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Ram Lakshmanan

Ram Lakshmanan

Systems Engineer

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  • Timeline

  • Skills

    Storage
    Cloud computing
    Virtualization
    Data center
    Vmware
    Red hat linux
    Infrastructure
    Iaas
    High availability
    Paas
    Solution architecture
    Storage area networks
    Server architecture
    San
    Netapp
    Nas
    Technical leadership
    Unix
    Servers
    Enterprise architecture
    Solaris
    Integration
    Enterprise software
    Security
    Linux
    Dns
    Network security
    Operating systems
    System deployment
    Apache
    System administration
    Entrepreneurship
    Small business financial management
    Small business management
    Coaching
    Mentoring
    Teamwork
    Business analysis
    Decision making
    Management
    Leadership
    Organizational leadership
    Domain name system
    Storage area network
    Accounting
    Corporate finance

  • About me

    Dynamic, customer-focused IT professional with 25 years of industry experience. Proven track record in implementing new technologies & building scalable, secure & virtualized infrastructures for various organizations to lead to accelerate growth, effective performance and cost optimization. Working efficiently with global cross-functional teams to design, develop and implement the infrastructure solutions. Projects & initiatives were successfully taken from concept, requirements, budgeting, procurement, staffing, implementation, cutover, through production & sustaining operations. Specialties: - Datacenter Design, Virtualization, Cloud Architecture and Operational Services. - Servers, Storage, Network & Security - Redhat Linux Certified Engineer & VMware Certified Professional. - Vendor Management

  • Education

    • TELC Hr.Secondary School, Pudukottai

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    • Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE, New Delhi ).

      1991 - 1994
      BS Electronics and Communication Engineering

  • Experience

    • Sterling computers Limited ( India )

      Aug 1990 - Oct 1992
      Systems Engineer

      - Installation maintenance of PC’s, SCO UNIX & Netware Servers. - Setting up the terminal servers. - Systems administration for Netware 2/3/4 & SCO Xenix.

    • Center for Development of Telematics (C-Do T)

      Oct 1992 - Feb 1997
      Systems Admin

      - Administering Mail servers & File Servers- Installing Operating systems, Application software’s and patches for Software development environment.- Setting up the backup and recovery for Mail & File serves. - Troubleshoot system problems and attending help-desk calls.

    • Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company)

      Feb 1997 - Feb 1999
      Unix Systems Administrator

      - Install, build & administer multiple Servers (Sun 3500s, HP 9000s) & Workstations running HP-UX 9 /10.x and Solaris 2.x in a cross platform environment.- Implement Performance monitoring & optimization procedures in Production environments.- Plan systems growth - file systems & logical Volumes. Implement RAID configurations using Sun’s Enterprise Volume Manager.- Setting up Cisco Router, Switches and DHCP network for remote sites

    • Mascon Global

      Feb 1999 - Feb 2000
      Sr. Systems Administrator

      - Setting up & configure Unix networking subsystems such as DNS, NIS, NFS & SendMail.- Assist with network interoperability of subsystems such as NFS, NIS, and DNS etc. between heterogeneous operating platforms such as HPUX, Solaris & Linux.- Assist client site Systems Administrators with third party software installation issues ranging from Oracle installation to Apache configuration and automation of critical tasks via customized scripts.

    • Symantec

      Mar 2000 - Oct 2008
      Sr.Principal Systems Administrator

      Jan'05 - Oct' 08Designed and deployed new infrastructure for BI Reporting using Oracle 10g RAC database and Quest shareplex & Oracle streams replication technologies. Created a strategy to bring the large data from various systems into ODS. Designed and deployed new infrastructure for online renewals & payment systems using Oracle 10g RAC database & custom APPS on Weblogic platform.Designed and deployed a new infrastructure for Oracle Hyperion application and migrated the data from existing Datacenter to new Datacenter.Designed and deployed new infrastructure for Sabrix TAX systems and integrated with Oracle ERP.As part of Symantec-Veritas Integration designed and implemented the new infrastructure for the following env- Integrated ERP & Financial reporting systems for SYMC & VRTS. - Integrated Peoplesoft HR systems using Oracle-10g & Psoft 8.2- Integrated Trade compliance systems using Vastera Tradesphere 8.12- Integrated Enterprise licensing & EDI Systems.March'00 - Jan'05 -Managing 500+ Sun & Linux Servers. -Develop technology presentations and creating runbooks for the Operations teams.-Technology Transformation project - migrating Oracle ERP application from Solaris to Linux platform.-Designed and deployed Hitachi SAN storage & McData Director with Shadow image & Truecopy for enterprise applications. -Managing www servers & BigIP/3-DNS appliances.-Setting up new infrastructure and managing for Oracle-11i, Siebel CRM & Data Warehouse.-Provided level-3 support for mission critical env. Show less

    • Hewlett Packard Enterprise

      Nov 2008 - Jan 2010
      IT Solutions Architect

      As infrastructure Solution Architect, Worked closely with Enterprise Architects, Application Architects & Vendors to design a new private cloud for high volume e-Commerce portal.Worked closely with the cross functional engineering teams such as platform/virtualization, database, network, security, j2ee, messaging and directory services, application development & vendors to implement the end-to-end solutions. Implemented instance strategy to support maintenance & project activities.Managed the end-to-end performance tuning to meet the SLA’s per design. Show less

    • VMware

      Sept 2010 - Mar 2017

      • Sr.Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Services

        Jan 2012 - Mar 2017

      • IT Architect

        Sept 2010 - Dec 2011

  • Licenses & Certifications