Mayank Sharma

Handset: +919811852815
E-mail: mayanksin@gmail.com

Career objective:
A Challenging career in a work environment that provides opportunities for utilizing my
experience and Technical knowledge for the mutual benefit and development of the
organization and myself.

Work Experience:

• Working as TEAM LEAD at Cadence Design Systems, Providing support for

Noida India for over 6 years.

• Leading the team responsible for maintaining and managing 99% uptime for
Cadence Noida Data Center housing 1500+ servers with different UNIX variants.

• Member of the Cadence World Wide Virtualization and Consolidation team

responsible for the design and provisioning of environments using VMware based
virtualization technologies.

• Providing Server and Desktop support on various flavors of UNIX/Linux and

Windows (SUN SOLARIS, HP UX, AIX, and Redhat Linux and Ubuntu,
Windows XP).

• Providing Support on various services such as Apache, CUPS Print Servers, NIS,
NFS and DNS. Samba etc.

• Maintaining server farm of 400+ servers based on LSF from IT perspective which
includes setting up of machines of different UNIX variants according to server
farm configuration and maintaining them.

• Complete Ownership of Cadence Noida backup servers which includes both

Legato Networker server and Veritas Netbackup server and supervised resolution
of any problem with them.

Projects Handled.

1:-Hardware Consolidation and Virtualization

Duration August 2008 –Till Date

Designation Consultant - Virtualization
Reporting To Operations Head

Project Highlights
 • Member of the platform design team responsible for the design and provisioning
of environments using VMware based virtualization technologies.

• Design and implementation of true production virtualization platform at

Cadence, Noida consisting of twenty VMware ESX server 3.5 hosts running on
SUN X4150 and Dell Blade servers and Virtual Center 2.5.

• Assessing and analyzing user requirements to identify applications for migration

onto VMware machines, decommissioning servers and applications as appropriate.

• Creating and configuring a virtual switch including VLAN, NIC team, traffic shaping
and layer security policies.

• Implementation of ISCSI, SAN and Virtual Appliances into the Environment.

• Implementation of VMotion, DRS and HA for critical servers.

• Virtual Infrastructures performance Monitoring / Tuning.

• Redeployment of existing physical hardware for use in the virtual infrastructure.

• Zero Downtime for physical server Migration.

• Also implemented VMware VIEW which included setting up of thin clients (SUN
Rays and Wyse XP based) at the front end and Blade servers together with
VMWARE virtualization solutions at the backend

2:- Setting up and maintenance of Data Center at Cadence Design Systems, Noida.

Duration November 2006 –August 2007

Designation Member of the Core Team
Reporting To Operations Head

• Was the member of the core team which was involved in setting up of State of the art
Data center at Cadence Design Systems Noida facility

• It includes setting up the basic infrastructure and consolidation of eight server

rooms in to one Data Center.

• This involved setting up of SUN/HP/IBM/Dell machines with

Solaris(sparc,x86)/HP-UX/Linux(RHEL,SUSE) installed on them

• These machines are reimaged twice a year and patches/fixes are applied on
monthly basis.

• Also new machines are also continuously added to this. I also supervise the
maintenance of hardware of this setup.

3:-Setting up and maintenance of a 400+ server farm.

Duration November 2005 –Till Date
Reporting To Operations Head

• This project included setting up of Server Room for these machine and their
installation and configuration as per farm requirements

• It includes SUN/HP/IBM/Dell machines with Solaris (sparc,x86)/HP-

UX/Linux(RHEL,SUSE) installed on them and configured specifically for server
farm.

• These machines are reimaged every quarter and patches/fixes are applied on
monthly basis. Also new machines are also continuously added to this farm.

4:-Setting up of the Netbackup Server for Cadence Noida Site.

Duration November 2005 –January 2006
Reporting To Operations Head

• It involved configuring of IBM LTO3 tape library having 4 drives for netbackup
on a Solaris server. It also involved setting up of backup policies for backup and
configuration of clients for the same.

5:-Supporting Cadence Noida Site

Duration February 2003-August 2008
Reporting To :-Manager ,India Operations

• The project involved overall System Administration & Management at Cadence

Design Systems Noida. Cadence center at Noida centre which had 3 buildings
and 700+ employees and 2200+ Unix systems .
• Day to day activities included looking after the various aspects of System
Administration and Backup Support.
• It included imaging and reimaging SUN\IBM\HP\DELL hardware with
Solaris\LINUX\HP-UX\IBM AIX with latest Patches/Packages/Fixes.
• It involved Implementation & Troubleshooting of issues related to
NIS/NFS/DNS/Autofs
• It also involved solving of issues of users at Cadence Noida site through Remedy
based ticketing system.

Knowledge Domain:
LINUX, Solaris, HP-UX, WINDOWS (2000, XP Professional)
VMWARE VIEW
VMWARE VI
SUN\IBM/Dell Blade servers.
SUN\IBM\HP Hardware.
Branded PC's\Notebooks viz HP \IBM\Dell.
Legato Networker 6.1.1, 7.1
Veritas Netbackup.(5.0,6.0)
Operating Systems Known: Worked on RedHat Linux (7.x/8.0, EE2.1/3.0/4.0,5.0),
Solaris (5.7-5.10), HP-UX, Windows Environment (Win9X, Win2000, XP,Vista).

Professional Qualification:
B.Tech, Electrical Engineering from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra.

Strengths
Good Communication Skills
Self motivated.
Dynamic and Good Team Player.

Award won at Work

1:-Won multiple awards for Commitment to work. These awards were given to me for
showing high commitment towards the work assigned to me and completing them before
the given completion period.

2:Won an award from our internal customer. This award was given to me for maintaining a
SERVER FARM of 400 machines with zero down time for 12 months and fixing hardware
issues on various hardware platforms.

Personal Information:
Father’s Name : Mr. D.K. Sharma
Date of Birth : 28-07-1979
Marital Status : Unmarried
Permanent Address : 914, Kucha Pati Ram,
Ajmeri Gate
Delhi – 110006
Home Telephone : 91-11-23210738

(Mayank Sharma)