Umar Butt, Assistant Manager Datacenter Operations

Umar Butt

Assistant Manager Datacenter Operations

ATSG

Location
Pakistan - Islamabad
Education
High school or equivalent, Information Technology
Experience
21 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 6 Months

Assistant Manager Datacenter Operations at ATSG
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • My current job since September 2015

· Managing US-based Datacenters (Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York) planning, designing, and administration.
· Responsible for research and development of virtualization technologies used in Linux OS. The technologies include Qemu, KVM, Libvirt, Open vSwitch, Clustering, Automation, and maintenance.
· Responsible for management and operations of Cloud Computing infrastructure.
· Automate the customized installation of Linux-based KVM hypervisor using PXE server, puppet, and shell scripting.
· Remotely management of Servers (reside in US-based Datacenter) using IPMI management interface.
· NetApp Enterprise storage management using OnCommand console manager, DFM (Data Fabric Manager), and CLI.

HPC system Administrator at National University of Sciences and Technology
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • February 2007 to October 2015

· Installation configuration and Management of Sun Sparc-based cluster comprises (V890, V240, Blade 1500, Ultra 45) machines.
· Installation configuration and Management of AMD Opteron-based Cluster using opensource Rocks Cluster management toolkit for Centos Operating system.
· Installation configuration and Management of Intel Xeon Quad core-based Cluster using opensource Rocks Cluster management toolkit for Centos Operating system.
· Installation configuration and Management of GPU based cluster for HPC application connected using InfiniBand network.
· Installed and configured Solaris native LDAP server as central authentication service to access all HPC (High Performance Computing) resources.
· Deployed and configured Myricom & InfiniBand network which is the fastest Interconnect for supercomputing applications.
· Using opensource operating systems and applications for Sparc, Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron based architecture.
· Sun Blade 1500 and Sun Ultra 45 machines running on Solaris 10.
· Managing applications and services on cluster/standalone servers like (Apache, MySQL, Squid Proxy, Sun N1 Grid Engine, Sun N1 System Provisioning, LDAP, SAN, Sun Cluster Software and NFS.
· Deploy and managing terabytes of storage (DAS and SAN).
· Taught several training (Solaris, Linux, shell scripting and HPC integration) on demand to different organizations.
· Worked as Team member while establishment of Tier-2 Data Centre.

Field Service Engineer at EGS (Pvt.) Ltd
  • Pakistan
  • June 1996 to February 1999

and setup of Novell Netware, UNIX, and Windows NT networks.
•Planned and supervised complete network wiring (UTP & BNC), testing and labeling.
•User support and training.
•Responsible for all Maintenance & Systems problem. Major clients were NBP, Marriott, PTCL, P&D, and ALCATEL, which was my account.

Hardware Engineer at RBC Computers
  • Pakistan
  • December 1994 to May 1996

for maintenance & repairing of Computer hardware,
•Printers and other peripherals devices on module level as well as on component level. Troubleshooting of software and network problems.
•Troubleshooting and repair of branded and unbranded systems at module & motherboard level and as well as on component level.
•Troubleshooting & repairing of Servers, PCs (ACER, AST, AT&T, COMPAQ, DELL, HP, IBM, GATEWAY 2000, LEO, MICRON, NCR, SUN Microsystems), notebooks and printers (Laser, inkjet, bubble jet & dot matrix).

Education

High school or equivalent, Information Technology
  • at Punjab University
  • January 2015

courses: Domain Name System Security (DNSSEC by APNIC)

High school or equivalent, Information Technology
  • at Management of Scalable networks (European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN)
  • January 2008

courses: Domain Name System Security (DNSSEC by APNIC)

High school or equivalent, Information Technology
  • at IBM
  • January 2008

Tivoli Access Manager (

High school or equivalent, Information Technology
  • at IBM
  • January 2007

Sun Cluster 3.2 Administration (Sun Microsystems,

High school or equivalent, Information Technology
  • at IBM
  • January 2007

courses: Teradata Database Server - NCR factory Course (NCR

High school or equivalent,
  • at PGD Telecommunication (University of Management Technology
  • January 2003
Master's degree, Information Technology
  • at Al-Khair University
  • January 2001
High school or equivalent, Information Technology
  • at Comsats Institute of Information Technology
  • January 2001

courses: CCAI (Cisco Certified Academy Instructor)

High school or equivalent, Information Technology
  • at ICRC Cisco Router (NICON
  • January 1999

courses: CCAI (Cisco Certified Academy Instructor)

High school or equivalent, Information Technology
  • at Punjab University
  • January 1997
Master's degree, Information Technology
  • at Al-khair University
  • January 1994

courses: Specialized Computer Courses

Specialties & Skills

Storage Solutions
Cloud Computing
Infrastructure
Red Hat Linux
COMPUTER HARDWARE
NETWORKING
SERVERS
COMPAQ SERVERS
DATA ENTRY
DATABASE ADMINISTRATION
ENGINEERING
MICROSOFT BACKOFFICE
MICROSOFT EXCHANGE SERVER

Languages

English
Expert
Punjabi
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

RHCE (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2024
Valid Until:
January 2027

Hobbies

  • book reading, swimming, hiking