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Summary

A driven and hard-working, who enjoys working, especially on special projects or problems that challenge. Having more than 10 years of experience in the field of System Administrator, during which I adapted to changes in delivery, protocols, and a changing industry. Currently employed as a Senior System Administrator for a rapidly growing company.

Work Experience

2016-05Present
Infosys

Senior System Administrator

  • Evaluating & configuring email server, including reallocating additional disk to engineer a robust, scalable solution.
  • Improving system security through setup & ongoing maintenance of the firewall (Cyberoam).
  • Configuring squid as a content filtering server as file sharing among 20+ nodes at one of the client environment.
  • Training employees across multiple departments on network operations including log-in procedures, network management software, printing issues & security.
  • Designing & implementing highly available (HA) & disaster recovery (DR) solutions for clients and employer.
  • Managing Unix & Linux systems for development and engineering groups on 50+ nodes.
  • Implementing and administering Windows Server 2012/2008 Servers in the environment.
  • Installing Windows Update/Patches, using a WSUS server.
2012-022016-04
Crescent Solutions

Senior System Administrator

  • Expanded my traditional role as a strong IT generalist by joining the development team while still maintaining the entire IT infrastructure.
  • Worked in Django/Python, PostgreSQL and various FOSS technologies on top of Linux, VMware, and Amazon AWS/EC2.
  • Designed and built-out a Linux-based IT infrastructure on VMware and EC2 for a web startup (dev, staging, prod).
  • Developed the backend of main web product in Django, PostgreSQL, unicorn, Apache, Fabric, South, Celery, using Agile, test-driven development practices.
  • Wrote a mass email sending infrastructure that adhered to industry best practices and designed the bounce/spam processing layers to keep deliverability above 99+% to the inbox.
2008-032012-01
IBM

System Administrator

  • Released software upgrades and patches to customers.
  • Created and maintained web sites and database schemas.
  • Maintained normal database operations on multiple databases (included system monitoring and applying database patches).
  • Resolved configuration related failures, problems or concerns in a timely manner.
  • Wrote scripts to automate manual processes.
  • Backup and data recovery, data migration and tuning for optimization.
  • Performed upgrades and patches to internal tools.
  • Participated in architecture discussions.
  • Troubleshoot technical issues with our hosting partners, customers, and the development team.
2006-062008-02
IBM

Unix Administrator

  • Wrote management and monitoring tools to streamline support of IDOL engines.
  • Scripted archiving system for Linux/Solaris server farm.
  • Supported enterprise storage backends.
  • Administered Unix server environment.

Education

20032005
Boston University

Master of Science in Computer Science

20002003
Boston University

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Skills

Cisco
IT Systems
Management
Virtualization
Storage & Clustering
Platform Exposure
Adobe Creative Suite
Networking & Internet Technologies

Interests

  • Drawing
  • Football
  • Squash
  • Horse Riding