SUMIT GHAI

C: (704)780-6330
H: (360)516-2041
Internet: sumitghaiin@gmail.com

Summary: Around nine (9) years of IT experience as a System Administrator providing

middle to senior managerial assignments for ISO9001-certified processes for IT/operations
Infrastructure Development and Management with a technology-driven organization of repute

CERTIFICATIONS

Sun Certified System Admin

Linux Administration (Red Hat)
Microsoft Certified Professional
CCNA

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Unix, Solaris, RedHat, HP-Unix, IBM-AIX, Cisco IOS,

Windows (NT, 2K Server)
Hardware: SUN Enterprise Ultra/Fire Servers/Storage, IBM, HP
Servers: openLDAP, Sun ONE Directory, Samba, Kerberos, Radius, FTP, IIS,
Apache + auth-Ldap / Tacacs_auth_module Compilation, iPlanet, SendMail,
Exchange Server (5.5, 2K), NFS, AutoFS, CacheFS, SMB, Squid
Tools: Solstice, Disk Suite, Omni/Veritas Volume Manager/Netbackup, Cluster
(Heartbeat, Redhat/Sun), LVM, Jakarta Tomcat, CVS, expect, Remedy, LDOMS.
Naming Service: NIS, DNS, WINS
Automation & Scripting: JumpStart, Kickstart Inst., Bourne, Korn Batch- Files,
Cron Jobs, Creating Initialization Scripts, Debugging, Kernel Compilation
NMS: Ciscoworks, iManager, MRTG
Protocols: PPP, Frame Relay, ISDN BRI/PRI, HDLC, RIP (ver-1 & 2), IGRP
Routers & Switches: Huawei, Cisco configuration, Access List-Security, Cisco
Switches, STP, VLAN, VTP, Trunking, Bridging.
Language: Perl, C, C++, SQL, PL/SQL
Databases: Oracle Enterprise Edition

PROFESSIONAL PURSUITS

Bkaer Hughes, Houston-TX

Senior Systems Administrator
July 2008 – Present

Responsibilities:

• Handled administrative jobs, associated with 2000+ Sun-Solaris production servers of

User management, troubleshooting of the daily problems appearing into various servers,
Disk management, Security policy, Patches and Performance tuning.
• Migration/upgrade Solaris, RHE Linux and HP-UX system and install patches.
• Installation, configuration and backup support using Veritas NetBackup.
 • Responsible for configuring NFS & Autosys for clients: Cumberland, Sherwin
Williams.
• Responsible for Software and application package administration and troubleshooting at
user level.
• Worked with Unix services and application team on planning for Solaris 10 migration and
adopting Solaris container technology.
• Facing complicated dependency problems and inventing solutions for them.
• UNIX installation and migration including TCP/IP installation and customization.
• Created / packaged Cluster HA Services for Direct Markets applications running on
Production Cluster environments.
• Documented Installation / configuration standards for additional cluster environments
using MS Visio.
• Responsible for Monitoring, network security, file encryption and network performance
for Solaris systems.
• Performed and maintained the corrupted file system.
• Integrated ZFS and Containers to delegated rights to control the ZFS file system.
• Worked with Configuring and troubleshooting NIS for client: American Insulated Wire
Corp.
• Involved in Documentation of UNIX environment and configuration details for Vertex,
Health Alliance.
• Created & maintained user accounts, permission, disk space and process monitoring.
• Server Virtualization using VMware for Redhat linux and Solaris 10 Zoning.
• Managing & monitoring the performance of teams, maintaining Shift Statistics to ensure
efficiency in process operations and meeting of individual & group targets.
• Checking of server performance with tools such as sar, top, lsof, iostat, time.
• Designing Backup Strategy & ensuring scheduled / unscheduled backups as per the
backup plan for Norfolk, Ferrotec.

Environment: Solaris 9,10(x86/sparc), Redhat Linux(32/64 bits) 4/5, HP-UX 11.x, Zones,
Heartbeat(1.x-2), Redhat Cluster, netstat, prstat, Iostat, lsof, Patch Management, Monitoring
Scripts, Swap Configuration, NFS, Veritas Netbackup, Kernel Compilation, sam, smit, svcadm.

Tricore Solutions
Senior Systems Engineer (Team coordinator)
August 2007 – July 2008

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for DNS and Configured DNS Servers and Clients and troubleshooting
system and DNS issues.
• Installation / Configuration of Sun Solaris 2.5.x NIS / NFS production Servers.
• Managed User accounts, developing korn shell scripts for various system performances
monitoring purposes and troubleshooting.
• Proven track record of managing Solstice DiskSuite
• Responsible for the Remedy Severity tickets for Production Servers.
• Implementing Logical Domains (LDoms) for virtualization on Solaris 10 OS.
 • Used vmware to reduce proliferation of machines in server room and to liberate key
Windows machines from hardware dependencies.
• Involved Backup, Restoration, and disaster management of branch servers using
Veritas Netbackup.
• Coordinated with engineers to resolve escalated calls and achieving higher customer
satisfaction matrices.
• Handling system dependencies and binary files management.
• Configured Apache with OpenSSL; self signed certificate & ldap-auth for centralized &
secure authentication.
• Worked with Global NOC (Network Operations Center) to resolve critical issues.
Provided assistance to the team members for escalated problems.
• Worked on Solaris 10 Virtualization and Consolidation project of Sun Servers.
• Delivered and implemented of the project as per scheduled milestones.
• Level 3 Support for Production SA Operations groups 24x7.
• Implementing and administrating various security tools like RBAC, SETUID, SETGID,
ACL’s and Sticky bits.
• Control System behavior through Boot PROM.
• Performed and maintained the corrupted file system.
• Monitored A class Servers using HP-Open View.
• Interacting with Support functions for staffing & scheduling requirements, performance
reporting etc

Environment: Solaris 10, Linux (3,4), Unix shell (bash,csh,ksh), vmware, RBAC, Apache (1.3 -
2.0), Solstice Disk Suite, Veritas Netbackup, lsadmin, DNS/BIND, setfacl, Solaris-admintool,
linuxconf, squid, OpenSSL, zoneadm, LDOMS.

Navisite Pvt Ltd

Network Systems Engineer
December 2006 – August 2007

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Sun Solaris UNIX System and centralized Backup solution implementation
using Veritas Netbackup Ver 5.1 for Sun boxes.
• Configured syslog-ng which pumps logs using socket to oracle
• Installed, Configured of Ciscoworks, RME (3.5/4.0) to manage, monitor of all devices,
switches
• Acquainted with expect tool, Shell Programming, writing Perl scripts for administrative
tasks
• Implemented numerous services on Unix servers, including internal and external web
serving, configuration of Jakarta Tomcat, DNS, mailing lists, POP and IMAP-based e-
mail, an LDAP-based Directory Service.
• Managed LDAP Control -used to add the Users, domains, LDAP search, Database
• Installed, configured and administered Solaris containers(Zones)
• Maintenance of DNS, NFS, NIS Samba and Apache servers on production Sun Solaris
HPUX and IBM AIX platforms.
 • Bandwidth management reporting with OPENXXTRA (MRTG), CBQ based on Windows
as well as Linux.
• Maintenance of Samba domain Controller and cross platform file sharing Authentication
through AD.
• Identifying improvement areas & implementing measures to maximize customer
satisfaction levels.
• Taking escalations for resolving critical issues ensuring Delivery & Business Continuity.
• Configuring and Administrating of disk management tools such as Solaris Volume
Manager.
• Access log verification and analysis
• Implementing disk quotas on file system.
• Responsible for maintaining the LAN in Sun Solaris. Analyze root cause of an error
situation and perform corrective action.
• Managing Rollback Access Control (RBAC).
• Installation and configuration of Oracle 10g RAC server on Solaris/Linux.
• Handling Partition Management, scheduling & performing Backup / Restoration;
ensuring scheduled/unscheduled Backups as per backup plan and restoration.
• Responsible for introducing Concurrent Versions systems (CVS)

Environment: Solaris 2.8, 2.9, RedHat Linux (4, 5)Debian, Veritas Netbackup, fdisk, fsck,
Jakarta-Tomcat, ANT, LDAP, YP/NIS, MRTG, Expect-tool, Autofs, syslog-ng, tar, iptables,
Solaris-jumpstart, Apache module compilation, CVS Server(Concurrent Versions System),
SNMP, CBQ, sendmail, Ciscoworks, Oracle 9i/10g.

COLT Technology
Network Systems Engineer
April 2005 – July 2006

Responsibilities:

• Sun Solaris Unix System support for clients: Interbrew, Whitbread, ISS, Basell.
• Monitor bad user logins and unauthorized users, frequently changing the root password
for security.
• Remote Solaris/Linux server administration using SSH, SFTP, Telnet, Webmin.
• Installed of all the required Software, patches, documentation, licensing and trouble
shooting.
• Managed Virtual Memory and swapping space on Solaris systems.
• Reading and interpreting packet captures using products such as Ethereal (wire shark)
• Technical Escalation Management based on the resolution set for Urgent, High and
Medium Tickets.
• Expect and shell scripting to simplify everyday operations, reporting, and maintenance
on Unix servers.
• Extending high-end technical support on various Servers and ensuring high customer
satisfaction levels through prompt redresser of their queries.
• Responsible for Monitoring Database and Unix(Solaris/Linux/HP-UX) Batch jobs and
Backups.
• Automated nightly tape backups and some critical OS update patch handling.
 • Handled OS Support, Client Side Backup Management and Vendor Co-ordination on
Hardware failures.
• Package management with rpm pkdadd, pkgrm, pkginfo and pkgchk commands.
• Set up & manage IT Infrastructure for the organization, involving system analysis
/administration, web site & Intranet site management and content updating/management
and server / client side configuration.

Environment: Solaris 8, 9, Redhat AS (3,4,5), rpm, sar, traceroute, SFTP, webmin, expect-tool,
up2date, yum, ethereal, mii-tools.

Software Solution Integrated Ltd

Network Administrator
January 2001- March 2004

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, fine tuning of Applications software's on Unix (Solaris/Linux) used

by Customer Care executives as per the client's requirement.
• Involved installation, troubleshooting Linux/Solaris OS and maintenance of LAN/WAN
connectors and Ethernet cards.
• Handled Planning organization and supervision the formation of the team of experts for
holding various educational programs including seminar, conference, workshop and
other activities of the project
• Installed and configured network printer using cups, fax machine and other hardware
devices.
• Responsible for data and image transfer using Ghost.
• Computer Installation Technician.
• Diagnosed hardware and software problems, and replaced defective components
• Install and maintain network and data communication hardware and software
environment.
• Configure switches, hubs, CISCO Routers, modems and other networking devices.
• Setting up of VS-FTP/WU-FTP Server for uploading and downloading files & directories.
• Troubleshooting OS, printers, network and system issues.
• Implementing various Backup Strategies like performing Local/Remote backups and
Restore, Performing full/incremental Backup using scripting and RSYNC.
• Setting up OpenSSH Server, Secured Logins, Syslog Server, VNC Server, etc.
• Sharing resources between Linux/ Unix and Windows (SAMBA).
• Managing Network user logons
• Linux Kernel customization & compilation.
• Most office suites and components, messaging apps, communications programs (dial-
up, TCP/IP based and VPN).
• Handled in-house provisioning of leased line, ISP services, repair and security.
• Support the MS-Windows users (Sales, Marketing, and Finance).
• Maintained (installed and upgraded) all third party software packages. Maintained
connectivity, configuration, and operation of X-Terminals and peripheral devices.
Environment: Solaris 8, Redhat Linux 3, Real-VNC, pkgadd, pkgrm, pkgchk, VS-FTP/WU-FTP,
Samba server, lpadmin, lpstat, webmin, rsync, OpenSSH, cups.

EDUCATION: M S In Information Technology