SUMMARY:

Senior - level IT Professional with over 15 years of experience with Mainframe, Windows, UNIX, Linux systems, and Development; DBA experience with Windows, UNIX, and Mainframe platforms.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

AIX Admin

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Currently AIX administrator supporting the Backup and Recovery team for HQDA ITA Operations.
• Currently performing daily administration duties for AIX 7.1 environment.
• Currently performing all SAN migrations for the AIX environment from Netapp to EMC VNX/DATA DOMAIN
• Currently supporting an IBM AIX/TSM with IBM Protectier VTL’s.
• Upgrading the AIX environment to AIX 7.3.5.

Admin

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Assist with IBM WebSphere/JAVA/AIX deployments using IBM BuildForge for Confidential .
• Support and monitoring Korn/Bash shell scripts with TWS to make sure that they execute.
• Create IBM Tivoli Monitoring alerts for various Windows/Linux/UNIX/Oracle/Network systems and applications.
• Work on a team of administrators configuring and creating TIVOLI/OMNIBUS/NETCOOL monitoring applications.
• Supporting and monitoring scripts every day that support the Confidential environment using IBM TWS.
• Use other tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Nagios, Keynote and SCOM to monitor the Confidential infrastructure.
• Create and support UNIX/Oracle scripts for Confidential environment.
• Create and administer VM’s within ESX for migrating systems to VMWARE 5.5
• Assisted in AIX migration to Redhat Linux and VMWARE Vsphere 5.5

AIX UNIX/LINUX Administrator

Confidential, North Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Administrating the AIX environment for Confidential .
• Assist administrating SAN environment, which includes Cisco MDS 9506 fiber switch, IBM TotalStorage Shark, EMC Clariion, and Netapp.
• Migrated all AIX servers from the IBM TotalStorage Shark to EMC CLARiiON and to Netapp/
• Supported the production Confidential environment.
• Started to upgraded all AIX servers from 6.1.3 to 6.1.7.15.

Senior System Administrator

Confidential, Naperville, IL

Responsibilities:

• Administrating 100+ AIX servers that run domestic & international Oracle applications and SAP applications.
• Install and configured SUSE Linux Enterprise 10.3, 11, 11 sp1 for SAP and other application.
• Installing and configuring SUSE Linux HA Active/Passive Cluster for certain SAP environments.
• Attended SUSE Linux Engineering training so I could provide training to the other administrators at Confidential .
• Exposure to Vmware by building SUSE and Redhat VM’s to different non-sap applications.
• Responsible for administering some old AIX 4.1.5 and 4.2.1 legacy applications. Also, maintaining all AIX servers patched to the most TL levels for 5.3, and 6.1.
• Insisted in migrating from Autosys to SAP Redwood scheduler
• Involved in migrating AIX/SAP application servers to SUSE Linux Enterprise version 10.3
• Configuring and administering the production NIM server & VIO servers 1.4.1, 1.5.2, and 2.1.
• Provide the configurations as well as applying all fixes and upgrades on all HMC’s.
• Installing and configuring RedHat Linux on several P5 Servers. Also responsible for installing, configuring and upgrading TPC.
• Administrating IBM Total Storage SAN/Shark nodes and IBM SVC/DS8100 SAN.
• Exposure to Netapp 8.0. Netapp was being introduced to be the replacement of IBM SVC and to be used for NFS shares.
• Assist SAP Basis Support on SAP application installs and configurations.
• Work with SAP Basis Team on all SAP patches and upgrades.
• Currently administrating Confidential ’s Enterprise Network Printing within SAP using spad. Administer over 1,400 network printers, worldwide, that print from SAP R3 4.6.
• Assist DBA on installing Oracle 9i, 10, 11 and Mysql on the AIX/Linux servers. Some monitoring and creation of SQL scripts that monitor performance and statistics.
• Trained in the ITIL methodology for change management.
• Currently evaluating HACMP v5.4 for a new Oracle RAC/GPFS system.
• Additional technologies being used: Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008; IBM WebSM and Sysback; Kornshell, Perl, Legato backup software, Oracle 8.1.7, 9i, 10, 11, SQL plus, SAP R3, XML, IBM Total Storage SAN Solution/SHARK, Tivoli Workload Manager, JAVA 1.3 & JAVA 1.4, HP ServiceDesk, SAP R3 4.6 SAP BW 3.2 & BW 3.5.

Independent Contractor

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Senior Consultant and Developer on project focused on performance tuning the new Manugistic/Oracle/Autosys Batch environment on the new AIX SP servers and Windows 2000 and servers.
• Involved in programming Oracle SQL scripts and stored procedures that interfaced with Oracle Financials 11i, Manugistic’s Collaborate/Consensus. These scripts were developed using UNIX Kornshell scripts and Windows Batch scripting and also using Manugistic’s NWEXPORT, NWIMPORT, and Batch Userviews.
• Installed, configured and designed batch schedules with Autosys 3.5.1 on AIX UNIX and Windows 2000.
• Developed Autosys JIL scripts, developed UNIX and Windows to work with Autosys and Manugistic applications.
• Technologies used: Windows batch scripting, UNIX Kornshell scripts, Manugistics, Manugistics Collaborate and Consensus, Oracle 8.1.7, AIX UNIX, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, PL/SQL, Oracle Sql Loader, Toad, Autosys 3.5.1 for UNIX and Windows.

Partnering Contractor

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Working as a Senior Consultant and Software Designer to develop a Visual Basic/SQL Server application that records, logs, and notifies application support personnel of program problems with their supported applications. Software has been written to communicate with the mainframe and will be enhanced to communicate with other primary platforms like AS/400, UNIX, LINUX, Windows NT & 2000. Currently the GUI front-end is written in Visual Basic 6 and the Backend database is SQLServer 2000 & Oracle 8.1.7, 9I.
• Upgrading the entire application to VB.NET & ASP.NET. Plans are currently being developed to make the application totally open source using technologies as MySql MaxDB, Java 1.4, Apache webserver, and Perl 5.8. Also implementing Apache Tomcat to serve the java applets. With this design the application can be web-based and run on almost any platform such as Windows, any version of Linux or UNIX.

Consulting Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as an Independent Contractor under Confidential Technologies to work with DB2/Oracle conversions. Developed interfaces between Confidential Oracle schemas and the Confidential legacy DB2 databases and also CICS applications.
• Developed interfaces between Confidential ’s applications and the Confidential legacy mainframe applications. Developed Oracle plsql stored procedures, Functions, and DataJunction scripts were used to complete task.
• Configured and developed the entire Confidential ’s UNIX/Oracle environment. This task included installing Sun Solaris 2.6 OS on a Sun Enterprise 4500 server, Oracle 8.1.5, RMAN and Veritas Backup Software. Developed all Kornshell scripts for Confidential ’s production environment. Configured server for EMC SAN 5600 series.
• Supported and enhanced all Confidential applications that were in production. Production support included: trigger enhancements, Kornshell script enhancements, stored procedure and function enhancements.
• Worked with Confidential and Harvest Technologies to administer Confidential UNIX servers. The current Confidential UNIX server farm consisted of HPUX, RS6000, SUN SOLARIS, UNIX servers.
• Assisted in HACMP Configuration on the Confidential ’s Water Department with Oracle 8.1.5, Autosys, and other Water Departmental software.
• Unpackaged, installed OS, and configured new Sun’s 4500, 450 servers.
• Assisted in keeping Oracle databases recoverable. Configuration included setting up EMC BCV’s and a disaster recovery plan in tact. This configuration included DB2 and Oracle Databases and RMAN.
• Assisted in Windows NT 4.0 & Windows 2000 server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server administration.
• Installed Oracle’s OEM software on Windows 2000 and Sun UNIX Solaris Servers.
• Assisted in maintaining UNIX Checkpoint Firewall, troubleshooting network problems with users from the network.

Technologies used: HP Openview, Oracle RMAN, Oracle Gateway, Oracle 7.3.4, 8.1.5, 8.1.6, 8.1.7, RMAN, DB2 Universal, Kornshell, Legato Networker Backup software, EMC Symmetric software, and also creating BCV’s for Backup configurations.

Technical Lead Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to the Confidential project with the Confidential, providing technical assistance to the present project team. Project consisted of remediation and test planning. Also assisted with the installation of the COBOL LE/370 and Endevor Environment.
• Created new processors within the Endevor Environment to handle the COBOL/LE370 run-time environment. Also worked with the DBA’s and MVS system analyst to troubleshoot system and application problems.
• Migrated all new applications from CA7 to CONTROL-M for all new Legacy/Client Server Applications.
• Enhanced, developed mainframe and UNIX programs handle the year 2000.
• Served also as a lead tester with all vendor software upgrade for the year 2000. Software packages included a new version of ADPAC, RAMIS and SAS.

Technologies used: CICS, DB2, TSO, COBOL/VS, COBOL II, COBOL for MVS, JCL, Endevor, Fileaid, Sort, Expediter, Hiperstation, Oracle 7.3.3 for MVS, RAMIS, ADPAC, SAS, VSAM, REXX, FTP, Micro-focus COBOL.

Independent Developer

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Technical Developer on a number of projects at Confidential insurance for certifying a number of applications for Confidential .
• Upgraded several primary Visual Basic applications from Visual Basic 3 to Visual Basic 5 and conducted tests with these applications using a new version of SYBASE SQL SERVER.
• Headed the department’s applications project on migrating from a NCR UNIX server to a HP UNIX server. This included changing all the FTP parameters on the mainframe, moving all Kornshell scripts and other UNIX programs to the new server and testing all the applications once copied to the new server. Technologies used in this project: VISUAL BASIC 3 & VISUAL BASIC 5, VISUAL C++, VISUAL FOXPRO, SYBASE 10.7 and SYBASE 11, NCR and HP UNIX, KORNSHELL SCRIPTS, ODBC, IBM MAINFRAME FTP, CA7, CONTROL-M.
• Upgrade, modified, and certified mainframe applications using DOCUMERGE and all components include with this application. Worked on certification on a UNIX Oracle Financial 10 application called ALEXIS. Technologies used were MVS JCL, OS COBOL, COBOL 2, COBOL 370, VSAM, SAS Reported Statistics, SAS Graphics Package, SAS Web Tools, DOCUMERGE, EXPEDITER, and TSO.
• Modified, enhanced and wrote new triggers, packages, stored procedures that belonged to the system. Technologies used were PL/SQL, ORACLE SQL*NET, ORACLE 7.3.3, AIX 4.1, HPUX, Kornshell.
• Converted several ACCESS 2.0 applications to ACCESS 97 and making sure that the application was Confidential compliant.
• Modified ACCESS 2.0 SQL, queries, forms and reports to work correctly in ACCESS 97.
• Configured the developer environment, which consisted of installing ORACLE 8 on a LINUX machine, installing ORACLE CLIENT FINANCIALS 10.7, ORACLE DEVELOPER 2000, ORACLE FORM 4.5.
• Assisted in analyzing ORACLE FORMS 4.5 for any problems. Technologies used were ORACLE SQL*NET, ORACLE 8, ORACLE 7.3.3, ORACLE 7.3.3 for NT, ORACLE 8 for LINUX, ORACLE DEVELOPER 2000, ORACLE FORM 4.5, Jetforms Report Designer, Jetforms Central RS6000 and Windows NT Server.
• Converting a TERA-DATA program to ORACLE 7.3. The application was originally coded to extract user information from TERA-DATA tables. The process was changed to extract the user information from ORACLE tables. This was an effort that Confidential was doing to get away from using TERA-DATA. This process included ORACLE PL/SQL, ORACLE stored procedures, and UNIX KORNSHELL script to execute the stored procedure so the extracted information could get migrated to the mainframe by using FTP.
• Migrating UNIX crontab jobs over to AUTOSYS. Technologies used: UNIX, KORNSHELL, EXCEED, AUTOSYS, CRONTAB, CA7.
• Supported, Enhanced, Maintained the Location Upgrade Application. This application consisted of Visual Basic 5, SYSBASE SQL SERVER, FTP, HP-UNIX.