OBJECTIVE

• Motivated, competent, and organized business professional with a proven track record of teambuilding communications, resourceful problem - solving, and over 20 years of technical expertise in both server and mainframe.
• I seek a position in an information technology intensive organization with opportunity for accelerated professional technical growth.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Networks: TCP\IP, Confidential Token-Ring, NFS.

Hardware: Confidential Regatta P690, P595, P590, HP-UX, N4000, K580, K570.

Software: Confidential RS/6000 Power 5,6 AIX systems ( AIX 4.3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1 ), HACMP, LPAR, CSM, HMC, ESS, PSSP, TSM, NIM, RMC, HP-UX, Dazel, Windows for Workgroup, Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, Lotus Smart Suite, Lotus Notes, Netscape, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, MS Access, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Exceed, McAfee Webmonitor, Omniback, OS/2 Warp, DOS, MS DOS, MVS/ESA/XA, JES II, IMS, CICS, DB2, VM/XA/CMS, PROFS, TSO/ISPF,/RACF, Netview, JCL and OS/Utilities, VSAM/IDCAMS,OPC, OPC/A, OPCA/ESA,VTAM, CICS, IMS, IBTS, FTP, IIN, RMDS, Omegamon, Infomgmt, IMSS, TMON, CPMA, DPU, Novell Netware Administration, OS/2 Communications Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Senior AIX Administrator

• Architect, install, configure and support a multi Unix environment including AIX versions 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1 and HP-UX v11.
• Perform problem diagnostics and problem resolution in all areas of AIX and EMC connected software and hardware.
• Responsible for architecting, installing, and maintaining a new clustered environment utilizing LPAR, HMC, HACMP, AIX Virtualization, and NIM.
• Architect and deploy plans for an alternate data center for the purpose of server failover and disaster recovery.

Confidential , Southbury, CT

AIX Administrator

• Provide planning, installation, configuration, and deployment of AIX based servers, including HACMP clusters and Confidential P/Series confidential Technologies.. Identify and perform all necessary tasks to ensure availabilityconfidential’s are met including systems maintenance, the management and installation of patches, and firmware upgrades.
• Perform problem diagnostics and problem resolution in all areas of AIX platform hardware, operating system software and supporting network.
• Monitor AIX systems for performance and capacity planning issues, recommending modifications to the allocation of system resources as appropriate.
• Identify and escalate, where appropriate, technical issues or problems in an understandable manner and the effect of these on business operations. Ability to handle stressful situations and maintain composure under pressure.

Dazel Print Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implement, manage and support Dazel servers, client code on SAP application servers and processes used to deliver print, fax email and paging output to devices at identified locations throughout the world. Day-to-day duties include installing, customizing and managing Dazel primary and secondary processes, troubleshooting and fixing Dazel, SAP and LP printing in UNIX. Other tasks involve creating and maintaining procedures to support the print environment, daily monitoring of problem management system and developing and maintaining scripts in support of the Dazel environment. Network printing devices supported include Confidential, HP-UX, Lexmark, QMS and its datastreams such as Postscript, PCL, PJL integrated with various JetDirect or Network Cards.

Backup & Recovery Support Analyst

• Responsible for timely and accurate tape back-ups for over 1,000 servers utilizing Omniback software. The back-up schedules were modified on a weekly basis to accommodate service maintenance.

LAN Administration Support Analyst

• Monitored over 1,000 servers throughout Connecticut and Colorado for problem determination and resolution.

Team Leader Production Support United HealthCare

• Scheduled 14 second shift personnel in a 7x365 shop. Provided technical work direction and implemented training for employees to support the United Health Care account in a mainframe environment.

Senior Production Support Analyst

• Insured verification of all restores, reruns and corrective
• action plans. Verified, deleted, defined, repro or restored VSAM datasets
• using IDCAMS. Created and modified procs and utilized symbolic overrides.
• Maintained and updated related application and operations procedures.
• Implemented a disaster recovery plan and led successful tests.

Associate Production Support Analyst

• Planned, controlled and executed the production batch jobs using OPC/A, TSO/ISPF, and JCL coding (i.e. submitting, scheduling, modifying, rerunning, adding and deleting batch jobs) Problem determination/resolution for any confidential related abends using predetermined recovery techniques if necessary and using INFOMGMT, CPMA, and RMDS as problem tracking tools to improve future recovery. Used TSO/ISPF and OS/Utilities to create, allocate, re-allocatecatalogue, un-catalogue, copy, move, rename, delete and compress datasets.

Senior Staff Operations Analyst

• Monitored, investigated, and resolved technical problems within a large scale, multi-CPU mainframe environment. Performed system IPLS, problem determination/resolution, file restores and interfaced with customer engineers
• Filled in as a system network control operator as needed recycled terminal sessions and printer addresses, addressed line problems.