Balaji Chandran
Sun Certified System Administrator – Solaris 9 OS
Sun Certified Network Administrator – Solaris 10 OS
Email: Balajic74@gmail.com
Experience Summary
Information Analyst with nearly Twelve years dedicated to Systems and Network Administration. I have performed multiple consulting roles during my career including IT Consulting, Data Center Operations & Delivery and Systems & Network Administrator. I specialize in Solaris, AIX, Win NT4.0/2000/2003/XP, MS-Exchange, MS-SQL, Oracle, Sybase, Veritas Net Backup, VSS, iPlanet and IBM WebSphere
Job Title History
Information Analyst – HP Enterprise Services Jan\03\2005 to Till Date
(Transferred to Covansys US (State and Local Division) à Bought by “Saber Solutions” à Bought by “EDS” à Bought by “HP”)
Senior Consultant – Covansys India July\12\2000 – October\1\2006
LAN Administrator – SPIC JEL April\1\1999 - March\31\2000
Customer Support Engineer – Zenith Computers Ltd October\13\1997 – June\8\1999
Trainee – Customer Support Engineer – PCS October\16\1996 – March\31\1997
Technical Summary
Languages: Software AG Natural (Satisfactory Knowledge)
Hardware: Sun - Sparc Enterprise E 250 / E 450 / E 220R, V440, V480 and Netra T1,
RS6000, Compaq Proliant ML370 / 530, HP-L200 / Net2000, IBM Netfinity
3000 / 5500, DELL PE2950
Software: Dream weaver, Software AG Adabas v33401, Natural v61117, Predict v432, Entire Connection 4.11.
Technologies: Client / Server
Operating Systems: Solaris-UX 2.6/ 7.0 / 8.0, 9.0 AIX-UX Unix Release 4.X, Windows2003 Server Windows NT 4.0 Server /Workstation, Windows2000 Server / Professional, Windows 95 / 98, Windows 3.11, Novell NetWare 3.12, SCO Unix 3.2 / 4.2/ 5.0, LINUX Red-Hat5.2 / 6.0 / 7.0, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server.
Tools: Network Associates E-Policy Orchestrator, ARC-Serve 6.61/2000, HP-Open
View, PC-Anywhere, Terminal Server, Bright Stor, CITIRX Presentation
Server, Symantec Ghost.
Backup Software: VERITAS NetBackup 5.0, Veritas Backup Exec 11D.
Databases: Oracle, MS-SQL, Sybase. Adabas
Communications: TCP/IP, UDP/IP, ICMP, FTP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, Net BIOS, SNMP, NFS, OSI, and DHCP.
Networks: Check point Firewall NGX R60, 3COM Switches, Cisco 2950 Switches, Linksys Router.
Industries: IT
Education
Bachelor of Engineering, June 1996
(Electronics and Communication Engineering)
Dr. M.G.R Engineering College
University of Madras
Diploma in Electronics and Communication Engineering, April 1992
Thai Moogambigai Polytechnic
Engagement Overview
Project: Hardware Software Upgrade and Maintenance Support.
Role: Information Analyst 09/2006 to Till Date
As an Information analyst of HP Enterprise Services at the CSED Guam, I was involved in installation and configuration of two SUN V440 Servers, three PE2950 Servers, by installing and configuring Sun Solaris 9 Operating environment with the Software AG products Adabas, Natural and Predict on the SUN v440 Servers. Migration of Adabas database and natural source codes from old version to the new version. I am responsible for maintenance and System administration of SUN V440 server hardware, Solaris 9 OS and Software AG products.
Installed and Configured the PE2950 server with Windows 2003 Server operating system, Installed and Configured the DNS Server, Active Directory server. Installed and Configured the Citrix Presentation Server 4.0. Created the Active directory users and migrated the user’s folders. Installed and configured the VERITAS Backup Exec 11D server and installed the agents on Solaris and Windows servers. Configured and tested the Backup policies.
Installed and Configured the Symantec Antivirus server and installed the agents to all the workstations.
Installed and Configured the PE2950 server with the Checkpoint Firewall NGX R60 software and configured the firewall rules as per the requirement.
Installed and Configured the Dell GX520 Workstations with the Windows XP, Office 2003 Standard and Entire Connection 4.11.
As an Information analyst I am responsible for the maintaining Child Support operations, including trouble shooting, network, and server, and modem problems. Monitoring the daily backup and batch runs. Running special job runs such as IRS COLLECTIONS, EFT from Banks, DRT files, and LICENCE SUPENSION etc. Executing and monitoring the Daily, END OF MONTH / END OF QUARTER, and YEAR END jobs. Executing and printing the MONTHLY BILLING REPORTS.
Project: APASI System and Network Operations Support. CSED (Guam)
Role: Senior Consultant 01/2005 to 08/2006
As a senior consultant for Covansys, I was involved in installation, configuration and maintenance of APASI onsite and offsite production and development servers and DR server at Columbus data center. Migration of Adabas database and natural source codes from development to test and production region. I was responsible for System administration and maintenance of Sun Solaris 2.6, 2.8, Debian Linux and Windows 2000 with Citrix Server.
The Technical environment included: SUN 480R, SUN E250, Sun Netra T1, Compaq DL380, Adabas 311,332, Natural 4.1.29, 6.1.1 and Predict 3.4.2, 4.1.1
Project: HAVA Environment Setup – Portland Maine 30 Days.
Role: Senior Consultant
As a senior consultant for Covansys, I was involved in installation and configuration of HAVA application software in the HP UX 11.11 server with JBOSS 4.1 and APACHE 2.0 web server. Installed and configured the HAVA test environment.
The Technical environment included: HP UX 7410 M/C Service guard clustered. HP UX 3440 with HP UX 11i operating system.
Project: Automated Installation through Scripts, Ford (Fitsi)
Role: Lead Engineer Systems 07/2003 to 08/2003
As a Lead Engineer Systems for Covansys India Ltd., I was involved in project development for FITSI in development of Automated Installation scripts for the Installation and deployment of Divine Content Server 5.0 on WebSphere 4.0.4 on SUN Solaris 8.0.
The Advantage of this Automated Installation Script reduced the time of product installation and configuration from 4 hours to 30 Min.
Project: Research Subscribe, Merrill Lynch
Role: Lead Engineer Systems 03/2001 to 03/2003
As a Lead Engineer Systems for Research Subscribe project of Merrill Lynch, I was involved in setting up the development servers in a three tire architectural environment. As a part of this effort, I have designed, Implemented the server on Windows NT with Oracle DB and Solaris OS with iPlanet, JRUN and CORBA (Visigenic & Visibroker). The similar setup is now migrated to IBM Websphere, CORBA (Visigenic & Visibroker) on Solaris, Oracle DB on WinNT.
Also maintain the server with necessary enhancements to this environment as per project requirement. In addition, I have designed and configured SMTP mail services on this Solaris server.
The technical environment included: Sun E 450, Sun E250 and Sun Netra T1 servers, Java, JRun, IBM Web sphere.
Projects: ERI, ADWEB, EDMWEB Merrill Lynch
Role: Lead Engineer Systems 12/2002 to 03/2003
As a Lead Engineer Systems for Research Subscribe project of Merrill Lynch, I was involved in setting up the development servers in a three tire architectural environment. As a part of this effort, I have designed, Implemented the server on Windows NT with Oracle DB and Solaris OS with iPlanet, JRUN and CORBA (Visigenic & Visibroker), Perl, C, C++. Also maintain the server with necessary enhancements to this environment as per project requirement.
The technical environment included: Sun E 450, Sun E250 and Sun Netra T1 servers, Java, Jrun, Perl, Forte C, C++.
Project: GELP, Merrill Lynch
Role: Lead Engineer Systems 10/2001 to 03/2003
As a Lead Engineer Systems for GELP project of Merrill Lynch, I was involved in setting up development the server in a client / server environment. As a part of this effort, I have designed, Implemented the server on Windows NT with Oracle DB and Solaris OS with Sybase DB. Also I maintain the server with necessary enhancements to this environment as per project requirement. The technical environment included: Sun E 450.
Project: FINMAN, Merrill Lynch
Role: Lead Engineer Systems 10/2001 to 03/2003
As an Lead Engineer Systems for FINMAN project of Merrill Lynch, I was involved in setting up development the server in a client / server environment. As a part of this effort, I have designed, Implemented the server on Solaris with Oracle DB and WinNT OS with VSS and CITRIX client. Also I maintain the server with necessary enhancements to this environment as per project requirement. The technical environment included: Sun E 250.
Project: Exchange Mail Server, Merrill Lynch
Role: Lead Engineer Systems 06/2001 to 03/2003
As a Lead Engineer Systems for Merrill Lynch project, I was involved in setting up the production Exchange mail server for ML-ADC. As a part of this effort, I have designed Implemented the server on Windows NT with Exchange 5.5. Also maintain the server with many of the needed enhancements to this environment. In addition, I have designed and configured GAL of Merrill Lynch to the ML-ADC Exchange Server. Also I have configured the Veritas Backup Exec software to backup the Exchange server in a daily basis.
The technical environment included: Compaq ML530 with RAID 1 and RAID 5 configured.
Professional Activities, Certifications and Training
Oracle 8.1.7 DBA Training
SUN Certified System Administrator – Solaris 9 Operating Environment.
SUN Certified Network Administrator - Solaris 10 OS.
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