Resume f. Francis prakash

RESUME

F. Francis prakash Email [e-mail] Mobile [phone] Permanent Address: No.161, 3^rd cross Street, Teachers Colony, Vettuvankeni, Chennai - 600041 Tamilnadu, South India. Personal Data : Date of Birth : 14-12-1979 Sex : Male Nationality : Indian Marital Status : Married Father’s Name: M. Felix Passport Details : Passport number : G9403870 Place of issue : Chennai Issued on : 16-07-2008 Valid till : 15-07-2018 Languages Known : English, Tamil and Hindi

Education Bachelor of Engineering ( B.E ) specialized in Electrical and Electronics (1997 – 2001). Certifications IBM Certified Specialist Certification - eServer p5 and pSeries Administration and Support for AIX 5L V5.3 p5 and pSeries Enterprise Technical Support AIX 5L V5.3 p5 Virtualization Technical Support IBM Certified Solution Advisor - Cloud Computing Architecture V1. ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management. Experience Total IT Experience : Around 9+ Years Current Designation : Associate Operations Manager - Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai. Strength 7+ years of relevant experience in AIX and SAN Administration. 2+ years of relevant experience in Networking and Router Configuration. Good Communication skills and leadership qualities. Dedicated team player. DS8100 Enterprise Storage Management Areas of Interest AIX Server Administration VIO on AIX LPAR , DLPAR, HACMP and VCS Storage ( SAN )

CAREER PROFILE

Striving for excellence and seeking every opportunity as an AIX and IBM SAN Administrator to enhance my skills and abilities to the best in the interest of the organization, as well as to enhance myself.

Have 7+ years of experience in service and managing networks with various operating systems like AIX, HPUX & Windows. Also has experience in administering IBM SAN 8000. Currently working as an AIX administrator with Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai.
Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai

(From Dec 2010 to Till Date)

Project: Staples ITES (Dec 2010 – Till Date)

Position	Associate Operations Manager
Responsibilities	Working on Incident Management, Change Management tickets Managing disks using LVM. LPAR and DLPAR Administration Creation and Administration of Volume Groups, Logical Volumes and File Systems. User Administration. Analyzing and troubleshooting VERITAS Cluster Server NIM Administration Trouble shooting issues in file systems in AIX. Defining and maintaining security hardening procedures for AIX 5L servers. HACMP Administration Server build through NIM HMC Management. Basic level Oracle administration. User and volume Group Administration in HP-UX Managing Disks and Disk groups in VERITAS Volume Manger HPOV Agent Installation and Troubleshooting
Hardware	IBM pSeries 520, pSeries 550, pSeries 570, p595 HPUX rx6600, rx2500.
Software	Service-now Ticketing Tool Opsware, OVO Agent

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

(From April 2005 to Dec 2010)

Client: Indian Bank, Chennai. (Sep 2005 to Dec 2010)

Position	I.T.Analyst
Responsibilities	Installing, configuring, troubleshooting and administering AIX V5.3 and V6.1 on pSeries 520, pSeries 550, pSeries 570, pSeries 510 and p 595 Servers. Managing disks using LVM. User Administration. Performance monitoring. Trouble shooting issues in file systems in AIX. Patches and Maintenance Levels management for AIX 5L & V6. Creation and Administration of Volume Groups, Logical Volumes and File Systems. Defining and maintaining security hardening procedures for AIX 5L servers. IBM Storage DS 4700 and DS8100 administration Adding LUNS from DS8000 to the host. Creating Arrays, Ranks and extend pools in SAN Added host to the SAN environment Creating full and Incremental Flash Copy Relationships in DS8100 storage for non-production activities like backup, report generation, training, helpdesk and its day to day administration. Planned and Implemented effective storage management using Hardware RAID level 10 and RAID 5 in DS8100 and DS4700. Dynamic movement of processors, memory and IO slots using DLPAR operation. Installation, configuration and administration of IBM High Availability Cluster Multi Processing (HACMP) V5.4 and V5.5 Creating and managing multiple failover cluster resource groups in HACMP cluster. Creating and Administering Users, Groups and LVM components via HACMP C-SPOC. Installation, configuration and administration Virtual IO Server for the virtualization of SCSI and Ethernet. Adding and removing virtual adapters Configuring Shared Ethernet Adapter on VIO server for the external world communication of VIO client LPARs Installation, configuration and administration of HMCs. Updating the HMC code and Licensed Internal Code for the pSeries servers. Creating and maintaining multiple profiles per partitions and the system profiles. Creation and administration of multiple fabric zones in order to provide the access control. Coordination with the respective hardware vendors for the firmware and hardware upgradation on all the servers and storage. IBM Tape Library 3584 Administration using TSM. Managing the Daily Backup/Restoration of size 2TB using TSM. Monitoring and managing Tivoli Storage Manager tape inventory, utilization, Tape reclamation and TSM DB Backup. SAN Switch Zone Configuration and Administration. System Administration Oracle Database Servers running on AIX 5L V5.3 Oracle Installation and configuration
Hardware	IBM pSeries 520, pSeries 550, pSeries 570, pSeries 510, p595, XSeries 365, xSeries 346, xSeries 365. IBM Total storage DS8100, DS4300, DS4700, Tape Library 3584.

CMS Computers Limited, Chennai

(From April 2004 to April 2005)

Position	Customer support Engineer
Responsibilities	Configuring Routers (IOS based), Switches (IOS based). Configuring Routing protocols (RIP v1, v2, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP). Configuring WAN protocols (PPP, X.25, Frame Relay, and ISDN). Establishing / Troubleshooting / Enhancing Networks. Configuring VLANs. Configuration LAN and WAN Configuration ELAN Coordinating with the customers for Leased Line connectivity.
Hardware	CISCO 1700 Series, 3600 Series, IBM Servers (p Series) Cisco Catalyst Switch.

Jesuit Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

(From March 2003 to April 2004)

Position	Network Engineer
Responsibilities	Provide help and guidance in planning pre sales and analyzing customer requirements and finding out suitable products from different vendors to minimize cost and documentation of site maps, cable layouts and interfacing between service providers like D.O.T, MTNL, BSNL, etc. Leased Line Maintenance ISDN Implementation, Configuration and Maintenance. Designing and Implementing LAN Cabling with UTP cables. Configure Cisco routers with Ethernet LAN and serial WAN interfaces and also for VLAN. Configure RIP v1, v2, IGRP, OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP.
Hardware	CISCO 1700 Series, 800 Series, 3600 Series, 2600 Series, D-Link routers MRO RAD, Atrie, 3COM, D-Link Modems Cisco Catalyst Switches.

Gold Vision technologies (p) Ltd

(From August 2002 to March 2003)

Position	Network Engineer
Responsibilities	Installation and Trouble shooting of Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP as a standalone and clients for Windows Network. Installed and configured Win2K Server/ADV Server as a stand alone and part of the domain. Installation /Trouble shooting PC’s, Printers and maintaining customer satisfaction levels. Administration, Maintenance and trouble shooting of Networks.
Hardware	Compaq Deskpro, HCL PC

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