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Kailash Sharma
Tel: 0120-4380713, 91 9811663493
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House No. 847, Sector 9, Vasundhara Ghaziabad 201012, Uttar Pradesh, India
DOB: August 4, 1975

OBJECTIVE

To aggressively and successfully manage Servers, Local and Wide Area Computer Network Departments and Staff to provide maintenance, troubleshooting and support for reliability and growth. I have 12 years experience in IT Management, Server and Network Administration. I am available for computer and network consulting and contract support work or on an as needed basis or as a full time employee and have the ability to operate under extreme pressure and challenging positions. The work should necessitate a heterogeneous enterprise network environment where I can utilize my extensive skills in designing, administering, and troubleshooting networks/Systems.


HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS
• Twelve years of System / Network Engineering experience, with a demonstrated ability to quickly learn and integrate new technology in a variety of industries.
• Proven expertise in various network technologies, detailed below.
• Knowledge to integrate and work in Heterogeneous technologies Linux, Unix, Solaris, Novell Netware and Microsoft Windows networks.
• Proven success in implementing management, operations, technical and interpersonal skills to increase productivity, reliability and teamwork to benefit the company.
• Team Lead for security, repair, installation, migration, and maintenance of large-scale Windows and Novell network deployment of over 1500 end users.
• Team Lead for ISP integration which included Cisco Routers, RAS, Switch, Pix Firewall and Sun hardware and OS.
• Hands on experience in Wireless Networking, 10/100/1000 Ethernet, Optical Networking, Switching/Bridging (VLAN, Spanning Tree), VPNs, LAN/WAN/MAN, TCP/IP Protocol, IP Addressing and Subnetting, IP Access Lists, Routing Protocols, Token Ring, ATM, Frame Relay, HP OpenView NNM, Cisco Works for Switched Internetworks, Resource Manager Essentials, Cisco Security Management Center (PIX, IDS), Microsoft Visio, WebNM, IBM compatible computers, Windows 2003/2000/NT/XP, Remote Desktop Management, Microsoft Office 2000/XP, Norton, Remedy, Network Security.
• Hands on experience with Cisco 2500/3600 series routers, Cisco Catalyst 1900/2900/4700 series switch, Cisco 5300 AS RAS, Cisco PIX Firewall, Packet Shaper
• Hands on Experience with various wireless devices.
• Hands on Experience with various virtualization technologies.
• Hands on experience with Microsoft Windows Enterprise Server, Small Business Server and Workstation NT through 2003, Novell 3.1-6.5, SCO UNIX, Redhat and Debian Linux, Sun Solaris, Sendmail, Qmail, Postfix, Firstclass, Mdaemon, Kerio, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office, ISA Server, WSUS
• Programming experience in Visual Basic, Basic, PHP, Cold Fusion, HTML, PERL
• Databases experience Sybase, MS SQL Server, Mysql, Microsoft Access, Progress.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
American Embassy School
New Delhi - India
October 2001 To Present
Network and System Specialist


• Responsible for system configuration, communications, and installation of hardware, operating systems, and software applications.
• Designed, Installed and maintaining entire campus network
• Designed, Installed and maintaining the WAN links for the campus.
• Performed campus wide network upgrade from Nortel to Cisco Switches for 1000 Nodes.
• Performed campus Wide wireless network upgrade from 802.11ab to 802.11abg.
• Migrated users from Novell Netware 5.1 to 6.0 and then to 6.5 for 1100+ users
• Migrated campus Client and Servers from Windows 98 and NT Server to Windows XP, 2003 Server
• Designed and documented data and voice networks from the ground up.
• Trained customers and managers on system capabilities and usage.
• Performed Systems Administration on Windows Servers and Clients for Local and Wide Area Networks.
• Configured and tested all necessary network platforms under extreme time constraints resulting in successful acceptance of required test bed network.
• Tested and established system / network security.
• Implementing and supporting Redhat Linux (Web Server, FTP Server, DNS, LDAP, NIS, POP, and SMTP).
• Recommended and implemented network wide security management solution, including Firewall policies and configuration, router access-lists, and agent based network monitoring.
• Administered and supported Citrix network environment for Classic Homes including building new Citrix servers and load balancing
• Installed and Manage fileservers based on Novell for 1500+ users.
• Migrated from Groupwise to Linux sendmail and then to FirstClass Mailing server for 1200 + users.
• Installed and Manage Windows 2003 based printserver with per user costing.
• Installed and managing our school website on Linux based Apache server.
• Installed and maintaining FirstClass Mailserver for 1200 users.
• Vendor Coordination
• Team coordination, Job Scheduling and writing appraisals.
• Generating Web Based Applications for Different School processes using mysql, MS SQL, PHP, Cold Fusion, Perl.
• Patch writing for various applications for customized use.
• Install and Maintain Virtual Appliances.
• Configuring and Maintaining Enterprise wide Antivirus Solutions from Symantec Norton and Trend Micro
• Customized backups scripts for backing up server and user data.
• Managing a team of 8 members.


JUMPP India
July 2000 to September 2001
System and Network Manager
New Delhi, India
• Managed all aspects of several network implementations including network planning, design, testing, documentation, deployment and maintenance.
• Responsible for complete support, installation, maintenance and training for all network and system components.
• Developed training and support plans for 150-user network.
• Lead effort to migrate to Thin Clients using Windows 2000 Terminal Server and Citrix Servers
• Administered Windows NT/2000, Back Office, Exchange, RAS and Proxy Servers.
• Implemented Supported Solaris 8 on various Sun Sparc Platforms.
• Implemented and supported environment for Web and Software development.
• Team Lead for the ISP integration.
• Installation and configuration of Cisco AS 5300 RAS, Cisco 3660 Router, Cisco 2900 switch and Cisco Pix firewall.
• Installation of various Sun Servers for running RADIUS and LDAP Servers.
• Installation and Configuration of Vertias backup solution.
• Supervise a team of 6 members for Software, Web and Network development and maintenance.


NIIT Ltd
Network and System Administrator
New Delhi-India

• Responsible for hardware and software system configuration, installation, repair and maintenance on Microsoft, Unix and Novell networks, PCs and printers.
• Managed large team with diverse backgrounds to consistently provide increased customer satisfaction and system performance.
• Supervised staff of 4 computer and network technicians
• Managed daily Centre IT operations
• Designed, configured and installed Novell Networks and PC systems.
• Provided technical and cost considerations for proposals to satisfy customers.
• Sourced vendors and provided on-site technical support on workstations and network hardware and software

Training/ Conferences:
• Training in LAN/Wan Technologies covering all the core concepts of LAN/WAN Communication (ATM, ISDN, Frame Relay, Leased Line etc.) from Silicon Univ, New Delhi
• CCNA Training from Silicon Univ, New Delhi
• CCNP Traing at American Embassy, New Delhi.
• Cisco PIX Training from Silicon Univ, New Delhi
• Checkpoint Training from Silicon Univ, New Delhi
• VOIP and IP Telephony Training from Silicon Univ, New Delhi
• Borland Developers Conference 2003, Bangalore
• Novell Netware 6.0 Workshop, Delhi
• EMC SAN/NAS Solutions Workshop, Delhi
• Microsoft ISA Server Workshop, Delhi
• Checkpoint Workshop, Delhi
• Progress Database training, Washington DC

Education:
• B.Com (H) from Delhi University
• ANC degree from NIIT

Certification:
• Microsoft Certified Professional - Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment
• ITIL® V3 Foundation

Awards

• Received Employee of the Year Award for NIIT South Campus for the year 1997-98.
• Received Award for Excellance for Geo North from Mr. Rajender Singh Pawar , Director NIIT Limited for the year 1998-99.

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