MEHUL RUWALA

303 Uranus, Rajeshwar Planets, Harni Road, Baroda - 390022 Cell (+91-98924-11738)
Email: mehul_ruwala@hotmail.com

OBJECTIVE: Summary:

A challenging position as a Technical Trainer

Over 25 years + experience in training, systems support & development Experience on multiple platforms like Windows, AIX, HP-UX, SUN Solaris, Linux, AS/400, DRS-6000, ICL TeamServer Experience on major operating systems Windows, AIX, HPUX, Oracle Solaris, Novell Netware, and OS/400. Worked in teams on small to large and complex projects in India, Bahrain (Middle East), Malaysia (Far East)

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, HP UX, Oracle SOLARIS, AIX, SCO, Linux, Novell Netware, IBM OS/400, etc.. Development Tools: C, MS-SQL Server, SYBASE, DB2, Oracle, RPG/400, CL, COBOL/400, SQL/400, Visual Basic, Ingres. Hardware Platforms: Windows, SUN, IBM AS/400, IBM AIX, HP UX, DRS-6000, ICL TeamServer

BUSINESS SKILLS
Business Development Manage corporate accounts and their expectations Develop courses independently Create custom courses based on customer requirements Learn any new products and deliver quality training on new products in a short time Assisted Live projects on Migration Assisted server & Database Performance Tuning

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
May'98 - Present: Independent Consulting Training Corporate Customers in India including many Fortune 500 clients. Design, Implement & Support Systems and Networks Conducted Corporate Training in technical areas such as planning and implementing LAN/WAN, Windows 2000/2003 Administration, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, PL/SQL, MS-SQL Server programming and Database administration, shell programming, Perl & systems Admin on Oracle Solaris and HP-UX, IBM AIX, SCO, Linux, etc. Customized training to meet the corporate requirements to train their Technical Support staff, System Developers and other end users. Trained corporate clients from TOP500 Indian companies like Johnson & Johnson, Wockhardt, IBM, Reserve Bank of India, Hong Kong Bank, Baan Infosystems, Larsen & Toubro, LTITL, National Leather Cloth, OTIS, Mumbai Port Trust, Wipro Infotech, Nelito Systems, Elbee Courier, Lupin Laboratories, Global Telesystems, Siemens, Infosys, Aptech, Asset International, Concourse Information Technology, Godrej Infotech, ICICI Bank, Saraswat Bank, Iflex Solutions, FLex Ex Technologies, Shoppers Stop, P & O Nedlloyd, Citibank, Hexaware, Amdocs, OPUS Software, Deloitte, Indian Army, Geometric Software, Mphasis, Logica CMG, CITOS, Isoft, TCS, Xavient, Syntel, EMC2, HCL, Wipro Technologies, Persistent, Scope Int. D & B, Eclipsys, JPMC, Bank of America, Sparsh, John Deer, TechMahindra, SSGA, Nomura, Headstrong, Dell Perot, Barclays Bank, Tata Motors, HP, etc. to name a few. Designed and implemented networking solutions to meet customers requirements. Support & administration of Systems/Networks give the specifications of the production system setups. Customized, designed and implemented the LAN with Shreyas Business Systems which comprised of windows NT/95 workstations, Windows NT Servers, Webserver, Configured all major TCP/IP server configurations including, DHCP, DNS and also managed subnetting & routing to manage traffic & isolate certain important traffic as a security measure. Also had integrated the Sun Solaris UNIX Servers and various printers. Oct 96 - Apr98: Lecturer/Systems Administrator, FTMS-ICL, Malaysia (Far East) Directly report to the management & assist in making budgets for systems department, which amounted to half million Malaysian Dollars. Main duties also included liaising with vendors for purchase of new H/W & S/W and also for services like leased line for web and maintenance contracts etc. Also maintained inventory of various IT related equipments within the premises.

 Conduct technical courses such as Data Communications, Internet/Intranet, Operating Systems, Advanced Data Structures, Communications & Networking, and Systems Administration. Install, upgrade and maintain networks in-house and at customer sites including Windows NT 4.0, Novell Netware, and DRS-6000 (ICL-Unix), AIX, SUN. Managing the Web server (Internet Information Server) & Video Conferencing facilities provided to external clients and employees. Responsibilities include Network Installations, Planning & Implementing Security Policies, Setting up Remote Access Services, managing user accounts, forming backup procedures, Configuring Data & Application sharing, customizing environments as per users needs, Moni toring Performance & Fine-tuning systems, monitoring and directing the network traffic on our Windows NT backbone. Supervised planning, procurement & implementation of systems at branch offices & franchise centers. Dec93 - Sep96: Lecturer/Systems Administrator - Bahrain Informatics, Bahrain (Middle-East) Delivered corporate training on courses like UNIX, LAN/WAN, RDBMS (ORACLE), DATA STRUCTURES (C & Pascal) & Office automation using MS-Office. Teaching students for Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Studies validated by the University of Oxford. Install and maintain various networks (UNIX [SCO, SUN, and AIX] & Novell Netware), new hardware & Software. Customizing User environment. Feb92 - Mar93: Training Officer & Programmer - Syspro, Bombay Software development and training on the IBM AS/400 environment. Design and developed Payroll System, in RPG/400. Developed Student Information System to keep track of all the inquiries, registrations, payment details, etc using RPG/400. Developed a Statistical Analysis System for stocks for a financial institution using FoxPro on a PC. Assisted team in Testing & Documentation for Sales Analysis and Administration project for Proctor & Gamble India Ltd. Responsible for testing modules written by colleagues and also assisted them in maintaining documentation standards. Wrote report-printing programs using RPG/400.

QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Pune Institute of Computer Technology, University of Pune DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY - 3 years full-time diploma with first class from Bombay Institute of Technology Courses on MCSE Courses on Oracle, IBM AS/400, OS/400 & Ingres