Monday, December 27, 2010

Resume

Vaibhav Narula
484-250-3523
narula.vaibhav@gmail.com

OBJECTIVE:
 
To work in a challenging environment that demands strong ‘IT’ technical skills in the areas of Network, Virtualisation, Unix , Linux and  Windows server - automation, security, Oracle DBA & VOIP management & R&D of product development. In a company that is process driven, and where ample scope for learning and organizational skills is encouraged.

Summary
±  A technocrat with 10 years’ of insightful experience in Data Centre IT Infrastructure & Service Management, Service Delivery, Networking & System and Server Administration.
±  Planning and setting up of total IT infrastructure and security for the organisation. (includes planning of  structured cabling, servers configuration and IT security implementation as per the standards of ISO 17799 & ISO 27001 & Sarbox Standards)
±  Expertise in designing and handling of Complex network solution using Cisco & Juniper products. Product Implementation Cisco series 3700, 4900, 5500,6500 ,IPS etc.
±  Expertise in Load balancer F5 Product Bigip 1600 series, F5 ASM , Kemp ,HAproxy.
±  Experience in Hosting designing, Data centre Architecture Solution, Open Cloud, Open Stack, Cloud stack, AWS etc.
±  Expertise knowledge of and experience with major internet routing protocols BGP and OSPF.
±  Development Expertise in  OpenStack , Cloudstack , vmware API &SDK,
±  Expertise  in Storage  solution on Netapp, EMC and HP
±  Responsible for planning and implementation of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans of the organization.
±  Planned & virtualized large & medium organisation on VMware.
±  Developed standard procedures and policies for operation and maintenance of IT department.
±  Deft at analyzing information system needs as per the business vision and prepare IT strategy for approval from management with appropriate solutions.
±  Architected and led upgrades for the maintenance of IT infrastructure for optimum performance.
±  Design and implemented monitoring, documentation & alerting.
±  Design portal , Single Sign on Solutions
±  Automation Experience of 4 years in Puppet and chef.
                                                                                                                                                         
EDUCATION:

M.C.A (Integrated B.C.A (65%)) from IGNOU
10+2 from Scholars Home, Dehra Dun, April 2000. (70%)
10th from Scholars Home, Dehra Dun, 1998. (75%)


Strengths:
Extensive experience in Network and Network Security ,Cloud  based Solutions, Virtualization, Cisco ,Juniper & SonicWALL Firewall Management , Open stack and Cloud Stack, Cisco IPS Security management   ,Blade/UCS Server management , SAN ,Linux\Unix\Solaris\AIX\Windows Servers management , DNS,Active Directory management , performance tuning, shell scripting , portal management , running Application servers   ,patching and building Optimized kernel, building open source software under Linux or FreeBSD, such as KDE, Mozilla, XFree86, Apache for Intel or Alpha. Competent in deploying remote administration,Kickstart deployment of servers including network Proxy & firewall with security. Experience in Handling & administration of Oracle & PeopleSoft server on Unix & Windows Platform.Automation design with puppet and chef  for virtualized and physical environment. Puppet automation design over open stack, cloud stack, VMware and application services.


EXPERIENCE:
The Hackett Group (Answerthink) (https://www.thehackettgroup.com)
Sr. Associate (Dev Ops Engineer) Jul 2012 – Till Date
reporting To: Sr. IT Operations Director
Data centre Responsibility: US, Europe & India
Profile: My responsibility involves handling Network and network Security.  Blade Servers, Production Unix/Linux Servers, VMware, Storage and Clustered Application, Spam & email monitoring.Linux/Solaris/Windows/SAP/Oracle/Virtual Servers architecture, maintaining WAN & LAN Networks with SOX ,BS7799 & ISO29001 standards, handling of Firewall, Web servers, VOIP Devices, Windows & Linux Patch & Antivirus servers and backup of all servers. Other Responsibility includes providing new research solutions to the company for internal and external projects. Handling the Oracle and PeopleSoft Servers for Internal DBA functions. Providing L4 support for all implementations projects for SAP & Oracle.Automation design for virtual environment and Vmware instance. Automation design using puppet and chef  for whole  virtual and  physical infrastructure.


Lead Hosted System Engineer Feb 2011- June 2012
Profile: My responsibility involves managing data center, architecture design & implementation of Cloud based solutions , monitoring design and implementation, handling Servers, Production Unix/Linux/Windows Servers, Vmware, Storage and Clustered Application. Server’s architecture, Windows & Linux Patching, backup’s & Load balancing design and implementation. Other Responsibility includes providing new research solutions to the company for internal and external projects . Multiple onsite  projects with US university on Moodle, Blackboard, Datatel, Casification ,Single Signon Portal solution and Network and Monitoring Solution .
Automation design for virtual environment and Vmware instance.Full automation of hosted  design using vmware and openstack using puppet and  openstack API .System Deployment and release design implementation using puppet.


Kronos Solution India Pvt Ltd. ( http://www.kronos.com)
Lead Hosted System Engineer Sep 2010- Feb 2011
Reporting To: Manager, Hosted System
Profile: My responsibility involves handling Blade Servers, Production Unix/Linux Servers, Vmware, Storage and Clustered Application. Server’s architecture, Windows & Linux Patching, backup’s & Load balancing design and implementation.

The Hackett Group (Answerthink) (https://www.thehackettgroup.com)
Team Lead IT (Data Centre Operations) Jul 2005 – Sep 2010
Team Size: 8   Servers Handled: 2500+
Reporting To: Sr. IT Operations Director, CIO, India Operation Director
Data centre Responsibility: US, Europe & India
Profile: My responsibility involves handling Blade Servers, Production Unix/Linux Servers, Vmware, Storage and Clustered Application, Spam & email monitoring.
Linux/Solaris/Windows/SAP/Oracle/Virtual Servers architecture, maintaining WAN & LAN Networks with BS7799 & ISO29001 standards, handling of Firewall, Web servers, VOIP Devices, Windows & Linux Patch & Antivirus servers and backup of all servers. Other Responsibility includes providing new research solutions to the company for internal and external projects. Handling the Oracle and PeopleSoft Servers for
Internal DBA functions. Providing L4 support for all implementations projects for SAP & Oracle.

IIRS (Indian Institute of Remote Sensing)    Dehra Dun
(Part of National Remote Sensing Agency)
Research Associate Trainee (Voice Development & Network Security Module) Jan 2005 Jun 2005
Total Team: 5 Servers Handled: 40 Staging
Reporting To: Scientist ‘D’
Profile: My responsibility involves development of VOIP software development with   Server Security measures and logging GIS Reports in oracle & DB2 with pixel design system Using Arc View. Internal Oracle Server DBA functions. Handling the cluster of 1 TB Oracle Internal Database on LINUX LVM. Managing the Internal Oracle HRMS Application.Research Report on VOIP & Bandwidth Monitoring. White Paper on Oracle 10g on Linux Cluster

SOFTCORETECH   (http://www.softcoretech.net)          
Jr. Network Administrator & Programmer (Data Center Operations) August 2003 October 2004
Total Team Size: 12 Servers Handled: 70
Reporting To: Country Manager, IT Director (Canada & Uruguay)   
Profile: My responsibility involves maintaining WAN & LAN Networks with handling of Routers, Mail Servers, Web Servers, Remote Servers, Database & billing Server and Gateways & Dial Up with Security on Servers. As a Programmer I had the responsibility of implementing of internal automation & Research software’s.
Oracle 8i & PeopleSoft 7 Internal DBA functions, increased company’s main application performance - runs 8 times faster. Leaded the team for the Kiosk E-governance Design system.


VISA Status :

Currently on L1b  only authorize to work for current company and would require Sponsorship to work for other Company.