Snehashis Priya Barua                                                                                                              Confidential

1929 N. Palmer Ct., Long BeachCA90806, USA         

Phone: (562)-544-4229, Email: barua910@yahoo.com       

 

      Date of Submission: 06/21/2006

 

SUMMARY

Infrastructure expert with more than 8 years of experience in managing Linux, Unix and Windows environments with up to 40 servers, as well as Brainbench certification in Linux & Unix, Microsoft certification in windows. Strong networking, scripting, security, and systems policy experience, as well as certified by Cisco & D-link, Novel India & Microsoft in networking. Efficient Database administration – MySQL, MSSQL, as well as certified by Microsoft for MSSQL. Hand on expertise in Apache/MSIIS, MS Exchange, Sendmail, and PHP & Perl. Hand on expertise in information security, computer network forensics, IPS, IDS, PIX, load balancing & disaster recovery.

 

• Expertise in Linux, UNIX and Windows server administration and security. Strong knowledge of routers, firewalls, security, back-ups, and desktop support. Additional expertise with wireless security, optimal and suboptimal network topologies, and network/hardware troubleshooting.

• Considerable experience with network optimization, interfacing with vendors, and troubleshooting of escalated helpdesk and technical support issues.
• Energetic, intellectually curious and motivated. Rapidly learns new processes, products, technologies. Keen on R& D, Open Source solutions, as well as commercial pilot projects.
• Extensive experience interacting with end users and customers. Able to communicate effectively with different groups and business units, developers, QA groups, support and management.

                               

CAREER CERTIFICATION

• Microsoft Certified System Engineer, Microsoft Certified Database Administrator, MCP. Microsoft ID: 3499314
• Linux Administration, UNIX Administration, Network Technical Support, Computer Industry Knowledge & Computer Technical Support under the auspice of Brainbench. Transcript ID: 3404432
• Apple Technician Certification: Mac OS X 10.4 Service and Support Candidate ID: SR2118176
• Cisco Certified Network Associates Cisco ID number is CSCO10981695
• D-LINK Certified Cable Integrator under auspice of D-LINK India Limited. Authorization No: DCC12004BG53

 

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

• Content Management Solution (CMS) based on open source Ezpublish by Neural Systems Ltd.
• Netware 5.1 Administration, Networking Technologies, Network + under the auspice of Novell India.
• Unix Administration under the auspice of Daffodil
• VOIP & its advanced application by BDjobs
• BlackBerry Solution: BlackBerry Enterprise Solution™- and BlackBerry Internet Solution™. Member of BlackBerry Enterprise Resource Center

 

EDUCATION

• Post Graduate Diploma     Industrial location & development           Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
• Bachelor of Arts              Sociology                                              University of Kalyani, Nadia, India
• Graduate Scholarship        Corporate Social Responsibility               Japan Govt./World Bank institute        
• Graduate Scholarship        Internal Audit                                        Bangladesh Institute of Management

 

WORK AUTHORIZATION

• Green card holder

 

BACKGROUD CHECK

To review PLS visit secure.entersect.net/Surecheck/Dsp_Employers_View.cfm?JSVID=SP060806442

 

CERTIFICATE VERIFICATION 

Microsoft credentials www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/transcripts. Transcript ID: 717918 & Access Code: thankstosee

Cisco certification www.certmanager.net/cisco/public/cert_view.aspx. validation id 33E0CF65F2E0CBA7

Brainbench certification http://www.brainbench.com/. Transcript id 3404432

For other: will provide upon request coz hardcopy.

 

WORK EXPERIENCES                                                                                               1989 to current 2006

 

System Administrator

The Jaxara Group                                                                                                               06-2005 to 02-2006

Reason for leaving: Relocated to California for family.

 

• Administered Jaxara Wide Area Network (Washington D.C., Argentina, Bangladesh, India , Ukraine , England and Japan.)
• Planned, designed, developed, implemented and maintained an issue/bug tracking system, Version Control System, using MS Visual SourceSafe, CVS & Subversion with Apache & Redhat Enterprise 3.0, Bugzilla,  Mysql, Perl, PHP, Sendmail.
• Administered collaboration suites MS Exchange, MS IIS, MS Sharepoint & MS SQL on Windows 2003.
• Administered and monitored ScanMail on our Exchange servers.
• Customized and created security policies for workstation/server hardening, web surfing, incident response, e-mail, remote access, firewalls, intrusion detection, and information leak prevention.

·         Mange & Monitor network performance with NMS OpenNMS, HP OpenView, SNMP, BigBrother, Hobbit.

• Audited all servers/applications - COBIT for security control and practices using Ecora configuration management tool for reports of findings.

 

System Administrator 

Daffodil Online Ltd.                                                                                                              05-2003 to 05-2005

Reason for leaving: Better Opportunity to learn from wide scale Jaxara.

 

• Built and deployed Linux server from scratch, and created blueprint for deploying additional servers for Daffodil PC & Server.
• Responsible for set up and maintenance of firewalls: iptables / ipchains, Cisco Pix;. NIS, LDAP, Kerberos, SSH, PAM, NFS, LIDS and used COPS, Tripware
• Managed, Monitored network & System performance with NMS OpenNMS, HP OpenView and SNMP, MRTG, IPTRAF, Event Viewer, Network Monitor, System Management Server, BigBrother, Nmap, Nessus, Snort, Honeyd.
• Installed and maintained POP ISM band Territorial microwave point to point and multi point modems (Canopy, Wilan etc.), 802.11 standard (varied) AP and routers, Satellite modems (comtech), VDSL & SDSL Concentrator, switches, Routers(Cisco, Netgear. Linksys) VPN, VOIP gateways (Quantum, Cisco).
• Installed and maintained Motorola Radio system for mobile communication for employee and clients.
• Managed e-Mail & collaboration suites: MS Exchange, Sendmail, Openwebmail, and DNS: bind.
• Supported Web servers: (Apache, Jakarta Tomcat, MSIIS)
• Supported Sun Solaris 8 servers,  Red Hat Enterprise servers 3.0, Windows 2003 servers
• Responsible for configuration and oversight of authentication (Radius, Mysql).
• Installed, configured & maintained JBoss & BEA WebLogic Server on RedHat Enterprise 3.0.
• Set up Cache using squid transparent web cache.
• Deployed and administered DELL EMC CX-400 SAN server and PowerEdge 132 Tape backup using Veritas.
• Bandwidth controller: ET, Cyber controller, 24 online, HTB/CBQ.
• Designed and implemented WebSense web content filtering enterprise wide.
• Managed accounts and assigned profiles for 3500 users

 

System Administrator

Infonet Systems                                                                                                                 03-2000-To 04-2003

Reason for leaving: Contract ended

 

 

• Maintained and monitored fifteen network servers and ensured that all systems were online and stable including Cisco routers and firewall security on an all NT environment.
• Supported 65 users, troubleshooting desktop/laptop, LAN/WAN, hardware conflicts and software issues including configurations for DNS, TCP/IP, WINS and DHCP relay.
• Administered MS Exchange 5.5 to create user mailboxes, add members to distribution lists, and set incoming/outgoing message size limits.  Also monitored MS Exchange IMS traffic, statistics, and queues.
• Administered NT Server (managed user accounts, groups, domains & servers including IIS 4.0).
• Backed up all servers using ArcServe 6.61 for tape backup.
• Analyzed real-time IDS events for suspicious activity, attempted attacks, or miss configured networks that were generating false positives/negatives.
• Installed and configured Certificate Authority server
• Administered McAfee’s management edition console to update software and antivirus scan engines & definition updates
• Installed & maintained various Systems, Servers, Routers, PIX & various net equipments.

 

System Administrator                                                                                                           01-1996 to 02-2000 

Sigma Systems Ltd

Reason for leaving: Contract ended

 

• Inventoried and maintained records on all PC, Severs, communication equipment.
• Performed network troubleshooting
• Installed, configured, maintained, analyzed and optimized servers/network components; monitored system performance (throughput, disk/RAM usage, CPU load, network packets)
• Developed and enforced policies and procedures for network use, security and backup.
• Developed and maintained disaster recovery plans and procedures.
• WebBox: Intranet/website load-testing, link-testing, log analysis.  Focused on Presentation Layer
• Set up and administered UNIX servers, including shell accounts, DNS, email, web servers (Apache, MIIS), database back-ends (MySQL), network file sharing (SMBFS, NFS).
• Supported 1600 local and remote users including set up of laptop and desktop computers for PC and Macintosh.

 

Independent Consultant, Brussels, Belgium                                                                                                         System Administrator / Consultant                                                                                  01-1989 to 12-1995

Reason for leaving: Contract ended

Handled consulting projects for clients including Friends of the Earth (Brussels, Belgium), Rwandan Embassy, (Brussels, Belgium), COM COM S.A (Brussels, Belgium), etc.

• Performed various technical assignments for these organizations

 

LANGUAGE SKILLS

English, French, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu & currently learning Spanish

 

PUBLICATIONS

• Protected Windows 98, Computer Jagat, Year 10 Vol.10 February 2001.
• DLL Hell – Problems & solutions, Computer Jagat, Year 10 Vol.11 & 12 March and April 2001.
• Special on ICT affairs, Computer Jagat, Year 10 Vol.12, Year 11 Vol.1, 2, 3, 4, & 5,  2001.
• Making Program from common source code, Computer Jagat,Year 11 Vol.2 June 2001.
• Most current security holes & its possible solutions, Computer Jagat, Year 11 Vol.3 July 2001.
• Illusions about Linux, Computer Jagat, Year 11 Vol.2 June 2001.
• Virus affected mobile phones, Computer Tomorrow, November, 2002.
• Computer of Dream, Computer Bichitra, July 2001.
• Dhaka Stock Exchange hacking and Security, Computer Bichitra, Year 5   Vol.10 May 2001.

 

REFERENCES

References will provide on request