Certified Professionals. Verified Work.
 
 
  • Feedback: (3.64 of 5)
  • Percentile: 21%
    Based on 7 feedbacks
Hourly Rate: $22.26
Total oDesk hours:
107
Location:
Chennai, India (GMT+05:30)
English Skills: (self-assessed)
5.0
Member Since:
August 1, 2007
Last Worked:
September 30, 2008
Current Assignments:
2
Total Assignments:
11
oDesk Ready:  
Yes
 
 
 
 
Affiliated with: DigitalQ
Feedback: (3.50 of 5)
Percentile: 18%
Based on 7 feedbacks
Total oDesk hours:
102
Location:
 , India (GMT+05:30)
Member Since:
March 11, 2008
Last Worked:
October 6, 2008
Current Assignments:
4
Total Assignments:
10
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Vivek Raghunathan - Brain Bench Certified Linux Administrator and PHP/MySQL Developer - DigitalQ System / Database Administrator, India

Installing, Administrating, Managing LAMP Servers,  and Customizing OpenSource Projects like 
MAMBO, Joomla, oscommerce, dotproject etc..
See All Work History & Feedback (11 items, 7 with Feedback)
Recent Work History & Feedback
Buyer ID From/To Job Title Paid
52846 09/2008 - Present LAMP Optimization $47 (4 hrs @ $12.80)
31220 07/2008 - Present linux server admin $307 (28 hrs @ $11.11)
48288 08/2008 - 08/2008 Dedicated Centos5 Server Needs Admin - Email/MySQL/Joomla/Security/DNS $34 (3 hrs @ $12.78)
5182 07/2008 - 08/2008 Linux/Mysql Admin $367 (17 hrs @ $22.22)
54082 08/2008 - 08/2008 Virtuozzo Admin $28 (fixed-price)
See All Tests Taken (5 items)
oDesk Tests Taken
Name of Test Score Percentile Date Taken Duration
oDesk Readiness Test for Independent Contractors and Company Managers 5.00 99% TOP 10% 1st Place! 06/05/2008 3 min
Redhat Linux 9.0 Admin Test 3.75 91% TOP 10% 06/05/2008 28 min
Redhat Linux 9.0 General Test 4.50 85% TOP 20% 01/24/2008 24 min
Linux Test 3.90 77% 08/01/2007 39 min
Windows XP Test 4.00 75% 01/24/2008 12 min
Recent Candidacies
Job Opening Title Initiated By Date
Remote IT Support Provider September 5, 2008
Network Server administrator Provider September 5, 2008
Web Server Admin and Maintenance (Monthly) Provider September 5, 2008
Linux Administrator with Apache Experience Provider September 5, 2008
Script developper (linux) with java knowledge Provider September 4, 2008
Linux/Windows Sysadmin Provider August 19, 2008
Job Category Interests

Web Development

Software Development

Networking & Information Systems

Graphic Arts & Design
Skills
Skill Experience Level Last Used Description
JavaScript 3 yrs 5.0 2007
Joomla 3 yrs 4.0 2007
LAMP administration 5 yrs 4.0 2008
Mambo 3 yrs 4.0 2007
MySQL 3 yrs 3.0 2007
OsCommerce 3 yrs 4.0 2007
PHP/MySQL 3 yrs 3.0 2007
SEO 2 yrs 3.0 2007
Unix Shell 5 yrs 4.0 2007
Windows Administration 7 yrs 4.0 2007
Certifications
Date Earned Name Score Percentile Organization Description
2007 Linux Administration (General) 3.12 75% Brainbench —
Employment History
From To Company Title/Role Description
03/2008 Present DigitalQ Information Services Pvt Ltd Director - IT / Executive
01/2007 03/2008 Motorola Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead

Ø      Administering & Maintaining Red Hat Linux Servers

 

Ø      Administering & Maintaining Linux as PDC (Domain Controller)for Windows XP Clients Using SAMBA

 

Ø      Administering & Maintaining Linux Sendmail  as Mail Server

 

Ø      Internet/Intranet: DNS, WINS, DHCP,NFS,NIS, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, HTTP, FTP, Telnet, Proxy

 

Ø      Administering & Maintaining Intrusion Detection System Using SNORT IDS

 

Ø      Administering & Maintaining DansGuardian,SquidGuard as URL Filtering tool

 

Ø      Creating Users, Groups, & Profiles on Linux Servers

 

Ø      Configuring user level, Share level, file level security, and System policies

 

Ø      Implementing Troubleshooting & Managing Linux Clusters

 

Ø      Configuring and maintaining GRUB with multi-boot systems

 

Ø      Installing and Administrating Apache Web server,PHP and MySql

 

Ø      Installing and Administrating Open Source Packages like Bugzilla, Request Tracker Helpdesk Ticket Management, XRMS, MAMBO and JOOMLA for internet and intranet website.

 

Ø      Software Rollouts, O/S Deployments

 

Ø      Resource Utilization Analysis & Management

 

Ø      End-User Support and Training

 

Ø      Troubleshooting Hardware & Software Issues

 

Ø      Technical Writing & Documentation

 

Ø      Planning, IP network design, implementation, and evaluation of LAN
03/2006 12/2006 Prelude Solution Providers Ltd IT Lead / Manager
07/1999 02/2004 OrangeScape Technologies Ltd Senior System Engineer / Team Lead
Other Experience
UNIX,Linux Admin
I work under Unix, Linux and Microsoft Windows environement. My objectives are  to design a secure and trouble free network design. I am able to Design  Dedicated servers or Virtual Private Server and their servcies such as named  deamon, apache web service, mysql and Oracle database services, sendmail Qmail  and exchange server, Samba, LDAP Directory service.
I have specilization for  designing automatic backup scripts, which are able to daily backup to Users data  and system services backup.
Education
From To School Degree Area of Study Description
01/2002 04/2005 Madras Institute of Technology ( MIT) Bachelors Computer Science
07/1996 04/1999 Technical Education Diploma Computer Technology
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Hourly Assignment History
Buyer ID From/To Job Title Paid
52846 09/2008 - Present LAMP Optimization $47 (4 hrs @ $12.80)
31220 07/2008 - Present linux server admin $307 (28 hrs @ $11.11)
48288 08/2008 - 08/2008 Dedicated Centos5 Server Needs Admin - Email/MySQL/Joomla/Security/DNS $34 (3 hrs @ $12.78)
5182 07/2008 - 08/2008 Linux/Mysql Admin $367 (17 hrs @ $22.22)
28727 07/2008 - 07/2008 CentOS server administrator $46 (4 hrs @ $11.11)
48288 07/2008 - 07/2008 Dedicated Centos5 Server Needs Admin - Email/MySQL/Joomla/Security/DNS $70 (6 hrs @ $11.11)
31220 06/2008 - 07/2008 linux server admin $178 (16 hrs @ $11.11)
31220 06/2008 - 06/2008 website(s) development & integration $98 (11 hrs @ $8.89)
25788 05/2008 - 05/2008 need help to fix a couple of problem on linux server $44 (5 hrs @ $8.89)
31220 04/2008 - 05/2008 linux server admin $92 (14 hrs @ $6.67)