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Hi, My name is Vijay Chinnasamy - I have broad experience in the IT industry of approx. 10 years, my expertise areas include Peoplesoft Technology including Peopletools, HRMS, EPM, FSCM General Ledger, tuxedo and application administration, IT Project Management, UNIX system administration (Solaris, Linux, AIX and HP-UX), Shell Scripting and Perl scripting skills, Oracle Database, Weblogic and Websphere application server administration.


- I started my IT career as a Web Developer (Apache, Linux, Perl, CGI, PHP etc). After that I worked for couple of years as a Unix Administrator, and now I am doing Peoplesoft ERP related work.

I have obtained following IT or related certifications:: (received in reverse chronological order - first being the latest):

  • PMI's Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • IBM eserver Certified Specialist - AIX Basic Operations V5 (AIX Certification)
  • Sun Certified Engineer for Sun ONE Directory Server 5.x (LDAP Certification)
  • HP Certified Systems Administrator - HP-UX
  • Sun Certified Data Management Engineer with VERITAS Volume Manager
  • Sun Certified Network Administrator for SOLARIS 9 Operating Environment
  • Sun Certified Network Administrator for SOLARIS 8 Operating Environment
  • Sun Certified System Administrator for SOLARIS 8 Operating Environment

skills and my areas of expertise

Most of the commercial Unices (HP, SUN and IBM), databases (ORACLE and DB2) & Linux

OS knowledge : Sun Solaris 2.6,2.7/2.8/2.9,10 IBM AIX 4.3 and 5L, Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL and Debian) and HP-UX 10.0/11.0/11i

Applications: Peoplesoft, Tuxedo, Web and application servers

  • Project Management
  • Installation and Configuration of Sun SPARC Solaris Systems
  • Installation and Configuration of HP HP-UX Systems
  • Installation and Configuration of IBM AIX Systems
  • Installation and Configuration of Redhat Linux Systems
  • Installation and Configuration of Windows 95/98/XP/2000/NT Systems
  • Web Server Maintenance (Apache, Weblogic, IIS, IBM HTTP, Iplanet etc)
  • Database Maintenance (Oracle . DB2 , MySQL)
  • Network Administration(NIS, NIS+, Sendmail, NFS, DHCP, IPv6, Samba, Bind)
  • Major TCP/IP Protocols (SMTP,HTTP,TCP,UDP,IP,ARP,RARP,ICMP,SNMP)
  • Perl Programming/Scripting
  • Shell Scriptiing
  • Python Scripting
  • Hardware Maintenance
  • System Administration (Linux and Solaris)
  • Software Maintenance
  • Network Monitoring (SNMP/MRTG)
  • Peoplesoft/Tools System Administration
  • Bea Tuxedo System Administration
  • Bea Weblogic System Administration
  • Java Technologies (JSP, Servlets, etc)
  • Web Services

my company website:

I work for Hexaware Technologies and you can visit my company website here:
Hexaware Technlogies

my linkedin profile

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my blog

I write technical blog about some of the latest happenings in my life. you can read about them here. something and something else

my LPIC1 article in teachstreet.com

I wrote my LPIC1 Linux Certification exam experience in an article in teachstreet.com. You can read it here. My Exam experience with LPIC1 Exam 101 and 102

read about some server setup for unix in my website

My PMP Lessons Learned Posted in PMHub.net Website:

I got the PMP Certification from PMI on 02-Jan-2008.

My PMP Lessons Learned Posted in PMHub Website - Click Here!


PMP is an acronym of Project Management Professional, a cetrification credential provided by PMI (Project Management Institute. Please visit www.pmi.org for more information about this certification.

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