8 to 10), Firmware upgrades, OS Patching, Server consolidation, Decommission, SAN remediation, SAN migration (EMC old arrays to new, IBM shark to new EMC, SVC) using powerpath, VxVMand SVM, SLF main accounting system SAN storage reduction and lun cleanup, PRIME a customized new application build, Hardware system monitoring tool upgrade (Patrol BMC and SunMC), Client Asset management (SMDB, CI and uCMDB), hardware upgrades/replacements, driver upgrades, TLC Control-M upgrade, Console server upgrade, Built and maintained high availability servers using Veri-tas cluster service (VCS gui/command line) and VxVM storage foundation. Steady State Based Projects: Disaster Recovery test, system backups (OS/TSM), control-sa/sudo shared id management, labeling project, system health checks, root password maintenance, 2nd level support, Show less

Kitchener, Canada Area

• Automation of data gathering and analysis of critical path components • Production Support: Batch Optimization, Planning, and Operations• Critical Path Optimization program and validate the critical end points for nightly batch milestone completion• Performance monitoring of the system and raise concerns with the Infrastructure Manager or System Architects.• Managing live errors and driving full root cause investigations to resolution

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Define, implement and maintain technology security infrastructure, policies, processes and procedures to proactively protect, monitor, investigate and resolve threats to a secure user environment and company assets.• Server services for Unix platform. • Change coordinator for 400+ Unix servers running Solaris 2.6, Solaris 8, HP-UX 10.20. Change scheduling and following the change management processes using footprints tool.

Agile Certified Practitioner

The Complete Agile Project Manager

Project Manager, Pmp Number: 2594280, Pmbok 6

Certified Project Management Professional with PMBOK 6

Osa Certified Soccer Coach, Soccer Coaching, C-License

Activities and Societies: Coaching experience with Kitchener Soccer Club Assisting experience with Global Premier Soccer club who is.

Scrum Master, Certified Smid: 99295721889007

https://www.scrum-institute.org/International_Scrum_Institute_Certificate_Valida

Six Sigma Id: 108628

Business Administration, Information Technology Project Management

Certified, Unix System Administration

Activities and Societies: • Veritas Storage Foundation • Sun Solaris Virtualization and ldoms • Veritas Cluster 5.0 • Solaris 10 Features.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Activities and Societies: Carleton alumni events Carleton TA club CUSA - Carleton University Student Association CUTSA - Carleton.