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Vasanth Raj
Plot No 1B, Pavithram,
Indira Nagar, Santhosapuram Email: vasanthrajg@[Link]
Chennai – 600073. Mobile:- +91-994-030-8896

Professional Summary

 Thirteen Plus Years, Experienced IT professional with a deep passion and high energy
level to pursue a successful career in IT Operations as a Technical Operations Manager from
the Unix and Storage background by blending skills and knowledge using creative instincts to
attain goals of the organization
 Responsible for Primary Data Centre and Disaster Recovery sites
 Comprehensive understanding and practical knowledge in various technologies
 Diploma in Electronics and Communication Engineering

IT Services Core Competencies

 Technical Operations Management  Project Management

 Disaster Recovery Management  Patch Management
 Process Management  Virtualization – VMware
o Change Management  Storage – VMAX, EVA-X000
o Problem Management  Unix – HP-UX, Linux
o Incident Management  Resource Management & Utilization
 Critical Incident Management

Professional Experiences and Duties

HCL ISD Chennai, India – Mar 2009 To till date

Projects:- Lafarge Cements
Projects:- Armstrong World Industries

Roles and responsibilities

Technical Operations Manager (Storage, VMware, Windows, Unix/Linux & DC Ops) – Lafarge
Responsible for the quality deliverables for the above said support tracks
o Key roles
- Better understanding on client’s technical requirement and co-ordination between the
teams
- Troubleshooting, finding the root cause and provide permanent fix
- Providing a detailed RCA for all major issues
- Performance analysis from end to end infra and provide fix
- Creating and maintaining the SOP’s of all the major tasks from all the tracks
- Defining process flow and document
- Planned and migrated the physical machines into virtual environment using P2V
- Auditing the incident tickets
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Plot No 1B, Pavithram,
Indira Nagar, Santhosapuram Email: vasanthrajg@[Link]
Chennai – 600073. Mobile:- +91-994-030-8896

Planning and executing the entire Sensitive Data Centers Maintenances

o Key Maintenance activities planned and executed successfully
- Electrical failover test for the entire rack's which is hosted in the DC's
- Nexus 7K Upgrade
- Nexus 1000 V Upgrade
- HP-UX 11.11, 11.23 and 11.31 Patch and FC upgrade
- Database Migration to RAC
- BL870Ci2 firmware upgrade which has HP IVM
- Migrate Servers from FC Pool to SATA Pool
- Creation of Port-Channel & New VSAN for RAC in VMAX
- Port-channel link between MDS 9509 and UCS
- Decommission of HP XP12K, EVA3000 & Brocade SAN switch
DRP Manager – Lafarge
o Working as a DRP Manger for application recoveries
- Designed and handled a network isolated DR environment within DC’s
- Conducted DR test in SUNGARD, Lognes, France
- Responsible for DR environment deliverables on a VMware infra-structure
- Planning and executing in tend to achieving the RTO and RPO for the respective
application
- Documenting the recovery process, lessons learnt and maintaining the Continuous
Improvement Process

Problem Management
- Verify and approve a problem ticket
- Providing approval for a work around to fix the incident
- Approve RCC(Root Cause Conclusion)
- Approve the permanent fix
- Drive the team for a permanent fix across the environment as per the vendor
recommendations

Change Management:
- Working as a change manager to verify the changes raised by all support tracks
- Clearly verify the Test Plan, Implementation Details , Back Out Plan
- Follow up until the closure of Change

People Management
- Team motivation , applied Soft Skill Techniques for all Incidents
- Motivation like Team engagement, Rewards and Recognition, Star Performers Award.
- Giving appreciation on time for their extended support.
- Nominating most deserved Team members to Monthly & Quarterly Awards
- Getting Star Performer Awards for most deserved Team members from Clients.
- Handled attrition and retain most of them with doable commitments without any false
commitment and honored the given commitment.
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Plot No 1B, Pavithram,
Indira Nagar, Santhosapuram Email: vasanthrajg@[Link]
Chennai – 600073. Mobile:- +91-994-030-8896

Unix Track Lead – Lafarge

 Creating and Administering HP-Integrity VM.
 Administering VPar/NPar
 OS Upgrade from HP-UX 11iv2 to 11iv3. Storage Array migration from EMC/JBOD’s to
XP24K Storage disks on a Service guard environment.
 Configuring a new cluster, package and trouble shooting on hp-ux service guard environment.
 Restructuring the root filesystem, filesystem management using LVM.
 Ignite backup on both network and tape configuration and recovery.
 PDC Firmware Upgrade, Yearly patch management.
 Creating shell scripts for automating regular tasks and monitoring the server status.
 Administering EVA 8k.
 New Hp-ux Server build/Customization as per the environment needs.
 Administering Dynamic Root Disk on HP-UX 11iv2 and 11iv3
 Ignite Management on VPar and HP-IVM architectures
 End to End responsibility to deliver the project which includes set up of HPUX/Linux servers,
migration, configuration, Production Support and other layer products installation and
configuration like DB and customized application

HP India Sales Pvt, Ltd., Chennai, India.

(Under the payroll of Alchemist HR services) (Feb 2007 to Mar 2009)
 Experienced in setting up a Data Centre and Disaster Recovery sites with various Unix,
Windows and HP-EVA-8K Storage Environment.
Project:-
 Ashokleyland (An Indian Leading Automobile manufacturing Company)
[Link]
 MRF LTD (India’s No.1 Tyre Manufacturer) [Link]
 Lift & Ship Migration from One Data Center to another DC
 Handling HP-UX 11.23 Integrity itanium servers Rx7640 and Rx8640, BL860c, Rx2660,
Rx4640, Rx2620, Alpha DS20 and Alpha DS40 servers.
 HP-UX 11.23 Installation and Configuring, Serviceguard HA cluster and SGeSAP 3.03
package configuration. Configuring and trouble shooting HP Itanium based Virtual
Machines A.03.00.
 System Administration, Performance Monitoring, File system management, and patch
management, Generating reports, trend analysis under HP-UX and Tru64 alpha servers.
 Kernel Tuning, LVM creation, LUN Presentation, RAID Configuration, Configuring Hp
Openview Storage Data Protector 5.5 and 6.0., Hp enclosures, DNS, sendmail, ftp, nfs,
automount, ssh, and Apache webserver configuration, Ignite UX Server Configuration,
Ignite UX backup and recovery.
 Administering multiple EVA 8100.
 Having Good theoretical knowledge in HP XP128, XP1024
 Excellent backup and restoring experience using Data Protector 5.5 and 6.0 .
 Back up and Restoration using DDS, SDLT, DLT, Ultrium 2 and Ultrium 3 tapes.
 Developing various Shell scripts in sort of Server performance, Server monitoring, network
related issues.
 Handling Second level calls of the users and their issues.
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Plot No 1B, Pavithram,
Indira Nagar, Santhosapuram Email: vasanthrajg@[Link]
Chennai – 600073. Mobile:- +91-994-030-8896

Caliber Infotech India (Pvt) Ltd (Dec’ 2005 to May 2006)

 Providing offshore Remote Support.
 Technical Troubleshooting / Maintenance: Responsible for technical troubleshooting, repair
and maintenance of HP-UX 11.11 servers and Windows 2003 server integration.
 User account and user login management: Adding, removing and modifying unix users.
 Efficiency in network solution providing network IT solutions like configuring LAN, DHCP,
DNS, NIS, Internet, NFS, FTP, TCP/IP, SSH, Telnet and network implementation.
 Service IT Management: Actively involved in handling queries and complaints that are
routed to Service IT and solving their issues.
 Providing Training to all unix users and assisting them to solve their doubts and issues.
Radio Astronomy Center, (TIFR) (Oct’ 2004 to Dec’ 2005)
 Maintaining and monitoring PC’s: SUN Ultra Sparc 5 workstations under DOS, Windows,
Unix (HP-UX & SUN Solaris) and Linux Operating Systems (RH9, Fedora5), Network and
Printers.
 Taking inventory and Maintaining the database.
 Involved in Server configuring, software installation and recovery.
 Backing up: Data Backups using tar, cpio and ufsdump utilities on Exabyte Cartridge and
SDLT, CD-ROM and DVD-ROMs.
 Written No. of Shell Scripts in sort of making ease for the astrophysics users in Unix
(csh)/Linux(bash).
 Analyzing data and plotting their characteristics using Gnuplot.
 Operating Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) for various Astronomical observations.
Aptech Computer Education, Ooty (Aug’ 2001 to Sep’ 2004 )
 Installation and Configuration: Installing PC’s and configuring them accordingly to the
need of the students(Win 9X , NT Server)
 Technical Troubleshooting / Maintenance: Responsible for technical troubleshooting, repair
and maintenance of Desktop Computer Systems and Printers, hardware related issues, chip
level problems and computer peripherals etc.
 Service IT Management: Actively involved in handling queries and complaints that are
routed to Service IT and solving their issues
Certifications Holding
 HP Certified System Administration HP-UX (HP-091).
 HP Certified Advanced System Administration in HP-UX (HP-096).
 HP Certified HP-UX High Availability (HP0-914).
Training
 HP Virtual Server Environment (HP-VSE)
Personal Profile
Name : G. Vasanth Raj
Father’s Name : M. Gopal
Date of Birth : 02 June 1981
Permanent Address : 47/370, Segur Road, Finger Post, Ooty – 643002.
The Nilgiris
Passport Number : J2517737
Languages Known : English, Tamil, Hindi