Balaji Rangachar
Chicago,IL
Summary
Result-driven IT Leader and business professional with over 20+ years of experience in design, implementation, delivery, support, and management of numerous technology projects. Exceptional skills in strategic planning, project management and managing cross-functional teams and Offshore teams. Extremely quality consciousness and diligence in handling, tracking, and documenting technical issues, presenting to Global Technical and Change Review Board for Approvals. Driven to meet deadlines. Ability to learn and use new technologies quickly. Knowledge and experience with virtualization, cloud computing, distributed storage and processing, big-data processing SDLC with FDA regulations. Exposure to digital assets and security best practices, good Knowledge of Unix/Linux/Windows OS. Excellent communication skills, Ability to work independently as well as within a team environment. Knowledge and experience in using data engineering tools/techniques.
Knowledgeable in problem solving with significant expertise in engineering design and implementation. Proven ability to lead complex projects and bring innovative solutions to technical challenges. Demonstrated skills in systems optimization and cross-functional team leadership.
Overview
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Certification
29
29
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Engineer Technology I
AbbVie Inc
02.2013 - Current
- Design and implementation of data pipelines for internal applications and external client teams.
- Experience with integrating various technology platforms.
- Actively working with the Manufacturing Control Network and DMZ clients (~30 sites) to understand the business needs and design the requirement through automation of data transfer using JSON and APIs (lightweight and compatibility across programming languages in web development, saving 10-20 hrs. of manual work each week.
- Working with the site clients (MCN/DMZ) across the company to identify and solve the data accessing challenges in our LAN/WAN Network.
- Led the migration from CentOS to Rocky8 on the Kiteworks appliance for 30+ sites globally.
- Implemented automation clients (JSON data format) across MCN’s and the MFT server environment for automation of the file transfers.
- Actively worked on a project that used MarkLogic and NiFi to automate data integration (Vendor Billing Data and the SNOW data).
- Assisted BTOs in building and managing data applications using NiFi, Kafka Streaming, MQ Series, MOVEit
- Defined and managed major milestones, timeliness of multiple Kiteworks projects, created project status reports and handled on-site and off-shore resource allocation
- Provided technical expertise, guidance, and best practices to BTOs using the technologies supported by my organization.
- Actively participated in the data ingestion, security and compliance of various datasets and platforms. Examples include integration of VAS, SSO MFA, Active Directory integration, Okta integration etc..
- Actively participated in POCs and evaluation of new technologies and tools such as MarkLogic, Nifi, Modak/Nabu, SAS-Viya and others
- Assisted with the scheduled server patching and monitoring applications.
- Drafted best practices guidelines, support documentation and SLA documentation, such as run books for operations and support.
- Worked closely with architects, data engineers and data analysts on various projects.
- Knowledge of ITIL mgmt. of Incidents/Serv Req.
- Conduct weekly status meetings to keep the project on track.
Sr. Software Specialist
Abbott Inc
02.2001 - 02.2013
- Architecting and implementing technical solutions for projects of varying size and complexity based on UNIX and Linux platforms.
- Working with application partners to develop infrastructure requirements, designing and documenting in detail the infrastructure and systems that support these requirements, building out the end-state solution, and working with production support teams to ensure a smooth transition into production.
- Group Lead on Implementation and supporting Enterprise mission critical projects for SAP Application’s on HP-UX Integrity server’s, Blade C7000 Enclosure’s, and Sun platform.
- Shell scripts for installing the OS software for various platforms, verification of data after the migration from LVM to VERITAS Volume Manager, Disk utilization's.
- Data Storage management planning, upgrade and configuration using VERITAS Volume Manager
- Migration planning, execution, and verification of data from HP’ Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to VERITAS Volume Manager
- Providing technical decisions and direction when working with project managers, application developers, and business partners.
- Acting as an advocate for the customer's technical needs while ensuring compliance and adherence to all applicable processes, procedures, and standards and will recommend solutions and alternatives in situations where they view efficiencies is not being obtained.
- Trouble shooting problems with clusters and HP Unix Servers
- Implemented Oracle Real Application (RAC) cluster solutions and the Veritas Cluster 5.x on the Solaris and HP-UX environments for Net backup environment and for the internal clients.
- Designed and deployed Solaris zones to consolidate servers, HP npar/vpar/vm’s on the HP integrity/Risc based servers.
- Configuration of Zones, creating Datasets/file systems using zpool and zfs on T and M series servers, VPARs (Virtual Partitions) on RP7400, RP7410 and RP8420 and HP Integrity VM’s on Integrity servers like rx4640, rx6600 and Blade servers.
- Automated Patching for Linux, daily check up task on Unix/Linux server’s using Bladelogic tool.
- Migration of UNIX applications across UNIX platforms for the consolidation project
Sr. Unix System Administrator
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
05.2000 - 01.2001
- Engineering and implementation of the Sun Solaris and HP-UX servers on the Veritas clusters for SAP applications.
- Actively participated in setting up the various storage solutions and DNS, NFS and NIS servers along with anonymous FTP accounts for the projects.
- Scripted the disk utilization and monitoring the system temperature to analyze the changes.
- Managed Unix server environments to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
- Implemented system security protocols to safeguard sensitive data against threats.
Sr. Unix Engineer
Bell Atlantic Corporation, Telecommunications
02.2000 - 04.2000
- Responsibilities were to analyze and make changes to the HP-UX commands as per the specs of Clec PON EDI project for processing and recovery, Automating the daily jobs using Ksh scripting.
Sr. System Engineer (Networks and Unix)
Mascot Systems (Capgemini), Bangalore, India
Bangalore, India
07.1997 - 01.2000
- Responsible for System Design, Product development and administration of managed services, dedicated Linux servers, and webhosting platforms. Performed software installation, upgrades/patches, performance tuning and troubleshooting of all the Windows/Unix servers in the environment.
- Voice integration over the leased line was a huge savings which otherwise would have been spent by the company on normal ISD calls. The savings were approximately over 100 thousand dollars per month.
- Was the recipient of the Best Employee Award for the second quarter of 1998.
- Received a letter of appreciation from the CEO of Mascot Systems for the Data connectivity established between Mascot, Bangalore, and the client (Deutsche bank, Singapore and Circuit City, USA).
Education
Post-Graduate Diploma - Information Technology, Computer Systems Technology
NIIT Bangalore
Bangalore, India01-1994
Bachelor of Commerce - undefined
University of Bangalore
Bangalore, India01-1994
Skills
- Operating Systems: RHEL, SUSE, Centos, Ubuntu, Windows, and HP-UX
- Scripting: Python, Bash, PowerShell
- Tools/Software: Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Nexus Repository, Splunk, Vagrant, Git, Kiteworks, MOVEit
- Networks/Protocols: LAN/WAN, TCP/IP, DHCP, NAS/SAN, LDAP, VPN, DNS, and VLAN
- Cloud/Data Warehouse: AWS, Azure, and Snowflake Data warehouses, ETL, Hadoop open source-source software
- Web Applications: Web APIs, JSON (lightweight), HTML, Tomcat , Nginx, IIS, Apache Web Server
- RDBMS: Oracle, NOSQL databases (MarkLogic), DB2, SQL, MySQL
- Leadership skills
- Technical presentation
- Team management
Accomplishments
- Voice integration over the leased line was a huge savings which otherwise would have been spent by the company on normal ISD calls. The savings were approximately over 100 thousand dollars per month.
- Was the recipient of the Best Employee Award for the second quarter of 1998.
- Received a letter of appreciation from the CEO of Mascot Systems for the Data connectivity established between Mascot, Bangalore, and the client (Deutsche bank, Singapore and Circuit City, USA).
Certification
- Certificate in Google AI Essentials Specialization
- Certificate in AWS Solutions Architect Associate.
- Completed Cloud and DevOps Architect Master’s course.
- Certified ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
- Certificate of Training in Situational Leadership (Ken Blanchard Companies)
Project Leadership
- Management Skills for an IT Environment
- Delivering Dynamic Presentations
- Project Management Fundamentals
- Negotiation Skills
- Communications Management Objective
Timeline
Sr. Engineer Technology I
AbbVie Inc
02.2013 - Current
Sr. Software Specialist
Abbott Inc
02.2001 - 02.2013
Sr. Unix System Administrator
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) Columbus, Ohio
05.2000 - 01.2001
Sr. Unix Engineer
Bell Atlantic Corporation, Telecommunications
02.2000 - 04.2000
Sr. System Engineer (Networks and Unix)
Mascot Systems (Capgemini), Bangalore, India
07.1997 - 01.2000
Bachelor of Commerce - undefined
University of Bangalore
Post-Graduate Diploma - Information Technology, Computer Systems Technology
NIIT Bangalore