SUMMARY:

• Highly skilled and technically diverse Senior Administrator with a Bachelor’s degree and 35 years experience in the Information Technology field including 17 years of project management in installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and administration of different varieties of computing systems prominently in medium to large scale VMware, Linux, Windows, and Unix environments. Strong experience in SAN administration with EMC, IBM, HP and various solid state storage arrays.
• Hardware capabilities include fiber switch management for zoning servers to various arrays and devices.
• Experienced with Backup and Disaster Recovery planning and implementations.
• Programming and scripting with Korn shell/Bash utilizing functions and tools such as sed & awk.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems and Related: VMware ESX5.x/6.x, Extensive Linux, Windows, AIX, Solaris

Subsystems: Kickstart, Satellite,LVM, NIM, HACMP, HADR, HMC, PowerVM, VIO, NPIV,LPM

Hardware: Dell series Blade servers,HP Blade Servers, IBM RS/6000 P5 - P8 Series

Storage: IBM DS series SAN, EMC (All models), Pure Flash Storage

Networking: Fibre Channel, ISCSI, Brocade and Cisco Switches

Relational Database: DB2, Oracle, Sybase, and Maxdb.

Networking: TCP/IP, AD, NFS, NIS, CISF and DNS

Cloud based: Iaas, Paas, and Saas services. (self study)

Support Software: Remedy, Service now

Backup Software: TSM, CommVault, Netbackup, and Vertias, software.

Programming Languages: Korn, Perl, Sed, Awk, MF Cobol, limited SQL, and HTML.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,North Wales,PA

SR. Systems Administrator

• The responsibilities in this role were focused on Unix, SAN, and Database administration to support a massive storage/server migration. Diversified skills had proven to be a major contributor in this role.

Confidential, West Chester,PA

Sr. Systems Administrator

• This position had a high demand for hardware and software architecture experience. Responsibilities were to install and maintain 24x7 availability of the over 200 AIX/Linux Server environment while assisting in administrating the SAN connectivity platform for the eCommerce business systems. In addition it was my responsibility to upgrade the infrastructure and to retire older equipment and lead the “Server Consolidation” project to include training technical personnel in the virtualization world. Accrued DBA skills proved to be quite valuable when working with the DBA group during major projects.
• Install and maintain new IBM hardware to replace the older IBM infrastructure of mainly P5 hardware with new Power7 & Power8 hardware and implement PowerVM in place of a non virtualized environment. Creation of VIO LPARs to host AIX LPARs to achieve the goal of a purely virtualized environment.
• Covering day to day Unix/SAN support tasks, field UNIX on-call requests, and participate in assigned projects to include OS upgrades and application migration from older systems to the newer servers in a 24x7 environment.
• Collaborate with the SAN and DBA teams to migrate from traditional SAN equipment to a Solid State archetcture.

Confidential, Norristown,PA

Sr. Unix Administrator

• Filled a role in an enterprise environment performing advanced UNIX administrative tasks, mainly focused in AIX, utilizing LPAR Virtualization and High Availability configurations.
• Installed and maintaining all hardware P7 series, automating the creation of LPARs installing and configuring AIX operating systems, and utilizing the AIX live partition mobility features.
• Covered day to day UNIX support tasks, fielded UNIX/Linux on-call requests, and participated in assigned projects to include OS upgrades and application migration from older HPUX systems to the newer AIX Power 7 servers in a 24x7 environment.

Confidential, Conshohocken, PA

Sr. Unix Engineer

• Engineered and documented AIX 7.1 Configurations and created scripts to automate the rollout process to the Production environment.
• Set guidelines for Solaris administrators to cross-train into a new AIX environment.
• Engineered, tested, and documented HMC, NIM, and AIX scripts ans SOPs to automate LPAR creation and AIX 7.1 installation automation.
• Worked with Project management teams for time management on the project.

Confidential, Limerick,PA

Sr. Unix Administrator

• Performed complete AIX/Linux, SAN, and Database Administration in an ERP environment. Heavy use of LPAR technology and virtual I/O servers complexly configured. Includes AIX and Linux OS, Mixed SAN EMC and IBM, and extensive DB2 Database administration. Duties as the primary DB2 administrator while maintaining my Unix administrative duties..
• Configured in a local HACMP failover/global failover environment in a 24x7 environment with on-call.
• Adhered to strict Standard Operational procedures while completing documentation in a timely manner with the use of Remedy system.
• Adhered to strict ITIL procedures for strict compliancy regulators.
• Used IBM p570 and p770 servers with CECS attached to each and partitioned using VIOS servers and HMCs. Utilized every available resource on each server. AIX 6.1 & 7.1 and administered TSM versions 5 & 6.
• Capacity planning and System Architecture experience.

Confidential, Philadelphia,PA

Sr. UNIX/AIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• IBM RS6000-All models including the SMPs, SP, xSeries, running AIX 4.x/5.x
• EMC/DELL CX600s for SAN solution and CX400 for hard disk recovery.
• ADIC Tape Subsystems using CommVault backup and recovery software
• HP9000 Server running HPUX 11.x and Sybase Database software
• AIX, UNIX, VMware, and Windows.
• Oracle 9i, 10g Installations, upgrade maintenance, and administration.