TECHNICAL SKILLS:

HARDWARE: pSeries, HMC, Dell Blade Chassis, CISCO UCS, Hitachi USP, EMC XtremIO, EMC Unity, EMC IsilonNetapp Filers, Brocade SAN, ADIC Scalar, StorageTek, F5 - BIGIP

PLATFORMS: AIX 7.x, RHEL, CentOS, Windows Server 2008 and 2012, Debian, SUSE, HP-UX

SOFTWARE: PowerVM 2.2.6.x, PowerHA 7.2, TSM, Sysback, Alt disk, NIM, WebSphere MQ, WAS, Net Dispatcher TIM/TAM, LDAP, Kerberos, PAM, SAMBA, LAMP, Drupal, Symfony, Varnish, REDIS, Memcache, VMWare/ESX, NAGIOS, CACTI, BMC Patrol, EG, Control-M

DATABASES: DB2, Oracle, MySQL, Cache

COMPLIANCE: SOX, PCI, HIPPA

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Senior AIX/Linux Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the migration of physical servers and virtual LPARs over to Confidential Power E870s
• Designed and configured VIO servers with vSCSI and NPIV virtual devices and Shared Ethernet with and without load sharing capabilities.
• SAN migration off of EMC Clariion/VNX/VMAX/Clariion over to EMC XtremIO.
• Upgraded PowerHA 7.1 to 7.2 using NDU (Non-Disruptive-Upgrade) function and offline rolling migrations.
• Performed alt clone and NIM migrations of AIX 7.1 to AIX 7.2
• Created a new NIM environment onto Confidential S822 Power8 Servers for BOS installations and upgrades.
• Design and implemented SUMA to automate downloads of Technology Levels and Service Packs from a fix server.
• Worked with Oracle DBAs on Oracle 12c migrations to AIX 7.2
• Assisted BMC on upgrading Control-M v7 to v9 on AIX7.2

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

Senior Linux Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Design and Implementation of Confidential Mobile Platform onto cruise ships.
• Installed and Configured Debian Linux, LAMP Stack, Varnish, Memcache, REDIS, Apache Webservers, NGINX, MySQL Databases on VMWare/ESX virtualized environment.
• Setup Linux Client LDAP authentication to Windows Active Directory.

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

Senior AIX Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• AIX NIM Migration of over 200 AIX LPARs from standalone Power5/6 servers onto pSeries p770s.
• Worked with Confidential on installation of pSeries p770s with multiple CECs and external I/O drawers.
• Designed and Configured NPIV SAN Disk onto AIX LPARs including rootvg SAN boot.
• Design and Setup PowerVM VIO SEA Failover with Load Sharing
• Migrated AIX 7.1 and 6.1 LPARs off of NIS and onto LDAP, Kerberos and PAM for user authentication and authorization against Windows Active Directory.
• Setup Confidential ILMT Licensing Management Tool for Software Compliance
• Worked closely with Storage Team on migration of EMC VNX/Clariion/CX4 SAN Storage onto Confidential DS8000
• Setup NAGIOS for real-time monitoring of mission critical infrastructure
• On-Call 24x7 to maintain 99.999% Production Uptime

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

Manager, IT Systems Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Manage the Systems Engineering Team consisting of UNIX / Linux Engineers, Windows Engineers, SAN / Storage Administrators.
• Manage a team of six Engineers responsible for procurement, building, maintaining, troubleshooting, patching, and upgrading over 100+ Window Servers, 250+ Linux VMs, (10) Confidential Power servers, and 100+TB SAN storage.
• Responsible for team training, conducting meetings, and assisting other IT departments with day-to-day system support.
• Performed several Human Resource functions including counseling, discipline and interviewing.
• Lead AIX System Engineer responsible for building and maintaining PowerVM OLTP production and non-production AIX environments.
• Technical lead in building and supporting AIX 6.1 / 7.1 virtualized LPARs running Confidential DB2 Enterprise Edition on Confidential Power7 p750s.
• Responsible for SAN zoning and LUN provisioning of EMC CX4 and EMC VNX 5700 storage arrays.
• Directly responsible for maintaining SOX and PCI compliance of all AIX, RHEL, Windows Servers

Confidential, Corona, CA

IT Consultant / Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Managed, architect, and planned new server builds and migrations for 2000+ Unix servers. This included budgeting, planning, and procurement of new Confidential pSeries servers.
• Performed training classes and created documentation of WebSphere Load Balancer, HACMP, and server migrations to Junior System Administrators.
• Technical lead in the evaluation and procurement of Unix Security Authentication / Authorization software within the Unix environment for SOX/HIPPA/PCI compliance.
• Successfully migrated from Oracle 9i to Oracle 10g. Setup Unix servers, SAN storage, and assisted in building the migration strategy plan.
• Assisted in the migration of 50+ Confidential Load Balancer clusters to BIG-IP F5s

Confidential, Poway, CA

Senior Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Directly responsible for Scope, Design, Implementation, and Training of new technologies to System Administration and DBA staff within Operations.
• Responsible for ensuring and maintaining system security within our Unix Systems, Brocade switches, and various storage systems within the Operations Department.
• Technical Lead in relocating our Data Center from Carlsbad, CA to Poway, CA. This included consolidating a farm of stand-alone RS/6000s to SP Complex.
• Technical lead in supporting over 100+ AIX Unix servers.
• Designed and implemented (14) HACMP/ES cascading clusters.
• Implemented Confidential WebSphere MQ Series clusters.
• Migrated off the SP complex onto Confidential Power 5 servers