Being sensitive to my career, I want to study and explore the core issues of professionalism. Therefore, I wish to join some prestigious and professional organization that works for general good of its employees, provides them job satisfaction, instills high morale and motivation, and has keen interest in their capacity building. • Perform day to day maintenance on Linux/UNIX environments including account creation, application deployments, script creation and backups. • Troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software issues when necessary. • Proactively monitor servers, storage, applications and services. • Install, configure and maintain server hardware and software at multiple sites. • Deploy hardware, O/S and application patches/updates utilizing best practices. • Implement the policies for the use of the computer system and network • Setup security policies for users.(firewalls and intrusion detection systems). • Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with computer systems. • Performing routine audits of systems and software. • Responsibility for documenting the configuration of the system. • Ensuring that the network infrastructure is up and running.

System Engineer @ • Handles telecommunications project engineering. • Ensures efficient telecommunications project documentation. • Provides customer support on all telecommunications issues and concerns. • Designs and implements computer systems, software and networks and ensures that computer systems function efficiently and securely to support information Technology needs. • Involved with all systems quality testing by determining functional analysis requirements and allocation, so the systems function properly when the design and Implementation is completed. • Providing training and technical support for users with varying levels of IT Knowledge and competence. • Planning and implementing future IT developments and undertaking project work. • Supervising other staff, such as help-desk technicians. • Undertaking routine preventative measures and implementing, maintaining and monitoring network security, particularly if the network connects to the internet. • Analysing and resolving faults, ranging from a major system crash to login issues. • Suggesting and providing IT solutions to business and management problems. • Working closely with other departments/organisations and collaborating with other IT staff. From April 2009 to December 2013 (4 years 9 months) London, United KingdomLinux System Administrator @ Remote administration of servers on redhat 9, RHEL 3 and RHEL 4. Apache administration and security. Backup scheduling and checking sanity of backup manually as well as with scripts. Preparing daily reports on web server hits and bandwidth usage (MIS Activities). Tracking of crawlers and various web server attacks and taking necessary measures.. Setup and maintenance of slaves of online databases. Performance tuning of servers and application. Monitoring of servers and services. Providing 24x7x365 support for various live issues. Troubleshooting various problems regarding to Sendmail, apache, Mysql etc. Helping the IT Infrastructure and desktop support team in various problems. From January 2006 to September 2007 (1 year 9 months) India

MS, Information Security & Computer Forensics @ University of London From 2007 to 2009 B.tech, Information Technology @ NCCE Panipat From 2002 to 2006 12th, non medical @ Shambhu Dayal Modern school Sonipat From 1991 to 2002 VIKAS PHOUGHAT is skilled in: Red Hat Linux, Linux System Administration, Unix Operating Systems, Unix Security, CCNA, CEH, MySQL, Computer Forensics, Network Security, Network Forensics, Network Administration, VoIP, Security, Linux, IP, Hardware, DNS