Swaminathan S

Experience

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  With ITC Hotels Ltd

  Aug 1992 - Sept 1996

  Team Lead - Unix Admin

  ., Bangalore System Support Co-ordinatorSystem Administration of the Unix Servers running Hotel Management SystemEnsuring the regular Backups of the dataAttainments:Efficiently handled implementation of design, testing and implementation of interface between Hotel Management System and Motorola paging Encoder

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  Tata Infotech Ltd

  Oct 1996 - May 1999

  Team Lead - System Administration

  ., Bangalore as Team Lead Unix AdministrationLeading a team of IT professional, handling Unix System administration of various flavors of Unix like Solaris, Sequent Unix, AT & T Unix, SCO Unix, HP-UX, AIX, etc.Attainments; Efficiently handled analyzing and correcting Y2K compliance of various Unix Servers

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  Ind Telesoft

  May 1999 - Nov 2001

  Team Lead System Administration

  Leading a team of IT professional, handling Unix & NT system administration and network administration.Managing the purchase / upgradation of Hardware / Software as per the requirement of the projects.Evaluating new technologies required for the IT infrastructure.Handling the implementation of the following:Backup solution using Arc Sol.Clearcase Configuration Management.Rational Clearquest Bug Tracking System.Attainments:Efficiently handled an assignment in United States of America to design and set up the Xybridge Inc Network; involved in setting up the Telesoft Inc Network and the Lab. Show less

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  Samsung India Software Operations

  Dec 2001 - May 2003

  Assistant Manager System Administration

  Implementing the following:New Facility of 1200 NodesBackup Solution using Legato Backup ManagerSecurity PoliciesHandling the following:Unix & NT System Administration and Network Administration for SISO. (15 Unix Servers and 5 NT Servers with various Operating Systems like Solaris, HP-UX, Linux and NT).Configuration Management using Clear Case with multisite setup.Migrating the Infrastructure to High End Dell Servers.Setting up of separate Testing LAB for the organization.Maintaining IT compliance with CMM Level4 and ISO 9000.Coordinating with various project groups for their infrastructure requirements & with HQ in Korea for budgets and other new infrastructure implementations.Attainments:Efficiently handled migrating 600+ employees in to the new facility through a week end without any difficulty or loss of productivity Show less

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  Kodiak Networks India Pvt. Ltd

  May 2003 - Aug 2009

  Senior Manager - IT Services

  Implementing the following:IT Infrastructure with 500 Nodes, for Kodiak Networks to setup operations in India with a heterogeneous network of Linux and Windows.Configuration Management Tool for software configuration management.Bug Tracking System (Team Track) integrated with CVS (Configuration management Tool) to ensure control on the source code.SonicWall Firewall / VPN box & VPN connectivity to customer sites & to Kodiak Offices in US.Help Desk System to Track IT Support activities.Managing the product builds and release activities as an additional responsibility.Attainments:Involved with Kodiak Field Support team in implementation of Kodiak Product in Indian Operators by providing help in designing the network and VPN connectivity for remote support Efficiently handled setting up of 24x7 support infrastructure and handled the remote monitoring of the Kodiak Product Application Received an appreciation from the CEO for successfully serving Kodiak for 5 years and helping them on various IT Infrastructure related design and implementation Show less

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  Nokia

  Sept 2009 - now

  Head of IMS Systems

  Heading the team which is transforming the continuous integration to continuous delivery in multi variant cloud infrastructure of Openstack, VMware and K8s to one of the Market Leading Core Network product development R&D's working on 4G,5G and exploring in to 6G. Have taken over the role of building Devops pipeline of 18+ products in Nokia Software Core Engineering group which is capable of First installation test on Openshif, AWS, Tanzu etc.