BALKISHAN SHARMA

5756 Glen Brook Ct, Mason Oh 45040

Cell Phone- 513-205-9726
Work Phone- 513-697-3447
bs9bbbb4@westpost.net
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Objective:
Seeking a challenging position as a Principal Architect/Sr. Architect/Team Lead
Unix (Information Technology)
SUMMARY: "Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated" Innovative, res
ult-oriented IT management professional with over 18 years of visible achievemen
ts providing leading edge technology solutions. Extensive qualifications in all
aspects of Technical lead Solaris Virtualization Architect, Integration, support
, security, administration, management and hardware/software solutions on produc
tion environment.
Exceptional skills in implementation of teams and systems to provide business s
olutions, which increase operational efficiencies. Deliver bottom-line results t
hrough effective design, development and execution of systems to reduce or save
costs.
Merge hands-on leadership style with excellent communication skills to continua
lly drive focused teams toward performance excellence. Proven record in streamli
ning operations, relating technical information to end users and leading project
s to full fruition.
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CORE MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIES
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Team Leadership, Strategic Planning,Project Development & Management, Client Man
agement, Problem Resolution & Troubleshooting,Productivity Improvement,Staff Tra
ining & Development, Client Needs Analysis
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TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
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Virtualization Solution (Zones/Containers, LDoms)
Veritas Cluster 4.1/5.0/5.1
Technical Support & Training
Veritas VxVm 5.0 MP1 HF3
Systems Administration
Solaris10, 9,8, HP 11.11
Jumpstart/WAN Boot
MC Service Guard, LVM
Patch Cluster/ DST Patch Cluster
SAN, NAS & RAID
MPXIO Configuration
DMX Frame/Data Migration
Data Center Migration
Disaster Recovery
Performance Tuning
Backup & Restore
System Security
Monitoring
Network Setup (IPMP) & Administration
Opsware
Software Installation & Configuration
Linux
Microsoft Word, Excel Spreadsheet
Power Point Presentation
Solaris PlateSpin P2V Migration
SOP
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CERTIFICATION & PROFETIONAL TRAINING
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*Sun Solaris Virtualization Containers (SA-230), Solaris 10 from Sun Microsystem
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*Sun Solaris 10 Logical Domains (SA345), Certificate Course on Linux
*VERITAS Cluster 4.X from VERITAS, Project Management by Fujitsu
*ITIL V2 Foundation
EDUCATION
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*2008: Master of Business Administration (MBA), Xavier University, Cincinnati, O
H (Expected on 2010).
*1992: Masters of Computer Science & Engineering, Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar Universi
ty, Maharashtra, India.
*1990: Bachelor of Electronics, Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar University, Maharashtra, I
ndia
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HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
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* Letter of appreciation from GE
* Letter of appreciation from Alltel Communication
CAREER PROGRESSION
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Technical Lead Virtualization June 2008 to Present
Cincinnati Bell Technical Services
CLIENT: General Electric (GIS) Corporate
CBTS is Cincinnati Bell Company, which has business relation with General Electr
ic (GIS). I am accountable for the following.
*Accountable to act as Technical Lead Solaris 10 Virtualization Solution provide
r for GE Corporate.
*Project management & leadership to provide latest technology solution
*Trim technical expenditure by merging the hardware & providing Virtualization S
olutions.
*ZFS-create the pool, quotas, and zfsboot; configure SAN disks & export/configur
e on guest LDoms.
*DMX frame migration and data migration.
*EMC storage administration
*Virtualization, Containers/Zones, LDoms, migration (P2V/V2V), Solaris Installat
ion/jumpstart, up-gradation, Integration, and support on Solaris 10
*Design, development and delivery of department upgrade of all hardware (T5240.
T5220, T2000, M8000. M5000, M3000), software, network & server operations
*Veritas Cluster in Solaris zone environment for high availability
*Streamline working environment by establishing technical and operational standa
rds.
*Negotiate and administer service contracts; interview and secure various consul
tants on contract basis.
Sr. Unix System Analyst Nov 2005 to May 2008
Convergys, Inc
Convergys Inc is a global leader in billing, and HR solution industry. As a tech
nical lead Unix system, I was responsible for managing the new projects, provide
solution to the team, and resolve the issues in data center.
*Virtualization, Containers/Zones, (P2V/V2V), Solaris Installation/jumpstart, up
-gradation, Integration, and support on Solaris 8, 9 10
*Server performance & monitoring, kernel tuning
*Installation/up-gradation & configuration new hardware, network & 3rd party sof
tware like Veritas volume manager 3.5- 4.1 & 4.1- 5.0, file systems, Veritas clu
ster, SSH, Opsware
*SAN- configures disks under VVM, upgrade server & HBA card level firmware, migr
ate internal OS disk on fiber boot disk, enable MPXIO on Solaris 10. Install pow
er path & enable licenses for redundancies.
*System security like server hardening which include disabling some services, in
stallation/configuration of web hosting servers
*DMX frame migration, data migration and Disaster recovery of the servers on Sol
aris9, 10
*Building patches cluster, provided technical solution to team, Assist and lead
project members in analyzing & resolving computer infrastructure challenges
*Plan and manage technical architecture and operations projects; ensure business
deliverables are committed & coordination with different teams.
*Organize team meeting, technical update meeting, and daily on call turn over me
eting, technical change over meeting, manage on call rotations & change approval
meeting
*Knowledge on Microsoft word, Microsoft Excel on PC environment
TAC Worldwide System, INC April 2005 to Nov 2005
Client: Pfizer, Inc
Pfizer Inc is a global leader in pharmaceutical industry. As a technical lead, I
was responsible to provide technical lead solutions on Portage, MI, Ann Arbor,
MI & St Louise Data center
*Installation of Sun Solaris 2.8, 2.9 & HP 11, Integration, building patches clu
ster (Solaris & HP), disaster recovery of the servers, & provided technical solu
tion to team, Assist and lead project members in analyzing and resolving compute
r infrastructure challenges
*Server performance & monitoring. Budgeting for new project, team member trainin
gs and budget allocation for new software & produces a long-term business benefi
t
*SAN- configures disks under VVM, upgrade server & HBA card level firmware, migr
ate internal OS disk on fiber boot disk, enable MPXIO on Solaris 10. Install pow
er path & enable licenses for redundancies
*Installation/up-gradation & configuration new hardware, network & 3rd party sof
tware like Veritas volume manager 3.5- 4.1 & 4.1- 5.0, file systems, Veritas clu
ster
*Organize technical update meeting, daily on call turn over meeting, technical c
hange over meeting, manage on call rotations & change approval meeting
Rapidigm, Inc August 2002 to March 2005
Senior Unix System Analyst
Client- Alltel Communication & Amdocs Inc
Alltel is a telecommunication company and Amdocs is in billing for Nextel, Sprin
t & Cingular. As a senior Unix system administrator, my roll is in roll descript
ion.
*Installation of Sun Solaris 2.8, 2.9 on Sun 15K, Sun E10k, Fujitsu 1500, Sun Fi
re 6800, Prime Power 200/400/650, 4800/3800, 880, E5500, E3500, 880E-420R, E220,
HP 9000, SAN (EMC Symmetric, EMC CLARion CX700) D-1000, A-1000, A-5000
*Extensive experience in implementing high availability / data redundant configu
rations using Sun Cluster, Veritas Cluster
*Upgrading Solaris 2.7, 2.8& 2.9, Setup and configuring of Jumpstart servers, In
stallation of Patch Bundle and upgrading the EPROM, NTP servers & clients
*Extensive experience in setting up volumes using Veritas Volume Manager 3.2/3.5
(VxVm) on servers in data center
*Extensive experience in configuguring Layered volume (RAID), Solstice Disk Suit
e (SDS) for setting up various RAID levels on disk arrays
*Installation, configuration and support of Apache, web Hosting, LDAP, Netscape
and Vitria application servers
*Configuration of DNS, RPC, IPC & NFS servers, send mail and TCP/IP Networking
*Configuration of Shell Script using Korn Shell & Awk
*Configuring Unix Networks with 100MB Ethernet, Giga bit, Quad, FDDI and token r
ing cards
*Installation of Veritas net backup software
*Capacity planning for effective Disk/CPU/Memory/Network management
*Performed system & database Kernel Tuning of the system and configured Kernel p
arameters such as Semaphore Settings and shared memory
Novasoft Corporation, Inc March 2000 to July 2002
Senior Unix System Analyst
Client- GE Corporate & GE Capital
As a Sr. Solaris systems administrator, my activities included:
*Administration of Sun Solaris, AIX, HP, NT, Installation of Solaris 2.6, 2.7, 2
.8 & AIX, E10K, which includes Solaris installation, domain creation, network co
nfiguration
*Installed system monitoring via SSP, patch installation and performance tuning
*Installation of Sun E6500, E5500, E4500, E3500, E420R, E220, Sun Ulta-2, storag
e area D-1000, A-1000, A-5000
*Configuring UNIX networks with 100MB Ethernet, Quad, FDDI and token ring cards
and TCP/IP Networking
*Monitoring and training system administrators and cliental operations for lates
t trends in technology
*On-call rotation 7x24 and responsible for Solaris, NT, HP UNIX and AIX.
*Installation and configuration of BMC Patrol V3.2.05, Patrol 2000 and monitorin
g the system.
Fujitsu-India LTD May 1992 to Feb 2000
As a Sr. Solaris systems administrator my activities are almost same which is me
ntioned above.