SUMMARY

SUCCESSFULLY RESOLVED TIME RESPONSE PROBLEMS FOR END USERS AND CLIENTS
INDENTIFIED SYSTEM PROBLEMS 97% OF THE TIME
COMPLETED VARIOUS PROGRAMS TO BECOME CERTIFIED IN TSM, UNIX, TIVOLI, TANDEM AND WINDOWS ADMINISTRATION
COMPLETED 320 HOURS OF HANDS ON TRAINING THROUGH MARYGROVE COLLEGE TO BECOME UNIX CERTIFIED

HARDWARE LANGUAGES
NETAPP VTL IBM SVC KORN SHELL
IBM P SERIES IBM DS8300 BOURNE SHELL
IBM SHARK IBM XIV C SHELL
EMC CLARIION IBM TAPE LIBRARY TACL
EMC DMX HP (K, N, L Classes)
CISCO MDS SWITCH STORAGE TEK TAPE LIBRARY

OPERATING SYSTEMS EDITORS
AIX (5.x, 6.x) TANDEM (D45) VI
HP (10.x ,11.x, 11i) SOLARIS (2.5.1 & 2.6.0) T EDIT (TANDEM)
LINUX

COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE
ETHERNET TCP/IP TIVOLI NAS
TELNET DNS TSM 6 DB2 / SAP
NFS FTP ORACLE INFORMIX
FCIP EMC VSRM SCV FLASH COPY
EMC SNAPVIEW BMR / REMEDY
EMC MIRRORVIEW GLOBAL MIRROR
EMC POWERPATH
EMC NAVISPHERE MANAGER

CERTIFICATES

UNIX
TANDEM
WINDOWS ADMINISTRATION
TIVOLI FRAMEWORK
TIVOLI DISTRIBUTED MONITORING
TIVOLI DISASTER RECOVERY MANAGER
TIVOLI STORAGE MANAGEMENT ADVANCED ADMINISTRATION

PROJECTS

TSM SERVER SECURITY
TANDEM BACKUP /RESTORE
TIVOLI DISASTER RECOVERY
YEAR 2000 DATA CENTER MOVE

EXPERIENCE

Sr. Storage Administrator / Sr. Technical Consultant Confidential, June 2009 – December 2009 TSM architectural recommendations and daily administration. TSM Version 6 server trouble shooting and upgrades. TSM Client backup validation / resolution. TSM Version 6 client upgrades and TSM TDP upgrades. TSM Tape library and VTL administration and trouble shooting. SAN / iSCSI architectural recommendations, daily SAN administration via IBM SVC / DS8300 and IBM XIV. SAN storage allocation, trouble shooting and implementation of flash copies, snaps and Global Mirroring for Disaster Recovery Data Center. SVC, XIV and DS8300 firmware upgrades. Cisco MDS Implementation, zoning, trouble shooting and firmware upgrades. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT: IBM SVC, DS8300, IBM XIV, NETAPP VTL 1400, STORAGE TEK 7000, STORAGETEK SL3000, CISCO MDS SWITCHES, IBM P SERIES, WINDOWS Sr. TSM Administrator (Subject Matter Expert) Confidential, December 2008 – April 2009 TSM architectural recommendations daily administration of TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) and IBM 3590 Tape Libraries at all Ford locations included 130 TSM servers. Backup verification (6000 clients), trouble shooting, monitoring, replication and tape management, also TSM server / client install and upgrades and NAS trouble shooting. TSM TDP trouble shooting for SQL, MS Exchange, Oracle, CBMR, DB2, SAP, TSM capacity planning. Team lead for 13 individuals (eight onsite five overseas). Problem determination on AIX, Linux and Windows servers. Capacity planning and problem determination for tape and disk. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT: IBM P SERIES, WINDOWS, UNIX, LINUX, EMC DMX, EMC CLARIION, CISCO MDS SWITCHES, IBM 3590 TAPE LIBRARY Sr. TSM Administrator (Sr. Storage Engineer) Confidential, October 2007 – October 2008 Daily administration of TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) and IBM 3590 Tape Library at all Trinity locations, 19 locations, 25 TSM servers. Backup verification (over 2000 clients), trouble shooting, monitoring, replication and tape management, also TSM server / client installs and upgrades. HSM / NAS trouble shooting. TSM TDP trouble shooting for SQL, DB2, SAP and MS Exchange. TSM server exports and TSM server and client code from 5.3 to 5.5. Problem determination on AIX and Windows servers. Problem determination and trouble shooting involving tape management, disk, SAN and capacity planning. COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT: IBM P SERIES, WINDOWS, UNIX, LINUX, EMC, CISCO MDS SWITCHES, IBM 3590 TAPE LIBRARY Sr. TSM Administrator (Sr. Storage Engineer) Confidential, December 2006 – October 2007 SAN administration via IBM SVC / DS8300. SAN storage allocation, trouble shooting and implementation of flash copies, snaps and Global Mirroring. IBM SVC and DS8300 firmware upgrades. Cisco MDS Implementation, zoning, trouble shooting and firmware upgrades. Daily administration of TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) and IBM 3590 Tape Library at all BCBSM locations, 15 locations, 25 TSM servers. Backup verification (over 1500), trouble shooting, monitoring, replication and tape management, also TSM server / client installs and upgrades. TSM TDP trouble shooting for SQL and MS Exchange. TSM server exports and TSM server and client code from 5.1 to 5.4. Problem determination on AIX and Windows servers. Capacity planning, problem determination and trouble shooting involving tape management disk and filesystems.

COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT: IBM P SERIES, IBM SVC, IBM DS8300, WINDOWS, UNIX, LINUX, EMC DMX, EMC CLARIION, CISCO MDS SWITCHES, IBM 3590 TAPE LIBRARY

Sr. TSM Administrator (Sr. Storage Engineer)

Confidential, May 2006 – December 2006

IBM SCV configuration. SAN administration, trouble shooting and storage allocation. Cisco zoning and migration of servers. Daily administration of TSM and IBM 3590 Tape Library at dual data centers which includes backup verification, trouble shooting, monitoring, replication and tape management, also TSM server / client installs and upgrades. Migrated TSM server on OS 390 and client code from 5.1 to 5.3.2. Problem determination on AIX and Windows servers. Architected Comerica’s enterprise backup solution a TSM environment on AIX. Architected backup solution for a multi terabyte application DSS601. Designed a backup solution for Lotus Notes at multiple Comerica sites another multi terabyte application. Assisted with OS 390 problem determination and trouble shooting involving tape management disk and filesystems.

COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT: IBM P SERIES, OS 390, IBM SVC, IBM DS8100, IBM SHARK, CISCO MDS SWITCHES, IBM 3590 TAPE LIBRARY

SAN / UNIX / TSM Administrator / Disaster Recovery (Sr. Storage Engineer)

Confidential, August 2004 – April 2006
Architected, designed and configured EMC SANs, Powerpath and VSRM. Migrated existing data from IBM SSA disk to EMC SAN. Installed multiple HBAs on AIX and Linux servers. Architected, designed and configured current Disaster recovery infrastructure, which consists of two SANs (prod SAN in MI and DR SAN in TX). Implemented and configured clones, snaps and mirrorview. Set up the zoning for all UNIX servers on the SANs. Daily SAN administration. Daily administration of TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) and IBM 3590 Tape Library. TSM server / client installs and upgrades. Migrated TSM server and client code from 5.1 to 5.3.2. Administration for AIX / LINUX servers. Tape management disk, filesystem, volume group and logical volume management. Netbackup 5.0 installation across windows servers. Responsible for OS installs and patches to UNIX servers.
COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT: IBM RS6000, IBM P SERIES, VERITAS NETBACKUP, EMC CLARIION CX 500, CISCO MDS SWITCHES, IBM 3590 TAPE LIBRARY

UNIX / SAN / TSM Administrator (Sr. Storage Engineer)

Confidential, November 2003 – July 2004
Administered and maintained HP / AIX / LINUX servers. Implemented and maintained SAN zoning. Administered and maintained Omniback Openview application in the HP environment. Daily administration for HP servers running 11 and 11i. Tape management disk, filesystem, volume group and logical volume management using LVM (logical Volume Manager). Responsible for OS installs and patches to UNIX servers. Implemented and maintained HACMP for the AIX environment. Provide technical planning for installs. Administered and maintained TSM servers and the TSM application. TSM server / client installs and upgrades. Created server profiles that detailed the entire layout for each server.
COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT: HP N CLASS, HP L CLASS, HP RP CLASS, IBM RS6000 IBM P SERIES, HP 9000, EMC SYMMETRIX 8730, IBM SHARK ESS 800

UNIX / NT / TSM Administrator / Disaster Recovery Methodology (Sr. Storage Engineer)
Confidential, March 2001- August 2003
Administer and maintain UNIX / NT servers in a multi-platform environment consisting of over 1400 servers. Administered and maintained TSM servers and the TSM application. Provide technical planning for installs. Responsible for upgrades to UNIX servers and code. TSM server / client installs and upgrades. Implement backup / restore via TSM and off site storage. Disaster recovery methodology for UNIX, NT database and application servers. Installation and configuration of UNIX and NT servers. UNIX / NT administration, user administration, security, tape management, trouble shooting and performance tuning. UNIX / NT servers, startups and shutdowns. Created an administrative guide that documents Ford\'s environment and administrative procedures as it relates to their UNIX environment. Created data center footprints and matrix for daily problem resolution within the data center. Implemented a SAN client/server environment. Project lead responsible for migrating UNIX / NT servers from a NAS environment to SAN environment. Installed and configured NIC cards to function in the SAN environment. Analyzed, tested and implemented multiple storage products using Fords FSIC procedures.
COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT: IBM RS6000 (H-50, H-70), OS 390, ZOS, HP, SUN, IBM 3590 TAPE LIBRARY, KORN SHELL, VI, NFS, DNS, TCP/IP, ETHERNET, FTP, TELNET.

UNIX / TSM Administrator / Disaster Recovery Methodology
Kmart Resources Center August 1997 - February 2001
Administer and maintain UNIX servers and the application in a multi-platform environment consisting of 700 servers. Provide technical planning for UNIX installs. Responsible for upgrades to new UNIX servers and client code. Implement backup / restore / storage via TSM. Disaster recovery methodology for UNIX, NT and database servers via TSM. Installation and configuration of multiple UNIX servers. UNIX administration, user administration, security, tape management and Y2K testing. Implemented and configured / installed EMC Symmetrix. UNIX trouble shooting and tuning. Server startups and shutdowns. Configure and implement the Tivoli Availability Management product suite to monitor, detect possible problems and resolve across all UNIX platforms. Also implemented proactive responses via Tivoli. Tivoli Availability products consisted of Tivoli Management Framework, Tivoli Distributed Monitoring and Tivoli Enterprise Console. Tivoli environment consists of 45 SUN servers.
COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT: TANDEM (HYMILAYA K20,000), IBM RS6000 (H-50, S70, G-40, 370, 560, SP FRAMES), EMC Symmetrix 3000, OS 390, ZOS, HP, SUN, NCR, SCO, IBM 3590 TAPE LIBRARY, KORN SHELL, VI, PWW, TIVOLI, NFS, DNS, TCP/IP, ETHERNET, TOKEN RING, FTP, TELNET.