SUMMARY:

• A versatile Information Systems professional, with over 10 years UNIX Administration and Project Management experience.
• I possess excellent AIX and Solaris skills as well as strong HP and LINUX knowledge.
• I also have in - depth understanding of business, systems development with extensive management and customer service experience.
• I would like to secure a position that will utilize my extensive diverse experience to improve company IT infrastructure and processes.
• Design and implementation of complex UNIX environments
• Installation and configuration of UNIX servers using, Veritas OpForce, NIM, jumpstart and ignite.
• Set-up of setup of web, ftp, NFS servers as well as NIS, DNS and sendmail.
• HSG80 Array setup and SAN connectivity.
• Management of user accounts, groups and enforcement of access permissions.
• Management of system security and implementation of quota system.
• Performance monitoring and tuning as well as development and scheduling of automation scripts.
• Planning, implementation and documentation of UNIX backup and recovery procedures using OS or Veritas Netbackup tools.
• Experience of operating systems and applications upgrade and patch installation.
• Installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of hardware.
• Use of AIX, Veritas Volume and Raid managers
• Unix Networking

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Hardware and Operating Systems: SUN/Solaris, HP/HPUX, RS/6000/AIX and Linux RedHat up to 6.1.

Collaboration Applications: Siebel CRM, and Lotus Notes.

UNIX Installation and Deployment: NIM, LPAR, Ignite, Flash Archive and OpForce, Kickstart.

Programming Languages: Shell Scripting, HTML, Perl, Expect

NAS/SAN: NetApp, EMC, IBM Enterprise 2105/2107

UNIX Applications: LDAP, WebSphere, Web Servers, samba

Databases: Oracle OpenIngres, IngresII and DB2 databases including installation, configuration, administration, capacity planning, backup and recovery

Business Intelligence and Reporting: SQL, Crystal Reports, Business Objects.

Backup and Recovery: Veritas Netbackup and Bare Metal Restore installation and maintenance

Performance Management and Monitoring: Unix tools, BMC Patrol and Tripwire

Microsoft Suite: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Project, Visio

Virtualization: IBM LPARs and VIO servers. Solaris Containers, Linux Xen/Oracle VM, HP Integrity VMs and some exposure to VMWARE

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Salt Lake City, Utah

Principal UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Started as UNIX Administrator in a group with three staff then moved up to Senior, Lead and now Principal UNIX Administrator in a 24 X 7 Data Centre.
• Reporting to The Manager UNIX Server Operations, I have won several Siebel Impact Awards for excellent customer and technical service.
• I am responsible for duty and on-call roster planning. I also assist the UNIX Manager with the formulating and execution of group policies.
• Other responsibilities include staff interviewing, selection and training.
• Apart from these, I assist the UNIX Manager with mentoring of staff and definition of quarterly objectives for junior staff.
• I perform day-today administration of UNIX servers on several platforms including AIX, Solaris, HP and LINUX. These include installation, configuration and user administration. My team and I also install over 200 UNIX server resident applications used by Applications and Engineering teams based on Siebel releases. Applications include Oracle, DB2, Iplanet, Tomcat, IBMIHS, compilers, WebSphere and other GNU software.

Confidential, Edison, NJ

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installed UNIX servers and other server resident applications.
• Installed and configured Jumpstart, NIM and Ignite servers.
• Configuration of servers to fit user specifications.
• Setup NIS and performed user administration
• Veritas Netbackup, Veritas Volume Manager and Solstice disksuite.
• Managed 2 UNIX consultants. Assigned tasks, monitored and assisted them.
• Performance monitoring .
• Other duties include backups, monitoring, troubleshooting of server problems and liaising with local, remote users and manufacturers where necessary.

IT Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• General UNIX Administration including Unix OS upgrade, user set-up and performance monitoring.
• Performed capacity planning for IngresII, OpenIngres2 and Oracle Databases.
• Liase with external vendors.
• Enterprise backup and recovery using Solstice/Networker.
• Migrated database from Ingres 6.4 to IngresII and trained systems administrators in OpenIngres, UNIX and Database Administration.
• Roster planning and delegation of duties to junior administrators.
• Daily reports to the IT manager and business department.
• Developed shell scripts to automated user set-up, systems health check including load averages
• Manage and configure Maestro Scheduler and UniqPrint.
• Debugged developed shell scripts, timed and re-run them when processes must complete.
• Setup of environment and user set-up for sendmail. Managed NIS servers
• Fine-tuned and documented backup and recovery procedures.
• Wrote/compiled UNIX and server administration manual for IQ Financial Systems.
• Installed and configured Ingres Replicator to replicate data from master to slave server to ensure CW can switch over to primary server if there is failure.

Confidential

Analyst Programmer/DBA/UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Developed new modules to enhance RSA Retail Management System using used Visual Basic, ‘C”, CA-OpenRoad and SQL. Project saved Confidential over $500,000.00
• Developed numerous management information reports using Ingres QBF, RBF, SQL and Report-Writer, Business Objects and CA-Visual Express.
• Managed the rollout of new Retail Management System.
• Unix Administration and Ingres DBA
• Undertook Ingres Confidential testing and was involved with the writing of support contracts and liaising with Computer Associates, Radius (RSA) and Sun support centres.
• Developed Unibasic scripts to extract data from Unidata database to shop EPOS tills.

Confidential

Development Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in the full life cycle development of sales system.
• Team Lead for the design and development of modules using DBASE3.
• Implementation and maintenance of the system.
• Developed user interfaces for sales processing and server update programs using DBASE-IV.

Confidential

Data Control Officer

Responsibilities:

• Developed UNIX shell scripts to format files and generate reports.
• Supervised data entry clerks and corrected sales files using UNIX terminal and VI.
• Provided IT support for shop sales staff.