Sakthivel Palani Professional Summary

Sakthivel Palani


Professional Summary

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  An accomplished UNIX System administrator with over 3.6 years of experience specializing in IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, and HP-UX as with extensive experience in system administration and maintenance.
  
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  Good experience in configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of High Availability clusters like HACMP,VCS (veritas cluster service )
  
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  Possesses extensive knowledge in server partitioning technologies like LPAR, DLPAR, and Virtual I/O Server and is proficient in implementing and configuring micro partitions and virtualization in p5 servers
  
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  Extensive knowledge and experience in supporting and troubleshooting AIX Networking services and protocols like NIS,DNS,NFS,DHCP and FTP and hands-on experience on LVM.
  
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  Excellent experience with general unix administration like adding/removing users, adding/creating devices, patching, setting up cron jobs, taking unix backup/restore and changing kernel parameters
  
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  Good experience in performance monitoring and tuning on UNIX servers
  
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  Creating disk group and volumes on veritas volume Manger
  
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  Configuration and maintain Emc power path on unix servers
  
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  Configuration LUN on EMC clarion and symmetric boxes
  
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  Creating sudo users on unix environment
  
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  Security Hardening and kernel tuning of Operating Systems like IBM AIX, Solaris, hp-ux
  
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  Extensive knowledge on Regatta, Squadrom management using HMC
  
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  Creating containers & zones on Solaris
  
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  Hands on experience on veritas cluster services and HACMP
  
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  Hands on experience in the conversion of normal volume group to big/scalable volume group
  

CERTIFICATIONS:

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  IBM Certified Specialist - eServer p5 and pSeries Administration and Support for AIX 5L V5.3.
  

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  Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 10 (SCSA)
  

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
OS Platforms : IBM Aix 5.1 & 5.3, Solaris 9 &10, HP-UX 11.11 &11.23, Windows NT, Windows 2000
Scripting Language : Shell Scripts (Korn)

Tools : HP open view Service Desk, Power Proker, Emc Navisphere & Power Path tools ,Putty, MS Office – Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Outlook Express, etc

Server Hardware:

IBM : IBM RS/6000 F50, pSeries 6H1, 615, 650, 680, 690, 570, 590, 595

SUN : Sun E3500, E450, E220R, E420R, E250,T2000

HP : HP-UX/9000/800 series

Volume Management

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  Logical volume Manger on Aix
  
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  Veritas volume Manger
  
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  Logical volume Manger on hp-ux
  

Cluster Management

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  HACMP
  
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  Veritas cluster services
  

Backup tool

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  Veritas Net backup
  

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Xavient Software solutions Feb 5^th ’07 – Present
Infrastructure Operation Specialist,

Dish Network, EchoStar Satellite L.L.C. Denver, Colorado, USA
Project Abstract: Management & Maintenance of Infrastructure Services for a production, Test, development Environment AIX 5.1/5.3, SUN 8/9/10, Hp-ux 11.11/11.23, EMC Symmetrix DMX, Power Path, Cx-700, ESS, DS8000, Oracle, DB2

Roles and Responsibilities:

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  Providing support for Onsite night hours Unix support involved in administering & managing and supporting for Production, Test , development Environments
  

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  Restarting the Environments.
  

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  Monitoring of Unix Servers, Clusters and Exported File systems
  

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  Checking Console logs, System Logs and Resolving in Coordination with Global Ops Team
  
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  Accept Unix server related Trouble tickets and completion within Deadlines Time in Coordination with Project
  
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  Managing & trouble shooting Servers for Production, development & Test environment
  
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  Handled Day-to-Day operation of all servers running Production jobs, Backups, Restores and Report generations
  
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  Escalation of critical tickets to PS2 Team
  
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  Remotely monitored servers CPU utilization, file system, memory and network.
  
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  Installation, Management and patches management for Unix servers
  
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  User Account Administration AIX,SUN,HP-ux
  
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  Administration of Disk space management (AIX & HP-UX & Veritas Volume Manger)
  
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  Problem determination.
  
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  User, Node, Resource and Resource group management in VCS
  
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  Security Hardening and kernel tuning of Operating Systems like Solaris, hp-ux
  
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  Created and added paging space at run time
  
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  Managed NFS, NIS, DNS and DHCP,LDAP
  

Victory Software Solution June04’ – Feb 07’

System Engineer
As a senior member in the professional services division, provide technical, integration and consulting services for business clients that use IBM AIX Power machine, SUN Solaris/Sparc-based computer and storage networks as their enterprise-wide client/server platform
Technology : AIX, HACMP, HMC

Roles and Responsibilities:

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  Level 2 support for project team on AIX support.
  
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  Complete Administration of AIX 5.2 on IBM RS6000-F50 model Server.
  
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  Remotely monitored servers CPU utilization, file system, memory and network
  
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  Installed/migrated AIX 5 L versions, maintenance level upgraded
  
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  User Account Administration
  
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  Installation of APARS related to OS
  
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  Administration of LVM
  
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  Problem determination.
  
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  Provided requisite hardening of Server as per Corporate Policies
  
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  Monitoring Network and System Performance
  
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  File system Backup and Recovery task.
  
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  Scheduling tasks as per the client requirement
  

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  Managing Paging space at run time
  
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  Implement basic system security
  
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  Responsible for mksysb backup for AIX Servers.
  
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  Responsible for file system backups in AIX and Solaris
  
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  Management LPARs via HMC
  

EDUCATION:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, University of Madras-INDIA

TRAININGS ATTENDED:
HP-UX- Workshop on Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Xavient software solutions, India
Personal Information

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  Date of Birth : 15^th June1982
  
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  Marital status : Unmarried
  
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  Nationality : Indian
  
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  Languages Known : English (Read, Write & Speak)
  

Tamil (Read, Write & Speak)

Hindi (Speak)

REFERENCES:

References will be furnished upon request.