SCSA

SCNA

Omshivaprakash.H.L
#738 2nd Stage Kanteeravanagar, Nandini lay-out,
Bangalore- 560096
Phone : 091-9902026518
Email : omshivaprakash@gmail.com
Blog : http://platonic.techfiz.info

Career Objective Thriving for knowledge and power of technology. 
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.

Skill sets
Operating Systems
  • Linux (RedHat, Suse, Mandrake, CentOS, Fedora, Debian,Ubuntu etc.)
  • Windows 9x, 2000, Xp, 2003, Vista
  • Solaris 9,10
Web & App Servers
  • Apache 1.3.x/2.x, IIS 4.0/5.0, Tomcat, Mongrel,Lighthttpd
Networking
  • TCP/IP, NFS, Telnet, FTP, DNS, DHCP, NAT, ifconfig,route, netstat, xinetd, HTTP, NIS/YP
Mail
  • SMTP, POP, IMAP, Sendmail, QMail, PostFix, Exim, QPopper
Admin Tools
  • admintool, smit, linuxconf, vmstat, iostat, top,traceroute, ping, sar, ntop, usermin, pmon, system integrity monitor (SIM), Rkhunter, chkrootkit
Backup
  • tar, cpio, dump (ufsdump), rsync, BRU, Microlite
Security
  • SSH hardening, SSL
  • Mail Scaners spamd, spamassassin, ClamAV, MailScanner
  • Apache Security Modules (modules mod_evasive,mod_security)
  • Intrusion analysis software implementation (APF, BFD,port scanners, key stroke mappers, , IPchains, IPtables, TCP Wrappers, Tripwire)
  • Grsec patching for Kernels and applying patches for the existing softwares modules
  • Nessus,
Web appliances
  • Cpanel, Plesk, Webmin, Ensim, VPN Power Panel, Cobalt Raq, Command Matrix, Vertizzo, Direct Admin
Office
  • OpenOffice, StarOffice, MS Office
Databases
  • MySQL, MsSQL 7, 2000, PostGres,Oracle 8i/9i
Monitoring Tools
  • Network Monitoring (Nagios, MRTG, OPManager, HotSanic,PRM)
  • Stats Monitoring ( Webalizer, Analog, Awstats), quota
  • Bandwidth monitoring (Bandmin)
  • Mail servers monitoring tools (Mailmon)
Languages
  • Programming (C, C++, Java, VB, Visual C++, Perl, PHP,Shell Scripting)
  • Web ( HTML, DHTML, Scripting in Java and VB, XML)
Frameworks
  • Ruby On Rails 
Mailling Lists
  • Mailman, PHPMylist
Routers
  • Managing Cisco Routers (Series 1700)
  • Creating access lists
  • Log analysis, and Activity accounting
  • Managing DSL Routers
  • Syslog server implementation for routers
Disk Management
  • LVM, Software RAID, Disk Quota
Virtualization Technologies
  • OpenVZ
  • Xen
  • VmWare
  • VirtualBox
Others
  • Custom software management via Fantastico
  • Clustering of DNS, MySQL and Apache, Proxy (Squid),
  • eCommerce applications ( OsCommerce, Interchange)
  • System auditing and Log analysis
  • Service tweaking for ftp, mysql, apache etc.
  • Securing and Tweaking Servers for better uptime and performance
  • Payment gateway installations and integration (pfpro)

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 bride 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.

Education (Professional)
Professional Qualification i-Gniit Information and Technology Certification Course at NIIT with 1year Professional Practice.
Institution NIIT Rajajinagar, Bangalore


  • Professional certification includes various technologies and s/w and h/w skills learning process in classroom as well as live environment. System Administration, Software Development, Network Management, Application Management, Web Application development are the main area’s covered during the certification.
Additional Certifications E-Certification Courses at Net varsity and Certification Course in Oracle DBA at NIIT.
Institution NIIT Net varsity. www.netvarsity.com


  • Certification Course in Oracle8i Database Administration through NIIT


  • e-Certification Course in Basic C-Sharp Programming
  • e-Certification Course in Advanced C-Sharp Programming through NIIT’s Netvarsity.com (Courses are Gifted by NIIT for participating and winning the online technical contest’s in 2001 through Netvarsity.com)

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.
  • 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: no
I here by declare that the above written particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.