SUMMARY:

• 8 Years of experienced in Linux,AIX and Sun administration and architecture and Server build, in the planning, design, installation, configuration, Migrations, troubleshooting, and performance tuning of RHEL, AIX & Solaris..
• Experience with multiple Linux distributions (Redhat, CentOS, and Scientific Linux).
• Experience with building and configuring AIX, RHEL and Solaris servers using NIM, Kickstart and wanboot.
• Experience with Installing and Configuring SUSE Linux, FEDORA and Centos
• Experience with deploying SUSE Linux using Kickstart.
• Administrating and troubleshooting Red Hat Cluster Suites.
• Administrating and troubleshooting Veritas Cluster Suites.
• Install and configure AIX on p5 and p6 550,570,630,640, 520,610,590,595, 700, 702 Power 750 Express Blade center JS20/JS21/JS22/JS23 for development, test, production and DR environment.
• Setup and configured network TCP/IP on AIX including RPC connectivity for NFS
• Worked on different platform on SUSE Linux which includes 10.x,11.x
• Installation, administration and Updating of VIO Server and VIO client LPARs.
• Migrated from HACMP 4.3 to 5.1 and from HACMP 5.1 to 5.3 and 5.5.
• Experienced in supporting Sun Solaris and Linux Servers in the environment.
• Power VM Virtualization (SEA, vSCSI, NPIV), Dynamic LPAR (DLAPR)
• Experience with installing and configuring Hardware Management Console (HMC).
• Perform system installs and performance tuning, configure and administer AIX 5.3, 6.1 LPAR’s
• Perform day to day LVM operations and System Admin tasks on AIX and Linux servers. Install and configure AIX on p5 and p6 550,570,630,640, 520,610,590,595, 700, 702 Power 750 Express Blade center JS20/JS21/JS22/JS23 for development, test, production and DR environment
• Experience with administrating NIM.
• Experience in building the Solaris servers using wanboot.
• Installation, Configuration and administration of LPARS.
• Installation, administration of VIO Server and VIO client LPARS.
• Server directories, and mounted these directories on AIX Servers
• Configured Informix Database.
• Installation of RHEL, SUSE Linux, Centos and Fedora on physical server and virtual server.
• Experienced Installing, Configuring and supporting VMWare ESX 3.4 and 4 versions.
• Installed, monitored and supported Web and Application Servers on AIX and Linux environments.
• Experienced in SAN Zones and creating LUN for the Servers as requested
• Experience in Setup and Configuration of IBM AIX HACMP and GPFS on pseries servers.
• Experience in Installation and Configuring Oracle 11.5.10 and R12 on AIX 6.1 using HACMP GPFS.
• Strong knowledge of Linux kernel configuration, performance monitoring, and tuning.
• Configuration and maintenance of common applications such as NFS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, DNS, and SNMP.
• Experience in using VERITAS Volume manager
• Implementation and setup of local Linux disk backups using open Source applications.
• Consolidating multiple Linux servers, into 2 physical virtual servers, using vserver.
• Installation and troubleshooting on VMware running Linux (RehHat) and Windows (wintel, windows 7, XP, Vista).
• Strong knowledge of large - scale Linux deployment methodologies, kernel configuration, performance monitoring, and tuning
• Configured Kickstart server to install Red Hat Linux on multiple machines.
• Experience using Kickstart and modified Kickstart based on server profiles and hardware specifications.
• Responsible for set up of BMC Patrol Agents V3.6.50.11i and 3.6.60i environment on UNIX Servers.
• Worked with WebSphere team in order to configure WAS instances for BMC patrol.
• Hitachi, EMC SAN installation and tuning of NetBackup server environment.
• Provide 24x7 on call server support for UNIX environment-AIX and Sun Solaris.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

O/S: RHEL 2.x,3.x,4.x,5.x and 6.x, AIX, Windows 2000/03/NT4.0, Wintel Sun Solaris, HP-UX. MAC8.1/9/10 & OS2

Hardware: HP, DELL,IBM, PSeries, SUN Enterprise.

Servers: Web Sphere Application Server 3.5/4.0, Netscape/iPlanet Server, MQSeries, Web Logic Server, IBM HTTP Server, HTML, DHTML, XML, Java Script, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Apache 2.2, Tomcat 5.5, Active MQ

Networking: TCP/IP, RPC, UDP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, LAN.

RDBMS: IBM UDB2, Oracle 7.x/8.0/9i, MS-SQL Server 7.0/6.5 and MS-Access 97/95.

Languages: C, C++, Java, Servlets, JSP, EJB, VB, JavaScript, HTML, Shell.

Applications: HACMP, Samba, Tivoli (TSM), Symantec Net Backup, VERITAS Volume Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

UNIX /Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Linux (RedHat 3/4/5/6) UNIX System and Network administration in Sun Solaris (9/10), HP-UX (10.x,11.x), IBM AIX (5.x), Server Installations, configurations, upgrades and migrations on Solaris, HP- UX, Linux and AIX.
• Experienced working with NPIV and EMC SAN configurations within AIX.
• Perform system installs and performance tuning, configure and administer AIX 5.3, 6.1 LPAR’s
• Experienced in managing LPAR with virtual memory management and memory optimization and using AIX Virtual Memory Manager (VMM).
• Experienced in providing full support to the life cycle of the Project i.e. Development, Testing, Production Phase Experienced in Upgrading HMC from 6.1.3 to 7.3.3 versions.
• Experienced working with NPIV and EMC SAN configurations within AIX.
• Perform system installs and performance tuning, configure and administer AIX 5.3, 6.1 LPAR’s
• Responsible for building and migrating different versions of RHEL.
• Responsible for migrating and updating RHEL, SUSE, Fedora.
• Responsible for patching and upgrading all SUSE Linux Servers.
• Kernel upgrade on RHEL and SUSE.
• Worked on UNIX Shell Programming ksh, csh, sh, bash, php, perl.
• Create virtual media repository and LPAR dedicated virtual optical drives in the VIO servers to make new installations, cloning and migrations faster and easier.
• Responsible for set up of BMC Patrol Agents V3.6.50.11i and 3.6.60i environment on UNIX Servers.
• Worked with WebSphere team in order to configure WAS instances for BMC patrol.
• Experience in Setup and Configuration of IBM AIX HACMP and GPFS on pseries servers.
• Involved in supporting HP Open VMS Systems
• Experience in using VERITAS Volume manager and VERITAS Cluster server products.
• Experienced in leading a team for the built process and represent Change control meeting for the ongoing process.
• Knowledge of ITIL and Business Continuity processes, experience with tape technologies, Information Life Cycle Management and SOL 10.
• Experienced in Performance tuning in the test phase of the Servers.
• Monitor system performance to ensure adequate response times
• Power VM Virtualization (SEA, vSCSI, NPIV), Dynamic LPAR (DLAPR).
• Experienced in Cleaning Storage and Allocates Luns to servers per standard configurations or recommendations.
• Worked with SOP’s related to storage allocation.
• Experience with Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM)
• Perform day to day LVM operations and System Admin tasks.
• Experienced in troubleshooting virtual Ethernet adapters, Clusters interconnect, and ether channels.
• Experienced working script in shell, perl.
• Experience in performing tasks like monitoring CPU / RAM / Disk space utilization, port utilization and running processes on applicable OS
• Wrote & automated security audit scripts in the environment.
• Experienced in managing LPAR with virtual memory management and memory optimization and using AIX Virtual Memory Manager (VMM).
• Experienced in providing full support to the life cycle of the Project i.e. Development, Testing, Production Phase Experienced in Upgrading HMC from 6.1.3 to 7.3.3 versions.
• Responsible for building and migrating different versions of RHEL.
• Create virtual media repository and LPAR dedicated virtual optical drives in the VIO servers to make new installations, cloning and migrations faster and easier.
• Responsible for set up of BMC Patrol Agents V3.6.50.11i and 3.6.60i environment on UNIX Servers.
• Worked with WebSphere team in order to configure WAS instances for BMC patrol.
• Experience in Setup and Configuration of IBM AIX HACMP and GPFS on pseries servers.
• Experience in using VERITAS Volume manager and VERITAS Cluster server products.
• Experienced in leading a team for the built process and represent Change control meeting for the on going process.
• Power VM Virtualization (SEA, vSCSI, NPIV), Dynamic LPAR (DLAPR).
• Experienced in Cleaning Storage and Allocates Luns to servers per standard configurations or recommendations.
• Perform day to day LVM operations and System Admin tasks.
• Experienced in troubleshooting virtual Ethernet adapters, Clusters interconnect, and ether channels.
• Experienced working script in shell.
• Wrote & automated security audit scripts in the environment
• Experience with IBM Power4, Power5, Power 6 and Power7 virtualization.
• Administering and troubleshooting of Redhat Clusters.
• Adding and removing nodes from and to the cluster.
• Participate in installing and configuring of UNIX/Linux based Oracle 10g products
• Providing Version Control with Subversion and Automated Build & Deployments
• Experienced in SAN Zones and creating LUN for the Servers as requested
• Experienced with working with Systems Engineers to implement storage solutions which provide high performance, data protection and cost effective use of available storage.
• Installed WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0/6.1 and enabled Web Content management.
• Management of all SAN storage systems, Hitachi, EMC, SUN capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Installation, Configuration and administration of LPARS.
• Installation, administration of VIO Server and VIO client LPARS.
• Upgrading VIO version from 1.4 to 1.5 and 1.4.1.2-FP-9.2 to 2.1.
• Experienced with operating and performance tuning storage platforms across the organization to ensure high levels of data quality, availability and security.
• Set up and troubleshoot issues with Secure Shell in the environment to accommodate script automation and password changes

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Unix System Administrator

• Worked on AIX 5.3 and 6.1 running on ten P5s (P550 and P560), two P6s (P6 550), and six P7s (P700, P702 and P750) attached to EMC storage subsystems
• Experience with installing and configuring sudo, proposed and implemented the idea of building a master sudoers file, and worked on a script to push the file to client LPAR’s on a weekly basis to lock down sudo access as a part of security audit
• Experience with Power VM 2.2 (VIO), HMC Version 6 and 7, EMC CLARiiON subsystem device configuration (Power path)
• Experience in NetApp storage devices, setup, configuration, operations and connecting to pSeries hardware.
• Experience in installing configuring and administering MQ 5.3/6.0 on AIX, Linux and Windows environments.
• Power VM Virtualization (SEA, vSCSI, NPIV), Dynamic LPAR (DLAPR)
• Experience with Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM)
• Perform system installs and performance tuning, configure and administer AIX 5.3, 6.1 LPAR’s
• Perform day to day LVM operations and System Admin tasks
• Create virtual media repository and LPAR dedicated virtual optical drives in the VIO servers to make new installations, cloning and migrations faster and easier
• Set up and troubleshoot issues with Secure Shell in the environment to accommodate script automation and password changes
• GSD331 troubleshooting, find any incompliant servers are Remediate GSD331.
• Installed WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0/6.1 and enabled Web Content management.
• Migrated WAS 5.0 Network Deployment and Base on AIX/Windows platforms to WAS 6.0 ND.
• Installation and configuration of LPARs with AIX 5.3 on P5 servers. Manage LPARs and provide virtual memory management and memory optimization.
• Experienced in SAN Zones and creating LUN for the Servers as requested
• Experienced with working with Systems Engineers to implement storage solutions which provide high performance, data protection and cost effective use of available storage.
• Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting of Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) and License Manager (TLM). Upgrade TSM from 5.1.x to 5.3.x.
• Management of all SAN storage systems, Hitachi, EMC, SUN capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Work with IBM DS8000, DS4700, DS6800, FAStT /DS4800, DS4500 (FAStT 900), USP600, AMS500, IBM nSeries storage hardware and SAN Fiber director series. Configure and administer Fiber card Adapter’s and handling AIX part of SAN.
• Configuration of VIO server and VIO clients from Hardware Management Console..
• Administration of multiple AIX machines, AIX clusters, and SP nodes from any client platform through WebSM.
• Installation and configuration of NIM master server and clients. Installing OS on NIM clients using NIM Server.
• Implemented PLM (Partition Load Manager) on AIX 5.3.
• Well-versed with configuring NPIV for storage & backup purposes
• Documentation: Implemented naming standard; supporting Oracle Databases
• Documented the procedures to install VIO, Client LPAR’s & NPIV setup on AIX machines
• Provided 24*7 on-call support for AIX server

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

AIX Administrator

• Responsible for installation and maintenance of VFSX in a clustered environment.
• Administration and maintenance of WAS ND clusters (vertical, horizontal) and deployment of applications in highly available, load balanced production environments.
• Developed web service integration layer for Web Sphere Portal. Install and configure Web Sphere Portal 5.1/6.0 on AIX, UNIX and Windows.
• Installation, administration of VIO Server and VIO client LPARs. Configuration of VIO server and VIO clients from Hardware Management Console. Upgrade VIO version 1.4 to 1.5 and 1.4.1.2-FP-9.2 to 2.1.
• Plan, design, install, configure, troubleshoot, administer and performance tune AIX 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 6.1, Solaris 10, Red Hat Linux Version, HP-UX, and SLES Linux.
• Setup and configured network TCP/IP on AIX including RPC connectivity for NFS. Created mount points for Server directories, and mounted these directories on AIX Servers
• Configured and administrated LPARs.
• Implementation of OS security as per ITRM standards.
• Migrated from HACMP 4.3 to 5.1 and from HACMP 5.1 to 5.2 and 5.4.
• Designed, installed and configured HACMP cluster environment, with cascading and mutual takeover.
• Dealt with AIX side of SAN; troubleshooting fiber card adapter, replacing fiber card adapters and configuring LUNs back.
• Installed Web Sphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0/6.1 and enabled Web Content management.
• Install, configure and administer MQ 5.3/6.0 on AIX, Linux and Windows environments.
• Migrated WAS 5.0 Network Deployment and Base on AIX/Windows platforms to WAS 6.0
• Experienced in working with Network Engineers to install, manage, and configure NAS based storage and insure overall system and network security.
• Experience with storage networking, with vendors/technologies such as iSCSI, SAN/NAS, data center storage consolidation, EMC, NetApp, HDS, HP, or Supported and Good Knowledge of designing IT architectures for storage and backup in the enterprise.
• Experienced in Storage Enterprise Cost Reduction, Storage Consolidation, Backup and recovery Methodologies, Storage Replication and Disaster Recovery Solutions.
• Knowledge of ITIL and Business Continuity processes, experience with tape technologies, Information Life Cycle Management.
• Experienced with operating and performance tuning storage platforms across the organization to ensure high levels of data quality, availability and security.
• Managed systems to the HMC and upgrade the firmware of the HMCs as required.
• 24x7 on call server support for UNIX environment.