Nirmal Kumar Munidevan

Mobile: 07938081698

Email: nirmalvlr@yahoo.com

SUMMARY
Ambitious Senior System Administrator with over 7 years of technical experience and passion for
working with the latest technologies in UNIX and Storage based Environment.
HP Mission Critical Hardware Specialist for Bangalore region, As a Technical Engineer I am
authoritative of high end servers, Storage and Break fix of HP products, with deep and wide
knowledge of operating systems, servers, storage and clusters.
Worked as a customer facing engineer as planning, documenting and implementation of Servers
and Storages in customer data centre.
I am based in London (Croydon), but happy to work UK wide.

Technical Expertise
Performed Implementation, Break fix, Firmware Upgrade on below Hardware
Servers: Superdome, HP 9000 Risc and Integrity servers, C7000 Blade Enclosure,
Storage: EVA, MSA, VA
SAN: Brocade, MC data
Library: MSL, ESL, EML
Performed Installation and Configuration on below Technologies
OS: HP-UX 11i, AIX 5L, RHEL 4, 5
High Availability: MC Service Guard
Backup Tools: Dataprotector
Management Software: Commandview EVA, Commandview EML, Commandview ESL
Employment History
Company: IBM India Pvt Ltd., Bangalore
Position: Technical Services Professional

Period: Nov 09 Jul 2011

Responsible for HP-UX and AIX system management, providing a high quality technical
support to the user community by constantly understanding clients needs to meet their
expectations.
Planning and upgrading firmware with minimum disruption on all HP 9000 Risc and
Integrity Servers
Planning documenting and installation of additional HP-UX, AIX and Linux Systems.
Planning and implementing the rollout of patches and upgrades across all platforms with
minimum disruption to service wherever possible.
Scrutinizing system logs to identify security violations. Preparing reports, making
recommendations and disseminating any pertinent information as required
Producing and maintaining documentation to controlled standards, including project plans
and status reports
Providing second-level technical support on a callout Rota basis to ensure that service
affecting and service threatening problems are resolved in a timely fashion.
Coordinating activities between different external groups to ensure full support and
information is provided
Managing Ignite UX, Nim Server,
Performing Disk management functions using VERITAS filesystems (VXVM), LVM and
Mirror disk UX.
Configuring and trouble shooting MC Service Guard.
Data and OS Backup on AIX 5L using native tools like mksysb, savevg, backup and restore.

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Day to day problem management through Remedy tickets. Analyzing requests, alerts
coming through remedy & act upon it

Company: Hewlett Packard India Sales Pvt Ltd

Position: Customer Support Engineer

Period : May 2007 Nov 2009

Worked with more than 120 Customers over domestic(India), on Implementations of HPUX Servers, Storage, Firmware upgrades, Technical Document writing,
Responsible for Site verification, Technical Planning, Documentation, End to End support
on Implementation.
Planning and upgrading firmware with minimum disruption on all HP 9000 Risc and
Integrity Servers
Planning and upgrading firmware on EVA, MSA, VA & Brocade SAN Switches.
Data Centre Integration (Physical layout planning, Rack Mounting Servers, Storages,
Cabling, Integration of servers)
As a Break fix Engineer available 24*7 to replace failed Modules in HP 9000 Servers and
Storages in Customer Environment.
Working with Technical Presales Engineers, for data centre planning.
Planning and performing Server upgradation by adding CPU and Memory
Installation and troubleshooting of HP 9000 RISC and Integrity Servers & Superdomes
Installation and troubleshooting of storages like XP family, EVA , VA series, MSA Series
and MSL, EML, ESL Tape Library
Integration of Storage with Brocade Switches.
Installation, configuration & support of HP-UX 11.X
Installation and configuration of Ignite UX.
Applying technical policies and standards to systems supported.
Perform OS & tools upgrade and file system expansion as and when required
Performing disk management functions using VERITAS filesystems (VXVM), LVM and
Mirror Disk /UX
System recovery using HP-UX recovery Media and recovery image Media.
HP-UX 11.X Kernel Parameters tuning, adding drivers and subsystems
Configuration and Administration of NFS, DNS,NTP, Sendmail
Creating Virtualization (NPAR, VPAR) Installation of IVM (Integrity Virtual Machines) and
con-figuring Guest OS.
Installation of MC Service guard, Configuring SG SAP.
Integration of Proactive Monitoring tool SIM

Company: Hewlett Packard India Sales Pvt Ltd. (Through Team Lease)
Position: Customer Support Engineer
Period: May 2006 May 2007

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Installation and trouble shooting of HP 9000 RISC & Integrity servers, Superdomes

Installation Configuration and support of HP-UX 11.xx, Ignite, Mirror UX

Configuring, Maintenance and trouble shooting NFS, NIS, and DNS.

Performing Disk management functions using LVM and Mirror disk UX.

Configuring the Server Kernel Parameters,

Configuration and Administration of NFS, DNS,NTP, Sendmail

Configuring and trouble shooting Cluster.

Installing and Configuring MSL,EML,ESL Library,

Installation and trouble shooting of EVA and MSA Storage.

Installation and Trouble shooting of Brocade San Switch

Configuring Data protector

Managing B class work stations

Provide RCA to customers

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Company: IBM India Pvt Ltd.,( Through Netconnect) Bangalore
Position: UNIX and windows Administrator
Period: Dec 2004 May 2006

Performing administrative tasks including creating domain users and groups, Assigning
permissions, implementing of account policies user profiles and Hardware profiles,
establishing the trusts relationships, and auditing the key Resources.

Installing and Updating Security Patches and Antivirus Definition on Workstation and Servers.

Preparing Compliance report of AT & T Security Policy for windows Server, UNIX server and
Network.

Regular Inspection of system and network source to comply with stringent network security
aspect of AT & T.

Installation and configuration of HP-UX Server.

Responsible for Round the Clock Network Support

Technical Trainings BY Hewlett Packard (HP) India

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XP 24000 Storage Hardware Training

Superdome Hardware and Trouble Shooting Training
Advanced Architecture
Firmware Up gradation
Hardware Diagnostics & Trouble Shooting
EVA 3K/5K/4K/6K/8K storage Advanced Troubleshooting Training
C-class Blade System and HP Integrity Blade server Hardware and Troubleshooting
Training
HP VSE (Virtualization Server Environment), (IVM, Vpar, MC Service Guard, ILM)
RHEL 4

Education Qualification
Bachelor of Computer Science (BSC Computer Science)
Personal Information
Address: Flat 13, Leicester road,
Croydon, London CR0 6EB
Age: 29
Marital status: Single
Nationality: Indian
Visa Status: Tier1 Valid till March 2013
License: Clean Driving License
Reference available on request