This document contains a resume for Haresh Mehta seeking a position utilizing his 16 years of experience administering UNIX systems including Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, and AIX. He has expertise installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting various server hardware and his skills include backup and recovery, volume management, networking, and database administration. His objective is to find a progressive organization where he can continue growing professionally.

1. Haresh Mehta
732-821-1484
Hareus4@gmail.com
OBJECTIVE
Seeking a challenging and responsible position at a progressive organization, where my UNIX experience
and education will be utilized in an atmosphere conducive to professional growth and achievement.
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
 SUN CERTIFIED SOLARIS ADMINISTRATOR with 16 YEARS of experience in UNIX
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION.
 Experience in Redhat Linux 6.6 system administration in production environment.
 Work Experience in Solaris 11.
 Proficient in configuring SPARC and Enterprise class machines such as E10K,E25K,V890,
E3500,V880,V1280,Ultra-60,M5000,T2000,T5-x,V490,HP alpha,IBM P-series, HP
9000,dome,Blade servers .
 LEGATO 7.0/VERITAS NETBKUP 6.0 for Backup and Restore.
 Solstice Disk Suite, Solstice Backup, file system maintenance, performance analysis & tuning.
 Experience also includes installation and configuration of Solaris 11,10, 2.9/2.8/2.7/2.6/2.5,
adding new users, configuring and installing printers using Solstice AdminSuite.
 Veritas Volume Manager & Veritas NetBackup
 Extensive experience with the installation of Redhat enterprise 4,5,6.6 using Kickstart.
 Experince in Tru64 unix ,cluster,AIX installation.
 Experience in VMWARE servers.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Hardware: Sun Ultra Enterprise E10k, E6800, E6500, E5500, E4500, E3500, 420R, 450,
220R, Ultra-30, Ultra-10, V880, V1280, Dell 6800, 2950, 1850, 1250, HP DL
380, DL 500,HP Alpha ,Dome, Blade servers,T5-x Servers.
Operating Systems: Solaris 11,10, 2.9/2.8/2.7/2.6/2.5.1, Window 95/2000, HP-UX, Red Hat 6 and
AIX.
Languages: C, COBOL, PASCAL, Korn Shell Scripts
Networking: TCP/IP, LAN, NFS, NIS, DNS and LDAP
Tools: Solstice Backup 5.1, Solstice Disk Suite 4.1 and Solstice AdminSuite 2.3,
Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas NetBackup, iPlanet Enterprise web
server, Weblogic 8.1, Automounter, Common Desktop Environment (CDE),
Tivoli and Netcool , Legato Networker 7.0,TSM BNackup.
Database: Knowledge of Oracle, Sybase
Naming Service NIS, NIS+, DNS and LDAP
CERTIFICATION SUN Certified Solaris System Administrator.
SUN Certified StorEdge Volume Manager Administration.
EDUCATION B.S. in Science

2. SYSTEM ADMINISTRATON SKILLS
 Installation
• Installing & Upgrading to Solaris 2.6, 2.7, 2.8,2.9,10,HP 10,11i,AIX 5.3,Redhate
Linux enterprise 4 & 5.
 User Administration
• Creating, deleting and modifying user accounts.
 Software management
• Setting up software installation environment, installing
• New software, removing software as necessary
 Disk Administration
• Creating File systems
• Mounting and unmounting file systems
 Volume Manager
• Installation of Volume Manager
• Creating volumes, plexes and subdisks
• Disk and Disk group Administration
• Performance Monitoring
 System Backup-Restore
• Use of different tools for backup and restoring files.
• Defining back-up strategies
 Configuring and managing local and remote printers.
 Network Administration
• Identifying and modifying network administration files.
• Setup trusted host environment
• Managing NIS and NFS services.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dow Jones & Company, NJ June 2015---Present
Sr. Linux/Solaris Engineer
• Installation and Maintenance of Sun/Linux servers in production environment.
• Work experience in Solaris 11 in production environment.
• Experience in SVM,ZFS,VxFS,VxVM.
• Perform Jumpstart/Kick Start installation in Solaris and Linux respectively.
• Experience with 24x7 operations support for Medium to Large sized Data Center.
• Working experience in SAN including Luns allocation in Solaris and Linux/VMWARE
environment.
• Expierence in Printweb production migration for Websphere.
• Work on Red Hat Linux 6.6 server installation and maintenece for the Wombat
application environment.
• Installation of Splunk and Hp monitor tools in Red Hat /Centos linux servers.
• Experience on Veritas Volume Manager 6.0 and Veritas Cluster 6.0
• Experience in Solaris Zone.
• Define and Document operating procedures in timely fashion.
• Experience with VMWARE servers.
• Troubleshooting problem using Peregrine,Remedy,Jira ticket system. Working in
extensive User environment and Resolving Daily Troubleshooting of End users
problems.

3. Pfizer Inc. Remote Position , OH Jan-2013---May 2015
Sr.Unix System Engineer
• Installation and Maintenance of Sun/Linux servers in production environment.
• Work experience in Solaris 11 in production environment.
• Work with Sun Volume Manager.
• Performed Flash Archive Jumpstart and Kick start installations in Solaris and Linux
respectively.
• Experience with 24x7 operations support for Medium to Large sized Data Center.
• Working experience in SAN including Luns allocation in EMC environment.
• Worked on Solaris zones/containers, good understating of ZFS/SVCADM.
• Experience on Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 and Veritas Cluster 5.0
• Working daily on Critical issue for the servers.
• Define and Document operating procedures in timely fashion.
• Troubleshooting problem using Peregrine ticket system. Working in extensive User
environment and Resolving Daily Troubleshooting of End users problems.
SUNGARD, PA Feb 2010—May 2012
Sr.Solaris System engineer
• Installation and Maintenance of Sun/HP/AIX/Linux servers in production environment.
• Work experience in Solaris 11 in production environment.
• Experience with 24x7 operations support for Medium to Large sized Data Center.
• Performed Flash Archive Jumpstart and Kick start installations in Solaris and Linux
respectively.
• Working daily on Critical issue for the servers.
• Working experience on AIX TSM, Veritas Netbackup, Legato backup.
• Working with Data protection using Legato, Veritas NetBackup and Storage unit as EMC
symmetrix, Sun Storage array 5200, 1000, 3000, Tape library unit L700 in production
environment.
• Working experience in SAN including Luns allocation in EMC environment.
• Experience on Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 and Veritas Cluster 5.0
• Work with Sun Volume Manager .
• Working experience with VMWARE server.
• Working experience on DR projects.
IBM NY Nov2008---Jan 2010
Sr.Solaris/HP-UX/Linux/AIX System Administrator
 Installation and Maintenance of 1200 Sun/HP/IBM/Linux servers in production
environment.
 Working experience on AIX TSM, Veritas Netbackup, Legato backup.
 Experience with 24x7 operations support for Medium to Large sized Data Center.
 Working experience of DR in Solaris/HP/AIX environment,
 Migration of LVM Volumes in HP-UX from FastT storage in SAN environment.
 Installation and Maintenance of Veritas Volume Manager 5.0, Veritas Cluster server 5.0 in
production environment.
 Performed Jumpstart and Kick start installations in Solaris and Linux respectively.
 Hands on experience in migration the existing Sun Solaris servers from 8 to 10.
 Working experience of TL upgrade in AIX.

4.  Handled Kernel Tuning to provide operating system performance.
 Troubleshooting daily Hardware and Application problems for onsite and offshore End
users problems.
 Working experience in SAN including Luns allocation in EMC environment.
 Work on projects for Veritas clusters and Hacmp clusters upgrade.
 Work on capacity planning for the Honeywell accounts while doing migration.
 Supporting Oracle Application and DBA team.
 Define and Document operating procedures in timely fashion.
 Experience with UNIX shell scripting (Ksh, Bourne shell and C shell).
 Oversaw and verified the Hardware Installation and Configuration of New Servers.
AT&T, Morristown, NJ Dec 2006—Nov2008
Sr.Solaris/LINUX System administrator
 Installation and Maintenance of 80 Sun Enterprise Server and 10 Linux servers in production
environment.
 Installation OS Tru64 unix and cluster installation on Hp Alpha servers.
 Performed Jumpstart and Kick start installations in Solaris and Linux respectively.
 Worked on Solaris zones/containers, good understating of ZFS/SVCADM.
 Hands on experience in migration the existing Sun Solaris servers from 8 to 10.
 Oversaw and verified the Hardware Installation and Configuration of New Servers.
 Handled Kernel Turning to provide operating system performance.
 Hands on experience in IP Multipathing on Solaris 10.
 Troubleshooting daily Hardware and Application problems for onsite and offshore End users
problems.
 Experience with 24x7 operations support for Medium to Large sized Data Center.
 Installation and maintenance of Weblogic 8.x application including JDK and Service pack
upgrade.
 Using Veritas NetBackup 6.0 for backup and restores. Troubleshooting daily backup and
restores problems for offshore and onsite End Users.
 Installation and Maintenance of Veritas Volume Manager 4.1 in production environment.
 Installation and Maintenance of Veritas Cluster server 5.0 in production environment.
 Working experience with LDAP, APACHE, Connect Direct, Tuxedo application.
 Supporting Oracle Application and DBA team.
 Working experience with NIS, NFS, Syslog.
 Define and Document operating procedures in timely fashion.
 Experience with UNIX Shell scripting (shell, bash and perl).
Pfizer Inc., NJ Dec 2004—Dec 2006
Unix System (Solaris, LINUX, HP-UX) Administrator
 Installation and Maintenance of 300 Sun Servers and 40 Linux servers in Production
environment.
 Experience in Linux Enterprise 4, 5 including KICKSTART Installation.
 Responsible for building Solaris 10 systems, upgrading systems to latest updates.
 Managed existing domains and created new domains in 25K/15K/6900.
 Troubleshooting problem using Peregrine ticket system. Working in extensive User
environment and Resolving Daily Troubleshooting of End users problems.
 Experience with 24x7 operations support.

5.  Installation of Maestro TWS 8.1 in production environment.
 Using Legato Networker 7.0 for Backup and restore.
 Installation and Maintenance of Veritas Volume Manager 4.1 in production environment.
 Migration of Volume Manager on 30 servers.
 Responsible for system and Network security tasks .
 Cold and Hot Backup using BCV volumes and Maestro scheduling.
 Performance Tunnning and upgrade of 40 Sun Enterprise servers.
 Installation of Red Hat Linux 7.0 on 10 servers.
 Working with Data protection using Legato, Veritas NetBackup and Storage unit as EMC
symmetrix, Sun Storage array 5200, 1000, 3000, Tape library unit L700 in production
environment.
 Installation of Firmware and Security Patch in Production Environment.
 Experience with UNIX Shell scripting (Ksh, Bourne shell and C shell).
CGI INC. NJ Apr 2004—Dec 2004
Unix System (Solaris, Linux) Administrator
 Working in production environment for 40 Enterprise Solaris Servers and 10 Linux servers.
 Maintenance and troubleshooting of SUN/Linux Enterprise servers.
 Experience with 24x7 operations support.
 Experience with UNIX shell scripting (Ksh, Bourne shell and C shell).
 Project involving installation and Maintenance of Veritas volume Manger 3.1 on 40 servers.
 Working with daily problems of file systems, user creation, hardware installation, network
problem solving, etc.
HRA, NYC, MIS DEPT. NY Mar 2001-- Apr 2004
UNIX System (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX) Administrator
 Installation and maintenance of Solaris 2.6 and 2.8 on E3500 server, AIX 4.3 on RS6000 server
and HP-UX on HP9000 server in Production environment.
 Jumpstart Installation on 30 works station.
 Experience supporting Sun Enterprise servers (hardware and software).
 Experience with 24x7 operations support.
 Programming experience in C, C++ in production environment.
 Install and maintenance of Veritas Volume Manager on Sun E3500 server.
 Work on the Project for 900 GB of data transfer in production environment using automated
script with dd and vxrestore command using EMC SYMMETRIX storage.
 Experience with UNIX shell scripting (Ksh, Bourne shell and C shell).
 Monitoring systems and checking up system health using Sar, top, vmstat, traceroute, netstat,
nfsstat and optimization of resource use through Kernel Configuration.
 Creation of Users, Disk Quota Configuration, setting file permissions, system auditing and
system accounting.
 Working with Knowledge Planet web server in production environment. Troubleshooting
problem by adding, modifying and removing swap space and rebuilding the kernel
parameters.
 Upgrade machine from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 2.8.
 Maintained Network services such as DNS and NFS.
 Configuring and troubleshooting remote printers. Doing field service on Sun server (replacing
Disk, Memory, etc.) – adding new devices depending on requirements.
 Using SUDO program establishing an effective secure environment.
 Knowledge of FTP server, LDAP.

6.  Working knowledge with Veritas NetBackup using DLT7000, DLT8000.
 Running a root.sh script for oracle 8 installation. Keeping the software up-to-date. Applying
patches when needed and recommended by SUN.
 Maintenance and upgrade Window 2000 Dell Server, Troubleshooting problems with server,
User Support.
Genuity, MA Nov 2000 –Mar 2001
Unix System (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX) Administrator
 Responsible for day to day operation support, user support and admin duties such as
 Troubleshooting, backup using Vantive ticketing system for 50 assigned Servers.
 Experience with Networking monitoring tools such as Netcool and Tivoli etc.
 Experience with 24x7 operation support.
 Troubleshooting web server problem using command: ps –aef, lsof, pfiles, truss, ping, netstat,
vmstat, iostat, and uptime. Restart the web server using start and stop scripts.
 Knowledge of TCP/IP in a variety of configuration.
 Installing and modifying UNIX operating system and kernel.
 Working with iPlanet web server e.g: obj.conf. magnus.conf., jvm12.conf., https, ns-https.
 Troubleshooting Late collision problem using ndd command. ( for hme devices.)
 Experience with SecureId issue using SDADMIN and SDLOGMON utility.
 Knowledge of local and wide area network security issues and technology ; understanding
 of Layer 2 (Ethernet) and Layer 3 (IP) network issues.
Epsilon Data Management, MA Mar 2000 – Nov 2000
Sun Solaris Administrator
 Responsible for providing support for Multiple Servers running Solaris.
 Installation & Maintenance of Solaris, HP-UX, AIX 4.3 , Raid implementation and
maintenance through Veritas Volume Manager /Solstice Disk suite.
 Troubleshooting hardware problems and replacement of failed components on Sun Enterprise
servers.
 Installed, Configured and Maintained Sun Solaris Machines.
 Configured the NFS server and NFS clients with Automounting.
 Experience with 24x7 operation support.
 User Administration.
 Working knowledge with Veritas NetBackup.
 File system Administration, Setting up Disk Quota.
 Printer (Network) Administration.
 Performance monitoring
 System backup and recovery using ufsdump / ufsrestore commands.

7.  Working knowledge with Veritas NetBackup using DLT7000, DLT8000.
 Running a root.sh script for oracle 8 installation. Keeping the software up-to-date. Applying
patches when needed and recommended by SUN.
 Maintenance and upgrade Window 2000 Dell Server, Troubleshooting problems with server,
User Support.
Genuity, MA Nov 2000 –Mar 2001
Unix System (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX) Administrator
 Responsible for day to day operation support, user support and admin duties such as
 Troubleshooting, backup using Vantive ticketing system for 50 assigned Servers.
 Experience with Networking monitoring tools such as Netcool and Tivoli etc.
 Experience with 24x7 operation support.
 Troubleshooting web server problem using command: ps –aef, lsof, pfiles, truss, ping, netstat,
vmstat, iostat, and uptime. Restart the web server using start and stop scripts.
 Knowledge of TCP/IP in a variety of configuration.
 Installing and modifying UNIX operating system and kernel.
 Working with iPlanet web server e.g: obj.conf. magnus.conf., jvm12.conf., https, ns-https.
 Troubleshooting Late collision problem using ndd command. ( for hme devices.)
 Experience with SecureId issue using SDADMIN and SDLOGMON utility.
 Knowledge of local and wide area network security issues and technology ; understanding
 of Layer 2 (Ethernet) and Layer 3 (IP) network issues.
Epsilon Data Management, MA Mar 2000 – Nov 2000
Sun Solaris Administrator
 Responsible for providing support for Multiple Servers running Solaris.
 Installation & Maintenance of Solaris, HP-UX, AIX 4.3 , Raid implementation and
maintenance through Veritas Volume Manager /Solstice Disk suite.
 Troubleshooting hardware problems and replacement of failed components on Sun Enterprise
servers.
 Installed, Configured and Maintained Sun Solaris Machines.
 Configured the NFS server and NFS clients with Automounting.
 Experience with 24x7 operation support.
 User Administration.
 Working knowledge with Veritas NetBackup.
 File system Administration, Setting up Disk Quota.
 Printer (Network) Administration.
 Performance monitoring
 System backup and recovery using ufsdump / ufsrestore commands.