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Fremont, Ca, Us

Santa Fe Springs, California, Us

Secaucus, New Jersey, Us

Core responsibilities as Senior Manager of IT infrastructure:• Manage and guide the team of 19 efficient system administrators including UNIX, Windows, storage, and database and network administrators.• Managing company’s EA practices and leading ARB (Architecture Review Board).• Managing organization’s infra projects.• Establish and Manage AWS relationship.• Managing offshore and outsourcing relationship in infra tower.• Making sure the business continuity by properly planning and managing 24x7 support.• Managing IT infrastructure procurement, operational and support contract budget.• Vendor relationship and negotiations for infra related procurement. • Managing operational contracts and budget including various support contracts.• Plan and manage infrastructure for data center related projects for the budgeting and execution.• Providing strong support to the business and other IT teams to accomplish their projects in time by providing suitable hardware architecture and infrastructure.• Find ways to save cost at every level.• Infra capacity management.• SOX and PCI compliance.

Secaucus, New Jersey, Us

2. Operations (NOC) Manager (Ad hoc Role)Had assumed additional role of Operations Manager for about a year on ad hoc basis, while performing my other roles in parallel. As operations manager, have handled a 24x7 NOC operators, a team of 7 people, guiding them through tight time schedules and peak work load during retail holiday season.3. IT security and compliance manager (Additional role)Along with my other responsibilities, I have played a very important role in strengthening IT security by achieving and managing tighter PCI compliance for Gymboree Corporation since 2007. I have managed and overlooked various compliance related requirements from 2007 till 2011 until Gymboree Corp hired a full-time security manager. Again, assumed this role in later part of 2013 through mid-2014 in absence of security manager.Also, have played a major role in achieving and managing SOX compliance during the tenure. Have worked with and guided various teams in IT during various compliance Audits like SOX and PCI through this period.

Secaucus, New Jersey, Us

4. Lead Unix & Storage Administrator (From Oct 2006 to 2014)Even though my previous position was Manager, IT infrastructure, I have continued to be a strong UNIX and Storage administrator. I started my career in Gymboree Corp as a UNIX administrator and have achieved many milestones in this tenure of 10 years.The main objective of my role in the project is “UNIX System and storage Administration and Support for the Production and development/test servers”.Responsibilities:• Ensuring the continued business by providing the excellent support to the production system environment. • 24 x 7 support for all systems. • Installing and configuring new systems, hardening them to comply with various security standards and compliances like PCI and SOX.• OS Maintenance by applying new patches, rebuilding and upgrading old servers. • System Administration support (User Management, Backup Management) for Sun Servers, IBM servers. • Extensive Storage and SAN management to provide enough space to various databases and applications proactively• Extensive management of Brocade SAN switches and their Zones.• Monitoring, managing hardware for any errors and taking corrective actions. Monitoring daily activities like system health and backup etc. • Firmware upgrade on servers /storages.• Installing and configuring various applications/tools to help manage systems better. • Managing system administration for IBM Netezza 2001-02 & 2001-10 systems.• Project implementations like:o Various SAN (Hitachi, Netapp) storages implementationo LDAP authentication for Unixo Solaris Virtualization (LDOM & Containers)o Oracle backup using netapp (OSSV SanpVault)o BMC Server automation suite implementation

Los Angeles, Us

UNIX and Network AdministratorProject Description:Citigroup is a leading Financial and Banking group in the world. The Users are worldwide and hence the systems are being used round the clock. They have very big datacenters spread over the globe.The main objective of my role in the project is “System Administration and Support for the Production Servers and network of the GCMD application group and Data center management for this group”. GCMD is a data warehousing application being used to generate the reports and results of Global Consumer Group. The Users are spread across the globe and the systems are being used 24 x 7 all the days of the year. This application has the highest visibility among Citigroup.Ispearhead Inc. Piscataway, NJ - From April 2005 till July 2005Linux Administrator:Support and system administration of Linux based servers of the Ispearhead Inc.The main objective of my role in the project was “System Administration and Support for the Linux servers being used to handle customer and sales related data”.

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, In

I spent my initial 13 years in this organization. During my tenure, I had worked for many clients as hardware engineer, system administration support engineer, project manager for various IT infrastructure projects, and Networking.Following are some of the major clients I have worked for while working for CMC Ltd.Client: WTPS (Thermal power station) Jan 2005 to Apr 2005Project Details:Setting up the IT infrastructure for the ERP application for WTPS. There were 500 clients spread across and 5 servers.Client: BSNL. (Largest Telecom Company in India), April 2002 to January 2005Design and installation of WAN and LAN for entire BSNL. Installation and configuration of SUN Enterprise servers with SUN cluster 2.2 and SUN storage D1000 systems. After the successful implementation of the systems, our job was to provide 24 X 7operational/production support and ensure maximum uptime (99.99%)Implementation and maintenance of network and system for DOTSOFT. System Administrative support to the SUN servers and the network.Client: Petronet LNG Ltd. (An Oil Company with Largest Natural Gas terminal in India), Sept 2000 to March 2002Managed and led a team of engineers for the design and implementation of entire network and communication infrastructure for a new office location. It involved building a new data center for this business operation. Also, I was responsible for providing 24 hour (on-call off hours) operational/production support for the data center, entire network and the end users.

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, In

Client: Gujarat Electricity Co, Jan 2000 -- Aug 2000Gujarat Electricity Co. had outsourced the commissioning work of their WAN infrastructure to CMC ltd. The job was to create and setup the WAN for the voice, data and video connectivity of their 49 offices across the country with their corporate headquarters. This WAN was to be established using the leased telephone lines. I was actively involved from the beginning of the project, preparing the bill of materials to implementation of the entire project. We successfully completed the project for data, voice and video between the district offices to the central office.Client: ONGC Limited, Jan 1999 – Dec 1999Designed and implemented a campus wide LAN. The LAN and WAN was comprising of 3COM switches and CISCO routers. They also had SUN E250 servers at both the locations. Configured both servers for their WEB services and mail services. The Servers were running Solaris 2.6.Client: IPCL Limited, Jun 1998 – Dec 1998Designed and installed a campus wide LAN comprising of about 9 miles of fiber cable and about 25 different 3COM Ethernet switches.Client: ONGC Limited, September 1996 – May 1998Support of Various systems for Hardware like EC1061, MicroVAX, PCs, SUN Workstations etc. SystemAdministration support for SUN workstation running SUN OS 4.0 and Solaris 2.5, System admin Support and Maintenance of E3500 servers.Various Clients of CMC Ltd. Western India August 1992 – August 1996.Installation and Maintenance support for UNIX and PC Hardware for top notch customers like Steel Authority of India Limited, India Oil Corporation Limited, and Oriental Insurance co. Steel Tubes Of India Ltd. etc. And Maintenance support for various UNIX systems like SCO UNIX, XENIX etc.