Resume

Certifications

SUN Certified System Administrator (SCSA Level 1) for SOLARIS 9 – June 2005

SUN Certified System Administrator (SCSA Level 2) for SOLARIS 9 – March 2006

SUN Certified Network Administrator (SCNA) for SOLARIS 9 – March 2007

Experience

Duration

April 2002 to October 2003

Organization

NIIT Rajajinagar & NIIT Basaveshwaranagar

Position

Faculty, CNA (Center Network Administrator)

Responsibilities

• Teaching most of technologies which I have mentioned earlier as my skills.

• Training the students, Guiding them for projects etc,

• Servers Maintenance, Software installations and monitoring Student Management System (encore).

• Co-operating with the Academic Counselor etc…

• Handled Corporate Training on VC++ for MAKINO India Pvt. Ltd.

• Handled corporate training on VB 6.0 for RAILWAYS MIS Department Government of INDIA.

• Conducting Corporate training sessions for VB, VC++ and Java

Duration

August 2003 to July 2005

Organization

Carmatec IT Solutions Private Limited

Position

Senior System Administrator

Responsibilities

• Involved as a Technical Support Engineer (Linux/Windows Systems) in troubleshooting server to client network and stand alone RedHat Linux systems

• Leading teams for managing and securing huge amount of servers for various clients.

• Quality assurance for troubleshoot requests via various helpdesks like Cerberus, PerlDesk, Kayakoo, Edge Panel and Live help tools like phplive, phpChat

• Suggesting, analyzing, and monitoring Server Audits and security check and upgrades Hardening kernel, ssh and tweaking system tools

• Providing server Abuse, server activity monitoring, instruction detection systems and version release monitoring and software up gradation advisory services to clients

• Server and service performance tuning and tweaking.

• Monitoring the configuration of Nagios via Ground work monitoring architect

• Automating server backup and monitoring tools configuration and management.

• Worked for Artemis internal project as php and perl scripting developer

• Automating audits and reporting tools

• Clustering mysql, apache and DNS for streamlining and improving the server availability.

• Automated Nagios configuration and rsync backups on servers

• Developing of Software modules for internal use.

• Writing FAQ’s and Knowledge base articles on various web appliances and software tools.

• Scheduling and Organizing technical activities and seminars as well as work shops.

Duration

August 2005 to till date

Organization

Carmatec IT Solutions Private Limited

Position

Technical Manager

Responsibilities

• Technical work flow management

• Shift scheduling, monitoring and maintenance for the company

• Client allocation for different teams.

• Conducting technical trainings and seminars to train the techs and trainees. Conducting technical interviews.

• Conducting employee reviews, performance feedback sessions. Team meetings

• Reporting the management about the client interactions with technical teams.

• Evaluating overall performance of the employees.

• Training employees on new technologies, adopting new technologies and helping the employees to learn them at a rapid schedules to ensure provide the required skill sets requested.

• Motivating the work force to give the best of their abilities by introducing them to new ideas and processes which can improve their overall ability to serve the clients better.

• Globalization of company technical profile and involving people in knowledge sharing across the globe.

• Handling escalated technical issues.

• Quality deviation checks for techs.

• Network and hardware monitoring for smooth operations in work area.

• Implementation of security aspects at work place which involves access list creation on Cisco routers, NIS Authentication, Biometric hardware implementations for employee login authentication.

Technical Activities

• Educating people on Linux by writing articles on my blog both in English and Kannada (http://www.sampada.net/blog/omshivaprakash).

• Associate Fellow Free Software Foundation of INDIA

• Involving myself in Gnu activities in order to help Open Source community, expanding my little time to help people on IRC channels @ #linux-india #foss.in #gnu-india #ubuntu-in etc

• Working on Kannada localization projects with Fedora 9 and other Open Source
  projects like PHPBB, Drupal, Ubuntu.

• Working on Certified Ethical hacking (CEH), CISSP And other security courses to
  adopt new concepts to efficiently manage the security aspects

• Developing a website for knowledge sharing (www.techfiz.info )

• Allowing people to share knowledge via Techno blogs @ Techfiz.com
• Part of technical team organizing Gnu/Linux Habba
• Tech Sampada – Technical Blog hadda for Kannada community. An initiative to bridge the digital gap.
  
• Translated Freedom Fry OpenSource movie to Kannada in September, 2008. First Indian translation to be put on Gnu.org spreading the world Free Software and Gnu.
• Author of LinuxaayaNa – Technical Articles archive to teach Gnu/Linux in Kannada
• Presented “Linux For Windows Developers” at Web Developers Technology Conference on 4th Octobar 2008. Event was Organized by Smart Techie Magazine.
  

Interests

• Spreading the word OpenSource and GNU to make people breath the freedom

• Bloging (http://platonic.techfiz.info ,http://www.sampada.net/blog/omshivaprakash  )

• Keeping abreast with the latest Technical developments

• Active participant of Quiz’s.

• Have Craze in Trouble shooting, Networking, Photography
  

• Have flair to meet people.

Hilights / Awards

• Award of appreciation received from Carmatec IT Solutions Pvt Ltd in August
  2006 for outstanding service.

• To Work under pressure & ability to persuade others to work in a team.

• Quick Learner, Results Oriented.

• Creativity, Visualizing, Aesthetic, Designing skills

• Best troubleshooting and Programming skills

• Best Technical/Customer Support skills

• Written many articles to Netvarsity.com First Access Section.

• Have won all the extra curriculum activities throughout my schooling. This includes Games, Quizzes, and Science Exhibitions etc.

• Have Won District Level Independence day Quiz competition celebrated in 1997 Bangalore.

• Have Won TechFiz and Coffee Cream awards from Netvarsity.com for Technical
  Articles and Technical Competitions.

• Best iGniitian Award From NIIT Rajajinagar

Extracurricular Activities

• Participated in debates and elocutions in school

• Participated in Ko-ko and Kabhadi and Cricket in school.

Declaration:

I here by declare that the above written particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.