Azam Syed

Unix Administrator

Email: azam . a. syed @gmail.com Mobile: 001-646-932-7866

SUMMARY
 Over Twelve years of strong experience in administration of System Administration in Sun
Solaris, Redhat Enterprise Linux and Windows Operating System with extensive implementation
& troubleshooting experience under Client Server Systems.
 Experience on Redhat ES/AS 3/4/5, Sun Solaris 7/8/9/10 implementation Administration,
Installation & Maintenance.
 Expertise implementation and maintenance of DHCP, NFS, NIS, DNS & Apache SMTP
 Working on the BACKUP, design, development, and support creation of all file system layouts,
database environments, referential integrity relationships/constraints and security environment roles.
 Installation and configuration of Solaris 10 container Technology. Created and maintained Global
and Local Zones.
 Installation and support of RedHat Enterprise Linux using Satellite server(Kickstart)
& Networking and Communication devices, Server Utilities, TCP/IP, FTP
 Expert in Datacenter operations including hardware, software setup monitoring, troubleshooting
on a 24 x 7 basis with BMC patrol, Team Quest, Unicenter & Smart trouble ticketing Systems/remedy
tickets/kintana /usd tickets etc.
 Installing, Configuring Solaris Volume Manager (Solstice Disksuite 4.2.1), Veritas Volume Manger and
Logical Volume Manager.
 Installation, Configuration and administration of Veritas Cluster Server and HP Service guard high
availability and redundancy.
 Installed & Configured HBA(PCI/PCI-X) in SAN storage
 Configured & installed ALOM (Advanced Lights Out Manager) & Load Balancer
 Installation of weblogic, upgraded to service pack updates, installed BEA patches, configuring and
creation new domain, start & stop weblogic server.
 Knowledge of Routers and Switches. Sub netting, vlan, TCP/IP, vpn, firewalls, OSI model.
 Capacity planning & Performance Analysis, Uptime & Response time analysis.
 Excellent Presentation, customer support and troubleshooting skills.

SKILLS
Operating System: SUN Solaris 2.6/7/8/9/10, Sco Unix 5.0x, Windows NT 4.0, Red Hat Linux Advance Server
2.1 & 3.0, 3.5, 4.0,5.0 and Windows 95/98/XP

Hardware: Sun Fire 210, 220, 240. 420R, 440,450,4500, 1280, T2000 & sun blade 2500, Sun Ultra 20/40/45
Enterprise servers & workstations, HP-9000. IBM RS/6000, pSeries, xSeries, Dell 5500 Servers, Compaq Proliant
ML370, 3000 & 6000 Servers, Proliant DL-320/ 360/ 380/ 560/ 580, Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER (250/450/650/850),
Sun StorEdge A-5200, D-1000 Array

Cluster: Veritas Cluster, Sun cluster

Web /Application Server: Tomcat, Apache, WebSphere, Weblogic
Languages: UNIX Shell Scripting, PL/SQL
Networking: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, PPP, SMTP, IPMP, SNMP.
Database: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, MS-Access, Unify (RDBMS)

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CERTIFICATION:
 Sun Certified Unix System Administrator (Solaris)
 Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (Windows )

EDUCATION:
 B.Sc Electronics - Osmania University - 1984
 M.Sc Statistics - Osmania University - 1988
 PGDCA(Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application) – Osmania University - 1989

EXPERIENCE
Employer: Questivity, Inc
Client : Embarq – Kansas – Overland Park - July 2008 to Present date - Unix system Administrator
 Installed & Upgrade DSM&NSM agent on all Solaris/AIX/Linux/HP servers
 Installing patches with help Sun Update Connection (UCE tool)
 Monitoring software notifications and updates
 Configured and install Zones - identify zone components and zonecfg resource parameters, allocate file
system space, describe the interactive configuration of a zone,
 Administered zones - use the zoneadm command to view, install, boot, halt, reboot, and delete a zone.
 Expertise in VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM 3.5 and 4.1), Disk management , Volume
management, software RAID solutions using VERITAS Volume Manager, Solaris Volume Manager
(SVM) and File System administration using VERITAS File System (VxFS)
 Develops and implements a systems back-up and recovery plan for local back-ups.
 Participated in developing and implementing a jumpstart server for multiple installations.
 Created related documentation, standards and procedures to comply with corporation and industry
standards
 Installation and configuration of Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System.
 Installation and configuration of Veritas Netbackup.
 Created User, Groups per client requirement.
 Using vmstat, iostat, SAR, tnsping and netstat to determine the system and network health.
 Experienced with monitoring tools including HP OpenView and BMC Patrol. Expertise with admin tools
including Big Brother.
 Documented administration and maintenance procedures
 Implemented Security Hardening per company policy using Solaris 10 feature.
 Implemented SUDO, SSH and other security tools and implemented SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) security
compliance.
 Trouble shooting of day to day system and user problems
 Installed & Configured Sun Fire T-1000 210, V240, V440, V490, V880, T2000,E450,1280 & HP Proliant
DL-320/360/380/560/580 L Servers
 Installation Red hat Linux 8, 9.0, 10.0 on Dell, Proliant, Enterprise Server 4.0

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 Mirrored root disks on all the servers by using solaris volume manager
 SAMBA/Apache implementation and support
 Reviewing BACKUP design specifications to ensure adherence to best practice methods for database
usage
 Installed and configured HBA card in SAN storage
 Providing 24 x 7x 365 support to various application level server level & network level
Monitoring & troubleshooting of any datacenter outages.
 Installed and configured containers(Zonning) – solaris 10
 Veritas Netbackup installation & maintenance Backup/restore on ADIC (Intelligent Storage –Scalar
i2000k – Library Management Console) using server Windows NT/2000 & Sun Solaris server & taking
backup in DLT tape & checking the job failures.
 Configured NFS Servers, NIS+ Servers, NIS+ Clients, Diskless clients and Auto clients and automounted
the file systems using direct and indirect maps. Also setup entries in /etc/dfs/dfstab in Solaris share file
systems and mounted the disks onto the client systems.
 Suse linux / Redhat Enterprise Linux kernel, memory upgrade & swap area
 Integration of Linux/Solaris with Active Directory (LDAP)
 Redhat Linux Kickstart Installation –Sun Solaris Jump start Installation
Environment: Solaris 10/8/2.x, HP-UX 11.0/11i, AIX 4.3, 5.1/5.3L, Sun Fire 4800/3800/ V880/V240 Servers,
Sun Enterprise 6500/500/4500/450/ 420R/250 Servers, Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER (250/450/650/850)

Employer: Questivity, Inc

Client: Mitchell International- San Diego –CA –Jan 2008 to July 2008 –Unix administrator
 Installation, Configuration & Upgrade of Solaris, HP-UX and Linux operating system.
 Installation and configuration of Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System.
 Installation and configuration of Veritas Netbackup.
 Created User, Groups per client requirement.
 Using vmstat, iostat, SAR, tnsping and netstat to determine the system and network health.
 Experienced with monitoring tools including HP OpenView and BMC Patrol. Expertise with admin tools
including Big Brother.
 Documented administration and maintenance procedures
 Implemented Security Hardening per company policy using Solaris 10 feature.
 Implemented SUDO, SSH and other security tools and implemented SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) security
compliance.
 Trouble shooting of day to day system and user problems
 Installation and configuration of Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) from the scratch.
 Maintaining and troubleshooting HP Service Guard and Veritas Clustered Servers (VCS) for Failover and
redundancy.
 Installed & Configured Sun Fire T-1000 210, V240, V440, V490, V880, T2000,E450,1280 & HP Proliant
DL-320/360/380/560/580 L Servers
 Installation Red hat Linux 8, 9.0, 10.0 on Dell, Proliant, Enterprise Server 4.0
Mirrored root disks on all the servers by using solaris volume manager
 Veritas Netback up installation & maintenance Backup/restore on ADIC (Intelligent Storage –Scalar i
2000k – Library Management Console) using server Windows NT/2000 & Sun Solaris server & taking
backup in DLT tape & checking the job failures.
 Configured NFS Servers, NIS+ Servers, NIS+ Clients, Diskless clients and Auto clients and automounted
the file systems using direct and indirect maps. Also setup entries in /etc/dfs/dfstab in Solaris share file

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 systems and mounted the disks onto the client systems.

Environment: Solaris 10/9/8/2.x, HP-UX 11.0/11i, AIX 4.3, 5.1/5.3L, Sun Fire 4800/3800/ V880 & Servers,
Sun Enterprise 6500/500/4500/450/ 420R/250 Servers, Ultra Enterprise 2/1 Servers, SPARC server 1000, SPARC
server 20 Enterprise Servers, SPARC server 1000/20, HP 9000 K,L,N class server , IBM RS/6000, pSeries
servers, RAD 6.1, AS/400.

Employer: Questivity, Inc

Client: Sun Microsystems (EDS) - Broomfield - Colorado– Feb 2007 to Nov 2007
Sr. Unix System Administrator
 Installation, Configuration & Upgrade of Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux and Windows-NT operating
systems.
 Installation Packages and patches.
 Supported 24/7 high availability production servers.
 Experienced with monitoring tools including HP OpenView and BMC Patrol. Expertise with admin tools
including Webmin, Netcool and Big Brother.
 Installed, configured Zones and maintenance in sun solaris 10.0
 Installed & Configured Sun Fire 210, V240, V440, V490, V880, T2000,E450,1280 & HP
Proliant DL-320/360/380/560/580 L Servers
 Installation Red hat Linux 8, 9.0, 10.0 on Dell, Proliant, Enterprise Server 4.0
Mirrored root disks on all the servers by using solaris volume manager
 SAMBA implementation and support
 Installed and configured HBA card in SAN storage
 Providing 24 x 7 supports to various application level server level & network level Monitoring &
troubleshooting of any datacenter outages.
 Day–to-day administration on Sun Solaris which includes Installation, upgrade & loading patches
& packages
 Implemented Solaris 10 containers(Zonning)
 Veritas Netback up installation & maintenance Backup/restore on ADIC (Intelligent Storage –Scalar
i2000k – Library Management Console) using server Windows NT/2000 & Sun Solaris server & taking
backup in DLT tape & checking the job failures.
 Configured NFS Servers, NIS+ Servers, NIS+ Clients, Diskless clients and Auto clients and automounted
the file systems using direct and indirect maps. Also setup entries in /etc/dfs/dfstab in Solaris share file
systems and mounted the disks onto the client systems.
 Installation & configuration of Sun Cluster on Solaris and HP Service Guard on HP-UX.
 Redhat Enterprise Linux kernel, memory upgrade and swap area
 Integration of Linux/Solaris with Active Directory (LDAP)

Environment: Solaris, Redhat Enterprise Linux, AIX, HP-UX and Windows NT, Sun Enterprise E35000
450/420R/250 Servers, Ultra Enterprise 2/1 Servers, SPARC server 1000, SPARC server 20 Enterprise
Servers, SPARC server 1000/20, SPARCstation 10, Sun Sparc Ultra 1,5,10, Intel Based Dell Servers, Veritas
File System 3.0, ORACLE

Employer: ExterNetworks, Inc

Client: Superior Court of California(Deloitte) - San Diego, CA - Feb 2006 – Jan 2007
Unix System Administrator

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Responsibilities:

 Installation, Configuration & Upgrade of Solaris, HP-UX and Linux operating system.
 Problems & performance issues; Deployed latest patches for Sun, Linux and Application servers,
Performed Solaris and Red Hat Linux Kernel Tuning for TCP stack.
 Installation Red hat Linux 8, 9.0 on Dell, Proliant, Enterprise Server 4.0
 Installed & configured Sun Fire 210, V240, V440, V490, V880, 1280 & HP Proliant
DL-320/360/380/560/580 L Servers
 Mirrored root disks on all the servers by using solaris volume manager
 Installed and configured HBA card in SAN storage
 Providing 24 x 7 supports to various application level server level & network level Monitoring &
troubleshooting of any datacenter outages.
 Day–to-day administration on Sun Solaris which includes Installation, upgrade & loading patches
& packages
 Configured NFS Servers, NIS+ Servers, NIS+ Clients, Diskless clients and Auto clients and automounted
the file systems using direct and indirect maps. Also setup entries in /etc/dfs/dfstab in Solaris share file
systems and mounted the disks onto the client systems.
 Installation and configuration of Veritas Cluster servers. Added new service group and
maintained existing service group.
 Linux kernel, memory upgrade and swap area
 Redhat Linux Kickstart Installation –Sun Solaris Jump start Installation
 Configuring DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS in Sun Solaris 8/9 & other Network Services
 Formatted raw disks & partitioned them using the format utility. Created file system using newfs
and mounted it. Created devices and special files using mknod
 Installed, managed Solaris Volume Manager (Configuring mirror/Breaking mirror/metadata bases
Solstice Disk suite 4.2.1)
 Installed, managed Verities Volume Manager 3.5 (VxVM) on Solaris 9
 Created Role Based Access Control (RBAC) for users
 Veritas Netbackup installation and maintenance Backup/restore & Disk/Volume management
with Veritas Volume Manager on Sun SPARC Storage Arrays & Multi-Packs
 Handled Performance Monitoring in File system CPU, Memory and Process in all the UNIX
Servers
 Written shell scripts to take backup oracle database.

Environment: Solaris 8/9, SCO UNIX5.x & Windows NT 4.0 / 2000, Sun Enterprise 450/420R/ 250 Servers, Ultra
Enterprise 2/1 Servers, SPARC server 1000, SPARC server 20 Enterprise Servers, SPARC server 1000/20, SPARCstation
10, Sun Sparc Ultra 1,5,10.

Employer: Data Group Inc

Client: NBC Universal, Englewood Cliff, NJ Feb 2005 – Dec 2005
Unix system administrator
Responsibilities:
 Documented Apache Web Server Development, Staging & Production environments, installed
configured and managed Solaris 2.7-2.9 on Sun Enterprise systems, Administered, maintained Red Hat
2.1, 3.0 AS, ES, Troubleshooting Hardware, Operating System Application & Network problems and
performance issues; Deployed latest patches for Sun, Linux and Application servers, Performed Solaris
and Red Hat Linux Kernel Tuning for TCP stack.
 Installation Red hat Linux 7.2, 9.0 on Dell, Proliant, Enterprise Server3.0/AS3.5

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  Installed and configured Sun V880, V490, V440, V240 servers; Mirrored root disks on all the
servers by using Sun Disk Suite
 Providing 24 x 7 supports to various application level server level & network level Monitoring
and troubleshooting of any datacenter outages.
 Day–to-day administration on Sun Solaris which includes Installation, upgrade and loading
patches
 Veritas Netback up installation, Catalogue backup and maintenance Backup/restore on ADIC (Intelligent
Storage –Scalar i2000k – Library Management Console) using server Windows NT/2000 & Sun Solaris
server and checking the job failures.
 Configured NFS Servers, NIS+ Servers, NIS+ Clients, Diskless clients and Auto clients and automounted
the file systems using direct and indirect maps. Also setup entries in /etc/dfs/dfstab in Solaris share file
systems and mounted the disks onto the client systems.
 Linux kernel, memory upgrade & swap area
 Production support of Apache and JBoss including installation, configuration, management and
troubleshooting
 Configuring DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS, Sendmail in Sun Solaris 6/7/8/9 & other Network Services
 Formatted raw disks & partitioned them using the format utility. Created file system using newfs
and mounted it. Created devices & special files using mknod
 Installed, managed Solaris Volume Manager (Configuring mirror/Breaking mirror/metadata bases
Solstice Disk suite 4.2.1)
 Installed, managed Verities Volume Manager 3.5 (VxVM) on Solaris 5.9
 Created Role Based Access Control (RBAC) for users
 Installation of weblogic, upgraded to service pack updates, installed BEA patches, configuring
and creation new domain & services starting & stopping.
 Installation of Oracle on Linux and Solaris, creating database, creating oracle users etc.

Dot Com Management Ltd, UK– Sr. Database Administrator (July 2003 – Nov 2004)
Job Responsibilities:
 Administrator, maintains, develop and implement policies and procedures for ensuring the security and
integrity of databases.
 Provide data flow diagrams and documentation.
 Write feed-processing code for database access and modifications including stored procedures.
 Resolve database performance issues, database capacity issues, replication, and other distributed data
issues.
 Created scripts for database and all objects on clients systems.
 Optimized SQL and database for faster Query response times.
 Ensure all recycled applications are in operation.
 Ensure all applications are up and running.
 Responsibilities include but not limited to Day-to-Day Administration of Data backup of over 500
Systems that Sun E4500 with Solaris, Windows NT Desktop and Sun Ultra Workstations
 Backup of around 1 Million Files with a Volume 400GB of Incremental Data everyday With the help of
(tar,cpio and ufsdump etc).
 Modeled and designed database to warehouse manifest and package tracking information.
 Created database and all procedures/DTS services to load database from several remote

Krishtech Ltd, UK – Database Administrator ( November 2002 – July 2003)

Responsibilities:

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  Performed DBA duties including backup procedures, database tuning and optimizing SQL statements.
 Wrote several Unix and PL procedures to collect data from external sources and loaded into data
warehouse.
 Wrote many packages and procedures to process raw data and create reports for analysts.
 Performed DBA duties including backup procedures, database tuning and optimizing SQL statements.
 Wrote several Unix and PL procedures to collect data from external sources and loaded into data
warehouse.
 Wrote many packages and procedures to process raw data and create reports for analysts.
 Prepare periodic reports and create adhoc reports.
 Perform root cause analysis and resolve issues if possible.
 Identify and define the needs for additional monitoring.

Graphics Needs UK Ltd – Database system Administrator(Aug 2001– Oct 2002)

Graphics is known for its projects and constancy for various Operating System environments in UNIX, Microsoft
Products, Databases, and WAN Technologies. The company is also engaged in Corporate Training in the above
areas and Software Development for e-commerce and RDBMS technologies.

Projects Handled:
 Tested various TCP/IP products and implemented a TCP/IP network for the development of Client/Server
database applications.
 Provided Web access to database reports via Oracle Webserver providing access to consultants in the
field.
 Established and maintained multiple databases to ensure proper development test
 Designed and implemented database and data entry/reporting tools to track Sheriff’s department
employees, employee training, and new applicants, reducing paperwork Significantly.
 Designed and implemented a database and reporting tools to track components, improving data integrity
and reducing data redundancy by 30%.
 Modified existing tools to meet new requirements for document delivery, allowing Scheduled software
design document delivery.
 Trained users in database and system functionality, allowing use of both operation and database systems,
improving office efficiency.

RootShell Technology, India–Hyderabad-Unix Administrator ( Feb 2001 – Aug 2001)

 Written shell scripts and Cron Jobs for Batch Processing, Error logs for the Automated indications and
testing of the web server’s performance.
 System Administration of SOLARIS 8.0,7.0,2.6,2.5, SCO Unix system IV, V, Red Hat Linux boxes 5.5,
6.0,6.1,6.2 and NT Servers 3.5, 4.0 and Win NT 2000.
 Configuring and Ensuring that functioning of Web servers is at Fault-Tolerant levels with high
availability i.e. Zero down time
 Configured network file sharing and enabled remote mounting file systems.
 Implemented TCP/IP network based on DHCP, DNS on solaris
 Configured Domain Name System (DNS) and NIS+ and NIS.
 Configured Samba on on sun machine, established network connectivity with PC’s through SMB & NMB
Protocol.
 Installed PC-NFS Software and configured solaris server as primary domain controller for Windows NT
file and Print sharing access.

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  Oracle Installation on solaris 8 and linux 5.2 redhat
 Database creation, creating tablespace, rollback segment etc.
 Taking database backup hard & cold backup.

Wilshire Software Technology-India – Unix Administrator ( July 2000 – Feb 2001)

Responsibilities:
 System Administration of SOLARIS 8.0,7.0,2.6,2.5, SCO Unix system IV, V, Red Hat Linux boxes 5.5,
6.0,6.1,6.2 and NT Servers 3.5, 4.0
 Instal ling backup servers with Legato Networked 5.0 and performing regular backups for Sun Disk Suite
for our Client Server architecture comprising of Clients, Storage Nodes and Servers on tape drives
attached. Enhancing flexibility and performance to protect data on the network.
 Writing shell scripts for Batch Processing, Error logs for the Automated Back-ups and Cron jobs.
 Maintaining and Configuring Ram Based File System (Cachefs, Swapfs).
 Co-ordination with NT & UNIX Support Groups for new backup & restore requests
 Monitoring of RAID Systems of Backup Master & Media Server with Sun Solstice Disksuite & Veritas
Volume Manager
 Implemented and Administered Domain Server configuration for all the branches. Managing Host View
for various clients in Solaris Domain Server.
 Hardware troubleshooting & resolution of servers, desktops and network.
 Configured NIS+ and DNS naming service with master server, Slave server, and Clients for entire
Wilshire software technologies Network of above 20 Server and 300 Desktops. Also responsibilities
include monitoring system administration duties on DNS, and NIS+, DHCP

Meridian Technology, Hyderabad,India– Unix Administrator (June 1998 – Feb 2000)

The major activities performed were:
 Installation, configuration and maintenance of SCO UNIX System IV, V on SUN ULTRA 10 series
servers.
 Installation of New Software & OS Updates, Programs.
 Backup & Restore the files using tar, ufsdump/ufsrestore on DAT, Magnetic Tape
 Writing Shell Scripts for managing day-to-day transactions & for automation of routine tasks
 Creation & Maintenance of user accounts & passwords & profiles, home directories, initialization of files,
groups creation and management, setting file permissions, customizing shell environment setup for users.
 Responsibilities include general UNIX Systems Administration on the SUN Solaris platform, include
alert handling, deploying software releases, backups, hardware and software installations.

Saudi Oger Ltd, Jubail – K.S.A – Software Field Engineer ( Nov 1994 – Apr 1998)
 Software developed using C/C++/delphi/dbaseiv as part of a Windows-based engineering team etc
 Responsible for all aspects of systems software development including detailed design, implementation,
validation and maintenance

Nafa Maintenance &Services, Jubail–K.S.A–Software Engineer(Feb 1993–Nov 1994)

 Developed programs as per the company required where as different departments like Accounts, Water
Treatment Plant, Admin department etc.
Logic System Ltd, Hyderabad – India – System Programmer( Feb 1990 – Feb 1993)

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  Programs developed as per the company required where as different departments like warehouse,
accounts etc.