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Balamurugan Ramalingam

Email: r under score bala 22 at the website yahoo dot com

Summary:

1. Approximately 2.5 years of experience in Linux.
2. Involved in On-site and Off-site remote administration and troubleshooting including troubleshooting remote server boot up failures.
3. Investigating server related issues like unusual load on server, mail server related problems, etc.
4. Automation of administrative tasks through scripting.
5. Experience in securing Linux systems.
6. Redhat (RHCT) and Microsoft (MSCD) certified.
7. Good understanding of coding related issues.
8. Versatile team player with good communication skills.
9. Extensive experience in conducting corporate Linux batches and in handling Linux related projects.

Experience Summary:

1. Linux Consulting Experience
   I have executed a number of Linux related network and security projects on Redhat and Debian flavors. The project cycle has typically been:
   1. Installing (Operating Systems, Network Servers, etc)
   2. Configuration and tuning
   3. Stabilizing according to the usage, applications used, etc.
   4. Training system administrators to handly routine tasks
   5. Transfer the setup to system administrators
   Detailed list of projects
   List of companies
   
   
2. Training Experience
   I have conducted Linux batches for reputed training institutes and corporates alike. Many of the batches had students from companies like TCS, Wipro, and MBT.
Details of courses and companies

Skill Set

Operating Systems	Redhat Enterprise Linux, Debian sarge, Centos, Fedora, Mandrake
Programming/Scripting	C, C++, Perl, Bash
Mail servers/ Mail related	Postfix, Sendmail, qmail, OpenWebmail, Squirrelmail, procmail, SpamAssassin
Databases	MySQL with innodb, SQL Server
Network Services	DNS, DHCP, vsftpd, samba, NIS, NFS
Security	Snort, Ethereal, nmap, saint, iptables, APF, tcpdump, tripwire, GPG encryption
Compilation and installation from source	php, perl, mysql, apache, apache mods, kernel compilation, etc