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Overview
I have an overall 7 years experience as a Systems Analyst & IS Security Consultant with various business environment like Banks, Financial companies, Manufacturing, Telecom, Health Care, OIL, IT Service companies
Operating System
Solaris 2.7,8, SUNOS 5.7, AIX 4.3, Digi UX, Win2000 advance server, ADS, NT4.0, Terminal Servers & CITRIX METAFRAME 1.8, Metaframe XPe (FR2), NFUSE Elite Portal Server, NFUSE Classic 1.7, Novell 3.x, 4.x, SCO Unix, Exceed X-Windows
Server Hardware
Sun E10000, Sun Cluster, SSP3.4, Enterprise Ultra E450, E4500, SUNSparc 20, IBM RS6000/S85, 7133/D40 SSA IBM Main Frame, HP9000 K, Netinfinity 8500,7000R Compaq Proliant Series 8500, 8000, 6500, 3000 with DLT library, HP Net server, DIGITAL Alfa 2100 SERVERS
Enterprise Data Storage: Veritas Volume Manager, Solistic Disk Suit, Snap Server, Brocade Silkworm 2800 Switched Storage Area Network (SAN), A1000/D1000, EMC
Security Tools
1.Firewall,
2.IDS
3.VPN
4.PKI
5.HIPPA (HL7)
TREND MICROSCAN virus wall with content inspection, Raptor Firewall, NAI products, TIS-ISA Firewall, Gaultanet Firewall, CA- Etrust Firewall, Internet Security Scanner, Checkpoint, NMAP, Radius Security Server, Banking Security, Net sonar, Testing on Encryption, PKI, asymmetric & symmetric key cryptography, Single Sign On environment, CA'S VPN.on WinNT, Weblogic server, Smart Card based access Control System, Biomatrix, GAP Analysis, Vulnarability & Penetration Testing, report analysis, Troubleshooting and Crisis Management
WAN Setup
Leased Circuits X.25, E-con SNA , Econ, 3com Superstack-II, Cisco catalyst 6500,5500,2900 switches, Cisco 3003 VPN controller Cisco1600, 2500 router, Frad, Network Appliance Storage F840, Cisco QOS
RDBMS- Oracle8.X , Sybase 11.X, SQL Server2000
Oracle Database Administration 8, 8i, 9i
Advanced Replication & manage staging, Physical Standby Databases / Data Guard
Database Resource Manager, Fine-Grained Access Control
Parallel Server / Real Application Clusters, Advanced Queuing
Database installation, configuration, Export. Import, , SQL Backtrack.
Software, Tools & ERP Warehouses
ERP: SAP R/3 Basis Support, JD Edward's One World support in configuration on WIN2K/SQL
Middleware: CERNER HNA Millennium, remedy, MQ Series 5.x (AIX, NT4 )
Banking Tools: Bank Master, Branch Power, Globus Systems, Bloomberg, Midas, Reuters, SWIFT, Cloverleaf , BizTalk Server 2000 & XSLT maps integration
Backup and Recovery - Tivoli, NetBackup, RMAN.
HTTP Servers - Apache. Netscape/planet Enterprise, Oracle Web Server, Weblogic
Languages - C, C++, Basic, Toad V.Foxpro, SQL*Plus, QARun, Jbase
Shells - Korn /Ksh, awk
Monitoring Tools: Microsoft Operation Manager (MOM), Data traffic monitor by SNIFFER, BMC PATROL 4.3KMs for UNIX, ORACLE, Middleware, QARun
SAMIS, SAUDI ARAMCO, Saudi Arabia- System Analyst (S) From Nov2001 - Present
Currently working with largest Oil Company in Middle East as System Analyst establishing proactive system setup & managing Aix, Oracle database, CITRIX, Win2k Advance Server, Cerner HNA
Millennium Application, Stress testing by QA products. SAMIS is a web based HealthCare system for electronic Communication within all ARAMCO Hospitals.
Unix Administration & Security :
* Installation of HACMP 4.3 upgrade, ML9 on Five IBM AIX RS6000 MACHINES, Testing Graceful Fail Over, Fail back, across Domains & network, BMC Patrol KMs installation & monitoring, Installing BMC agent & console , Load BALANCING the console across Two different site buildings.
* Managing 7133 d40 SSA, Disk-Volume management of 300GB of data, Micro code updates.
* Configuration of 5 nodes of two remote sites for high availability in multi domain, multi node setup.
* Developed Korn shell script for automating cycling of application servers
in AIX, Server Management.
* AIX System Administration, resolving Cluster File system, Groups Sets settings, Application Performance, printing issues, Plan for stopping spoofed attacks (Ingress, Egress filters)
* Configuration of XNTP time server for 5 AIX nodes & synchronize with Win2000 Domain Time Server.
* Unix server OS level hardening, applying security patches, vulnerability control for systems, applications
* Logging, Monitoring, Escalation - implementation, audit, evaluation - technically and procedural
* Operating System Security - audit and evaluation of Unix and NT4, W2K, HNAM Middleware Security.
Database Administration (8.1.7.1), Data Warehouse Security:
* Involved in installation of Oracle 8i, up gradation from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7.1 on 7 domains (AIX RS6000 S85 Servers)
* Installed application patches on Front End & Back End servers & mass move in different Database environment.
* Monitored 5 Oracle 8.1.7.1 databases of 3 production, 2 staging, 4 development domains during Disaster Recovery process, managing RBS & system table space management.
* Actively participated in Disaster Recovery for Database & Application Servers high availability (Standby Recovery Database & testing of it's recovery during various scenarios)
* Involved in Backup & Recovery Strategy design, Assisting in Data Conversion, Maintenance.
* Performance Tuning & support for Oracle 8171 & CERNER HNA MILLENIUM DATA WAREHOUSES, CERNER Corporation USA
* Off Cycle Distribution (OCD) implementation.
* Developing QARun scripts for software quality analysis after getting training from Compuware, South Africa.
Administration, management of SAMIS CITRIX farm
* CITRIX Farm of 16 Compaq Prolient 8500 servers , Publishing applications, creating new ICA files for published application , hosting on Intranet website, Securing applications by Citrix
* Load balancing Citrix Servers across farms wrt applications, session level security with 128 Bit Encryption. Placing servers in DMZ zone with filtering on TCP ports, Penetration Testing - electronically- firewall/network/server/application attacks, buffer overflows, denial-of-service.
* Application cryptographic implementations (NFuse Elite Web Portal Server analysis & drills)
* Involved in installation & configuration of WIN2000 Advance Server, Citrix
* Metaframe 1.8 Feature Release & Cerner HNA Millennium software on front end CITRIX Servers, Tested upgrading to Metaframe XPe.
* Enabled Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) on all Win2000 advance servers to enumerate Domain faster
* Monitoring Win 2000 servers with Microsoft Operation Manager (MOM), Citrix Session monitoring.
* Responsible for system Down Calls on Compaq Server, Citrix Metaframe, On call duties.
* Plan for setting SSL based secured gateway for external network users across Border & Primary firewall.
* Intellenet VPN support for CERNER consultants, USA, Server's HOST based security
* Testing Secured Wireless Connectivity to existing CITRIX Network by access points with symbol Pentablets , Palms, Pocket PCs, Cisco Areonet, Compaq, IBM thin clients.
* Web Server Security with Session Expiration & encryption, Authorized application access control through Policy
* Participated in Active Directory Roll Out, MS Windows 2000 security migration plan & Security Management.
Server Configuration: Compaq Prolient 8500 as win2k terminal servers, Citrix Metaframe 1.8(FR1), 18 nos.
IBM RS6000 based S85 servers: Aix Systems-5 nos. with Reflection as XWINDOWS, working as ORACLE8171 Database Servers, SSA 7133 d40 SYSTEM, HACMP /ES 4.3.1 clusters across all nodes for High Availability.
Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mills Company, Bahrain : System Administrator. From 18 Nov 2000 to Nov 2001
I work with Largest Aluminium Rolling Company in Middle East with System Administration
(WIN2000 Server, AIX, SOLARIS) with Oracle 8i Database tuning & Administration
of complex network of 25+ Servers used for 'Shop Flour Data Collection System'(24*7
Environment with 1500+ employee strength) . Responsible for Overall
MIS development, Vender Management, Coordinate with subordinates, evaluate
& suggest products, Stock procurement through Purchase Dept, QA & QC of
IT products & giving solutions to Business Requirements, designing policies
Procedures for the entire security group.
Unix Administration:
* Shell scripting for backup, ftp, Scripts for com port Auto-mapping for thin clients. Database related activities and reports, NFS, NIS monitoring the network status and Monitor CPU Utilization.
* Sun E10k Dynamic System Domain management with ALBA for SAP Material management module, joint venture with ALBA. Participated in System Service Processor (SSP) installation, capacity planning.
* Veritas Backup server Configuration, 24*7 Scheduler configuration, Managing JFS, GPFS file systems
* Planning & Configuration for Disaster recovery of Servers' Setup, Application Servers, databases.
* Necessary Kernel tuning for SAP application, Create Volumes, Extend volumes, managing RAW devices.
* Managing Veritas File System (VxFs) Global Filesystem, Snapshot Filesystem for online backups, trouble shooting clusters, Managing ADSM, Netback up system, Tape Library management, Off Site backups
* Testing Backup validity by restoring, Designing Policy for Data Center Relocation in Disaster Recovery.
* Event log console configuration for (AIX) RS6000 based oracle server with SMTP based scripts.
Internet & Intranet Security:
* Implement and maintain firewall architecture, Segmented DMZ, modifying rules of Firewall, Backing up Firewall rules, replication, Apply Security Patches to Firewall, B2B application portal session security.
* Administer secure implementation procedures for servers, (user id's, application
and Hardware level security, SYSTEM LEVEL security Policy, routine audits, applying OS security patches & hardening)
* Evaluate tools and technologies for use in security audits and VPN deployments.
* Configure products for Intrusion detection, analysis of security risks,
vulnerabilities.
* Study & Testing on Encryption, PKI, asymmetric & symmetric key cryptography,
* Single Sign On environment in Redundant secured internet paths. Secured Faxing.
* TREND MICROSCAN virus wall integration with Internet Security server, Exchange
2000 configuration to avoid spamming, ISA Firewall Configuration
* Qualys guard sniffers; CA unicenter TNG based Etrust Firewall. Implementation, IDS.
Database Administration & Security Analysis. (Oracle 8 & 8i, Sql
Server 2000)
* Study & Development of various techniques for securing Oracle 8I( NT) based applications against vulnerability of password in Client Server environment.
* Upgrade of Oracle 7.3 to Oracle 8.1.7 on Aix 4.3 System (RS6000 based IBM
machine)
* Monitoring units of disk storage, i.e. Data files, Redo Files, Archive Log Files, Extents, Monitoring System Global Area , Shared Memory, i.e., Memory Segments, LRUs, Buffers etc.
* Setting User grants, Roles, Privileges for Securing Server DATABASE
* Auditing Database. Security with Oracle Enterprise Manager
* Oracle Schema Security (All tables & OLTP mechanism) & role based access
Control.
* Taking the correct action for keeping the database running if server malfunctions
Configure CITRIX Metaframe Server (v1.8) on w2k for Database access,
Server farming for load balancing, Published Application Management, X-windows Server on Metaframe. This includes entire Production Plant migration from existing PC network to fast speed, reliable thin clients network. Tune for WAN access.
* ICA protocol security on Firewall with port monitoring on CITRIX web clients.
* JDEdwards AS400 extra personal client connectivity through SNA gateway
for200 users JDEdward Oneworld ERP package deployment, Finance & distribution module reports tuning, operational support.
Cisco Catalyst 2900, 6500, 5500 configuration, port grouping.
Cisco3003 VPN controller configuration for connecting corporate offices
in entire globe
PROTOCOLS: TCP/IP, DHCP, PPP, SDLC, HDLC, RIP, IGRP, OSPF, SNA.
Server Configuration: Compaq Prolient 8000 with DLT library, IBM Netfinity
6000, 7000r used as win2k terminal servers, database servers, Right fax servers,
Exchange 2000 mail servers.
Sun Enterprise Ultra E-4500 -1 nos 2GB ram + 9gb *4 software mirror Hard Disk
(metadb) with NFS mounted SNAP server (90 GB), Xwindows loaded.HP SURESTORE
DAT DRIVE.FTP, citrix client support, com port mapping (8 serial, 1 parallel port paddle card), mainly used as production database (ORACLE) server
IBM RS6000 based Aix Systems-3 nos. with EXCEED 6.1 as XWINDOWS, RDi corporation Sun system Laptop with 2 gb ram, 18 gb hdd running (software mirrored with Security policy manager CA's product, Network monitoring products, Snoop oaded. Act as remote server.
MICROWAVE COMMUNICATION LIMITED (SHINAVATRA GROUP, Singapore)
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