1. Praveen Buddha
510 396 7138(M)
Email: buddhawar@hotmail.com
Objective:
To gain a lead position in a dynamic enterprise that requires high technical and functional skills
and the role that enhances my professional growth as Unix System Administrator.
Professional summary:
• Over 10 years of professional experience in IT.
• Extensive knowledge in Unix Solaris System Administration, RedHat Linux, Veritas
Volume Manager, Veritas Netbackup Veritas Cluster Services, TIBCO Hawk/RVRD
Configuration and Administration
• extensive knowledge of working in High Availability Cluster Environment, Veritas
products including Net-backup, Volume management,
• Working at 3 Level Escalation in 24 x 7 High availability environment with 99.9% SLA.
• Administering and Managing over 6500 Systems in Production, Staging ,Development
and Integration environments.
• Proven skills as team lead and in building and managing technical and professional teams
and successfully executing projects in complex environments.
Technical Skills:
Operating System : UNIX (Solaris/Linux/AIX)
Monitoring Tools : TIBCO Hawk/RV, Nagios,
Technica; Skills : Veritas Net Backup, Volume Manager & VCS, LVM
Packages : CRM: Remedy (Action Request System)
Certificate of Completion:
• Certificate of completion in TIBCO Hawk/RV Administration and Configuration
• Certificate of completion in using Remedy Customer Support Application
• Certificate of completion as Network Operations Engineer
• Suse Certified Linux Administrator
Strengths and Capabilities:
• Pro-Active, Committed, Confident, Team player and Ability to work under stress
• Ability to enhance the productivity and to Manage Professional teams Successfully
• Proven leader with strong Technical, Functional and Administrative skills
• Progressive, Creative and enthusiast with high learning curve
Education: M.B.A
B. S in Engineering.
References: Available upon request
HARDWARE:
SunFire 25K,15K,6800.6900,4900,4800,480R, 280R, Sun Enterprise 6500,4500,E450,E250, Sun
Storage Hardware D1000,D5000. Sun T Series and IBM Power5,6,7, Sun and IBM Blade
Centers. IBM 3850/3650
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2. Praveen Buddha
510 396 7138(M)
Email: buddhawar@hotmail.com
Project Details:
Employer IBM
Duration Apr 2014 to Dec 2015
Role System Administrator / Team Lead
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for Installations, Configuration, Deployment, Administration, Maintenance
and Troubleshooting Sun Servers, Red Hat Linux Servers,
• Install,Configure new LPAR’s on VIO’s and upgrading them to the current levels.
• As an Escalation point for all issues in Production Development environments responsible for
speedy resolving and co-ordination between different teams.
• Regular tasks includes installation, configuration, upgrades to new OS levels. Adding space
Resizing, creating file systems. Setup ODS, creating VCS resources. Create LDOMS and
migrate stand alone servers to LDOMS. San migrations between different arrays. Extending
support to application teams for their deployments.
• Providing training on Monitoring processes, Create reference documents for systems and
trouble-shooting procedures.
• Responsible to work with L1 partners.
Project Details:
Employer Fanniemae
Duration Sep 2004 to March 2014
Role Unix Admin/Team Lead
Environment:
SunFire 25K,15K,6800.6900,4900,4800,480R,280R, Sun Enterprise 6500,4500,E450,E250, Sun
Storage Hardware D1000,D5000. Sun T Series and IBM Power5,6,7, Sun and IBM Blade
Centers. IBM 3850/3650
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for Installations, Configuration, Deployment, Administration, Maintenance
and Troubleshooting Sun Servers, Red Hat Linux Servers,
• As an Escalation point for all issues in Production Development environments responsible for
speedy resolving and co-ordination between different teams.
• Regular tasks includes installation, configuration, upgrades to new OS levels. Adding space
Resizing, creating file systems. Setup ODS, creating VCS resources. Create LDOMS and
migrate stand alone servers to LDOMS. San migrations between different arrays. Extending
support to application teams for their deployments.
• Providing training on Monitoring processes, Create reference documents for systems and
trouble-shooting procedures.
Responsible to work with L1 partners
Project Details:
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3. Praveen Buddha
510 396 7138(M)
Email: buddhawar@hotmail.com
Client Slam Dunk Networks, Inc (CA)
Duration May 2000 to Aug 2003
Role Unix System Administrator and NOC Engg.
Description:
Administering Sun, Compaq and Dell servers with Solaris Windows 2000 Operating Systems and
Maintaining monitoring and troubleshooting worldwide network infrastructure which involves
massive distributed Oracle databases in a HA cluster environment. Responsible for working on 3rd
Level Escalated Issues, which requires high technical capabilities. Reporting to Director
Operations.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for Installations, Configuration, Deployment, Administration, Maintenance
and Troubleshooting Sun Servers, Red Hat Linux Servers, SDN Software (Components),
iPlanet Enterprise Web Servers, TIBCO Hawk/RV, Vital Suite, SNMPc, Veritas Net Backup
and other tools.
• As an Escalation point for all issues in Corporate, Development, Sand Box, UTL, STL & IIL
Lab environments responsible for speedy resolving and co-ordination between different
engineering groups.
• Regular tasks includes Troubleshooting SUN Servers, installations using Jumpstart
installations, and maintaining Troubleshooting NFS, Disk Management, Back-up’s, File
System management, NIS, DNS and all network issues that may arise from time to time.
• Administering and Managing over 400 Systems in Production, Staging areas and in
Development, Sandbox, UTL, STL and IIL Lab environments.
• Responsible for 24x7 availability of Slam Dunk Services to Clients and to this end, pro-
actively Administering, Monitoring and trouble-shooting the SDN Components and third party
tools to ensure high availability of 99.99% at all times.
• Responsible to maintain contact with all third party vendors including SUN services, and ISP’s
and all co-location providers for addressing the issues that are being escalated to us.
• Providing training on NOC processes and procedures and to Create reference documents for
systems and trouble-shooting procedures in NOC and WIE.
• Responsible to work with Customer Care Center, NOC, QA & Development teams from time
to time to trouble-shoot and to resolve reported problems.
• Update Remedy’s “Action Remedy ticketing” system with each problem worked on and
building up the Knowledge Base.
• Generate information that will help to measure, analyze and improve SDN software.
• Quality Testing SDN Components for their functionality, reliability, technicality.
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