Career Profile and Work Experience of a Senior Linux System Administrator
1. Present Address:
168/A-B, Green Road
Kalabagan, Dhaka-1205
Bangladesh
Tel: 9123505, 01916100187
E-mail: makauser@gmail.com
MD. ABDULLAH-AL KAUSER
Career Profile
• Experience in Linux and Unix operating systems and proficient with different operating systems
and utilities.
• Experience in SAN Storage administration for large scale enterprise environment.
• Performing day to day Linux and Unix operating system administration.
• In-depth knowledge and experience in information technology infrastructure planning,
capacity analysis and system implementation.
• Extensive experience in management of data center operations and network systems.
Professional Experience
Senior System Administrator (Unix & Storage)
Banglalink Digital Communication Limited (A subsidiary of VimpelCom)
Gulshan, Dhaka-1212
April 2007 to Date
Job Responsibilities:
Linux & Unix Server:
♦ Unix System Administration to ensure smooth operation for IT Billing, Mediation,
Interconnection, Provisioning. ERP. Revenue Assurance & Data Warehouse systems,
♦ High Availability Cluster (MC/Service Gurad) management in HP-UX with 24X7 support
for application running in HA environment.
♦ Managing and administrating VERITAS CFS for two node HP-UX cluster..
♦ Managing, administrating and troubleshoot RedHat cluster
♦ Managing, administrating GFS cluster for Data warehouse systems.
♦ LVM management (VG create/remove, VG extend, LV create/remove, online LV extend) in
HP-UX and Linux platform.
♦ Integrity Virtual Machine (IVM) management (Create, monitor & performance monitor of
Virtual machines) in HP-UX v3 VSE (Virtual Server Environment).
♦ User and group administration, user activity auditing & disk quota management in HP-UX &
Linux.
♦ Shell scripting for job automation and monitoring (already written: 24 hours cluster
monitoring, H/W monitoring using EMS, Disk space utilization checking, utilization of CPU
& memory, ping status check of each host).
♦ Having experience of working with HP rx6600, rp7420, rp7440, rp3440, rp4440, rx8640,
bl860c/bl890c i2, HP Proliant DL380, bl460c/680c, Dell PowerEdgeM610/910/2950 servers.
2. ♦ Apply patches to different HP-UX/Linux servers if needed and recommended.
♦ Monitored CPU & memory usage, Disk I/O statistics using iostat, sar, vmstat, iotop, ksar, I/O
Plotter.
♦ Tune kernel parameter to identify any OS level performance problem.
♦ Backup and recovery from HP Ignite-UX Image Backup server.
♦ Planning and budgeting for UNIX & Storage team.
Storage and SAN switch:
♦ Experience as SAN switch and SAN Storage Administrator in Information Technology (IT)
including EMC & IBM storage.
♦ Experience in administrating, managing EMC symmetrix V-MAX and VNX, ClariionCX-
3/CX-4 series.
♦ Storage experience with management tools includes EMC Control Center ECC, SymCLI,
Performance Manager, Clariion Navisphere Manager/Analyzer/Naviseccli and Event
Manager.
♦ Strong experience in SAN data migration solutions that include EMC Open Replicator,
Replication manager, Recover point and Clariion Sancopy.
♦ Strong experience in backup managerment and disaster recovery administrator using EMC
TimeFinder family (Snaps, Clone and BCVs), Remote replication techniques (SRDF, Mirror
view and SAN Copy).
♦ Hands on experience with various Brocade enterprise directors (12k and 48k) and
departmental switches (3900, 4100 and 4900).
♦ Experience with Cisco enterprise directors like Cisco MDS 9513/9509/9506 and 9120/9140
departmental switches.
♦ Hands on experience on data migration tools, both array based (SRDF and OpenReplicator)
and host based/non-array based (Unix native tools, Open Migrator, PPME and Robocopy).
♦ Experience SAN Management for Linux/HP-UX/AIX/Windows operating systems.
♦ Knowledgeable in troubleshooting day to day SAN/Storage and host related issues on VNX,
VMAX, Clariion CX4-240/480/960 and Clariion CX3-40/80 and CX 700/600/500.
♦ EMC Solutions Enabler SymCLI, EMC Control Center, EMC Navisphere Manager & EMC
Symmetrix Management Console.
♦ EMC powerpath and Multipathing (Linux native multipathing software) path Management
Software.
♦ Creating RFP and Business case to justify requirements for new Systems software, hardware
and existing Storage capacity upgrade
Special Project Work:
♦ Billing server migration from rp 7400 to bl890c i2 with HP MC/Service Guard and
VERITAS CFS.
♦ Mediation server migration from rp 7400 to DL 680 and OS migration from HP-UX to
RHEL 5.6.
♦ Successful migration of SAN switch from Brocade to Cisco for Banglalink.
Trainee, Technical Service
Thakral Information Systems Private Limited, Kawranbazar, Dhaka-1215, Bangladesh
Strategic Alliance Partner of IBM for Bangladesh, Nepal & Bhutan
September 2006 to March 2007
Job Responsibilities:
♦ Setup & maintenance of IBM p-system unix server, line printer.
♦ LVM management (VG create/remove, VG extend, LV create/remove, LV extend) in AIX.
♦ User and group administration, disk quota management & ACL permission in AIX.
3. Executive, System Support
ConnectBd Limited, Banani, Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh
October 2005 to August 2006
Job Responsibilities:
♦ Setup, monitor & maintenance of network both in Windows & Linux platform.
♦ Configure Linux based server (Yum, Ssh, Caching Dns, Dhcp, Apache, Mail
(sendmail and postfix), Nfs, Samba, Proxy (Squid), Ftp, NIS, Cups etc).
♦ Work experience on security services (PAM, SUDO, IPTABLES, NAT, TCP Wrappers,
Digital certificate).
♦ Configure Nagios, Cacti, MRTG, Mikrotik.
International Vendor Certification
Certified Data Center Profession (CDCP)
Certificate Number: 81881019164613
Educational Qualification
Institution Session Degree/Certificate Year Of
Passing
Class/
Division
Dhaka University,
Dhaka
1998-2002 B. Sc. in Computer
Science & Engineering
Exam held
in
2005
Second
(Position
Second)
Dhaka College,
Dhaka
1996-1997 Higher Secondary
Certificate
(Dhaka Board)
1998 First*
Government
Laboratory High
School, Dhaka
1994-1995 Secondary School
Certificate
(Dhaka Board)
1996 First*
Computer Literacy
Language C/C++, Java, Visual Basic, 6.0, Shell Scripting in Linux
Database Oracle 8, SQL, PL/SQL, Developer 6
Web Programming MS FrontPage
Networking & Distributed
Processing
Socket Programming in Linux, Cluster Configuration in
Linux, Oracle 10g RAC Configuration in Linux, Hadoop
configure in Linux
4. Graphics OpenGL, Graphics in C,
Tools
TOAD, Turbo C++ 3.0 for MS-Dos, gcc/g++ for Linux,
Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, JDK1.3.0, Flex
Operating System DOS, Windows 9x / NT / 2000 / XP/7, Redhat Linux
4/5/6, AIX, HP-UX
Application MS Office 2007, Vi, Emacs
Networking, Internet and System Administration
Communication and
Networking
OSI Layers, TCP/IP, Ethernet Basics, Wireless
Basics, Routing, Switching
Windows Admin
LAN/WAN Setup, Troubleshooting, Internet Service
Admin
Linux/Unix Admin
Linux Installation, Linux Network Setup, Internet
Service Admin, Linux Security (PAM, SUDO,
Firewalls, NAT, TCP Wrappers)
Training
Training on Advance Networking and Windows 2000 Server Administration from Apachinet.
Training on CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) from TIICT.
Training on CDCP (Certified Data Center Professional) from EPI.
Training on CDCS (Certified Data Center Specialist) from EPI.
Training on Fundamentals of UNIX System course from HP, Singapore.
Training on RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) course from Base Limited.
Training on RH242 (Red Hat Linux Troubleshooting) course from Banglalink System team.
Training on RH436 (Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management) course from
Banglalink System team.
Training on RH442 (Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning) course from Redhat, India.
5. Significant Projects
• Design and Implementation of “E-voucher” and “IN Dump” loading using shell script.
• Design and Implementation of “Data Dictionary & SQL command
Interpreter” using C and C++.
• A “Message passing software” in Linux Environment.
• Design and Implementation of “Student Examination System” for the Department of
CSE of University of Dhaka using Oracle8 as back end and Developer 6 as front end.
• Design and Implementation of “Push & pull service by remote access to a database
through SMS using a GSM cellular device” using Java and MS Access.
• Software to maintain Email such as block bulk mails, receive mails from a particular
account, delete the mails from a particular accounts and other services
Honors & Awards
• Stood 8th
position at the first annual inter university programming contest jointly
organized by Daffodil International University (DIU) and JOBS, 2003.
• Achieved prestigious positions in some online contests.
• Have solved 130 problems of ACM Valladolid Programming Contest site.
Statistics can be found at
http://acm.uva.es/cgi-bin/OnlineJudge?AuthorInfo:6844
Self-Appraisal
• Ability to cope up with different situation
• Organizing & leadership competence
• Good communication skills
• Co-operative & Innovative
• Excellent command over reading, writing & speaking in English
Biography
Father’s Name: Md. Abdullahel Kafi,
Chief Engineer & Director (Technical), (Retired)
Bangladesh Bridge Authority &
6. Project Director, Padma (Mawa) Bridge Project
Mother’s Name: Mrs. Akrima Yeasmin, Housewife
Permanent Address: C/O: Md. Abdullahel Kafi
Village: Mridhapara
P/O: Gopalnagar
Thana: Faridpur
District: Pabna
Nationality: Bangladeshi (by birth)
Marital Status: Married
Religion: Islam (Sunni)
Sex: Male
Date & Place of Birth: 1st
October 1981, Dhaka, Bangladesh
References
Dr. Khwaja Nazim Uddin
MBBS (Dhaka), FCPS (Medicine)
Professor, Department of Medicine
Consultant, Diabetic Hospital (BIRDEM), Dhaka
Chamber : LAB AID LTD.
House No-1, Road No-4, Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka
Phone No: 880-2-8610793-8
Dr. Mohammad Iqbal
Associate Professor & Head
Department of Industrial & Production Engineering (IPE)
Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Sylhet
Phone No: 880-821-713491, 880-821-714479 Ext No: 168
Signature:
7. Project Director, Padma (Mawa) Bridge Project
Mother’s Name: Mrs. Akrima Yeasmin, Housewife
Permanent Address: C/O: Md. Abdullahel Kafi
Village: Mridhapara
P/O: Gopalnagar
Thana: Faridpur
District: Pabna
Nationality: Bangladeshi (by birth)
Marital Status: Married
Religion: Islam (Sunni)
Sex: Male
Date & Place of Birth: 1st
October 1981, Dhaka, Bangladesh
References
Dr. Khwaja Nazim Uddin
MBBS (Dhaka), FCPS (Medicine)
Professor, Department of Medicine
Consultant, Diabetic Hospital (BIRDEM), Dhaka
Chamber : LAB AID LTD.
House No-1, Road No-4, Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka
Phone No: 880-2-8610793-8
Dr. Mohammad Iqbal
Associate Professor & Head
Department of Industrial & Production Engineering (IPE)
Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Sylhet
Phone No: 880-821-713491, 880-821-714479 Ext No: 168
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