CURRICULUM VITAE

Pranay Kumar Kotagiri Unix Systems Analyst and Storage

Administrator

+971 52 810 4881 pranaykotagiri@gmail.com Al Khoory Bldg, Al Nadha-2, Diera, 2668. Dubai, UAE.

Pranay Kumar Kotagiri

+971 52 810 4881 | pranaykotagiri@gmail.com

Al Khoory Bldg, Al Nadha-2,

Diera, 2668. Dubai, UAE.

Career Objective:

To be associated with a technology intensive firm so as to gain valuable technical

knowledge and at the same time presents me with a chance to contribute towards its growth with focus

on System Designing and Administration while being resourceful, innovative and flexible.

Key Strengths:

▪ Holding five years real time experience in Core Data centers at India and UAE. ▪ Multi-Tasking Self organized and Result Oriented. Ability to manage self and team as well. ▪ Excellent organizational skills with Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving. ▪ Ability to document the procedures and processes accurately. ▪ Excellent interpersonal and customer handling and communications skills.

Certifications:

▪ HP Certified System Administrator (CSA – HP-UX 11i V3). HP Learner id: PL71609427. ▪ redhat Certified Technician (RHCT) ▪ redhat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Certification id: 805009910743766.

Technical Expertise:

Platforms: HP-UX 11i v3, Redhat Enterprise Linux, CentOs, Oracle Solaris 9/10/11.

Enterprise Management Tools and Softwares:

▪ Microsoft™ Visio.

▪ HP Open View Operations (OVO).

▪ HP Open View Performance Manager (OVPM).

▪ HP Open View Service desk (OVSD)

▪ IT360 Manage Engine professional. (EMS)

▪ Replication Solution manager (RSM).

▪ HP Open View Data Protector (DP).

▪ Symantec NetBackup tool.

Employment History

● ITPeople Gulf FZ : April 2013 till date ● Hewlett-Packard India Pvt. Ltd. : March 2010 to April 2013

Project Details: #Current

Employer : ITPeople Gulf FZ.

Client : Commercial Bank of Dubai

Role : Senior Unix Administrator.

Period : April 2013 - Till date.

Client Profile:

Commercial of Dubai (CBD) is one of the oldest and leading corporate banks, established in 1969, with a

network of branches throughout the UAE.

Previous Project details:

Employer : Hewlett-Packard India Pvt. Ltd.

Project : Shikhar

Client : BOB DC (Bank of Baroda, Data Center).

Role : Unix System Administrator –L2

Period : March 2010 – April 2013.

Client Profile:

Bank of Baroda (BOB) is one of the oldest and largest Indian banks; which has an extensive network

of 4580+ branches spanning the length and breadth of the country, and expanded across 32

countries worldwide.

Roles & Responsibilities at Clients Data Center sites:

▪ SPOC for Unix and Linux Environment at CBD. ▪ Administration and Maintenance of HP-UX (ia64) and Superdome (SD32) and Superdome-

II (S8) Complex. ▪ Unix installation and Troubleshoot Itanium (IA), Oracle Solaris and Linux Servers. ▪ Vitalization: Planning, sizing and designing the virtual environment to meet the client

needs for HP and Oracle Solaris servers. HPVM / vPar 6.2 Administration on HPUX. LDOM and zone administration on Oracle Solaris.

▪ Installing and configurations of Oracle Databases, Weblogic servers, and various applications on all flavors of Unix and Linux Platforms.

▪ Engineering & architecting the design of a system and projects using Microsoft Visio. ▪ Performance analysis load Analysis management: Performance Tuning and reconfiguration

of kernel parameters, NDD Parameters and system tumbles for better performance, monitor and control user process.

▪ Advanced User/Group Administration Quota/Cron/NFS/SMB. ▪ Analyzing the system performance and tune the system for better performance, monitor

and control user process. ▪ Shell Scripting. (Creating advanced Scripts according to the Client requirements) ▪ Disk, File System, and Logical volume manager (LVM) management. ▪ Root disk mirroring on HP-UX Linux. ▪ Ignite-UX backup of servers using ignite server and DDS tapes and through Ignite-UX

Server & System recovery through Ignite backup. ▪ OS Backup on tapes for DMZ servers and Solaris Machines ▪ File system Backup and restoration using HP Open view Data Protector on ESL712e Tape

Library and Symantec NetBackup Tool. ▪ Vendor Coordination with HP Support Center for all hardware issues and complicated and

machine critical issues. ▪ Troubleshooting by analyzing the logs system parameters. ▪ Configuration of MC Service Guard cluster and management of mission critical high

availability cluster servers, and cluster fail over testing on Production servers. ▪ SW upgrade, Patch Management and Firmware management: Installing latest patches &

creating software depots for HPUX Boxes and Linux to maintain the systems up to date and compliant.

▪ Security: Hardening the System according to the client requirement to meet organization security baselines.

▪ Management of HP-Open view tools like Service-Desk, HP-OVO, HP-OVPM & HPOO, ▪ Monitor and reporting the servers storages and network devices through enterpriase

Manage Engine IT360 Professional. ▪ Creating and Managing Business Copy through scripts. ▪ Maintaining documentation for all technical procedures and activities. ▪ Generating the performance reports and analyzing the reports to advice the stakeholders

on the system sizing, performance and future enhancements.

HP 3PAR Storage Administration:

▪ Managing HP 3PAR storages for exclusive for booting the system over Fiber ▪ Creating Hosts, Host groups and exporting L.U.N’s to Cross platform hosts. ▪ Zoning the WWNs on Brocade switches ▪ Local replication.

Symantec NetBackup: (In current environment)

▪ Managing NetBackup master server and NetBackup Appliance. ▪ Creating jobs for taking (LAN &SAN) backups. ▪ NetBackup client installation and SAN client configuration on various platforms. ▪ Vendor coordination and follow ups with Symantec with high level issues.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:

Qualification Institution University/Board Course / Subjects Year

B.Tech Malla Reddy Engineering College (MREC), Hyderabad.

Jawharlal Technical University, India.

Computer Science Engineering.

2005 - 2009

Intermediate Pathanjali Jr. College (PJC) India.

Board of Intermediate Education, India.

Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry (M.P.C)

2003 - 2005

High School St. Mary’s High School (SMHS) India

S.S.C. Board, A.P, India S.S.C Board curriculum

Till 2003

Other Personal Information:

Date of Birth 25th June’88.

Nationality Indian

Passport No H3899380

Visa Details U.I.D 129956893

Gender Male

Marital Status Single

Alternate email ipranayk@hotmail.com

Alternate Contact # +971 52 908 1187

Notice Period: 30 Days

Declaration:

I hereby declare that the above written particulars are true to the best of my knowledge.

- Pranay Kumar Kotagiri